INTRO TO HUMAN RIGHTS

This course provides a wide-ranging survey of conceptual foundations and issues in contemporary human rights. The course examines the philosophical origins of human rights, their explication in the evolving series of international documents, questions of enforcement, and current debates. It also explores topics such as womens rights, development and human rights, the use of torture, humanitarian intervention, and the horrors of genocide. The broad range of subjects covered in the course is intended to assist students in honing their interests and making future course selections in the human rights field.

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

MEDIEVAL/RENAISSANCE PHILOLOGY

MEDIEVAL/RENAISSANCE PHILOLGY

• Department: Medieval and Renaissance Studies
• Instructor: Susan Boynton
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 3 points

Global East Asian Performance

What is East Asian performance? Are films like
Blade Runner
(1982) and
Ghost in the Shell
(2017) East Asian? Do platforms like TikTok automatically bring an East Asian aesthetics, if not politics, to the content presented? This class considers the global circulation of East Asian cultures in the modern era from the perspectives of theatre and performance studies. Major countries and areas under discussion include China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, and Taiwan, with occasional references to Asian America and the Sinophone.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Yizhou Huang
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• 4 points

MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE PHILOLOGY

Medieval and Renaissance Philology for MA students.

• Department: Medieval and Renaissance Studies
• Instructor: Susan Boynton
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 4 points

JOURNALISM AND SOCIETY

Seminar surveying the history and the social, political, and economic impact of media from the birth of the newspaper forward.

• Department: Journalism
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Andie Tucher
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• 3 points

STATISTICAL MECHANICS

Prerequisites: PHYS W4021-W4022-W4023, or their equivalents. Fundamentals of statistical mechanics; theory of ensembles; quantum statistics; imperfect gases; cooperative phenomena.

• Department: Physics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Hector Ochoa
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• 4.5 points

QUANTUM MECHANICS I

Prerequisites: PHYS W4021-W4022, or their equivalents. The fundamental principles of quantum mechanics; elementary examples; angular momentum and the rotation group; spin and identical particles; isospin; time-independent and time-dependent perturbation theory.

• Department: Physics
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Norman H Christ
  CULPA: 34 Wikipedia Info
• 4.5 points

18TH CENTURY RUSSIAN LIT

A survey of eighteenth century Russian poetry, prose, and drama in the original. The reading list includes Feofan Prokopovich, Vasily Trediakovsky, Mikhailo Lomonosov, Aleksandr Sumarokov, Aleksandr Radishchev, Gavrila Derzhavin, and Nikolai Karamzin

• Department: Slavic Languages
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Irina Reyfman
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

Historical Approaches in the Social Scie

Historical Aprchs Scl Scn

This course introduces students to historical approaches in sociology and political science (and some economics). In the first part, the course surveys the major theoretical approaches and methodological traditions. Examples of the former are classic comparativist work (e.g. Skocpol’s study of revolutions), historist approaches (such as Sewell’s), or the historical institutionalist tradition (Mahoney, Thelen, Wimmer, etc.). In terms of methodological approaches, we will discuss classical Millean small-N comparisons, Qualitative Comparative Analysis, process tracing, actor-centered modeling, quantitative, large-N works, and causal inference type of research designs. In the second part, major topics in macro-comparative social sciences are examined, from world systems and empire to the origins of democracy.

• Department: Sociology
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Andreas Wimmer
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• 4 points

INVENTING THE ANCIENTS

• Department: Italian
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Konstantia Zanou
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• 3 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 12:30 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Amy E Sereday
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• 3 points

Methods and Problems: Theoretical Philos

Methds/Probs:Theoretical

This class covers classic readings in contemporary philosophy, selections from historical authors that bear on today’s debates, and influential recent contributions in a range of subfields such as metaphysics, philosophy of mind, epistemology, logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of cognitive science.

• Department: Philosophy
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Melissa S Fusco
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

PARTICLE PHENOMENOLOGY

Prerequisites: PHYS G6037 or the equivalent. The elementary particles and their properties; interactions of charged particles and radiation with matter; accelerators, particle beams, detectors; conservation laws; symmetry principles; strong interactions, resonances, unitary symmetry; electromagnetic interactions; weak interactions; current topics.

• Department: Physics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Georgia S Karagiorgi
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

RED ELECTIVE INTERNSHIP

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

VALUE, OBJECTS, AND MEANING

VALUE OBJECTS AND MEANING

This course explores how anthropologists have engaged with the question of value as means of understanding and comparing human social engagement with the creation, circulation, and consumption of objects and ideas. In doing so, this course will read classical anthropological texts concerned with exchange, social meaning and action and consider a variety of topics of anthropological interest such as gifts, commodities, capitalism, inequality, and the relationships between humans and nonhumans of many kinds. The course traces how questions and arguments that emerged out of earlier debates in “economic” anthropology were taken up and altered in later conversations about the analytical importance and utility of material and semiotic approaches. In doing so, the course explores what these genealogies might say about the possibility of, and the potential usefulness or desirability of, a contemporary or future-looking anthropology of value.

