Database Design, Management, and Securit
Database Design Mgmt & Se
MIA and MPA Policy Skills II Core.
This advanced course provides a comprehensive introduction to the principles and practices of effective database design, management, and security. Students will gain a strong foundation in information organization, data storage, and database administration, with attention to key topics such as data warehousing, governance, security, privacy, and alternative database models.
The course emphasizes the relational database model and includes practical instruction in Structured Query Language (SQL), data modeling, and integrity constraints. Students will learn to design, build, and manage databases while addressing contemporary issues in security and privacy. Prior experience with basic programming and data structures is recommended.
- Department: Data Science for Policy
- M 7:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
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Instructor:
Poranee Kingpetcharat
Info - 1.5 points
Porous Bodies
POROUS BODIES
How are bodies in the world? How is the world in bodies? Building from these deceptively simple questions, ours will be an interdisciplinary reading seminar on how bodies (mostly human, but sometimes nonhuman) are made and remade in and through their environments and via their relationships to the material world. Privileging porosity as a rubric, we consider the ever-permeable boundaries between bodies and the other beings (be they viral, chemical, microbial or otherwise) with which they become entangled. Alongside the monographs under study, we will tackle article-length engagements with theories of new feminist/queer materialisms, decolonial and critical science studies. Further, a key aim of this course is to provide students the opportunity to hone some of the most important skills we have in our toolbox as academics, relative to our teaching, our public voice/s as critics, and to our own research.
- Department: Anthropology
- R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Vanessa L Agard-Jones
CULPA: 3 Info - 3 points
Data Collection for Evaluation, Policy,
MIA and MPA Policy Skills II Core. Pre-req: Quant I (SIPA IA6500).
Research is an important part of the policy process: it can inform the development of programs and policies so they are responsive to community needs, reveal the impacts of these programs and policies, and help us better understand populations or social phenomena. This half-semester course serves as an introduction to how to ethically collect data for smaller research projects, with an in-depth look at focus groups and surveys as data collection tools. We will also learn about issues related to measurement and sampling. Students will create their own focus group protocol and short survey instrument designed to answer a research question of interest to them.
- Department: Data Science for Policy
- T 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rachel Swaner
Info - 1.5 points
North Korea: State, Society, Diplomacy,
North Korea: State & Stra
This seminar offers an in-depth, interdisciplinary examination of North Korea’s political system, society, foreign policy, and security strategy. Students will critically assess how outside powers influenced Korea’s division, the internal dynamics that shaped the Kim regime’s rise, and how state institutions continue to evolve. Drawing from political science, history, firsthand accounts, and policy documents, the course equips students to challenge common misperceptions and engage analytically with key questions surrounding North Korea’s economy, propaganda, human rights, gender dynamics, and nuclear posture.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Jonathan Corrado
Info - 3 points
R For Public Policy
MIA and MPA Policy Skills II Core.
This 7-week mini-course leads the students into the R world, helps them master the basics, and establishes a platform for future self-study. The course offers students basic programming knowledge and effective data analysis skills in R in the context of public policy-making and policy evaluation. Students will learn how to install R and RStudio, understand and use R data objects, and become familiar with base R and several statistical and graphing packages. The course will also emphasize use cases for R in public policy domains, focusing on cleaning, exploring, and analyzing data.
- Department: Data Science for Policy
- W 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mike Q Zhu
Info - 1.5 points
ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY
Local and global fields, group cohomology, local class field theory, global class field theory and applications.
- Department: Mathematics
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michael Harris
CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info - 4.5 points
Introduction to Infographics and Data Vi
Intro to Data Visualizati
MIA and MPA Policy Skills II Core.
This course introduces students to the principles and practices of data visualization as a powerful tool for interpreting and communicating complex information. As large datasets become increasingly available across sectors, the ability to transform raw data into clear, compelling visuals is essential for insight and decision-making.
