SEA LEVEL CHANGE

Prerequisites: At least a year of calculus and physics; any 1000-level or 2000-level EESC course; basic,programming experience (e.g. EESC3400 - Introduction to Computational Earth Science). Recommended: EESC2100 (Climate System), EESC2200 (Solid Earth), EESC3201 (Solid Earth,Dynamics). The course aims to explore sea level changes that take place over a wide variety of timescales and are the result of multiple solid Earth and climatic processes. The course will link a series of solid Earth processes such as mantle convection, viscoelastic deformation, and plate tectonics to the paleoclimate record and investigate how these processes contribute to our understanding of past and present changes in sea level and climate. The course will step chronologically through time starting with long term sea level changes over the Phanerozoic, followed by Plio-Pleistocene ice age sea level variations and lastly modern and future sea level change. This is a cross-disciplinary course, which is aimed at students with interests in geophysics, cryosphere evolution, ocean dynamics, sedimentology, paleogeography, and past and present climate.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jacqueline Austermann
  h-index: 18 Info
• 3 points

SPECIAL TOPICS IN VISION

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Please contact Prof. Graham by e-mail (nvg1@columbia.edu) if you are interested in this course.

• Department: Psychology
• Instructor: Norma V Graham
  CULPA: 29 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SCIENCE OF URBAN ECOLOGY

Urban ecology is the study of both the interactions between organisms in an urban environment and the organisms' interactions with that environment. This course facilitates learning about 1) basic principles related to ecological interactions of life on Earth, 2) the causes and consequences of biological patterns and processes in urban environments, and 3) how ecology can inform land use decisions and applied management strategies of natural resources (e.g. water, air, biodiversity), particularly in urban environments. This course aims to provide students with an understanding of the ways in which ecological perspectives can contribute to an interdisciplinary approach to solving environmental problems facing human society. Towards that end, this course covers topics ranging from applied ecology and conservation biology to sustainable development. It uses a cross disciplinary approach to understand the nature of ecology and biological conservation, as well as the social, philosophical and economic dimensions of land use strategies. Although in some ways cities may seem to be isolated from what we would otherwise call "nature," they are not, and this is a major theme of this course. This course includes discussion of biodiversity, ecosystem function, evolutionary processes, nutrient cycling, and natural resource availability in cities. Students will acquire an understanding of the ecology of human-dominated landscapes, the theory and study of urban ecology, and the application of ecological principles to building sustainable urban communities. Students will also explore timely and important urban ecology issues including ecological restoration, invasive species, and biodiversity conservation.

• Department: Sustainability Management
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Amy Karpati
  Info
• 3 points

Indigenous Feminisms

Indigenous women, queers, trans- and Two Spirit people have been at the forefront of activism and resistance to state incursion into Indigenous lands and waters. This was evident most recently at Mauna Kea, a mountain sacred to Kanaka Maoli in Hawaii as women, trans and queer formed the first line of resistance and occupation against the construction of a 1000-meter telescope on the site. This is not unique, their voices, along with indigenous queer and feminist scholars, have been working to address issues as far-ranging as mascots, settler appropriation of indigenous cultures, missing and murdered indigenous women and girls, and the violence against indigenous urban youth. This seminar will consider how those indigenous feminist, queer, and Two Spirit scholars have theorized gender, sexuality, race, and colonialism, alongside issues of land, water and sovereignty. We will read works that consider how indigeneity challenges how gender and sexuality are expressed in the context of settler colonialism and racial capitalism.

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• TR 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Audra Simpson
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

DESIGN-PRESTRESS CONCRET STRUC

Prerequisites: (CIEN E4232) or instructors permission. Properties of materials used in prestressed concrete; pre-tensioning versus post-tensioning; loss of prestress due to elastic shortening, friction, anchorage slip, shrinkage, creep and relaxation; full versus partial prestressing; design of beams for flexure, shear and torsion; method of load balancing; anchorage zone design; calculation of deflection by the lump-sum and incremental time-step methods; continuous beams; composite construction; prestressed slabs and columns.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• F 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Tom T Panayotidi
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

Medicine and Disease in the Pre-Modern I

Medicine & Disease Islami

Throughout the classical and post-classical periods, medical actors from different social and intellectual backgrounds aimed to make sense of the human body and disease, and worked to provide treatments and preserve health. In this class we will consider who these actors were, examining the categories of learned physicians versus practitioners and studying the role women played in health care. We will study practices of medical education and evaluate regulatory systems that determined access to the medical profession. We will also consider how physicians believed they could obtain knowledge about medical phenomena, and how they theorized human pathology, physiology, and epidemics. We will ask to what extent the theoretical, written treatises that survive today are representative of everyday medical practice in pre-modern West Asia. We inspect additional archeological evidence such as talismans and magic bowls in order to study popular and religious medical approaches. We will do this while tracing the development of the Greco-Arabic medical tradition alongside evolving Islamic theological views and Prophetic medicine, covering a period of roughly five centuries from the early ʿAbbasid period to the Black Death in the 14th century.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• F 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Elaine Van Dalen
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

STATISTICAL MACHINE LEARNING

Prerequisites: STAT GU4206. The course will provide an introduction to Machine Learning and its core models and algorithms. The aim of the course is to provide students of statistics with detailed knowledge of how Machine Learning methods work and how statistical models can be brought to bear in computer systems - not only to analyze large data sets, but to let computers perform tasks that traditional methods of computer science are unable to address. Examples range from speech recognition and text analysis through bioinformatics and medical diagnosis. This course provides a first introduction to the statistical methods and mathematical concepts which make such technologies possible.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Xiaofei Shi
  h-index: 4 Info
• 3 points

ORDER OF MAGNITUDE ASTROPHYSICS

• Department: Astronomy
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Lorenzo Sironi
  h-index: 39 Info
• 3 points

GEOTECHNICAL EARTHQUAKE ENGIN

Prerequisites: (CIEN E3141) or equivalent Seismicity, earthquake intensity, propagation of seismic waves, design of earthquake motion, seismic site response analysis, in situ and laboratory evaluation of dynamic soil properties, seismic performance of underground structures, seismic performance of port and harbor facilities, evaluation and mitigation of soil liquefaction and its consequences. Seismic earth pressures, slopes stability, safety of dams and embankments, seismic code provisions and practice. To alternate with E4244.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Hoe I Ling
  h-index: 45 Info
• 3 points

Evolution of Language (seminar)

EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE

This seminar will consider the evolution of language at the levels of the word and grammar, in each instance, phylogenetically and ontogenetically. Since humans are the only species that use language, attention will be paid to how language differs from animal communication.

