STOCHASTIC METHODS IN FINANCE

Stochastics Methods in Finance

Prerequisites: STAT GU4264.
Mathematical theory and probabilistic tools for modeling and analyzing security markets are developed. Pricing options in complete and incomplete markets, equivalent martingale measures, utility maximization, term structure of interest rates.  This is a core course in the MS program in mathematical finance.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Yuchong Zhang
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• Instructor: Irene Hueter
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 3 points

SOCIAL MEDIA AND HUMAN RIGHTS

This course examines how changes in information and communications technology have, over the past two decades, fundamentally transformed the practices of civil society actors engaged with human rights issues. New communications tools such as Twitter, blogs, and Facebook have changed the ways that organizations communicate with their followers and seek to influence public debate. The increasing accessibility of analytic tools for researching and visualizing changing patterns of human rights abuse has empowered groups to better understand and respond more forcefully to these issues. Indeed, the use of social media as a communications tool has made it a data source for those monitoring and analyzing patterns of activity, in ways that draw increasingly on the techniques of big data analysis.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Ted Perlmutter
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• 3 points

COGNITIVE PROCESSES

Prerequisites: For undergraduates: one course in cognitive psychology or cognitive neuroscience, or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission.
Metacognition and control processes in human cognition. Basic issues include the cognitive mechanisms that enable people to monitor what they know and predict what they will know, the errors and biases involved in self-monitoring, and the implications of metacognitive ability for people's self-determined learning, behavior, and their understanding of self.

• Department: Psychology
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Janet Metcalfe
  CULPA: 31 h-index: 70 Info
• 3 points

CORPORATE FINANCE

Prerequisites:
ECON W3211
,
ECON W3213
and
STAT 1201
.
An introduction to the economics principles underlying the financial decisions of firms. The topics covered include bond and stock valuations, capital budgeting, dividend policy, market efficiency, risk valuation, and risk management. For information regarding REGISTRATION for this course, go to: 
http://econ.columbia.edu/registration-information
.

• Department: Economics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Gailen L Hite
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• Instructor: Tri Vi Dang
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 10 Info
• 3 points

THEORY OF INTEREST

Prerequisites: At least one semester of calculus.
Introduction to the mathematical theory of interest as well as the elements of economic and financial theory of interest. Topics include rates of interest and discount; simple, compound, real, nominal, effective, dollar (time)-weighted; present, current, future value; discount function; annuities; stocks and other instruments; definitions of key terms of modern financial analysis; yield curves; spot (forward) rates; duration; immunization; and short sales. The course will cover determining equivalent measures of interest; discounting; accumulating; determining yield rates; and amortization.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Yuchong Zhang
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• 3 points

LIN REGRESS/TIME SERIES MTHDS

Linear Regression/Time Series

Prerequisites: STAT GU4204 or the equivalent.
A one semester course covering: simple and multiple regression, including testing, estimation, and confidence procedures, modeling, regression diagnostics and plots, polynomial regression, colinearity and confounding, model selection, geometry of least squares. Linear time series models. Auto-regressive, moving average and ARIMA models. Estimation and forecasting with time series models. Confidence intervals and prediction error. Students may not receive credit for more than two of
STAT W4315
,
W4437
, and
W4440
. Satisfies the SOA VEE requirements in regression and in time-series.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Flavio C Bartman
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• 3 points

ISLAM AND THEORY

Readings in recent research.

• Department: Anthropology
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Brinkley Messick
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED DATA ANALYSIS

Advanced Data Analysis

Prerequisites: STAT GU4205 and at least one statistics course numbered between GU4221 and GU4261.
This is a course on getting the most out of data. The emphasis will be on hands-on experience, involving case studies with real data and using common statistical packages. The course covers, at a very high level, exploratory data analysis, model formulation, goodness of fit testing, and other standard and non-standard statistical procedures, including linear regression, analysis of variance, nonlinear regression, generalized linear models, survival analysis, time series analysis, and modern regression methods. Students will be expected to propose a data set of their choice for use as case study material.

• Department: Statistics
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Hammou Elbarmi
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO CARBON MANAGEMENT

INTRO TO CARBON MANAGEMENt

Prerequisites: Undergraduate level mathematics and science, or instructor's permission.
Introduction to natural and anthropogenic carbon cycle, and carbon & climate. Rationale and need to manage carbon and tools with which to do so (basic science, psychology, economics and policy background, negotiations & society; emphasis on interdisciplinary and inter-dependent approach). Simple carbon emission model to estimate the impacts of a specific intervention with regards to national, per capita and global emissions. Student-led case studies (e.g., reforestation, biofuels, CCS, efficiency, alternative energy) to illustrate necessary systems approach required to tackle global challenges.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• TR 5:40 p.m.-7:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter Schlosser
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• 3 points

NUMERICAL METHODS/PDE'S

NUMERICAL METHODS/PDEs

Numerical solution of differential equations, in particular partial differential equations arising in various fields of application. Presentation emphasizes finite difference approaches to present theory on stability, accuracy, and convergence with minimal coverage of alternate approaches (left for other courses). Method coverage includes explicit and implicit time-stepping methods, direct and iterative solvers for boundary-value problems.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Kyle Mandli
  h-index: 14 Info
• 3 points

CARBON STORAGE

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Klaus Lackner
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO CLASSICAL CHINESE II

Prerequisites:
CHNS W3301
: Classical Chinese I; completion of three years of modern Chinese at least, or four years of Japanese or Korean.
Please see department.  Prerequisites: 
CHNS W3301
: Classical Chinese I; completion of three years of modern Chinese at least, or four years of Japanese or Korean.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MW 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Lening Liu
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED THERMODYNAMICS

