The following listing contains course descriptions for all special topics courses offered in Summer Session 2026. The public course schedule provides complete course details.
Undergraduate
1 Credit Hour Courses
There are currently no 1 credit courses at the undergraduate level for Summer 2026.
3 Credit Hour Courses
CAP/GRY 329: Data Visualization
Offered ONLINE in Term B: June 9 – 24, CRN 61143 and 61150
Enables students to effectively tell stories with data. Skill with graphing is a core element of a strong foundation in making effective arguments with evidence in the workplace. This course focuses on developing a strong understanding of data attributes and how to display data effectively and persuasively using data visualization software tools. Course content is related to careers in science, technology, social sciences, and business. For more information related to course content, contact Dr. Christopher Badurek at [email protected].
ICC 329: Modern Italy: Art, Food, and Film in a Global Context
Offered ONLINE in Session I: May 20 – June 24, CRN 61301
In this course, students will explore contemporary Italian culture through three complementary lenses—art, food, and film—to examine the richness and diversity of Italy’s cultural heritage. Students will gain an appreciation for contemporary Italian art, from Arte Povera to installations by internationally renowned artists; Italian food culture, whose distinctive traditions have been recognized by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity; and Italian cinema, from Neorealism to globally influential auteurs who helped shape world cinematography. The course draws on a wide range of materials, including scholarly readings, films, and selected digital and social-media sources, to foster intercultural awareness and critical thinking. No prerequisites required. Taught in English; optional materials in Italian provided. For more information related to course content, contact Dr. Giovanni Dettori at [email protected].
REC 329: Advocacy and Community Development
Offered ONLINE in 10-Week Term: May 20 – August 3, CRN 61310
Explore current issues affecting access to community-based recreation, conservation, and other health and well-being services and develop practical advocacy skills to address them. For more information related to course content, contact Dr. Qwynne Lackey at [email protected].
Graduate
3 Credit Hour Courses
ENG 529: Writing with Sound
Offered ONLINE in Session I: May 20 – June 24, CRN 61297
Explore the role of sound as a modality in the writing process through activities such as audio journaling, field recording, and invention based on archives of sounds. Analyze texts and genres of writing that are composed in sound, as well as how to build accessibility into those texts. Engage in designing a sonic text that fuses principles of theory, poesis, and authorial purpose. For more information related to course content, contact Dr. Katherin Ahern at [email protected].
ESL 529 Special Topics: Language, Mind and Culture
Offered ONLINE in Session I: May 20 – June 24, CRN 61300
How do the languages we speak shape the way we see the world? This course looks at the fascinating connections between language, thought, and culture. Students will be introduced to key ideas from Cognitive Linguistics, such as how metaphors help us understand abstract concepts, how different languages guide us to notice different details of reality, and how culture is deeply tied to the way people talk and think. We will also compare how languages across the world describe events like motion, space, and time, and what this tells us about human cognition. For more information related to course content, contact Dr. Jean Costa Silva at [email protected].
HIS 529: American Revolution in Historical Memory
Offered ONLINE in Session II: June 29 – August 3, CRN 61275
The American Revolution in Historical Memory” explores how people within the United States have interpreted and applied the story of the American Revolution over the past 250-years. Students in this seminar course will engage with scholarship focusing on how and why the story of the American Revolution, its key players, and core ideas have shifted overtime. Students will develop an understanding of historical study and historical memory, the pair’s relationship and how they have shaped the national identity. For more information related to course content, contact Dr. Alena Pirok at [email protected].
HIS 529: Tourism and Economic Development in the Adirondacks
Offered in Session II: June 29 – August 3, CRN 61263
Raquette Lake experience held July 27 – 30. For more information related to course content, contact Dr. Scott Moranda at [email protected].
HIS 529: Violence & Making of Modern Empire
Offered ONLINE in Session II: June 29 – August 3, CRN 61199
This course examines the varying forms of violence employed by imperial powers in the creation, maintenance, and dissolution of their colonial empires in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Framing imperial rule in the contexts of physical, psychological, cultural, economic, political, and environmental forms of violence, students will analyze these practices and their consequences for the peoples and lands subjected to colonial exploitation. For more information related to course content, contact Dr. Tyson Luneau at [email protected].
HLH 529 Special Topics: Women and Health
Offered ONLINE in Session I: May 20 – June 24, CRN 61285
Exploration of women and women’s health and wellness from a public health perspective. Examination of the personal, behavioral, ecological, environmental, and sociopolitical factors associated with women’s health across the lifespan. Analysis of current research on women’s physical and mental health, and factors associated with disease prevalence and prevention. For more information related to course content, contact Dr. Yolanda Clarke at [email protected].
ICC 529: Co-Teaching for Multilingual Learner Inclusion
Offered ONLINE in Session II: June 29 – August 3, CRN 61222
Methods of co-teaching in the K12 setting for multilingual learner inclusion, with an emphasis on developing oral language, academic vocabulary, listening and reading comprehension, and writing skills. For more information related to course content, contact Dr. Chloe Walters at [email protected].