• Department: Psychology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Herbert S Terrace
  CULPA: 29 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

APPLIED DATA SCIENCE

Prerequisites: Pre-requisite for this course includes working knowledge in Statistics and Probability, data mining, statistical modeling and machine learning. Prior programming experience in R or Python is required. This course will incorporate knowledge and skills covered in a statistical curriculum with topics and projects in data science. Programming will be covered using existing tools in R. Computing best practices will be taught using test-driven development, version control, and collaboration. Students finish the class with a portfolio of projects, and deeper understanding of several core statistical/machine-learning algorithms. Short project cycles throughout the semester provide students extensive hands-on experience with various data-driven applications.

• Department: Statistics
• W 6:10 p.m.-8:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ying Liu
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

Hydrosystems

The hydrologic cycle and relevant atmospheric processes; water and energy balance; radiation; boundary layer; precipitation formation; evaporation; vegetation transpiration; infiltration, storm runoff, snowmelt and flood processes. Routing of runoff and floodwaters. Groundwater flow and the hydraulics of wells. Probabilistic modeling, and extreme-value theory.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Pierre Gentine
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 43 Info
• 3 points

MADE IN CHINA: CRAFT AND INDUSTRY IN CHI

This course examines Chinese history through a lens of objects made by its people, ranging from porcelain and silk in the late imperial period to virtually everything in the twenty-first century. These objects have circulated on a global scale with far-reaching economic consequences for Chinese society and beyond, and this course considers their production, circulation, and consumption in the larger historical context of global China. In doing so, it attempts to revisit the facile boundaries between craft and industry (or the very definition of industrialization) and bring back the voices of the Chinese “makers,” many of whom were the most underrepresented historical figures such as women, artisans, peasants, and factory workers.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Yuan Yi
  Info
• 4 points

CERAMICS & COMPOSITES

CERAMICS/CERAMC COMP MATERIALS

Will cover some of the fundamental processes of atomic diffusion, sintering and microstructural evolution, defect chemistry, ionic transport, and electrical properties of ceramic materials. Following this, we will examine applications of ceramic materials, specifically, ceramic thick and thin film materials in the areas of sensors and energy conversion/storage devices such as fuel cells, and batteries. The coursework level assumes that the student has already taken basic courses in the thermodynamics of materials, diffusion in materials, and crystal structures of materials.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Siu-Wai Chan
  h-index: 36 Info
• 3 points

CLIMATE CHANGE: RESILIENCE & ADAPTATION

CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION

This course will offer a focused study of climate change adaptation policy, exploring dimensions of adaptation across sectors and scales. With a thematic focus on pervasive global inequities, students will also consider challenges associated with international development and disaster risk management. An inter-disciplinary framework will enrich the course, and students will learn about perspectives from the natural sciences, law, architecture, anthropology, humanitarian aid, and public policy. The online intensive version of this course will combine synchronous and asynchronous learning: twice weekly live discussion sessions will be matched with assigned readings, recorded lectures and videos.

• Department: Earth Institute
• MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Dale
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 The study of industrial behavior based on game-theoretic oligopoly models. Topics include pricing models, strategic aspects of business practice, vertical integration, and technological innovation.

• Department: Economics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Wouter R Vergote
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

INTRO-COMPUTATIONAL LEARN THRY

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Rocco Servedio
  CULPA: 15 h-index: 48 Info
• 3 points

ENVIR DATA ANALYSIS & MODELING

Prerequisites: (IEOR 4150) or (IEOR3658) or (STAT GU4001) or equivalent; some exposure to linear algebra; basic programming experiences. Introduction parametric and non-parametric statistical models applied to climate and environmental data analysis. Time and space data analysis methods will be focused, including clustering, autoregressive models, trend analysis, Bayesian analysis, missing data imputation, geostatistics, principal components analysis. Application to problems of climate variation and change; hydrology; air, water and soil pollution dynamics; disease propagation; ecological change; and resource assessment. The class requires the use of R with hands-on programmings and a term project applied to a current environmental data analysis problem.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Bolun Xu
  h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

MARKET DESIGN

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and STAT UN1201 This course uses modern microeconomic tools for understanding markets for indivisible resources and exploring ways to improve their design in terms of stability, efficiency and incentives. Lessons of market design will be applied to developing internet platforms for intermediating exchanges, for auctions to allocate sponsored search advertising, to allocate property rights such as public lands, radio spectrums, fishing rights, for assigning students to public schools, and for developing efficient kidney exchanges for transplantation.

• Department: Economics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Guillaume Haeringer
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

ELECTROCHEM MATLS & DEVS

Overview of electrochemical processes and applications from perspectives of materials and devices. Thermodynamics and principles of electrochemistry, methods to characterize electrochemical processes, application of electrochemical materials and devices, including batteries, supercapacitors, fuel cells, electrochemical sensor, focus on link between material structure, composition, and properties with electrochemical performance.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 7 p.m.-8:15 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Yuan Yang
  h-index: 49 Info
• 3 points

STATISTICAL METHODS IN FINANCE

Prerequisites: STAT GU4205 or the equivalent. A fast-paced introduction to statistical methods used in quantitative finance. Financial applications and statistical methodologies are intertwined in all lectures. Topics include regression analysis and applications to the Capital Asset Pricing Model and multifactor pricing models, principal components and multivariate analysis, smoothing techniques and estimation of yield curves statistical methods for financial time series, value at risk, term structure models and fixed income research, and estimation and modeling of volatilities. Hands-on experience with financial data.

• Department: Statistics
• S 9:10 a.m.-11:40 a.m.
• Instructor: Zhiliang Ying
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 62 Info
• 3 points

Space Exploration and Mining

Space Mining

Needs and opportunities for space exploration and mining, resources in planets and asteroids, history of human colonization, terraforming Mars, Titan, and Moon, safety and health issues, benign mining, space junk extraction, microbial mining.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Ponisseril Somasundaran
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia h-index: 82 Info
• 3 points

Sufism, Sharia, and Politics

This seminar is geared toward advanced undergraduate students. Arguably, Ṣūfism and Sharīʿa constituted the two central domains of premodern Islamic cultures. A central domain is recognized as one that defines other domains. If a domain becomes central, “then the problems of other domains are solved in terms of the central domain—they are considered secondary problems, whose solution follows as a matter of course only if the problems of the central domain are solved” (C. Schmitt). Within this understanding, the seminar aims to introduce the fundamental concepts and (briefly) histories of both Ṣūfism and Sharīʿa, with a focus on how the former overlapped with and was often integral to the latter; how Ṣūfism produced traditions and institutions; and the role it played in the political landscapes of Islam. By necessity, then, the seminar moves from a coverage of Ṣūfī thought and praxis, to community and institution building, to political activism (or inactivism, which is seen here as a move toward the political or ethical). The coverage, deliberately tilted toward Ṣūfism,1 aims to be historical and considerably chronological, moving from the earliest Islamic period to late modernity, including the migration of Ṣūfī entities to the West. In keeping with the claim of Ṣūfism as a central domain, we will examine how this phenomenon, together with the Sharīʿa, rendered the other domains subsidiary to their imperatives. The subordinate idea here is also to try to map out the strongly symbiotic relationship of the two domains, and isolate for analysis contestations and antagonisms. Although the sources – especially the Orientalist – are underdeveloped theoretically, class discussions will call upon the help of various relevant theories in philosophy, intellectual history, politics, and anthropology.

