Cellular Bioengineering & Therapeutics

CellBioEng&Therapeutics

Explores cutting-edge field of cellular bioengineering and applications of cell therapies. Comprehensive understanding of the principles, techniques, and ethical considerations involved in cells for medical applications studied.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Ke Cheng
  Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED CHEMICAL KINETICS

Complex reactive systems. Catalysis. Heterogeneous systems, with an emphasis on coupled chemical kinetics and transport phenomena. Reactions at interfaces (surfaces, aerosols, bubbles). Reactions in solution.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Robert G Bozic
  Info
• 3 points

TERRESTRIAL PALEOCLIMATE - From Science

INTRO-TERRESTRIAL PALEOCL

The ‘Terrestrial Paleoclimate-From Science to Justice' course teaches the close relation and inter-connections between paleoclimate processes, modern climate impacts and solution ideas, and the resulting climate justice challenge.

The course starts with an introduction of the inter-hemispheric patterns of climate changes on glacial-interglacial, millennial and centennial time-scales. We introduce the most prominent and robust climate archives - ice cores, speleothems, mountain glaciers, lake cores and pluvial lakes -, ranging from the polar regions to the tropics- and discuss the methods used to precisely date these records and the various techniques to extract the wealth of climatic information these archives contain.

We focus on the paleoclimate signals from the last glacial cycle, its termination and transition towards the current interglacial, the Holocene period, including the last millennium. This is a climate concept course and the overarching goal will be to highlight the striking harmony of inter-hemispheric climate changes over this period and the inter-connectivity of the various key-elements of the climate system in light of the profound relevance of these climate orchestrations to ongoing climate change. 

In the second module of this course, we will discuss the state of the climate crises in the paleo-context, together with ideas and visions toward
transitions
to a more sustainable future, and the fundamental aspects of
Climate Justice
within these considerations. The final group project brings together all these aspects.

The course consists of formal lectures and discussion groups to recite and digest the new material, solve small problems and understand the connection to current climate events, solutions and Climate Justice. 

Pre-requisites: any introductory level earth, environmental or climate course

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Jorg Schaefer
  h-index: 50 Info
• 3 points

FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS I

Direct stiffness approach for trusses. Strong and weak forms for one-dimensional problems. Galerkin finite element formulation, shape functions, Gauss quadrature, convergence. Multidimensional scalar field problems (heat conduction), triangular and rectangular elements, Isoparametric formulation. Multidimensional vector field problems (linear elasticity). Practical FE modeling with commercial software (ABAQUS). Computer implementation of the finite element method. Advanced topics. Not open to undergraduate students.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Jacob Fish
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 54 Info
• 3 points

READINGS IN CZECH LITERATURE I

Prerequisites: two years of college Czech or the equivalent. A close study in the original of representative works of Czech literature. Discussion and writing assignments in Czech aimed at developing advanced language proficiency.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Christopher W Harwood
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

Islam vs. Music: From Qawwali to Hip Hop

This course interrogates seminal issues in the academic study of Islam through its representation in various forms of popular musical expression.  The class is structured around key theoretical readings from a range of academic disciplines ranging from art history and anthropology to comparative literature and religion. 

 

The course begins with an exploration of the links between religion and popular culture (hooks). This is followed by an exploration of the connection between Muslim Sufi-inflected practices in South Asia and the ubiquity of Qawwali across Pakistan and India.  The course then shifts to Orientalism frameworks (Said) through a case study involving the songs in two competing versions of
Aladdin
.  These frameworks are then tied to the racial scaffolding thar informed the converion (to various forms of Islam) of a wave of mid 20th century American Jazz musicians.  The second half of the course examones Hip Hop through the lens of race, immigration, and colonialism.  Finally, the class examines the spread of Hip Hop to a global audience as a powerful means for expressing the marginalization of immigrant/colonized Muslim communities.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Najam I Haider
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

SUPERVISED STUDIES IN GERMANY (BCGS)

German Discourse&Cult.III

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Carmen Mueller
  Info
• 0 points

GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN YIDDISH LITERATU

GENDER/SEXUALITY YIDDIS L

Early publications in Yiddish, a.k.a. the mame loshn, ‘mother tongue,’ were addressed to “women and men who are like women,” while famous Yiddish writer, Sholem Aleichem, created a myth of “three founding fathers” of modern Yiddish literature, which eliminated the existence of Yiddish women writers. As these examples indicate, gender has played a significant role in Yiddish literary power dynamics. This course will explore representation of gender and sexuality in modern Yiddish literature and film in works created by Sholem Aleichem, Sholem Asch, Fradl Shtok, Sh. An-sky, Malka Lee, Anna Margolin, Celia Dropkin, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Kadya Molodowsky, Troim Katz Handler, and Irena Klepfisz. You will also acquire skills in academic research and digital presentation of the findings as part of the Mapping Yiddish New York project that is being created at Columbia. No knowledge of Yiddish required.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Agnieszka Legutko
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

SURVEY OF NEUROSCIENCE

See syllabus attached

• Department: Neurobiology and Behavior
• MW 4 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 4 points

TRAD AM ARCHITECTURE

Guiding ideals in American architecture from the centennial to around 1960. The evolution of modernism in America is contrasted with European developments and related to local variants.

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew S Dolkart
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

FOURTH-YEAR RUSSIAN I

Prerequisites: RUSS UN3101 and RUSS UN3102 Third-Year Russian I and II, or placement test. Systematic study of problems in Russian syntax; written exercises, translations into Russian, and compositions. Conducted entirely in Russian.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MWF 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Tatiana Mikhailova
  Info
• 4 points

QUES IN ARCH HIST I

Developments in architectural history during the modern period. Emphasis on moments of significant change in architecture (theoretical, economic, technological, and institutional). Themes include positive versus arbitrary beauty, enlightenment urban planning, historicism, structural rationalism, the housing reform movement, iron and glass technology, changes generated by developments external or internal to architecture itself and transformations in Western architecture.

