LEGAL PRACTICE WORKSHOP II

• Department: Law
• Instructor: Mohit Gourisaria
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• Instructor: Andrew W Amend
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• Instructor: Ann Scherzer
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• Instructor: Eric S Askanase
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• Instructor: Stephen G Dick
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• Instructor: Jessica Jimenez
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• 1 points

LEGAL PRACTICE WORKSHOP II

• Department: Law
• 1 points

LEGAL PRACTICE WORKSHOP II

• Department: Law
• Instructor: Delyan M Dimitrov
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• Instructor: Temitope K Yusuf
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• Instructor: Gerald Lebovits
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• Instructor: Alberto Rodriguez
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• Instructor: Victor Olds
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• Instructor: Ronald Ellis
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• Instructor: Elizabeth L Smith
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• Instructor: Christine Swanick
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• Instructor: Galen L Sherwin
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• Instructor: Susan E Amron
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• Instructor: Jonathan S Kolodner
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• 1 points

PRACTICUM: RES PLANNING

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Kate Dunham
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• 1.5 points

RACIAL & ETHNIC INEQUALITY

• Department: Sociology
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Carla L Shedd
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF THE CHILD

• Department: Nursing
• R 9 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Sabrina Opiola McCauley
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• 3 points

BRICS & BEYOND: RISING POWERS RESHAPE WO

Prerequisites: Students are expected to have basic knowledge in Macroeconomics and Finance.
Through a mix of analytical overview and practical cases, the class will discuss, from a practitioner’s point of view the rise of the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China); the strengths and weaknesses of each of the BRICs and will do a comparative analysis of the four countries; several fundamental themes linked to the rise of BRIC: expansion of the middle class; pressures on commodities; development of capital and investment markets; research and innovation; how countries and international companies position themselves vis‐à‐vis the rise of BRIC; the role of BRICs in the world governance. The goals of this class are to provide students with a solid understanding of the challenges and opportunities arising from the rise of the BRICs and to give them the tools that will help them understand the dynamics at work.

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

STUDIES IN THE 19TH CENT NOVEL

19thC NOVEL:TOLSTOY/DOSTOEVSKY

This course explores the relations between the novels of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and their compatriots and the classic English, French and American novels.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Liza Knapp
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 4 points

NUMERICAL MTHS IN GEOMECHANICS

Prerequisites: instructor's permission.
A detailed survey of numerical methods used in geomechanics, emphasizing the Finite Element Method (FEM). Review of the behavior of geological materials. Water and heat flow problems. FEM techniques for solving nonlinear problems, and simulating incremental excavation and loading on the surface and underground.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Xi Chen
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia h-index: 64 Info
• 3 points

POLITICS&POLICIES; COMMUNITY PLAN&PARTICI;

PLTCS&POLCY; COMMUNTY PLAN∂

This course will examine the intersections of policy, planning and participation at the community and local level in the United States. The belief in widespread community participation and active civic engagement is basic to the effective operation of the American political democracy.   In the planning profession, neighborhood planning has often been viewed as an essential mechanism for citizen involvement, for balanced physical development and beyond to the resolution of economic, political, social and environmental issues. In many ways, neighborhood planning is more important than ever, whether it focuses on urban design and livability or on the local effects of climate change and disaster prevention and sustainability.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Ethel Sheffer
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• 3 points

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

• Department: Law
• TWR 10:40 a.m.-noon
• None None-None
• Instructor: Cristina G Rodriguez
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• Instructor: Mark Barenberg
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• 4 points

SW PRACTICE WITH WOMEN

SOCIAL WORK WITH WOMEN

• Department: Social Work
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Lauren Taylor
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• 3 points