Advanced classical thermodynamics. Availability, irreversibility, generalized behavior, equations of state for nonideal gases, mixtures and solutions, phase and chemical behavior, combustion. Thermodynamic properties of ideal gases. Applications to automotive and aircraft engines, refrigeration and air conditioning, and biological systems.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Sinisa Vukelic
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 11 Info
• 3 points

2ND WAVE & JEWISH WOMEN'S ART

JEWSH WMN ARTSTC RESP 1939-90

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor. Enrollment limited to 13 students.
A study of  Jewish women’s fiction, memoirs, art and film in response to the feminist/gender issues raised by the Second Wave. The seminar includes analysis of the writings and artwork of Jo Sinclair, Tillie Olsen, Judy Chicago, Helene Aylon, Elana Dykewomon, Rebecca Goldstein, E.M. Broner and others.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Irena Klepfisz
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

INTRODUCTION TO HOUSING

This course, or an equivalent, is prerequisite to other courses in housing and community development. A fundamental understanding of housing in its social and economic aspects. Emphasis on the nature of the housing problem, the dynamics of the housing market, and housing's place in resolving the major public issues of poverty, segregation, and urban growth and decay. Theory and analytic methods stressed.

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Lance M Freeman
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• 3 points

SEMINAR IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Prerequisites:
BIOL W4300
or the instructor's permission.
A weekly seminar and discussion course focusing on the most recent development in biotechnology. Professionals of the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and related industries will be invited to present and lead discussions.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Lili Yamasaki
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

CO2 UTILIZATION AND CONVERSION

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Ah-Hyung Alissa Park
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• 3 points

MECH & THERMODYNAMICS OF PROPULSION

Prerequisites: instructor approval
Principles of propulsion. Thermodynamic cycles of air breathing propulsion systems including ramjet, scramjet, turbojet, and turbofan engine and rocket propulsion system concepts. Turbine engine and rocket performance characteristics. Component and cycle analysis of jet engines and turbomachinery. Advanced propulsion systems. Columbia Engineering interdisciplinary course.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• S 9:40 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Sean Bradshaw
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• 3 points

SECULAR & SPIRITUAL AMERICA

Prerequisites: Majors and concentrators receive first priority.
Are Americans becoming more secular or more spiritual (not religious), or both? What are the connections between secularism and what is typically called non-organized religion or the spiritual in the United States? We will address these questions by looking at some of the historical trajectories that shape contemporary debates and designations (differences) between spiritual, secular and religious.

• Department: Religion
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Courtney Bender
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

INTRO TO AERODYNAMICS

Principles of flight, imcompressible flows, compressible regimes.  Inviscid compressible aerodynamic in nozzles (wind tunnels, jet engines), around wings (aircraft, space shuttle) and around blunt bodies (rockets, reentry vehicles). Physics of normal shock waves, oblique shock waves, and explosion waves.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter A Levoci
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• 3 points

APPL STATISTICAL MODELS IN OR

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

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Antonius B Dieker
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 19 Info
• 3 points

JEWISH PHILOSOPHY & KABBALAH

JEWISH PHILOSOPHY & KABBALH

The purpose of this seminar is to study the interactions between two major intellectual trends in Jewish History, the philosophical and the mystical ones. From the medieval period to the twenty-first century, we will discuss their interactions, polemics and influences. We will compare Philosophy and Kabbalah in light of their understanding of divine representation and in light of their respective Theology and conception of God.

• Department: Religion
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Clemence C Boulouque
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

VIROLOGY

Intense laboratory exercise where students meet 4 days a week for eight weeks in the summer term participating in experimental design, bench work, and data analysis. Grades depend on participation in the laboratory, reports, and practical exams. Class starts immediately following Spring final exams. Open to MA and Postbac Biotechnology students. This course is offered in the summer. Students from other schools or programs may enroll if space is available.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Vincent R Racaniello
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SOLID BIOMECHANICS

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

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: X. Edward Guo
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 70 Info
• 3 points

PRAC-INNOVATV SUSTAIN LEADRSHP

The earth's population is currently seven billion people with half that population living in urban environments. The growth in population is straining the earth's resources, making the concept of sustainability paramount in preserving a planet that can provide for future generations. Climate change compounds the problem by threatening to disrupt fundamental aspects of global economic activity. Over the next century, scientists forecast climate risks to public health, agriculture, ecosystems, and infrastructure. These sustainability challenges are increasingly informing government policy, public advocacy and private investment internationally. But sustainability is also creating opportunities in all sectors of the economy: to increase productivity and revenue; to develop and market new technologies; to differentiate firms from their competitors; to attract and retain talented employees. Managers have a key role to play in advancing sustainability by developing ways to integrate resource conservation and efficiency in the operations of their organizations, and by managing environmental risk. These functions - integration and risk management - raise familiar management questions: how to make sustainability strategic, how to motivate staff, how to set targets and measure performance, and how to pay for new initiatives. These issues are covered with theory and cases in the program's required Sustainability Management (SUMA K4100) course. Student case analysis is based on the literature presented in that introductory survey course. This new class systematically exposes students to the ways in which leading sustainability practitioners manage these issues in practice. The case material is provided directly by practitioners, and students have the benefit of processing this material through the knowledge they have gained earlier in the program. This sequence enables a more sophisticated, nuanced examination of the practice of sustainability management. Through weekly guest lectures, students will learn how practitioners from a wide array of organizations deal with real world constraints to improve environmental performance in their organizations. The lectures, along with readings and assignments, will further develop the students' understanding and critical thinking about the management tools and strategies that they, themselves, can use to integrating sustainability in organizations and managing environmental risk.

