ADVANCED MACHINE DYNAMICS

Advanced Machine Dynamics

Prerequisites: (MECE E3401) MECE E3401. Review of classical dynamics, including Lagranges equations. Analysis of dynamic response of high-speed machine elements and systems, including mass-spring systems, cam-follower systems, and gearing; shock isolation; introduction to gyrodynamics.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Nicolas W Chbat
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• 3 points

TRANSLATION WORKSHOP

Word-for-Word Workshop

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

TRANSLATION WORKSHOP

LITERARY TRANSLATION WORKSHOP

• Department: Writing
• M 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Bela Shayevich
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• 3 points

LIT/RES-LAT AMER/CARIB STUD II

• Department: Latin-American & Carib RS
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Gustavo S Azenha
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• 4 points

LOCAL ANESTHESIA

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• Instructor: Jennifer P Bassiur
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• 0 points

Macroeconomic Analysis for International

Prerequisites: SIPA U6400 or SIPA U6300 This course continues the one-year sequence initiated with SIPA U6400 and focuses on macroeconomics. The goal of this course is to provide students with the analytical framework to examine and interpret observed economic events in the global economy. The causal relationships between macroeconomic aggregates is based upon microeconomic principles. The subject matter always refers to concrete situations with a particular focus on the causes and effects of the current global financial crisis. The controversial nature of macroeconomic policies is central.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• MW 9:15 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
• MW 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• MW 4:15 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:40 p.m.
• R 11:15 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
• R 4:15 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
• F 9:15 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
• F 1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrea Bubula
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• 3 points

Regulating Reproduction: Care, Procreati

The organization and regulation of reproduction varies considerably across societies, but everywhere it directly impacts, and is impacted by, gender relations. These relations are generally marked by inequalities that not only distinguish the life chances of individuals on the basis of sex and gender but also reflect intersectional factors including race, class, ethnicity, national origin and religion. For the last several decades, the organization of reproduction has been intensely contested. Who can, must, should or should not bear or care for children and how; what is a family and who can form one; who is a child, a mother or father; what implications flow from these statuses for individual rights and obligations within or beyond families and how do they impact life chances; and, how do individual reproductive rights relate to other public policy concerns, such as nation-building, population declines, or the migration of care workers? Questions such as these are at the center of seemingly ceaseless debates between social movements, national governments and international organizations. This course explores these issues, primarily through the lens of states of the “global north”, by focusing on care and procreation.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Yasmine Ergas
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• 3 points

MODERN GEOMETRY

Continuation of Mathematics GR6402x (see Fall listing).

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Chiu-Chu Liu
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• 4.5 points

INTRO ORAL/MAXILLOFACIAL SURGY

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• Instructor: Bridget Ferguson
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• 0 points

Human Rights & the Politics of Inequalit

Human Rights & Devpt Policy

This course investigates the relationship between human rights and key policies affecting economic and social equality and equity issues. In particular, the course will focus on how human rights criteria have been integrated into economic governance in various arenas, including trade, labor, development, and environmental policy. The course will introduce students to both theory and practical points of leverage for advancing human rights in the public and the private sector. Students will learn about the strengths, weaknesses and impacts of grievance mechanisms that are tied to economic policies, such as free trade agreements or World Bank complaint mechanisms. They will analyze the impacts of development and investment policies on human rights and strategies for incorporating human rights criteria into governmental and non-governmental decision-making processes.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 3 points

INTRO TO ECONOMETRICS II-DISC

• Department: Economics
• M 1:10 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Bruno de Albuquerque Furtado
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• 0 points