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

STOCHASTIC METHODS IN FINANCE

Prerequisites: STAT GU4264. Mathematical theory and probabilistic tools for modeling and analyzing security markets are developed. Pricing options in complete and incomplete markets, equivalent martingale measures, utility maximization, term structure of interest rates. This is a core course in the MS program in mathematical finance.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Cristian G Pasarica
  Info
• 3 points

SOCIAL MEDIA AND HUMAN RIGHTS

This course examines how changes in information and communications technology have, over the past two decades, fundamentally transformed the practices of civil society actors engaged with human rights issues. New communications tools such as Twitter, blogs, and Facebook have changed the ways that organizations communicate with their followers and seek to influence public debate. The increasing accessibility of analytic tools for researching and visualizing changing patterns of human rights abuse has empowered groups to better understand and respond more forcefully to these issues. Indeed, the use of social media as a communications tool has made it a data source for those monitoring and analyzing patterns of activity, in ways that draw increasingly on the techniques of big data analysis.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ted Perlmutter
  Info
• 3 points

COGNITIVE PROCESSES

Prerequisites: For undergraduates: one course in cognitive psychology or cognitive neuroscience, or the equivalent, and the instructors permission. Metacognition and control processes in human cognition. Basic issues include the cognitive mechanisms that enable people to monitor what they know and predict what they will know, the errors and biases involved in self-monitoring, and the implications of metacognitive ability for peoples self-determined learning, behavior, and their understanding of self.

• Department: Psychology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa K Son
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 3 points

Playful Tradition: Adab, Islam, and the

Adab, Islam, and the Maqa

Is adab Islamic? The term adab is usually translated as "literature" or "belles-letters," but in addition
to narrative material and poetry, adab encompassed a wide array of discourses on behavior, ethics,
and aesthetics. There is a long tradition of seeing adab as "secular." In particular, "edgy" genres
depicting wine, bawdy talk, parodies of Islamic discourses, and criminal activities are often seen as
critical of Islam. This seminar examines these playful, edgy texts to rethink the ways in which
scholarship has limned the relationship between adab and Islam. In particular, we will look at the
maqāma, a genre of Arabic prose that usually features an eloquent rogue who disguises himself as a
preacher, a mufti, and a pious ascetic, among many other things. These maqāmas were at the center
of Islamic education for centuries, and they were taught and composed from al-Andalus to
Indonesia. We will read maqāmas and related genres that engage playfully with the Islamic tradition
or are otherwise portrayed as edgy. We will also critically evaluate the scholarship on these texts.
The goal is to contemplate new ways of understanding the relationship between adab and the
Islamic tradition.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew L Keegan
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

CORPORATE FINANCE

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and STAT UN1201 An introduction to the economics principles underlying the financial decisions of firms. The topics covered include bond and stock valuations, capital budgeting, dividend policy, market efficiency, risk valuation, and risk management. For information regarding REGISTRATION for this course, go to: http://econ.columbia.edu/registration-information.

• Department: Economics
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ethan Namvar
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO QUANTUM COMPUTING

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Henry Yuen
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

DECISION ARCHITECTURE

Prerequisites: (PSYC UN2235) or an equivalent course on judgment and decision making ,AND the instructors permission This course reviews current research in the domain of decision architecture: the application of research in cognitive and social psychology to real-world situations with the aim of influencing behavior. This seminar will discuss recent and classic studies, both of decision theory and of applied decision research, to explore the effectiveness—as well as the limitations—of a selection of these behavioral “nudges.”

• Department: Psychology
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Katherine T Fox-Glassman
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 4 Info
• 4 points

BIOLOGICAL MICROSCOPY

Prerequisites: (biol un2005 or biol un2401) or BIOL UN2005 or BIOL UN2401 or equivalent This is an advanced microscopy course aimed at graduates and advanced undergraduate students, who are interested in learning about the foundational principles of microscopy approaches and their applications in life sciences. The course will introduce the fundamentals of optics, light-matter interaction and in-depth view of most commonly used advanced microscopy methods, explore important practical imaging parameters, and also introduce digital images and their analysis.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Raju Tomer
  h-index: 23 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED DATA ANALYSIS

Prerequisites: STAT GU4205 and at least one statistics course numbered between GU4221 and GU4261. This is a course on getting the most out of data. The emphasis will be on hands-on experience, involving case studies with real data and using common statistical packages. The course covers, at a very high level, exploratory data analysis, model formulation, goodness of fit testing, and other standard and non-standard statistical procedures, including linear regression, analysis of variance, nonlinear regression, generalized linear models, survival analysis, time series analysis, and modern regression methods. Students will be expected to propose a data set of their choice for use as case study material.