• Department: Anthropology
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Hannah Chazin
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• 3 points

SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY: THE ORIGINS

Prerequisites: this course is intended for sociology Ph.D. and SMS students. No others without the instructors written permission. Foundational sources and issues in sociological theory: Adam Smith, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel, Mead, Mauss, others; division of labor, individualism, exchange, class and its vicissitudes, social control, ideas and interests, contending criteria of explanation and interpretation.

• Department: Sociology
• M 9:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Gil Eyal
  CULPA: 15 h-index: 26 Info
• 3 points

Adaptation

This is a fast-paced writing, survey and workshop course that will empower writers to define the formal ideals of screenwriting by investigating film adaptations of novels and short stories. The course will culminate in the writing of a short pitch document. This course is at once a survey of the twentieth century American Film, a survey of the Twentieth Century American novel, and a course for writers. We will distill the craft of screenwriting by looking through the prism of adaption in order to understand which elements of the novel translate into film, and why. We will consider novels with the mercenary detachment of a screenwriter, scouring for scraps with value for a screenplay. As we compare the original text with the finished film, we will distill the essence of the screenplay form. What is plot, action, dialog, metaphor? How do we converge these goals? We will decipher, with the clinical eye of a detective, what the screenwriter took from the novel and what they left behind. And in doing this, we will reach an understanding of the formal tenets of an American film.

• Department: Film
• F 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Galt V Niederhoffer
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• 3 points

STUDIES IN DANTE

Prerequisites: In-depth knowledge of the Commedia. A variable-content research seminar that rotates through various areas of Dante studies. Areas covered in the past include: the history of the ideas of hell, purgatory, paradise; Dante’s relation to the classics; Dante's so-called minor works, such as Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia; Dante's lyric poetry. The Fall 2019 seminar will be devoted to Dante's prose treatises.

• Department: Italian
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Teodolinda Barolini
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING

• Department: Physics
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert D Mawhinney
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 49 Info
• 3 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

INTRO TO INTL PLANNING

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Ebru A Gencer
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• 3 points

ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY

Prerequisites: PHYS W3008 or its equivalent. Fundamentals of electromagnetism from an advanced perspective with emphasis on electromagnetic fields in vaccum with no bounding surfaces present. A thorough understanding of Maxwells equations and their application to a wide variety of phenomena. Maxwells equations (in vacuum) and the Lorentz force law - noncovariant form. Scalar and vector potentials, gauge transformations. Generalized functions (delta functions and their derivatives), point changes. Fourier transforms, longitutdinal ad transverse vector fields. Solution of Maxwells equations in unbounded space for electrostatics and magnetostatics with given charge and current sources. Special relativity, Loretnz transformations, 4-momentum, relativistic reactions. Index mechanics of Cartesian tensor notation. Covariatn formulation of Maxwells equations and the Lorentz force law, Lorentz transformation properties of E and B. Lagrangian density for the electromagnetic field, Langrangian density for the Proca field. Symmetries and conservation laws, Noethers theorem. Field conservation laws (energy, linear momentum, angular momentum, stress tensor). Monochromatic plane wave solutions of the time-dependent source-free Maxwell equations, elliptical polarization, partially-polarized electromagnetgic waves, Stokes parameters. Solution of the time-dependent Maxwell equations in unbounded space with given chare and current sources (retarded and advanced solutions). Properties of electromagnetic fields in the radiaion zone, angular distribution of radiated power, frequency distribution of radiated energy, radiation form periodic and non-periodic motions. Radiation from antennas and antenna arrays. Lienard-Wiechert fields, the relativistic form of the Larmor radiation forumla, synchrotron radiation, bremsstrahlung, undulator and wiggler radiation. Electric dipole and magnetic dipole radiation. Scattering of electromagnetic radiation, the differential scattering cross-section, low-energy and high-energy approximations, scattering from a random or periodic array of scatterers. Radiation reaction force, Feynman-Wheeler theoryy. The macroscopic Maxwell equations (spatial averaging to get P, M, D, H). Convolutions, linear materials (permittivity, permeability, and conductivity), causality, analytics continuation, Kramers-Kronig relations. Propagation of monochromatic plane waves in isotropic and non-isotropic linear materials, ordinary ad extraordinary waves. Cherenkov radiation, transition radiation.