MINIMALISM & POSTMINIMALISM

Minimalism, which developed in the 1960s, has been widely recognized as one of the most important aesthetic movements, styles, or tendencies of the later half of the twentieth century.  More than simply of interest for itself, minimalism has served as a pivotal reference or turning point for nearly all the developments in the visual arts that have come after it (including postminimal sculpture, conceptual art, performance art, process art, and institutional critique) and remains a major touchstone for contemporary artistic practices.  This course considers minimalism within a historical and interdisciplinary perspective (including related developments in music, dance, and film) and follows its development into postminimalism.  In addition to providing important historical information, the course and topic allow for important investigations into questions of artistic formalism and its challengers and notions of art’s critical and political role within the pivotal moment of the 1960s.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Branden W Joseph
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• 3 points

ORIGINS OF MOD VISUAL CULTURE

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• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan K Crary
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• 3 points

Social Movements & Citizenship in Africa

Social Movemt & Citizen-Africa

This course focuses on social movements and citizenship in sub-Saharan Africa to examine how people form political and social movements and deploy citizenship strategies within social, historical, and economic structures that are both local and global. It draws on readings and lectures from scholars in history, political science, anthropology, sociology, and African studies to explore the following topics and themes: histories and theories of social movements and citizenship; cities and social movements and citizenship; citizenship outside the nation-state; social movements and democracy; citizenship as a creative enterprise that emphasizes claim-making and improvisation; citizenship within imperial, international, and national contexts; infrastructures, claim-making, and coalition building; opposition, leadership and democracy; and social movements of African youth and women. This course features guest lectures by and discussions with French and American scholars from Sciences-Po, Universite Paris 1, NYU, and Columbia, and is part of the Joint African Studies Program (JASP) at the Institute of African Studies that is supported by the Partnership University Fund (PUF) and the French Alliance Program at Columbia. It includes foundational readings on concepts, theories, and histories of social movements and citizenship in Africa as well as in-depth case studies on selective themes by various experts working on sub-Saharan Africa. It is unique insofar as it offers a strong foundation in social movements and citizenship while exposing students to in-depth case studies by leading experts working in a variety of disciplines and geographical contexts. All lectures and discussions are conducted in English.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Jinny K Prais
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• 3 points

CREATING A PLAY

The goal of the Fall Semester is to create a rough draft of a one-act play or the first act of a full-length play. The first four weeks will be devoted to writing assignments - both in class and outside - to stimulate the identification of personal themes, interests or questions that can inspire a story. This rest of the semester will be dedicated to crafting a draft that reflects conscientious investigation. The Spring Semester will provide the opportunity for each student to hone her/his play through further drafts into a finished work. Students will serve as dramaturges for each other. The semester will end with presentations of the completed plays. Each presentation is the responsibility of the author.

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

TRANSLATION SEMINAR

WOMEN OF THE WORLD

• Department: Writing
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Susan Bernofsky
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• 3 points

TRANSLATION SEMINAR

ESSAY AS PORTRAITURE

• Department: Writing
• R 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Katrina Dodson
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• 3 points

POSTWAR AMERICAN ART

With the advent of Abstract-Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism, the center of the avant-garde shifted from Europe to New York; then, in what is sometimes identified as Marshall Plan Modernism, the New York school was exported to Pari, sponsored by the International Section of The Museum of Modern Art, and the USIS.

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

Global Food Systems

Introduces and explores systems of producing and ensuring equitable access to food. The course begins with an overview of the core bio-physical elements of food production: land and soil, water and biodiversity. The course then surveys a selection of important smallholder farming systems that provide food and livelihoods for more than two billion people on the planet. Building on this understanding, students will examine the underlying history, science and impact of the Asian Green Revolution that doubled global food supplies between 1970 and 1995. Country case studies from Asia and Africa will be examined to understand the roles of science, policies, politics, institutions and economics in advancing agriculture and food security. This course is restricted to MPA-DP students. Non-MPA-DP students interested in registering for this course should contact the instructor.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Glenn Denning
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• 3 points

INTRODUCTN TO ECONOMETRICS II

Corequisites: ECON G6410 and the director of graduate studies permission. Introduction to the general linear model and its use in econometrics, including the consequences of departures from the standard assumptions.

