ADVANCED PROJECTS

May be repeated for up to 6 points of credit. Graduate-level projects in various areas of electrical engineering and computer science. In consultation with an instructor, each student designs his or her project depending on the students previous training and experience. Students should consult with a professor in their area for detailed arrangements no later than the last day of registration.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• Instructor: Matthias Preindl
  h-index: 26 Info
• Instructor: Mingoo Seok
  h-index: 31 Info
• Instructor: Kenneth Shepard
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia h-index: 64 Info
• Instructor: Tanvir Ahmed Khan
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• Instructor: Yannis P Tsividis
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: David G Vallancourt
  CULPA: 28 Info
• Instructor: Wen I Wang
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Xiaodong Wang
  CULPA: 15 Info
• Instructor: John Wright
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 44 Info
• Instructor: Charles A Zukowski
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Gil Zussman
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 39 Info
• Instructor: Alexander Gaeta
  Wikipedia h-index: 89 Info
• Instructor: Savannah Eisner
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• Instructor: James Anderson
  h-index: 18 Info
• Instructor: Asaf Cidon
  h-index: 20 Info
• Instructor: Xiang Meng
  h-index: 8 Info
• Instructor: Micah Goldblum
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• 1-4 points

A Practical Approach to Second Language

Second Language Teaching

This graduate seminar serves as a continuation of SPPO GR6001 (“Theory and Practice of Second Language Teaching”) and it is intended for in-service instructors of language, and language and content courses at the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University. It focuses on the application in the second language (SL) classroom of the pedagogical principles reviewed in the previous semester, with emphasis on methodological approaches and applied techniques.

Students will be directly mentored regarding the classroom treatment and presentation of grammatical, lexical, socio-cultural, and pragmatic aspects of the language in the SL classroom. From a communicative approach and beyond, they will also continue to engage with basic teaching techniques such as lesson planning, use of the target language, technology integration, task design, and the use of written and oral authentic materials. They will learn practically how to promote the development of students’ abilities for literacy and critical thinking. Finally, they will be carefully guided through the actual design and implementation of testing and assessment measures for the course they are teaching. In this seminar, we will also analyze real and potential case scenarios that will/may arise in the classroom and we will consider tactics to resolve problems that typically occur. Reflective teaching practices (teachers as learners of teaching, dynamics of classroom communication, the role of teachers’ beliefs about pedagogical practices) will be revisited and rethought.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• F 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Irene Alonso-Aparicio
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• 2 points

GENESIS + DEVELOP ZONING

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Douglas Woodward
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• 3 points

THE SOCIOLOGY OF SEXUALITIES

Despite the ubiquity of sexual imagery in contemporary Western popular culture, most people regard sexuality to be an intimate topic that concerns the drives, experiences and pleasures of individuals. In this course, we will examine the social and pluralistic character of sexual desires, meanings, practices and politics. We will begin with some of conceptual foundations that ground contemporary sociological studies of sexuality. We will think together about how knowledge about the social sources of sexuality is produced and some of the methodological, epistemological and ethical quandaries faced by researchers--including the ways our own sexualities, desires, inhibitions and identities frame our work. We will then examine some of the key questions in the sociology of sexualities, including the complexity of classifying sexual identities, practices and populations, the relationship between institutional contexts and sexual behavior, and intersections with the sociology of race, gender, risk, health and regulation. In each of these discussions, students will explore the varied methodological approaches to these topics within sociology, as well as some of the disciplinary and cultural challenges to making sexuality a central object of intellectual inquiry.

• Department: Sociology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Tey Meadow
  h-index: 8 Info
• 4 points

Transnational Approaches to Gender and S

Approaches Gender/Sexuali

Since the 1980s, third wave feminists have expanded the feminist project to include perspectives from and attention to women outside the West. In more recent decades, a similar movement has happened among queer and trans theorists. In this course, we will engage this work, much of which has been published in the past decade and a half. We will start with provincializing central concepts of feminist and queer theory: gender and sexuality. Taking an intersectional approach that attends to race, class, nation, and other social divisions, we will read scholars who study gender/sexuality around the world, including in Latin America, the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, and South and Southeast Asia. The readings will draw our attention to the ways in which gender/sexuality are implicated in imperial and post-colonial projects as well as how gender and sexuality operate outside the West, both in practice and identity. Finally, we will consider the possibilities and limitations for studying gender/sexuality beyond our own societies. Critical approaches to gender and sexuality challenge conventional “born this way” narratives about gender and sexual identities as innate. This course will raise questions that will make us uncomfortable and, hopefully, transform our understandings of our own gendered and sexual identities and practices.

