Summer Session
Monday, June 1 – Friday, July 31, 2026
Make the Most of Your Summer with Affordable, Flexible, Credit-Bearing Courses at Purchase College
There are many reasons to take a summer course during Summer Session. Choose from a wide range of accelerated courses offered at affordable tuition rates - including in-state rates for eligible NY State residents and discounted options for Fairfield County non-degree residents - and earn up to 12 credits in just 8 weeks. Students matriculated at another college or university can earn transferable credits close to home this summer. With multiple sessions and instructional formats available, it’s easy to build a schedule that fits your summer plans. Explore your options and stay on track toward your academic goals this summer.
Session Dates*
Session I: Monday, June 1 – Friday, June 26, 2026 (4 weeks)
Session II: Monday, June 1 – Monday, July 27, 2026 (8 weeks)
Session III: Monday, July 6 – Friday, July 31, 2026 (4 weeks)
*See Academic Calendar for additional important dates (e.g., add/drop dates, withdrawal deadlines. etc.).
Summer 2026 Course Schedule
Anthropology
The major fields of interest and contributions of social and cultural anthropologists. Accounts of life in different societies are read to illustrate how institutions vary in different cultural settings and to explore what it means to be a member of a culture different from one’s own.
Dates: Monday, July 6 - Friday, July 31
Meeting Times:
Instructor: Muller, Sean
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 3
Arts Management
Examines the foundational theories, structures, and practices central to the arts and creative sectors through interdisciplinary and global approaches. Students engage with key historical developments and contemporary issues to explore the tensions between artists, audiences, communities, and organizational and environmental sustainability. Emphasis is placed on developing the communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills necessary for career pathways in arts management.
Dates: Monday, July 6 - Friday, July 31
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Instructor: Astor, Janis
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 3
To do more than survive in a competitive economy, artists and their managers must learn business strategies for the financial side of their profession. Students are introduced to the basics of budgets, financial management, and accounting concepts that translate into usable information with practical significance for financial decision-making.
Dates: Monday, July 6 - Friday, July 31
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Instructor: Perlove, Eh-Den
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 3
Social media is integral to effective business communication and marketing. Students develop and analyze social media strategies, content and campaigns while gaining a better understanding of how to build individual and organizational brands utilizing social platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Snapchat. Other topics include influencer campaigns, budgeting, analytics, and split testing.
Dates: Monday, June 1 - Friday, June 26
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Instructor: Davies, Annette
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4
Understanding data analytics is essential to careers across arts and culture industries. This course demystifies how data is collected, analyzed, and translated into real-world outcomes. Through hands-on activities, students learn to manage and present quantitative and qualitative data for marketing, policy, and content purposes. Topics include coding, theme development, storytelling, data ethics, and best practices for reaching diverse audiences.
Dates: Monday, June 1 - Friday, June 26
Meeting Times: Tue Thu @ 06:30 PM-09:00 PM
Instructor: Forstrom, Melissa
Type of Instruction: Online - Combined
Credits: 3
Audiences are an integral, but often overlooked community in the arts, heritage, and cultural sectors. Who are audiences? And what are their roles as participatory and receptive agents of arts and culture? Coursework includes theories and methods of audience research, including hands-on data collection and reporting. For the final, students design and conduct an evaluation for a cultural organization.
Dates: Wednesday, May 13 - Thursday, June 4
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Instructor: Forstrom, Melissa
Type of Instruction: Overseas Purchase
Credits: 3
Understanding data analytics is essential to careers across arts and culture industries. This course demystifies how data is collected, analyzed, and translated into real-world outcomes. Through hands-on activities, students learn to manage and present quantitative and qualitative data for marketing, policy, and content purposes. Topics include coding, theme development, storytelling, data ethics, and best practices for reaching diverse audiences.
Dates: Monday, June 1 - Friday, June 26
Meeting Times: Tue Thu @ 06:30 PM-09:00 PM
Instructor: Forstrom, Melissa
Type of Instruction: Online - Combined
Credits: 3
Biology
Introduction to the organ systems of the human body, including the neuromuscular, skeletal, cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, and digestive systems. The physiological mechanisms of adaptation to exercise are also considered.
Dates: Monday, June 1 - Friday, June 26
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Instructor: Carmona, Naydu
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4
Students learn about both form and function of the human body. Content includes cells and tissues; gross and microscopic anatomy; integumentary, skeletal, and muscular systems; and kinesiology. Lab exercises use microscope slides, models, and dissection for a hands-on approach and a practical knowledge of anatomy.
