SPEC TOPICS IN APPLIED MATH
Waves in Random Media
May be repeated for credit. Topics and instructors from the Applied Mathematics Committee and the staff change from year to year. For advanced undergraduate students and graduate students in engineering, physical sciences, biological sciences, and other fields. Examples of topics include multi-scale analysis and Applied Harmonic Analysis.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
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Special Topics in Earth and Environmenta
EAEE Special Topics
Special topics in earth and environmental engineering. Content and prerequisites vary between sections and semesters. May be repeated for credit.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
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Gregory Elsaesser
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Instructor:
Candace Agonafir
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Topics in Jewish Studies
This course approaches Jewish Studies from theoretical and pedagogical standpoints. In addition to looking back at ancient, medieval and Early Modern approaches to the study of Jewish topics and examining the theoretical, historical and religious underpinnings of Jewish Studies as a modern discipline, we will also read theoretical writings from related disciplines. The course will balance these materials with pedagogical materials and exercises. Faculty from disciplines related to Jewish Studies will visit the seminar to offer perspectives on current approaches to the field, and the class will visit the Rare Book and Manuscript Library with Jewish Studies Librarian Michelle Chesner. This course is required for students in the Jewish Studies MA program. It is open to graduate students, and advanced undergraduates may register with permission from the instructor. Please note that faculty visits will be added to the syllabus as they are scheduled.
- Department: Institute for Israel & Jewish Studies
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Instructor:
Isabelle C Levy
CULPA: 5
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TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
PARALLEL FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMIN
Selected topics in computer science. Content and prerequisites vary between sections and semesters. May be repeated for credit. Check “topics course” webpage on the department website for more information on each section.
- Department: Computer Science
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Instructor:
Stephen A Edwards
CULPA: 21
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TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
DESIGN USING C++
Selected topics in computer science. Content and prerequisites vary between sections and semesters. May be repeated for credit. Check “topics course” webpage on the department website for more information on each section.
- Department: Computer Science
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Instructor:
Bjarne Stroustrup
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 38 Info - 3 points
TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
RESILIENT QUANTUM COMP
Selected topics in computer science. Content and prerequisites vary between sections and semesters. May be repeated for credit. Check “topics course” webpage on the department website for more information on each section.
- Department: Computer Science
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Instructor:
Daniel S Rubenstein
CULPA: 29 Info - 3 points
TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
ADV SFTWR DEVELOP W/ AI
Selected topics in computer science. Content and prerequisites vary between sections and semesters. May be repeated for credit. Check “topics course” webpage on the department website for more information on each section.
- Department: Computer Science
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Instructor:
Baishakhi Ray
CULPA: 3 h-index: 24 Info - 3 points
TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
HACKING 4 DEFENSE
Selected topics in computer science. Content and prerequisites vary between sections and semesters. May be repeated for credit. Check “topics course” webpage on the department website for more information on each section.
- Department: Computer Science
- 3 points
TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
INNOVATION & DESIGN LAB
Selected topics in computer science. Content and prerequisites vary between sections and semesters. May be repeated for credit. Check “topics course” webpage on the department website for more information on each section.
- Department: Computer Science
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Instructor:
Gary Zamchick
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TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
COMPETITIVE PROGRAMMING
Selected topics in computer science. Content and prerequisites vary between sections and semesters. May be repeated for credit. Check “topics course” webpage on the department website for more information on each section.
- Department: Computer Science
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Instructor:
Yongwhan Lim
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TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
HEALTH DATA MGMT AGENTS
Selected topics in computer science. Content and prerequisites vary between sections and semesters. May be repeated for credit. Check “topics course” webpage on the department website for more information on each section.
- Department: Computer Science
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Instructor:
Eugene Wu
CULPA: 1 h-index: 32 Info - 3 points
TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
AGENIC ENGINEERING
Selected topics in computer science. Content and prerequisites vary between sections and semesters. May be repeated for credit. Check “topics course” webpage on the department website for more information on each section.
- Department: Computer Science
- 3 points
TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
DEEP LRNG FOR COMP VISION
Selected topics in computer science. Content and prerequisites vary between sections and semesters. May be repeated for credit. Check “topics course” webpage on the department website for more information on each section.
