Environmental Law and Policy in New York
New York City has positioned itself as a global leader in the fight against climate change, often serving as a model for other jurisdictions to follow. This course explores the development and implementation of environmental legislation and policy in New York City during the past two decades. It includes discussions about historical context, environmental policymaking considerations, political processes, outcomes, and the role of stakeholders such as advocates, business, industry, labor, government actors, and community. Students will gain broad knowledge of key legislation and policies related to sustainability, resiliency, energy, emissions, waste and the circular economy, transportation, water and air quality, and green space. Furthermore, students will consider how environmental justice and equity play a role in the development of legislation and policy, and assess best practices for providing equitable treatment and engaging all communities. While the focus of the class will be on New York City, students will also learn about environmental policies implemented in other jurisdictions.
Introduction to Environmental Law and Policy in New York City is available to students in the Graduate Program for Sustainability Management. It is designed to provide future sustainability practitioners and others with a fundamental understanding of how legislation and policy is made, what influences this development, and how legislation and policy seek to address climate change in New York City in urban environments like New York City. Students will be able to use this knowledge to help government and public and private organizations achieve more sustainable solutions.
This is a semester-long elective class that will be taught on campus. Specific competencies or prerequisites are not required. This course will be interactive and discussion-intensive, engaging students to utilize and reflect critical and analytical thinking about how environmental legislation and policy is developed and how they can create innovative environmental legislation and policy in the future. Students will participate in class discussions, think critically about policy development and assigned readings, write a reaction essay on environmental justice and equity, and present their analysis to classroom colleagues. For the final project, students will write a research report and present their report to the class, focusing on a particular environmental policy topic, identifying areas where policymaking can be improved upon and/or expande
- Department: Sustainability Management
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Laura Popa
Info - 3 points
Environmental Law and Policy in New York
New York City has positioned itself as a global leader in the fight against climate change, often serving as a model for other jurisdictions to follow. This course explores the development and implementation of environmental legislation and policy in New York City during the past two decades. It includes discussions about historical context, environmental policymaking considerations, political processes, outcomes, and the role of stakeholders such as advocates, business, industry, labor, government actors, and community. Students will gain broad knowledge of key legislation and policies related to sustainability, resiliency, energy, emissions, waste and the circular economy, transportation, water and air quality, and green space. Furthermore, students will consider how environmental justice and equity play a role in the development of legislation and policy, and assess best practices for providing equitable treatment and engaging all communities. While the focus of the class will be on New York City, students will also learn about environmental policies implemented in other jurisdictions.
Introduction to Environmental Law and Policy in New York City is available to students in the Graduate Program for Sustainability Management. It is designed to provide future sustainability practitioners and others with a fundamental understanding of how legislation and policy is made, what influences this development, and how legislation and policy seek to address climate change in New York City in urban environments like New York City. Students will be able to use this knowledge to help government and public and private organizations achieve more sustainable solutions.
This is a semester-long elective class that will be taught on campus. Specific competencies or prerequisites are not required. This course will be interactive and discussion-intensive, engaging students to utilize and reflect critical and analytical thinking about how environmental legislation and policy is developed and how they can create innovative environmental legislation and policy in the future. Students will participate in class discussions, think critically about policy development and assigned readings, write a reaction essay on environmental justice and equity, and present their analysis to classroom colleagues. For the final project, students will write a research report and present their report to the class, focusing on a particular environmental policy topic, identifying areas where policymaking can be improved upon and/or expande
- Department: Auditing
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Laura Popa
Info - 0 points
RACE AND EMPIRE IN THE ASIA PACIFIC
RACE & EMPIRE IN ASIA PAC
This seminar explores the historical entanglement of race and imperial warfare in the Asia Pacific, focusing on China, Japan, and the U.S. We will begin by considering how the colonial discourse of civilization arrived on the shores of East Asia and shaped the self-perception of its peoples in an evolutionary unfolding of the international order. Our goal is to understand the changing conceptions of race and racism in the Asia Pacific from the 19th century through the postwar era. Readings include primary and secondary texts relating to international legal instruments such as extraterritorial rights, formal and informal colonial education, scientific racism such as the dissemination of racialized medical texts, racial anxiety, decolonization, revolutions and the possibilities of global transformation. For example, we will revisit the rise of Pan-Asianism, the problem of the color line, Japan's demand for equality at the Versailles Treaty negotiations, the May Fourth Movement, China's centuries-long anti-imperialist struggles, and the contradictions of white supremacy and Afro-Asian revolts. The seminar will conclude by reflecting on the post-WWII rearticulation of "self-determination"--the non-Wilsonian moment--to the idea of human rights as well as the world historical significance of Afro-Asian insurgences against white colonial domination in the 1940s-70s.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lydia Liu
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
INTRO TO EPID FOR NUTRITIONIST
- Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
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Instructor:
Jeri W Nieves
Info - 3 points
Politics of Policymaking: Developing Cou
Open to First-Year MPA Only.
