CEL Courses Offered Spring 2021
Measurement & Date Visualization
Consultants are interested in answering questions such as: How well is this company run? How is the company funded? How are employees spending their time? To answer these questions, they may look at company records, speak to employees and customers, or make site visits. Decisions need to be made on how to collect, summarize, analyze, and present these disparate pieces of information. In this course, we think about how to approach these issues, from developing appropriate and ethical metrics and heuristics to creating accessible visualizations.
Professor Chaitra Nagaraja, Course No. 4434
Community Partner(s):
Highbridge Community Development Corp.
Project(s):
Highbridge Community Development Corp.’s interest is to have the documentation of the critical needs of our older tenants serve as a basis for improving public policy as well as the delivery of community-based health and social services. Students in Measurement and Data Visualization will conduct the needs assessment and will apply what they learn in the course to recommend ways to improve through the use of metrics, data collection, analysis, and visualization. The final report will be submitted to the organization.
Applied Dev Psychology Practice II
Professor Lindsay Hoyt, Course No. 8351
Community Partner(s):
M.S. 180
Project(s):
This course is intended to give upper-level psychology students the opportunity to advance their content knowledge and apply their research training in a real-world setting. The theme of this course is “Youth-led Participatory Action Research” (YPAR), which is an innovative approach to positive youth and community development based in social justice principles in which young people are trained to conduct systemic research to improve their lives, their communities, and the institutions intended to serve them. The course partners with MS 180 to identify mental health needs of the school community and construct an asset-based
Faith and Critical Reason
This course is an introduction to modern Catholic social teaching. Major papal and conciliar documents will be read and critically examined from various Christian and non-Christian perspectives. Their relation to contemporary social issues will be explored.
Professor Megan Gooley, Course No. 1000
Community Partner(s):
TBD
Project(s):
This course gives students the opportunity to explore the tenets of Catholic Social Teaching as imagined and lived by a faith-based non-profit that supports marginalized communities.
Designing Smart Cities for Social Justice
“Smart Cities” represents the rapid integration of digital media and communication networks into all modes of urban living and the reorientation of urban economies toward digital industries. This course takes a community-engaged learning approach that combines an introduction to smart urbanism with a collaborative research and design project. Coursework involves partnering with the Lincoln Square Neighborhood Center to conduct a digital needs assessment and design digital interventions that prioritize access, empathy, and participation. Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week require three additional hours of class preparation per week on the part of the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction.
Professor Gregory Donovan, Course No. 3380
Community Partner(s):
Local Settlement Housing
Project(s):
The course partners with a local settlement house to offer students both an introduction to smart urbanism as well as a space to critique and reimagine uneven flows of wealth, power, and privilege in their smart city. Students work to produce “minor data” or situated points of reference that help make legible phenomena ignored by smart urbanism’s epistemological commitments to big data.
Spanish Community Engaged Learning
This advanced Spanish course develops students’ abilities in reading, writing, speaking, and oral comprehension. The goals of the course are for students to understand and communicate in standard Spanish in everyday contexts; to comprehend a variety of written, visual, and sounds texts, including literary works, newspaper articles, and films; and to comment on these texts orally and in writing in a coherent and grammatically correct manner. Grammar review will be an integral part of the reading, viewing, and writing activities for the course. The community-engaged learning component of this course treats the topic of Hispanic migration as a contemporary—not just historical—occurrence. Students will work in the community for an average of four hours every week using their Spanish and improving their language skills in a highly contextualized environment unmatched by the classroom experience. At the same time, they will gain first-hand knowledge about the immigrant experience while seeing real-world applications for their language skills.
Professor Carey Kasten, Course No. 2201
Community Partner(s):
CRISPAZ
Project(s):
Students perform direct service at a set of partners in New York City, in order to engage with the rich tradition of Latinx immigrants in the United States and systemic disenfranchisement within the community. A representative from CRISPAZ leads students through an integrated project around immigration and immigration reform.
Texts and Contexts
An introduction to the literary analysis of texts and the cultural and historical contexts within which they are produced and read. Significant class time will be devoted to critical writing and to speaking about literature. Each section of Texts and Contexts will have a focus developed by the individual instructor and expressed in its subtitle. This course fulfills the Core requirements for the second Eloquentia Perfecta seminar.
Professor David Wright, Course No. 2000
Community Partner(s):
Osborne Association
Citizens Against Recidivism
Project(s):
This course examines questions of citizenship and identity in the context of criminal justice reform and prison abolition. Students partner with criminal justice reform organizations to explore crime, punishment, embodiment, and liberty in ancient drama and in contemporary experience.
Spanish for Heritage Speakers
An advanced review of grammar for students with bilingual experiences in English and Spanish. Study of selected literary texts, films, and other materials will help students strengthen and further develop their written and oral skills in Spanish.
Professor Miguel Garcia, Course No. 2301
Community Partner(s):
University Neighborhood Housing Program Inc.