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Georgios Sarrinikolaou
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 1-3 points

COMMUNICATION CIRCUITS

Principles of electronic circuits used in the generation, transmission, and reception of signal waveforms, as used in analog and digital communication systems. Nonlinearity and distortion; power amplifiers; tuned amplifiers; oscillators; multipliers and mixers; modulators and demodulators; phase-locked loops. An extensive design project is an integral part of the course.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Yannis P Tsividis
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ENERGY DYNAMICS OF GREEN BLDGS

ENERGY DYNAMCS OF GREEN BLDGS

Prerequisites: MECE E3301 and MECE E3311.
Introduction to analysis and design of heating, ventilating and air-conditioning systems. Heating and cooling loads. Humidity control. Solar gain and passive solar design. Global energy implications. Green buildings. Building-integrated photovoltaics. Roof-mounted gardens and greenhouses. Financial assessment tools and case studies.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• R 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Mohammad M Naraghi
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• 3 points

REAL ESTATE FINANCE III

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T noon-2 p.m.
• W 4 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Merrie Frankel
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• Instructor: Lisa Beeson
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• 3 points

SUFIS AND THE QUR'AN

This course is a seminar for advanced undergraduates and graduate students who wish to gain an understanding of the complexity and richness of the Sufi exegetical tradition.  the Qur'an has been the main source of of inspiration and contemplation for Sufis for centuries....

• Department: Religion
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Katharina Ivanyi
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

EAR-TRAINING VI

Advanced dictation, sight singing, and musicianship, with emphasis on 20th-century music.

• Department: Music
• MW 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard Miller
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 1 points

MOLECULAR PHENOMENA-CHEM ENGI

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: V. Faye McNeill
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 33 Info
• 3 points

BUDDHISM AND KOREAN CULTURE

Since Buddhism was introduced to Korea 1,600 years ago, the religion has had great impact on almost all aspects of the Korean society, making significant contributions to the distinct development of Korean culture. In this course, we will explore how Buddhism has influenced and interacted with various fields of Korean culture such as art, architecture, literature, philosophy, politics, religions, and popular culture. Buddhist scriptures, written in classical Chinese, with their colorful imaginations, have stimulated the development of Korean literature. Buddhist art, sculpture, and architecture have also catalyzed the Korean counterparts to bloom. The sophisticated philosophy and worldview of Buddhism, along with its diverse religious practices and rituals have added richness to the spiritual life of Korean people. Buddhism also attracted a significant number of followers, often playing important roles in politics. Throughout the course, we will not only investigate the influence of Buddhism on diverse aspects of Korean culture on their forms and at their depths, but also examine the interactions between Buddhism and other religions, as well as politics. Students will learn how Korean people have formed and reformed Korean culture through the medium of Buddhism

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Seong-Uk Kim
  Info
• 4 points

URBAN DESIGN FOR PLANNERS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Justin G Moore
  Info
• 3 points

HUM NATURE:DNA,RACE & IDENTITY

The course focuses on human identity, beginning with the individual and progressing to communal and global viewpoints using a framework of perspectives from biology, genetics, medicine, psychiatry, religion and the law.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 4 points

BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY II

This course provides a rigorous introduction to the theory underlying widely used biophysical methods, which will be illustrated by practical applications to contemporary biomedical research problems. The course has two equally important goals. The first goal is to explicate the fundamental approaches used by physical chemists to understand the behavior of molecules and to develop related analytical tools. The second goal is to prepare students to apply these methods themselves to their own research projects. The course will be divided into seven modules: (i) solution thermodynamics; (ii) hydrodynamic methods; (iii) statistical analysis of experimental data; (iv) basic quantum mechanics; (v) optical spectroscopy with an emphasis on fluorescence; (vi) nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; and (vii) light-scattering and diffraction methods. In each module, the underlying physical theories and models with be presented and used to derive the mathematical equations applied to the analysis of experimental data. Weekly recitations will emphasize the analysis of real experimental data and understanding the applications of biophysical experimentation in published research papers.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TF 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• 4.5 points

BELFAST JT PLAN SEM

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 2 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard A Plunz
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• 3 points

RADIOBIOLOGY FOR MED PHYS

Prerequisites: or equivalent or
Corequisites: APPH E4010
Interface between clinical practice and quantitative radiation biology.  Microdosimetry, dose-rate effects and biological effectiveness thereof; radiation biology data, radiation action at the cellular and tissue level; radiation effects on human populations, carcinogenesis, genetic effects; radiation protection; tumor control, normal-tissue complication probabilities; treatment plan optimization.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• M 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Marco Zaider
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• 3 points

URBAN HISTORY I

Urban morphology and city life in Western cities from antiquity through the capital cities of mid-18th-century Europe, showing connecting trends in architecture and urban form; the discourse on cities, civic culture and civic ritual; public and private space; the role of the architect and urban planner; cultural and formal complexity; and adaptation to change.

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

ADVANCED CHEMICAL KINETICS

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

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Esposito
  h-index: 22 Info
• 3 points

DISASTER RISK MGMT & SUST URBAN RESLNCE

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Klaus Jacob
  h-index: 35 Info
• 3 points

MODERN GERMANY, 1900-2000

The development of Germany in the last century has influenced the history of Europe and, indeed, of the world in major and dramatic ways. Most historians agree that the country and its leaders played a crucial role in the outbreak of two world wars which cost some 80 million lives. Germany experienced a revolution in 1918, hyperinflation in 1923, the Great Depression after 1929, and the Nazi dictatorship in 1933. Between 1933 and 1945 there followed the brutal military conquest of most of Continental Europe and, finally, the Holocaust. After 1945, Germany was divided into two halves in which there emerged a communist dictatorship and a Western-style parliamentary-democratic system, respectively. The division of the country ended in 1989 with the collapse of the Honecker regime and the reunification of East and West Germany. No doubt, Germany’s history is confused and confusing and has therefore generated plenty of debate among historians. This course offers a comprehensive analysis of the country’s development in the 20th century. It is not just concerned with political events and military campaigns, but will also examine in considerable detail German society and its changing structures, relations between women and men, trends in both high and popular culture, and the ups and downs of an industrial economy in its global setting. The weekly seminars are designed to introduce you to the country’s conflicted history and the controversies it unleashed in international scholarship. Both M.A. students and advanced undergraduates are welcome.

