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TOPICS MODERN SOUTH ASIA

• Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
• F 1:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Rachel McDermott
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• 4 points

FRONTIERS OF MACROECONOMICS

• Department: Economics
• R 11:10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• 3 points

MACROECONOMIC ANALYSIS I

Prerequisites: the director of graduate studies' permission. Concept of full employment. Models of underemployment and theory applicability, determinants of consumption and of investment, multiplier and accelerator analysis, an introduction to monetary macroeconomics, the supply side and inflation. Integration of macroeconomics with microeconomic and monetary analysis.

• Department: Economics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• 4 points

Analytical Perspectives in New Music

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This course will explore plausible analytical responses to a selection of diverse sonic works from the past five decades, with emphasis on works that expand or challenge existing analytical methodologies and assumptions. The goal of this course is not to offer strict analytical models or standard procedures, but to foster analytical conversations that are pertinent to their subjects while broadening the understanding of what music analysis as it relates to new music can offer.

• Department: Music
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Marcos Balter
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• 3 points

ADV MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS I

• Department: Economics
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Navin Kartik
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• 3 points

ADVANCED MACRO ANALYSIS I

• Department: Economics
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Emilien Gouin-Bonenfant
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• 3 points

Science Education Theory to Practice

This course explores the multidimensional nature of teaching and learning science education. It does so through a deep dive into pedagogical theory and practice, the nature of science, and the social-cultural aspects of education. The class is intended for students who may enter fields requiring elements of public education and who want to learn how to teach others.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• Instructor: Lisa M Kozlowski
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• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION

Intro to Pub Health & Nut

• Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
• TR 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 3 points

LANDSCAPE:LIFE AND NON-LIFE IN THE MAKIN

This class takes the creation and inhabitation of place as its focus, drawing on diverse conceptual frameworks from anthropology and beyond to think critically about landscape and the forms of life and non-life through which it is constituted. Well look at the history of approaches to landscape and then address a range of case studies that attempt to decenter the human and to imagine a non-anthropocentric form of inquiry to place-making. How might such modes of approach reconfigure what is understood by landscape and the coming into being of place?

• Department: Anthropology
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Zoe Crossland
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

APPL MACROECONOMICS & FINANCE

• Department: Economics
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Noemie Pinardon-Touati
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• 3 points

Dostoevsky s Bros Karamazov & Others

A close examination of Dostoevsky’s 
Brothers Karamazov
, supplemented by a reading of related texts: works by Dostoevsky and others, notebooks for the novel; essays, theoretical and critical works, and works that illuminate the (folk-)religious, aesthetic, philosophical, scientific, and political dimensions of the novel.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Liza Knapp
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 4 points

Population Ecology

Population Ecology is a quantitative field that through theoretical and empirical tools attempts to describe intrinsic and extrinsic processes that determine how populations change over time.  Intrinsic factors include population structure, rate of change, and life histories; extrinsic factors include environmental variation, interspecific interactions, and anthropogenic perturbations that affect population change.  A comprehensive understanding of populations and how they respond to changing environments forms the basics of conservation biology and wildlife management. This class will explore how concepts of population ecology can be used to inform the conservation and management of natural populations and ecosystems. We will emphasize practical approaches to problem-solving in ecology, conservation, and wildlife management using simulation models and inferential statistics. Topics will include Population Viability Analysis (PVA), metapopulations, species interactions, threats to wild populations, wildlife management and more. Laboratory exercises will provide hands-on experience with wildlife population models and their practical applications in wildlife ecology and management.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Viorel Popescu
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• 3 points

Readings in Sufi Texts

This seminar is based entirely on the primary sources of Ṣūfism, including the writings of Qushayrī, Nūrī, Muḥāsibī, Sarrāj, Ghazālī, Hujwīrī, Ibn ʿArabī, Suhrawardī, Shaʿrānī, and al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī. We will explore how the leading Ṣūfīs saw themselves and the ways in which they articulated their identity. This is also articulated in the ways they organized their works and constructed the biographies of their ethical exemplars. We will study their major concepts and descriptions of their own experiences, and then theorize their subjective formations as “hermeneutics of the subject.” Inasmuch as this seminar is about how we study and view Ṣūfism, it is also as much about the various ways this conception of the world can inform a basis of a set of critiques of modernity and its epistemologies and practices.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Wael Hallaq
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

DIRECTING ACTORS III

More sophisticated principles are applied and more challenging scenes are presented. Collaboration with a writer is a requirement.  Required for Screenwriting and Directing concentrates.