• Department: Physics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Brian Metzger
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 77 Info
• 4.5 points

DESIGNS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH

Required of all incoming sociology doctoral students. Prepares students who have already completed an undergraduate major or its equivalent in some social science to evaluate and undertake both systematic descriptions and sound explanations of social structures and processes.

• Department: Sociology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Mario Small
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• 4 points

AF-AM: PRO SEMINAR

This course introduces students to central questions and debates in the fields of African American Studies, and it explores the various interdisciplinary efforts to address them. The seminar is designed to provide an interdisciplinary foundation and familiarize students with a number of methodological approaches. Toward this end we will have a number of class visitors/guest lecturers drawn from members of IRAAS's Core and Affiliated Faculty.

• Department: African American and African Diaspora
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Brandi Summers
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• 4 points

RESEARCH SEMINAR

An M.S. degree requirement. Students attend at least three Applied Mathematics research seminars within the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and submit reports on each.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• T 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Kui Ren
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 0 points

MA SEMINAR IN GLOBAL THOUGHT

This course explores the challenges of understanding the global world in which we live, a world that demands new conceptual approaches and ways of thinking. The objectives are:

To examine multidisciplinary approaches to key global issues through readings, class discussions, and conversations with select CGT faculty members as guest speakers. This will take place through multi-week modules that center on a critical issue, asking students to familiarize themselves with key questions and context, engage with an expert on the topic, and apply their insights to a specific case or question.

To develop a focused and feasible research project and hone the practices of scholarly data collection, analysis, and communication through workshops and assignments. This work begins in the fall and continues to completion in the spring semester of the seminar. The perspectives and skills developed in M.A. Seminar will support students in the development and completion of their thirty-five page M.A. essays, which they will present to each other and to CGT faculty at the Spring Symposium.

• Department: Committee on Global Thought
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Laura L Neitzel
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Vishakha Desai
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• 4 points

ADVANCED MECHANICS OF FLUIDS

Eulerian and Lagrangian descriptions of motion. Stress and strain rate tensors, vorticity, integral and differential equations of mass, momentum, and energy conservation. Potential flow.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Gerard A Ateshian
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• 3 points

RESEARCH & PROF DEVPT WORKSHOP

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• T 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Seth R Kimmel
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 2 points

PLASMA PHYSICS I

Debye screening. Motion of charged particles in space- and time-varying electromagnetic fields. Two-fluid description of plasmas. Linear electrostatic and electromagnetic waves in unmagnetized and magnetized plasmas. The magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model, including MHD equilibrium, stability, and MHD waves in simple geometries.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Gerald A Navratil
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 46 Info
• 3 points

ISSUES IN POLITICAL THEORY

Prerequisites: the instructors permission prior to registration. A survey of selected issues and debates in political theory. Areas of the field discussed include normative political philosophy, history of political thought, and the design of political and social institutions.

• Department: Political Science
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Turkuler Isiksel
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 9 Info
• 4 points

THEORY & METHOD-STUDY OF RELIG

“Theories and Methods” courses in any field are commonly unwieldy beasts. They cannot but be a compromise-formation between contemporary questions and texts, ideas, and definitions (alongside a whole lot of problems) that we have inherited as “canonical” in a field. In the best case, such a course is a passageway into deeper engagement with a field, its histories, its complexities, and its possibilities from which we might wrest and build viable futures. Disciplinary fields are structures where power and knowledge are produced and reproduced. The study of religion is no exception. The questions of “how is ‘religion’ constructed as a category here?” and “what work does the designation of something or someone as ‘religious’ do?” will, therefore, accompany us throughout our work over the course of this semester. We will also examine how different methodological commitments shape what objects of study and which questions come to the fore for the study of religion. This course will explore how the study of religion is not reducible to the study of traditions and communities that are readily recognized as “religious.” However, the vexed histories of the construction of “religion” as a category of knowledge production does also not negate that there are large, varied, and flourishing communities of practice beyond the university for whom whether or not “religion” exists is not at all a question. Holding these layers of complexity in play, this course seeks to introduce students exemplarily to key texts and concepts that have shaped the study of religion as we encounter it today as an academic discipline.

• Department: Religion
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Dominique Townsend
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

APPLIED STATISTICS I

First semester of the doctoral program sequence in applied statistics.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Andrew Gelman
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia h-index: 112 Info
• 4 points

INTRODUCTION TO BIOSTATISTICS

• Department: ONLINE MS IN EPIDEMIOLOGY
• Instructor: Dan Liao
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• 3 points

MPHIL THESIS WRITING SEMINAR II

MPHIL THS WRTNG SMNR II

This seminar is PART 2 for second and third year students who are writing their MPhil thesis. It will assume the form of a yearlong seminar during which students design, research, and write up their MPhil projects. These projects can be based on any kind of sociological method, quantitative or qualitative. The thesis will assume the form of an article that can be submitted to a social science journal. The seminar will help you to find an interesting question, a way to answer it, and a mode of communicating this to fellow sociologists in a way that they might find worth paying attention to. The summer break between the two semesters will allow students who don’t come to the first semester with ready-to-analyze data to gather such data (through ethnographic work, archival research, scraping the internet, combining existing survey data, etc.).

