SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

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• Department: Philosophy
• Instructor: Allison Aitken
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• Instructor: David Albert
  CULPA: 32 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info
• Instructor: Akeel Bilgrami
  CULPA: 28 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Justin Clarke-Doane
  h-index: 10 Info
• Instructor: Jessica Collins
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• Instructor: Melissa S Fusco
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Haim Gaifman
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 30 Info
• Instructor: Lydia Goehr
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Axel Honneth
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Dhananjay Jagannathan
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• Instructor: Tamar A Lando
  CULPA: 8 Info
• Instructor: Michele Moody-Adams
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Christopher Peacocke
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Carol Rovane
  CULPA: 13 Info
• Instructor: Wolfgang R Mann
  CULPA: 36 Info
• Instructor: Christia Mercer
  CULPA: 56 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Achille Varzi
  CULPA: 30 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info
• Instructor: Katja Vogt
  CULPA: 36 Info
• 1-3 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

Prerequisites: Departmental approval.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• Instructor: Christopher Caes
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• 2-4 points

DIRECTED RESEARCH IN FRANCE: PSYCHOLOGY

DR:COGN. BEHAV. NEURO

• Department: Global Programs
• 4 points

SENIOR RESEARCH SEMINAR

Working research seminar devoted to helping students produce a substantive piece of writing that will represent the culmination of their work at the College and in the major.

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

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

Prerequisites: the department's permission. Supervised Individual Research

• Department: Slavic Languages @Barnard
• Instructor: John C Wright
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 2-4 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

Sustainable development majors and special concentrators must register for this independent study to use internship hours for the practicum credit. Students must consult with their program adviser and department before registering. Offered fall, spring and summer.

• Department: Earth Institute
• Instructor: Adela J Gondek
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 1-3 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

• Department: Germanic Languages
• Instructor: Heli Sirvioe
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• 1-4 points

SENIOR THESIS IN RESEARCH

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to senior Theatre majors. Combined and special majors may be considered under exceptional circumstances. Permission of the instructor required. In-depth research project culminating in a substantial written thesis on any aspect of drama, performance, or theatre research.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• Instructor: William B Worthen
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

DIRECTED RESEARCH IN FRANCE: URBAN STUDI

DR:HOUS.MIGRATION PARIS

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Samantha Csenge
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• 4 points

DIRECTED RESEARCH IN FRANCE: URBAN STUDI

DR:PARIS SDEV PLANNING

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Samantha Csenge
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• 4 points

DIRECTED RESEARCH IN FRANCE: WOMEN'S STU

DR: PROSTITUTION

• Department: Global Programs
• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS SEM IN ANTHROPOL

Prerequisites: The instructors permission. Students must have declared a major in Anthropology prior to registration. Students must have a 3.6 GPA in the major and a preliminary project concept in order to be considered. Interested students must communicate/meet with thesis instructor in the previous spring about the possibility of taking the course during the upcoming academic year. Additionally, expect to discuss with the instructor at the end of the fall term whether your project has progressed far enough to be completed in the spring term. If it has not, you will exit the seminar after one semester, with a grade based on the work completed during the fall term. This two-term course is a combination of a seminar and a workshop that will help you conduct research, write, and present an original senior thesis in anthropology. Students who write theses are eligible to be considered for departmental honors. The first term of this course introduces a variety of approaches used to produce anthropological knowledge and writing; encourages students to think critically about the approaches they take to researching and writing by studying model texts with an eye to the ethics, constraints, and potentials of anthropological research and writing; and gives students practice in the seminar and workshop formats that are key to collegial exchange and refinement of ideas. During the first term, students complete a few short exercises that will culminate in a substantial draft of one discrete section of their senior project (18-20 pages) plus a detailed outline of the expected work that remains to be done (5 pages). The spring sequence of the anthropology thesis seminar is a writing intensive continuation of the fall semester, in which students will have designed the research questions, prepared a full thesis proposal that will serve as a guide for the completion of the thesis and written a draft of one chapter. Only those students who expect to have completed the fall semester portion of the course are allowed to register for the spring; final enrollment is contingent upon successful completion of first semester requirements. In spring semester, weekly meetings will be devoted to the collaborative refinement of drafts, as well as working through issues of writing (evidence, voice, authority etc.). All enrolled students are required to present their project at a symposium in the late spring, and the final grade is based primarily on successful completion of the thesis/ capstone project. Note: The senior thesis seminar is open t

• Department: Anthropology
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Vanessa L Agard-Jones
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS

Research projects and internships are planned in consultation with members of the department and work is supervised by the major’s adviser.