RENEWABLE ENERGY POL DEV/MRKTS

RENEWABLE ENERGY MARKETS & POL

Prerequisites: INAF U6072 or SUMA K4155
Renewable energy is the fastest growing segment of the energy sector. While wildly popular in polling across the political spectrum, it is increasingly a point of political partisan divide among elected leaders. To combat global warming, many argue that renewables will need to provide most if not all of our energy, but getting there requires overcoming many technical, economic, and political challenges. This course explores not only what renewable energy is, but also what tools are available to expand access to it in the years to come. This course will introduce students to the full range of renewable energy technologies and the fault lines that make some technologies "real" renewables and others not. We will cover the status of each major family of renewable energy technology including the strengths and limitations, costs and forecasts for long-term deployment. We will focus on renewables in the context of the two largest markets - electricity generation and transportation energy. The course will rely heavily on the examples from the US experience, but will compare and contrast lessons from international and developing markets as well. Our goal will be to understand the full range of policy tools currently in use and under debate. In particular we will look at tax credit policy, mandates, utility regulatory policies and EPA's proposed carbon regulations.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Nathanael W Greene
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• 3 points

CIVIC INNOVATION & BUILDING PEOPLE-CENTE

Governments around the world are tasked with delivering services to millions of citizens using a range of technologies and initiatives. They constantly assess their impact and find new ways to better serve the public and to provide service more efficiently and effectively. This course provides a look at innovative efforts underway, and an analytical framework for developing new approaches to serving people. Invention is part of innovation, of course. But innovation has another meaning. It is also a process-a process of improving, adapting, or developing a product, system, or service in order to deliver better results and create value for people. It is this second meaning of innovation that applies most acutely to government. While entrepreneurs may tinker with new products and ideas, government has a unique ability to take new ideas, adapt them to the needs of the public, and apply them at scale. This course explores what innovation actually means in government, what it looks like, and how it happens. It is focused on understanding how the same methodology that firms use to design and build revolutionary products can be (and is being) applied in government to design more effective policies, programs, and services. The goal of this course is to prepare students for working creatively in a policy environment, and finding new solutions to complex human problems, in a manner that prioritizes people over politics and bureaucracy. To this end, the course takes a blended and hands-on approach to learning, combining reading and lectures with design studios, and guest speakers who will provide a firsthand narrative of their experience with innovation in government. Guest speakers will include people who have been able to develop and implement new systems within government such as rescuing healthcare.gov and modernizing our immigration system.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Evagelia E Tavoulareas
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• 1.5 points

COMPARATIVE&INTL; ANTITURUST

This is a Law School course.  For more detailed course information, please go to the
Law School Curriculum Guide
at:
http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search

• Department: Law
• Instructor: Anu Bradford
  Wikipedia h-index: 15 Info
• 3 points

ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROCESSES

Fundamentals and applications of key physicochemical processes relevant to water quality engineering (such as, water treatment, wastewater treatment/ reuse/ recycling, desalination) and the natural environment (e.g., lakes, rivers, groundwater).

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Yin Yip Ngai
  h-index: 26 Info
• 3 points

GRANT WRITING AND INDIRECT SERVICE

GRANT WRIT & IND SRV

• Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
• Instructor: Lenin Grajo
  h-index: 10 Info
• 2 points

HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE SIMLATION

HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE SIMULAT

The simulation will be designed in order to provide exposure to a range of topics including but not limited to: Refugee and cross-border migration issues; Practical implications of international humanitarian law; Ramifications of international human rights law in crises; The interagency nature of a large-scale humanitarian response, including UN, National Governments, international NGOs and national NGOs and how to coordinate across actors; Humanitarian field negotiations; Humanitarian operations issues (logistics, staff security, human resources management, etc.); Emergency response design
The scenario upon which the simulation is based will be situated in Paradoxia, reflecting elements of a relatively recent real-world situation whereby a natural disaster evolves into a large-scale civil conflict. This will give students the opportunity not only to understand the complexities of planning and implementing a humanitarian response in a challenging environment. The learning objectives for the participants, therefore, are primarily: further their understanding of the roles of individual humanitarian actors and their inter-relationships; enhance their recognition of the difficulties associated with working in an inter-cultural environment; augment their understanding of the challenges involved in achieving effective coordination and cooperation among a range of humanitarian actors; build the capacity to make decisions based on relevant and time-sensitive information; strengthen their ability to develop strategies and operational plans that will improve immediate response without impeding future recovery.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• SU 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
• 1 points