• Department: Sociology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Barbara J Kiviat
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• 4 points

APPLIED STATISTICS III

Prerequisites: STAT GR6102 Modern Bayesian methods offer an amazing toolbox for solving science and engineering problems. We will go through the book Bayesian Data Analysis and do applied statistical modeling using Stan, using R (or Python or Julia if you prefer) to preprocess the data and postprocess the analysis. We will also discuss the relevant theory and get to open questions in model building, computing, evaluation, and expansion. The course is intended for students who want to do applied statistics and also those who are interested in working on statistics research problems.

• Department: Statistics
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Yuqi Gu
  h-index: 6 Info
• 4 points

Introduction to Biostatistical Methods

INTRO-BIOSTATISTICAL METH

Like many fields of learning, biostatistics has its own vocabulary often seen in medical and public health literature. Phrases like statistical significance", "p-value less than 0.05", "95% confident", and "margin of error" can have enormous impact in a world that relies on statistics to make decisions: Should Drug A be recommended over Drug B? Should a national policy on X be implemented? Does Vitamin C truly prevent colds? However, do we really know what these terms and phrases mean? Understanding the theory and methodology behind study design, estimation and hypothesis testing is crucial to ensuring that findings and practices in public health and biomedicine are supported by reliable evidence.

• Department: Biostatistics
• 0-3 points

PROSEMINAR-HISTORICL MUSICOLGY

Introduction to Historical Musicology: the history of the discipline, major areas of research, source materials, and methodological problems.

• Department: Music
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Julia Doe
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• 3 points

Statistical Consulting

Prerequisites: STAT GR6102 or instructor permission. The Deparatments doctoral student consulting practicum. Students undertake pro bono consulting activities for Columbia community researchers under the tutelage of a faculty mentor.

• Department: Statistics
• M 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Ashley Datta
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• 3 points

Finite Element Method for Fluid Flow and

FEM for Fluid Flow and FS

Solving convection-dominated phenomena using finite element method (FEM), including convection-diffusion equation, Navier-Stokes, equation for incompressible viscous flows, and nonlinear fluid-structure interactions (FSI). Foundational concepts of FEM include function spaces, strong and weak forms, Galerkin FEM, isoparametric discretization, stability analysis, and error estimates. Mixed FEM for Stokes flow, incompressibility and inf-sup conditions. Stabilization approaches, including residue-based variational multiscale methods. Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) formulation for nonlinear FSI, and selected advanced topics of research interest.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Vijay Vedula
  h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

MEDIEVAL IBERIAN SAINTS

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Patricia E Grieve
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

Statistical Computing with SAS

STATISTICAL COMPUTING WIT

This is a Public Health Course. Public Health classes are offered on the Health Services Campus at 168th Street. For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses

• Department: Biostatistics
• W 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• 3 points

SCREENWRITING THREE

A two-semester intensive screenwriting workshop with one instructor.  The Screenwriting 3 and Screenwriting 4 class sequence allows for the careful and more sustained development of a feature-length script.  In the fall semester, students further develop an idea for a screenplay and write the first act (approximately 30 pages).  In the spring semester, students finish writing the script and, time permitting, begin a first revision.

• Department: Film
• W 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• W 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• T 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• T 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 3 points

FICTION SEMINAR

WRITING POWERFUL DIALOGUE

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• Department: Writing
• W 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: James Canon
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• 3 points

FICTION SEMINAR

ANIMAL TALES

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• Department: Writing
• F 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Anelise I Chen
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• 3 points

FICTION SEMINAR

Narrative Design

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• Department: Writing
• T 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Joshua Furst
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• 3 points

FICTION SEMINAR

BUILDING A BETTER NOVEL

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• Department: Writing
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Victor D Lavalle
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

FICTION SEMINAR

THE METAPHOR LAB

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• Department: Writing
• W 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Hilary J Leichter
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• 3 points

FICTION SEMINAR

IMITATION SINCEREST FORM

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• Department: Writing
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Susie Luo
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• 3 points

FICTION SEMINAR

SPECULATIVE FICTION

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• Department: Writing
• M 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Lincoln M Michel
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• 3 points

FICTION SEMINAR

AUTHORITY

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• Department: Writing
• M 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Mina Seckin
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• 3 points

