MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF CANCER

Tracing the discovery of the role of DNA tumor viruses in cancerous transformation. Oncogenes and tumor suppressors are analyzed with respect to their function in normal cell cycle, growth control, and human cancers. SCE and TC students may register for this course, but they must first obtain the written permission of the instructor, by filling out a paper Registration Adjustment Form (Add/Drop form). The form can be downloaded at the URL below, but must be signed by the instructor and returned to the office of the registrar. http://registrar.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/reg-adjustment.pdf

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• 3 points

DATA SCIENCE CAPSTONE&ETHICS

• Department: Engineering
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 3 points

LANGUAGE & SOCIETY

How language structure and usage varies according to societal factors such as social history and socioeconomic factors, illustrated with study modules on language contact, language standardization and literacy, quantitative sociolinguistic theory, language allegiance, language, and power.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ross Perlin
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

MATH LOGIC I

Syntax and semantics; deductive systems; completeness and compactness theorems; first order calculi; Godels completeness theorem; basic model theory, Skolem functions; Skolem-Lowenheim theorems.

• Department: Philosophy
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Tamar A Lando
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

Israel and the Palestinians

The seminar will examine the main political, economic, and social processes that have been shaping contemporary Israel. The underlying assumption in this seminar is that much of these processes have been shaped by the 100-year Israeli-Arab/Palestinian conflict. The first part of the course will accordingly focus on the historical background informing the conflict and leading to the Palestinian refugee problem and establishment of a Jewish, but not Palestinian, state in 1948.  The second part of the seminar focuses on Israel’s occupation of the West Bank (and Gaza) and the settlement project, as well as on USA's role and its impact on the conflict, the occupation, and Israel. These topics did not get much academic attention until recently, but as researchers began to realize that the Occupation and the West Bank settlements are among the most permanent institutions in Israel, they have come under the scrutiny of academic research. 

The third part the seminar will concentrate on the development of the conflict after the establishment of Israel and its effects on sociological processes and institutions in contemporary Israel.  Analyzing patterns of continuity and change in the past seven decades, we will discuss immigration and emigration patterns, as well as issue relating to ethnicity, gender, religion and politics, and the Israeli military.

• Department: Sociology
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Yinon Cohen
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 33 Info
• 4 points

INTRO TO HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT

Introduction to human spaceflight from a systems engineering perspective. Historical and current space programs and spacecraft. Motivation, cost, and rationale for human space exploration. Overview of space environment needed to sustain human life and health, including physiological and psychological concerns in space habitat. Astronaut selection and training processes, spacewalking, robotics, mission operations, and future program directions. Systems integration for successful operation of a spacecraft. Highlights from current events and space research, Space Shuttle, Hubble Space Telescope, and International Space Station (ISS). Includes a design project to assist International Space Station astronauts.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• F 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael J Massimino
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

LATTICES AND BOOLEAN ALGEBRA

Prerequisites: PHIL UN3411 or 4801 This course is designed as an introduction to lattices and Boolean algebras. In the first part of the course, we study partial orders and view lattices both as partial orders and as algebraic structures. We study some basic constructions involving sublattices, products of lattices, and homomorphic images of lattices. In the second part of the course, we study Boolean algebras, with an aim to proving several representation theorems: first, a representation theorem for finite Boolean algebras, and toward the end of the course, the famous Stone Representation Theorem. We end the course with a look at the connection between classical mereology (or the theory of parthood) and complete Boolean algebras.