This course is an introduction to the politics of policymaking in developing countries. Public policymaking- the process by which political actors make decisions on a range of policy issues – affects nearly every aspect of our daily lives, including our access to safe air, water, food, education, and healthcare. This class examines how decision-makers in developing countries choose appropriate tools and strategies to address the persistent political, social, and economic problems affecting their citizens. The motivations, challenges, resources, and outcomes of public policymaking in developing countries often differ significantly from those in developed countries. In addition, policymakers are also embedded within their own knowledge environments, which determines how they bring systematic evidence and scientific knowledge to bear upon their understanding of social problems and their preferred solutions. This course examines how contextual factors condition processes and outcomes of policymaking in developing countries. Ultimately, public policy professionals need a conceptual foundation in identifying patterns of behavior and outcomes in policymaking alongside hands-on training in tools and analysis methods that facilitate deliberation and design, ultimately, the implementation of policymaking strategies in their specific political environments. This course provides the conceptual foundation and practical tools public policy professionals need to understand and operate in their political environment.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- T 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- R 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- F 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
- F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rumela Sen
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
SUMA PS6120 Equity, Policy, and Sustaina
Public policy shapes how our environment, both natural and built, is managed and regulated. Policy not only creates the infrastructure and regulatory frameworks needed to support sustainability goals, but is also critical in establishing an equitable foundation that supports individual and collective change in pursuit of those goals.
This course will serve as an introduction to equity in sustainability policy: We will survey federal, state, and local policies and proposals to understand how we use policy to enhance urban resilience, mitigate environmental impacts, and also promote social and economic justice. Using an interdisciplinary approach that draws from economics, sociology, urban studies, critical theory, and more, students will develop their capacities to read and interpret policy, enhance their understanding of current policy frameworks, and strengthen their ability to engage with emerging policy developments.
Building on contemporary efforts in public policy, we will use an equity lens to focus on the human dimension of sustainability. We will explore policy frameworks and dialogues that foster more equitable outcomes, increase engagement of people most impacted, and contribute to sustainability goals. As an entry point, the course will focus on policies related to climate adaptation and urban sustainability transitions, setting the stage for students to explore equity in urban resilience efforts and to examine intersections of race, class, and other social factors with access to resources.
The course will be discussion-based and center participatory activities (e.g., student-led discussions, paired analyses, team exercises) designed to encourage students to consider policy issues from multiple perspectives—including identifying disparities and assessing opportunities for increasing equity in the sustainability policy sector. The course will also invite scholars and practitioners to share expertise and experience from the field. Students are not expected or required to have any previous experience with policy or law.
- Department: Sustainability Management
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dan Mathis
Info - 3 points
VOICE II
- Department: Theatre Arts
- M 9 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
- M 11 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Corinna May
Info - 2 points
Viral Videos, Generative AI & Geopolitic
Viral Video, Gen AI & Geo
In the era of generative AI, deepfakes and disinformation, visual media have become an essential but perilous tool for human rights organizations, civil society, governments, media outlets, industry and our daily lives. Over the past decade, digital sleuths and journalists have developed methodologies and toolkits to analyze videos and photographs that prove chemical weapons use in Syria, help track human rights abuses in Ukraine, and document police brutality in the United States. And bystander videos continue to spark worldwide protests, as with the killing of George Floyd in 2020. But bad actors are increasingly using fake, distorted and synthetic media to influence narratives, deceive people, business and governments, and sow confusion and conflict in the international community. So how should stakeholders navigate the world of viral media when almost everyone has a camera in their pocket, and can easily and cheaply access image generators? This course will dive into the tools that can help you discover, debunk, verify and use viral videos, user generated content and synthetic media. The course takes advantage of guest speakers to have the most current takes on these issues, and so we will talk to leaders in the emerging industry that will dictate the future of our information ecosystem. Students pursuing journalism may want to tell compelling and trusted stories, while those on a policy track can focus on how to use this kind of media to inform or influence decision makers and the public. Others interested in government or the private sector will also need to address this rapidly changing environment to make critical decisions off of digital content. Through case studies and compelling guest speakers, we will analyze social, business, and geopolitical impacts of this exploding world of visual content, and look at emerging technologies that are helping or hurting people’s ability to trust what they see.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
- 3 points
FASHION POLICY AND THE POLITICS OF GOVER
The fashion industry is an ideal case study on how governments, citizens and international institutions attempt to limit the environmental and social impacts of complex consumer industries with global supply chains. Historically, apparel and textiles have been at the center of some of the most consequential government actions under liberal Western democracy, including the abolition of slavery and the passage of the first workplace safety and labor laws in the United States. In recent years, fashion has returned to the center of dynamic policy debates within the sustainability and social impact space.