• Department: Statistics
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Hammou El Barmi
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

COMPUT MATH:INTRO-NUMERCL METH

Programming experience in Python extremely useful. Introduction to fundamental algorithms and analysis of numerical methods commonly used by scientists, mathematicians and engineers. Designed to give a fundamental understanding of the building blocks of scientific computing that will be used in more advanced courses in scientific computing and numerical methods for PDEs (e.g. APMA E4301, E4302). Topics include numerical solutions of algebraic systems, linear least-squares, eigenvalue problems, solution of non-linear systems, optimization, interpolation, numerical integration and differentiation, initial value problems and boundary value problems for systems of ODEs. All programming exercises will be in Python.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Marc W Spiegelman
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

The Just City: Global Debates in Urban P

KEY DEBATES IN URBAN PLAN

Urbanization is inherently unequal, inscribing social, economic, environmental, and political unevenness into the spatial fabric of the city. But the distribution of such inequality is not inevitable. Urbanization is a product of the collective decisions we make (or choose not to make) in response to the shared challenges we face in our cities. And, thus, the patterns of urbanization can be changed. This is the task of urban planning and the starting point for this advanced seminar, which asks how we can reshape our cities to be more just—to alleviate inequality rather than compound it. In embarking on this effort, we face numerous “wicked” problems without clear-cut solutions. The approaches one takes in addressing urban inequality are therefore fundamentally normative—they are shaped by one’s place in the world and one’s view of it. The central challenge in addressing inequality is thus establishing a basis for collective action amongst diverse actors with differing—and sometimes conflicting—values and views. In other words, planning the just city a matter of both empathy and debate. In this course, we will endeavor to develop informed positions that can help us engage with others as a basis for taking collective action. The course is organized into four 3-week modules, each of which addresses a dimension of the just city: equity, democracy, diversity, and sustainability. In the first week of each module, we will discuss how the issue has been understood in history and theory (with an emphasis on tradeoffs between different priorities and values); in the second week, we will apply this discussion to a global case study prepared and presented by a team of students; and in the third week, we will hold an in-class debate to determine what should be done. Specific case studies vary each year.

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• MWF 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Nick R Smith
  h-index: None Info
• 4 points

NUMERICAL METHODS/PDE'S

NUMERICAL METHODS/PDEs

Numerical solution of differential equations, in particular partial differential equations arising in various fields of application. Presentation emphasizes finite difference approaches to present theory on stability, accuracy, and convergence with minimal coverage of alternate approaches (left for other courses). Method coverage includes explicit and implicit time-stepping methods, direct and iterative solvers for boundary-value problems.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Kyle Mandli
  h-index: 14 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO CLASSICAL CHINESE II

Prerequisites: CHNS W3301: Classical Chinese I; completion of three years of modern Chinese at least, or four years of Japanese or Korean. Please see department. Prerequisites: CHNS W3301: Classical Chinese I; completion of three years of modern Chinese at least, or four years of Japanese or Korean.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MWF 11 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Lening Liu
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED THERMODYNAMICS

Advanced classical thermodynamics. Availability, irreversibility, generalized behavior, equations of state for nonideal gases, mixtures and solutions, phase and chemical behavior, combustion. Thermodynamic properties of ideal gases. Applications to automotive and aircraft engines, refrigeration and air conditioning, and biological systems.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Arvind Narayanaswamy
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 26 Info
• Instructor: Sinisa Vukelic
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 11 Info
• 3 points

ASTROSTATISTICS

Astronomers live in era of “big data”. Whilst astronomers of a century ago collected a handful of photographic plates each night, modern astronomers collect thousands of images encoded by millions of pixels in the same time. Both the volume of data and the ever present desire to dig deeper into data sets has led to a growing interest in the use of statistical methods to interpret observations. This class will provide an introduction to the methods commonly used in understanding astronomical data sets, both in terms of theory and application. It is one six classes the department offers every fourth semester.

• Department: Astronomy
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: David Kipping
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 44 Info
• 3 points

GENDER, GLOBALIZATION AND EMPIRE

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 20 students. Study of the role of gender in economic structures and social processes comprising globalization and in political practices of contemporary U.S. empire. This seminar focuses on the ways in which transformations in global political and economic structures over the last few decades including recent political developments in the U.S. have been shaped by gender, race, sexuality, religion and social movements.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Manijeh Moradian
  Info
• 4 points

SEMINAR IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Prerequisites: BIOL W4300 or the instructors permission. A weekly seminar and discussion course focusing on the most recent development in biotechnology. Professionals of the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and related industries will be invited to present and lead discussions.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Lili Yamasaki
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

CO2 UTILIZATION AND CONVERSION

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ah-Hyung Alissa Park
  Info
• 3 points

MECH & THERMODYNAMICS OF PROPULSION

Prerequisites: (MECE E3301) and (MECE E3311) and (MECE E4304) or MECE E3301x Thermodynamics, and MECE E3311y Heat Transfer; MECE E4304x Turbomachinery (or instructor approval). Principles of propulsion. Thermodynamic cycles of air breathing propulsion systems including ramjet, scramjet, turbojet, and turbofan engine and rocket propulsion system concepts. Turbine engine and rocket performance characteristics. Component and cycle analysis of jet engines and turbomachinery. Advanced propulsion systems.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• S 9 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Sean Bradshaw
  Info
• 3 points

SECULAR & SPIRITUAL AMERICA

• Department: Religion
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Courtney Bender
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

INTRO TO AERODYNAMICS

Prerequisites: MECE E3100, or ENME E3161, or the equivalent Principles of flight, incompressible flows, compressible regimes. Inviscid compressible aerodynamic in nozzles (wind tunnels, jet engines), around wings (aircraft, space shuttle) and around blunt bodies (rockets, reentry vehicles). Physics of normal shock waves, oblique shock waves, and explosion waves.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• S noon-2:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter A Levoci
  Info
• 3 points

VIROLOGY

The basic thesis of the course is that all viruses adopt a common strategy. The strategy is simple: 1. Viral genomes are contained in metastable particles. 2. Genomes encode gene products that promote an infectious cycle (mechanisms for genomes to enter cells, replicate, and exit in particles). 3. Infection patterns range from benign to lethal; infections can overcome or co-exist with host defenses. Despite the apparent simplicity, the tactics evolved by particular virus families to survive and prosper are remarkable. This rich set of solutions to common problems in host/parasite interactions provides significant insight and powerful research tools. Virology has enabled a more detailed understanding of the structure and function of molecules, cells and organisms and has provided fundamental understanding of disease and virus evolution. The course will emphasize the common reactions that must be completed by all viruses for successful reproduction within a host cell and survival and spread within a host population. The molecular basis of alternative reproductive cycles, the interactions of viruses with host organisms, and how these lead to disease are presented with examples drawn from a set of representative animal and human viruses, although selected bacterial viruses will be discussed.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Vincent R Racaniello
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SOLID BIOMECHANICS

Applications of continuum mechanics to the understanding of various biological tissues properties. The structure, function, and mechanical properties of various tissues in biolgical systems, such as blood vessels, muscle, skin, brain tissue, bone, tendon, cartilage, ligaments, etc. are examined. The establishment of basic governing mechanical principles and constitutive relations for each tissue. Experimental determination of various tissue properties. Medical and clinical implications of tissue mechanical behavior.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: X. Edward Guo
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 70 Info
• 3 points

PRAC-INNOVATV SUSTAIN LEADRSHP

This course deals with a fundamental question of sustainability management: how to change organizations and more complex systems, such as communities, industries, and markets, by integrating sustainability concerns in the way that they operate. The course poses this question to a dozen leading sustainability practitioners, who answer it by discussing management strategies that they use in their own work. Through these guest lectures, extensive class discussion, readings, and writing assignments, students identify and simulate applying practical ways for transforming how organizations and complex systems work. The practitioners, who work in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors and in a wide variety of organizations, make presentations in the first hour of the course. Students then have time to ask questions and speak informally with the guest practitioners, and will participate in an instructor-led class discussion, geared toward identifying management strategies, better understanding their application, and considering their effectiveness. By the end of the course, the students gain an understanding of management tools and strategies that they, themselves, would use to integrate sustainability in organizations. The course complements the M.S. in Sustainability Management program’s required course, Sustainability Management (SUMA K4100). In that course, students study management and organization theory. In the Practicum, students learn directly from leading practitioners, who confront sustainability management issues daily.

