Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: A Windo
Introduction to use of magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) with focus on brain. Covers all aspects of in vivo MRS from theory to experiment, from data acquisition to the derivation of metabolic signatures, from study design to clinical interpretation. Includes theoretical concepts, hands-on training in MRS data literacy and direct experimental experience using a 3T MR scanner.
The Parental Brain
This course will provide an overview of the field of parental and social biology, with an emphasis on changes in the adult rodent brain surrounding childbirth and caretaking behavior. We will explore how the experience of parenthood prepares the brain for survival of offspring. We will also discuss the dynamic between caregivers and parents in order to provide the structure necessary to rear young. This course will illustrate the fortitude of molecular, behavioral and circuit level investigations in concert to unveil mechanisms of social learning.
- Department: Psychology
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Instructor:
Bianca J Marlin
Wikipedia Info - 4 points
BEHAVIORAL EPIGENETICS
Prerequisites: basic background in neurobiology (for instance PSYC UN1010, UN2450, UN2460, UN2480, and GU4499) and the instructors permission. This course will provide an overview of the field of epigenetics, with an emphasis on epigenetic phenomena related to neurodevelopment, behavior and mental disorders. We will explore how epigenetic mechanisms can be mediators of environmental exposures and, as such, contribute to psychopathology throughout the life course. We will also discuss the implications of behavioral epigenetic research for the development of substantially novel pharmacotherapeutic approaches and preventive measures in psychiatry.
- Department: Psychology
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Instructor:
Jennifer Blaze
Info - 4 points
Functional Genomics: Methods and Applica
Introduces approaches for the functional genomic analysis of biological systems and their use to define genotype-phenotype relationships. Genetic variation, gene expression and regulation at the epigenome, chromatin organization level, and link between gene and protein expression covered. Case studies covered: study of cancer and cancer-associated processes, neuro-biology, and organismal development. The presented methods study these events at the genome, epigenome, transcriptome, and proteome levels.Approaches that increase the resolution of functional genomic assays to the level of individual cells, spatial profiling, integration with genetic and chemical screening methods, and their application to chemical genomic approaches also studied. Programming assignments and a final project required.
- Department: Biomedical Engineering
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Instructor:
Jose McFaline-Figueroa
Info - 3 points
PROCESS & PRODUCT DESIGN I
The practical application of chemical engineering principles for the design and economic evaluation of chemical processes and plants. Use of ASPEN Plus for complex material and energy balances of real processes. Students are expected to build on previous coursework to identify creative solutions to two design projects of increasing complexity. Each design project culminates in an oral presentation, and in the case of the second project, a written report.
- Department: Chemical Engineering
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Instructor:
Sakul Ratanalert
Info - 4 points
INTERNATIONAL TRADE
Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 The theory of international trade, comparative advantage and the factor endowments explanation of trade, analysis of the theory and practice of commercial policy, economic integration. International mobility of capital and labor; the North-South debate.
- Department: Economics
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Instructor:
Waseem Noor
CULPA: 7 Info - 3 points
SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS
The course addresses selected issues in the protection of socio-economic rights in an international and comparative perspective. Socio-economic rights have emerged from the margins into the mainstream of human rights. The course will take this status as its starting point and examine the human rights to housing, food, water, health and sanitation in depth. We will explore conceptual issues through the lens of specific rights which will help us ground these principles and ideas in concrete cases. We will discuss developments on socioeconomic rights and examine their relevance in the United States as well as selected other countries, particularly those with progressive legislation, policies and jurisprudence. What is the meaning and scope of the rights to housing, food, water, health and sanitation? What is the impact of discrimination and inequalities on the enjoyment of socio-economic rights? How can governments be held accountable for the realization of human rights? What machinery is there at the international level to ensure that the rights are protected, respected and fulfilled? How can this machinery be enhanced? How can judicial, quasijudicial, administrative and political mechanisms be used at the domestic level? What is the role of different actors in the context of human rights, the role of States and individuals, but also (powerful) non-State actors and civil society? How have activists and policymakers responded to challenges? And what lies ahead for the human rights movement in addressing economic and social rights in a multilateral, globalized world?
- Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
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Instructor:
Jacqueline Dugard
Info - 3 points
APPLICATIONS PROGRAMMNG FOR FE
We will take a hands-on approach to developing computer applications for Financial Engineering. Special focus will be placed on high-performance numerical applications that interact with a graphical interface. In the course of developing such applications we will learn how to create DLLs, how to integrate VBA with C/C++ programs, and how to write multithreaded programs. Examples of problems settings that we consider include simulation of stock price evolution, tracking, evaluation and optimization of a stock portfolio; optimal trade execution. In the course of developing these applications, we review topics of interest to OR:FE in a holistic fashion.
COLUMBIA COMMONS SEMINAR
RELATIONSHIPS OF CARE
- Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
- 0 points
Biochemistry
Biochemistry I
In this course, we will explore the basic biochemistry of living systems and how this knowledge can be harnessed to create new medicines. We will learn how living systems convert environmental resources into energy through metabolism, and how they use this energy and these materials to build the molecules required for the diverse functions of life. We will discuss the applications of this biochemical knowledge to mechanisms of disease and to drug discovery. We will look at examples of drug discovery related to neurodegeneration, cancer, and the SARS-CoV-2 COVID19 pandemic. This course satisfies the requirement of most medical schools for introductory biochemistry, and is suitable for advanced undergraduates, and beginning graduate students. This course is equivalent to and replaces the prior course named UN3501, and is equivalent to the course offered in the summer.
- Department: Biological Sciences
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Instructor:
Mary Ann Price
CULPA: 5 Info - 3 points
PROCESS SAFETY
Aimed at seniors and graduate students. Provides classroom experience on chemical engineering process safety as well as Safety in Chemical Engineering certification. Process safety and process control emphasized. Application of basic chemical engineering concepts to chemical reactivity hazards, industrial hygiene, risk assessment, inherently safer design, hazard operability analysis, and engineering ethics. Application of safety to full spectrum of chemical engineering operations.