Students will learn to select appropriate visualization types, apply design techniques that balance form and function, and tell analytic stories with clarity and impact. Through hands-on assignments and guided case studies, the course builds practical skills in visualizing data to uncover patterns, reveal trends, and engage diverse audiences.
- Department: Data Science for Policy
- W 7:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
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Instructor:
Douglas Williamson
Info - 1.5 points
Artificial Intelligence in Public Policy
Artificial Intel in Publi
MIA and MPA Policy Skills II Core. Pre-req: Computing in Context (DSPC IA6000).
This course introduces students to the fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence (AI), its applications in public policy, and its implications for the future of governance. Students will gain a foundational understanding of AI, including the mathematical and programming principles behind common machine learning algorithms used for prediction, classification, and clustering. The course explores the practical applications of AI across various sectors, including business, non-profits, and government, highlighting its transformative potential. In the final segment, students will apply their knowledge to design AI solutions for public policy challenges. Through a "Concept to Implementation" process, student groups will identify problems, navigate data and algorithmic considerations, and propose actionable AI-driven solutions.
- Department: Data Science for Policy
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Instructor:
Sameer R Maskey
Info - 1.5 points
OTHER FRONTIERS IN STAGE MANAGEMENT
OTHER FRONTIERS: INTL
TBD
- Department: Theatre Arts
- W 9:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Fredric Hanson
Info - 1.5 points
Building AI Tools with Large Language Mo
MIA and MPA Policy Skills II Core. Pre-reqs: Working Python knowledge OR Python for Public Policy (SIPA IA6650) OR Intro to Text Analysis in Python (SIPA IA6655).
In the past two years, Large Language Models (LLMs) built using transformer frameworks have emerged as the fastest-growing area of research and investment in AI/machine learning. Recent releases of chatbots such as ChatGPT (OpenAI), Bing (Microsoft), and Bard (Google) quickly reached hundreds of millions of users and have become the face of artificial intelligence for consumers. There has also been an explosion in the number of applications that depend on LLMs for a variety of more specialized tasks. Recent models have shown impressive performance on both canonical machine learning tasks and for everyday use, yet are in many ways poorly understood and, in some cases, exhibit unexpected and potentially harmful behavior.
Policymakers, analysts, and non-profit and industry leaders need an understanding of these models to take advantage of the opportunities they present and to mitigate potential harms. This course provides an overview of Large Language Models and gives students hands-on experience with various ways of interacting with LLMs. Students will learn to interpret model evaluation metrics, and we will discuss safety and ethics in applied contexts.
- Department: Data Science for Policy
- W 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mike Q Zhu
Info - 1.5 points
THE LONG HISTORY OF ARCH TECHNOLOGY
LONG HIST OF ARCH TECHNOL
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lucia Allais
Info - 3 points
Data Analysis for Inclusive Policy
Data Analysis-Inclusive P
MIA and MPA Policy Skills II Core. Pre-req: Quant I (SIPA IA6500)
. Data is not neutral. How it is collected, categorized, and analyzed is shaped by historical, political, economic, and social forces, often reinforcing existing injustices. While policy professionals are trained in quantitative methods, there is comparatively less focus on interrogating how data itself is produced, how existing frameworks exclude certain populations, and how data can be used to either reinforce or challenge inequities.
This course introduces students to inclusive and decolonial approaches to working with data for policy research and advocacy, emphasizing critical engagement with its lifecycle—from collection to analysis to dissemination. Students will examine how statistical tools, methods, and available data can be utilized to either reinforce or dismantle barriers to opportunity and address structural injustices. Through weekly discussions, hands-on coding exercises, and a research or advocacy project sketch, students will examine a range of data sources and methodologies while developing strategies for ethical, community-centered data practices.
