PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP IN GLOBAL INF
Delivery of infrastructure assets through Public-Private Partnerships (PPP). Value for Money analysis. Project organization. Infrastructure sector characterization. Risk analysis, allocation and mitigation. Monte Carlo methods and Real Options. Project finance and financing instruments. Case studies from transportation, water supply and energy sectors.
- Department: Video Network
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Instructor:
Patrick Foye
Info - 3 points
PHILOSOPHY & ROMANTICISM
PHILOSOPHY AND ROMANTICISM
- Department: Philosophy
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Wolfgang R Mann
CULPA: 36 Info - 3 points
NMR SPECTROSCOPY
Prerequisites: elementary organic chemistry. Introduction to theory and practice of NMR spectroscopy. Instrumental aspects, basic NMR theory, NOE, and a survey of 2D methods are covered.
- Department: Chemistry
- F 11 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
John D Decatur
Info - 1 points
DESIGN IN ACTION
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- MW 2 p.m.-6 p.m.
- 6 points
WATER RESOURCES AND CLIMATE
This course will cover the science needed to understand hydrology, the link between hydrology and climate, and why climate change will affect the hydrologic cycle. It will then look at what changes have occurred in the past, and what changes are projected for the future and how these changes may affect other sectors, such as agriculture. The final module of the course will look at adaptation measures to adapt to climate change. The course will be formatted to be a mixture of lectures and seminars, with the lecture portion used to introduce scientific concepts and the seminar portion to discuss and evaluate the readings assigned. At the end of this course, students will the hydrologic cycle and its connection to climate, how changes in climate have affected/will affect how much water is available on land, how water impacts ecosystem services, and how to diagnose the cause of a climate-related water problem and develop solutions to address it.
- Department: Sustainability Management
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
- 3 points
WATER RESOURCES AND CLIMATE
This course will cover the science needed to understand hydrology, the link between hydrology and climate, and why climate change will affect the hydrologic cycle. It will then look at what changes have occurred in the past, and what changes are projected for the future and how these changes may affect other sectors, such as agriculture. The final module of the course will look at adaptation measures to adapt to climate change. The course will be formatted to be a mixture of lectures and seminars, with the lecture portion used to introduce scientific concepts and the seminar portion to discuss and evaluate the readings assigned. At the end of this course, students will the hydrologic cycle and its connection to climate, how changes in climate have affected/will affect how much water is available on land, how water impacts ecosystem services, and how to diagnose the cause of a climate-related water problem and develop solutions to address it.
- Department: Auditing
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nicole K Davi
Info - 0 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
- F noon-2:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Thomas Kyd
Info -
Instructor:
Nare Aghasarkissian
Info -
Instructor:
Ibrahim Odeh
Info - 1-3 points
APPLIED FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS
Introduction to modern tools in functional analysis that are used in the analysis of deterministic and stochastic partial differential equations and in the analysis of numerical methods: metric and normed spaces. Banach space of continuous functions, measurable spaces, the contraction mapping theorem, Banach and Hilbert spaces bounded linear operators on Hilbert spaces and their spectral decomposition, and time permitting distributions and Fourier transforms.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michael I Weinstein
CULPA: 2 h-index: 47 Info - 3 points
LEADERSHIP IN DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION
Introduces and employs various tools, concepts, and analytical frameworks to enhance students’ ability to define and analyze leadership issues. In-depth analysis of the leadership literature and practical situational immersion using industry case studies. Multiple guest lecturers from the private and public sectors throughout the semester. Term project exploring leadership challenges in the design and construction industry.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
- R 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Fredric Bell
Info - 3 points
DEBATES ON CAPITALISM
Within the literature on the history of capitalism there is a lively debate that seeks to explain the world-historical transition from feudal and tributary modes of production to the capitalist mode of production. Substantial issues raised in this debate include the question of whether capitalism can be characterized as a mode of production dominated by the exploitation of free labour; the role of international trade in the origin and development of capitalism; and the role of agriculture in promoting a transition to capitalism. Through the publication of two key texts in the late 1970s Robert Brenner's proposition that capitalism had its origins in English agriculture came to dominate the transition debate. More recently, however, there have been a number of publications that seek to challenge the Anglo-centric and Eurocentric tendencies of the entire transition debate. This course begins with the Brenner debates and then takes up revisions, critiques and challenges to that debate. Ultimately, the aim of the course is to more clearly understand the place of non-European polities and peoples in the history and development of capitalism.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nadeem Mansour
Info - 4 points
Auteur Study: Steven Spielberg
The world’s most influential living film director and the most impactful creator of
popular culture in the last quarter of the Twentieth Century is a Jewish-American. Steven
Spielberg’s uncanny grasp of visual storytelling and his auteurist signature can be found
on every film he has directed, as well as many he has produced. This course will analyze
the content and formal construction of Spielberg’s films by following their thematic
through-lines – family ties (strained and healthy), the implacable threat, humanity at war,
man vs. the natural world, the child’s perspective, Jewish identity and others – in films as
disparate as Jaws and The Color Purple.
Each class meeting will include a complete screening of a feature film directed by Steven
Spielberg, as well as clips of related films by Spielberg. Readings will include critical
essays, histories, and interviews 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 film texts, and independent research
beyond the materials presented in class.
- Department: Institute for Israel & Jewish Studies
- M 10 a.m.-1:45 p.m.
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Instructor:
Stuart Weinstock
Info - 3 points
PROBABILITY THEORY
Prerequisites: MATH GU4061 or MATH UN3007 A rigorous introduction to the concepts and methods of mathematical probability starting with basic notions and making use of combinatorial and analytic techniques. Generating functions. Convergence in probability and in distribution. Discrete probability spaces, recurrence and transience of random walks. Infinite models, proof of the law of large numbers and the central limit theorem. Markov chains.
- Department: Mathematics
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ioannis Karatzas
CULPA: 7 h-index: 58 Info - 3 points
Antisemitism and Resistance in Europe, t
In this course, we will not only analyze some of the key antisemitic texts and ideas of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but also consider the impact of antisemitism on Jewish lived experience in the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe and the ways in which Jewish people and communities have responded to and confronted antisemitism in all three regions.
