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
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• 3 points

PRIMATE SEXUALITY

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• 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
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• 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
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Bianca N Howard
  Info
• 3 points

EVENTS IN MOD ARCHITECTUR

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Mary C McLeod
  Info
• 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
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Mark Lilla
  CULPA: 57 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Literati Culture in Pre-Modern China

Literati Cult. Pre-Mod. C

Premodern Chinese literati have long been regarded as active historical agents who shaped “This Culture of Ours”—a metonym for civilization in the premodern Sinitic context—while they also fed from, partook in, and influenced popular and foreign cultures. Besides “literary writings” like poetry and prose, literati also engaged in calligraphy, painting, and antiquarianism under the umbrella term of “literary or cultural arts.” In turn, the creation and appreciation of artwork were intrinsic to the aesthetic life of literati community and further established their self-identity. At the same time, social exclusivity, (self-)doubt and identity crises, along with the looming threat of cultural decline, have continually haunted this literati community throughout the ages.

Covering the long trajectory of imperial China, this course reveals the birth and development of literati culture. In particular, we take an interdisciplinary approach, introducing intellectual and poetic discourses, socio-historical contexts, literary criticism, visual and material culture, to envision a “common ground” for their civil world. Textual, visual sources plus material objects are meant to have conversations with each other in this course. Important issues include historical transformations of the elite class, cultural geography in different eras, materiality and visuality of elite calligraphy and painting, literati self-expression through aesthetic practice, the roles of the court and literati in producing and preserving art, as well as other relevant issues such as gender studies, vernacular literature, and commodity society.

This course is cross-listed in AMEC and CPLT. For undergraduates, no background in Chinese language is required in this course, and all reading materials—either translation of primary sources or secondary scholarship—are accessible in English.

• Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Lili Xia
  Info
• 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
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• 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
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• 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
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Obery Hendricks
  Wikipedia Info
• 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
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Yana Skorobogatov
  Info
• 4 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
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sarah A Miller-Davenport
  Info
• 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
• W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Elias C Mattas
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 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
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Michal Lipson
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 114 Info
• 3 points

Rousseau, Women and Gender

The objective of this course will be to tease out Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s complex and often contradictory ideas on women and gender difference in nature and society, to examine his own gender construction in his autobiographical writings, and to determine how women writers from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries have responded to these aspects of his work. Readings of Rousseau’s works (in French) will include the
Discours sur l’inégalité
,
Émile,
the
Lettre à d’Alembert
and the
Confessions
. Other authors will include Louise d’Épinay, Isabelle de Charrière, Olympe de Gouges, Germaine de Staël, Mary Wollstonecraft, Marie-Jeanne Roland de la Platière, George Sand and Monique Wittig, along with contemporary feminist criticism on Rousseau. The course will be taught in French with most readings in French, but papers may be written in English for non-majors or graduate students from other departments. This course fulfills the pre-1800 requirement for the French major and the 18th Century requirement for the MA or PhD in the French Department.

 

By the end of the course students should be conversant in the major arguments, themes and motifs Rousseau develops with respect to women and gender difference in the state of nature and society. They should have gained a nuanced understanding of the ways gender and sexuality are constructed in the
Confessions
and in the autobiographical works of women authors inspired by it. They should be able to characterize the diverse ways that various women writers, from Rousseau’s time to the present, have responded to his depiction of women and gender. They should have gained the ability to speak with fluency in French about these complex issues, and to develop in their written work, in French or in English, coherent and original arguments about Rousseau, women and gender. Above all, students will be expected to develop their own point of view on a central paradox of Rousseau’s corpus: how is it that a writer often derided in his own time and our own as misogynist has had such an outsized influence on successive generations of women writers?

• Department: French
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Joanna R Stalnaker
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 3 points

ARCH APROPOS ART

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• 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
• 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
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Alma Steingart
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 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
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Brendan O'Flaherty
  CULPA: 64 Info
• 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
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Ruth Opara
  Info
• 3 points

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
• R 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• 3 points

IF BUILDINGS HAD DNA

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Christoph Kumpusch
  Info
• 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
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Kenneth A Ross
  Info
• 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
• T 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• 3 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
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: William Reinisch
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 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
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• 3 points

LATIN AMERICAN POLITICS

• Department: Political Science
• Instructor: Maria Victoria Murillo
  h-index: 37 Info
• 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
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Wojciech Kopczuk
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia h-index: 34 Info
• 3 points

