Summer Courses

Course Description: This course introduces students to Visual Analytics, or the science of analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interfaces. Course lectures, reading assignments, and practical lab experiences will cover a mix of theoretical and technical Visual Analytics topics. Topics include analytical reasoning, human cognition and perception of visual information, visual representation and interaction technologies, data representation and transformation, production, presentation, and dissemination of analytic process results, and Visual Analytic case studies and applications. Furthermore, students will learn relevant Visual Analytics research trends such as Space, Time, and Multivariate Analytics and Extreme Scale Visual Analytics.

Session: 12-Week Session (5/15-8/13)

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Course Description: The project-based culminating experience for the Master of Science in Information Technology and Analytics program. A MS project will typically include a software system development component requiring a substantial and sustained level of effort. Students must submit an approved project proposal in order to enroll. (Permission of project committee and graduate program director).

Session: 12-Week Session (5/15-8/13)

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Course Description: An independent project in sustainability serving as a capstone experience for students completing the non-thesis option. This course requires a formal proposal and a faculty sponsor.

Session: 12-Week Session (5/15-8/13)

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Course Description: This is an introductory course on a topic that is not part of the formal curriculum. This course is structured as an ordinary course and has specific prerequisites, contact hours, and examination procedures.

Session: 6-Week Session 1 (5/15-6/26)

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Course Description: The Global Career Accelerator offers a tailored, project-based 4-credit learning experience for RIT students, accessible entirely online. This course provides undergraduates across all majors with the chance to develop practical skills and gain career-focused knowledge. Students will choose between four distinct tracks: Global Digital Marketing, Global Coding for Web, Global Data Analytics, and Global Coding for Data. Through a blend of video lessons, live online classes, and hands-on portfolio projects for prominent companies and NGOs, students collaborate in small groups with peers from across the nation and globe. They tackle real-world challenges provided by industry partners, honing technical proficiencies highly sought after in today's job market. The program is designed to offer a versatile avenue for professional development. Emphasizing practical, professional, and intercultural growth, the Global Career Accelerator aligns with RIT's commitment to global engagement, career readiness, and innovative education.

Session: 12-Week Session (5/15-8/13)

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Course Description: This course provides the background for an introductory level, non-trigonometry based calculus course. The topics include a review of the fundamentals of algebra: solutions of linear, fractional, and quadratic equations, functions and their graphs, polynomial, exponential, logarithmic and rational functions, and systems of linear equations.

Session: 6-Week Session 2 (7/1-8/13)

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Course Description: This course provides the background for an introductory level, non-trigonometry based calculus course. The topics include a review of the fundamentals of algebra: solutions of linear, fractional, and quadratic equations, functions and their graphs, polynomial, exponential, logarithmic and rational functions, and systems of linear equations.

Session: 12-Week Session (5/15-8/13)

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

Course Description: This course provides the background for an introductory level, non-trigonometry based calculus course. The topics include a review of the fundamentals of algebra: solutions of linear, fractional, and quadratic equations, functions and their graphs, polynomial, exponential, logarithmic and rational functions, and systems of linear equations.

Session: 6-Week Session 1 (5/15-6/26)

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Course Description: This course provides the background for an introductory level, trigonometry-based calculus course. Topics include functions and their graphs, with an emphasis on functions that commonly appear in calculus including polynomials, rational functions, trigonometric functions, exponential functions, and logarithmic functions. The course also includes the analytic geometry of conic sections. One hour each week will be devoted to a collaborative learning workshop.

Session: 6-Week Session 2 (7/1-8/13)

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Course Description: This course provides the background for an introductory level, trigonometry-based calculus course. Topics include functions and their graphs, with an emphasis on functions that commonly appear in calculus including polynomials, rational functions, trigonometric functions, exponential functions, and logarithmic functions. The course also includes the analytic geometry of conic sections. One hour each week will be devoted to a collaborative learning workshop.

Session: 6-Week Session 2 (7/1-8/13)

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Course Description: This course is an introduction to the topics of discrete mathematics, including number systems, sets and logic, relations, combinatorial methods, graph theory, regular sets, vectors, and matrices.

Session: 12-Week Session (5/15-8/13)

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Course Description: This course is an introduction to the study of differential and integral calculus, including the study of functions and graphs, limits, continuity, the derivative, derivative formulas, applications of derivatives, the definite integral, the fundamental theorem of calculus, basic techniques of integral approximation, exponential and logarithmic functions, basic techniques of integration, an introduction to differential equations, and geometric series. Applications in business, management sciences, and life sciences will be included with an emphasis on manipulative skills.

Session: 12-Week Session (5/15-8/13)

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Course Description: This is the second course in three-course sequence (COS-MATH-171, -172, -173). The course includes Riemann sums, the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, techniques of integration, and applications of the definite integral. The techniques of integration include substitution and integration by parts. The applications of the definite integral include areas between curves, and the calculation of volume.

Session: 12-Week Session (5/15-8/13)

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Course Description: This is the third course in three-course sequence (COS-MATH-171, -172, -173). The course includes sequences, convergence and divergence of series, representations of functions by infinite series, curves defined by parametric equations, and polar coordinates. Also included are applications of calculus to curves expressed in parametric and polar form.

Session: 6-Week Session 1 (5/15-6/26)

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Course Description: This is the second in a two-course sequence. It emphasizes the understanding of concepts, and using them to solve physical problems. The course covers techniques of integration including integration by parts, partial fractions, improper integrals, applications of integration, representing functions by infinite series, convergence and divergence of series, parametric curves, and polar coordinates.

Session: 12-Week Session (5/15-8/13)

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Course Description: This course introduces students to ideas and techniques from discrete mathematics that are widely used in Computer Science. Students will learn about the fundamentals of propositional and predicate calculus, set theory, relations, recursive structures and counting. This course will help increase students' mathematical sophistication and their ability to handle abstract problems.

Session: 6-Week Session 2 (7/1-8/13)

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Course Description: This course is principally a study of the calculus of functions of two or more variables, but also includes the study of vectors, vector-valued functions and their derivatives. The course covers limits, partial derivatives, multiple integrals, and includes applications in physics. Credit cannot be granted for both this course and MATH-221.

Session: 6-Week Session 2 (7/1-8/13)

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Course Description: This course is principally a study of the calculus of functions of two or more variables, but also includes a study of vectors, vector-valued functions and their derivatives. The course covers limits, partial derivatives, multiple integrals, Stokes' Theorem, Green's Theorem, the Divergence Theorem, and applications in physics. Credit cannot be granted for both this course and MATH-219.

Session: 6-Week Session 2 (7/1-8/13)

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Course Description: This course is an introduction to the study of ordinary differential equations and their applications. Topics include solutions to first order equations and linear second order equations, method of undetermined coefficients, variation of parameters, linear independence and the Wronskian, vibrating systems, and Laplace transforms.

Session: 6-Week Session 1 (5/15-6/26)

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Course Description: This course is an introduction to the basic concepts of linear algebra, and techniques of matrix manipulation. Topics include linear transformations, Gaussian elimination, matrix arithmetic, determinants, vector spaces, linear independence, basis, null space, row space, and column space of a matrix, eigenvalues, eigenvectors, change of basis, similarity and diagonalization. Various applications are studied throughout the course.

Session: 6-Week Session 2 (7/1-8/13)

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