MASTERS PROJECT II

• Department: Journalism
• Instructor: Gisela M Salim Peyer
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• Instructor: Maryellen Schoonmaker
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• Instructor: Deborah Sontag
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• Instructor: Paula Span
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• Instructor: Charles Stevens
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• Instructor: Kelly A Whiteside
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• Instructor: Nina Alvarez
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• Instructor: Brianna Holt
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• Instructor: Ken Bachor
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• Instructor: Edward G Deitch
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• Instructor: Lindsay Gellman
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• Instructor: Noah Kirsch
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• Instructor: Adam Thompson
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• 5 points

MASTERS PROJECT II

Audio Master's Project II

• Department: Journalism
• Instructor: Tracie Hunte
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• 5 points

MASTERS PROJECT II

Photo Master's Project II

• Department: Journalism
• Instructor: Alan Chin
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• 5 points

MASTERS PROJECT II

• Department: Journalism
• Instructor: Tami Luhby
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• 5 points

MASTERS PROJECT II

Stabile Master's Project II

• Department: Journalism
• Instructor: Sarah E Carr
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• Instructor: Ellen P Gabler
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• Instructor: Derek R Kravitz
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• Instructor: Michael Grabell
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• 5 points

MASTERS PROJECT II

• Department: Journalism
• Instructor: Dorian R Geiger
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• 5 points

MASTERS PROJECT II

Stabile Master's Project II

• Department: Journalism
• Instructor: Steven Eder
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• Instructor: Benjamin P Protess
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• Instructor: Reed V Abelson
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• Instructor: Scott J Higham
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• Instructor: Jacob B Pearson
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• Instructor: Joe Hong
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• Instructor: Aida Alami
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• Instructor: Howard French
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• Instructor: Joanne Faryon
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• 5 points

MASTERS PROJECT II

• Department: Journalism
• Instructor: Joanne Faryon
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• 5 points

MOVEMENT FOR ACTORS

A journey through movement, connecting the basic principles of movement techniques, such as Ballet, Horton, Graham, Jazz, and Musical Theatre to apply to an actor's body and the physical creation of a character.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• M 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Will Rhem Jr
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• 1.5 points

QUANTUM FIELD THEORY I

Lagrangian density formalism of Lorentz scalar, Dirac and Weyl spinor, and vector gauge fields. Action variations, symmetries, conservation laws. Canonical quantization, Fock space. Interacting local fields, temporal evolution. Wicks theorem, propagators, and vertex functions, Feynman rules and diagrams. Scattering S matrix examples with tree level amplitudes. Path quantization. 1-loop intro to renormalization.

• Department: Physics
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Frederik Denef
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 36 Info
• 4.5 points

CAPSTONE: Conflict Analysis Models

Conflict analysis is central to understanding the context and content of any conflict. It is also critical for the person doing the conflict analysis to have a good understanding of who they are as a conflict resolution practitioner, including the frames with which they view the conflict analysis. Our worldviews, assumptions, values, and beliefs shape how we frame and create meaning from conflicts that we choose to examine, and how we understand the dynamics of those conflicts. Therefore, to conduct an impartial analysis of any conflict, and add value for the stakeholders involved, self-awareness is crucial.

This course is the foundation for developing the necessary mindset for conflict analysis. We want you to be able to enter any situation and ask the question, “What is really going on here?” and to use that inquiry to uncover underlying needs, issues, and assumptions. In this course, in addition to increasing your self-awareness as a conflict resolution practitioner, you will explore and become familiar with diverse conflict analysis approaches and tools, beginning with creating a conflict map to identify the actors, dynamics, and structures that are creating, escalating, and perpetuating the conflict. You will work with a variety of conflict analysis tools to examine the stakeholder perspectives and will be asked to identify issues that surfaced as a result of this analysis. You will define goals for your inquiry that correspond to the conflict issues you have identified and coalesce thematically around a specific purpose of appropriate scope for your capstone study. You will utilize the Coordinated Management of Meaning and Case Study frameworks to engage in desk-based qualitative inquiry using secondary sources. You will put theory into practice by interpreting the secondary data through the lens of applicable theory. The data will be further analyzed using CMM models and conflict analysis tools as a means of surfacing several needs to be addressed in your intervention design (in the next capstone course).

