WRITING LIVES-EARLY MOD ENGL

(Seminar). This seminar explores the ways in which Englishmen and women made sense of their lives in writing, in the period 1500-1700. We will investigate the genres that we now term "biography" and "autobiography," but which in early modern periods were inchoate, experimental forms. The course will be particularly interested in examining
how
,
when,

and why
early modern life-writers wrote; how the writing of others' lives (biography) may have influenced how one wrote one's own life (autobiography); the impact of religious doctrines on a sense of one's own life, and on modes of self-writing; the relationship between clearly autobiographical forms (the diary, the journal, the life-story) and other forms of writing (the account-book, the printed almanac, and so on). We will explore the impact of major social, political and religious changes (notably the English Reformation and the Civil Wars, Interregnum, and Restoration) on life-writing of various kinds. The writers studied range from the well-known (Samuel Pepys, Izaak Walton, John Aubrey) to the more obscure, with particular attention paid to non-elite and women writers.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Alan Stewart
  CULPA: 14 h-index: 13 Info
• 4 points

AIMING FOR SOCIAL IMPACT

This course is designed to give students the skills to translate an ambitious mission statement into a set of results that have the potential to constitute real impact; recognize and work through common trade-offs (financial, organizational and strategic) that decision makers confront when they align their organizations around impact; understand the difference between performance management and impact measurement; why social enterprises need both of these systems and the organizational prerequisites for implementing them; how to identify measures that can truly inform critical decisions; and analyze and assess the strengths and weaknesses of prominent approaches to achieving and scaling impact across all three sectors: social/philanthropic, public, and private/for-profit

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 3 points

INVESTMENT IN SOCIAL CHANGE

The concept of social impact has gained global attention, though it remains limited in scale within the capital markets. The potential exists to better integrate market forces with broader public outcomes, but new thinking is needed. To effectively contribute to the global dialogue on impact investment, students must be interdisciplinary in their approach - part entrepreneur, part social advocate, and part policy specialist, all within a keen grasp of the dynamics of innovation. This course is intended to accelerate the evolution of Investment in Social Change by looking at the ways these disciplines must work together to craft social innovation. Students will apply formal reasoning to an inherently subjective field, and should leave the course better prepared to (a) balance the dual mandate of return and social change within their own endeavors; (b) understand the economic principles of technology-led innovation as a key catalyst linking public and private efforts for social change; and (c) contribute to public policy frameworks that encourage private investment in the public good.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher M Reim
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• 3 points

ANALYSIS & PROBABILITY I

Prerequisites: the instructor's written permission.

This is a course for Ph.D. students, and for majors in Mathematics. 
Measure theory; elements of probability; elements of Fourier analysis; Brownian motion.

• Department: Mathematics
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ivan Corwin
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 34 Info
• 4 points

LATIN PALEOGRAPHY

This course will survey the history of Latin manuscript books and Latin scripts from late Antiquity to the early years of printing (4th -15th century). Students will study the questions that have driven the field of paleography since its inception, and the canonical history of the main scripts used in Western Europe through the end of the Middle Ages. We will consider the manuscript book as a physical artifact, in a codicological approach; and we will look at the production of books in their social and political settings. Students will develop practical skills in reading and transcription, and will begin to recognize the features that allow localization and dating of manuscripts. We will use original materials from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library whenever possible.

• Department: Classics
• W 9 a.m.-noon
• 3 points

Managerial Economics

• Department: Business Economics
• TR 2:15 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Nachum Sicherman
  h-index: 18 Info
• Instructor: Amit K Khandelwal
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• 1.5 points

Managerial Economics

Exemption: Managerial Economic

• Department: Business Economics
• 0 points

Global Economic Environment

• Department: Business Economics
• MW 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• MW 2:15 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
• MW 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• MW 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• MW 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• TR 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• TR 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• MW 2:15 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Christian Moser
  h-index: 9 Info
• 1.5 points