• Department: Sociology
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Tara Gonsalves
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• 4 points

BIOMEDICAL DESIGN II

Second semester of project-based design experience for graduate students. Elements of design process, with focus on skills development, prototype development and testing, and business planning. Real-world training in biomedical design, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• MW 2 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Megan Heenan
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• 3 points

INTRO-STAT MODELING IN PSYCHOL

Corequisites: additional lab statistical exercises. Methods of data analysis and mathematical modeling illustrated with examples from psychological research.

• Department: Psychology
• MW 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Niall Bolger
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 55 Info
• 4 points

The Central Dogma: Mechanisms and Regula

THE CENTRAL DOGMA

• Department: Biological Sciences
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• 3 points

MESAAS RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM

This course provides a structured setting for stand-alone M.A. students in their final year and Ph.D. students in their second and third years to develop their research trajectories in a way that complements normal coursework. The seminar meets approximately biweekly and focuses on topics such as research methodology; project design; literature review, including bibliographies and citation practices; grant writing. Required for MESAAS graduate students in their second and third year.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 2 points

ENVIRONMENTAL DATA ANALYSIS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 3 points

PHYSICAL COSMOLOGY

Prerequisites: PHYS W4021-W4022-W4023 or the instructor's permission. An introduction to the basic concepts of the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe: the thermal history from inflation through nucleosynthesis, recombination, reionization to today; constituents of the universe including dark matter and dark energy; distance scales; galaxy formation; large scale structure of the universe in its many manifestations: microwave background anisotropies, galaxy surveys, gravitational lensing, intergalactic medium, gravitational waves. Current topics of interest at the discretion of the instructor.

• Department: Physics
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: James C Hill
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• 3 points

CROSS-GENRE SEMINAR

THE WRITER AS TEACHER

CROSS-GENRE SEMINAR

• Department: Writing
• T 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Keri E Bertino
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• 3 points

CROSS-GENRE SEMINAR

Travellers Tales

CROSS-GENRE SEMINAR

• Department: Writing
• R 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Nicholas Christopher
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• 3 points

CROSS-GENRE SEMINAR

POETRY FOR PROSE WRITERS

CROSS-GENRE SEMINAR

• Department: Writing
• T 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Shana M Ferrell
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• 3 points

CROSS-GENRE SEMINAR

THE COMMA SUTRA: GRAMMAR

CROSS-GENRE SEMINAR

• Department: Writing
• T 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Barbara K Fischer
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• 3 points

CROSS-GENRE SEMINAR

WRITER AS TEACHER (LASKY)

CROSS-GENRE SEMINAR

• Department: Writing
• W 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Dorothea S Lasky
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• 3 points

CROSS-GENRE SEMINAR

SHORT PROSE FORMS

CROSS-GENRE SEMINAR

• Department: Writing
• R 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Alan Ziegler
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

EFFECTIVE PARTNERSHIP STRATEGIES FOR HUM

PARTNERSHIP FOR HCM SOLUT

• Department: Human Capital Management
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• W 8:30 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Melanie Rosenwasser
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• Instructor: Eduard Rivera
  h-index: 1 Info
• 3 points

Astro-Skills: Numerical and Statistical

This course provides an overview of the role of computation across astronomy and astrophysics. The first half will be an introduction to the numerical techniques that allow us to model the laws of physics on computers and hence build simulations of physical systems.  The second half will review the data analysis tools used to mine large data sets (real or simulated) to find, characterize and interpret the features in them. This course will alternate on a weekly basis between lectures and lab applications (i.e each week has a lecture and lab component).

• Department: Astronomy
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Greg Bryan
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 70 Info
• 3 points

Early Modern Museums: Iberian Colonizati

The Early Modern origins of the “public” museum have been studied, in the last decades, under the categories of curiosity and wonder. Revising this literature, the seminar intends to introduce the students to a wealth of primary sources, in order to find novel conceptual avenues of research. We will look at the most important illustrated catalogues that were written, painted and often printed between the 16th and 17th centuries: from Ferrante Imperato’s 
Dell’Historia Naturale
, published in Spanish Naples, in 1599 to the beautiful
Manoscritti Campori
, the 
Museum Septalianum
 (1664) and the
Galeria
(1666) of the museum opened by Mandredo Settala in Spanish Milan, from the Roman museum of Athanasius Kircher, passing through the public museums of Ulisse Aldrovandi and Ferdinando Cospi in Bologna, of Oleus Worm in Copenhagen, to the documentation about the collections of Juan de la Espina in Madrid, of Lastanosa in Huesca, the Kunstkammerns of Sweden, and that Rudolf II's in Prague, among others. While acquiring a panoramic and critical view on a major field, on its sources and studies, the seminar’s participants will be guided by the following topics: 1) the tight relationship between Iberian colonization and collecting, in the selection and circulation of the art pieces and natural species that will enter the space of the museum and its catalogues 2) the intertwining between art pieces and natural species coming from afar with those produced or generated locally; 3) the different actors implicated in the 
museification
 (in space and on paper) of the objects and natural species; 4) the aesthetic education implemented by the items’ public display and by their published descriptions.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• W 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Alessandra Russo
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

