Capital Markets & Investments

This course provides students with a rigorous foundation in capital markets and investments, emphasizing asset valuation from an applied perspective. It covers valuation techniques for financial securities essential to portfolio management and risk management applications. Key topics include arbitrage, the term structure of interest rates, portfolio theory, diversification, equilibrium asset pricing models such as the CAPM, market efficiency and inefficiencies, performance evaluation, analysis of common pooled investment vehicles, behavioral finance, and tax aware investment strategies. Through interactive activities, case studies, and simulations utilizing real world market data, students will acquire analytical skills and foundational knowledge required for advanced finance courses and practical roles within the investment industry.

• Department: Mendelson Center
• Instructor: Harry Mamaysky
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• 3 points

STATISTICS AND DATA ANALYSIS

Descriptive statistics, central limit theorem, parameter estimation, sufficient statistics, hypothesis testing, regression, logistic regression, goodness-of-fit tests, applications to operations research models.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• Instructor: Fabrizio Lecci
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• 3 points

Theory and Analysis of Jazz and Improvis

Theory & Anal of Jazz & I

What are the traditional definitions of jazz and how do they apply to improvised music in the twenty-first century? This course aims to communicate reliable methods and processes useful when dissecting and evaluating jazz performances and jazz compositions. Students will engage with traditional and fundamental jazz improvisation theory, then extrapolate new modalities reflective of the music happening today; including categorizing music on gradations from minimally to fully improvisational, tonal to harmonically abstract, rhythmically rigid to free, and sonically acoustic to fully synthesized. The class will explore and differentiate between “new complexity” classical compositions and virtuosic free form improvisation, compare US jazz to versions happening in other countries, and to recognize how world music influences affect improvisational tonal systems and improvisational traits.

• Department: Music
• 3 points

SOLID BIOMECHANICS

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

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• Instructor: X. Edward Guo
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• 3 points

Narrating Premodern Korea

This course examines historical narratives and record-keeping in premodern Korea, focusing on the Chosŏn dynasty (1392–1910). It explores writing as a medium of power that shaped politics, social order, gender relations, and cultural identity. Through diverse texts, including official chronicles, didactic texts, memoirs, and (auto)biographies, students will analyze how individuals and institutions used writing to assert authority, express dissent, and document their lives.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• Instructor: Jungwon Kim
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• 4 points

ADVANCED ARMENIAN I

Advanced instruction in the Armenian dialect. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• Instructor: Charry Karamanoukian
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• 3 points

PRAC-INNOVATV SUSTAIN LEADRSHP

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

The course complements the M.S. in Sustainability Management program’s required course, Sustainability Management (SUMA K4100). In that course, students study management and organization theory. In the Practicum, students learn directly from leading practitioners, who confront sustainability management issues daily.

• Department: Sustainability Management
• 1-3 points

MAKING WITHOUT OBJECTS

Prerequisites: VIAR UN2300 (Formerly R3302) Laboratory in Relational Art; Sculpture without Objects The purpose of this class will be to explore the function of Relational Aesthetics in contemporary art practice and to develop ideas about the role of context in art, as the students develop their own site-specific works and research historical precedents for art designed to be exhibited in non-traditional venues. This course will also prepare students for professional work preparing art for venues of that type. This class will be structured around studio work, with an emphasis on the development and production of a final site-specific project. In order to foster students’ growth and ongoing investigation into the nature of contemporary sculpture, the class will also be comprised of slide lectures, visits to local artists’ studios, and galleries, as well as various public art projects throughout the city. As the semester progresses, the emphasis will gradually be shifted from research to intensive studio work on a final project, often a proposal for a site-specific work in a non-traditional venue. Generally, the first half of each class session will be dedicated to lecture and discussion, while the second half will be dedicated to individual studio work and critique.

• Department: Visual Arts
• 3 points

STORYTELLING THROUGH DESIGN

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Hilary M Sample-Meredith
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• 3 points

CHEMICAL BIOLOGY

Prerequisites: (CHEM UN2443 and CHEM UN2444) and (CHEM UN3079 and CHEM UN3080) and (BIOC UN3501) , or the equivalent. Development and application of chemical methods for understanding the molecular mechanisms of cellular processes. Review of the biosynthesis, chemical synthesis, and structure and function of proteins and nucleic acids. Application of chemical methods--including structural biology, enzymology, chemical genetics, and the synthesis of modified biological molecules--to the study of cellular processes--including transcription, translation, and signal transduction.

• Department: Chemistry
• Instructor: Virginia W Cornish
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• 4 points

TIBETAN SACRED SPACE(IN COMPARATIVE CONT

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• Instructor: Gray W Tuttle
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

ANALOG ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS

Differential and multistage amplifiers; small-signal analysis; biasing techniques; frequency response; negative feedback; stability criteria; frequency compensation techniques. Analog layout techniques. An extensive design project is an integral part of the course.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• Instructor: Armagan Dascurcu
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• 3 points

RE FINANCE II: CASE STUDIES

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Christopher W Munsell
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• 3 points

MOLECULAR PHENOMENA-CHEM ENGI

This course introduces a molecular level understanding of topics in modern chemical engineering. It builds upon and validates the concepts presented in the rest of the chemical engineering curriculum via a molecular perspective.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• Instructor: Kyle Bishop
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• 3 points

INTRO TO COMBUSTION

Thermodynamics and kinetics of reacting flows; chemical kinetic mechanisms for fuel oxidation and pollutant formation; transport phenomena; conservation equations for reacting flows; laminar nonpremixed flames (including droplet vaporization and burning); laminar premixed flames; flame stabilization, quenching, ignition, extinction, and other limit phenomena; detonations; flame aerodynamics and turbulent flames.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• Instructor: Michael Burke
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• 3 points

URBAN DESIGN FOR PLANNERS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Jonathan Martin
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• 3 points

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

How do families decide who gets educated and who goes to work? Why do some people remain unemployed even when jobs are available? How do institutions, laws, and cultural norms shape who works, where, and for how much - and what are the consequences of these decisions around the world?