Global Economic Environment

Exemption: Global Economic Env

• Department: Business Economics
• 0 points

THEORETICAL STATISTICS I

Prerequisites: students in a masters program must seek the director of the M.A. program in statistics' permission; students in an undergraduate program must seek the director of undergraduate studies in statistics' permission.
A general introduction to mathematical statistics and statistical decision theory. Elementary decision theory, Bayes inference, Neyman-Pearson theory, hypothesis testing, most powerful unbiased tests, confidence sets. Estimation: methods, theory, and asymptotic properties. Likelihood ratio tests, multivariate distribution. Elements of general linear hypothesis, invariance, nonparametric methods, sequential analysis.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Sumit Mukherjee
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 13 Info
• 4 points

READINGS IN CLASSICL ARABIC I

Readings and analysis of texts, with discussion of the nature and development of the genres within the context of Islamic thought. One genre is dealt with each term.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: George A Saliba
  CULPA: 55 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

THEORIES & DEBATES-AMER POLIT

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission prior to registration. Please contact the instructors for more information.
This graduate student field survey provides an overview of the scholarly study of American politics. The course has been designed for students who intend to specialize in American politics, as well as for those students whose primary interests are comparative politics, international relations, or political theory, but who desire an intensive introduction to the “American” style of political science.

• Department: Political Science
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Justin H Phillips
  CULPA: 23 Info
• 4 points

CARBON SEQUESTRATION

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ah-Hyung Alissa Park
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• 3 points

SW PRACTICE WITH FAMILIES

• Department: Social Work
• T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Julia Chan
  h-index: 1 Info
• 3 points

ETHICS, VALUES AND JUSTICE

The purpose of this course is to examine the claims made by multiple stakeholders for use of the environment, both natural and built, and to determine how contention among them can be ethically resolved in the policy process. Over time, six major clusters of stakeholders have arisen, expressing environmentalist standpoints: three, including proponents of wilderness, ecosystems, and nonhuman species, have been called nonanthropocentric; and three, including proponents of conservation, environmental justice, and sustainability, have been called anthropocentric. Among them a diverse array of ethical quarrels has arisen, yet today the sustainability outlook appears to be ascendant in popular and public discourse. Claims made regarding greater or lesser use of both natural and human resources continue to be debated nonetheless. Many are related to the issues of whether present use should take into account past wrongful, often inter-racially prejudicial actions, and future-regarding, often inter-generationally beneficial actions. The course aims to examine specific principles, such as polluter pays for pollution, prior free informed consent, transboundary accountability, and common responsibility, which can be used to resolve ethical issues. Consideration is given to the possibility of both collective and individual ethical action, even in situations of corruption, including subtle forms involving campaign contributions with a pay-to-play aspect. The objective is to discover how such ethical problems can be managed in the public policy process.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Adela J Gondek
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

COMPARATIVE SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY

This core course explores welfare systems from a comparative perspective and analyzes the political, economic, socio-cultural, and historical factors that shape and sustain them in advanced industrialized countries.It pays particular attention to the development of key national social welfare policies, such as social security, health care, unemployment insurance, social assistance, childcare, tax expenditure, and public employment and training, and emerging best practice in these areas.The course also identifies pressing global/regional trends (e.g., greying of societies, labor market stratification, and persistent gender inequality) and compares how developed and developing countries address them through policy.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Yumiko T Shimabukuro
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• 3 points

INT'L POLITICAL ECONOMY

This course serves as an introduction to the politics of international economic relations. It examines the principal conceptual approaches in the field of international political economy and basic elements of several key substantive issue areas such as money, finance, trade, development, and globalization.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: David E Spiro
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points

ENVIRONMENTAL FINANCE PREP

The course material provides a familiarity with some basic concepts in Finance, especially for students planning to take the Environmental Finance Course in the spring who do not have any background in Finance. The topics covered include: Time Value of Money and Valuation, Cost of Capital and Capital Markets, Capital Markets, Commodity Markets, Futures and Options. This course is required for students who do not have a background in Finance and plan to take the Environmental Finance Class in during the Spring semester.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Urvashi Kaul
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• 0 points

SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT

The course translates academic study in organization theory, bureaucracy, and public management into practical lessons for public managers. We develop a framework for understanding and applying tools that can be used to influence organization behavior and obtain resources from the organization's environment. Memo-writing, group process and communication skills are taught through hands-on assignments. Earth system-related case studies present a set of problems for public managers to address. The focus is on state and local environmental management cases, and treatment of local land use and NIMBY (not in my backyard) issues. Cases will deal with public, private, and nonprofit environmental management, and will include U.S. and international cases. Each week students are either briefed by a group of their colleagues on a case or submit a two-page memo on the week's case.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Howard N Apsan
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