• Department: Sustainability Management
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 1-3 points

WITNESS,RECORD,DOCUMENT

Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT required. This seminar takes up the terms witness, record, and document as nouns and verbs. What is poetry of witness? Documentary poetry? Poetry as (revisionist ) historical record? What labor and what ethical, political, and aesthetic considerations are required of poets who endeavor to witness, record, or document historical events or moments of trauma? How is this approach to poetry informed by or contributing to feminist theories, aesthetic innovation, and revisionist approaches to official histories? Course materials include: 1) essays that explore the poetics and politics of poetry of witness or documentary poetry; 2) a range of contemporary American Poetry that has been classified as or has productively challenged these categories; 3) and audio, video, and photographic projects on which poets have collaborated. Our encounters with this work will be guided by and grounded in conversations about ideas of truth, text, the power relations of documentation, and issues of language and representation in poetry. We will also critically examine the formal (rhyme, rhythm, diction, form, genre, point of view, imagery, etc.) and philosophical components and interventions of the work we study and create.

• Department: Writing
• Instructor: Deborah Paredez
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

RE FINANCE II: CASE STUDIES

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Patrice Derrington
  h-index: 4 Info
• 3 points

Peptide and Protein Chemistry

The goal of this course is to explore how chemical methods and concepts have impacted our ability to understand and manipulate protein structure and function. We will navigate this subject through a combination of lectures and structured discussions on research articles from the literature. The course is divided into three segments: (1) In the first part, we will review the rudiments of protein structure and function, then delve into various aspects of enzyme chemistry and polypeptide biosynthesis. (2) In the second part of the course, we will cover synthetic methods to produce and chemically modify peptides and proteins. (3) In the final part, we will discuss chemical approaches to control protein function and monitor protein activity, focusing on methods that use small molecules and mass spectrometry proteomics.

• Department: Chemistry
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Neel H Shah
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 20 Info
• 4 points

COMMUNICATION CIRCUITS

Prerequisites: (ELEN E4312) Principles of electronic circuits used in the generation, transmission, and reception of signal waveforms, as used in analog and digital communication systems. Nonlinearity and distortion; power amplifiers; tuned amplifiers; oscillators; multipliers and mixers; modulators and demodulators; phase-locked loops. An extensive design project is an integral part of the course.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Yannis P Tsividis
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ENERGY DYNAMICS OF GREEN BLDGS

ENERGY DYNAMCS OF GREEN BLDGS

Prerequisites: (MECE E3301) and (MECE E3311) Introduction to analysis and design of heating, ventilating and air-conditioning systems. Heating and cooling loads. Humidity control. Solar gain and passive solar design. Global energy implications. Green buildings. Building-integrated photovoltaics. Roof-mounted gardens and greenhouses. Financial assessment tools and case studies. Open to Mechanical Engineering graduate students only

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• R 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Mohammad M Naraghi
  Info
• 3 points

Multilingual Technologies and Language D

Multiling Tech & Lang Div

Innovations in digital technologies have shown their potential to be at times breathtakingly beneficial, and at others divisive or troubling. With regard to digital technologies’ impact on the ecosystem of language diversity, evidence suggests that new technologies are one contributor to the decline and predicted extinction of 50-90% of the world's languages this century. Yet digital innovations supporting a growing number of languages also have the potential to bolster language diversity in ways unimaginable a few years ago. Will innovations in multilingual natural language processing bring about a renaissance of language diversity, as users no longer need to rely on English and other dominant languages? To address this question, this course will introduce a dual view on language diversity: 1) a typology of language vitality and endangerment and 2) a resource-centric typology (low-resource vs. high-resource) regarding the availability of data resources to develop computational models for language analysis. This course will address the challenge of scaling natural language processing technologies developed mostly for English to the rich diversity of human languages. The resource-centric typology will also contribute to the dialogue of what is “Data Science.” Much research has been dedicated to the “Big Data” scenario; however “Small Data” poses equally challenging problems, which this course will highlight. This course brings data and computational literacy about multilingual technologies to humanities students, while also exposing computer science and data science students to ethical, cultural, business, and policy issues within the context of multilingual technologies.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• 4 points

ADVANCED TOPICS

ADV TOP: AFRO-ASIA-AMER CONNEX

In this course, our point of departure will be the precariousness of embodied existence, in which precarity is understood as both an existential condition and as the socially uneven culmination of neoliberal political and economic trends.  We will draw upon a variety of interdisciplinary literatures—including feminist, critical race, and queer studies; science and technology studies; disability studies; and medical sociology and anthropology—to consider some of the ways in which our bodies have served as both the repository and substratum of recent social transformations. Within the context of current pandemic crises relating to both public health and to myriad forms of social inequality, we will also consider appeals to the beneficence of science, technology, medicine, and the rational governance of dis-ease. What can critical histories of plagues, epidemics, and quarantines teach us about emergent forms of biopolitics? We will conclude by considering the interventions of contemporary disability and social justice activists, and the alternative possibilities that they have posited for self-care and mutual aid.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Neferti Tadiar
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

URBAN DESIGN FOR PLANNERS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Stefan Al
  Info
• 3 points

Pandemics of Harlem

This course will be co-taught by three people who worked in Harlem in the 1990s, in the middle of “mad” plagues: AIDS, HIV, crack cocaine addiction, violence, trauma and mental illness related to violence, multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, asthma, obesity and sedentary lifestyles.  The course will build on the experiences and published papers of the group, but also bring in contemporary conversations related to underlying issues of serial forced displacement, which created the context for the plagues.   Conceived as a collaborative colloquium linking instructors and students across three institutions, the course will be on-line with a combination of synchronous and asynchronous work. Assignments are structured to promote collaborative learning across institutional boundaries. Conditions permitting, students from the three schools -- Barnard, The New School, BMCC -- will have the opportunity to participate in the CLIMB project, a collective recovery project in Northern Manhattan that addresses the connection between the health of people and the quality of the built environment. Jordan-Young (Barnard) will take responsibility for organizing course logistics, and all students will be given access to the Columbia Courseworks site for access to readings and other materials, discussion boards, and assignments. The instructors will rotate the role of “host”/facilitator for the modules. Synchronous sessions will use a combination of live and pre-recorded brief lectures, in-class exercises, and small group discussions. Non-Barnard instructors may opt in or out of specific assignments, and will grade the participation and assignments for their respective students. (The Barnard College students will be responsible for all assignments listed in this syllabus.) Instructors will closely collaborate throughout the semester to monitor and adjust the course, especially the processes for collaboration, as needed.

• Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
• MR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Rebecca Jordan-Young
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 Historical comparative examination of the economic development problems of the less developed countries; the roles of social institutions and human resource development; the functions of urbanization, rural development, and international trade.

• Department: Economics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jack J Willis
  h-index: 3 Info
• 3 points

HUM NATURE:DNA,RACE & IDENTITY

The course focuses on human identity, beginning with the individual and progressing to communal and global viewpoints using a framework of perspectives from biology, genetics, medicine, psychiatry, religion and the law.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 4 points

Utopia and the Pandemic

The idea of utopia, from its earliest pre-modern examples, involves the question of proper governance, the ideal relations between a state and its peoples, and the responsibilities owed between individuals.  In all of its forms, Utopias create borders and insist on degrees of isolation.  In this class, we explore the pressures that plagues and other catastrophes place on the ideals of utopia, especially in terms of how social relations are imagined.  We will study the relationship between utopia and dystopia; how science fiction and reality converge; and how we might harmonize individual and collective interests.   The problem of isolation and utopia pierces the very heart of the novel as a genre.  Literary pleasure, both within and outside of the text, involving both the work of the reader and writer, is often figured in terms of isolation.  The rise of the novel as a genre tracks with the rise of peaceful, solitary time.   But against this pleasure in isolation, we can see the frustrations and loneliness highlighted by the contested contemporary public health interventions of social distancing and lockdown.   In thinking about utopia, we will examine the role that isolation plays in its production.  In a review of a novel by Margaret Atwood, Frederic Jameson suggested that, “the post catastrophe situation in reality constitutes the preparation for the emergence of Utopia itself.”  This antagonism will drive our study of isolation, individuation and collective futures.    The first half of the class will focus on classical depictions of utopia, dystopia and catastrophe while the second half will look at contemporary imaginings.   We will read novels by Daniel Defoe, Mary Shelley, Octavia Butler, and Ling Ma among others, alongside classic social contract theory, political philosophy and public health history to explore the intersections of biopolitics and the imagination.  Throughout we will seek to imagine the possibility of emerging more together out of catastrophe.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Rishi K Goyal
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY II

• Department: Chemistry
• TF 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• 4.5 points

Abolition Medicine: Medical Racisms and

In 1935, WEB Dubois wrote about abolition democracy: an idea based not only on breaking down unjust systems, but on building up new, antiracist social structures. Scholar activists like Angela Davis, Ruth Gilmore and Mariame Kaba have long contended that the abolition of slavery was but one first step in ongoing abolitionist practices dismantling racialized systems of policing, surveillance and incarceration. The possibilities of prison and police abolition have recently come into the mainstream national consciousness during the 2020 resurgence of nationwide Black Lives Matters (BLM) protests. As we collectively imagine what nonpunitive and supportive community reinvestment in employment, education, childcare, mental health, and housing might look like, medicine must be a part of these conversations. Indeed, if racist violence is a public health emergency, and we are trying to bring forth a “public health approach to public safety” – what are medicine’s responsibilities to these social and institutional reinventions? Medicine has a long and fraught history of racial violence. It was, after all, medicine and pseudoscientific inquiry that helped establish what we know as the racial categorizations of today: ways of separating human beings based on things like skin color and hair texture that were used (and often continue to be used) to justify the enslavement, exclusion, or genocide of one group of people by another. Additionally, the history of the professionalization of U.S. medicine, through the formation of medical schools and professional organizations as well as and the certification of trained physicians, is a history of exclusion, with a solidification of the identity of “physician” around upper middle class white masculinity. Indeed, the 1910 Flexner Report, whose aim was to make consistent training across the country’s medical schools, was explicit in its racism. From practices of eugenic sterilization, to histories of experimentation upon bodies of color, medicine is unfortunately built upon racist, sexist and able-ist practices. This course is built on the premise that a socially just practice of medicine is a bioethical imperative. Such a practice cannot be achieved, however, without examining medicine’s histories of racism, as well as learning from and building upon histories of anti-racist health practice. The first half of the semester will be dedicated to learning about histories of medical racism: from eugenics and racist experimentation to public h

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Sayantani T Dasgupta
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

REAL ESTATE EXCEL MODELING TUTORIAL II

RE EXCEL MODELING TUTORIA

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Chok S Lei
  Info
• 0 points

SUFISM IN SOUTH ASIA

Sufism or
tassawuf
has misleadingly been described as the mystical side of Islam, implying that it is somehow detached from the material world.  Throughout the history of Islam, Sufi ideas, practices, and institutions have borne a complex, intimate, and sometimes fraught relationship with other aspects of Islamic tradition and practice, a relationship that has also been profoundly impacted by Orientalist scholarship in the colonial period and by global reformist currents in the postcolonial period.  This seminar for advanced undergraduates and graduate students is an interdisciplinary investigation of how Sufism has been affected by the historical, sociocultural, political, and everyday environments in which is it experienced and practiced, with a particular focus on South Asia.  Eclectic in approach, we will begin by considering how Sufism has been construed and even constructed by scholars, considering how modern notions of the self, religion, and the political have shaped scholarly understandings of what Sufism is. Focusing on bodily practices and well known individual Sufis who lived in South Asia during different historical periods, we will use them as a vehicle for understanding Sufi experience within the context of the evolving Sufi orders within specific local spaces. We will consider why Sufism has become such a target of controversy and ambivalence among Muslims in the modern world and trace some of the changing controversies and tensions that Sufis have struggled with over time, focusing on their understandings of self, society and reality.