ECON GU4321 explores the economic lives of people in low- and middle-income countries, with a focus on family and labor market issues. We'll examine how individuals and families make decisions about work, education, and marriage - and how these choices are shaped by social norms, market failures, and government policies.

The course tackles contemporary development challenges including women's labor force participation, discrimination in hiring and wages, the relationship between marriage markets and human capital investment, and how climate change reshapes employment opportunities. Using both theoretical and empirical tools, we'll analyze the policy implications of these issues.

• Department: Economics
• Instructor: Lisa Ho
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• 3 points

DIGITAL VLSI CIRCUITS

Design and analysis of high speed logic and memory. Digital CMOS and BiCMOS device modeling. Integrated circuit fabrication and layout. Interconnect and parasitic elements. Static and dynamic techniques. Worst-case design. Heat removal and I/O. Yield and circuit reliability. Logic gates, pass logic, latches, PLAs, ROMs, RAMs, receivers, drivers, repeaters, sense amplifiers.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• Instructor: Kenneth Shepard
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• 3 points

PRACT/RITUAL KOREAN BUDDH

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• Instructor: Seong-Uk Kim
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• 4 points

EXPLORING THE SHARIA: ISLAMIC LAW

The platform of every modern “Islamist” political party calls for the implementation of “the shari‘a.” This term is invariably (and incorrectly) interpreted as an unchanging legal code dating back to 7th century Arabia. In reality, Islamic law is an organic and constantly evolving human project aimed at ascertaining God’s will in a given historical and cultural context. This course offers a detailed and nuanced look at the Islamic legal methodology and its evolution over the last 1400 years. The first part of the semester is dedicated to “classical” Islamic jurisprudence, concentrating on the manner in which jurists used the Qur’an, the Sunna (the model of the Prophet), and rationality to articulate a coherent legal system. The second part of the course focuses on those areas of the law that engender passionate debate and controversy in the contemporary world. Specifically, we examine the discourse surrounding Islamic family (medical ethics, marriage, divorce, women’s rights) and criminal (capital punishment, apostasy, suicide/martyrdom) law. The course ends by discussing the legal implications of Muslims living as minorities in non-Islamic countries and the effects of modernity on the foundations of Islamic jurisprudence. This class is designed for students interested in a close examination of the Islamic legal system; it is not a broad introduction to the Islamic religion. The format of the class will vary from topic to topic but students should anticipate *extensive* participation through in-class debates.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• Instructor: Najam I Haider
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• 4 points

Planetary Questions

PLANETARY QUESTIONS

This advanced seminar examines important approaches, issues, perspectives, and themes related to planetary concerns of environmental crisis, climate change, life sustainability, and multi-species flourishing, with a focus on feminist, postcolonial, anti-racist, and queer perspectives. Topics for discussion and study include the global pandemic,  histories of colonialism, slavery, and capitalism,

Prereqs: BOTH 1 WMST Intro course PLUS any WGSS 'Foundation' course, OR instructor permission.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• Instructor: Neferti Tadiar
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• 4 points

BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY I

This course provides a rigorous introduction to the theory underlying widely used biophysical methods, which will be illustrated by practical applications to contemporary biomedical research problems. The course has two equally important goals. The first goal is to explain the fundamental approaches used by physical chemists to understand  the behavior of molecules and to develop related analytical tools. The second goal is to prepare students to apply these methods themselves to their own molecular biology research projects. The course will be divided into seven modules: (i) solution thermodynamics with an emphasis on application to analysis of protein structure, folding, and binding interactions; (ii) hydrodynamic methods; (iii) statistical analysis of experimental data; (iv) molecular dynamics calculations; (v) optical spectroscopy with an emphasis on fluorescence; (vi) nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; and (vii) light-scattering and diffraction methods including an overview of cryogenic electron microscopy reconstruction methods. In each module, the underlying physical theories and models will be presented and used to derive the mathematical equations applied to the analysis of experimental data.  Weekly recitations will emphasize the analysis of real experimental data and understanding the applications of biophysical experimentation in published research papers.  The problem sets emphasize use of PyMOL for analysis of macromolecular structures and use of standard curve-fitting software for analysis of protein binding data; detailed tutorials on the related methods are provided in the recitation sections.  The first three modules will be covered in Biophysical Chemistry I during the fall term, while the final three  will be covered in Biophysical Chemistry II during the spring term, and treatment of molecular dynamics calculations will be divided between the two terms.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• 4 points

Abolition Medicine: Medical Racisms and

In 1935, WEB Dubois wrote about abolition democracy: an idea based not only on breaking down unjust systems, but on building up new, antiracist social structures. Scholar activists like Angela Davis, Ruth Gilmore and Mariame Kaba have long contended that the abolition of slavery was but one first step in ongoing abolitionist practices dismantling racialized systems of policing, surveillance and incarceration. The possibilities of prison and police abolition have recently come into the mainstream national consciousness during the 2020 resurgence of nationwide Black Lives Matters (BLM) protests. As we collectively imagine what nonpunitive and supportive community reinvestment in employment, education, childcare, mental health, and housing might look like, medicine must be a part of these conversations. Indeed, if racist violence is a public health emergency, and we are trying to bring forth a “public health approach to public safety” – what are medicine’s responsibilities to these social and institutional reinventions?