- Department: Computer Science
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Instructor:
Peter Belhumeur
CULPA: 6 h-index: 59 Info - 3 points
TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
C++ DEEP DIVE FOR C PRGS
Selected topics in computer science. Content and prerequisites vary between sections and semesters. May be repeated for credit. Check “topics course” webpage on the department website for more information on each section.
- Department: Computer Science
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Instructor:
Hans J Montero
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TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
LAB2MKT QUANTUM AI INNOVA
Selected topics in computer science. Content and prerequisites vary between sections and semesters. May be repeated for credit. Check “topics course” webpage on the department website for more information on each section.
- Department: Computer Science
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Instructor:
Hossein Azari Soufiani
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TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
CASL MLTPLAYER GAME OCAML
Selected topics in computer science. Content and prerequisites vary between sections and semesters. May be repeated for credit. Check “topics course” webpage on the department website for more information on each section.
- Department: Computer Science
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Instructor:
Yoav Zibin
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TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING
Selected topics in computer science. Content and prerequisites vary between sections and semesters. May be repeated for credit. Check “topics course” webpage on the department website for more information on each section.
- Department: Computer Science
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Instructor:
Spencer Luo
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INDEPENDENT STUDY-GRADUATE
- Department: African American and African Diaspora
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Brandi Summers
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Kellie Jones
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Farah Griffin
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Edwidge Danticat
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Rachel Grace Newman
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Jafari S Allen
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Nyle Fort
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INTERMEDIATE PROJECTS
May be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 total points may be used for degree credit. Substantial independent project involving laboratory work, computer programming, analytical investigation, or engineering design.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
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Instructor:
Dimitris Anastassiou
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Keren Bergman
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Shih-Fu Chang
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Javad Ghaderi
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Christine P Hendon
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Predrag R Jelenkovic
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Xiaofan Jiang
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Ethan Katz-Bassett
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Dion Khodagholy Araghy
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Peter Kinget
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Zoran Kostic
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Harish Krishnaswamy
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Ioannis Kymissis
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Aurel A Lazar
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Michal Lipson
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Nima Mesgarani
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Debasis Mitra
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John W Paisley
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Mingoo Seok
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Kenneth Shepard
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Tanvir Ahmed Khan
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David G Vallancourt
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Wen I Wang
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Xiaodong Wang
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John Wright
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Charles A Zukowski
CULPA: 5
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Gil Zussman
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Savannah Eisner
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James Anderson
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Xiang Meng
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MS PROJECTS IN MECH ENGINEER
Master's level independent project involving theoretical, computational, experimental, or engineering design work. May be repeated, subject to Master's Program guidelines. Students must submit both a project outline prior to registration and a final project write-up at the end of the semester.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
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Instructor:
Sunil Agrawal
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Gerard A Ateshian
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Michael Burke
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Matei T Ciocarlie
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James Hone
CULPA: 11
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Bianca N Howard
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Vijay Modi
CULPA: 3
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Jeffrey W Kysar
CULPA: 9
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Karen Kasza
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Qiao Lin
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Hod Lipson
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Kristin Myers
CULPA: 3
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Arvind Narayanaswamy
CULPA: 9
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Mary Boyce
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Vijay Vedula
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Sinisa Vukelic
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Adrian Buganza Tepole
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Harry West
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Yevgeniy Yesilevskiy
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MS PROJECTS IN MECH ENGINEER
MS PROJECTS IN MECH ENGINEERIN
Master's level independent project involving theoretical, computational, experimental, or engineering design work. May be repeated, subject to Master's Program guidelines. Students must submit both a project outline prior to registration and a final project write-up at the end of the semester.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
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Instructor:
Homayoon Beigi
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MS PROJECTS IN MECH ENGINEER
Master's level independent project involving theoretical, computational, experimental, or engineering design work. May be repeated, subject to Master's Program guidelines. Students must submit both a project outline prior to registration and a final project write-up at the end of the semester.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
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Instructor:
Chaoqun Dong
Info - 1-3 points
MS PROJECTS IN MECH ENGINEER
MS PROJECTS IN MECH ENGINEERIN
Master's level independent project involving theoretical, computational, experimental, or engineering design work. May be repeated, subject to Master's Program guidelines. Students must submit both a project outline prior to registration and a final project write-up at the end of the semester.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
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Instructor:
P J Schuck
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MS PROJECTS IN MECH ENGINEER
Master's level independent project involving theoretical, computational, experimental, or engineering design work. May be repeated, subject to Master's Program guidelines. Students must submit both a project outline prior to registration and a final project write-up at the end of the semester.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
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Instructor:
Anthony Genova
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Carlos Paz Soldan
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Alexis Abramson
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RELIGION AND THE INDIAN WARS
The frontier is central to the United States’ conception of its history and place in the world. It is an abstract concept that reflects the American mythology of progress and is rooted in religious ideas about land, labor, and ownership. Throughout the nineteenth century, these ideas became more than just abstractions. They were tested, hardened, and revised by U.S. officials and the soldiers they commanded on American battlefields. This violence took the form of the Civil War as well as the series of U.S. military encounters with Native Americans known as the Indian Wars. These separate yet overlapping campaigns have had profound and lasting consequences for the North American landscape and its peoples.