FICTION SEMINAR

THE RUMBLING

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• Department: Writing
• W 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Lynn S Strong
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• 3 points

FICTION SEMINAR

BUILDING A SCENE

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• Department: Writing
• W 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Lara Vapnyar
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• 3 points

The Hybrid Voice: Comparative Diasporas

COMP DIASPORAS & TRANSLATION

A seminar on the theory and practice of translation from the perspective of comparative diaspora studies, drawing on the key scholarship on diaspora that has emerged over the past two decades focusing on the central issue of language in relation to migration, uprooting, and imagined community. Rather than foregrounding a single case study, the syllabus is organized around the proposition that any consideration of diaspora requires a consideration of comparative and overlapping diasporas, and as a consequence a confrontation with multilingualism, creolization and the problem of translation. The final weeks of the course will be devoted to a practicum, in which we will conduct an intensive workshop around the translation projects of the student participants.

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

FUNDAMENTALS OF ECOLOGY

Prerequisites: Required course for first year Ph.D. students and second year M.A. students on academic track. Covers foundational topics and developments in many branches of ecology, including population, community, and ecosystems ecology.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• 3 points

Topics in Database Systems

AGENTIC SYSTEMS MADE REAL

• Department: Computer Science
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Junfeng Yang
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 33 Info
• 3 points

Environmental Law and Policy in New York

New York City has positioned itself as a global leader in the fight against climate change, often serving as a model for other jurisdictions to follow. This course explores the development and implementation of environmental legislation and policy in New York City during the past two decades. It includes discussions about historical context, environmental policymaking considerations, political processes, outcomes, and the role of stakeholders such as advocates, business, industry, labor, government actors, and community. Students will gain broad knowledge of key legislation and policies related to sustainability, resiliency, energy, emissions, waste and the circular economy, transportation, water and air quality, and green space. Furthermore, students will consider how environmental justice and equity play a role in the development of legislation and policy, and assess best practices for providing equitable treatment and engaging all communities. While the focus of the class will be on New York City, students will also learn about environmental policies implemented in other jurisdictions.

Introduction to Environmental Law and Policy in New York City is available to students in the Graduate Program for Sustainability Management. It is designed to provide future sustainability practitioners and others with a fundamental understanding of how legislation and policy is made, what influences this development, and how legislation and policy seek to address climate change in New York City in urban environments like New York City. Students will be able to use this knowledge to help government and public and private organizations achieve more sustainable solutions.

This is a semester-long elective class that will be taught on campus. Specific competencies or prerequisites are not required. This course will be interactive and discussion-intensive, engaging students to utilize and reflect critical and analytical thinking about how environmental legislation and policy is developed and how they can create innovative environmental legislation and policy in the future. Students will participate in class discussions, think critically about policy development and assigned readings, write a reaction essay on environmental justice and equity, and present their analysis to classroom colleagues. For the final project, students will write a research report and present their report to the class, focusing on a particular environmental policy topic, identifying areas where policymaking can be improved upon and/or expande

• Department: Sustainability Management
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Laura Popa
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• 3 points

OPERATING SYSTEMS, II

• Department: Computer Science
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jason Nieh
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia h-index: 50 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO EPID FOR NUTRITIONIST

• Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
• Instructor: Jeri W Nieves
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• 3 points

SUMA PS6120 Equity, Policy, and Sustaina

Public policy shapes how our environment, both natural and built, is managed and regulated. Policy not only creates the infrastructure and regulatory frameworks needed to support sustainability goals, but is also critical in establishing an equitable foundation that supports individual and collective change in pursuit of those goals.

This course will serve as an introduction to equity in sustainability policy: We will survey federal, state, and local policies and proposals to understand how we use policy to enhance urban resilience, mitigate environmental impacts, and also promote social and economic justice. Using an interdisciplinary approach that draws from economics, sociology, urban studies, critical theory, and more, students will develop their capacities to read and interpret policy, enhance their understanding of current policy frameworks, and strengthen their ability to engage with emerging policy developments.

Building on contemporary efforts in public policy, we will use an equity lens to focus on the human dimension of sustainability. We will explore policy frameworks and dialogues that foster more equitable outcomes, increase engagement of people most impacted, and contribute to sustainability goals. As an entry point, the course will focus on policies related to climate adaptation and urban sustainability transitions, setting the stage for students to explore equity in urban resilience efforts and to examine intersections of race, class, and other social factors with access to resources.

The course will be discussion-based and center participatory activities (e.g., student-led discussions, paired analyses, team exercises) designed to encourage students to consider policy issues from multiple perspectives—including identifying disparities and assessing opportunities for increasing equity in the sustainability policy sector. The course will also invite scholars and practitioners to share expertise and experience from the field. Students are not expected or required to have any previous experience with policy or law.

