Summer Courses

Course Description: Special topics seminars offer an in-depth examination of current events, issues and problems unique to management. Specific topics will vary depending upon student and faculty interest and on recent events in the business world. Seminar topics for a specific semester will be announced prior to the course offering. These seminars may be repeated for credit since topics normally vary from semester to semester. (Depends on topic)

Session: 6-Week Session 2 (6/30-8/12)

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Course Description: This course reviews the techniques and tools firms use to create a sustainable competitive advantage in the global economy. Cross-functional analysis is a core element in the course. Topics covered include the mission and vision of the firm, analysis of the external environment, analysis of internal resources and capabilities, the role of innovation in strategy development, analysis of global business strategies, developing and implementing business-level and corporate-level strategies, and managing strategy in the multi-business corporation. *Note: All MBA core courses.

Session: 12-Week Session (5/14-8/12)

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Course Description: This graduate course enables students to learn the entrepreneurial (value creation) process by advancing a business idea. The course provides weekly seminars focusing on customer discovery and business model development and weekly coaching mentoring sessions with an established entrepreneur/early stage marketer. The project is team based. Students may enter the course with a business concept or be integrated into an existing team in the course.

Session: 6-Week Session 2 (6/30-8/12)

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Course Description: This course is designed to equip business practitioners with scientifically supported frameworks and methods for recognizing, analyzing, deciding on, and implementing ethical courses of action in business. Selected topics include stakeholders needs analysis, the science of decision-making, corporate social performance, issues involved with emerging technologies, and doing business in a global context.

Session: 6-Week Session 1 (5/14-6/27)

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Course Description: An introduction to the field of marketing, stressing its role in the organization and society. Emphasis is on determining customer needs and wants and how the marketer can satisfy those needs through the controllable marketing variables of product, price, promotion and distribution.

Session: 6-Week Session 1 (5/14-6/27)

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Course Description: An introduction to contemporary principles and practices of marketing. The course is structured around the process of marketing planning leading to the development of successful marketing strategies, including the commercialization of products and services in domestic and international environments. Focus is on environmental scanning techniques, setting and evaluating measurable objectives, innovating and controlling the interrelated components of product/service offering, planning and executing the marketing mix (channels of distribution, price, and promotion), and enhancing customer relationships through the delivery of customer value.

Session: 6-Week Session 1 (5/14-6/27)

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Course Description: This course provides an overview of marketing analytics in the context of marketing research, product portfolios, social media monitoring, sentiment analysis, customer retention, clustering techniques, and customer lifetime value calculation. Students will be introduced to, mathematical and statistical models used in these applications and their implementation using statistical tools and programming languages such as SAS, SPSS, Python and R. Multiple data sources will be used ranging from structured data from company databases, scanner data, social media data, text data in the form of customer reviews, and research databases. Students will complete guided projects using real time data and make effective use of visualization to add impact to their reports. There are no listed pre or co-requisites; however, instructor permission is required - student aptitude for quantitative work will be assessed; waived for students enrolled in quantitative programs such as the MS-Computational Finance which have pre-requisites in the areas of calculus, linear algebra, and programming.

Session: 12-Week Session (5/14-8/12)

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Course Description: ASL Includes linguistic features, cultural protocols and core vocabulary for students to function in basic ASL conversations that include ASL grammar for asking and answering questions while introducing oneself, exchanging personal information, talking about family, friends and surroundings, and discussing activities. This course is designed for students who have no knowledge of American Sign Language. Students must take placement exam if this is their first RIT class in Sign Language and they have some prior study of Sign Language.

Session: 12-Week Session (5/14-8/12)

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Course Description: This course focuses on providing students with basic information regarding the needs of deaf and hard of hearing learners with special educational needs, including (1) developmental disability, (2) emotional or behavioral disorder (3) learning disability, attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or (4) visual impairment. Topics include incidence, identification, assessment, teaching strategies, and working with parents. The goal is to enable students to see students in a holistic fashion, and thus will include the perspectives of parents, teachers and deaf and hard of hearing learners with special educational needs. Learning strategies may include site visits, presentations, films, and interactive workshop style classes offered by experienced teachers, psychologists, counselors, disability advocates, and parents of learners with special educational needs. The course will regularly incorporate guest lecturers who have specialized expertise in teaching or research in one or more of the topic areas covered in the course.

