The course will focus on the Galois representations attached to automorphic forms and their deformation theory. Topics include the Taylor-Wiles method and its generalizations, the structure of automorphic Hecke algebras, and applications.
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
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: 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.
This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the
Law School Curriculum Guide
at:
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Prerequisites: SIPA U6400 or SIPA U6401 or PEPM U6101 or PEPM U6104 or EMPA U8216
This course gives students the tools they need to identify which emerging market countries (EMs) have potential for rapid growth and determining what investments are best positioned to benefit from this growth. The course also investigates how to assess the risks inherent in EM investing and fitting this exposure into a broader portfolio. Section One assumes knowledge of basic economics and uses macro theory to identify key sources of expansion and why some countries grow faster than others. The roll of fiscal, monetary and exchange rate policies are investigated, as well as, how national institutions can support - or deter - development. This section focuses on countries that have not yet "emerged" but appear to be on the verge of doing so - "frontier" economies. Section Two takes a micro approach to investing and identifies the specific avenues of investments and their relative attractiveness. This section also investigates managing exchange rate exposure and how emerging market investments fit into a global portfolio. Section Three looks at methods of assessing sovereign risk and the potential for other external crises. It also looks at how to determine which domestic markets are most vulnerable to financial shock. The third section includes case studies in which all three components of the course will be incorporated.
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: SIPA U6401, PEPM U6105, or EMPA U8216
This course explores the performance of the financial systems of emerging market countries (EMs) over the past three decades, and historically, both from the standpoint of market participants and public policy makers. EMs are countries that have decided to "emerge" from a condition of financial underdevelopment (sometimes called "financial repression"). EMs engage in a combination of market reforms which include: foreign trade opening, privatization of state-owned enterprises, and the liberalization and deregulation of domestic financial systems and international capital markets. Emergence typically involves a variety of such changes, as well as related institutional changes that support those efforts (reforms of the legal and regulatory systems, the corporate laws, and the fiscal and monetary systems). This course investigates the determinants of successful or unsuccessful emergence. Said differently, the course helps to identify factors that make emergence more or less likely to succeed. Failure of emergence often takes the form of a major financial crisis, in which the failings of the EM policy regime are brought to light. Thus, an important part of analyzing the success or failure of emergence entails the analysis of EM financial crises.
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: SIPA U6401
This course will give an overview of history, function, and future prospects of the financial markets in Asian countries (mainly ASEAN-10, Japan, Korea, China, and India). How financial supervision and regulation should be formed will be examined too. The financial crisis, as well as financial development, will be covered as an instrumental event for reforms. The stages of financial and economic development will be explained and Asian countries will be placed on the development stages. Economic and financial policies will be examined from efficiency point of view.
Prerequisites: SIPA U6401
The objective of this course is to provide students with knowledge of why the Japanese economic growth rate was high in the 1950s and 1960s and later declined; how financial market developments contributed to growth; how quickly its markets were opened to international trade and finance; and why the Japanese economy has suffered stagnation and deflation in the last twenty years. The description and explanation is based on intermediate microeconomic and macroeconomic theory and empirical evidence. The role of economic policies-monetary policy, fiscal policy, financial supervision and regulation, industrial policy-will be carefully examined.
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.
This course focuses on the actual management problems of humanitarian interventions and helps students obtain the professional skills and insight needed to work in complex humanitarian emergencies, and to provide oversight and guidance to humanitarian operations from a policy perspective. It is a follow-up to the fall course that studied the broader context, root causes, actors, policy issues, and debates in humanitarian emergencies.
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
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.
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.
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
Ukraine is at war, the country is in turmoil. What is to be done by the Government to rebuff foreign aggression, eradicate corruption, improve economic situation and implement reforms? What are the chances of the new opposition to succeed? Will the Minsk accords be implemented? These and other issues, including behind-the-scene politics, power struggle and diplomatic activities, are dealt with in the newly revised course delivered by a career diplomat. The course is aimed at both graduate and advanced undergraduate students.
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: Good Clinical Practices Certificate Exam; also 6727 and 8772
Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) has received growing attention over the past several decades as international, domestic, funding agencies and researchers have renewed a focus on an approach to health that recognizes the importance of social, political and economic systems to health behaviors and outcomes. The importance of this approach is reflected in the recent IOM report that CBPR which indicates that CBPR is one of the eight priority areas for improving the public health. CBPR is not a method but a system of investigation that involves the active collaboration of the potential beneficiaries and recognizes and values the contributions that community-based participatory research can make to new knowledge and to the translation of research findings into public health practice and policy. CBPR as it is often referred is a collaborative approach to research that recognizes the value of equitably involving the intended beneficiaries throughout all phases of program planning, implementation and evaluation.
Gender equality, and women’s and girls’ empowerment, are now widely accepted as development goals in their own right, and essential to inclusive and sustainable development. But despite progress in many areas, gender gaps and discrimination persist. How did gender equality move from the periphery to the center of development discourse, and what difference has this made? Is gender equality a human right, an essential aspect of human development, or “smart economics”? What are the implications of a gender equality agenda for men and boys, and for broader understandings of gender identities and sexualities? What policies, strategies and practices have been effective – or ineffective – in narrowing gender gaps and improving outcomes for both women and men in particular development settings? In this course, we approach gender, politics and development in terms of theory, policy and practice. We apply a critical gender lens to a wide range of development sectors and issue areas, including economic development, political participation, education and health, environment and climate change, and conflict and displacement. We also consider current debates and approaches related to gender mainstreaming and gender metrics in development practice. Students engage with the course material through class discussion, exercises and case studies, and the development of a gender-related project proposal.
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: P8788, Theoretical Foundations of Sociomedical Sciences
This course is the second part of a two-semester seminar that essays a selective genealogy of the major theoretical traditions undergirding contemporary practice in the sociomedical sciences. The critical examination of current research projects in the spring- like the historical review in the fall - will be guided by the framing interests and signature emphases of the department: urban environs in transformation, social structures and axes of inequality, disparities in morbidity and morality, agency and identity, social construction and production of health and disease, globalization and marginalization. The overall aim is to familiarize students with the relevant interpretive/analytic traditions, provide a rehearsal stage for testing out particular tools and frameworks in "compare and contrast" exercises, and build the theoretical foundations that will enable them to critically assess contemporary work in the field. In this second part of the sequence, special emphasis will be given to research by faculty members in the department, as well as by others working in related frameworks. Both theoretical and methodological approaches to the sociomedical sciences will be examined in seeking to develop and overview of contemporary debates in the field. Close reading, class discussion, and reflective writing will be the practical means we employ.
This bi-weekly seminar is offered primarily to and designed for master's students in the Departments of Sociomedical Sciences and Epidemiology who have been accepted into the Initiative for Minority Student Development (IMSD) program, an Education Project Grant sponsored by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health. The purpose of the IMSD program is to increase the number of under-represented minority students who pursue doctoral degrees or research careers in public health. Students in the IMSD program are required to take this 2-year seminar (1 credit per semester), and to participate in a research project with a faculty mentor. Topics addressed in the course include research, methodology, and statistics (RMS) workshops addressing issues in common to Sociomedical Sciences and Epidemiology, as well as workshops on professional and academic development (PAD) issues. Students will be given the opportunity to present their work in progress. Graded on a pass/fail basis.