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Mabel O Wilson
  Wikipedia h-index: 8 Info
• Instructor: Reinhold Martin
  Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Maura Lucking
  Info
• 3 points

PLANNG/MGT-URBAN HYDROLGC SYST

Introduction to runoff and drainage systems in an urban setting, including hydrologic and hydraulic analyses, flow and water quality monitoring, common regulatory issues, and mathematical modeling. Applications to problems of climate variation, land use changes, infrastructure operation and receiving water quality, developed using statistical packages, public-domain models, and Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Team projects that can lead to publication quality analyses in relevant fields of interest. Emphasis on the unique technical, regulatory, fiscal, policy, and other interdisciplinary issues that pose a challenge to effective planning and management of urban hydrologic systems.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Eric A Rosenberg
  Info
• 3 points

PRIMATE SEXUALITY

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Hoang Thach
  Info
• 3 points

GERMAN FILM AFTER 1945

This introduction to German film since 1945 (in its European contexts) deploys a focus on feelings as a lens for multifaceted, intersectional investigations of cinematic history. We will explore how feelings have been gendered and racialized; how they overlap with matters of sex (as closely associated with political revolt in Western Europe, while considered too private for public articulation in the socialist East, especially when queer); and how they foreground matters of nation and trauma (for example via the notions of German ‘coldness’ and inability to mourn the Holocaust). Simultaneously, the focus on feelings highlights questions of mediality (cinema as a prototypically affective medium?), genre and avant-garde aesthetics: in many films, ‘high-affect’ Hollywood cinema intriguingly meets ‘cold’ cinematic modernism. In pursuing these investigative vectors through theoretical readings and close film analysis, the course connects affect, gender, queer, and cultural studies approaches with cinema studies methodologies. The films to be discussed span postwar and New German Cinema, East German DEFA productions, the ‘Berlin School’ of the 2000s, and contemporary transnational cinema.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Claudia Breger
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

Building Energy Modeling and Simulation

Bldg Energy Modeling/Simu

Review of building energy modeling techniques for simulating time-varying demand. Detailed Physics-based models, gray-box and black-box modeling. Static and dynamic models of building energy systems. Deterministic and Stochastic occupancy modeling. Modeling of control and dispatch of HVAC and local energy systems. Implementation of models in Energyplus and Modelica platforms. Modeling of low and net-zero carbon buildings and local energy systems.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• T 2:40 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Bianca N Howard
  Info
• 3 points

EVENTS IN MOD ARCHITECTUR

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Mary C McLeod
  Info
• 3 points

LATER HEIDEGGER

• Department: Philosophy @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Taylor Carman
  CULPA: 40 Wikipedia h-index: 19 Info
• 3 points

WAR,GENOCIDE,& AFTERMATH COMP PERSPECTIV

This 4000-level course examines how societies grapple with the legacy of mass violence, through an exploration of historical texts, memoirs, textbooks, litigation, and media reports and debates on confronting the past. Focusing on case studies of the Herero Genocide, the Armenian genocide during WWI, and the Holocaust and the Comfort Women during WWII, students investigate the crime and its sequelae, looking at how societies deal with skeletons in their closets ( engaging in silence, trivialization, rationalization, and denial to acknowledgment, apology, and repair); surveying responses of survivors and their descendants (with particular attention to intergeneration transmission of trauma, forgiveness, resentment, and the pursuit of redress); and dissecting public debates on modern day issues that harken back to past atrocities.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Khatchig Mouradian
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

AMER DIVA:RACE,GDNDR&PERFMNC

AMER DIVA:RACEGENDR&PERFORMNC

What makes a diva a diva? How have divas shaped and challenged our ideas about American culture, performance, race, space, and capital during the last century? This seminar explores the central role of the diva—the celebrated, iconic, and supremely skilled female performer—in the fashioning and re-imagining of racial, gendered, sexual, national, temporal, and aesthetic categories in American culture. Students in this course will theorize the cultural function and constitutive aspects of the diva and will analyze particular performances of a range of American divas from the 20th and 21st centuries and their respective roles in (re)defining American popular culture.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Deborah Paredez
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

INTRO TO THEORETICAL NEUROSCIENCE

• Department: Neurobiology and Behavior
• TR 2 p.m.-3 p.m.
• 3 points

Pascal and the Modern Self

This seminar will focus particularly on Pascal’s
humanistic
case for religious faith as a response to Montaigne’s skeptical portrayal of the self.  The aim is to understand all the implications of this encounter for the history of Western thought about human psychology, religion, and politics.