Antisemitism permeates the histories of nationalism, colonialism, and religion in ways that cross borders and cultures. Often, predominantly European phenomena – from the myth of ritual murder to fascist racism – have meaningfully informed Middle Eastern and North African antisemitism. Jewish resistance movements in all three regions, meanwhile, have relied and built upon one another: Middle Eastern Jews called upon European Jewish leaders to help them confront the anti-Jewish policies of colonial bureaucracies, and North African Jewish partisans rescued European Jewish refugees during World War II. These regions, however, are typically studied in isolation from one another. In this course, we will seek to arrive at an understanding of the interconnectedness of these histories.
Over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Jewish life in these regions was radically transformed. Many longstanding Jewish communities – whole worlds of culture and human life – were ultimately destroyed. In our own time of rampant, well-documented antisemitism, it is especially important to learn about not only the history of antisemitism itself, but also the myriad successes and failures of those who, at every moment, found ways to resist. By learning about the past, we inherit the collective wisdom of those who have engaged with these issues before us; this may, in turn, help us to make well-informed, thoughtful decisions in the present and for the future.
- Department: Institute for Israel & Jewish Studies
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Benjamin Berman-Gladstone
Info - 4 points
ETHICS IN BIOPHARM PAT/REG LAW
This course – the first of its kind at Columbia – introduces students to a vital subfield of ethics focusing on patent and regulatory law in the biotech and pharmaceutical sectors. The course combines lectures, structured debate, and research to best present this fascinating and nuanced subject. Properly exploring this branch of bioethics requires an in-depth understanding of biotech and pharmaceutical patent and regulatory law. Students can gain this understanding by first completing Biotechnology Law (BIOT GU4160), formerly the prerequisite for this course. Now, they can also gain it by reading the appropriate chapters of
Biotechnology Law: A Primer for Scientists
(the textbook for BIOT GU4160 published earlier this year) prior to each class. A number of students in the biotechnology fields (such as those in biotechnology, biomedical engineering, and bioethics programs) have shown a keen interest over the years in taking this course, yet were unable to do so because they hadn’t taken BIOT GU4160. Given the recent publication of
Biotechnology Law
and the desirability of making BIOT GU4161 accessible to more students having the appropriate science background, BIOT GU4160 has been removed as a prerequisite.
- Department: Biological Sciences
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alan J Morrison
Info - 3 points
Transnational Feminisms-China and Beyond
Transntl Feminism-China/B
This is an interdisciplinary seminar for graduate students and advanced undergraduates to explore transnational feminisms, gender politics in China, and the movement of feminist (and anti-feminist) ideas across borders. We will read some translations of primary works by Chinese writers, as well as feminist scholarship in English to gain insight into the following areas: social movements; gender, race, ethnicity and class; global capitalism and inequalities; sexualities; identities; digital activism; nationalisms; marriage and families; and the politics of reproduction. Although the course has no formal prerequisites, it assumes some basic knowledge about Chinese history and intersectional approaches to gender. If you have never taken a course on China before,please ask me for guidance on whether or not the course is suitable for you.
- Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Leta Hong Fincher
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 6 Info - 3 points
Sustainable Water Treatment and Reuse
SUSTAINABLE WATER TREAT/R
Fundamentals of water pollution and wastewater characteristics. Chemistry, microbiology, and reaction kinetics. Design of primary, secondary, and advanced treatment systems. Small community and residential systems.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
- R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Paul Knowles
Info - 3 points
COMPUTER ANIMATION
- Department: Computer Science
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Changxi Zheng
h-index: 30 Info - 3 points
Anthropology s Clock: Time, Tense, Tem
Anthropologys Clock
What tools does anthropology acquire to examine questions about time, and whose time do anthropologists often study? In this course, we will read ethnographic work spanning different moments in the history of the discipline of Anthropology in which the problem of writing about time, and particularly the time of others, is posed. By understanding key concepts through which anthropologists have captured the richness of temporal experiences, we will explore the magic and elusiveness of time in the life of people and cultures, all while telling a particular story about anthropology’s own experience with time.
In our weekly readings, we will bring together ethnography and theory, complemented by materials such as short films and novel excerpts. Each week will attend to a specific temporal phenomenon, which will help us further explore the relationship between time, ethnography, and critique. Throughout the semester, we will also engage in a series of “fieldnote-taking” exercises. These short entries will serve as a way to connect the readings on the syllabus with your own attempts to write about time and will contribute to the development of your midterm paper and form the foundation of your final paper.
- Department: Anthropology
- M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Amer N Ibrahim
Info - 3 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
- T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
- None None-None
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Instructor:
Celeste S Layne
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
3D UI AND AUGMENTED REALITY
Design, development, and evaluation of 3D user interfaces. Interaction techniques and metaphors, from desktop to immersive. Selection and manipulation. Travel and navigation. Symbolic, menu, gestural, and multimodal interaction. Dialogue design. 3D software support. 3D interaction devices and displays. Virtual and augmented reality. Tangible user interfaces. Review of relevant 3D math.
- Department: Computer Science
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Steven K Feiner
CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info - 3 points
Conversions and Coalitions
In the face of “post-liberal” political realignments, particular varieties of Christian conservatism and reactionism have ascended as consequential forces in and beyond the United States. This seminar interrogates these realignments through practices of conversion, coalition-making, and the kinds of belongings, extensions, departures, and excisions such practices make thinkable and tangible. We will focus on inter-denominational and intra-Christian dynamics particularly within the United States to ask questions about the contradictions, costs, and potentials of such new or newly energized Christian movements. Our interdisciplinary readings draw from political theory, public theology, and anthropological and historical studies. This course emerges from ongoing discussions among two anthropologists; in the spirit of modeling collaboration, students of the in-person seminar will have the opportunity for remote engagement with counterparts elsewhere.
- Department: Anthropology
- R 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Catherine Fennell
Info - 3 points
INTRO TO LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS
Prerequisites: SDEV W3390 or EESC W4050 or the instructors permission. This class provides basic theory in landscape analysis and training in methods for analyzing landscapes, focusing on interpretation of satellite images. The class covers approaches and definitions in landscape analysis, data sources, land cover classification, change detection, accuracy assessment, projections of future land cover change, and techniques to interpret results of these analyses. Students will obtain hands-on experience working with data from a landscape related to his/her research or a landscape chosen by the instructors.
- Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
- M 8:40 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- 3 points
MOD DISPLAY SCI & TECHNOLOGY
Introduction to modern display systems in an engineering context. The basis for visual perception, image representation, color space, metrics of illumination. Physics of luminescence, propagation and manipulation of light in anisotropic media, emissive displays, and spatial light modulators. Fundamentals of display addressing, the Alt-Pleshko theorem, multiple line addressing. Large area electronics, fabrication, and device integration of commercially important display types. A series of short laboratories will reinforce material from the lectures. Enrollment may be limited.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- 3 points
MSIEOR Quantitative Bootcamp
Zero-credit course. Primer on quantitative and mathematical concepts. Required for all incoming MSOR and MSIE students.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- 0 points
PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
Techniques of solution of partial differential equations. Separation of the variables. Orthogonality and characteristic functions, nonhomogeneous boundary value problems. Solutions in orthogonal curvilinear coordinate systems. Applications of Fourier integrals, Fourier and Laplace transforms. Problems from the fields of vibrations, heat conduction, electricity, fluid dynamics, and wave propagation are considered.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- None None-None
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Instructor:
Curtiss Lyman
Info - 3 points
HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN AND INNOVATION
HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN & I
Open to SEAS graduate and advanced undergraduate students, Business School, and GSAPP. Students from other schools may apply. Fast-paced introduction to human-centered design. Students learn the vocabulary of design methods, understanding of design process. Small group projects to create prototypes. Design of simple product, more complex systems of products and services, and design of business.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- W 11:25 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
- W 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Harry West
CULPA: 1 h-index: 1 Info - 3 points
BASIC CONCEPTS-POST-FREUD THGT
This course examines psychoanalytic movements that are viewed either as post-Freudian in theory or as emerging after Freuds time. The course begins by considering the ways Freuds cultural and historical surround, as well as the wartime diaspora of the European psychoanalytic community, shaped Freudian and post-Freudian thought. It then focuses on significant schools and theories of psychoanalysis that were developed from the mid 20th century to the present. Through readings of key texts and selected case studies, it explores theorists challenges to classical thought and technique, and their reconfigurations, modernizations, and total rejections of central Freudian ideas. The course concludes by looking at contemporary theorists moves to integrate notions of culture, concepts of trauma, and findings from neuroscience and attachment research into the psychoanalytic frame.
- Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Adele Tutter
Info - 4 points
ECO, BEHAVIOR & CONSERVATION OF MAMMALS
- Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Scott Lapoint
Info - 3 points
MATERIALS THERMODYN/PHASE DIAG
Review of laws of thermodynamics, thermodynamic variables and relations, free energies and equilibrium in thermodynamic system. Statistical thermodynamics. Unary, binary, and ternary phase diagrams, compounds and intermediate phases, solid solutions and Hume-Rothery rules, relationship between phase diagrams and metastability, defects in crystals. Thermodynamics of surfaces and interfaces, effect of particle size on phase equilibria, adsorption isotherms, grain boundaries, surface energy, electrochemistry, statistical mechanics.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- None None-None
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Instructor:
Renata M Wentzcovitch
Info - 3 points
Policy for Privacy Technologies
Introduction to privacy technologies, their use in practice, and privacy regulations. Potential topics include anonymization, differential privacy, cryptography, secure multi-party computation, and legislation. Course material will be abased in real-world use cases of these tools.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rachel Cummings
h-index: 16 Info - 3 points
SECOND YEAR JAPANESE
JPNS4202OC: Second Year Japanese II, 4 points. Required to take Second Year Japanese I, JPNS4201OC for 4 points.
The 2nd year Japanese program (JPNS4201OC & JPNS4202OC; 8 points or 2 semesters) is designed for those who have completed at least one year of college-level Japanese or the equivalent (around 150 hours of Japanese study).
Students who want to take this course are expected to be at least at the
Novice-High level
of
the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines
at the beginning of the course.
This class will cover Chapters 17-23 of
Genki II
(The Japan Times) and intermediate materials such as
Hiyaku
(Routledge). The coverage and materials will be contingent on the levels of students and finalized by the instructors. Depending on their previous coursework, some students may be asked to study independently in preparation.
The goal of this course is to achieve Intermediate-Mid level or higher proficiency according to the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines.
To enroll in this course, you must apply to the
Kyoto Consortium Summer: Modern Japanese
program through the Center for Undergraduate Global Engagement (UGE).
Global Learning Scholarships
available.
Tuition
charges apply.
Please note the program dates are different from the Summer Sessions Terms. Visit the
UGE
website for the start and end dates for the Kyoto Consortium Summer: Modern Japanese KCJS.
Please email
uge@colu
- Department: Global Programs
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Instructor:
Orie Maeguchi
Info - 8 points
KINETICS OF TRANSFORMATIONS
Review of thermodynamics, irreversible thermodynamics, diffusion in crystals and noncrystalline materials, phase transformations via nucleation and growth, overall transformation analysis and time-temperature-transformation (TTT) diagrams, precipitation, grain growth, solidification, spinodal and order-disorder transformations, martensitic transformation.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
- None None-None
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Instructor:
James Im
Info - 3 points
Theories of Change in Human Development
Theories of Change-Human
What are the agents of developmental change in human childhood? How has the scientific community graduated from nature versus nurture, to nature
and
nurture? This course offers students an in-depth analysis of the fundamental theories in the study of cognitive and social development.
- Department: Psychology
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Dima Amso
CULPA: 1 h-index: 31 Info - 4 points
THEORY CRYSTALL MAT: ELECTRONS
Phenomenological theoretical understanding of electrons in crystalline materials. Both translational and point symmetry employed to block diagonalize the Schrödinger equation and compute observables related to electrons. Topics include nearly free electrons, tight-binding, electron-electron interactions, transport, magnetism, optical properties, topological insulators, spin-orbit coupling, and superconductivity. Illustrated using both minimal model Hamiltonians in addition to accurate Hamiltonians for real materials.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Chris A Marianetti
Info - 3 points
THEORY CRYSTALL MAT: ELECTRONS
Phenomenological theoretical understanding of electrons in crystalline materials. Both translational and point symmetry employed to block diagonalize the Schrödinger equation and compute observables related to electrons. Topics include nearly free electrons, tight-binding, electron-electron interactions, transport, magnetism, optical properties, topological insulators, spin-orbit coupling, and superconductivity. Illustrated using both minimal model Hamiltonians in addition to accurate Hamiltonians for real materials.
- Department: Video Network
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Instructor:
Chris A Marianetti
Info - 3 points
PROBABILITY THEORY
Prerequisites: At least one semester, and preferably two, of calculus. An introductory course (STAT UN1201, preferably) is strongly recommended. A calculus-based introduction to probability theory. A quick review of multivariate calculus is provided. Topics covered include random variables, conditional probability, expectation, independence, Bayes’ rule, important distributions, joint distributions, moment generating functions, central limit theorem, laws of large numbers and Markov’s inequality.
