Vagueness is a wide ranging rich domain that has been researched by many philosophers from various points of view, ranging from physics to philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, epistemology, philosophy of law and literary theories.
This course introduces students to international human rights law (IHRL). In what sense are internationally-defined human rights "rights" and in what sense can the instruments which define them be considered "law"? How do we know that a claim is actually a "human right"? What are the relations among international, regional and national institutions in establishing and enforcing (or not) IHRL? Does IHRL represent an encroachment on national sovereignty? Is the future of IHRL regional? What enforcement mechanisms can we use, and who can decide upon their use? Finally, what redress is there for human rights violations, and how effective is it? Attendance is required in the first class.
The objective of the class is to introduce students to the practice of risk management as a tool for enabling delivery across the range of UN responses in crisis and conflict contexts, including in the areas of peace and security, human rights, development and humanitarian support. The class emphasizes skills development and their application to concrete UN crisis responses.
Prerequisites: (CSEE W4119) or (ELEN E6761) and ability to comprehend and track development of sophisticated models. Mathematical models, analyses of economic and networking interdependencies in the Internet. Topics include microeconomics of pricing and regulations in communications industry, game theory in revenue allocations, ISP settlements, network externalities, two-sided markets. Economic principles in networking and network design, decentralized vs. centralized resource allocation, “price of anarchy”, congestion control. Case studies of topical Internet issues. Societal and industry implications of Internet evolution.
Prerequisites: (CSEE W4119) or (ELEN E6761) and ability to comprehend and track development of sophisticated models. Mathematical models, analyses of economic and networking interdependencies in the Internet. Topics include microeconomics of pricing and regulations in communications industry, game theory in revenue allocations, ISP settlements, network externalities, two-sided markets. Economic principles in networking and network design, decentralized vs. centralized resource allocation, “price of anarchy”, congestion control. Case studies of topical Internet issues. Societal and industry implications of Internet evolution.
The process of continuity and change in American cities from the colonial period through the 20th century, covering industrialization, political conflict, reform movements, geographical and ethnic diversity, bureaucratic rationalism, and urban culture--with a focus on how physical form responded to or influenced social and political forces over time.
Further study of areas such as communication protocols and architectures, flow and congestion control in data networks, performance evaluation in integrated networks. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6770 to 6779.
Further study of areas such as communication protocols and architectures, flow and congestion control in data networks, performance evaluation in integrated networks. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6770 to 6779.
Topic: Content Distribution Networks.
During this course, students will be introduced to the methods and techniques of Storytelling and Data Visualizations using Tableau Public software. Tableau is becoming widely used and is now also connectable to the “big 4” SPSS/SAS/STAT/R, as such it is an essential data analytics tool for understanding and manipulating data visual language. Students will learn methodologies on how to approach public health data and use Tableau to create data visualizations and infographics that display statistics in a compelling form. This hands-on introductory course will teach students to develop meaningful public health data stories that reveal visual insights accessible for lay audiences. Students will utilize health data to tell visual stories and develop an aesthetic for presenting their data visually.
This course provides a comprehensive overview of real estate finance and policy. After developing a framework to analyze the global financial crisis, we will cover current issues. The study of the post-crisis period will focus on changes in preferences, technology, and the factors that brought the current housing affordability crisis. While the course will initially focus on the U.S. we will provide a thorough international perspective that will analyze both advanced and less developed countries (with particular attention paid to China and India). We will conclude the course discussing how global real estate asset flows may be a key source of international tension.
The purpose of this course is to provide students with a grounding in the practical side of implementation of economic sanctions as a tool of foreign policy. At the conclusion of the course, students will: 1) Understand the concepts associated with the implementation of economic sanctions; 2) Be conversant in the bureaucractic structures associated with sanctions implementation; and, 3) Understand the complicated and difficult choices required in the imposition of economic sanctions, including the risks of unintended consequences.