This course is the first of three (3) required courses of the capstone sequence.
In 6050, students will complete conflict analysis for their capstone case study.
In 6250, students will design an intervention that addresses the needs identified in their earlier analysis. In 6350, students will consider sustainability, as well as monitoring and evaluation strategies for their proposed intervention.

• Department: Negotiation & Conflict Resolution
• S 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Courtney A Chicvak
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• 3 points

RED ELECTIVE INTERNSHIP

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Rebecca A Andersen Polimeda
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• 1.5 points

COLLABORATION INTENSIVE

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: E. C Parker
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• 0 points

Proseminar in Religion II

The Proseminar in Religion is designed to support PhD students within the department as they work on various aspects of professional development. Meeting three times per semester, the sessions will focus on both academic and non-academic career paths, coordinated by a member of the faculty and with guest speakers from both within and beyond the department. The emphasis will be on concrete outputs and skills training. The proseminar will require preparation and active participation from enrolled students, including background reading and writing assignments connected to the monthly topic. After each session focused on a piece of writing (fellowship applications; CVs and cover letters; publishing), students should come away from the proseminar with strong drafts of the relevant texts.
 

The proseminar is required for all ABD students in year 5 or 6 and can be taken sequentially or not. ABD students are encouraged to speak about the timing of enrollment with the DGS and their dissertation sponsor.

• Department: Religion
• W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew Engelke
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia h-index: 25 Info
• 1 points

PUBLIC HEALTH INTERVENTIONS

The 
Public
Health Interventions studio 
provides an integrated approach to the theory and practice of designing, implementing, and evaluating interventions to improve health in the context of a complex real world. The studio will expose students to major theories of public health intervention, how to integrate understanding of these theories in the planning and evaluation of public health interventions and programs, and how these interventions and programs can be effective given the complexity of social and health systems. The studio introduces frameworks to address the complexity inherent in improving the health and quality of life of individuals and populations. 

 

Individual concentrations in the studio explore multiple dimensions of how interventions can improve health and quality of life, including how: (a) individuals’ interpretations of and interactions with the social environment affect their behaviors and well-being; (b) interventions and programs can be designed to improve knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and achieve population impact – and evaluate if, in fact, they do have impact; and (c) systems thinking can be used as a tool to evaluate and understand the complex systems that interact to affect health and quality of life. Students will complete this studio with a solid understanding of the inter-relationship among theory, program planning, implementation and evaluation, and with the skills to apply these insights to the practice of service delivery, policy advocacy, and research. 

 

This studio is being offered via face-to-face instruction, supplemented with asynchronous work for the Fall 2022 semester. Asynchronous content consists of elements such as recorded lectures accessed through CourseWorks and interactive modules. Students will be provided with a timeframe within which the asynchronous content must be completed. Live sessions will be offered on the Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC). Whether content will be asynchronous or live is indicated throughout the syllabus. All times and due dates listed are in Eastern Daylight Time. Students are expected to complete the readings, surveys, labs, and watch recorded lectures by the stated deadlines.

• Department: Public Health
• W 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• 1.5-4 points

GLOBAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVES

GLOBAL & DEVELOPMENTAL PE

The
Global and Developmental Perspectives
studio consolidates and extends students' analysis of the field of public health through the exploration of global and developmental perspectives on challenges and strategies to address them. Lifecourse research recognizes that adverse exposures experienced by individuals and populations, both biological and social, during critical developmental periods (including prenatal, childhood, and adolescence) have specific, cumulative, and often long-standing implications for health which may not manifest until many years later.