- Department: Data Science for Policy
- T 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Harold B Stolper
Info - 1.5 points
Ex. Legal Practice
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Gerald Lebovits
h-index: 10 Info -
Instructor:
Mark Nielsen
Info - 2-3 points
TOPICS DATA-DRIVEN ANAL & COMP
Advanced Deep Learning
Selected advanced topics in data-driven analysis and computation. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6690 to 6699.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- W 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Zoran Kostic
CULPA: 1 h-index: 24 Info - 3 points
TOPICS DATA-DRIVEN ANAL & COMP
Deep Learning on the Edge
Selected advanced topics in data-driven analysis and computation. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6690 to 6699.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Zoran Kostic
CULPA: 1 h-index: 24 Info - 3 points
MAGMATISM & VOLCANISM
Prerequisites: One year each of Chemistry, Physics, Calculus and Earth Sciences Overview This course explores the origin of magmas and their subsequent movements; their ascent, stalling and eruption; their transport of heat and mass through the earth; their formation of crust and creation of volcanoes. The course will explore magmatism itself - its chemical and physical underpinnings - and also develop magmatic tools used to understand other earth processes. Topics will be focused around Grand Questions. Example questions include: What do magmas tell us about the thermal structure of the earth? Why do magmas store and stall where they do? What drives the largest eruptions on Earth? Does continental extension drive melting or melting drive extension? Questions will evolve to reflect the state of the field and student interest. The course is designed to serve as an accessible breadth course for Earth Science graduate students in any discipline.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Terry A Plank
CULPA: 6
Wikipedia
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- 3 points
RE FINANCE & DEVELOPMENT
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
- 3 points
INVESTIGATIVE TECHNIQUES
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 1 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Amanda Trienens
Info - 3 points
Advanced Spoken Language Processing
ADV SPOKEN LANG PROC
Applications of spoken language processing, including text-to-speech and dialogue systems. Analysis of speech and text, including entrainment, empathy, personality, emotion, humor, sarcasm, deception, trust, radicalization, and charisma.
- Department: Computer Science
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Julia Hirschberg
CULPA: 8
h-index: 77
Info
- 3 points
ARCHITECTURAL FINISHES
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- F 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mary Jablonski
Info - 3 points
The Chinese Avant-Garde: A Political His
CHINESE AVANT-GARDE
This course examines the rise and demise of the Chinese Revolution from the unique angles provided by avant-garde writers, artists, designers, graphic novelists, filmmakers, playwrights, and theatre directors in modern China.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lydia Liu
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
STOCHASTIC MODELING II
Continuation of IEOR E6711, covering further topics in stochastic modeling in the context of queueing, reliability, manufacturing, insurance risk, financial engineering, and other engineering applications. Topics from among generalized semi-Markov processes; processes with a non-discrete state space; point processes; stochastic comparisons; martingales; introduction to stochastic calculus.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
David D Yao
CULPA: 5
Info
- 4.5 points
RISK & INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT
RISK & INVESTMENT MGMT
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ryan J Severino
Info - 1.5 points
EXPERIMENTAL PRESERVATION
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- W 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jorge Otero-Pailos
Wikipedia h-index: 12 Info - 3 points
COMPARATIVE HERITAGE MGT
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- TR 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
- 3 points
BAYESIAN MOD MACHINE LEARNING
Basic statistics and machine learning strongly recommended. Bayesian approaches to machine learning. Topics include mixed-membership models, latent factor models, Bayesian nonparametric methods, probit classification, hidden Markov models, Gaussian mixture models, model learning with mean-field variational inference, scalable inference for Big Data. Applications include image processing, topic modeling, collaborative filtering and recommendation systems.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
John W Paisley
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
RE PRIVATE EQUITY
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- R 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jiho Lee
Info - 1.5 points
Health Promotion: Theory, Research, and
HLTH PRMTION: THRY, RSRCH
Understanding why people behave the way they do, what makes them change their behavior, and how these factors relate to health status and quality of life is critically important for public health professionals. The evidence for the role of individual behavior in all the major health problems throughout the world is indisputable. Equally indisputable is the complex array of factors that combine to produce behavior and deter behavior change. The purpose of this course is to build upon the material presented in the Core in order for students to be able to use individual, interpersonal, organizational and community level public health theories to explain and change health behavior.
