RES SEM IN BIOMED INFORMATICS
Prerequisite: open to public. Presentations by medical informatics faculty and invited international speakers in medical informatics, computer science, nursing informatics, library science, and related fields.
- Department: Biomedical Informatics
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Sarah A Rossetti
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Applied Analysis
Elementary introduction to fundamental concepts and techniques in classical analysis; applications of such techniques in different topics in applied mathematics. Brief review of essential concepts and techniques in elementary analysis; elementary properties of metric and normed spaces; completeness, compactness, and their consequences; continuous functions and their properties; Contracting Mapping Theorem and its applications; elementary properties of Hilbert and Banach spaces; bounded linear operators in Hilbert spaces; Fourier series and their applications.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
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Instructor:
Liliana Borcea
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QUANTUM PHYSICS OF MATTER
Basic theory of quantum mechanics, well and barrier problems, the harmonic oscillator, angular momentum identical particles, quantum statistics, perturbation theory and applications to the quantum physics of atoms, molecules, and solids.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
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Instructor:
Alexander Gaeta
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A Better Planet by Design (MS)
Foundational for the Master of Science in Earth and Environmental Engineering degree. Provides broader understanding of engineering tools critical/ essential to success in large-scale, engineering projects. Divided into two parts: Module on global/regional flows, and systems approach, and Module on Engineering Principles in Earth & Environmental Engineering. Guest lectures on several topics will be provided.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
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Instructor:
Luana Llanes
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NARRATIVES OF MODERNITY
In revisiting two major authors of the Italian modern novel, the course investigates the relation between fiction and the conditions of modernity (personal risk, anxiety and lack of control on reality, secularization, to name a few). Special attention will be paid to the response of the novelistic discourse to modernity, and to Italy's peculiarly peripheral position in the modern world. Primary texts will be read in Italian, while theoretical references will be in English.
- Department: Italian
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Instructor:
Elizabeth Leake
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CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
A first course on crystallography. Crystal symmetry, Bravais lattices, point groups, space groups. Diffraction and diffracted intensities. Exposition of typical crystal structures in engineering materials, including metals, ceramics, and semiconductors. Crystalline anisotropy.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
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Instructor:
William Bailey
CULPA: 12 Info - 3 points
SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT
This course will begin by clearly defining what sustainability management is and determining if a sustainable economy is actually feasible. Students will learn to connect environmental protection to organizational management by exploring the technical, financial, managerial, and political challenges of effectively managing a sustainable environment and economy. This course is taught in a case-based format and will seek to help students learn the basics of management, environmental policy and sustainability economics. Sustainability management matters because we only have one planet, and we must learn how to manage our organizations in a way that ensures that the health of our planet can be maintained and bettered. This course is designed to introduce students to the field of sustainability management. It is not an academic course that reviews the literature of the field and discusses how scholars thing about the management of organizations that are environmentally sound. It is a practical course organized around the core concepts of sustainability.
- Department: Sustainability Management
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Instructor:
Steven Cohen
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 21 Info - 3 points
SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT
This course will begin by clearly defining what sustainability management is and determining if a sustainable economy is actually feasible. Students will learn to connect environmental protection to organizational management by exploring the technical, financial, managerial, and political challenges of effectively managing a sustainable environment and economy. This course is taught in a case-based format and will seek to help students learn the basics of management, environmental policy and sustainability economics. Sustainability management matters because we only have one planet, and we must learn how to manage our organizations in a way that ensures that the health of our planet can be maintained and bettered. This course is designed to introduce students to the field of sustainability management. It is not an academic course that reviews the literature of the field and discusses how scholars thing about the management of organizations that are environmentally sound. It is a practical course organized around the core concepts of sustainability.
- Department: Sustainability Management
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SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT
This course will begin by clearly defining what sustainability management is and determining if a sustainable economy is actually feasible. Students will learn to connect environmental protection to organizational management by exploring the technical, financial, managerial, and political challenges of effectively managing a sustainable environment and economy. This course is taught in a case-based format and will seek to help students learn the basics of management, environmental policy and sustainability economics. Sustainability management matters because we only have one planet, and we must learn how to manage our organizations in a way that ensures that the health of our planet can be maintained and bettered. This course is designed to introduce students to the field of sustainability management. It is not an academic course that reviews the literature of the field and discusses how scholars thing about the management of organizations that are environmentally sound. It is a practical course organized around the core concepts of sustainability.
- Department: Sustainability Management
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SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT
This course will begin by clearly defining what sustainability management is and determining if a sustainable economy is actually feasible. Students will learn to connect environmental protection to organizational management by exploring the technical, financial, managerial, and political challenges of effectively managing a sustainable environment and economy. This course is taught in a case-based format and will seek to help students learn the basics of management, environmental policy and sustainability economics. Sustainability management matters because we only have one planet, and we must learn how to manage our organizations in a way that ensures that the health of our planet can be maintained and bettered. This course is designed to introduce students to the field of sustainability management. It is not an academic course that reviews the literature of the field and discusses how scholars thing about the management of organizations that are environmentally sound. It is a practical course organized around the core concepts of sustainability.