• Department: Film
• R 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• M 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• T 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Jon Shear
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• Instructor: Lisa Milinazzo
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• Instructor: Shira-Lee Shalit
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• 3 points

PERSONHOOD

This seminar seeks to engage with materials that question personhood. Drawing on both fictional and non-fictional accounts, we will be involved with textual and visual documents as well institutional contexts in order to revisit such notion under contemporary capitalism. We will cover topics like rites of passage and life cycle, the role of the nation state and local communities in defining a person, the relation between self and non-self, between the living and the dead. We will likewise address vicarious forms of personhood through the prosthetic, the avatar or the heteronomous. But we will also look into forms of dissipation and/or enhancement of personhood through bodybuilding, guinea-piging and pharmo-toxicities. As a whole, the course will bring to light how the question of personhood cross-culturally relates to language, performativity, religion, technology, law, gender, race, class, care, life and death.

• Department: Anthropology
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria Jose de Abreu
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• 3 points

Field Methods in Wildlife Monitoring

This course provides a strong theoretical and practical background in the use of wildlife monitoring techniques to address ecological and conservation orientated questions. The course will conduct an overview of monitoring plan design and the conceptual background needed to understand and critique monitoring plans, and have the basic skills to develop and implement a monitoring program as part of an interdisciplinary team. During this course, we will examine a variety of research and monitoring techniques used by wildlife professionals. We will evaluate the theories, strengths, and weaknesses behind the use of these wildlife techniques and apply them in the field.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Wai-Ming Wong
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• 3 points

CAPSTONE: RESOLUTION STRATEGIES

• Department: Negotiation & Conflict Resolution
• W noon-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter Dixon
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• 3 points

SOLO SHOWS

We will use the experience of writing a piece with built-in constraints – cast size with a solo show – to expand our thinking about what is a theatrical event. We will work toward becoming more in touch with our imaginations and in greater awareness and command of what we know. We will explore what is of interest to each of us now, through in-class writing and outside assignments.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• W 9:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Leslie Ayvazian
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• 3 points

ARCH & DEV DIALOGUES

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Raquel Ramati
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• 1.5 points

INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION I

Prerequisites: ECON G6211 and ECON G6212 or the instructor's permission. This course provides an introduction to a number of exciting research questions in industrial organization and organizational economics. While most of the content is theoretical, great emphasis is placed on the testable implications of the models we study: related empirical work is surveyed. The course aims to bring students to the research frontier by identifying open research questions and highlighting particularly active research areas.

• Department: Economics
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Pietro Tebaldi
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• 3 points

CAPITAL MARKETS: REIT ANALYSIS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: David A Kruth
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• 3 points

COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA

Commutative rings; modules; localization; primary decoposition; integral extensions; Noetherian and Artinian rings; Nullstellensatz; Dedekind domains; dimension theory; regular local rings.

• Department: Mathematics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Thaddeus
  CULPA: 24 Wikipedia Info
• 4.5 points

UNDERWRITING

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher W Munsell
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• 3 points

NEW YORK RISING: HOW RE SHAPES A CITY

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Kate J Ascher
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• 3 points

MATERIALS SCIENCE REPORTS

Formal written reports and conferences with the appropriate member of the faculty on a subject of special interest to the student but not covered in the other course offerings.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Oleg Gang
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• 0-6 points

HOTEL DEVPT/INVESTMNT ANALYSIS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Adam S Feil
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• 1.5 points

New Classicism

This graduate seminar is an investigation and interrogation of the English Renaissance. It will offer grounding in the nineteenth-century emergence of the Renaissance as a cultural and conceptual category, as well as the prevailing scholarly understanding of how sixteenth-century writers, poets, and playwrights negotiated their estrangement from the classical past. But the course will also aim, more urgently, to forge new pathways in classical reception studies. To what uses, we will ask, did English writers put their classical sources, and what imagined ideas about antiquity did they generate as a result? How did that engagement with classical sources shape emergent ideas about gender, race, and class? And though the course will center on the literary production of late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century England, it will also cast a wide geographical net, seeking out the Renaissances and classical pasts that have been neglected in the focus on the European revival of ancient Greece and Rome. Attending to a variety of critical methodologies, this seminar will bring together a range of literary forms, including drama, epic, poetry, and civic spectacle, from a range of places, including England, Italy, and the Ottoman Empire.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Lauren E Robertson
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• 4 points

TPCS IN DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: G6211, G6212, G6215, G6216, G6411, G6412 or the instructor's permission. This course covers prominent topics in micro-development economics. Lectures and readings will cover theoretical frameworks; emphasize empirical research; and highlight gaps in the literature.

• Department: Economics
• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• 3 points

Practicum in Music Composition

This course provides an opportunity for students in the Music Department’s Composition DMA program to engage in off-campus practicum or internships in music composition for academic credit that will count towards the requirements for the degree.