• Department: Economics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• 4 points

State and Society in the Developing Worl

State & Soc - Developing World

This lecture course presents different political economy perspectives on the dynamics between state and society involved in governance around the efforts at sustainable development or other goals to improve how each society defines their wellbeing. This course requires familiarity with basic social science theories and methods and the core readings are all scholarly work from the social sciences and mostly political science. The course emphasizes comparative methods and introduces students to a wide range of social science theories applied to different issues, which have important effects in the policymaking process of developing countries.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria Victoria Murillo
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• 3 points

PROSEM-ETHNOMUSICOLOGY II

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

• Department: Music
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Aaron A Fox
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• 3 points

COMPARATV POLITICS SURVEY II

GR6412 is one of two survey courses in comparative politics offered by the Political Science Department. The two courses complement each other, but need not be taken in any particular order. The course includes a great deal of student involvement and is designed to help you educate yourselves about the major themes in comparative politics and develop the analytic skills need to conduct research at a high level.

• Department: Political Science
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Kimuli Kasara
  CULPA: 26 h-index: 8 Info
• 4 points

RESEARCH DESIGH SEMINAR

The purpose of this project is to teach the student how to write a research proposal. This research proposal is to be used both as the formal dissertation research proposal and to apply for grants.

• Department: Music
• T 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Aaron A Fox
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• 3 points

DIG HERTITAGE DOCUMENTATI

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Bilge Kose
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• 3 points

MICRO-ECONOMETRICS

• Department: Economics
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Bernard Salanie
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• 3 points

PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS

Photonic integrated circuits are important subsystem components for telecommunications, optically controlled radar, optical signal processing, and photonic local area networks. This course will introduce the student to the devices and the design of these circuits. Principle and modelling of dielectic waveguides (including silica on silicon and InP based materials), waveguide devices (simple and star couplers), and surface diffractive elements. Numerical techniques for modelling circuits will be discussed, including beam propagation and finite difference codes. Design of other devices will be discussed: optical isolators, demultiplexers.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• 3 points

PROGRAM EVAL IN SOCIAL SVCS

• Department: Social Work
• T 2 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• W 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Angelie Singla
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• Instructor: Eri Noguchi
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• 3 points

INTL ISSUES IN HIST PRESERV

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Erica C Avrami
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• 3 points

POST SUPERVISING FOR PRODUCERS

This class is an intensive introduction to Post Production, with a specific focus on the role of the producer and post-production supervisor. We will examine the different components of Post-Production (Editing, Sound Design/Mixing, Music, Picture finishing, VFX, Titles) from Pre-Production through Delivery. Throughout the course, post department heads will come in as guests, and we will attend site visits to local post facilities.  Required for all second-year Creative Producing students and only open to students in that concentration.

• Department: Film
• W 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark S Haynes
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• 1.5 points

POST SUPERVISING FOR PRODUCERS

This class is an intensive introduction to Post Production, with a specific focus on the role of the producer and post-production supervisor. We will examine the different components of Post-Production (Editing, Sound Design/Mixing, Music, Picture finishing, VFX, Titles) from Pre-Production through Delivery. Throughout the course, post department heads will come in as guests, and we will attend site visits to local post facilities.  Required for all second-year Creative Producing students and only open to students in that concentration.

• Department: Film
• W 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark S Haynes
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• 1.5 points

RELIGION & PUBLIC LIFE

• Department: Religion
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Clemence C Boulouque
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• 4 points

CONFLICT-LAWS/JURISD:NATL/INTL

This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search

• Department: Law
• TR 10:40 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Henry P Monaghan
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• 3 points

SECURITIES REGULATION

Prerequisites: L6231 This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search

• Department: Law
• MW 8:20 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
• TWR 10:40 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Joshua R Mitts
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• Instructor: Merritt B Fox
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• 4 points

INTRO-THEORY OF ELASTICITY II

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeffrey W Kysar
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 37 Info
• 3 points

