Finance & Sustainability

• Department: Finance
• R 2:15 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Bruce M Usher
  Info
• 3 points

FINANCE FOR THE WORLD'S POOREST

This is a class for those who want to learn about the challenges of delivering financial services in settings that are impoverished, often corrupt and prone to violence. The question addressed in this class how the poorest can improve the ways that they save and borrow and manage their money. Students working in small groups will grapple with the issues of creating large-scale, effective and self-replicating initiatives for the world’s poorest as they design projects from feasibility study, to staffing to budgets and evaluation.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 6:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Jefferey Ashe
  Info
• 3 points

CRIME, JOURNALISM & PUBLIC POLICY

Crime narratives have dominated news coverage from the beginning of mass communication.  This course examines the prominence and impact of these crime narratives on citizens and public policy.  We will explore how reports of crime have been harnessed to advance political, governmental and ideological objectives for centuries.  We will study the power of mass communication and the impact that crime events can have on public policy and crime legislation.  We will examine what responsibilities (if any) media organizations, individual journalists, media consumers, legislators, government officials should assume when producing, consuming and otherwise engaging highly publicized crime events.  The objective of the course is to provide historical and theoretical background (criminological, journalistic, political and legal) to critically analyze the dynamic interaction among criminal events, the media, and policymakers.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Cory Way
  Info
• 1.5 points

ADVANCED PLAY DIRECTING SEM I

• Department: Theatre Arts
• T 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Gregory Mosher
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Project Finance

• Department: Finance
• R 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Dewing
  Info
• 1.5 points

S ENVIRO ISSUES IN BUS TRANS

• Department: Law
• 2 points

Carbon Finance

Climate Finance

• Department: Finance
• MTW 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Bruce M Usher
  Info
• 1.5 points

Security Analysis

• Department: Finance
• W 5:45 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher Begg
  Info
• 3 points

PROMOTING DECENT WORK & LABOR RIGHTS

What it means to be a worker, to struggle for labor rights, to regulate employment relations and labor markets, and to be part of the labor movement are all in flux in the contemporary global economy, including developing countries.  Raising labor standards, protecting and extending labor rights, and creating good jobs are particularly challenging within a volatile global economy, and have been a focus of the ILO’s “decent work” agenda as well as being reflected in the Sustainable Development Goals. This course will examine evidence on shifting practice and hotly contested debates on collective action frames, activist and advocacy approaches, and policy alternatives in both the public and intergovernmental spheres as well as the spheres of private regulation of market actors through schemes like monitoring and fair trade.  We will integrate a focus on global and transnational levels of action and policy debates with discussion of comparative national perspectives and “models” within the global South, while also paying attention to trends in the global North, distinctive Northern models and how trade and investment arrangements linking North and South how the contours of labor rights practices and struggles across and within borders.  We will explore how contemporary systems of national labor regulation and traditional patterns of labor organizing have been undermined by precarious work, informality and a flexible “gig” economy increasingly shorn of protections.  What role might ideas of “flexicurity” or conceptions of “decent work” and “rights at work” play in refashioning worker protections? How have labor movements and labor advocates sought to redefine their identities, boundaries, and mission as work has become more irregular, employment less stable, the workforce increasingly gendered, and politics increasingly wrought by cleavages along lines of nationality, race, and ethnicity? What place do labor rights have in the spread of regional and multilateral trade and investment agreements which threaten a race to the bottom?

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• Instructor: Scott B Martin
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 11 Info
• 3 points

RUTH CRAWFORD SEEGER

RUTH CRAWFORD SEEEGER

• Department: Music
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Ellie Hisama
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

PUBLIC HEALTH GIS

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• W 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• W 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeremy Porter
  h-index: 19 Info
• 3 points

C TAX POLICY

• Department: Law
• Instructor: Alex Raskolnikov
  Info
• 3 points

Applied Value Investing

• Department: Finance
• M 5:45 p.m.-9 p.m.
• R 5:45 p.m.-9 p.m.
• T 2:15 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• M 6:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• R 4 p.m.-7:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Kevin Oro-Hahn
  Info
• Instructor: Mark A Cooper
  Info
• Instructor: Timothy C Jr Quinn
  Info
• Instructor: Scott M Hendrickson
  Info
• Instructor: Anuroop Duggal
  Info
• 3 points