• Department: Music
• Instructor: Marcos Balter
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• 1 points

POLITICAL CONCEPTS IN WAKE OF GEONTONTOP

POLTICL CNCPTS:GEONTOPOWE

It’s hot and it’s getting hotter. As the machinery of capital extraction, industrialism, and consumption refuses to relinquish its grip, meteorological temperatures continue to rise and chemical hot zones spread. Tipping points threaten regime shifts in which the qualitative nature of the earth’s biosphere will alter. But until then, and even after then, hot zones occur in the aggregate only in abstraction. In reality they form like weather clouds over specific places—toxic smog over Beijing, lead poisoning in drinking water in Flint, Michigan, uranium exposure in Navajo and Hopi lands. Marx thought the social dialectic was leading to the purification of the fundamental opposition of human classes. No little evidence can be mustered to support the claim that we are nearing this moment—the world seems to be splitting into ever more extreme halves—the one percent and the ever-increasing precariate. But what many believe we are witnessing a new form of antagonism and which demands new modes of solidarity. The new swelter seems to them less fundamentally a war of class—although also a class war, although definitely not a clash of civilization—and more a clash of existents. And in this new war of the world everyone must decide with whom (or what) we are making ties of solidarity. With whom or what will we stake our claim?

• Department: Anthropology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Povinelli
  CULPA: 14 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

RESEARCH SEMINAR

Prerequisites: degree in biological sciences. Lectures by visiting scientists, faculty, and students; specific biological research projects; with emphasis on evolution, ecology, and conservation biology.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• R 2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• 1 points

Environmental Health Sciences

ENVIRONMENTAL HLTH SCIENC

Environmental factors have a profound impact on the public's health. Essential to understanding and addressing this impact is a focused study in basic and applied environmental health sciences. Environmental health problems intersect with health disparities, government policy, reproductive health, population shifts, and economic forces. Recognizing the need for a solid grounding in both environmental health sciences and the interconnections with other societal issues significantly improves the way we conduct public health research and professional practice. In this course, students will engage in scientific inquiry into environmental health issues and develop problem-solving skills for improving health at the local, regional and global levels. This course is part of the core-course requirement for the MPH.

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• W 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Greg A Freyer
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• 3 points

THE BUSINESS OF FILM

An overview of the business side of theatrical motion pictures, from the Hollywood major studios to small independents and self-distribution. Covers all the ancillary markets (cable, home video) and their relationship both to the theatrical success of the film and to its bottom line.  Required for all second-year Creative Producing students. Available as an elective for Directing/Screenwriting students.

• Department: Film
• R 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Ira Deutchman
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• 3 points

TOPICS IN THE HISTORY OF MUSIC THEORY

Explores varying themes in the history of music theory from antiquity to the present. Topics include the development of genres of musical analysis and description, problems in the historiography of music theory, musical discourse in relation to the human sciences, and other special issues.

• Department: Music
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Benjamin A Steege
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• 3 points

PROBABILITY THEORY I

Prerequisites: A thorough knowledge of elementary real analysis and some previous knowledge of probability. Overview of measure and integration theory. Probability spaces and measures, random variables and distribution functions. Independence, Borel-Cantelli lemma, zero-one laws. Expectation, uniform integrability, sums of independent random variables, stopping times, Wald's equations, elementary renewal theorems. Laws of large numbers. Characteristic functions. Central limit problem; Lindeberg-Feller theorem, infinitely divisible and stable distributions. Cramer's theorem, introduction to large deviations. Law of the iterated logarithm, Brownian motion, heat equation.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Anne Van Delft
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 5 Info
• 4 points

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF PDE'S

Numerical analysis of initial and boundary value problems for partial differential equations. Convergence and stability of the finite difference method, the spectral method, the finite element method and applications to elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic equations.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Qiang Du
  Wikipedia h-index: 67 Info
• 3 points

MOS TRANSISTORS

Operation and modeling of MOS transistors. MOS two- and three-terminal structures. The MOS transistor as a four-terminal device; general charge-sheet modeling; strong, moderate, and weak inversion models; short-and-narrow-channel effects; ion-implanted devices; scaling considerations in VLSI; charge modeling; large-signal transient and small-signal modeling for quasistatic and nonquasistatic operation.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Yannis P Tsividis
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

PROBABILITY THEORY III

• Department: Statistics
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Cynthia Rush
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 12 Info
• 4 points

ADV STUDIO III- JT HP/ARCH

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 1:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• 6 points

ALGEBRAIC TOPOLOGY I

Topics include homology and homotopy theory; covering spaces; homology with local coefficients; cohomology; Chech cohomology.