HARDWARE SECURITY

• Department: Computer Science
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Simha Sethumadhavan
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• 3 points

INT'L SECURITIES REGULATION

This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search

• Department: Law
• MW 9 a.m.-10:05 a.m.
• Instructor: Edward Greene
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• 2 points

Communicating in Organizations

A survey course that explores aspects of day-to-day managerial communication, presentations and high-profile moments, as well as interpersonal communication. The course uses many teaching techniques: short lectures, individual and group exercises, videotaped presentations, role-plays, case discussions, video clips, and writing assignments.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• S 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• S 1 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Joann P Baney
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• 3 points

FEDERAL COURTS

• Department: Law
• TR 1:10 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Kellen R Funk
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• 4 points

FEDERAL CRIMINAL LAW

• Department: Law
• TR 3:15 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Richman
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• 3 points

CRITICAL WRITING FOR THEATRE

• Department: Theatre Arts
• F 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Linda Winer
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• 3 points

Persistent Problems in the Global South

Persistent Probs-Global South

This course examines the politics around some persistent policy problems in the Global South. The term Global South, used mostly by intergovernmental organizations, refers to the economically disadvantaged countries also known as developing countries or the Third World. However, in recent years and within a variety of fields, Global South is also employed in a post-national sense to address spaces and peoples within the borders of wealthier countries negatively impacted by globalization. This course is explicitly comparative, and will draw on the histories and national experiences of developing countries around the world. Each week we will address one persistent problem in the Global South in an empirically grounded case-based method, while also referring to solid theoretical frameworks and policy literature. Alongside recognizing national-level specificities, we will also examine how these countries face similar constraints arising from shared colonial experience, resource paucity and institutional barriers, which distinguish them from richer countries in the Global North.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Rumela Sen
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• 3 points

CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN PLAYS

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

The Art of Lying: Deception in Modern &

Plato banished poets from his
Republic
on the account of their being thrice removed from the truth. Accused of artfully and seductively lying, poets were deemed dangerous, confusing, and unfit to guarantee the stability of the polis and were consequently extricated from it. Since then, the relationship between art and truth has been a contentious one. Art is fiction and fiction, at least in common parlance, is opposed to fact, to things as they
really are
. This historical kinship with lying has often justified accusations of art as being a frivolous, lighthearted discipline, detached from the real. It has also, however, equipped artists with a ‘license to lie’—a prerogative that they have used frequently to reclaim art’s position in the realm of the real, to reinstate the poet’s place in the polis. This seminar will interrogate modern and contemporary artistic practices that have an act of deception at their core—
pieces
that, for some people and for some time, succeed in obscuring their fictional origins and acquired truth status. We will couple case study analysis with discussion of theoretical works to explore questions such as: How do these practices structure and produce their lies? In what ways do their acts of deception posit a different understanding of the real?  How do these practices dialogue with and intervene in the philosophical debates that have explored the tensions between art and truth? What does it mean to lie after the ‘postmodern turn’? How do different definitions of the real affect the interpretation and effects of these works? What is the role of belief in understanding and assessing these practices? Since we will mostly study Latin American works, we will also speculate about the possibilities of identifying the peculiarities of the region’s relation to deception, both inside and outside the boundaries of the art world. The course will culminate with a symposium, open to the public, at which students will present their research. Presentations will be followed by discussion, and the symposium will include the participation of an artist and a scholar whose works explore some of the issues studied over the semester.