This course uses a practitioner’s perspective in examining the sources, substance, and the trends and impulses of recent American foreign policy issues to the present, starting with the end of the Soviet Union and the beginning of the post-Cold War period. Part I reviews the rise of American power in world affairs from the end of WWII through the proxy wars of the Cold War until the decline and end of the Soviet Union. Part II provides an overview of the processes and politics of American foreign policymaking during this transitional period, the growing amplification of American values in finding America’s new mission in a changed world, and the engagement of US military and diplomatic assets in Europe to help address crises in Bosnia and Kosovo to address unfinished business. Part III addresses the post 9/11 development of terrorism and WMD as overarching themes in US international engagement, and the return of nation building as a policy strategy. Finally, Part IV examines the growing preponderance of isolationist tendencies both from the left and right including in US international economic policy, and some preliminary focus on the role foreign policy will play in the future America’s political system.
This course introduces the fundamental concepts and problems of international human rights law. What are the origins of modern human rights law? What is the substance of this law, who is obligated by it, and how is it enforced? The course will cover the major international human rights treaties and mechanisms and consider some of todays most significant human rights issues and controversies. While the topics are necessarily law-related, the course will assume no prior exposure to legal studies.
There are two purposes to this course: 1. to develop your ability to negotiate in a purposeful, principled and effective way; and 2. to teach you how to build consensus and broker wise agreements with others. Negotiation is a social skill, and like all social skills you have to practice it if you want to get better at it. To give you the chance to practice, we'll do a number of simulated negotiations in and out of class. We'll also use lectures, case studies, exercises, games, videos, and demonstrations to help you develop your understanding. As we advance in the course, our focus will shift from simple one-on-one negotiations to more complex ones involving many parties, agents, coalitions, and organizations.
Musicals, especially those that have traditionally originated on Broadway, are complex pieces of machinery that are designed to produce a variety of energies in the theater. When taken collectively, those energies constitute the aesthetic of the experience. As with plays, stage managers are charged with coordinating all of a musical’s production elements. However, stage managers should also be able to view a musical from every angle; that is, read it intelligently and analyze it dramatically so they can accurately gauge their contribution to the overall aesthetic. This course seeks to provide stage managers with a customized template to do that: in other words, how to connect what’s on the page and the stage to their own standard methodologies, cue calling, and the CEO/COO perspective. In the contemporary professional landscape, these are important tools that will help them optimize their work on musicals.
This course provides an introductory insight into the complex and exciting activities of the real estate developer. Students will learn about the on-the-ground processes that the entrepreneurial real estate professional, working for their own investment portfolio, and leading their own deals through to completion, will go through. The course will proceed through the stages of defining a market area of interest, creating a development thesis, and implementing a prospecting strategy. Students will also analyze alternate capital sources and structures for debt and equity, and gain an understanding of the acquisition process – commencing it, doing due diligence, and closing – as led by the entrepreneur.
This is the fourth in a sequence of four classes that is a requirement for the graduate students.
Prerequisites: (ELEN E4810) or instructors permission. Fundamentals of digital speech processing and audio signals. Acoustic and perceptual basics of audio. Short-time Fourier analysis. Analysis and filterbank models. Speech and audio coding, compression, and reconstruction. Acoustic feature extraction and classification. Recognition techniques for speech and other sounds, including hidden Markov models.
This course is designed for students progressing seamlessly from the MDE program to gain prerequisite nursing experience during the first year of their coursework. Because of the strong relationship between acute care nursing experience and successful AGACNP training, job placement, and practice,
acute care registered nursing experience is required prior to starting clinical rotations in Year 2 of the Acute Care DNP program.
This nursing experience can take the form of any acute care position; while ICU experience is beneficial and preferred, other acute care settings such as ER or inpatient medical/surgical sites also qualify. Outpatient and clinic positions do not satisfy the experience requirement. Unpaid internship positions do not satisfy the experience requirement. Each applicant should discuss their experience or plans with the Program Director in order to ensure that they meet the work experience requirement. Students are required to work 20-40 hours per week as a registered nurse for a minimum of 10-12 months.