• Department: Philosophy
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Tamar A Lando
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

HIST ENV. & HEALTH S. ASIA & BEYOND

Encounters with Nature

This course offers an understanding of the interdisciplinary field of environmental, health and population history and will discuss historical and policy debates with a cross cutting, comparative relevance: such as the making and subjugation of colonized peoples and natural and disease landscapes under British colonial rule; modernizing states and their interest in development and knowledge and technology building, the movement and migration of populations, and changing place of public health and healing in south Asia. The key aim of the course will be to introduce students to reading and analyzing a range of historical scholarship, and interdisciplinary research on environment, health, medicine and populations in South Asia and to introduce them to an exploration of primary sources for research; and also to probe the challenges posed by archives and sources in these fields. Some of the overarching questions that shape this course are as follows: How have environmental pasts and medical histories been interpreted, debated and what is their contemporary resonance? What have been the encounters (political, intellectual, legal, social and cultural) between the environment, its changing landscapes and state? How have citizens, indigenous communities, and vernacular healers mediated and shaped these encounters and inserted their claims for sustainability, subsistence or survival? How have these changing landscapes shaped norms about bodies, care and beliefs? The course focuses on South Asia but also urges students to think and make linkages beyond regional geographies in examining interconnected ideas and practices in histories of the environment, medicine and health. Topics will therefore include (and students are invited to add to these perspectives and suggest additional discussion themes): colonial and globalized circuits of medical knowledge, with comparative case studies from Africa and East Asia; and the travel and translation of environmental ideas and of medical practices through growing global networks.

• Department: History
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Kavita Sivaramakrishnan
  Info
• 4 points

COMPUTATIONAL URBANISM

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• 3 points

RANDOM SIGNALS & NOISE

Characterization of stochastic processes as models of signals and noise; stationarity, ergodicity, correlation functions, and power spectra. Gaussian processes as models of noise in linear and nonlinear systems; linear and nonlinear transformations of random processes; orthogonal series representations. Applications to circuits and devices, to communication, control, filtering, and prediction.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Irving Kalet
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

Rumor and Media: Technologies, Circulati

Rumor & Media: Tech,Circ,

At various historical junctures, the introduction of new media technologies has increased the circulation of rumor and the credence gained by misinformation. This class will explore rumor, hearsay, disinformation, propaganda, and their interrelations to specific media formats and technologies. Often considered a purely oral medium, the spread of rumor is rendered possible not only by a mixture of fact and fabulation but also by a feedback loop across various media that spans from handwriting and print to radio and social media. In Homer’s
Odyssey
, “hearsay” is the only source of information about Odysseus’s fate for his son, but it also stands in for the oral tradition from which the written epic emerges. Later on, rumor is frequently connected to new media technologies and formats. During the French Revolution, pamphlets, flyers, and posters play a crucial role for the wide dissemination of scandalous and incorrect news that plays on real anxieties and grievances. Around the same time, Herder dismissively compares the printing press to the Roman goddess of “fama.” Before ending with social media, AI, and the proliferation of misinformation and propaganda today, the seminar will also explore the newspaper, propaganda, and the radio as powerful conduits of rumors and misinformation.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Stefan Andriopoulos
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

Focuses on advanced topics in computer architecture, illustrated by case studies from classic and modern processors. Fundamentals of quantitative analysis. Pipelining. Memory hierarchy design. Instruction-level and thread-level parallelism. Data-level parallelism and graphics processing units. Multiprocessors. Cache coherence. Interconnection networks. Multi-core processors and systems-on-chip. Platform architectures for embedded, mobile, and cloud computing.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Tanvir Ahmed Khan
  Info
• 3 points

DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING

Introduction to the mathematical tools and algorithmic implementation for representation and processing of digital pictures, videos, and visual sensory data. Image representation, filtering, transform, quality enhancement, restoration, feature extraction, object segmentation, motion analysis, classification, and coding for data compression. A series of programming assignments reinforces material from the lectures.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• W 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Christine P Hendon
  Wikipedia h-index: 21 Info
• 3 points

Machine Intelligence

This seminar will survey historical and modern developments in machine intelligence from fields such as psychology, neuroscience, and computer science, and from approaches such as cybernetics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, connectionism, neural networks, and deep learning. The emphasis is on the conceptual understanding of topics. The course does not include, nor require a background in, computer programming and statistics. The overall goal is for students to become informed consumers of applications of artificial intelligence.