Medicine has a long and fraught history of racial violence. It was, after all, medicine and pseudoscientific inquiry that helped establish what we know as the racial categorizations of today: ways of separating human beings based on things like skin color and hair texture that were used (and often continue to be used) to justify the enslavement, exclusion, or genocide of one group of people by another. Additionally, the history of the professionalization of U.S. medicine, through the formation of medical schools and professional organizations as well as and the certification of trained physicians, is a history of exclusion, with a solidification of the identity of “physician” around upper middle class white masculinity. Indeed, the 1910 Flexner Report, whose aim was to make consistent training across the country’s medical schools, was explicit in its racism. From practices of eugenic sterilization, to histories of experimentation upon bodies of color, medicine is unfortunately built upon racist, sexist and able-ist practices.

This course is built on the premise that a socially just practice of medicine is a bioethical imperative. Such a practice cannot be achieved, however, without examining medicine’s histories of racism, as well as learning from and building upon histories of anti-racist health practice. The first half of the semester will be dedicated to learning about histories of medical racism: from eugenics and racist experiment

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• Instructor: Sayantani T Dasgupta
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• 3 points

EMBODIMENT AND BODILY DIFFERENCE

EMBODIMENT & BODILY DIFFE

At once material and symbolic, our bodies exist at the intersection of multiple competing discourses, including the juridical, the techno-scientific, and the biopolitical. In this course, we will draw upon a variety of critical interdisciplinary literatures—including feminist and queer studies, science and technology studies, and disability studies—to consider some of the ways in which the body is constituted by such discourses, and itself serves as the substratum for social relations. Among the key questions we will consider are the following: What is natural about the body? How are distinctions made between presumptively normal and pathological bodies, and between psychic and somatic experiences?  How do historical and political-economic forces shape the perception and meaning of bodily difference? And most crucially: how do bodies that are multiply constituted by competing logics of gender, race, nation, and ability offer up resistance to these and other categorizations?

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• Instructor: Rebecca Jordan-Young
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• 4 points

REAL ESTATE EXCEL CONCEPTS TUTORIAL II

RE EXCEL CONCEPTS TUTORIA

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Eric B Andersen
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• 0 points

RADIOBIOLOGY FOR MED PHYS

Interface between clinical practice and quantitative radiation biology. Microdosimetry, dose-rate effects and biological effectiveness thereof; radiation biology data, radiation action at the cellular and tissue level; radiation effects on human populations, carcinogenesis, genetic effects; radiation protection; tumor control, normal-tissue complication probabilities; treatment plan optimization.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Marco Zaider
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• 3 points

Cellular Bioengineering & Therapeutics

CellBioEng&Therapeutics

Explores cutting-edge field of cellular bioengineering and applications of cell therapies. Comprehensive understanding of the principles, techniques, and ethical considerations involved in cells for medical applications studied.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• Instructor: Ke Cheng
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• 3 points

ADVANCED CHEMICAL KINETICS

Complex reactive systems. Catalysis. Heterogeneous systems, with an emphasis on coupled chemical kinetics and transport phenomena. Reactions at interfaces (surfaces, aerosols, bubbles). Reactions in solution.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Robert G Bozic
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• 3 points

Catalysis and Kinetics of Sustainable CO

Catl & Kinet Sust. CO2

Fundamentals of catalyst design and characterization, kinetic modeling and interpretation, and reactor design for CO2 utilization technologies. Topics include tandem catalysis, fundamentals of electrocatalysis, heterogeneous catalysis, catalytic processes for the activation of CO2, and reactive capture. Course grades are based on evaluating case studies, quizzes, and the final project design, where students apply concepts learned in class to propose solutions for practical, real-world CO2 utilization challenges.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• Instructor: Juliana Silva Alves Carneiro
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• 3 points

FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS I

Direct stiffness approach for trusses. Strong and weak forms for one-dimensional problems. Galerkin finite element formulation, shape functions, Gauss quadrature, convergence. Multidimensional scalar field problems (heat conduction), triangular and rectangular elements, Isoparametric formulation. Multidimensional vector field problems (linear elasticity). Practical FE modeling with commercial software (ABAQUS). Computer implementation of the finite element method. Advanced topics. Not open to undergraduate students.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• Instructor: Jacob Fish
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• 3 points

Early Christian Bodies

This course examines the history of the human body and the experience of bodily change in its cultural and religious contexts in the ancient Mediterranean and early Christian world. It focuses on how ancient writers and thinkers imagined what a body was, what a body could turn into, how a body should be treated, and what a body should be taught to do. These thinkers had very different ideas about bodies than contemporary humans do, and yet their ideas were also critical in shaping many of the ideas about bodies that we still have.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• 4 points

TRAD AM ARCHITECTURE

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

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• 3 points

FOURTH-YEAR RUSSIAN I

Prerequisites: RUSS UN3101 and RUSS UN3102 Third-Year Russian I and II, or placement test. Systematic study of problems in Russian syntax; written exercises, translations into Russian, and compositions. Conducted entirely in Russian.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• Instructor: Tatiana Mikhailova
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• 4 points