- Department: Sustainability Management
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Instructor:
Paul Washington
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CORE STUDIO I - TUTORIAL
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Oscar A Mayorga Caballero
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Emma F Sumrow
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Galen J Pardee
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Mireia Luzarraga
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PROBABILITY STAT & SIMULATION
Basic probability theory, including independence and conditioning, discrete and continuous random variable, law of large numbers, central limit theorem, and stochastic simulation, basic statistics, including point and interval estimation, hypothesis testing, and regression; examples from business applications such as inventory management, medical treatments, and finance. A specialized version of IEOR E4150 for MSE and MSBA students.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
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Instructor:
Eric Stratman
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Yi Zhang
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
PROBABILITY STAT & SIMULATION
Basic probability theory, including independence and conditioning, discrete and continuous random variable, law of large numbers, central limit theorem, and stochastic simulation, basic statistics, including point and interval estimation, hypothesis testing, and regression; examples from business applications such as inventory management, medical treatments, and finance. A specialized version of IEOR E4150 for MSE and MSBA students.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
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Instructor:
Yi Zhang
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
QUAL RESEARCH METHODS SDEV
Students of sustainable development are faced with an array of global challenges that warrant scholarly inquiry. Social science questions are particularly well suited for qualitative research. This course will provide an overview of social science research methods, with a focus on building a toolkit for undergraduate students. We begin with an overview of the science of knowing. How do we generate scientific hypotheses in the social sciences, and then how can we find out whether those hypotheses are accurate? An exploration of a range of qualitative research methods will occupy the majority of our class time, including interviewing, case studies, questionnaires, surveys, coding, and participant observation. Toward the end of the course we consider how mixed methods allow for the integration of quantitative tools in the social sciences. Throughout, students will both study and practice these research methods, experimenting to better understand the strengths and challenges associated with each approach. The course will end with poster presentations in which students share their own research and justify the methods they have employed.
CORE STUDIO III - TUTORIAL
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Lindy Roy
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Gary Bates
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Eric Bunge
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Galia Solomonoff
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ADV STUDIO V - TUTORIAL
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Amale Andraos
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Leslie Gill
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Ziad Jamaleddine
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Michael Bell
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ADV STUDIO V - TUTORIAL
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Hilary M Sample-Meredith
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Mario A Gooden
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David E Benjamin
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ADV STUDIO V - TUTORIAL
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Marc Tsurumaki
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HISTORY OF GREEK LITERATURE I
Prerequisites: at least two terms of Greek at the 3000-level or higher. Readings in Greek literature from Homer to the 4th century B.C.
- Department: Classics
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Instructor:
Elizabeth K Irwin
CULPA: 7
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FOURTH YEAR KOREAN I
Prerequisites: KORN W4006 or the equivalent. Selections from advanced modern Korean writings in social sciences, literature, culture, history, journalistic texts, and intensive conversation exercises.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
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Instructor:
Ji-Young Jung
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LAT LITERATURE OF THE REPUBLIC
Prerequisites: at least two terms of Latin at the 3000-level or higher. Latin literature from the beginning to early Augustan times.
- Department: Classics
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Instructor:
Katharina Volk
CULPA: 7
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RELIGION LAB
In their research, scholars of religion employ a variety of methods to analyze texts ranging from historical documents to objects of visual culture. This course acquaints students with both the methods and the materials utilized in the field of religious studies. Through guided exercises, they acquire research skills for utilizing sources and become familiarized with dominant modes of scholarly discourse. The class is organized around a series of research scavenger hunts that are due at the start of each week's class and assigned during the discussion section (to be scheduled on the first day of class). Additional class meeting on Thursdays.
- Department: Religion @Barnard
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Instructor:
Meghan E Hartman
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Advanced Solid State Devices and Materia
Adv Solid State Device &
Crystal structure and energy band theory of solids. Carrier concentration and transport in semiconductors. P-n junction and junction transistors. Semiconductor surface and MOS transistors. Optical effects and optoelectronic devices. Fabrication of devices and the effect of process variation and distribution statistics on device and circuit performance. Course shares lectures with ELEN E3106, but the work requirements differ. Undergraduate students are not eligible to register.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
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Instructor:
Savannah Eisner
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STOCHASTIC MODELS
Some of the main stochastic models used in engineering and operations research applications: discrete-time Markov chains, Poisson processes, birth and death processes and other continuous Markov chains, renewal reward processes. Applications: queueing, reliability, inventory, and finance.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
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Instructor:
David D Yao
CULPA: 5
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SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS
Supply chain management, model design of a supply chain network, inventories, stock systems, commonly used inventory models, supply contracts, value of information and information sharing, risk pooling, design for postponement, managing product variety, information technology and supply chain management; international and environmental issues. Note: replaced IEOR E4000 beginning in fall 2018.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
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Instructor:
Vineet Goyal
h-index: 21 Info - 3 points
BIOSTATISTICS FOR ENGINEERS
Fundamental concepts of probability and statistics applied to biology and medicine. Probability distributions, hypothesis testing and inference, summarizing data and testing for trends. Signal detection theory and the receiver operator characteristic. Lectures accompanied by data analysis assignments using MATLAB as well as discussion of case studies in biomedicine.
