This course provides a systematic overview of a comprehensive interdisciplinary geriatric assessment. This course highlights the unique physical and psychosocial issues that impact the older adult. Emphasis is placed on functional assessment and the holistic approach to providing care to older adults.
Prerequisites: Good Clinical Practices Certificate Exam; also 6727 and 8772 Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) has received growing attention over the past several decades as international, domestic, funding agencies and researchers have renewed a focus on an approach to health that recognizes the importance of social, political and economic systems to health behaviors and outcomes. The importance of this approach is reflected in the recent IOM report that CBPR which indicates that CBPR is one of the eight priority areas for improving the public health. CBPR is not a method but a system of investigation that involves the active collaboration of the potential beneficiaries and recognizes and values the contributions that community-based participatory research can make to new knowledge and to the translation of research findings into public health practice and policy. CBPR as it is often referred is a collaborative approach to research that recognizes the value of equitably involving the intended beneficiaries throughout all phases of program planning, implementation and evaluation.
This clinical practicum builds upon the principles is designed to develop clinical proficiency of the adult-gerontology primary care nurse practitioner student. The practicum is a clinical field experience designed to provide opportunity for students to acquire skills in assessment, decision-making and management of care for adults with a variety of episodic and long-term health problems.
In this course, we approach gender, politics and development in terms of theory, policy and practice. We explore multiple constructions of gender in development discourse; the intersection of gender with other social categories and with dominant economic and political trends; and the ways in which gender norms inform the different approaches of governments, development agencies, civil society organizations, and the private sector. We apply a critical gender lens to a wide range of development sectors and issue areas, including economic development, political participation, education and health, environment and climate change, and conflict and displacement. We also consider current debates and approaches related to gender mainstreaming and gender metrics in development practice. Students engage with the course material through class discussion, exercises and case studies, and the development of a gender-related project proposal.
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
Prerequisites: P8788, Theoretical Foundations of Sociomedical Sciences This course is the second part of a two-semester seminar that essays a selective genealogy of the major theoretical traditions undergirding contemporary practice in the sociomedical sciences. The critical examination of current research projects in the spring- like the historical review in the fall - will be guided by the framing interests and signature emphases of the department: urban environs in transformation, social structures and axes of inequality, disparities in morbidity and morality, agency and identity, social construction and production of health and disease, globalization and marginalization. The overall aim is to familiarize students with the relevant interpretive/analytic traditions, provide a rehearsal stage for testing out particular tools and frameworks in compare and contrast exercises, and build the theoretical foundations that will enable them to critically assess contemporary work in the field. In this second part of the sequence, special emphasis will be given to research by faculty members in the department, as well as by others working in related frameworks. Both theoretical and methodological approaches to the sociomedical sciences will be examined in seeking to develop and overview of contemporary debates in the field. Close reading, class discussion, and reflective writing will be the practical means we employ.
In the theatre, people are your greatest asset (and often the biggest expense in your budget). A good understanding of Human Resources, labor relations and collective bargaining is critical for any successful venture, organization or production. In this course, we will cover theory and law behind these topics and tackle practical application of the concepts in our unique employment environment. We will do simulation work on some of the most common challenges in labor and bargaining, all which will require coordination with your classmates in and out of class. Given the rapid pace of change in these areas, topics below are subject to change.
Clinical Seminar in Adult-Gerontology Acute Care is designed to provide the AG-ACNP student an academic environment in which the students share their practicum experience and present case studies and journal articles for discussion with their peers. In this scholarly forum, the students are expected to present selected cases from their practicum in an organized format. The students are expected to facilitate a class dialogue and offer appropriate references.
The so-called cultural turn in historiography during the 1980s dramatically reordered the historical profession’s scholarly landscape. This seminar provides students with an understanding of the major currents and themes in the cultural history of modern America while also introducing them to the scholarly methods and approaches used in historical scholarship working with the concept of culture. To that end, the seminar proceeds in two ways. We will begin by sampling works that exemplify key approaches to writing cultural history that offer a meta-history of the culture concept as it has informed historical scholarship. The second part of the seminar offers a partial survey of modern U.S. culture itself: its shifting ideologies of race, gender, and sexuality; its organization of subcultures, pleasure, and danger; its culture industries and their audiences and means of creating and disseminating information; and its reining nationalist narratives and symbols.
This course will provide an opportunity to synthesize and integrate the advanced practice knowledge and skills acquired through all previous didactic and clinical coursework. Students will be expected to do clinical case presentations, manage a group of patients of varying diagnoses and variability of acuity, and practice with increasing independence in the acute care advanced practice role. Credits increased from 4 to 5, effective Spring 2021.