- Department: Chemical Engineering
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Instructor:
Robert G Bozic
Info - 3 points
PROCESS SAFETY
Aimed at seniors and graduate students. Provides classroom experience on chemical engineering process safety as well as Safety in Chemical Engineering certification. Process safety and process control emphasized. Application of basic chemical engineering concepts to chemical reactivity hazards, industrial hygiene, risk assessment, inherently safer design, hazard operability analysis, and engineering ethics. Application of safety to full spectrum of chemical engineering operations.
- Department: Video Network
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Instructor:
Robert G Bozic
Info - 3 points
Python for Analytics
Zero-credit course. Primer on Python for analytics concepts. Required for MSBA students.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- 0 points
READINGS IN HEBREW TEXTS II
Prerequisites: MDES W4501 or the instructors permission. Students must have a good familiarity with the Hebrew verb system, and the ability to read a text without vowels. This course focuses on central identities shaping Israeli society and is designed to give students extensive experience in reading Hebrew. Through selected readings of contemporary literary works and media texts, students will increase their proficiency in Hebrew and enhance their understanding of Israeli culture and society. All readings, written assignments, and class discussions are in Hebrew. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
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Instructor:
Naama Harel
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
Analytics in Python
Intended to build familiarity with using Python for ingesting, analyzing, visualizing, and interpreting data. Includes data ingesting techniques, using libraries (pandas and numpy), data analytics, machine learning (using SciKit-Learn), visualization, and big data analytics (Spark).
- Department: Engineering
- 0 points
AI, Imaging, Art
This bridge seminar welcomes graduate and advanced undergraduate students with backgrounds in art history or computer science (and related fields). We will interrogate intersections in artificial intelligence, machine vision, neural networks, visual culture, imaging, and art. Students will gain a foundation in the histories and technologies underlying the recent rise of neural networks and machine vision, as well as the more recent rise of generative AI, especially image generation. With this foundation, we will investigate a range of artistic, technological, mass-media, and legal developments in visual culture and AI. In addition to readings and seminar meetings, we will take advantage of the ample public and private AI-related programming at Columbia and in New York: lectures, exhibitions, screenings, studio visits with artists, etc. Students will also have the opportunity to work with custom generative AI models.
Admission by application only. All students are expected to complete the readings and tutorials for the first class prior to the start of the semester.
- Department: Art History and Archaeology
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Instructor:
Noam M Elcott
CULPA: 6 h-index: 7 Info - 4 points
Frontiers of Tough Tech
Survey of frontier research in technological areas to address world's most important challenges. Areas include advanced materials, biotech, and sustainability and climate. Convergence of breakthrough research with entrepreneurship, industry, and policy.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
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Instructor:
Harry West
CULPA: 1 h-index: 1 Info - 3 points
DESIGN DIGITAL OPERATING MODELS
IEOR students only. Understand digital businesses, apply scientific, engineering thinking to digital economy. Data-driven digital strategies and operating models. Sectors: ecommerce, advertising technology, and marketing technology. Automation of the marketing, sales, and advertising functions. Algorithms, patents, and business models. Business side of the digital ecosytem and the digital economy.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- 3 points
READINGS IN CLASSICAL CHINESE
Prerequisites: CHNS W3302 or the equivalent. Admission after placement exam. Focusing on Tang and Song prose and poetry, introduces a broad variety of genres through close readings of chosen texts as well as the specific methods, skills, and tools to approach them. Strong emphasis on the grammatical and stylistic analysis of representative works. CC GS EN CE
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
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Instructor:
Wei Shang
CULPA: 4
Wikipedia
h-index: 96
Info
- 3 points
HEALTHCARE OPERATIONS MGT
Prerequisite(s): for senior undergraduate Engineering students: IEOR E3608, E3658, and E4307; for Engineering graduate students (M.S. or Ph.D.): Probability and statistics at the level of IEOR E4150, and deterministic models at the level of IEOR E4004; for healthcare management students: P8529 Analytical methods for health services management.
Develops modeling, analytical, and managerial skills of engineering and health care management students. Enables students to master an array of fundamental operations management tools adapted to the management of health care systems. Through real-world business cases, students learn to identify, model, and analyze operational improvements and innovations in a range of health care contexts.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
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Instructor:
Yaren Kaya
Info - 3 points
Fundamental Design Tools
Covers fundamental engineering design tools for creating and testing physical products. Includes basics of computer-aided design, circuit design and use of microcontrollers, Internet of Things, and computational modeling and simulation. Additional hands-on exposure to tools for high-fidelity physical prototyping in Makerspace. Mini-project design involving an engineering device or system incorporated tools.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
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Instructor:
Jonathan D Blutinger
Info - 3 points
TISSUE ENGINEERING
An introduction to the strategies and fundamental bioengineering design criteria behind the development of cell-based tissue substitutes. Topics include biocompatibility, biological grafts, gene therapy-transfer, and bioreactors.
- Department: Biomedical Engineering
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Instructor:
Clark T Hung
CULPA: 5 h-index: 65 Info - 3 points
3RD YR MODERN HEBREW I
Prerequisites: 2nd Year Modern Hebrew II, Hebrew for Heritage Speakers II, or the instructor's permission. This course is designed to take students from the intermediate to advanced level. Students will further develop their reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills in Hebrew through an examination of a wide range of sources, including short stories, poems, visual arts, popular music, television shows and films. All readings, written assignments, and class discussions are in Hebrew. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
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Instructor:
Naama Harel
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
POWER SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
Modeling of power networks, steady-state and transient behaviors, control and optimization, electricity market, and smart grid.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
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Instructor:
Ahmed Mousa
Info - 3 points
Industry Projects in Analytics & Operati
Industry Projs in Analyti
Teams of students work on real-world projects in analytics. Focus on three aspects of analytics: identifying client analytical requirements; assembling, cleaning and organizing data; identifying and implementing analytical techniques (e.g., statistics and/or machine learning); and delivering results in a client-friendly format. Each project has a defined goal and pre-identified data to analyze in one semester. Client facing class. Class requires 10 hours of time per week and possible client visits on Fridays.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
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Instructor:
Michael Robbins
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
Industry Projects in Analytics & Operati
Industry Projs in Analyti
Teams of students work on real-world projects in analytics. Focus on three aspects of analytics: identifying client analytical requirements; assembling, cleaning and organizing data; identifying and implementing analytical techniques (e.g., statistics and/or machine learning); and delivering results in a client-friendly format. Each project has a defined goal and pre-identified data to analyze in one semester. Client facing class. Class requires 10 hours of time per week and possible client visits on Fridays.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- 3 points
FIFTH YEAR CHINESE I
The Fifth Year Chinese course is designed for advanced learners who have a proficient command of the Chinese language in all four aspects: listening, speaking, reading, and writing, regardless of whether they have Chinese heritage. The course provides a wide variety of literary genres, ranging from short stories to aesthetic essays to academic articles, to enhance students' mastery of formal written Chinese. While the primary objectives of this course lie in reading, students also have opportunities to develop their speaking competence through a variety of in-class discussions, debates, and presentations.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
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Instructor:
Lening Liu
CULPA: 9 Info - 4 points
EXHIBITION HISTORIES, CURATING THEORIES
EXHIBITION HIST, CURATING
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Mark Wasiuta
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
Launch Your Startup
This course is designed for students who have completed
Foundations of Entrepreneurship
and are ready to deepen their exploration of how new ventures take shape. Whereas
Foundations
emphasizes understanding the entrepreneurial process,
Launch Your Startup
focuses on applying that understanding through the work and responsibilities of a founder.