GENDER,GLOBALIZATN & HUM RIGHT

Prerequisites: Students who have not taken either International Human Rights Law or International Law must obtain instructor permission to enroll
From the ‘feminization of migration' to labor market effects of trade agreements, from the recognition of rape as a war crime to the emergence of transnational advocacy movements focused on women's and LGBTQ rights, globalization is being shaped by and reshaping gender relations. Human rights norms are directly implicated in these processes. The development of global and regional institutions increases the likelihood that national policies affecting gender relations will be subject to international scrutiny. At the same time, local activists redefine international norms in terms of their own cultural and political frameworks with effects that impact general understandings. What ‘human rights' can women claim, where, how and from whom? What human rights can LGBT people claim? How can we craft effective and fair policies on the basis of the existing human rights framework?

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Yasmine Ergas
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 10 Info
• 3 points

COMMUN,HUM RIGHTS & SOCIAL CHG

MEDIA CAMPAIGNING & SOCIAL CHG

This course will examine the role that different kinds of media have played in raising awareness about human rights, labor issues and political change over time and across countries. We will look at how media, social media and NGOs can take on a campaigning role in raising awareness about social problems and holding governments accountable. We will plan and execute advocacy campaigns, write letters and op-eds and tweet about contemporary human rights problems. We will also discuss how to measure impact and spend time learning hands-on skills such as scraping data from social media to see the response to major campaigns. This semester our course will emphasize labor rights, media freedom and women in sports. Students can choose which of these subjects they want to focus on.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Anya Maria C Schiffrin
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• 3 points

ENERGY, CORP RESP & HUM RIGHTS

This class examines how to reconcile the differing/conflicting interests/goals of energy, and mining, companies and the public interest (e.g. governments); how to negotiate PPP agreements; understand the function/impact of laws and international trade agreements; and determine how CSR, especially environment and anti-corruption, and human rights apply. Case studies of multi-billion international energy pipeline projects, including TAP in Albania and Greece, TAPI in Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, BTC in Georgian and the Caucasus and , for comparative purposes, the controversial Keystone in US and Canada, will be the prism/focus for analysis. The class is dynamic and cross-disciplinary.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jenik Radon
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• 3 points

INDUSTRIAL CATALYSIS

Prerequisites: equivalent, or instructor's permission.
Fundamental principles of kinetics, characterization and preparation of catalysts for production of petroleum products for conventional transportation fuels, specialty chemicals, polymers, food products, hydrogen and fuel cells and the application of catalysis in biomass conversion to fuel. Update of the ever changing demands and challenges in environmental applications, focusing on advanced catalytic applications as described in modern literature and patents.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Farrauto
  h-index: 52 Info
• 3 points

PROBABILITY II

Prerequisites:
MATH G4151
Analysis & Probability I.
Continuation of
MATH GR6152x
(see fall listing).

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Julien Dubedat
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

RIGHTING WRONGS

RIGHTING WRONGS SLAVERY&REPAIR;

This course critically examines some of the moral and historical arguments for the justification of reparations for New World slavery. We explore the state of the debate about such historical injustices -- inquiring into questions of cultural trauma, memory, and generations. Our main concern will be to connect a moral claim about repair to an understanding of the injury of slavery in the Americas.