- Department: Statistics
- TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Marco A Avella Medina
Info - 3 points
PROBABILITY THEORY
Prerequisites: At least one semester, and preferably two, of calculus. An introductory course (STAT UN1201, preferably) is strongly recommended. A calculus-based introduction to probability theory. A quick review of multivariate calculus is provided. Topics covered include random variables, conditional probability, expectation, independence, Bayes’ rule, important distributions, joint distributions, moment generating functions, central limit theorem, laws of large numbers and Markov’s inequality.
- Department: Statistics
- TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Marco A Avella Medina
Info - 3 points
STATISTICAL INFERENCE
Prerequisites: STAT GU4203. At least one semester of calculus is required; two or three semesters are strongly recommended. Calculus-based introduction to the theory of statistics. Useful distributions, law of large numbers and central limit theorem, point estimation, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals maximum likelihood, likelihood ratio tests, nonparametric procedures, theory of least squares and analysis of variance.
- Department: Statistics
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Banu Baydil
CULPA: 10
Info
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Instructor:
Ashley Datta
Info - 3 points
STATISTICAL INFERENCE
Prerequisites: STAT GU4203. At least one semester of calculus is required; two or three semesters are strongly recommended. Calculus-based introduction to the theory of statistics. Useful distributions, law of large numbers and central limit theorem, point estimation, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals maximum likelihood, likelihood ratio tests, nonparametric procedures, theory of least squares and analysis of variance.
- Department: Statistics
- TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ashley Datta
Info - 3 points
LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS
Prerequisites: STAT GU4204 or the equivalent, and a course in linear algebra. Theory and practice of regression analysis. Simple and multiple regression, testing, estimation, prediction, and confidence procedures, modeling, regression diagnostics and plots, polynomial regression, colinearity and confounding, model selection, geometry of least squares. Extensive use of the computer to analyse data.
THIRD YEAR JAPANESE
JPNS4206OC: Third Year Japanese II, 4 points. Required to take Third Year Japanese I, JPNS4205OC for 4 points.
The 3rd Year Japanese program (JPNS4205OC & JPNS4206OC; 8 points/2 semesters) is designed for those who have completed at least two years of college-level Jap4nese or the equivalent (around 300 hours of Japanese study).
Students who want to take this course are expected to be at least at the
Intermediate-Mid level
of
the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines
N1
at the beginning of the course. Please note that depending on the results of the placement test, the students may be placed in a different level than they apply for.
This class will use intermediate-level materials equivalent to
Tobira
and
Quartet I & II
or JLPT N3-N2. The coverage and materials will be contingent on the levels of students.
The goal of this course is to achieve Intermediate-High or above of the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines.
To enroll in this course, you must apply to the
Kyoto Consortium Summer: Modern Japanese
program through the Center for Undergraduate Global Engagement (UGE).
Global Learning Scholarships
available.
Tuition
charges apply.
Please note the program dates are different from the Summer Sessions Terms. Visit the
UGE
website for the start and end dates for the Kyoto Consortium Summer: Modern Japanese KCJS.
Please email
uge@columbia.edu
with any questions you may have.
- Department: Global Programs
- 8 points
THIRD YEAR JAPANESE
JPNS4206OC: Third Year Japanese II, 4 points. Required to take Third Year Japanese I, JPNS4205OC for 4 points.
The 3rd Year Japanese program (JPNS4205OC & JPNS4206OC; 8 points/2 semesters) is designed for those who have completed at least two years of college-level Jap4nese or the equivalent (around 300 hours of Japanese study).
Students who want to take this course are expected to be at least at the
Intermediate-Mid level
of
the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines
N1
at the beginning of the course. Please note that depending on the results of the placement test, the students may be placed in a different level than they apply for.
This class will use intermediate-level materials equivalent to
Tobira
and
Quartet I & II
or JLPT N3-N2. The coverage and materials will be contingent on the levels of students.
The goal of this course is to achieve Intermediate-High or above of the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines.
To enroll in this course, you must apply to the
Kyoto Consortium Summer: Modern Japanese
program through the Center for Undergraduate Global Engagement (UGE).
Global Learning Scholarships
available.
Tuition
charges apply.
Please note the program dates are different from the Summer Sessions Terms. Visit the
UGE
website for the start and end dates for the Kyoto Consortium Summer: Modern Japanese KCJS.
Please email
uge@columbia.edu
with any questions you may have.
- Department: Global Programs
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Instructor:
Itsuko Nakamura
Info - 8 points
STAT COMP & INTRO DATA SCIENCE
Course Overview:
This course introduces Python programming, covering data structures, control-flow, objects, and functions, along with libraries like re, requests, numpy, pandas, scikit-learn, scipy, and more. These skills are applied to real-world data science tasks, including AB testing, data manipulation, modeling, optimization, simulations, and data visualization.
Students will develop computational thinking abilities, including problem decomposition, pattern recognition, data representation, abstraction, and algorithm design, through practical exercises.
- Department: Statistics
- F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Benjamin K Goodrich
Info - 3 points
ELEMENTARY STOCHASTIC PROCESS
Elementary Stochastic Processe
Prerequisites: STAT GU4203 and two, preferably three, semesters of calculus. Review of elements of probability theory. Poisson processes. Renewal theory. Walds equation. Introduction to discrete and continuous time Markov chains. Applications to queueing theory, inventory models, branching processes.
- Department: Statistics
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Richard Davis
CULPA: 3 h-index: 60 Info - 3 points
ELEMENTARY STOCHASTIC PROCESS
Prerequisites: STAT GU4203 and two, preferably three, semesters of calculus. Review of elements of probability theory. Poisson processes. Renewal theory. Walds equation. Introduction to discrete and continuous time Markov chains. Applications to queueing theory, inventory models, branching processes.
- Department: Statistics
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mark Brown
CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info - 3 points
Music Production & Studio Composition
This course explores the recording studio and Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) as tools for diverse compositional practices. By exploring a range of recording and editing techniques to craft new musical works beyond the limitations of live performance, this class encourages a seamless blend of composition and music production. Various genres, artists, and techniques that push the boundaries of music recording will be studied, such as Jamaican dub, musique concrète, hyper-pop, jazz fusion, and more. Students will gain hands-on experience with DAWs, exploring tools like effects processing, layering, and spatial placement. They will learn to listen closely to pieces exemplifying these techniques, building a shared analytic vocabulary to describe them. Students will also create original pieces, applying and building on the techniques studied in class, while engaging in constructive feedback with peers.