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Lucy Yang
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• 4.5 points

FEATURE FILM DEVELOPMENT

An overview of film financing, sales, and distribution, including private equity, tax incentives, international co-productions, soft money, pre-sales, studio financing, and grants. Students will learn how to set up a legal production entity, create a financing plan and recoupment waterfall, navigate the distribution landscape, and approach prospective financiers, sales agents, and distributors. Students will workshop the same feature project from Feature Film Development and complete the pitch deck they had started. Weekly assignments will be entered into a collective class database of industry players.

• Department: Film
• F 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Mynette Louie
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• Instructor: Diane Houslin
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• 3 points

POETRY SEMINAR

THE END OF SOLITUDE

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

POETRY SEMINAR

SURREALISM & PROSE POETRY

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• Department: Writing
• M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Jared D Fagen
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• 3 points

POETRY SEMINAR

AVANT-GARDE POETRY & LIT

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• Department: Writing
• T 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Alan Gilbert
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• 3 points

POETRY SEMINAR

UNLEASHING THE POETIC DEMON

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• Department: Writing
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Dorothea S Lasky
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• 3 points

POETRY SEMINAR

Read & Write (Meter)

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• Department: Writing
• T 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Shane McCrae
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• 3 points

Art in Protest-Protest in Art

ART IN PROTEST-PROTEST IN

All art is political, but some art is made as a form of protest or to incite an audience to protest. Most often it is both. This course – though far from exhaustive in its coverage – will present a sample of genres (music, plastic arts, theater, dance, installation, photography) in a variety of locations and times to understand how art and artists have engaged in protest. Much of modern art is conceptual, using installations and performance, to communicate. Therefore, we will start the class by turning to T. J. Clark, the preeminent art historian, for his answer to the question, when did modern art begin? This question will lead us to explore the debate on the purpose of art. We will then move to how artists responded to moments of crisis in the early 20th century - world wars, economic depression, and the rise of fascism – because the art that emerged informs much of what we see today. Based on these foundational questions, the class will turn to case studies from around the globe.

• Department: Committee on Global Thought
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ramona H Bajema
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• 3 points

Fundamentals of Toxicology for Health-re

FUNDAMENTALS OF TOXICOLOG

This course is designed to introduce the basic concepts of toxicology to students from multiple fields and disciplines related to health. Nowadays excellence in health research and in its translation to the public can only be reached through multidisciplinary team effort, and teamwork is always more efficient when its different contributors have an appropriate understanding of each other’s expertise. The objectives of the first part of the course are to detail the routes of exposure to xenobiotics (chemicals and drugs) and to trace the biochemical and biological pathways through which xenobiotics are absorbed, metabolized, distributed, excreted, and biomonitored. In the second section of the course, we examine the effects of molecular/cellular changes on the function of representative organ systems including the respiratory, cardiovascular, endocrine/reproductive, immune, liver, kidney, and nervous systems. Students are also introduced to applications of toxicology such as occupational and food toxicology. At the completion of the course students are expected to have an extensive toxicology vocabulary which will aid in their future collaborations in related disciplines. Students will also have a working knowledge of: 1) general toxicological principles, 2) inter-species and inter-individual differences in responses to toxicants, 3) the effects of several key toxicants on the normal function of several organ systems, and 4) the basic approach to applications of toxicology. The overall objective of this course is to provide the student with an introduction to the language and principles of toxicology such that these principles may be applied to public health and other health-related disciplines and communicated to the general public.

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• M 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Diane Re
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• 3 points

MILLIMETER-WAVE IC DESIGN

Millimeter-Wave IC Design

Principles behind the implementation of millimeter-wave (30GHz-300GHz) wireless circuits and systems in silicon-based technologies. Silicon-based active and passive devices for millimeter-wave operation, millimeter-wave low-noise amplifiers, power amplifiers, oscillators and VCOs, oscillator phase noise theory, mixers and frequency dividers for PLLs. A design project is an integral part of the course.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Harish Krishnaswamy
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• 3 points

WRIT/SCRIPT ANALYSIS-PRODUCERS

This is a specialized course designed to provide prospective producers with a nuanced framework for understanding the screenwriting process.  The course will explore all the ways a producer might interact with screenwriters and screenplays, including coverage, script analysis, notes, treatments, and rewrites.  Each student will complete a series of writing and rewriting assignments over the course of the semester. Required for all second-year Creative Producing students and only open to students in that concentration.