• Department: Religion
• TR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Katherine Ewing
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 22 Info
• 4 points

REAL ESTATE MODELING TUTORIAL II

RE MODELING TUTORIAL II

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 4:30 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Johnny C Din
  Info
• 0 points

ADVANCED CHEMICAL KINETICS

Prerequisites: (CHEN E4230) or instructors permission. Complex reactive systems. Catalysis. Heterogeneous systems, with an emphasis on coupled chemical kinetics and transport phenomena. Reactions at interfaces (surfaces, aerosols, bubbles). Reactions in solution.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Robert G Bozic
  Info
• 3 points

EUR URB CARTOGRAPHY

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Victoria Sanger
  Info
• 3 points

ADV BOSNIAN/CROATIAN/SERBIAN

Prerequisites: BCRS UN2102 Further develops skills in speaking, reading, and writing, using essays, short stories, films, and fragments of larger works. Reinforces basic grammar and introduces more complete structures.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Aleksandar Boskovic
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

READINGS IN CZECH LITERATURE II

Prerequisites: two years of college Czech or the equivalent. A close study in the original of representative works of Czech literature. Discussion and writing assignments in Czech aimed at developing advanced language proficiency.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher W Harwood
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN YIDDISH LITERATU

GENDER/SEXUALITY YIDDIS L

Early publications in Yiddish, a.k.a. the mame loshn, ‘mother tongue,’ were addressed to “women and men who are like women,” while famous Yiddish writer, Sholem Aleichem, created a myth of “three founding fathers” of modern Yiddish literature, which eliminated the existence of Yiddish women writers. As these examples indicate, gender has played a significant role in Yiddish literary power dynamics. This course will explore representation of gender and sexuality in modern Yiddish literature and film in works created by Sholem Aleichem, Sholem Asch, Fradl Shtok, Sh. An-sky, Malka Lee, Anna Margolin, Celia Dropkin, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Kadya Molodowsky, Troim Katz Handler, and Irena Klepfisz. You will also acquire skills in academic research and digital presentation of the findings as part of the Mapping Yiddish New York project that is being created at Columbia. No knowledge of Yiddish required.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Agnieszka Legutko
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

CHTENIIA PO RUSSKOI LITERATURE

CHTENIIA PO RUSS:Voina i mir

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Irina Reyfman
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

TRAD AM ARCHITECTURE

AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE

Guiding ideals in American architecture from the centennial to around 1960. The evolution of modernism in America is contrasted with European developments and related to local variants.

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Jorge Otero-Pailos
  Wikipedia h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

FOURTH-YEAR RUSSIAN II

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MWF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Tatiana Mikhailova
  Info
• 4 points

SICK CITY

ARCHITECT WRITERS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Hilary M Sample-Meredith
  Info
• 3 points

ADV RUSSIAN THROUGH HISTORY

Prerequisites: three years of Russian. This is a language course designed to meet the needs of those foreign learners of Russian as well as heritage speakers who want to further develop their reading, listening, speaking, and writing skills and be introduced to the history of Russia.

• Department: Slavic Languages @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Julia Trubikhina
  Info
• 3 points

Shades of the Political: Anthropological

This course aims to investigate the contemporary outlines of political anthropology, as well as its potentialities, through the lenses of the studies on Turkey. Since its original formulation in Aristotle, the political has been conceived at the nexus of life, goodness, and craft, each one continuously implicating the others, waving the webs of meaning in human communities to create a good life. Pushing this insight forward, we will combine ethnographic and theoretical works on political questions with a variety of fieldworks on Turkey, paying specific attention to meanings, signs, imaginaries, and practices as enacted in the daily lives of ordinary people. We will study specificities of political discourses, state practices and social movements in order to complicate and expand our understanding of ideology, hegemony, class, and power. We will be asking questions such as: How do specific histories emerge in people’s political imaginaries? What are the social and political practices that sustain such histories while erasing others? Is the state an entity that people encounter in their daily lives or an imaginary assemblage that is being used to make sense of power relations in modern societies? How do the power relations that circulate within bureaucratic institutions interact with people’s sexual practices? Can we observe the ideologies and workings of world markets in local settings? Are there any intersection points where ordinary people relate questions of wealth to questions of political order? Focusing on ethnographic works on Turkey, this course asks these and other questions as part of a broader effort to understand the origins, developments, and possibilities of the modern political world.

• Department: Anthropology
• WR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Firat Kurt
  Info
• 3 points

QUES IN ARCH HISTORY II

Developments in architectural history during the modern period. Emphasis on moments of significant change in architecture (theoretical, economic, technological, and institutional). Themes include positive versus arbitrary beauty, enlightenment urban planning, historicism, structural rationalism, the housing reform movement, iron and glass technology, changes generated by developments external or internal to architecture itself and transformations in Western architecture.

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Mark Wigley
  Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Felicity Scott
  Info
• Instructor: Ateya A Khorakiwala
  Info
• 3 points

War, Internment, and Incarceration

War, Internment, Incarceration

Forcibly moving civilians to designated areas as a wartime measure has constituted a widely practiced military strategy for centuries. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, colonial powers increasingly provided more structure and organization to these policies of relocation and internment in the Americas, Africa, and East Asia. This course provides a social history of civilian internment and mass murder from late-19th century colonial cases to World War II. Through case studies of the Spanish-Cuban war, the South African War, the Philippines-American War, the genocide of the Herrero and Nama in Southwest Africa, the Armenian Genocide, and the Holocaust, the course traces the evolution of the concentration camp from a counter-insurgency strategy in wartime to a weapon of mass murder. The course also examines the internment of Japanese Americans, and the Japanese “comfort stations” in comparative perspective.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Khatchig Mouradian
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Biomechanics of Developmental Biology

BIOMECHANICS DEVELOPMENTA

Biophysical mechanisms of tissue organization

during embryonic development: conservation laws, reaction-diffusion, finite elasticity, and fluid mechanics are reviewed and applied to a broad range of topics in developmental biology, from early development to later organogenesis of the central nervous, cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, respiratory, and gastrointestinal systems. Subdivided into modules on patterning (conversion of diffusible cues into cell fates) and morphogenesis (shaping of tissues), the course will include lectures, problem sets, reading of primary literature, and a final project.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Nandan L Nerurkar
  Info
• 3 points

PUBLIC LANDS IN THE AMERICAN WEST

PUBLIC LANDS IN AMERICAN

Environmental issues in the American West are dramatically different from the rest of the country due in large part to the prevalence of public lands. Most western states have a land base that is at least 35% public, and competing interests vie for limited resources and navigate a complex bureaucracy. This course will focus on the federal agencies authorized to make management decisions across those lands: the U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Park Service, and others. We will explore the legal and regulatory framework that guides land use decisions, and study enduring resource access conflicts. Pulling from both academic scholarship and the gray literature in political science, environmental sciences, law, and organizational behavior, this course provides an interdisciplinary overview of governance challenges in the American West. Organized into three parts, the course will unfold as follows.
Part I
reviews the theory and origins of our public lands system. We will explore political and ecological history, as well as contributions from psychology and anthropology that help flesh out the layered values associated with the collective choice to remove so much land from the private estate.
Part II
brings us to the nuts and bolts of the system, and we will learn about the agencies responsible for managing public lands with a focus on the National Park Service, the U.S. Forest Service, and the Bureau of Land Management. Laws and regulations that guide these agencies will also be covered in this section of the course. 
Part III
is the longest section. This second half of the course will consist of a tour through key controversies on public lands, including energy development, recreation access, Wilderness designation, wildfire management, and endangered species management.

