PRIN/APPL-SOC & CULTRL ANTHROP
Prerequisites:
ANTH G4201
Principles and Applications of Social and Cultural Anthropology and the instructor's permission.
Focus on research and writing for the Master's level thesis, including research design, bibliography and background literature development, and writing. , Prerequisites:
ANTH G4201
Principles and Applications of Social and Cultural Anthropology
- Department: Anthropology
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ellen Marakowitz
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS II
Prerequisites: the director of graduate studies' permission.
Corequisites:
ECON G6410
.
Consumer and producer behavior; general competitive equilibrium, welfare and efficiency, behavior under uncertainty, intertemporal allocation and capital theory, imperfect competition, elements of game theory, problems of information, economies with price rigidities.
- Department: Economics
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- 4 points
INT'L BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS
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
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Instructor:
Alejandro M Garro
Info - 3 points
DEVELOPING AFFORDABLE HOUSING
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Edward Poteat
Info - 1.5 points
DIGITAL MEDIA MANAGEMENT
“Every business is a media business.” Those words have been frequently said. Every business executive needs to understand how to use media to gain competitive advantage. This course will teach students about the media business, how it is changing, the technologies involved, and what media executives are doing to position their businesses amid severe disruptions that are also creating new opportunities. Students will learn the strategies, techniques and technologies used in digital media and learn to understand, analyze and implement them for business purposes. This course is especially relevant in New York, the media business center of the United States and much of the world. Students not only learn the theory of media business but also apply the lessons in their own entrepreneurial media project.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dorian Benkoil
Info - 1.5 points
SW PRACTICE WITH FAMILIES
- Department: Social Work
- T 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
- T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Candice J Goldberg
Info - 3 points
PRIN/APP SENSORS STRC HLTH MON
Concepts, principles, and applications of various sensors for sensing structural parameters and nondestructive evaluation techniques for sub-surface inspection, data acquisition, and signal processing techniques. Lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on laboratory experiments.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
- T 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Maria Q Feng
CULPA: 3 h-index: 46 Info - 3 points
MACROECONOMIC ANALYSIS II
Prerequisites: the director of graduate studies' permission.
Concept of full employment. Models of underemployment and theory applicability, determinants of consumption and of investment, multiplier and accelerator analysis, an introduction to monetary macroeconomics, the supply side and inflation. Integration of macroeconomics with microeconomic and monetary analysis.
- Department: Economics
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
- 4 points
OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
This course provides a foundation for understanding the operations of an organization. The objective is to provide the basic skills necessary to critically analyze an organization's operating performance and practices. Such knowledge is important for careers in a variety of areas, including general management and consulting. Unlike other courses which tend to treat operations as a "black box", this course will be concerned with 'opening up the inner workings of an organization's operations to see how they work or don't work, learning the fundamental laws of behavior of producing a product or services, and lastly to learn how to design operations that perform at maximum levels. Its focus will be on the technical and mathematical analysis of operations rather than a human factors approach, although there are obvious connections between the two that will be explored. Concern is given to understanding which elements of an organization's operations enable it to produce quality outputs at a reasonable cost. The course will accomplish this by grouping the material under two major headings. The first half of the course will be devoted to understanding the "physics" of how material, paper work, and information flow through an organization to produce a product or service and how its design encourages or impedes good performance. The second half will focus on excellence in operations, learning techniques and approaches that increase overall performance in production, quality, variety, or speed of service.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- S 2 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lucius J Riccio
CULPA: 4
Info
- 3 points
TECHNIQUES OF PROJECT EVALUATN
A selective review of the major evaluation techniques applied in the fields of urban planning and urban policy analysis; cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis; PPBS; optimization, goal achievement scenarios, and delphi procedures; metropolitan plan evaluation methods; simulation; sensitivity analysis; social experiments. Examination of theoretical issues and of the context and problems that define and constrain urban planning and program evaluation. Review of evaluation studies of new towns, metropolitan plans, and public services delivery. Lectures, seminars, and student projects.