• Department: Sustainability Management
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 3 points

VOICE II

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: Corinna May
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• 2 points

VOICE II

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: Corinna May
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• 2 points

PRACTICUM: RES PLANNING

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Kate Dunham
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• 1.5 points

FASHION POLICY AND THE POLITICS OF GOVER

The fashion industry is an ideal case study on how governments, citizens and international institutions attempt to limit the environmental and social impacts of complex consumer industries with global supply chains. Historically, apparel and textiles have been at the center of some of the most consequential government actions under liberal Western democracy, including the abolition of slavery and the passage of the first workplace safety and labor laws in the United States. In recent years, fashion has returned to the center of dynamic policy debates within the sustainability and social impact space.

 

The $2.5 trillion global fashion industry’s social and environmental impacts often evade regulation. Major brands leverage long and opaque supply chains for raw materials and cheap manufacturing costs with very little accountability. Private regulation and voluntary commitments have policed fashion for the better part of four decades, an approach that arguably has ended in failures to protect human and environmental rights. The industry’s lack of accountability has cost lives, including the notorious Rana Plaza building collapse in 2013 where 1,132 garment makers died, and now contributes to a sizable percentage of annual climate change. Profits have been pushed to the top of the supply chain while garment makers consistently toil for poverty wages, and the pollution and environmental degradation of fashion is a burden almost exclusively carried by low-and-middle income nations and communities of color that manufacture clothing and produce raw materials.

 

But the tide is turning. Governments are being asked to step in and regulate the fashion industry. Can effective fashion policies police international supply chains and achieve their intended aims? Might they unleash unintended consequences and in what ways? This course is an introduction to the fast-evolving space of modern environmental and labor policy as it intersects with fashion, and which seeks to incentivize more responsible business behavior in the realm of social, environmental and governance impacts. The class will use recently passed and proposed fashion social and sustainability policies as our case studies, including the New York State Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act; mandatory human rights due diligence in Europe; California’s Garment Worker Protection Act and Congress’s FABRIC Act; the FTC Green Guides and the UK CMA’s Green Claims Code; and Europe&rsquo

• Department: Sustainability Management
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 3 points

Management of SEC Climate Disclosure Com

This course takes a dual-pronged approach to the importance of sustainability reporting: examining both the corporate perspective on preparing sustainability disclosures and the investor perspective on how these disclosures are used to inform capital allocation, risk assessment, and stewardship decisions. At a time when the sustainability reporting landscape—both voluntary and mandatory—is rapidly evolving, focusing on the investor perspective provides clarity. This approach helps students anchor their learning in what matters most for capital markets, enabling them to organize and lead sustainability reporting processes within their own organizations. The goal of this two-sided lens is to equip students with the skills to deliver decision-useful, transparent, and consistent sustainability information that aligns with the demands of today’s regulatory and investment environments.

In the first half of the course, students will explore the evolving landscape of sustainability frameworks and regulations. Key regulatory regimes—such as California’s SB 253 and SB 261, the EU’s CSRD, and the CSDDD and GRI, Sustainability Reports, ISSB —will serve as anchors for case discussions. These discussions will play a crucial role in helping students understand how to administer sustainability reporting as a strategic organizational function, and in emphasizing the organizational capacity and management practices needed to comply with these frameworks. By the end of the course, students will be able to design, manage, and implement the internal processes required to respond to mandatory and evolving ESG disclosure expectations.

The second half of the course will adopt the lens of the investor, exploring how ESG disclosures are integrated into decision-making across three asset classes: public equity, private equity/alternatives, and fixed income. Students will engage in structured modules for each asset class, assuming the role of institutional investors tasked with interpreting disclosures, engaging with companies, and making recommendations. Each module will feature live engagements with real-world investors, offering students direct insight into market practices and expectations.

• Department: Sustainability Management
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Carolyn Allwin
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• 3 points

Global Health at the Human-Wildlife Inte

Global Hlth/Human-Wildlif

The course will review and discuss current topics focusing on the patterns and underlying processes leading to zoonotic emergence as well as the methodologies utilized to explain and forecast emergence of specific pathogen groups.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria Diuk-Wasser
  h-index: 36 Info
• 3 points

SUMA PS6135 Art & Sustainability

Since the first Earth Day in 1970, artists have increasingly addressed ecological issues in their work. This trend has magnified greatly in the past two decades. Around the globe, artists are creating artwork that addresses the impact of loss of biodiversity, rising sea levels, extreme weather events, plastic pollution, and the fragility of our shared ecosystems. Their art raises awareness of the need to act collectively, suggesting frameworks for replacing anthropocentric and colonial approaches to nature, and amplifying the urgent need for environmental justice. In this pivotal moment of climate change, artists inspire by cultivating new narratives and giving form to the invisible or unimaginable, demonstrating how art can help awaken resolve and shape our next steps. They invite viewer participation and action, and suggest ways to make a difference. In the process, they expand our potential for empathy and agency.