ENVIRONMENTAL FINANCE

This class will address Environmental and climate challenges, the role of public sector funding and financing, and the need and potential for private sector investment and financing; The current state of clean energy deployment around the world: wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, ocean, and biomass, plus nuclear and cleaner fossil fuel options, and advanced transportation and vehicles, and energy efficiency, with attention to the financial characteristics of each; Methods and practices for clean energy investment and financing including government funding and incentives, corporate financing and project financing; Who the players are, and their respective activities and roles including government and corporate sponsors, multilateral development banks, commercial banks, equity investors, capital market equity and debt investors, and others. Students should leave the course with a better understanding of how the world is responding to the challenge of clean energy financing and a sense of where and how they might forge a career.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Eckhart
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• 1.5 points

PHYSICAL HYDROLOGY

Prerequisites: Engineering hydrology or the equivalent
Spatial/temporal dynamics of the hydrologic cycle and its interactions with landforms and vegetation. Hydroclimatology at regional to planetary scales, focusing on mechanisms of organization and variation of water fluxes as a function of season, location, reservoir (ocean, atmosphere, land), and time scale. Land-atmosphere interaction and the role of vegetation and soil moisture. Topography as an organizing principle for land water fluxes. Geomorphology and the evolution of river networks. Sedimentation, erosion and hill slope hydrology. Dynamics of water movement over land, in rivers and in the subsurface, with an emphasis on modeling interfaces. Integrated models and the scale problem. Emphasis on data-based spatial/temporal modeling and exploration of outstanding theoretical challenges.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Pierre Gentine
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 43 Info
• 3 points

POVERTY,INEQUALITY & THE ENVIR

Progress and Poverty (1879), by the American economist and philosopher Henry George, was a worldwide bestseller and major impetus to reform movements in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. George argued that owners of land and other natural resources--a small fraction of the population--gain most of the benefits of economic growth. They also withhold high quality resources from use, driving down wages and forcing economic activity to sprawl out onto marginal land. His remedy: "We must make land common property," not by nationalizing it, but by collecting the surplus (economic rent) by taxation, using the revenue for public benefit. See (www.schalkenbach.org/100-years-later.html.) Today, George's ideas powerfully influence both the field of ecological economics and the commons movement. (See www.onthecommons.org.) In this course we will read Progress and Poverty, examining how well George's ideas have stood the test of time. We will read excerpts from predecessors and contemporaries of George, including Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx and Thorstein Veblen. We will also read modern authors, including economist Mason Gaffney and commons movement founder Peter Barnes. Topics we will cover include: Poverty, its definition and measurement. Inequality of wealth and income, and the relationship of inequality to poverty, wage levels, health, environmental destruction and "sustainability". Population size, age structure and geographic distribution. Economics of common resources. Economic rent and property rights. Economics of cooperation and competition. Inequality, trade and global sprawl. Growth and the boom and bust cycle. Economics of time--how do and should we make decisions about the future? Tax and other policy options.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Mary Cleveland
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• 3 points

CREATIVE NY ZONING

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Raquel Ramati
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• 1.5 points

MATERIALS SCIENCE REPORTS

Formal written reports and conferences with the appropriate member of the faculty on a subject of special interest to the student but not covered in the other course offerings.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: William Bailey
  CULPA: 12 Info
• Instructor: Katayun Barmak
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 49 Info
• Instructor: Simon Billinge
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 75 Info
• Instructor: Siu-Wai Chan
  h-index: 36 Info
• Instructor: Irving P Herman
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia h-index: 50 Info
• Instructor: James Im
  Info
• Instructor: Chris A Marianetti
  Info
• Instructor: Ismail C Noyan
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Richard M Jr. Osgood
  Wikipedia h-index: 85 Info
• Instructor: Aron Pinczuk
  Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Ponisseril Somasundaran
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia h-index: 82 Info
• Instructor: Yuan Yang
  h-index: 49 Info
• 0-6 points

