LAT AMER CULT DISCOURSE & NEOLIBERAL TRN
- Department: Spanish and Portuguese
- T 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
Carlos Alonso
CULPA: 4
h-index: 17
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- 4 points
INFRASTRUCTURE COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS
This course aims to provide students with the analytical tools to assess and evaluate infrastructure projects in the United States and worldwide. In particular, students will explore the methodologies and techniques as they relate to cost-benefit analysis with a special focus on hands-on problems and experiences. Each lecture is structured in two parts: theory/methodology in the first half of each class and application of the learned concepts through an analysis of case studies in the second half. Case studies will cover various applications of CBA as it relates to infrastructure (not general public policy issues as those are addressed in other courses). Examples of such case studies are transit investments in the US, water and wastewater infrastructure improvements, electricity grid upgrades or airport expansions. Case studies will cover both the US and developing country contexts.
Throughout the semester students will be expected to complete a cost-benefit analysis in the form of a group project. The project will consist of all important components of such an analysis such as a literature review, methodology section, description of project scenarios to be evaluated, compilation and monetization of the main costs and benefits, development of an Excel model including discounting and sensitivity analyses. The quantitative analysis and estimation of benefits and costs will be critical and require students to be familiar with spreadsheet applications and formulas in Microsoft Excel. Working with actual project and performance data will be required as much as is feasible in each case.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alexander Heil
Info - 3 points
PROPERTY (FOUNDATION)
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Thomas W Merrill
Wikipedia Info - 4 points
PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT
The course will help students understand the role of the private sector in economic growth and the professional discipline of Private Sector Development (PSD). It will review how global events and an evolving understanding of what private enterprises in developing and transition countries need to grow has influenced the approaches taken by PSD practitioners in the field. The course will expose students to a wide range of PSD sub-disciplines at a conceptual level and through real world examples. These include financial sector development, trade capacity building, the promotion and management of foreign direct investment, the business climate and commercial law, enterprise development, and some elements of macro-economic policy and administration. The course is an overview of a complex topic. It aims to develop students' ability to observe PSD programs critically and identify the most useful PSD interventions for different country contexts.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Stephen Hadley
Info - 3 points
TORTS
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Benjamin L Liebman
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Instructor:
Kristen Underhill
Info - 4 points
THE RHETORICAL TRADITION
(Seminar). Major works of rhetorical theory from Greek and Roman antiquity to early modern Europe with a focus on the continuities and changes and with special attention to the forensic elements of both their inventional and stylistic strategies.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kathy H Eden
CULPA: 19
Wikipedia
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- 4 points
RUSSIAN CARTOGRAPHIES IN PROSE
SPACE AND PLACE: RUSSIAN CARTO
- Department: Slavic Languages
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Cathy Popkin
CULPA: 21
Info
- 4 points
POLITICS OF POLICYMAKING:COMPARATIVE PER
This course is an introduction to the role of politics in public policymaking in democratic societies. Public policymaking of all kinds and at all levels (local, state, national, global) takes place in a particular political environment which shapes how strategic political actors seek to advance their own goals and realize their own visions of how the world ought to be. Public policy professionals of all types must navigate the intersecting realms of political institutions, multiple political actors and stakeholders, political ideas and discourse, and today, both traditional and new media.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Christopher Sabatini
Info - 4 points
POLITICS OF POLICYMAKING-DIS
POLITICS OF POLICYMAKING-DISC
Corequisites: PUAF U6120
This course is the required discussion section for PUAF U6120.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- 0 points
POLITICS OF POLICYMAKING-DIS
POLITICS OF POLICYMAKING-DISC
Corequisites: PUAF U6120
This course is the required discussion section for PUAF U6120.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- R 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
- R 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
- 0 points
FOUNDATIONS OF CONFLICT ANALYSIS
FNDTS CONF ANALYSIS
- Department: School of Professional Studies
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Beth Fisher-Yoshida
Info - 3 points
HEINRICH VON KLEIST
HEINRICH VON KLEIST (GER)
- Department: Germanic Languages
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Oliver Simons
CULPA: 4
Info
- 3 points
TEXT ANALYSIS
- Department: Theatre Arts
- M 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gregory Mosher
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
William Simon
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Instructor:
Christina M Duffy Ponsa
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Instructor:
Jessica J Bulman
h-index: 14 Info -
Instructor:
Philip Bobbitt