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• Instructor: Severin Fowles
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Brian Larkin
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 1-4 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Prerequisites: Open to majors who have fulfilled basic major requirements or written permission of the staff member who will supervise the project. Specialized reading and research projects planned in consultation with members of the Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures teaching staff.

• Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
• Instructor: David L Moerman
  CULPA: 18 Info
• Instructor: Nicholas A Bartlett
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Lili Xia
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• Instructor: Nathanael P Shelley
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 1-4 points

UNDERGRADUATE FIELDWORK

May be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 total points may be used toward the 128-credit degree requirement. Only for BMEN undergraduate students who include relevant off-campus work experience as part of their approved program of study. Final report and letter of evaluation required. Fieldwork credits may not count toward any major core, technical, elective, and non-technical requirements. May not be taken for pass/fail credit or audited.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• Instructor: Lauren N Heckelman
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• Instructor: Tal Danino
  Wikipedia h-index: 18 Info
• 1-2 points

Environmental Humanities Senior Discussi

ENVIR HUMANITIES SR DISCU

This course will help students who are pursuing the Environmental Humanities Concentration and Minor to contextualize their senior projects within the larger field of Environmental Humanities. Students will also form a cohort to offer peer review and shared knowledge production in support of their projects.

• Department: Consortium for Critical Interdisciplinary Studies @Barnard
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Jayne Hildebrand
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 1 points

UNDERGRADUATE FIELDWORK

Provides work experience on chemical engineering in relevant intern or fieldwork experience as part of their program of study as determined by the instructor. Written application must be made prior to registration outlining proposed internship/study program. A written report describing the experience and how it relates to the chemical engineering core curriculum is required. Employer feedback on student performance and the quality of the report are the basis of the grade. This course may not be taken for pass/fail or audited. May not be used as a technical or non­technical elective. May be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 points total of CHEN E3999 may be used for degree credit.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• Instructor: Daniel Esposito
  h-index: 22 Info
• 1-2 points

UNDERGRADUATE PROJECT II

Students must enroll for both 3998x and 3999y during their senior year. Selection of an actual problem in Earth and environmental engineering, and design of an engineering solution including technical, economic, environmental, ethical, health and safety, social issues. Use of software for design, visualization, economic analysis, and report preparation. Students may work in teams. Presentation of results in a formal report and public presentation.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• F 5 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Farrauto
  h-index: 52 Info
• 2 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Prerequisites: Permission of the chair required. Does not provide major credit. Advanced projects for students who have adequate backgrounds to work independently with guidance from a member of the faculty.

• Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
• Instructor: Brian Mailloux
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 36 Info
• 1-4 points

THE SENIOR ESSAY

Prerequisites: the departments permission. This course is open only to those who have applied and been accepted into the departments senior essay program. For information about the program, including deadline for application, please visit http://english.columbia.edu/undergraduate/senior-essay-program.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Jenny M Davidson
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 3 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Application required:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/independent-studies
. Senior majors who wish to substitute Independent Study for one of the two required senior seminars should consult the chair. Permission is given rarely and only to students who present a clear and well-defined topic of study, who have a department sponsor, and who submit their proposals well in advance of the semester in which they will register. There is no independent study for screenwriting or film production.

• Department: English @Barnard
• Instructor: Atefeh Akbari Shahmirzadi
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• Instructor: Patricia D Denison
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Timothy B Donnelly
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• 4 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

INDEPENDENT STUDY: ENGLISH

Application required:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/independent-studies
. Senior majors who wish to substitute Independent Study for one of the two required senior seminars should consult the chair. Permission is given rarely and only to students who present a clear and well-defined topic of study, who have a department sponsor, and who submit their proposals well in advance of the semester in which they will register. There is no independent study for screenwriting or film production.

• Department: English @Barnard
• Instructor: Ross T Hamilton
  CULPA: 25 Info
• Instructor: Meredith A Benjamin
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 1-4 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

INDEPENDENT STUDY: CREAT WRIT

Application required:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/independent-studies
. Senior majors who wish to substitute Independent Study for one of the two required senior seminars should consult the chair. Permission is given rarely and only to students who present a clear and well-defined topic of study, who have a department sponsor, and who submit their proposals well in advance of the semester in which they will register. There is no independent study for screenwriting or film production.