• Department: Earth Institute
• MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Dale
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

AFR AM PROPHETIC POL TRADITION

Through a wide range of readings and classroom discussions, this course will introduce students to the crucial role that the unique African-American appropriation of the Judeo-Christian prophetic biblical tradition has played -- and continues to play -- in the lives of black people in America.

• Department: Religion
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Obery Hendricks
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

WAR,GENOCIDE,& AFTERMATH COMP PERSPECTIV

WAR GENOCIDE AND AFTERMATH

This 4000-level course examines how societies grapple with the legacy of mass violence, through an exploration of historical texts, memoirs, textbooks, litigation, and media reports and debates on confronting the past. Focusing on case studies of the Herero Genocide, the Armenian genocide during WWI, and the Holocaust and the Comfort Women during WWII, students investigate the crime and its sequelae, looking at how societies deal with skeletons in their closets ( engaging in silence, trivialization, rationalization, and denial to acknowledgment, apology, and repair); surveying responses of survivors and their descendants (with particular attention to intergeneration transmission of trauma, forgiveness, resentment, and the pursuit of redress); and dissecting public debates on modern day issues that harken back to past atrocities.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Khatchig Mouradian
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Mathematical Tools for Theoretical Neuro

Math Tools for Theoretica

An introduction to mathematical concepts used in theoretical neuroscience aimed to give a minimal requisite background for NBHV G4360, Introduction to Theoretical Neuroscience. The target audience is students with minimal mathematical background who are interested in rapidly acquiring the vocabulary and basic mathematical skills for studying theoretical neuroscience, or who wish to gain a deeper exposure to mathematical concepts than offered by NBHV G4360. Topics include single- and multivariable calculus, linear algebra, differential equations, dynamical systems, and probability. Examples and applications are drawn primarily from theoretical and computational neuroscience.

• Department: Neurobiology and Behavior
• TR 11:30 a.m.-12:35 p.m.
• 3 points

Menstruation, Gender, and Rights: Interd

Menstruation, Gender & Ri

The course will explore the contemporary discourse around menstruation in global and local contexts. The recent shift in public discourse around menstruation is crucial because efforts to support menstruators across the lifespan not only confer health benefits but are also part of an enduring project of pursuing gender equality and women’s rights. Centering attention on menstrual health resists pernicious social control of women’s bodies and recognizes the body as foundational, urgent and politically relevant. This is why menstruation matters: it unites the personal and the political, the intimate and the public, the physiological and the socio-cultural. The course examines gender justice and women’s rights through the lens of menstruation, discussing questions of gender stereotyping, transnational feminism, and gender identity. Students will gain an understanding of the relevance of menstruation across different spheres of life combining bio-medical and socio-cultural factors. We will ask: What is the relationship between menstruation, human rights and gender equality? What does it mean to approach menstrual health research from an interdisciplinary perspective? -- Over the course of the semester, we will examine different spheres of life, including health, education, equality in the work place, freedom of religion, and cultural rights. In doing so, the course will pay particular attention to the intersection of gender and other markers of inequalities, including disability, socio-economic status, age, caste, and gender identity. The course development is supported by the Provost's Interdisciplinary Teaching Award

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Inga T Winkler
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO THEORETICAL NEUROSCIENCE

• Department: Neurobiology and Behavior
• TR 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• 3 points

POWER ELECTRONICS

Prerequisites: (ELEN E3331) and (ELEN E3801) ELEN E3801 & ELEN E3331. Introduction to power electronics; power semiconductor devices: power diodes, thyristors, commutation techniques, power transistors, power MOSFETs, Triac, IGBTs, etc. and switch selection; non-sinusoidal power definitions and computations, modeling, and simulation; half-wave rectifiers; single-phase, full-wave rectifiers; three-phase rectifiers; AC voltage controllers; DC/DC buck, boost, and buck-boost converters; discontinuous conduction mode of operation; DC power supplies: Flyback, Forward converter; DC/AC inverters, PWM techniques; three-phase inverters.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthias Preindl
  h-index: 26 Info
• 3 points

MULTISCALE COMP SCI & ENGIN

Prerequisites: (ENME E4332) and elementary computer programming, linear algebra. Introduction to multiscale analysis. Information-passing bridging techniques: among them, generalized mathematical homogenization theory, the heterogeneous multiscale method, variational multiscale method, the discontinuous Galerkin method and the kinetic Monte Carlo–based methods. Concurrent multiscale techniques: domain bridging, local enrichment, and multigrid-based concurrent multiscale methods. Analysis of multiscale systems.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Jacob Fish
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 54 Info
• 3 points

PHONETICS & PHONOLOGY

Prerequisites: LING UN3101 An investigation of the sounds of human language, from the perspective of phonetics (articulation and acoustics, including computer-aided acoustic analysis) and phonology (the distribution and function of sounds in individual languages).

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Meredith Landman
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• 3 points

Strange Resonances, Close Listening

How does one live with sound and move within worlds of sound? In pursuit of this question the course explores: soundscapes and sound arts; echoes of audible pasts and resonances of auditory cultures; sound and the uncanny; repetitive listening in the age of electronic reproduction, ethereal transmissions, and audio-vision; sounds at the edges of listening with experimental music and sonic installations.  Sound, chambers, noise, feedback, voice, resonance, silence: from the sirens of the Odyssey, to compositional figures ala John Cage, to contemporary everyday acoustical encounters, if one were to really listen, closely, how might one write about sound?  How might one rethink the ties between sound and image?  How then might one think with sound, and through sound?

• Department: Anthropology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: John Pemberton
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• 3 points

THE IDEA OF EUROPE

• Department: History
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Victoria de Grazia
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• 4 points