Session: 7-Week Graduate Session (5/14-7/7)

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Course Description: This course focuses on providing students with basic information regarding the needs of deaf and hard of hearing learners with special educational needs, including (1) developmental disability, (2) emotional or behavioral disorder (3) learning disability, attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or (4) visual impairment. Topics include incidence, identification, assessment, teaching strategies, and working with parents. The goal is to enable students to see students in a holistic fashion, and thus will include the perspectives of parents, teachers and deaf and hard of hearing learners with special educational needs. Learning strategies may include site visits, presentations, films, and interactive workshop style classes offered by experienced teachers, psychologists, counselors, disability advocates, and parents of learners with special educational needs. The course will regularly incorporate guest lecturers who have specialized expertise in teaching or research in one or more of the topic areas covered in the course.

Session: 7-Week Graduate Session (5/14-7/7)

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Course Description: This course will prepare students to work with Deaf and Hard of Hearing children and youth with a broad range of disabilities and educational needs in mainstreamed school settings. The course is designed to foster acceptance of diversity among individuals as well as to develop skills in writing appropriate Individualized Education Programs (IEPs), including behavior modification methods, communication strategies, and psycho-educational approaches.

Session: 7-Week Graduate Session (5/14-7/7)

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Course Description: This course provides a basic understanding of the mechanisms of hearing and speech and causes of hearing loss. Emphasis is placed on development of a functional understanding of speech perception, speech development, hearing aids, cochlear implants, and assistive listening devices. Procedures for audiological and speech/language assessment are examined, together with strategies for supporting use and development of spoken language in the classroom.

Session: 7-Week Graduate Session (5/14-7/7)

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Course Description: This course provides a basic understanding of the mechanisms of hearing and speech and causes of hearing loss. Emphasis is placed on development of a functional understanding of speech perception, speech development, hearing aids, cochlear implants, and assistive listening devices. Procedures for audiological and speech/language assessment are examined, together with strategies for supporting use and development of spoken language in the classroom.

Session: 7-Week Graduate Session (5/14-7/7)

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Course Description: This course introduces students to current theories of language acquisition and learning in educational settings. The stages of acquisition and learning, and variables that influence these processes will be included. Bilingual and second language acquisition and learning will also be addressed. Implications for instruction with Deaf students will be discussed.

Session: 7-Week Graduate Session (5/14-7/7)

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Course Description: This course introduces students to current theories of language acquisition and learning in educational settings. The stages of acquisition and learning, and variables that influence these processes will be included. Bilingual and second language acquisition and learning will also be addressed. Implications for instruction with Deaf students will be discussed.

Session: 7-Week Graduate Session (5/14-7/7)

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Course Description: This course is designed to improve the sign language proficiencies of classroom teachers. It provides students strategies and skill building to teach content areas in and through sign language. Students will enhance their sign language skills for the purpose of conveying concepts to Deaf students clearly and accurately. Topics include signed instructional strategies, curriculum development in sign language, assessment modifications, student products in sign language, and vocabulary/ phrases for effective communication and instructional delivery.

Session: 7-Week Graduate Session (5/14-7/7)

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Course Description: This course is designed to improve the sign language proficiencies of classroom teachers. It provides students strategies and skill building to teach content areas in and through sign language. Students will enhance their sign language skills for the purpose of conveying concepts to Deaf students clearly and accurately. Topics include signed instructional strategies, curriculum development in sign language, assessment modifications, student products in sign language, and vocabulary/ phrases for effective communication and instructional delivery.

Session: 7-Week Graduate Session (5/14-7/7)

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

Course Description: This course is designed to improve the sign language proficiencies of classroom teachers. It provides students strategies and skill building to teach content areas in and through sign language. Students will enhance their sign language skills for the purpose of conveying concepts to Deaf students clearly and accurately. Topics include signed instructional strategies, curriculum development in sign language, assessment modifications, student products in sign language, and vocabulary/ phrases for effective communication and instructional delivery.

Session: 7-Week Graduate Session (5/14-7/7)

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Course Description: The professional portfolio presents a clear picture of pre-service professional growth and accomplishments in the complex teaching field. It demonstrates a teacher candidate's reflective and constructive professional performance. The performance includes, but is not limited to, the teacher candidate's actual teaching, reflecting on learning and teaching, developing and implementing lessons, conducting qualitative and quantitative research projects, and applying theory and research to practice. The portfolio includes extensive evidence of teaching and learning experience, including teaching philosophy, pedagogy, classroom management, and the integration of research and teaching. Professional portfolios will be reviewed by a committee of program faculty for approval.

Session: 7-Week Graduate Session (5/14-7/7)

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Course Description: This course is a capstone project using research facilities available inside or outside of RIT.

Session: 12-Week Session (5/14-8/12)

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