• Department: History
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Lilla
  CULPA: 57 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

POLITICAL ECONOMY

The objective of this course is to develop understanding of how political institutions and behavior shape economic outcomes, and vice versa. Starting from the micro level study of political behavior, we will build up to analyze the internal workings of institutions and ultimately macro level economic and political outcomes. During the course we will cover the following topics

• Limits and potential of markets

• Public goods provision

• Voting

• Redistribution

• Department: Economics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Alessandra Casella
  CULPA: 8 Wikipedia h-index: 30 Info
• 3 points

Welfare States and Warfare States, Europ

Welfare and Warfare State

What kind of protection does a state owe its citizens? In the early twentieth century, states across Europe and the United States developed a whole host of social benefits that sought to protect some citizens against the risks of modern industrial society: against accidents, old age, widowhood, motherhood, and illness. Yet any observer will immediately notice that this exact period of state expansion was also the era of high imperialism, in which labor markets were segregated by gender and race, citizenship rights were limited, fascism was on the rise, and the world waged global war. What, then, was the relationship between welfare states and warfare states in Europe and the United States? In this class, we will read about the evolution of social policies and social politics across the globe since the 1870s, from imperial expansion and welfare in the Boer War to migration politics in the contemporary European Union. We will examine how welfare states developed under pressure from new social movements and in response to new social and economic problems. We will interrogate whether welfare entrenched, or alleviated, social exclusions around race, gender, disability, and class. We will consider when states become invested in the health and wellbeing of their citizens and why. Finally, we will evaluate the impact of empire, war, and decolonization on the rise and, perhaps, the fall of welfare state. That is, in this class we will ask: if, as the famous phrase goes, war made the state, did war make the welfare state too?

• Department: History
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Roslyn E Dubler
  Info
• 4 points

PHONETICS & PHONOLOGY

Prerequisites: LING UN3101 An investigation of the sounds of human language, from the perspective of phonetics (articulation and acoustics, including computer-aided acoustic analysis) and phonology (the distribution and function of sounds in individual languages).

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Meredith Landman
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

A Political Introduction to the Christia

Pol Intro Christian Scrip

In this course we will examine the New Testament canon and the twenty-seven texts that comprise it in light of their respective literary genres, their Jewish antecedents and Greco-Roman influences, which will include their historical, social, cultural, political and economic contexts, and the ways these factors impinged upon their various dimensions of meaning. Various modes of biblical interpretation, both ancient and contemporary, will be explored. A major emphasis will be on the ways select texts are utilized, misconstrued and weaponized in the public sphere in this contemporary moment.

• Department: Religion
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Obery Hendricks
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Islam in the Soviet Union and Successor

This seminar is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students seeking to develop an understanding of Islam in the Soviet Union and its successor states. The Soviet experience drastically altered the ways Central Asian Muslims practice Islam. This course explores the various ways in which Central Asian Muslims practiced Islam during the Soviet era and the lasting impacts of that period on contemporary Central Asia. Topics covered include the Soviet campaign against Islam, Soviet Islamic authorities, the growth of international Islamic networks in post-Soviet Central Asia, emerging Islamic movements, and common Islamic practices like pilgrimage and Islamic healing. Additionally, we will read theoretical and topical articles on comparable Islamic practices in various regions of the Muslim world to provide a broader perspective on Central Asia.

All of the readings for this course will be in English. Prior course work related to Islam or the Soviet Union is recommended, but not required.

• Department: Religion
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Aziza Shanazarova
  Info
• 4 points

REINVENTING LIVING

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Luis Carranza
  Info
• 3 points

Stalinism

The quarter century during which Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union witnessed some of the twentieth century's most dramatic events: history's fastest plunge into modernity, an apocalyptic world war, and the emergence of a socialist state as a competitive world power. This tutorial will offer students a deep dive not only into the historical depths of the Stalin era but into the gloriously complex historiographical debates that surround it. Some of the questions that will animate the readings, writings, and discussions that students will engage in are as follows: Did Stalin depart from or represent a continuation of the policies introduced by his predecessor Vladimir Lenin? Did he rule in a totalitarian fashion or in ways comparable to other twentieth century regimes? Were his policies destructive or possibly productive? And perhaps most boggling of all: why did no one resist Stalinist rule?

• Department: History
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Yana Skorobogatov
  Info
• 4 points

INTRO TO QUANTUM MECHANICS

This course will focus on quantum mechanics, paying attention to both the underlying mathematical structures as well as their physical motivations and consequences. It is meant to be accessible to students with no previous formal training in quantum theory. The role of symmetry, groups and representations will be stressed.

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter G Woit
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

MSE Quantitative Bootcamp

Zero-credit course. Primer on quantitative and mathematical concepts. Required for all incoming MSOR and MSIE students.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• Instructor: Michael Miller
  CULPA: 18 h-index: 14 Info
• 0 points

Global New York

“Wall Street is a disaster area”—so declared a real estate lawyer in a 1974
New York Times
story on the pitiful state of lower Manhattan. The World Trade Center had been inaugurated in 1973 as a beacon of global capitalism with a mandate to lease only to international firms. A year later, much of the Twin Towers went unoccupied. Some eight million square feet of financial district office space sat empty, brokerage houses were shuttering at a rate of more than one per day, and the surrounding city was hurtling towards a full-blown fiscal crisis. The New York of the mid-1970s did not appear destined to become the model global city we know today. Within a decade, however, the city had transformed into a central node—arguably
the
central node—in the ballooning global financial industry and its accompanying class and cultural formations. But this outcome was never guaranteed. How did New York go from “Fear City” to “Capital of the World”? What historical structures, contingencies, and policy decisions produced Global New York?

This course examines New York City’s long history as a site of globalization. Since European colonization, New York has served as a hub in world-spanning networks of capital, goods, and people.

At the same time, the city’s reinvention in the late-20th century as a “global city”—defined in large part by its deep embeddedness in world financial markets—represented a fundamental shift in the city’s economy, governance, demography, cultural life, and social relations.

We will interrogate how this came to be by exploring New York’s historical role in global business, culture, and immigration, with attention to how local and national conditions have shaped the city’s relationship to the world. While critically analyzing how elites both in and outside New York have wielded power over its politics and institutions, readings and discussions will also center the voices of New Yorkers drawn from the numerous and diverse communities that make up this complex city.

