Personal Leadership in Public Health
PERSONAL LEADERSHIP IN P
- Department: Public Health
- W 4 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
- W 1 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
- W 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Greg A Freyer
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Jc Alejaldre
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CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS I
Prerequisites: PHYS E6081 or the instructors permission. Semiclassical and quantum mechanical electron dynamics and conduction; dielectric properties of insulators; semiconductors; defects; magnetism; superconductivity; low-dimensional structures; soft matter.
- Department: Physics
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Raquel Quieroz
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PERSONAL LEADERSHIP IN PUBLIC HEALTH
The goal of the course is to provide students with an overview of some of the fundamental principles and practice of leadership as it applies to a career in public health, with a specific concentration on personal leadership development. Students will focus on four critical competencies of personal leadership: 1) self-awareness, 2) power, 3) leading through others, and 4) negotiating effectively (Figure below). Students will also critically examine traditional notions of leadership, exploring concepts of ‘who gets to lead?’, the inequities that result and the diversity of effective leadership roles and styles. With this understanding, students will develop and improve their ability 1) to lead individuals and teams in a wide range of settings, including research centers and domestic as well as international public health organizations, 2) to perform more effectively as both team members and individual contributors to organizations and communities; 3) to promote their own leadership plan and credo.
Given its weight, it is important to stress that developing a leadership credo means more than coming up with a snappy one liner or finding just the right quote to capture your leadership style. It is an opportunity to develop an authentic leadership stance – a set of beliefs and/or values that you stand for as a leader and that you expect from others who you will lead, whether as the head of an organization or a member of a team, to support and eventually allow them to follow you. Your role is to move individuals towards success in meeting specific goals and overcoming certain challenges. Developing your credo will enable you to verbalize how you will achieve this through an authentic presentation of yourself. This course aims at ensuring you are comfortable, capable and confident in the authenticity of You as a leader.
- Department: Public Health
- R 6:40 p.m.-7:40 p.m.
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FOOD SYSTEMS AND THE HEALTH OF THE PUBLI
FOOD SYST & HLTH OF THE P
The course will provide an overview of the science, policy, politics, and economics of food systems as a critical element of public health. The course will have a primary focus on the food system in the United States, but will include a global perspective. Students will learn and apply the fundamentals of public health scientific research methods and theoretical approaches to assessing the food landscape though a public health lens. In addition, the course will cover how diet – at first glance a matter of individual choice – is determined by an interconnected system of socio-economic-environmental influences, and is influenced by a multitude of stakeholders engaged in policymaking processes.
- Department: Public Health
- F 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Anne Paxton
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QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS
The course is designed to introduce PhD students in Sociology to the basic techniques for collecting, interpreting, analyzing, and reporting interview and observational data. The readings and practical exercises we will do together are designed to expand your technical skillset, inspire your thinking, to show you the importance of working collaboratively with intellectual peers, and to give you experiential knowledge of various kinds of fieldwork.
Mostly, though, students will learn how to conduct indictive field-based analyses. There are many versions of this model, including Florian Znaniecki’s “analytic induction,” Barney Glaser and Anselm Straus’ “grounded theory,” John Stuart Mill’s system of inductive logic, the Bayesian approach to inference in statistics, and much of what computationally-intensive researchers refer to as data mining. This course will expose students to ways of thinking about their research shared by many of these different inductive perspectives. Remember, though, that all of these formulations of analytic work are ideal types. The actual field, and actual field workers, are often far more complex.
For that reason, this course focuses not merely on theory, but also, and fundamentally, on practice. While some skills like producing a code book or formulating a hypothesis can be developed through reading and reflection, the field demands more nuanced skillsets that can only be attained by trial and error. How do you get an honest answer to a painful or embarrassing question? How do we know that the researcher interviewed enough people? Or spent enough time in the field? Or asked the right questions? Or did not distort the truth? My hope is that by the end of class you will have done enough fieldwork to have arrived at a good set of answers, and to begin developing the ability to communicate your answers to others.