The concept of globalization and its interconnected and interdependent forces and relations are used as the basis for considering the increasingly global nature of public health practice and its politics regarding both the nature of health risk and inequity and the capacities to address these. Globalization and its causal pathways linked to patterns of risk, illness, injury and mortality will be explored; and also the effects of colonization, decolonization and the Cold War, and neoliberal reforms and globalization in creating conditions that exposed the globe to intense migration, trade and ecological shifts that have intensified the risks of old and new diseases and exacerbated public health disparities. Developmental and global perspectives are crucial to addressing primary health care, and disease-specific approaches include maternal child health (MCH), communicable disease (CD), and non-communicable disease, and injury (NCDI), the consideration of which is woven into the studio schedule. 

Concentration: Lifecourse

The
Lifecourse
concentration is the first of the two concentrations in this studio. The concentration contains 5 classes, including 2 demography-focused units. In this concentration, students will learn how lifecourse approaches have emerged in public health, how health varies within and across the stages of the lifecourse and across societies shaped both by biological and social pathways that shape our identities and health, how demographic data is collected and spans the lifecourse, and how an understanding of this variation improves public health policies and programs, as well as identifies targets for interventions. 

The concentration emphasizes the importance of historical context and time (e.g. socioeconomic, cultural) in shaping health across the lifecourse. The approach particularly focuses on individuals and the connections between

• Department: Public Health
• R 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• 1.5 points

SECOND YEAR DOCTORAL PROPOSAL SEMINAR

2ND YR DOCTORAL PROPOSAL

Prerequisites: 2ND YEAR PHD STATUS IN GOOD STANDING Corequisites: ANTH G6205 Within this seminar, one will master the art of research design and proposal writing, with special emphasis on the skills involved in writing a dissertation prospectus and research proposals that target a range of external funding sources. Foci include: bibliography development; how one crafts and defends a research problem; the parameters of human subjects research - certification; and the key components of grant proposal design. Required of, and limited to, all Second Year PHD anthropology students.

• Department: Anthropology
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Paige West
  CULPA: 41 h-index: 23 Info
• 4 points

Quantum Many Body Physics

Course Summary: the quantum many-body problem and its the conceptual formulation in terms of functional integrals, the basics of perturbative calculations at both zero and non-zero temperature, mean field theory and its interpretation as a saddle point of a functional integral, fluctuations including collective modes, the field theory of linear response and transport calculations and the new features associated with nonequilibrium physics.

• Department: Physics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Andrew Millis
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 99 Info
• 4.5 points

HEALTH SYSTEMS

The
Health Systems studio
contains three concentrations which, taken together, provide an overview of health systems in the United States and around the world.

 

In
Health Economics
, students will look at health from an economic perspective, which offers unique insights into the determinants of health and the functioning of health systems. Students will learn about such concepts as scarcity, opportunity cost, individual choice, decentralization, efficiency and quality, externalities and public goods. The concentration will prepare students to understand the varied components of health care costs, major economic theories of health insurance, models of investment in health, and issues of health behavior and choice.

 

In
Comparative Health Systems
, students will learn about the historical foundations of the health care systems in Germany, England, Canada, and Australia and how those health care systems function today, with a focus on financing, coverage, population-level health outcomes and health disparities. We will examine similarities and differences across these cases studies and how they compare to the United States. We will also discuss how lessons learned from these countries may be relevant to health policy debates in the United States.

In
U.S. Public Health and Health Care Systems
, students will learn about the historical foundations of the U.S health care system. How did the system evolve?  How is it organized? Who pays the health care bill? What role does government play (and how do different levels of government share these tasks)? What best explains the politics of health reform? How has the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, enacted in March 2010, impacted the uninsured, the effort to contain health care costs, and the effort to improve the quality and efficiency of the American health care system?  What are the pros and cons of the nation’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic?  How has the nation responded to racial and other disparities in health care access and quality?  What are the key issues on the nation’s long-term care policy agenda?  What are the key market-driven health care trends and how are they changing the health system?

