HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN AND INNOVATION

HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN & I

Open to SEAS graduate and advanced undergraduate students, Business School, and GSAPP. Students from other schools may apply. Fast-paced introduction to human-centered design. Students learn the vocabulary of design methods, understanding of design process. Small group projects to create prototypes. Design of simple product, more complex systems of products and services, and design of business.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• W 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Harry West
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 1 Info
• 3 points

MATHEMATICS AND THE HUMANITIES

This course is being taught by two senior faculty members who are theorists and practitioners in disciplines as different as mathematics and literary criticism. The instructors believe that in today's world, the different ways in which theoretical mathematics and literary criticism mold the imaginations of students and scholars, should be brought together, so that the robust ethical imagination that is needed to combat the disintegration of our world can be produced. Except for the length of novels, the reading is no more than 100 pages a week.

Our general approach is to keep alive the disciplinary differences between literary/philosophical (humanities) reading and mathematical writing.  Some preliminary questions we have considered are: the survival skills of the logicist school over against the Foundational Crisis of the early 20th century; by way of Wittgenstein and others, we ask, Are mathematical objects real? Or are they linguistic conventions? We will consider the literary/philosophical use of mathematics, often by imaginative analogy; and the role of the digital imagination in the humanities: Can so-called creative work as well as mathematics be written by machines? Guest faculty from other departments will teach with us to help students and instructors understand various topics.  We will close with how a novel animates “science” in prose, stepping out of the silo of disciplinary mathematics to the arena where mathematics is considered a code-name for science: Christine Brooke-Rose’s novel
Subscript
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• Department: Mathematics
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 4 points

SEM-BIOTECH DEVPT & REGULATION

Prerequisites: BIOT W4200 (OK without prerequisite). This course will provide a practical definition of the current role of the Regulatory Professional in pharmaceutical development, approval and post-approval actions. This will be illustrated by exploration, and interactive discussion of regulatory history, its evolution, current standards, and associated processes. The course will seek to clarify the role of Regulatory in development and lifecycle opportunities, demonstrating the value Regulatory adds by participation on research, development and commercial teams. The course will utilize weekly case studies and guest lecturers to provide color to current topical events related to the areas.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ron Guido
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

BASIC CONCEPTS-POST-FREUD THGT

This course examines psychoanalytic movements that are viewed either as post-Freudian in theory or as emerging after Freuds time. The course begins by considering the ways Freuds cultural and historical surround, as well as the wartime diaspora of the European psychoanalytic community, shaped Freudian and post-Freudian thought. It then focuses on significant schools and theories of psychoanalysis that were developed from the mid 20th century to the present. Through readings of key texts and selected case studies, it explores theorists challenges to classical thought and technique, and their reconfigurations, modernizations, and total rejections of central Freudian ideas. The course concludes by looking at contemporary theorists moves to integrate notions of culture, concepts of trauma, and findings from neuroscience and attachment research into the psychoanalytic frame.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Adele Tutter
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• 4 points

MATERIALS THERMODYN/PHASE DIAG

Review of laws of thermodynamics, thermodynamic variables and relations, free energies and equilibrium in thermodynamic system. Statistical thermodynamics. Unary, binary, and ternary phase diagrams, compounds and intermediate phases, solid solutions and Hume-Rothery rules, relationship between phase diagrams and metastability, defects in crystals. Thermodynamics of surfaces and interfaces, effect of particle size on phase equilibria, adsorption isotherms, grain boundaries, surface energy, electrochemistry, statistical mechanics.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Renata M Wentzcovitch
  Info
• 3 points

Policy for Privacy Technologies

Introduction to privacy technologies, their use in practice, and privacy regulations. Potential topics include anonymization, differential privacy, cryptography, secure multi-party computation, and legislation. Course material will be abased in real-world use cases of these tools.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Rachel Cummings
  h-index: 16 Info
• 3 points

KINETICS OF TRANSFORMATIONS

Review of thermodynamics, irreversible thermodynamics, diffusion in crystals and noncrystalline materials, phase transformations via nucleation and growth, overall transformation analysis and time-temperature-transformation (TTT) diagrams, precipitation, grain growth, solidification, spinodal and order-disorder transformations, martensitic transformation.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: James Im
  Info
• 3 points

Theories of Change in Human Development

Theories of Change-Human

What are the agents of developmental change in human childhood? How has the scientific community graduated from nature versus nurture, to nature
and
nurture? This course offers students an in-depth analysis of the fundamental theories in the study of cognitive and social development.

• Department: Psychology
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Dima Amso
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 31 Info
• 4 points

THEORY CRYSTALL MAT: ELECTRONS

Phenomenological theoretical understanding of electrons in crystalline materials. Both translational and point symmetry employed to block diagonalize the Schrödinger equation and compute observables related to electrons. Topics include nearly free electrons, tight-binding, electron-electron interactions, transport, magnetism, optical properties, topological insulators, spin-orbit coupling, and superconductivity. Illustrated using both minimal model Hamiltonians in addition to accurate Hamiltonians for real materials.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Chris A Marianetti
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• 3 points

THEORY CRYSTALL MAT: ELECTRONS

Phenomenological theoretical understanding of electrons in crystalline materials. Both translational and point symmetry employed to block diagonalize the Schrödinger equation and compute observables related to electrons. Topics include nearly free electrons, tight-binding, electron-electron interactions, transport, magnetism, optical properties, topological insulators, spin-orbit coupling, and superconductivity. Illustrated using both minimal model Hamiltonians in addition to accurate Hamiltonians for real materials.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Chris A Marianetti
  Info
• 3 points

PROBABILITY THEORY

Prerequisites: At least one semester, and preferably two, of calculus. An introductory course (STAT UN1201, preferably) is strongly recommended. A calculus-based introduction to probability theory. A quick review of multivariate calculus is provided. Topics covered include random variables, conditional probability, expectation, independence, Bayes’ rule, important distributions, joint distributions, moment generating functions, central limit theorem, laws of large numbers and Markov’s inequality.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Marco A Avella Medina
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• Instructor: Gabriel Young
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

Composing for Dance

The course presents tools, techniques, methodologies, and concepts for composing original music for dance (both acoustic and electronic). Composers will develop a work for dance collaborating with choreographers, culminating in a public showing at the end of the semester. Weekly meetings will be used to discuss the unique challenges (both practical and aesthetic) that this type of interdisciplinary collaboration raises, and to troubleshoot potential solutions. Students will examine case studies of collaborative composer/choreographer pairs (especially from the last 75 years), as potential models for working via the study of artist statements, interviews, articles, videos, and classroom discussions with invited guests. No prior experience writing for dance is necessary. Basic familiarity with a digital audio workspace is preferable. For participants who don’t write music or work in sound, a research project either analyzing a composer/choreographer pairing or looking at a topic relating to music and dance more broadly will serve as an equivalent final project (resulting in an academic paper, a podcast, or the production of an educational video).

• Department: Music
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Zosha Di Castri
  Info
• 3 points

STATISTICAL INFERENCE

Prerequisites: STAT GU4203. At least one semester of calculus is required; two or three semesters are strongly recommended. Calculus-based introduction to the theory of statistics. Useful distributions, law of large numbers and central limit theorem, point estimation, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals maximum likelihood, likelihood ratio tests, nonparametric procedures, theory of least squares and analysis of variance.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 7:10 p.m.-8:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Banu Baydil
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Ashley Datta
  Info
• 3 points

STATISTICAL INFERENCE

Prerequisites: STAT GU4203. At least one semester of calculus is required; two or three semesters are strongly recommended. Calculus-based introduction to the theory of statistics. Useful distributions, law of large numbers and central limit theorem, point estimation, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals maximum likelihood, likelihood ratio tests, nonparametric procedures, theory of least squares and analysis of variance.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 7:10 p.m.-8:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ashley Datta
  Info
• 3 points

LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS

Prerequisites: STAT GU4204 or the equivalent, and a course in linear algebra. Theory and practice of regression analysis. Simple and multiple regression, testing, estimation, prediction, and confidence procedures, modeling, regression diagnostics and plots, polynomial regression, colinearity and confounding, model selection, geometry of least squares. Extensive use of the computer to analyse data.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ronald Neath
  CULPA: 13 Info
• 3 points

THIRD YEAR JAPANESE

JPNS4206OC:  Third Year Japanese II, 4 points.  Required to take Third Year Japanese I, JPNS4205OC for 4 points.