Students will refine a venture idea through structured inquiry, iterative testing, and critical reflection. Over the course of the semester, students will investigate assumptions underlying a venture concept, conduct research with potential users, experiment with early product or service concepts (i.e. MVP development), and analyze strategic choices related to markets, value creation, and sustainability (i.e. early go-to-market planning). Throughout the course, emphasis is placed on evidence-based reasoning, financial interpretation, and the evaluation of strategic tradeoffs that arise during the earliest stages of company formation.
The course mirrors the structure and expectations of early-stage accelerators and incubators, while remaining appropriate for an undergraduate academic setting.
- Department: Mendelson Center
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Instructor:
Faculty
h-index: 37 Info - 3 points
NAPLES: PORTRAIT OF A CITY
- Department: Italian @Barnard
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Instructor:
Nelson Moe
CULPA: 10 h-index: 6 Info - 3 points
DATA SCIENCE FOR MECHANICAL SYSTEMS
Introduction to the practical application of data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence and their application in Mechanical Engineering. A review of relevant programming tools necessary for applying data science is provided, as well as a detailed review of data infrastructure and database construction for data science. A series of industry case studies from experts in the field of data science will be presented.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
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Instructor:
Changyao Chen
Info - 3 points
Biogeochemistry
Biogeochemistry considers how the basic chemical conditions of the Earth, from atmosphere to soil to seawater, have been and are being affected by the existence of life. Human activities in particular, from the rapid consumption of resources to the destruction of the rainforests and the expansion of smog-covered cities, are leading to rapid changes in the basic chemistry of the Earth.
This course will examine biogeochemical processes in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems in Earth’s Biosphere. We will cover the historical development and evolution of biogeochemical cycles and compare past biogeochemical systems on the planet to contemporary and future eco-biogeochemical systems that are increasingly perturbed and dominated by human activity.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
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Instructor:
Ajit Subramaniam
Info - 3 points
MACHINE LEARNING FE & OPR
MS IEOR students only. Introduction to machine learning, practical use of ML algorithms and applications to financial engineering and operations. Supervised learning: regression, classification, resampling methods, regularization, support vector machines (SVMs), and deep learning. Unsupervised learning: dimensionality reduction, matrix decomposition, and clustering algorithms.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
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Instructor:
Daniel Bienstock
h-index: 38 Info - 3 points
Women, Gender and Queer History
Angela Y. Davis
This topics course allows students to deeply engage with a key historical figure and thinker in gender/feminist/queer history.
- Department: History
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Instructor:
Sarah Haley
Info - 4 points
ANALYTICS ON THE CLOUD
To introduce students to programming issues around working with clouds for data analytics. Class will learn how to work with infrastructure of cloud platforms, and discussion about distributed computing, focus of course is on programming. Topics covered include MapReduce, parallelism, rewriting of algorithms (statistical, OR, and machine learning) for the cloud, and basics of porting applications so that they run on the cloud.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
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Instructor:
Hardeep Johar
Info - 3 points
Topics in U.S. Foreign Relations History
This course will explore various topics in the History of U.S. foreign relations. Drawing on a wide range of scholarly writings, we will explore the history of the United States and the world with an eye toward the impact of American power on foreign peoples. Students will also use the semester to design, research, and write a substantial essay that draws on both primary and secondary sources on a topic chosen in consultation with the professor.
- Department: History
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Instructor:
Paul T Chamberlin
CULPA: 3 Info - 4 points
Reinforcement Learning
Markov Decision Processes (MDP) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) problems. Reinforcement Learning algorithms including Q-learning, policy gradient methods, actor-critic method. Reinforcement learning while doing exploration-exploitation dilemma, multi-armed bandit problem. Monte Carlo Tree Search methods, Distributional, Multi-agent, and Causal Reinforcement Learning.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
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Instructor:
Shipra Agrawal
h-index: 24 Info - 3 points
DRUG AND GENE DELIVERY
Application of polymers and other materials in drug and gene delivery, with focus on recent advances in field. Basic polymer science, pharmacokinetics, and biomaterials, cell-substrate interactions, drug delivery system fabrication from nanoparticles to microparticles and electrospun fibrous membranes. Applications include cancer therapy, immunotherapy, gene therapy, tissue engineering, and regenerative medicine. Course readings include textbook chapters and journal papers. Homework assignments take format of assay responding to open-ended question. Term paper and 30-minute PowerPoint presentation required at end of semester.