- Department: Sociomedical Sciences
- R 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
- T 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
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Instructor:
Jane Bogart
Info -
Instructor:
Christian Gloria
Info - 3 points
Quantum Sensing Theory
QUANTUM SENSING THEORY
Introduction to quantum detection and estimation theory and its applications to quantum communications, quantum radar, quantum metrology, and quantum tomography. Background on quantum mechanics, quantum detection, composite quantum systems, Gaussian states, and quantum estimation.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- F 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Xiaodong Wang
CULPA: 15 Info - 3 points
COMPUTATIONAL IMAGING
Computational imaging uses a combination of novel imaging optics and a computational module to produce new forms of visual information. Survey of the state-of-the-art in computational imaging. Review of recent papers on omnidirectional and panoramic imaging, catadioptric imaging, high dynamic range imaging, mosaicing and superresolution. Classes are seminars with the instructor, guest speakers, and students presenting papers and discussing them.
- Department: Computer Science
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Shree K Nayar
CULPA: 12
Wikipedia
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- 3 points
ADV CASE STUDIES IN RE ANALYS
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- W 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Christopher W Munsell
Info - 3 points
ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN BUYING REAL ESTATE A
BUYING RE ASSETS
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 3:15 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Masood A Bhatti
Info - 1.5 points
Shock and Change: Strategic Surprises in
Strat Surprises: ME War P
A strategic surprise can be defined as a seemingly abrupt change during warfare or bilateral relations that is unexpected in timing, location, and scope. Traditionally, this term has been applied within the framework of decision-making and policy formulation during conflicts. However, a broader perspective sees strategic surprises not only as sudden attacks that fundamentally alter the conflict landscape but also as political developments that lead to dramatic paradigm shifts – such as the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 or the end of the apartheid regime in South Africa.
This course addresses pivotal moments that have dramatically disrupted conventional paradigms in the Middle East conflict, a conflict marked by surprising events yet persistently resistant to long-lasting transformative progress. By examining occurrences of strategic surprise, including the wars of 1948, 1967, and 1973; Sadat’s peace initiative; the Oslo Accords; and the October 7 attack by Hamas, we will investigate the tension between a seeming stagnation and the potential for sudden shifts – for Peace or War. Through case studies and theoretical frameworks, students will analyze how these dynamics shape policy, conflict, and peace processes, gaining tools to critically address historical patterns and behaviors that continue to shape the region.
- Department: International Security & Diplomacy
- T 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Nadav Eyal
Info - 1.5 points
HISTORIC PRESERVATION STUDIO II
HP STUDIO II
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- MR 2 p.m.-6 p.m.
- 6 points
Confronting Obesity: Society, Structures
CONFRONT OBESITY:SOC,STRC
Obesity is a serious condition that increases risk for type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, certain types of cancer, and several other deleterious health outcomes. The US and NYCare facing an Obesity epidemic that threatens not only to cause increasingly severe health consequences but also billions of dollars in annual medical costs. Moreover, for the first time in decades, it threatens to reduce the life expectancies of today's youth by overwhelming public health improvements brought about in the 20th century. Numerous secular trends have precipitated the dramatic increases in obesity that have occurred over the past several decades. This course will provide a broad overview of the socio-cultural factors associated with the obesity epidemic; identify promising strategies for intervention; and enable students to craft and assess multi-pronged solutions to this multi-factorial problem.