- Department: Music
- T 4:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Instructor:
Anna Meadors
Info - 3 points
Du Bois Seminar
This seminar engages the life and work of W.E.B. Du Bois, widely understood to be the greatest intellectual in U.S. history. Students will read and discuss Du Bois’s autobiography, and major works across his long and prolific career. Major themes include pan-Africanism, socialism, and peace.
- Department: American Studies @Barnard
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Manu Karuka
Info - 4 points
GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS
Fundamental concepts in the dynamics of rotating, stratified flows. Geostrophic and hydrostatic balances, potential vorticity, f and beta plane approximations, gravity and Rossby waves, geostrophic adjustment and quasigeostrophy, baroclinic and barotropic instabilities, Sverdrup balance, boundary currents, Ekman layers.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Dhruv Balwada
Info - 3 points
FORENSIC STRUCTURL ENGINEERING
Review of significant failures, civil/structural engineering design and construction practices, ethical standards and the legal positions as necessary background to forensic engineering. Discussion of standard-of-care. Study of the process of engineering evaluation of structural defects and failures in construction and in service. Examination of the roles, activities, conduct and ethics of the forensic consultant and expert witness. Students are assigned projects of actual cases of non-performance or failure of steel, concrete, masonry, geotechnical and temporary structures, in order to perform, discuss and report their own investigations under the guidance of the instructor.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
- T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
- 3 points
AESTHETC THRY-FRANKFURT SCHOOL
AESTHETC THRY-FRANKFUST SCHOOL
Critical theory was the central practice of the Frankfurt School. Founded in Frankfurt in 1923 and later based at Columbia University, this interdisciplinary institute influenced fields like sociology, political science, film, cultural studies, media theory, and comparative literature. The course begins by examining the genealogy of the Frankfurt School in Marxism and its critique of fascism and traces its afterlife in aesthetic theory, deconstruction, and gender studies, as well as the specter of “Cultural Marxism” recently floating around right-wing circles. We read texts by key figures of the Frankfurt School such as Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse and Jürgen Habermas as well as works by adjacent figures like Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Siegfried Kracauer.
- Department: Germanic Languages
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Annie Pfeifer
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS
Prerequisites: APMA E3101, APMA E3201 or equivalents and APPH E4200 or equivalent or the instructors permission. Fundamental concepts in the dynamics of rotating stratified flows. Geostrophic and hydrostatic balances, potential vorticity, f and beta plane approximations, gravity and Rossby waves, geostrophic adjustment and quasigeostrophy, baroclinic and barotropic instabilities.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
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Instructor:
Dhruv Balwada
Info - 3 points
BLACK GEOGRAPHIES
Far from obvious renderings of place, maps are spatial arguments about who belongs where and how living should be defined. This course approaches place as something that is contested daily in the U.S. through the struggle of who gets to lay claim to a way of life. From the landscapes of dispossession to the alternative ways marginalized people work with and against traditional geographies, this course centers Black place-making practices as political struggle. This class will look at how power and domination become a landed project. We will critically examine how ideas about “nature” are bound up with notions of race, and the way “race” naturalizes the proper place for humans and non-human others. We will interrogate settler colonialism’s relationships to mapping who is and isn’t human, the transatlantic slave trade as a project of terraforming environments for capital, and land use as a science for determining who “owns” the earth. Centered on Black feminist, queer and trans thinkers, we will encounter space not as a something given by maps, but as a struggle over definitions of the human, geography, sovereignty, and alternative worlds. To this end, we will read from a variety of disciplines, such as Critical Black Studies, Feminist and Intersectional Science Studies, Black Geographies and Ecologies, Urban Studies and Afrofuturist literature. (Note: this class will count as an elective for the CCIS minors/concentrations in F/ISTS, ICORE/MORE, and Environmental Humanities.)
- Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Marisa Solomon
Info - 4 points
Houses of Wisdom: Scholarly Spaces and K
Teaching and learning in the premodern Islamic world centered around the person, rather than the
space. Entries in medieval biographical dictionaries tend to emphasize a scholar’s teachers, not the
institutions they studied at. Nonetheless knowledge had a geography: it was embodied and situated.
Where people studied, discussed, and taught determined how and what knowledge was gained and
transmitted, and to whom. At the same time, different practices and values of knowledge transmission
shaped spaces of scholarship.
This class will question the interplay between knowledge and space. We will focus on social and material
dimensions of spaces, revealing connections and separations between scholars and disciplines as we
attempt to materialize intellectual history. We will interrogate the boundaries between the informal and
formal, personal and institutional, public and private, and use these categories to analyze the teaching
and transmission of various kinds of knowledge, such as Islamic and Ancient sciences. Drawing from
biographical dictionaries, literary works, documentary and archeological evidence, we will explore the
importance of religious endowments and patronage, and examine access to scholarly spaces for the elite,
the ‘sub-elite’ and the ‘common’ people. Finally, this class will confront enduring myths, such as those
surrounding Baghdad’s Bayt al-Hikma, and the Jundishāpūr hospital, and narratives surrounding the
place of the natural sciences within the Islamic world.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elaine Van Dalen
CULPA: 3
Info
- 4 points
ADVANCED MICROECONOMICS
Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and MATH UN2010 Students must register for required discussion section. Corequisites: MATH UN2500 or MATH GU4061 The course provides a rigorous introduction to microeconomics. Topics will vary with the instructor but will include consumer theory, producer theory, general equilibrium and welfare, social choice theory, game theory and information economics. This course is strongly recommended for students considering graduate work in economics. Discussion section required.
- Department: Economics
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Susan M Elmes
CULPA: 44
Info
- 4 points
THIRD YEAR ARABIC II
Students in the regular third-year Arabic track improve reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills through close reading, compositions, class discussions, and presentations in Arabic on topics such as cultures of the Arab world, classical and modern Arabic literature, and contemporary Arabic media. Review of grammatical and syntactic rules as needed. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- MTWR 8:50 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Youssef Nouhi
CULPA: 7
Info
- 5 points
ADV MICROECONOMICS - DISC
Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and MATH UN2010 Students must register for lecture course ECON GU4211 Corequisites: MATH UN2500MATH GU4061 Required discussion section for ECON GU4211 Advanced Microeconomics. The course provides a rigorous introduction to microeconomics. Topics will vary with the instructor but will include consumer theory, producer theory, general equilibrium and welfare, social choice theory, game theory and information economics. This course is strongly recommended for students considering graduate work in economics. Discussion section required.