Dates: Monday, June 1 - Friday, June 26
Meeting Times: Mon Wed Fri @ 09:00 AM-12:10 PM
Instructor: Carmona, Naydu
Type of Instruction: Traditional
Credits: 1.5
Chemistry
The principles and applications of chemistry. Topics include the development of an atomic/molecular model, stoichiometry, interaction of light with matter, and the physical behavior of solids, liquids, and gases.
Dates: Monday, June 1 - Friday, June 26
Meeting Times: Mon Tue Wed Thu @ 09:00 AM-12:10 PM
Instructor: Sabatini, Joshua
Type of Instruction: Traditional
Credits: 4
Emphasizes basic techniques in synthetic and analytical chemistry.
Dates: Monday, June 1 - Friday, June 26
Meeting Times: Mon Wed @ 01:00 PM-04:10 PM
Instructor: Sabatini, Joshua
Type of Instruction: Traditional
Credits: 1
A continuation of CHE 1550. Topics include chemical kinetics and equilibrium, electrochemistry, thermodynamics, acids and bases, and the chemistry of representative elements..
Dates: Monday, July 6 - Friday, July 31
Meeting Times: Mon Tue Wed Thu @ 09:00 AM-12:10 PM
Instructor: Sabatini, Joshua
Type of Instruction: Traditional
Credits: 4
Emphasizes basic techniques in synthetic and analytical chemistry.
Dates: Monday, July 6 - Friday, July 31
Meeting Times: Mon Wed @ 01:00 PM-04:10 PM
Instructor: Sabatini, Joshua
Type of Instruction: Traditional
Credits: 1
Communication, Media, Cinema and Television
Sophisticated works in the heterogeneous genres of personal documentary and essay film re-situate self and environment, subverting dominant practices to produce new meaning. Students examine projects from diverse cultural contexts transgressing categories of narrative, documentary, and avant-garde, critical texts from cinema and media studies to feminist theory and disability studies, producing moving image exercises in addition to written texts.
Dates: Monday, July 6 - Friday, July 31
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Instructor: Fabian, Rachel
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4
Throughout the history of cinema, the comedy film has been one of the most financially profitable genres, producing some of the biggest movie stars. Topics include various comedy film styles and performers, and the role of the comedy film genre within the context of world history, especially during darker periods like the Depression and World War II.
Dates: Monday, June 1 - Friday, June 26
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Instructor: Marine, Samantha
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4
Examines the elements and messages in sports films that make people cheer for the underdog and care about teams, players, and sports. Using both big-budget Hollywood films and documentaries with a small scope, this course explores the ideas of team, sport, and athletics and investigates the grip that sports have on American culture.
Dates: Monday, July 6 - Friday, July 31
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Instructor: Paccione, Brian
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4
An interdisciplinary (social science and humanities) course that emphasizes critical thinking in understanding the social and historical effects of mass media in the U.S. and throughout the world. This course begins in 19th-century America, when print media shaped and defined the national culture, and concludes in the current century with the mass-media convergence of print, electronic, and digital multimedia that is shaping and defining our global culture.
Dates: Monday, June 1 - Friday, June 26
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Instructor: Zechowski, Sharon
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4
Negotiation is approached from a communication perspective in this course. Students explore the cooperative decision-making process in which individuals and groups work together to attempt to achieve goals that may initially seem divergent. By examining the way language is used to frame arguments and barriers, students practice planning, reframing, and bargaining to maintain roles and relationships.
Dates: Monday, July 6 - Friday, July 31
Meeting Times:
Instructor: Maston, Brian
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 3
An introduction to theories of the media, visual, and performing arts. Using semiotics as a point of departure, students explore the language and iconography of visual communication. The course focuses on works of art, advertising, television, and the web as social contexts of cultural production and analyses the role that ordinary people play in the production of media.
Dates: Monday, July 6 - Friday, July 31
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Instructor: Halperin, Paula
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 3
In 1991, The Real World pioneered a genre of “unscripted” television that reshaped national media culture, culminating in the reality of the 2016 election. Students study theories of Hall, Habermas and Gramsci to explore how the genre reflects and shapes attitudes of U.S. audiences to surveillance, class conflict, and the performance of truths. Examples include Jersey Shore and American Idol.
Dates: Monday, June 1 - Friday, June 26
Meeting Times:
Instructor: Resnick, Adam
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4
Creative Writing
This introductory course in creative writing allows students to explore various genres. Poetry, the short story, and memoir are among the forms discussed. Students should be prepared to write, revise, and share portions of their work with other members of the class, and to read a selection of works by contemporary authors.