With the longstanding focus on poetry, novels, and drama in academic literary curricula, the essay form has suffered a relative neglect as a focus of study and research. This seminar will seek to redeem this lack by a semester-long exploration of the genre in the broad fields of politics and morals as viewed from both literary and philosophical angles in a wide range of essays of the modern period. The goal (or perhaps, better, a goal) will be to see how well the essay does what is most often done --in this wide thematic swathe-- by learned treatises on the one hand and poems, novels, and plays on the others.
A systematic exploration of advanced diagnosis and management techniques in caring for acutely and critically ill adults. This course is offered with a companion clinical course.
What is corruption? Is corruption a necessary evil? Is corruption sand or grease on the wheels of a country's economy? Why is corruption so pervasive around the world? This course will attempt to answer these and other questions relating to the topics of good governance and corruption. Together we will explore core theories about corruption and learn about corruption's damaging influence on local and national governments. We will also examine some of the most promising strategies available for promoting integrity in public administration. The course aims to accomplish two main goals. First, to reflect on corruption as a practice that reduces government legitimacy, affects the quality of public service delivery, and biases policy and its application in favor of special interests. Second, to provide a grounded appreciation of local and national regimes' potential for advancement. Good governance is possible.
The Graduate Seminar in Sound Art and Related Media is designed to create a space that is inclusive yet focused on sound as an art form and a medium. Class time is structured to support, reflect, and challenge students as individual artists and as a community. The course examines the medium and subject of sound in an expanded field, investigating its constitutive materials, exhibition and installation practices, and its ethics in the 21st century. The seminar will focus on the specific relations between tools, ideas, and meanings and the specific histories and theories that have arisen when artists engage with sound as a medium and subject in art. The seminar combines discussions of readings and artworks with presentations of students' work and research, as well as site visits and guest lectures. While the Columbia Visual Arts Program is dedicated to maintaining an interdisciplinary learning environment where students are free to use and explore different mediums while also learning to look at, and critically discuss, artwork in any medium, we are equally committed to providing in-depth knowledge concerning the theories, histories, practices, tools and materials underlying these different disciplines. We offer Graduate Seminars in different disciplines, or combinations of disciplines, including moving image, new genres, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, as well as in Sound Art in collaboration with the Columbia Music Department through their Computer Music Center. These Discipline Seminars are taught by full-time and adjunct faculty, eminent critics, historians, curators, theorists, writers, and artists.
Economic analysis and research often provide important insights into appropriate policy. However, how is this research used by policymakers? How do (should) policymakers incorporate these findings when developing policy? This half-semester course will explore a variety of policy topics, focusing on current issues affecting workers and families in the United States. All of these policies are actively being debated, many of them as potential responses to the COVID pandemic and associated economic crisis. We will discuss the underlying economic theory and the existing empirical evidence, as well as how policymakers might incorporate this evidence in their decision-making.
Prerequisites: SIPA U6401 Corequisites: INAF U6018 & INAF U6022 The course begins with a review of central banks monetary policy goals and objectives, followed by an overview of how central banks set and implement monetary policy in normal economic and financial market conditions. The bulk of the course will focus on how central banks adapt their policy rules and tools in the face of extraordinary financial market or economic turmoil. Different types of unconventional tools will be discussed and analyzed, with particular focus on the design and the effectiveness of various unconventional policy tools. Examples of the use unconventional policy tools - both more and less successful - across jurisdictions will be discussed in the latter half of the course. The course finishes with discussions of several important, and timely dilemmas: where is the ;line; between unconventional monetary policies and traditional fiscal policy actions; what difficulties do central banks face in handling economic side effects and the political consequences of extraordinary policy, and what are the challenges of returning monetary policy to (a new) normal.
This course is an introductory course for regional anesthesia. It includes discussion and demonstration of neuraxial anesthesia, simple peripheral nerve blocks and pain management techniques. Pharmacology regarding local anesthetics will be reviewed.
This is the second course of four that discusses the various methods and basic techniques of anesthesia administration, with an emphasis on physiological basis for practice. This course will emphasize the function and maintenance of technologies employed during perianesthetic period. The development of perianesthetic plans for specific surgical procedures as well as the psychomotor skills specific to practice will be evaluated.