The cultural sector has an important role to play in shifting attitudes that would lead to developing more sustainable and equitable global futures. Artists focus on both local and global environmental issues, expanding the field of climate change communication and at times offering out-of-the-box solutions. The artists covered in the course are cognizant of the need for systemic social change in order to achieve policy change. Blurring the boundaries between art and activism, many are working collaboratively across disciplines and with various communities to address both the physical and ethical dimensions of sustainability. Others work independently to provide new visions for the future. The course is designed for people who are interested in the contribution that art can play in creating fresh paradigms.

• Department: Sustainability Management
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Julie Reiss
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• 3 points

STAGE COMBAT

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: Jacqueline Holloway
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• 1 points

STAGE COMBAT

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: Jacqueline Holloway
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• 1 points

Adorno

One of the avatars of the Frankfurt School and a key architect of modern critical theory, Theodor Adorno (1903-1969) cast a long intellectual shadow over the twentieth century and left a prolific body of work whose influence has only grown in recent decades. In this seminar, our aim will to be read some of the central works of this German thinker carefully and collaboratively in order to become conversant in some of his chief concerns, methodological interventions, and theoretical contributions. We will pay special attention to his concepts of history, politics, negativity, dialectics, literature, and aesthetic form, while also developing the habits required to engage with complex theoretical work. Given Adorno’s wide span interests and immense influence, any sustained inquiry into his work will necessarily open vistas onto contemporary critical debates. To that end, we will also be examining interventions and dialogues with Adorno by later thinkers such as Edward Said, Gillian Rose, Fred Moten, and Fumi Okiji.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph Albernaz
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

ANALYSIS & PROBABILITY I

Prerequisites: the instructor's written permission. This is a course for Ph.D. students, and for majors in Mathematics. Measure theory; elements of probability; elements of Fourier analysis; Brownian motion.

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ivan Corwin
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 34 Info
• 4.5 points

IDEA OF A BL RADICAL TRADITION

This course will seek to raise and think through the following questions: What does it mean to talk today about a black radical tradition? What has it meant in the past to speak in these (or cognate) terms? And if we take the debate in part at least to inhabit a normative discursive space, an argumentative space in which to make claims on the moral-political present, what ought it to mean to talk about a black radical tradition?

• Department: Anthropology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: David Scott
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 72 Info
• 3 points

MATERIALS CHEMISTRY IIA

Prerequisites: CHEM UN2443 , or the equivalent. This is an introductory course to the emerging field macromolecular materials chemistry. The general topics will be based on the chemistry, self-assembly, and performance of block copolymers and conjugated polymers. Particular emphasis will be devoted to the demands required to drive materials from scientific curiosity to commercialization. At the fundamental level, the course will cover topics on polymerization techniques, electronic structure of organic semiconductors, characterization strategies, nanostructures and self-assembly.

• Department: Chemistry
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Luis M Campos
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia h-index: 45 Info
• 2.5 points

PRE-ATLANTIC SLAVERY AFRICA AND SOUT

This seminar on pre-Atlantic Slavery in Africa and Asia will focus on the history of captivity and bondage in modern and the premodern Africa. Conceptually, what is the difference between a captive and a slave? How has captivity been central to the history of social difference and state formation in premodern Africa? By introducing the student to the history of trade in captives within Africa and across the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, the student will be encouraged to rethink premodern Africa as central to premodern world history rather than marginal to it.

• Department: Anthropology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Mahmood Mamdani
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia h-index: 57 Info
• 4 points

Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality

Virtual and Augmented Rea

This course will cover selected topics in virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). There are two main components, with everyone participating in both: papers and projects.

• Department: Computer Science
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Steven K Feiner
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

MODELING & PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

Introduction to queuing analysis and simulation techniques. Evaluation of time-sharing and multiprocessor systems. Topics include priority queuing, buffer storage, and disk access, interference and bus contention problems, and modeling of program behaviors.

• Department: Computer Science
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Vishal Misra
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia h-index: 53 Info
• 3 points

PRACTICUM IN TEACHING OF PSYCH

Practical and theoretical issues relating to the teaching of psychology and the psychology of teaching.

