Graduate Independent Research

Independent Study with Faculty Advisor must be registered for every semester after first academic year

• Department: Statistics
• Instructor: Jingchen Liu
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• Instructor: Arian Maleki
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• Instructor: Sumit Mukherjee
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• Instructor: Marcel F Nutz
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• Instructor: Liam M Paninski
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• Instructor: Philip Protter
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• Instructor: Daniel Rabinowitz
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• Instructor: Cynthia Rush
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• Instructor: Bodhisattva Sen
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• Instructor: Michael Sobel
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• Instructor: Simon Tavare
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• Instructor: Anne Van Delft
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• Instructor: Zhiliang Ying
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• Instructor: Ming Yuan
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• Instructor: Tian Zheng
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• 3 points

Graduate Independent Research

Independent Study with Faculty Advisor must be registered for every semester after first academic year

• Department: Statistics
• 3 points

Graduate Independent Research

Independent Study with Faculty Advisor must be registered for every semester after first academic year

• Department: Statistics
• Instructor: Christopher Harshaw
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• 3 points

Graduate Independent Research

Independent Study with Faculty Advisor must be registered for every semester after first academic year

• Department: Statistics
• 3 points

GRAD STUDENT & FACULTY COLLOQ

FEMINIST PEDAGOGY

This is a course is oriented to graduate students who are thinking about issues in teaching in the near and distant future and want to explore forms of pedagogy. The course will ask what it means to teach “as a feminist” and will explore how to create a classroom receptive to feminist and queer methodologies and theories regardless of course theme/content. Topics include: participatory pedagogy, the role of political engagement, the gender dynamics of the classroom, modes of critical thought and disagreement. Discussions will be oriented around student interest. The course will meet 4-5 times per SEMESTER (dates TBD) and the final assignment is to develop and workshop a syllabus for a new gender/sexuality course in your field. Because this course is required for graduate students choosing to fulfill Option 2 for the Graduate Certificate in Feminist Studies at IRWGS, priority will be given to graduate students completing the certificate.

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Julia Bryan-Wilson
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• 1 points

EXTERNSHIP FEDERAL PROSECUTION

• Department: Law
• 2 points

EXTERNSHIP FEDERAL PROSECUTION

• Department: Law
• 2 points

Financial Planning & Analysis

This course explores the use of financial information for internal planning, analysis, and decision-making. The main objective of the course is to equip you with the knowledge to understand, evaluate, and act upon the many financial and non-financial reports used in managing modern firms.
Managing any modern firm requires information about the firm’s products, processes, assets, and customers. This information is a key input into a wide range of decisions: analyzing profitability of various products, managing product-line portfolios, setting prices, measuring and managing profitability of customers, making operational and strategic decisions, evaluating investments, guiding improvement efforts, and so on.
The focus of this course is on modern internal-reporting systems. We will discover that many firms do not provide their managers with useful information; we will see numerous examples of value destruction and bankruptcies caused by this. We will also investigate some modern ideas in how an organization’s internal information system should be designed to enhance value creation; and we will see how world-class firms take advantage of their competitors’ internal-reporting mistakes.
To attain the right level of understanding, we will briefly explore the mechanics of the many techniques used to prepare internal reports. But the emphasis in this course is very much on interpretation, evaluation, and decision-making.
We will examine the following key topics:
Designing managerial information systems to support an organization’s strategy.
Determining which financial and non-financial metrics are necessary for success in various competitive environments.
Evaluating profitability of products, services, assets, and customers.
The capabilities and the limitations of various reporting systems in guiding value-maximization, cost-control, and improvement efforts.
The limitations of traditional cost-estimation systems.
Activity-based costing and activity-based management.
Estimating and managing the costs of capacity resources.
Relevant costs and relevant revenues in business decisions.
The information necessary to evaluate long-term business decisions.
The incentives created by various performance-evaluation techniques.

• Department: Accounting (ACCT)
• MW 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• MW 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Tim Baldenius
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• 1.5 points

Earnings Quality & Fundamental

Financial reporting provides a window into the operational and financial workings of a company. However, translating this information into actionable insights is anything but straightforward. It requires an understanding of: Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), the quality of financial information, and the adjustments and analyses used to assess profitability, risk, growth, and value.