LATIN AMER POLITICS-DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

THE HISTORY OF ARCH THEORY

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Wigley
  Wikipedia Info
• 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
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul Sajda
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 47 Info
• 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
• R 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Elham Azizi
  h-index: 10 Info
• 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
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Tina Kao
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 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
• R 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Christine P Hendon
  Wikipedia h-index: 21 Info
• 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
• F 3:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Jia Guo
  Info
• 3 points

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
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Bianca J Marlin
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

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
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer Blaze
  Info
• 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
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Jose McFaline-Figueroa
  Info
• 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
• W 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Sakul Ratanalert
  Info
• 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
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Waseem Noor
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 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
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Jacqueline Dugard
  Info
• 3 points

COLUMBIA COMMONS SEMINAR

RELATIONSHIPS OF CARE

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• 0 points

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
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Mary Ann Price
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 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
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Robert G Bozic
  Info
• 3 points

READINGS IN HEBREW TEXTS I

Prerequisites: (MDES GU4510) and (MDES GU4511) 3RD Year Modern Hebrew or the instructor's permission. 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
• MW 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Naama Harel
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

ITALIAN CULTURAL STUDIES I

An interdisciplinary investigation into Italian culture and society in the years between Unification in 1860 and the outbreak of World War I. Drawing on novels, historical analyses, and other sources including film and political cartoons, the course examines some of the key problems and trends in the cultural and political history of the period. Lectures, discussion and required readings will be in English. Students with a knowledge of Italian are encouraged to read the primary literature in Italian.

• Department: Italian @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Nelson Moe
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points

READINGS IN CLASSICAL CHINESE

Prerequisites: CHNS W3302 or the equivalent. Admission after placement exam. Focusing on Tang and Song prose and poetry, introduces a broad variety of genres through close readings of chosen texts as well as the specific methods, skills, and tools to approach them. Strong emphasis on the grammatical and stylistic analysis of representative works. CC GS EN CE

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Wei Shang
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 96 Info
• 3 points

Fundamental Design Tools

Covers fundamental engineering design tools for creating and testing physical products. Includes basics of computer-aided design, circuit design and use of microcontrollers, Internet of Things, and computational modeling and simulation. Additional hands-on exposure to tools for high-fidelity physical prototyping in Makerspace. Mini-project design involving an engineering device or system incorporated tools.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan D Blutinger
  Info
• 3 points

STUDIO I- HISTORIC PRESERV

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
• 6 points

TISSUE ENGINEERING

An introduction to the strategies and fundamental bioengineering design criteria behind the development of cell-based tissue substitutes. Topics include biocompatibility, biological grafts, gene therapy-transfer, and bioreactors.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Clark T Hung
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 65 Info
• 3 points

3RD YR MODERN HEBREW I

Prerequisites: 2nd Year Modern Hebrew II, Hebrew for Heritage Speakers II, or the instructor's permission. This course is designed to take students from the intermediate to advanced level. Students will further develop their reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills in Hebrew through an examination of a wide range of sources, including short stories, poems, visual arts, popular music, television shows and films. 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
• MW 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Naama Harel
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

POWER SYSTEMS ANALYSIS

Modeling of power networks, steady-state and transient behaviors, control and optimization, electricity market, and smart grid.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Ahmed Mousa
  Info
• 3 points

FIFTH YEAR CHINESE I

The Fifth Year Chinese course is designed for advanced learners who have a proficient command of the Chinese language in all four aspects: listening, speaking, reading, and writing, regardless of whether they have Chinese heritage. The course provides a wide variety of literary genres, ranging from short stories to aesthetic essays to academic articles, to enhance students' mastery of formal written Chinese. While the primary objectives of this course lie in reading, students also have opportunities to develop their speaking competence through a variety of in-class discussions, debates, and presentations.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Lening Liu
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 4 points

NAPLES: PORTRAIT OF A CITY

• Department: Italian @Barnard
• T 6:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Nelson Moe
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points

DATA SCIENCE FOR MECHANICAL SYSTEMS

Introduction to the practical application of data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence and their application in Mechanical Engineering. A review of relevant programming tools necessary for applying data science is provided, as well as a detailed review of data infrastructure and database construction for data science. A series of industry case studies from experts in the field of data science will be presented.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Changyao Chen
  Info
• 3 points

Biogeochemistry

Biogeochemistry considers how the basic chemical conditions of the Earth, from atmosphere to soil to seawater, have been and are being affected by the existence of life. Human activities in particular, from the rapid consumption of resources to the destruction of the rainforests and the expansion of smog-covered cities, are leading to rapid changes in the basic chemistry of the Earth.