- Department: Biomedical Engineering
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Instructor:
Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana
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MECHANISMS OF TRANSPORT
Continuum frame-work for modeling non-equilibrium phenomena in fluids with clear connections to the molecular/microscopic mechanisms for conductive transport. Continuum balances of mass and momentum; continuum-level development of conductive momentum flux (stress tensor) for simple fluids; applications of continuum framework for simple fluids (lubrication flows, creeping flows). Microscopic developments of the stress for simple and/or complex fluids; kinetic theory and/or liquid state models for transport coefficients in simple fluids; Langevin/Fokker- Plank/Smoluchowski framework for the stress in complex fluids; stress in active matter; applications for complex fluids.
- Department: Chemical Engineering
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Instructor:
Christopher J Durning
CULPA: 3 Info - 3 points
RECENT CONTINENTAL POL THOUGHT
This course will compare and contrast the theories of the political, the state,freedom, democracy, sovereignty and law, in the works of the following key 20th and 21st century continental theorists: Arendt, Castoriadis, Foucault, Habermas, Kelsen, Lefort, Schmitt, and Weber. It will be taught in seminar format.
- Department: Political Science
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Instructor:
Jean L Cohen
CULPA: 7 Wikipedia h-index: 63 Info - 4 points
TECH I: ENVMTS IN ARCH
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Lola Ben-Alon
h-index: 5 Info - 3 points
UNCERTAIN/RISK-CIVIL INF SYST
Introduction to basic probability; hazard function; reliability function; stochastic models of natural and technological hazards; extreme value distributions; Monte Carlo simulation techniques; fundamentals of integrated risk assessment and risk management; topics in risk-based insurance; case studies involving civil infrastructure systems, environmental systems, mechanical and aerospace systems, construction management. Not open to undergraduate students.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
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Instructor:
Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou
h-index: 26 Info - 3 points
INTRODUCTION TO DATABASES
The fundamentals of database design and application development using databases: entity-relationship modeling, logical design of relational databases, relational data definition and manipulation languages, SQL, XML, query processing, physical database tuning, transaction processing, security. Programming projects are required.
- Department: Computer Science
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Instructor:
Luis Gravano
CULPA: 16
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Oktie Hassanzadeh
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OPERATIONS CONSULTING
Aims to develop and harness the modeling, analytical, and managerial skills of engineering students and apply them to improve the operations of both service and manufacturing firms. Structured as a hands-on laboratory in which students "learn by doing" on real-world consulting projects (October to May). The student teams focus on identifying, modeling, and testing (and sometimes implementing) operational improvements and innovations with high potential to enhance the profitability and/or achieve sustainable competitive advantage for their sponsor companies. The course is targeted toward students planning careers in technical consulting (including operations consulting) and management consulting, or pursuing positions as business analysts in operations, logistics, supply chain and revenue management functions, positions in general management, and future entrepreneurs.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
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Instructor:
Soulaymane Kachani
CULPA: 12 Info - 3 points
ADVANCED BUSINESS CHINESE
Advanced Business Chinese is designed to help students who have studied at least three years of Chinese (or the equivalent) to achieve greater proficiency in the oral and written use of the language and gain knowledge in depth about China’s business environment and proven strategies. Student will critically examine the successes and failures of firms within the Chinese business arena.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
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Instructor:
Zhong Qi Shi
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TECH III: MATERIALS + ASSEMBLIES
TECH III: MAT + ASSEMBLIE
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TECH IV: INTEG BLDG SYSTM
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Berardo Matalucci
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Anarchist Thought, Art, and Action
Anarchist Thought, Art &
Anarchy is Order!” proclaims the modern anarchist movement. The anarchist values not violence and chaos, but democracy, solidarity, and freedom from all forms of coercion. The ideal society is antiauthoritarian and decentralized, comprised of voluntary associations of free and equal individuals. In this course we will dissect these ideas, debating anarchist conceptions of freedom, authority, and human nature, beginning with late 18th-19th c. figures (Godwin, Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin, Tolstoy) and ending with more recent developments in this tradition (ecological thought, indigeneity, gender). We will engage with these ideas as expressed in political essays, but also in art (drama, poetry, visual art, fairytales, children’s literature, science fiction), and in autobiographical writing. How, we may ask, are anarchist values and critique formulated differently in these different modes of expression? What is the place of art and aesthetic experience in a radically liberatory movement? Readings will be studied in their historical contexts, especially moments of revolutionary action: across Europe in 1848, in Russia and Ukraine (1917-1921), during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), led by the Zapatistas in Chiapas, Mexico (1994-).
There are no prerequisites for this class; all readings will be available in English.
- Department: Slavic Languages
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Instructor:
Jessica E Merrill
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
PROGRAMMING LANG & TRANSLATORS
Modern programming languages and compiler design. Imperative, object-oriented, declarative, functional, and scripting languages. Language syntax, control structures, data types, procedures and parameters, binding, scope, run-time organization, and exception handling. Implementation of language translation tools including compilers and interpreters. Lexical, syntactic and semantic analysis; code generation; introduction to code optimization. Teams implement a language and its compiler.