The course starts with a short review of financial reporting and then focuses on various modules of fundamental analysis, including earnings quality analysis, performance evaluation, risk assessment, forecasting, and valuation. The remaining class meetings (approximately 14 out of 24) are devoted to a deeper dive into the reporting and analysis of key transactions (e.g., business combinations, leasing) and financial statement line items (e.g., revenue, income taxes).

To allow for dynamic progress, the class schedule is flexible:
Topic Approximate # of class meetings
1. Review of financial reporting 2
2. Financial statement analysis 4
3. Forecasting and valuation 4
4. Revenue and related items 2
5. Operating capacity 3
6. Estimated items 3.5
7. Financial instruments 2
8. Investments in businesses 2.5
9. Equity and related items 1
Total 24

While the course covers the theoretical underpinning of the various analyses, it focuses on implementation and practical uses. We will study many actual financial disclosures and cases of accounting abuses, and we will conduct fundamental-based valuation and other financial analyses, including using Excel tools that will be provided to the students. Studying financial disclosures will help you better understand the underlying assumptions and accounting choices the firm made in arriving at its accounting numbers. This information can be used to make earnings quality adjustments to the accounting numbers to make them more consistent across time or more comparable across companies. Studying cases of accounting abuses will help you improve your ability to “read between the lines” and develop a set of red flags to look for in analyzing financial statements. The class also incorporates insights from practitioner and academic research.

The primary objective of the course is to acquire a deep understanding of accounting information and how to intelligently use it in making investment, credit, and similar resource allocation decisions. Such knowledge is required of investors, consultants, analysts, banke

• Department: Accounting (ACCT)
• MW 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
• MW 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Doron Nissim
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• 3 points

DISSERTATION COLLOQUIUM

The dissertation colloquium is a non-credit course open to MESAAS doctoral students who have completed the M.Phil. degree. It provides a forum in which the entire community of dissertation writers meets, bridging the departments different fields and regions of research. It complements workshops outside the department focused on one area or theme. Through an encounter with the diversity of research underway in MESAAS, participants learn to engage with work anchored in different regions and disciplines and discover or develop what is common in the departments post-disciplinary methods of inquiry. Since the community is relatively small, it is expected that all post-M.Phil. students in residence will join the colloquium. Post M.Phil. students from other departments may request permission to join the colloquium, but places for non-MESAAS students will be limited. The colloquium convenes every semester, meeting once every two weeks. Each meeting is devoted to the discussion of one or two pre-circulated pieces of work (a draft prospectus or dissertation chapter). Every participant contributes at least one piece of work each year.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Gil Hochberg
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• 0 points

Financial Statement Analysis a

This course will provide students with hands-on experience analyzing financial statements. Students will learn about the general tools, theoretical concepts, and practical valuation issues of financial analysis. By the end of the course, students should be comfortable using firms' financial statements (along with other information) to assess firm performance and make reasonable valuation estimates.

Course content and organization In the first half of the course, we will develop a valuation framework that integrates a firm’s strategy, its financial performance, and the credibility of its accounting. The framework consists of the following steps:
1. Understand the firm’s strategy. We will assess the firm’s value proposition and identify its key value drivers and risks.
2. Accounting Analysis. We will assess earnings quality and evaluate whether the firm's accounting policies capture the underlying business reality. If not, we will adjust the accounting to eliminate GAAP issues and management biases.
3. Financial Analysis. We will evaluate current performance with accounting data and financial ratios.
4. Prospective Analysis: Forecasting. We will assess whether current firm performance is sustainable, and we will forecast future performance. In our forecasts, we will consider growth, profitability, and future competitive advantage.
5. Prospective Analysis: Valuation. We will convert our forecasts of future earnings and book values into an estimate of the firm’s current value.

In the second half of the course, we will apply the above framework to a variety of business valuation contexts, including IPOs, mergers, and equity-investment analyses.