• Department: English @Barnard
• Instructor: Ross T Hamilton
  CULPA: 25 Info
• Instructor: Monica Sok
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• 1-4 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preregistration required. Examines the theory and practice of transnational feminist activism. We will explore the ways in which race, class, culture and nationality facilitate alliances among women, reproduce hierarchical power relations, and help reconstruct gender. The course covers a number of topics: the African Diaspora, suffrage, labor, development policy, colonialism, trafficking, consumerism, Islam, and the criminal justice system.

• Department: History @Barnard
• Instructor: Lisa Tiersten
  CULPA: 45 Info
• 1-4 points

FIELDWORK

Final reports are required. This course may not be taken for pass/fail credit or audited.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• 1-2 points

FIELDWORK

May be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 total points may be used toward the 128-credit degree requirement. Only for MECE undergraduate students who include relevant on-campus and off-campus work experience as part of their approved program of study. Final report and letter of evaluation required. Fieldwork credits may not count toward any major core, technical, elective, and nontechnical requirements. May not be taken for pass/fail credit or audited.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• Instructor: Arvind Narayanaswamy
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 26 Info
• 1-2 points

HONORS SEMINAR

Prerequisites: admission to the departmental honors program. A two-term seminar for students writing the senior honors thesis.

• Department: Political Science
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: John Huber
  CULPA: 15 h-index: 31 Info
• 4 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• Instructor: Beth A Berkowitz
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 6 Info
• 1-4 points

INDIVIDUAL STUDY II

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.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• Instructor: Deborah Becher
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 4 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth Bernstein
  CULPA: 27 Info
• Instructor: Maricarmen Hernandez
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• Instructor: Debra Minkoff
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Mignon R Moore
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Jonathan Rieder
  CULPA: 17 Info
• Instructor: Angela Simms
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• Instructor: Amy Zhou
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• Instructor: Randa B Serhan
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Peter Bearman
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia h-index: 54 Info
• Instructor: Adam Reich
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 1-6 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and the chair required. Students submit, before the semester begins, a detailed proposal for independent research to a faculty sponsor.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• Instructor: William B Worthen
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 1-4 points

SUPERVISED READINGS II

• Department: Language Resource Center
• 1 points

Learned Women from the Low Countries (an

Learned Women fr Low Coun

This weekly seminar course explores women’s historical involvement in the learned and literary world of Early Modern Europe. We will study contemporary debates on women’s intellectual capacities and their contributions to the intellectual field, with a specific focus on the Low Countries, as this course is organized as part of the Queen Wilhelmina Visiting Professorship of Dutch Studies.

In the past decades, historians from various disciplines have reassessed the contributions of women to early modern intellectual culture. Large-scale recovery projects, dictionaries of women writers, editions and anthologies of their works, and the rise of feminist bibliography have challenged the male-dominated historiographies and canons. The highly urbanized, literate, and cosmopolitan Low Countries proved to be a particularly interesting context, allowing women to participate in public life. By studying key players, crucial concepts and current as well as historical debates, connecting to a series of thematic and source-driven case studies, we will analyze the various ways in which women could leave their mark in the (patriarchal) world of learning, comprising the arts and sciences, as well as religious spheres.

After a general introduction to learned women in the early modern period, we delve deeper into various textual and visual representations of female learnedness. This analysis will be framed through theoretical concepts such as self-fashioning, posture and persona, alongside recent art-historical insights into the role of (authorial) portraits. Focusing on both well-known and lesser-known women, we will gain insights into women’s opportunities, hindrances, and experiences as evident from their works, in the broader social, cultural, political and economic contexts.

During the seminars, we will discuss and analyze primary sources and secondary literature from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including literary history, art history and book history. The program includes working visits to the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Butler Library and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The course is taught in English. All readings will be available in translation.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Lieke Van Deinsen
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• 3 points

PROF DEVELOPMENT&LEADERSHIP

PDL FOR SPRING COHORT

The PDL course aims to enhance and expand Columbia Engineering graduate students' interpersonal, professional, and leadership skills, through five core sessions, covering (1) in-person communication skills; (2) resume; (3) business writing; (4) social media and the job search; and (5) academic and professional ethics and integrity. ENGI E4000 also requires 5 elective sessions to further students' development based on their personal interests. Students must select at least one life management elective and one interview elective. This course is offered at the Pass/D/Fail grading option.

• Department: Engineering
• 0 points

PROF DEVELOPMENT&LEADERSHIP

PDL CLEARANCE

The PDL course aims to enhance and expand Columbia Engineering graduate students' interpersonal, professional, and leadership skills, through five core sessions, covering (1) in-person communication skills; (2) resume; (3) business writing; (4) social media and the job search; and (5) academic and professional ethics and integrity. ENGI E4000 also requires 5 elective sessions to further students' development based on their personal interests. Students must select at least one life management elective and one interview elective. This course is offered at the Pass/D/Fail grading option.