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Instructor:
Kendall Thomas
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Instructor:
Philip Hamburger
Wikipedia Info - 4 points
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
The way we see the world is determined by the mental maps we make of it. In international affairs, the nation state is still seen as the essential building block of political and social organization, which defines how the world interacts globally. Yet, this perception is to some extent an illusion: people function at many levels simultaneously, in their family, in their community, in their nation, in their region, and globally -- and the scope of the issues addressed varies accordingly, from the choice of a family physician, the selection of a school board or the establishment of fair taxation rates, all the way to the broadest concerns about nuclear threats and the implications of climate change. And at each functional level, there are matching institutions that allow for joint decision making. This course intends to provide students with a mental map of the international organizations that shape public policy and determine global action at a level beyond the nation state. Such a mapping exercise is useful for all SIPA students, as each of the concentrations and regional specializations requires clarity about the institutions that influence the developments in their area of study, be it the large global structures of the United Nations system or the Bretton Woods framework, regional actors such as the African Union, non-governmental behemoths like World Vision International, or specialized public-private partnerships, exemplified by GAVI, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization. Insight into the nature and scope of such international organizations is key to understanding the decision making processes affecting economic development, human rights, the environment, international security and social policy.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dirk Salomons
Info - 3 points
GRANT WRITING AND INDIRECT SERVICE
- Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
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Instructor:
Lenin Grajo
h-index: 10 Info - 1 points
WOMN'S AUTOBI.PROSE 18TH & 19TH C RUSS
MODES OF SELF EXPRESSION
The course examines the emergence of women autobiographical prose in the late eighteenth century and the rapid growth of women’s interest autobiographical genres in the course of the nineteenth century. Often illiterate or semi-literate in the early modern period, women became expert writers by the second third of the nineteenth century. The reading list includes memoirs and diaries of some of the most remarkable autobiography writers of the period, including Nadezhda Durova, who lived most of her life as a man and took part in the War of 1812; Avdotia Panaeva, Nikolai Nekrasov’s common-law wife and active participant in journalistic life of the period; Sofia Tolstaya, Leo Tolstoy’s wife and herself an outstanding writer.
- Department: Slavic Languages
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Irina Reyfman
CULPA: 5
Info
- 4 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.
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Instructor:
Anya Maria C Schiffrin
Info - 3 points
APPLYING CONFLICT ANALYSIS
APPL CONFL ANALYSIS
- Department: School of Professional Studies
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Beth Fisher-Yoshida
Info - 3 points
ANALYSIS & PROBABILITY I
Prerequisites:
the instructor's written permission.
This is a course for Ph.D. students, and for majors in Mathematics.
Measure theory; elements of probability; elements of Fourier analysis; Brownian motion.
- Department: Mathematics
- TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ivan Corwin
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 34 Info - 4 points
LAW & INTERNET SOCIETY
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:
Eben Moglen
Wikipedia Info - 2 points
AFRICAN INSTITUTIONS
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- R 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
John Hirsch
Info - 3 points
MIGRATION & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
International migration's substantial economic and social effects are at the forefront of today's academic discussion, international debate as well as national policy strategies. This course introduces students to the key notions, norms, and narratives of international migration from economic, legal, sociological, international relations, and normative perspectives. Students will learn about transnational livelihood strategies and channels through which migration and migrants can enhance human development especially in their countries of origin, while creating better opportunities for themselves and contributing to their communities of destination. This includes in-depth discussions of the determinants, flows and effects of emigration, immigration, return, financial and social remittances, and diaspora investment. Highlighting migration phenomena in different scenarios in the global North, as well as in the global South, the course emphasizes the agency of migrants and gender differences in the experiences and effects, as well as the role their legal status plays. It will address the root causes of migration and the protection of migrants' human, social and labor rights. The course also furthers participants' understanding of the policy responses in both, the international and the domestic spheres. To this end, it introduces students to key policies and governance schemes, including temporary labor migration programs, bilateral labor migration agreements, and diaspora engagement institutions.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Daniel Naujoks
Info - 3 points
COMPLEX ANALYSIS/RIEMANN SURF
Topics include holomorphic functions; analytic continuation; Riemann surfaces; theta functions and modular forms.