• Department: Accounting (ACCT)
• W 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• R 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• R 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
• Instructor: Kalash Jain
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• 3 points

M.PHIL TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Prerequisite: instructors permission. Participation in medical informatics educational activities under the direction of a faculty adviser.

• Department: Biomedical Informatics
• Instructor: Shalmali Joshi
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• Instructor: Richard A Friedman
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• Instructor: Olena Mamykina
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• Instructor: Sivan Kinberg
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• Instructor: Amelia J Averitt
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• 2 points

Inequality in High-skilled Labor Markets

Inqulity Hgh-skilled Labr

The course focuses on the U.S. labor market but will also draw research from other settings. The readings are organized by topic and highlight the extent and urgency of the issue and along the lines of gender, race/ethnicity, nativity, and class. Topics include the patterns and trends of inequality among highly-educated workers, and underlying demand and supply-side mechanisms that explain the observed patterns. Attention will be paid to student pathways through higher education to the labor market, including the school-to-work transition process. The course will also cover topics of intergenerational and intragenerational mobility processes among highly-educated workers.

• Department: Sociology
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Yao Lu
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• 4 points

EARLY MODERN SOUTH ASIA

This graduate seminar focuses on  the material and political orders from 1500-1800 in South Asia. We pair primary, historical texts (in translation) with recent monographs which demonstrate the intersections between narrative and polity within material and epistemic realms. Our guiding interests will be in understanding the intimate relationship between power, agency and materiality within specific political spaces. Eschewing the center/periphery models, we take globally connective approach incorporating Western Asian, North American and Northern European histories. Some key ideas for the seminar include, “oceanic” perspective of the Indian and Atlantic oceans, role of “agents” (travelers, merchants, bureaucrats etc.), theories of colonization and decolonization, gender and sexuality.

• Department: History
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Manan Ahmed
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia h-index: 6 Info
• 4 points

S PUB EDUC POLICY SEM & PRACT

• Department: Law
• 5 points

S PUB EDUC POLICY SEM & PRACT

• Department: Law
• 6 points

S PUB EDUC POLICY SEM & PRACT

• Department: Law
• 2 points

CRITICAL TRANSLATION THEORY

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter T Connor
  CULPA: 13 Info
• 4 points

How to Study Clothing?

At a time when courses on clothing draw exceptionally large audiences in the humanities field, and when art museums depend increasingly for audiences and revenue on exhibitions of clothing, accompanying those exhibitions with increasingly ambitious catalogues, it has become pertinent for graduate students in a range of art history sub-fields, as well as in adjacent disciplines such as history, design, or anthropology, to become familiar with the newest options for the study of clothing.  Among the 10 most visited exhibitions in the 150-year history of the Met, for instance, 5 have been devoted entirely or in part to clothing.  The trend toward the incorporation of clothing in temporary exhibitions nominally devoted to painting, or to a period subject, as well as the installation of clothing in permanent galleries, will also be discussed. This seminar reads recent books or museum catalogues, chosen to offer a representative range of approaches, time periods and issues of rank, gender, race, geography, and politics.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Anne Higonnet
  CULPA: 31 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Sustainability Reporting

Broadly speaking, the goal of this class is to provide students with both the theoretical and practical knowledge to understand the current challenges in accounting for firms’ ESG goals. In this rapidly evolving field, the course will be structured in four modules:

- Module #1 reviews the need for sustainability accounting and provide an overview of the providers of ESG metrics and the limits of current
aggregated ESG data.
- Module #2 present various market-based mechanisms to create ESG standards
- Module #3 discusses regulatory initiatives to create ESG information for listed firms
- Module #4 departs from non-financial disclosure and discuss the limits of current accounting standards and introduce new developments to
incorporate ESG characteristics into traditional financial statements.

While ESG encompasses a vast body of topics, this class will draw examples and discuss about a diverse set of issues ESG, including carbon emissions, employees pay, employees labor-safety, and the role of consumers’ NGO, based on short examples or cases spanning different firms in different industries (e.g., wholesale, aviation) and different countries (e.g., USA, France, Japan).
This half-term course is composed of a mix of lectures, cases and online or in-person interventions by high profile industry guest speakers. The lectures are motivated by (1) rigorous recent academic studies drawing from the accounting literature, but also borrowing from adjacent fields including economics, finance, law and strategy and (2) practitioners notes and examples.