The $2.5 trillion global fashion industry’s social and environmental impacts often evade regulation. Major brands leverage long and opaque supply chains for raw materials and cheap manufacturing costs with very little accountability. Private regulation and voluntary commitments have policed fashion for the better part of four decades, an approach that arguably has ended in failures to protect human and environmental rights. The industry’s lack of accountability has cost lives, including the notorious Rana Plaza building collapse in 2013 where 1,132 garment makers died, and now contributes to a sizable percentage of annual climate change. Profits have been pushed to the top of the supply chain while garment makers consistently toil for poverty wages, and the pollution and environmental degradation of fashion is a burden almost exclusively carried by low-and-middle income nations and communities of color that manufacture clothing and produce raw materials.
But the tide is turning. Governments are being asked to step in and regulate the fashion industry. Can effective fashion policies police international supply chains and achieve their intended aims? Might they unleash unintended consequences and in what ways? This course is an introduction to the fast-evolving space of modern environmental and labor policy as it intersects with fashion, and which seeks to incentivize more responsible business behavior in the realm of social, environmental and governance impacts. The class will use recently passed and proposed fashion social and sustainability policies as our case studies, including the New York State Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act; mandatory human rights due diligence in Europe; California’s Garment Worker Protection Act and Congress’s FABRIC Act; the FTC Green Guides and the UK CMA’s Green Claims Code; and Europe&rsquo
- Department: Sustainability Management
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth Cline
Info - 3 points
FASHION POLICY AND THE POLITICS OF GOVER
The fashion industry is an ideal case study on how governments, citizens and international institutions attempt to limit the environmental and social impacts of complex consumer industries with global supply chains. Historically, apparel and textiles have been at the center of some of the most consequential government actions under liberal Western democracy, including the abolition of slavery and the passage of the first workplace safety and labor laws in the United States. In recent years, fashion has returned to the center of dynamic policy debates within the sustainability and social impact space.
The $2.5 trillion global fashion industry’s social and environmental impacts often evade regulation. Major brands leverage long and opaque supply chains for raw materials and cheap manufacturing costs with very little accountability. Private regulation and voluntary commitments have policed fashion for the better part of four decades, an approach that arguably has ended in failures to protect human and environmental rights. The industry’s lack of accountability has cost lives, including the notorious Rana Plaza building collapse in 2013 where 1,132 garment makers died, and now contributes to a sizable percentage of annual climate change. Profits have been pushed to the top of the supply chain while garment makers consistently toil for poverty wages, and the pollution and environmental degradation of fashion is a burden almost exclusively carried by low-and-middle income nations and communities of color that manufacture clothing and produce raw materials.
But the tide is turning. Governments are being asked to step in and regulate the fashion industry. Can effective fashion policies police international supply chains and achieve their intended aims? Might they unleash unintended consequences and in what ways? This course is an introduction to the fast-evolving space of modern environmental and labor policy as it intersects with fashion, and which seeks to incentivize more responsible business behavior in the realm of social, environmental and governance impacts. The class will use recently passed and proposed fashion social and sustainability policies as our case studies, including the New York State Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act; mandatory human rights due diligence in Europe; California’s Garment Worker Protection Act and Congress’s FABRIC Act; the FTC Green Guides and the UK CMA’s Green Claims Code; and Europe&rsquo
- Department: Auditing
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth Cline
Info - 0 points
Women and Resistance: Ukraine, Belarus,
A graduate seminar which invites students to re-read contemporary history of Eastern Europe through the lens of women’s resistance. Women are no less effective history agents than men, but they usually act outside of dominant power structures, opposing and subverting them through imaginative strategies of resistance in the everyday. Focused on the Soviet Union and the contemporary states of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, this course explores female resistance channeled through visual and performance art, fiction and documentary, poetry and film. Structured in reverse chronological order, it begins with current manifestations of women’s resistance, from artistic interventions in the War in Ukraine to Pussy Riot’s punk performances and the political activism of the Belarus Free Theater. It then investigates the genealogy of these contemporary forms of resistance in underground feminist and dissident activism during the late Soviet period, a whole range of resistance articulations through the female experiences of WW2, the GULAG and Stalinist purges, and female agency in subverting gender norms since the Bolshevik sexual Revolution of the 1920s.