Value & Special Situation Inve

• Department: Finance
• M 2:15 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Joel Greenblatt
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Advanced Investment Research

• Department: Finance
• T 6:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• W 5:45 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Kian Ghazi
  Info
• Instructor: Kenneth Shubin Stein
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Misunderstood Securities: Inve

• Department: Finance
• T 2:15 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Lauren A Robertsen
  Info
• 3 points

VC/Angel Deals: gut-driven tec

• Department: Finance
• T 2:15 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Edward Zimmerman
  Info
• 3 points

PRINS/EPID III:DATA ANALY/EPID

• Department: Epidemiology
• T 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeanine Genkinger
  h-index: 36 Info
• 3 points

RHETORIC OF THE AVANT-GARDE-JAPAN

RHETORIC OF THE AVANT GARDE IN

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Reynolds
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY

• Department: Epidemiology
• T 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• 3 points

GRADUATE INDEPENDENT RESEARCH

Prerequisites: a member of the department's permission.
Reading in special topics under the guidance of a member of the faculty.

• Department: Statistics
• Instructor: David Madigan
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• 2-4 points

GENETICS IN EPIDEMIOLOGY

• Department: Epidemiology
• M 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Ruth Ottman
  h-index: 76 Info
• 3 points

SCIENCE,KNOWLEDGE & TECHNOLOGY

SCIENCE,KNOWLEGE & TECHNOLOGY

How do scientific and technical experts do their work and produce the results that they do? The purpose of this course is to read and critically evaluate the canonical works in the sociology of science, knowledge, and technology and to initiate a research project. The research paper for this course can be tailored to meet the student's long term research or professional interests. The readings are organized chronologically to introduce major works and their authors, present an overview of the development of the field, the diversity of perspectives, turning points, and controversies.

• Department: Sociology
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Diane Vaughan
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

PSYCHIATRIC EPIDEMIOLOGY

• Department: Epidemiology
• R 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• 3 points

DRAMATURGY II

DRAMATURGY II:SHAKESPEARE

• Department: Theatre Arts
• R 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: John Dias
  Info
• 3 points

SEM-ETHNOMUSICLGY:FLD MTHDS I

SEM-ETHNOMUSICLGY-FLD MTHDS I

• Department: Music
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Christopher J Washburne
  CULPA: 31 Info
• 3 points

BLACK BRITISH ART & THEORY

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Kellie Jones
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

US-LAT AMER RELATNS: WWII-PRES

The course seeks to analyze the dynamics and issues that describe relations between the United States and Latin America since the end of World War II. A complete picture of the current state of affairs in the hemisphere and the reasons that led to it require an analysis in three different - but related - dimensions. To cover the first one, the course analyzes historical benchmarks that contextualize particular overt American interventions in the region, dissecting their causes, operation and consequences. In a second dimension, the course looks at topics that have permeated the relationship between the United States and Latin America over this period. Because of their typically cross-national nature, they illustrate a different set of dynamics and concerns that have fueled tensions in the relationship. A third and final dimension concerns recent developments in Latin America that affect and have been affected by American foreign policy. Their novelty suggests that these issues will remain relevant at least in the immediate future.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: John H Coatsworth
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia h-index: 29 Info
• 3 points

COLLOQUIUM IN DEVELOPMENT

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Students will make presentations of original research.

• Department: Economics
• F noon-1 p.m.
• 2 points

ROUSSEAU & HIS CRITICS

ROUSSEAU AND HIS CRITICS

In this course we will read Rousseau through the lens of the highly polarized critical reactions his writings have provoked, from his time to our own. We will try to understand why this figure has been viewed as an exemplar of both the Enlightenment and the Counter-Enlightenment, as a defender of human liberty and as a proto-fascist, as an inspiration to women writers and as a misogynist. We will also address how Rousseau defined himself and his work, often in opposition to his fellow philosophes and critics, and how various personal and philosophical quarrels helped shape his major works. The course will be held in French but papers may be written in English for students outside the French department.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Joanna R Stalnaker
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 3 points

Quantitative Corporate Finance

• Department: Finance
• M 5:45 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Hans C Tallis
  Info
• 1.5 points