• Department: Psychology
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Trenton Jerde
  h-index: 11 Info
• 4 points

BUILDING CONDITIONS ASSESSMENT

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Kyle C Normandin
  Info
• 1.5 points

JAZZ & THE LITERARY IMAGINATN

This course will focus on the interwoven nature of jazz and literature throughout the 20th and early 21st century. We will consider the ways that jazz has been a source of inspiration for a variety of twentieth-century literatures, from the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance to African American drama and contemporary fiction. Our readings and musical selections highlight creative ideas and practices generated through the formal and thematic convergences of jazz and literature, allowing us to explore questions such as: How do writers capture the sounds and feelings of different musical forms within fictional and non-fictional prose? In what ways might both music and literature (and/or their points of intersection) represent ideas of black identity and consciousness? How can certain musical concepts and terms of analysis (improvisation, rhythm, syncopation, harmony) be applied to practices of writing? How does music suggest modes of social interaction or political potential to be articulated in language?

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Brent H Edwards
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

Embedded system design and implementation combining hardware and software. I/O, interfacing, and peripherals. Weekly laboratory sessions and term project on design of a microprocessor-based embedded system including at least one custom peripheral. Knowledge of C programming and digital logic required.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Stephen A Edwards
  CULPA: 21 h-index: 35 Info
• 3 points

BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 Within economics, the standard model of behavior is that of a perfectly rational, self interested utility maximizer with unlimited cognitive resources. In many cases, this provides a good approximation to the types of behavior that economists are interested in. However, over the past 30 years, experimental and behavioral economists have documented ways in which the standard model is not just wrong, but is wrong in ways that are important for economic outcomes. Understanding these behaviors, and their implications, is one of the most exciting areas of current economic inquiry. The aim of this course is to provide a grounding in the main areas of study within behavioral economics, including temptation and self control, fairness and reciprocity, reference dependence, bounded rationality and choice under risk and uncertainty. For each area we will study three things: 1. The evidence that indicates that the standard economic model is missing some important behavior 2. The models that have been developed to capture these behaviors 3. Applications of these models to (for example) finance, labor and development economics As well as the standard lectures, homework assignments, exams and so on, you will be asked to participate in economic experiments, the data from which will be used to illustrate some of the principals in the course. There will also be a certain small degree of classroom ‘flipping’, with a portion of many lectures given over to group problem solving. Finally, an integral part of the course will be a research proposal that you must complete by the end of the course, outlining a novel piece of research that you would be interested in doing.

• Department: Economics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Dean
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 26 Info
• 3 points

Radical Enlightenment Women

In this seminar, we will explore three different but interrelated questions. First, how did women (both real and fictional) shape the Enlightenment through the radical questions they posed? Second, how has Enlightenment historiography sought to affirm or deny the importance of women to an intellectual movement many believe ushered in the modern world? Third, what critical questions do we want to put to Enlightenment women in confronting the persistent challenges of our own time? In addressing these questions, we will read novels, letters, literary portraits and philosophical dialogues, and explore critical debates surrounding sociability, letter-writing and the institution of the salons. Authors will include Gouges, Montesquieu, Graffigny, Châtelet, Deffand, Voltaire, Lespinasse, Diderot, Rousseau, Henriette and le Chevalier / Mademoiselle d’Éon.

 

This seminar will be offered in French, with all readings and discussions in French. Advanced undergraduates may enroll with instructor permission.

• Department: French
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Joanna R Stalnaker
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 3 points

The City & the Archive

How to write the city? What is an archive for writing the city? What liminal and marginal perspectives are available for thinking about writing the city? What is the place of the city in the global south in our historical imagination? Our attempt in this seminar is to look at the global south city from the historical and analytical perspectives of those dispossessed and marginal. Instead of ‘grand’ summations about “the Islamic City” or “Global City,” we will work meticulously to observe annotations on power that constructs cities, archives and their afterlives. The emphasis is on the city in South Asia as a particular referent though we will learn to see Cairo, New York, and Istanbul.