• Department: History
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Volker Berghahn
  CULPA: 24 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

EUR URB CARTOGRAPHY

EUR URB + CARTOGRAPHY

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

ADV BOSNIAN/CROATIAN/SERBIAN

Prerequisites:
BCRS W2102
.
Further develops skills in speaking, reading, and writing, using essays, short stories, films, and fragments of larger works. Reinforces basic grammar and introduces more complete structures.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Aleksandar Boskovic
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

READINGS IN CZECH LITERATURE II

READNGS IN CZECH LITERATURE II

Prerequisites: two years of college Czech or the equivalent.
A close study in the original of representative works of Czech literature. Discussion and writing assignments in Czech aimed at developing advanced language proficiency.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher W Harwood
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

MACHINE LEARNING: CONCEPTS & APPLICATION

MACHINE LEARNING: CONCPT & APP

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• F 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• T 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Jinjun Xiong
  Info
• Instructor: Elliot Noma
  h-index: 18 Info
• 3 points

R PROGRAMMING FOR APPLIED ANALYTICS

R PROG FOR APPLIED ANALYTICS

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• S 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• S 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Amita Singh
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• Instructor: Teresa Ip
  Info
• 3 points

THE SOCIOLOGY OF PUNISHMENT

This graduate seminar mixes sociological and historical accounts in order to explore the
social determinants and consequences of the U.S. criminal justice system. The class casts a
wide net – exploring classical texts as well as contemporary scholarship from a range of
sociological traditions.
We begin by discussing classical texts in order to understand the theoretical traditions that
underlie the most interesting contemporary work on the sociology of punishment. Building
on the work of Marxist criminologists like Rusche and Kirchheimer, we explore the
relationship between the U.S. criminal justice system and the market. To what extent can we
understand the penal field as autonomous from economic relationships? To what extent do
economic forces or logics determine criminological thinking and practice? Building on
Durkheim, we explore how punishment is both reflective of social values and constitutive of
social solidarity, and investigate the symbolic consequences (intended and unintended) of
contemporary punishment regimes. Building on readings from Foucault, we explore
punishment and its relationship to the emergence of new forms of bureaucratic and
disciplinary power. Finally, with Goffman, we explore the interactive context of the prison
as relatively autonomous from the external forces that bring it into being.
With the classical theorists behind us, we turn to a history of the present. What is the age at
which we are living today? What are the economic, political, and symbolic causes and
consequences of mass incarceration? To what extent can we understand mass incarceration,
and more recent reform efforts, as reflective or constitutive of new forms of power in
contemporary society?
Finally, we conclude by asking what the future might hold. After four decades of explosive
growth, the U.S. incarceration rate has been declining slowly for the last several years. Crime
rates have declined steadily for the last quarter century. At the same time, Black Lives
Matter has put renewed focus on the ways in which the state continues to exert violence in
poor communities of color. How should we understand the current period of reform?
What are its social and political possibilities and limitations? What would a just justice system
even entail?

• Department: Sociology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Adam Reich
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

ANALYTICAL APPLICATIONS & DATA DRIVEN UX

ANALYT APPS & DATA DRIVEN UX

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• M 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew Weber
  Info
• 3 points

VSNRY MED:RCL,JSTC,HLTH&SCIFIC;

In Fall 2014, medical students across the U.S. staged die-ins as part of the nationwide #blacklivesmatter protests. The intention was to create a shocking visual spectacle, laying on the line “white coats for black lives.” The images were all over social media: students of all colors, dressed in lab coats, lying prone against eerily clean tile floors, stethoscopes in pockets, hands and around necks. One prone student held a sign reading, “Racism is Real.” These medical students’ collective protests not only created visual spectacle, but produced a dynamic speculative fiction. What would it mean if instead of Michael Brown or Eric Garner or Freddie Gray, these other, more seemingly elite bodies were subjected to police violence? In another viral image, a group of African American male medical students from Harvard posed wearing hoodies beneath their white coats, making clear that the bodies of
some
future doctors could perhaps be more easily targeted for state-sanctioned brutality. “They tried to bury us,” read a sign held by one of the students, “they didn’t realize we were seeds.” Both medicine and racial justice are acts of speculation; their practices are inextricable from the practice of imagining. By imagining new cures, new discoveries and new futures for human beings in the face of illness, medicine is necessarily always committing acts of speculation. By imagining ourselves into a more racially just future, by simply imagining ourselves any sort of future in the face of racist erasure, social justice activists are similarly involved in creating speculative fictions. This course begins with the premise that racial justice is the bioethical imperative of our time. It will explore the space of science fiction as a methodology of imagining such just futures, embracing the work of Asian- and Afroturism, Cosmos Latinos and Indigenous Imaginaries. We will explore issues including Biocolonialism, Alien/nation, Transnational Labor and Reproduction, the Borderlands and Other Diasporic Spaces. This course will be seminar-style and will make central learner participation and presentation. The seminar will be inter-disciplinary, drawing from science and speculative fictions, cultural studies, gender studies, narrative medicine, disability studies, and bioethics. Ultimately, the course aims to connect the work of science and speculative fiction with on the ground action and organizing.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Sayantani T Dasgupta
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

