Summer Courses

Course Description: This course introduces students to Deaf Cultural Studies using stories about the Deaf experience. Students will interpret works in visual art, film, performing arts, and literature (ASL and English). Students will learn how historical/social/political and intersectional context, Deaf cultural values, and themes and symbols influence our interpretation of these creative works. Finally, the importance of collective memories for preserving Deaf cultural norms/values and promoting social justice will be addressed.

Session: 12-Week Session (5/13-8/11)

For prerequisites, availability, other details and to register, go to http://sis.rit.edu/.

Course Description: An intermediate algebra course consisting of a blended lecture/lab component in which non-linear functions and graphs, systems of linear equations, exponents, polynomials, roots, radicals and properties of the complex numbers are considered. There is significant emphasis on scientific and geometric models, as well as the use of graphing utilities. Students cannot earn credit for both NMTH-210 and NMTH-212.

Session: 12-Week Session (5/13-8/11)

For prerequisites, availability, other details and to register, go to http://sis.rit.edu/.

Course Description: This course will focus on the physical and interacting biological properties of the planet Earth and introduce students to the concept of environmental stewardship and social responsibility. Topics of study will include introductions to geology, astronomy, oceanography, biodiversity, and evolution. Students will learn about the delicate balance of weather and water and wildlife in the ecosystems in which humans have evolved and are now influencing in significant ways. Indoor and outdoor lab activities will introduce students to scientific data collection, analysis, and interpretation. Students will have the opportunity to become directly involved in solutions to our current environmental problems such as pollution, water quality degradation and recycling through various types of social activism.

Session: 12-Week Session (5/13-8/11)

For prerequisites, availability, other details and to register, go to http://sis.rit.edu/.

Course Description: This course is designed to give students an understanding of the role of the system administrator in large organizations. This will be accomplished through a discussion of many of the tasks and tools of system administration. Students will participate in both a lecture section and a separate lab section. The technologies discussed in this class include: operating systems, system security, and service deployment strategies.

Session: 12-Week Session (5/13-8/11)

For prerequisites, availability, other details and to register, go to http://sis.rit.edu/.

Course Description: This course is designed to give students an understanding of the role of the system administrator in large organizations. This will be accomplished through a discussion of many of the tasks and tools of system administration. Students will participate in both a lecture section and a separate lab section. The technologies discussed in this class include: operating systems, system security, and service deployment strategies.

Session: 12-Week Session (5/13-8/11)

For prerequisites, availability, other details and to register, go to http://sis.rit.edu/.

Course Description: This course teaches students advanced techniques in the Perl language. Techniques include the use and construction of object oriented scripts, user administration and monitoring, file system walking and checking, and computer and network security issues.

Session: 12-Week Session (5/13-8/11)

For prerequisites, availability, other details and to register, go to http://sis.rit.edu/.

Course Description: First-year students qualified to enter NTID in the Fall semester are required to participate in this summer orientation program. The program includes: placement testing in English and mathematics, orientation/transition to college life, career sampling, counseling, application to a career-focused or Associate+Bachelor's degree program, career exploration studies, pre-baccalaureate studies or baccalaureate program.

Session: 6-Week Session 2 (6/29-8/11)

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Course Description: This is an introductory course in nutritional science concepts and application to current nutrition issues. This course covers the study of specific nutrients and their functions, the development of dietary standards and guides and how these standards are applied throughout the lifecycle. Current health and nutrition problems, nutrition misinformation, chronic diseases, performance nutrition, food safety and technology, hunger and global nutrition will be discussed.

Session: 6-Week Session 1 (5/13-6/26)

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Course Description: This course will provide an introduction to the integration between exercise and nutrition-related topics by exploring the intimate link among nutrition, energy metabolism, and human exercise response. The course content will sort fact from fiction and help students and practitioners obtain the knowledge they need to give sound advice to athletes and active individuals.

Session: 6-Week Session 2 (6/29-8/11)

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Course Description: The purpose of this course is to provide students the opportunity to conduct research, develop a plan and evaluation components and submit the project as a demonstration of final proficiency in the program. The topic selected by the student will be guided by the faculty teaching the class and it will require the student to coalesce and incorporate into the final project a culmination of all their course work in the program to date.

Session: 12-Week Session (5/13-8/11)

For prerequisites, availability, other details and to register, go to http://sis.rit.edu/.

Course Description: The purpose of this course is to provide students the opportunity to conduct research, develop a plan and evaluation components and submit the project as a demonstration of final proficiency in the program. The topic selected by the student will be guided by the faculty teaching the class and it will require the student to coalesce and incorporate into the final project a culmination of all their course work in the program to date.

Session: 12-Week Session (5/13-8/11)

For prerequisites, availability, other details and to register, go to http://sis.rit.edu/.

Course Description: The purpose of this course is to provide students the opportunity to conduct research, develop a plan and evaluation components and submit the project as a demonstration of final proficiency in the program. The topic selected by the student will be guided by the faculty teaching the class and it will require the student to coalesce and incorporate into the final project a culmination of all their course work in the program to date.