The 3rd Year Japanese program (JPNS4205OC & JPNS4206OC; 8 points/2 semesters) is designed for those who have completed at least two years of college-level Jap4nese or the equivalent (around 300 hours of Japanese study).

Students who want to take this course are expected to be at least at the 
Intermediate-Mid level
 of 
the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines
N1
  at the beginning of the course. Please note that depending on the results of the placement test, the students may be placed in a different level than they apply for.

This class will use intermediate-level materials equivalent to 
Tobira 
and 
Quartet I & II
 or JLPT N3-N2. The coverage and materials will be contingent on the levels of students.

The goal of this course is to achieve Intermediate-High or above of the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines.

To enroll in this course, you must apply to the
 
Kyoto Consortium Summer: Modern Japanese
 
program through the Center for Undergraduate Global Engagement (UGE).
 
Global Learning Scholarships 
available. 
Tuition
 charges apply.

Please note the program dates are different from the Summer Sessions Terms. Visit the 
UGE
 website for the start and end dates for the Kyoto Consortium Summer: Modern Japanese KCJS. 

Please email 
uge@columbia.edu
 with any questions you may have.

• Department: Global Programs
• 8 points

THIRD YEAR JAPANESE

JPNS4206OC:  Third Year Japanese II, 4 points.  Required to take Third Year Japanese I, JPNS4205OC for 4 points.

The 3rd Year Japanese program (JPNS4205OC & JPNS4206OC; 8 points/2 semesters) is designed for those who have completed at least two years of college-level Jap4nese or the equivalent (around 300 hours of Japanese study).

Students who want to take this course are expected to be at least at the 
Intermediate-Mid level
 of 
the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines
N1
  at the beginning of the course. Please note that depending on the results of the placement test, the students may be placed in a different level than they apply for.

This class will use intermediate-level materials equivalent to 
Tobira 
and 
Quartet I & II
 or JLPT N3-N2. The coverage and materials will be contingent on the levels of students.

The goal of this course is to achieve Intermediate-High or above of the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines.

To enroll in this course, you must apply to the
 
Kyoto Consortium Summer: Modern Japanese
 
program through the Center for Undergraduate Global Engagement (UGE).
 
Global Learning Scholarships 
available. 
Tuition
 charges apply.

Please note the program dates are different from the Summer Sessions Terms. Visit the 
UGE
 website for the start and end dates for the Kyoto Consortium Summer: Modern Japanese KCJS. 

Please email 
uge@columbia.edu
 with any questions you may have.

• Department: Global Programs
• 8 points

THIRD YEAR JAPANESE

JPNS4206OC:  Third Year Japanese II, 4 points.  Required to take Third Year Japanese I, JPNS4205OC for 4 points.

The 3rd Year Japanese program (JPNS4205OC & JPNS4206OC; 8 points/2 semesters) is designed for those who have completed at least two years of college-level Jap4nese or the equivalent (around 300 hours of Japanese study).

Students who want to take this course are expected to be at least at the 
Intermediate-Mid level
 of 
the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines
N1
  at the beginning of the course. Please note that depending on the results of the placement test, the students may be placed in a different level than they apply for.

This class will use intermediate-level materials equivalent to 
Tobira 
and 
Quartet I & II
 or JLPT N3-N2. The coverage and materials will be contingent on the levels of students.

The goal of this course is to achieve Intermediate-High or above of the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines.

To enroll in this course, you must apply to the
 
Kyoto Consortium Summer: Modern Japanese
 
program through the Center for Undergraduate Global Engagement (UGE).
 
Global Learning Scholarships 
available. 
Tuition
 charges apply.

Please note the program dates are different from the Summer Sessions Terms. Visit the 
UGE
 website for the start and end dates for the Kyoto Consortium Summer: Modern Japanese KCJS. 

Please email 
uge@columbia.edu
 with any questions you may have.

• Department: Global Programs
• 8 points

ELEC & MAGNETIC PROP OF SOLIDS

A survey course on the electronic and magnetic properties of materials, oriented towards materials for solid state devices. Dielectric and magnetic properties, ferroelectrics and ferromagnets. Conductivity and superconductivity. Electronic band theory of solids: classification of metals, insulators, and semiconductors. Materials in devices: examples from semiconductor lasers, cellular telephones, integrated circuits, and magnetic storage devices. Topics from physics are introduced as necessary.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: William Bailey
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 3 points

STAT COMP & INTRO DATA SCIENCE

Prerequisites: STAT GU4204 and GU4205 or the equivalent. Introduction to programming in the R statistical package: functions, objects, data structures, flow control, input and output, debugging, logical design, and abstraction. Writing code for numerical and graphical statistical analyses. Writing maintainable code and testing, stochastic simulations, paralleizing data analyses, and working with large data sets. Examples from data science will be used for demonstration.

• Department: Statistics
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Yongchan Kwon
  Info
• 3 points

Religion and the Afro-Native Experience

Religion and Afro-Native

African Americans and Native Americans have a shared history of racial oppression in America. However, the prevailing lenses through which scholars understand settler colonialism, religion, and black and indigenous histories focus overwhelmingly on the dynamics between Europeans and these respective groups. How might our understanding of these subjects change when viewed from a different point of departure, if we center the history of entanglements between black and native lives? How does religion structure the overlapping experiences of Afro-Native peoples in North America?

From political movements in Minneapolis, Oakland, and New York City to enslavement from the Cotton Belt to the Rio Grande, this class will explore how Africans, Native Americans, and their descendants adapted to shifting contexts of race and religion in America. The course will proceed thematically by examining experiences of war, dislocation, survival, and diaspora.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Tiffany Hale
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

ELEMENTARY STOCHASTIC PROCESS

Elementary Stochastic Processe

Prerequisites: STAT GU4203 and two, preferably three, semesters of calculus. Review of elements of probability theory. Poisson processes. Renewal theory. Walds equation. Introduction to discrete and continuous time Markov chains. Applications to queueing theory, inventory models, branching processes.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Anne Van Delft
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

ELEMENTARY STOCHASTIC PROCESS

Prerequisites: STAT GU4203 and two, preferably three, semesters of calculus. Review of elements of probability theory. Poisson processes. Renewal theory. Walds equation. Introduction to discrete and continuous time Markov chains. Applications to queueing theory, inventory models, branching processes.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Adam Q Jaffe
  Info
• 3 points

FORENSIC STRUCTURL ENGINEERING

Review of significant failures, civil/structural engineering design and construction practices, ethical standards and the legal positions as necessary background to forensic engineering. Discussion of standard-of-care. Study of the process of engineering evaluation of structural defects and failures in construction and in service. Examination of the roles, activities, conduct and ethics of the forensic consultant and expert witness. Students are assigned projects of actual cases of non-performance or failure of steel, concrete, masonry, geotechnical and temporary structures, in order to perform, discuss and report their own investigations under the guidance of the instructor.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• 3 points

HERPETOLOGY

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• R 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew I Palmer
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 14 Info
• 4 points

GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS

Prerequisites: APMA E3101, APMA E3201 or equivalents and APPH E4200 or equivalent or the instructors permission. Fundamental concepts in the dynamics of rotating stratified flows. Geostrophic and hydrostatic balances, potential vorticity, f and beta plane approximations, gravity and Rossby waves, geostrophic adjustment and quasigeostrophy, baroclinic and barotropic instabilities.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Dhruv Balwada
  Info
• 3 points

Equality, Identity and Rights

EQUALITY, IDENTITY & RIGH

By connecting law, philosophy, and key human rights cases, this course will examine one of the main dilemmas in human rights theory and practice: the balance between equality and identity in the protection of rights. What forms of equality should be recognized to assure effective rights for all? What forms of identity should be recognized? Can there be effective human rights without an intersectional approach? Should we prioritize redistribution or recognition? What can we learn from cases developed in the UN System, in regional systems of human rights, and in specific countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, North America, and Europe? How can we be effective human rights defenders in a growingly complex field? With these questions in mind, we will address different possibilities of protecting black women in the U.S. and Brazil, Muslim immigrants in Denmark, Indigenous women in Kenya and Canada, persons with disabilities in Tanzania, mothers with HIV in South Africa, poor workers in the Amazon Forest, abducted children in Argentina, and so forth.