- Department: Computer Science
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Instructor:
Ronghui Gu
h-index: 11 Info - 3 points
MICROMECH OF COMPOSITE MAT
An introduction to the constitutive modeling of composite materials: Green’s functions in heterogeneous media, Eshelby’s equivalent inclusion methods, eigenstrains, spherical and ellipsoidal inclusions, dislocations, homogenization of elastic fields, elastic, viscoelastic and elasto-plastic constitutive modeling, micromechanics-based models.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
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Instructor:
Huiming Yin
CULPA: 1 h-index: 25 Info - 3 points
Innovative Sustainability Leadership
This course will prepare students to be leaders in developing innovative sustainable frameworks and solutions. We will analyze the characteristics of innovative sustainability leaders, including common themes (if any), how they have grappled with success and failure, and how these individuals become effective leaders who inspire their teams and organizations to act as catalysts for change. Through guest speakers, in-depth discussion, and by using a variety of examples and case studies from the non-profit, profit, and public sectors, we will examine the impacts that innovative sustainability leaders have on organizational success and failure.
Against the backdrop of a world transformed by climate change, we will then expand our view to assess the significance of collaboration both within and beyond the conceptual boundaries of organizations, considering the pivotal roles that diverse stakeholders play in driving advancements in sustainable innovations. Ultimately, we will evaluate the role and responsibility of innovative sustainability leaders to effect transformational change on a societal level. By the end of the course, students will have developed actionable tools, strategies, and critical thinking skills for leading transformational change in their organizations and beyond.
- Department: Sustainability Management
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Instructor:
Sara Goddard
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Mechanics of Fiber-Reinforced Composites
MECH FIBER-REINFORCED COM
Overview of composite materials, including history, background, and manufacturing processes. Macro-mechanics: anisotropic elasticity and stress transformation. Micro-mechanics: Rule of Mixture, Composites Cylinder Model (CCM) and other models. Macro-mechanics: Classic Lamination Theory (CLT). Hygrothermal effects, residual stresses, Composite mechanical testing, fabrication. Failure modes and lamina-based failure theories. Bending and Buckling of composite plates. ICME of Composites (nano-, micro-, meso- and macro-scale analysis, experimental validation, process modeling, integration).
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
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Instructor:
Marianna Maiaru
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OPERATING SYSTEMS I
Design and implementation of operating systems. Topics include process management, process synchronization and interprocess communication, memory management, virtual memory, interrupt handling, processor scheduling, device management, I/O, and file systems. Case study of the UNIX operating system. A programming project is required.
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Instructor:
Jason Nieh
CULPA: 23
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COMPUTER NETWORKS
Introduction to computer networks and the technical foundations of the Internet, including applications, protocols, local area networks, algorithms for routing and congestion control, security, elementary performance evaluation. Several written and programming assignments required.
- Department: Computer Science
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Instructor:
Henning G Schulzrinne
CULPA: 12 Info - 3 points
LANG DOCUMENTATION/FIELD MTHDS
Prerequisites: LING 3101: Introduction to Linguistics and LING 4376: Phonetics & Phonology
This course provides training in linguistic fieldwork for language
documentation and description. We will work with a speaker of an understudied language
to investigate the structure of the language (its sounds, word and sentence formation,
ways of expressing meaning, and usage) and learn about its speakers and their
communities, both in NYC and abroad. Through this process, students will learn
collaborative linguistic fieldwork techniques as well as the art of writing linguistic
descriptions. This course will draw on all aspects of students’ linguistic training to date,
and the success of the course will depend on our ability as a class to work together
cooperatively with the language consultant and language community more broadly to
document and describe the language.
- Department: Slavic Languages
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Instructor:
Meredith Landman
CULPA: 1 h-index: 5 Info - 3 points
Advanced Analysis and Design of Structur
ADV ANALYSIS AND DESIGN O
Advanced analysis and design methodologies and impact on efficient use of building materials. Effects on quality and safety in design of structures. Utilization of advanced techniques as prescribed by building code requirements for steel and concrete structures (AISC and ACI).
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
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Instructor:
Tom T Panayotidi
CULPA: 3 Info - 3 points
Agent of Change: Ukrainian Art Between R
The course will trace the appearance of the avant-garde on the territory of the Russian Empire with a focus on Ukrainian art as compared to Russian. Examining the art aspiring not only to reflect but to alter the reality originating both in the center and the periphery, the class will explore the array of strategies employed by art for that end. The foundational theories of avant-garde, non-conformism, and dissident art will be studied alongside the most celebrated and influential examples of innovative and radical art from the region. Beginning with socially minded realist practices, the class will consider the impact of the collapse of the Russian and then Soviet Empires on art and reflect on how the societal upheavals affect the understanding of the function and the definition of art. The appearance of Socialist Realism and the versions of opposition to it will be studied, from dissident undermining to neglect and escapism of the second avant-gardes. Ukrainian art of recent decades will be studied in the context of several revolutions (Granite, Orange, Euromaidan) that defined its contemporary history.
The class is offered for graduate and advanced undergraduate students. Knowledge of Russian or Ukrainian is not required.