- Department: Mathematics
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Duong H Phong
Wikipedia Info - 4 points
COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
This course will provide an overview of the community development industry. Tracing the evolution from a nascent movement to organize blighted inner-city neighborhoods to today's multi-billion dollar industry, the course will examine how community development happens, the way communities set development priorities, the financial tools used to accomplish projects, and how key partners interact. The course will explore how affordable housing, health care, schools, childcare, and retail development projects interact to turn neglected neighborhoods into communities of choice. The level of financial and underwriting analysis will not require previous real estate finance experience. Particular attention will be paid to the role of community development corporations, community development financial institutions, direct public subsidies, and the role of banks and the Community Reinvestment Act.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Andrew Ditton
Info - 3 points
COMPL EMERG:ROOT CAUSES-REBLDG
This course forms an introduction to the broader program on humanitarian affairs. We will address the root causes of complex humanitarian emergencies, the practices of humanitarian intervention, the main actors, and the opportunities and dilemmas for rebuilding. We will also discuss the main critiques of humanitarian action and possible alternatives. The course advocates the principle that humanitarian aid should be provided from a (long-term) development perspective? otherwise it can reinforce conflict and exclusion.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dirk Salomons
Info - 3 points
SEL ISSUES FED RESERVE & FINANCL MARKETS
SEL ISSUES FED RESERVE & FIN M
The seminar will offer an insider perspective on the recent activities of the Federal Reserve and the current challenges it faces. It will also provide detailed background on the role and objectives of the central bank and the specifics of its traditional monetary policy and liquidity tools. Additionally, the course will examine certain key concepts about financial institutions and markets, particularly as they relate to financial stability and the Federal Reserve's operating framework. For the Fall 2015 semester, the course will highlight the following topical issues: • Non-bank financial intermediation and the systemic risks that contributed to the financial crisis • The Federal Reserve's crisis actions and subsequent changes to its authority. Regulatory efforts towards strengthening the financial system • The recent evolution and future of the Federal Reserve's monetary policy framework
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Patrick O Dwyer
Info - 1 points
GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE
How have "Gothic" edifices been represented in words and images? This course examines great monuments of Gothic architecture and considers the historiography and theories that they have generated. Our approach is based upon the premise that the notion of “Gothic” has been constructed as much with words and stories as with masonry, wood and glass. We will try to find a balance between the intense engagement with the buildings themselves, many of them now available with newly-created high-resolution photographs and panoramic views, and the theories and stories that have been woven around those buildings. In order to narrate the story of Gothic we will bring on three eyewitnesses and the buildings they represented: Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis, Gervase, monk of Canterbury and Villard de Honnecourt, with this extraordinary images of Reims, Laon and Cambrai Cathedrals. In this way we will encounter a series of great buildings belonging to the period 1140 to 1240 and we will also consider the way these buildings may be woven together within a story or plot and how they relate to the larger field of architectural production. We will also consider the
production
of Gothic and the
production
of meaning. We will extend the story of Gothic to embrace the phenomenon of “change” both in regional manifestations and in the continuing “development” of forms associated with Late Gothic.
- Department: Art History and Archaeology
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Stephen Murray
CULPA: 13
Info
- 3 points
GENOMIC INNOVATION
Genomic Innovation is a project-oriented course that aims to provide a broad vision of emerging technologies and unmet needs in genome science and their application in science and society. Students will develop skills to think in-depth about current problems in genomics, conceptualize approaches for solving them and communicate their ideas in academic and nonacademic settings. The goal is to accelerate progress in technology innovation in genetics and genomics to advance scientific understanding and industrial applications of genomics. This interdisciplinary course is organized at the New York Genome Center.
- Department: Cellular, Molecular, and Biophysical Studies
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Instructor:
Tuuli Lappalainen
Info - 4 points
RESOLUTION STRATEGIES
- Department: School of Professional Studies
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Instructor:
Jose Pascal da Rocha
h-index: 6 Info - 3 points
PRACTICUM IN TEACHING OF PSYCH
Practical and theoretical issues relating to the teaching of psychology and the psychology of teaching.