• Department: Engineering
• 0 points

Online Math Tutorial for New SIPA Studen

SIPA Online Math Tutorial

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• 0 points

Revolution and Decolonization in the Afr

This undergraduate/graduate seminar examines the history of Black revolutionary movements for decolonization from the era of slavery to the late twentieth century. While studies of what historians have called “Black Internationalism” have emerged over the past ten years, the revolutionary and decolonial legacies of Black Freedom movements have tended to be overshadowed by nation-centric models of Black Studies that tend to predominate in the field. This course poses long-standing questions for a new generation of students. How have Black revolutionary thinkers and movements analyzed the racial, class, gendered, and sexual dimensions of colonization? How have they confronted colonial state power and envisioned postcolonial transformation? What obstacles did these movements face? What lessons can be learned from revisiting Black revolutionary traditions? The course employs both intellectual history and social movement methodologies so that students can develop the tools to examine histories of decolonization and the visions of freedom that they inspired. While the class begins with the foundational struggles against slavery, the bulk of the course focuses on the revolutionary struggles of the mid-late 20th century, when a wide array of decolonization movements from Ghana and the Congo, to Cuba and the United States, attempted to challenge Euro-American imperial domination. The course’s diasporic focus, including struggles for decolonization in Africa, prompts students to explore the connections and resonances across national borders and colonial frontiers.

• Department: African American and African Diaspora
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Frank Guridy
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED GENETIC ANALYSIS

Prerequisites: for undergraduates: Introductory Genetics (W3031) and the instructors 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.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• M 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Martin Chalfie
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

DATA JOURNALISM

ALGORITHMS

• Department: Journalism
• TR 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 3 points

DATA JOURNALISM

Data, Computation, Innovation

• Department: Journalism
• MW 9 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
• 3 points

POWER, JUSTICE, PRAXIS: LISTENING ACROSS

A Columbia Cross-Disciplinary Course.

“What is deep listening?
Sama
is a greeting from the secret ones inside the heart, a letter. The branches of your intelligence grow new leaves in the wind of this listening.” As these lines from 13th century Sufi poet Jalal al-Din Rumi suggest, deep listening is an act of profound humanity; it is an act of profound humility. It is also essential for intellectual development. In the 21st century university, how do we teach students in the art of listening – particularly, listening across differences of identity, politics, positionality and power? At a time when events on the national and international stage fracture interpersonal understanding and create environments of ideological isolation, how can justice be approached in our listening practices? How can listening be enacted toward a nuanced understanding of the other, not flattening or homogenizing, but rather, recognizing individuals and communities in their rich particularity, even when that listening may threaten one’s deeply held personal beliefs or community boundaries? This 4000 level mixed undergraduate/graduate course will examine how to conceptualize and enact listening from each of three disciplinary perspectives – narrative medicine, oral history, and social work, all fields in which the act of listening is central to our professional practices.

 

This class will introduce students to theoretically grounded listening practices incorporating attention to power, privilege, political difference, and personal identity (such as race/ethnicity, sexuality, nationality, religion), and give them opportunities to engage in practical listening labs which will be guided by junior faculty and teaching assistants from our disciplines. Case studies from current sociopolitical events and campus concerns regarding political polarization, freedom of speech, academic freedom and more will be utilized, and change year to year depending on the needs of the campus community. This course will examine interrelated questions informing listening and dialogue across difference such as: 1. How do we make the internal experience of listening visible and legible to others? 2. How do we know we have been listened to? What does the speaker ask of the listener? What are the relationships between witnessing, testimony, and listening? 3. How do we make sense of listening as an embodied experience? 4. What ways of communicating “count” as worthy of b

• Department: Narrative Medicine
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• 3 points

CELLULAR TISSUE & ARCHITECTURE

• Department: Pathology
• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO PROBABILITY AND STATISTI

INTRODUCTION TO PROB & ST

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.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Cristian G Pasarica
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• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO PROBABILITY AND STATISTI

Probability and Statistics

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.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Sumit Mukherjee
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 13 Info
• 3 points

Writing in the Presence of Ancestors

Writing Presence of Ances

"It seems to me interesting to evaluate Black literature on what the writer does with the presence of an ancestor...How the Black writer responds to that presence interests me." Toni Morrison, “Rootedness: The Ancestor as Foundation," 1984