- Department: Biomedical Engineering
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Instructor:
Kam W Leong
h-index: 126 Info - 3 points
Visualization and Storytelling with Data
Data Visualization
Data visualization and how to build a story with data. Using complex data or statistics to communicate results effectively. Learn to present analysis and results conscisely and effectively.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
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Instructor:
Casandra Campbell
Info - 1.5 points
Performance, Objectives, & Results Using
Performance,Objectives&Re
OKR framework and different variations. Measurement techniques (A/B testing, validation, correlation, etc.) Identifying what to measure in product experience and business initiatives. Data-driven decision making.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
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Instructor:
Nicolas Chikhani
Info - 1.5 points
Applied Analytics: from Data to Decision
Applied Analytic Data-Dec
Applied Analytics focus querying and transforming data with SQL, defining and visualizing metrics, measuring impact of products / processes. Tools and techniques to convert raw data to business decisions, statistical analysis. Be able to apply these techniques to real-world datasets.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
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Instructor:
Fabrizio Lecci
Info - 3 points
Painted Reflections in Early Modern Euro
In the early 15th century, technical refinements in glazing allowed oil painting in the Netherlands to achieve its characteristic transparency and brilliance, while technical advances in glass tinning enhanced the reflectivity of convex mirrors in Northern Europe, and the new steel quenching technique, developed by Milanese armorers,made armor as reflective as a mirror. These reflective mirrors and pieces of armors became quintessential pictorial objects and contributed to the specular metaphor that underpins Renaissance painting. The seminar will explore how the “mise en abyme” operated by the reflection reveals the reverse side of painting, in terms of pictorial composition, mediality and artistic conception within a specific cultural context. Addressing materials from the early 15th to the early 17th century, the seminar will analyze how the detail of the reflection offers a specific lens through which to understand the challenges and transformations of painting in early modern Europe.
The course will be run as a seminar, with meetings devoted to discussions. Students will be responsible for introducing and commenng on the weekly readings. They will also be asked to carry out a research project, culminating in a class presentation and a final paper.
Prerequisites: The seminar is open to graduate students and upper-level art history major undergraduates.
- Department: Art History and Archaeology
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Instructor:
Diane Bodart
CULPA: 3 Info - 4 points
FEMINIST AND DECOLONIAL STUDIES IN LATIN
Feminist & Decolonial LA
This course introduces feminist and decolonial studies as an exciting and interdisciplinary field that helps us better understand power, inequality, and social change. It offers a foundation in key feminist and decolonial ideas while inviting students to connect theory with real-world struggles and movements.
In the first part of the course, we will learn concepts and explore major debates in feminist and decolonial thought. In the second half, we will look at feminism not only as a set of ideas, but also as a diverse and dynamic social movement that has shaped political struggles, cultural representation, and historical change.
Together, we will ask important questions such as: Is gender shaped by colonial histories? What does intersectionality help us see about inequality? How can research and political action be guided by feminist and decolonial perspectives? What can we learn from Indigenous feminisms, community feminisms, and other transformative ways of thinking?
Throughout the course, we will engage with the work of activists, scholars, and artists—especially Indigenous, Afro-descendant, LGBTQ+, and land and water defenders—whose ideas are reshaping feminist studies today. We will also explore how feminist and decolonial perspectives help us understand the current planetary crisis and imagine more just and sustainable ways of relating to each other and to the environment.
Class Note: Indigenous & Black women, feminist & queer authors
- Department: Anthropology
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Instructor:
Marisa G Ruiz Trejo
Info - 4 points
THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS: DEAL STRUCTURIN
DEV PROC: DEAL STRUCTURI
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Cecily C King
Info - 3 points
DATA MINING
Course covers major statistical learning methods for data mining under both supervised and unsupervised settings. Topics covered include linear regression and classification, model selection and regularization, tree-based methods, support vector machines, and unsupervised learning. Students learn about principles underlying each method, how to determine which methods are most suited to applied settings, concepts behind model fitting and parameter tuning, and how to apply methods in practice and assess their performance. Emphasizes roles of statistical modeling and optimization in data mining.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
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Instructor:
Krzysztof M Choromanski
Info - 3 points
NARRATIVE AND HUMAN RIGHTS
(Lecture). We cant talk about human rights without talking about the forms in which we talk about human rights. This course will study the convergences of the thematics, philosophies, politics, practices, and formal properties of literature and human rights. In particular, it will examine how literary questions of narrative shape (and are shaped by) human rights concerns; how do the forms of stories enable and respond to forms of thought, forms of commitment, forms of being, forms of justice, and forms of violation? How does narrative help us to imagine an international order based on human dignity, rights, and equality? We will read classic literary texts and contemporary writing (both literary and non-literary) and view a number of films and other multimedia projects to think about the relationships between story forms and human rights problematics and practices. Likely literary authors: Roberto Bolaño, Miguel de Cervantes, Assia Djebar, Ariel Dorfman, Slavenka Drakulic, Nuruddin Farah, Janette Turner Hospital, Franz Kafka, Sahar Kalifeh, Sindiwe Magona, Maniza Naqvi, Michael Ondaatje, Alicia Partnoy, Ousmane Sembène, Mark Twain . . . . We will also read theoretical and historical pieces by authors such as Agamben, An-Naim, Appiah, Arendt, Balibar, Bloch, Chakrabarty, Derrida, Douzinas, Habermas, Harlow, Ignatieff, Laclau and Mouffe, Levinas, Lyotard, Marx, Mutua, Nussbaum, Rorty, Said, Scarry, Soyinka, Spivak, Williams.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
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Instructor:
Joseph R Slaughter
CULPA: 13
h-index: 13
Info
- 3 points
CATALYSIS OF EMISSIONS CONTROL
Fundamentals of heterogeneous catalysis including modern catalytic preparation techniques. Analysis and design of catalytic emissions control systems. Introduction to current industrial catalytic solutions for controlling gaseous emissions. Introduction to future catalytically enabled control technologies.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
- 3 points
The New York City Watershed: From Commun
The NYC Watershed
The New York City Watershed: From Community Displacement to
Collaboration and Climate Adaptation
brings students to the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York to learn first hand from researchers and practitioners who help supply over ten million New Yorkers with safe and abundant drinking water while also working to build social, economic and environmental capital in the towns and villages located in the watershed surrounding the city’s reservoirs – all against a backdrop of increasing climate-related disruption.