FOURTH-YEAR RUSSIAN II

• Department: Slavic Languages @Barnard
• TRF 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria Doubrovskaia
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

NEANDERTHAL ALTERITIES

Using "The Neanderthals" partly as a metaphorical device, this course considers the anthropological, philosophical and ethical implications of sharing the world with another human species. Beginning from a solid grounding in the archaeological, biological and genetic evidence, we will reflect critically on why Neanderthals are rarely afforded the same reflexive capacities, qualities and attributes - agency- as anatomically modern humans, and why they are often regarded as "lesser" or nonhuman animals despite clear evidence for both sophisticated material and social engagement with the world and its resources. Readings/materials are drawn from anthropology, philosophy, ethics, gender studies, race and genetics studies, literature and film.

• Department: Anthropology
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Brian Boyd
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

CHTENIIA PO RUSSKOI KUL'TURE

ADV RUSSIAN THROUGH HISTORY

Prerequisites: three years of Russian.
This is a language course designed to meet the needs of those foreign learners of Russian as well as heritage speakers who want to further develop their reading, listening, speaking, and writing skills and be introduced to the history of Russia.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Vasily Lvov
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• 3 points

QUES IN ARCH HISTORY II

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

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Kenneth Frampton
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• Instructor: Mark Wigley
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• Instructor: Felicity Scott
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• 3 points

CINEMA OF SUBVERSION

Russian filmmaker Andre Tarkovsky said that “the artist has no right to an idea in which he is not socially committed.” Argentine filmmaker Fernando Solanas and Spanish-born Octavio Getino postulated an alternative cinema that would spur spectators to political action. In this course we will ask the question: How do authoritarian governments influence the arts, and how do artists respond? We will study how socially committed filmmakers have subverted and redefined cinema aesthetics to challenge authoritarianism and repression. In addition, we will look at how some filmmakers respond to institutional oppression, such as poverty and corruption, even within so-called “free” societies. The focus is on contemporary filmmakers but will also include earlier classics of world cinema to provide historical perspective. The course will discuss these topics, among others: What is authoritarianism, what is totalitarianism, and what are the tools of repression within authoritarian/totalitarian societies? What is Third Cinema, and how does it represent and challenge authoritarianism? How does film navigate the opposition of censorship, propaganda and truth? How do filmmakers respond to repressive laws concerning gender and sexual orientation? How do they deal with violence and trauma? How are memories of repressive regimes reflected in the psyche of modern cinema? And finally, what do we learn about authority, artistic vision, and about ourselves when we watch these films?

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Mario Eric T Gamalinda
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• 4 points

WAR,GENOCIDE,& AFTERMATH COMP PERSPECTIV

WAR, GENOCIDE, AND AFTERMATH

This 4000-level course examines how societies grapple with the legacy of mass violence, through an exploration of historical texts, memoirs, textbooks, litigation, and media reports and debates on confronting the past. Focusing on case studies of the Herero Genocide, the Armenian genocide during WWI, and the Holocaust and the Comfort Women during WWII, students investigate the crime and its sequelae, looking at how societies deal with skeletons in their closets ( engaging in silence, trivialization, rationalization, and denial to acknowledgment, apology, and repair); surveying responses of survivors and their descendants (with particular attention to intergeneration transmission of trauma, forgiveness, resentment, and the pursuit of redress); and dissecting public debates on modern day issues that harken back to past atrocities.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Khatchig Mouradian
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• 3 points

FAUST (ENG)

FAUST: Marlowe, Goethe, Mann

• Department: Germanic Languages
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Dorothea von Muecke
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• 3 points

INTRO TO THEORETICAL NEUROSCIENCE

• Department: Neurobiology and Behavior
• TRTRTR 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• 3 points

MULTISCALE COMP SCI & ENGIN

Prerequisites: elementary computer programming, linear algebra.
Introduction to multiscale analysis. Information-passing bridging techniques: among them, generalized mathematical homogenization theory, the heterogeneous multiscale method, variational multiscale method, the discontinuous Galerkin method and the kinetic Monte Carlo–based methods. Concurrent multiscale techniques: domain bridging, local enrichment, and multigrid-based concurrent multiscale methods. Analysis of multiscale systems.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Jacob Fish
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• 3 points

CITIES IN BRITAIN,ITS EMP/WORLD

CITIES IN BRITAIN,ITS EMP/WRLD

This seminar provides a history of Britain and its empire from the mid nineteenth century  to the present from the perspective of its cities.  By 1880 London was the largest city in the world, larger than Paris, New York, Tokyo, Beijing and Mexico City combined.

• Department: History
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Sam P Wetherell
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• 4 points

ART & SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Galia Solomonoff
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• 3 points

NOVEL IN ITALY BET 1950-2000

The course examines some of the most important novels that belong to Italy's period of major social and economic transformations. Only after WWII Italy finally becomes a modern nation, i.e. a republic based on truly universal suffrage, and an industrialized country. Such accelerated progress, though,causes deep social instability and mobility which obviously results in heavy psychological pressures on the people: adaptation becomes crucial and inevitable. Fiction therefore resumes the task to represent such awkwardness of integration into a modern bourgeois society that, contrarily to its European and American counterpart, is extremely tentative and insecure per se, since it's political identity has extremely precarious grounds. Among other authors, primary readings include Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's The Leopard and Italo Calvinos's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler.
Primary Readings in Italian.