• Department: Anthropology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: David Scott
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 72 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Topics in Software engineering arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis. Since the content of this course changes, it may be repeated for credit with advisor approval. Consult the department for section assignment.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Gail E Kaiser
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

UNFAIR COMP & REL TOPICS IN IP

• Department: Law
• Instructor: Clarisa Long
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• 4 points

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES

This course focuses on economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa from a political economy perspective. It is divided into three sections. The first section examines the broad economic trends, policies and strategies of the past 50 years. The Washington Consensus and the "lost decades" are examined in some detail. The focus of this part is on economic growth and structural change, notably the controversies around economic policies and institutions. In the second section the course turns to socioeconomic dimensions and aspects of development including poverty, inequality, employment, health, education, and gender. The final section concludes with an examination of the implications of climate change, debates around foreign aid and an overview of what we have learned. Some readings are to be finalized.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Akbar Noman
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• 3 points

MATERIALS CHEMISTRY IIA

Prerequisites:
CHEM C3443
(or equivalent).
This is an introductory course to the emerging field macromolecular materials chemistry. The general topics will be based on the chemistry, self-assembly, and performance of block copolymers and conjugated polymers.  Particular emphasis will be devoted to the demands required to drive materials from scientific curiosity to commercialization.  At the fundamental level, the course will cover topics on polymerization techniques, electronic structure of organic semiconductors, characterization strategies, nanostructures and self-assembly.

• Department: Chemistry
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Luis M Campos
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia h-index: 45 Info
• 2.5 points

LEGISLATION AND REGULATION

• Department: Law
• MW 4:20 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Caitlin Halligan
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• 3 points

LAW, HISTORY & ANTHROPOLOGY

To be announced

• Department: Anthropology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Brinkley Messick
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 3 points

NEW DRUG DEV:REGULAT OVERVIEW

NEW DRUG DEV: REGULAT OVERVIEW

• Department: Biostatistics
• F 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Robert Mac Arthur
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• 3 points

ACTING II

• Department: Theatre Arts
• F 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Cumpsty
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• 2 points

POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IN DEVELOPING WORL

POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT DEV WORL

Prerequisites: Restricted to EPD students
This course will examine enduring and new debates in political development and their implications for policy and policymaking. Matters of state-society relations, democracy and democratization, how political change occurs, and the role of institutions have been heavily researched and discussed in academia. Those discussions and issues have also shaped policy and policy debates (and not always in a good way) in development, diplomacy and domestic policymaking. The course will examine many of the traditional issues of political development, such as state-society relations, structure versus agency, democracy, as well as new topics including the growth of identity politics and the implications of the rise of the Global South on politics and democracy.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher Sabatini
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• 3 points

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF LAW

• Department: Law
• MW 1:20 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeffrey A Fagan
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• 3 points

COMPLEX ANALYSIS/RIEMANN SURF

Continuation of
MATH GR6175x
(see Fall listing).

• Department: Mathematics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Duong H Phong
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• 4 points

LAW AND CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY

• Department: Law
• F 1:20 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Eben Moglen
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• 3 points

US & INTL LEGAL SYSTEM

• Department: Law
• MW 1:20 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew Waxman
  Wikipedia h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

ANONYMITY & PRIVACY

• Department: Computer Science
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Steven M Bellovin
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

EXTRACTIVE INDUST & SUSTAIN DEVP

EXTRACTIVE INDUST&SUSTAIN; DEVP

The guiding questions behind the course are: How can extractive industry investments be leveraged for sustainable and equitable development, particularly in low-income resource-rich countries? What is the international, national and regional regulatory framework under which such investments are made? Who are the stakeholders, and what are their respective interests, roles, responsibilities and opportunities? How can the challenges of poverty alleviation, environmental sustainability and governance be addressed in an integrated, multi-stakeholder framework for extractive industry investments that promotes sustainable development, respects the profitability of private-sector investments, and builds the mutual trust needed for long-term investments? The course covers the inter-related challenges of governance (fair and efficient negotiations, contracts, policy and planning framework, sound resource management, effective institutions), infrastructure (concession arrangements for shared platforms, corridor development), economic diversification (industrial policy, training, local procurement), environmental management (climate change resilience and adaptation, avoidance and management of catastrophic environmental events), and economic development (budgetary processes and tools, community engagement, integrated approaches to poverty alleviation at the local and national levels). Students who are interested in registering for this course should e-mail the instructor for permission.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa E Sachs
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• 3 points