A note on intellectual parentage: The particular approach to training in this course is based on a qualitative bootcamp developed by Mario Small for Harvard’s Ph.d cohorts. Other methods courses focus on particular technical skills rather than analytic frames, or merely on empirical work itself, rather than secondary literature on method. This is one way to think through analytic training. We will try it out together.
- Department: Sociology
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Tey Meadow
h-index: 8 Info - 4 points
CLASSICAL FIELDS & WAVES
Prerequisites: PHYS G6092. This course will study the classical field theories used in electromagnetism, fluid dynamics, plasma physics, and elastic solid dynamics. General field theoretic concepts will be discussed, including the action, symmetries, conservation laws, and dissipation. In addition, classical field equations will be analyzed from the viewpoint of macroscopic averaging and small-parameter expansions of the fundamental microscopic dynamics. The course will also investigate the production and propagation of linear and nonlinear waves; with topics including linearized small-amplitude waves, ordinary and extraordinary waves, waves in a plasma, surface waves, nonlinear optics, wave-wave mixing, solitons, shock waves, and turbulence.
- Department: Physics
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Andrei Beloborodov
Info - 4.5 points
INTRO TO COMP LIT & SOC-GRAD
Please note: This course is required for ICLS graduate students, and priority will be given to these students. Generally the course fills with ICLS students each semester. Students MAY NOT register themselves for this course. Contact the ICLS office for more information at icls.columbia@gmail.com. This course was formerly numbered as G4900. This course introduces beginning graduate students to the changing conceptions in the comparative study of literatures and societies, paying special attention to the range of interdisciplinary methods in comparative scholarship. Students are expected to have preliminary familiarity with the discipline in which they wish to do their doctoral work. Our objective is to broaden the theoretical foundation of comparative studies to negotiate a conversation between literary studies and social sciences. Weekly readings are devoted to intellectual inquiries that demonstrate strategies of research, analysis, and argumentation from a multiplicity of disciplines and fields, such as anthropology, history, literary criticism, architecture, political theory, philosophy, art history, and media studies. Whenever possible, we will invite faculty from the above disciplines and fields to visit our class and share their perspectives on assigned readings. Students are encouraged to take advantage of these opportunities and explore fields and disciplines outside their primary focus of study and specific discipline.
- Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Stathis Gourgouris
CULPA: 4
Wikipedia
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Managerial Statistics
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
- R 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
- TR 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
- TR 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alessandro Arlotto
Info - 1.5 points
RULING INNER ASIA FROM BEIJING
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- M 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Gray W Tuttle
CULPA: 3
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TRANSMISSION ELEC MICROSCOPY
Theory and practice of transmission electron microscopy (TEM): principles of electron scattering, diffraction, and microscopy; analytical techniques used to determine local chemistry; introduction to sample preparation; laboratory and in-class remote access demonstrations, several hours of hands-on laboratory operation of the microscope; the use of simulation and analysis software; guest lectures on cryomicroscopy for life sciences and high resolution transmission electron microscopy for physical sciences; and, time permitting, a visit to the electron microscopy facility in the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) at the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Katayun Barmak
CULPA: 1 h-index: 49 Info - 3 points
MA RESEARCH SEMINAR
The MA Research Seminar supports the research projects of MA students in Philosophy.
Participants practice key methods in philosophy and deepen their knowledge of classic and
contemporary contributions to the field. The seminar is suitable for everyone who is aiming to
write a research paper. Seminar participants receive detailed input throughout the semester.
Students can take the class at any stage during their studies for the MA. The class is graded Pass/
Fail.
- Department: Philosophy
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Melissa S Fusco
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
COMMUNICATING SCIENCE
Prerequisites: the instructors permission. How to write about and present scientific information in a clear and interesting way. We will use: 1) individualized writing projects; 2) oral presentations; and 3) concise books on good writing to develop skills for communicating scientific ideas, design, results and theory.