• Department: Italian
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Leake
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• 3 points

LABOR ECONOMICS

Prerequisites:
ECON W3211
and
W3213
.
The labor force and labor markets, educational and man power training, unions and collective bargaining, mobility and immobility, sex and race discrimination, unemployment.

• Department: Economics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Lena Edlund
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• 3 points

CAMPAIGN MANAGEMENT

Together we are going to learn how to plan, manage, and execute the major elements of a modern American campaign using skills that can be applied to all levels of the electoral process. Although this is a course focusing on practical competence, empirical political theory and relevant political science will be applied to our work. Guest lecturers, simulations, and additional materials such as videos and handouts will augment the course. When we are done, you will know what you need to do, and where you need to turn, in order to effectively organize an election campaign. The curriculum is ambitious, specialized, and task-specific. This is not a course in political science, but rather a hands-on, intensive training seminar in campaign skills. By May, you will be able to write a campaign plan, structure a fundraising effort, hire and work with consultants, plan a media campaign (both paid and unpaid), research and target a district, structure individual voter contact, use polling data, understand the utility of focus groups, write press releases, conduct advance work on behalf of your candidate, manage crises, hire and fire your staff, and tell your candidate when he or she is wrong. My aim is to make you competent and eminently employable in the modern era of advanced campaign technology. For the purposes of this class, you will design a campaign plan for the 2005 NYC Mayoral race. To make this more interesting (and realistic), you will be provided with information and situations throughout the semester that will require you to plan, anticipate, and adapt your campaign plan to the changing realities inherent to every campaign.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Karine Jean-Pierre
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• 3 points

ADVANCED PRINTMAKING

Prerequisites:
VIAR R2420
, or
VIAR R2430
.
(Formerly R3415) Designed for students who have already taken one semester of a printmaking course and are interested in continuing on an upper level. Students are encouraged to work in all areas, separate or combined, using their own vocabulary and imagery to create a body of work by the end of the semester. If the class is full, please visit 
http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program
.

• Department: Visual Arts
• F 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sarah M Sze
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• 3 points

REGIONL CLIM & CLIMATE IMPACTS

Prerequisites:
EESC W4400
and
EESC W4401
.
The dynamics of environment and society interact with climate and can be modified through use of modern climate information. To arrive at the best use of climate information, there is a need to see climate in a balanced way, among the myriad of factors at play. Equally, there is a need to appreciate the range of climate information available and to grasp its underlying basis and the reasons for varying levels of certainty. Many decisions in society are at more local scales, and regional climate information considered at appropriate scales and in appropriate forms (e.g., transformed into vegetation stress) is key. Students will build a sufficient understanding of the science behind the information, and analyze examples of how the information can and is being used. This course will prepare the ground for a holistic understanding needed for wise use of climate information.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• 3 points

SIMULATION

Prerequisites: computer programming.
Corequisites: IEOR E3106,IEOR E4106

This course is required for all undergraduate students majoring in IE, OR:EMS, OR:FE and OR. This course is also required for MSIE and MSOR. Graduate students must register for 3 points. Undergraduate students must register for 4 points.
Generation of random numbers from given distributions; variance reduction; statistical output analysis; introduction to simulation languages; application to financial, telecommunications, computer, and production systems.
Students who have taken IEOR E4703 Monte Carlo simulation may not register for this course for credit. 
Recitation section required.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• F 2:15 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Carlos Pacheco
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• 3 points

LIT AT THE BOUNDARIES OF THE HUMAN

LIT AT THE BOUNDARIES OF HUMAN

Application instructions: See department website.Because understandings of the human often work by opposition – to be human means not to be something else – the boundaries of humanity shift as different versions of the nonhuman take imaginative priority.  To some degree your vision of humanity depends on whether you need to define yourself against a god, for instance, or a goat.But any such boundary between human and nonhuman is as much an interface as a wall, facilitating exchange as well as marking difference.You probably share at least a little in common with your god or your goat.  This seminar examines the role of literature – largely but not exclusively British, ranging from the mid-seventeenth century to the late twentieth – in setting, policing, testing, and revising such boundaries.  Among the many groups against which humans have historically defined themselves, the course singles out four for investigation: angels, animals, androids (including artificial intelligence more broadly), and aliens (extraterrestrials, that is).Each unit centers on one of these nonhuman others, reading literary works that explore its fluctuating relation to the human.Around two-thirds of the readings date to before 1800, but each unit brings older texts together with newer (often twentieth-century) works. Student work includes active participation, a presentation (tracing the boundary between theoretical and archival material), a short essay (joining old concepts with new writings), and a long seminar paper (pursuing an argument about redefinitions or crossed boundaries).

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Dustin Stewart
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• 4 points

PRODUCTION SCHEDULING

Prerequisites: SIEO W3600 or IEOR E4150: Introduction to Probability and Statistics, IEOR E3608: Introduction to Mathematical Programming or IEOR E4004: Introduction to Operations Research: Deterministic Models.

This course is required for undergraduate students majoring in IE and OR.
Scheduling concerns the allocation of limited resources to tasks over time. The resources and tasks may take many forms, ranging from scheduling computational threads on a network of workstations to assigning airline crews to various routes. This class will cover models and algorithms for scheduling problems. We will cover a wide range of scheduling models including single machine, multiple machine, shop environments. In each environment we will study a variety of scheduling problems and their solution.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Clifford Stein
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• 3 points

INSURGENCIES/CONFLICTS-SE ASIA

INSURGENCIES/CONFLICTS SE ASIA

A number of countries in Southeast Asia have recently faced violent conflicts, often linked to separatist or regionalist demands from territorially concentrated ethnic or religious minorities. This course examines a range of conflicts in Southern Thailand (Patani), Southern Philippines (Mindanao), Indonesia (notably Aceh) and Burma, through a variety of different lenses and comparative perspectives. These include security and (counter)insurgency perspectives, the comparative character of militant movements, perspectives based on minority rights and identity politics, explorations of the salience of religion, studies of language politics, questions of autonomy and decentralization, and the issue of peace negotiations and dialogue processes. These themes and issues have a broader relevance to wider debates in comparative politics, which students will be encouraged to explore in their papers.