• Department: Committee on Global Thought
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sarah A Miller-Davenport
  Info
• 3 points

CHEMICAL PROCESS DEVELOPMENT

Chemical engineering fundamentals as applied to process research, development, and manufacturing of pharmaceutical products. Course topics include: comprehensive overview of the biopharmaceutical business (therapeutic areas, markets, drug discovery, clinical development, commercialization), process research, creation, development, optimization, sustainability, green chemistry and engineering, safety (patient, process, and personnel), unit operations and associated calculations relevant to pharmaceutical processes, process scale-up, implementation, assessment, technology transfer, new technologies, economic analysis, drug product formulation and manufacturing, and regulatory considerations. Case studies and real-life examples are presented throughout the course.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Elias C Mattas
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

Corporate Finance, Accounting & Investme

CorpFin, Account & Invest

Interpret financial statements, build cash flow models, value projects, value companies, and make Corporate Finance decisions. Additional topics include: cost of capital, dividend policy, debt policy, impact of taxes, Shareholder/Debtholder agency costs, dual-class shares, using option pricing theory to analyze management behavior, investment banking activities, including equity underwriting, syndicated lending, venture capital, private equity investing and private equity secondaries. Application of theory in real-world situations: analyzing financial activities of companies such as General Electric, Google, Snapchat, Spotify, and Tesla.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• T 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Rodney Sunada-Wong
  Info
• 3 points

QUANTITATIVE CORPORATE FINANCE

Required for students in the Undergraduate Advanced Track. Key measures and analytical tools to assess the financial performance of a firm and perform the economic evaluation of industrial projects. Deterministic mathematical programming models for capital budgeting. Concepts in utility theory, game theory and real options analysis.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: David Derosa
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 9 Info
• 3 points

SIMULATION

Generation of random numbers from given distributions; variance reduction; statistical output analysis; introduction to simulation languages; application to financial, telecommunications, computer, and production systems. Graduate students must register for 3 points. Undergraduate students must register for 4 points. Note: Students who have taken IEOR E4703 Monte Carlo simulation may not register for this course for credit. Recitation section required.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Henry Lam
  h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

GAME THEOR MODELS OF OPERATION

Required for undergraduate students majoring in OR:FE and OR. A mathematically rigorous study of game theory and auctions, and their application to operations management. Topics include introductory game theory, private value auction, revenue equivalence, mechanism design, optimal auction, multiple-unit auctions, combinatorial auctions, incentives, and supply chain coordination with contracts. No previous knowledge of game theory is required.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Jay Sethuraman
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

Political, Social, and Economic Developm

Pol, Soc & Econ Devp-Brazil I

This course is a practicum designed to discuss major economic, political, and social problems of contemporary Brazil with leading analysts, activists, business leaders, and public figures. The course is unusual in its reliance upon a stream of outside speakers rather than on a fixed syllabus and set of lectures by the instructor only. Former participants include cabinet members, senior representatives of international organizations, academics, civil society activists, and other world-class experts. During the Fall term, we will primarily focus on economic and financial issues while addressing social and political factors. We also prioritize a practitioner’s perspective, using
 
Brazil as a reference to discuss challenges that developing nations face in their development path.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Sidney N Nakahodo
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 1.5 points

PRIN OF ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE

ULTRASOUND IN DIAGNOSTC IMAGNG

Fourier analysis. Physics of diagnostic ultrasound and principles of ultrasound imaging instrumentation. Propagation of plane waves in lossless medium; ultrasound propagation through biological tissues; single-element and array transducer design; pulse-echo and Doppler ultrasound instrumentation, performance evaluation of ultrasound imaging systems using tissue-mimicking phantoms, ultrasound tissue characterization; ultrasound nonlinearity and bubble activity; harmonic imaging; acoustic output of ultrasound systems; biological effects of ultrasound.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• W 2:30 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Elisa Konofagou
  Wikipedia h-index: 71 Info
• 3 points

FUNDAMENTALS OF PHOTONICS

Planar resonators. Photons and photon streams. Photons and atoms: energy levels and band structure; interactions of photons with matter; absorption, stimulated and spontaneous emission; thermal light, luminescence light. Laser amplifiers: gain, saturation, and phase shift; rate equations; pumping. Lasers: theory of oscillation; laser output characteristics. Photons in semiconductors: generation, recombination, and injection; heterostructures; absorption and gain coefficients. Semiconductor photon sources: LEDs; semiconductor optical amplifiers; homojunction and heterojunction laser diodes. Semiconductor photon detectors: p-n, p-i-n, and heterostructure photo diodes; avalanche photodiodes.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Michal Lipson
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 114 Info
• 3 points

GAME THEORY

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 Introduction to the systematic treatment of game theory and its applications in economic analysis.

• Department: Economics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Murat Yilmaz
  Info
• 3 points

Music and Fashion

Fashion has been integral to musical performance practices, and music continues to influence fashion. As a result, specific music genres and practitioners are linked to particular fashion trends and movements that represent their persona and appearance. In various cultures around the world, music and fashion play a significant role in marking identity, as practitioners’ cultural heritage impacts the choice of costumes they wear during performances in different spaces and times. Spread through live performances and mass-mediated technology, consumers and fans of these practitioners also adopt and integrate these fashion trends into their everyday styles. This class explores Some of the questions: How does fashion become a visual representation of specific music cultures, subcultures, genres, movements, and artists? How does fashion reflect, influence, inspire, evolve, spread, sustain, represent, affect, and communicate musical ideas? To answer these questions, musical fashion icons such as Beyoncé, Prince, Rihanna, Lady Gaga, and David Bowie, and genres like Hip Hop, rock, Opera, K-pop, Afrobeats, and other global genres are examined through written scholarships, analysis of music performances and costumes, and their appearances in events and everyday life. This class explores how fashion trends influence sounds and vice versa, how they mark identity through music, embody symbolic sounds, and attract music consumers and fans who perpetuate these trends.