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
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Instructor:
Moshe Adler
h-index: 9 Info - 3 points
OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
This course provides a foundation for understanding the operations of an organization. The objective is to provide the basic skills necessary to critically analyze an organization's operating performance and practices. Such knowledge is important for careers in a variety of areas, including general management and consulting. Unlike other courses which tend to treat operations as a "black box", this course will be concerned with 'opening up the inner workings of an organization's operations to see how they work or don't work, learning the fundamental laws of behavior of producing a product or services, and lastly to learn how to design operations that perform at maximum levels. Its focus will be on the technical and mathematical analysis of operations rather than a human factors approach, although there are obvious connections between the two that will be explored. Concern is given to understanding which elements of an organization's operations enable it to produce quality outputs at a reasonable cost. The course will accomplish this by grouping the material under two major headings. The first half of the course will be devoted to understanding the "physics" of how material, paper work, and information flow through an organization to produce a product or service and how its design encourages or impedes good performance. The second half will focus on excellence in operations, learning techniques and approaches that increase overall performance in production, quality, variety, or speed of service.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lucius J Riccio
CULPA: 4
Info
- 3 points
ADV MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS I
- Department: Economics
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Pietro Ortoleva
CULPA: 5
Info
- 3 points
ADV MICRO ANALYSIS II
ADVANCED MICRO ANALYSIS II
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
This course develops theory of designing markets—namely, “mechanisms” of allocating resources—that are efficient, fair and non-manipulable. Understanding the incentives participants face under alternative mechanisms will be a central theme of the course. Specifically, the course will consist of two parts. The first part deals with environments where monetary transfers can be used, and focuses on topics such as optimal nonlinear pricing, optimal auction design, property rights assignment, dynamic mechanisms and assignment games/sponsored search auctions in Internet advertising. The second part concerns market design without monetary transfers and discusses matching theory as a primarily tool for analyzing the topic. Specifically, we shall discuss matching of agents on one side with agents on the other and matching of agents to indivisible resources/positions, and apply the theories to problems of house allocation, centralized labor market matching, and school choice.
- Department: Economics
- R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Navin Kartik
Wikipedia h-index: 24 Info - 3 points
RANDOM PROCESSES IN MECHANICS
Prerequisites: equivalent.
Review of random variables. Random process theory: stationary and ergodic processes, correlations functions, power spectra. Non-stationary and non-Gaussian processes. Linear random vibration theory. Crossing rates, peak distributions, and response analysis of non-linear structures to random loading. Major emphasis on simulation of various types of random processes. Monte Carlo simulation.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
- T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou
h-index: 26 Info - 3 points
DIRECTING IV
- Department: Film
- W 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
- R 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
- M 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
- W 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ramin Bahrani
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Instructor:
Eric Mendelsohn
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Instructor:
Shari R Berman
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Instructor:
Sophie D Barthes
Info - 3 points
QUANTUM CHEMISTRY II
Prerequisites: Quantum Chemistry G4221.
Atomic and molecular quantum mechanics: fundamentals of electronic structure, many-body wave functions and operators, Hartree-Fock and density functional theory, the Dirac equation.
- Department: Chemistry
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Richard A Friesner
CULPA: 28 Wikipedia Info - 2.5 points
ADV MACROECONOMIC ANALYSIS II
Prerequisites:
ECON G6216
and
G6412
, or the instructor's permission.
This course deals with business cycle theories and methods for evaluating such theories. The course extends the canonical real business cycle model to analyze models with cyclical variation in markups, models of endogenous fluctuations, and models of news-driven short-run fluctuations. Attention is given to numerical methods to approximate the dynamics implied by stochastic general equilibrium models, with particular emphasis given to perturbation methods. The course will also include an operational introduction to full and limited-information approaches to the estimation of DSGE models.
- Department: Economics
- M 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Jon Steinsson
CULPA: 9
Wikipedia
h-index: None
Info
- 3 points
ENVIRONMENTAL DATA ANALYSIS
This course introduces students to statistical data analysis in the context of environmental issues. The is taught through a combination of lectures and laboratory exercises. The course encourages a rigorous examination of the many applications of statistical analysis in climate change assessment, environmental justice, land use, land cover change and measuring the impacts of natural hazards on populations.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- 3 points
TOPICS IN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS I
TOPICS IN ECONOMIC ANALYS I
Prerequisites:
ECON G6216
and
G6412
, or the instructor's permission.