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

Using Concepts from Kinesiology to Promo

• Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
• Instructor: Glen Gillen
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• 1 points

Ethology and the Evolution of Behavior

Ethology & Evol. of Behav

How do studies of behavior in nature and the lab complement each other? For example, how does our knowledge of animal behavior in the wild shape the design, execution, and interpretation of studies of behavior in the laboratory? And what, in turn, do lab studies tell us about how animals experience their world and behave? What are the sources and mechanisms of diversity of behavior and how does behavior evolve at genetic, molecular, and neuronal levels? Readings will cover the work of classical ethologists, as well as modern literature. These readings will be presented and discussed in a seminar format.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Andres Bendesky
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• 3 points

Conflict in the 21st Century: Rethinking

After a long period of decline, conflict is again on the rise. We need to better understand the causes of that reversal, and we must adapt our strategies and tactics for conflict prevention and conflict resolution. The course will help students develop a conceptual framework for the understanding and resolution of contemporary conflicts, but it will be taught from a practitioner’s perspective, with a strong emphasis on case studies. When possible, practitioners who have been involved in the resolution of conflicts will contribute to the discussion of case studies. Each class discussion will be structured by specific questions which will confront students with conceptual, operational and ethical choices.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• 3 points

Globalization and Development

The course approaches economic development as country-specific processes of economic growth conditioned by trade and financial globalization. First, common features in transitions of developing economies from low- to middle-income levels, as well as from middle- to high-income levels are pointed out. Second, it shows how the evolution of globalization has changed the ways trade and global finance have conditioned growth in developing countries. Finally, it offers a comparative analysis of recent experiences of China, Brazil, and Sub-Saharan African countries as special cases.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Otaviano Canuto
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• 3 points

THE ECONOMICS OF LABOR I

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

• Department: Economics
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Sandra Black
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• 3 points

INTEGRATV OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY

• Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
• Instructor: Glen Gillen
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• 1 points

THE LAW OF GENOCIDE

This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search

• Department: Law
• W 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Menachem Rosensaft
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• 2 points

Rethinking Policing in the 21st Century

Rethinking Policing-21st Cent

Social movements and activists are reshaping the debate on the traditional role of policing in our society. The Black Lives Matter movement has been pivotal in leading the call for systemic change, accountability and transparency. A chorus of diverse voices has called into question unchecked police power. The tragic deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Eric Garner and other Black and brown people has led to a breakdown of trust between the public and police. This course is designed to examine current police practices through the lens of history, race, recent events, and jurisprudence.  This class will serve as a laboratory of ideas and recommendations as we analyze police training, disciplinary procedures, use of force guidelines and other practices in an effort to foster and improve community - police relations. Several cities have deconstructed police authorities, focusing on a more democratic force and in some cases diverting funds towards a more non-violent and community-based approach to policing. Some governmental leaders have criticized recent movements for their lack of structure and stated objectives other than demanding change. This class will discuss common threads and differences between recent movements and those of the past. Lastly, this class will tackle those issues that have impeded progress in advancing a police force that promotes trust and service.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 3 points

Rethinking Policing in the 21st Century

Rethinking Policing-21st Cent

Social movements and activists are reshaping the debate on the traditional role of policing in our society. The Black Lives Matter movement has been pivotal in leading the call for systemic change, accountability and transparency. A chorus of diverse voices has called into question unchecked police power. The tragic deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Eric Garner and other Black and brown people has led to a breakdown of trust between the public and police. This course is designed to examine current police practices through the lens of history, race, recent events, and jurisprudence.  This class will serve as a laboratory of ideas and recommendations as we analyze police training, disciplinary procedures, use of force guidelines and other practices in an effort to foster and improve community - police relations. Several cities have deconstructed police authorities, focusing on a more democratic force and in some cases diverting funds towards a more non-violent and community-based approach to policing. Some governmental leaders have criticized recent movements for their lack of structure and stated objectives other than demanding change. This class will discuss common threads and differences between recent movements and those of the past. Lastly, this class will tackle those issues that have impeded progress in advancing a police force that promotes trust and service.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 3 points

CULTURES OF DISCIPLINE

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• M 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Seth R Kimmel
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• 4 points

MILITARY LAW AND THE CONST

• Department: Law
• M 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Michel Paradis
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• 2 points

Professional Issues in Nurse-Midwifery

PROF ISSUES NURS/MIDWIFER

The Professional Issues in Nurse-Midwifery course is designed to concentrate on the transition from student to beginning nurse-midwife practitioner. It examines the history of the profession and the role of its leadership organizations including the ACNM. Students will submit articles for publication to the Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health. The course curriculum also examines current critical issues that impact on the profession, both national and international, and addresses organizational and legislative means of effecting change.