INTRO TO HUMAN RIGHTS

This course provides a wide-ranging survey of conceptual foundations and issues in contemporary human rights. The course examines the philosophical origins of human rights, their explication in the evolving series of international documents, questions of enforcement, and current debates. It also explores topics such as womens rights, development and human rights, the use of torture, humanitarian intervention, and the horrors of genocide. The broad range of subjects covered in the course is intended to assist students in honing their interests and making future course selections in the human rights field.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Glenn Mitoma
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• Instructor: Daniela R Ikawa
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• 3 points

MEDIEVAL/RENAISSANCE PHILOLOGY

MEDIEVAL/RENAISSANCE PHILOLGY

• Department: Medieval and Renaissance Studies
• Instructor: Susan Boynton
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 3 points

Global East Asian Performance

What is East Asian performance? Are films like
Blade Runner
(1982) and
Ghost in the Shell
(2017) East Asian? Do platforms like TikTok automatically bring an East Asian aesthetics, if not politics, to the content presented? This class considers the global circulation of East Asian cultures in the modern era from the perspectives of theatre and performance studies. Major countries and areas under discussion include China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, and Taiwan, with occasional references to Asian America and the Sinophone.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Yizhou Huang
  Info
• 4 points

MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE PHILOLOGY

Medieval and Renaissance Philology for MA students.

• Department: Medieval and Renaissance Studies
• Instructor: Susan Boynton
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 4 points

FOUNDATIONS OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Public health is a science-based discipline that depends on the analysis of empirical data to guide decision making. Public health decisions also involve value judgments and questions that cannot be answered solely, or primarily, with data. The goal of the Foundations Studio is to equip students with a set of conceptual frameworks and analytic tools for making those judgments and answering those questions. Comprising concentrations on history, ethics and human rights, this studio views public health practice and policy through a wide-angle lens and encourages students to think broadly about the social, political, cultural, legal, and economic drivers of public health outcomes. The studio is designed to help students grapple with challenging issues of justice, equity, individual rights and liberties, and collective action; and to develop a critical capacity for thinking broadly and deeply about public health issues.

• Department: Public Health
• W 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• 2 points

JOURNALISM AND SOCIETY

Seminar surveying the history and the social, political, and economic impact of media from the birth of the newspaper forward.

• Department: Journalism
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Andie Tucher
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• 3 points

RESEARCH METHODS & APPLICATIONS

Qualitative Foundations

Successful public health studies, policies, and interventions rely on evidence to guide their design, development, implementation, and evaluation. Because public health is not a simple, reactive, “take the pill three times a day” solution, but a purposeful approach to preventing disease and promoting health, the tools of scientific inquiry to document, measure, evaluate, and understand all the consequences of health interventions are essential. Learning to identify, gather, and interpret evidence is therefore crucial for public health practitioners. The Research Methods & Applications studio provides an introduction to scientific inquiry and evidence and their relationships to public policy. Using an integrated approach spanning multiple disciplines, students will be provided with a basic introduction to quantitative and qualitative measurement and data collection, tenets of epidemiologic study design, statistical inference and data analysis techniques, and the tools of science. Views on the differences between scientific and other types of inquiry and knowledge, classical models of how science and evidence can inform policy and programs, and sources of tension at the science- policy interface will be explored and discussed. The methods introduced in this course will provide a toolkit with which to help measure and estimate the relationships between the smaller pieces that comprise the complex and dynamic web of systems in public health.

• Department: Public Health
• W 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• 0-4.5 points

STATISTICAL MECHANICS

Prerequisites: PHYS W4021-W4022-W4023, or their equivalents. Fundamentals of statistical mechanics; theory of ensembles; quantum statistics; imperfect gases; cooperative phenomena.