The purpose of this class is to introduce students to some current research topics in macroeconomics. A special focus will be on models used for monetary policy in general, but a special focus will how these models can explain (or be extended to explain) the recent economic turmoil in the US and the rest of the world. We will also devote some considerable attention to obtain policy conclusions for current policy makers. Finally we will use these models to understand the Great Depression in the US and abroad. There will be considerable focus on helping students to master the technical tools required to set up and solve dynamic general equilibrium models of the kind common in the modern business cycle literature. We will do this both by hand and via simulation methods using MATLAB.
- Department: Economics
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Martin Uribe
CULPA: 16 Wikipedia h-index: 52 Info - 3 points
LEADERSHIP/INNOVATIVE POL MAKING
LEADERSHIP/INNOVATV POL MAKING
In this course the students will (a) master key themes in leadership development and policy making, (b) increase their own leadership and policy making capacities through reflection and discussion and (c) evaluate the leadership record of an "extraordinary" policy leader. The goal of the three-pronged approach is to prepare students for understanding and exercising leadership-executive ability in government, non-governmental organizations, and business. Leadership is the ability to influence people towards achieving a goal. An important part of the SIPA mission is to prepare students for leadership and innovative policy making. In this course we will examine leadership and policy making "out of the box" as well as "inside the box" by having students tackle several key themes and some specific questions. The themes include issues such as, are leaders born or made? What kind of leaders design and implement "good" versus "bad" policies? Can "nudging" and "innovative policy making" substitute for forceful policy intervention? To what extent are economic and political outcomes products of leadership as opposed to external environment?
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jan Svejnar
Wikipedia h-index: 49 Info - 3 points
HISTORY FOR FUTURE POLICYMAKERS
HIST FOR FUTURE POLICYMAKERS
Leaders often invoke the lessons of history, but rarely talk about anything but a few familiar episodes. Even if we can all agree that we should avoid another attack on Pearl Harbor or war in Vietnam, does this actually help us make decisions about the future? In this course, students will explore both the problems and the opportunities with using historical analysis to grapple with present and future challenges. They will develop a deeper understanding of the most often cited historical episodes, but also learn how to avoid using analogies in the place of more original thinking. That means thinking like a historian, and the course will introduce key concepts that can be used to analyze a range of complex challenges, including continuity and change, contingency and inevitability, human agency and structural constraints. But they will also learn how NOT to think like a historian, such as using history as a weapon, and extrapolating into the future.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sarah C Kovner
Info - 3 points
TUTORIAL IN CLINICAL PRACTICE:STRUCTURED
- Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
- WW 11:30 a.m.-2:20 p.m.
- 1 points
ROLE-GOV-ADV CORP SUSTAIN DEV
Corporations embrace sustainable development to optimize environmental and social performance and corporate governance, improving competitive advantage and asset value while contributing to human wellbeing and environmental integrity. Brand value, product differentiation, cost and risk reduction and the enhancement of environmental and social conditions through a company's value chain, operations and the goods and services it sells are all hallmarks of corporate sustainability. This course profiles the history, underpinnings and elements of this rapidly evolving field, with a focus on environmental management. We take a systems approach, exploring how corporate strategy is becoming evermore grounded in an understanding of a corporation's interdependencies with the natural world and the broad array of its internal and external stakeholders. Sustainability is explored from the perspectives of multinational corporations, midsize firms and small businesses contributing to sustainable local economies. We address the role of government in forwarding this agenda, including: incentives and technical assistance to advance best practice and product development; public/private partnerships for research and demonstration; facilitating environmental markets; and green procurement. We will also address the challenges faced by governments to this end, including political opposition, potential rollback of mandates and funding for environmental and social action, and ongoing resource constraints.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jeffrey Potent
Info - 3 points
IDEAS OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT
- Department: Law
- TWR 1:20 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Vincent A Blasi
Wikipedia Info - 4 points
ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVPT
The objective of this course is to equip students with the skills necessary to critically analyze policy alternatives which further
Sustainable Development
. Throughout the course, students will compare competing objectives and policies through the prism of economic reasoning. Although some mathematical economic models will be discussed, the emphasis of the course will be on using economic intuition rather than mathematics. By the end of the course, students should have a firm understanding of competing views regarding what constitutes
sustainability
and
development
, and appropriate policies to get us there. In addition, they should be able to express their own views in a manner that demonstrates an understanding of general economic theory.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Eren Selcuk
h-index: 4 Info - 3 points
CORPORATE TAXATION
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
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Instructor:
Richard B Stone
Wikipedia Info - 4 points
CORPORATIONS
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
- TWR 1:20 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
- None None-None
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Instructor:
Kathryn E Judge
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Instructor:
Richard W Brooks
Info - 4 points
ADVANCED EXCEL SKILLS
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- R 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
- 1.5 points
ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS II
Prerequisites:
CSOR W4231
.