- Department: Economics
- 0 points
FOURTH YEAR MODERN ARABIC II
Prerequisites: MDES W4212. Through reading articles and essays by Arab thinkers and intellectuals of the Twentieth century, starting from the period called Nahda (Renaissance), such as Taha Hussein, Qasim Amin, Abdallah Laroui, Abed Al-Jabiri, Tahar Haddad, Fatima Mernissi and others, students will be able to increase their fluency and accuracy in Arabic while working on reading text and being exposed to the main
themes in Arab thought. The course works with all four skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing). Arabic is the language of instruction. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- MW 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Taoufik Ben-Amor
CULPA: 11
Info
- 4 points
THEORY OF PLATES AND SHELLS
Static flexural response of thin, elastic, rectangular, and circular plates. Exact (series) and approximate (Ritz) solutions. Circular cylindrical shells. Axisymmetric and non-axisymmetric membrane theory. Shells of arbitrary shape.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
- R 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gautam Dasgupta
CULPA: 3 h-index: 19 Info - 3 points
MEMS Sensors and Systems
Connects basic MEMS transduction elements to applications by analyzing the analog signal chain, sensor packaging, and sensor integration into larger systems. Underlying concepts of analog instrumentation such as filtering and digitization covered. Hands-on projects involve off-the-shelf sensors and single-board computers to create self-contained sensor systems that demonstrate relevant issues.
MECH BEHAVIOR OF MATERIALS
Review of states of stress and strain and their relations in elastic, plastic, and viscous materials. Dislocation and elastic-plastic concepts introduced to explain work hardening, various materials-strengthening mechanisms, ductility, and toughness. Macroscopic and microstructural aspects of brittle and ductile fracture mechanics, creep and fatigue phenomena. Case studies used throughout, including flow and fracture of structural alloys, polymers, hybrid materials, composite materials, ceramics, and electronic materials devices. Materials reliability and fracture prevention emphasized.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- None None-None
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Instructor:
William Bailey
CULPA: 12 Info - 3 points
Modular Sound Synthesis
Modular Sound Synthesis is a hands-on studio class that explores contemporary techniques for synthesizers both in studio practice and performance while framing them in the historical context in which they developed. The class approaches the fundamentals of sound and synthesis through the perspective of Columbia’s Computer Music Center: vintage function generators, suitcase reel-to-reel tape machines, prototype modules, custom devices; and the first programmable music synthesizer, the RCA Mark II. Students will learn to perform and compose on both hardware devices and software emulations, utilizing them as a creative tool for recording and live performance. Topics include oscillators, modulation, sequencers, voltage processing, wave shaping, filters, and LFOs. The course will engage in listening to both historical and contemporary examples to develop critical listening skills. This class is designed as a follow-up to Intro to Digital Music for undergraduates or graduate students interested in integrating modular synthesis within their artistic practice.
- Department: Music
- R 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
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Instructor:
Danielle R Dobkin
Info - 3 points
ADVANCED ARABIC GRAMMAR REVIEW
Through reading and writing, students will review Arabic Grammar concepts within the context of linguistic functions such as narration, description, comparison, etc. For example, within the function of narration, students will focus on verb tenses, word order, and adverbials. Based on error analysis in the past twelve years that the Arabic Program has been using Al-Kitaab, emphasis will be placed on common and frequent grammatical errors. Within these linguistic functions and based on error analysis, the course will review the following main concepts: Types of sentence and sentence/clause structure. The Verb system, pattern meanings and verb complementation. Quadriliteral verb patterns and derivations. Weak Verbs derivations, conjugation, tense frames and negation. Case endings. Types of noun and participle: Noun of time, place, instance, stance, instrument, active and passive participles. Types of construct phrase: al-iDafa. Types of Adverbials and verb complements: Hal, Tamyiz, Maf’ul mutlaq, Maf’ul li’ajlihi, adverbs of time, frequency, place and manner. The number system and countable nouns. Types of maa.Diptotes, al-mamnu’ min-aSSarf. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Taoufik Ben-Amor
CULPA: 11
Info
- 3 points
Religion and Capitalism: Faith and the A
Is the market a religious system? Can we consider "capitalism" to be a key arena in which the relationship between the religious and the secular is both negotiated and performed? In this course, students will explore the complicated relationship between faith and the market, the religious and the secular, and the evolution of vice and virtue as they relate to economic thriving in the United States. While no hard and fast rules for thinking about the relationship between right conduct and material interests cut across all religious and philosophical traditions, human agents invest real faith into currency, into markets, and into the reigning economic order to bring about increased opportunities, wealth, and freedom to people across the globe. Throughout this semester, we will chart both the long shadows and the future trajectories of these beliefs from our American perspective.
- Department: Religion
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Andrew E Jungclaus
Info - 4 points
American Religions in extremis
This seminar focuses on historical, sociological, and first-hand accounts of a diverse set of American non-conformist religious and spiritual groups (including MOVE, the Branch Davidians at Waco, Father Divine's International Peace Mission, the Oneida Perfectionists, and Occupy and others). Diverse in their historical origins, their activities, and their ends, each of the groups sought or seeks to offer radically news ways of living, subverting American gender, sexuality, racial, or economic norms. The title of this seminar highlights the ways that these groups explain their reasons for existing (to themselves or others) not as a choice but as a response to a system or society out of whack, at odds with the plans of the divine, or at odds with nature and survival. Likewise, it considers the numerous ways that these same groups have often found themselves the targets of state surveillance and violence.
- Department: Religion
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Courtney Bender
CULPA: 10
Info
- 4 points
FOURTH YEAR JAPANESE
JPNS4218OC: Fourth Year Japanese II, 4 points. Required to take Fourth Year Japanese I, JPNS4217OC for 4 points.
The 4th Year Japanese program (JPNS4217OC & JPNS4218OC; 8 points/ 2 semesters) is designed for those who have completed at least three years of college-level Japanese or the equivalent (around 450 hours of Japanese study).
Students who want to take this course are expected to be at the
Intermediate-High level
or above of
the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines
N1
at the beginning of the course. Please note that depending on the results of the placement test, the students may be placed in a different level than they apply for.
Authentic materials such as newspaper, novels, and TV news will be used alongside with instructor-created materials to study grammatical patterns equivalent to JLPT N1 and N2. In addition, the students will have the opportunity to pursue an individualized project based on their own interests and give a presentation about their project at the end of the program.