• Department: Music
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Ruth Opara
  Info
• 3 points

MPA-DP - Getting Started

"MPA-DP ""Getting Started"""

Open to MPA-DP Only. 
Before the SIPA orientation, MPA-DP students participate in a week-long intensive program called Getting Started. The program introduces students to the MPA-DP program, including skills and resources that lay the foundation for a successful graduate learning experience.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• Instructor: Glenn Denning
  h-index: 14 Info
• 0 points

MODAL LOGIC

• Department: Philosophy
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Tamar A Lando
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

Climate, Religion and Colonialism

Climate, Religion, Coloni

This course examines intersections between religion and climate through the lens of
colonialism. In recent years, scholars across the humanities, social sciences, and physical sciences
have suggested that the climate crisis dates to the advent of European colonialism in the 16th and
17th centuries. This literature argues that colonial projects involved the remaking of landscapes via
“terraforming,” seeking to inscribe European imaginaries on the land and extract value from it,
while violently suppressing and destroying local and Indigenous lifeworlds. At the same time, a
longstanding body of literature has investigated the relationship between colonialism and religion,
focusing on missionary efforts to remake religious subjects and subjectivities and draw boundaries
between true religion and its opposites, “paganism” and “superstition.” This course seeks to
understand these two processes within the same frame, examining how colonial projects entailed
simultaneous efforts to subjugate, extract value from, and transform people and landscapes. By the
end of the semester, students will have deepened and nuanced their understandings of climate,
religion, and colonialism, and come away with new ways of thinking about the climate crisis.

• Department: Religion
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Raffaella Taylor-Seymour
  Info
• 4 points

PEOPLE OF THE OLD SOUTH

No place or period in American history has ignited more passion or brought into being a richer trove of first-rate scholarship than the South during the years before the Civil War. On the other hand, no place or period in American history has generated more misguided scholarship or more propaganda. In this course, students will sample historical literature and primary sources about the Old South, evaluating the interpretations historians have offered and scrutinizing some of the documents on which historians of the Old South have based their conclusions.

• Department: History
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Barbara J Fields
  CULPA: 22 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

ARCH APROPOS ART

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• 3 points

Democracy and its Technocrats

Science and technology have become increasingly central to the basic functioning of democratic societies The administrative state, both on the local and national level, is dependent on technological systems to ensure democratic rule and deliver services: from voting machines and welfare databases to passport scanners and the laboratory equipment necessary to set environmental standards. Just as necessary are the numerous experts – engineers, statisticians, epidemiologists, and environmental scientists – who either work for or advise the state in its dealings. How should we think about the technocratic nature of modern democracy? Is it an inevitable and necessary pre-condition for governing modern mass society? Or is it an alarming aspect, an undemocratic impulse, that undermines the promise of democratic rule?The course will examine the coproduction of science and politics. In the first part of the semester, students will gain conceptual tools with which to rethink the connection between science, technology, power, politics, policy, and democracy. They will consider the role of expertise in modern politics, as well as the construction of the public. In the second part of the semester we will consider in greater detail the way technocratic governance developed in the United States from the end of the nineteenth century to the contemporary moment.

• Department: History
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Alma Steingart
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

ECONOMICS OF RACE IN THE U.S.

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 ECON GU4400 is strongly recommended. What differences does race make in the U.S. economy? Why does it make these differences? Are these differences things we should be concerned about? If so, what should be done? The course examines labor markets, housing markets, capital markets, crime, education, and the links among these markets. Both empirical and theoretical contributions are studied.

• Department: Economics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Brendan O'Flaherty
  CULPA: 64 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS-NEUROBIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Examines current topics in neurobiology and behavior.

• Department: School of Professional Studies (DVSP)
• M 6 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• 3 points

INTERLACED EXISTENCE; DEATH, LIFE, LIMIN

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Karla M Rothstein
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Classical French Moralists

This course will be dedicated to the study of three authors whom Nietzsche called masters of
Seelenprüfung
(examination of the soul) and whose heritage he explicitly embraced both stylistically and philosophically: Pascal, La Rochefoucauld and La Bruyère. In French literary history these writers are traditionally known as “moralists of the seventeenth century” or “classical French moralists.” The term moralist was not used in the seventeenth century and did not appear until the nineteenth century, when these three writers were grouped in anthologies. Yet their affinities were clear even at the time of the production of these works: when La Bruyère published his
Caractères
(1696) he explicitly referenced La Rochefoucauld’s
Maximes
(1678) and Pascal’s
Pensées
(1670) to outline the similarities and differences between his work and theirs. These three prose writers were called
moralistes
because of their focus on
moeurs
(human behavior). Their perspective is not at all moralizing in the trivial sense of the term (denouncing behavior that falls short of a stated norm). The
moralistes
are relentless analysts of the complexities and inconsistencies of human behavior and they present their observations in the form of pithy statements with varying degrees of generalization. In La Rochefoucauld, the embrace of the short form is explicit and systematic. In Pascal, it is due in part to the unfinished and fragmentary nature of the work. In La Bruyère, the use of the short form coexists with its opposite. Part of the attraction of these writers for modern readers is their mistrust of appearances and their exacting search for hidden motives, making them forerunners of the “hermeneutics of suspicion”.