This course explores the relationship between religious ideology and violence in the last half of nineteenth century. Organized chronologically and geographically, we will engage with both primary sources and classic works in the historiography of the Indian Wars to examine how religion shaped U.S. policy and race relations from the start of the Civil War through approximately 1910.
- Department: Religion @Barnard
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Instructor:
Tiffany Hale
CULPA: 4
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FIELDWORK
Only for BMEN graduate students who need relevant work experience as part of their program of study. Final reports required. May not be taken for pass/fail credit or audited.
- Department: Biomedical Engineering
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Instructor:
Clark T Hung
CULPA: 5 h-index: 65 Info - 1-2 points
FIELDWORK
- Department: Chemical Engineering
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Instructor:
Christopher S Chen
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SENIOR HONORS THESIS WORKSHOP
Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 and the director of the departmental honors programs permission. Students must have a minimum GPA of 3.7 in all required major courses, including calculus and statistics, prior to enrollment. The honors thesis seminar is a year-long course, beginning in the fall semester and ending in the spring semester. Students who have been approved to enter the workshop will be registered for both semesters by the department during the first two weeks of classes; 3 points are earned per semester. This workshop may only be taken by students applying for departmental honors, and it also fulfills the economics seminar requirement for the economics major and all joint majors. Students must see the director during mid-semester registration in the spring to discuss their proposed thesis topic, at which time they will be matched with appropriate faculty who will act as their thesis adviser. Students will meet their adviser over the course of the year at mutually agreed upon times. A rough draft of the thesis will be due during the first week of February in the spring semester, and the final draft will be due three weeks before the last day of classes. Please note that for those joint majors that require two seminars, one in economics and one in the other discipline (i.e. Political Science), the economics senior honors thesis seminar only fulfills the economics seminar requirement.
- Department: Economics
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Instructor:
Lena Edlund
CULPA: 8 Info - 3 points
FIELDWORK
Only for IEOR graduate students who need relevant work experience as part of their program of study. Final reports required. May not be taken for pass/fail credit or audited.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
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Instructor:
Ali Hirsa
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Hardeep Johar
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SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH
- Department: Institute for Israel & Jewish Studies
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Instructor:
Isabelle C Levy
CULPA: 5
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GLOBAL INDIGENOUS RELIGIOUS HISTORIES
GLOBAL INDIGENOUS RELIG H
Nomads, natives, peasants, hill people, aboriginals, hunter-gatherers, First Nations—these
are just a handful of the terms in use to define indigenous peoples globally. The names these groups
use to describe themselves, as well as the varying religious practices, attitudes, and beliefs among
these populations are far more numerous and complex. For much of recorded history however,
colonial centers of power have defined indigenous peoples racially and often in terms of lacking
religion; as pagan, barbarian, non-modern, and without history or civilization.
Despite this conundrum of identity and classification, indigenous religious traditions often
have well-documented and observable pasts. This course considers the challenges associated with
studying indigenous religious history, as well as the changing social, political, and legal dimensions
of religious practice among native groups over time and in relationship to the state. Organized
thematically and geographically, we will engage with classic works of ethnohistory, environmental
history, indigenous studies, anthropology, and religious studies as well as primary sources that
include legal documentation, military records, personal testimony, and oral narrative.