• Department: History
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• 4 points

GENERATIVE DESIGN

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Danil Nagy
  Info
• 3 points

MODERN JAPAN

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Isaac C K Tan
  Info
• 4 points

Beyond Human Rights Critique

Rising authoritarianism, climate catastrophe, grinding wars, mass involuntary migration, rampant misinformation and the unsettling possibilities of AI have made the world promised by the human rights project seem a distant or even fanciful prospect. Whatever faith we have in human rights to either secure or remake the world has had good reason to be shaken—or was unfounded from the start. Indeed, since universal rights were proposed there have been skeptics, questioning their abstraction, insufficiency, Eurocentrism, and overreach, among other shortcomings. When it comes to critiquing human rights, is there anything left to be said?

This seminar course considers where the human rights idea and project goes from here. Starting rather than ending with these critiques, we will pursue theoretical and practical attempts to reimagine human rights in their light. How have commentators drawn on liberal, pragmatic, radical democratic, and anticolonial thought to forge a vision of human rights made to the measure of a world in crisis? What are the value and limits of critique in the human rights project? And how do theory and praxis relate in attempts to reconstruct human rights beyond these critiques? In pursuit of answers, we will read political theory, history, philosophy, and ethnography, as well as together assemble an archive of already existing projects to reformulate, resignify, and mobilize human rights in novel directions.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Timothy Wyman-McCarthy
  Info
• 3 points

Cities of Knowledge: Mediterranean Artis

Mediterr. Artistic Intera

With the Muslim expansion into the Mediterranean Basin, the capture of the Iberian Peninsula in 711, and, later on, the conquest of Sicily and South Italy by the very beginning of the 9th century, the Christian Latin West came into direct contacts with the new Muslim Empire. In fact, the new Muslim Empire, which ruled the world from Gibraltar to India, with its capital city of Baghdad served from the mid 8th century as the center of trade network which tied under its rule spaces in Africa, Asia and the South of Europe. Moreover, diplomacy between the Carolingian and the Ottonian courts with potent Muslim powers in Baghdad and Cordoba, wars and conflicts in the age of Crusade, and extensive trade ventures between western Europe and the “Orient” in the High Middle Ages brought a new aesthetic language – a sort of artistic lingua franca – that strongly shaped the art of Latin Christian Europe, Byzantium and that of the Muslim world. In this series of lectures/discussions, the artistic interactions between the three continents will be chronologically discussed, while setting our gaze in each lecture in one of the important urban centers of the Mediterranean. In addition, contact zones, such as important trade centers, and particular frontier regions located on the verges of the Christian and Muslim worlds will be highlighted as the major interactive spaces for artistic exchanges and mobility of people and objects.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Avinoam Shalem
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

BEHAVIORAL FINANCE

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 Neoclassical finance theory seeks to explain financial market valuations and fluctuations in terms of investors having rational expectations and being able to trade without costs. Under these assumptions, markets are efficient in that stocks and other assets are always priced just right. The efficient markets hypothesis (EMH) has had an enormous influence over the past 50 years on the financial industry, from pricing to financial innovations, and on policy makers, from how markets are regulated to how monetary policy is set. But there was very little in prevailing EMH models to suggest the instabilities associated with the Financial Crisis of 2008 and indeed with earlier crises in financial market history. This course seeks to develop a set of tools to build a more robust model of financial markets that can account for a wider range of outcomes. It is based on an ongoing research agenda loosely dubbed “Behavioral Finance”, which seeks to incorporate more realistic assumptions concerning human rationality and market imperfections into finance models. Broadly, we show in this course that limitations of human rationality can lead to bubbles and busts such as the Internet Bubble of the mid-1990s and the Housing Bubble of the mid-2000s; that imperfections of markets — such as the difficulty of short-selling assets — can cause financial markets to undergo sudden and unpredictable crashes; and that agency problems or the problems of institutions can create instabilities in the financial system as recently occurred during the 2008 Financial Crisis. These instabilities in turn can have feedback effects to the performance of the real economy in the form of corporate investments.

