This course aims at familiarizing students with major issues surrounding global economic governance, exploring both the issues that are subject to current debates (or have been in the past) as well as the institutional questions involved. "Global economic governance" is understood in a broad sense, and thus includes not only global but also regional frameworks, and both formal institutions as well as informal groupings of countries (such as the G7/8 and the G20) and rules of international transactions that have been left to bilateral agreements or are under the domain of national sovereignty but do have global implications. "Economics" is also understood in a broad sense, to include social and environmental issues. It will start with four general lectures that will place the debates on global governance in relation to those on globalization, and will give a first look at the objectives of international cooperation, the historical evolution of the current governance and typologies of the different rules, organization and governance structures that have been created at varied times. It will then deal in detail with major topics related to the architecture of international cooperation and both formal and informal (informal groupings of countries) governance structures. This will be followed by a look at two specific cases of the interaction between regional and global governance (regional financial and trade cooperation, and the European Union) and end with a recapitulation of reform proposals, particularly in light of the global economic developments in the 2008-2015 period, and the political economy of global reform.
Required course for first-year PhD Students in the Art History Department.
Prerequisite
: approval of adviser. Readings on topics in medical informatics under the direction of a faculty adviser.
The theory and practice of literary criticism. Required of all candidates for the M.A. degree in Russian, Czech, Ukrainian, South Slavic, and Polish Literature.
Prerequisites: the department's permission.
0 pts.
Required of all degree candidates. The proseminar introduces incoming students to the research process and a range of research studies as well as the faculty conducting them at Columbia. It also provides some ongoing group advisement and skills workshops.
This graduate seminar explores the concepts of identity and otherness in Sallust’s
Bellum Iugurthinum
, Tacitus’
Agricola
, and Tacitus’
Germania
. In analyzing these works, we seek to understand the ways in which Sallust’s and Tacitus’ records of the actions, characters, lifestyles, and conflicts of Romans and non-Romans serve as responses to the politics, power struggles, and moral decline of Rome. Sallust’s monograph on the Jugurthine War provides a background to considerations of style and the relationship between Romans and non-Romans. Tacitus’ biography of his father-in-law, Agricola, echoes the organization of Sallust’s
Bellum Iugurthinum
, while exploring the impact of Romans in Britain after the conquest of Claudius. Tacitus’ ethnographic work on Germanic peoples challenges readers to compare the customs and values of others to themselves, to consider what it means to be Roman, and perhaps to critique the failing morality of Roman society in light of these comparisons.
The dissertation colloquium is a non-credit course open to MESAAS doctoral students who have completed the M.Phil. degree. It provides a forum in which the entire community of dissertation writers meets, bridging the department's different fields and regions of research. It complements workshops outside the department focused on one area or theme. Through an encounter with the diversity of research underway in MESAAS, participants learn to engage with work anchored in different regions and disciplines and discover or develop what is common in the department's post-disciplinary methods of inquiry. Since the community is relatively small, it is expected that all post-M.Phil. students in residence will join the colloquium. Post M.Phil. students from other departments may request permission to join the colloquium, but places for non-MESAAS students will be limited. The colloquium convenes every semester, meeting once every two weeks. Each meeting is devoted to the discussion of one or two pre-circulated pieces of work (a draft prospectus or dissertation chapter). Every participant contributes at least one piece of work each year.
Prerequisite:
instructor’s permission. Participation in medical informatics educational activities under the direction of a faculty adviser.
Prerequisites:
KORN W5011
and
W5012
or equivalent, and the instructor's permission.
This course is designed to provide M.A. and Ph.D. students in Korean Studies with the necessary skills for reading advanced Korean in mixed script. It focuses on materials from the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries.
The course will reconstruct the major arguments formulated by ecofeminist theorists by reading some of the major ecological treatises of the 19
th
and 20
th
centuries, and by introducing some of the questions that have preoccupied feminist philosophers in the last couple of decades. We will thus begin by inquiring into how philosophers, and later ecologists, from Schelling, Hegel and Nietzsche to Jakob von Uexküll, Simone Weil, and Gilles Deleuze, understood the earth, matter, and life on earth, before moving to discuss questions of gendered subjectivity and embodied personhood as formulated in the works of Simone de Beauvoir (selections from
The Ethics of Ambiguity
), Luce Irigaray (selections from
The Forgetting of Air
,
Marine Lover
) and Julia Kristeva (selections from
Black Sun
and
Tales of Love
). In this introductory part of the course we will pay special attention to how feminist thinkers developed a philosophy of elements and vegetal life in order to articulate aspects of the feminine, or what some of them also called “woman’s” subjectivity.
Prerequisites:
JPNS W4017-W4018
and the instructor’s permission.
Selected works in modern Japanese fiction and criticism.
Research in an area of Mechanical Engineering culminating in a verbal presentation and a written thesis document approved by the thesis advisor. Must obtain permission from a thesis advisor to enroll. Recommended enrollment for two terms, one of which can be the summer. A maximum of 6 points of master's thesis may count towards an MS degree , and additional research points cannot be counted. On completion of all master's thesis credits, the thesis advisor will assign a single grade. Students must use a department recommended format for thesis writing.
Research in an area of Mechanical Engineering culminating in a verbal presentation and a written thesis document approved by the thesis advisor. Must obtain permission from a thesis advisor to enroll. Recommended enrollment for two terms, one of which can be the summer. A maximum of 6 points of master's thesis may count towards an MS degree , and additional research points cannot be counted. On completion of all master's thesis credits, the thesis advisor will assign a single grade. Students must use a department recommended format for thesis writing.
Research in an area of Mechanical Engineering culminating in a verbal presentation and a written thesis document approved by the thesis advisor. Must obtain permission from a thesis advisor to enroll. Recommended enrollment for two terms, one of which can be the summer. A maximum of 6 points of master's thesis may count towards an MS degree , and additional research points cannot be counted. On completion of all master's thesis credits, the thesis advisor will assign a single grade. Students must use a department recommended format for thesis writing.