This course will examine biogeochemical processes in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems in Earth’s Biosphere. We will cover the historical development and evolution of biogeochemical cycles and compare past biogeochemical systems on the planet to contemporary and future eco-biogeochemical systems that are increasingly perturbed and dominated by human activity.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Ajit Subramaniam
  Info
• 3 points

Topics in U.S. Foreign Relations History

This course will explore various topics in the History of U.S. foreign relations. Drawing on a wide range of scholarly writings, we will explore the history of the United States and the world with an eye toward the impact of American power on foreign peoples. Students will also use the semester to design, research, and write a substantial essay that draws on both primary and secondary sources on a topic chosen in consultation with the professor.

• Department: History
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul T Chamberlin
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

DRUG AND GENE DELIVERY

Application of polymers and other materials in drug and gene delivery, with focus on recent  advances in field. Basic polymer science, pharmacokinetics, and biomaterials, cell-substrate interactions, drug delivery system fabrication from nanoparticles to microparticles and electrospun fibrous membranes. Applications include cancer therapy, immunotherapy, gene therapy, tissue  engineering, and regenerative medicine. Course readings include textbook chapters and journal  papers. Homework assignments take format of assay responding to open-ended question. Term  paper and 30-minute PowerPoint presentation required at end of semester.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• M 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Kam W Leong
  h-index: 126 Info
• 3 points

FEMINIST AND DECOLONIAL STUDIES IN LATIN

Feminist & Decolonial LA

This course introduces feminist and decolonial studies as an exciting and interdisciplinary field that helps us better understand power, inequality, and social change. It offers a foundation in key feminist and decolonial ideas while inviting students to connect theory with real-world struggles and movements.
     In the first part of the course, we will learn concepts and explore major debates in feminist and decolonial thought. In the second half, we will look at feminism not only as a set of ideas, but also as a diverse and dynamic social movement that has shaped political struggles, cultural representation, and historical change.
      Together, we will ask important questions such as: Is gender shaped by colonial histories? What does intersectionality help us see about inequality? How can research and political action be guided by feminist and decolonial perspectives? What can we learn from Indigenous feminisms, community feminisms, and other transformative ways of thinking?
      Throughout the course, we will engage with the work of activists, scholars, and artists—especially Indigenous, Afro-descendant, LGBTQ+, and land and water defenders—whose ideas are reshaping feminist studies today. We will also explore how feminist and decolonial perspectives help us understand the current planetary crisis and imagine more just and sustainable ways of relating to each other and to the environment.

Class Note: Indigenous & Black women, feminist & queer authors

• Department: Anthropology
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Marisa G Ruiz Trejo
  Info
• 4 points

THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS: DEAL STRUCTURIN

DEV PROC: DEAL STRUCTURI

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 9 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Cecily C King
  Info
• 3 points

NARRATIVE AND HUMAN RIGHTS

(Lecture). We cant talk about human rights without talking about the forms in which we talk about human rights. This course will study the convergences of the thematics, philosophies, politics, practices, and formal properties of literature and human rights. In particular, it will examine how literary questions of narrative shape (and are shaped by) human rights concerns; how do the forms of stories enable and respond to forms of thought, forms of commitment, forms of being, forms of justice, and forms of violation? How does narrative help us to imagine an international order based on human dignity, rights, and equality? We will read classic literary texts and contemporary writing (both literary and non-literary) and view a number of films and other multimedia projects to think about the relationships between story forms and human rights problematics and practices. Likely literary authors: Roberto Bolaño, Miguel de Cervantes, Assia Djebar, Ariel Dorfman, Slavenka Drakulic, Nuruddin Farah, Janette Turner Hospital, Franz Kafka, Sahar Kalifeh, Sindiwe Magona, Maniza Naqvi, Michael Ondaatje, Alicia Partnoy, Ousmane Sembène, Mark Twain . . . . We will also read theoretical and historical pieces by authors such as Agamben, An-Naim, Appiah, Arendt, Balibar, Bloch, Chakrabarty, Derrida, Douzinas, Habermas, Harlow, Ignatieff, Laclau and Mouffe, Levinas, Lyotard, Marx, Mutua, Nussbaum, Rorty, Said, Scarry, Soyinka, Spivak, Williams.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph R Slaughter
  CULPA: 13 h-index: 13 Info
• 3 points