• Department: Psychology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Katherine T Fox-Glassman
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 4 Info
• 1-3 points

THEORETICAL STATISTICS I

Prerequisites: students in a masters program must seek the director of the M.A. program in statistics' permission; students in an undergraduate program must seek the director of undergraduate studies in statistics' permission. A general introduction to mathematical statistics and statistical decision theory. Elementary decision theory, Bayes inference, Neyman-Pearson theory, hypothesis testing, most powerful unbiased tests, confidence sets. Estimation: methods, theory, and asymptotic properties. Likelihood ratio tests, multivariate distribution. Elements of general linear hypothesis, invariance, nonparametric methods, sequential analysis.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Bodhisattva Sen
  h-index: 24 Info
• 4 points

THEORETICAL STATISTICS III

Prerequisites: STAT G6201 and STAT G6201 This course will mainly focus on nonparametric methods in statistics. A tentavie list of topics to be covered include nonparametric density and regression function estimation -- upper bounds on the risk of kernel estimators and matching lower bounds on the minimax risk, reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces, bootstrap and resampling methods, multiple hypothesis testing, and high dimensional stastistical analysis.

• Department: Statistics
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Samory Kpotufe
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS I-DIS

• Department: Economics
• 0 points

DIRECTING III

Students explore more deeply the range of skills and techniques necessary to direct both short and feature films including script breakdown of sequences, scenes, turning points and beats as well as advanced study of actor and camera staging. Students will hone their directing skills by preparing, shooting, and editing, in video, a minimum of three significant scenes from published or original work, depending on priority of the instructor. When taken concurrently, at least one of these scenes will be presented in Directing the Actor workshops. Students should also be working on a first draft of a short screenplay for their second-year project if they intend to take Directing 4.

• Department: Film
• M 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• W 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• F 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• M 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Tom Kalin
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• Instructor: Eric Mendelsohn
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• 3 points

GENETIC APPRCH TO BIOLGCL PBLM

Required for first year Genetics and Development students. Open to all students. Designed to illustrate how genetic systems have played a fundamental role in our understanding of basic biological problems: mitosis and meiosis, chromosomal linkage and mapping, consequences of chromosomal rearrangements, mechanisms of recombination and gene conversion, the use of mutants to study gene structure, regulation and the cell cycle, uses of recombinant DNA in genetic analysis, and the genetic analysis of development in Drosophila.

• Department: Genetics and Development
• TF 1:30 p.m.-3 p.m.
• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

LITERARY JOURNALISM

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• Department: Writing
• T 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Jaquira Diaz
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• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

FAMILY MATTERS

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• Department: Writing
• T 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Lis Harris
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• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

VISUAL ARTS AS A POETICS

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• Department: Writing
• T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Lars Horn
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• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

WRITING THE BODY

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• Department: Writing
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Leslie S Jamison
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• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

MEMOIR AND IMAGINATION

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• Department: Writing
• W 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Margo L Jefferson
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

REPORTING NON-NEWS

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• Department: Writing
• M 1:10 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Gideon Lewis-Kraus
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• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

INNER LIFE

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• Department: Writing
• R 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Benjamin Taylor
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• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

THE BRILLIANT VOICE

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• Department: Writing
• R 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Wendy Walters
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• 3 points

MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS I

Prerequisites: the director of graduate studies' permission. Corequisites: ECON G6410. Consumer and producer behavior; general competitive equilibrium, welfare and efficiency, behavior under uncertainty, intertemporal allocation and capital theory, imperfect competition, elements of game theory, problems of information, economies with price rigidities.

• Department: Economics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• 4 points

THEORIES & DEBATES-AMER POL II

This is the second of two semester-long courses that provide graduate students with an overview of the scholarly study of American politics. G6210 and G6211 constitute the American politics field survey. The field survey is designed for political science doctoral students who intend to specialize in American politics, as well as for those students whose primary interests are comparative politics, international relations, or political theory, but who desire an intensive introduction to the American style of political science. In this course we will cover a range of topics related to American politics that, for the most part, are not covered in G6210. Our focus will be on public opinion and political behavior. The reading assignments are a mix of foundational contributions (i.e. the canons of American politics literature) and recent research. The first part of each seminar session will aim to clarify and probe enduring puzzles, theories, and debates highlighted in the foundational texts. The latter portion of the seminar session will focus on how recent studies contribute to ongoing debates and define the research agenda going forward.

• Department: Political Science
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Donald P Green
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 87 Info
• 4 points

CARBON SEQUESTRATION

Carbon Sequestration

New technologies for capturing carbon dioxide and disposing of it away from the atmosphere. Detailed discussion of the extent of the human modifications to the natural carbon cycle, the motivation and  scope of future carbon management strategies and the role of carbon sequestration. Introduction of several carbon sequestration technologies that allow for the capture and permanent disposal of carbon dioxide. Engineering issues in their implementation, economic  impacts, and the environmental issues raised by the various methods.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• 3 points

MACROECONOMIC ANALYSIS I-DIS

• Department: Economics
• 0 points