Advocating and Campaigning for Social an

Advocacy & Camp: Soc&Econ

This course will examine practical issues, opportunities, tactics and strategies to advocate for economic and social rights. The course will incorporate central debates about economic and social rights, such as how to identify violators and define state responsibility, whether these rights can be litigated, and how to make implementable recommendations for change, measure implementation and measure impact. The course will also look more in depth at the standards and fulfillment challenges on several of the key rights including health, housing, education, and labor.   Throughout the course, you will focus on one economic and social rights topic of your choice. Through the lens of your chosen topic, you will review how organizations and social movements have engaged to affect change on similar issues, and use that research to explore many of the practical skills of advocacy and campaigning: framing recommendations and calls to action; drafting policy briefs; crafting media pitches and social media content; and designing and evaluating an overall advocacy strategy.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Mila H Rosenthal
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• 3 points

ARAB MODERNISM(S)

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Yasser Elsheshtawy
  h-index: 18 Info
• 3 points

(UN)MODERN: EX-CENTRIC LATINX SPATIAL PR

(UN) MODERN: EX-CENTRIC L

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Luis Carranza
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• 3 points

GREATS: CHINA'S BIG PROJECTS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Amy Lelyveld
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• 3 points

INTRO TO QUANTUM MECHANICS II

Continuation of GU4391. This course will focus on quantum mechanics, paying attention to both the underlying mathematical structures as well as their physical motivations and consequences. It is meant to be accessible to students with no previous formal training in quantum theory. The role of symmetry, groups and representations will be stressed.

• Department: Mathematics
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter G Woit
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

MSE Quantitative Bootcamp

Zero-credit course. Primer on quantitative and mathematical concepts. Required for all incoming MSOR and MSIE students.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• Instructor: Laura Radev
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• 0 points

Romanticism

This course is designed as an overview of major texts (in poetry and prose), contexts, and themes in British Romanticism. The movement of Romanticism was born in the ferment of revolution, and developed alongside so many of the familiar features of the modern world—features for which Romanticism provides a vantage point for insight and critique. As we read authors including William Blake, Jane Austen, John Keats, Mary Shelley, and many others, we will situate our discussions around the following key issues: the development of individualism and new formations of community; industrialization and ecology (changes in nature and in the very conception of “nature”); and slavery and abolition.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph Albernaz
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED PRINTMAKING

Prerequisites: VIAR R2420, or VIAR R2430. (Formerly R3415) Designed for students who have already taken one semester of a printmaking course and are interested in continuing on an upper level. Students are encouraged to work in all areas, separate or combined, using their own vocabulary and imagery to create a body of work by the end of the semester. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• F 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

QUANTITATIVE CORPORATE FINANCE

Required for students in the Undergraduate Advanced Track. Key measures and analytical tools to assess the financial performance of a firm and perform the economic evaluation of industrial projects. Deterministic mathematical programming models for capital budgeting. Concepts in utility theory, game theory and real options analysis.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: David Derosa
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 9 Info
• 3 points

SIMULATION

Generation of random numbers from given distributions; variance reduction; statistical output analysis; introduction to simulation languages; application to financial, telecommunications, computer, and production systems. Graduate students must register for 3 points. Undergraduate students must register for 4 points. Note: Students who have taken IEOR E4703 Monte Carlo simulation may not register for this course for credit. Recitation section required.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Yi Zhang
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Karl Sigman
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

PRODUCTION SCHEDULING

Required for undergraduate students majoring in IE and OR. Job shop scheduling: parallel machines, machines in series; arbitrary job shops. Algorithms, complexity, and worst-case analysis. Effects of randomness: machine breakdowns, random processing time. Term project.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Clifford Stein
  CULPA: 31 Wikipedia h-index: 53 Info
• 3 points

POLITICS IN CONTEMP CHINA

This course focuses on the evolution of Chinese politics since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) took power in 1949. It introduces and discusses the relationship between the two “three decades” (the three decades under Mao and the three decades of “reform and opening up”). More specifically, the course aims to (1) clarify some important historical facts, (2) analyze the ideological consideration of the “official” history sanctioned by the CCP and its epistemological impact, (3) make a comparison between official view and that of independent scholars about the history; (4) try to respond to some urgent problems faced by contemporary China, and (5) provide suggestions and principles for the reconstruction of the historiography of contemporary China. Students will learn how to understand the recent development Chinese politics, how to analyze the complex contemporary history and reality of China, and how to approach issues about China from a systematic perspective.

• Department: Political Science
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Boshu Zhang
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• 4 points

METHODS IN SPATIAL RESEARCH

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Dare A Brawley
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• 1.5 points

VICTORIAN LITERATURE

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: James E Adams
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 3 points

PRIN OF ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE

Fourier analysis. Physics of diagnostic ultrasound and principles of ultrasound imaging instrumentation. Propagation of plane waves in lossless medium; ultrasound propagation through biological tissues; single-element and array transducer design; pulse-echo and Doppler ultrasound instrumentation, performance evaluation of ultrasound imaging systems using tissue-mimicking phantoms, ultrasound tissue characterization; ultrasound nonlinearity and bubble activity; harmonic imaging; acoustic output of ultrasound systems; biological effects of ultrasound.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• W 2:30 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Elisa Konofagou
  Wikipedia h-index: 71 Info
• 3 points

Political, Social & Economic Development

Pol, Soc, & Econ Devp-Brazil

This course is set-up in a form of a practicum where major activists concerned with Brazilian political, social and economic development will be asked to address a policy problem and discuss their proposals for effective changes. Other speakers will analyze the government's policies but will also discuss major new reports or studies, and bring to our attention key issues that are not yet on the policy agenda.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Sidney N Nakahodo
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 1.5 points

CLIMATE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY

CLIMATE, TECH, AND SOCIET

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Reinhold Martin
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• 3 points

ECONOMETRICS OF TIME SERIES

Prerequisites: W3211, W3213, W3412. Corequisites: MATH V2010. This course focuses on the application of econometric methods to time series data; such data is common in the testing of macro and financial economics models. It will focus on the application of these methods to data problems in macro and finance.