Project(s):
This course is aimed at students who are heritage learners of Spanish. The goal of the class is to improve all linguistic abilities in Spanish, including listening and reading comprehension, reading, and oral expression. In addition to attending class sessions, students will work with the University Neighborhood Housing Program in the Bronx to support their efforts transitioning residents and applicants to work with the new housing lottery application system in New York City. This collaborative engagement will allow students to better understand some of the challenges faced by the Latinx community in our country.
Italian Community Engaged Learning: Art and Society
This course is part of the core language sequence and corresponds to ITAL2001, Italian Language and Literature. In this course students develop linguistic, cultural, and intercultural skills by studying Italian texts and artifacts in their socio-political context, with a focus on the period after World War II. By collaborating with an Italian cultural Institution in New York state, students will examine the interplay between the local U.S. community and the institution, with a focus on representation and access, and experience and reflect on the negotiation of communication in an intercultural setting.
Professor Alessia Valfredini, Course No. 2201
Community Partner(s):
Il Magazzino
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Project(s):
This course is part of the core language sequence. Students develop linguistic, cultural, and
intercultural skills by studying Italian texts and artifacts in their socio political context, with a focus on the period after World War II. By collaborating with an Italian cultural Institution in NY State they examine the interplay between the local US community and the institution, with a focus on representation and access, and experience negotiating communication in an intercultural setting. Students partner with museums to explore Italian and Italian-adjacent texts and objects, and to examine access and belonging in New York cultural institutions.
Rock and Roll Hip Hop
A study of urban youth culture through an examination of musical forms and their evolution from the post WWII era to the present. Begins with Rock and Roll and ends with Rap and Hip Hop. Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week require three additional hours of class preparation per week on the part of the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction.
Professor Mark Naison, Course No. 3134
Community Partner(s):
Mott Hall
Project(s):
Mott Hall High School students join Fordham students for this exploration of Bronx music and the role of the Bronx in the development of Rock and Roll and Hip Hop.
Art and Action on The Bronx River
This course is designed around direct experiences with the Bronx River, which flows only a few minutes' walk from the Rose Hill campus. The river is a critical urban landmark, a scenic dividing line that runs from Westchester County to the East River. Throughout the semester, we will study the history of the river, its ecology, its relationship to surrounding communities, and its connection to New York City’s watershed. Walking, collecting, observation, and boating are some of the actions that might be combined with creative processes throughout the semester. We will also explore contemporary artists whose work combines social practice, activism, and environmental action. This is a visual arts class; however, experience in the creative arts is not required to be successful in this course. Assignments will be experimental in nature and may include drawing, photography, creative writing, and alternative research techniques. Throughout this course we will directly engage with the Bronx River Alliance, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting and protecting the river. We will also engage with the river itself. The engagement is what gives this course a CCEL designation. Note: Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week require three additional hours of class preparation per week on the part of the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction.
Professor Matthew Jensen, Course No. 2424
Community Partner(s):
The Bronx River Alliance
Composition
Intensive training in the principles of effective expository writing, with an emphasis on sound logic, correct grammar, and persuasive rhetoric. Introduces research techniques, including use of the library, conventions and principles of documentation, analysis of sources, and ethics of scholarly research. Weekly papers will be written and discussed.
Professor Crystal Colombini, Course No. 1102
Community Partner(s):
TBD
Project(s):
This composition course partners with local schools and nonprofits to examine literacy, expression, access, and professional writing. Students employ narrative, discipline-specific writing, and academic writing norms to interrogate standardization, the multiplicity of vernaculars in New York City, and professional writing.
Composition
Intensive training in the principles of effective expository writing, with an emphasis on sound logic, correct grammar, and persuasive rhetoric. Introduces research techniques, including use of the library, conventions and principles of documentation, analysis of sources, and ethics of scholarly research. Weekly papers will be written and discussed.
Professor Kirk Quinsland, Course No. 1102
Community Partner(s):
TBD
Project(s):
This composition course partners with local schools and nonprofits to examine literacy, expression, access, and professional writing. Students employ narrative, discipline-specific writing, and academic writing norms to interrogate standardization, the multiplicity of vernaculars in New York City, and professional writing.
Composition
Intensive training in the principles of effective expository writing, with an emphasis on sound logic, correct grammar, and persuasive rhetoric. Introduces research techniques, including use of the library, conventions and principles of documentation, analysis of sources, and ethics of scholarly research. Weekly papers will be written and discussed.
Professor Maya Castellanos, Course No. 1102
Community Partner(s):
TBD
Project(s):
This composition course partners with local schools and nonprofits to examine literacy, expression, access, and professional writing. Students employ narrative, discipline-specific writing, and academic writing norms to interrogate standardization, the multiplicity of vernaculars in New York City, and professional writing.
Communication Ethics and the Public Sphere
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. Note: Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week require three additional hours of class preparation per week on the part of the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction.
Professor Diana Kamin, Course No. 4360
Community Partner(s):
Correctional Association of New York
Project(s):
Students will support the Correctional Association of New York, employ data sets to construct cohesive and compelling narratives to support advocacy and lobbying efforts in criminal justice reform.