QUES IN ARCH HIST I

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

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Mabel O Wilson
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• Instructor: Reinhold Martin
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• Instructor: Lucia Allais
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• 3 points

QUES IN ARCH HIST I

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

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• 3 points

PLANNG/MGT-URBAN HYDROLGC SYST

Introduction to runoff and drainage systems in an urban setting, including hydrologic and hydraulic analyses, flow and water quality monitoring, common regulatory issues, and mathematical modeling. Applications to problems of climate variation, land use changes, infrastructure operation and receiving water quality, developed using statistical packages, public-domain models, and Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Team projects that can lead to publication quality analyses in relevant fields of interest. Emphasis on the unique technical, regulatory, fiscal, policy, and other interdisciplinary issues that pose a challenge to effective planning and management of urban hydrologic systems.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• 3 points

PRIMATE SEXUALITY

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• 3 points

GERMAN FILM AFTER 1945

This introduction to German film since 1945 (in its European contexts) deploys a focus on feelings as a lens for multifaceted, intersectional investigations of cinematic history. We will explore how feelings have been gendered and racialized; how they overlap with matters of sex (as closely associated with political revolt in Western Europe, while considered too private for public articulation in the socialist East, especially when queer); and how they foreground matters of nation and trauma (for example via the notions of German ‘coldness’ and inability to mourn the Holocaust). Simultaneously, the focus on feelings highlights questions of mediality (cinema as a prototypically affective medium?), genre and avant-garde aesthetics: in many films, ‘high-affect’ Hollywood cinema intriguingly meets ‘cold’ cinematic modernism. In pursuing these investigative vectors through theoretical readings and close film analysis, the course connects affect, gender, queer, and cultural studies approaches with cinema studies methodologies. The films to be discussed span postwar and New German Cinema, East German DEFA productions, the ‘Berlin School’ of the 2000s, and contemporary transnational cinema.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• Instructor: Claudia Breger
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

Building Energy Modeling and Simulation

Bldg Energy Modeling/Simu

Review of building energy modeling techniques for simulating time-varying demand. Detailed Physics-based models, gray-box and black-box modeling. Static and dynamic models of building energy systems. Deterministic and Stochastic occupancy modeling. Modeling of control and dispatch of HVAC and local energy systems. Implementation of models in Energyplus and Modelica platforms. Modeling of low and net-zero carbon buildings and local energy systems.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• Instructor: Bianca N Howard
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• 3 points

EVENTS IN MOD ARCHITECTUR

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Mary C McLeod
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• 3 points

Cinema and Television: Entangled Media H

Cine & TV: Entangled Medi

Is this cinema or television? Moving beyond the advent of streaming platforms like Netflix and the rise of “global television,” the course will examine the 1970s and 1980s, an exciting period of collaboration between public television and independent filmmakers around the world, in which coproductions between cinema and television proliferated. From a historical and theoretical perspective, we will study key debates around media specificity and convergence, television as a “utopia,” and the challenges of coproduction between the “North” and the “South,” among other issues. The course is an invitation to approach film and television histories through an interconnected approach (across media and across nations), while focusing on a wide range of directors from the U.S., Europe and the so-called “Global South” (these might include Rossellini, Fassbinder, Godard & Miéville, Burnett, Ruiz, Black Audio Film Collective, Sarmiento, etc.).

• Department: Film
• Instructor: Elizabeth Ramirez Soto
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• 3 points

POWER ELECTRONICS

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

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• Instructor: Matthias Preindl
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• 3 points

Pascal and the Modern Self

This seminar is one of the series “History of the Modern Self” which includes Montaigne, Rousseau, and soon Nietzsche.  This semester will focus on Pascal’s conception of the self as revealed by his 
humanistic
 case for religious faith in response to the skeptical challenge of Montaigne. The aim is to understand all the implications of this encounter for the history of modern Western thought about human psychology, religion, and politics.

• Department: History
• Instructor: Mark Lilla
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• 4 points

POLITICAL ECONOMY

The objective of this course is to develop understanding of how political institutions and behavior shape economic outcomes, and vice versa. Starting from the micro level study of political behavior, we will build up to analyze the internal workings of institutions and ultimately macro level economic and political outcomes. During the course we will cover the following topics

• Limits and potential of markets

• Public goods provision

• Voting

• Redistribution

• Department: Economics
• Instructor: Alessandra Casella
  CULPA: 8 Wikipedia h-index: 30 Info
• 3 points

PHONETICS & PHONOLOGY

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

• Department: Slavic Languages
• Instructor: Meredith Landman
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

A Political Introduction to the Christia

Pol Intro Christian Scrip

In this course we will examine the New Testament canon and the twenty-seven texts that comprise it in light of their respective literary genres, their Jewish antecedents and Greco-Roman influences, which will include their historical, social, cultural, political and economic contexts, and the ways these factors impinged upon their various dimensions of meaning. Various modes of biblical interpretation, both ancient and contemporary, will be explored. A major emphasis will be on the ways select texts are utilized, misconstrued and weaponized in the public sphere in this contemporary moment.