- Department: Slavic Languages
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Instructor:
Olena Martynyuk
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RENAISSANCE IN EUROPE II
Major texts of the Renaissance both south and north of the Alps, including those of Petrarch, Valla, Machiavelli, Castiglione, Erasmus, Thomas More, and Montaigne, with special emphasis on diverse style of early modern writing and the habits of reading they encouraged.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
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Instructor:
Kathy H Eden
CULPA: 19
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THE NOVEL IN AFRICA
The main task of this course will be to read novels by African writers. But the novel in Africa also involves connections between the literary genre of the novel and the historical processes of colonialism, decolonization, and globalization in Africa. One important question we'll consider is how African novels depict those historical experiences in their themes and plots—we'll read novels that are about colonialism, etc. A more complex question is how these historical processes relate to the emergence of the novel as an important genre for African writers. Edward Said went so far as to say that without imperialism, there would be no European novel as we know it. How can we understand the novel in Africa (whether read or written) as a product of the colonial encounter? How did it shape the process of decolonization? What contribution to history, whether literary or political, does the novel in Africa make? We'll undertake a historical survey of African novels from the 1930s to the present, with attention to various subgenres (village novel, war novel, urbanization novel, novel of postcolonial disillusion, Bildungsroman). We'll attend to how African novelists blend literate and oral storytelling traditions, how they address their work to local and global audiences, and how they use scenes of characters reading novels (whether African or European) in order to position their writing within national, continental, and world literary space.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
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Instructor:
Jennifer Wenzel
CULPA: 3 h-index: 15 Info - 4 points
Japanese Documentary Films
JPNS DOCUMENTARY FILMS
This course investigates the theories and practices of documentary film in Japan. Spanning from the 1920s to the present, we will engage in rigorous examination of the transformations of cinematic forms and contents, and of the social, cultural, and political elements bound up with those transformations. We will also juxtapose aspects of Japanese documentary film with global movements, and wider theories of documentary and non-fiction.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
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Instructor:
Takuya Tsunoda
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Russian Through Music
This content-based language course is designed for students who already have an equivalent of five semesters of college-level Russian. The course aims to explore various types of Russian music that have been popular since the 1960s. Popular music expresses widely-shared trends and interests of society and evokes emotions and associations via memories. Sharing these musical associations will enhance students’ knowledge of Russian values and beliefs, and help them understand how and why these values and beliefs have changed since the thaw period, as well as how they continue to change in the 21st century in response to social mood. Students will learn how to interpret popular music and work on the development of the language skills needed to be an engaged listener of Russian music as well as an engaged partner in conversations on related topics. Learners will use language in meaningful interactions and negotiate meaning in real-life contexts. Through engagement with authentic sources, students will solidify and further develop their knowledge of the case and verbal systems as well as cause-and-effect relationships within sentences and paragraphs. They will learn how to interpret music from a cultural perspective that implies the ability to read between the lines. Conducted entirely in Russian.
- Department: Slavic Languages
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Instructor:
Marina Tsylina
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MANAGING ENG & CONST PROCESSES
Introduction to the principles, methods and tools necessary to manage design and construction processes. Elements of planning, estimating, scheduling, bidding and contractual relationships. Valuation of project cash flows. Critical path method. Survey of construction procedures. Cost control and effectiveness. Field supervision.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
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SOLAR ENERGY & STORAGE
SOLAR ENERGY & STORAGE
Lecture series by Julian Chen
Nature of solar radiation as electromagnetic waves and photons. Availability of solar radiation at different times and at various places in the world. Thermodynamics of solar energy. Elements of quantum mechanics for the understanding of solar cells, photosynthesis, and electrochemistry. Theory, design, manufacturing, and installation of solar cells. Lithium-ion rechargeable batteries and other energy-storage devices. Architecture of buildings to utilize solar energy.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
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Instructor:
Julian Chen
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ADV CHEM ENGI THERMODYNAMICS
The course provides a rigorous and advanced foundation in chemical engineering thermodynamics suitable for chemical engineering PhD students expected to undertake diverse research projects. Topics include Intermolecular interactions, non-ideal systems, mixtures, phase equilibria and phase transitions and interfacial thermodynamics.