GIS FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

This course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive overview of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and remote sensing technologies as they are used in a variety of social and environmental science applications. Through a mixture of lectures, readings, focused discussions, and hands-on exercises, students will acquire an understanding of the variety and structure of spatial data and databases, gain a knowledge of the principles behind raster and vector based spatial analysis, learn basic cartographic principles for producing maps that effectively communicate a message, and develop sound practices for GIS project design and management. The class will focus on the application of GIS to assist in the development, implementation and analysis of environmental and social policy and practices at the global and regional scale.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Malanding Jaiteh
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

HOTEL DEVPT/INVESTMNT ANALYSIS

RE DEVELOPMENT & ASSET

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Adam S Feil
  Info
• 1.5 points

PROBABILITY THEORY I

Prerequisites: A thorough knowledge of elementary real analysis and some previous knowledge of probability.
Overview of measure and integration theory. Probability spaces and measures, random variables and distribution functions. Independence, Borel-Cantelli lemma, zero-one laws. Expectation, uniform integrability, sums of independent random variables, stopping times, Wald's equations, elementary renewal theorems. Laws of large numbers. Characteristic functions. Central limit problem; Lindeberg-Feller theorem, infinitely divisible and stable distributions. Cramer's theorem, introduction to large deviations. Law of the iterated logarithm, Brownian motion, heat equation.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Marcel F Nutz
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 4 points

MOS TRANSISTORS

Prerequisites: ELEN E3106 or equivalent.
Operation and modelling of MOS transistors. MOS two- and three-terminal structures. The MOS transistor as a four-terminal device; general charge-sheet modelling; strong, moderate, and weak inversion models; short-and-narrow-channel effects; ion-implanted devices; scaling considerations in VLSI; charge modelling; large-signal transient and small-signal modelling for quasistatic and nonquasistatic operation.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Yannis P Tsividis
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

PRECLINICAL COMPREHENSIVE CARE III

PRECLINICAL DENTISTRY III LAB

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• Instructor: Roseanna Graham
  h-index: 4 Info
• 0 points

PRECLINICAL COMPREHENSIVE CARE IV

PRECLNCL COMPREHENSIVE CARE

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• Instructor: Richard M Lichtenthal
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• 0 points

ADV STUDIO III- JT HP/ARCH

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

ADV STUDIO III- HP TECH

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 2 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 6 points

ALGEBRAIC TOPOLOGY I

Topics include homology and homotopy theory; covering spaces; homology with local coefficients; cohomology; Chech cohomology.

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Walter Neumann
  CULPA: 21 h-index: 40 Info
• 4.5 points

RES METHODS & QUANT TECH MGT I

This course is about social science research methods, with a heavy focus on quantitative techniques. Students in this course will learn to formulate research and policy questions amenable to empirical inquiry, and to identify and apply appropriate methods of measurement and analysis to answer these questions. This course begins with the discussion on the formulation of research questions derived from policy and management objectives, followed by the collection and organization of data, and finally the presentation and analysis of facts. This course emphasizes the conceptual understanding of statistics that can be readily applied in the practice of public management and policy. In terms of statistical methods, the course covers descriptive statistics for univariate and bivariate analysis, such as concepts and measures of central tendency, dispersion and contingency tables, and inferential statistical techniques including chi square, difference in means, and simple and multiple regression analysis.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Eren Selcuk
  h-index: 4 Info
• 3 points

FEATURE FILM DEVELOPMENT

• Department: Film
• R 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Kerry Fulton
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• 3 points

MILLIMETER-WAVE IC DESIGN

Prerequisites: ELEN E3401 or equivalent, ELEN E4314, and ELEN E6312.
Principles behind the implementation of millimeter-wave (30GHz-300GHz) wireless circuits and systems in silicon-based technologies. Silicon-based active and passive devices for millimeter-wave operation, millimeter-wave low-noise amplifiers, power amplifiers, oscillators and VCOs, oscillator phase noise theory, mixers and frequency dividers for PLLs. A design project is an integral part of the course.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Harish Krishnaswamy
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• 3 points