• Department: Religion
• Instructor: Obery Hendricks
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• 4 points

Stalinism

The quarter century during which Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union witnessed some of the twentieth century's most dramatic events: history's fastest plunge into modernity, an apocalyptic world war, and the emergence of a socialist state as a competitive world power. This tutorial will offer students a deep dive not only into the historical depths of the Stalin era but into the gloriously complex historiographical debates that surround it. Some of the questions that will animate the readings, writings, and discussions that students will engage in are as follows: Did Stalin depart from or represent a continuation of the policies introduced by his predecessor Vladimir Lenin? Did he rule in a totalitarian fashion or in ways comparable to other twentieth century regimes? Were his policies destructive or possibly productive? And perhaps most boggling of all: why did no one resist Stalinist rule?

• Department: History
• Instructor: Yana Skorobogatov
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• 4 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: Michael Miller
  CULPA: 18 h-index: 14 Info
• 0 points

Global New York

“Wall Street is a disaster area”—so declared a real estate lawyer in a 1974
New York Times
story on the pitiful state of lower Manhattan. The World Trade Center had been inaugurated in 1973 as a beacon of global capitalism with a mandate to lease only to international firms. A year later, much of the Twin Towers went unoccupied. Some eight million square feet of financial district office space sat empty, brokerage houses were shuttering at a rate of more than one per day, and the surrounding city was hurtling towards a full-blown fiscal crisis. The New York of the mid-1970s did not appear destined to become the model global city we know today. Within a decade, however, the city had transformed into a central node—arguably
the
central node—in the ballooning global financial industry and its accompanying class and cultural formations. But this outcome was never guaranteed. How did New York go from “Fear City” to “Capital of the World”? What historical structures, contingencies, and policy decisions produced Global New York?

This course examines New York City’s long history as a site of globalization. Since European colonization, New York has served as a hub in world-spanning networks of capital, goods, and people.

At the same time, the city’s reinvention in the late-20th century as a “global city”—defined in large part by its deep embeddedness in world financial markets—represented a fundamental shift in the city’s economy, governance, demography, cultural life, and social relations.

We will interrogate how this came to be by exploring New York’s historical role in global business, culture, and immigration, with attention to how local and national conditions have shaped the city’s relationship to the world. While critically analyzing how elites both in and outside New York have wielded power over its politics and institutions, readings and discussions will also center the voices of New Yorkers drawn from the numerous and diverse communities that make up this complex city.

• Department: Committee on Global Thought
• Instructor: Sarah A Miller-Davenport
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• 3 points

Pharmaceutical Process Development

Pharma Process Developmen

Chemical engineering fundamentals as applied to process research, development, and manufacturing of pharmaceutical products. Course topics include: comprehensive overview of the biopharmaceutical business (therapeutic areas, markets, drug discovery, clinical development, commercialization), process research, creation, development, optimization, sustainability, green chemistry and engineering, safety (patient, process, and personnel), unit operations and associated calculations relevant to pharmaceutical processes, process scale-up, implementation, assessment, technology transfer, new technologies, economic analysis, drug product formulation and manufacturing, and regulatory considerations. Case studies and real-life examples are presented throughout the course.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• Instructor: Elias C Mattas
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• 3 points

Corporate Finance, Accounting & Investme

CorpFin, Account & Invest

Interpret financial statements, build cash flow models, value projects, value companies, and make Corporate Finance decisions. Additional topics include: cost of capital, dividend policy, debt policy, impact of taxes, Shareholder/Debtholder agency costs, dual-class shares, using option pricing theory to analyze management behavior, investment banking activities, including equity underwriting, syndicated lending, venture capital, private equity investing and private equity secondaries. Application of theory in real-world situations: analyzing financial activities of companies such as General Electric, Google, Snapchat, Spotify, and Tesla.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• Instructor: Rodney Sunada-Wong
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• 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
• Instructor: Yuchen Hu
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• 3 points

GAME THEOR MODELS OF OPERATION

Required for undergraduate students majoring in OR:FE and OR. A mathematically rigorous study of game theory and auctions, and their application to operations management. Topics include introductory game theory, private value auction, revenue equivalence, mechanism design, optimal auction, multiple-unit auctions, combinatorial auctions, incentives, and supply chain coordination with contracts. No previous knowledge of game theory is required.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• Instructor: Jay Sethuraman
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• 3 points

FUNDAMENTALS OF PHOTONICS

Planar resonators. Photons and photon streams. Photons and atoms: energy levels and band structure; interactions of photons with matter; absorption, stimulated and spontaneous emission; thermal light, luminescence light. Laser amplifiers: gain, saturation, and phase shift; rate equations; pumping. Lasers: theory of oscillation; laser output characteristics. Photons in semiconductors: generation, recombination, and injection; heterostructures; absorption and gain coefficients. Semiconductor photon sources: LEDs; semiconductor optical amplifiers; homojunction and heterojunction laser diodes. Semiconductor photon detectors: p-n, p-i-n, and heterostructure photo diodes; avalanche photodiodes.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• Instructor: Michal Lipson
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• 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
• 3 points

The Protest Novel or Books that Chan

The Protest Novel or Book

This course asks a simple question: what kind of action (political, social, instrumental) can a novel take? In the seminar, we will consider the tradition of protest fiction— or what we might call Books that Change the World— taking stock of how the novel has embraced the overt aim of creating change. Our goal as a class will be to set our own terms for what a protest novel is, was, should be, or might be, and to consider both the reach and limitations of this tradition. The terrain is broad, covering works from the beginning of the 20th century to the present, with a center of gravity in the early-mid 20th century, and engaging a range of topics on which novels have sought to make change.