Learning objectives: • Overview of how equality in human rights is connected to the recognition of identities, or more specifically, to the recognition of an intersectional approach to rights • Understanding different forms of equality that can be advanced through human rights • Adopting a problem-solving approach to an increasingly complex field of human rights, in order to become more effective human rights advocates • Critically analyzing and getting acquainted with cases in the UN system, the regional systems of human rights, and domestic jurisdictions around the world

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniela R Ikawa
  Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED MICROECONOMICS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and MATH UN2010 Students must register for required discussion section. Corequisites: MATH UN2500 or MATH GU4061 The course provides a rigorous introduction to microeconomics. Topics will vary with the instructor but will include consumer theory, producer theory, general equilibrium and welfare, social choice theory, game theory and information economics. This course is strongly recommended for students considering graduate work in economics. Discussion section required.

• Department: Economics
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Susan M Elmes
  CULPA: 44 Info
• 4 points

THIRD YEAR ARABIC II

Students in the regular third-year Arabic track improve reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills through close reading, compositions, class discussions, and presentations in Arabic on topics such as cultures of the Arab world, classical and modern Arabic literature, and contemporary Arabic media. Review of grammatical and syntactic rules as needed. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MTWR 8:50 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Youssef Nouhi
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 5 points

ADV MICROECONOMICS - DISC

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and MATH UN2010 Students must register for lecture course ECON GU4211 Corequisites: MATH UN2500MATH GU4061 Required discussion section for ECON GU4211 Advanced Microeconomics. The course provides a rigorous introduction to microeconomics. Topics will vary with the instructor but will include consumer theory, producer theory, general equilibrium and welfare, social choice theory, game theory and information economics. This course is strongly recommended for students considering graduate work in economics. Discussion section required.

• Department: Economics
• 0 points

FOURTH YEAR MODERN ARABIC II

Prerequisites: MDES W4212. Through reading articles and essays by Arab thinkers and intellectuals of the Twentieth century, starting from the period called Nahda (Renaissance), such as Taha Hussein, Qasim Amin, Abdallah Laroui, Abed Al-Jabiri, Tahar Haddad, Fatima Mernissi and others, students will be able to increase their fluency and accuracy in Arabic while working on reading text and being exposed to the main
themes in Arab thought. The course works with all four skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing). Arabic is the language of instruction. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Taoufik Ben-Amor
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 4 points

Lab-on-a-Chip and Microrobotic Devices

BIOMEMS: DESIGN FAB & ANALYSIS

Introduction to lab-on-a-chip and microrobotic devices with a focus on biomedical applications. Microfabrication techniques. Basics of micro- and nanoscale transport phenomena. Microsensors and microactuators. Microfluidic devices. Lab-on-a-chip systems. Microrobots.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Qiao Lin
  h-index: 41 Info
• 3 points

The Road to Power: Marxism in Germany an

Marxism in Germany and Ru

Before Marxism was an academic theory, it was a political movement, but it was not led by Marx. This course examines the years in between, when a new generation began the task of building the organizations, practices, and animating theories that came to define “Marxism” for the twentieth century. Two of the most important such organizations were the German and Russian Social Democratic Parties. Responding to dramatically different contexts, and coming to equally different ends, they nevertheless developed organically interconnected. This course selects key episodes from the road to power of both parties, from their founding to the Russian Revolution— what might be called the “Golden Age” of Marxism. This course is open to all undergraduates who have completed Contemporary Civilization.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Adam Leeds
  h-index: 2 Info
• 3 points

THEORY OF PLATES AND SHELLS

Static flexural response of thin, elastic, rectangular, and circular plates. Exact (series) and approximate (Ritz) solutions. Circular cylindrical shells. Axisymmetric and non-axisymmetric membrane theory. Shells of arbitrary shape.

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

MEMS Sensors and Systems

Connects basic MEMS transduction elements to applications by analyzing the analog signal chain, sensor packaging, and sensor integration into larger systems. Underlying concepts of analog instrumentation such as filtering and digitization covered. Hands-on projects involve off-the-shelf sensors and single-board computers to create self-contained sensor systems that demonstrate relevant issues.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• M 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Jp Hilton
  Info
• 3 points

Modular Sound Synthesis

Modular Sound Synthesis is a hands-on studio class that explores contemporary techniques for synthesizers both in studio practice and performance while framing them in the historical context in which they developed. The class approaches the fundamentals of sound and synthesis through the perspective of Columbia’s Computer Music Center: vintage function generators, suitcase reel-to-reel tape machines, prototype modules, custom devices; and the first programmable music synthesizer, the RCA Mark II. Students will learn to perform and compose on both hardware devices and software emulations, utilizing them as a creative tool for recording and live performance. Topics include oscillators, modulation, sequencers, voltage processing, wave shaping, filters, and LFOs. The course will engage in listening to both historical and contemporary examples to develop critical listening skills. This class is designed as a follow-up to Intro to Digital Music for undergraduates or graduate students interested in integrating modular synthesis within their artistic practice.

• Department: Music
• R 4:10 p.m.-7:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Danielle R Dobkin
  Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED ARABIC GRAMMAR REVIEW

Through reading and writing, students will review Arabic Grammar concepts within the context of linguistic functions such as narration, description, comparison, etc. For example, within the function of narration, students will focus on verb tenses, word order, and adverbials. Based on error analysis in the past twelve years that the Arabic Program has been using Al-Kitaab, emphasis will be placed on common and frequent grammatical errors. Within these linguistic functions and based on error analysis, the course will review the following main concepts: Types of sentence and sentence/clause structure. The Verb system, pattern meanings and verb complementation. Quadriliteral verb patterns and derivations. Weak Verbs derivations, conjugation, tense frames and negation. Case endings. Types of noun and participle: Noun of time, place, instance, stance, instrument, active and passive participles. Types of construct phrase: al-iDafa. Types of Adverbials and verb complements: Hal, Tamyiz, Maf’ul mutlaq, Maf’ul li’ajlihi, adverbs of time, frequency, place and manner. The number system and countable nouns. Types of maa.Diptotes, al-mamnu’ min-aSSarf. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Taoufik Ben-Amor
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 3 points

Religion and Capitalism: Faith and the A

Is the market a religious system? Can we consider "capitalism" to be a key arena in which the relationship between the religious and the secular is both negotiated and performed? In this course, students will explore the complicated relationship between faith and the market, the religious and the secular, and the evolution of vice and virtue as they relate to economic thriving in the United States. While no hard and fast rules for thinking about the relationship between right conduct and material interests cut across all religious and philosophical traditions, human agents invest real faith into currency, into markets, and into the reigning economic order to bring about increased opportunities, wealth, and freedom to people across the globe. Throughout this semester, we will chart both the long shadows and the future trajectories of these beliefs from our American perspective.

• Department: Religion
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Andrew E Jungclaus
  Info
• 4 points

FOURTH YEAR JAPANESE

JPNS4218OC:  Fourth Year Japanese II, 4 points.  Required to take Fourth Year Japanese I, JPNS4217OC for 4 points.