- Department: Religion @Barnard
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Instructor:
Tiffany Hale
CULPA: 4
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Critical Methods Colloquium
CRITICAL COLLOQUIUM
The structure of the colloquium combines reading and analysis of texts by major theorists and critics. Each week discussions focus on key terms and analytical lenses in the history of art and art criticism. The course is designed to allow for guest presentations on particular issues by critics and writers, just as it draws on the expertise and participation of Columbia faculty. The aim is to develop students critical thinking and for them to learn directly from leading practitioners writing about modern and contemporary art. In addition to department faculty, writers for Artforum, Grey Room, Parkett, Texte zur Kunst, and October, among other venues, regularly participate in the colloquium.
- Department: Art History and Archaeology
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Instructor:
Janet L Kraynak
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MA THESIS
This course will enable students to complete a research study of considerable length that will (i) enable them to explore a given area of research in substantive detail; (ii) put them on the path to true competence as independent researchers; and (iii) provide those who go on to apply to PhD programs with a substantial writing sample that shows off their technical abilities to the best advantage.
- Department: Classics
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Instructor:
Elizabeth K Irwin
CULPA: 7
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INTRO TO AMERICAN STUDIES
This course explores the set of possibilities presented by American Studies as a comparative field of study. We begin with a brief overview of the history of the field, and then we’ll focus primarily on the range of modes in which its interdisciplinary work has been undertaken (literary, historical, legal, digital, etc.). The idea here is not to arrive a comprehensive picture of American Studies, but to think about the many ways people have produced knowledge under its aegis. We will also focus on work by Columbia faculty, and sessions of the course are built around visits by faculty in the field to Columbia’s University Seminar in American Studies. Our guiding questions include: How does one do research in a multimedia, “cultural” environment? How does one situate oneself as an “intellectual” or “critic” in relation to one’s object of study? How does one write about different media/genres? How does one incorporate different methodologies into one research project?
- Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
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Instructor:
Matthew Sandler
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
MPA-DP - Getting Started
Before the SIPA orientation, MPA-DP students participate in a week-long intensive program called Getting Started. The program introduces students to the MPA-DP program, including skills and resources that lay the foundation for a successful graduate learning experience.
- Department: MPA-DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE
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Instructor:
Shiv Someshwar
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WORKPLACE COMMUNICATION IN ENGLISH
WORKPLACE COMM IN ENGLISH
English communication proficiency is important for academic achievement and career success. Columbia Engineering provides English communication instruction for students who would like to improve their communication skills in English. In a small group setting (15-20 students), enrollees will obtain opportunities to interact with the instructor and fellow classmates to improve communication skills.
- Department: Engineering
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Instructor:
Hyoseon Lee
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WORKPLACE COMMUNICATION IN ENGLISH
WORKPLACE COMM IN ENGLISH
English communication proficiency is important for academic achievement and career success. Columbia Engineering provides English communication instruction for students who would like to improve their communication skills in English. In a small group setting (15-20 students), enrollees will obtain opportunities to interact with the instructor and fellow classmates to improve communication skills.
- Department: Engineering
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Instructor:
Hyoseon Lee
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WORKPLACE COMMUNICATION IN ENGLISH
WORKPLACE COMM IN ENGLISH
English communication proficiency is important for academic achievement and career success. Columbia Engineering provides English communication instruction for students who would like to improve their communication skills in English. In a small group setting (15-20 students), enrollees will obtain opportunities to interact with the instructor and fellow classmates to improve communication skills.
- Department: Engineering
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Instructor:
Hyoseon Lee
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WORKPLACE COMMUNICATION IN ENGLISH
WORKPLACE COMM IN ENGLISH
English communication proficiency is important for academic achievement and career success. Columbia Engineering provides English communication instruction for students who would like to improve their communication skills in English. In a small group setting (15-20 students), enrollees will obtain opportunities to interact with the instructor and fellow classmates to improve communication skills.
- Department: Engineering
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Instructor:
Hyoseon Lee
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WORKPLACE COMMUNICATION IN ENGLISH
WORKPLACE COMM IN ENGLISH
English communication proficiency is important for academic achievement and career success. Columbia Engineering provides English communication instruction for students who would like to improve their communication skills in English. In a small group setting (15-20 students), enrollees will obtain opportunities to interact with the instructor and fellow classmates to improve communication skills.
- Department: Engineering
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Instructor:
Hyoseon Lee
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