The class will learn how New York City and a coalition of upstate watershed communities worked to end nearly a century of mutual resentment, displacement and extraction by entering into the
Watershed Agreement of 1997
, which has become a widely renowned model for collaborative and equitable water resources management planning in the twenty-five years since its completion. Students will engage with several of the Watershed Agreement’s original negotiators and with the local elected officials, agency staff and non-profit leaders who implement its signature “
multi-barrier
” strategy for drinking water protection through open space preservation, support for sustainable farming practices and investments in clean water infrastructure and sustainable economic growth in watershed communities. They will also learn how increases in storm intensity and warming driven by climate change threaten to upset the delicate balance between New York City’s need for safe drinking water and the socio-economic interests of upstate watershed communities.
Upon completion of the course, students will better understand the challenges involved in creating and implementing collaborative, multi-stakeholder plans for water resource management and host community benefits in today’s increasingly climate-disrupted world.
- Department: Earth Institute
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Instructor:
Marcia N Macedo
Info - 1 points
Thinking New York: The Urban Conceptions
Mumford/Moses/Jacobs/Kool
“New York is the perfect model of a city,” stated Lewis Mumford, “not the model of a perfect city.” This seminar contrasts the ideas of four urban thinkers and actors who possessed radically different perspectives on the modern metropolis and brought them to bear in and on New York City. The protagonists are
Lewis Mumford (1895–1990), Robert Moses (1888–1981), Jane Jacobs (1916–2006),
and
Rem Koolhaas (1944–)
. We discuss the urban and architectural issues that animated them—and frequently pitted them against each other—as they variously strove to imagine and affect New York’s built future. From Mumford’s prophetic environmentalism and “sidewalk criticism” to Moses’s “expressway world,” from Jacobs’s neighborhood activism and battles against urban renewal to Koolhaas’s celebration of Manhattan’s “delirious” architectural imaginary, the course reassesses the legacies of these figures, placing them into historical context and exploring the changing social, political, and cultural forces and landscapes that shaped their thinking. What “usable past,” to invoke Mumford again, do they offer to urbanism today? Concerned with both realities on the ground and big ideas about how to build and inhabit cities, class discussions revolve around key texts supplemented by slide lectures, film excerpts, and case-study presentations. Students are expected to make site visits and to carry out primary research utilizing archival and material resources available around New York City.
- Department: Art History and Archaeology
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Instructor:
Joan Ockman
Info - 4 points
August Wilson
In this seminar we will read the complete published plays of August Wilson along with significant unpublished and obscurely published plays, prose, and poetry. The centerpieces of this course will be what Wilson termed his “century cycle” of plays: each work focusing on the circumstances of Black Americans during a decade of the twentieth century. As we consider these historical framings, we also will explore closely on what Wilson identified as the “four B’s” that influenced his art most emphatically: Bessie Smith (sometimes he called this first B the Blues), Amiri Baraka, Romare Bearden, and Jorge Luis Borges. Accordingly, as we consider theoretical questions of cross-disciplinary conversations in art, we will study songs by Bessie Smith (and broad questions of the music and literary form), plays, prose, and poetry of Baraka (particularly in the context of Wilson’s early Black Arts Movement works), the paintings of Bearden, and the poetry and prose (along with a few lectures and transcribed interviews) of Borges. We will use archival resources (online as well as “hard copy” material, some of it at Columbia) to explore Wilson’s pathways as a writer, particularly as they crisscrossed the tracks of his “four B’s.” Along the way we will examine several drawings and paintings (from his University of Pittsburgh archives) as we delve into the rhythmical shapes, textures, and colors he used on paper and canvas as well as in his plays. Visitors to the class will include Wilson’s musical director Dwight Andrews and at least one of his regular actors.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
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Instructor:
Robert G O'Meally
CULPA: 18
Info
- 4 points
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Alessandro Orsini
Info - 3 points
PROBABILITY & DECISION THEORY
Examines interpretations and applications of the calculus of probability including applications as a measure of degree of belief, degree of confirmation, relative frequency, a theoretical property of systems, and other notions of objective probability or chance. Attention to epistimological questions such as Hume's problem of induction, Goodman's problem of projectibility, and the paradox of confirmation.
- Department: Philosophy
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Instructor:
Tamar A Lando
CULPA: 8 Info - 3 points
TOPICS IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH
AgenticAI for Data Sci
Each offering of this course is devoted to a particular sector of Operations Research and its contemporary research, practice, and approaches. If topics are different, then course can be taken more than once for credit.
or
Special topics arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis. Since the content of this course changes each time it is offered, it may be repeated for credit. Consult the department for section assignment.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- 3 points
PERSONAL IDENTITY
- Department: Philosophy
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Instructor:
Carol Rovane
CULPA: 13 Info - 3 points
TOPICS IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH
FINANCE & STRUCTURING FOR DS
Special topics arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis. Since the content of this course changes each time it is offered, it may be repeated for credit. Consult the department for section assignment.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- 3 points
TOPICS IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH
DS Apps in Ins&Banking
Each offering of this course is devoted to a particular sector of Operations Research and its contemporary research, practice, and approaches. If topics are different, then course can be taken more than once for credit.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- 3 points
TOPICS IN OR
Applied AI in Life Scienc
Each offering of this course is devoted to a particular sector of Operations Research and its contemporary research, practice, and approaches. If topics are different, then course can be taken more than once for credit.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- 3 points
TOPICS IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH
Data-driven Method Financ
Each offering of this course is devoted to a particular sector of Operations Research and its contemporary research, practice, and approaches. If topics are different, then course can be taken more than once for credit.