- Department: Chemical Engineering
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Instructor:
Sanat Kumar
CULPA: 4 h-index: 79 Info - 3 points
DESIGN OF CONSTRUCTION SYSTEMS
Introduction to the design of systems that support construction activities and operations. Determination of design loads during construction. Design of excavation support systems, earth retaining systems, temporary supports and underpinning, concrete formwork and shoring systems. Cranes and erection systems. Tunneling systems. Instrumentation and monitoring. Students prepare and present term projects.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
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Instructor:
Vincent Tirolo
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PRIN OF CONSTRUCTN TECHNIQUES
Current methods of construction, cost-effective designs, maintenance, safe work environment. Design functions, constructability, site and environmental issues.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
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Instructor:
Dominick Pilla
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NATURE, RACE, AND INDIGENEITY IN THE U.S
“Nature” is one of the weirdest words in the English language—it can refer to human trait (“it is in her nature”), a nonhuman environment (“we walked in nature”), a divine power (“mother nature”), or a biological process (“nature calls”). Despite—and indeed, because of—these ambiguities, nature has played pivotal roles in the territory that has come to be known as the United States. In various guises, nature has inspired pilgrims, pioneers, and tourists. At the same time, nature has staged struggles between settlers and Natives, whites and racialized peoples, upper classes and working classes. In this seminar, we will learn how nature has brought us together and torn us apart. By engaging with a variety of media—from colonial-era captivity narratives to nineteenth-century abolitionist texts to contemporary Kumeyaay poetry—we will recover conflicting ideas of nature. And by reading in the environmental humanities—including history, anthropology, and literary criticism—we will discover how these ideas have impacted all-too-human identities and more-than-human entities. While our inquiries will take us from prehistory to the present, they will converge on the future: now that we are destroying our ecosystems, extinguishing our fellow species, and altering our atmosphere, is there still such a thing as nature? During the semester, we will navigate this tricky terrain both collectively and individually, with each undergraduate completing a four-to five-page theoretical essay, a fourteen- or fifteen-page research essay, and a natural history mini-exhibit, and with each graduate student preparing a presentation for our end-of-semester conference that they then revise as a seminar paper and/or repurpose by organizing a panel for a national conference.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
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Instructor:
Carlos Nugent
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Frankenstein and Its Vicissitudes
Overview: This class will carefully and searchingly read Mary Shelley’s 1818
Frankenstein
as well as her 1831 revision, using those two texts as the seeds for a much larger investigation about what the Frankenstein paradigm brought to later American literary and cinematic culture. We’ll look at how Mary Shelley developed the genre of science fiction from nothing, wrote the first recognizable book of horror in the English cannon, pioneering literary philosophical writing in the absence of a clear hero, and used her novel as a mechanism for thinking about reproductive violence, domestic abuse, and the social problem of male loneliness. From there, we’ll examine the Frankenfilms of the 20th and 21st century—many of which are excellent, but many of which are downright offensive—to think about what Shelley’s literary and philosophical paradigm contributed to Anglo-American cinematic discourse about patriarchy, power, sex, class, God, reproduction, fascism, and feminism.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
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Instructor:
Eleanor Johnson
CULPA: 20
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POLIT THOUGHT-CLASSICL AND MEDIEVAL
Prerequisites: Contemporary Civilization or a comparable introduction to political theory course. This course examines ancient political thought from its origins in the archaic Greek poleis through the development of classical Greek political philosophy and the transmission and adaptation of Greek political ideas in the Hellenistic, Roman, and early Christian traditions. Our texts will include major ancient works of political theory by Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero as well as works of poetry, drama, history, and ethical and natural philosophy that offer insight into ancient thought on politics. We will approach these texts not only as reflections on the ancient democratic, oligarchic, monarchical, and republican political systems they address, but also as foundations for modern political discourse that still prompt us to consider the questions they raise—questions about the ideal form of government in theory, and the best form in practice; about the nature of law and justice, and the relationship between law and custom, science, or religion; about the rule of law, and the rights and obligations of an individual citizen living in a participatory state; and about the reach of empire, and the implications when a self-governing people attempts to direct the affairs of non-citizens or of other states.
- Department: Political Science
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Instructor:
Diana J Moser
Info - 3 points
CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY LAW
Practical focus upon legal concepts applicable to the construction industry. Provides sufficient understanding to manage legal aspects, instead of being managed by them. Topics include contractual relationships, contract performance, contract flexibility and change orders, liability and negligence, dispute avoidance/resolution, surety bonds, insurance and site safety.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
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Instructor:
Steven Charney
Info - 3 points
NON-CLASSICAL LOGIC
- Department: Philosophy
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Instructor:
Achille Varzi
CULPA: 30
Wikipedia
h-index: 40
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THRY/PRACT OF VIRTAL DSGN CONS
History and development of Building Information Modeling (BIM), its uses in design and construction, and introduction to the importance of planning in BIM implementation. Role of visual design and construction concepts and methodologies, including integrated project delivery form in architecture, engineering, and construction industries from project design, cost estimating, scheduling, coordination, fabrication, installation, and financing.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
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Instructor:
Ayse Polat
Info - 3 points
ENVIR,HLTH,SAFETY CONC CONSTR
A definitive review of and comprehensive introduction to construction industry best practices and fundamental concepts of environmental health and safety management systems (EH&S) for the construction management field. How modern EH&S management system techniques and theories not only result in improved safe work environments but ultimately enhance operational processes and performance in construction projects.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
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Instructor:
Paul Haining
Info - 3 points
INTL CONSTRUCTION MGMT
Complex global construction industry environment. Social, cultural, technological, and political risks; technical, financial, and contractual risk. Understanding of successful global project delivery principals and skills for construction professionals. Industry efforts and trends to support global operational mechanism. Global Case Studies. Engage with industry expert professionals. Student group projects with active ongoing global initiatives.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
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Instructor:
Ibrahim Odeh
Info - 3 points
APPLIED USE OF AEC DATA
Digital transformation optimizes day-to-day operations to provide maximum performance in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) workflows. Focuses on broadening knowledge of AEC data leading to building data management. Use of open data sets from the design, construction, and operations of buildings to learn and practice data management and its applied use. Major technical topics include Project Management Information System (PMIS) and Facility Management (FM), leading to Digital Twin data management, data processing, and data visualization.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
- 3 points
Topics in Israeli Cinema
Israel has a unique and constantly-evolving national cinema, the product of its diverse immigrant population, influences from neighboring nations, and dramatic national history. Beginning with artistic influences from abroad and culminating with native self-examinations, this course will provide a survey of Israeli film history, recurring foci of Israeli cinema, and introductions to influential filmmakers from early director and impresario Menahem Golan to Orthodox writer/director Rama Burshtein.