- Department: Psychology
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sarah Woolley
CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 31 Info - 3 points
MA SEMINAR IN GLOBAL THOUGHT II
Building upon M.A. Seminar I’s global approach to core issues and conversations with CGT Faculty, M.A. Seminar II tackles new topics and supports the completion of student research and writing. Multi-week modules will continue building discussions around key questions, engaging with guest speakers, and applying new perspectives to hard problems. Research workshops will address common challenges in turning research into writing, engaging sources and citation, and communicating your findings beyond the scope of this class.
- Department: Committee on Global Thought
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Laura L Neitzel
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Instructor:
Sarah A Miller-Davenport
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Business Analytics
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
- TR 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
- TR 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
- TR 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
David Holtz
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EUROPEAN STUDIES COLL II
- Department: Modern European Studies
- F 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tsveta A Petrova
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APPLIED STATISTICS I
First semester of the doctoral program sequence in applied statistics.
- Department: Statistics
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- 4 points
PLASMA PHYSICS II
Magnetic coordinates. Equilibrium, stability, and transport of torodial plasmas. Ballooning and tearing instabilities. Kinetic theory, including Vlasov equation, Fokker-Planck equation, Landau damping, kinetic transport theory. Drift instabilities.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Carlos Paz Soldan
h-index: 28 Info - 3 points
OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
- MW 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
- MW 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
- MW 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
- MW 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
- MW 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
- MW 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
- MW 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
- MW 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nicole Dehoratius
Info - 1.5 points
Global Leadership Seminar II
Global Leadership Sem II
The Global Leadership Seminar II is one of the core classes of the MPA in Global Leadership. It provides students with concrete lessons on the practice of leadership, enables students the opportunity to interface with established leaders across the spheres of government and civil society. The course culminates with each student submitting and presenting a plan to address a global policy challenge.
- Department: MPA in Global Leadership
- W 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lincoln A Mitchell
Info - 3 points
MPHIL THESIS WRITING SEMINAR
MPHIL THESIS WRITING SMR
- Department: Sociology
- W 2:10 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mario Small
Wikipedia Info - 4 points
APPLIED STATISTICS II
Prerequisites: STAT GR6101 Continuation of STAT GR6101.
- Department: Statistics
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Yuqi Gu
h-index: 6 Info - 4 points
NEUROSCIENCE
- Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
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Instructor:
Lauren B Winterbottom
Info - 3 points
COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS
- Department: Statistics
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Christopher Harshaw
Info - 4 points
Strategic Management in the Age of AI
Strategic Management of Information and Communication Technologies for the Public Good” addresses the spectrum of policy issues, options, and critical decisions confronting senior managers in the public sphere. Classes will be taught by a combination of lecture, readings, and case. Each class will address policy, technical, and managerial challenges for a particular domain of practice from the introduction or use of established and leading-edge information and communication technologies (ICTs), among them cloud, mobile and social. Arenas may include, for example, health, education, energy, economic development, transportation, civic engagement, law enforcement, human resources, social services, transportation, or compliance and regulatory affairs. The cases will involve a variety of managerial dilemmas and decisions, from governance to transparency, performance management to project management, and be generalizable across multiple domains, arenas, and technologies. Our goal is to expose students to the broadest range of policy challenges, and technologies comprising ICTs in use in the principal domains of practice, giving students a comprehensive exposure to the issues and opportunities as managers encounter them today - and will in the very near future. The course is intended for general, non-technical managers and assumes no engineering capability greater than plugging in a USB stick.
- Department: EXECUTIVE MPA
- M 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Instructor:
Robert Z Tumin
Info - 3 points
Statistical Consulting
Prerequisites: STAT GR6102 or instructor permission. The Deparatments doctoral student consulting practicum. Students undertake pro bono consulting activities for Columbia community researchers under the tutelage of a faculty mentor.