or
Special topics arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis. Since the content of this course changes each time it is offered, it may be repeated for credit. Consult the department for section assignment.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
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Instructor:
Charles Pehlivanian
Info - 3 points
TOPICS IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH
APPLIED RISK ANALYTICS
Special topics arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis. Since the content of this course changes each time it is offered, it may be repeated for credit. Consult the department for section assignment.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
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Instructor:
Amit Arora
Info - 1.5 points
TOPICS IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH
Prod Management with AI
Special topics arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis. Since the content of this course changes each time it is offered, it may be repeated for credit. Consult the department for section assignment.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- 1.5 points
TOPICS IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH
Eng Entrepreneurship
Special topics arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis. Since the content of this course changes each time it is offered, it may be repeated for credit. Consult the department for section assignment.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
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Instructor:
Hugh W Thomas
Info - 1.5 points
TOPICS IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH
AI App Dev Tools
Special topics arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis. Since the content of this course changes each time it is offered, it may be repeated for credit. Consult the department for section assignment.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
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Instructor:
Hugh W Thomas
Info - 1.5 points
TOPICS IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH
AI Engineering Apps
Special topics arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis. Since the content of this course changes each time it is offered, it may be repeated for credit. Consult the department for section assignment.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- 1.5 points
TOPICS IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH
Comm for Data Leaders
Special topics arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis. Since the content of this course changes each time it is offered, it may be repeated for credit. Consult the department for section assignment.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- 1.5 points
TOPICS IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH
Gen AI Rec Sys
Special topics arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis. Since the content of this course changes each time it is offered, it may be repeated for credit. Consult the department for section assignment.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
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Instructor:
Kenneth Goodman
Info - 1.5 points
TOPICS IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH
AI Startup Fundamentals
Special topics arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis. Since the content of this course changes each time it is offered, it may be repeated for credit. Consult the department for section assignment.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
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Instructor:
Owen E Davis
Info - 1.5 points
Health from a Systems Perspective
Health System Perspective
Health, disease, and death from a systems engineering perspective, introduction to control theory in a biomedical context.
- Department: Biomedical Engineering
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Instructor:
Henry Hess
CULPA: 1 h-index: 45 Info - 3 points
Lessons from Transformational Medical Ad
Lessons from Medical Adva
Examines innovation systems and technology adoption in medical advances, with a focus on translational analysis across devices, diagnostics, and therapeutics. Case-based evaluation of diagnostic imaging (CT, MRI, ultrasound), minimally invasive surgical systems, cardiovascular devices, and drug development pipelines. Frameworks for R&D goal-setting, evaluation and testing protocols, regulatory constraints, technology diffusion, and multi-stakeholder development systems.
For BMEN students, this course counts towards a technical elective, but not engineering content technical elective.
- Department: Biomedical Engineering
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Instructor:
Samuel Sia
CULPA: 1 h-index: 39 Info - 3 points
EXTREME DESIGN
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Mark Wigley
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
Business Analytics Practitioners Seminar
Business Analytics Semina
The IEOR Department hosts Business Analytics Practitioners Seminars throughout the Fall and Spring semesters. There are 5-6 seminars per semester, for a total of 10-12 seminars a year. These seminars feature a variety of academics and professionals in the field of Business Analytics; they are meant to educate and expose students to the latest research and practice.
First year BA students are required to attend all BA seminars during their first year
as well as submit journals about the material.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
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Instructor:
Uday Menon
Info - 0 points
MSBA Quantitative Bootcamp
Primer on quantitative and mathematical concepts. Required for all incoming MSBA students.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
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Instructor:
Michael Miller
CULPA: 18 h-index: 14 Info - 0 points
FUNDAMENTALS OF DOSIMETRY
Basic radiation physics: radioactive decay, radiation producing devices, characteristics of the different types of radiation (photons, charged and uncharged particles) and mechanisms of their interactions with materials. Essentials of the determination, by measurement and calculation, of absorbed doses from ionizing radiation sources used in medical physics (clinical) situations and for health physics purposes.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
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Instructor:
Sean L Berry
Info - 3 points
EARTH RESOURCES & SUSTAIN DEV
Prerequisites: none; high school chemistry recommended. This course is open to graduate students, and juniors and seniors within DEES, Sus Dev, Engineering, Chemistry, Physics, and APAM - or with the instructors permission. Survey of the origin and extent of mineral resources, fossil fuels, and industrial materials, that are non renewable, finite resources, and the environmental consequences of their extraction and use, using the textbook Earth Resources and the Environment, by James Craig, David Vaughan and Brian Skinner. This course will provide an overview, but will include focus on topics of current societal relevance, including estimated reserves and extraction costs for fossil fuels, geological storage of CO2, sources and disposal methods for nuclear energy fuels, sources and future for luxury goods such as gold and diamonds, and special, rare materials used in consumer electronics (e.g. ;Coltan; mostly from Congo) and in newly emerging technologies such as superconducting magnets and rechargeable batteries (e.g. heavy rare earth elements, mostly from China). Guest lectures from economists, commodity traders and resource geologists will provide ;real world; input.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
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Instructor:
Peter Kelemen
CULPA: 8
h-index: 84
Info
- 3 points
History of Modern Israel
While Israel is perhaps one of the most discussed and debated state in the world – only few onlookers have a deep understanding of Israel’s complex and fragmented society and politics.
This course invites the students into a journey to the historical and current Israeli politics and society by introducing the creation of the Israeli Democracy, the main political debates, different ideological visions, and the main cleavages and demographic divisions that have driven Israeli society from 1948 through the present days.
By presenting continuation and changes in Israel history and society the students will learn about the main events in Israel history with respect to military and diplomatic issues, different groups and parties – among them, Ultra-Orthodox (Haredim), Palestinian citizens of Israel, Ethiopian Jews, Religious Zionist, Jewish settlers, Ashkenazi vs Mizrahi/Sephardic Jews – which create the fabric of Israel politics and society from its formative years to the current era.
With an eye open to current developments, the course will also discuss new trends in Israeli politics.
In addition to the reading and primary sources, the students will watch and review films about Israeli politics and culture. At the end of the course the students will gain a better understanding of Israel and its complexities.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course students will, (1) Understand Israel’s broad and diverse social and political spectrum, with an emphasis on historical events and core issues (the peace process, religion-state dynamics, etc.)