All reading will be available in English
.
Open to graduate students. Advanced undergraduates can register with instructor’s permission. No Russian, Ukrainian or Belarusian required.
- Department: Slavic Languages
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Valentina Izmirlieva
CULPA: 14 Info - 4 points
Finance & Development: Impact Investing
Finance and Development
Pre-requisites: Instructor-Managed Waitlist & Course Application.
This condensed course provides a solid understanding of
impact investing
and
financial innovation
, at the intersection of public policy, development, entrepreneurship, finance and law. We combine a
theoretical approach, practical experience in emerging markets and case studies
(e.g. education in Brazil, microfinance in Mexico and India, FinTech in Kenya and Brazil). Students are expected to develop personal projects in lieu of the exam (papers or business plans). We welcome students from SIPA and other schools.
Within the larger category of
Sustainable Finance
, Impact Investing is attracting growing interest from investors, academia and the third sector. Impact investing allocates resources with a financial, social and environmental return, while the impact is both intentional and measured. We analyze the latest global trends in Impact Investing, its revolutionary proposal and its limitations.
Financial innovation
plays a central role in the impact agenda, through innovative financial instruments such as
social impact bonds
or
green bonds
, and through inclusive financial services boosted by
FinTech
.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- 1.5 points
Storytelling and The Art of Creating Soc
Creating Soc Impact Campaigns
Pre-requisites: Instructor-Managed Waitlist & Course Application. Priority Reg: LID and TMaC Specializations.
Was the pro-life narrative strategy a decisive factor in overturning Roe v. Wade? After countless videos of police brutality, why did the video of George Floyd’s murder dramatically accelerate the pace of cultural and policy change? After years of campaigns to reduce teen pregnancy, how was it that a TV show became one of the main drivers of reducing teen pregnancy to the lowest point in recorded history? After losing 31 state referendums, why did a new narrative approach enable the gay marriage campaign to start winning nationwide? These questions and storytelling examples are part of broader social impact campaigns which combined the right mix of strategy and narrative to create change. A social impact campaign is one that creates a significant change that addresses a pressing social issue. Often, there is too little focus on the power of narrative to change behavior and drive action.
This class will explore all aspects of social impact campaigns that harness the power of “effective” stories to engage audiences and prompt action. Additionally, we will investigate how corporations and brands develop campaigns and how they partner with the government, foundations and NGOs. Students will have the chance to question some of the leading creators/practitioners as they create their own social impact campaigns.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Stephen Friedman
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
Politics of Policymaking: Issues in Comp
Open to First-Year MPA Only.
Policymaking—the process by which political actors make decisions on a range of issues—is strongly influenced by context. The political environment in which policymakers interact plays a central role in shaping agendas, strategies, and choices. To be successful, policy professionals must be able to navigate a complicated set of political institutions that can constrain the menu of policy options, engage with multiple actors and stakeholders, and become familiar with dynamically changing technological and media environments. This course will give students important foundational knowledge on the way in which political contexts shape policymaking around the world.
The course has four parts. The first will focus on the policy process. We will learn what factors commonly influence policymakers’ decisions and discuss how solutions to policy problems can be evaluated in a policy analysis framework. The second part will focus on democracy and democratic erosion. We will learn about the rise and decline of democratic institutions and discuss factors that have shown to weaken democratic processes around the globe, including corruption, identity politics and polarization, and mis/disinformation.
In the third part of the course, we will delve into politics in the era of artificial intelligence. We will learn how AI tools such as large language models are shaping policy around the world, and discuss their potential impact on the information environment in a range of political domains. The final part of the course will focus on contentious politics. We will learn about recent debates on the politics of immigration, as well as protests and activism around the world, and discuss their influence on policymakers’ decision making.
In addition to the material covered in the lectures, students will also attend a weekly recitation section. Recitation sections will help students gain a deeper understanding of concepts and topics discussed in the lectures that will be important for success in the final exam.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- R 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
- T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tamar Mitts
h-index: 5 Info - 4 points
Management of SEC Climate Disclosure Com
This course takes a dual-pronged approach to the importance of sustainability reporting: examining both the corporate perspective on preparing sustainability disclosures and the investor perspective on how these disclosures are used to inform capital allocation, risk assessment, and stewardship decisions. At a time when the sustainability reporting landscape—both voluntary and mandatory—is rapidly evolving, focusing on the investor perspective provides clarity. This approach helps students anchor their learning in what matters most for capital markets, enabling them to organize and lead sustainability reporting processes within their own organizations. The goal of this two-sided lens is to equip students with the skills to deliver decision-useful, transparent, and consistent sustainability information that aligns with the demands of today’s regulatory and investment environments.