- Department: Statistics
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Ashley Datta
Info - 3 points
Readings in Chinese Scholarship
READINGS IN CHNS SCHOLARS
This course studies representative scholarly works in Chinese from the early twentieth century till the present. Emphasizing scholarship as a sophisticated rhetorical artifice produced within specific historical contexts, this course explores the rhetoric of academic writing and examines Chinese scholarship as a site of linguistic, epistomological, and cultural contestation. This course is taught in Mandarin Chinese.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Lu Kou
Info - 4 points
CRIMINAL LAW
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Bernard E Harcourt
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Instructor:
James Liebman
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Instructor:
Jed S Rakoff
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
LAND USE PLANNING
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- F 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jonathan Martin
Info - 3 points
CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Debra A Livingston
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
Statistical Computing with SAS
STATISTICAL COMPUTING WIT
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: Biostatistics
- R 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
- 3 points
FUNDAMENTALS OF EVOLUTION
Lectures cover principal topics in evolutionary biology including genetics, genome organization, population and quantitative genetics, the history of evolutionary theory, systematics, speciation and species concepts, co-evolution, and biogeography.
- Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
- TR 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
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Instructor:
Kira Delmore
Info - 3 points
Contending Theories of International Rel
Theories of Int'l Relatio
MIA Politics I Core.
This course introduces MIA students to foundational theories and analytical frameworks used to understand international affairs and the global political economy. Drawing on literature from international relations, comparative politics, political sociology, and economics, the course examines the evolution of international relations scholarship and key debates shaping the field. Through weekly discussions, case-based readings, and structured debates, students will critically engage with competing perspectives on power, institutions, regimes, markets, and global order. Special attention is given to American scholarly traditions and real-world applications, including contemporary issues such as war, climate change, and global inequality.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- W 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
- T 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lincoln A Mitchell
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Instructor:
Hisham Aidi
Wikipedia Info - 1.5 points
VOICE I
- Department: Theatre Arts
- W 9:30 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Corinna May
Info - 2 points
FICTION SEMINAR
DEATH AND DESIRE
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- Department: Writing
- M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Hannah L Assadi
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FICTION SEMINAR
MAPPING LOS ANGELES
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- Department: Writing
- R 1:10 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Paul Beatty
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FICTION SEMINAR
THE FAMILY NOVEL
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- Department: Writing
- R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sophie M Dess
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FICTION SEMINAR
SURGERY ON SENTENCE LEVEL
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- Department: Writing
- M 10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Omer M Friedlander
Info - 3 points
FICTION SEMINAR
THE ART OF MURDER
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- Department: Writing
- M 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
David M Gordon
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FICTION SEMINAR
NONHUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS
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- Department: Writing
- W 5:15 p.m.-7:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Benjamin Hale
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FICTION SEMINAR
THE EXCRUCIATING
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- Department: Writing
- T 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Binnie Kirshenbaum
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
FICTION SEMINAR
Future of the Short Story
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- Department: Writing
- R 1:10 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Benjamin Marcus
Info - 3 points
FICTION SEMINAR
BIBLE, NEW TEST., QURAN
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- Department: Writing
- W 5:15 p.m.-7:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Erroll G McDonald
Info - 3 points
FICTION SEMINAR
SO YOU WANNA WRITE FUNNY?
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- Department: Writing
- T 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gary Shteyngart
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
FICTION SEMINAR
ARCHITECTURE OF A STORY
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- Department: Writing
- W 10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Lara Vapnyar
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
FICTION SEMINAR
THE ECSTASY OF INFLUENCE
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- Department: Writing
- W 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Adam Z Wilson
Info - 3 points
THESIS RESEARCH & WRITING
This course is intended for MA students in Religion who are writing and completing a thesis or other paper of similar length and scope. Enrolled students will work with the instructor to develop, research, and write a thesis. Preparation and prerequisites: Instructor’s permission is required to enroll. Students are strongly encouraged to discuss the feasibility of potential thesis topics with a faculty member in Religion (preferably their advisor or other suitable faculty member), and if relevant, also strive to identify key primary texts or sources, in advance of the semester.