When Alice Walker went "In Search of Zora Neale Hurston " she embarked on a quest for a literary ancestor, an artist, and creator, who, as Toni Morrison writes in "Rootedness: The Ancestor as Foundation," 1984, is "of the tribe and in it." Who are these "timeless people" we call our ancestors? What stories, traditions, and wisdom have they passed on to help us better understand ourselves and each other? What is our role in preserving their stories? How might they inspire us to tell our own? Using the essays "In Search of Zora Neale Hurston" and "Rootedness: The Ancestor as Foundation" as starting points, this seminar explores the intricate relationship between writers and scholars and their literary ancestors who are also, at times, mentors and friends. We examine how they have delved into the lives and works of their chosen literary ancestors, using scholarly analysis, personal reflections, memoir, travelogue, and other creative methods to probe, honor, challenge, and expand our view and understanding of their predecessors.

• Department: African American and African Diaspora
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Edwidge Danticat
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• 4 points

CORE ARCHITECTURE STUDIO II

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• MWF 2 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Marc Tsurumaki
  Wikipedia Info
• 9 points

Machine Learning for Healthcare

MACHN LEARNING HEALTHCARE

Prerequisites: Medical Informatics G4001, Computer Science W3139. Survey of the methods underlying the field of medical informatics. Explores techniques in mathematics, logic, decision science, computer science, engineering, cognitive science, management science and epidemiology, and demonstrates the application to health care and biomedicine.

• Department: Biomedical Informatics
• F 3:45 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Shalmali Joshi
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• 3 points

QUANT PHYSIOLOGY II:ORGAN SYST

Students are introduced to a quantitative, engineering approach to cellular biology and mammalian physiology. Beginning with biological issues related to the cell, the course progresses to considerations of the major physiological systems of the human body (nervous, circulatory, respiratory, renal).

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Barclay Morrison
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 42 Info
• 3 points

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY RESOURCES

An engineering and economic analysis of past, present and future energy resources. Technological options and their role in the world energy markets. Understanding limits of energy and power density and its impact of resource adoption and feasibility. Comparison of  renewable and non-renewable energy resources and analysis of the consequences of various technological choices and constraints. Economic considerations, energy availability, and the environmental consequences of large-scale, widespread use of each particular technology. Critical analysis of carbon dioxide capture and carbon dioxide disposal as a means of sustaining the fossil fuel options in comparison to dramatic increase of electrified resources.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Dan Steingart
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 36 Info
• 3 points

Folklore Past and Present

This course moves from Serbia and Bosnia, to Ukraine and the Czech lands, through Poland to Russia and Finland and then on to the southern Siberian steppes and finally the Russian Far East. Along the way, the course is divided into three major thematic and theoretical units.

Epics and Ballads: History, Performance, Identity 

Our first focus is on historical songs in the context of Romantic nationalism. We will explore why people (philologists) began to write these down, and how they were they edited and organized into print books. We discuss what these publications meant in the context of Romantic nationalist movements for political autonomy from the Ottoman or Hapsburg Empires. Given the stakes, some scholars were (maybe too) creative with their material. We will ask: What makes an epic text authentic, as opposed to an invented tradition, or even a fake? Throughout, we will pay attention to how traditions of oral performance were learned and transmitted within specific communities of artists, such as Ramadan performers, upper-class Bosnian women, and Ukrainian minstrels.

Words in Context: Poetry, Power, Positioning

Our second unit begins with the theoretical redefinition of folklore in the 20th c. Folklore is no longer defined by
who
performs it (e.g. peasants), but by its characteristics of variation and localization. We begin with a genre that anyone can perform—the proverb. To understand the power of small forms we need place them in their real-world context. We learn about ethnographic interviewing methods aimed at eliciting the local meanings of folklore. We consider relationship between the body and verbal folklore in south Siberian shamanism and in the performance of charms by folk healers in Russia and Finland. In order to bring the study of folklore home, to us at Columbia, we consider campus legends and folklore of the COVID-19 pandemic. This unit provides students with the tools needed to design and carry out their own mini-ethnography, which serves as the final project for the course.