POL ECON ANALYS OF POL BEHAVIOR

POL ECON ANALYS-POL BEHAV

This course examines comparative political behavior from a political economy perspective, focusing on how incentives drive the micro-level behavior of voters and politicians. Students will rigorously examine contemporary debates, both theoretically and empirically. Student will also combine formal models and modern research designs to generate hypotheses, identify causal effects, and ultimately seek to interpret them. The course draws from evidence from across the democratic world. The goals of this course are twofold. The substantive goal is to familiarize students with theoretical arguments and frontier empirical evidence pertaining to central questions in comparative political economy. The methodological goal is to help students think critically and conduct cutting edge research. Specifically, the course aims to empower students to read and even write formal models, implement modern causal inference techniques in their research, and combine the two approaches to interpret the evidence.

• Department: Political Science
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: John Marshall
  h-index: 20 Info
• 4 points

ARCHIVING PRACTICES

• Department: Music
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Aaron A Fox
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

Real Estate Entrepreneurship

• Department: Finance
• W 5:45 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher Mayer
  Wikipedia h-index: 42 Info
• 3 points

SOCIAL IMPACT RE DEV,PART II

Social Impact Real Estate

• Department: Finance
• M 4 p.m.-7:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Rachel Miller
  Info
• 1.5 points

STYLE REVOLUTION,DIGITAL EDITION

STYLE REVOLTN,DIGITAL EDITION

The French Revolution of 1789 promised that women and men could completely reinvent themselves, with the help of a total style transformation. Between 1797 and 1804, after the political crisis of the first revolutionary years and before Napoleon became Emperor, the
Journal des dames et des modes
showed all Europeans how to look, read, and entertain themselves as modern individuals. It rejected the dress rules and materials that had signaled static social rank in favor of mobile self-expression through consumer choice. The change was so radical for women that it was partially reversed after 1804, but for men it endured. The Morgan has allowed us to design an online presence for its 1797-1804
Journal
plates. Though the plates are fashion history cult items, and a few circulate widely on the internet, only one other complete set is known to survive, held by a small museum in Denmark.  This seminar experiments.  What visual modes of digital edition can we imagine? What scholarship, translations, bibliography, and comparative images are relevant? Can we devise a visual “glossary” with high-resolution photographs of materials and construction techniques?  How could we launch these plates in New York City, a fashion capital?
This course will introduce graduate students to techniques of work in digital environments. The course is intended mainly for humanities and social science students who are novices with little or no experience with digital platforms, as well as those who might be familiar with constructing websites or blogs, or even with creating minimal editions. Through hands­on assignments (with plenty of assistance), you will master a variety of skills that constitute literacy in digital humanities, and, by the end of the semester, you will be able to take

your newfound digital literacy with you as you pursue your own study, research, and future work.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Anne Higonnet
  CULPA: 31 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

COLL IN INDUST ORGANIZATION

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Students will make presentations of original research.

• Department: Economics
• W 1 p.m.-2 p.m.
• 2 points

Risk and Opportunity: Investin

• Department: Business
• W 4 p.m.-7:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeffrey Harris
  Wikipedia h-index: 22 Info
• 3 points

TORTURE,ART&THE; POLITICAL IMAGINARY

This course will investigate the distressing persistence of the phenomenon of torture from two perspectives. The first is a critical interrogation of the myth that torture is an effective means of gathering accurate information and the role that both the practice and myth of torture plays in the psychology and implementation of regimes of power, including the functional means by which it defines the political “other” as foreign, inferior, and, ultimately, what philosopher Judith Butler calls “ungrievable.” The second is the means by which the “political imaginary” associated with torture (both produced by and effective in its justification) has impacted, or found its trace within, aesthetic practice: from the history painting-sized tableaus of South American death squads by Leon Golub, to the
Torture of Women
series of images by Nancy Spero, to the depictions of Vietnam Era atrocities by Carolee Schneemann, to potential resonances of bodily abuse in the performance art of Gina Pane, Marina Abramovic, or Chris Burden, to the investigative practices of contemporary artist Trevor Paglan, and more. How might the imaginary of a “body in pain” (to borrow the title of literary theorist Elaine Scarry’s book) impact—whether directly or indirectly—the aesthetic engagement with, and depiction of, the body in other places, contexts, and social milieus? In order to prepare for research into this question, the course will examine a number of theoretical engagements with issues of power, discipline, and control; the ethics of describing or depicting bodily pain, torture, and death; and the notions of “bare” or “ungrievable” life. By nature of the topic,
a number of the materials within this course will be unpleasant and potentially

disturbing,
and another issue of investigation will concern how to practice and produce ethical and sufficiently respectful academic discussions of issues that so adversely impact human lives.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Branden W Joseph
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Strategic International Commer