- Department: Psychology
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Caroline B Marvin
CULPA: 1 Info - 1-3 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
- TR 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
- TR 2:15 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
- W 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- W 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
- F 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
- F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- F 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Alan Brott
CULPA: 3
Info
- 3 points
INTRODUCTION TO DRAMATURGY
- Department: Theatre Arts
- T 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
E. C Parker
Info - 3 points
THEORETICAL STATISTICS I
Prerequisites: students in a masters program must seek the director of the M.A. program in statistics' permission; students in an undergraduate program must seek the director of undergraduate studies in statistics' permission.
A general introduction to mathematical statistics and statistical decision theory. Elementary decision theory, Bayes inference, Neyman-Pearson theory, hypothesis testing, most powerful unbiased tests, confidence sets. Estimation: methods, theory, and asymptotic properties. Likelihood ratio tests, multivariate distribution. Elements of general linear hypothesis, invariance, nonparametric methods, sequential analysis.
- Department: Statistics
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sumit Mukherjee
CULPA: 4 h-index: 13 Info - 4 points
ADV CORP LAW: MERG & ACQUISTNS
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Eric Talley
Wikipedia Info - 4 points
DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
This course describes the history and current situation of the level and distribution of global income, analyses the theory of economic growth and the empirical evidence on the factors influencing growth, including physical and human capital accumulation, technical change and population growth, explores the effects of trade, foreign direct investment, natural resources, geography, and public sector institutions on economic growth and distribution of income, and examines how financial development and exchange rate regimes affect the prospects for economic growth.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Francisco L Rivera-Batiz
Info - 3 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
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Instructor:
Norman Bartczak
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
SW PRACTICE WITH CHILDREN
- Department: Social Work
- T 2 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Faculty
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Instructor:
Joan L Bell
Info - 3 points
PROFANE ILLUMINATION I
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
First and foremost a brilliant poetic voice and image-maker, Benjamin developed a uniquely powerful not to mention exceedingly strange and wonderful blend of marxism and anarchism with Proust and the messianism of the Kabbala. But how does his primary concern with storytelling apply to a colonially sensitive anthropology and ficto-criticism? With that question, this seminar discusses his relevant writings on mimesis, the
denkbild
or image-concept, history, the Paris Arcades, and the magic of modern media. Permission of Instructor is required.
- Department: Anthropology
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michael Taussig
CULPA: 33 Wikipedia Info - 3 points
WRITING & REPORTING ON INT'L AFFAIRS
Exceptional writing is at the heart of effective communication. We'll study the special skill of foreign correspondents who produce reports on deadline about complex global issues, a talent also useful to anyone working for international organizations, government agencies and many NGOs, among others. This course works on two tracks. The primary focus is on the art of telling stories, or submitting reports, that are at once compelling, colorful, concise, balanced and carefully structured. The course also looks at how news is gathered internationally in an era of WikiLeaks,"fake news" and "alternative facts," as well as the philosophy of a free press, censorship, the ethical issues journalists face and the hostile environments in which reporters often work.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Larry Heinzerling
Info - 3 points
MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS I-DIS
MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS I-DISC
- Department: Economics
- T 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Motaz R Al-Chanati
Info - 0 points
DIRECTING III
- Department: Film
- M 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
- T 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
- R 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
- F 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tom Kalin
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
ISSUES & DEBATES-AMER POLITICS
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission prior to registration. Please contact the instructors for more information.
This graduate student field survey provides an overview of the scholarly study of American politics. The course has been designed for students who intend to specialize in American politics, as well as for those students whose primary interests are comparative politics, international relations, or political theory, but who desire an intensive introduction to the “American” style of political science.
- Department: Political Science
- R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Justin H Phillips
CULPA: 23
Info
- 4 points
NONFICTION SEMINAR
FAMILY MATTERS
- Department: Writing
- T 10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Lis Harris
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
NONFICTION SEMINAR
REGARDING THE PAIN OF OTHERS
- Department: Writing
- M 4:10 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Leslie S Jamison
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
NONFICTION SEMINAR
CULTURAL MEMOIR
- Department: Writing
- W 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Margo L Jefferson
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
NONFICTION SEMINAR
REPORTING NON-NEWS
- Department: Writing
- T 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
- 3 points