The goal of this course is to achieve Advanced-Low or above of the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines.
To enroll in this course, you must apply to the
Kyoto Consortium Summer: Modern Japanese
program through the Center for Undergraduate Global Engagement (UGE).
Global Learning Scholarships
available.
Tuition
charges apply.
Please note the program dates are different from the Summer Sessions Terms. Visit the
UGE
website for the start and end dates for the Kyoto Consortium Summer: Modern Japanese KCJS.
Please email
uge@columbia.edu
with any questions you may have.
- Department: Global Programs
- 8 points
SPOKEN ARABIC II
Prerequisites: MDES UN2202 This is an introductory course to Levantine Arabic for students who have completed two years of Standard Arabic studies, at the Intermediate level. The course is designed to further develop fluency in oral communication, through building students’ familiarity with a less formal register of Arabic, namely the Levantine dialect. The course will convert and recycle some of the previous Standard Arabic knowledge to the dialect, by comparing their prior knowledge to its dialectal counterpart; while at the same time developing students’ new communicative skills in a diverse range of contexts that are essential in any conversational interaction. The course will build students abilities to interact effectively in various areas where Levantine Arabic is spoken. In addition to varied thematic topics, the course exposes students to cultural aspects specific to the region. Additionally, the course will work on both constructing students’ knowledge of dialectal diction as well as other grammatical features of the dialects. Even though the course is designed for communication in the four skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking), the emphasis will be mostly on speaking and listening. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Reem Faraj
CULPA: 4
Info
- 4 points
INTRO-HIST & THEORY-LIT INTERP
- Department: Italian
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth Leake
Info - 3 points
The Arabic Linguistic Tradition
The purpose of the Arabic Linguistic Tradition course is to introduce undergraduate and graduate
students to the Arabic Linguistic Tradition, starting before Islam and ending in current times. The
course maps out the context in which the Arabic language and its predecessors existed, the
history of the development of the language, its script, its geographical spread, its linguistic
influences on other languages and scripts throughout the world, as well as its own influences by
other languages. The course will also examine the importance of Arabic as a language of
religion, philosophy, sciences, and nationalism. Furthermore, the course will focus on the
classical Arabic linguistic categories and fields devised by Arab/Arabic grammarians, and how
we can situate them vis-à-vis modern western linguistic theories. The course will detail some of
the language linguistic issues, challenges and secrets, as the language stands on its own, as well
as within a euro-centric “modern” linguistic theories framework.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
May Ahmar
CULPA: 9
Info
- 4 points
TIME SERIES ANALYSIS
Prerequisites: STAT GU4205 or the equivalent. Least squares smoothing and prediction, linear systems, Fourier analysis, and spectral estimation. Impulse response and transfer function. Fourier series, the fast Fourier transform, autocorrelation function, and spectral density. Univariate Box-Jenkins modeling and forecasting. Emphasis on applications. Examples from the physical sciences, social sciences, and business. Computing is an integral part of the course.
- Department: Statistics
- S 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Franz Rembart
Info - 3 points
Interfacial Engineering for Sustainable
Cross disciplinary interfacial engineering principles and applications in sustainable energy and material science. Surface science and systems analysis across different technology sectors - material production and processing, waste management, device manufacture, composites, coatings, ceramics, membranes, biomaterials, and microelectronics.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- None None-None
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Instructor:
Raymond Farinato
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
NONPARAMETRIC STATISTICS
Prerequisites: STAT GU4204 or the equivalent. Statistical inference without parametric model assumption. Hypothesis testing using ranks, permutations, and order statistics. Nonparametric analogs of analysis of variance. Non-parametric regression, smoothing and model selection.
- Department: Statistics
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Marco A Avella Medina
Info - 3 points
Hist of Russian Thought: Faith & Reason
History of Russian Though
Russian ideas are familiar to the world through Tolstoy’s and Dostoevsky’s novels. In this course, we will examine key texts in the intellectual tradition that forms the backdrop to these famous works. Emphasis is on close textual readings; but also on how Russian ideas have been read and interpreted across national and cultural boundaries, including in recent English-language works like Tom Stoppard’s play,
Coast of Utopia
. Thinkers include Schellingians and Hegelians, Slavophiles, Populists and Pan-Slavists, and Vladimir Soloviev.
- Department: History
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Catherine Evtuhov
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
Dreams
This seminar for advanced undergraduates and graduate students investigates the significance of dreams in multiple cultural and historical contexts with a focus on Tibetan Buddhism. Dreams and dreaming are vital aspects of Tibetan Buddhist meditative practice, visionary experience, poetry, narratives, as well as visual arts. Students in the seminar will explore a range of materials that 1) guide Buddhist practitioners to cultivate certain types of dreams, and 2) narrate dream experiences that the dreamer has deemed worth recording, and 3) situate Tibetan Buddhist examples in broader contexts of religious and psychological perspectives, with an emphasis on Freud and Jung’s treatment of dreams. According to Buddhist sources, a dream might be significant because the dreamer understands it to be revelatory, foretelling the future, or it might be recorded simply because the dreamer finds the dream in some way compelling, troubling, or funny. In life writing, dreams often highlight crucial moments in the writer’s life experience. Just as psychoanalysts make use of dreams to engage with analysands, Tibetan medical texts instruct doctors to pay close attention to patients’ dreams in the process of diagnosis. Tibetan ritual texts guide meditators in techniques for lucid dreaming. Visionary dreams are recorded in great aesthetic detail. Narratives of dreams and dreamscapes are an important part of biographies and life writing in general. We will also consider European and American treatments of dreams and lucid dreaming, including psychoanalytic, philosophical approaches to dreaming. A significant element of the course is a daily dream journal.
- Department: Religion
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dominique Townsend
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
BAYESIAN STATISTICS
This course introduces the Bayesian paradigm for statistical inference. Topics covered include prior and posterior distributions: conjugate priors, informative and non-informative priors; one- and two-sample problems; models for normal data, models for binary data, Bayesian linear models; Bayesian computation: MCMC algorithms, the Gibbs sampler; hierarchical models; hypothesis testing, Bayes factors, model selection; use of statistical software.
Prerequisites: A course in the theory of statistical inference, such as STAT GU4204 a course in statistical modeling and data analysis, such as STAT GU4205.