CATALYSIS OF EMISSIONS CONTROL

Fundamentals of heterogeneous catalysis including modern catalytic preparation techniques. Analysis and design of catalytic emissions control systems. Introduction to current industrial catalytic solutions for controlling gaseous emissions. Introduction to future catalytically enabled control technologies.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• 3 points

The New York City Watershed: From Commun

The NYC Watershed

The New York City Watershed: From Community Displacement to

Collaboration and Climate Adaptation
brings students to the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York to learn first hand from researchers and practitioners who help supply over ten million New Yorkers with safe and abundant drinking water while also working to build social, economic and environmental capital in the towns and villages located in the watershed surrounding the city’s reservoirs – all against a backdrop of increasing climate-related disruption. 

The class will learn how New York City and a coalition of upstate watershed communities worked to end nearly a century of mutual resentment, displacement and extraction by entering into the
Watershed Agreement of 1997
, which has become a widely renowned model for collaborative and equitable water resources management planning in the twenty-five years since its completion. Students will engage with several of the Watershed Agreement’s original negotiators and with the local elected officials, agency staff and non-profit leaders who implement its signature “
multi-barrier
” strategy for drinking water protection through open space preservation, support for sustainable farming practices and investments in clean water infrastructure and sustainable economic growth in watershed communities. They will also learn how increases in storm intensity and warming driven by climate change threaten to upset the delicate balance between New York City’s need for safe drinking water and the socio-economic interests of upstate watershed communities. 

Upon completion of the course, students will better understand the challenges involved in creating and implementing collaborative, multi-stakeholder plans for water resource management and host community benefits in today’s increasingly climate-disrupted world.

• Department: Earth Institute
• Instructor: Marcia N Macedo
  Info
• 1 points

August Wilson

In this seminar we will read the complete published plays of August Wilson along with significant unpublished and obscurely published plays, prose, and poetry. The centerpieces of this course will be what Wilson termed his “century cycle” of plays: each work focusing on the circumstances of Black Americans during a decade of the twentieth century. As we consider these historical framings, we also will explore closely on what Wilson identified as the “four B’s” that influenced his art most emphatically: Bessie Smith (sometimes he called this first B the Blues), Amiri Baraka, Romare Bearden, and Jorge Luis Borges. Accordingly, as we consider theoretical questions of cross-disciplinary conversations in art, we will study songs by Bessie Smith (and broad questions of the music and literary form), plays, prose, and poetry of Baraka (particularly in the context of Wilson’s early Black Arts Movement works), the paintings of Bearden, and the poetry and prose (along with a few lectures and transcribed interviews) of Borges. We will use archival resources (online as well as “hard copy” material, some of it at Columbia) to explore Wilson’s pathways as a writer, particularly as they crisscrossed the tracks of his “four B’s.” Along the way we will examine several drawings and paintings (from his University of Pittsburgh archives) as we delve into the rhythmical shapes, textures, and colors he used on paper and canvas as well as in his plays. Visitors to the class will include Wilson’s musical director Dwight Andrews and at least one of his regular actors.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert G O'Meally
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 4 points

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Alessandro Orsini
  Info
• 3 points

PROBABILITY & DECISION THEORY

Examines interpretations and applications of the calculus of probability including applications as a measure of degree of belief, degree of confirmation, relative frequency, a theoretical property of systems, and other notions of objective probability or chance. Attention to epistimological questions such as Hume's problem of induction, Goodman's problem of projectibility, and the paradox of confirmation.

• Department: Philosophy
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Tamar A Lando
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

COLLECTING ARCH TERRITORIES

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Wasiuta
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

PERSONAL IDENTITY

• Department: Philosophy
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Carol Rovane
  CULPA: 13 Info
• 3 points

GEOGRAPHICAL INFO SYS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• R 5 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 3 points

Health from a Systems Perspective

Health System Perspective

Health, disease, and death from a systems engineering perspective, introduction to control theory in a biomedical context.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• W 10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Henry Hess
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 45 Info
• 3 points

EXTREME DESIGN

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Wigley
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

FUNDAMENTALS OF DOSIMETRY

Basic radiation physics: radioactive decay, radiation producing devices, characteristics of the different types of radiation (photons, charged and uncharged particles) and mechanisms of their interactions with materials. Essentials of the determination, by measurement and calculation, of absorbed doses from ionizing radiation sources used in medical physics (clinical) situations and for health physics purposes.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• W 4 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Sean L Berry
  Info
• 3 points