• Department: Economics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Harrison Hong
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 43 Info
• 3 points

FOOTPRINT: CARBON & DESIGN

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: David E Benjamin
  Info
• 3 points

Synthetic Organogenesis

The goal of synthetic organogenesis is to use stem cells to reconstitute aspects of embryo development and organ formation in vitro. Examines the molecular basis of human embryogenesis. Introduces synthetic organogenesis as an interdisciplinary field. Students learn to recognize generic molecular mechanisms behind signaling and cell lineage specification. Covers recent advances in applying engineering and contemporary biology to creating organoids and organs on chips using human stem cells.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Mijo Simunovic
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

North Korean History, Culture and Politi

North Korea is widely regarded as a country without a history; as enigmatic as it is isolated. Dispensing with this cliché, this course invites students to engage with North Korean history using a variety of primary and secondary sources. We begin in the medieval period to trace the distinct features of the northern region that made it uniquely receptive to outside ideas. Understanding the north as a frontier zone of experimentation and adaption allows us to examine the attractive power of modernity in the north during the early twentieth century via the influence of Christianity, capitalism and communism. Utilizing texts and materials made in North Korea and internationally, including feature and documentary films, women’s magazines, graphic novels, literary fiction and testimony, the course investigates the conditions within which knowledge about North Korea has been produced, circulated and repressed. Key topics to be explored include the history of Christianity and capitalism in Pyongyang and the northern provinces, communist cadres in the 1930s, the allure of the North in the 1940s, the Korean War and the purges that followed, North Korea’s relations with neighbors and the world, and the high cost its citizens pay for the country’s brutal sanction economy.

• Department: History
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Ruth Barraclough
  Info
• 4 points

1001 Nights, Then and Now

This course explores the origins, performance, reception, adaptation, and translation of
The Thousand and One Nights
, one of the most beloved and inluential story collections in world literature. An authorless collage built up over centuries, it is an “ocean” of narratives that has much to teach us about how stories work, whether they must come to an end, and our apparently bottomless desire to hear them. In addition to reading the tales themselves and studying their themes and devices, we will delve into the very real history of this curious work and its eccentric interpreters, translators, and readers. Finally, we will consider how the Nights puts pressure on ideas of authorship and originality and enlarges our notion of what a book is – and might be.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Yasmine Seale
  Info
• 4 points

MAKING SENSES

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: James Nanasca
  Info
• 3 points

ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS FOR SCIENCE AND EN

Many materials properties and chemical processes are governed by atomic-scale phenomena such as phase transformations, atomic/ionic transport, and chemical reactions. Thanks to progress in computer technology and methodological development, now there exist atomistic simulation approaches for the realistic modeling and quantitative prediction of such properties. Atomistic simulations are therefore becoming increasingly important as a complement for experimental characterization, to provide parameters for meso- and macroscale models, and for the in-silico discovery of entirely new materials. This course aims at providing a comprehensive overview of cutting-edge atomistic modeling techniques that are frequently used both in academic and industrial research and engineering. Participants will develop the ability to interpret results from atomistic simulations and to judge whether a problem can be reliably addressed with simulations. The students will also obtain basic working knowledge in standard simulation software.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexander Urban
  h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS FOR SCIENCE AND EN

Many materials properties and chemical processes are governed by atomic-scale phenomena such as phase transformations, atomic/ionic transport, and chemical reactions. Thanks to progress in computer technology and methodological development, now there exist atomistic simulation approaches for the realistic modeling and quantitative prediction of such properties. Atomistic simulations are therefore becoming increasingly important as a complement for experimental characterization, to provide parameters for meso- and macroscale models, and for the in-silico discovery of entirely new materials. This course aims at providing a comprehensive overview of cutting-edge atomistic modeling techniques that are frequently used both in academic and industrial research and engineering. Participants will develop the ability to interpret results from atomistic simulations and to judge whether a problem can be reliably addressed with simulations. The students will also obtain basic working knowledge in standard simulation software.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Alexander Urban
  h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE UNITED STATES

The United States has a long complex relationship with the international human rights system. Although its founding was grounded in fundamental norms of inalienable rights, equality and freedom, U.S. history is characterized by divisive and sometimes violent disagreements about who counts as human, what is fundamental to the human condition, and which/how rights should be protected. How has this history contributed to our contemporary struggles? Through engaging with issues related to racial justice, criminal justice, reproductive justice, disability justice, gender justice, and indigenous people’s rights, students are asked to consider how certain rights are sites of contestation within the U.S. political system and within U.S. society.