Continuation of
CSOR W4231
.
- Department: Computer Science
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mihalis Yannakakis
CULPA: 14
Wikipedia
h-index: 93
Info
- 3 points
CORP REORGANIZATION/BANKRUPTCY
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
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Instructor:
Martin Glenn
Info - 3 points
ENVIRONMENTAL FINANCE
Prerequisites: ENVP U6233. Some background in microeconomics is highly recommended.
This course covers the theory and practice of Environmental Finance. The course assumes that students have an understanding of financial; and economic concepts, especially Commodity Markets, Project Finance and Investing. The course is divided into three segments; first will cover how environmental commodity markets work and how markets can be used to regulate polluting industries. The second segment covers the financing of environmental projects. The last segment will cover investing in environmental markets, and socially responsible investing.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Urvashi Kaul
Info - 3 points
ASSET MANAGEMENT
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- R 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sara B Queen
Info - 1.5 points
POLIT/POL-URBAN SUSTAINABILTY
POLIT/POL-URBAN SUSTAINABILITY
Cities are increasingly recognized as a key level of government for environmental and sustainability policy. As at all levels, politics and policy are intensely intertwined, and perhaps moreso at the local level because the decisions involved often affect constituents directly and intimately -- in their neighborhoods, in their homes, in their commutes. This colloquium explores both the politics and the policy of sustainability in the municipal context. Covering a range of sustainability issues -- such as air quality, public health, and transportation -- it looks at the dynamics of making change happen at the local level, including variations in power among municipal governments; how issues get defined and allocated; how stakeholder management takes place (or doesn't); how agencies and levels of government interfere with each other; and how best practices can (and cannot) be transferred internationally. The course is reading-intense and includes case studies by historians rather than political scientists. The focus of most readings is on the United States, but students' research projects will require looking beyond the US and transferring practices to a US city.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rohit T Aggarwala
Wikipedia h-index: 5 Info - 3 points
COMPARATIVE URBAN POLICY
Studying developing cities, such as Johannesburg, Sao Paulo, and Shanghai, has never been more important. Over half of the world's population is now urban. As cities continue to expand, metropolitan areas around the globe face a growing number of challenges, including: sprawl, poor sanitation, poverty, pollution, corruption, and crime. This course in comparative urban policy will help you develop a keener understanding of these challenges. Our focus will be on how academics and analysts study and debate global developing cities. We will explore questions, such as: What accounts for the global pace of migration from rural to urban places in our time? What are the major challenges facing developing cities? What strategies do individuals, neighborhoods, and economic interest groups have available to influence, and to optimize their experiences in developing cities? How well are developing cities' urban governance and planning geared to resolve controversies and, where appropriate, implement effective remedies? What can we learn from innovative change initiatives?