The 4th Year Japanese program (JPNS4217OC & JPNS4218OC; 8 points/ 2 semesters) is designed for those who have completed at least three years of college-level Japanese or the equivalent (around 450 hours of Japanese study).

Students who want to take this course are expected to be at the 
Intermediate-High level
 or above of 
the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines
N1
   at the beginning of the course. Please note that depending on the results of the placement test, the students may be placed in a different level than they apply for.

Authentic materials such as newspaper, novels, and TV news will be used alongside with instructor-created materials to study grammatical patterns equivalent to JLPT N1 and N2. In addition, the students will have the opportunity to pursue an individualized project based on their own interests and give a presentation about their project at the end of the program.

The goal of this course is to achieve Advanced-Low or above of the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines.

To enroll in this course, you must apply to the
 
Kyoto Consortium Summer: Modern Japanese
 
program through the Center for Undergraduate Global Engagement (UGE).
 
Global Learning Scholarships 
available. 
Tuition
 charges apply.

Please note the program dates are different from the Summer Sessions Terms. Visit the 
UGE
 website for the start and end dates for the Kyoto Consortium Summer: Modern Japanese KCJS. 

Please email 
uge@columbia.edu
 with any questions you may have.

• Department: Global Programs
• 8 points

SPOKEN ARABIC II

Prerequisites: MDES UN2202 This is an introductory course to Levantine Arabic for students who have completed two years of Standard Arabic studies, at the Intermediate level. The course is designed to further develop fluency in oral communication, through building students’ familiarity with a less formal register of Arabic, namely the Levantine dialect. The course will convert and recycle some of the previous Standard Arabic knowledge to the dialect, by comparing their prior knowledge to its dialectal counterpart; while at the same time developing students’ new communicative skills in a diverse range of contexts that are essential in any conversational interaction. The course will build students abilities to interact effectively in various areas where Levantine Arabic is spoken. In addition to varied thematic topics, the course exposes students to cultural aspects specific to the region. Additionally, the course will work on both constructing students’ knowledge of dialectal diction as well as other grammatical features of the dialects. Even though the course is designed for communication in the four skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking), the emphasis will be mostly on speaking and listening. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Reem Faraj
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

The Arabic Linguistic Tradition

The purpose of the Arabic Linguistic Tradition course is to introduce undergraduate and graduate
students to the Arabic Linguistic Tradition, starting before Islam and ending in current times. The
course maps out the context in which the Arabic language and its predecessors existed, the
history of the development of the language, its script, its geographical spread, its linguistic
influences on other languages and scripts throughout the world, as well as its own influences by
other languages. The course will also examine the importance of Arabic as a language of
religion, philosophy, sciences, and nationalism. Furthermore, the course will focus on the
classical Arabic linguistic categories and fields devised by Arab/Arabic grammarians, and how
we can situate them vis-à-vis modern western linguistic theories. The course will detail some of
the language linguistic issues, challenges and secrets, as the language stands on its own, as well
as within a euro-centric “modern” linguistic theories framework.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: May Ahmar
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 4 points

Bodies of Transformation

Engaging trans studies, disability studies, histories of science, ecocriticism, posthumanism, queer and postcolonial theory, this class contends with how bodies and bodies of knowledge change over time. Bodies of Transformation takes a historiographic approach to the social, political, and cultural underpinnings of corporeal meaning, practice and performance in the 19th and 20th centuries. Animating questions include: what is the corporeal real? how does bodily transformation map the complex relationships between coercion and choice? how might one approach nonhuman interiority?

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• 4 points

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS

Prerequisites: STAT GU4205 or the equivalent. Least squares smoothing and prediction, linear systems, Fourier analysis, and spectral estimation. Impulse response and transfer function. Fourier series, the fast Fourier transform, autocorrelation function, and spectral density. Univariate Box-Jenkins modeling and forecasting. Emphasis on applications. Examples from the physical sciences, social sciences, and business. Computing is an integral part of the course.

• Department: Statistics
• S 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Franz Rembart
  Info
• 3 points

Interfacial Engineering for Sustainable

Cross disciplinary interfacial engineering principles and applications in sustainable energy and material science. Surface science and systems analysis across different technology sectors - material production and processing, waste management, device manufacture, composites, coatings, ceramics, membranes, biomaterials, and microelectronics.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Raymond Farinato
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

NONPARAMETRIC STATISTICS

Prerequisites: STAT GU4204 or the equivalent. Statistical inference without parametric model assumption. Hypothesis testing using ranks, permutations, and order statistics. Nonparametric analogs of analysis of variance. Non-parametric regression, smoothing and model selection.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 5:30 p.m.-6:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Arian Maleki
  h-index: 31 Info
• 3 points

Networks, Crowds, and the Web

NETWORKS CROWDS AND THE W

Introduces fundamental ideas and algorithms on networks of information collected by online services. It covers properties pervasive in large networks, dynamics of individuals that lead to large collective phenomena, mechanisms underlying the web economy, and results and tools informing societal impact of algorithms on privacy, polarization and discrimination.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Augustin Chaintreau
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 33 Info
• 3 points

Consciousness and Cognitive Science

Consciousness & Cognitive

Our human experience is rich: the thrill of falling in love, the spark of a new idea, the zing of table salt, the sharpness of pain. For thousands of years, philosophers, artists, and religious scholars have tried to explain our subjective experience. More recently, neuroscientists and artificial intelligence experts have contributed to this discussion, weighing in on whether we are “more than meat” (as Descartes famously put it), and whether computers can ever be sentient. In this class, we will begin with the big questions and an interdisciplinary overview of consciousness, then delve into psychology’s role. Using literature from perception, memory, emotion, metacognition, attention, and symbolic development, among other areas of psychology, we will see what empirical evidence can tell us about who we are, what we are able to know, and why we even have an experience of the world at all.

• Department: Psychology
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Nora Isacoff
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

BAYESIAN STATISTICS

This course introduces the Bayesian paradigm for statistical inference.  Topics covered include prior and posterior distributions: conjugate priors, informative and non-informative priors; one- and two-sample problems; models for normal data, models for binary data, Bayesian linear models; Bayesian computation: MCMC algorithms, the Gibbs sampler; hierarchical models; hypothesis testing, Bayes factors, model selection; use of statistical software.

Prerequisites: A course in the theory of statistical inference, such as STAT GU4204 a course in statistical modeling and data analysis, such as STAT GU4205.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 7:40 p.m.-8:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Dobrin Marchev
  Info
• 3 points

ADV DESIGN OF STEEL STRUCTURES

Review of loads and structural design approaches. Material considerations in structural steel design. Behavior and design of rolled steel, welded, cold-formed light-gauge, and composite concrete/steel members. Design of multi-story buildings and space structures.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• R 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• None None-None
• 3 points

URBAN ECONOMICS

• Department: Economics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Jason M Barr
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS I

Prerequisites: COMS W3134, COMS W3136, or COMS W3137, and COMS W3203. Introduction to the design and analysis of efficient algorithms. Topics include models of computation, efficient sorting and searching, algorithms for algebraic problems, graph algorithms, dynamic programming, probabilistic methods, approximation algorithms, and NP-completeness.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Rachel Cummings
  h-index: 16 Info
• 3 points

ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS I

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134 or COMS W3136COMS W3137) and (COMS W3203) Introduction to the design and analysis of efficient algorithms. Topics include models of computation, efficient sorting and searching, algorithms for algebraic problems, graph algorithms, dynamic programming, probabilistic methods, approximation algorithms, and NP-completeness.

• Department: Computer Science
• T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Yihao Zhang
  Info
• 3 points

SURVIVAL ANALYSIS

Prerequisites: STAT GU4205 or the equivalent. Survival distributions, types of censored data, estimation for various survival models, nonparametric estimation of survival distributions, the proportional hazard and accelerated lifetime models for regression analysis with failure-time data. Extensive use of the computer.