- Department: Religion
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Instructor:
Gil Anidjar
CULPA: 22 Info - 4 points
EXPLORING URBAN DATA WITH MACHINE LEARNI
URBAN DATA - MACHINE LEAR
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- R 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jonathan Stiles
Info - 3 points
CONDO/SINGLE FAMILY INVESTMENT ANALYSIS
CONDO/SINGLE FAM INVSTMT
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- M 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Instructor:
Eric B Andersen
Info - 1.5 points
PROPERTY (FOUNDATION)
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Thomas W Merrill
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Shyamkrishna Balganesh
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Instructor:
Maeve H Glass
Info - 4 points
MANAGING FAMILY REAL ESTATE BUSINESSES
MANAGING FAM RE BUSINESSE
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- F 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
- 1.5 points
TORTS
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Ashraf Ahmed
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Instructor:
Bert Huang
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
LEVERAGING DATA AND AI FOR REAL ESTATE D
DATA AND AI FOR RE DEV
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
- 1.5 points
SCREENWRITING IV
- Department: Film
- T 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
- W 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
- T 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Trey Ellis
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Andrew S Bienen
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Christina Lazaridi
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Instructor:
Minhal Baig
Info - 3 points
COLUMBIA COMMONS
- Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
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Instructor:
Phyllis R Simon
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Instructor:
Lauren B Winterbottom
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Theory and Practice of American Politics
MPA Politics I Core.
This course provides an introduction to American political institutions and their role in shaping public policy. Students will examine how policy decisions, and inaction, affect critical aspects of daily life, including health care, education, public safety, and environmental protection. The course explores the structure and function of U.S. political institutions such as Congress, the presidency, courts, and federalism, and how these compare to other democracies. It also analyzes the influence of actors including interest groups, social movements, the media, and bureaucrats. Through case studies, group work, and applied analysis, students will gain a foundational understanding of the policymaking process, key trends in American politics, and the skills needed to engage with public policy in practice.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- R 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
- T 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
- T 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lincoln A Mitchell
Info - 1.5 points
SUMA PS6120 Equity, Policy, and Sustaina
Public policy shapes how our environment, both natural and built, is managed and regulated. Policy not only creates the infrastructure and regulatory frameworks needed to support sustainability goals, but is also critical in establishing an equitable foundation that supports individual and collective change in pursuit of those goals.
This course will serve as an introduction to equity in sustainability policy: We will survey federal, state, and local policies and proposals to understand how we use policy to enhance urban resilience, mitigate environmental impacts, and also promote social and economic justice. Using an interdisciplinary approach that draws from economics, sociology, urban studies, critical theory, and more, students will develop their capacities to read and interpret policy, enhance their understanding of current policy frameworks, and strengthen their ability to engage with emerging policy developments.
Building on contemporary efforts in public policy, we will use an equity lens to focus on the human dimension of sustainability. We will explore policy frameworks and dialogues that foster more equitable outcomes, increase engagement of people most impacted, and contribute to sustainability goals. As an entry point, the course will focus on policies related to climate adaptation and urban sustainability transitions, setting the stage for students to explore equity in urban resilience efforts and to examine intersections of race, class, and other social factors with access to resources.
The course will be discussion-based and center participatory activities (e.g., student-led discussions, paired analyses, team exercises) designed to encourage students to consider policy issues from multiple perspectives—including identifying disparities and assessing opportunities for increasing equity in the sustainability policy sector. The course will also invite scholars and practitioners to share expertise and experience from the field. Students are not expected or required to have any previous experience with policy or law.
- Department: Sustainability Management
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dan Mathis
Info - 3 points