Each class meeting will include a complete screening of an Israeli feature film, as well as clips of related works. Readings will include critical essays and histories which elaborate on in-class screenings and cover additional topics and films. Written assignments will be three analytical essays which will encourage critical thinking, close analysis of films, and independent research beyond the materials presented in class.
All readings are in English. All feature films and film clips are in Hebrew (some include Arabic), and will be presented with English subtitles. Students fluent in Hebrew and Arabic are encouraged to interpret the dialogue for additional meaning that may not be translated in the subtitles.
- Department: Institute for Israel & Jewish Studies
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Instructor:
Stuart Weinstock
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Climate Change and Sustainable Water
SCIENCE OF SUSTAINABLE WATER
This course covers all topics and material about water sustainability, the global water crisis and the impacts from climate change. It is a comprehensive introductory water resource class that all sustainable-minded professionals should have. The topics and materials studied in the class strikes a balance for management, business, science, and technical specialists.
The sustainability of water has become an increasingly critical issue, and over the coming decade, as awareness and resources go into addressing public health, economics, growing development, climate and weather changes, and aging infrastructure. Water resources are affected by changes not only in climate but also in population, economic growth, technological and scientific changes, and other socioeconomic factors. In addition, they serve a dual purpose; water resources are critical to both human society and natural ecosystems. The objective of this course is to provide a fundamental understanding of key global water challenges and hydrological processes in the natural and built environment. We will then use this understanding to explore aspects of sustainable strategies for integrated and climate-resilient water resources management. We will explore the roles of humans as an integral part of the water cycle: how we use our water resources and how our actions help shape the water cycle. In addition, students will be encouraged to think about how climate change will impact water resources.
- Department: Sustainability Management
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Instructor:
Shannon Marquez
Info - 3 points
ADVANCED ORGANIC CHEMISTRY I
Prerequisites: elementary organic and physical chemistry. The mechanisms of organic reactions, structure of organic molecules, and theories of reactivity. How reactive intermediates are recognized and mechanisms are deduced using kinetics, stereochemistry, isotopes, and physical measurements.
- Department: Chemistry
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Instructor:
Tomislav Rovis
Info - 4.5 points
SYNTHETIC METHDS-ORGANC CHEM
This course is intended for graduate students and advanced undergraduate students. The main purpose of the course is to introduce students to modern synthetic chemistry via the selected series of topics (synthetic planning and the logic of organic assembly, classical and new reactions/methods and their use in complex target synthesis). Mechanistic underpinning of the discussed reaction processes will also be briefly discussed. For each module (see the content below), specific examples of syntheses of natural products and/or synthetic materials will be provided. In addition to lectures by Prof. Sames, students will select and present relevant papers in the class (the number of student symposia will depend on the final enrollment in this course). The basic knowledge of transition metal chemistry is recommended for the cross-coupling reactions (i.e. structure, electron counting, and elemental reaction types of transition metals).
- Department: Chemistry
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Instructor:
Makeda A Tekle-Smith
Info - 4.5 points
Construction Engineering and Management
CEM Industry Field Studie
Expose students to various aspects of project management in the construction industry, enhance learning experience with real-world challenges and prepare for internships and future employment. Run for two semesters. First semester focuses on Traditional Project Management, and second semester focuses on Agile Project Management. For class project, development of a Project Management Plan (PMP) and an Operations Dashboard based on real-life examples of contracts (traditional project management) and operational excellence initiatives (agile project management).
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
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Instructor:
Ibrahim Odeh
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The Roman Art of Engineering: Traditions
Interdisciplinary study of ancient Roman engineering and architecture in a course co-created between Arts & Sciences and Engineering. Construction principles, techniques, and materials: walls, columns, arches, vaults, domes. Iconic Roman buildings (Colosseum, Pantheon, Trajan’s Column) and infrastructure (roads, bridges, aqueducts, baths, harbors, city walls). Project organization. Roman engineering and society: machines and human labor; engineers, architects, and the army; environmental impact. Comparisons with current practice as well as cross-cultural comparisons with other pre-modern societies across the globe. A Columbia Cross-Disciplinary Course.
- Department: Art History and Archaeology
- 3 points
Total Synthesis of Natural Products
Total Synth Natural Produ
This course covers the reactions, strategies, and tactics needed to tackle the molecular complexity posed by the structures of complex natural products. Building upon reactions learned in synthetic methods, additional examples of modern methods for bond-forming reactions will be presented, as will the tools necessary to logically analyze and build complex molecular targets. Primary literature sources will be emphasized.
You may be asked to serve as research subjects in studies under the direction of the faculty while enrolled in this course. Participation is voluntary.