• Department: Statistics
• F 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Zhiliang Ying
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 62 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO MOLECULAR MODELING

• Department: Chemistry
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard A Friesner
  CULPA: 28 Wikipedia Info
• 4.5 points

Advanced Algorithms

Introduces classic and modern algorithmic ideas that are central to many areas of Computer Science. The focus is on most powerful paradigms and techniques of how to design algorithms, and how to measure their efficiency. The intent is to be broad, covering a diversity of algorithmic techniques, rather than be deep. The covered topics have all been implemented and are widely used in industry. Topics include: hashing, sketching/streaming, nearest neighbor search, graph algorithms, spectral graph theory, linear programming, models for large-scale computation, and other related topics

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 2:40 p.m.-4 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Alexandr Andoni
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 34 Info
• 3 points

DESIGN OF LARGE SCALE BRIDGES

Design of large-scale and complex bridges with emphasis on cable-supported structures. Static and dynamic loads, component design of towers, superstructures and cables; conceptual design of major bridge types including arches, cable stayed bridges and suspension bridges.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Theodore Zoli
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

DESIGN OF LARGE SCALE BUILDINGS

Modern challenges in the design of large-scale building structures will be studied. Tall buildings, large convention centers and major sports stadiums present major opportunities for creative solutions and leadership on the part of engineers. This course is designed to expose the students to this environment by having them undertake the complete design of a large structure from initial design concepts on through all the major design decisions. The students work as members of a design team to overcome the challenges inherent in major projects. Topics include overview of major projects, project criteria and interface with architecture, design of foundations and structural systems, design challenges in the post 9/11 environment and roles, responsibilities and legal issues.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• 3 points

SAMPLE SURVEYS

Prerequisites: STAT GU4204 or the equivalent. Introductory course on the design and analysis of sample surveys. How sample surveys are conducted, why the designs are used, how to analyze survey results, and how to derive from first principles the standard results and their generalizations. Examples from public health, social work, opinion polling, and other topics of interest.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Rongning Wu
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

SCIENCE OF URBAN ECOLOGY

Urban ecology is the study of both the interactions between organisms in an urban environment and the organisms' interactions with that environment. This course facilitates learning about 1) basic principles related to ecological interactions of life on Earth, 2) the causes and consequences of biological patterns and processes in urban environments, and 3) how ecology can inform land use decisions and applied management strategies of natural resources (e.g. water, air, biodiversity), particularly in urban environments. This course aims to provide students with an understanding of the ways in which ecological perspectives can contribute to an interdisciplinary approach to solving environmental problems facing human society. Towards that end, this course covers topics ranging from applied ecology and conservation biology to sustainable development. It uses a cross disciplinary approach to understand the nature of ecology and biological conservation, as well as the social, philosophical and economic dimensions of land use strategies. Although in some ways cities may seem to be isolated from what we would otherwise call "nature," they are not, and this is a major theme of this course. This course includes discussion of biodiversity, ecosystem function, evolutionary processes, nutrient cycling, and natural resource availability in cities. Students will acquire an understanding of the ecology of human-dominated landscapes, the theory and study of urban ecology, and the application of ecological principles to building sustainable urban communities. Students will also explore timely and important urban ecology issues including ecological restoration, invasive species, and biodiversity conservation.

• Department: Sustainability Management
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Amy Karpati
  Info
• 3 points

Reversing the Biodiversity Crisis

Course Overview

Often described as “twin crises,” climate change and biodiversity loss are among the most urgent sustainability challenges to be addressed in our modern era. While much focus has rightfully been placed on climate change mitigation actions at local, regional, and global scales, biodiversity loss is less often addressed by governments, institutions, industries, and individuals as a critical piece of the sustainability puzzle. In 2021, COP 15, the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, received far less media attention than COP 26, the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Climate Change. Yet climate change and biodiversity loss are inextricably linked, and without biodiversity and the associated ecosystem services and biospheric resilience upon which human society relies, a sustainable world is not possible. Moreover, certain climate change mitigation actions can actually be to the detriment of biological diversity.

 

Unlike a traditional conservation biology course geared towards ecologists and biologists, this course will be taught through the lens of sustainability management, equipping sustainability managers with the knowledge and direction needed to begin integrating biodiversity conservation and restoration into their professions. This course will illuminate the critical importance of biodiversity to sustainability and human well-being, the science and politics behind the current biodiversity crisis, and proposals, policies, and actions for bending the curve of biodiversity loss to create more sustainable and equitable outcomes for both humans and the non-humans with which we share our planet.

 

Students who seek to deepen their understanding of ecological sustainability and address the biodiversity crisis through the lens of sustainability management are encouraged to take this course. This course is an on-campus (or Hy-Flex) elective offered during the Fall semester and fulfills 3 credits within the Physical Dimensions of Sustainability Management curriculum area in the Master of Science in Sustainability Management program. Cross-registration is available to students outside of the Master of Science in Sustainability Management program, space permitting.

• Department: Sustainability Management
• M 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Amy Karpati
  Info
• 3 points

Resources and Regimes: Environmental His

Environmental Histories o

Environmental historical research began to intensify in the 1960s to interpret human history through the lens of historical and ecological processes. This framework of interpretation gained impetus with the growing concerns of environmental degradation, pollution, and man-induced climate change. The course is intended to demonstrate the intricate relationship and the intertwined nature of societies with their environments using case studies and examples from Central Europe. Firstly, there will be a review of how environmental history thinks of processes in the disciplines and sub-disciplines that have developed and what approaches exist in the field to human-nature relations. Then sources the discipline utilizes will be overviewed. Classes then look at the formation of water management systems, forest utilization the exploitation of soil and mineral goods, and the impact of the different political, economic, and social changes on the landscapes from the period of state formations in the region (ca. tenth – eleventh centuries) to the change of regimes at the turning of the 1980s and the 1990s. While the main focus will be on the long-term changes, case studies look at short-term environmental processes – floods, droughts, sea surges, tornadoes, epidemic diseases – to introduce concepts of resilience and vulnerability.

• Department: History
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Andras Vadas
  Info
• 4 points

Resources and Regimes: Environmental His

Environmental Histories o

Environmental historical research began to intensify in the 1960s to interpret human history through the lens of historical and ecological processes. This framework of interpretation gained impetus with the growing concerns of environmental degradation, pollution, and man-induced climate change. The course is intended to demonstrate the intricate relationship and the intertwined nature of societies with their environments using case studies and examples from Central Europe. Firstly, there will be a review of how environmental history thinks of processes in the disciplines and sub-disciplines that have developed and what approaches exist in the field to human-nature relations. Then sources the discipline utilizes will be overviewed. Classes then look at the formation of water management systems, forest utilization the exploitation of soil and mineral goods, and the impact of the different political, economic, and social changes on the landscapes from the period of state formations in the region (ca. tenth – eleventh centuries) to the change of regimes at the turning of the 1980s and the 1990s. While the main focus will be on the long-term changes, case studies look at short-term environmental processes – floods, droughts, sea surges, tornadoes, epidemic diseases – to introduce concepts of resilience and vulnerability.

• Department: Auditing
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Andras Vadas
  Info
• 0 points

Biodiversity, Climate Change and Sustain

Biodiversity, a term popularized in the 1980s, refers to the variety of life at the genetic, species, and ecosystem levels. It is crucial for sustainability, as it supports ecosystems that underpin human life, economic activities, and ecological stability. The loss of biodiversity threatens essential ecosystem services like clean air, water filtration, climate regulation, and food security. This course explores how climate change, both current and projected, impacts biodiversity and how natural ecosystems influence greenhouse gas concentrations. Human survival depends on these ecosystems, yet there is uncertainty about how much biodiversity loss can be tolerated. Climate change now poses as serious a threat to biodiversity as direct development activities. Understanding the science behind these threats is essential for sustainability students, and this course aims to provide that knowledge.

