Urban Studies Summer Courses

URST-3340-L21- Urban Psychology
Summer Session 2, July 1, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Lincoln Center: TWR, 01:00PM - 05:00PM

"How does living in a large city impact us—our inner personality, outer behavior, values, and relationships?" This interdisciplinary urban studies course focuses on this question, including the methods and findings of behavioral research on: the growth of cities, crowding, prosocial and antisocial behavior, primary and secondary relationships, ethnicity, happiness, deviance, pace of life, urban personality, the future of cities. This Fordham course meets three days weekly (Tues/Wed/Thurs), including related excursions and fieldwork on city life in New York City.

CRN: 16556

Instructor: Takooshian, Harold
4 credits

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BISC-1002-R11- Ecology: A Human Approach
Summer Session 1, May 27, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Rose Hill: TWR, 09:00AM - 12:00PM

A course designed for non-majors. Ecological concepts and how they relate to critical contemporary issues: air and water pollution, radiation, energy, world hunger. Includes experiments, demonstrations and field trips.

CRN: 14836

Instructor: Pool, Justin
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: AMST, APPI, ASHS, BESN, BIOE, ENST, ESLS, ESNS, INST, ISIN, LSCI, PJEN, PJST, SOIN, URST, ZLB3

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COMC-4360-L21- Communication Ethics and the Public Sphere
Summer Session 2, July 1, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Hybrid LC/Online: MTW, 09:00AM - 12:00PM

(Formerly COMM 4004): This course deals with the policy decisions and ethical issues facing society in the telecommunications age. Of special concern are the ethical issues raised by the melding together of heretofore discrete media into vertically integrated, profit oriented, corporations.

CRN: 14883

Instructor: Kamin, Diana
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: AMST, APPI, ASAM, CCMS, CELP, CMST, DTEV, EP4, HCWL, HUST, JETH, JOUR, PJMJ, PJST, URST, VAL

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ECON-2140-R21- Statistics I
Summer Session 2, July 1, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Rose Hill: MTWR, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

This course introduces students to descriptive statistics, probability theory, discrete and continuous probability distributions, sampling methods, sampling distributions, estimation, and hypothesis testing.

CRN: 16551

Instructor: TBA
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: BUMI, IPE, URST

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ECON-2140-V21- Statistics I
Summer Session 2, July 1, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Online: MTWR, 09:00AM - 12:00PM

This course introduces students to descriptive statistics, probability theory, discrete and continuous probability distributions, sampling methods, sampling distributions, estimation, and hypothesis testing.

CRN: 15009

Instructor: TBA
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: BUMI, IPE, URST

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ECON-3971-V31- Urban Economics
Summer Session 3, May 27, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Online: Asynchronous

Urban Economics is the study of location choices by firms and households. The technological changes and economic factors driving the process of urbanization, and the shift from a "downtown-centered" city to the suburbanized metropolises prevalent in the U.S. today are the central focus of the course. Throughout the course, New York City's history and current situation are used as examples of the economic forces operating in cities. Students will participate in a group project to analyze a major urban problem such as housing affordability, poverty, crime, or education.

CRN: 15041

Instructor: Sun, Meiping
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: AMST, APPI, ASHS, ASSC, LALS, LASS, URST

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HIST-3950-V11- Latino History
Summer Session 1, May 27, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Online: MTWR, 01:00PM - 04:00PM

This course explores the development of the Latina/o population in the U.S. by focusing on the questions of migration, race, ethnicity, labor, family, sexuality, and citizenship. Specific topics include: United States colonial expansion and its effects on the population of Latin America; Mexican-Americans, and the making of the West; colonialism and the Puerto Rican Diaspora; Caribbean revolutions and the Cuban-American community; and globalization and recent Latina/o migrations (Dominicans, Colombians).

CRN: 15786

Instructor: Acosta, Salvador
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: ACUP, ADVD, AHC, AMST, APPI, ASHS, COLI, EP3, HIAH, HIUL, INST, ISIN, ISLA, LALS, LAUH, PJRC, PJST, PLUR, URST

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PJST-3200-V11- Environmental Justice
Summer Session 1, May 27, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Online: MW, 09:00AM - 12:00PM

This course focuses on the environmental justice movement in the United States and internationally. Environmental justice is defined as the equitable distribution of environmental burdens and benefits among racial and socioeconomic groups and among developed and developing countries. Issues such as pollution, climate change, biodiversity loss, industrial agriculture, food security, urban sprawl, and public health are treated.

CRN: 16514

Instructor: Kateman, Brian
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: AMST, APPI, ASHS, ASSC, BESN, BIOE, ENMI, ENST, EPLE, ESEJ, ESEL, ESPL, INST, IPE, PJEN, POAP, SOCI, URST

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POSC-3915-L11- International Political Economy
Summer Session 1, May 27, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Lincoln Center: MTWR, 01:00PM - 04:00PM

This course introduces various theoretical frameworks explaining the international political economy and examine topics including trade, monetary policy, exchange rates, finance, multinational corporations, international institutions, and economic development. There is a particular focus on the distribution of benefits within an increasingly globalized world, and the ways in which interest groups work to advance their favored economic policies within this system.