COMPUTATIONAL POROMECHANICS

Prerequisites: ENME E3332 or instructor's permission
A fluid infiltrating porous solid is a multiphase material whose mechanical behavior is significantly influenced by the pore fluid. Diffusion, advection, capillarity, heating, cooling, and freezing of pore fluid, buildup of pore pressure, and mass exhanges among solid and fluid constituents all influence the stability and integrity of the solid skeleton, causing shrinkage, swelling, fracture, or liquefaction. These coupling phenomena are important for numerous disciplines, including geophysics, biomechanics, and material sciences. Fundamental principles of poromechanics essential for engineering practice and advanced study on porous media. Topics include balance principles, Biot’s poroelasticity, mixture theory, constitutive modeling of path independent and dependent multiphase materials, numerical methods for parabolic and hyperbolic systems, inf-sup conditions, and common stabilization procedures for mixed finite element models, explicit and implicit time integrators, and operator splitting techniques for poromechanics problems.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Waiching Sun
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 30 Info
• 3 points

POL CONTEXT-PUB/PRIV ENVIR MGT

This course focuses on the role of politics, interest groups, elected leaders, public opinion, and governmental institutions in the formulation and management of public policy and programs. It includes a discussion of agenda setting, political management, and political-executive relations. The course also discusses campaign finance rules, the changing role of the media in public policy, and the development of international environmental regimes. It will analyze the impact of citizen participation and the media on public policy with an emphasis on environmental policy.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Sara Tjossem
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• 3 points

VLSI HARDW ARCH-SIG PROC & ML

Prerequisites: CSEE W3827 and ELEN E3801. Recommended: ELEN E4810.
Design of digital VLSI hardware for various digital signal processing and machine-learning algorithms. Data flow graphs, iteration bounds, pipelining, parallel architectures, retiming, unfolding/folding, systolic architectures, bit-level arithmetic, numerical and algorithmic strength reductions, CORDIC, distributed arithmetic, FFT, neural network hardware, vector processors, subword-parallel architecture, and SIMD. May include a team circuit design project.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• R 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Mingoo Seok
  h-index: 31 Info
• 3 points

WRIT/SCRIPT ANALYSIS-PRODUCERS

• Department: Film
• M 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Jack Lechner
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• 3 points

RADIATION THERAPY PHYS PRACT

Prerequisites: Grade of B+ or better in APPH E6335 and instructor's permission.
Students spend two to four days per week studying the clinical aspects of radiation therapy physics.  Projects on the application of medical physics in cancer therapy within a hospital environment are assigned; each entails one or two weeks of work and requires a laboratory report.  Two areas are emphasized: 1. computer-assisted treatment planning (design of typical treatment plans for various treatment sites including prostate, breast, head and neck, lung, brain, esophagus, and cervix) and 2. clinical dosimetry and calibrations (radiation measurements for both photon and electron beams, as well as daily, monthly, and part of annual QA).

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Cheng S Wuu
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

EAST/WEST FRAMETALE NARRATIVES

Frametale narratives, the art of inserting stories within stories, in oral and written forms, originated in East and South Asia centuries ago; tales familiar to Europe, often called novellas, can trace their development from oral tales to transmitted Sanskrit and Pahlavi tales, as well as Arabic and Hebrew stories. Both Muslim Spain and Christian Spain served as the nexus between the East and Europe in the journey of translation and the creation of new works. Through readings and films, and employing the theoretical concepts of Homi Bhabha (liminality, hybridity, third space) and Etienne Balibar (frontiers and the nation), as well as selected readings of Fernand Braudel and others on the Mediterranean world, the course examines the structure, meaning, and function of ancient, medieval, and early modern frametale narratives, using as theoretical frame in three ways: 1) Theory and practice of frames. Frames are not neutral; they can be narrative seductions, guiding and even strongly manipulating how we read the stories that follow; they can be used to reflect the intersections of orality and literacy. In order to understand their enduring power, we also explore the idea of literary frames through some contemporary films. 2) The exploration in their cultural contexts of topics such as the literary figures of the anti-hero and the trickster, precursors to the picaresque, women in the courtroom, the conflict of chance and human agency, monstrous births as political prophecy, Christian, Muslim, and Jewish relations in medieval and early modern Mediterranean cultures, the sexual frankness of the novella form, and gender politics. 3) How are narratives formed? The course traces the development of the short tale/novella from its ancient Asian origins through the seventeenth century, when Cervantes' literary experiments gave new life to the novella form, and the Spanish writer María de Zayas challenged Cervantes' views on love and marriage in her own highly regarded collections of novellas; we move to the present with the study of three contemporary films. But before they became complex and entertaining narratives, many of the well known tales had their "bare bones" origins in joke books, laws and legal theories, conduct manuals, collections of aphorisms and other wise and pithy sayings, misogynist non-fiction writings, and Biblical stories. Although the works are available in English translations, lectures will refer to meanings in both English and the original languages; students who can read the original works in