- Department: Chemistry
- 4 points
INTRO-PROBABILITY & STATISTICS
Covers the following topics: fundamentals of probability theory and statistical inference used in engineering and applied science; Probabilistic models, random variables, useful distributions, expectations, law of large numbers, central limit theorem; Statistical inference: pint and confidence interval estimation, hypothesis tests, linear regression. For IEOR graduate students.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
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Instructor:
Eric Stratman
Info - 3 points
INTRO-PROBABILITY & STATISTICS
Covers the following topics: fundamentals of probability theory and statistical inference used in engineering and applied science; Probabilistic models, random variables, useful distributions, expectations, law of large numbers, central limit theorem; Statistical inference: pint and confidence interval estimation, hypothesis tests, linear regression. For IEOR graduate students.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
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Instructor:
Eric Stratman
Info - 3 points
INTRO-PROBABILITY & STATISTICS
EXEMPTION:INTRO PROB/STAT
Covers the following topics: fundamentals of probability theory and statistical inference used in engineering and applied science; Probabilistic models, random variables, useful distributions, expectations, law of large numbers, central limit theorem; Statistical inference: pint and confidence interval estimation, hypothesis tests, linear regression. For IEOR graduate students.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- 3 points
Advanced Software Engineering
ADVANCED SOFTWARE ENGINEE
Software lifecycle using frameworks, libraries and services. Major emphasis on software testing. Centers on a team project.
- Department: Computer Science
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Instructor:
Gail E Kaiser
CULPA: 10 Info - 3 points
ADVANCED PROBABILITY THEORY
This course will cover advance topics in probability, including: the theory of martingales in discrete and in continuous time; Brownian motion and its properties, stochastic integration, ordinary and partial stochastic differential equations; Applications to optimal filtering, stopping, control, and finance; Continuous-time Markov chains, systems of interacting particles, relative entropy dissipation, notions of information theory; Electrical networks, random walks on graphs and groups, percolation.
- Department: Mathematics
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Instructor:
Roger W Van Peski
Info - 3 points
BIOTECHNOLOGY LAW
Prerequisites: at least 4 college-level biology or biotechnology courses. This course will introduce students to the interrelated fields of patent law, regulatory law, and contract law that are vital to the biotech and biopharmaceutical sectors. The course will present core concepts in a way that permits students to use them throughout their corporate, academic, and government careers. SCE and TC students may register for this course, but they must first obtain the written permission of the instructor, by filling out a paper Registration Adjustment Form (Add/Drop form). The form can be downloaded at the URL below, but must be signed by the instructor and returned to the office of the registrar. http://registrar.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/reg-adjustment.pdf
- Department: Biological Sciences
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Instructor:
Alan J Morrison
Info - 3 points
COMPUTER GRAPHICS
Introduction to computer graphics. Topics include 3D viewing and projections, geometric modeling using spline curves, graphics systems such as OpenGL, lighting and shading, and global illumination. Significant implementation is required: the final project involves writing an interactive 3D video game in OpenGL.
Due to significant overlap in content, only one of COMS 4160 or Barnard COMS 3160BC may be taken for credit.
- Department: Computer Science
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Instructor:
Changxi Zheng
h-index: 30 Info - 3 points
SOLID & HAZARDOUS WASTE MGMT
Solid & Hazardous Waste Mgmt
Generation, composition, collection, transport, storage and disposal of solid and hazardous waste. Impact on the environment and public health. Government regulations. Recycling and resource recovery.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
- 3 points
Resilience and Resistance: North African
This seminar examines the multifaceted experiences of Jewish communities in the Maghreb during the colonial period, spanning from the early 19th century through the independence movements of the mid-20th century. We will explore how these communities navigated the social, political, and cultural landscape of colonial rule, focusing on key themes that shaped the Jewish experience in colonial North Africa. These themes include the impact of French colonial policies, evolving legal status, the involvement of French Jews in colonial dynamics, the rise and decline of the Judeo-Arabic press and literature, the emergence of Jewish women's writing, rabbinical responses to colonialism, and Jewish participation in anti-colonial movements. By analyzing a diverse range of primary sources—from rabbinical responsa and colonial legal documents to Judeo-Arabic literature and photographs—we will examine how Maghrebi Jews confronted, subverted, and negotiated the colonial order while reconfiguring their cultural and religious identities.
By the end of the course, students will have developed a deeper understanding of the transformations in Jewish religious, cultural, and social life during the colonial period in North Africa. They will be able to evaluate the varied strategies of adaptation and resistance employed by Jewish communities in response to colonial rule. Students will also strengthen their ability to analyze a broad range of primary sources. Finally, they will learn to apply interdisciplinary approaches, drawing from history, postcolonial studies, Jewish studies, and literary analysis, to better understand Jewish life under colonial rule in the Maghreb.
- Department: Institute for Israel & Jewish Studies
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Instructor:
Gabriel Abensour
Info - 4 points
USER INTERFACE DESIGN
Introduction to the theory and practice of computer user interface design, emphasizing the software design of graphical user interfaces. Topics include basic interaction devices and techniques, human factors, interaction styles, dialogue design, and software infrastructure. Design and programming projects are required.
- Department: Computer Science
- 3 points