CRN: 14830

Instructor: Lockhart, Sarah
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: AMST, APPI, ASHS, ASSC, INST, IPE, ISIE, ISIN, PJEC, PJST, POIP, URST

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POSC-3915-L21- International Pol Econ
Summer Session 2, July 1, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Lincoln Center: MTWR, 01:00PM - 04:00PM

This course introduces various theoretical frameworks explaining the international political economy and examine topics including trade, monetary policy, exchange rates, finance, multinational corporations, international institutions, and economic development. There is a particular focus on the distribution of benefits within an increasingly globalized world, and the ways in which interest groups work to advance their favored economic policies within this system.

CRN: 15911

Instructor: Sahakyan, Davit
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: AMST, APPI, ASHS, ASSC, INST, IPE, ISIE, ISIN, PJEC, PJST, POIP, URST

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POSC-4400-V21- Seminar: Global Justice
Summer Session 2, July 1, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Online: MTWR, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

What is global justice and how can we achieve it? This course considers answers to this question from Enlightenment philosophers,and contemporary liberals, cosmopolitans, feminists, neoliberals, realists, Muslims, and Buddhists.

CRN: 16497

Instructor: Tampio, Nicholas
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: EP4, HPSE, HUST, INST, IPE, ISIN, LALS, LASS, PJCP, PJCR, PJST, POPT, POSM, URST, VAL

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PSYC-2600-L11- Social Psychology
Summer Session 1, May 27, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Lincoln Center: MTWR, 01:00PM - 04:00PM

An examination of how others shape an individual's behavior. A review of selected topics of interpersonal behavior, including antisocial and prosocial behavior, prejudice, attraction, social influence, attitudes and persuasion, research methods. (Every semester)

CRN: 15791

Instructor: TBA
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: PYCP, SSCI, URST

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PSYC-3340-L21- Urban Psychology
Summer Session 2, July 1, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Lincoln Center: TWR, 01:00PM - 05:00PM

How living in a large city can affect an individual's behavior and personality. Investigations into the "urban personality," stress, family, friends and strangers, crowding, the built environment, adaptation. Includes field research.

CRN: 16502

Instructor: Takooshian, Harold
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: ENST, ESEL, PYAC, URST

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SOCI-2845-R11- Drugs, Law, and Society
Summer Session 2, July 1, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Rose Hill: MTWR, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

This course examines the social organizations of illegal commerce in narcotics and other drugs, looking at this transnational business from the point of production to the points of consumption throughout the world.

CRN: 16520

Instructor: Johnson, Catherine
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: URST

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SOCI-2925-V21- Media, Crime, Sex, and Violence
Summer Session 2, July 1, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Online: MTWR, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

Turn on the television set, pick up the local newspaper, go on the Internet or watch a movie. Wherever you turn, you will find the media saturated with stories about corrupt cops and honest cops, drug dealers and drug users, murderers and victims, organized crime and serial killers, crusading district attorneys and defense attorneys, corrupt lawyers and hanging judges, violent prisoners and convicted innocents. How accurate are these representations? What are the ideological messages and cultural values these stories communicate? In this course, you will learn how to demystify media representations in order to understand how and why they are produced, and who is responsible for their production.

CRN: 15013

Instructor: Wormser, Richard
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: AMST, APPI, ASAM, ASHS, ASSC, PJMJ, PJST, URST, WGSS

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SOCI-2960-L11- Popular Culture
Summer Session 1, May 27, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Y Hybrid LC/Online: MR, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

This course will investigate the nature of contemporary popular culture. How do people spend their "spare time"? Does this vary with social class? Is sport the new religion? And how does this differ from that of earlier periods and simpler societies? (Every year)

CRN: 14806

Instructor: McGee, Michelle
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: ACUP, AMST, APPI, ASAM, ASHS, ASSC, URST

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SOCI-3021-V31- Sociology of Medicine
Summer Session 3, May 27, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Online: Asynchronous

This course explores the social context of health, disease, and illness in American society. Thematic issues include the experience of illness, the medical (and other healing) professions, health care policy, and the relations between providers and patients. The effects of social inequality on health and health care delivery are probed throughout the course.

CRN: 16521

Instructor: Fountain, Christine
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: AMST, ASHS, BESN, LPHP, URST

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SOCI-3406-V11- Race/Social Construct
Summer Session 1, May 27, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Online: MTW, 09:00AM - 12:00PM

This course concerns the evolution of racial typologies and classification system in the U.S. We will draw on a variety of texts from natural and social sciences, law, and literature to examine how "scientific" typologies of race are actually more reflective of power dynamics and social hierarchies than biological or genetic differences. Our goal is to understand the continuing significance of race in terms of social and economic power, as well and individual self-conceptualizations and identity politics.

CRN: 16522

Instructor: Valle, Maria
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: ADVD, AMST, ASHS, ASSC, LALS, LASS, URST

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