• Department: Finance
• M 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark S Vecchio
  Info
• 3 points

ECO-ART HISTORY

What should art history look like in the anthropocene? Eco-criticism has gained increasing visibility in academia. The term covers a broad array of critical approaches ranging from a relatively conservative environmental history to a more radical investment in object-oriented ontologies. What is necessary to bring questions about how to define and analyze the ecological that have been developed in other disciplinary contexts—literature, anthropology, science studies—to art history? How might we attend to the non-human forces contributing to the conceptualization, commissioning, creation, display, evolution and reception of works of art?  Do all kinds of objects invite this kind of critical investigation or only a select few? What are the potential pitfalls of undertaking this approach? In this seminar, we will investigate these questions and more. Starting close to home with writings about works of art that specifically engage environmental politics, we will move on to exploring how various strains of eco-criticism, such as “thing theory” and “post-human studies” can enliven our interpretation of aesthetic objects, incorporating readings by scholars of visual and material culture working across a broad temporal and geographic range. In addition to participating in group discussions and projects, students will rehearse the application of these critical approaches by developing a research project in their own subfields. Key questions will include, among others, the definition and limits of the term “human”; the agency of artists’ materials and the physical environments in which works are created and viewed; artists’ attempts to collaborate with the non-human through explorations of chance, time-based practice and other strategies; art works designed to document, inform about or forestall environmental damage; the relationship between colonial or neoliberal social formations and the environment as evidenced in works of art or their creation and reception; the place of the aesthetic in eco-criticism.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Hutchinson
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 4 points

LEGACIES OF EMPIRE & SOV UNION

THE LEGACY OF RUSSIA

Required of all Harriman Institute Certificate candidates.  For registration purposes the actual course number is HSPS G8445x.

• Department: History
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexander A Cooley
  CULPA: 22 h-index: 33 Info
• 4 points

Finance and the Art Markets

• Department: Finance
• W 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Arturo Cifuentes
  Info
• 1.5 points

CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

• Department: Epidemiology
• F 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Guohua Li
  Info
• 3 points

ENERGY 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
• Instructor: Michael Gerrard
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 2 points

Real Estate Debt Markets

• Department: Finance
• T 5:45 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Brian P Lancaster
  Info
• 1.5 points

S ENERGY INDUSTRY RESTRUCTURNG

• Department: Law
• Instructor: Robert Grey
  Info
• 2 points

Real Estate Equity Securities

• Department: Finance
• T 5:45 p.m.-9 p.m.
• 1.5 points

EPIDEMIOLOGY OF HIV/AIDS

• Department: Epidemiology
• R 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Batya O Elul
  Info
• 3 points

EPIDEMIOLOGY OF MALARIA

• Department: Epidemiology
• Instructor: Awash Teklehaimanot
  Info
• 3 points

EPI OF ALCOHOL & DRUG PROBLEMS

• Department: Epidemiology
• T 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Deborah S Hasin
  Info
• 3 points

SOCIAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

• Department: Epidemiology
• R 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Bates
  Info
• 3 points

CHINESE POLIT ECON-COMP PERSP

CHINESE POLIT IN COMP PRSPCTV

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
A graduate seminar designed to explore the content, process, and problems of China's political and economic reforms in comparative perspective. Please see the Courseworks site for details

• Department: Political Science
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Xiaobo Lu
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES

• Department: Epidemiology
• W 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Stephen S Morse
  h-index: 41 Info
• 3 points

METHODS SEMINAR:ROLAND BARTHES

The structuralist method was given its most eloquent form by Roland Barthes who was awarded the Chair in literary semiology at the College de France, in 1979. The seminar will examine the gamut of Barthes’ contribution to structuralist concerns, from the “fascist” binary to photography.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Rosalind Krauss
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

EPI OF CHRONIC DISEASE SEMINAR

• Department: Epidemiology
• R 11:30 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Steven D Stellman
  h-index: 65 Info
• 0.5 points