Who should take this course?

Students should take this course if they are interested in ESG in general and/or if they expect to use disclosure of non-financial information in their career. This is particularly relevant for students who want to pursue careers in finance (e.g., investment banking) where firms’ ESG footprint is becoming a scrutinized factor in M&A or investment decisions in general, as well as students going to careers in consulting where corporate decisions will more and more be benchmark against their ESG implications.

Please note that this course does not require students to have pre-existing knowledge about ESG.

• Department: Accounting (ACCT)
• M 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• 1.5 points

Mergers & Acquisitions Transactions

M&A Transactions

The purpose of this course is to provide you with an overview of M&A strategies and an introduction to the structuring and accounting for deals. We will also learn how to model M&A transactions. This is an advanced and technical course. If reviewing arcane accounting and tax rules does not bring you joy, you are forewarned! You will see plenty of both in the course. During the course, we will focus on several themes:
1. Deal strategy
2. Deal valuations
3. Deal structuring – impact of tax and accounting rules
4. Common metrics used to evaluate deals and limitations of those metrics
5. Accounting and modeling of deals

This course is recommended for those who intend to work in the financial services area – it will be helpful for those looking for a career in banking, corporate advisory services, treasury or corporate/financial strategy.

Advising on M&A transactions requires a strong background in accounting and tax. This course will get into the minutiae of various accounting and tax aspects of M&A. I will expect you to be willing to do the deep dive, where required. It is expected that you
have already taken courses in financial accounting and corporate finance and are interested in accounting and tax. If you do not have a prior background in accounting and tax, you are strongly advised to check with the instructor before enrolling in this
course.

This is not a course in excel, excel tools/techniques or about excel add‐ins provided by data providers. There are many services provided by data providers and Wall Street Prep companies for those. This course will focus on the accounting, finance and
economics of evaluating deals and building models. Also, we assume that you are already proficient in Excel, since we will use a lot of Excel models in the course.

• Department: Accounting (ACCT)
• T 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• T 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Radha Radhakrishna
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• 1.5 points

LBO & Bankruptcy Transactions

The purpose of this course is to provide you with an overview of LBO strategies and to introduce you to restructuring and the bankruptcy process. During the course, you will learn how to build a basic financial model and adapt it for LBO transactions. This is an advanced and technical course. If reviewing arcane accounting and legal rules does not bring you joy, you are forewarned! You will see plenty of both in the course. During the course, we will learn to:
1. Build a basic integrated financial models (IS, BS and CFS)
2. Adapt the financial model to study the effect of LBO transactions
3. Study the impact of different deal structures, accounting choices, operating assumptions and financing decisions on firm value, liquidity, profitability, returns and other financial metrics.
4. Learn about alternative exit and restructuring strategies.
5. Understand the bankruptcy process – debt restructuring and fresh start models.

• Department: Accounting (ACCT)
• T 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• T 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Radha Radhakrishna
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• 1.5 points

PRE-MODERN CHINESE FICTION

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Wei Shang
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 96 Info
• 4 points

Oratory, History, and Power: Cicero s

A close analysis of Cicero’s
Brutus
in its many contexts: as a response to Caesar’s dictatorship; as an account of oratory and rhetorical practices in Rome; and as the earliest surviving account of Roman literary history.

• Department: Classics
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: James E Zetzel
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

MS Financial Accounting (Half-Term)

Financial statements are meant to enable the reader to evaluate the performance of an enterprise, analyze its cash flows, and assess its financial position. Recently, widely publicized cases of misleading statements, which were nevertheless attested as to their fairness by outside auditors, resulted in improper revenue recognition, overstatement of income, and misrepresentation of financial position. There is a growing awareness of the importance of honest reporting as the foundation for investors' confidence in the integrity and proper functioning of the financial markets.