Dates: Monday, July 6 - Friday, July 31
Meeting Times: Mon Tue Wed Thu @ 09:00 AM-12:10 PM
Instructor: Okasi, Mehdi
Type of Instruction: Traditional
Credits: 4
Environmental Studies
Explore the nature of life, examine the history of life on Earth, look for life among the rocky planets and icy moons of our solar system, hunt for extrasolar planets, and join in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Are we alone in the universe?
Dates: Monday, July 6 - Friday, July 31
Meeting Times: Mon Tue Wed Thu @ 09:00 AM-12:10 PM
Instructor: Landa, Keith
Type of Instruction: Traditional
Credits: 4
History
An introductory survey of the history of Latin America from colonial times to the present. Topics include geography, indigenous peoples, colonization and nation formation, society, politics, economy and culture of contemporary Latin America, and its place in today’s world.
Dates: Monday, June 1 - Friday, June 26
Meeting Times:
Instructor: Benmergui, Leandro
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4
Covers the history and cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. Topics include Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations, classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period, Etruscan civilization, the Roman Republic, the Roman Empire, Roman interactions with neighbors, the birth of Christianity, and the early years of the Byzantine Empire. This course also addresses how to read primary sources, the historiography of antiquity, and how to use archaeological sources.
Dates: Monday, July 6 - Friday, July 31
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Instructor: Angiolillo, Patrick
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4
Considers the profound influence Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have exerted on the social, cultural, and political history of the East and the West. This course examines the historical developments, tenets, and scriptures of the three religions.
Dates: Monday, July 6 - Friday, July 31
Meeting Times:
Instructor:
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 3
Introduces systems of health and medicine in the European Middle Ages, elite learned traditions taught in universities, and everyday approaches to wellness. Sources for medieval medicine include religious and academic texts, household accounts and even charms, and are used to explore how people managed their health, practiced medicine, and dealt with challenges ranging from treatments to bubonic plague.
Dates: Monday, July 6 - Friday, July 31
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Instructor: Schultz, Jenna
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4
This course retraces the history of Europe’s multicultural present. Students excavate aspects of Europe’s colonial and postcolonial past and explore how migration from within and beyond Europe has transformed concepts of national citizenship and European identity in recent decades. In so doing, students are equipped to reexamine concepts of race and ethnicity and models of multiculturalism that have been developed in the US context.
Dates: Monday, June 1 - Friday, June 26
Meeting Times:
Instructor: Bailey, John
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4
An examination of American society, culture, and politics from World War II to the present. Topics include the Cold War, Vietnam, and the rise of a global order dominated by America; economic development and its social and cultural consequences; movements of the 1960s and their legacy in American politics; and the triumph of conservatism and emergence of a “postliberal” era.
Dates: Monday, June 1 - Friday, June 26
Meeting Times:
Instructor: Levy, Jessica
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4
Literature
Concise and focused, the short story has been a lens through which Americans have explored their identities. Stories written in the last 25 years examine the changing sense of what being an American means.
Dates: Monday, July 6 - Friday, July 31
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Instructor: Espaillat, Shinelle
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4
Mathematics & Computer Science
Students learn how to employ Excel to create and modify spreadsheets, create macros and scripts, create charts and graphs, import data, create concept maps and sequentially rank information. By learning how to harness Excel’s data analysis and visualization tools, they can analyze information, spot trends, and access information easily and recognize its importance in making critical financial decisions.
Dates: Monday, June 1 - Friday, June 26
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Instructor: Anderson, Alan
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 2
Students learn basic concepts in quantitative reasoning (number systems, data manipulation, basic statistics), with emphasis on problem solving using computational methods. This course uses a textbook and focuses on applications related to consumer issues to develop computational and problem-solving skills. Students learn to transform data into information and apply quantitative methods to evaluate information and solve real-world problems.
Dates: Monday, June 1 - Friday, June 26
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Instructor: McMullen, Barbara
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4
Prepares students with limited backgrounds in high school mathematics for calculus. Topics include absolute values and inequalities, the properties of functions, graphs, logarithms, fractional exponents, and trigonometry.
Dates: Monday, July 6 - Friday, July 31
Meeting Times:
Instructor: Roberts, Nicholas
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4
The basic concepts of the differential and integral calculus. Focus is on the applicability of these topics to an array of problems. The first course in a three-semester series.