Simultaneously, tropical deforestation across the globe produces CO2 emissions equal to the total current emissions of the United States.  Forest fires in Canada have produced emissions equal to the total fossil fuel based emissions of that country.  Thawing of permafrost in the arctic north is one of the positive feedback loops, warming leading to more warming that has catastrophic potential. In studying biodiversity, we will examine ecosystems and species such as muskoxen, whales, penguins, primates, tree frogs, and monarch butterflies. We will also explore human practices like agriculture, forest management, hunting, and fishing, which affect both carbon and biodiversity and rely on climate stability. Students will learn how climate and natural ecosystems interact, a crucial first step toward actions needed to sustain life on Earth. While some readings may be challenging for those without an ecology background, support will be available. Students with prior ecology knowledge should find the course particularly informative.

• Department: Sustainability Management
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Ralph C Schmidt
  Info
• 3 points

War and Peace: Exploring Contemporary Uk

War & Peace: Ukraine

On 24 February 2022 Russia attacked Ukraine. How did we get there? This seminar will explore the complex relationship between Ukraine, Russia, and the West on the eve of Russia’s war in Ukraine. We will cover Ukraine’s pre-Soviet, Soviet, and post-Soviet history, with special attention to the country’s current political, social, and cultural issues, including the legacies of the past in post-1991 Ukraine, corruption, the power of oligarchs, the role of mass civic protests such as Euromaidan, Ukraine’s new cultural achievements, decommunization, post-Soviet urbanism, the shaping of an inclusive civic identity, and the challenge of radical nationalism in the wake of the Russian invasion. Students will learn why Ukraine and Russia have followed diverging political paths since 2000. The seminar will also provide students with tools for verifying information in the fast-moving context of war. Finally, students will be asked to think about and develop postwar scenarios.

• Department: History
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Serhiy Bilenky
  Info
• 4 points

GREAT BOOKS ON RACE,POLIT,SOC

GREAT BOOKS ON RACEPOLITSOC

• Department: Political Science
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Fredrick Harris
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

STATISTICAL MACHINE LEARNING

Prerequisites: STAT GU4206. The course will provide an introduction to Machine Learning and its core models and algorithms. The aim of the course is to provide students of statistics with detailed knowledge of how Machine Learning methods work and how statistical models can be brought to bear in computer systems - not only to analyze large data sets, but to let computers perform tasks that traditional methods of computer science are unable to address. Examples range from speech recognition and text analysis through bioinformatics and medical diagnosis. This course provides a first introduction to the statistical methods and mathematical concepts which make such technologies possible.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Samory Kpotufe
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

GEOTECHNICAL EARTHQUAKE ENGIN

Prerequisites: (CIEN E3141) or equivalent Seismicity, earthquake intensity, propagation of seismic waves, design of earthquake motion, seismic site response analysis, in situ and laboratory evaluation of dynamic soil properties, seismic performance of underground structures, seismic performance of port and harbor facilities, evaluation and mitigation of soil liquefaction and its consequences. Seismic earth pressures, slopes stability, safety of dams and embankments, seismic code provisions and practice. To alternate with E4244.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Hoe I Ling
  h-index: 45 Info
• 3 points

Political Economy of the Public Sector

Polit Economy Public Sect

Virtually all government policies depend on organizations to execute and evaluate them. Effective public management therefore depends crucially on an understanding of how organizations work. This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the institutional basis of public policy and administration. A major theme throughout is that explaining organizational outcomes requires the understanding of the relevant political actors, and the institutions, or “rules of the game” within which they function. Expanding on this theme will allow us to explain many features of political organizations, including some that may appear (at first glance) to be pathological.

The study of organizations is multi-disciplinary in nature, and as a result the course draws upon a range of literature from economics, political science, and psychology. It will focus particularly on applications of behavioral economics and game theory. The course readings and the student assignments will provide ample opportunities for seeing how theoretical arguments are developed and tested. The objective is to give students not only a working knowledge of how public sector organizations work, but also the ability to utilize it across a broad range of settings.

The course begins by considering different models of individual and collective behavior. With these tools in place, it then proceeds to study the internal structures of organizations and their management implications. Economic principal-agent theory will guide this discussion. Next, it will examine the impact of the external environment on organizations. Finally, it will consider some prospects for reform.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Ting
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

CLIMATE PREDICTION CHALLENGES WITH MACHI

CLIMAT PRED W MACHINE LEA

This course is a project-based learning (PBL) course where teams of climate science and data science students collaborate to create machine learning predictive models for challenges inspired by ongoing climate data science research. Students from different background will apply their prior knowledge, work together and teach each other in high-paced collaborative projects. Through a sequence of mini-projects, i.e., “challenges”, this course provides students a deeper understanding of using machine learning for climate science and support predictive capabilities. It provides training on a broad set of practical skills for climate data science research (e.g., handling geoscience data formats, data curation, cleaning and transformation, building ML workflow, and collaboration using cloud computing resources, Git and/or GitHub). It will also offer discussions on the opportunities and challenges of using climate science and projections in decision processes.

Minimal formal instruction on statistics, data science, machine learning, or climate science will be given. Project cycles run every 4 weeks, where we will have mini-group data projects. Groups will be formed randomly with students from both climate science and data science background. Project products will be peer-reviewed, in addition to evaluation by the instructional team.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Galen A McKinley
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 32 Info
• 3 points

APPLIED DATA SCIENCE

Prerequisites: Pre-requisite for this course includes working knowledge in Statistics and Probability, data mining, statistical modeling and machine learning. Prior programming experience in R or Python is required. This course will incorporate knowledge and skills covered in a statistical curriculum with topics and projects in data science. Programming will be covered using existing tools in R. Computing best practices will be taught using test-driven development, version control, and collaboration. Students finish the class with a portfolio of projects, and deeper understanding of several core statistical/machine-learning algorithms. Short project cycles throughout the semester provide students extensive hands-on experience with various data-driven applications.

• Department: Statistics
• W 6:10 p.m.-8:55 p.m.
• R 6:10 p.m.-8:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Alex Pijyan
  Info
• Instructor: Haiyuan Wang
  Info
• 3 points

APPLIED DATA SCIENCE

Climate Pred Challenges

Prerequisites: Pre-requisite for this course includes working knowledge in Statistics and Probability, data mining, statistical modeling and machine learning. Prior programming experience in R or Python is required. This course will incorporate knowledge and skills covered in a statistical curriculum with topics and projects in data science. Programming will be covered using existing tools in R. Computing best practices will be taught using test-driven development, version control, and collaboration. Students finish the class with a portfolio of projects, and deeper understanding of several core statistical/machine-learning algorithms. Short project cycles throughout the semester provide students extensive hands-on experience with various data-driven applications.

• Department: Statistics
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• 3 points

APPLIED DATA SCIENCE

Prerequisites: Pre-requisite for this course includes working knowledge in Statistics and Probability, data mining, statistical modeling and machine learning. Prior programming experience in R or Python is required. This course will incorporate knowledge and skills covered in a statistical curriculum with topics and projects in data science. Programming will be covered using existing tools in R. Computing best practices will be taught using test-driven development, version control, and collaboration. Students finish the class with a portfolio of projects, and deeper understanding of several core statistical/machine-learning algorithms. Short project cycles throughout the semester provide students extensive hands-on experience with various data-driven applications.