• Department: Economics
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Seyhan Erden
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

GAME THEORY

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 Introduction to the systematic treatment of game theory and its applications in economic analysis.

• Department: Economics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Qingmin Liu
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 14 Info
• 3 points

TRANSPORTATION ANALYTICS & LOGISTICS

Introduces quantitative techniques and state-of-the-art practice of operations research relevant to the design and both the tactical and strategic management of logistical and transportation systems. Discusses a wide variety of passenger and freight systems, including air, urban and highway traffic, rail, and maritime systems. Explores the practice of revenue management and dynamic pricing. Through case studies, analyzes successes and failures in third-party logistics, postal, truck and rail pickup and delivery systems. Investigates large-scale integrated logistics and transportation systems and studies the underlying principles governing transportation planning, investment and operations.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Adam N Elmachtoub
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 13 Info
• 3 points

WALTER BENJAMIN (ENG)

• Department: Germanic Languages
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Annie Pfeifer
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

Oil, Rights and Development

This multi-layered role-playing simulation, based on a fictitious country, allows exploration of the challenges associated with initiation of a major industrial venture in a developing country as regards any or all of the following: macro-economic and political factors; identification of priorities; environmental management; complications arising from ethnic and religious conflicts; health management (including HIV/AIDS); community development aspects; reconciliation of the interests of a wide variety of stakeholders; media management; achievement of the largest possible Circle of Consensus. The simulation is conducted over two consecutive days and some 50 to 80 participants role-play up to twenty separate entities, including an international industrial company and its competitor, government factions, opposition groups, a local community and wide varieties of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and of media. As in real life, some more general knowledge of the situation is available to all entities, but each one has sole access to information (which may overlap with that of others) which is unique to its own perspective. The emphasis is therefore on sharing and on cooperation to make progress against tight deadlines, on managing information of various degrees of reliability and of balancing conflicting demands. There is no single right answer but through the process participants have an opportunity to explore the interplay of a very wide range of factors and develop strategies which are based on a holistic appreciation of the problems involved and on creation of alliances which are by no means obvious at the beginning of the simulation.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• FS 8 a.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Jenik Radon
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• 1 points

ARCH APROPOS ART

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

EUROPEAN POLITICL DEVELOPMENT

Prerequisites: Course in European history or political science or relevant comparative politics courses. This is an upper-level course in European political development. It is designed for undergraduates who already have some exposure to European history and politics and graduate students. The course will analyze important theoretical works, and debates about, the evolution of European political systems and institutions since the Second World War and place the European experience in comparative perspective

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sheri Berman
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia h-index: None Info
• 4 points

PRIN OF MAG RESONANCE IMAGING

Fundamental principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), including the underlying spin physics and mathematics of image formation with an emphasis on the application of MRI to neuroimaging, both anatomical and functional. The examines both theory and experimental design techniques.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Christoph Juchem
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 23 Info
• 3 points

ETH POL ACROS POST-SOV EURASIA

Various forms of ethnic politics have characterized politics in many states throughout Eurasia since 1991, from nationalist separatism to violent conflict to political competition among ethnic minorities and majorities. This course is designed to encourage students to think deeply about the relationship between ethnicity and politics. We will consider several questions. First, why does ethnicity become politicized? We investigate this question by examining nationalist secessionism and ethnic conflict—phenomena that mushroomed at the end of the Cold War. We will focus on East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union, devoting special attention to the cases of Yugoslavia, the USSR, Moldova, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and Chechnya. However, we will also study cases in which the dog didn’t bark, i.e. places where nationalist mobilization and ethnic violence either did not occur, or emerged and then receded as in the ethnic republics of the Russian Federation (including the “Muslim” regions of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan, etc.). In the second part of the course, we will analyze ethnic politics after independent statehood was achieved throughout the post-Soviet space. How do nationalist state-builders try to construct a nation and a state at the same time? Have they incorporated or discriminated against minorities living within “their” states? How have ethnic minorities responded? We will study Ukraine, the Baltics and Kazakhstan where ethnic Russians and Russian-speaking populations form large portions of the population, devoting particular attention to the crisis in Ukraine. We will also examine how the post-conflict regions of Bosnia and Kosovo have dealt with ethnic pluralism. These cases allow us to gain greater understanding of how multi-ethnic states use forms of federalism, consociationalism, and power-sharing as state-building strategies.

• Department: Political Science
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Elise Giuliano
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

POPULISM IN EUROPE AND THE WORLD

POPULISM IN EUROPE & THE

Populism is one of the political buzzwords of the early 21st century. It is central to current debates about politics, from radical right parties in Europe to left-wing presidents in Latin America to the Tea Party, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump in the United States. But populism is also one of the most contested concepts in the social sciences. In line with a growing body of literature, populism should be defined in ideational terms, i.e., as a worldview that considers society to be separated into two homogeneous and antagonistic camps, “the pure people” versus “the corrupt elite,” and which argues that politics should be an expression of the volont´e g´en´erale (general will) of the people. This course will provide an introduction to populism in theory and practice.
The first part of the course will discuss how scholars from different parts of the world studied populism since this phenomenon entered the political and social science agenda in the late 1960s. Is populism an ideology? A strategy? A style of politics? A certain type of discourse? Something else? And, crucially, who are “the people” in populism? Could we, possibly, re-conceptualize populism in a way that is at the same time minimal and with sufficient discriminatory power, politically relevant, analytically compelling, operationally feasible, and clearly pointing to an opposite pole?
Beyond defining populism, this course also examines the phenomenon in the entirety of its geographical variants. Populism is an omnipresent, multifaceted, and ideologically boundless phenomenon. What distinguishes its various manifestations in Europe, Latin America, the United States, and elsewhere across time (old vs. new populisms), region (western vs. eastern; but also Nordic, Baltic, and Southern European), regime type in which they develop (democracy vs. non-democracy), and ideological hue (right vs. left populisms)?
A second part of this course will look at actual populist strategies, how populist leaders gain their appeal, what social conditions increase the likelihood of a populist victory, how populists gain and maintain power. What are the determinants of voting motivation for populist parties? And how do they differ from mainstream parties? This course will also examine what happens once populists come into office, as has happened several times in both Europe and Latin America? Cases such as Hungary, Greece and Venezuela are studied in order to understand the way in which populism co

