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 9:15 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
- TR 2:15 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
- F 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Deborah McLean
Info - 3 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
- F 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
- F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- 0 points
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF PDE'S
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF PDEs
Numerical analysis of initial and boundary value problems for partial differential equations. Convergence and stability of the finite difference method, the spectral method, the finite element method and applications to elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic equations.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- T 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Qiang Du
Wikipedia h-index: 67 Info - 3 points
SCIENCE PSYCHIATRIC MENTAL HLTH PRACTICE
- Department: Nursing
- MF 9 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
- 3 points
SCIENCE PSYCHIATRIC MENTAL HLTH PRACTICE
- Department: Nursing
- MF 9 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
- 3 points
US STATE POLITICS & POLICY
States have surged to the forefront of U.S. politics in recent years, as both liberal and conservative legislatures enact sweeping laws related to LGBT rights, access to the voting booth, collective bargaining, and climate change in the face of Congressional gridlock and inaction. Indeed, even the few major new pieces of federal legislation – like the national health reform program signed into law in 2010 – delegate substantial responsibilities to the states. In this seminar, we will discuss the states as sites of policymaking in the United States, consider the evolution of state governments relative to the federal government, review the political and economic implications of delegating authority to the subnational level, and assess the variation across the states in substantive policy outcomes across a range of issues. We will bring four perspectives to the issue of state politics: theory, history, institutions, and policy. In our initial week of class, we will review normative theories of federalism from the left and the right, discussing the reasons that different political actors have advocated for delegation of policy responsibility to the subnational level. While libertarians and free market conservatives have celebrated the constraining effects of federalism on the size of governments, progressives have embraced the possibilities federalism creates for policy experimentation and representation of minority interests. In the second unit, we will consider the historical development of federalism in American politics, examining how the relationships between the states and the federal government – and between the states themselves – have changed from the Founding to the Progressive Era, the New Deal, and the Post-War Era.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alexander Hertel-Fernandez
h-index: 18 Info - 3 points
PROBABILITY THEORY II
Prerequisites: STAT GR6301.
Conditional distributions and expectations. Martingales; inequalities, convergence and closure properties, optimal stopping theorems, Burkholder-Gundy inequalities, Doob-Meyer decomposition, stochastic integration, Ito's rule. Brownian motion: construction, invariance principles and random walks, study of sample paths, martingale representation results Girsanov Theorem. The heat equation, Feynman-Kac formula. Dirichlet problem, connections with potential theory. Introduction to Markov processes: semigroups and infinitesimal generators, diffusions, stochastic differential equations.
- Department: Statistics
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Philip Protter
h-index: 50 Info - 4 points
FINANCIAL INCLUSION
Research shows that countries with deeper levels of financial inclusion -- defined as access to affordable, appropriate financial services -- have stronger GDP growth rates and lower income inequality. In recent years, research around the financial habits, needs and behaviors of poor households has yielded rich information on how they manage their financial lives, allowing for the design of financial solutions that better meet their needs. While microfinance institutions remain a leading model for providing financial services to the poor, new models and technology developments have provided opportunities for scaling outreach, deepening penetration and moving beyond brick and mortar delivery channels. The course will provide an overview of financial inclusion, focusing on the key stakeholders and providers, including leading-edge mobile money offerings by telecos, as well as banks, cooperatives, and microfinance institutions. The course will examine the full range of financial services -- savings, credit, insurance and payments -- and will evaluate the early successes and failures of new and innovative approaches such as mobile financial services. The course will be highly interactive, with select leading industry experts as guest speakers, group assignments, debates, and presentations by students.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
- 3 points
PRACTICE PSYCHIATRIC MENTAL HLTH NURSE
PRAC PSCH MENTAL HLTH NURNEEDS
- Department: Nursing
- WR 7 a.m.-3 p.m.
- 2 points
PRACTICE PSYCHIATRIC MENTAL HLTH NURSE
PRAC PSCH MENTAL HLTH NURNEEDS
- Department: Nursing
- WR 7 a.m.-3 p.m.
- 2 points
PRAC-ADDRESSING POP-HLTH NEEDS
- Department: Nursing
- WR 7 a.m.-3 p.m.