• Department: French
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Pierre Force
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 11 Info
• 3 points

Classical French Moralists

This course will be dedicated to the study of three authors whom Nietzsche called masters of
Seelenprüfung
(examination of the soul) and whose heritage he explicitly embraced both stylistically and philosophically: Pascal, La Rochefoucauld and La Bruyère. In French literary history these writers are traditionally known as “moralists of the seventeenth century” or “classical French moralists.” The term moralist was not used in the seventeenth century and did not appear until the nineteenth century, when these three writers were grouped in anthologies. Yet their affinities were clear even at the time of the production of these works: when La Bruyère published his
Caractères
(1696) he explicitly referenced La Rochefoucauld’s
Maximes
(1678) and Pascal’s
Pensées
(1670) to outline the similarities and differences between his work and theirs. These three prose writers were called
moralistes
because of their focus on
moeurs
(human behavior). Their perspective is not at all moralizing in the trivial sense of the term (denouncing behavior that falls short of a stated norm). The
moralistes
are relentless analysts of the complexities and inconsistencies of human behavior and they present their observations in the form of pithy statements with varying degrees of generalization. In La Rochefoucauld, the embrace of the short form is explicit and systematic. In Pascal, it is due in part to the unfinished and fragmentary nature of the work. In La Bruyère, the use of the short form coexists with its opposite. Part of the attraction of these writers for modern readers is their mistrust of appearances and their exacting search for hidden motives, making them forerunners of the “hermeneutics of suspicion”.

• Department: Auditing
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Pierre Force
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 11 Info
• 0 points

PROGRAMMING & PROBLEM SOLVING

Hands-on introduction to solving open-ended computational problems. Emphasis on creativity, cooperation, and collaboration. Projects spanning a variety of areas within computer science, typically requiring the development of computer programs. Generalization of solutions to broader problems, and specialization of complex problems to make them manageable. Team-oriented projects, student presentations, and in-class participation required.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Kenneth A Ross
  Info
• 3 points

The Future City: Transforming Urban Infr

Future City: Transform Ur

Introduces students to technological innovations that are helping cities around the world create healthier, safer, more equitable, and more resilient futures. Focus on architecture, urban design, real estate development, structural, civil and mechanical engineering, data analytics, and smart communication technologies. Course covers five distinct sectors in the field of urban infrastructure, including transportation and mobility, buildings, power, sanitation, and communications. A Columbia Cross-Disciplinary Course.

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• 3 points

Government & politics of Ukraine

Govt & Politics of Ukrain

This upper-level undergraduate comparative politics course applies the basic concepts of comparative political science to the political system of Ukraine. The course provides an in-depth examination of the political system, institutions, and social dynamics of Ukraine. Students will explore the historical, cultural, and geopolitical factors shaping Ukrainian politics, as well as key issues such as democratization, corruption, foreign policy, and the ongoing full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The course will also analyze the role of Ukraine in the broader context of European politics and its relationship with Russia. The assigned readings cover theories of voting, the party system development, political protests, transitions to democracy, the choice of political institutions, among other topics. Some of these topics are familiar from the Introduction to Comparative Politics course and other political science courses. In this class, students reexamine these theories in the specific context of Ukrainian politics. They also examine historical development of contemporary Ukrainian institutions and their effects on current policy decisions.

The main goal of this course is to help students develop theoretical tools for understanding political events and challenges of Ukraine. While this course covers some recent history of Ukraine, it also uses Ukraine as an example of the broader, more general issues that come along with democratization reforms. To accomplish this goal, the course draws on readings from comparative political science, economics, and sociology to introduce students to the major debates on economic and political reforms.

• Department: Political Science
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Anastasiia Vlasenko
  Info
• 4 points

PRIN-INNOVATN/ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Team project centered course focused on principles of planning, creating, and growing a technology venture. Topics include: identifying and analyzing opportunities created by technology paradigm shifts, designing innovative products, protecting intellectual property, engineering innovative business models.

• Department: Computer Science
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: William Reinisch
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED INDEPENDENT RESEARCH

SUPERVISED IND RESEARCH

All supervisors will be Columbia faculty who hold a PhD. Students are responsible for identifying their own supervisor and it is at the discretion of faculty whether they accept to supervise independent research. Projects must be focused on Hellenic Studies and can be approached from any disciplinary background. Students are expected to develop their own reading list in consultation with their supervisor. In addition to completing assigned readings, the student must also write a Hellenic studies paper of 20 pages. Projects other than a research paper will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Hellenic Studies is an interdisciplinary field that revolves around two main axes: space and time. Its teaching and research are focused on the study of post-classical Greece in various fields: Language, Literature, History, Politics, Anthropology, Art, Archaeology, and in various periods: Late Antique, Medieval, Byzantine, Modern Greek etc. Therefore, the range of topics that are acceptable as a Hellenic Studies seminar paper is broad. It is upon each supervisor to discuss the specific topic with the student. The work submitted for this independent study course must be different from the work a student submits in other courses, including the Hellenic Studies Senior Research Seminar.

• Department: Classics
• Instructor: Nikolas Kakkoufa
  Info
• Instructor: Stathis Gourgouris
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Dimitris Antoniou
  h-index: 5 Info
• Instructor: Karen Van Dyck
  Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Paraskevi Martzavou
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

Mechanics of Elastomeric Materials

Mechanics of Elastomers

Mechanics of nonlinear mechanical behavior of elastomeric and elastomeric-like solids. Overview of structure and behavior of elastomers. Kinematics of large deformation. Constitutive models for equilibrium stress-strain behavior, using invariant measures of deformation and statistical mechanics of molecular networks. Hysteretic aspects of structure and behavior due to time dependence and structural evolution with deformation.  Review of experimental data and models to capture and predict observations.  Time permitting: behavior of particle-filled, thermoplastic and biomacromolecular elastomers.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• W 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Mary Boyce
  Info
• 3 points

LATIN AMERICAN POLITICS

• Department: Political Science
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria Victoria Murillo
  h-index: 37 Info
• 4 points

Gender and Resistance in Early Modern Li

This class will focus on early modern literature’s fascination with the relationship between women, gender, and political resistance in the early modern period. The works we will read together engage many of the key political analogies of the period, including those between the household and the state, the marital and the social contract, and rape and tyranny. These texts also present multiple forms of resistance to gendered repression and subordination, and reimagine sexual, social, and political relationships in new and creative ways.