Intermediate Italian I
This course examines the way in which the literary and artistic forms of modern Italy represent political and social movements such as revolution, unification, modernization, and migration. We will focus on texts from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries that utilize differing modes -- such as fiction, nonfiction, film, poetry, and music -- and we will analyze how these texts draw upon, reflect and refashion the meaning of historical events. In juxtaposing texts of different types, we will explore the mechanisms by which symbols and ideas are inherited through and adapted to differing contexts. Taught in English.
Professor Kathleen La Penta Long, Course No. 2000
Community Partner(s):
School of Peace
Project(s):
Students in this course partner with School of Peace, a Sant'Egidio program in the Bronx that facilitates integration into school and provide concrete support to families, while offering a model of education focused on overcoming barriers and discrimination. Students create and deliver innovative curricula based on topics within social justice.
Global Marketing
This course addresses the need for global approaches to today's business by focusing on product design, promotion, distribution channels and pricing strategies that are tailored to diverse international cultural, political, competitive and economic environments. Specific attention is place on the feasibility of import/export, and national or global policies regarding marketing issues.
Professor Marcia Flicker, Course No. 3340 (2 Sessions)
Community Partner(s):
Fordham
Institute of American Language and Culture
Project(s):
Students will be helping the Institute of American Language and Culture to understand the additional services this population might benefit from (and what other Community Based Organizations and Foundations are funding/providing). The project can best be captured by the question, ""How will someone with limited tech and limited English proficiency know what X services are available and where they can be found?"" The end result of each groups' efforts will be strategies to help service providers (of health care, immigration, and education services) to reach their intended clients more effectively."
T&C: Tasting the City
An introduction to the literary analysis of texts and the cultural and historical contexts within which they are produced and read. Significant class time will be devoted to critical writing and to speaking about literature. Each section of Texts and Contexts will have a focus developed by the individual instructor and expressed in its subtitle. This course fulfills the Core requirements for the second Eloquentia Perfecta seminar.
Professor Anne Hoffman, Course No. 2000
Community Partner(s):
WSCAH,
CP,
FBnyc,
POTS
(Each student needs to access the volunteer portal at the location of their choice to sign up for volunteer slots. They also need to follow each location's specific rules on COVID safety and prevention.
Project(s):
Students will respond to the neighborhoods around FCLC by taking photographs, shooting digital video, painting and drawing, using posters and text, recording sound, making architectural sketches or engaging in site-specific performances. Primary focusing on central community issues: food security, Covid-19 response, gentrification/housing.
Emotional Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence
Survey of causes and consequences of emotional problems of children and implications for educational planning. The major psychiatric and psychological classification systems are studied, as are the effects of social and cultural factors on emotional development.
Professor Tamique Ridgard Peters, Course No. 6418
Community Partner(s):
Bronxworks
Highbridge Voices
Project(s):
This course partners with two Bronx-based nonprofits serving middle and high school aged constituents. Students work with the partner organization to create and deliver scaffolded workshops to support parents through a hybrid or virtual year.
Statistics
The integrated project provides an opportunity for students to apply the material taught in the CBA Core courses to actual companies.
Professor Luke Kachersky, Course No. 7730
Community Partner(s):
TBD
Project(s):
Provides a fundamental understanding of research methods and their application in different business functions, offering perspectives from both the provider and user of information needed for managerial decision-making. Discusses the research process with an emphasis on the identification, collection, analysis and dissemination of business and consumer data. Topics include problem definition, the use of secondary data, various quantitative and qualitative methods, preparation and evaluation of surveys, and basics of data analysis
Contemporary Issues in Humanitarian Action
This course will introduce students to the pressing issues and acute challenges of contemporary humanitarian response through three modules on (1) Threats and Vulnerabilities, (2) Accountability in Humanitarian Response, and (3) Innovations in Humanitarian Response. The aim of the course is to examine how the international community forms consensus regarding best practices, and how this, in turn, informs humanitarian practice.
Professor Nora L. Murad, Course No. 5012
Community Partner(s):
TBD
Project(s):
This course will introduce students to the pressing issues and acute challenges of contemporary humanitarian response through three modules on (1) Threats and Vulnerabilities, (2) Accountability in Humanitarian Response, and (3) Innovations in Humanitarian Response. The aim of the course is to examine how the international community forms consensus regarding best practices, and how this, in turn, informs humanitarian practice.
Honors Sacred Texts
Honors Course
Professor Karina Hogan, Course No. 2811
Community Partner(s):
TBD
Project(s):
Choosing from a predetermined list of sites in NYC, most of which are houses of worship that have active social outreach ministries, students will examine and put together a presentation addressing human suffering due to social injustice from within a religious tradition. They will be divided into groups by religious tradition: Buddhist, Jewish, Christian, Muslim.
Culture and Culture Change
Selected issues in the relationship of human behavior and culture. Issues dealt with in this course include the concept of culture, culture and the individual, culture contact, and culture change. (Every other year) Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week require three additional hours of class preparation per week on the part of the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction.
Professor Aseel Sawalha, Course No. 3725
Community Partner(s):
TBD
Project(s):
Selected issues in the relationship of human behavior and culture. Issues dealt with in this course include the concept of culture, culture and the individual, culture contact, and culture change. (Every other year) Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week require three additional hours of class preparation per week on the part of the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction.