Supervised research under the direction of individual members of the department.
Supervised research under the direction of individual members of the department.
Prerequisites: approval prior to registration; see the director of undergraduate studies for details.
A creative/scholarly project conducted under faculty supervision.
Prerequisites: open only to qualified majors in the department; the director of undergraduate studies' permission is required.
An opportunity for research under the direction of an individual faculty member. Students intending to write a year-long senior thesis should plan to register for
C3996
in the spring semester of their senior year and are strongly advised to consult the undergraduate studies as they plan their programs.
Prerequisites: the departmental consultant or director of undergraduate studies' permission, and the instructor's permission.
Independent research and the writing of an essay under supervision of a member of the Art History Department. Only one independent study may be counted toward the major.
Independent research, primarily for the senior essay, under a chosen faculty adviser and with the chair’s permission.
Introduces students to research and writing techniques and requires the preparation of a senior thesis proposal. Required for majors and concentrators in the East Asian studies major in the spring term of the junior year.
See department for course description
The Professional Development and Leadership course aims to enhance and expand Columbia Engineering graduate students’ interpersonal, professional and leadership skills, through six modules, including: (1) professional portfolio; (2) communication skills; (3) business etiquette and networking; (4) leadership, followership and teamwork; (5) life management; and (6) ethics and integrity. Students in the course will build upon and enhance their interpersonal and intrapersonal skills to further distinguishing themselves in the classroom and in their careers. This course is offered at the Pass/D/Fail grading option.
The Professional Development and Leadership course aims to enhance and expand Columbia Engineering graduate students’ interpersonal, professional and leadership skills, through six modules, including: (1) professional portfolio; (2) communication skills; (3) business etiquette and networking; (4) leadership, followership and teamwork; (5) life management; and (6) ethics and integrity. Students in the course will build upon and enhance their interpersonal and intrapersonal skills to further distinguishing themselves in the classroom and in their careers. This course is offered at the Pass/D/Fail grading option.
The Professional Development and Leadership course aims to enhance and expand Columbia Engineering graduate students’ interpersonal, professional and leadership skills, through six modules, including: (1) professional portfolio; (2) communication skills; (3) business etiquette and networking; (4) leadership, followership and teamwork; (5) life management; and (6) ethics and integrity. Students in the course will build upon and enhance their interpersonal and intrapersonal skills to further distinguishing themselves in the classroom and in their careers. This course is offered at the Pass/D/Fail grading option.
The Professional Development and Leadership course aims to enhance and expand Columbia Engineering graduate students’ interpersonal, professional and leadership skills, through six modules, including: (1) professional portfolio; (2) communication skills; (3) business etiquette and networking; (4) leadership, followership and teamwork; (5) life management; and (6) ethics and integrity. Students in the course will build upon and enhance their interpersonal and intrapersonal skills to further distinguishing themselves in the classroom and in their careers. This course is offered at the Pass/D/Fail grading option.
The Professional Development and Leadership course aims to enhance and expand Columbia Engineering graduate students’ interpersonal, professional and leadership skills, through six modules, including: (1) professional portfolio; (2) communication skills; (3) business etiquette and networking; (4) leadership, followership and teamwork; (5) life management; and (6) ethics and integrity. Students in the course will build upon and enhance their interpersonal and intrapersonal skills to further distinguishing themselves in the classroom and in their careers. This course is offered at the Pass/D/Fail grading option.
The Professional Development and Leadership course aims to enhance and expand Columbia Engineering graduate students’ interpersonal, professional and leadership skills, through six modules, including: (1) professional portfolio; (2) communication skills; (3) business etiquette and networking; (4) leadership, followership and teamwork; (5) life management; and (6) ethics and integrity. Students in the course will build upon and enhance their interpersonal and intrapersonal skills to further distinguishing themselves in the classroom and in their careers. This course is offered at the Pass/D/Fail grading option.
The Professional Development and Leadership course aims to enhance and expand Columbia Engineering graduate students’ interpersonal, professional and leadership skills, through six modules, including: (1) professional portfolio; (2) communication skills; (3) business etiquette and networking; (4) leadership, followership and teamwork; (5) life management; and (6) ethics and integrity. Students in the course will build upon and enhance their interpersonal and intrapersonal skills to further distinguishing themselves in the classroom and in their careers. This course is offered at the Pass/D/Fail grading option.
The Professional Development and Leadership course aims to enhance and expand Columbia Engineering graduate students’ interpersonal, professional and leadership skills, through six modules, including: (1) professional portfolio; (2) communication skills; (3) business etiquette and networking; (4) leadership, followership and teamwork; (5) life management; and (6) ethics and integrity. Students in the course will build upon and enhance their interpersonal and intrapersonal skills to further distinguishing themselves in the classroom and in their careers. This course is offered at the Pass/D/Fail grading option.