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Center for
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Patricia E Grieve
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

ADV TPCS IN RADIATION THERAPY

Prerequisites: APPH E6335
Advanced technology applications in radiation therapy physics, including intensity modulated, image guided, stereotactic, and hypofractionated radiation therapy.  Emphasis on advanced technological, engineering, clinical, and quality assurance issues associated with high technology radiation therapy and the special role of the medical physicist in the safe clinical application of these tools.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• 3 points

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOL PRACTICUM

Prerequisites: Grade of B+ or better in APPH E6330 and instructor's permission.
Practical applications of diagnostic radiology for various measurements and equipment assessments. Includes instruction and supervised practice in radiation safety procedures, image quality assessments, regulatory compliance, radiation dose evaluations and calibration of equipment. Students shall participate in the clinical QC of the following imaging equipment: Radiologic units (mobile and fixed), fluoroscopy units (mobile and fixed), angiography units, mammography units, CT scanners, MRI units and ultrasound units. The objective is familiarization in routine operation of test instrumentation and QC measurements utilized in diagnostic medical physics. The students are required to submit QC forms with data on three different types of radiology imaging equipment.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Sachin R Jambawalikar
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• 3 points

LIE GROUPS & REPRESENTATIONS

Topics include basic notions of groups with algebraic and geometric examples; symmetry; Lie algebras and groups; representations of finite and compact Lie groups; finite groups and counting principles; maximal tori of a compact Lie group.

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrei Okounkov
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 55 Info
• 4 points

NONLINEAR COMPUTATIONAL MECH

The course is aimed at exposing graduate students and practitioners from Civil, Mechanical, Aerospace, Chemical Engineering, Applied
Mathematics, Physics and Materials with computational methods for
nonlinear PDEs with emphasis on continuum mechanics. Civil
Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering and
Materials Science students will benefit from the course by being able to analyze variety of nonlinear mechanics problems including deformation, fracture, stability, corrosion, fatigue, lifing, aging and crashworthiness of structures and materials; applied mathematics and physics students will be exposed to systematic approach aimed at formulation and numerical solution of nonlinear partial differential equations for various engineering and applied science problems.
Prerequisites: ENME E4332 or equivalent, elementary computer programming, linear algebra.
The formulations and solution strategies for finite element analysis of nonlinear problems are developed. Topics include the sources of nonlinear behavior (geometric, constitutive, boundary condition),  derivation of the governing discrete equations for nonlinear systems such as large displacement, nonlinear elasticity, rate independent and dependent plasticity and other nonlinear constitutive laws, solution strategies for nonlinear problems (e.g., incrementation, iteration), and 54 computational procedures for large systems of nonlinear algebraic equations.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Jacob Fish
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 54 Info
• 3 points

NUCLEAR MEDICINE PRACTICUM

Prerequisites: Grade of B+ or better in APPH E6319 and instructor's permission.
Practical applications of nuclear medicine theory and application for processing and analysis of clinical images and radiation safety and quality assurance programs. Topics may include tomography, instrumentation, and functional imaging. Reports.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Peter D Esser
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• 3 points

PRIVATE EQUITY & CAP RAISING

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• 1.5 points

HEALTH PHYSICS PRACTICUM

Prerequisites: Grade of B+ or better in APPH E4500 and permission of the instructor, or
Corequisites: APPH E4500 and permission of the instructor
Topics include radiation protection practices and procedures for clinical and biomedical research environments such as the design and radiation safety survey of diagnostic and therapeutic machine source facilities, and the design and radiation protection protocols for facilities using unsealed sources of radioactivity – nuclear medicine suites and sealed sources – brachytherapy suites. Also may include radiation protection procedures for biomedical research facilities and the administration of programs for compliance to professional health physics standards and federal and state regulatory requirements for the possession and use of radioactive materials and machine sources of ionizing and non ionizing radiations in clinical situations.  Individual topics are decided by the student and the collaborating Clinical Radiation Safety Officer.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Thomas L Morgan
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• 3 points