- None None-None
- 2 points
SCI OF NURS PRACTICE CHILDBEARING FAMILY
SCI-NURS PRAC-CHILDBEARING FAM
- Department: Nursing
- MF 9 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
- 3 points
SCI OF NURS PRACTICE CHILDBEARING FAMILY
SCI-NURS PRAC-CHILDBEARING FAM
- Department: Nursing
- MF 9 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
- 3 points
ALGEBRAIC TOPOLOGY II
Continuation of
MATH GR6307x
(see Fall listing).
- Department: Mathematics @Barnard
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Walter Neumann
CULPA: 21 h-index: 40 Info - 4 points
RUSS REVOLUTION TO LEGACIES OF BANDUNG
RUSS REVOLUTION-LEGACY BANDUNG
- Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Center for
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Stathis Gourgouris
CULPA: 4
Wikipedia
Info
- 4 points
QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUES
The use of quantitative research techniques, statistics, and computer software in designing public policies and in evaluating, monitoring, and administering governmental programs. Practical applications include research, design measurement, data collection, data processing, and presentation of research findings.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- S 2 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
- R 8:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
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Instructor:
Stuart E Ward
Info - 3 points
DIPLOMACY IN PRACTICE: EU & THE WORLD
DIPLOMACY IN PRACTICE: EU & WO
The course will introduce students to the practice of modern diplomacy through case studies of global or regional crises and the EU’s response to them. Students will learn how foreign policy is devised and implemented from the perspective of a professional diplomat. The course will start with an introduction of the EU institutions involved in foreign affairs. Each class will then focus on a specific case study: the EU’s strategic partnerships, the migration crisis, the conflict in Ukraine, the Iran nuclear agreement, the Middle East, and Brexit. In each case, students will explore the interplay between the various instruments of foreign policy, including crisis management, trade, financial aid, humanitarian assistance, and public diplomacy.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- R 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Pierre Vimont
Info - 1.5 points
NONPROFIT FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
There are more than one million nonprofit organizations in the United States and hundreds of thousands more internationally and the number is growing. The nonprofit sector includes an enormous diversity of organizations, ranging from complex health care systems, to education and arts institutions, to small community-based human service organizations. This course will provide students with a comprehensive understanding of how to conduct the financial management of a nonprofit entity. Through the use of readings, case studies, a class project and lecture, we will study financial statements, financial analysis, and accounting for non-profit organizations and international NGOs. We will examine how the principles of financial management assist the nonprofit and NGO manager in making operating, budgeting, capital, and long-term financial planning decisions. We will also explore contemporary ethical, accountability, and mission issues facing national and international organizations.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
- WR 1 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sarah M Holloway
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
POETRY SEMINAR
Turning, Leaping, Digressing
- Department: Writing
- T 1:05 p.m.-3:05 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jay A Deshpande
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
POETRY SEMINAR
Modern and Cont Poetry II
- Department: Writing
- M 4:10 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alan Gilbert
Info - 3 points
ADV ANALOG INEGRATED CIRCUITS
Prerequisites: ELEN E4312.
Integrated circuit device characteristics and models; temperature- and supply-independent biasing; IC operational amplifier analysis and design and their applications; feedback amplifiers, stability and frequency compensation techniques; noise in circuits and low-noise design; mismatch in circuits and low-offset design. Computer-aided analysis techniques are used in homework(s) or a design project.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Harish Krishnaswamy
Info - 3 points
ADVANCED HEAT TRANSFER
Prerequisites: MECE E3311.
Corequisites: MECE E6100.
Application of analytical techniques to the solution of multi-dimensional steady and transient problems in heat conduction and convection. Lumped, integral, and differential formulations. Topics include use of sources and sinks, laminar/turbulent forced convection, and natural convection in internal and external geometries.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
- M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Arvind Narayanaswamy
CULPA: 9
h-index: 26
Info
- 3 points
ANALOG SYSTEMS IN VLSI
Prerequisites: ELEN E4312.
Analog-digital interfaces in very large scale integrated circuits. Precision sampling; A/D and D/A converter architectures; continuous-time and switched capacitor filters; system considerations. A design project is an integral part of this course.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Timothy Dickson
Info - 3 points
MICROWAVE CIRCUIT DESIGN
Prerequisites: equivalent.