S COMPARATIVE ADMIN LAW

• Department: Law
• 2 points

SEMINAR IN SOCIAL DETERM OF HLTH

SEM-SOC DETERMINANTS IN HEALTH

• Department: Epidemiology
• Instructor: Lisa Bates
  Info
• 0-1 points

EPIDEMIOLGC RES-DEVP COUNTRIES

• Department: Epidemiology
• Instructor: Batya O Elul
  Info
• 3 points

GLOB MENTL HLTH IMPACT-TRAUMA

• Department: Epidemiology
• F 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• 3 points

TUTORIALS IN EPIDEMIOLOGY

• Department: Epidemiology
• F 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• 1-6 points

LIFECOURSE EPIDEMIOLOGY

• Department: Epidemiology
• W 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Pam R Factor-Litvak
  Info
• 3 points

EMBODIMENT&MATERIALITY; IN GREEK TRAGEDY

EMBDMNT&MAT; IN GRK TRAG

Course Description: This course is designed as an exposure to new theories of embodiment, the senses, and materialism, including approaches to Greek tragedy and to other literature and culture. We will focus on one tragedy from each of the three canonical authors (Aeschylus'
Suppliants
, Sophocles'
Electra
, and Euripides'
Andromache
), exploring how tragic embodiment represents boundaries and edges and thus skin, coverings, masking, and dress-up in relation to gender and sexuality as well as race and class. The course will draw attention to touching, proximity, and affect and feature ground-breaking work on aesthetics, affect and the senses, materialities, and the post-human in order to foster innovative engagements with the tragedies.

• Department: Classics @Barnard
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Nancy Worman
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

BORDERLANDS HISTORY COLLOQUIUM

This course will argue for a broader spatial history of empire by looking at sites such as "frontiers" and "borderlands" in a theoretical and comparative perspective. From the works of nineteenth century historians such as Frederick Jackson Turner to formulations of spatial perspectives by Foucault, Bauchelard and Lefebvre we will look at specific sites from the American West to Northeast India. Our effort will be to situate borderlands and frontiers not at the margins but t the center of the relationship between power and narrative, between empire and colony. Formulations of race, gender, class will be central to our comparative units of historical analysis and allow us to create conversations across area-studies boundaries within the discipline.

• Department: History
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• 4 points

MODERN CHINA

• Department: Anthropology
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Myron L Cohen
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

ISSUES-CONTEMP SECURITY POLICY

This course examines central issues in contemporary international security policy such as causes of war, American primacy, rising major powers, international and civil wars, the spread of weapons of mass destruction, unconventional warfare, crisis management, standards for legitimate use of force, and key concepts in the study of international politics and conflict.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• S 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Richard K Betts
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 3 points

US HISTORIOGRAPHY/PHD STUDENTS

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Required of all first-year PhD students in American history. Open to history PhD students only. **formerly titled "Literature of American History"
Field(s): US

• Department: History
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Elizabeth Blackmar
  CULPA: 22 Info
• 4 points

M. PHIL SEMINAR

Individual work with an adviser to develope a topic and proposal for the Ph.D. dissertation.

• Department: Music
• Instructor: Alessandra M Ciucci
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Sophia C Di Castri
  Info
• Instructor: Joseph P Dubiel
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Kevin Fellezs
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Aaron A Fox
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Walter M Frisch
  CULPA: 17 Info
• Instructor: Bradford G Garton
  CULPA: 14 Info
• Instructor: Giuseppe Gerbino
  CULPA: 12 Info
• Instructor: Georg Friedrich Haas
  Info
• Instructor: Ellie Hisama
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: George Lewis
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia h-index: 18 Info
• Instructor: Ana Maria Ochoa
  Info
• Instructor: Elaine Sisman
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Christopher J Washburne
  CULPA: 31 Info
• 3 points

M. PHIL SEMINAR

Individual work with an adviser to develope a topic and proposal for the Ph.D. dissertation.