The Professional Development and Leadership course aims to enhance and expand Columbia Engineering graduate students’ interpersonal, professional and leadership skills, through six modules, including: (1) professional portfolio; (2) communication skills; (3) business etiquette and networking; (4) leadership, followership and teamwork; (5) life management; and (6) ethics and integrity. Students in the course will build upon and enhance their interpersonal and intrapersonal skills to further distinguishing themselves in the classroom and in their careers. This course is offered at the Pass/D/Fail grading option.
The Professional Development and Leadership course aims to enhance and expand Columbia Engineering graduate students’ interpersonal, professional and leadership skills, through six modules, including: (1) professional portfolio; (2) communication skills; (3) business etiquette and networking; (4) leadership, followership and teamwork; (5) life management; and (6) ethics and integrity. Students in the course will build upon and enhance their interpersonal and intrapersonal skills to further distinguishing themselves in the classroom and in their careers. This course is offered at the Pass/D/Fail grading option.
The Professional Development and Leadership course aims to enhance and expand Columbia Engineering graduate students’ interpersonal, professional and leadership skills, through six modules, including: (1) professional portfolio; (2) communication skills; (3) business etiquette and networking; (4) leadership, followership and teamwork; (5) life management; and (6) ethics and integrity. Students in the course will build upon and enhance their interpersonal and intrapersonal skills to further distinguishing themselves in the classroom and in their careers. This course is offered at the Pass/D/Fail grading option.
The Professional Development and Leadership course aims to enhance and expand Columbia Engineering graduate students’ interpersonal, professional and leadership skills, through six modules, including: (1) professional portfolio; (2) communication skills; (3) business etiquette and networking; (4) leadership, followership and teamwork; (5) life management; and (6) ethics and integrity. Students in the course will build upon and enhance their interpersonal and intrapersonal skills to further distinguishing themselves in the classroom and in their careers. This course is offered at the Pass/D/Fail grading option.
The Professional Development and Leadership course aims to enhance and expand Columbia Engineering graduate students’ interpersonal, professional and leadership skills, through six modules, including: (1) professional portfolio; (2) communication skills; (3) business etiquette and networking; (4) leadership, followership and teamwork; (5) life management; and (6) ethics and integrity. Students in the course will build upon and enhance their interpersonal and intrapersonal skills to further distinguishing themselves in the classroom and in their careers. This course is offered at the Pass/D/Fail grading option.
The Professional Development and Leadership course aims to enhance and expand Columbia Engineering graduate students’ interpersonal, professional and leadership skills, through six modules, including: (1) professional portfolio; (2) communication skills; (3) business etiquette and networking; (4) leadership, followership and teamwork; (5) life management; and (6) ethics and integrity. Students in the course will build upon and enhance their interpersonal and intrapersonal skills to further distinguishing themselves in the classroom and in their careers. This course is offered at the Pass/D/Fail grading option.
Please contact the Department for course description for this seminar.
Overview of the field of biomedical informatics,combining perspectives from medicine, computer science, and social science. Use of computers and information in health care and the biomedical sciences, covering specific applications and general methods, current issues, capabilities and limitations of biomedical informatics.
Prerequisites: for undergraduates: Introductory Genetics (
W3031
) and the instructor's permission.
This seminar course provides a detailed presentation of areas in classical and molecular genetics for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students. Topics include transmission genetics, gain and loss of function mutations, genetic redundancy, suppressors, enhancers, epistasis, expression patterns, using transposons, and genome analysis. The course is a mixture of lectures, student presentations, seminar discussions, and readings from the original literature.
Prerequisites: (BIOL UN2005) and (BIOL UN2006)
Corequisites: BMEN E3010,BMEN E3810
Physiological systems at the cellular and molecular level are examined in a highly quantitative context. Topics include chemical kinetics, molecular binding and enzymatic processes, molecular motors, biological membranes, and muscles.
Prerequisites: Calculus through multiple integration and infinite sums.
A calculus-based tour of the fundamentals of probability theory and statistical inference. Probability models, random variables, useful distributions, conditioning, expectations, law of large numbers, central limit theorem, point and confidence interval estimation, hypothesis tests, linear regression. This course replaces SIEO 4150.
Prerequisites: (CHEE E3010)
Principles of physical chemistry applied to equilibria and kinetics of aqueous solutions in contact with minerals and anthropogenic residues. The scientific background for addressing problems of aqueous pollution, water treatment, and sustainable production of materials with minimum environmental impact. Hydrolysis, oxidation-reduction, complex formation, dissolution and precipitation, predominance diagrams; examples of natural water systems, processes for water treatment and for the production of inorganic materials from minerals.