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Yumiko T Shimabukuro
Info - 3 points
ESSENTIALS OF NUTR COUNSELING
- Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
- T 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
- 3 points
ENERGY POLICY
The course provides a survey and analysis of the various dimensions, domestic and international, of policy formulation that, taken together, constitute energy policy. These dimensions include contributing to access to and production of natural energy resources; insuring the security and reliability of energy sources; promoting the diversity of fuels and development of new technologies in light of energy security and climate change mitigation objectives; promoting energy conservation and energy efficiency; environmental regulation at the domestic (air and water quality) and global (climate) levels. The objectives inspiring these policies are pursued through a combination of reliance on energy markets; subsidies and tax policy; development of energy infrastructure and a broad array of international policies influencing relations among and between net exporting and net importing countries. The origin of each policy issue, and lessons from significant "market failures," are examined and the consequences of policy alternatives are evaluated. The major legal and regulatory themes of U.S. energy policy are examined (Part 1) and so are the essential dimensions of international policies affecting the international energy scene.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- M 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Jason E Bordoff
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
INT'L ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
This course examines issues central to the theory and practice of international environmental politics. It provides a foundation of conceptual frameworks and factual knowledge for individuals planning work in this or related fields. Readings, lectures and discussion address many issues but we focus on factors that contribute to or impede the creation and implementation of effective international environmental policy. The course consists of three interrelated sections: (1) The Process and Difficulty of Creating and Implementing Effective International Environmental Policy; (2) The Setting for International Environmental Politics: Actors, Issues, Trends, and Law; and (3) Causal Factors in Creating Effective International Environmental Policy and Regimes.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Caleb McClennen
Info - 3 points
HOUSING POLICY & THE CITY
This class is designed to introduce students to housing policy and how it shapes cities and neighborhoods - and in turn how housing policy is shaped by a place's culture, values, economy, and its politics. It will examine the tools, strategies, laws, codes and programs employed to influence the housing marketplace in urban environments. Students will learn how housing policies can create problems and distortions in cities, as well as how they can work to resolve them. In particular, the class will focus on housing policy as a driver of solutions following economic problems (market failures and excesses), conflict (including war), and natural disasters (Katrina and Superstorm Sandy). Students will be introduced to methods to identify housing issues, determine which housing policy tools are most effective, what constraints must be considered, and how to minimize the impact of unintended consequences. The class will also explore the nexus of housing policy, community identity, and the private marketplace. The overall objective of the course is to illustrate to students the vital link between policy and practice, the need for ongoing evaluation of goals and outcomes, and the importance of sound research and observation when working within the field of housing in cities.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- 3 points
PRACTICUM IN URBAN PUBLIC POLICY
This course is designed to prepare future policymakers to critically analyze and evaluate key urban policy issues in New York and other large cities. The course is unique in that it exposes students to practical and scholarly aspects of urban policymaking. Each week, students will hear from an exciting array of guest lecturers from the governmental, not-for-profit, and private sectors. The guest lectures are supplemented by a diverse collection of readings dealing with urban politics and policy. Drawing from his experiences as Mayor of New York City, Professor Dinkins will introduce each week's topic and lay out the basic elements of urban government and policymaking, emphasizing the most important demographic, economic, and political trends facing urban areas. The course will focus on the important policy issues of education, health care, poverty and homelessness, criminal justice, economic development, fiscal policy, media, immigration, transportation, environmentalism, intergovernmental affairs, labor, and race and ethnicity. Leaders in government, finance, the not-for-profit sector, and the media will convey the concerns and strategies of policymakers in dealing with these complex policies and realities.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
David Dinkins
CULPA: 3
Info
- 1.5 points
DIRECTING ACTORS IV
- Department: Film
- R 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
- T 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
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Instructor:
June Stein
Info -
Instructor:
Shira-Lee Shalit
Info - 3 points
THIN FILMS AND LAYERS
Vacuum basics, deposition methods, nucleation and growth, epitaxy, critical thickness, defects properties, effect of deposition procedure, mechanical properties, adhesion, interconnects, and electromigration.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- M 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Siu-Wai Chan
h-index: 36 Info - 3 points
HOTEL TRANSACTIONS
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- W 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
- 1.5 points
ADV SURFACE/COLLOID CHEMISTRY
Prerequisites: CHEE E4252.
Applications of surface chemistry principles to wetting, flocculation, flotation, separation techniques, catalysis, mass transfer, emulsions, foams, aerosols, membranes, biological surfactant systems, microbial surfaces, enhanced oil recovery, and pollution problems. Appropriate individual experiments and projects.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
- MW 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ponisseril Somasundaran
CULPA: 2 Wikipedia h-index: 82 Info - 1-3 points
INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION III
Prerequisites:
ECON G6211
and
ECON G6212
.