2. Be able to discuss and write intelligently about Israel’s history, politics and culture.
- Department: Institute for Israel & Jewish Studies
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Instructor:
Avraham Shilon
Info - 4 points
Continuous Control Systems
Introduction to continuous systems with the treatment of classical and state-space formulations. Mathematical concepts, complex variables, integral transforms and their inverses, differential equations, and relevant linear algebra. Classical feedback control, time/frequency domain design, stability analysis, Laplace transform formulation and solutions, block diagram simplifcation and manipulation, signal ow graphs, modeling physical systems and linearization. state-space formulation and modeling, in parallel with classical single-input single-output formulation, connections between the two formulations. Transient and steady state analysis, methods of stability analysis, such as root locus methods, Nyquist stability criterion, Routh-Hurwitz criterion, pole/zero placement, Bode plot analysis, Nichols chart analysis, phase lead and lag compensators, controllability, observability, realization of canonical forms, state estimation in multivariable systems, time-variant systems. Introduction to advanced stability analysis such as Lyapunov stability and simple optimal control formulation. May not take for credit if already received credit for EEME E3601.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
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Instructor:
Ali Dadgar
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Instructor:
Homayoon Beigi
Info - 3 points
POLITICS IN INDIA
This course will combine study of long-term historical sociology with more short term understanding of policies and their possible effects. Though its main purpose will be to provide students with an understanding of politics after independence, it will argue, methodologically, that this understanding should be based on a study of historical sociology – plotting long-terms shifts in the structure of social power. The course will start with analyses of the structures of power and ideas about political legitimacy in pre-modern India, and the transformations brought by colonialism into that order. After a brief study of the nature of political order under the colonial state, the courses will focus primarily on the history of the democratic state after independence.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
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Instructor:
Sudipta Kaviraj
Wikipedia Info - 4 points
QUANTITATIVE RISK MANAGEMENT
Risk management models and tools; measure risk using statistical and stochastic methods, hedging and diversification. Examples include insurance risk, financial risk, and operational risk. Topics covered include VaR, estimating rare events, extreme value analysis, time series estimation of extremal events; axioms of risk measures, hedging using financial options, credit risk modeling, and various insurance risk models.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
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Instructor:
Agostino Capponi
h-index: 19 Info - 3 points
Zionism in History: Controversies Local
Zionism History: Controve
From its very inception on the stage of history, the Zionist idea has been a catalyst for intense controversy, both within the Zionist movement and the Jewish people, as well as among external critics. This course seeks to trace the major debates and controversies that have shaped Zionism from its founding to the present day, as they have manifested in the State of Israel.
The curriculum examines key questions: Is Zionism a modern development of Judaism or a completely new phenomenon that marks a historical break? Should the movement have emphasized cultural identity or political sovereignty? Why did the Zionist movement choose a Western orientation over an Eastern one?
We will also examine how Zionists engaged with the Arab Revolt of the 1930s, raising relevant questions such as the policy of restraint or retaliation, and analyze the core arguments of those who define Zionism as a legitimate — even one of the most justified — national movements versus those who characterize it through colonialist frameworks.
Furthermore, the course will revisit Hannah Arendt’s controversial reflections on the 1961 Eichmann Trial and the subsequent accusations regarding her perceived lack of "
Ahavat Yisrael
" (love for the Jewish people). We will move forward to address the contemporary debate over whether anti-Zionism is inherently the same as antisemitism and explore Israeli views of anti-Zionist critiques.
Throughout the course, we will place special emphasis on examining controversies surrounding Israel and Zionism in comparison to other global nationalist movements.
By situating Zionist history within both global perspectives and internal debates, students will move beyond narrow political discourse to acquire a profound understanding of Israel’s past and present. Each session will be supplemented by primary sources, including films, speeches, testimonies, and interviews.
- Department: Institute for Israel & Jewish Studies
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Instructor:
Avraham Shilon
Info - 4 points
INTRODUCTION TO ROBOTICS
Overview of robot applications and capabilities. Linear algebra, kinematics, statics, and dynamics of robot manipulators. Survey of sensor technology: force, proximity, vision, compliant manipulators. Motion planning and artificial intelligence; manipulator programming requirements and languages.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
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Instructor:
Sunil Agrawal
Wikipedia h-index: 65 Info - 3 points
Human-Wildlife Conflict
This course explores the history, nature and underlying causes of human/wildlife conflict from the human perspective. We will emphasize areas of human and wildlife conflict that endanger the existence of wildlife species in significant portions of their range, and consider emerging strategies that may reduce human-wildlife conflict.
- Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
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Instructor:
Wai-Ming Wong
Info - 3 points
ADV MANUFACTURING PROCESSES
Principles of nontraditional manufacturing, nontraditional transport and media. Emphasis on laser assisted materials processing, laser material interactions with applications to laser material removal, forming, and surface modification. Introduction to electrochemical machining, electrical discharge machining and abrasive water jet machining.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
- 3 points
ROBOTICS STUDIO
Hands-on studio class exposing students to practical aspects of the design, fabrication, and programming of physical robotic systems. Students experience entire robot creation process, covering conceptual design, detailed design, simulation and modeling, digital manufacturing, electronics and sensor design, and software programming.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
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Instructor:
Hod Lipson
Wikipedia h-index: 79 Info - 3 points
Frontiers of Justice
Frontiers of Justice is designed to encourage students and equip them with the skills to become active and effective “Change Agents” within their academic institutions and larger communities.. Oriented by the question,
What does justice look like?
, this course aims to raise political and social awareness and engagement with the challenges facing New York City and strengthen ties between Columbia University, disadvantaged communities, and city government agencies and community organizations. Through sharing ideas about how to make structural and systemic change in ways that integrate science, law, politics, history, narrative and community engagement, the course is intended to support students in working to break down racial and ethnic barriers and toward a more fair and just society.
- Department: Psychology
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Instructor:
Nora Isacoff
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
TECHNOLOGY,RELIGION,FUTURE
This seminar will examine the history of the impact of technology and media on religion and vice versa before bringing into focus the main event: religion today and in the future. Well read the classics as well as review current writing, video and other media, bringing thinkers such as Eliade, McLuhan, Mumford and Weber into dialogue with the current writing of Kurzweil, Lanier and Taylor, and look at, among other things: ethics in a Virtual World; the relationship between Burning Man, a potential new religion, and technology; the relevance of God and The Rapture in Kurzweils Singularity; and what will become of karma when carbon-based persons merge with silicon-based entities and other advanced technologies.