EARTH RESOURCES & SUSTAIN DEV

Prerequisites: none; high school chemistry recommended. This course is open to graduate students, and juniors and seniors within DEES, Sus Dev, Engineering, Chemistry, Physics, and APAM - or with the instructors permission. Survey of the origin and extent of mineral resources, fossil fuels, and industrial materials, that are non renewable, finite resources, and the environmental consequences of their extraction and use, using the textbook Earth Resources and the Environment, by James Craig, David Vaughan and Brian Skinner. This course will provide an overview, but will include focus on topics of current societal relevance, including estimated reserves and extraction costs for fossil fuels, geological storage of CO2, sources and disposal methods for nuclear energy fuels, sources and future for luxury goods such as gold and diamonds, and special, rare materials used in consumer electronics (e.g. ;Coltan; mostly from Congo) and in newly emerging technologies such as superconducting magnets and rechargeable batteries (e.g. heavy rare earth elements, mostly from China). Guest lectures from economists, commodity traders and resource geologists will provide ;real world; input.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter Kelemen
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 84 Info
• 3 points

History of Modern Israel

While Israel is perhaps one of the most discussed and debated state in the world – only few onlookers have a deep understanding of Israel’s complex and fragmented society and politics.

This course invites the students into a journey to the historical and current Israeli politics and society by introducing the creation of the Israeli Democracy, the main political debates, different ideological visions, and the main cleavages and demographic divisions that have driven Israeli society from 1948 through the present days.

By presenting continuation and changes in Israel history and society the students will learn about the main events in Israel history with respect to military and diplomatic issues, different groups and parties – among them, Ultra-Orthodox (Haredim), Palestinian citizens of Israel, Ethiopian Jews, Religious Zionist, Jewish settlers, Ashkenazi vs Mizrahi/Sephardic Jews – which create the fabric of Israel politics and society from its formative years to the current era. 

With an eye open to current developments, the course will also discuss new trends in Israeli politics.

In addition to the reading and primary sources, the students will watch and review films about Israeli politics and culture. At the end of the course the students will gain a better understanding of Israel and its complexities. 

Course Objectives

By the end of the course students will, (1) Understand Israel’s broad and diverse social and political spectrum, with an emphasis on historical events and core issues (the peace process, religion-state dynamics, etc.)

2. Be able to discuss and write intelligently about Israel’s history, politics and culture.

• Department: Institute for Israel & Jewish Studies
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Avraham Shilon
  Info
• 4 points

Continuous Control Systems

Introduction to continuous systems with the treatment of classical and state-space formulations. Mathematical concepts, complex variables, integral transforms and their inverses, differential equations, and relevant linear algebra. Classical feedback control, time/frequency domain design, stability analysis, Laplace transform formulation and solutions, block diagram simplifcation and manipulation, signal ow graphs, modeling physical systems and linearization. state-space formulation and modeling, in parallel with classical single-input single-output formulation, connections between the two formulations. Transient and steady state analysis, methods of stability analysis, such as root locus methods, Nyquist stability criterion, Routh-Hurwitz criterion, pole/zero placement, Bode plot analysis, Nichols chart analysis, phase lead and lag compensators, controllability, observability, realization of canonical forms, state estimation in multivariable systems, time-variant systems. Introduction to advanced stability analysis such as Lyapunov stability and simple optimal control formulation. May not take for credit if already received credit for EEME E3601.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Ali Dadgar
  Info
• 3 points

POLITICS IN INDIA

This course will combine study of long-term historical sociology with more short term understanding of policies and their possible effects. Though its main purpose will be to provide students with an understanding of politics after independence, it will argue, methodologically, that this understanding should be based on a study of historical sociology – plotting long-terms shifts in the structure of social power. The course will start with analyses of the structures of power and ideas about political legitimacy in pre-modern India, and the transformations brought by colonialism into that order. After a brief study of the nature of political order under the colonial state, the courses will focus primarily on the history of the democratic state after independence.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sudipta Kaviraj
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Zionism in History: Controversies Local

Zionism History: Controve

From its very inception on the stage of history, the Zionist idea has been a catalyst for intense controversy, both within the Zionist movement and the Jewish people, as well as among external critics. This course seeks to trace the major debates and controversies that have shaped Zionism from its founding to the present day, as they have manifested in the State of Israel.