• Department: Political Science
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Duncan McCargo
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• 4 points

POLITICS IN CONTEMP CHINA

This course focuses on the evolution of Chinese politics since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) took power in 1949. It introduces and discusses the relationship between the two “three decades” (the three decades under Mao and the three decades of “reform and opening up”). More specifically, the course aims to (1) clarify some important historical facts, (2) analyze the ideological consideration of the “official” history sanctioned by the CCP and its epistemological impact, (3) make a comparison between official view and that of independent scholars about the history; (4) try to respond to some urgent problems faced by contemporary China, and (5) provide suggestions and principles for the reconstruction of the historiography of contemporary China. Students will learn how to understand the recent development Chinese politics, how to analyze the complex contemporary history and reality of China, and how to approach issues about China from a systematic perspective.

• Department: Political Science
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Boshu Zhang
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• 4 points

APPLICATIONS IN CLIMATE & SOC

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• R 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 3 points

PRIN OF ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE

ULTRASOUND IN DIAGNOSTC IMAGNG

Prerequisites: equivalent.
Fourier analysis. Physics of diagnostic ultrasound and principles of ultrasound imaging instrumentation. Propagation of plane waves in lossless medium; ultrasound propagation through biological tissues; single-element and array transducer design; pulse-echo and Doppler ultrasound instrumentation, performance evaluation of ultrasound imaging systems using tissue-mimicking phantoms, ultrasound tissue characterization; ultrasound nonlinearity and bubble activity; harmonic imaging; acoustic output of ultrasound systems; biological effects of ultrasound.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Elisa Konofagou
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• 3 points

US, ASIA, HIST OF INTL DEVEL 1898-PRES

This seminar, which is aimed at advanced undergraduates and MA students, examines the
efforts of the United States government, philanthropic organizations, and private citizens to
shape the economic, political, and social development of Asia in the 20th Century. From
projects of colonial “uplift” and Cold War “modernization theory” to contemporary “neoliberal”
models of development and the Transpacific Partnership, we will explore the various ideologies
which have shaped U.S. development projects overseas and examine the ways in which these
played out on the ground in Asia, making reference where relevant to other areas of the Global
South. The course reveals that American policies and projects shaped contemporary East and
Southeast Asia but that development was not simply something the United States imposed on
Asian nations. Overseas development projects also shaped programs at home, while “Third
World” actors often pushed back against or subverted U.S. interests and charted their own
paths to development.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Simon Toner
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• 4 points

POL, SOC & ECON DEVP-BRAZIL II

This course is set-up in a form of a practicum where major activists concerned with Brazilian political, social and economic development will be asked to address a policy problem and discuss their proposals for effective changes. Other speakers will analyze the government's policies but will also discuss major new reports or studies, and bring to our attention key issues that are not yet on the policy agenda.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Sidney N Nakahodo
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• 1.5 points

EGYPT IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD

This class traces Egypt's evolving integration into the Classical World from the Saite Dynasty (c. 685 BCE) to the suppression of paganism by the Coptic church. We'll pay close attention to the flashpoints that created conflicts between pagan Egyptians, Greeks, Jews, and Christians and also to integrative aspects of society.

• Department: Classics @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ellen Morris
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• 3 points

QUALITY CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT

This course is required for undergraduate students majoring in IE.
Statistical methods for quality control and improvement: graphical methods, introduction to experimental design and reliability engineering and the relationships between quality and productivity. Contemporary methods used by manufacturing and service organizations in product and process design, production and delivery of products and service.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Sufian Ikhmeis
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• 3 points

ECONOMETRICS OF TIME SERIES

Prerequisites:
W3211, W3213, W3412
.
Corequisites:
MATH V2010
.
This course focuses on the application of econometric methods to time series data; such data is common in the testing of macro and financial economics models. It will focus on the application of these methods to data problems in macro and finance.

• Department: Economics
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jose L Montiel Olea
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• 3 points

GAME THEORY

Prerequisites:
ECON W3211
and
W3213
.
Introduction to the systematic treatment of game theory and its applications in economic analysis.

• Department: Economics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Navin Kartik
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• 3 points

POL OF REP:NATION, GENDER, RACE LAT AMER

What were the images capable of representing the Latin American nations that emerged during independence movements of the early 19th century?  This question, never before posed with such clarity, was latent in the countless images that sought to represent the political, social, and institutional value of the young republics.  The disappearance of an order - Colonial - and the emergence of another - Republican - involved both a vacuum and a conflict of representation...