The course is organized thematically and chronologically, with works (mostly English language) from the U.S., England, Ireland, Canada, India, Nigeria, and elsewhere. Each week we will read a novel, occasionally paired with other materials, such as visual works, other literary materials, theoretical readings, etc. Themes to which these activist works are geared include: slavery and abolition; working conditions; sexuality, gender and patriarchy; war, peace, and revolution; race and racism; incarceration; and environmental crisis. This is a discussion seminar, and each student is expected to participate in every class meeting.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• Instructor: Sarah Cole
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• 4 points

Rousseau s Woman Problem

Rousseau, Women and Gende

The problem of women lies at the heart of everything Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote. He posited a basic equality between the sexes in the state of nature, while prescribing a radically restrictive view of women’s education. He founded his political thought on models of virility, while writing a best-selling novel featuring a powerful heroine who governs an ideal society. He upheld rigid gender binaries, while fashioning himself as a woman in his autobiographical writings. The goal of this seminar will be to tease out these and other tensions and contradictions in Rousseau’s work and to explore how they have shaped modern views of women and gender. We will read Rousseau in dialogue with the many women who responded to his work, whether by emulating his style, seeking his counsel or subjecting his ideas to virulent critique.

The seminar will be taught in French and fulfills the pre-1800 requirement for the French major and the MA and PhD in French. Undergraduates with an advanced level of French are welcome to enroll.

• Department: French
• Instructor: Joanna R Stalnaker
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• 3 points

ARCH APROPOS ART

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• 3 points

Spaceflight Mechanics

Two-body orbital motion, Newtonian and Keplerian mechanics, energy and angular momentum conservation, Vis-Viva equation, Kepler’s Equation, Euclidean geometry, vector mathematics, conic sections. Trajectory design using analytical and software-based methods. Systems Tool Kit Astrogator for simulation of Earth-Moon and interplanetary missions.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• Instructor: Anthony Genova
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• 3 points

Democracy and its Technocrats

Science and technology have become increasingly central to the basic functioning of democratic societies The administrative state, both on the local and national level, is dependent on technological systems to ensure democratic rule and deliver services: from voting machines and welfare databases to passport scanners and the laboratory equipment necessary to set environmental standards. Just as necessary are the numerous experts – engineers, statisticians, epidemiologists, and environmental scientists – who either work for or advise the state in its dealings. How should we think about the technocratic nature of modern democracy? Is it an inevitable and necessary pre-condition for governing modern mass society? Or is it an alarming aspect, an undemocratic impulse, that undermines the promise of democratic rule?The course will examine the coproduction of science and politics. In the first part of the semester, students will gain conceptual tools with which to rethink the connection between science, technology, power, politics, policy, and democracy. They will consider the role of expertise in modern politics, as well as the construction of the public. In the second part of the semester we will consider in greater detail the way technocratic governance developed in the United States from the end of the nineteenth century to the contemporary moment.

• Department: History
• Instructor: Alma Steingart
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• 4 points

ECONOMICS OF RACE IN THE U.S.

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 ECON GU4400 is strongly recommended. What differences does race make in the U.S. economy? Why does it make these differences? Are these differences things we should be concerned about? If so, what should be done? The course examines labor markets, housing markets, capital markets, crime, education, and the links among these markets. Both empirical and theoretical contributions are studied.

• Department: Economics
• Instructor: Brendan O'Flaherty
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• 3 points

Music and Global Africa

This course examines the transatlantic sounds of African music, including Afrobeat, Afrobeats, Amapiano, Chimurenga, Highlife, Kwaito, Makossa, Reggae, and more, to explore the rich cultural roots of African musical traditions and how they navigate and assimilate within the global popular culture sphere. From migration and collaborations to the rise of African artists in the era of advanced technology, the course uncovers how these genres transcend borders, inspire cross-cultural innovation, and influence the global music scene in contemporary times. Critical issues such as cultural appropriation, commodification, gender, health, and authenticity in the ever-evolving global music industry will be explored. By the end of the course, you will have a deep understanding of the complex dynamics driving the influence and dissemination of African music across the world.

• Department: Music
• Instructor: Ruth Opara
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MODELING & ID OF DYNAMIC SYST

Generalized dynamic system modeling and simulation. Fluid, thermal, mechanical, diffusive, electrical, and hybrid systems are considered. Nonlinear and high order systems. System identification problem and Linear Least Squares method. State-space and noise representation. Kalman filter. Parameter estimation via prediction-error and subspace approaches. Iterative and bootstrap methods. Fit criteria. Wide applicability: medical, energy, others. MATLAB and Simulink environments.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
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• 3 points

INTERLACED EXISTENCE; DEATH, LIFE, LIMIN

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Karla M Rothstein
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IF BUILDINGS HAD DNA

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Christoph Kumpusch
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• 3 points

PROGRAMMING & PROBLEM SOLVING

Hands-on introduction to solving open-ended computational problems. Emphasis on creativity, cooperation, and collaboration. Projects spanning a variety of areas within computer science, typically requiring the development of computer programs. Generalization of solutions to broader problems, and specialization of complex problems to make them manageable. Team-oriented projects, student presentations, and in-class participation required.

• Department: Computer Science
• Instructor: Kenneth A Ross
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• 3 points

The Future City: Transforming Urban Infr

Future City: Transform Ur

Introduces students to technological innovations that are helping cities around the world create healthier, safer, more equitable, and more resilient futures. Focus on architecture, urban design, real estate development, structural, civil and mechanical engineering, data analytics, and smart communication technologies. Course covers five distinct sectors in the field of urban infrastructure, including transportation and mobility, buildings, power, sanitation, and communications. A Columbia Cross-Disciplinary Course.