In the first half of the course, students will explore the evolving landscape of sustainability frameworks and regulations. Key regulatory regimes—such as California’s SB 253 and SB 261, the EU’s CSRD, and the CSDDD and GRI, Sustainability Reports, ISSB —will serve as anchors for case discussions. These discussions will play a crucial role in helping students understand how to administer sustainability reporting as a strategic organizational function, and in emphasizing the organizational capacity and management practices needed to comply with these frameworks. By the end of the course, students will be able to design, manage, and implement the internal processes required to respond to mandatory and evolving ESG disclosure expectations.
The second half of the course will adopt the lens of the investor, exploring how ESG disclosures are integrated into decision-making across three asset classes: public equity, private equity/alternatives, and fixed income. Students will engage in structured modules for each asset class, assuming the role of institutional investors tasked with interpreting disclosures, engaging with companies, and making recommendations. Each module will feature live engagements with real-world investors, offering students direct insight into market practices and expectations.
- Department: Sustainability Management
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- 3 points
Impact Investing: Essential Skills
Impact investing is young but fast-growing industry. An increasing number of philanthropists, traditional investors, and asset managers look to impact investment as a compelling asset class. Entrepreneurs tackling social and environmental issues are finding in impact investors a more reliable and better-aligned source of capital to finance their ventures. The industry requires a committed, talented, and well-prepared pool of capital to continue evolving and growing. This class aims to provide the students with some of the essential skills and tools they will require to work and thrive in the impact investing industry. This is an experiential course designed to introduce students to impact investing and provide them with the skills used by impact investors every day. Students will work on the key "products" required in an impact investment transaction, including: assessing a possible impact investment; writing an investment memo with a full impact analysis, and presenting an investment proposal to a group of seasoned impact investors. COURSE DATES MAY VARY. SEE SYLLABUS FOR EXACT DATES & TIMES.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- U noon-3 p.m.
- 1.5 points
UNDERSTANDING THE SEC RULE: DISCLOSURE L
Understanding the SEC Rule: Disclosure Law for Non-Lawyers
Due to the complexity of the SEC Climate rule, several new courses have been proposed to aid interested students in gaining a deeper understanding of the material.
This course will be designed to translate the legal aspects of disclosure law to our students who do not have a background in law. This course will span topics from voluntary to mandatory disclosures and address both the SEC rule and the EU regulations to prepare students to conceptualize these requirements for multinational, global organizations.
- Department: Sustainability Management
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Taylor Pullins
Info - 3 points
UNDERSTANDING THE SEC RULE: DISCLOSURE L
Understanding the SEC Rule: Disclosure Law for Non-Lawyers
Due to the complexity of the SEC Climate rule, several new courses have been proposed to aid interested students in gaining a deeper understanding of the material.
This course will be designed to translate the legal aspects of disclosure law to our students who do not have a background in law. This course will span topics from voluntary to mandatory disclosures and address both the SEC rule and the EU regulations to prepare students to conceptualize these requirements for multinational, global organizations.
- Department: Auditing
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Taylor Pullins
Info - 0 points
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
- Department: Law
- MW 2:50 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
- TWR 2:50 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
- MW 2:50 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
- 4 points
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
- Department: Law
- MW 2:50 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
- MW 8:40 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
- TWR 2:50 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
- 4 points
SUMA PS6135 Art & Sustainability
Since the first Earth Day in 1970, artists have increasingly addressed ecological issues in their work. This trend has magnified greatly in the past two decades. Around the globe, artists are creating artwork that addresses the impact of loss of biodiversity, rising sea levels, extreme weather events, plastic pollution, and the fragility of our shared ecosystems. Their art raises awareness of the need to act collectively, suggesting frameworks for replacing anthropocentric and colonial approaches to nature, and amplifying the urgent need for environmental justice. In this pivotal moment of climate change, artists inspire by cultivating new narratives and giving form to the invisible or unimaginable, demonstrating how art can help awaken resolve and shape our next steps. They invite viewer participation and action, and suggest ways to make a difference. In the process, they expand our potential for empathy and agency.
The cultural sector has an important role to play in shifting attitudes that would lead to developing more sustainable and equitable global futures. Artists focus on both local and global environmental issues, expanding the field of climate change communication and at times offering out-of-the-box solutions. The artists covered in the course are cognizant of the need for systemic social change in order to achieve policy change. Blurring the boundaries between art and activism, many are working collaboratively across disciplines and with various communities to address both the physical and ethical dimensions of sustainability. Others work independently to provide new visions for the future. The course is designed for people who are interested in the contribution that art can play in creating fresh paradigms.