Session: 12-Week Session (5/13-8/11)

For prerequisites, availability, other details and to register, go to http://sis.rit.edu/.

Course Description: The purpose of this course is to provide students the opportunity to conduct research, develop a plan and evaluation components and submit the project as a demonstration of final proficiency in the program. The topic selected by the student will be guided by the faculty teaching the class and it will require the student to coalesce and incorporate into the final project a culmination of all their course work in the program to date.

Session: 12-Week Session (5/13-8/11)

For prerequisites, availability, other details and to register, go to http://sis.rit.edu/.

Course Description: Philosophy is about the rigorous discussion of big questions, and sometimes small precise questions, that do not have obvious answers. This class is an introduction to philosophical thinking where we learn how to think and talk critically about some of these challenging questions. Such as: Is there a single truth or is truth relative to different people and perspectives? Do we have free will and, if so, how? Do we ever really know anything? What gives life meaning? Is morality objective or subjective, discovered or created? We'll use historical and contemporary sources to clarify questions like these, to understand the stakes, to discuss possible responses, and to arrive at a more coherent, more philosophically informed, set of answers.

Session: 6-Week Session 1 (5/13-6/26)

For prerequisites, availability, other details and to register, go to http://sis.rit.edu/.

Course Description: Philosophy is about the rigorous discussion of big questions, and sometimes small precise questions, that do not have obvious answers. This class is an introduction to philosophical thinking where we learn how to think and talk critically about some of these challenging questions. Such as: Is there a single truth or is truth relative to different people and perspectives? Do we have free will and, if so, how? Do we ever really know anything? What gives life meaning? Is morality objective or subjective, discovered or created? We'll use historical and contemporary sources to clarify questions like these, to understand the stakes, to discuss possible responses, and to arrive at a more coherent, more philosophically informed, set of answers.

Session: 6-Week Session 2 (6/29-8/11)

For prerequisites, availability, other details and to register, go to http://sis.rit.edu/.

Course Description: Philosophy is about the rigorous discussion of big questions, and sometimes small precise questions, that do not have obvious answers. This class is an introduction to philosophical thinking where we learn how to think and talk critically about some of these challenging questions. Such as: Is there a single truth or is truth relative to different people and perspectives? Do we have free will and, if so, how? Do we ever really know anything? What gives life meaning? Is morality objective or subjective, discovered or created? We'll use historical and contemporary sources to clarify questions like these, to understand the stakes, to discuss possible responses, and to arrive at a more coherent, more philosophically informed, set of answers.

Session: 6-Week Session 2 (6/29-8/11)

For prerequisites, availability, other details and to register, go to http://sis.rit.edu/.

Course Description: The purpose of this course is to improve everyday reasoning skills. Critical thinking means evaluating the reasons for our actions and beliefs. Ideally, we think our actions are rational, not arbitrary. But one does not have to look far to discover disagreement and apparent irrationality. What accounts for this? This course investigates how to argue effectively, how to evaluate evidence and reasons, and how to marshal good evidence and reasons in order to arrive at reliable knowledge and justified action. It covers common mistakes that people make in causal, statistical, moral, and everyday reasoning, and it teaches how and when it pays to be skeptical, reflective, and critical.

Session: 6-Week Session 1 (5/13-6/26)

For prerequisites, availability, other details and to register, go to http://sis.rit.edu/.

Course Description: The purpose of this course is to improve everyday reasoning skills. Critical thinking means evaluating the reasons for our actions and beliefs. Ideally, we think our actions are rational, not arbitrary. But one does not have to look far to discover disagreement and apparent irrationality. What accounts for this? This course investigates how to argue effectively, how to evaluate evidence and reasons, and how to marshal good evidence and reasons in order to arrive at reliable knowledge and justified action. It covers common mistakes that people make in causal, statistical, moral, and everyday reasoning, and it teaches how and when it pays to be skeptical, reflective, and critical.

Session: 6-Week Session 2 (6/29-8/11)

For prerequisites, availability, other details and to register, go to http://sis.rit.edu/.

Course Description: This course is a survey of foundational, and normative, approaches to moral philosophy and their motivating moral questions. Topics will include virtue ethics, deontology, consequentialism, and other approaches. Some of the questions to be examined are: How is human nature related to morality? What are the grounds for moral obligations? Is there an ultimate moral principle? How do we reason about what to do? Can reason determine how we ought to live? What are moral judgments? Are there universal goods? What constitutes a morally worthwhile life? Can morality itself be challenged?

Session: 6-Week Session 2 (6/29-8/11)

For prerequisites, availability, other details and to register, go to http://sis.rit.edu/.

Course Description: Introduces students to models of film interpretation and critique that arose in pre-war Europe and that have burgeoned since; these models combine philosophical, aesthetic, economic and psychoanalytic methods of analysis. Among the topics considered are the nature of the image, ideology and alienation, trauma, fetishism, magical realism, realism and anti-realism in film.

Session: 6-Week Session 1 (5/13-6/26)

For prerequisites, availability, other details and to register, go to http://sis.rit.edu/.