• Department: Public Health
• W 8:10 p.m.-9:10 p.m.
• 2.5 points

Quantum Optics: Atoms and Photons

Quantum optics, including: quantiziation of the electromagnetic field, open quantum systems, light-matter interaction, coherent control, collective phenomena, measurement theory and decoherence, and applications in quantum information science.

• Department: Physics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ana Asenjo Garcia
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• 3 points

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT

ENVIRON IMPACT ASSESSMENT

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Graham L Trelstad
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• 3 points

LANGUAGE AND ITS LIMITS

This course examines
language and its limits
from the perspective of practice and theory, drawing on linguistic and sociocultural anthropology, semiotics, and deaf and disability studies. The first weeks focus on foundational texts and frameworks for language, semiotics, and communication, paying attention to the placement, and theorization, of boundaries that separate language from not-language and to the work such boundaries (are intended to) do. The second part of the course explores materials where the subjects and objects of study approach or even cross those boundaries, asking what kinds of ethical, intellectual, and relational demands these materials make in both social and analytic contexts. Focal topics may include linguistic relativity; semiotics; modality (signed, spoken, written languages); disability; trauma and colonialism; human-nonhuman communication; and gender. Please email for instructor permission.

• Department: Anthropology
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth M Green
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• 3 points

ON SPATIAL EXCLUSN & PLAN

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Hiba Bou Akar
  h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

TPC NEUROSCI & DEEP LEARN

Comp. w. Brain Cir of MO

Selected advanced topics in neuroscience and deep learning. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6070 to 6079.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• M 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Aurel A Lazar
  h-index: 53 Info
• 3 points

LAW AND DEVELOPMENT

• Department: Law
• Instructor: Katharina Pistor
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• 3 points

INTEGR OF SCI & PRACT II

• Department: Public Health
• W 10 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• 1.5 points

INTEGR OF SCI & PRACT II

• Department: Public Health
• W 10 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• W 4 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• W 10 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• 1.5 points

INTEGR OF SCI & PRACT II

• Department: Public Health
• W 10 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• 1.5 points

INTEGR OF SCI & PRACT II

• Department: Public Health
• W 10 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• 1.5 points

INTEGR OF SCI & PRACT II

• Department: Public Health
• W 10 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• 1.5 points

INTEGR OF SCI & PRACT II

• Department: Public Health
• W 10 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• 1.5 points

INTEGR OF SCI & PRACT II

• Department: Public Health
• W 10 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• 1.5 points

INTEGR OF SCI & PRACT II

• Department: Public Health
• W 10 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• W 4 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• W 8:30 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
• W 4 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• 1.5 points

INTEGR OF SCI & PRACT II

• Department: Public Health
• W 4 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• W 10 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• W 4 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• 1.5 points

INTEGR OF SCI & PRACT II

• Department: Public Health
• W 4 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• 1.5 points

INTEGR OF SCI & PRACT II

• Department: Public Health
• W 4 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• 1.5 points

INTEGR OF SCI & PRACT II

• Department: Public Health
• W 4 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• W 8:30 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
• W 10 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• 1.5 points

INTEGRATION OF SCIENCE AND PRACTICE II

INTEGRAT OF SCI & PRACT I

The different studios in the Mailman Core teach a set of foundational perspectives, knowledge, and skills. But the practice of public health requires applying this education in a context characterized by uncertainty, risk, competing interests, and conflicting values. In the fall semester, Integration of Science and Practice (ISP) involved contained cases where the stories and evidence were organized and arranged for us. Often the decision-points were relatively unambiguous. This spring we will expand our reach, taking on cases in a way that looks more like the real world. We will start with a complex case specifically selected to integrate key concepts from the Core Semester. You will write a policy memo by focusing in on an issue within the case that you find compelling. The policy memo will serve as a model for you to then construct your own cases in small groups and take responsibility for teaching an ISP session devoted to your case. This team-based approach to problem-solving will also allow you to bring the concepts you explore in Leadership and Development to bear in ISP. These student-led cases, drawing on a range of skills and tools, represent the culmination of the Core.