• Department: Physics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Hector Ochoa
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• 4.5 points

QUANTUM MECHANICS I

Prerequisites: PHYS W4021-W4022, or their equivalents. The fundamental principles of quantum mechanics; elementary examples; angular momentum and the rotation group; spin and identical particles; isospin; time-independent and time-dependent perturbation theory.

• Department: Physics
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Norman H Christ
  CULPA: 34 Wikipedia Info
• 4.5 points

18TH CENTURY RUSSIAN LIT

A survey of eighteenth century Russian poetry, prose, and drama in the original. The reading list includes Feofan Prokopovich, Vasily Trediakovsky, Mikhailo Lomonosov, Aleksandr Sumarokov, Aleksandr Radishchev, Gavrila Derzhavin, and Nikolai Karamzin

• Department: Slavic Languages
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Irina Reyfman
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH

This studio is concerned with 
etiology
, or the “cause, set of causes, or manner of causation of disease or condition”. As such, we will explore the patterning (who/what) and determinants (why) of population health. The course will focus on determinants ranging from upstream features of the social and physical environment to downstream, proximal risk factors at the level of individual biology, as well as the interactions between them. While often we think about our health as a function of behaviors we can control and genetics we can’t, the reality is much more complex, involving dynamic interplay between biology and the environment over the life course. Where we live, what we are exposed to, and the social and economic positions we occupy are major influences on our health, becoming encoded in our biology and expressed in the diseases we develop (or avoid) and, ultimately, in our longevity. Identifying these factors and understanding their health consequences is central to public health. 

 

In this studio, students become acquainted with a) the major environmental issues that we face, b) the social factors such as race/racism, socioeconomic status and gender that influence health, and c) the underlying biological basis of human disease. In addition, students will be presented with the approaches used to address the health consequences of these determinants.

• Department: Public Health
• R 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
• 3 points

Historical Approaches in the Social Scie

Historical Aprchs Scl Scn

This course introduces students to historical approaches in sociology and political science (and some economics). In the first part, the course surveys the major theoretical approaches and methodological traditions. Examples of the former are classic comparativist work (e.g. Skocpol’s study of revolutions), historist approaches (such as Sewell’s), or the historical institutionalist tradition (Mahoney, Thelen, Wimmer, etc.). In terms of methodological approaches, we will discuss classical Millean small-N comparisons, Qualitative Comparative Analysis, process tracing, actor-centered modeling, quantitative, large-N works, and causal inference type of research designs. In the second part, major topics in macro-comparative social sciences are examined, from world systems and empire to the origins of democracy.

• Department: Sociology
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Andreas Wimmer
  Wikipedia h-index: 41 Info
• 4 points

INVENTING THE ANCIENTS

• Department: Italian
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Konstantia Zanou
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• 3 points

CAPSTONE: Conflict Analysis Models

Conflict analysis is central to understanding the context and content of any conflict. It is also critical for the person doing the conflict analysis to have a good understanding of who they are as a conflict resolution practitioner, including the frames with which they view the conflict analysis. Our worldviews, assumptions, values, and beliefs shape how we frame and create meaning from conflicts that we choose to examine, and how we understand the dynamics of those conflicts. Therefore, to conduct an impartial analysis of any conflict, and add value for the stakeholders involved, self-awareness is crucial.

This course is the foundation for developing the necessary mindset for conflict analysis. We want you to be able to enter any situation and ask the question, “What is really going on here?” and to use that inquiry to uncover underlying needs, issues, and assumptions. In this course, in addition to increasing your self-awareness as a conflict resolution practitioner, you will explore and become familiar with diverse conflict analysis approaches and tools, beginning with creating a conflict map to identify the actors, dynamics, and structures that are creating, escalating, and perpetuating the conflict. You will work with a variety of conflict analysis tools to examine the stakeholder perspectives and will be asked to identify issues that surfaced as a result of this analysis. You will define goals for your inquiry that correspond to the conflict issues you have identified and coalesce thematically around a specific purpose of appropriate scope for your capstone study. You will utilize the Coordinated Management of Meaning and Case Study frameworks to engage in desk-based qualitative inquiry using secondary sources. You will put theory into practice by interpreting the secondary data through the lens of applicable theory. The data will be further analyzed using CMM models and conflict analysis tools as a means of surfacing several needs to be addressed in your intervention design (in the next capstone course).

This course is the first of three (3) required courses of the capstone sequence.
In 6050, students will complete conflict analysis for their capstone case study.
In 6250, students will design an intervention that addresses the needs identified in their earlier analysis. In 6350, students will consider sustainability, as well as monitoring and evaluation strategies for their proposed intervention.