• Department: Statistics
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Bianca Dumitrascu
  Info
• 3 points

AESTHETICS & PHIL OF HIST(ENG)

This course offers an introduction to German intellectual history by focusing on the key texts from the 18th and 19th century concerned with the philosophy of art and the philosophy of history. Instead of providing a general survey, this thematic focus that isolates the relatively new philosophical subspecialties allows for a careful tracing of a number of key problematics. The texts chosen for discussion in many cases are engaged in lively exchanges and controversies. For instance, Winckelmann provides an entry into the debate on the ancients versus the moderns by making a claim for both the historical, cultural specificity of a particular kind of art, and by advertising the art of Greek antiquity as a model to be imitated by the modern artist. Lessings Laocoon counters Winckelmanns idealizing approach to Greek art with a media specific reflection. According to Lessing, the fact that the Laocoon priest from the classical sculpture doesnt scream has nothing to do with the nobility of the Greek soul but all with the fact that a screaming mouth hewn in stone would be ugly. Herders piece on sculpture offers yet another take on this debate, one that refines and radicalizes an aesthetics based on the careful examination of the different senses, especially touch and feeling versus sight.—The second set of texts in this class deals with key enlightenment concepts of a philosophical anthropology informing the then emerging philosophy of history. Two literary texts will serve to mark key epochal units: Goethes Prometheus, which will be used in the introductory meeting, will be examined in view of its basic humanist program, Kleists Earthquake in Chili will serve as a base for the discussion of what would be considered the end of the Enlightenment: be that the collapse of a belief in progress or the critique of the beautiful and the sublime. The last unit of the class focuses on Hegels sweeping supra-individualist approach to the philosophy of history and Nietzsches fierce critique of Hegel. Readings are apportioned such that students can be expected to fully familiarize themselves with the arguments of these texts and inhabit them.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Dorothea von Muecke
  Info
• 3 points

Hydrosystems Engineering

Quantitative introduction to hydrologic and hydraulic systems, with a focus on integrated modeling and analysis of the water cycle and associated mass transport for water resources and environmental engineering. Coverage of unit hydrologic processes such as precipitation, evaporation, infiltration, runoff generation, open channel and pipe flow, subsurface flow and well hydraulics in the context of example watersheds and specific integrative problems such as risk-based design for flood control, provision of water, and assessment of environmental impact or potential for non-point source pollution. Spatial hydrologic analysis using GIS and watershed models.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Shaina Kelly
  Info
• 3 points

Foundations of Environmental Engineering

Foundations of Env Eng

Engineering aspects of problems involving human interaction with the natural environment. Review of fundamental principles that underlie the discipline of environmental engineering, i.e. constituent transport and transformation processes in environmental media such as water, air, and ecosystems. Engineering applications for addressing environmental problems such as water quality and treatment, air pollution emissions, and hazardous waste remediation. Presented in the context of current issues facing the practicing engineers and government agencies, including legal and regulatory framework, environmental impact assessments, and natural resource management.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Kartik Chandran
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 51 Info
• 3 points

A Global History of East Central Europe

ECE Before the Modern Tim

Looking at Central and Eastern Europe through the systematic application of transnational methods and from a truly global perspective can offer original and valuable insights. Central and Eastern Europe has tended to be a semi-peripheral area in the global scheme of things, and it has thus been much closer to the global average than some of the parts of the world on which much of recent global historiography has focused. Central and Eastern European countries have also developed numerous and still underexplored intercontinental connections outside the Western core that should be of special interest in our age of multipolarity. At the same time, it can be assumed that this diverse area, as a peripheral part of Europe in a formerly largely Eurocentric world. The global history of the region is not intended to exaggerate the role Central and Eastern Europe played in transcontinental processes in the last millennia. It rather aims to show how the diverse people of the region have come to be interconnected with and shaped by phenomena originating in all the various parts of the globe, transnational and global trends that certainly have exerted a much greater impact on their country’s multifaceted history than the other way round.

The course does not intend to deconstruct national narratives as such. It attempts to substantially enrich such narratives and reconceptualize them for an age of manifold global interconnectedness. To put it differently, the words “East Central European” and “global” are equally significant parts of the course’s title. It aims to re-contextualize medieval and early modern histories of Hungary, Bohemia, and Poland by looking at global processes in their regional context rather than looking at the region as an exceptional and distinct area. While the region has traditionally been described in scholarship as the periphery of Western Christianity, there has been little understanding of the region as an area with close ties towards the Eastern Mediterranean (Byzantium), towards Eastern Europe (towards the Ruses) and how global processes such as climate change, trade connections, political representation or artistic changes reached (and spread from) the region.

• Department: History
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Andras Vadas
  Info
• 4 points

A Global History of East Central Europe

ECE Before the Modern Tim

Looking at Central and Eastern Europe through the systematic application of transnational methods and from a truly global perspective can offer original and valuable insights. Central and Eastern Europe has tended to be a semi-peripheral area in the global scheme of things, and it has thus been much closer to the global average than some of the parts of the world on which much of recent global historiography has focused. Central and Eastern European countries have also developed numerous and still underexplored intercontinental connections outside the Western core that should be of special interest in our age of multipolarity. At the same time, it can be assumed that this diverse area, as a peripheral part of Europe in a formerly largely Eurocentric world. The global history of the region is not intended to exaggerate the role Central and Eastern Europe played in transcontinental processes in the last millennia. It rather aims to show how the diverse people of the region have come to be interconnected with and shaped by phenomena originating in all the various parts of the globe, transnational and global trends that certainly have exerted a much greater impact on their country’s multifaceted history than the other way round.

The course does not intend to deconstruct national narratives as such. It attempts to substantially enrich such narratives and reconceptualize them for an age of manifold global interconnectedness. To put it differently, the words “East Central European” and “global” are equally significant parts of the course’s title. It aims to re-contextualize medieval and early modern histories of Hungary, Bohemia, and Poland by looking at global processes in their regional context rather than looking at the region as an exceptional and distinct area. While the region has traditionally been described in scholarship as the periphery of Western Christianity, there has been little understanding of the region as an area with close ties towards the Eastern Mediterranean (Byzantium), towards Eastern Europe (towards the Ruses) and how global processes such as climate change, trade connections, political representation or artistic changes reached (and spread from) the region.

• Department: Auditing
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Andras Vadas
  Info
• 0 points

Applied Machine Learning in Civil Engine

APPLIED ML IN CIVIL ENG

Utilization of data in everyday civil infrastructure. Optimization of decision-making for owners, facility managers, and policy-makers based on predictive results. Provides students with basic understanding of machine learning concepts and methods to formulate civil engineering problems to prediction problems. Introduces students to classic machine learning algorithms, deep learning algorithms, algorithmic thinking, and probabilistic views, and their applications in existing civil engineering problems.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• T 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Zhengbo Zou
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• 3 points

ENVIR DATA ANALYSIS & MODELING

Introduction parametric and non-parametric statistical models applied to climate and environmental data analysis. Time and space data analysis methods will be focused, including clustering, autoregressive models, trend analysis, Bayesian analysis, missing data imputation, geostatistics, principal components analysis. Application to problems of climate variation and change; hydrology; air, water and soil pollution dynamics; disease propagation; ecological change; and resource assessment. The class requires the use of R with hands-on programmings and a term project applied to a current environmental data analysis problem.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Bolun Xu
  h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

War Narrative: The Arab World

This course works along a number of axial structures that   aim to let texts voice their informing theoretical, political, and poetic strategies. It draws on war narratives in other parts of the world, especially Vietnam, insofar as these find their way into Arabic writing. A poetics of prose gives these narratives the power of literary production that makes them more readable, appealing, and provocative than ordinary journalistic reporting.

Through close readings  of  a number of  Arabic war novels and  some long narrative poems, this course  proposes to  address war in its varieties  not only as liberation movements in  Algeria and Palestine,  but also  as an engagement with  invasions, as in  Iraqi narratives of war, or  as conflict as was the case between Iran and Iraq, 1980-1988,  as proxy wars in other parts of the region , or ‘civil’ wars generated and perpetuated by big powers. Although writers are no longer the leaders of thought as in the first half of the 20th century, they resume different roles of exposition, documentation, reinstatement of identities, and geographical and topographical orientation. Narrators and protagonists are not spectators but implicated individuals whose voices give vent to dreams, desires, intimations, and expectations. They are not utterly passive, however. Behind bewilderment and turbulence, there is a will to expose atrocity and brutality. Writing is an effort to regain humanity in an inhuman situation.