This is an empirical course comprised of two parts. The first part examines single agent dynamics, and multi-agent dynamics (dynamic games). Both methodological advances and empirical applications will be discussed. Some of the topics that will be covered include: investment and replacement problems, durable goods, consumer learning, price dispersion and search costs, learning by doing, and networks and switching costs. There will be a strong focus on estimation details of dynamic oligopoly models. The second part of the course will review empirical models of imperfect information including auctions, moral hazard, and adverse selection.
- Department: Economics
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Adam J Kapor
Info - 3 points
DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE LAB
DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE LAB II
Development Practice Lab, or DP Lab, is an effort by the MPA-DP program to methodically deliver hands-on training for high priority skills in the field of development practice. DP Lab exposes students to skills related to program design and participatory processes using cases from the MPA-DP core courses of Global Food Systems and Global Health Practice. The course will consist of six workshops by leading practitioners in the field.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- M 11 a.m.-1:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Andre Correa D'Almeida
h-index: 4 Info - 1.5 points
MGMT TRAINING FOR DEVPT PROF
This course focuses on practical skills relevant to the roles and job responsibilities of development practitioners - whether they work for multilateral organizations, government agencies, private sector firms, NGOs, or social ventures - that will be useful whether they are based in the head office or in field locations. The course is designed to build knowledge and skills that match the complex, interdisciplinary reality of development management. Successful development practice depends on the capacity of program and project managers to integrate different disciplines and interact effectively with numerous stakeholders, both inside and outside their own organization. This capacity is likely to become more important, and more highly valued, as the global development ecosystem continues to evolve. The course blends training in both “hard skills” and “soft skills” that are relevant to the demands of project management in complex, dynamic environments. The course is divided into three modules, and features practice with relevant planning and management tools, problem-solving exercises, and presentations by student teams.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
- 3 points
IT & THE RE ENTERPRISE
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- R 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jessica A Stockton
Info - 1.5 points
CLIMATE ADAPTATION & RESILENCE FINANCE
This course focuses on the challenges to climate adaptation and resilience investment, specifically focusing on the current state of public and private adaptation finance flows, issues in measurement and metrics of physical climate risk, the limited number of practical investments, and the potential for new instruments and investments going forward. Students will be exposed to an overview of the climate change adaptation and resilience challenge, the current state of finance flows, a range of metrics and measurement strategies to assessing physical climate change risk and approaches to regulation, disclosure and investment; examples of adaptation and resilience investments; and potential instruments and strategies for mobilizing finance.
ARITH & ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
- Department: Mathematics
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Aise Johan de Jong
CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info - 4 points
COMPLETE STREETS SEMINAR
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- R 4 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nicholas Klein
Info - 3 points
UNDERWRITING II
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- W 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Roger Nussenblatt
Info - 1.5 points
INTERNATIONAL LAW
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
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Instructor:
Alexander K Greenawalt
Info - 3 points
LAW & LEGAL INST IN CHINA
LAW AND LEG INSTIT IN CHI
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
- TR 1:20 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Benjamin L Liebman
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
SEM IN CONTEMP CHINESE SOCIETY
- Department: Sociology
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Yao Lu
h-index: 25 Info - 3 points
MATERIALS SCIENCE REPORTS
Prerequisites: Written permission from instructor and approval from adviser.
Formal written reports and conferences with the appropriate member of the faculty on a subject of special interest to the student but not covered in the other course offerings.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
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William Bailey
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Katayun Barmak
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Simon Billinge
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Siu-Wai Chan
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Alexander Gaeta
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Oleg Gang
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Irving P Herman
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James Im
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Chris A Marianetti
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Ismail C Noyan
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Richard M Jr. Osgood
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Aron Pinczuk
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Yuan Yang
h-index: 49 Info - 0-6 points
PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
John P III Mastando
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Kathy Rose
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- W 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jessica A Stockton
Info - 1.5 points
ANTITRUST AND TRADE REGULATION
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
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Instructor:
Terry Calvani
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INDEP STUDY IN FAMILY NURS PRC
- Department: Nursing
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Instructor:
Elizabeth K Hall
Info - 1-8 points
WRITING FOR THE BIOLOGICAL SCI
This is a required science writing course for the PhD in Biological Sciences, open only to second year PhD. candidates in Biological Sciences. In this course, we will read examples of science writing from the recent literature, consider the strategies used by successful writers, and workshop student writing. The course will emphasize techniques for achieving clarity of thought and clear prose style while communicating science to other scientists. Students will write three short papers and two longer papers culminating in a Proposed Research Plan.