• Department: Political Science
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Paula Ganga
  h-index: 2 Info
• 4 points

A TALE OF TWO CITIES: NYC AND JOHANNESBU

CROSS CITY ANALYSIS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Ifeoma Ebo
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• 3 points

Remapping Algeria: Poetics and Politics

This course, offered in conjunction with the Center for Spatial Research, explores representations of space in contemporary Algerian literature and film, considering how spatial imaginaries engage with changing social and political landscapes. The arts in Algeria have often been approached from the perspective of their narration of national history, notably the country’s emblematic War of Independence against France (1954-62). This course shifts the focus to the self-conscious ways in which contemporary film and literature explore social and political dynamics distilled in the experience of space: issues such as urban crowding, intra and inter-national migration, environmental damage, real estate development and speculation, assertions of regional identities and the reclaiming of public space by protest movements. In addition to considering forms of spatial representation in contemporary Algerian literature and cinema we look outside the text/image at sites and physical locations of cultural production such as publishing houses, book fairs, film festivals, cinema clubs, arts associations and literary cafes. Throughout the course our enquiry will be guided by questions about the poetics and politics of space, the definition and variety of public and private spaces, and the role of cartography as a technology of power and contestation.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Madeleine Dobie
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS-NEUROBIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Examines current topics in neurobiology and behavior.

• Department: Psychology
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Yunglin Gazes
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• 3 points

Classical French Moralists

This course will be dedicated to the study of three authors whom Nietzsche called masters of
Seelenprüfung
(examination of the soul) and whose heritage he explicitly embraced both stylistically and philosophically: Pascal, La Rochefoucauld and La Bruyère. In French literary history these writers are traditionally known as “moralists of the seventeenth century” or “classical French moralists.” The term moralist was not used in the seventeenth century and did not appear until the nineteenth century, when these three writers were grouped in anthologies. Yet their affinities were clear even at the time of the production of these works: when La Bruyère published his
Caractères
(1696) he explicitly referenced La Rochefoucauld’s
Maximes
(1678) and Pascal’s
Pensées
(1670) to outline the similarities and differences between his work and theirs. These three prose writers were called
moralistes
because of their focus on
moeurs
(human behavior). Their perspective is not at all moralizing in the trivial sense of the term (denouncing behavior that falls short of a stated norm). The
moralistes
are relentless analysts of the complexities and inconsistencies of human behavior and they present their observations in the form of pithy statements with varying degrees of generalization. In La Rochefoucauld, the embrace of the short form is explicit and systematic. In Pascal, it is due in part to the unfinished and fragmentary nature of the work. In La Bruyère, the use of the short form coexists with its opposite. Part of the attraction of these writers for modern readers is their mistrust of appearances and their exacting search for hidden motives, making them forerunners of the “hermeneutics of suspicion”.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Pierre Force
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 11 Info
• 3 points

FACADE DETAILING

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Kevin Schorn
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• 3 points

Deep Learning in Biomedical Imaging

Deep Learning in BME / Im

Introduction to methods in deep learning, with focus on applications to quantitative problems in biomedical imaging and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in medicine. Network models: Deep feedforward networks, convolutional neural networks and recurrent neural networks. Deep autoencoders for denoising. Segmentation and classification of biological tissues and biomarkers of disease. Theory and methods lectures will be accompanied with examples from biomedical image including analysis of neurological images of the brain (MRI), CT images of the lung for cancer and COPD, cardiac ultrasound. Programming assignments will use tensorflow / Pytorch and Jupyter Notebook. Examinations and a final project will also be required.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew Laine
  Wikipedia h-index: 43 Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED INDEPENDENT RESEARCH

All supervisors will be Columbia faculty who hold a PhD. Students are responsible for identifying their own supervisor and it is at the discretion of faculty whether they accept to supervise independent research. Projects must be focused on Hellenic Studies and can be approached from any disciplinary background. Students are expected to develop their own reading list in consultation with their supervisor. In addition to completing assigned readings, the student must also write a Hellenic studies paper of 20 pages. Projects other than a research paper will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Hellenic Studies is an interdisciplinary field that revolves around two main axes: space and time. Its teaching and research are focused on the study of post-classical Greece in various fields: Language, Literature, History, Politics, Anthropology, Art, Archaeology, and in various periods: Late Antique, Medieval, Byzantine, Modern Greek etc. Therefore, the range of topics that are acceptable as a Hellenic Studies seminar paper is broad. It is upon each supervisor to discuss the specific topic with the student. The work submitted for this independent study course must be different from the work a student submits in other courses, including the Hellenic Studies Senior Research Seminar.

• Department: Classics
• Instructor: Dimitris Antoniou
  h-index: 5 Info
• Instructor: Karen R Van Dyck
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Stathis Gourgouris
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Paraskevi Martzavou
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

PUBLIC ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 Types of market failures and rationales for government intervention in the economy. Benefit-cost analysis and the theory of public goods. Positive and normative aspects of taxation. The U.S. tax structure.