This course offers a multidisciplinary survey of urgent contemporary human rights issues in the United States and seeks to advance students’ skills to examine human rights research and analysis through intersectional approaches. Part of the inquiry of this course is ensuring that students understand existing tensions among several key concepts (1) human rights as a body of international human rights law and institutions; (2) human rights movements using human rights discourse to further their aspirations; (3) constitutional rights in the U.S. as interpreted by U.S. courts that may or may not allude to/be contained in international law; and (4) political rhetoric that use the language of “rights” for political ends.

Coursework will ground current human rights debates in their social, legal, and political contexts. It will outline the different actors in the human rights landscape, focusing on mobilization strategies of human rights movements and the policy reforms that they seek to advance human rights agendas. Students will engage with legal cases and legislation in the United States. By the end of this course, you should expect to be able to:


Understand critical human rights issues in the United States, and apply international and domestic human rights principles and practice to these contemporary human rights debates;

Understand the role of social movements in shaping narratives around human rights;

Analyze (through case studies) the real-life application and effects of human rights policies, as well as how they contribute to the promotion, progressive enforcement, and internalization of international human rights.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Joy L Chia
  Info
• 3 points

SOME STRUCTURES (ADV STRUCTURAL DESIGN)

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Hermona Tamrat
  Info
• 3 points

HISTORY OF MODERN CHINA II

HIST OF MODERN CHINA II

China's search for a new order in the long twentieth century with a focus on political, social and cultural change.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Yingchuan Yang
  Info
• 3 points

THE GREAT RE-USE

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Mireia Luzarraga
  Info
• 3 points

BUBBLE PROBLEMS: AN ARCHEOLOGY OF INFECT

ARCH OF INFECTION & ENVRN

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

Writers on Writing: Fictions, Theories,

This seminar examines how 20th and 21st century writers have staged in their fiction, nonfiction, and multi-genre works ideas about why, how, and for whom they write. What do writers have to say in their essays and public talks about the strategies they use to sit down to their writing, when everything else in the world seems to be requiring their attention elsewhere? How is the figure of the writer and their often-fraught relationship with their work depicted in fictional accounts and in the complex retrospection of memoir and essays? In what ways do writers tether their goals for their work to the needs and experiences of others in communities of which they are a part or that they wish to reach? The course begins with essays and talks that answer the question, “Why I Write” by Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, James Baldwin, Joan Didion, bell hooks, Stephen King as well as philosophical explorations through Helene Cixcous’s
Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing
. These ideas about writers’ motivations will provide launching points for how each of us can begin to theorize our own motives as writers. We will use these ideas as a frame for reading novels that center the figure of the writer including Yōko Ogawa’s
The Memory Police
, Macedonio Fernández’s
The Museum of Eterna’s Novel (The First Good Novel)
, Jenny Offill’s
The Department of Speculation
, and Colm Tóibín’s
The Master
. Through the work of essayists and memoirists, Samulet Delaney, Leslie Jamison, and Maggie Nelson, we will track how writers wrestle with the political, aesthetic, and affective dimensions of their identity as writers. Our final weeks will invite us to explore writerly advice and strategies for getting the work done. We will listen to podcasts featuring historians, such as Drafting the Past, explore revision strategies in John McPhee’s
Draft 4
, consider our writerly routines with excerpts from Maria Popova’s literary blog, The Marginalian and distill ideas about the work of research and writing from talks and essays by writers who have influenced each of us at Columbia and beyond. Students will produce their own autotheory of writing to accompany a piece in any genre that they will be drafting over the course of the semester.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicole Wallack
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

Philanthropy & Just Societies

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Philanthropy & Just Societies
will enable Columbia undergraduate students to learn about the history of philanthropy, to understand best practices and ethical underpinnings, to debate its potential in making more just societies, and to consider what it means to give and receive aid at different scales. Students will have the opportunity to participate directly in philanthropic work.