Introduction to microwave engineering and microwave circuit design. Review of transmission lines. Smith chart, S-parameters, microwave impedance matching, transformation and power combining networks, active and passive microwave devices, S-parameter-based design of RF and microwave amplifiers. A microwave circuit design project (using microwave CAD) is an integral part of the course.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Yves Baeyens
h-index: 31 Info - 3 points
CLIN NUCLEAR MEDICINE PHYSICS
Prerequisites: or equivalent.
Introduction to the instrumentation and physics used in clinical nuclear medicine and PET with an emphasis on detector systems, tomography and quality control. Problem sets, papers and term project.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- T 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Pat Zanzonico
Info - 3 points
FEATURE FILM FINANCING
- Department: Film
- W 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
- M 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sandra Schulberg
Info -
Instructor:
John Hadity
Info - 3 points
DIR/FLOORTIME MODEL
- Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
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Instructor:
Janet Falk-Kessler
h-index: 9 Info - 1 points
DIR/FLOORTIME MODEL
- Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
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Instructor:
Janet Falk-Kessler
h-index: 9 Info - 0 points
BUDGETING & FIN MGMT FOR GOVT
Public sector budgeting in the US (and arguably at a global level) has become an increasingly contentious issue since the 2008 crisis and subsequent recession. This course will introduce students to the field of budgeting and fiscal management in the public sector. We will look at the special challenges of developing a budget within a political environment and the techniques used for management control. Additional topics may include taxes and other revenues, expenditure control, debt management, audits and productivity enhancement. Lectures will also discuss current events related to public sector budgeting on the local and state level. The course seeks to provide students with practical knowledge on budgetary decision-making. Drawing from both theory and case studies, students will acquire practical skills to help them design, implement and assess public sector budgets. The practical nature of the subject requires active participation from students, meaning they will engage in hands-on assignments such as periodical debates, case analyses and a budget cycle simulation. By the end of the semester, students are expected to a) conduct in-depth budgetary analyses, and b) formulate policy recommendations.
BUDGETING & FIN MGMT FOR GOVT
Public sector budgeting in the US (and arguably at a global level) has become an increasingly contentious issue since the 2008 crisis and subsequent recession. This course will introduce students to the field of budgeting and fiscal management in the public sector. We will look at the special challenges of developing a budget within a political environment and the techniques used for management control. Additional topics may include taxes and other revenues, expenditure control, debt management, audits and productivity enhancement. Lectures will also discuss current events related to public sector budgeting on the local and state level. The course seeks to provide students with practical knowledge on budgetary decision-making. Drawing from both theory and case studies, students will acquire practical skills to help them design, implement and assess public sector budgets. The practical nature of the subject requires active participation from students, meaning they will engage in hands-on assignments such as periodical debates, case analyses and a budget cycle simulation. By the end of the semester, students are expected to a) conduct in-depth budgetary analyses, and b) formulate policy recommendations.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- F 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
- 0 points
ADV DIGITAL ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT
Advanced topics in the design of digital integrated circuits. Clocked and non-clocked combinational logic styles. Timing circuits: latches and flip-flops, phase-locked loops, delay-locked loops. SRAM and DRAM memory circuits. Modeling and analysis of on-chip interconnect. Power distribution and power-supply noise. Clocking, timing, and synchronization issues. Circuits for chip-to-chip electrical communication. Advanced technology issues that affect circuit design. The class may include a team circuit design project.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- W 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mingoo Seok
h-index: 31 Info - 3 points
DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY PHYSICS
Physics of medical imaging. Imaging techniques: radiography, fluoroscopy, computed tomography, mammography, ultrasound, magnetic resonance. Includes conceptual, mathematical/theoretical, and practical clinical physics aspects.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- W 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
- 3 points
WRIT/SCRIPT ANALYSIS-PRODUCERS
- Department: Film
- R 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jack Lechner
Info - 3 points
PRINCPLS SEMICONDUCTR PHYSCS I
Designed for students interested in research in semiconductor materials and devices. Topics include energy bands: nearly free electron and tight-binding approximations, the k.p. method, quantitative calculation of band structures and their applications to quantum structure transistors, photodetectors, and lasers; semiconductor statistics, Boltzmann transport equation, scattering processes, quantum effect in transport phenomena, properties of heterostructures. Quantum mechanical treatment throughout.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- R 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Wen I Wang
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
RE TRANSACTIONS LAW
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
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Instructor:
Jessica A Stockton
Info - 1.5 points
PROSEMINAR IN MUSIC THEORY
Overview of current work in Music Theory, an analysis, perception, and philosophy. Major areas of research and methodological challenges.