RES INVESTMENT & DEV

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Josh Kahr
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• 1.5 points

ANALYSIS & QUANT OF MED IMAGES

Novel methods of mathematical analysis applied to problems in medical imaging. Design requirements for screening protocols, treatment therapies, and surgical planning. Sensitivity and specificity in screening mammography and chest radiographs, computer aided diagnosis systems, surgical planning in orthopaedics, quantitative analysis of cardiac performance, functional magnetic resonance imaging, positron emission tomography, and echocardiography data.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew Laine
  Wikipedia h-index: 43 Info
• 3 points

MODERN GEOMETRY

Manifold theory; differential forms, tensors and curvature; homology and cohomology; Lie groups and Lie algebras; fiber bundles; homotopy theory and defects in quantum field theory; geometry and string theory.

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Chiu-Chu Liu
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS & CITIZENSHIP IN AFRICA

This course focuses on social movements and citizenship in sub-Saharan Africa to examine how people form political and social movements and deploy citizenship strategies within social, historical, and economic structures that are both local and global. It draws on readings and lectures from scholars in history, political science, anthropology, sociology, and African studies to explore the following topics and themes: histories and theories of social movements and citizenship; cities and social movements and citizenship; citizenship outside the nation-state; social movements and democracy; citizenship as a creative enterprise that emphasizes claim-making and improvisation; citizenship within imperial, international, and national contexts; infrastructures, claim-making, and coalition building; opposition, leadership and democracy; and social movements of African youth and women. This course features guest lectures by and discussions with French and American scholars from Sciences-Po, Universite Paris 1, NYU, and Columbia, and is part of the Joint African Studies Program (JASP) at the Institute of African Studies that is supported by the Partnership University Fund (PUF) and the French Alliance Program at Columbia. It includes foundational readings on concepts, theories, and histories of social movements and citizenship in Africa as well as in-depth case studies on selective themes by various experts working on sub-Saharan Africa. It is unique insofar as it offers a strong foundation in social movements and citizenship while exposing students to in-depth case studies by leading experts working in a variety of disciplines and geographical contexts. All lectures and discussions are conducted in English.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Jinny K Prais
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• 3 points

COMPARATIVE POLITICS SURVEY I

This graduate level seminar is designed to introduce students to many of the main questions motivating research in comparative politics. The course is not designed as exercise in intellectual history, although some "classics" are included. It is also not designed to teach particular approaches or methods in the study of comparative politics, although many such approaches and methods are included in the readings. Instead, it is designed to give students a sense of what we "know" today about the answers to some major questions that animate the subfield and to encourage students to develop the analytical skills, substantive knowledge, and theoretical insights necessary to make their own contributions to comparative politics and political science. Comparative Politics Survey II builds on the topics developed in Comparative Politics Survey I, but can easily be taken before taking Comparative Politics Survey I. Topics to be covered in the surveys include among others, institutions, culture, parties, violence, collective action, economic development, bureaucracy, regimes and regime change, the welfare state, corruption and political behavior.

• Department: Political Science
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria Victoria Murillo
  h-index: 37 Info
• 4 points

PROGRAM EVAL IN SOCIAL SVCS

• Department: Social Work
• W 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Amy Werman
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• 3 points

INTRO-THEORY OF ELASTICITY I

Corequisites: APMA E4200.
Analysis of stress and strain. Formulation of the problem of elastic equilibrium. Torsion and flexure of prismatic bars. Problems in stress concentration, rotating disks, shrink fits, and curved beams; pressure vessels, contact and impact of elastic bodies, thermal stresses, propagation of elastic waves.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Gerard H Ateshian
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

MILITARY URBANISM

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Victoria Sanger
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• 3 points

RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel C Sherer
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• 3 points

THEORIES OF UNIVERSALISM

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Seth R Kimmel
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

1968 PARIS/MEXICO CITY

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• W 4:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Bruno Bosteels
  Wikipedia h-index: 21 Info
• 4 points

