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The period of Southern history between the end of Reconstruction and World War I, during which the foundation was laid for a Southern Order more durable than any of its predecessors - either the Old South of King Cotton, the Confederate South of the Civil War era, or the Republican south of the Reconstruction.
Field(s): US
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Research on emotions has boomed over the past two decades, so much so that is has become customary to speak of an “emotional” or “affective turn” across the disciplines. There is a palpable “gold rush” feeling in the air, in call for papers, specialized journals, dedicated book series, and interdisciplinary research centers. Of late, there is also a sense of urgency, as pressing social and political questions have come to stir passions in a way not seen since darkest days of the 20
th
century. Today, we talk compulsively of the politics of anger and resentment, of the frenetic pursuit of happiness and love, of our nostalgia for the past and our hopes and fears for the future – in other words, of how passions have come to shape our lives, perhaps more so than interests and reason itself.
The rationale for offering this course stems from this surge in interest and an admission of partial failure on behalf of the humanities and social sciences—failure to, until very recently, fully appropriate for themselves an object of study long relegated to an unruly human part, impenetrable to the empirical protocols of scientific scholarship. How ironic, therefore, that our present infatuation with emotion should, by and large, result from a so-called “biological turn” and steadfast embrace of the natural sciences across the Arts. In recent years, this rush to plunder the hard sciences has led to the development of “affect theory,” “neurohistory,” “cognitive literary studies,” and the inevitable backlash against these crossovers—leaving as yet unanswered the question of whether a bridge across the (in)famous “two cultures” is possible, or even desirable.
Eschewing both academic fads and knee-jerk reactions, this course takes on the challenges raised by these twists and turns, based on the double premise that there is no a-priori reason why the Arts and Sciences cannot mutually reinforce one another—after all, they did so quite happily not so long ago—and that scholars in the humanities and social sciences simply cannot afford to leave emotions out of the picture because of difficulties in devising satisfactory research protocols. As recent political events remind us, we cover our ears and stick our heads in the sand at our own risk.
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This short course traces the outlines of the international community's steep learning curve in addressing the challenges of post-conflict peace building. It will examine some of the early UN and World Bank experiments in restoring nation states, follow the institutional changes meant to build capacity in the field of post-conflict recovery, look at the methodological and funding tools developed to strengthen field operations, and review some case studies illustrating the impact of this evolution.
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This course surveys historical and current case studies in the context of theoretical debates about the sources of security and insecurity and war and peace. The aim is to establish a foundation for analyzing the prospects for a secure order in Europe in the first part of the 21st century. The emphasis is on problems concerning strategic calculations, military strategy and war as well as political processes and institutional dynamics. Separate sections in the second half of the term are devoted to selected current policy challenges, such as transatlantic rifts, identity issues and ethnonational conflict, transitions in Central Europe and the former Soviet Union, NATO and EU enlargements, and European foreign and defense initiatives.
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
China’s Rise and the World Economy is an intensive seminar on China’s emergence as the world’s second-largest economy, and the impact of that growth in economic as well as political and security terms. Students explore the economic fundamentals of China’s rise in depth, and analyze how leaders in policy and business must respond. It is relevant to students in the International Finance and Economic Policy, Economic and Political Development, and International Security Policy concentrations. The course (formerly called China’s New Marketplace) has been taught yearly since 2001 by Professor Rosen, founding partner of the Rhodium Group; and jointly since 2015 with Professor Kroeber, founding partner of Gavekal Dragonomics. Both are practitioners with long experience in analyzing China’s economy and advising business and government audiences on the subject.
Prerequisites: Background in Chinese or Japanese art
The goal of this class is to study major developments in the history of Chinese and Japanese calligraphy from the beginning of writing in East Asia through the modern period. In addition to examining the works of individual calligraphers, we will attempt to understand how the history of calligraphy has been written, both in East Asian and in the West, how calligraphy conveys meaning, and why it has been valued above all other arts in China and Japan. We will give special attention to works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where several seminar sessions will be held.
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Negritude: Literature and Philosophy. The movement of Negritude started in the 1930’s in Paris by African and Caribbean francophone writers was at once a literary and a philosophical project. The literature of Negritude will then be studied in this seminar as literature and as philosophy.
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
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
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
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
This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the
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at:
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This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the
Law School Curriculum Guide
at:
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The course will cover various topics in number theory located at the interface of p-adic Hodge theory, p-adic geometry, and the p-adic Langlands program.