• Department: Accounting (ACCT)
• WF 2 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Amir Ziv
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• 1.5 points

Aesthetics

What is beautiful? What is sublime? What makes a work of art good? What are artworks for? This course will address these and other questions with a focus on Western art and its evaluation by European thinkers from antiquity to more recent times. We will begin with Plato’s discussions of art in the
Ion
and
The Republic
and we will turn next to Aristotle’s defense of art in the
Poetics
. The course will go on to discuss writings on aesthetics by thinkers such as Aquinas, Vasari, and Bellori. We will then devote considerable attention to eighteenth-century contributions to the history of aesthetics and art criticism, as it was in this period that the term “aesthetics” was first coined and that the “philosophy of art” was invented. Many of the most influential and difficult notions in modern aesthetics, such as genius and originality, developed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. We will analyze the writings of Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Edmund Burke, Hegel, and others. This course is appropriate for graduate students in art history, visual art, history, philosophy, music, English, and other humanities departments.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Susanna C Berger
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• 4 points

Dissertation Research

Full time research for doctoral students.

• Department: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
• Instructor: Richard Slusarczyk
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• 12 points

GRAD SEM-PREMODERN LITERATURE

Prerequisites: JPNS W4007-W4008 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: David B Lurie
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 4 points

GENERAL RELATIVITY

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• Department: Physics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrei Beloborodov
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• 3 points

VISITING ARTISTS

• Department: Theatre Arts
• T 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Mark Russell
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• 0-3 points

QUANTUM FIELD THEORY III

Advanced topics at the discretion of the instructor, including string theory, supersymmetry and other aspects of beyond-standard-model physics.

• Department: Physics
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Sebastian Mizera
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• 3 points

THEATRE PRACTICUM II

PLAYWRIGHT-ACTOR WORKSHOP

TBD

• Department: Theatre Arts
• W 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: James Ijames
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• 3 points

CURRENT ISSUES IN COPYRIGHT

• Department: Law
• Instructor: Jane C Ginsburg
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• 2 points

SEM-SOURCES IN CHINESE HISTORY

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert P Hymes
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

S. Rethinking Globalization

• Department: Law
• Instructor: Charles Sabel
  Wikipedia h-index: 77 Info
• 3 points

PARTICLE PHYSICS I

Prerequisites: PHYS G6037-G6038. Basic aspects of particle physics, focusing on the Standard Model.

• Department: Physics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert D Mawhinney
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 49 Info
• 3 points

COLLABORATION STUDIO

Collaboration Studio is meant to foster and encourage creative relationships between and among the six concentration that comprise the Columbia MFA Theatre Program.

The goal of the class is to celebrate the process and presentation of new work.​
 Success is defined by a desire by all participants for working relationships to extend beyond the class and into the world-at-large.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• W 2:30 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Timothy A Hess
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• 0-3 points

Public Health Practice Seminar II

PH Practice Seminar II

The internship course provides a substantive opportunity for students to practice applying their expertise and skills in a real world setting. The course allows students to work with practitioners and public health/healthcare experts to explore their interests in more depth and to expand their knowledge of current environments in their fields. Students will reflect on their interests, values, and skills and how their internship, past experiences, and studies align with their goals. The course will provide the opportunity for reflection on work advancement, progress of skill development, connection to current coursework, and exposure to areas within their field. The course includes self-reflection and career interests assessment exercises, and builds on communication skills to train students to respond to challenging questions that they may encounter in the job search process. The seminar provides a supportive framework designed to enhance students’ applied, field-based learning experience by exploring common themes encountered in the fieldwork setting. The seminar will address the public health core competencies of leadership, communication, professionalism, systems thinking, interprofessional education. Learning objectives include: • Describe the Theory of Vocational Choice by John Holland and explain how it can help you choose a career in alignment with your interests. • Prioritize your career interests, values, and mission areas of interest and describe how they relate to your current internship. • Identify three current job descriptions that match your interests, values, and mission areas of interest. • Write at least three effective bullet points for your resume based on your current internship and based on your job market research. • List 3 sources of salary and job market research and information. • Negotiate your salary. • Communicate your short term and long term goals and three steps you plan to take to achieve them. • Describe how your internship has contributed towards your achievement of these goals.