In this course we undertake a comprehensive review of the literature on the causes of war and the conditions of peace, with a primary focus on interstate war. We focus primarily on theory and empirical research in political science but give some attention to work in other disciplines. We examine the leading theories, their key concepts and causal variables, the causal paths leading to war or to peace, and the conditions under which various outcomes are most likely to occur. We also give some attention to the degree of empirical support for various theories and hypotheses, and we look at some of the major empirical research programs on the origins and expansion of war. Our survey includes research utilizing qualitative methods, large-N quantitative methods, formal modeling, and experimental approaches. We also give considerable attention to methodological questions relating to epistemology and research design. Our primary focus, however, is on the logical coherence and analytic limitations of the theories and the kinds of research designs that might be useful in testing them. This course is designed primarily for graduate students who want to understand and contribute to the theoretical and empirical literature in political science on war, peace, and security. Students with different interests and students from other departments can also benefit from the seminar and are also welcome. Ideally, members of the seminar will have some familiarity with basic issues in international relations theory, philosophy of science, research design, and statistical methods.
This course is an educational extension of the 6-week Obesity Education Series currently integrated into several course requirements among some of the CUIMC schools. Building off the foundational knowledge presented in the 6-week Obesity Education Series videos and readings, the seminar series will provide small groups of students from different professional schools an opportunity to further enhance their learning through instructor-facilitated discussion. These discussions will be the basis of the course’s weekly interprofessional seminar and occur concurrently with the 6-week Obesity Education Series. There will be a maximum of one reading per week, and no associated homework or graded assignments. Attendance at all course sessions is mandatory. Students will have the opportunity to self-select into a Narrative Medicine or Journal Club discussion group.
Reading, analysis, and research on modern Japan. Field(s): EA
This course will examine the professional role of the nurse anesthetist through discussions and writings/presentations. Current topics in health care delivery, reimbursement, politics, and policy as they relate to nurse anesthesia will be emphasized.
This one-semester course orients the students to the basic theories and elements of making performance works that incorporate multiple media. It focuses on utilizing the technologies and tools available to us and encountered in our day-to-day lives as material that we — as creators — can utilize for performances that are dramaturgically grounded in their implementation. Students will develop skills in analysis, concentration, imagination, as well as traditional modes of theater, film and performance-making. The primary focus of the course is on the individual’s interest in creating — as writer, director, designer or performer, and to introduce the student to the kind of analytical and creative activities that developing a work entails, as well as a broad range of techniques.
This course will provide an opportunity to synthesize and integrate the advanced practice knowledge and skills acquired through previous didactic and clinical coursework. The focus is on modeling the processes of knowledge acquisition and evaluation, clinical inference, and clinical decision-making that the ACNP will employ once in independent practice. The role of the ACNP will be explored with regard to ethical issues, legal implications of practice, professionalism, board certification, and licensure. This course should be taken concurrently with the integration practicum course 8823.
This course presents an in-depth examination of childhood cancers. Content includes etiology, epidemiology, diagnostic and treatment modalities, side effects of therapy, emergencies, clinical management, long-term survival, and terminal illness. The course provides a framework of advanced practice for the pediatric oncology clinical nurse specialist and pediatric nurse practitioner in oncology.
This is a 16-week elective that provides students with hands-on experience in clinical research under the direct supervision of faculty. Students participate in a variety of research activities pertaining to the collection, analysis and interpretation of data. Specific course objectives are developed individually according to faculty expectations and the current phase of the on-going research. Research Practicum II builds on PHYT M8853 and is designed to provide students with the opportunity to integrate the knowledge obtained in the evidence-based courses with supervised hands-on research experience. The elective provides the student with foundational knowledge and skill in the development and implementation of a research protocol targeting the student’s ability to synthesize and organize finding into a cogent written and/or oral research presentation. During this semester, students will work to complete data collection and analysis in preparation for presenting their work in the third year.
Prerequisites: Instructors permission prior to registration. This course will delve into how states infer what others are likely to do in the future and how they try to project desired images of how they will behave. This involves both purposeful or intended communication, as in diplomacy, and the ways in which perceivers try to discern others capabilities and intentions from attributes and behaviors that the senders cannot readily manipulate. Substantive areas to be covered--or at least touched on--include how states try to open negotiations without appearing weak, how promises and threats can be orchestrated, and the use of peace feelers.
This seminar will focus, each year, on a different topic central to contemporary critical thought. During the 2015-2016 academic year, for instance, the seminar focused on Michel Foucaults Collège de France lectures and produced the Foucault 13/13 series. During the 2016-2017 academic year, the seminar focused on critical readings of Friedrich Nietzsche and produced the Nietzsche 13/13 series. During the 2017-2018 academic year, the seminar focused on modalities of uprisings and produced the Uprising 13/13 series. Similar topics will be broached in future years. Please see the CCCCT website for more details on future topics. The graduate student seminar will be structured to frame a series of 13 formal seminars at which two or three guests, from different disciplines, will be invited to discuss the readings and present on the themes of the seminar. Each formal seminar will host specialists from across the disciplines from Columbia University and from outside campus. It will also frame and interrelate with a Paris Reading Group that will run alongside the seminar. The graduate student seminar thus will serve as the vehicle to enrich the formal 13/13 seminars and support the intellectual apparatus that will accompany those formal seminars. It will prepare entries for the blog, host the scholars invited to participate, and prepare questions and comments for the formal seminars. This seminar will function as an advanced graduate research seminar. This is a year-long course (Y course). Columbia GSAS students will be required to take both Fall and Spring semesters of this course. No grade will be issued for the Fall semester, the credits are broken up across both semesters, 4 credits total, 1 in Fall and 3 in Spring. This course co-convenes with LAW L8866 001.