Prerequisites: SIPA U6401, PEPM U6105 or EMPA U8216
The goal of this course is to teach students about the historical relationships between financial risk, capital structure and legal and policy issues in emerging markets. Our strategy will be to develop a model of how and why international capital flows to emerging market countries and to use the model to examine various topics in the history of international financing from the 1820's to the present. Students will identify patterns in investor and borrower behavior, evaluate sovereign capital structures, and analyze sovereign defaults, including the debt negotiation process during the various debt crises of the past 175 years. We will focus primarily on Latin America, emerging Asia, and Russia, although the lessons will be generalized to cover all emerging market countries.
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This course will provide a framework with which students can evaluate and understand the global financial services industry of both today and tomorrow. Specifically, the course will present an industry insider's perspectives on the (i) current and future role of the major financial service participants, (ii) key drivers influencing an industry that has always been characterized by significant change (e.g., regulatory, technology, risk, globalization, client needs and product development), and (iii) strategic challenges and opportunities facing today's financial services' CEOs post the 2008/09 financial crisis. Furthermore, this course is designed not only for students with a general interest in the financial system, but for those students thinking about a career in the private sector of financial services or the public sector of regulatory overseers.
Social theories of aging, developmental changes, cultural perspectives and intergenerational relationships. The aging worker, housing, ageism and health care for the elderly. The social construction of the aging experience through examination of models of psychosocial health in old age, and in-depth revew of current research investigations focusing on bereavement in the elderly, health status of older adults, long-term care needs and dependency relationships.
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
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
Prerequisites:
G6211
,
G6212
,
G6215
,
G6216
,
G6411
,
G6412
.
Students will present their research on topics in Microeconomics.
Prerequisites:
G6215
,
G6216
,
G6211
,
G6212
,
G6411
,
G6412
.
Students will make presentation of original research in Microeconomics.
This seminar will examine problems in the historiography of Palestine from the 19th century until the present. The course will focus primarily on how the modern history of Palestine and the Palestinian people have been understood and written. It will also touch on related topics, including great powerpolicies, the history of Zionism and Israel, inter-Arab politics, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the Arab-Israeli wars.
Prerequisites:
G6215
,
G6216
,
G6211
,
G6212
,
G6411
,
G6412
.
Students will make presentations of original research in Microeconomics.
Prerequisites:
G6215
and
G6216
.
The topic of the colloquium is to be understood broadly, including in particular international monetary economics, stabilization policies, and the role of expectations in economic dynamics.
Examines basic theoretical perspectives on sexuality relevant for the understanding of public health issues and enlists the social sciences of sociology, psychology, anthropology, history, political science, and moral philosophy. Drawing upon assigned readings, lectures, seminar sections, and individual assignments, students learn to explain the strengths and limitations of relevant theoretical perspectives for understanding public health issues related to sexuality and to analyze linkages between sexuality and health across populations and in minority and stigmatized communities.
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
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
The newly revised 3 point seminar-like course deals with the performance of independent Ukraine on international arena, its relationship with major powers: Russia, Europe and the US and the trajectory of its foreign policy. Having illegally annexed Crimea and conducting a proxy war in Eastern Ukraine, Russia has challenged the basic principles of international law, numerous bilateral agreements and threatening global peace and security. What is to be done to rebuff the aggressor? Can diplomacy still play a role? These and other issues are dealt with in this course. Special emphasis is made on the assessment of current conflict with Moscow and on the new trends in foreign policy doctrine. The issues of national security and current political situation are dealt with extensively. The course delivers first-hand insights by a career diplomat, who has been actively involved in the implementation of Ukrainian foreign policy for over three decades. The format of the course will encourage active dialogue and analytical reflection on the part of the students. The course is aimed at attracting both graduate and advanced undergraduate students.
The household and family loomed large in the colonial ethnographies of Africa of the twentieth century. But in the imaginings of those anthropologists, household and family were eternal structures; they were institutions without history. Historical scholarship and later anthropologists have challenged that notion and shown that these were and are complicated and diverse social institutions with specific histories and consequences. This course puts the anthropological theories of household and family in Africa into conversation with historical scholarship on them. In so doing, we will explore questions of lineage, marriage, gender and kinship, which have often been invoked as explanatory factors in historical processes, but all of which need to be historicized themselves.
The role public health practice has played in American history during the 19th and 20th centuries. The social/biological environment and the creation of conditions for 19th- century epidemics of cholera, typhoid, yellow fever and other epidemic diseases. The changing urban and industrial infrastructure and their relationship to late 19th- and 20th-century concerns about tuberculosis, industrial illness and infection. Public health practice and campaigns. Social attitudes towards the industrial worker, the immigrant, and the urban environment. Boundaries between public health and medical practice and their shifting definitions. Changes in urban living and culture through the transformation of the industrial work place.