- Department: Sustainability Management
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Julie Reiss
Info - 3 points
Community Based Program Development & Gr
CBPD Grantwriting
- Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
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Instructor:
Danielle J Mahoney
Info - 1 points
STAGE COMBAT
- Department: Theatre Arts
- M 9 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
- M 11 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jacqueline Holloway
Info - 1 points
Gender, Globalization, and Human Rights
Gender,Globalizatn & Hum Right
This course introduces students to fundamental human rights associated with gender and the global processes through which they have been shaped and reshaped. Focusing primarily but not exclusively on women’s rights and drawing on treaties, cases, programmatic documents, statistical data and other materials, we ask how gender inequalities are addressed at a global and regional level, how such commitments resonate at a national level, and how they are being challenged today. Why are specific measures are needed to protect against gender-based discrimination if human rights are putatively universal? Does the current global gender rights framework work effectively for all those subject to gender-based discrimination? Which points of view on gender does it incorporate and promote, and which does it “silence”? How do factors such as citizenship, nationality, sexual orientation and gender identity, race, ethnicity, religion and class affect the protection of gender rights? How can the current global gender rights framework help address discrimination and inequality with respect to fundamental issues of personhood such as identity, bodily integrity, and the right to life? How can it be deployed to address the implications of socioeconomic processes closely linked to globalization, such as migration or the emergence of markets in reproduction? Can it play a role in times of widespread political turmoil and of war?
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Yasmine Ergas
CULPA: 2 h-index: 10 Info - 3 points
READINGS IN AFRICAN INTEL HIST
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mamadou Diouf
CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info - 4 points
Civic Innovation: Design in Practice & I
Innovation & Imagination
Priority Reg: LID or TMaC Specializations.
Civic Innovation: Design in Practice & Imagination is an introduction to how human-centered design methodologies are being used in government contexts and to the human questions that preoccupy designers working to innovate around policy and service delivery. The course explores the utility of design methods for addressing current-day public-sector and social challenges – and for inventing the policy and social solutions of the future. This new seminar course brings together readings in social theory, applied methods from design-driven innovation practice, and student-led case studies in current and future civic innovation efforts. Its particular focus is on broadening students' understanding of results-oriented civic innovation tactics to encompass ongoing debates around power, data, embodiment, community, craft, and meaning.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- F 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
- 3 points
Advances in Ecology, Evolution, and Envi
Advances in E3B
This one-credit seminar is designed for PhD students from any department in any school at Columbia University. We will read contemporary literature and examine case studies on designing, conducting, and communicating research projects that contribute to solutions to climate change and related problems of the Anthropocene. PhD students will have the opportunity to share their research and reflect on how it might contribute to solutions.
- Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
- T 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
Maria Uriarte
Wikipedia h-index: 56 Info - 1-3 points
South Asians in East Africa, 1750-1970
This graduate seminar examines the intersection of two MESAAS areas, South Asia and Africa, examining the long-term economic, social, cultural and political links between South Asia and East Africa, largely through the experience of South Asian immigrants to East Africa. Although connections between the regions have occurred for millennia, we will focus primarily on period after 1750. In addition to providing a general introduction to some of the themes and issues in the historiography, the course requires students to substantially engage with a range of primary source materials over the course of the term, from colonial archival documents, to newspapers, autobiographies and literature.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Laura Fair
h-index: 15 Info - 4 points
Children & Armed Conflict
This course will provide students with a comprehensive introduction to the impact of armed conflict on children, the United Nations’ children and armed conflict (CAAC) mandate, and efforts to end and prevent children’s suffering. Upon completing this course, students will have an understanding of: the six grave violations and other abuses impacting children in armed conflict; the legal and normative frameworks for protecting children in armed conflict; the key mechanisms and actors leading international efforts to protect children in armed conflict; contemporary challenges and ethical dilemmas undermining the effective protection of children in armed conflict.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Laura Perez
Info - 3 points
ANALYSIS & PROBABILITY I
Prerequisites: the instructor's written permission. This is a course for Ph.D. students, and for majors in Mathematics. Measure theory; elements of probability; elements of Fourier analysis; Brownian motion.
- Department: Mathematics
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ioannis Karatzas
CULPA: 7 h-index: 58 Info - 4.5 points
IDEA OF A BL RADICAL TRADITION
This course will seek to raise and think through the following questions: What does it mean to talk today about a black radical tradition? What has it meant in the past to speak in these (or cognate) terms? And if we take the debate in part at least to inhabit a normative discursive space, an argumentative space in which to make claims on the moral-political present, what ought it to mean to talk about a black radical tradition?
