Winter Session

AMG 3610

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.

Online | 4 credits | Instructor: Annette Davies

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FRS 1200

An understanding of scientific principles is essential for an educated and engaged citizenry. This course investigates the substance and process of modern science and its role in society, including the scientific method and nature of scientific inquiry; scientific principles, analysis, and critical thinking; sources of scientific information, critical reading, and evaluation of authenticity; and distinguishing science from pseudoscience. Each course section focuses on a different topic or theme and considers some of the important scientific issues of our times. The discussion is required.

Online | 4 credits | Core: Natural Sciences | Instructor: Frank Bellevue

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CMS 3210

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.

Online | 4 credits | Core: Arts | Instructor: Samantha Marine

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COM 3710

Television is much more than a passive, incessant means of diversion—it is a powerful environment of ideas, emotions, and values that influences people’s thoughts, actions, and relationships. Students become acquainted with current issues concerning television in society and explore the impact of television on society. Aspects examined include the 1950s and mass culture, viewer response, serial/episodic structure, and the rise of cable.

Online | 4 Credits | Instructor:
Adam Resnick

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COM 3365

This course focuses on understanding communication in relationships (interpersonal) and within the mind (intrapsychic: thinking, alone time, analyzing, understanding the external world and how one communicates internally). Topics include communication styles and communication in the intimate relationship, within the family, and at the workplace.

Online | 4 credits | Instructor: Kenneth Mann

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COM3710

Television is much more than a passive, incessant means of diversion—it is a powerful environment of ideas, emotions, and values that influences people’s thoughts, actions, and relationships. Students become acquainted with current issues concerning television in society and explore the impact of television on society. Aspects examined include the 1950s and mass culture, viewer response, serial/episodic structure, and the rise of cable.

Online | 4 Credits | Instructor:
Adam Resnick

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HIS 3232

Explore urban life in early modern Europe focusing on social history and how people of different backgrounds (e.g., gender, religion, and class) experienced urban life. Themes include community politics, women and work, family life, migration, culture and festivals, crime and punishment, and universities. Case studies include Venice, Rome, London, Amsterdam, Prague and Geneva.

Online | 4 credits | Instructor: Patrick Holt

LBS 3015

This interdisciplinary course examines ethical, technical and workplace issues surrounding artificial intelligence (AI). By discussing conceptual dilemmas about human-AI interaction from science fiction, TV and film, considering the rise of workplace automation, and exploring specific cases from self-driving cars to intelligent systems that (un)lock front doors and control household items within the internet of things, students tackle policy implications.

Online | 4 credits | Instructor: Lisa Jean Moore

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LIT 3677

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.

Online | 4 credits | Core/ GenEd: Humanities | Instructor: Shinelle Espaillat

MAT 1600

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.

Online | 4 credits | Core: Mathematics | Instructor: Alan Anderson

MAT 1060

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.

Online | 4 credits | Core: Mathematics | Instructor: Barbara McMullen

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PSY 2170

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.

Online | 4 credits | Core: Social Sciences | Instructor: Jessica Carnevale

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PSY 2250

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.

Online | 4 credits | Core: Natural Sciences | Instructor: Jason Clarke

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COM 3365

This course focuses on understanding communication in relationships (interpersonal) and within the mind (intrapsychic: thinking, alone time, analyzing, understanding the external world and how one communicates internally). Topics include communication styles and communication in the intimate relationship, within the family, and at the workplace.

Online | 4 credits | Instructor: Kenneth Mann

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Note: this course is  only accepted as a lower level Psychology elective for students in the Psychology major/minor at Purchase College.

REL 3250

“God is dead,” Nietzsche famously proclaimed to signal the waning power of religion. In spite of the influence religion exerts, one is reminded of the lack of understanding of the world’s major faiths. This course is a study of the origins, evolution, and the traditions of the major and minor religions of the world.

Online | 4 credits | Core: Language & Cultures | GenEd: Other World Civilization | Instructor: George Keteku

SOC 1500

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.

Online | 3 credits | Instructor: Chrys Ingraham

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SOC 3455

Conflict can signal either a disruption in an organization’s operations or an opportunity for change and growth. This course examines the causes, processes, costs, and benefits of social conflict, and methods for conflict resolution. Using sociological theory and research, the relationship of social issues to organizational and institutional conflict is also addressed. Students are given a broad perspective on making conflict an asset organizationally and interpersonally, including 25 hours of coursework needed for conflict-mediation certification. Provides the foundation for an apprenticeship with a conflict-mediation or dispute-resolution center.

Online | 4 credits | Instructor: Chrys Ingraham

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SPA 1010

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.

Online | 4 credits | Core: Languages & Cultures | GenEd: Foreign Language | Instructor: Ager Gondra

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THP 3210

Students explore the bridge between traditional narratives and the emerging narrative demands of the metaverse. Course will introduce the employment of virtuality and augmented design alongside real-world immersive environments. The use of multiple mediums and immersive narrative design principles is leading to a reinvention storytelling, a reinvention that is opened doors to new opportunities in the many fields of entertainment.

Online | 4 credits | Core: Arts | Instructor: David Bassuk

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