- Department: Sociomedical Sciences
- W 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gretchen Van Wye
Info - 3 points
RE MEDIA + MARKETING
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- W 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Amir Korangy
Info - 1.5 points
THESIS II
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Jorge Otero-Pailos
Wikipedia h-index: 12 Info - 4 points
Community Engagement Practice
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PRAC
The need for more effective and equitable engagement with communities has become increasingly evident to public health professionals in recent years. Now, more than ever, the importance of developing deeper and more engaged academic/institutional-community partnerships is necessary to address systems of structural inequity. However, developing these relationships requires not only knowledge of equity-based partnering formats, but the cultivation of complex skill sets that allow public health practitioners to most fully develop relationships across all phases of community collaboration. Two valuable forms of community engagement that public health practitioners and students can make use of are community-based participatory research and service learning, which are the focus of this course. Additionally, this course acknowledges that community engagement is a diverse space where people from a variety of professional and personal backgrounds come together. For many years, people working in the technology space have recognized the benefits of “matrixed teams,” similarly over the past few years the notion of interprofessionalism has become an important and required aspect of allied health and public health professional training. Research has shown that bringing together students from two or more professions to learn about, from, and with each other is extremely effective in all forms of collaboration (within research and intervention teams and with communities) and ultimately lead to improved health outcomes. According to the World Health Organization, “Once students understand how to work interprofessionally, they are ready to enter the workplace as a member of the collaborative practice team. This is a key step in moving health systems from fragmentation to a position of strength.” Pinsert course number – insert studio name 2 of 24 The overall goal of this course is for students to learn about and begin to practice the tenets of three frameworks: Interprofessional Education (IPE), Service-Learning (SL), and Community?Based Participatory Research (CBPR). With regard to interprofessional engagement, the course will provide students with a solid understanding of four key IPE competencies: roles/responsibilities, teams/teamwork, ethics/values, and communication. Complementing this, the course will introduce and integrate SL pedagogy to prepare students to engage in community service projects. The SL model prioritizes three aspects of project implementation: student learning, direct attenti
- Department: Sociomedical Sciences
- R 4 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Carole L Hutchinson
Info - 3 points
DESIGNING NEEDS AND ASSETS ASSESSMENT
DESIGN NEED & ASSET ASSES
The first essential step in the process of designing successful public health programs is to understand the needs that motivate these programs and the assets that can be brought to bear on developing them. The purpose of this course is to enable students to perform specific steps in a needs and assets assessment and to plan how to facilitate participation by those who will be affected by a resulting program. The assessment process encompasses two main components: an epidemiologic, behavioral, and social analysis of a community and population at risk for a health-related problem; and an effort to understand the character of the community, its members, and its strengths.
At the start of the course, we will discuss pre-assessment work which includes planning to put together a work group for planning the needs and assets assessment. We will touch on essential elements of encouraging participation, work-group management, and culturally sensitive practice. Simultaneously, we will create a logic model of a selected health problem using Step 1 of Intervention Mapping which employs an adapted version of the PRECEDE part of the PRECEDE-PROCEED model. Using this model, students will fully define their population and context for their assessments, posing questions, and choosing methods and data sources for completing each part of the logic model of the problem selected (heretofore referred to as the Logic of Risk). At the same time, we will cover various approaches and data sources for assessing a community’s strengths/assets. Finally, we will discuss post-assessment tasks including setting priorities and setting program goals for health and quality of life outcomes.
- Department: General Public Health
- R 6:40 p.m.-7:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Carole L Hutchinson
Info - 1.5 points
TOPICS IN NETWORKING
MachineLearn for Networks
Further study of areas such as communication protocols and architectures, flow and congestion control in data networks, performance evaluation in integrated networks. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6770 to 6779.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Anwar I Walid
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
CLIMATE ADAPTATION IN CITIES
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- M 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Instructor:
Adam Freed
Info - 3 points
Indo-Pacific Security Dynamics
This intensive two-day workshop examines North Korea’s nuclear program within the broader security dynamics of the Indo-Pacific region. Students will explore how North Korea’s ambitions intersect with U.S.-China strategic competition and the evolving roles of Japan, South Korea, India, and other regional actors. Topics include extended deterrence, crisis escalation, alliance management, economic statecraft, and the linkage between Korean Peninsula security and Taiwan Strait tensions.