- Department: Anthropology
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
David Scott
CULPA: 6
h-index: 72
Info
- 3 points
LAW & INTERNET SOCIETY
This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search
- Department: Law
- W 2:50 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
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ACTING I
- Department: Theatre Arts
- MW 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kyle Donnelly
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Dynamics of the Israeli-Palestinian Conf
The seminar will explore the Israeli-Palestinian (and Israeli-Arab) conflict from the beginning of the 20th century until today. The first part of the seminar will focus on the historical background informing the conflict and leading to the Palestinian refugee problem and the establishment of a Jewish, but not Palestinian, state in 1948. The second part of the seminar focuses on Palestinian-Arab citizens in Israel, Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, the settlement project, and possible political solutions, as well as the USA's role and its impact on the conflict, the occupation, and the current Gaza war.
- Department: Sociology
- R 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Yinon Cohen
CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 33 Info - 4 points
History of Archaeology Theory
This seminar examines the history of archaeological thought from its antiquarian beginnings in the 19th century, through archaeology’s professionalization and redefinition as an anthropological science during the mid-20th century, to the emergence of archaeology as a critically self-reflexive discipline during the late-20th century, defined by complicated intellectual ties across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Our driving questions are epistemological. How have archaeologists understood the project of interpretation? How have they articulated their relationship to data? What has come to count as evidence and what has not? How have archaeologists organized material remains in the present to make claims about the past? What questions have been posed about past cultures, and how were these “cultures” constructed as objects of study in the first place? Is archaeology best understood as a generalizing science, a historically oriented humanity, or both—and how and why has the discipline’s answer to this question evolved over time? How do the situated positions of archaeologists within contemporary society impact the claims they make about the past?
- Department: Anthropology
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Severin Fowles
CULPA: 24
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MATERIALS CHEMISTRY IIA
Prerequisites: CHEM UN2443 , or the equivalent. This is an introductory course to the emerging field macromolecular materials chemistry. The general topics will be based on the chemistry, self-assembly, and performance of block copolymers and conjugated polymers. Particular emphasis will be devoted to the demands required to drive materials from scientific curiosity to commercialization. At the fundamental level, the course will cover topics on polymerization techniques, electronic structure of organic semiconductors, characterization strategies, nanostructures and self-assembly.
- Department: Chemistry
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Luis M Campos
CULPA: 6
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LEGISLATION AND REGULATION
- Department: Law
- TR 8:40 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
- MW 2:50 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
- TR 2:50 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
- 4 points
PRE-ATLANTIC SLAVERY AFRICA AND SOUT
This seminar on pre-Atlantic Slavery in Africa and Asia will focus on the history of captivity and bondage in modern and the premodern Africa. Conceptually, what is the difference between a captive and a slave? How has captivity been central to the history of social difference and state formation in premodern Africa? By introducing the student to the history of trade in captives within Africa and across the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, the student will be encouraged to rethink premodern Africa as central to premodern world history rather than marginal to it.
- Department: Anthropology
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mahmood Mamdani
CULPA: 21
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- 4 points
Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality
Virtual and Augmented Rea
This course will cover selected topics in virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). There are two main components, with everyone participating in both: papers and projects.