 

The curriculum examines key questions: Is Zionism a modern development of Judaism or a completely new phenomenon that marks a historical break? Should the movement have emphasized cultural identity or political sovereignty? Why did the Zionist movement choose a Western orientation over an Eastern one? 

 

We will also examine how Zionists engaged with the Arab Revolt of the 1930s, raising relevant questions such as the policy of restraint or retaliation, and analyze the core arguments of those who define Zionism as a legitimate — even one of the most justified — national movements versus those who characterize it through colonialist frameworks.

Furthermore, the course will revisit Hannah Arendt’s controversial reflections on the 1961 Eichmann Trial and the subsequent accusations regarding her perceived lack of "
Ahavat Yisrael
" (love for the Jewish people). We will move forward to address the contemporary debate over whether anti-Zionism is inherently the same as antisemitism and explore Israeli views of anti-Zionist critiques.

 

Throughout the course, we will place special emphasis on examining controversies surrounding Israel and Zionism in comparison to other global nationalist movements.

By situating Zionist history within both global perspectives and internal debates, students will move beyond narrow political discourse to acquire a profound understanding of Israel’s past and present. Each session will be supplemented by primary sources, including films, speeches, testimonies, and interviews.

• Department: Institute for Israel & Jewish Studies
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Avraham Shilon
  Info
• 4 points

INTRODUCTION TO ROBOTICS

Overview of robot applications and capabilities. Linear algebra, kinematics, statics, and dynamics of robot manipulators. Survey of sensor technology: force, proximity, vision, compliant manipulators. Motion planning and artificial intelligence; manipulator programming requirements and languages.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Sunil Agrawal
  Wikipedia h-index: 65 Info
• 3 points

Human-Wildlife Conflict

This course explores the history, nature and underlying causes of human/wildlife conflict from the human perspective. We will emphasize areas of human and wildlife conflict that endanger the existence of wildlife species in significant portions of their range, and consider emerging strategies that may reduce human-wildlife conflict.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Wai-Ming Wong
  Info
• 3 points

ADV MANUFACTURING PROCESSES

Principles of nontraditional manufacturing, nontraditional transport and media. Emphasis on laser assisted materials processing, laser material interactions with applications to laser material removal, forming, and surface modification. Introduction to electrochemical machining, electrical discharge machining and abrasive water jet machining.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• 3 points

ROBOTICS STUDIO

Hands-on studio class exposing students to practical aspects of the design, fabrication, and programming of physical robotic systems. Students experience entire robot creation process, covering conceptual design, detailed design, simulation and modeling, digital manufacturing, electronics and sensor design, and software programming.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• W 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Hod Lipson
  Wikipedia h-index: 79 Info
• 3 points

Frontiers of Justice

Frontiers of Justice is designed to encourage students and equip them with the skills to become active and effective  “Change Agents” within their academic institutions and larger communities.. Oriented by the question,
What does justice look like?
, this course aims to raise political and social awareness and engagement with the challenges facing New York City and strengthen ties between Columbia University, disadvantaged communities, and city government agencies and community organizations. Through sharing ideas about how to make structural and systemic change in ways that integrate science, law, politics, history,  narrative and community engagement, the course is intended to support students in working to break down racial and ethnic barriers and toward a more fair and just society.

• Department: Psychology
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Nora Isacoff
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

TECHNOLOGY,RELIGION,FUTURE

This seminar will examine the history of the impact of technology and media on religion and vice versa before bringing into focus the main event: religion today and in the future. Well read the classics as well as review current writing, video and other media, bringing thinkers such as Eliade, McLuhan, Mumford and Weber into dialogue with the current writing of Kurzweil, Lanier and Taylor, and look at, among other things: ethics in a Virtual World; the relationship between Burning Man, a potential new religion, and technology; the relevance of God and The Rapture in Kurzweils Singularity; and what will become of karma when carbon-based persons merge with silicon-based entities and other advanced technologies.

• Department: Religion
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: David R Kittay
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE I

(Lecture). This lecture course is intended as the first half of the basic survey in African-American literature. By conducting close readings of selected song lyrics, slave narratives, fiction, poetry, and autobiography, we will focus on major writers in the context of cultural history. In so doing, we will explore the development of the African- American literary tradition. Writers include, but are not limited to, Wheatley, Equiano, Douglass, Jacobs, Harper, Dunbar, Chestnutt, Washington, Du Bois, and Larsen. Course requirements: class attendance, an in-class midterm exam, a five-page paper, and a final exam.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Robert G O'Meally
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 3 points

Islam in Popular Culture

This course interrogates seminal issues in the academic study of Islam through its popular representation in various forms of media from movies and television to novels and comic books. The class is structured around key theoretical readings from a range of academic disciplines ranging from art history and anthropology to comparative literature and religion.