Prerequisites: the instructors permission. To be announced
Clinical focus is on the delivery of anesthesia care in a broad range of clinical settings to patients with multi-system problems. Emphasis is placed on refinement and perfection of decision-making skills in patient care management and rapid assessment of health status of patients. Collaborative practice within a team structure is emphasized. In addition to direct patient care, participation in journal club, clinical case reports, and in-service presentations to a multidisciplinary audience provide the environment for the student to enact his or her role as a SRNA. CRNA and MD faculty members and preceptors act as guides.
This is the third of four seminar courses. This course represents the capstone of the Nurse Anesthesia master's program. It provides an opportunity for the student to integrate and synthesize didactic and clinical core content with the experiences of the residencies as they progress from competent student nurse anesthetist to proficient student nurse anesthetists. Student and faculty will work collaboratively to identify content areas that are essential to the beginning practice of a master's prepared nurse anesthetist. Results of this inquiry will be formally presented to the class and interested public members as an abstract and a poster presentation.
Clinical focus is on the delivery of anesthesia care in a broad range of clinical settings to patients with multi-system problems. Emphasis is placed on refinement and perfection of decision-making skills in patient care management and rapid assessment of health status of patients. Collaborative practice within a team structure is emphasized. In addition to direct patient care, participation in journal club, clinical case reports, and in-service presentations to a multidisciplinary audience provide the environment for the student to enact his or her role as a SRNA. CRNA and MD faculty members and preceptors act as guides.
Demonstrate integration of learning of didactic core content (nursing research, issues, and ethics) along with didactic specialty content (anesthesia) to clinical application of practice.
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The colloquium, brings together all students at the same level within the Ph.D. program and enriches the work of defining the dissertation topic and subsequent research and writing.
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The evolution of architectural discourse particularly as it has emerged during the late 19th or 20th century through the publication of critical/polemical magazines or other documents. Emphasis on primary texts. Addresses the intrinsic substance of the discourse, the interweaving and interrelationship of themes, sources, the nature of the debate, the respective values involved, and establishes the significance of the material under consideration in relation to the changing context in which it emerged.
In recent years, a global movement has begun around menstruation, ranging from research and policies addressing the barriers that school girls may be facing in low-resource contexts, to initiatives fighting the on-going stigma experienced by girls, women and people with periods in high- and low-resource contexts, to the advocacy focused on period poverty. How did this global movement begin? What is the existing evidence base for addressing menstruation as a public health issue? And what gaps remain? The purpose of this course is to provide students with a foundation on the topic of menstruation, including the existing research, program and policy approaches underway globally, to equip students with an understanding of the research methodologies most appropriate for understanding the experiences of those who menstruate, and the ways in which advocacy has served to shift attention to this fundamental issue. Students in this course will learn to analyze the current status of the global menstruation movement through debates, news media critiques, and a proposal addressing ‘new frontiers’ in menstruation. The course fits into the MPH curriculum in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences by increasing students’ knowledge and skills of key perspectives and approaches to research and intervention around menstruation that include social science theories
U.S. agricultural practice has been presented as a paradigm for the rest of the world to emulate, yet is a result of over a century of unique development. Contemporary agriculture has its historical roots in the widely varied farming practices, social and political organizations, and attitudes toward the land of generations of farmers and visionaries. We will explore major forces shaping the practice of U.S. agriculture, particularly geographical and social perspectives and the development and adoption of agricultural science and technology. We will consider how technological changes and political developments (government policies, rationing, subsidies) shape visions of and transmission of agriculture and the agrarian ideal.
This colloquium will examine the historical literature on the public sphere, particularly in Europe, Latin America and the United States. We will examine uses of the category in studies that deal with intellectual debates, cultural processes, elite and popular politics, and the shifting boundaries of public and private life. Thus, discussions will stress criticisms of Jurgen Habermas model from the perspective of gender, non-European societies, popular cultures, and class analysis. Field(s): LA
This course will provide a structured environment in which graduate students will write a research paper. It will be offered in the spring and will not be field-specific. It will be recommended for first-year students in particular, who will be expected to enter from GR8910 (the required first-year course) and with a topic and/or prospectus for the paper they plan to complete in the course. The aim of the course is to ensure that all PhD students complete one of their two research papers within the first year. This seminar is recommended for, and restricted to, PhD students in the History Department. The aim of the seminar is to guide and assist students in the completion of a 10,000-12,000 word research paper appropriate for publication in a scholarly journal. The seminar is not field-specific, and students may work on any subject of their choosing. The paper must however be based on primary source research and represents a substantial departure from earlier work. The assignments for the course are designed to help students complete a polished piece of work by the end of term.
Supervised Reserach for Classical Studies Graduate Students.