Dates: Monday, June 1 - Monday, July 27
Meeting Times:
Instructor: Anderson, Alan
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4
A continuation of MAT 1500. Topics include differentiation and integration of logarithmic, exponential, and inverse trigonometric functions; techniques of integration; arc length; infinite series; and improper integrals. Applications include work, growth, and decay problems and volumes of solids of revolution.
Dates: Monday, June 1 - Monday, July 27
Meeting Times:
Instructor: Anderson, Alan
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4
Statistics are used everywhere in the modern world. This course covers descriptive statistics, including measures of central tendency, methods of dispersion, and graphs; and inferential statistics, including normal distributions and hypothesis testing, Pearson correlation, and linear regression.
Dates: Monday, June 1 - Monday, July 27
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Instructor: McMullen, Barbara
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4
Photography
An introduction to the techniques, current practices, and history surrounding digital photography. Editing techniques are covered, with attention to image manipulation using Adobe Photoshop and RAW files. Composition, lighting, point of view, and use of narrative are explored. A digital camera is required; cameras may be borrowed, as available, from Campus Technology Services. Students may not earn credit for both PHO 1100 (offered by the School of Art+Design) and PHO 1101.
Dates: Monday, July 6 - Friday, July 31
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Instructor: Mesa-Pelly, Deborah
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 3
Physical Education
This course will offer students an opportunity to learn and enjoy salsa dance. Salsa dance originated in Cuba with Spanish, Caribbean and African influences. It is an energetic social dance and one of the most popular and beautiful of the Latin partner dances. It is easy to learn and is danced worldwide. Through two weekly sessions, students will learn to salsa dance with a partner.
Dates: Monday, June 1 - Monday, July 27
Meeting Times: Tue Thu @ 10:30 AM-12:05 PM
Instructor: Kincannon, Suzannah
Type of Instruction: Traditional
Credits: 1
Physics
Lecture course for students of both biological and physical science, as well as students of the humanities or social sciences with a background in high school physics or chemistry. Topics include kinematics, Newtonian dynamics, work and conservation of energy, mass-energy relationships, the laws of thermodynamics, and the kinetic properties of matter.
Dates: Monday, June 1 - Friday, June 26
Meeting Times: Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri @ 04:00 PM-06:30 PM
Instructor: Glazenburg, Zhanna
Type of Instruction: Traditional
Credits: 4
Demonstrations and participatory experiments are used to increase the student’s working physical knowledge of the natural world.
Dates: Monday, June 1 - Friday, June 26
Meeting Times: Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri @ 07:00 PM-08:30 PM
Instructor: Glazenburg, Zhanna
Type of Instruction: Traditional
Credits: 1
A continuation of PHY 1510. Topics include electric and magnetic fields, electromagnetic waves, optics, and some ideas from modern physics.
Dates: Monday, July 6 - Friday, July 31
Meeting Times: Mon Tue Wed Thu @ 09:00 AM-12:10 PM
Instructor: Glazenburg, Zhanna
Type of Instruction: Traditional
Credits: 4
Demonstrations and participatory experiments are used to make students familiar with gravitational and electromagnetic forces in nature and foundations of optics.
Dates: Monday, July 6 - Friday, July 31
Meeting Times: Mon Wed @ 01:00 PM-04:10 PM
Instructor: Glazenburg, Zhanna
Type of Instruction: Traditional
Credits: 1
The phenomena of light and sound, widely appreciated as primary media for artistic expression, have also played an important role in spurring scientific investigation of the world of nature. This course explores light and sound through their foundations in the theories of vibration and wave motion. With sound, the application to the production of musical tones is emphasized. The study of light ranges from the early investigations of Galileo, Newton, and Huygens to the work of Einstein in relativity and quantum theory. A paper is required, and some class sessions take place in the lab. A background in physics is not required.
Dates: Monday, July 6 - Friday, July 31
Meeting Times:
Instructor: Glazenburg, Zhanna
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4
Political Science
In modern times, ideological debates have revolved around capitalism, socialism, and democracy and were intensified during the Cold War by the U.S.-U.S.SR. rivalry. Focusing on the development of capitalism and socialism in the West and their relationship to democracy, students examine different conceptualizations of democracy, the global impact of Western developments, and arguments on the compatibility of capitalism with authoritarianism.
Dates: Monday, July 6 - Friday, July 31
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Instructor: Galloway, Sam
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4
A survey of major political upheavals and belief systems that have shaped and shaken the modern world. In addition to the origins, social foundations, and variants of liberalism, socialism, communism, anarchism, fascism, and feminism, discussions include examples of anti-imperialist, antiracist, and nationalist movements and ideologies from Third World countries and ethnic minorities in the West.