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• 3 points

South Asian Politics

In this class we evaluate the puzzles and challenges that have and continue to face government and society in South Asia—with a strong emphasis on India—drawing on the analytical tools of political science. The course is divided into four parts. First, we discuss India’s historical and social context. Second, we discuss India’s state and political institutions, including the state bureaucracy, political parties and the institution of elections. Third, we address major challenges for democracy and governance, including pervasive corruption, ethnic conflict, democratic backsliding, and poverty alleviation. Fourth, we discuss India’s neighbors’ experiences with democracy and governance with attention to the Indian comparison laid out throughout the course.

The course has three main goals. First, to strengthen your skills in analyzing complicated political issues using the analytic tools of political science. Through discussion and writing, you will grapple with the many puzzles Indian democracy and governance in South Asia more broadly pose. Second, to help you to develop an extensive knowledge of Indian (and South Asian) politics and policy. We do this through lectures and readings that draw on a range of analytic approaches. Third, to place these issues in comparative context through engagement with theory and evidence from the region.

• Department: Political Science
• Instructor: Mark A Schneider
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• 4 points

South Asian Politics Discussion

Discussion section for POLS GU4454, South Asian Politics

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

PRIN-INNOVATN/ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Team project centered course focused on principles of planning, creating, and growing a technology venture. Topics include: identifying and analyzing opportunities created by technology paradigm shifts, designing innovative products, protecting intellectual property, engineering innovative business models.

• Department: Computer Science
• Instructor: William Reinisch
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• 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: Nikolas Kakkoufa
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• Instructor: Dimitris Antoniou
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• Instructor: Karen Van Dyck
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• Instructor: Paraskevi Martzavou
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• 3 points

Materials Selection for Mechanical Desig

Materials for Mechanical

Understanding the properties and behavior of materials is critical to the mechanical design and subsequent function of any product or part – including wide-ranging applications from aircraft fuselage to robotic manipulators to flexures to telescope mirrors to flywheels to sports equipment to thermal insulators. This course provides a fundamental understanding of the microstructure of a range of materials (metals, polymers, ceramics, composites, hybrid) and the connection to design-determining or limiting properties including stiffness, expansion, thermal expansion, strength, energy storage and dissipation, toughness, and fatigue. Objective functions which are used to determine a “material index” for the selection of the best materials for use in a particular mechanical design are developed, underscoring the combined role of material properties and loading conditions in optimizing for materials selection. For example, take the case of determining a material index for selecting a best set of materials for a lightweight, stiff beam – how do the material density and elastic modulus together with the beam geometry and loading conditions factor in to determining the material index for materials selection? Note that the resulting material index for selecting best materials for a lightweight stiff beam (bending) is different than that for a lightweight stiff rod (tension). The material indices provide the framework for construction and use of materials selection charts to rapidly compare the effectiveness of wide-ranging materials for different applications.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• Instructor: Mary Boyce
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• 3 points

LATIN AMERICAN POLITICS

• Department: Political Science
• Instructor: Maria Victoria Murillo
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• 4 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
• Instructor: Wojciech Kopczuk
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• 3 points

LATIN AMER POLITICS-DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

THE HISTORY OF ARCH THEORY

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Mark Wigley
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• 3 points

Deep Learning for Biomedical Signal Proc

Introduction to methods in deep learning, focus on applications to biomedical signals and sequences. Review of traditional methods for analysis of signals and sequences. Temporal convolutional neural networks and recurrent neural networks. Long-short term memory (LSTM) models and deep state-space models. Theory and methods lectures accompanied with examples from biomedical signal and sequence analysis, including analysis of electroencephalogram (EEG), electrocardiogram (ECG/EKG), and genomics. Programming assignments use tensorflow/keras. Exams and final project required.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• Instructor: Paul Sajda
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• 3 points

Statistical machine learning for genomic

Statistical ML for genomi

Introduction to statistical machine learning methods using applications in genomic data and in particular high-dimensional single-cell data. Concepts of molecular biology relevant to genomic technologies, challenges of high-dimensional genomic data analysis, bioinformatics preprocessing pipelines, dimensionality reduction, unsupervised learning, clustering, probabilistic modeling, hidden Markov models, Gibbs sampling, deep neural networks, gene regulation. Programming assignments and final project will be required.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• Instructor: Elham Azizi
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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
• Instructor: Tina Kao
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• 4 points

OPTICAL SYSTEMS

OPTICAL SYSTEMS & NETWORKS

Introduction to optical systems based on physical design and engineering principles. Fundamental geometrical and wave optics with specific emphasis on developing analytical and numerical tools used in optical engineering design. Focus on applications that employ optical systems and networks, including examples in holographic imaging, tomography, Fourier imaging, confocal microscopy, optical signal processing, fiber optic communication systems, optical interconnects and networks.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• Instructor: Christine P Hendon
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• 3 points

Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: A Windo

Introduction to use of magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) with focus on brain. Covers all aspects of in vivo MRS from theory to experiment, from data acquisition to the derivation of metabolic signatures, from study design to clinical interpretation. Includes theoretical concepts, hands-on training in MRS data literacy and direct experimental experience using a 3T MR scanner.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• Instructor: Jia Guo
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The Parental Brain

This course will provide an overview of the field of parental and social biology, with an emphasis on changes in the adult rodent brain surrounding childbirth and caretaking behavior. We will explore how the experience of parenthood prepares the brain for survival of offspring. We will also discuss the dynamic between caregivers and parents in order to provide the structure necessary to rear young. This course will illustrate the fortitude of molecular, behavioral and circuit level investigations in concert to unveil mechanisms of social learning.