• Department: Economics
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ceyhun Elgin
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• 3 points

PSYCH & NEUROPSYCH OF LANGUAGE

• Department: Psychology
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Michele Miozzo
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• 4 points

PSYCHOBIOLOGY OF INFANT DEVPT

Prerequisites: (PSYC UN1001 or PSYC UN1010) and a course in developmental psychology, and the instructors permission. The focus of the seminar is on human development during the fetal period and early infancy. We will examine the effects of environmental factors on perinatal perceptual, cognitive, sensory-­motor, and neurobehavioral capacities, with emphasis on critical conditions involved in both normal and abnormal brain development. Other topics include acute and long term effects of toxic exposures (stress, smoking, and alcohol) during pregnancy, and interaction of genes and the environment in shaping the developing brain of high-risk infants, including premature infants and those at risk for neurodevelopmental disorders such as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

• Department: Psychology
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: William P Fifer
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 40 Info
• 4 points

PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE

• Department: Philosophy
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Haim Gaifman
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 30 Info
• 3 points

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES:MOVEMNT/RTS

Indigenous Peoples, numbering more that 370 million in some 90 countries and about 5000 groups and representing a great part of the world’s human diversity and cultural heritage, continue to raise major controversies and to face threats to their physical and cultural existence. The main task of this course is to explore the complex historic circumstances and political actions that gave rise to the international Indigenous movement through the human rights agenda and thus also produced a global Indigenous identity on all continents, two intertwined and deeply significant phenomena over the past fifty years. We will analyze the achievements, challenges and potential of the dynamic interface between the Indigenous Peoples’ movement-one of the strongest social movements of our times- and the international community, especially the United Nations system. Centered on the themes laid out in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007), the course will examine how Indigenous Peoples have been contesting and reshaping norms, institutions and global debates in the past 50 years, re-shaping and gradually decolonizing international institutions and how they have contributed to some of the most important contemporary debates, including human rights, development, law, and specifically the concepts of self-determination, governance, group rights, inter-culturality and pluriculturality, gender, land, territories and natural resources, cultural rights, intellectual property, health, education, the environment and climate justice. The syllabus will draw on a variety of academic literature, case studies and documentation of Indigenous organizations, the UN and other intergovernmental organizations as well as States from different parts of the world. Students will also have the opportunity to meet with Indigenous leaders and representatives of international organizations and States and will be encouraged to attend the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Select short films will be shown and discussed in class.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Elsa Stamatopoulou
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• 3 points

Neural Plasticity

This seminar provides an overview of the mechanisms and behaviors associated with neural plasticity. Students will obtain a basic working knowledge of the different types of neural plasticity, and how these affect cognition and behaviors.

• Department: Psychology
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Tina Kao
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

WOMEN IN CITIES: SUST URB DSGN,PLNG,MGMT

The course will examine both acknowledged indicators of women’s and girls’ inclusion in the conceptualization and life of a city (e.g., access to shelter, clean water, sanitation, safe transport, healthcare, education, jobs and leadership positions), and those not sufficiently acknowledged (stability and tenure in housing, labor force inclusion and wage parity, physical, mental and environmental health, sexual and reproductive rights, freedom from violence, assured levels of participation in policy- and decision-making, etc.). Migrating between multiple cultural and sociopolitical contexts, and between the individual and metropolitan, national and indigenous levels of policymaking, the course will look at how today’s cities have evolved; the consequential disconnect between enshrined legal frameworks, regulatory and administrative structures, and concrete urban realities; and at how, through a sustainable process of inclusive community and private sector engagement, responsive design, and strategic budgeting to realize select well-defined priorities, tomorrow’s cities can be better attuned to the human scale of their primary constituents by becoming more aware, inclusive, accommodating and enabling of women and families. Each week, one or more leading and cutting-edge thinkers and practitioners in the areas of urban and environmental design and management, corporate social responsibility, landscape architecture and planning, sustainable engineering, and urban health,  wellbeing and women’s rights will share their experience, current thinking and ideas in featured guest lectures; these will be followed by wide-ranging conversations among the instructor, lecturers and students, enabling students to hear firsthand how private, public and non-profit sector managers, policymakers and designers approach and deal with such issues as (for instance) making transport hubs equally navigable for women with strollers, walkers or young children, or implementing green or family-friendly CSR policies.

• Department: Sustainability Management
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Susan M Blaustein
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Stress and the Brain

This course will use clinical studies and experimental research on animals to understand the impact of stress during various periods of development on brain function and behavior.  We will address the long- and short-term consequences of stress on cognition, emotion, and ultimately psychopathology through investigating how various stressors can induce neurobiological and behavioral outcomes through genetic, epigenetic, and molecular mechanisms in the brain.

• Department: Psychology
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer Blaze
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• 4 points

HEALTH PHYSICS

Fundamental principles and objectives of health physics (radiation protection), the quantities of radiation dosimetry (the absorbed dose, equivalent dose, and effective dose) used to evaluate human radiation risks, elementary shielding calculations and protection measures for clinical environments, characterization and proper use of health physics instrumentation, and regulatory and administrative requirements of health physics programs in general and as applied to clinical activities.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• M 5:30 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter Caracappa
  h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 The theory of international trade, comparative advantage and the factor endowments explanation of trade, analysis of the theory and practice of commercial policy, economic integration. International mobility of capital and labor; the North-South debate.

• Department: Economics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Waseem Noor
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

APPLICATIONS PROGRAMMNG FOR FE

We will take a hands-on approach to developing computer applications for Financial Engineering. Special focus will be placed on high-performance numerical applications that interact with a graphical interface. In the course of developing such applications we will learn how to create DLLs, how to integrate VBA with C/C++ programs, and how to write multithreaded programs. Examples of problems settings that we consider include simulation of stock price evolution, tracking, evaluation and optimization of a stock portfolio; optimal trade execution. In the course of developing these applications, we review topics of interest to OR:FE in a holistic fashion.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Bienstock
  h-index: 38 Info
• 3 points

APPLICATIONS PROGRAMMNG FOR FE

We will take a hands-on approach to developing computer applications for Financial Engineering. Special focus will be placed on high-performance numerical applications that interact with a graphical interface. In the course of developing such applications we will learn how to create DLLs, how to integrate VBA with C/C++ programs, and how to write multithreaded programs. Examples of problems settings that we consider include simulation of stock price evolution, tracking, evaluation and optimization of a stock portfolio; optimal trade execution. In the course of developing these applications, we review topics of interest to OR:FE in a holistic fashion.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Daniel Bienstock
  h-index: 38 Info
• 3 points