• Department: Nursing
• T 1 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Rebekah L Ruppe
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• 2 points

WORKING IN THE EDUCATNL ENVIRONMENT

• Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
• Instructor: Katherine Dimitropoulou
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• 1 points

Fanily Activity Adaptation Model (FAAM)

Family Activity Adaptatio

• Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
• Instructor: Katherine Dimitropoulou
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• 1 points

REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS

See Law School Curriculum Guide for details.

• Department: Law
• W 7:10 p.m.-9:10 p.m.
• 2 points

SCIENCE AND AMERICAN LITERATURE FROM THE

This course will explore how 19th century American authors registered the transformation of natural history into the sciences of life. During that period, the fixed classifications of beings were destabilized by new sciences-- chemistry, biology and pathology--that emphasized process and transformation, and traditional, herbal methods of healing, predicated on studies of anatomy, were replaced by the clinic. With the emergence of experimental medicine, discourses of life and personhood changed, profoundly affecting law, theology, philosophy and literature. At the same time, as scientific discourses concerning the vital were being transformed, the American authors we will read were changing their understanding of what the natural is, and proposing a series of cosmological, poetic and ethical responses to the idea that life is common not only to all creatures but in fact to all phenomena. Most of our authors adopted a vitalist and materialist understanding of life, which led them to understand the boundaries of individual phenomena as porous and environmental. Such vitalist accounts of the world explored matter as indistinguishable from life, interpreting it as both germinal and formative: beings emerge out of an ocean of agitated matter that gives them form and to which they return, as if reimmersing themselves in unmodified, impersonal, and infinite life. However, although the authors we will be interested in share some version of the major faith that matter is inherently dynamic and vitalized, their accounts of just what that means differ considerably. They sometimes take the form of cosmologies that understand the earth as sensuous, and even, in the case of Poe and Melville, composed of little brains; at other times they render vegetal life capable of perception and inherently sensuous, and end up discussing modalities of vegetal happiness (as is the case with Thoreau, Whitman), or consider the organic and inorganic to be composed of the continuous flow of qualia. The course will explore a variety of theories that propose life as material but our interest will be less in cosmological than ethical and ecological questions. We will want to know the consequences of such accounts of matter for our understanding of the human; we will inquire into what counts as personhood for those authors, as well as what kind of ethics and politics they formulate on the basis of their materialist ontologies.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Branka Arsic
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• 4 points

COMP MODLS PERCPTN & CHOICE

Prerequisites: ECON GR6211 and ECON GR6212 and ECON GR6215 and ECON GR6216 and ECON GR6410 and ECON GR6411 and ECON GR6412 and ECON GR6493 Models of errors and biases in judgments, in the domains of perception, statistical inference, and decision making. Experimental evidence and theoretical analyses from economics, psychology, computational neuroscience, and computer science will be discussed and compared. Topics treated will include signal detection theory, stochastic choice, diffusion-to- bound models, decision by sampling, probability matching, rational inattention, efficient coding theories, theories of salience or focus- weighted valuations, reference-dependent or context-dependent valuations, and reinforcement learning.