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• F 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrea Giunta
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• 4 points

SIGNAL MODELING

Prerequisites: instructor's permission.
Fundamental concepts of signal processing in linear systems and stochastic processes. Estimation, detection and filtering methods applied to biomedical signals. Harmonic analysis, auto-regressive model, Wiener and Matched filters, linear discriminants, and independent components. Methods are developed to answer concrete questions on specific data sets in modalities such as ECG, EEG, MEG, Ultrasound. Lectures accompanied by data analysis assignments using MATLAB.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul Sajda
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 47 Info
• 3 points

WALTER BENJAMIN (ENG)

In recent years, Walter Benjamin has become one of the most quoted media theorists.  His philosophy of technology is not as widely known as the concept of aura he developed in his essay
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility
....
In our seminar, we will reconstruct Benjamin's media anthropology of technology through a close reading of his diaries and essays and compare it to philosophies of technology very much being discussed today.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky
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• 3 points

OIL, RIGHTS & DEVELOPMENT

OIL, RIGHTS & DEVELOPEMNT

This multi-layered role-playing simulation, based on a fictitious country, allows exploration of the challenges associated with initiation of a major industrial venture in a developing country as regards any or all of the following: macro-economic and political factors; identification of priorities; environmental management; complications arising from ethnic and religious conflicts; health management (including HIV/AIDS); community development aspects; reconciliation of the interests of a wide variety of stakeholders; media management; achievement of the largest possible Circle of Consensus. The simulation is conducted over two consecutive days and some 50 to 80 participants role-play up to twenty separate entities, including an international industrial company and its competitor, government factions, opposition groups, a local community and wide varieties of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and of media. As in real life, some more general knowledge of the situation is available to all entities, but each one has sole access to information (which may overlap with that of others) which is unique to its own perspective. The emphasis is therefore on sharing and on cooperation to make progress against tight deadlines, on managing information of various degrees of reliability and of balancing conflicting demands. There is no "single right answer" but through the process participants have an opportunity to explore the interplay of a very wide range of factors and develop strategies which are based on a holistic appreciation of the problems involved and on creation of alliances which are by no means obvious at the beginning of the simulation.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• FS 8 a.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Jenik Radon
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• 1 points

ANIMAL COGNITION SEMINAR

Prerequisites: For undergraduates: the instructor's permission.
Seminar concerning a nonverbal animal's use of internal representations of past experience as a basis for action. Topics include how representations are formed, what aspects of experience are encoded, how information is stored, and how it is used later to guide behavior.

• Department: Psychology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Herbert S Terrace
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• 3 points

SPACE GRAMMAR OF SPANISH:COGNITIVE-OPER

SPACE GRAMMAR OF SPANISH-COG

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jose Placido Ruiz-Campillo
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• 4 points

MUSIC & CRIT THRY IN LAT AMER

• Department: Music
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Ana Maria Ochoa
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• 3 points

PRIN OF MAG RESONANCE IMAGING

Principles of Magnetic Resonan

Prerequisites: instructors' permission.
Fundamental principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), including the underlying spin physics and mathematics of image formation with an emphasis on the application of MRI to neuroimaging, both anatomical and functional. The course will examine both theory and experimental design techniques.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Christoph Juchem
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• 3 points

LEARNING AND THE BRAIN

What are the neural mechanisms that support learning, memory, and choices? We will review current theories in the cognitive neuroscience of human learning, discuss how learning and decision making interact, and consider the strengths and weaknesses of two influential methods in the study of human brain and behavior--functional imaging and patient studies.

• Department: Psychology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Daphna Shohamy
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 47 Info
• 4 points

SPACE VEHICLE DYNAMICS/CONTROL

Prerequisites: ENME-MECE E3105, ENME E4202 recommended
Space vehicle dynamics and control, rocket equations, satellite orbits, initial trajectory designs from earth to other planets, satellite attitude dynamics, gravity gradient stabilization of satellites, spin-stabilized satellites, dual-spin satellites, satellite attitude control, modeling, dynamics, and control of large flexible spacecraft.

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

ETH POL ACROS POST-SOV EURASIA

Various forms of ethnic politics have characterized politics in many states throughout Eurasia since 1991, from nationalist separatism to violent conflict to political competition among ethnic minorities and majorities. This course is designed to encourage students to think deeply about the relationship between ethnicity and politics. We will consider several questions. First, why does ethnicity become politicized? We investigate this question by examining nationalist secessionism and ethnic conflict—phenomena that mushroomed at the end of the Cold War. We will focus on East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union, devoting special attention to the cases of Yugoslavia, the USSR, Moldova, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and Chechnya. However, we will also study cases in which the dog didn’t bark, i.e. places where nationalist mobilization and ethnic violence either did not occur, or emerged and then receded as in the ethnic republics of the Russian Federation (including the “Muslim” regions of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan, etc.). In the second part of the course, we will analyze ethnic politics after independent statehood was achieved throughout the post-Soviet space. How do nationalist state-builders try to construct a nation and a state at the same time? Have they incorporated or discriminated against minorities living within “their” states? How have ethnic minorities responded? We will study Ukraine, the Baltics and Kazakhstan where ethnic Russians and Russian-speaking populations form large portions of the population, devoting particular attention to the crisis in Ukraine. We will also examine how the post-conflict regions of Bosnia and Kosovo have dealt with ethnic pluralism. These cases allow us to gain greater understanding of how multi-ethnic states use forms of federalism, consociationalism, and power-sharing as state-building strategies.

• Department: Political Science
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Elise Giuliano
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

PHYSIOLOGICAL CONTROL SYSTEM

PHYSIOLOGICAL CONTROL SYSTEMS

Fundamentals of time and frequency domains analyses and stability. Frequency domain controller design. Cardiovascular and respiratory systems simulation. Endogenous control systems: baroreflex, chemoreflex, thermoregulation, pupillary light reflex. Open and closed loop physiological systems. Exogenous control systems: ventilators, infusion pumps. Nonlinear actuators and delayed feedback systems. Acute disease simulation and clinical decision support in the intensive care unit. MATLAB and Simulink environments utilized.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicolas W Chbat
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• 3 points

TOPICS-NEUROBIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Examines current topics in neurobiology and behavior.

• Department: Psychology
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Svetlana Rosis
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• 3 points

PLTCS MID EAST & NORTH AFRICA

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisel Hintz
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• 3 points