Readings will include key classical and biblical intertexts, witchcraft and murder pamphlets, domestic conduct books, defenses of women, poetry (by William Shakespeare, Aemilia Lanyer and Lucy Hutchinson), drama (
Othello
,
The Winter’s Tale
, and
Gallathea
), and fiction (by Margaret Cavendish). The class will also include visits to The Morgan Library, Columbia’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Julie Crawford
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 4 points

PUBLIC ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 Types of market failures and rationales for government intervention in the economy. Benefit-cost analysis and the theory of public goods. Positive and normative aspects of taxation. The U.S. tax structure.

• Department: Economics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Wojciech Kopczuk
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia h-index: 34 Info
• 3 points

LATIN AMER POLITICS-DISC

• Department: Political Science
• R 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• M 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• M 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• T 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• T 11:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: David Vilalta
  Info
• 0 points

THE HISTORY OF ARCH THEORY

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Wigley
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

PSYCH & NEUROPSYCH OF LANGUAGE

• Department: Psychology
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Michele Miozzo
  Info
• 4 points

CHINESE POLITICS

This course offers a historical and thematic survey of Chinese politics and of salient issues in China’s public policy and governance. The first half of the course reviews the patterns and dynamics of political development in China, focusing mainly on the last two hundred years, during which the country has been on a rugged yet fascinating path toward modernity. We will examine major political events including the collapse of the Imperial China, the rise of the Communist Party, the Cultural Revolution, and the post-Mao shift toward reform and opening. The second half of the course will look various special topics, including the structure of the party and the state, the relationship between state and society, the modes of economic development, and the governance of the media and the Internet. Throughout the course, special attention will be paid to how China’s domestic political and economic processes intersected with major world events and transnational forces, such as imperialism, world wars, and economic globalization.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Junyan Jiang
  h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

JAPANESE POLITICS

This course surveys key features of the Japanese political system, with a focus on political institutions and processes. Themes include party politics, bureaucratic power, the role of the Diet, voting behavior, the role of the state in the economy, and the domestic politics of foreign policy.

• Department: Political Science
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Kenneth McElwain
  Info
• 4 points

Statistical machine learning for genomic

Statistical ML for genomi

Introduction to statistical machine learning methods using applications in genomic data and in particular high-dimensional single-cell data. Concepts of molecular biology relevant to genomic technologies, challenges of high-dimensional genomic data analysis, bioinformatics preprocessing pipelines, dimensionality reduction, unsupervised learning, clustering, probabilistic modeling, hidden Markov models, Gibbs sampling, deep neural networks, gene regulation. Programming assignments and final project will be required.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• R 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Elham Azizi
  h-index: 10 Info
• 3 points

GENDER & APPLIED ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 This course studies gender gaps, their extent, determinants and consequences. The focus will be on the allocation of rights in different cultures and over time, why women's rights have typically been more limited and why most societies have traditionally favored males in the allocation of resources.

• Department: Economics
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Lena Edlund
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

Neural Plasticity

This seminar provides an overview of the mechanisms and behaviors associated with neural plasticity. Students will obtain a basic working knowledge of the different types of neural plasticity, and how these affect cognition and behaviors.

• Department: Psychology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Tina Kao
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

OPTICAL SYSTEMS

OPTICAL SYSTEMS & NETWORKS

Introduction to optical systems based on physical design and engineering principles. Fundamental geometrical and wave optics with specific emphasis on developing analytical and numerical tools used in optical engineering design. Focus on applications that employ optical systems and networks, including examples in holographic imaging, tomography, Fourier imaging, confocal microscopy, optical signal processing, fiber optic communication systems, optical interconnects and networks.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• R 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Christine P Hendon
  Wikipedia h-index: 21 Info
• 3 points

OPTICAL SYSTEMS

Introduction to optical systems based on physical design and engineering principles. Fundamental geometrical and wave optics with specific emphasis on developing analytical and numerical tools used in optical engineering design. Focus on applications that employ optical systems and networks, including examples in holographic imaging, tomography, Fourier imaging, confocal microscopy, optical signal processing, fiber optic communication systems, optical interconnects and networks.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Christine P Hendon
  Wikipedia h-index: 21 Info
• 3 points

The Parental Brain

This course will provide an overview of the field of parental and social biology, with an emphasis on changes in the adult rodent brain surrounding childbirth and caretaking behavior. We will explore how the experience of parenthood prepares the brain for survival of offspring. We will also discuss the dynamic between caregivers and parents in order to provide the structure necessary to rear young. This course will illustrate the fortitude of molecular, behavioral and circuit level investigations in concert to unveil mechanisms of social learning.

• Department: Psychology
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• R 6 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Bianca J Marlin
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

BEHAVIORAL EPIGENETICS

Prerequisites: basic background in neurobiology (for instance PSYC UN1010, UN2450, UN2460, UN2480, and GU4499) and the instructors permission. This course will provide an overview of the field of epigenetics, with an emphasis on epigenetic phenomena related to neurodevelopment, behavior and mental disorders. We will explore how epigenetic mechanisms can be mediators of environmental exposures and, as such, contribute to psychopathology throughout the life course. We will also discuss the implications of behavioral epigenetic research for the development of substantially novel pharmacotherapeutic approaches and preventive measures in psychiatry.