An inter-disciplinary graduate-level seminar on the design and programming of embedded scalable platforms. Topics are selected from the following list and vary each year: hardware-software co-design; acceleration of computational kernels with ; embedded software; virtual platforms and physical platforms (SoC, FPGA, GPU...); platform architectures; heterogeneous component integration; balancing of computation, storage, and communication; design-space exploration with high-level synthesis; design for reusability; learning-based methods for design automation; power management and optimization; and impact of emerging technologies. Requirements: The course requires substantial reading of research papers, class participation, and a semester-long research project. The project can be done individually or in a small team. A project typically involves the development of embedded software or specialized hardware for a target application (in such application domains as computer vision, natural language processing, machine learning, security...) or the development of a CAD tool for design/programming of embedded scalable platforms. Successful projects have led to summer internships and research publications. NOTE: This course is typically offered in the Spring semester only. It is open to undergraduate, MS and PhD students who meet the Prerequisites as listed above. It can be taken to satisfy elective requirements for the M.S. programs in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, and Electrical Engineering, as well as for the Ph.D. programs in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.
Graduate introduction to international security policy, with a focus on pre-professional preparation for students expecting to work in security policy after graduation. Covers the role, function, dynamics, and prevention of violence in the international system, via analysis of forceful diplomacy, escalation, crisis, war causation, war termination, the ethics of war and peace, threat assessment and intelligence, strategy, terrorism, insurgency, alliances, weapons of mass destruction, and cyber conflict. Introduces principles for sound defense organization and decision-making processes, civil-military relations, defense planning, and defense budgeting. Considers critical theory and its challenge to orthodox security studies and policy practice.
Graduate introduction to international security policy, with a focus on pre-professional preparation for students expecting to work in security policy after graduation. Covers the role, function, dynamics, and prevention of violence in the international system, via analysis of forceful diplomacy, escalation, crisis, war causation, war termination, the ethics of war and peace, threat assessment and intelligence, strategy, terrorism, insurgency, alliances, weapons of mass destruction, and cyber conflict. Introduces principles for sound defense organization and decision-making processes, civil-military relations, defense planning, and defense budgeting. Considers critical theory and its challenge to orthodox security studies and policy practice.
Graduate introduction to international security policy, with a focus on pre-professional preparation for students expecting to work in security policy after graduation. Covers the role, function, dynamics, and prevention of violence in the international system, via analysis of forceful diplomacy, escalation, crisis, war causation, war termination, the ethics of war and peace, threat assessment and intelligence, strategy, terrorism, insurgency, alliances, weapons of mass destruction, and cyber conflict. Introduces principles for sound defense organization and decision-making processes, civil-military relations, defense planning, and defense budgeting. Considers critical theory and its challenge to orthodox security studies and policy practice.
Graduate introduction to international security policy, with a focus on pre-professional preparation for students expecting to work in security policy after graduation. Covers the role, function, dynamics, and prevention of violence in the international system, via analysis of forceful diplomacy, escalation, crisis, war causation, war termination, the ethics of war and peace, threat assessment and intelligence, strategy, terrorism, insurgency, alliances, weapons of mass destruction, and cyber conflict. Introduces principles for sound defense organization and decision-making processes, civil-military relations, defense planning, and defense budgeting. Considers critical theory and its challenge to orthodox security studies and policy practice.
Formerly known as the Williams Moot Court.
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Discussion regarding pre-operative, intra-operative and post-operative management of patients with specific co-existing disease conditions. History and physical examination techniques and specific management methods will be discussed. Students will evaluate information obtained during physical and psychological assessment and synthesize knowledge to formulate individualized perioperative anesthesia management plans.
This course presents a systematic overview of advanced level oncology nursing utilizing various theoretical approaches. It presents the medical and nursing management of symptoms and specific cancers and provides a framework of advanced practice for the oncology nurse practitioner. This framework assists the OCNS/NP in diagnosing, assessing, intervening in, and evaluating potential and actual client/family problems related to cancer treatment, rehabilitation, and terminal care.