• Department: Film
• T 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Jack Lechner
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• 3 points

SITE PLAN-SUPPRT SYSTM-DVLPMNT

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Graham L Trelstad
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• 3 points

RADIATION THERAPY PHYS PRACT

Students spend two to four days per week studying the clinical aspects of radiation therapy physics. Projects on the application of medical physics in cancer therapy within a hospital environment are assigned; each entails one or two weeks of work and requires a laboratory report. Two areas are emphasized: 1. computer-assisted treatment planning (design of typical treatment plans for various treatment sites including prostate, breast, head and neck, lung, brain, esophagus, and cervix) and 2. clinical dosimetry and calibrations (radiation measurements for both photon and electron beams, as well as daily, monthly, and part of annual QA).

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Cheng S Wuu
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• 3 points

ADV TPCS IN RADIATION THERAPY

Advanced technology applications in radiation therapy physics, including intensity modulated, image guided, stereotactic, and hypofractionated radiation therapy. Emphasis on advanced technological, engineering, clinical, and quality assurance issues associated with high technology radiation therapy and the special role of the medical physicist in the safe clinical application of these tools.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• R 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Cheng S Wuu
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• 3 points

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOL PRACTICUM

Practical applications of diagnostic radiology for various measurements and equipment assessments. Instruction and supervised practice in radiation safety procedures, image quality assessments, regulatory compliance, radiation dose evaluations and calibration of equipment. Students participate in clinical QC of the following imaging equipment: radiologic units (mobile and fixed), fluoroscopy units (mobile and fixed), angiography units, mammography units, CT scanners, MRI units and ultrasound units. The objective is familiarization in routine operation of test instrumentation and QC measurements utilized in diagnostic medical physics. Students are required to submit QC forms with data on three different types of radiology imaging equipment.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Boyu Peng
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• 3 points

Power Management Integrated Circuits

Power Mgmt Integrated Cir

Modern power management integrated circuits (PMIC) design introduced comperhensively. Advanced topics in power management introduced, including linear regulators, digital linear regulators, switch-mode power converters, control schemes for DC-DC converters, compensation methods of DC-DC converters, power losses in DC-DC converters, switched capacitor converters, power converter modeling and simulation, design examples.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Xin Zhang
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• 3 points

PRE-PROD OF A MOTION PICTURE

Pre-Production of the Motion Picture teaches Creative Producing students how to breakdown, schedule and prep all aspects of a low budget independent feature film.  Using one shooting script as a case study, the class will learn to think critically and master each step of the pre-production process. Students will prepare script breakdowns, production strip boards, call sheets and a full production binder.  Topics will include state tax incentives, payroll services, union contracts, deal memos/hiring paperwork, casting, labor laws, hiring BTL crew, legal, insurance and deliverables. Additionally, students will become proficient in Movie Magic Scheduling. Required for all second-year Creative Producing students and only open to students in that concentration.

• Department: Film
• R 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Dana Kuznetzkoff
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• 3 points

LIE GROUPS & REPRESENTATIONS

Topics include basic notions of groups with algebraic and geometric examples; symmetry; Lie algebras and groups; representations of finite and compact Lie groups; finite groups and counting principles; maximal tori of a compact Lie group.

• Department: Mathematics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: John W Morgan
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• 4.5 points

Exposure Assessment

EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT

This course provides an overview of environmental exposure assessment in public health. The course addresses chemical, noise, and radiation exposures through air, soil, water and food contact. Exposure routes considered include inhalation, ingestion and absorption. Methods for environmental and personal exposure monitoring will be covered, including biomarkers of internal exposure. Moreover, methods for quantifying environmental injustice or racism will be covered. In a hands-on class project, smartphones will be used to conduct environmental exposure assessment in a local community, and data bio-shared for spatio-temporal analyses by the students. Finally evolving concepts in exposure science such as the exposome will be introduced.

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• T 4 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
• 1.5 points

CAPSTONE: NETWORKING & SUSTAINABILITY

CAPSTONE: NETWORKNG & SUS

• Department: Negotiation & Conflict Resolution
• SUSUS 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark A Whitlock
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• 3 points

MUSEUM ANTHROP:HIST & THEORY

This course will consider museums as reflectors of social priorities which store important objects and display them in ways that present significant cultural messages. Students visit several New York museums to learn how a museum functions.

• Department: Anthropology
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Brian Boyd
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• 3 points

NUCLEAR MEDICINE PRACTICUM

Practical applications of nuclear medicine theory and application for processing and analysis of clinical images and radiation safety and quality assurance programs. Topics may include tomography, instrumentation, and functional imaging. Reports.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Klaus A Hamacher
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• 3 points

FUNDS MANAGEMENT + CAP RAISING

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• 1.5 points

MUSIC SINCE 1900

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. Investigation and analysis of styles and techniques of music since 1900, carried out in part through individual projects. (Prior to Spring 2008, the course was titled 20-Century Styles and Techniques.)