TISSUE/MOLECULAR ENGI LAB

Prerequisites: Biology BIOL C2005 and BIOL C2006 or permission of instructor
Hands-on experiments in molecular and cellular techniques, including fabrication of living engineered tissues. Covers sterile technique, culture of mammalian cells, microscopy, basic subcloning and gel electrophoresis, creation of cell-seeded scaffolds, and the effects of mechanical loading on the metabolism of living cells or tissues. Theory, background, and practical demonstration for each technique will be presented.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• M 4:10 p.m.-8:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Katherine Reuther
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• 4 points

TOPICS IN THEORY

FORM, FORMULA, FORMAT

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
(Seminar). In this semester's seminar we will cover the major literary, philosophical, and theoretical works related to the long history of formalism. Canonical texts in aesthetic theory from Plato, Hegel, Herder, Lessing, Shklovsky, Roman Jakobson, Leon Trotsky, Percy Lubbock, W.M. Wimsatt, Roland Barthes, Lévi-Strauss, Claude Frederic Jameson, Terry Eagleton, and Susan Sontag will lead us to a more recent body of work from media theorists, literary scholars, and computer scientists including Jean Baudrillard, Alexander Galloway, Sharon Marcus, Caroline Levine, Kathleen McKeown, Donald Knuth, Marjorie Levinson, Franco Moretti, and Johanna Drucker.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Dennis Tenen
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 3 Info
• 4 points

PUB-PRIV PARTSHP-REAL EST DEV

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Paley
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• 3 points

INTRO TO CONTROL THEORY

Prerequisites: MATH V2030.
A graduate-level introduction to classical and modern feedback control that does not presume an undergraduate background in control. Scalar and matrix differential equation models and solutions in terms of state transition matrices. Transfer functions and transfer function matrices, block diagram manipulations, closed loop response. Proportional, rate, and integral controllers, and compensators. Design by root locus and frequency response. Controllability and observability. Luenberger observers, pole placement, and linear-quadratic cost controllers.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard W Longman
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 45 Info
• 3 points

INTERACTIVE SOUND & VIDEO

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
In this year-long sequence students gain familiarity with the materials used in electroacoustic music and the techniques and equipment that are employed to transform and organize these materials into compositions. Individual projects are assigned.

• Department: Music
• R 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Terence Pender
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

OPTIMIZATION I

Prerequisites: Refer to course syllabus.
Theory and geometry of linear programming. The simplex method. Duality theory, sensitivity analysis, column generation and decomposition. Interior point methods. Introduction to nonlinear optimization: convexity, optimality conditions, steepest descent and Newton's method, active set and barrier methods.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Vineet Goyal
  h-index: 21 Info
• 4.5 points

OPTIMIZATION I

OPTIMIZATION I REC

Prerequisites: Refer to course syllabus.
Theory and geometry of linear programming. The simplex method. Duality theory, sensitivity analysis, column generation and decomposition. Interior point methods. Introduction to nonlinear optimization: convexity, optimality conditions, steepest descent and Newton's method, active set and barrier methods.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• Instructor: Vineet Goyal
  h-index: 21 Info
• 0 points

ADV MIXED MUSIC COMPOSITION

Advanced Mixed Music Composition explores creative uses of advanced audio production tools (i.e., various DSP plug-ins, controllers, microphones, surround speaker arrays, etc.) and techniques (audio editing, mastering, performance simulations, synchronization, etc.); and looks at their impact on the aesthetics and poetics of a musical project. A special emphasis is given to the problems arising from the transition between the precisely controlled studio environment to the live concert hall (i.e., loudspeaker distance, room liveliness, monitoring, etc.), and how this transition can influence the audience’s perception of a work. importance of synchronization, notation, documentation, and portability as fundamental considerations during the compositional process. Lastly, techniques for producing simple yet high quality videos for archival purposes are shown, as a means to present yet another point of view on a musical project.

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

RESEARCH PROJECT

This course may be repeated for credit. A special investigation of a problem in nuclear engineering, medical physics, applied mathematics, applied physics, and/or plasma physics consisting of independent work on the part of the student and embodied in a formal report.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: William Bailey
  CULPA: 12 Info
• Instructor: Guillaume Bal
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Katayun Barmak
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 49 Info
• Instructor: Daniel Bienstock
  h-index: 38 Info
• Instructor: Simon Billinge
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 75 Info
• Instructor: Allen H Boozer
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 1-6 points