- Department: Computer Science
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Steven K Feiner
CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info - 3 points
Migration and Human Development
Migration & Human Development
International migration's substantial economic and social effects are at the forefront of today's academic discussion, international debate as well as national policy strategies. This course introduces students to the key notions, norms, and narratives of international migration from economic, legal, sociological, international relations, and normative perspectives. Students will learn about transnational livelihood strategies and channels through which migration and migrants can enhance human development especially in their countries of origin, while creating better opportunities for themselves and contributing to their communities of destination. This includes in-depth discussions of the determinants, flows and effects of emigration, immigration, return, financial and social remittances, and diaspora investment. Highlighting migration phenomena in different scenarios in the global North, as well as in the global South, the course emphasizes the agency of migrants and gender differences in the experiences and effects, as well as the role their legal status plays. It will address the root causes of migration and the protection of migrants' human, social and labor rights. The course also furthers participants' understanding of the policy responses in both, the international and the domestic spheres. To this end, it introduces students to key policies and governance schemes, including temporary labor migration programs, bilateral labor migration agreements, and diaspora engagement institutions.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Daniel Naujoks
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Politics of Sustainable Development
Politics-Sustainable Developmt
This course is designed to provide an introduction to the process of political development. It introduces a set of analytic tools based on the strategic perspective of political science and political economy to evaluate the current debates in political development and to draw policy-relevant conclusions. Throughout the course, we will discuss the political dimensions and challenges of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, along with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and their transformations as modular building blocks. First, we explore the politics of economic development: the role of leadership, political systems, and institutions in promoting growth. We study the mechanisms that underlie the persistence of poverty. Utilizing numerous country case studies, we will answer: What is political development? What explains why some countries have prospered while others remain poor, violent, or unequal? Why do we observe growth, stability and freedoms in some and not in others? Second, we will explore the causes and consequences of the state, political institutions, and democracy. What is at the root of state capacity, political participation, and other aspects of political development? What is the role of property rights and rule of law in development? How do we promote gender equality and empowerment? How do we detect and mitigate the effects of corruption? How do we foster political stability? In the third part of the course, we will focus on policies that foster stability and development. We will critically examine the effects of Western intervention in the developing world, historical legacies of slavery and colonialism, and the various tools of foreign policy: aid, democracy promotion and military interventions. We will further explore the extent to which outside interventions alleviated poverty and whether it improved public goods provision or promoted political stability. Finally, the course will consider the role of emerging powers in the context of global governance and their influence on the future course of development in the Global South.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- R 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gizem Acikgoz
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MODELING & PERFORMANCE EVALUATION
Introduction to queuing analysis and simulation techniques. Evaluation of time-sharing and multiprocessor systems. Topics include priority queuing, buffer storage, and disk access, interference and bus contention problems, and modeling of program behaviors.
- Department: Computer Science
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Vishal Misra
CULPA: 5 Wikipedia h-index: 53 Info - 3 points
Advanced Electrochemical Energy Storage
Adv Electrochem Energy St
Most modern commercial implementations of electrochemical energy storage are not fully deterministic: provides context and best-hypotheses for modern challenges. Topics include current understanding of Lithium/Lithium Anode Solid-Electrolyte-Interphase, Reversible and Irreversible Side Reactions in Redox flow systems, electrochemically correlated mechanical fracture at multiple scales, relationships between electrolyte solvation and electrode insertion, roughening, smoothing, and detachment behavior of metal anodes, best practices in structural, chemical, and microscopic characterization, morphological vs. macro-homogenous transport models, particle to electrode to cell nonlinearity.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
- W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dan Steingart
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 36 Info - 3 points
Selected Issues on the Federal Reserve &
Sel Issues Fed Reserve & Finan
The seminar will offer an insider perspective on current Federal Reserve issues and detail the various interconnections between the Fed and financial markets. The course will examine and compare the extraordinary policy actions of the Fed in response to recent crises: the global financial crisis of 2007-2009, the pandemic financial stress of 2020, and the banking crisis of March 2023. In addition, the seminar will study the evolution of the Fed’s monetary policy framework, including specifics on the Fed’s market transactions. It will also explore key concepts of the financial system that are relevant to the central bank and fundamental to financial stability.
Other topical issues relevant to the Federal Reserve will also be discussed. For the Fall 2024 semester, current issues include the shifting outlook for the Fed’s monetary policy, central bank independence and the politicization of the Fed, the escalating focus on the potential for central banks to issue digital currencies, and other emerging topics.
Given the short duration of the seminar, attendance from the first week is required, and students who miss the first week will not be admitted to the course.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Patrick O Dwyer
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EARLY MODERN MANUSCRIPT CULTURE IN ENGLA
EARLY MOD MANUSCRIPT CULT
The early modern period is often heralded as the age of print, when new ideas were disseminated by the press on a grander scale than ever before. But it was also still very much a world in which many texts were written by hand, circulated and copied in manuscript, with their own distinctive culture. This graduate seminar is designed to introduce students to important features of the manuscript culture of early modern England (roughly 1550-1700) with an emphasis on literary and para-literary genres. Its focus will be a series of case studies in various aspects of manuscript culture – genres (letters, libels, playbooks, verse), material means of collecting (letterbooks, miscellanies) and dissemination and conservation (scribal publication, copying, filing and archiving). A basic training in paleography of the period will be provided. The course will make use primarily of electronic resources to which Columbia has subscriptions (including Perdita, Luna, British Literary Manuscripts Online, The Cecil Papers, State Papers Online, etc.) with some work with the holdings of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Each week will feature a case study, featuring (among others) writings by Philip Sidney, John Donne, Hester Pulter, and John Milton.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Alan Stewart
CULPA: 14 h-index: 13 Info - 4 points
Managerial Economics
- Department: Business Economics
- MWF 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
- MWF 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
- MWF 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
- MWF 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
- MWF 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
- MWF 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
- MWF 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
- MWF 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
- MWF 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Frank R Lichtenberg
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