• Department: Psychology
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer Blaze
  Info
• 4 points

Mediterranean Humanities I

Mediterranean Humanities I explores the literatures of the Mediterranean from the late Middle Ages to the Early Nineteenth Century. We will read Boccaccio, and Cervantes, as well as Ottoman poetry, Iberian Muslim apocalyptic literature, and the Eurasian connected versions of the One Thousand and One Nights. We will dive into the travel of texts and people, stories and storytellers across the shores of the Middle Sea. Based on the reading of literary texts (love poetry, short stories, theater, and travel literature), as well as letters, biographies, memoirs, and other ego-documents produced and consumed in the Early Modern Mediterranean, we will discuss big themes as Orientalism, estrangement, forced mobility, connectivity, multiculturalism and the clash of civilizations. Also, following in the footsteps of Fernand Braudel and Erich Auerbach, we will reflect on the Mediterranean in the age of the first globalization as a laboratory of the modern global world and world literature.

• Department: Italian
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Pier Mattia Tommasino
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

Functional Genomics: Methods and Applica

Introduces approaches for the functional genomic analysis of biological systems and their use to define genotype-phenotype relationships. Genetic variation, gene expression and regulation at the epigenome, chromatin organization level, and link between gene and protein expression covered. Case studies covered: study of cancer and cancer-associated processes, neuro-biology, and organismal development. The presented methods study these events at the genome, epigenome, transcriptome, and proteome levels.Approaches that increase the resolution of functional genomic assays to the level of individual cells, spatial profiling, integration with genetic and chemical screening methods, and their application to chemical genomic approaches also studied.  Programming assignments and a final project required.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Jose McFaline-Figueroa
  Info
• 3 points

PROCESS & PRODUCT DESIGN I

The practical application of chemical engineering principles for the design and economic evaluation of chemical processes and plants. Use of ASPEN Plus for complex material and energy balances of real processes. Students are expected to build on previous coursework to identify creative solutions to two design projects of increasing complexity. Each design project culminates in an oral presentation, and in the case of the second project, a written report.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• W 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Sakul Ratanalert
  Info
• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 The theory of international trade, comparative advantage and the factor endowments explanation of trade, analysis of the theory and practice of commercial policy, economic integration. International mobility of capital and labor; the North-South debate.

• Department: Economics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Waseem Noor
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS

The course addresses selected issues in the protection of socio-economic rights in an international and comparative perspective. Socio-economic rights have emerged from the margins into the mainstream of human rights. The course will take this status as its starting point and examine the human rights to housing, food, water, health and sanitation in depth. We will explore conceptual issues through the lens of specific rights which will help us ground these principles and ideas in concrete cases. We will discuss developments on socioeconomic rights and examine their relevance in the United States as well as selected other countries, particularly those with progressive legislation, policies and jurisprudence. What is the meaning and scope of the rights to housing, food, water, health and sanitation? What is the impact of discrimination and inequalities on the enjoyment of socio-economic rights? How can governments be held accountable for the realization of human rights? What machinery is there at the international level to ensure that the rights are protected, respected and fulfilled? How can this machinery be enhanced? How can judicial, quasijudicial, administrative and political mechanisms be used at the domestic level? What is the role of different actors in the context of human rights, the role of States and individuals, but also (powerful) non-State actors and civil society? How have activists and policymakers responded to challenges? And what lies ahead for the human rights movement in addressing economic and social rights in a multilateral, globalized world?

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Jacqueline Dugard
  Info
• 3 points

APPLICATIONS PROGRAMMNG FOR FE

We will take a hands-on approach to developing computer applications for Financial Engineering. Special focus will be placed on high-performance numerical applications that interact with a graphical interface. In the course of developing such applications we will learn how to create DLLs, how to integrate VBA with C/C++ programs, and how to write multithreaded programs. Examples of problems settings that we consider include simulation of stock price evolution, tracking, evaluation and optimization of a stock portfolio; optimal trade execution. In the course of developing these applications, we review topics of interest to OR:FE in a holistic fashion.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Anran Hu
  Info
• 3 points

COLUMBIA COMMONS SEMINAR

RELATIONSHIPS OF CARE

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• 0 points

CANCER BIOLOGY I

• Department: Pathology
• MW 5:15 p.m.-6:45 p.m.
• 3 points

Biochemistry

In this course, we will explore the basic biochemistry of living systems and how this knowledge can be harnessed to create new medicines. We will learn how living systems convert environmental resources into energy through metabolism, and how they use this energy and these materials to build the molecules required for the diverse functions of life. We will discuss the applications of this biochemical knowledge to mechanisms of disease and to drug discovery. We will look at examples of drug discovery related to neurodegeneration, cancer, and the SARS-CoV-2 COVID19 pandemic. This course satisfies the requirement of most medical schools for introductory biochemistry, and is suitable for advanced undergraduates, and beginning graduate students. This course is equivalent to and replaces the prior course named UN3501, and is equivalent to the course offered in the summer.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Mary Ann Price
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

Biomaterials and Scaffold Design

An introduction to the strategies and fundamental bioengineering design criteria in the development of biomaterials and tissue  ngineered grafts. Materials structuralfunctional relationships, biocompatibility in terms of material and host responses. Through discussions, readings, and a group design project, students acquire an understanding of cell-material interactions and identify the  arameters critical in the design and selection of biomaterials for biomedical applications.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Helen Lu
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 54 Info
• 3 points