• Department: Economics
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Michael D Woodford
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Human Rights and Humanitarian Policy Pra

Hum Rights & Hum Pol Practicum

This 1.5 credit, 7-week course is designed as a forum in which human rights practitioners, humanitarian aid workers, practitioners and academics share their professional experiences and insights on the modern development of international human rights and humanitarian law, policy, and practice. The Practicum plays an important role in the Human Rights and Humanitarian Policy Concentration as a means by which students: 1. interact with speakers and gain an understanding of the different roles that humanitarian aid workers and actors play in a variety of contexts, and 2. examine current trends in the human rights field and remain informed on the different roles that human rights actors play in a variety of contexts. The Practicum is designed, therefore, to enhance students’ abilities to think critically and analytically about current problems and challenges confronting the field, and to do so in the context of a vibrant community of their peers. Whereas most courses integrate conceptual and theoretical perspectives of human rights, the Human Rights and Humanitarian Policy Practicum is meant to emphasize the processes of implementing human rights from the practitioner’s perspective.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Susannah A Friedman
  Info
• 1.5 points

SUPERVISED TEACHING ASSISTANCE

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

• Department: Psychology
• 3 points

Quantitative Analysis I for Internationa

This survey course introduces students to the fundamentals of statistical analysis. We will examine the principles and basic methods for analyzing quantitative data, with a focus on applications to problems in public policy, management, and the social sciences. We will begin with simple statistical techniques for describing and summarizing data and build toward the use of more sophisticated techniques for drawing inferences from data and making predictions about the social world. The course will assume that students have little mathematical background beyond high school algebra. Students will be trained on STATA. This powerful statistical package is frequently used to manage and analyze quantitative data in many organizational/institutional contexts. Because each faculty member takes a somewhat different approach to teaching this course, students should examine each professors syllabus to understand the differences.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• T 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Doru Cojoc
  Info
• 3 points

ACMEISM

• Department: Slavic Languages
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Valentina Izmirlieva
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 4 points

Quantitative Analysis II for Internation

Prerequisites: SIPA U6500 This course is the second semester in the SIPA statistics sequence. Students conduct a major research project, which will serve as an important vehicle for learning about the process and challenges of doing applied empirical research, over the course of the semester. The project requires formulating a research question, developing testable hypotheses, gathering quantitative data, exploring and analyzing data using appropriate quantitative techniques, writing an empirical research paper, proposing policy recommendations, and presenting findings and analyses.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• M 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• F 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• R 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• F 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Alan S Yang
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH

• Department: Social Work
• R 2 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• R 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Alissa Davis
  h-index: 11 Info
• Instructor: Amy Werman
  Info
• 3 points

ADV CRIM LAW: DEATH PENALTY

• Department: Law
• MW 1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeffrey A Fagan
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

INTRODUCTN TO HEALTH ECONOMICS

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

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• R 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Stephen Coussens
  h-index: 2 Info
• 3 points

Advanced Biomaterials and Tissue Enginee

Adv. Biomaterials/Tissue

Advanced biomaterial selection and biomimetic scaffold design for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Formulation of bio-inspired design criteria, scaffold characterization and testing, and applications on forming complex tissues or organogenesis. Laboratory component includes basic scaffold fabrication, characterization and in vitro evaluation of biocompatibility. Group projects target the design of scaffolds for select tissue engineering applications.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• T 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Helen Lu
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 54 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO STATISTICS

• Department: Social Work
• Instructor: Melissa D Begg
  h-index: 32 Info
• 0 points

Data Science & Public Policy

This course will bridge the gap between data science and public policy in several exciting ways. By drawing on a diverse student body – consisting of students from SIPA and the Data Science Institute – we will combine domain-level policy expertise with quantitative analytical skills as we work on cutting-edge policy problems with large amounts of data. Throughout the semester, students will have the opportunity to analyze real-world datasets on a broad range of policy topics, including, for example, data on Russian trolls disseminating misinformation on social media, data on Islamic State recruitment propaganda on the Internet, and granular information on natural disasters that can facilitate preparedness for future hazards. In addition, students will work in interdisciplinary policy – data science teams on semester-long projects that develop solutions to policy problems drawing on big data sources. By the end of the course, students will gain hands-on experience working with various types of data in an interdisciplinary environment – a setting that is becoming more and more common in the policy world these days.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Tamar Mitts
  h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points