- Department: Music
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Joseph P Dubiel
CULPA: 3 Info - 3 points
BARRIER FREE DESIGN
- Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
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Instructor:
Janet Falk-Kessler
h-index: 9 Info - 1 points
BARRIER FREE DESIGN
- Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
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Instructor:
Janet Falk-Kessler
h-index: 9 Info - 0 points
RADIATION THERAPY PHYSICS
Prerequisites: APPH E4330 recommended.
Review of X-ray production and fundamentals of nuclear physics and radioactivity. Detailed analysis of radiation absorption and interactions in biological materials as specifically related to radiation therapy and radiation therapy dosimetry. Surveys of use of teletherapy isotopes and X-ray generators in radiation therapy plus the clinical use of interstitial and intracavitary isotopes. Principles of radiation therapy treatment planning and isodose calculations. Problem sets taken from actual clinical examples are assigned.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- R 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Cheng S Wuu
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
MICROLITERATURES
- Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Center for
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jesus Rodriguez-Velasco
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
STORY STRUCTURE WRITERS/DIR
- Department: Film
- W 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jack Lechner
Info - 1.5 points
DEVELOPMENT CASE STUDIES
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- R 9 a.m.-noon
- 3 points
PRE-PROD OF A MOTION PICTURE
- Department: Film
- R 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mayuran Tiruchelvam
Info - 3 points
TPCS: CHINESE BUDDHIST STUDIES
Reading on recent scholarship in English on the studies of Chinese Buddhism.
- Department: Religion
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Zhaohua Yang
Info - 3 points
COPYRIGHT 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:
Jane C Ginsburg
Wikipedia Info - 4 points
INT'L REAL ESTATE REGIONS
INT'L RE REGIONS: CHINA
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- F 10 a.m.-noon
- 1.5 points
INT'L REAL ESTATE REGIONS
INT'L RE REGIONS: BRAZIL
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- R 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Shawn T Amsler
Info - 1.5 points
INT'L REAL ESTATE REGIONS
INT'L RE REGIONS: LONDON
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- R 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kate J Ascher
Info - 1.5 points
THEORY OF ARTS IBERIAN WORLDS
In recent decades scholars have focused their attention on a precise aspect of the Iberian expansion between the fifteenth and the seventeenth centuries: the vast circulation of overseas objects as "goods," with the consequent enrichment of the European collections, the birth of the Wonder Cabinets etc. Beyond these physical movements of new items, from Peru, Brazil, India, New Spain, Sierra Leone, or the Philippines, however, another parallel and equally significant process took place: the production and circulation of texts documenting, describing and analyzing the diversity of these creations, the qualitative exceptionality of their creators´ abilities, their mythologies, their material specificities, and their possible aesthetic, theological, or political links as well as their key role in the Iberian domination process itself. These two movements between texts and images are intimately intertwined: as more items were being produced overseas, more texts were being devoted to their existence and production; then as more texts were being written,published, and read, more objects were being desired, commissioned, invented, and shipped. The seminar will explore the variety of these sources -variety of genres (chronicles, histories, inventories, grammars, dictionaries, legal or inquisitorial processes), variety of authorships (conquistadors, missionaries, ambassadors, travelers, visitadores, cronistas, naturalists, historians, collectors, artists) etc.- in order to examine the relationship between textual and visual production in Early Modernity. The study of this unexpected "literature of art" will be continuously accompanied with the discussion of the actual artifacts commented in the sources. We will also consider if there are local specificities in the production of such texts: for instance, is the impressive amount of sources exclusively related to the "American" (New Spain, Brazil, Perú...) artistic processes understandable within a broader Iberian perspective or is there something specific in the observation and examination of the "American" aesthetics?
- Department: Spanish and Portuguese
- R 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alessandra Russo
CULPA: 5
Info
- 3-4 points
LIE GROUPS & REPRESENTATIONS
Continuation of
MATH G6343x
(see Fall listing).