Oral Narrative: Legends, Fairytales, Cross-Cultural Motifs

Our last major unit is dedicated to folk narrative—the memorate (personal narrative), the legend and the fairytale. We begin with Russian memorates about nature and house spirits. Narratives told as true events (memorates, legends) are contrasted with the genre of the fairy tale. We learn about how fairy tales were typically performed

• Department: Slavic Languages
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Jessica E Merrill
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

AQUATIC CHEMISTRY

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.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Oscar Nordness
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• 3 points

ADVANCED MECHANICS

Prerequisites: differential and integral calculus, differential equations, and PHYS UN3003 or the equivalent. Lagranges formulation of mechanics, calculus of variations and the Action Principle, Hamiltons formulation of mechanics, rigid body motion, Euler angles, continuum mechanics, introduction to chaotic dynamics.

• Department: Physics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Brian Cole
  CULPA: 23 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED STUDIO SEMESTER IV

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Ziad Jamaleddine
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• 9 points

Data, Race, Power and Justice

For more than a century, scientists, policy makers, law enforcement, and government agencies

have collected, curated and analyzed data about people in order to make impactful decisions.

This practice has exploded along with the computational power available to these agents. Those

who design and deploy data collection, predictive analytics, and autonomous and intelligent

decision-making systems claim that these technologies will remove problematic biases from

consequential decisions. They aim to put a rational and objective foundation based on numbers

and observations made by non-human sensors in the management of public life and to equip

experts with insights that, they believe, will translate into better outcomes (health, economic,

educational, judicial) for all.

But these dreams and their pursuit through technology are as problematic as they are enticing.

Throughout American history, data has often been used to oppress minoritized communities,

manage populations, and institutionalize, rationalize, and naturalize systems of racial violence.

The impersonality of data, the same quality that makes it useful, can silence voices and

displace entire ways of knowing the world.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Brian Luna Lucero
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• 4 points

OPTIMIZATION MODELS AND METHODS

A graduate course only for MS&E, IE, and OR students. This is also required for students in the Undergraduate Advanced Track. For students who have not studied linear programming. Some of the main methods used in IEOR applications involving deterministic models: linear programming, the simplex method, nonlinear, integer and dynamic programming.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Daniel Bienstock
  h-index: 38 Info
• Instructor: Vineet Goyal
  h-index: 21 Info
• 3 points

Abolition: Theory and Practice

This course will follow the idea of abolition as expressed first through the eighteenthand

nineteenth-century struggle to end chattel slavery in the Americas, and then as it has come

to define the struggle against over-policing and mass-incarceration in the late twentieth and

early twenty-first centuries.

In the first half of the class, we will consider abolition in England and its colonies, Haiti,

Cuba, and the U.S. In so doing we will examine both primary sources from abolitionist print

culture (narratives by fugitives from slavery, speeches, poems, and polemical tracts), as well as

secondary sources by historians, literary critics, and political theorists. In the second half, we

will likewise read writing by activists (some incarcerated or formerly incarcerated, and some

not) alongside journalism and scholarship from the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of carceral

studies. Across both periods, Black writers will take up the bulk of our attention.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew Sandler
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

COMPUTER GRAPHICS IN ENGIN

Numerical and symbolic (algebraic) problem solving with Mathematica. Formulation for graphics application in civil, mechanical, and bioengineering. Example of two-and three-dimensional curve and surface objects in C++ and Mathematica; special projects of interest to electrical and computer science.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• F 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Gautam Dasgupta
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 19 Info
• 3 points

RAPID READ&TRANSLATION IN ITAL

For graduate students and others who need to develop their reading knowledge of Italian. Open to undergraduate students as well, who want a compact survey/review of Italian structures and an approach to translation. Grammar, syntax, and vocabulary review; practice in reading and translating Italian texts of increasing complexity from a variety of fields, depending on the needs of the students. No previous knowledge of Italian is required. Note: this course may not be used to satisfy the language requirement or to fulfill major or concentration requirements.

• Department: Italian
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria Luisa Gozzi
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED STUDIO SEMESTER VI

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• 9 points

PROGRAMMING IN JAVA

• Department: School of Professional Studies (DVSP)
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Samuel Sultan
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• 3 points

PROGRAMMING IN JAVA

• Department: Auditing
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Samuel Sultan
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• 0 points

ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY

Prerequisites: MATH UN3007 A one semeser course covering the theory of modular forms, zeta functions, L -functions, and the Riemann hypothesis. Particular topics covered include the Riemann zeta function, the prime number theorem, Dirichlet characters, Dirichlet L-functions, Siegel zeros, prime number theorem for arithmetic progressions, SL (2, Z) and subgroups, quotients of the upper half-plane and cusps, modular forms, Fourier expansions of modular forms, Hecke operators, L-functions of modular forms.

• Department: Mathematics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Amadou Bah
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• 3 points