The course begins by placing the controversies surrounding the visual depiction of Muhammad in historical perspective (Gruber). This is followed by an examination of modern portrayals of Muslims in film that highlights both the vilification of the “other” (Shaheen) and the persistence of colonial discourses centered on the “native informant” (Mamdani). Particular emphasis is given to recent pop cultural works that challenge these simplistic discourses of Islam. The second half of the course revisits Muhammad, employing an anthropological framework (Asad) to understand the controversies surrounding Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses. The obsession with a gendered depiction of Islam is then examined through an anthropological framework that sheds light on the problems of salvation narratives (Abu Lughod). The course ends with a look at the unique history of Islam in America, particularly the tension between immigrant and African-American communities.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Najam I Haider
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

INTRO-POLYMERS/SOFT MATERIALS

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Christopher J Durning
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

Numerical Methods for Data Analysis

Num Methods for Data Anal

An introduction to the mathematical and computational foundations of data analysis with linear models. Develops theoretical and computational understanding of numerical linear algebra algorithms for problems including data fitting, data classification, clustering, and data reduction. Focus includes vector spaces, matrix factorization, least squares methods, and singular value decompositions. Illustrations on a variety of engineering applications, including power networks, autonomous and electric vehicles, quantum computing, medical imaging, and systems biology.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• T 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: James Anderson
  h-index: 18 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED HINDI I

This third year (or fifth semester) course in the Hindi-Urdu program aims to continue building upon the existing listening, speaking, reading, writing, and cultural skills in Hindi.Students will be exposed to a variety of authentic materials, such as stories, plays, newspapers, magazines, videos, and film clips. They will be expected to expand their vocabulary, enhance their grammatical accuracy, and develop their cultural appropriateness through enthusiastic participation in classroom activities and immersion in the speech community outside.

The objective of the course is to promote meaningful interaction with literary texts and strengthen students’ language skills to understand and describe situations and people in diverse academic settings of modern Hindi. Writing in the target language will be emphasized throughout the semester to enable students to use their diverse vocabulary and grammatical structures. This course will prepare students for “Advanced Hindi-II.”

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Rakesh Ranjan
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 5 points

TENSILE/COMPRESSION SURFACES

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert E Marino
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Psychology of Religion

Prerequisites: Two courses in psychology, including at least one course with a focus on research methods
and/or statistics, and permission of the instructor.
Review of theories and empirical research related to religious cognition and behavior. Topics include the
foundations of religious belief and practice, people's concepts of religious ideas, and the lack of religious
belief/identity (e.g., atheism), among others.

• Department: Psychology
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Larisa H Solomon
  Info
• 4 points

Significant Others

What is the relationship between homoeroticism and homosociality? How does this relationship form conceptions of gender and sexuality in ways that might be historically unfamiliar and culturally or regionally specific? We pursue these questions through the lens of friendship and its relationship to ideas and expressions of desire, love, and loyalty in pre-modern times. We begin by considering the intellectual basis of the modern idea of friendship as a private, personal relationship, and trace it back to earlier times when it was often a public relationship of social and political significance. Some of these relationships were between social equals, while many were unequal forms (like patronage) that could bridge social, political or parochial differences.

Thinking through the relationships and possible distinctions between erotic love, romantic love and amity (love between friends), we will draw on scholarly works from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, particularly philosophy, sociology, political theory, literature, history, and art history. We will attend to friendship’s work in constituting, maintaining and challenging various social and political orders in a variety of Asian contexts (West, Central, South and East Asian), with comparative reference to scholarship on European and East Asian contexts. Primary source materials will include philosophy, religious manuals, autobiographies, popular love stories, heroic epics, mystical poetry, mirror for princes, paintings, material objects of exchange, and architectural monuments, largely from Islamic and Asian contexts.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Mana Kia
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 11 Info
• 4 points