• Department: Music
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: George Lewis
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• 3 points

HEALTH PHYSICS PRACTICUM

Radiation protection practices and procedures for clinical and biomedical research environments. Includes design, radiation safety surveys of diagnostic and therapeutic machine source facilities, the design and radiation protection protocols for facilities using unsealed sources of radioactivity – nuclear medicine suites and sealed sources – brachytherapy suites. Also includes radiation protection procedures for biomedical research facilities and the administration of programs for compliance to professional health physics standards and federal and state regulatory requirements for the possession and use of radioactive materials and machine sources of ionizing and non ionizing radiations in clinical situations. Individual topics are decided by the student and the collaborating Clinical Radiation Safety Officer.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Peter Caracappa
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• 3 points

THE BLUES EPISTEMOLOGY

Music invents socialities and ways of being in the world through its creation and play by communities who respond to various systems of dispossession as well as unique experiences of love and joy. It forms and is formed by new thought and new practices, in the process building alternative stories, archives, and possibilities that remain dynamic, even if rooted. This class will focus on the histories and present of the “Blues epistemology,” which geographer Clyde Woods theorized as a method of reading and analysis that brings race, culture, geography, and political economy together. We will track the epistemology’s origins, performance, and impact throughout various literatures and pay particular attention to its relation to the Blues sounds and Blues people who conceived of it and to whom it continues to call.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Shana Redmond
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• 4 points

Principles of Epidemiology I

PRINCIPLES OF EPIDEMIOLOG

Epidemiology is one of the pillars of public health. Epidemiologists study the distribution and determinants of disease in human populations; they also develop and test ways to prevent and control disease. The discipline covers the full range of disease occurrence, including genetic and environmental causes for both infectious and noninfectious diseases. Increasingly, epidemiologists view causation in the broadest sense, as extending from molecular factors at the one extreme, to social and cultural determinants at the other. This course introduces students to the theory, methods, and body of knowledge of epidemiology. Principles of Epidemiology is designed for students in all fields of public health. The primary objective of the course is to teach the basic principles and applications of epidemiology.

• Department: Epidemiology
• WR 5:30 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
• 0-3 points

PRINCIPLES OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

• Department: ONLINE MS IN EPIDEMIOLOGY
• Instructor: Melissa Dupont
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• 3 points

TRANSLATION WORKSHOP

LIT TRANSLATION WRKSHP

• Department: Writing
• R 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• W 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Susan Bernofsky
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• 3 points

MODERN GEOMETRY

Manifold theory; differential forms, tensors and curvature; homology and cohomology; Lie groups and Lie algebras; fiber bundles; homotopy theory and defects in quantum field theory; geometry and string theory.

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Chiu-Chu Liu
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• 4.5 points

Technology Management Capstone

The TMGT Capstone serves as the culmination of the M.S. in Technology Management program journey. In this course, students will apply the learnings from the entire program to solve a real-world challenge that an organization is facing with a technology solution.

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

Technology Management Capstone

The TMGT Capstone serves as the culmination of the M.S. in Technology Management program journey. In this course, students will apply the learnings from the entire program to solve a real-world challenge that an organization is facing with a technology solution.

• Department: Technology Management
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexis Wichowski
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 6 Info
• Instructor: Katja Schroeder
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• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMETRICS I-DIS

• Department: Economics
• 0 points

MATH METHODS FOR ECONOMISTS

Prerequisites: multi-variable differential calculus, linear algebra and basic real analysis. Introduction to the mathematical techniques needed for the study of economics and econometric methods. Topics include the vector spaces, Hilbert spaces, Banach spaces, linear transformations; optimization theory, and linear differential and difference equations.

• Department: Economics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer La'O
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• 4 points

Settlers and Natives

This course is designed to introduce the student to key debates in the study of societies marked by the centrality of settler-native relations: We shall focus on four key debates: (a) how to conceptualize extreme violence, as criminal or political; (b) the relationship of perpetrators to beneficiaries; (c) the significance of human rights institutions, from the Nuremberg Court to the International Criminal Court to the question of decolonization: and (d) the making of a political community of survivors after catastrophe. The class will be organized around several case studies: (a) Ireland; (b) the Americas; (c) Haiti; (d) Australia; (e) the Nuremberg Court; (f) South Africa; and (g) Israel / Palestine.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Mahmood Mamdani
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia h-index: 57 Info
• 4 points

TRANSLATION SEMINAR

JAPANESE NOVELLA

TRANSLATION SEMINAR

• Department: Writing
• W 5:15 p.m.-7:15 p.m.
• 3 points

TRANSLATION SEMINAR

QUEER WORLD / QUEER WORDS

TRANSLATION SEMINAR

• Department: Writing
• R 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Moore
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• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMETRICS I

Corequisites: ECON G6410 and the director of graduate studies' permission. Introduction to probability theory and statistical inference.