• Department: Negotiation & Conflict Resolution
• S 12:30 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Amy E Sereday
  Info
• 3 points

Methods and Problems: Theoretical Philos

Methds/Probs:Theoretical

This class covers classic readings in contemporary philosophy, selections from historical authors that bear on today’s debates, and influential recent contributions in a range of subfields such as metaphysics, philosophy of mind, epistemology, logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of cognitive science.

• Department: Philosophy
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Melissa S Fusco
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

PARTICLE PHENOMENOLOGY

Prerequisites: PHYS G6037 or the equivalent. The elementary particles and their properties; interactions of charged particles and radiation with matter; accelerators, particle beams, detectors; conservation laws; symmetry principles; strong interactions, resonances, unitary symmetry; electromagnetic interactions; weak interactions; current topics.

• Department: Physics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Georgia S Karagiorgi
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

RED ELECTIVE INTERNSHIP

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Rebecca A Andersen Polimeda
  Info
• 1.5 points

VALUE, OBJECTS, AND MEANING

VALUE OBJECTS AND MEANING

This course explores how anthropologists have engaged with the question of value as means of understanding and comparing human social engagement with the creation, circulation, and consumption of objects and ideas. In doing so, this course will read classical anthropological texts concerned with exchange, social meaning and action and consider a variety of topics of anthropological interest such as gifts, commodities, capitalism, inequality, and the relationships between humans and nonhumans of many kinds. The course traces how questions and arguments that emerged out of earlier debates in “economic” anthropology were taken up and altered in later conversations about the analytical importance and utility of material and semiotic approaches. In doing so, the course explores what these genealogies might say about the possibility of, and the potential usefulness or desirability of, a contemporary or future-looking anthropology of value.

• Department: Anthropology
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Hannah Chazin
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• 3 points

SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY: THE ORIGINS

Prerequisites: this course is intended for sociology Ph.D. and SMS students. No others without the instructors written permission. Foundational sources and issues in sociological theory: Adam Smith, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel, Mead, Mauss, others; division of labor, individualism, exchange, class and its vicissitudes, social control, ideas and interests, contending criteria of explanation and interpretation.

• Department: Sociology
• M 9:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Gil Eyal
  CULPA: 15 h-index: 26 Info
• 3 points

Adaptation

This is a fast-paced writing, survey and workshop course that will empower writers to define the formal ideals of screenwriting by investigating film adaptations of novels and short stories. The course will culminate in the writing of a short pitch document. This course is at once a survey of the twentieth century American Film, a survey of the Twentieth Century American novel, and a course for writers. We will distill the craft of screenwriting by looking through the prism of adaption in order to understand which elements of the novel translate into film, and why. We will consider novels with the mercenary detachment of a screenwriter, scouring for scraps with value for a screenplay. As we compare the original text with the finished film, we will distill the essence of the screenplay form. What is plot, action, dialog, metaphor? How do we converge these goals? We will decipher, with the clinical eye of a detective, what the screenwriter took from the novel and what they left behind. And in doing this, we will reach an understanding of the formal tenets of an American film.

• Department: Film
• F 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Galt V Niederhoffer
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• 3 points

INTEGRATION OF SCIENCE & PRACTICE

INTEGR OF SCI & PRACT

The different studios in the Mailman Core teach a set of foundational perspectives, knowledge, and skills. But the practice of public health requires applying this education in a context characterized by uncertainty, risk, competing interests, conflicting values, and systems of oppression that perpetuate racism and drive inequities across multiple dimensions of society

 

The Integration of Science and Practice (ISP) uses case studies of actual events to help students analyze the complicated nature of public health practice. The course immerses students in the complex arena of public health decision-making and debate, placing them in the role of stakeholders and policymakers who must marshal both their core knowledge and disciplinary perspectives to explore different options and create and justify interdisciplinary responses to public health challenges. The cases also provide an opportunity to identify crosscutting themes and questions (e.g. knowledge gaps; used of evidence; trade-offs in public health decision making, inequities and inequalities; discrimination; public health ethics; politics; interest group agendas; funding and available resources; organization; public perception, etc.).

 

Fundamental to all the cases, ISP provides a structured space to explore systems of oppression, our relationship to these systems, and their impact on public health.

 

In the Fall semester these cases are based upon classic public health dilemmas, and links are made to their relevance to current public health issues. The cases serve as an archive of sorts, a library of examples to draw on as points of comparison when they encounter similar problems and issues in other classes or during their careers.