To register for this course, you must join the waitlist in Vergil and submit an application:
https://forms.gle/t6ZxptA5YyB6cd6RA
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- Department: International Security & Diplomacy
- 1.5 points
Digital Storytelling: Why Public Health
DIG STORYTELL: WHY PUBLIC
This six-week interactive online workshop will teach students the fundamental concepts and skills of digital storytelling. Digital stories are multimedia movies that combine photographs, video, animation, sound, music, and text with a narrative voice. Digital storytelling can be a powerful, multi-dimensional tool for community-based public health program enhancement, strategic communication, and advocacy (Hinyard & Kreuter, 2007). Students will share first-person narratives about public health passions and/or experiences and turn them into videos that can be used for training, community mobilization, advocacy, and more. SOSCP6776 – Digital Storytelling 2 of 10 The workshop will be led by facilitators from, and with a curriculum designed by, StoryCenter. StoryCenter is an international non-profit organization that assists people with the use of digital media tools to craft and share stories that lead to learning, action, and positive change. For the past 20 years, StoryCenter has been supporting researchers, educators, social justice organizers, and advocates in understanding how first-person narrative and participatory digital media production can advance a broad range of social justice and public health goals.
- Department: Sociomedical Sciences
- F 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gina M Wingood
Info - 1 points
CONSERVATION OF CONCRETE, CAST STONE, MO
CONSERV CONCRETE, CAST, M
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- M 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
- 1.5 points
EXTERNSHIP: CIVIL LITIGATION - EMPLOYMEN
EXT: CIVIL LITIGAT EMPLOY
- Department: Law
- 2 points
EXTERNSHIP: CIVIL LITIGATION - EMPLOYMEN
EXT: CIVIL LITIGAT EMPLOY
- Department: Law
- 3 points
Global Political Economy and Governance
Global Political Econ and
The “liberal international order,” which until recently appeared inevitable to many observers, faces numerous challenges that have erupted in the past few years—including war, heightened superpower rivalry, the imposition of sanctions and tariffs, and economic stagnation. To this list, we must add a series of preexisting conditions, such as ballooning inequality and persistent North-South divides, the climate crisis, rising nationalist and xenophobic sentiment, and increasing support—on both the left and right—for protectionism and skepticism of “free trade” and (global) capitalism itself. In turn, the very utility (and desirability) of global-governance mechanisms and institutions is increasingly being called into question.
This course centers around analyzing the political economy and structure of the contemporary world order, its underlying logics, origins and inherently political nature, how it is (and is not) governed, and how power is exercised therein by actors including states, corporations, international institutions, and even individuals. As we will highlight throughout the semester, issues related to global political economy and governance shape the lives of people all over the world, including our own.
Specifically, we will discuss the origins and consolidation of today’s “liberal international order,” especially vis-à-vis its economic dimensions and the rise of global neoliberalisms, along with its trials, tribulations, and challengers, its “governance” and spatial logics, and the various forms of backlash against it that are currently proliferating. We will also carefully analyze the role of race, class, and gender in global economics and politics, as well as the persistence of colonial legacies, and the ongoing relevance of North-South and other inequalities. Additionally, we will discuss how issues such as the climate crisis, U.S.-China relations, and technological change are shaping the future trajectory of the global political-economic order (or orders).
To shed light on these and related matters, we will critically engage with the contributions of a diverse and interdisciplinary array of classic and contemporary thinkers who have sought to
theorize
the global economy, global governance, and world order, as well as the dynamic interplay between global politics and economics, in different ways.
This is a required core course for the MA in Global Thought
- Department: Committee on Global Thought
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- R 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Kevin Funk
h-index: 6 Info - 3 points
INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
This course introduces the fundamental concepts and problems of international human rights law. What are the origins of modern human rights law? What is the substance of this law, who is obligated by it, and how is it enforced? The course will cover the major international human rights treaties and mechanisms and consider some of todays most significant human rights issues and controversies. While the topics are necessarily law-related, the course will assume no prior exposure to legal studies.
- Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jacqueline Dugard
Info - 3 points
Ethics in Public Policy
MIA & MPA Ethics Core.
This course investigates how ethical considerations shape, complicate, and often introduce dilemmas into the work of policymaking. It asks what justice, democracy, and responsibility demand in concrete policy contexts—should political leaders prioritize stability or accountability in post-conflict settings? Should elected officials follow their moral convictions even when doing so goes against the preferences of their constituents? Should public servants uphold the law when it conflicts with their moral principles? When is it right to work within flawed systems to achieve change, and when is it better to act from the outside? Through a mix of theoretical readings and case studies, students will learn to balance political, institutional, and ethical considerations, develop arguments for their moral choices, and advocate effectively for their policy decisions. The course is designed to cultivate reflective practitioners who can identify moral dilemmas in public policy, weigh competing values, and articulate their ethical positions in ways that are both critical and constructive.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- T 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
- T 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
- W 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
- R 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
- R 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nicole M Peisajovich
Info - 1.5 points
STRUCTURAL DARING & THE SUBLIME
STRUCT DARING & THE SUBLI
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- F 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rory O O'Neill
Info - 3 points
Priorities in Global Public Health
PRIORITIES IN GLOBAL PUB
Many of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity disproportionately affect the populations of low-income countries. This course uses a multidisciplinary approach to analyse the emergence, justificiation and success of current global health priorities including reproductive health, child health water, infectious diseases, noncommunicable disease, mental health, and public health in complex emergencies (man made and Environmental). Students will learn to examine the social, economic, and political factors contributing to the rise of these global health priorities, learn about the different suggested approaches and tools for managing them as well be involved in the development of strategies for their solution. This course builds on Introduction to Global Health" (P6811) by demonstrating the application of major concepts and principles that govern the practice of global health in resource-poor countries."
- Department: Epidemiology
- R 4 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
- 3 points
VISITING ARTIST LECT. IV
N/A
- Department: Visual Arts
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Instructor:
Miya Masaoka
Wikipedia Info - 0 points
ADVANCED AFFORDABLE HOUSING FINANCIAL AN
ADV AFFORD HOUS FIN ANALY
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- M 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
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Instructor:
C Marisa Rodriguez
Info - 1.5 points
PUBLIC SPACE: RHETORICS & PRACTICES
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
David J Smiley
CULPA: 3 Info - 3 points
GENTRIFICATION AND DISPLACEMENT: POWER,
GENTRIFICATION & DISPLACE
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tom Slater
Info - 3 points
THE MASSIVE MIDDLE: STRATEGIES FOR HOUSI
STRAT FOR HOUSING DEVELOP
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
- 1.5 points
JOINT MSRED/MSUP STUDIO
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- F 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Adam F Lubinsky
Info - 3 points
TOWARD RESILIENT CITIES + LANDSCAPES
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
- 3 points
ADVANCED DESIGN FOR DEVELOPMENT
ADV DESIGN FOR DEVELOPMEN
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- F 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
- 1.5 points
CRIT ISSUES IN ART IV
N/A
- Department: Visual Arts
- T 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Luba Drozd
Info - 3 points
INSIDE DEVELOPMENT: LESSONS FROM THE FIE
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- W 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
- 1.5 points
GRADUATE STUDIO IV
N/A
- Department: Visual Arts
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Instructor:
Miya Masaoka
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
GRADUATE STUDIO IV
- Department: Visual Arts
- M 4 p.m.-10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Miya Masaoka
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
URBAN DESIGN STUDIO III
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- F 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
- 9 points
MIGRANT POLICY AND THE CITY
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- M 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
- 3 points
Grad Sem IV in Sound Art & Related Media
The Graduate Seminar in Sound Art and Related Media is designed to create a space that is inclusive yet focused on sound as an art form and a medium. Class time is structured to support, reflect, and challenge students as individual artists and as a community. The course examines the medium and subject of sound in an expanded field, investigating its constitutive materials, exhibition and installation practices, and its ethics in the 21st century. The seminar will focus on the specific relations between tools, ideas, and meanings and the specific histories and theories that have arisen when artists engage with sound as a medium and subject in art. The seminar combines discussions of readings and artworks with presentations of students' work and research, as well as site visits and guest lectures.