- Department: Statistics
- TR 7:40 p.m.-8:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dobrin Marchev
Info - 3 points
ADV DESIGN OF STEEL STRUCTURES
Review of loads and structural design approaches. Material considerations in structural steel design. Behavior and design of rolled steel, welded, cold-formed light-gauge, and composite concrete/steel members. Design of multi-story buildings and space structures.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
- R 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
- 3 points
ECONOMICS OF NEW YORK CITY
ECONOMICS OF NYC
Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and STAT Un1201 This course takes New York as our laboratory. Economics is about individual choice subject to constraints and the ways that choices sum up to something often much more than the parts. The fundamental feature of any city is the combination of those forces that bring people together and those that push them apart. Thus both physical and social space will be central to our discussions. The underlying theoretical and empirical analysis will touch on spatial aspects of urban economics, regional, and even international economics. We will aim to see these features in New York City taken as a whole, as well as in specific neighborhoods of the city. We will match these theoretical and empirical analyses with readings that reflect close observation of specific subjects. The close observation is meant to inspire you to probe deeply into a topic in order that the tools and approaches of economics may illuminate these issues in a fresh way.
- Department: Economics
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Donald R Davis
CULPA: 2 Wikipedia h-index: 31 Info - 3 points
ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS I
Prerequisites: COMS W3134, COMS W3136, or COMS W3137, and COMS W3203. Introduction to the design and analysis of efficient algorithms. Topics include models of computation, efficient sorting and searching, algorithms for algebraic problems, graph algorithms, dynamic programming, probabilistic methods, approximation algorithms, and NP-completeness.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Daniel Bienstock
h-index: 38 Info - 3 points
ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS I
Prerequisites: (COMS W3134 or COMS W3136COMS W3137) and (COMS W3203) Introduction to the design and analysis of efficient algorithms. Topics include models of computation, efficient sorting and searching, algorithms for algebraic problems, graph algorithms, dynamic programming, probabilistic methods, approximation algorithms, and NP-completeness.
- Department: Computer Science
- F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- None None-None
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Instructor:
Eleni Drinea
CULPA: 8 Info - 3 points
Love, Labor, and Leisure in Contemporary
Love, Labor in Contemp Ch
This course takes an anthropological perspective on life in China today with special attention to the legacies of the country’s socialist past. We start with a brief look at the ideological and institutional frameworks employed by the Communist Party to organize the daily life of its citizens in the decades leading into the People’s Republic. We will then read about how economic and social reforms instituted since the 1980s, in particular changes to the work unit and household registration system, have resulted in dramatically different opportunities and expectations for Chinese citizens attempting to navigate career opportunities, search for romantic partners, move through communal and private spaces and engage in consumptive activities. Exploring the experiences of rural peasants, urban workers, and laborers who move between countryside and city as well as between nations, we will examine how class, gender, and sexuality come to be refigured as China integrates into the global market economy. Scholarly texts will be supplemented with political speeches, short work of fiction and essays, and films.
- Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Nicholas A Bartlett
CULPA: 5
Info
- 3-4 points
EASTERN EUROPE'S COLD WAR
This seminar explores the Cold Wars impact on Eastern Europe (1940s-1980s) and Eastern Europes Cold War-era engagements with the wider world. We will address the methodologies used by historians to answer questions like these: What was the Cold War? What did it mean, and for whom? We will also look at the Cold War as something more than a series of events; we will consider its value, uses, and limits as a device for framing the second half of the twentieth century.
- Department: History
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elidor Mehilli
Info - 4 points
SURVIVAL ANALYSIS
Prerequisites: STAT GU4205 or the equivalent. Survival distributions, types of censored data, estimation for various survival models, nonparametric estimation of survival distributions, the proportional hazard and accelerated lifetime models for regression analysis with failure-time data. Extensive use of the computer.
- Department: Statistics
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ashley Datta
Info - 3 points
Advanced Algorithms
Introduces classic and modern algorithmic ideas that are central to many areas of Computer Science. The focus is on most powerful paradigms and techniques of how to design algorithms, and how to measure their efficiency. The intent is to be broad, covering a diversity of algorithmic techniques, rather than be deep. The covered topics have all been implemented and are widely used in industry. Topics include: hashing, sketching/streaming, nearest neighbor search, graph algorithms, spectral graph theory, linear programming, models for large-scale computation, and other related topics
- Department: Computer Science
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
- None None-None
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Instructor:
Alexandr Andoni
CULPA: 2 h-index: 34 Info - 3 points
DESIGN OF LARGE SCALE BRIDGES
Design of large-scale and complex bridges with emphasis on cable-supported structures. Static and dynamic loads, component design of towers, superstructures and cables; conceptual design of major bridge types including arches, cable stayed bridges and suspension bridges.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
- W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Theodore Zoli
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info - 3 points
DESIGN OF LARGE SCALE BUILDINGS
Modern challenges in the design of large-scale building structures will be studied. Tall buildings, large convention centers and major sports stadiums present major opportunities for creative solutions and leadership on the part of engineers. This course is designed to expose the students to this environment by having them undertake the complete design of a large structure from initial design concepts on through all the major design decisions. The students work as members of a design team to overcome the challenges inherent in major projects. Topics include overview of major projects, project criteria and interface with architecture, design of foundations and structural systems, design challenges in the post 9/11 environment and roles, responsibilities and legal issues.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
- W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
- 3 points
SAMPLE SURVEYS
Prerequisites: STAT GU4204 or the equivalent. Introductory course on the design and analysis of sample surveys. How sample surveys are conducted, why the designs are used, how to analyze survey results, and how to derive from first principles the standard results and their generalizations. Examples from public health, social work, opinion polling, and other topics of interest.
- Department: Statistics
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rongning Wu
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
SEA LEVEL CHANGE
Pre-requisite: At least a year of calculus and physics; basic programming experience (e.g. EESC3400 - Introduction to Computational Earth Science).
Recommended: EESC2100 (Climate System), EESC2200 (Solid Earth), EESC3201 (Solid Earth Dynamics).
The course aims to explore sea level changes that take place over a wide variety of timescales and are the result of multiple solid Earth and climatic processes. The course will step chronologically through time starting with long term sea level changes over the Phanerozoic, followed by Plio-Pleistocene ice age sea level variations and lastly modern and future sea level change. This is a cross-disciplinary course, which is aimed at students with interests in geophysics, cryosphere evolution, ocean dynamics, sedimentology, paleogeography, and past and present climate.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
- TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Jacqueline Austermann
h-index: 18 Info - 3 points