Prerequisites: one year of biology; a course in physics is highly recommended.
Lecture and recitation. This is an advanced course intended for majors providing an in depth survey of the cellular and molecular aspects of nerve cell function. Topics include the cell biology and biochemistry of neurons, ionic and molecular basis of electrical signals, synaptic transmission and its modulation, function of sensory receptors. Although not required, it is intended to be followed by Neurobiology II (see below). The recitation meets once per week in smaller groups and emphasizes readings from the primary literature.
Prerequisites: Linear algebra.
This graduate course is only for MS Program in FE students.
Linear, quadratic, nonlinear, dynamic, and stochastic programming. Some discrete optimization techniques will also be introduced. The theory underlying the various optimization methods is covered. The emphasis is on modeling and the choice of appropriate optimization methods. Applications from financial engineering are discussed.
Prerequisites:
JPNS C1202
or the equivalent.
Introduction to the fundamentals of classical Japanese grammar. Trains students to read Japanese historical and literary texts from the early period up to the 20th century.
Prerequisites: advanced calculus and general physics, or the instructor's permission.
Basic physical processes controlling atmospheric structure: thermodynamics; radiation physics and radiative transfer; principles of atmospheric dynamics; cloud processes; applications to Earth's atmospheric general circulation, climatic variations, and the atmospheres of the other planets.
This course explores the social history, cultural and economic history of the Roman Empire in late antiquity. This period, from 284 to 642 AD, begins with the accession of Diocletian and ends with the Islamic conquest of Egypt. The course focuses primarily on the eastern half of the Roman Empire, which presents a political unity absent from the western half of the Roman Empire and its successor states in the same period. It will explore the decline of traditional (pagan) religions and the role of Christianity in this period. The rise of monasticism; the role of Christian holy men; and the doctrinal disputes that caused internal rifts throughout the Christian world will require special attention. The course will approach the social history of the city and the countryside through specific case studies: riots in Alexandria and peasant agency in Syria and Egypt. The course will explore the poetry, rhetoric and philosophy that comprised an important part of elite culture in this period, and also attempt to use chariot racing and the circus factions to access the culture of the masses. Exploration of economic history will focus on an emerging gap in the field’s historiography between materialists who see the period as one of rising oppression of the peasantry by a profit-driven elite on the one hand and papyrologists who see a risk-averse elite working alongside an entrepreneurial and growing middle class on the other hand. The semester will close with a study in micro-history, the Roman Egyptian village of Aphrodito, its leading families and its agricultural working classes whose lives are recorded in the documentary papyri.
Prerequisites: two years of Chinese study at college level.
This course is designed for students who have studied Chinese for two years at college level and are interested in business studies concerning China. It offers systematic descriptions of Chinese language used in business discourse. CC GS EN CE
Prerequisites: at least 3 years of intensive Chinese language training at college level and the instructor's permission.
This advanced course is designed to specifically train students' listening and speaking skills in both formal and colloquial language through various Chinese media sources. Students view and discuss excerpts of Chinese TV news broadcasts, soap operas, and movie segments on a regular basis. Close reading of newspaper and internet articles and blogs supplements the training of verbal skills.
Prerequisites: at least 3 years of intensive Chinese language training at college level and the instructor's permission.
This advanced course is designed to specifically train students' listening and speaking skills in both formal and colloquial language through various Chinese media sources. Students view and discuss excerpts of Chinese TV news broadcasts, soap operas, and movie segments on a regular basis. Close reading of newspaper and internet articles and blogs supplements the training of verbal skills.
Prerequisites:
CHNS W4004
or the equivalent.
Implements a wide range of reading materials to enhance the student’s speaking and writing as well as reading skills. Supplemented by television broadcast news, also provides students with strategies to increase their comprehension of formal style of modern Chinese. CC GS EN CE
Prerequisites:
CHNS W4006
or the equivalent.
This is a non-consecutive reading course designed for those whose proficiency is above 4th level. See Admission to Language Courses. Selections from contemporary Chinese authors in both traditional and simplified characters with attention to expository, journalistic, and literary styles.
Prerequisites:
JPNS W4006
or the equivalent.
Sections 1 & 2: Readings of advanced modern literary, historical, political, and journalistic texts, and class discussions about current issues and videos. Exercises in scanning, comprehension, and English translation. Section 3: Designed for advanced students interested in developing skills for reading and comprehending modern Japanese scholarship.
Introduces the evolution of Chinese language. It reveals the major changes in Chinese sound, writing and grammar systems, and social and linguistic factors which caused these changes. CC GS EN CE GSAS