- Department: Mathematics
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Andrei Okounkov
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 55 Info - 4 points
POETICS & POLIT-INFRASTRUCTURE
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Infrastructures are the material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space, invisible conduits that comprise the technical architecture that allow urban spaces to form and creates grounds for the circulation that ties those spaces to larger grids. But bodies of recent scholarship have come to interrogate the ways in which infrastructures comprise the conditions of existence for social experience, political action and economic order. This class seeks to examine what an analysis of infrastructure might add to anthropological analysis. Drawing from anthropology, science studies, media theory and history we will analyze the technical conditions of infrastructures, the legal regulations they give rise to , the political action they generate and the forms of everyday life they enable. Students need to attend the first class to finalize enrollment.
- Department: Anthropology @Barnard
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Brian Larkin
CULPA: 16 Info - 3 points
US ROLE IN WORLD AFFAIRS
US ROLE IN WORLD AFFAIRS II
This course will explore the international role of the United States by examining its evolution over time the interests and concepts that underlie it, the domestic debates that have shaped it, the historical turning points that periodically re-shaped it, and some of its most notable successes and failures. Only students who are currently registered in INAF U6346 will be allowed to register for INAF U6347, unless otherwise indicated by the professor.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- T 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
David Rothkopf
Wikipedia Info - 2-3 points
UNITED NATL & GLOBALIZATION
The course will explore the multiple dimensions of the impact of globalization on the role of the United Nations. The new millennium has seen a vigorous debate take shape on global governance. Every aspect of global governance is currently the subject of review and debate : the financial system, security and the role and composition of the Security Council, a new climate change architecture, the trade regime and the future of the Doha round, human rights, the future of development assistance and the provision of global public goods, and the need for a new multilateralism. It has been over half a century since so many core issues at the heart of effective global governance have been on the drawing board simultaneously. This course will analyse the implications of a range of these issues for the current work of the UN and for its future role. The session headings indicate the specific issues that will be covered.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Bruce Jenks
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
HEALTH 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:
Kristen Underhill
Info - 4 points
ANALYSIS OF ENVIRONMENTAL HLTH
- Department: Environmental Health Sciences
- T 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elena Colicino
Info - 3 points
EXHIBITION CULTURES
This course is a continuation of Museum Anthropology G6352 (not a prerequisite). Through the study of museum exhibitions, this course explores a series of debates about the representation of culture in museums, the politics of identity, and the significance of objects. We will consider the museum as a contemporary and variable form, as a site for the expression of national, group, and individual identity and as a site of performance and consumption. We will consider how exhibits are developed, what they aim to convey, what makes them effective (or not), and how they sometimes become flashpoints of controversy. Because the work of museums is visual, enacted through the display of material forms, we will also consider the transformation of objects into artifacts and as part of exhibitions, addressing questions of meaning, ownership, value, and magic. We will look at this range of issues from the point of view of practitioners, critics, and audiences.
- Department: Anthropology
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sergio Jarillo de la Torre
Info - 3 points
LAWYERING FOR CHANGE
- Department: Law
- MW 1:20 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Susan P Sturm
Info - 3 points
JOURNAL CLUB-MOL EPI&TOXICOLOGY;
JOURNAL CLUB-MOL EPI&TOXICOLOG;
- Department: Environmental Health Sciences
- R 11:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Greg A Freyer
Info - 0.5 points
GLOBALIZING REPRODUCTION
"Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies, and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate." With these words, the new goal on achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls included in the Outcome Document of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in September 2014, commits the international community to recognizing the centrality of care. The new goal further entails commitments to ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health -- also, within nationally set parameters - and ensure women's full and effective participation in political, economic and public life. The realization of these objectives now requires coming to terms with the globalization of reproduction. In recent decades, communication, information and reproductive technologies, changing assumptions regarding the roles of women and men, and the effects of the global economic crisis have converged to generate transnational markets in care and procreation. As people cross borders to provide or purchase goods and services associated with reproduction, new spaces are created for (licit and illicit) entrepreneurs specialized in the movement of workers, body parts, corporeal services (like gestation), and children; specialized labor forces of care workers and baby producers are generated; and resolving conflicts national legal frameworks regulating areas from citizenship and residency to health and family organization once considered the purview of nation states becomes central to the international agenda. How are such markets to be regulated? How can (and should) conflicting national models be reconciled? How, in other words, can the new SDG be translated into state and international practices which do, indeed, promote gender equality and women's empowerment? This course will focus specifically on care and childbearing to explore these questions.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Yasmine Ergas