EXHIBITION PRAC-GLOBAL CONTEXT

Prerequisites: ANTH G6352 Museum Anthropology: history and theory / ANTH G6353 Politics and Practice of Museum Exhibitions; G9110, G9111 and the instructor's permission.
Corequisites:
ANTH G6353
.
This course addresses the practical challenges entailed in the process of creating a successful exhibition. Developing an actual curatorial project, students will get an opportunity to apply the museum anthropology theory they are exposed to throughout the program. They will be given a hands-on approach to the different stages involved in the curation of a show, from the in-depth researching of a topic to the writing, editing and design of an exhibition that will be effective for specific audiences.

• Department: Anthropology
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: David Harvey
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• 3 points

TRANSFORMATION AGRI & RURAL

The course addresses this fundamental question. It is about policies & institutions which have either undermined or promoted the successful transformation of the agricultural and rural sector (henceforth referred to as "the sector") in different contexts. The course is about the why, the what, and mainly the how of policy for sustained development. Specifically, the course selects country cases which exemplify the determining impact which policies & institutions can have on the development of the sector and inevitably on the national economy. The policy decisions include whether and how to (i) invest in the sector or to bypass it completely in the drive to industrialize; (ii) achieve food security or food self-sufficiency; (iii) achieve broad-based & sustained productivity and output growth; (iv) reduce sharp inequality of assets-mainly access to land-in the sector; and/or (v) promote access to lucrative output markets.

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

Managerial Economics

• Department: Business Economics
• TR 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• TR 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• TR 2:15 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Nachum Sicherman
  h-index: 18 Info
• 1.5 points

MA WORKSHOP/E ASIAN HISTORY

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul Kreitman
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

LANGUAGE AND MUSIC

• Department: Music
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Alfred W Lerdahl
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

RESOLUTION STRATEGIES

CAPSTONE - RESOLUTION STRATEGI

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• Instructor: Jose Pascal da Rocha
  h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points

ACCOUNTING FOR INT & PUB AFFRS

The purpose of this course is to enable you to become an informed user of financial information.  To be properly informed you need to understand financial statements, the note disclosures and the language of accounting and financial reporting.  We will focus on the three major financial statements, (balance sheet, income statement and statement of cash flows), which companies prepare for use by management and external parties.  We will examine the underlying concepts that go into the preparation of these financial statements as well as specific accounting rules that apply when preparing financial statements.  As we gain an understanding of the financial information, we will look at approaches to analyze the financial strength and operations of an entity.  We will use actual financial statements to understand how financial information is presented.  In each area, we will contrast U.S. accounting rules (GAAP) with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• F 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Norman Bartczak
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION

• Department: Sociology
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Yinon Cohen
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 33 Info
• 3 points

Global Economic Environment

• Department: Business Economics
• MW 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• MW 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• MW 2:15 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicolas Vincent
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• 1.5 points

LINEAR SYSTEM THEORY

Prerequisites: equivalent.
Abstract objects, the concepts of state. Definition and properties of linear systems. Characterization of linear continuous-time and discrete-time, fixed, and time-varying systems. State-space description; fundamental matrix, calculation by computer and matrix methods. Modes in linear systems. Adjoint systems. Controllability and observability. Canonical forms and decompositions. State estimators. Lyapunov's method and stability.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• F 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Yi Sun
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 18 Info
• 3 points

EXECUTIVE SEMINAR

EXECUTIVE SEMINAR 2: NYC

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• Instructor: David Tamburri
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• 4 points

EXECUTIVE SEMINAR

EXECUTIVE SEMINAR 2: PARIS

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• Instructor: David Tamburri
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• 4 points