• Department: Public Health
• W 6:40 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Marlyn M Delva
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• 1.5 points

STUDIES IN DANTE

Prerequisites: In-depth knowledge of the Commedia. A variable-content research seminar that rotates through various areas of Dante studies. Areas covered in the past include: the history of the ideas of hell, purgatory, paradise; Dante’s relation to the classics; Dante's so-called minor works, such as Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia; Dante's lyric poetry. The Fall 2019 seminar will be devoted to Dante's prose treatises.

• Department: Italian
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Teodolinda Barolini
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING

• Department: Physics
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert D Mawhinney
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 49 Info
• 3 points

Introduction to Neural Networks and Deep

Neural Networks&Deep Lear

This seminar will introduce both the concepts and practical implementation in PyTorch of neural networks and deep learning, with a focus on general principles and examples from vision.

• Department: Psychology
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Nikolaus Kriegeskorte
  h-index: 56 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO INTL PLANNING

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Ebru A Gencer
  Info
• 3 points

ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY

Prerequisites: PHYS W3008 or its equivalent. Fundamentals of electromagnetism from an advanced perspective with emphasis on electromagnetic fields in vaccum with no bounding surfaces present. A thorough understanding of Maxwells equations and their application to a wide variety of phenomena. Maxwells equations (in vacuum) and the Lorentz force law - noncovariant form. Scalar and vector potentials, gauge transformations. Generalized functions (delta functions and their derivatives), point changes. Fourier transforms, longitutdinal ad transverse vector fields. Solution of Maxwells equations in unbounded space for electrostatics and magnetostatics with given charge and current sources. Special relativity, Loretnz transformations, 4-momentum, relativistic reactions. Index mechanics of Cartesian tensor notation. Covariatn formulation of Maxwells equations and the Lorentz force law, Lorentz transformation properties of E and B. Lagrangian density for the electromagnetic field, Langrangian density for the Proca field. Symmetries and conservation laws, Noethers theorem. Field conservation laws (energy, linear momentum, angular momentum, stress tensor). Monochromatic plane wave solutions of the time-dependent source-free Maxwell equations, elliptical polarization, partially-polarized electromagnetgic waves, Stokes parameters. Solution of the time-dependent Maxwell equations in unbounded space with given chare and current sources (retarded and advanced solutions). Properties of electromagnetic fields in the radiaion zone, angular distribution of radiated power, frequency distribution of radiated energy, radiation form periodic and non-periodic motions. Radiation from antennas and antenna arrays. Lienard-Wiechert fields, the relativistic form of the Larmor radiation forumla, synchrotron radiation, bremsstrahlung, undulator and wiggler radiation. Electric dipole and magnetic dipole radiation. Scattering of electromagnetic radiation, the differential scattering cross-section, low-energy and high-energy approximations, scattering from a random or periodic array of scatterers. Radiation reaction force, Feynman-Wheeler theoryy. The macroscopic Maxwell equations (spatial averaging to get P, M, D, H). Convolutions, linear materials (permittivity, permeability, and conductivity), causality, analytics continuation, Kramers-Kronig relations. Propagation of monochromatic plane waves in isotropic and non-isotropic linear materials, ordinary ad extraordinary waves. Cherenkov radiation, transition radiation.

• Department: Physics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Brian Metzger
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 77 Info
• 4.5 points

DESIGNS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH

Required of all incoming sociology doctoral students. Prepares students who have already completed an undergraduate major or its equivalent in some social science to evaluate and undertake both systematic descriptions and sound explanations of social structures and processes.

• Department: Sociology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Mario Small
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

AF-AM: PRO SEMINAR

This course introduces students to central questions and debates in the fields of African American Studies, and it explores the various interdisciplinary efforts to address them. The seminar is designed to provide an interdisciplinary foundation and familiarize students with a number of methodological approaches. Toward this end we will have a number of class visitors/guest lecturers drawn from members of IRAAS's Core and Affiliated Faculty.

• Department: African American and African Diaspora
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Brandi Summers
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• 4 points

RESEARCH SEMINAR

An M.S. degree requirement. Students attend at least three Applied Mathematics research seminars within the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and submit reports on each.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• T 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Kui Ren
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 0 points

MA SEMINAR IN GLOBAL THOUGHT

This course explores the challenges of understanding the global world in which we live, a world that demands new conceptual approaches and ways of thinking. The objectives are:

To examine multidisciplinary approaches to key global issues through readings, class discussions, and conversations with select CGT faculty members as guest speakers. This will take place through multi-week modules that center on a critical issue, asking students to familiarize themselves with key questions and context, engage with an expert on the topic, and apply their insights to a specific case or question.