While the Columbia Visual Arts Program is dedicated to maintaining an interdisciplinary learning environment where students are free to use and explore different mediums while also learning to look at, and critically discuss, artwork in any medium, we are equally committed to providing in-depth knowledge concerning the theories, histories, practices, tools and materials underlying these different disciplines. We offer Graduate Seminars in different disciplines, or combinations of disciplines, including moving image, new genres, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, as well as in Sound Art in collaboration with the Columbia Music Department through their Computer Music Center. These Discipline Seminars are taught by full-time and adjunct faculty, eminent critics, historians, curators, theorists, writers, and artists.
- Department: Visual Arts
- 3 points
INTERNATIONAL DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
INTL DESIGN + DEVELOPMENT
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- W 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
- 1.5 points
ARTIST MENTORSHIP / VALS IV
This required Visual Arts core MFA curriculum course, comprising two parts, allows MFA students to deeply engage with and learn directly from a wide variety of working artists who visit the program each year.
Lecture Series
The lecture component, taught by an adjunct faculty member with a background in art history and/or curatorial studies, consists of lectures and individual studio visits by visiting artists and critics over the course of the academic year. The series is programmed by a panel of graduate Visual Arts students under the professor's close guidance. Invitations are extended to artists whose practice reflects the interests, mediums, and working methods of MFA students and the program. Weekly readings assigned by the professor provide context for upcoming visitors. Other course assignments include researching and preparing introductions and discussion questions for each of the visitors. Undergraduate students enrolled in Visual Arts courses are encouraged to attend and graduate students in Columbia's Department of Art History are also invited. Following each class-period the conversation continues informally at a reception for the visitor. Studio visits with Visual Arts MFA students take place on or around the week of the artist or critic's lecture and are coordinated and assigned by lottery by the professor.
Artist Mentorship
The Artist-Mentor component allows a close and focused relationship to form between a core group of ten to fifteen students and their mentor. Students are assigned two mentors who they meet with each semester in two separate one-week workshops. The content of each workshop varies according to the Mentors’ areas of expertise and the needs of the students. Mentor weeks can include individual critiques, group critiques, studio visits, visits to galleries, other artist's studios, museums, special site visits, readings, and writing workshops. Here are a few descriptions from recent mentors:
• During Mentor Week we will individually and collectively examine our assumptions and notions about art. What shapes our needs and expectations as artists and the impact of what we do?
• Our week will include visits to exhibition spaces to observe how the public engages the art. Throughout, we will consider art's ability to have real life consequences and the public's desire to personally engage with and experience art without mediation.
• The week will be conducted in two parts, f
- Department: Visual Arts
- T 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
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Instructor:
Miya Masaoka
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
EMBEDDED SCALABLE PLATFORMS
Inter-disciplinary graduate-level seminar on design and programming of embedded scalable platforms. Content varies between offerings to cover timely relevant issues and latest advances in system-on-chip design, embedded software programming, and electronic design automation. Requires substantial reading of research papers, class participation, and semester-long project.
- Department: Computer Science
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Luca Carloni
CULPA: 2 Wikipedia h-index: 45 Info - 3 points
China's Impact on Global Governance
China & Global Governance
This seminar explores China’s rise and its implications for global governance. The course introduces core international relations concepts and theoretical debates, then examines China’s behavior in areas such as trade, development finance, human protection, maritime disputes, nuclear policy, and technology. The final weeks focus on national strategy debates in the United States and China. Students will engage in critical reading, policy writing, and seminar discussion.
- Department: International Security & Diplomacy
- T 8 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Raymond Wang
Info - 3 points