Columbia Commons IPE Seminar

Relationships of Care

• Department: Medicine
• 0-2 points

Columbia Commons IPE Seminar

Aging and End-of-Life

• Department: Medicine
• 0-2 points

Columbia Commons IPE Seminar

Health Care Justice

• Department: Medicine
• Instructor: Jordana Vanderselt
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• 0-2 points

Columbia Commons IPE Seminar

Spirituality and Healthcare

• Department: Medicine
• 0-2 points

FOUNDATIONS OF DATA SCIENCE

Designed to provide an introduction to data science for sophomore SEAS majors. Combines three perspectives: inferential thinking, computational thinking, and real-world applications. Given data arising from some real-world phenomenon, how does one analyze that data so as to understand that phenomenon? Teaches critical concepts and skills in computer programming, statistical inference, and machine learning, in conjunction with hands-on analysis of real-world datasets such as economic data, document collections, geographical data, and social networks.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher J Dolan
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

PROCESS SAFETY

Aimed at seniors and graduate students. Provides classroom experience on chemical engineering process safety as well as Safety in Chemical Engineering certification. Process safety and process control emphasized. Application of basic chemical engineering concepts to chemical reactivity hazards, industrial hygiene, risk assessment, inherently safer design, hazard operability analysis, and engineering ethics. Application of safety to full spectrum of chemical engineering operations.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert G Bozic
  Info
• 3 points

TOOLS FOR ANALYTICS

MS IEOR students only. Introduction programming in Python, tools with the programmer's ecosystem. Python, Data Analysis tools in Python (NumPy, pandas, bokeh), GIT, Bash, SQL, VIM, Linux/Debia, SSH.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• W 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul Bulkley-Logston
  Info
• 3 points

TOOLS FOR ANALYTICS

EXEMPTION:TOOLS ANALYTICS

MS IEOR students only. Introduction programming in Python, tools with the programmer's ecosystem. Python, Data Analysis tools in Python (NumPy, pandas, bokeh), GIT, Bash, SQL, VIM, Linux/Debia, SSH.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• Instructor: Laura Radev
  Info
• 0 points

METHDS IN GENETICS & DEVELPMNT

Open only to students in the department. A survey of laboratory methods used in research. Students rotate through the major laboratories of the department.

• Department: Genetics and Development
• 4 points

Python for Analytics

Zero-credit course. Primer on Python for analytics concepts. Required for MSBA students.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• 0 points

ITALIAN CULTURAL STUDIES I

An interdisciplinary investigation into Italian culture and society in the years between Unification in 1860 and the outbreak of World War I. Drawing on novels, historical analyses, and other sources including film and political cartoons, the course examines some of the key problems and trends in the cultural and political history of the period. Lectures, discussion and required readings will be in English. Students with a knowledge of Italian are encouraged to read the primary literature in Italian.

• Department: Italian @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Nelson Moe
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points

READINGS IN HEBREW TEXTS II

Prerequisites: MDES W4501 or the instructors permission. Students must have a good familiarity with the Hebrew verb system, and the ability to read a text without vowels. This course focuses on central identities shaping Israeli society and is designed to give students extensive experience in reading Hebrew. Through selected readings of contemporary literary works and media texts, students will increase their proficiency in Hebrew and enhance their understanding of Israeli culture and society. All readings, written assignments, and class discussions are in Hebrew. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Naama Harel
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

VIDEO PROJECTS

Video Projects is an intensive project-based class on the production of digital video. The class is designed for advanced moving image students to make an ambitious project or series of projects, over the course of the semester. Different approaches to moving image, both historical and contemporary will be screened and discussed, as a means of developing each student’s individual artistic voice. The course encourages the making of rigorous, challenging moving image work while forming a small community in which to experiment, create, learn from, discuss and refine the work. The class will take each student through the stages of production: proposal, planning, shooting, dailies, rough-cut and final cut. We will, as a group, view and critique each other’s work, learning from each other’s processes and way of seeing.  Screenings, readings, and discussions will be organized around weekly themes. As the class will be very
process
and
making
oriented, readings will frequently focus on artists’ writings and interviews. Additional screenings and readings will be organized in direct relation to students’ interests, projects, and presentations. The class will also have visits from artists working with the moving image. Video Projects will be offered in spring 2021 as an online course. This will add technical and formal constraints to the envisioning and filming of the projects made, as well as more direct pandemic related restrictions.  This includes access to equipment and locations, as well as necessitating a different approach when working with performers or interview subjects. Rather than seeing these constraints as negative, the course will pose a series of positive questions connected to this adventure: How do particular constraints, especially those specific to a certain time period, be made to speak articulately to this moment which is so much about constraint? Can these restrictions be made to positively impact the way videos are made and seen? How can we create a different filmic language by using what is ‘at hand.’  How do these restrictions change the way we speak? The history of the moving image is a history of artists dealing with formal, budgetary, technical and political restrictions, both self-imposed and otherwise. Often these restrictions lead to experimentation, innovation and different ways of seeing. This will be the ever-present subtext of the class.

• Department: Visual Arts
• R 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jibade-Khalil Huffman
  Info
• 3 points

INTERNATIONAL MACROECONOMICS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 Introduction to monetary problems in international trade. Topics include macroeconomics of the open economy under fixed and flexible exchange rates, international adjustment under the gold standard, monetary problems of the interwar period, the Breton Woods agreement, transition to flexible exchange rates, planned reforms of the international monetary system and the Eurocurrency markets.