- Department: Biological Sciences
- W 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Meehan J Crist
Info - 2 points
LITERATURE & POLITICS
BLACK RADICALISM & THE ARCHIVE
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Brent H Edwards
CULPA: 6
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RESEARCH SEMINAR
Prerequisites: degree in biological sciences.
Lectures by visiting scientists, faculty, and students; specific biological research projects; with emphasis on evolution, ecology, and conservation biology.
- Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
- R 2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ruth Defries
CULPA: 9 h-index: 114 Info - 1 points
THE BUSINESS OF FILM
- Department: Film
- T 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
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Instructor:
Richard Perello
Info - 3 points
Corporate Finance
- Department: Finance
- MWF 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
- MWF 2:15 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
- MWF 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
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Olivier M Darmouni
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Akash Bandyopadhyay
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Instructor:
Olivier M Darmouni
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TOPICS IN THE HISTORY OF MUSIC THEORY
HISTORIOGRAPHIES OF MUSIC THRY
Of what value is the history of music theory today? The course considers this question by examining a selection of diverse approaches in recent years. While this area of scholarship was long rooted in the history of ideas, intellectual history and history of science, more recent work has seen productive intersections with discourse analysis, science studies, sound and media studies, among other areas. Rather than proceeding through a chronological survey of theoretical texts, the course will focus on a handful of representative monographs and their sources.
- Department: Music
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Benjamin A Steege
Info - 3 points
NETWORKING & SUSTAINABILITY
CAPSTONE - NETWORKING & SUS
- Department: School of Professional Studies
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Instructor:
Mark A Whitlock
Info - 3 points
ECONOMICS OF EUR INTEGRATION
A policy-oriented but theory-based course on the current state of economic integration in the European Union. Topics include: Brexit scenarios, design failures of the Eurozone and steps to a Banking Union; monetary policy of the ECB; Greek and other peripheral bailouts; macroeconomic performance, unemployment and EU labor markets; cohesion and the refugee crisis; fiscal policies and fiscal rules; tax and competition policy for high tech firms in a digital economy; EU trade policy and the future of the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Seamus C O'Cleireacain
Info - 3 points
ANIMAL ETHOS
This seminar interrogates and challenges assumptions regarding the human/nature divide, drawing on classic and contemporary writings within anthropology, science studies, genetics, laboratory sciences, bioethics, and moral philosophy. Of special concern are the meanings assigned to nature, species integrity, interspecies proximity, and the moral boundaries of science where animals become involved.
- Department: Anthropology @Barnard
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Lesley Sharp
CULPA: 22 Info - 3 points
ANALYTIC METHODS FOR PDE'S
Introduction to analytic theory of PDEs of fundamental and applied science; wave (hyperbolic), Laplace and Poisson equations (elliptic), heat (parabolic) and Schroedinger (dispersive) equations; fundamental solutions, Green's functions, weak/distribution solutions, maximum principle, energy estimates, variational methods, method of characteristics; elementary functional analysis and applications to PDEs; introduction to nonlinear PDEs, shocks; selected applications.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- M 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michael I Weinstein
CULPA: 2 h-index: 47 Info - 3 points
BIOCHEM,CELL/MOLECULAR BIOL II
For all first year Ph.D. students. Provides a unified curriculum that covers many of the topics that students need to know to successfully carry out research in biological sciences. Topics include basic biochemical principles, processes common to all eukaryotic cells such as transcription, translation and the cell cycle, and mechanism of cell-cell signaling.
- Department: Cellular, Molecular, and Biophysical Studies
- MWF 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
- 4.5 points
CORPORATE FINANCE
Prerequisites: SIPA U6200 or PEPM U6223 or EMPA U6010
Corporate finance is an introductory finance course; it is a core course for students taking the International Finance and Policy (IFP) concentration. The course is designed to cover those areas of business finance which are important for all managers, whether they specialize in finance or not.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- TR 4:15 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gailen L Hite
Info - 3 points