• Department: Economics
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• 4 points

PROSEMINAR-ETHNOMUSICOLOGY I

Introduction to Ethnomusicology: the history of the discipline and the evolution of theories and methods. G6412, Proseminar in Ethnomusicology II: Contemporary Ethnography is offered Fall 2012.

• Department: Music
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Kevin Fellezs
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• 3 points

COMPARATIVE POLITICS SURVEY I

This is the first course in the two-semester sequence surveying covering foundational research in comparative politics across the developed and developing world. The course is designed for Ph.D. students preparing for comprehensive exams and who intend to conduct research relating to comparative politics, and has two core objectives. The first objective is to expose students to a range of arguments organized around questions motivating major research agendas in comparative politics. The second objective is to expose students to processes of theorizing, hypothesis formation, and testing and to strengthen students’ analytical skills in evaluating and critiquing political science research. It should go without saying that these two classes cannot exhaustively cover the many important works, topics, and methodologies in the field.

The Fall semester of this sequence will primarily focus on citizen-level and politician-level behaviors, while the Spring semester will focus on more macro-level institutions and applications of the building blocks covered in this course. However, it is not necessary to take the classes in a particular order.

• Department: Political Science
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: John Marshall
  h-index: 20 Info
• 4 points

LIGHTWAVE DEVICES

Electro-optics: principles; electro-optics of liquid crystals and photo-refractive materials. Nonlinear optics: second-order nonlinear optics; third-order nonlinear optics; pulse propagation and solitons. Acousto-optics: interaction of light and sound; acousto-optic devices. Photonic switching and computing: photonic switches; all-optical switches; bistable optical devices. Introduction to fiber-optic communications: components of the fiber-optic link; modulation, multiplexing and coupling; system performance; receiver sensitivity; coherent optical communications.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Xiang Meng
  h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

The Real Picasso

Picasso’s work is the great kaleidoscope through which 20th-century art passes: from its beginnings in Cubism through which the world is given as though through cut crystal; to the commercial forms of collage; to the presage of surrealist anguish; and, finally, to an untoward neo-classicism. The result of this restless exploration is the invention of multiple formal languages, which need to be deciphered in spite of the perverse literature on the subject which insists on transposing this into the art-historical language of iconography. The literature is rich with the analytic struggles between the great Picasso scholars: William Rubin, Leo Steinberg, and Picasso’s biographer, John Russel. The skirmishes over the “iconography” of cubism extends to the interpretation of the work’s relation to “primitivism.” This controversy has given rise to yet a new vector on Picasso’s work: structuralism and semiotics.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Rosalind Krauss
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• 3 points

Econometrics III

This is the first course of the second year PhD econometrics sequence with emphasis on both economic applications and computationally intense methods for analysis of large and/or complex models. Students can attend the whole sequence or only one of them. While the details of the econometric techniques will be discussed extensively, the core and focus of the course is on the applications of these techniques to the study of actual data. Students will be practiced in econometric methods through computer-based exercises.

Prerequisites: Students should have a good understanding of graduate econometrics and should have taken ECON G6411 and G6412.

• Department: Economics
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Jushan Bai
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia h-index: 52 Info
• 3 points

INTRO-THEORY OF ELASTICITY I

Analysis of stress and strain. Formulation of the problem of elastic equilibrium. Torsion and flexure of prismatic bars. Problems in stress concentration, rotating disks, shrink fits, and curved beams; pressure vessels, contact and impact of elastic bodies, thermal stresses, propagation of elastic waves.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• M 9:10 a.m.-11:40 a.m.
• Instructor: Adrian Buganza Tepole
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• 3 points

APPLIED QUANTUM OPTICS

An introduction to fundamental concepts of quantum optics and quantum electrodynamics with an emphasis on applications in nanophotonic devices. The quantization of the electromagnetic field; coherent and squeezed states of light; interaction between light and electrons in the language of quantum electrodynamics (QED); optical resonators and cavity QED; low-threshold lasers; and entangled states of light.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Xiang Meng
  h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO TRANSPORTATION PLAN

Prerequisites: A4404: or the instructor's permission Discussion of major issues in transportation at several levels, from national to local, and covering the economic, political, and social implications of decision-making in transportation. Current topics and case studies are investigated.\n \n

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Rachel Weinberger
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• 3 points

CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN PLAYS

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• Department: Theatre Arts
• F 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Kate Loewald
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• 3 points

The Art of Lying: Deception in Modern &

Plato banished poets from his
Republic
on the account of their being thrice removed from the truth. Accused of artfully and seductively lying, poets were deemed dangerous, confusing, and unfit to guarantee the stability of the polis and were consequently extricated from it. Since then, the relationship between art and truth has been a contentious one. Art is fiction and fiction, at least in common parlance, is opposed to fact, to things as they
really are
. This historical kinship with lying has often justified accusations of art as being a frivolous, lighthearted discipline, detached from the real. It has also, however, equipped artists with a ‘license to lie’—a prerogative that they have used frequently to reclaim art’s position in the realm of the real, to reinstate the poet’s place in the polis.