COMMUNICATIONS POLICY IN THE DIGITAL AGE

COMMUNICATIONS POLICY-DIGITAL

In this course, we study the internet through the perspectives of vastly different stakeholders, including telecom companies, regulators, marginalized groups, ordinary users, governments, and social media companies. Governments have reached consensus that human rights apply online, but need to interrogate how laws, regulations, and norms should be updated for the digital age. Companies have a responsibility to respect human rights, but vary widely in their approaches, policies, and processes that mediate user experience online. The Sustainable Development Goals identify internet access as essential to development, and require smart internet and communications policy environments to extend connectivity to the “last mile,” speed economic development, and empower all users. , Students will devise principled and effective internet policy by studying: the basic workings of the internet & mobile technology; the forums most active in internet governance, at national and international levels; and how internet policy can impact rights, cultures, and economies, positively and otherwise. Hot-button issues like network neutrality, encryption, cross-border data flows, countering violent extremism, and universal connectivity will feature prominently. We’ll consider questions like, what should be the respective roles for corporations, governments, and civil society in governing the technical protocols, infrastructure, and operations of the internet? Is it possible to retain personal privacy online? And whose responsibility is it to police content? , We will focus on process as much as substance. Internet governance grew out of organic, horizontal institutions that prized the rough consensus of engineers and visionaries. How will institutions grow and mature while retaining that bottom-up, inclusive style that created the internet as we know it? Will governments allow internet governance decisions to be made without their intervention? This focus on process will be reflected in the classroom, as we nimbly role-play, break into small groups, and hone tech policy skills under time pressure. Expect to participate frequently, and learn to navigate the most pressing issues facing companies, governments, and technologists today.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter Micek
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• 3 points

ADV CORP LAW: MERG & ACQUISTNS

• Department: Law
• Instructor: Eric Talley
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

STATISTICL INFERENCE THEORY II

Prerequisites: STAT GR6201
Continuation of
STAT G6201

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

DIGITAL ACTIVISM

This course will examine how people from around the world use the Internet and other digital media to promote political and social causes. We will read a mix of essays, news reports, first-person journalism, case studies, and research papers related to the issue of digital activism. How the Internet has changed activism and organizing—as well as how it hasn’t—will be a dominant theme, and individual classes will focus on particular events and regions where digital media technologies served a central role both as a medium and a source of contention. This course will also impart practical computer skills that are becoming more and more essential for activists or those who interact digitally with people working on sensitive issues. We will cover threat awareness, encrypted communications—both how it works, when to use it, and how to use it effectively—and anti-censorship/circumvention tools. At the end of this course, students will be familiar with the challenges facing activists and ordinary citizens who choose to use digital media for collective action and social change. Though the emphasis of this course will be on the netizen side of the story, we will also cover how authorities and companies around the world have responded to digital activists, and, in turn, the levers that activists have available to them to advance their causes.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Jason Ng
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• 1.5 points

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW

• Department: Law
• MTW 1:20 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeremy K Kessler
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• 4 points

FIN STATEMNT ANALYSIS & INTERP

This is a Law School course.  For more detailed course information, please go to the
Law School Curriculum Guide
at:
http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search

• Department: Law
• Instructor: Norman Bartczak
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

POLITICAL ECON OF FINANCE

This course provides an introduction to the political economy of financial and international monetary policy, presenting both theoretical perspectives and more policy-oriented concerns. Wherever possible, it looks at the issues covered from the perspective of developing and emerging market countries. The course has three main sections. The first examines the political economy of the global monetary system. We begin by surveying the evolution of international monetary arrangements from the gold standard period to the present day. Then we analyze the difficulties of managing the crises and global imbalances that have been frequent features of contemporary times. The second section examines the political economy of financial policy, regulation and central banking. The role of financial policy in economic development, especially of industry, in developing and emerging market countries is the primary lens for exploring this topic. The final section considers financial crises, with a special focus on the Asian financial crisis of 1997/98 and recent global crisis that had its origins in the United States.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Arvid J Lukauskas
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