CULPA: 2 h-index: 10 Info - 1.5 points
POLICY & WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP
POLICY & WOMENT'S LEADERSHIP
Despite gains in recent years, gender disparities in leadership roles – particularly in the corporate and government sectors – remain significant. This 7-week course will explore policies within organizations, as well as governmental policies, designed to address gender disparities in leadership roles, examining questions such as: What are the goals such policies are/should be seeking to achieve? What are the best approaches – e.g. gender-focused vs. more broadly crafted policies? Which approaches are/are not working? What are the unintended consequences of policies designed for this purpose? How do we consider debates in popular culture (from Sandberg to Slaughter) in the context of organizational and governmental policymaking and use them to inform policymaking? What are the limitations on what policy can achieve? The course will begin by briefly exploring historical and current gender disparities in leadership roles and the diverse reasons behind them, examining the roles of women, men, culture and policy. We will explore the potential impact policy can have, identifying and recognizing limitations and challenges. Finally, we will focus the bulk of our time on policy approaches tried by governments and organizations (with a focus on corporations, as well as academia and non-profits) to attempt to address leadership gender disparities, exploring the questions above. The course will include accomplished women leaders from multiple sectors as guest speakers, and active student participation, including presentation of case studies, will be required.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- W 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Michelle Greene
Info - 1.5 points
GENDER POLICY PRACTICUM
The Gender Policy Practicum creates a forum in which policy experts from different academic disciplines and fields of practice can share their experiences and perspectives with SIPA students. Through the Practicum, students will explore gender integration in various SIPA concentrations and specializations, as well as in multiple arenas of policy development and implementation. Students will be introduced to current trends and debates related to the promotion of gender equality in different fields of policy practice and will be encouraged to think critically about these issues and their relevance to their academic and professional goals.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Yasmine Ergas
CULPA: 2 h-index: 10 Info - 1.5 points
COMMERICAL LEASING
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
- 1.5 points
LGBT RIGHTS INTERNATIONALLY
On September 24, 2014, a hotly contested resolution passed the UN Human Rights Council condemning discrimination and violence on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. The protracted fight for the resolution demonstrates how lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights are one of the most controversial issues in international human rights, culture, law and public policy today. This course will explore how LGBT rights impact mainstream debates, such as bilateral relations and good governance, while also teaching students to understand the particular challenges of fulfilling LGBT rights, such as access to legal recognition for LGBT partnerships and transgender identities. This course offers students an in-depth discussion about the challenges and opportunities of working on LGBT rights at the international level, surveys debates within the field, and equips students to competently address LGBT rights as they manifest across a range of academic and professional interests. Breaking news and contemporary debates will be integrated into the course work.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- T 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Jessica Stern
Wikipedia h-index: 24 Info - 1.5 points
TECHNOLOGY, NATIONAL SEC & THE CITIZEN
TECH, NAT SEC & THE CITIZEN
While digital technology gives governments powerful new ways to protect their citizens, it also creates powerful opportunities for abuse. To complicate matters, governments aren't the only ones with access to these tools: technology also empowers individuals, activist groups, and non-state actors in ways that can either enhance or threaten the security of nations. This course will explore these changes, examining how digital technology is transforming the national security landscape, altering roles and power relationships for governments, citizens, and social movements. Specifically, this class will examine: NATIONAL SECURITY TECHNOLOGIES: Categories and specific tools in use for citizen engagement, surveillance, infrastructure control, and defense DEMOCRATIC & AUTOCRATIC GOVERNMENTS USE OF TOOLS: How governments, both democratic and autocratic, deploy these technologies in national security efforts, and its consequences on the rights of individuals and the broader social order CITIZENS, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS & NON-STATE ACTORS USE OF TOOLS: How citizens, social movements, and non-state actors wield similar tools to enhance, counterbalance, or undermine government security efforts REDEFINING POWER: How new technologies affect, alter, undermine, or enhance existing power structures and bolster or diminish the influence of citizens, organizations, and social groups on governments Course material will be comprised of theoretical readings on state security responsibilities and citizens' rights, case studies of effective and counterproductive tactics, and present-day examples of the phenomena.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alexis Wichowski