• Department: Music
• 3 points

QUANT METHOD-PROG EVALUATION

Prerequisites: SIPA U6501
The goal of this course is to provide students with a basic knowledge of how to perform some more advanced statistical methods useful in answering policy questions using observational or experimental data. It will also allow them to more critically review research published that claims to answer causal policy questions. The primary focus is on the challenge of answering causal questions that take the form "Did A cause B?" using data that do not conform to a perfectly controlled randomized study. Examples from real policy studies and quantitative program evaluations will be used throughout the course to illustrate key ideas and methods. First, we will explore how best to design a study to answer causal questions given the logistical and ethical constraints that exist. We will consider both experimental and quasi- experimental (observational studies) research designs, and then discuss several approaches to drawing causal inferences from observational studies including propensity score matching, interrupted time series designs, instrumental variables, difference in differences, fixed effects models, and regression discontinuity designs. As this course will focus on quantitative methods, a strong understanding of multivariate regression analysis is a prerequisite for the material covered. Students must have taken two semesters of statistics (U6500 & U6501 or the equivalent) and have a good working knowledge of STATA

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Alan S Yang
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

READINGS IN EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY

READINGS IN EARLY US HISTORY

This course introduces graduate students to advanced scholarship in early American history, focusing on the historical development of North America c. 1607-1850 CE. While the course will take recent monographs as its starting point, students will also put these new books in conversation with older works of historical scholarship, developing their understanding of important issues and ongoing debates in the field. Graduate students working in related fields (e.g., Atlantic history, early American literature, early modern history) are welcome to join.

• Department: History
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Hannah Farber
  h-index: 1 Info
• 4 points

INNOVATIONS IN HEALTH POLICY

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• R 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Sara Abiola
  h-index: 5 Info
• 1.5 points

RESEARCH METHODS IN SOCIAL WRK

A review of research methods from the perspective of social work research concerns. Topics include problem formulation, research design, data-gathering techniques, measurement, and data analysis. Selected aspects of these areas encountered in social work research are intensively reviewed in terms of social work research.

• Department: Social Work
• W 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Julien Teitler
  h-index: 33 Info
• 3 points

SEC COUNCIL/PEACEKEEP-AFR-21 C

This course, which will be taught by a practitioner, will focus on United Nations peacekeeping operations as one of the main conflict management tools of the Security Council (SC) in Africa. Through an extensive series of case studies (Somalia, Rwanda, South Sudan, Libya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali, the Central African Republic and Cote d'Ivoire), It will closely examine the tool of peace keeping, the context in which it operates, the evolution of its doctrine, the lessons learned, and the challenges ahead. Drawing on the recent report of the High-level Independent Panel on peace operations (HIPPO), and the cases studies above, it will elaborate on the many issues in peacekeeping today,in particular the limits of the use of force, the protection of civilians, the nexus peacekeeping/peacebuilding, and the increased partnership with regional and subregional organizations.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Elisabeth Lindenmayer
  Info
• 3 points

RES MTHDS 3-ANLYS LARGE SCALE DATA

RES MTHDS 3-ANLYS LRG SCL DATA

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• R 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew J Neidell
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• Instructor: Adam J Sacarny
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• 3 points

INSIDE THE SECURITY COUNCIL

This course will examine the inner workings of the UN Security Council and how they have evolved over the years in order to gain a better understanding of the dynamics of power relationships within the international community, of the ways large and small countries seek to advance or defend their interests, and of how the working methods of the Council have been adjusted to better meet new challenges, such as human security, non-proliferation, and counter terrorism. Inequality-among its members, between them and the other 178 Member States, and between the Council and other international bodies--has been a defining characteristic of the composition, procedures, and rules of the world's premier security institution from the outset. Through case studies and conversations with practitioners, including the representatives of large, emerging, and smaller powers, the class will assess what kinds of reforms might be needed in how the Council goes about the critical business of maintaining international peace and security. The course aims to provide an informed and nuanced understanding of the politics and procedures of the Council for those in civil society, governments, international secretariats, and research institutions who seek to assess, influence, or work with the Council.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Edward C Luck
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• 3 points

MANAGERIAL NEGOTIATIONS

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• M 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Harborne Stuart
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• 3 points

STRATEGIC ISSUES IN HEALTHCARE QUALITY

STRATEGIC ISSUES HEALTH QUAL

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• W 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Katherine Garrett
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• 1.5 points

PLAYWRITING III

• Department: Theatre Arts
• M 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Charles Mee
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• 3 points

MGMT CHAL IN HLTH CARE & INSUR

This is a Public Health Course.  Public Health classes are offered on the Health Services Campus at 168th Street. For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• M 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: William E Gold
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• 3 points