• Department: Psychology
• Instructor: Bianca J Marlin
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BEHAVIORAL EPIGENETICS

Prerequisites: basic background in neurobiology (for instance PSYC UN1010, UN2450, UN2460, UN2480, and GU4499) and the instructors permission. This course will provide an overview of the field of epigenetics, with an emphasis on epigenetic phenomena related to neurodevelopment, behavior and mental disorders. We will explore how epigenetic mechanisms can be mediators of environmental exposures and, as such, contribute to psychopathology throughout the life course. We will also discuss the implications of behavioral epigenetic research for the development of substantially novel pharmacotherapeutic approaches and preventive measures in psychiatry.

• Department: Psychology
• Instructor: Jennifer Blaze
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• 4 points

Functional Genomics: Methods and Applica

Introduces approaches for the functional genomic analysis of biological systems and their use to define genotype-phenotype relationships. Genetic variation, gene expression and regulation at the epigenome, chromatin organization level, and link between gene and protein expression covered. Case studies covered: study of cancer and cancer-associated processes, neuro-biology, and organismal development. The presented methods study these events at the genome, epigenome, transcriptome, and proteome levels.Approaches that increase the resolution of functional genomic assays to the level of individual cells, spatial profiling, integration with genetic and chemical screening methods, and their application to chemical genomic approaches also studied.  Programming assignments and a final project required.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• Instructor: Jose McFaline-Figueroa
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• 3 points

PROCESS & PRODUCT DESIGN I

The practical application of chemical engineering principles for the design and economic evaluation of chemical processes and plants. Use of ASPEN Plus for complex material and energy balances of real processes. Students are expected to build on previous coursework to identify creative solutions to two design projects of increasing complexity. Each design project culminates in an oral presentation, and in the case of the second project, a written report.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• Instructor: Sakul Ratanalert
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• 4 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
• Instructor: Waseem Noor
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• 3 points

SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS

The course addresses selected issues in the protection of socio-economic rights in an international and comparative perspective. Socio-economic rights have emerged from the margins into the mainstream of human rights. The course will take this status as its starting point and examine the human rights to housing, food, water, health and sanitation in depth. We will explore conceptual issues through the lens of specific rights which will help us ground these principles and ideas in concrete cases. We will discuss developments on socioeconomic rights and examine their relevance in the United States as well as selected other countries, particularly those with progressive legislation, policies and jurisprudence. What is the meaning and scope of the rights to housing, food, water, health and sanitation? What is the impact of discrimination and inequalities on the enjoyment of socio-economic rights? How can governments be held accountable for the realization of human rights? What machinery is there at the international level to ensure that the rights are protected, respected and fulfilled? How can this machinery be enhanced? How can judicial, quasijudicial, administrative and political mechanisms be used at the domestic level? What is the role of different actors in the context of human rights, the role of States and individuals, but also (powerful) non-State actors and civil society? How have activists and policymakers responded to challenges? And what lies ahead for the human rights movement in addressing economic and social rights in a multilateral, globalized world?

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• Instructor: Jacqueline Dugard
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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
• Instructor: Anran Hu
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• 3 points

COLUMBIA COMMONS SEMINAR

RELATIONSHIPS OF CARE

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
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Biochemistry

Biochemistry I

In this course, we will explore the basic biochemistry of living systems and how this knowledge can be harnessed to create new medicines. We will learn how living systems convert environmental resources into energy through metabolism, and how they use this energy and these materials to build the molecules required for the diverse functions of life. We will discuss the applications of this biochemical knowledge to mechanisms of disease and to drug discovery. We will look at examples of drug discovery related to neurodegeneration, cancer, and the SARS-CoV-2 COVID19 pandemic. This course satisfies the requirement of most medical schools for introductory biochemistry, and is suitable for advanced undergraduates, and beginning graduate students. This course is equivalent to and replaces the prior course named UN3501, and is equivalent to the course offered in the summer.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• Instructor: Mary Ann Price
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• 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
• Instructor: Robert G Bozic
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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: Video Network
• Instructor: Robert G Bozic
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• 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
• Instructor: Naama Harel
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• 4 points

AI, Imaging, Art

This bridge seminar welcomes graduate and advanced undergraduate students with backgrounds in art history or computer science (and related fields). We will interrogate intersections in artificial intelligence, machine vision, neural networks, visual culture, imaging, and art. Students will gain a foundation in the histories and technologies underlying the recent rise of neural networks and machine vision, as well as the more recent rise of generative AI, especially image generation. With this foundation, we will investigate a range of artistic, technological, mass-media, and legal developments in visual culture and AI. In addition to readings and seminar meetings, we will take advantage of the ample public and private AI-related programming at Columbia and in New York: lectures, exhibitions, screenings, studio visits with artists, etc. Students will also have the opportunity to work with custom generative AI models.

Admission by application only. All students are expected to complete the readings and tutorials for the first class prior to the start of the semester.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• Instructor: Noam M Elcott
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• 4 points

Frontiers of Tough Tech

Survey of frontier research in technological areas to address world's most important challenges.  Areas include advanced materials, biotech, and sustainability and climate. Convergence of breakthrough research with entrepreneurship, industry, and policy.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• Instructor: Harry West
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• 3 points