RECORDED SOUND

As music moves into the 21st century, we find ourselves surrounded by an ever-evolving landscape of technological capability. The world of music, and the music industry itself, is changing rapidly, and with that change comes the opening – and closing – of doorways of possibility. What does this shift mean for today’s practicing artist or composer? With big label recording studios signing and nurturing fewer and fewer artists, it seems certain that, today, musicians who want to record and distribute their music need to be able to do much of the recording and production work on their own. But where does one go to learn how to do this – to learn not only the “how to” part of music production, but the historical underpinnings and the development of the music production industry as well? How does one develop a comprehensive framework within which they can place their own artistic efforts? How does one learn to understand what they hear, re-create what they like and develop their own style? This class, “Recorded Sound,” aims to be the answer. It’s goal is to teach artists how to listen critically to music from across history and genres in order to identify the production techniques that they hear, and reproduce those elements using modern technology so they can be incorporated into the artist’s own musical works.

• Department: Music
• M 10:10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: David Adamcyk
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

Jews in the Ancient City: Politics and M

This course will examine the experience of Jews in the cities of the eastern Roman Empire, offering a challenge to modern hypotheses of Jewish corporate stability in that setting and contributing to modern discussions of the relations between the Roman state, Greek cities, and Jewish and Christian subjects.

• Department: History
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Seth R Schwartz
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Advanced Urdu

ADVANCED URDU

Prerequisites: Two years of prior study in Urdu or one year of Urdu for Heritage Speakers I&II courses at Columbia University, or approval of the professor. This is a one-semester course in advanced Urdu language. It will be taught in the fall semester. The goal of the course is to develop students’ linguistic skills i.e. listening, speaking, reading, writing and cultural skills in Urdu, and give students in-depth exposure to some of the finest works of classical and modern Urdu prose. Special emphasis will be given to developing a high-register vocabulary. Necessary grammar points will also be explained for developing an accurate and nuanced understanding of the Urdu language. After completing this course, students will be able to read and enjoy Urdu classics and critical academic texts related to various disciplines i.e. old tales, short stories, essays, history, satire, criticism, politics, current issues etc. along with effective speaking skills suited to active interaction in the speech community and a more advanced academic discussion for undergraduate and graduate students. Students will develop an in-depth understanding of South Asian society and culture as well. This course will prepare students to take MDES GU4635 Readings in Urdu Literature I.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Aftab Ahmad
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 4 points

FOUCAULT AND THE ARTS

Michel Foucault was a great historian and critic who helped change the ways research and criticism are done today – a new ‘archivist’. At the same time, he was a philosopher. His research and criticism formed part of an attempt to work out a new picture of what it is to think, and think critically, in relation to Knowledge, Power, and Processes of Subjectivization. What was this picture of thought? How did the arts, in particular the visual arts, figure in it? How might they in turn give a new image of Foucault’s kind of critical thinking for us today? In this course, we explore these questions, in the company of Deleuze, Agamben, Rancière and others thinkers and in relation to questions of media, document and archive in the current ‘regime of information’. The Seminar is open to students in all disciplines concerned with these issues.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: John Rajchman
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

ANATOMY FOR PHYSICISTS & ENGR

ANATOMY FOR PHYSICIST & ENGR

Systemic approach to the study of the human body from a medical imaging point of view: skeletal, respiratory, cardiovascular, digestive, and urinary systems, breast and womens issues, head and neck, and central nervous system. Lectures are reinforced by examples from clinical two- and three-dimensional and functional imaging (CT, MRI, PET, SPECT, U/S, etc.).

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 4 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• 3 points

CONVEX OPTIMIZATION FOR ENG

CONVEX OPTIMIZATION ELCT ENG

Theory of convex optimization; numerical algorithms; applications in circuits, communications, control, signal processing and power systems.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• R 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• 3 points

CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ADVOCACY

This course is designed to introduce contemporary children’s rights issues and help students develop practical advocacy skills to protect and promote the rights of children. Students will explore case studies of advocacy campaigns addressing issues including juvenile justice, child labor, child marriage, the use of child soldiers, corporal punishment, migration and child refugees, female genital mutilation, and LBGT issues affecting children. Over the course of the semester, students will become familiar with international children’s rights standards, as well as a variety of advocacy strategies and avenues, including use of the media, litigation, and advocacy with UN, legislative bodies, and the private sector. Written assignments will focus on practical advocacy tools, including advocacy letters, op-eds, submissions to UN mechanisms or treaty bodies, and the development of an overarching advocacy strategy, including the identification of goals and objectives, and appropriate advocacy targets and tactics.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points