The course is planned under thematic and theoretical divisions:
one
  that takes  writing as a deliberate exposure  of the censored and repressed;
another
as  a counter shock and awe strategy implemented under this name in the wars on Iraq   whereby brutalities are laid bare; and a
third
 that claims reporting  in order to explore its limits and complicity. On the geographical level, it takes Algeria, Palestine as locations for liberation movements; Iraq as a site of death; Egypt as the space for statist duplicity  and camouflage; and Lebanon as an initial stage for a deliberate exercise in a seemingly civil war.

A number of films will be shown as part of students’ presentations.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Muhsin Al-Musawi
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

Colonial Cities in the French Empire

Colonial Cities in French

French colonialism in the 19th and 20th centuries was marked by a relentless and often oppressive pursuit of overseas territories. Colonial cities, the focal points of the French empire, were erected in the nation’s image and characterized by wide boulevards, impressive parks and squares, and monumental buildings echoing the elegance of Paris. These urban centers, scattered across Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean, often served as administrative, economic, and cultural hubs for the colonial administration.   This seminar will explore the profound impact of colonial cities as laboratories for experimenting with new ideas in city planning, infrastructure, architecture, and civic governance. Once tried and tested in the colonies, these innovative “norms and forms” were often imported back to metropolitan France, where they helped shape various aspects of its society, culture, and economy.   The seminar is chronologically structured around six French colonial cities: Cap-Français, Cairo, Algiers, Casablanca, Dakar, and Hanoi. Each city is examined through the lens of a distinct set of colonial policies and practices. Cap-Français is studied from the perspective of the universalist values of the French Enlightenment and the double standard evident in the terror of the Atlantic slave trade. Cairo, while colonized for only a brief period, ignited new passions for the East and is viewed as a repository of exotic fantasies and a site for infrastructural modernization. Algiers is studied through the policy of assimilation and the destruction of Algerian religious identity. Casablanca is considered in relation to new planning practices and colonial policies of association. Hanoi is examined through cultural and architectural forms of hybridity. Finally, Dakar is viewed through colonial theories of acclimatization and hygiene policies. As we traverse the diverse landscapes of these colonial cities, this seminar invites participants to critically reflect on the enduring echoes of French colonialism, exploring how the urban experiments of the past reverberate in the present and influence our perceptions of global cities and their histories.

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ralph Ghoche
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 2 Info
• 4-8 points

RETHINKING MIDDLE EAST POLITCS

This course examines a set of questions that have shaped the study of the politics of the modern Middle East. It looks at the main ways those questions have been answered, exploring debates both in Western academic scholarship and among scholars and intellectuals in the region itself. For each question, the course offers new ways of thinking about the issue or ways of framing it in different terms. The topics covered in the course include: the kinds of modern state that emerged in the Middle East and the ways its forms of power and authority were shaped; the birth of economic development as a way of describing the function and measuring the success of the state, and the changing metrics of this success; the influence of oil on the politics of the region; the nature and role of Islamic political movements; the transformation of the countryside and the city and the role of rural populations and of urban protest in modern politics; and the politics of armed force and political violence in the region, and the ways in which this has been understood. The focus of the course will be on the politics of the twentieth century, but many topics will be traced back into developments that occurred in earlier periods, and several will be explored up to the present. The course is divided into four parts, each ending with a paper or exam in which participants are asked to analyze the material covered. Each part of the course has a geographical focus on a country or group of countries and a thematic focus on a particular set of questions of historical and political analysis. Discussion Section Required.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Timothy Mitchell
  Wikipedia h-index: 34 Info
• 4 points

INTRO TO CRYPTOGRAPHY

An introduction to modern cryptography, focusing on the complexity-theoretic foundations of secure computation and communication in adversarial environments; a rigorous approach, based on precise definitions and provably secure protocols. Topics include private and public key encryption schemes, digital signatures, authentication, pseudorandom generators and functions, one-way functions, trapdoor functions, number theory and computational hardness, identification and zero knowledge protocols.

• Department: Computer Science
• M 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Allison Bishop
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• 3 points

STATISTICAL METHODS IN FINANCE

Prerequisites: STAT GU4205 or the equivalent. A fast-paced introduction to statistical methods used in quantitative finance. Financial applications and statistical methodologies are intertwined in all lectures. Topics include regression analysis and applications to the Capital Asset Pricing Model and multifactor pricing models, principal components and multivariate analysis, smoothing techniques and estimation of yield curves statistical methods for financial time series, value at risk, term structure models and fixed income research, and estimation and modeling of volatilities. Hands-on experience with financial data.

• Department: Statistics
• S 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Zhiliang Ying
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 62 Info
• 3 points

STOCHASTC PROCSSES-APPLICTNS I

Prerequisites: STAT GU4203. STAT GU4207 is recommended. Basics of continuous-time stochastic processes. Wiener processes. Stochastic integrals. Ito's formula, stochastic calculus. Stochastic exponentials and Girsanov's theorem. Gaussian processes. Stochastic differential equations. Additional topics as time permits.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Steven Campbell
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• 3 points

AUDITORY PERCEPTION

Prerequisites: PSYC UN1010 PSYC UN1010 or equivalent; background in statistics/research methods recommended How does the human brain make sense of the acoustic world? What aspects of auditory perception do humans share with other animals? How does the brain perform the computations necessary for skills such as soundlocalization? How do we focus our auditory attention on one voice in a crowd? What acoustic cues are important for speech perception? How is music perceived? These are the types of questions we will address by studyingthe basics of auditory perception from textbook readings and reviews, and reading classic and current literatureto understand scientific progress in the field today.

• Department: Psychology
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Sarah Woolley
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 31 Info
• 3 points

STOCHASTIC METHODS IN FINANCE

Prerequisites: STAT GU4264. Mathematical theory and probabilistic tools for modeling and analyzing security markets are developed. Pricing options in complete and incomplete markets, equivalent martingale measures, utility maximization, term structure of interest rates. This is a core course in the MS program in mathematical finance.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Graeme Baker
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• 3 points

SOCIAL MEDIA AND HUMAN RIGHTS

This course examines how changes in information and communications technology have, over the past two decades, fundamentally transformed the practices of civil society actors engaged with human rights issues. New communications tools such as Twitter, blogs, and Facebook have changed the ways that organizations communicate with their followers and seek to influence public debate. The increasing accessibility of analytic tools for researching and visualizing changing patterns of human rights abuse has empowered groups to better understand and respond more forcefully to these issues. Indeed, the use of social media as a communications tool has made it a data source for those monitoring and analyzing patterns of activity, in ways that draw increasingly on the techniques of big data analysis.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ted Perlmutter
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• 3 points

COGNITIVE PROCESSES

Prerequisites: For undergraduates: one course in cognitive psychology or cognitive neuroscience, or the equivalent, and the instructors permission. Metacognition and control processes in human cognition. Basic issues include the cognitive mechanisms that enable people to monitor what they know and predict what they will know, the errors and biases involved in self-monitoring, and the implications of metacognitive ability for peoples self-determined learning, behavior, and their understanding of self.

• Department: Psychology
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Janet Metcalfe
  CULPA: 31 h-index: 70 Info
• 3 points

Psychology of Procrastination

Why do we put off things until later—even things we know are important; even in cases where we know the cost of delaying; even when doing the work more gradually over time would be less unpleasant; even sometimes on tasks we anticipate enjoying? Everyone procrastinates sometimes, but why do some people seem to procrastinate a lot while others don’t have much of an issue with task delaying? This course reviews current research on selected cognitive and motivational theories of procrastination, as well as interaction of task delay with mental health and neurodiversity. We will close with an examination of some potential interventions that may help people reduce or avoid procrastination, both at the individual level and in academic settings such as course design.

• Department: Psychology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Katherine T Fox-Glassman
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 4 Info
• 3 points