SW PRACTICE WITH CHILDREN

SOCIAL WORK WITH CHILDREN

• Department: Social Work
• T 2 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• W 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Heidi Horsley
  Info
• 3 points

MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS II-DISC

MICROECNMC ANALYSIS II-DISC

• Department: Economics
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Khanh Ngoc Han Huynh
  Info
• 0 points

ADMIRALTY LAW

• Department: Law
• Instructor: Charles Anderson
  h-index: 17 Info
• 2 points

OPEN SOCIETY SEMINAR

• Department: Social Work
• W 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Mashura Akilova
  Info
• 0 points

MACROECONOMIC ANALYSIS II-DISC

MACROECNMC ANALYSIS II-DISC

• Department: Economics
• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Wonmun Shin
  Info
• 0 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

Black Male

• Department: Writing
• R 4:40 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Hilton L Als
  Info
• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

Scientists and Writers

• Department: Writing
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Rivka R Galchen
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

Literary Reportage

• Department: Writing
• F 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Eliza T Griswold
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

Profiles

• Department: Writing
• T 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Lis Harris
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

Intimacy: Siblings and Friends

• Department: Writing
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Leslie S Jamison
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

Cultural Criticism

• Department: Writing
• W 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Margo L Jefferson
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

GENETIC APPROACHES II

Required for first-year Genetics and Development students.  Continuation of Genetics G6210.  Basic principles and current areas of interest in mouse and human genetics.  An introduction to mouse genetics; X-chromosome inactivation and genomic imprinting; genetic manipulation of the mouse; genetics of mouse coat color; genetics of sex determination; the mouse T-complex; human linkage analysis; somatic cell genetics; physical mapping of the human genome; cytogenetics; Huntington’s disease; muscular dystrophy and Alzheimer’s disease; and gene therapy.

• Department: Genetics and Development
• T 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

TECH SOLUTIONS FOR DEVLP&SOC; CHANGE

The aim of this course is to provide a theoretical and practical framework for students to understand participatory approaches to new media and information and communication technologies to address the advancement of the Millennium Development Goals and social change, with a special focus on low and middle income countries. Each session will include an introduction to basic theories that provide a critical lens through which mobile phone and computer-based applications and tools can be designed to solve problems in health, education, agriculture, small business development, and environmental sustainability.  Cross-cutting themes that will be explored include gender, public-private partnerships, and policy dimensions of information and communication for development (ICTD) as well as the newly emerging fields of mHealth, mLearning, mBanking, etc. Through the use of case studies and a term-long project, the technology project life-cycle will be explored in an applied setting.  Specifically students will be guided through the process of conducting needs assessments; applying ethnographic research methods to understanding work, communication, and information flows; participatory program and application design; systems development and local adaptation; testing and usability assessments; implementation; and evaluation. Applications that will be reviewed in more detail during the course include: RapidSMS (Project Mwana and others) and ChildCount+, Mangrove, Ushahidi, EpiSurveyor, FrontlinSMS, Open Data Kit and many others. 
This course requires instructor permission in order to register. Please add yourself to the waitlist in SSOL and submit the proper documents in order to be considered.

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

THEORIES & DEBATES-AMER POL II

This is the second of two semester-long courses that provide graduate students with an overview of the scholarly study of American politics. G6210 and G6211 constitute the American politics "field survey." The field survey is designed for political science graduate 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. In this course we will cover a range of topics related to American politics that, for the most part, are not covered in G6210. The reading assignments are a mix of foundational contributions (i.e., the canons of American politics literature) and recent research. The first part of each seminar session will aim to clarify and probe enduring puzzles, theories, and debates highlighted in the foundational texts. The latter portion of the seminar session will focus on how recent research is continuing to engage the ongoing debates and puzzles.

• Department: Political Science
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Shigeo Hirano
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points