• Department: Economics
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe
  CULPA: 8 Wikipedia h-index: 41 Info
• 3 points

HEALTHCARE OPERATIONS MGT

Prerequisite(s): for senior undergraduate Engineering students: IEOR E3608, E3658, and E4307; for Engineering graduate students (M.S. or Ph.D.): Probability and statistics at the level of IEOR E4150, and deterministic models at the level of IEOR E4004; for healthcare management students: P8529 Analytical methods for health services management. Develops modeling, analytical, and managerial skills of engineering and health care management students. Enables students to master an array of fundamental operations management tools adapted to the management of health care systems. Through real-world business cases, students learn to identify, model, and analyze operational improvements and innovations in a range of health care contexts.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Van Anh Truong
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

READINGS IN CLASSICAL CHINESE

Prerequisites: CHNS W4007 or the equivalent. Admission after placement exam. Focusing on Tang and Song prose and poetry, introduces a broad variety of genres through close readings of chosen texts as well as the specific methods, skills, and tools to approach them. Strong emphasis on the grammatical and stylistic analysis of representative works. CC GS EN CE

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• WF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Andrew Plaks
  Info
• 4 points

PROBLEMS IN INT'L HISTORY

The object of this course is to illuminate how histories of the realm we think of as "international" are structured by means of key concepts, foundational concepts that form semantic fields of politics and policy. The seminar will chiefly be devoted to some ways of this in the empirical context of what is now being called the subfield of ‘the U.S. in the World.’

• Department: History
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Anders G Stephanson
  CULPA: 37 Info
• 4 points

Jacques Lacan: An introduction to his wo

Introduction to Jacques L

Jacques Lacan (1901 – 1981) was without any doubt the most influential psychoanalyst since Sigmund Freud. A meticulous yet inventive reader of the founder of psychoanalysis, he opened himself up to a panoply of sciences, philosophies, and other discourses as well as to political events and social phenomena in order to attune psychoanalysis not only to its own internal exigencies but also to those that he considered to be the ones of his time.   We will read Lacan according to this double exigency: to formalize anew its own logic, methodology, and construction of objects, which proceed “
sui generis
” as Freud said; and to put them in friction with some of the phenomena and structural determinants of what seems to impose itself on us today: the erosion of discourse as social bond in a time of an ever increasing number of displaced people; a radical change of the status of speech and the “letter”—as well as literature—in the hyper-digitalized world; the renewed enigma of sex and bodily enjoyment in the context of a tele-techno-medical science becoming increasingly autonomous; the status of “nature” as that what might survive only in being destroyed. In short: What concepts are needed to think the “unconscious” today?   The course will proposed as an introduction to Lacan for which no previous acquaintance with his work is required. It will cover texts and seminars from all the periods of his work with a focus on the those from the 1970s.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Marcus Coelen
  Info
• 4 points

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Management of complex projects and the tools that are available to assist managers with such projects. Topics include project selection, project teams and organizational issues, project monitoring and control, project risk management, project resource management, and managing multiple projects.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• W 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Moshe Rosenwein
  Info
• 3 points

Industry Projects in Analytics & Operati

Industry Projs in Analyti

Teams of students work on real-world projects in analytics. Focus on three aspects of analytics: identifying client analytical requirements; assembling, cleaning and organizing data; identifying and implementing analytical techniques (e.g., statistics and/or machine learning); and delivering results in a client-friendly format. Each project has a defined goal and pre-identified data to analyze in one semester. Client facing class. Class requires 10 hours of time per week and possible client visits on Fridays.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• M 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Michael Robbins
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

3RD YR MODERN HEBREW II

Prerequisites: Third Year Modern Hebrew I or Hebrew for Heritage Speakers II Focus on transition from basic language towards authentic Hebrew, through reading of un-adapted literary and journalistic texts without vowels. Vocabulary building. Grammar is reviewed in context. A weekly hour is devoted to practice in conversation. Daily homework includes reading, short answers, short compositions, listening to web-casts, or giving short oral presentations via voice e-mail. Frequent vocabulary quizzes. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Naama Harel
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Prerequisites: one year of biology. Recommended but not required: BIOC UN3501 This is a lecture course designed for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. The focus is on understanding at the molecular level how genetic information is stored within the cell and how it is regulated. Topics covered include genome organization, DNA replication, transcription, RNA processing, and translation. This course will also emphasize the critical analysis of the scientific literature and help students understand how to identify important biological problems and how to address them experimentally. SCE and TC students may register for this course, but they must first obtain the written permission of the instructor, by filling out a paper Registration Adjustment Form (Add/Drop form). The form can be downloaded at the URL below, but must be signed by the instructor and returned to the office of the registrar. http://registrar.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/reg-adjustment.pdf

• Department: Biological Sciences
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• 3 points

FIFTH YEAR KOREAN II

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Joowon Suh
  Info
• 4 points

After the Human

The advent of high-speed computing, Big Data, new forms of Artificial Intelligence, and global networking is rapidly transforming all aspects of life.  Implants, transplants, genetic engineering, cloning, nanotechnology, cyborgs, hybrids, prostheses, mobile phones, tracking devices and wearable devices. The Internet of Things and the Internet of Bodies are becoming interconnected to transform what once was known as human being.  These developments raise fundamental questions about what comes after the human.  This course considers the philosophical and theological implications of this question by addressing the following issues: Natural vs. Artificial, Treatment vs. Enhancement, the Artificial Intelligence Revolution, Ubiquitous Computing, the Internet of Things, the Singularity, Extended Mind and Superintelligence, Internet of Bodies and Superorganisms, Death and After Life.  Students will have the option of writing a term paper or doing a project related to the course readings.