To develop a focused and feasible research project and hone the practices of scholarly data collection, analysis, and communication through workshops and assignments. This work begins in the fall and continues to completion in the spring semester of the seminar. The perspectives and skills developed in M.A. Seminar will support students in the development and completion of their thirty-five page M.A. essays, which they will present to each other and to CGT faculty at the Spring Symposium.

• Department: Committee on Global Thought
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Laura L Neitzel
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Vishakha Desai
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• 4 points

ADVANCED MECHANICS OF FLUIDS

Eulerian and Lagrangian descriptions of motion. Stress and strain rate tensors, vorticity, integral and differential equations of mass, momentum, and energy conservation. Potential flow.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Gerard A Ateshian
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• 3 points

RESEARCH & PROF DEVPT WORKSHOP

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• T 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Seth R Kimmel
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 2 points

PLASMA PHYSICS I

Debye screening. Motion of charged particles in space- and time-varying electromagnetic fields. Two-fluid description of plasmas. Linear electrostatic and electromagnetic waves in unmagnetized and magnetized plasmas. The magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model, including MHD equilibrium, stability, and MHD waves in simple geometries.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Gerald A Navratil
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 46 Info
• 3 points

ISSUES IN POLITICAL THEORY

Prerequisites: the instructors permission prior to registration. A survey of selected issues and debates in political theory. Areas of the field discussed include normative political philosophy, history of political thought, and the design of political and social institutions.

• Department: Political Science
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Turkuler Isiksel
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 9 Info
• 4 points

THEORY & METHOD-STUDY OF RELIG

“Theories and Methods” courses in any field are commonly unwieldy beasts. They cannot but be a compromise-formation between contemporary questions and texts, ideas, and definitions (alongside a whole lot of problems) that we have inherited as “canonical” in a field. In the best case, such a course is a passageway into deeper engagement with a field, its histories, its complexities, and its possibilities from which we might wrest and build viable futures. Disciplinary fields are structures where power and knowledge are produced and reproduced. The study of religion is no exception. The questions of “how is ‘religion’ constructed as a category here?” and “what work does the designation of something or someone as ‘religious’ do?” will, therefore, accompany us throughout our work over the course of this semester. We will also examine how different methodological commitments shape what objects of study and which questions come to the fore for the study of religion. This course will explore how the study of religion is not reducible to the study of traditions and communities that are readily recognized as “religious.” However, the vexed histories of the construction of “religion” as a category of knowledge production does also not negate that there are large, varied, and flourishing communities of practice beyond the university for whom whether or not “religion” exists is not at all a question. Holding these layers of complexity in play, this course seeks to introduce students exemplarily to key texts and concepts that have shaped the study of religion as we encounter it today as an academic discipline.

• Department: Religion
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Dominique Townsend
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

APPLIED STATISTICS I

First semester of the doctoral program sequence in applied statistics.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Andrew Gelman
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia h-index: 112 Info
• 4 points

INTRODUCTION TO BIOSTATISTICS

• Department: ONLINE MS IN EPIDEMIOLOGY
• Instructor: Dan Liao
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• 3 points

MPHIL THESIS WRITING SEMINAR II

MPHIL THS WRTNG SMNR II

This seminar is PART 2 for second and third year students who are writing their MPhil thesis. It will assume the form of a yearlong seminar during which students design, research, and write up their MPhil projects. These projects can be based on any kind of sociological method, quantitative or qualitative. The thesis will assume the form of an article that can be submitted to a social science journal. The seminar will help you to find an interesting question, a way to answer it, and a mode of communicating this to fellow sociologists in a way that they might find worth paying attention to. The summer break between the two semesters will allow students who don’t come to the first semester with ready-to-analyze data to gather such data (through ethnographic work, archival research, scraping the internet, combining existing survey data, etc.).

• Department: Sociology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 4 points

APPLIED STATISTICS III

Prerequisites: STAT GR6102 Modern Bayesian methods offer an amazing toolbox for solving science and engineering problems. We will go through the book Bayesian Data Analysis and do applied statistical modeling using Stan, using R (or Python or Julia if you prefer) to preprocess the data and postprocess the analysis. We will also discuss the relevant theory and get to open questions in model building, computing, evaluation, and expansion. The course is intended for students who want to do applied statistics and also those who are interested in working on statistics research problems.