PREREQUISITES AND PERMISSION: Students must submit a letter from their employer following the guidelines at https://isso.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/sampleletters/CPTemploymentsample.pdf  to
hk2778@cumc.columbia.edu
in order to obtain permission to enroll in this course. If you are continuing an internship with the same organization where you completed your required APEx or internship,

• Department: Public Health
• F 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Heather Krasna
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• 0.5 points

ATHENIAN DRAMA: GENRE, PERFORMANCE, POLI

This course examines the three dramatic genres of fifth-century BCE Athens – tragedy, comedy, and satyr play – alongside one another. Even though these genres were often performed on the same stage and sometimes at the same festival, modern scholars have tended to treat them separately. Each week we will instead allow these distinct forms of drama to intersect by close reading substantial selections from a tragedy, a comedy, and a satyr play under a particular theme or topic. This will allow us to explore the insights and resonances that emerge at the intersection between these genres, as we consider commonalities and differences between dramatic genres, as well as how Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Cratinus, Eupolis, Euripides, Sophocles and others handled dramatic structures, myth, politics, religion, and staging. Our aim is to gain insight into the intricacies of ancient Greek theater and the boundaries that modern scholars have drawn between these sibling genres. Because most satyr play – as well as the comedies of Cratinus and Eupolis – survives in fragments we will additionally explore the challenges and opportunities of working with fragmentary drama. While our focus will be on the primary texts, the assigned secondary reading will also introduce students to a range of key areas of focus such as the city, the chorus, and gods as well as to various recent approaches related to theories of embodiment, materiality, and cognition. This broad-ranging approach is designed not only to familiarize students with the theoretical landscape of Greek drama of the last twenty-five years but also to encourage advanced exploration of ancient Greek theater through a range of critical approaches and methodologies.

• Department: Classics @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 3 points

Communicating Health Risks to the Public

This course explores health risk communication approaches and strategies, focusing on their practical application in real-world scenarios. Students learn how to use the power of effective communication to advance informed decision-making about public health issues. With a keen eye on the dynamics of interpersonal, organizational, and mediated channels, students delve into the nuances of crafting impactful messages that evoke predictable effects and facilitate positive outcomes. Students gain insights into how communication shapes the public’s experience of health risks, as well as how to manage emotions and conflicts and address contemporary communication issues, including infodemics and misinformation.

Additionally, a trauma-informed approach is utilized to gain insights into the prevalence and consequences of trauma, how it influences behaviors and decision-making, and the intersection with crisis communication. One of the highlights of this course is its focus on cultivating public speaking skills. Students learn to navigate complex public health topics with confidence, empathy, and a commitment to clear, authentic, and trustworthy communication.

This course is highly experiential, offering ample opportunities to put theory into practice. A diverse range of communication materials will be produced, encompassing written documents and multimedia presentations. Students will gain the skills necessary to create compelling, evidence-based, and accessible content tailored to diverse stakeholders.

• Department: General Public Health
• R 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Carina Schmid
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• 1.5 points

ADV MPH Online Integrative Learning Expe

Integrative Learning Exp.

The Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH), the institution that accredits public health schools and programs in the United States, requires that all students complete an Integrated Learning Experience (ILE) to earn an MPH degree. The ILE, submitted as students near completion of their degree, is considered the culminating experience providing students the opportunity to highlight proficiencies and to make connections between significant elements of the MPH education. As students progress towards fulfilling degree requirements, they, in consultation with their advisors, identify foundational and program specific competencies to support their education and career goals. The ILE requirement stipulates students demonstrate the acquisition and synthesis of competencies they have identified with their faculty advisors through the submission of a high-quality written document.

• Department: General Public Health
• Instructor: Stephanie A Grilo
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• 0 points

INDIV PROJECTS IN MUSICOLOGY

Sec. 1: Ethnomusicology; Sec. 2: Historical Musicology; Sec. 3: Music Theory; Sec. 4: Music Cognition; Sec. 5: Music Philosophy.