Dates: Monday, June 1 - Friday, June 26
Meeting Times:
Instructor: Galloway, Sam
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4
Printmaking
Focuses on the development of the student’s narrative voice through word and image. Students learn basic bookbinding with an emphasis on development of a subject matter and ways of storytelling. Rhythm and timing are examined as components of narrative structure. Unique works, small editions, and collaborative projects are made, using media chosen by each student.
Dates: Monday, July 6 - Friday, July 31
Meeting Times: Tue Thu @ 09:00 AM-01:30 PM
Instructor: Hooper, Cassandra
Type of Instruction: Hybrid
Credits: 3
Focuses on the development of the student’s narrative voice through word and image. Students learn basic bookbinding with an emphasis on development of subject matter and ways of storytelling. Rhythm and timing are examined as components of narrative structure. Unique works, small editions, and collaborative projects are made, using media chosen by each student.
Dates: Monday, July 6 - Friday, July 31
Meeting Times: Tue Thu @ 09:00 AM-01:30 PM
Instructor: Hooper, Cassandra
Type of Instruction: Hybrid
Credits: 3
Please note that after the 7/23 in-person class meeting, this course will be conducted asynchronously and be fully online.
Psychology
Empirical and theoretical approaches to the basic physiological, cognitive, and social mechanisms underlying behavior. Topics include learning and conditioning; sensation and perception; memory, thinking, and language; psychological development; social processes; and personality and psychopathology.
Dates: Monday, June 1 - Friday, June 26
Meeting Times:
Instructor: Harburger, Lauren
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4
An overview of the exciting field of behavioral neuroscience. The four content areas are basic neural processing and neuroanatomy; imaging the brain; the thinking, feeling, remembering, and learning brain; and the ethical brain. In addition, the ways in which brain-behavior relationships are portrayed in the popular media are discussed.
Dates: Monday, June 1 - Monday, July 27
Meeting Times:
Instructor: Arout, Caroline
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4
Students study classic experiments and contemporary research in the areas of conformity, obedience, helping behavior, attributions, aggression, persuasion, close relationships and attraction, attitudes and social influence, ethics, and prejudice. This material is applied to both current and historical examples in social research.
Dates: Monday, July 6 - Friday, July 31
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Instructor: Carnevale, Jessica
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4
An examination of the biological processes by which the sensory systems pick up information from the environment and the psychological processes by which that information is coded, transformed, and integrated to form perceptions. Emphasis is on the visual systems and visual perception. Aspects of perception in the visual arts and music are also discussed.
Dates: Monday, July 6 - Friday, July 31
Meeting Times:
Instructor: Clarke, Jason
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4
An examination of the biological basis of behavior. Topics include neuronal transmission, the coding and higher-order processing of sensory stimuli, movement, regulatory processes in feeding and drinking, sexual and emotional behavior, learning and memory, and psychopharmacology. The biological bases of various psychological disorders are also covered.
Dates: Monday, June 1 - Friday, June 26
Meeting Times:
Instructor: Harburger, Lauren
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4
Personality psychologists study consistent ways people think, feel, and behave. This course focuses on classic and contemporary theoretical approaches to personality and how theory influences the research questions psychologists ask, the methods they employ, and their interpretation of results. An examination of research findings furthers understanding of commonalities as well as individual differences in people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
Dates: Monday, July 6 - Friday, July 31
Meeting Times:
Instructor: Hess, Yanine
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4
Playwriting and Screenwriting
Introduces the student to writing a dramatic story for the screen, placing an emphasis on discovery, good work habits, critical assessment, and rewriting as essential to the professional writer. Through numerous assignments, students learn the basics of dramatic story structure, revealing character, writing dialogue, genre, and use of story suspense. All techniques are applied in a final short screenplay.
Dates: Monday, June 1 - Monday, July 27
Meeting Times:
Instructor: Young, John
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4
Students will examine songs, scenes, and the stories behind musicals from Vaudeville, "Golden Age," megamusicals, "contemporary musical theatre," all the way into the ever-expanding, excitingly diverse peripherals and new perspectives of what musical theatre in the now, fostering inspiration and creating room for what the American Musical Theatre has yet to become.
Dates: Monday, June 1 - Monday, July 27
Meeting Times:
Instructor: Cooper, Sara
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4
Sociology
An introduction to sociological thinking and to key concepts in sociology. Attention is given to social life, inequality, movements, action, change, institutions, and contemporary social issues.