• Department: Public Health
• W 6:40 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 1.5 points

Introduction to Neural Networks and Deep

Neural Networks&Deep Lear

This seminar will introduce both the concepts and practical implementation in PyTorch of neural networks and deep learning, with a focus on general principles and examples from vision.

• Department: Psychology
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Nikolaus Kriegeskorte
  h-index: 56 Info
• 3 points

Personal Leadership in Public Health

PERSONAL LEADERSHIP IN P

• Department: Public Health
• W 1 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
• W 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• 1.5 points

Personal Leadership in Public Health

PERSONAL LEADERSHIP IN P

• Department: Public Health
• W 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• W 1 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
• 1.5 points

Personal Leadership in Public Health

PERSONAL LEADERSHIP IN P

• Department: Public Health
• W 1 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
• W 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• W 1 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
• 1.5 points

Personal Leadership in Public Health

PERSONAL LEADERSHIP IN P

• Department: Public Health
• W 1 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
• W 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• W 1 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
• 1.5 points

Personal Leadership in Public Health

PERSONAL LEADERSHIP IN P

• Department: Public Health
• W 1 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
• 1.5 points

Personal Leadership in Public Health

PERSONAL LEADERSHIP IN P

• Department: Public Health
• W 1 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
• W 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• 1.5 points

Personal Leadership in Public Health

PERSONAL LEADERSHIP IN P

• Department: Public Health
• W 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• W 1 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
• W 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• W 1 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
• W 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• W 1 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
• W 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• 1.5 points

Personal Leadership in Public Health

PERSONAL LEADERSHIP IN P

• Department: Public Health
• W 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• 1.5 points

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS I

Prerequisites: PHYS E6081 or the instructors permission. Semiclassical and quantum mechanical electron dynamics and conduction; dielectric properties of insulators; semiconductors; defects; magnetism; superconductivity; low-dimensional structures; soft matter.

• Department: Physics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Raquel Quieroz
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• 3 points

PERSONAL LEADERSHIP IN PUBLIC HEALTH

The goal of the course is to provide students with an overview of some of the fundamental principles and practice of leadership as it applies to a career in public health, with a specific concentration on personal leadership development.  Students will focus on four critical competencies of personal leadership: 1) self-awareness, 2) power, 3) leading through others, and 4) negotiating effectively (Figure below).  Students will also critically examine traditional notions of leadership, exploring concepts of ‘who gets to lead?’, the inequities that result and the diversity of effective leadership roles and styles.  With this understanding, students will develop and improve their ability 1) to lead individuals and teams in a wide range of settings, including research centers and domestic as well as international public health organizations, 2) to perform more effectively as both team members and individual contributors to organizations and communities; 3) to promote their own leadership plan and credo.

Given its weight, it is important to stress that developing a leadership credo means more than coming up with a snappy one liner or finding just the right quote to capture your leadership style.  It is an opportunity to develop an authentic leadership stance – a set of beliefs and/or values that you stand for as a leader and that you expect from others who you will lead, whether as the head of an organization or a member of a team, to support and eventually allow them to follow you.  Your role is to move individuals towards success in meeting specific goals and overcoming certain challenges.  Developing your credo will enable you to verbalize how you will achieve this through an authentic presentation of yourself. This course aims at ensuring you are comfortable, capable and confident in the authenticity of You as a leader.

• Department: Public Health
• R 6:40 p.m.-7:40 p.m.
• 1.5 points

FOOD SYSTEMS AND THE HEALTH OF THE PUBLI

FOOD SYST & HLTH OF THE P

The course will provide an overview of the science, policy, politics, and economics of food systems as a critical element of public health. The course will have a primary focus on the food system in the United States, but will include a global perspective.  Students will learn and apply the fundamentals of public health scientific research methods and theoretical approaches to assessing the food landscape though a public health lens. In addition, the course will cover how diet – at first glance a matter of individual choice – is determined by an interconnected system of socio-economic-environmental influences, and is influenced by a multitude of stakeholders engaged in policymaking processes.