CULPA: 1 h-index: 6 Info - 3 points
INTERNATIONAL BANKRUPTCY
S. INTERNATIONAL BANKRUPT
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Jodie A Kirshner
Info - 2 points
TAX ISSUES IN ACQ + DEV
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- W 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
- 1.5 points
POLICY DILEMMAS IN CYBERSECURITY
This class examines the challenges that policymakers must face as they grapple with the changing landscape of cybersecurity, from online crime and cyber conflict, to seemingly ubiquitous surveillance. There will be an introduction to the basics of the technology but much more on the difficulties pressing policymakers and businesses today. This course is intended to be an introduction to cybersecurity and is thus suitable for complete newcomers to the area. It is a big field, with a lot to cover; however this should get students familiar with all of the basics. The semester is divided up into three sections: (1) a technical overview of cyberspace, attack and defense measures; (2) a detailed look at the various state and non-state threat actors; (3) a detailed look at defense in the public and private sectors and their political and economic underpinnings.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jason Healey
Wikipedia h-index: 15 Info - 3 points
TERRORISM & COUNTERTERRORISM
This course examines the origins and evolution of modern terrorism, challenges posed by terrorist groups to states and to the international system, and strategies employed to confront and combat terrorism. We assess a wide variety of terrorist organizations, and explore the psychological, socioeconomic, political, and religious causes of terrorist violence past and present. We also analyze the strengths and weaknesses of various counterterrorism strategies, from the point of view of efficacy as well as ethics, and look into ways in which the new threat of global terrorism might impact the healthy functioning of democratic states. The course is divided into two parts. Part I focuses on the terrorist threat, including the nature, roots, objectives, tactics, and organization of terrorism and terrorist groups. Part II addresses the issue of counterterrorism, including recent American efforts to combat terrorism, the strengths and weaknesses of counterterrorist tools and instruments, the issue of civil liberties and democratic values in confronting terrorism, and international strategies and tactics.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Stuart M Gottlieb
CULPA: 12
Info
- 3 points
STATE FORM,VIOL,INTERV-MOD WRD
With a case study on Afghanistan, this seminar in international security policy will introduce students to several generations of literature on state formation and its relationship to violence and foreign intervention. We will explore the resilience and limitations of various theoretical approaches as they relate to a number of empirical cases. Students will become familiarized with a number of important arguments that have been advanced to explain state formation in its more recent incarnations in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia, and post-Communist Europe.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dipali Mukhopadhyay
h-index: 6 Info - 3 points
CONFLICT RESOLUTION
This course introduces the study and practice of conflict resolution, offering students a broad conceptual framework for more specific strands of study offered by CICR. It also aims to show how ideas about conflict resolution can cast light on individual conflicts and peace initiatives. The majority of classes focus on thematic issues and debates, but these are interspersed with classes concentrating on individual conflict situations, to allow students to link theory and practice. Students will be tested on both their grasp of the main themes of the course and their application to specific situations.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Richard Gowan
Info - 3 points
UNCONVENTIONAL WARRIORS
In this course in international security policy, students will take a closer look at a host of non-state armed actors whose origins can be traced back to pre-statal politics and international relations but whose presence can be felt very tangibly in 21st century geopolitics. Violence has always been a principal currency of sociopolitical interaction. We tend to associate unconventional forms of war-making with the post-September 11th era of geopolitics; in fact, a number of unconventional warriors have wielded violence before and, then, alongside states for centuries. A great deal of today's attention, both scholarly and policy-oriented, tends to focus in particular on terrorists and insurgents; but a host of other non-state armed actors (from bandits, mercenaries, and mafia to druglords, warlords, and militias) also operate as what Vadim Volkov called ?entrepreneurs? in the field of violence. Their methods, motivations, and interests have evolved over time. Many of the factors that led to their emergence historically have ceased to exist, but these actors have adapted and transformed in ways that keep them relevant to this day.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dipali Mukhopadhyay
h-index: 6 Info - 3 points
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTTION
This course is intended to provide students with an understanding of the strategic, military, and political implications of weapons of mass destruction, understood here to be nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, with a particular focus on nuclear weapons in light of their more significant role in international politics. The course will seek to give students a grounding in the history and concepts of these weapons and then address key issues relating to WMD in the contemporary context.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Austin G Long
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
CRIT APPRO TO E ASIAN STUDIES
CRITICAL APPROACHES TO EAST AS
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gal Gvili
Info - 4 points