• Department: Music
• Instructor: Alessandra M Ciucci
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Julia Doe
  Info
• Instructor: Aaron A Fox
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Giuseppe Gerbino
  CULPA: 12 Info
• Instructor: Knar Abrahamyan
  Info
• Instructor: Mariusz Kozak
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 5 Info
• Instructor: Georg Friedrich Haas
  Info
• Instructor: Elaine Sisman
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Benjamin A Steege
  Info
• Instructor: Ruth Opara
  Info
• Instructor: Marcos Balter
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Applied Regression I

APPLIED REGRESSION I

This course will provide an introduction to the basics of regression analysis. The class will proceed systematically from the examination of the distributional qualities of the measures of interest, to assessing the appropriateness of the assumption of linearity, to issues related to variable inclusion, model fit, interpretation, and regression diagnostics. We will primarily use scalar notation (i.e. we will use limited matrix notation, and will only briefly present the use of matrix algebra).

• Department: Biostatistics
• R 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Martina Pavlicova
  h-index: 30 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED TOPICS IN IEOR

Selected topics in IEOR. Content varies from year to year. May be repeated for credit.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Lily Xu
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• Instructor: Daniel Lacker
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 13 Info
• Instructor: Kaizheng Wang
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 8 Info
• Instructor: Vineet Goyal
  h-index: 21 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED TOPICS IN IEOR

GenAI: Model Alignment

Selected topics in IEOR. Content varies from year to year. May be repeated for credit.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Wenpin Tang
  h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points

Introduction to Health Data Science

Intro to Health Data Scie

This course will introduce students to core data science skills and concepts through the exploration of applied biostatistics. The course will begin with an introduction to the R programming language and the RStudio IDE, focusing on contemporary tidyverse functions and reproducible programming methods. Then, the course will instruct students in contemporary data manipulation and visualization tools while systematically covering core applied biostatistics topics, including confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, permutation tests, and logistic and linear regression. Finally, the semester will end with an introduction to machine learning concepts, including terminology, best practices in test/training sets, cross-validation, and a survey of contemporary classification and regression algorithms.

• Department: Biostatistics
• MW 4 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• 3 points

Ex. In-House Counsel

• Department: Law
• 2 points

Ex. In-House Counsel

• Department: Law
• 2 points

Ex. In-House Counsel

• Department: Law
• 2 points

Ex. In-House Counsel

• Department: Law
• 2 points

Ex. In-House Counsel

• Department: Law
• 2 points

Ex. In-House Counsel

• Department: Law
• 2 points

TOPICS IN APPLIED STATISTICS

Applied Causality

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• Department: Statistics
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: David Blei
  Wikipedia h-index: 98 Info
• 3 points

Process Improvement and Growth

This class brings business operations and management science classes to the field with real-world experience. Through experiential learning, we will bridge the gap between theory and practice with international case discussions, conversations with guest speakers and hands-on company sponsored projects. Different to most classes in the school, in this class students will be exposed to a series of international cases and examples based on medium-sized, fast-growing entrepreneurial ventures. Each session will also include a guest speaker, often times the protagonist of the case studied, giving the students the opportunity to learn directly from successful entrepreneurs and senior executives.
Additionally, students will put into practice the concept of process improvement by working on a company-sponsored applied project. Teams of 4-5 people, 3-4 MBA/EMBA students and 1-2 engineering (SEAS) students, will work hand in hand with the instructors and company representatives to achieve company goals. For example, teams may be tasked with re-designing the logistical strategy of distribution of the company to get rid of inefficiencies, or identify and find strategies to eliminate areas of waste within the companies’ processes, or analyze customer feedback and design operational solutions to increase customer satisfaction, etc.
Enrollment in this course is by application only. To apply, please follow this link: https://forms.gle/EG6buNZqQYEgN2EH9

• Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
• T 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
• 3 points

VISUAL ART LAB, SPRING

VISUAL ART LAB SPRING

Students meet with the professor and pave the transition from graduate students to seeing themselves as artists with a long term working creative perspective beyond academia. The professor will work to contextualize the students body of work in the arena of an international art conversation. VISUAL ART LAB will be led by Sarah Sze in the Spring.