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

CONFLICT URBANISM

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Laura J Kurgan
  h-index: 7 Info
• 3 points

LAW IN CHINESE HISTORY

An introduction to major issues of concern to legal historians as viewed through the lens of Chinese legal history.  Issues covered include civil and criminal law, formal and informal justice, law and the family, law and the economy, the search for law beyond state-made law and legal codes, and the question of rule of law in China.  Chinese codes and course case records and other primary materials in translation will be analyzed to develop a sense of the legal system in theory and in practice.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Madeleine H Zelin
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 12 Info
• 4 points

Research Training

Research training course. Recommended in preparation for laboratory related research.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• Instructor: Gerard A Ateshian
  Info
• Instructor: Tal Danino
  Wikipedia h-index: 18 Info
• Instructor: X. Edward Guo
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 70 Info
• Instructor: Henry Hess
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 45 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth Hillman
  Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info
• Instructor: Clark T Hung
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 65 Info
• Instructor: Joshua Jacobs
  Wikipedia h-index: 31 Info
• Instructor: Christoph Juchem
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 23 Info
• Instructor: Lance Kam
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 38 Info
• Instructor: Elisa Konofagou
  Wikipedia h-index: 71 Info
• Instructor: Andrew Laine
  Wikipedia h-index: 43 Info
• Instructor: Kam W Leong
  h-index: 126 Info
• Instructor: Helen Lu
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 54 Info
• Instructor: Barclay Morrison
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 42 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth Olson
  h-index: 28 Info
• Instructor: Paul Sajda
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 47 Info
• Instructor: Kenneth Shepard
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia h-index: 64 Info
• Instructor: Shunichi Homma
  h-index: 88 Info
• Instructor: Samuel Sia
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 39 Info
• Instructor: Milan N Stojanovic
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• Instructor: Stavros Thomopoulos
  h-index: 63 Info
• Instructor: John T Vaughan
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• Instructor: Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
  Wikipedia h-index: 132 Info
• Instructor: Qi Wang
  h-index: 24 Info
• Instructor: Nandan L Nerurkar
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• Instructor: Stephen H Tsang
  Wikipedia h-index: 58 Info
• Instructor: Elham Azizi
  h-index: 10 Info
• Instructor: Jose McFaline-Figueroa
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• Instructor: Treena L Arinzeh
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• Instructor: Sanja Vickovic
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• Instructor: Santiago Correa
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• Instructor: Kaveri A Thakoor
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• Instructor: Yvon Woappi
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• Instructor: Yasmine El-Shamayleh
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Research Training

Research training course. Recommended in preparation for laboratory related research.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• Instructor: Xuan Di
  h-index: 15 Info
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Research Training

Research training course. Recommended in preparation for laboratory related research.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• Instructor: Scott Banta
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 36 Info
• Instructor: Kyle Bishop
  h-index: 42 Info
• Instructor: Christopher M Boyce
  h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Juliana Silva Alves Carneiro
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• Instructor: Christopher S Chen
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• Instructor: Jingguang Chen
  Wikipedia h-index: 89 Info
• Instructor: Christopher J Durning
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Daniel Esposito
  h-index: 22 Info
• Instructor: Oleg Gang
  h-index: 45 Info
• Instructor: Jingyue Ju
  h-index: 77 Info
• Instructor: Sanat Kumar
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 79 Info
• Instructor: Lauren E Marbella
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• Instructor: Vivian F McNeill
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• Instructor: Sakul Ratanalert
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• Instructor: Allie Obermeyer
  h-index: 16 Info
• Instructor: Ben O'Shaughnessy
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Neil D Dolinski
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• Instructor: Mijo Simunovic
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Dan Steingart
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 36 Info
• Instructor: Alexander Urban
  h-index: 24 Info
• Instructor: Venkat Venkatasubramanian
  h-index: 58 Info
• Instructor: Alan West
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 48 Info
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