• Department: Public Health
• F 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Anne Paxton
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• 3 points

QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS

The course is designed to introduce PhD students in Sociology to the basic techniques for collecting, interpreting, analyzing, and reporting interview and observational data. The readings and practical exercises we will do together are designed to expand your technical skillset, inspire your thinking, to show you the importance of working collaboratively with intellectual peers, and to give you experiential knowledge of various kinds of fieldwork.

Mostly, though, students will learn how to conduct indictive field-based analyses. There are many versions of this model, including Florian Znaniecki’s “analytic induction,” Barney Glaser and Anselm Straus’ “grounded theory,” John Stuart Mill’s system of inductive logic, the Bayesian approach to inference in statistics, and much of what computationally-intensive researchers refer to as data mining. This course will expose students to ways of thinking about their research shared by many of these different inductive perspectives. Remember, though, that all of these formulations of analytic work are ideal types. The actual field, and actual field workers, are often far more complex.

For that reason, this course focuses not merely on theory, but also, and fundamentally, on practice. While some skills like producing a code book or formulating a hypothesis can be developed through reading and reflection, the field demands more nuanced skillsets that can only be attained by trial and error. How do you get an honest answer to a painful or embarrassing question? How do we know that the researcher interviewed enough people? Or spent enough time in the field? Or asked the right questions? Or did not distort the truth? My hope is that by the end of class you will have done enough fieldwork to have arrived at a good set of answers, and to begin developing the ability to communicate your answers to others.

A note on intellectual parentage: The particular approach to training in this course is based on a qualitative bootcamp developed by Mario Small for Harvard’s Ph.d cohorts. Other methods courses focus on particular technical skills rather than analytic frames, or merely on empirical work itself, rather than secondary literature on method. This is one way to think through analytic training. We will try it out together.

• Department: Sociology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Tey Meadow
  h-index: 8 Info
• 4 points

CLASSICAL FIELDS & WAVES

Prerequisites: PHYS G6092. This course will study the classical field theories used in electromagnetism, fluid dynamics, plasma physics, and elastic solid dynamics. General field theoretic concepts will be discussed, including the action, symmetries, conservation laws, and dissipation. In addition, classical field equations will be analyzed from the viewpoint of macroscopic averaging and small-parameter expansions of the fundamental microscopic dynamics. The course will also investigate the production and propagation of linear and nonlinear waves; with topics including linearized small-amplitude waves, ordinary and extraordinary waves, waves in a plasma, surface waves, nonlinear optics, wave-wave mixing, solitons, shock waves, and turbulence.

• Department: Physics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Andrei Beloborodov
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• 4.5 points

INTRO TO COMP LIT & SOC-GRAD

Please note: This course is required for ICLS graduate students, and priority will be given to these students. Generally the course fills with ICLS students each semester. Students MAY NOT register themselves for this course. Contact the ICLS office for more information at icls.columbia@gmail.com. This course was formerly numbered as G4900. This course introduces beginning graduate students to the changing conceptions in the comparative study of literatures and societies, paying special attention to the range of interdisciplinary methods in comparative scholarship. Students are expected to have preliminary familiarity with the discipline in which they wish to do their doctoral work. Our objective is to broaden the theoretical foundation of comparative studies to negotiate a conversation between literary studies and social sciences. Weekly readings are devoted to intellectual inquiries that demonstrate strategies of research, analysis, and argumentation from a multiplicity of disciplines and fields, such as anthropology, history, literary criticism, architecture, political theory, philosophy, art history, and media studies. Whenever possible, we will invite faculty from the above disciplines and fields to visit our class and share their perspectives on assigned readings. Students are encouraged to take advantage of these opportunities and explore fields and disciplines outside their primary focus of study and specific discipline.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Stathis Gourgouris
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Managerial Statistics

• Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
• R 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• TR 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Alessandro Arlotto
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• 1.5 points