Dates: Monday, June 1 - Friday, June 26
Meeting Times:
Instructor: Moore, Lisa Jean
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 3
An examination of the state of race relations in the United States and other industrialized nations. Topics include racial and ethnic stratification, systems of oppression, mechanisms for integration, pluralism, assimilation, and racial politics.
Dates: Monday, July 6 - Friday, July 31
Meeting Times:
Instructor: Ward, Sophia
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 3
Considers the ways in which children and childhood differ across cultures, what those cultural differences mean, and what childhood means in a larger developmental and cultural sense. Among other topics, students examine children as active social agents, independent of families, and incorporate ideas around children as products, childhood innocence, and children in need of protection.
Dates: Monday, June 1 - Friday, June 26
Meeting Times:
Instructor: George-Lucas, Danielle
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4
Spanish
For students who have had little or no previous exposure to the language. Presents the essential structures of spoken and written Spanish by involving the student in situations that concretely represent the concepts of the language.
Dates: Monday, June 1 - Friday, June 26
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Instructor: Gondra, Ager
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4
A continuation of SPA 1010. Increased time is devoted to reading and writing. Development of oral skills remains the primary objective of the course.
Dates: Monday, July 6 - Friday, July 31
Meeting Times:
Instructor: Gondra, Ager
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4
Students learn translation theory and methodology applied to Spanish. Students practice translation techniques applied to a variety of text types, such as poetry, fiction, comics and films.
Dates: Monday, June 1 - Monday, July 27
Meeting Times:
Instructor: Symons, Deborah
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4
Students interested in taking Beginner Spanish II should take an online Spanish Placement Exam.
Visual Arts
An interdisciplinary exploration of collage and assemblage. Students will work with both two- and three-dimensional methods of combining materials, imagery, and forms into new compositions while investigating formal, conceptual, and cultural ideas. Working both digitally and physically, students explore found images and objects, and original content. Weekly slide lectures, demonstrations, exercises, and critiques will complement students’ own art practice.
Dates: Monday, June 1 - Friday, June 26
Meeting Times: Tue @ 09:00 AM-12:00 PM
Instructor: Polak, Janine
Type of Instruction: Online - Combined
Credits: 3
An interdisciplinary exploration of collage and assemblage. Students will work with both two- and three-dimensional methods of combining materials, imagery, and forms into new compositions while investigating formal, conceptual, and cultural ideas. Working both digitally and physically, students explore found images and objects, and original content. Weekly slide lectures, demonstrations, exercises, and critiques will complement students’ own art practice.
Dates: Monday, June 1 - Friday, June 26
Meeting Times: Tue @ 09:00 AM-12:00 PM
Instructor: Polak, Janine
Type of Instruction: Online - Combined
Credits: 3
Course and Registration Information
Registration is open!
- Students looking to fulfill a SUNY General Education requirement may find courses in the course search using the 2023 General Education filter. Students who matriculated at Purchase or another SUNY school prior to Fall 2023 should use the Core Curriculum filter.
- Days and times are not posted for courses taught asynchronously, because there is no scheduled class time.
- Course Cancellations: In the event a course is cancelled due to low enrollment or other administrative reasons, all enrolled students will receive a full (100%) refund, and we will assist you in finding an alternative course that supports your academic objectives.
- Access to Brightspace, the Learning Management System, opens up -viewing only- for registered students 4 days before the official start of the session.
- Courses fill quickly. Check your Purchase College email for the bill payment deadline to avoid being dropped from a course.
- Don’t forget to check the federal and state financial aid chart to determine eligibility and to obtain information.
- Summer Session refund policy
Other important information
Scroll to Summer 2026 at each of these links:
- NY state tuition rates (if eligible)
- Discounted Fairfield County tuition rates (non-degree students only and less than 12 credits)
- Competitive Out-of-State tuition rates
Choose the learning style (instructional method) that works best for you:
- Online asynchronous courses - learn on your own schedule
- Online combined courses - synchronous combined with asynchronous instruction
- Hybrid courses - a combination of online and in person instruction
- On-campus studio art and science lecture and lab courses
Summer Session courses are open to:
- Current and newly admitted Purchase College students
- Visiting students from other colleges and universities
- Students completing prerequisites for graduate school
- Approved high school juniors and seniors - Also check out the new Purchase College Academic Edge program!
Students seeking accommodations must contact the Office of Disability Resources as soon as possible to discuss the steps to register with the office.
Single rooms are available for students in on-campus courses. Check for details and rates.