This seminar will interrogate modern and contemporary artistic practices that have an act of deception at their core—
pieces
that, for some people and for some time, succeed in obscuring their fictional origins and acquired truth status. We will couple case study analysis with discussion of theoretical works to explore questions such as: How do these practices structure and produce their lies? In what ways do their acts of deception posit a different understanding of the real?  How do these practices dialogue with and intervene in the philosophical debates that have explored the tensions between art and truth? What does it mean to lie after the ‘postmodern turn’? How do different definitions of the real affect the interpretation and effects of these works? What is the role of belief in understanding and assessing these practices?

Since we will mostly study Latin American works, we will also speculate about the possibilities of identifying the peculiarities of the region’s relation to deception, both inside and outside the boundaries of the art world.

The course will culminate with a symposium, open to the public, at which students will present their research. Presentations will be followed by discussion, and the symposium will include the participation of an artist and a scholar whose works explore some of the issues studied over the semester.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• M 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeronimo Duarte Riascos
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• 4 points

Economic Theory of Climate Change

Econ Theory of Climate Ch

The dramatic rise of the world's population in the last two centuries, coupled with an even more dramatic acceleration of economic development in many parts of the world, has led to an unprecedented transformation of the natural environment by humans. In particular, on account of the greenhouse effect, global climate change has emerged as an existential problem, unrivaled in its potential for harm to life as we know it. The aim of this course is to examine the economics of climate change in a systematic fashion, with an emphasis on economic theory. Topics of coverage can include welfare economics, the theory of dynamic games, dynamic commons problems, club theory, hold up, and endogenous treaty emergence.

• Department: Economics
• M 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Prajit K Dutta
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 3 points

THE ECONOMICS OF LABOR I

Prerequisites: completion of 1st year graduate program in Economics, or the instructor's permission plus passage of the math qualifying exam. Introduction to labor economics, theory and practice.

• Department: Economics
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Suresh Naidu
  Wikipedia h-index: 26 Info
• 3 points

MILITARY URBANISM

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Victoria Sanger
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• 3 points

ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION

Prerequisites: (ECON GR6211 and ECON GR6212 and ECON GR6215 and ECON GR6216 and ECON GR6412 and ECON GR6411 and This course will provide an overview of current research on the economics of education. The course will pay special attention to: i) the use of credible research designs, and ii) the use of theory in evaluating the mechanisms that underlie the identied eects

• Department: Economics
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Sebastian Otero
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• 3 points

ARTISTIC RESEARCH

This graduate course is designed to explore the ways in which research can be approached through artistic practices. Through interdisciplinary approaches, students will explore and develop the use of artistic methodologies in their research practices, culminating in a final multidisciplinary art project that demonstrates the integration of these practices into their research.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• F 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria Jose Contreras
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• 3 points

OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS

Introduction to optical interconnects and interconnection networks for digital systems. Fundamental optical interconnects technologies, optical interconnection network design, characterization, and performance evaluation. Enabling photonic technologies including free-space structures, hybrid and monolithic integration platforms for photonic on-chip, chip-to-chip, backplane, and node-to-node interconnects, as well as photonic networks on-chip.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Keren Bergman
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 69 Info
• 3 points

BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: Completion of 1st year graduate program in Economics, or the instructor's permission. The standard model of economic behavior describes a perfectly rational, self interested utility maximizer with unlimited cognitive resources. In many cases, this provides a good approximation to the types of behavior that economists are interested in. However, over the past 30 years, experimental and behavioral economists have documented ways in which the standard model is not just wrong, but is wrong in ways that are important for economic outcomes. Understanding these behaviors, and their implications, is one of the most exciting areas of current economic inquiry. This course will study three important topics within behavioral economics: Bounded rationality, temptation and self control and reference dependent preferences. It will draw on research from behavioral economics, experimental economics, decision theory, psychology and neuroscience in order to describe the models that have been developed to explain failures of the standard approach, the evidence in support of these models, and their economic implications.

• Department: Economics
• F 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Dean
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 26 Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED TEACHING ASSISTANCE

Prerequisites: permission of the faculty member who will direct the teaching. Participation in ongoing teaching.

• Department: Psychology
• Instructor: Katherine T Fox-Glassman
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 4 Info
• 3 points