• Department: Religion
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Mark C Taylor
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

FIFTH YEAR CHINESE II

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Lening Liu
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 4 points

RACE & THE ARTICULATN OF DIFF

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• Department: African American and African Diaspora
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Steven Gregory
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

MODERN KOREAN LIT IN TRANSLATN

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Theodore Hughes
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

Sin and Sodomy

For the unrepentant sins of their inhabitants God had Sodom and Gomorrah, the ignominious twin cities from Genesis, shattered to smithereens. Throughout the Middle Ages, the tale was invoked to justify harsh judgment of mortal sins of the flesh and “unnatural” sex acts, in particular those occurring between members of the same sex. This bridge seminar focuses on the church’s desire to control the potential of human sexuality to subvert its order of “natural” law. Through historical texts and artworks from the period, we will analyze the wide diversity of medieval attitudes toward non-normative sex and eroticism in a variety of contexts, from the construction of the phenomenon of sodomy in early and high medieval exegesis, the eradication of pre-Christian fertility rituals in northern and eastern Europe, the playful undermining of gender roles in secular medieval romances, to illicit accounts of public sex in pleasure gardens and bath houses, and monumental hellscapes rendered with graphic visualizations of sexual violence. Moving chronologically through the Middle Ages, we will end by addressing modern questions surrounding the sexuality of Jean the Duke of Berry and Albrecht Dürer, and Hieronymus Bosch’s fixation with butt play. Discussion will be informed by critical readings in queer theory, feminism, and gender studies by Jack Halberstam, David Halperin, Susan Stryker, to name a few, and by medievalists employing these methods, such as Roland Betancourt, Caroline Walker Bynum, Michael Camille, Dyan Elliott, and Robert Mills.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Gregory Bryda
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 1 Info
• 4 points

The Politics of Memory. Remembrance, Eth

This seminar will explore the multidimensional interplay between collective memory, politics, and history in France since 1945. We will examine the process of memorializing key historical events and periods – the Vichy regime, the Algerian War, the slave trade – and the critical role they played in shaping and dividing French collective identity. This exploration will focus on multiple forms of narratives – official history, victims’ accounts, literary fiction – and will examine the tensions and contradictions that oppose them. The seminar will discuss the political uses of memory, the influence of commemorations on French collective identity, and the role played by contested monuments, statues and other “
lieux de mémoire
” (“sites of memory”). We will ask how these claims on historical consciousness play out in the legal space through an exploration of French “memorial laws”, which criminalize genocide denial and recognize slave trade as a crime against humanity. These reflections will pave the way to retracing the genesis of the “
devoir de mémoire
” (“duty to remember”), a notion that attempts to confer an ethical dimension to collective memory. The seminar will examine the multiple uses of the French injunction to remember – as a response to narratives of denial, as an act of justice towards the victims, and as an antidote to the recurrence of mass crimes and persecutions. We will examine how amnesty is used to reconcile conflicting collective memories and will evaluate the claim that the transmission

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Emmanuel Kattan
  Info
• 3 points

DATA ANALYTICS

IEOR students only; priority to MSBA students. Survey tools available in Python for getting, cleaning, and analyzing data. Obtain data from files (csv, html, json, xml) and databases (Mysql, PostgreSQL, NoSQL), cover the rudiments of data cleaning, and examine data analysis, machine learning, and data visualization packages (NumPy, pandas, Scikit-lern, bokeh) available in Python. Brief overview of natural language processing, network analysis, and big data tools available in Python. Contains a group project component that will require students to gather, store, and analyze a data set of their choosing.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Uday Menon
  Info
• 3 points

Biogeochemistry

Biogeochemistry considers how the basic chemical conditions of the Earth, from atmosphere to soil to seawater, have been and are being affected by the existence of life. Human activities in particular, from the rapid consumption of resources to the destruction of the rainforests and the expansion of smog-covered cities, are leading to rapid changes in the basic chemistry of the Earth. This course will examine biogeochemical processes in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems in Earth’s Biosphere. We will cover the historical development and evolution of biogeochemical cycles and compare past biogeochemical systems on the planet to contemporary and future eco-biogeochemical systems that are increasingly perturbed and dominated by human activity.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Hugh Ducklow
  h-index: 92 Info
• 3 points

ANALYTICS IN PRACTICE

MSOR students only. Groups of students will work on real world projects in analytics, focusing on three aspects: identifying client analytical requirements; assembling, cleaning, and organizing data; identifying and implementing analytical techniques (statistics, OR, machine learning); and delivering results in a client-friendly format. Each project has a well-defined goal, comes with sources of data preidentified, and has been structured so that it can be completed in one semester. Client-facing class with numerous on-site client visits; students should keep Fridays clear for this purpose.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• R 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Hardeep Johar
  Info
• 3 points

MACHINE LEARNING FE & OPR

MS IEOR students only. Introduction to machine learning, practical use of ML algorithms and applications to financial engineering and operations. Supervised learning: regression, classification, resampling methods, regularization, support vector machines (SVMs), and deep learning. Unsupervised learning: dimensionality reduction, matrix decomposition, and clustering algorithms.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Christian Kroer
  h-index: 16 Info
• 3 points

INSTRUMENTATION

Prerequisites: extensive musical background. Analysis of instrumentation, with directional emphasis on usage, ranges, playing techniques, tone colors, characteristics, interactions and tendencies, all derived from the classic orchestral repertoire. Topics will include theoretical writings on the classical repertory as well as 20th century instrumentation and its advancement. Additional sessions with live orchestral demonstrations are included as part of the course.

• Department: Music
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeffrey Milarsky
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ANALYTICS ON THE CLOUD

To introduce students to programming issues around working with clouds for data analytics. Class will learn how to work with infrastructure of cloud platforms, and discussion about distributed computing, focus of course is on programming. Topics covered include MapReduce, parallelism, rewriting of algorithms (statistical, OR, and machine learning) for the cloud, and basics of porting applications so that they run on the cloud.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Hardeep Johar
  Info
• 3 points

Religion and the Sexed Body

This seminar will examine how bodily practices associated with gender and sexualities are cultivated, regulated, and articulated within various religious traditions and how these practices have been influenced by global processes, including colonialism, the accelerating movement of people and technologies, and modern secularism and identity politics. Throughout the course we will tack back and forth between theoretical works and ethnographic/historical writing, in order to articulate what is probably the most difficult aspect of original research: how to bring together “high theory” and primary sources ranging from field research to data drawn from a variety of media.