- Department: Religion
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Instructor:
David R Kittay
CULPA: 6
Info
- 4 points
AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE I
(Lecture). This lecture course is intended as the first half of the basic survey in African-American literature. By conducting close readings of selected song lyrics, slave narratives, fiction, poetry, and autobiography, we will focus on major writers in the context of cultural history. In so doing, we will explore the development of the African- American literary tradition. Writers include, but are not limited to, Wheatley, Equiano, Douglass, Jacobs, Harper, Dunbar, Chestnutt, Washington, Du Bois, and Larsen. Course requirements: class attendance, an in-class midterm exam, a five-page paper, and a final exam.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
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Instructor:
Robert G O'Meally
CULPA: 18
Info
- 3 points
Islam in Popular Culture
This course interrogates seminal issues in the academic study of Islam through its popular representation in various forms of media from movies and television to novels and comic books. The class is structured around key theoretical readings from a range of academic disciplines ranging from art history and anthropology to comparative literature and religion.
The course begins by placing the controversies surrounding the visual depiction of Muhammad in historical perspective (Gruber). This is followed by an examination of modern portrayals of Muslims in film that highlights both the vilification of the “other” (Shaheen) and the persistence of colonial discourses centered on the “native informant” (Mamdani). Particular emphasis is given to recent pop cultural works that challenge these simplistic discourses of Islam. The second half of the course revisits Muhammad, employing an anthropological framework (Asad) to understand the controversies surrounding Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses. The obsession with a gendered depiction of Islam is then examined through an anthropological framework that sheds light on the problems of salvation narratives (Abu Lughod). The course ends with a look at the unique history of Islam in America, particularly the tension between immigrant and African-American communities.
- Department: Religion @Barnard
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Instructor:
Najam I Haider
CULPA: 8
Info
- 4 points
INTRO-POLYMERS/SOFT MATERIALS
- Department: Chemical Engineering
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Instructor:
Christopher J Durning
CULPA: 3 Info - 3 points
Numerical Methods for Data Analysis
Num Methods for Data Anal
An introduction to the mathematical and computational foundations of data analysis with linear models. Develops theoretical and computational understanding of numerical linear algebra algorithms for problems including data fitting, data classification, clustering, and data reduction. Focus includes vector spaces, matrix factorization, least squares methods, and singular value decompositions. Illustrations on a variety of engineering applications, including power networks, autonomous and electric vehicles, quantum computing, medical imaging, and systems biology.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
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Instructor:
James Anderson
h-index: 18 Info - 3 points
PRICING MODELS FOR FIN ENGIN
Required for undergraduate students majoring in OR:FE. Characteristics of commodities or credit derivatives. Case study and pricing of structures and products. Topics covered include swaps, credit derivatives, single tranche CDO, hedging, convertible arbitrage, FX, leverage leases, debt markets, and commodities.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
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Instructor:
Michael Miller
CULPA: 18 h-index: 14 Info - 3 points
ADVANCED HINDI I
This third year (or fifth semester) course in the Hindi-Urdu program aims to continue building upon the existing listening, speaking, reading, writing, and cultural skills in Hindi.Students will be exposed to a variety of authentic materials, such as stories, plays, newspapers, magazines, videos, and film clips. They will be expected to expand their vocabulary, enhance their grammatical accuracy, and develop their cultural appropriateness through enthusiastic participation in classroom activities and immersion in the speech community outside.
The objective of the course is to promote meaningful interaction with literary texts and strengthen students’ language skills to understand and describe situations and people in diverse academic settings of modern Hindi. Writing in the target language will be emphasized throughout the semester to enable students to use their diverse vocabulary and grammatical structures. This course will prepare students for “Advanced Hindi-II.”
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
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Instructor:
Rakesh Ranjan
CULPA: 6
Info
- 5 points
TENSILE/COMPRESSION SURFACES
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Robert E Marino
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
Psychology of Religion
Prerequisites: Two courses in psychology, including at least one course with a focus on research methods
and/or statistics, and permission of the instructor.
Review of theories and empirical research related to religious cognition and behavior. Topics include the
foundations of religious belief and practice, people's concepts of religious ideas, and the lack of religious
belief/identity (e.g., atheism), among others.
- Department: Psychology
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Instructor:
Larisa H Solomon
Info - 4 points
Significant Others
What is the relationship between homoeroticism and homosociality? How does this relationship form conceptions of gender and sexuality in ways that might be historically unfamiliar and culturally or regionally specific? We pursue these questions through the lens of friendship and its relationship to ideas and expressions of desire, love, and loyalty in pre-modern times. We begin by considering the intellectual basis of the modern idea of friendship as a private, personal relationship, and trace it back to earlier times when it was often a public relationship of social and political significance. Some of these relationships were between social equals, while many were unequal forms (like patronage) that could bridge social, political or parochial differences.
Thinking through the relationships and possible distinctions between erotic love, romantic love and amity (love between friends), we will draw on scholarly works from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, particularly philosophy, sociology, political theory, literature, history, and art history. We will attend to friendship’s work in constituting, maintaining and challenging various social and political orders in a variety of Asian contexts (West, Central, South and East Asian), with comparative reference to scholarship on European and East Asian contexts. Primary source materials will include philosophy, religious manuals, autobiographies, popular love stories, heroic epics, mystical poetry, mirror for princes, paintings, material objects of exchange, and architectural monuments, largely from Islamic and Asian contexts.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
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Instructor:
Mana Kia
CULPA: 2 h-index: 11 Info - 4 points
RECORDED SOUND
As music moves into the 21st century, we find ourselves surrounded by an ever-evolving landscape of technological capability. The world of music, and the music industry itself, is changing rapidly, and with that change comes the opening – and closing – of doorways of possibility. What does this shift mean for today’s practicing artist or composer? With big label recording studios signing and nurturing fewer and fewer artists, it seems certain that, today, musicians who want to record and distribute their music need to be able to do much of the recording and production work on their own. But where does one go to learn how to do this – to learn not only the “how to” part of music production, but the historical underpinnings and the development of the music production industry as well? How does one develop a comprehensive framework within which they can place their own artistic efforts? How does one learn to understand what they hear, re-create what they like and develop their own style? This class, “Recorded Sound,” aims to be the answer. It’s goal is to teach artists how to listen critically to music from across history and genres in order to identify the production techniques that they hear, and reproduce those elements using modern technology so they can be incorporated into the artist’s own musical works.
- Department: Music
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Instructor:
David Adamcyk
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points