• Department: Statistics
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Yuqi Gu
  h-index: 6 Info
• 4 points

Introduction to Biostatistical Methods

INTRO-BIOSTATISTICAL METH

Like many fields of learning, biostatistics has its own vocabulary often seen in medical and public health literature. Phrases like statistical significance", "p-value less than 0.05", "95% confident", and "margin of error" can have enormous impact in a world that relies on statistics to make decisions: Should Drug A be recommended over Drug B? Should a national policy on X be implemented? Does Vitamin C truly prevent colds? However, do we really know what these terms and phrases mean? Understanding the theory and methodology behind study design, estimation and hypothesis testing is crucial to ensuring that findings and practices in public health and biomedicine are supported by reliable evidence.

• Department: Biostatistics
• 0-3 points

PROSEMINAR-HISTORICL MUSICOLGY

Introduction to Historical Musicology: the history of the discipline, major areas of research, source materials, and methodological problems.

• Department: Music
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Julia Doe
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• 3 points

Statistical Consulting

Prerequisites: STAT GR6102 or instructor permission. The Deparatments doctoral student consulting practicum. Students undertake pro bono consulting activities for Columbia community researchers under the tutelage of a faculty mentor.

• Department: Statistics
• M 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Ashley Datta
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• 3 points

Finite Element Method for Fluid Flow and

FEM for Fluid Flow and FS

Solving convection-dominated phenomena using finite element method (FEM), including convection-diffusion equation, Navier-Stokes, equation for incompressible viscous flows, and nonlinear fluid-structure interactions (FSI). Foundational concepts of FEM include function spaces, strong and weak forms, Galerkin FEM, isoparametric discretization, stability analysis, and error estimates. Mixed FEM for Stokes flow, incompressibility and inf-sup conditions. Stabilization approaches, including residue-based variational multiscale methods. Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) formulation for nonlinear FSI, and selected advanced topics of research interest.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Vijay Vedula
  h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

MEDIEVAL IBERIAN SAINTS

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Patricia E Grieve
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

Statistical Computing with SAS

STATISTICAL COMPUTING WIT

This is a Public Health Course. Public Health classes are offered on the Health Services Campus at 168th Street. For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses

• Department: Biostatistics
• W 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• 3 points

SCREENWRITING THREE

A two-semester intensive screenwriting workshop with one instructor.  The Screenwriting 3 and Screenwriting 4 class sequence allows for the careful and more sustained development of a feature-length script.  In the fall semester, students further develop an idea for a screenplay and write the first act (approximately 30 pages).  In the spring semester, students finish writing the script and, time permitting, begin a first revision.

• Department: Film
• W 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• W 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• T 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• T 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 3 points

FICTION SEMINAR

WRITING POWERFUL DIALOGUE

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• Department: Writing
• W 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: James Canon
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• 3 points

FICTION SEMINAR

ANIMAL TALES

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• Department: Writing
• F 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Anelise I Chen
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• 3 points

FICTION SEMINAR

Narrative Design

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• Department: Writing
• T 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Joshua Furst
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

FICTION SEMINAR

BUILDING A BETTER NOVEL

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• Department: Writing
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Victor D Lavalle
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

FICTION SEMINAR

THE METAPHOR LAB

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• Department: Writing
• W 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Hilary J Leichter
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• 3 points

FICTION SEMINAR

IMITATION SINCEREST FORM

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• Department: Writing
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Susie Luo
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• 3 points

FICTION SEMINAR

SPECULATIVE FICTION

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• Department: Writing
• M 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Lincoln M Michel
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• 3 points

FICTION SEMINAR

AUTHORITY

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• Department: Writing
• M 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Mina Seckin
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• 3 points

FICTION SEMINAR

THE RUMBLING

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• Department: Writing
• W 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Lynn S Strong
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• 3 points

FICTION SEMINAR

BUILDING A SCENE

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• Department: Writing
• W 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Lara Vapnyar
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• 3 points

The Hybrid Voice: Comparative Diasporas

COMP DIASPORAS & TRANSLATION

A seminar on the theory and practice of translation from the perspective of comparative diaspora studies, drawing on the key scholarship on diaspora that has emerged over the past two decades focusing on the central issue of language in relation to migration, uprooting, and imagined community. Rather than foregrounding a single case study, the syllabus is organized around the proposition that any consideration of diaspora requires a consideration of comparative and overlapping diasporas, and as a consequence a confrontation with multilingualism, creolization and the problem of translation. The final weeks of the course will be devoted to a practicum, in which we will conduct an intensive workshop around the translation projects of the student participants.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 4 points

FUNDAMENTALS OF ECOLOGY

Prerequisites: Required course for first year Ph.D. students and second year M.A. students on academic track. Covers foundational topics and developments in many branches of ecology, including population, community, and ecosystems ecology.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• 3 points