Schedule:
Priority will be given to all second-year students who submit a short presentation of their work. Should there be remaining room for first year students they will be admitted upon review. To apply please submit a brief description of work, current research and interest in taking the seminar, along with 5 - 10 images. There will be one half hour meeting for each student with professor Sze throughout the Spring Semester.

Requirements:
Rigorous development of students' own body of work.

• Department: Visual Arts
• Instructor: Sarah M Sze
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Patient Oriented Research Career Develop

POR CAREER DEVELOPMENT CO

The main objective of this course is to provide Columbia University's Clinical & Translational Science award trainees, students, and scholars with skills and knowledge that will optimize their chances of entering into a satisfying academic career. The course will emphasize several methodological and practical issues related to the development of a science career. The course will also offer support and incentives by facilitating timely use of CTSA resources, obtaining expert reviews on writing and curriculum vitae, and providing knowledge and resources for the successful achievement of career goals.

• Department: Biostatistics
• T 3 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Marisa N Spann
  Info
• 0.5 points

Business Analytics II: Foundations of AI

Business Analytics II: AI

Business analytics refers to the ways in which enterprises such as businesses, non-profits, and governments use data to gain insights and make better decisions. Business analytics is applied in operations, marketing, finance, and strategic planning among other functions. Modern data collection methods – arising in bioinformatics, mobile platforms, and previously unanalyzable data like text and images – are leading an explosive growth in the volume of data available for decision making. The ability to use data effectively to drive rapid, precise, and profitable decisions has been a critical strategic advantage for companies as diverse as Walmart, Google, Capital One, and Disney. Many startups are based on the application of AI & analytics to large databases. With the increasing availability of broad and deep sources of information – so-called “Big Data” – business analytics are becoming an even more critical capability for enterprises of all types and all sizes. AI is beginning to impact every dimension of business and society. In many industries, you will need to be literate in AI to be a successful business leader. The Business Analytics sequence is designed to prepare you to play an active role in shaping the future of AI and business. You will develop a critical understanding of modern analytics methodology, studying its foundations, potential applications, and – perhaps most importantly – limitations.

• Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
• T 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
• W 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• W 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
• Instructor: Hongseok Namkoong
  h-index: 11 Info
• 1.5 points

Data Science II

DATA SCIENCE II

With the explosion of “Big Data” problems, statistical learning has become a very hot field in many scientific areas. The goal of this course is to provide the training in practical statistical learning. It is targeted to MS students with some data analysis experience.

• Department: Biostatistics
• TR 4 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Yifei Sun
  h-index: 7 Info
• 3 points

Operations Strategy

A firm's operations encompass all the activities that are performed in order to produce and deliver a product or a service. An operations strategy refers to a set of operational decisions that a firm makes to achieve a long-term competitive advantage. These decisions may be about the firms facilities, its technology/process choices, its relationships with both upstream and downstream business partners etc. The goal of this course is to provide students with an understanding of how and why operational decisions are integral to a firms success. The course builds on concepts from the core Operations Management course and the core Strategy Formulation course. It is highly relevant to anyone whose work requires the strategic analysis of a firms operations, including those interested in consulting, entrepreneurship, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, investment analysis, and general management. The course consists of four modules. The first module, Strategic Alignment," explores the question of how a firms operations should be structured so as to be consistent with the firms chosen way to compete. The second module, "Firm Boundaries," considers the question of what operational activities should remain in house and what should be done by a business partner and the long-term implications of these decisions on competitive advantage. This module also addresses the issue of managing the business relationships with supply chain partners. The third module, "Internal Operations," considers key decision categories in operations, e.g., capacity decisions, process choices, IT implementation, and managing networks, and shows how these decisions can lead to distinctive capabilities. The final module, "New Challenges," is set aside to address new topics that reflect the current trends in the business environment."

• Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
• M 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
• T 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Medini Singh
  Info
• 3 points