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

TECHNIQUES OF THE ULTRAREAL

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• 3 points

DATA MINING

Course covers major statistical learning methods for data mining under both supervised and unsupervised settings. Topics covered include linear regression and classification, model selection and regularization, tree-based methods, support vector machines, and unsupervised learning. Students learn about principles underlying each method, how to determine which methods are most suited to applied settings, concepts behind model fitting and parameter tuning, and how to apply methods in practice and assess their performance. Emphasizes roles of statistical modeling and optimization in data mining.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• M 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Krzysztof M Choromanski
  Info
• 3 points

MEDICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR

Required for all graduate students in the Medical Physics Program. Practicing professionals and faculty in the field present selected topics in medical physics.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Cheng S Wuu
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 0 points

MICRO/NANO STRUCT CELL ENG

Design, fabrication, and application of micro-/nanostructured systems for cell engineering. Recognition and response of cells to spatial aspects of their extracellular environment. Focus on neural, cardiac, coculture, and stem cell systems. Molecular complexes at the nanoscale.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Lance Kam
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 38 Info
• 3 points

Greek Poets and their Interlocutors

This course stages an imaginary dialogue between certain Greek poets, whose work spans the 20th century, and poets of the same era from other parts of the world, for whom Greek motifs are crucial to their poetic sensibility. These motifs may pertain to both ancient and modern figures of Hellenism, but even when the figures are recognizably ancient the assumption is that they extend themselves to an indisputable modernity. Indeed, by staging this dialogue, we will engage in interrogations of modernity and, moreover, the specific ways in which figures of modernity and figures of Hellenism are entwined. At the same time, we will pay close attention to different articulations of
poiēsis
, especially as they pertain to a certain politics. The literary historical sphere spans the range of early modernism to postmodernism and postcolonialism, as well as specific poetic-political sensibilities, whether aestheticist or Marxist, feminist or queer, etc.   The methodological emphasis will be determined by reading the poems themselves, with just a few key essays on poetics as supplemental framework. Students who know Greek would be expected to discuss the Greek poems in the original. But also, students who come from language departments, whose literature may be represented in the selection, will be expected to work on the non-Greek poems in the original language as well.

• Department: Classics
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Stathis Gourgouris
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

DARK SPACE

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Mario A Gooden
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

LAUNCH YOUR STARTUP: TECH

Tools and knowledge to develop a comprehensive new venture that is scalable, repeatable, and capital efficient. Covers customer discovery, market sizing, pricing, competition, distribution, funding, developing a minimal viable product, and other facets of creating new ventures. A company blueprint and final investor pitch are deliverables.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• R 2 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Owen E Davis
  Info
• 3 points

RADICAL DOMESTICITY: MODERNISM, GENDER A

This class, team-taught by faculty from English and Architecture, explores radical visions of domestic life from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day.  Domesticity is often associated with sentimentality, coziness and comfort--the antithesis of the word “radical” or common understandings of modernism. But there is a fascinating history of experimental and alternative forms of living that challenge stereotypes of home life. This course will begin with 19th century utopian socialism and cover topics including aestheticism, the rational household, glass houses, surrealism, queer domesticity, and more.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• 4 points

TOPICS IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH

VISUALIZATION & STORYTELLING W

Each offering of this course is devoted to a particular sector of Operations Research and its contemporary research, practice, and approaches. If topics are different, then course can be taken more than once for credit.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• T 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Michelle Glaser
  Info
• 1.5 points

TOPICS IN OR

PEFORMANCE OBJECTIVES & RESUL

Each offering of this course is devoted to a particular sector of Operations Research and its contemporary research, practice, and approaches. If topics are different, then course can be taken more than once for credit.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• T 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicolas Chikhani
  Info
• 1.5 points

TOPICS IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH

Reinforcement Lrning:Thry&Prac

Each offering of this course is devoted to a particular sector of Operations Research and its contemporary research, practice, and approaches. If topics are different, then course can be taken more than once for credit.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Shipra Agrawal
  h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

RACE, DRUGS, AND INEQUALITY

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Through a series of secondary- and primary-source readings and research writing assignments, students in this seminar course will explore one of the most politically controversial aspects in the history of public health in the United States as it has affected peoples of color: intoxicating substances. Course readings are primarily historical, but sociologists, anthropologists, and political scientists are also represented on the syllabus. The courses temporal focus - the twentieth century - allows us to explore the historical political and social configurations of opium, alcohol, heroin, cocaine, medical maintenance (methadone), the War on Drugs, the carceral state and hyperpolicing, harm reduction and needle/syringe exchange. This semesters principal focus will be on the origins and evolution of the set of theories, philosophies, and practices which constitute harm reduction. The International Harm Reduction Association/Harm Reduction International offers a basic, though not entirely comprehensive, definition of harm reduction in its statement, What is Harm Reduction? (http://www.ihra.net/what-is-harm-reduction): Harm reduction refers to policies, programmes and practices that aim to reduce the harms associated with the use of psychoactive drugs in people unable or unwilling to stop. The defining features are the focus on the prevention of harm, rather than on the prevention of drug use itself, and the focus on people who continue to use drugs.1 Harm reduction in many U.S. communities of color, however, has come to connote a much wider range of activity and challenges to the status quo. In this course we will explore the development of harm reduction in the United States and trace its evolution in the political and economic context race, urban neoliberalism, and no-tolerance drug war. The course will feature site visits to harm reduction organizations in New York City, guest lectures, and research/oral history analysis. This course has been approved for inclusion in both the African-American Studies and History undergraduate curricula (majors and concentrators). HIST W4588 will be open to both undergraduate and masters students. To apply, please complete the Google form at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1xaPFhQOzkl1NHnIjQIen9h41iel2hXAdhV59D5wH8AQ/viewform?usp=send_form. Questions may be directed to skroberts@columbia.edu.

• Department: History
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Samuel K Jr Roberts
  Info
• 4 points

MSBA Quantitative Bootcamp

Primer on quantitative and mathematical concepts. Required for all incoming MSBA students.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• Instructor: Laura Radev
  Info
• 0 points