Russian Formalism

Twenty-first century literary studies has seen a steadily growing interest in formalist literary theory. This trend has manifested in new movements, such as New Formalism, Historical Poetics, and Quantitative Formalism. This interest in formalism has been accompanied by a widely expressed desire for a better understanding of literary form, and to find ways to connect its study with cultural and political history. The archive of Russian Formalism, a protean movement which was active in the 1910s and 1920s, is a rich source for those interested in rethinking the concept of form today. Beginning in the 1960s and ‘70s, Russian Formalism was interpreted as the precursor to French Structuralism and Post-Structuralism. In this class we seek to recontextualize Russian Formalism—not in terms of the ideas of the Cold War period—but rather in light of the cultural and political milieu of revolutionary and Civil War era Russia. By connecting theories of form with the cultural and political contexts from which they emerged, our goal is to develop an understanding of form as a concept defined not only in aesthetic or linguistic terms, but also as a construct with sociopolitical import.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• Instructor: Jessica E Merrill
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• 4 points

THESIS RESEARCH & WRITING

This course is intended for MA students in Religion who are writing and completing a thesis or other paper of similar length and scope. Enrolled students will work with the instructor to develop, research, and write a thesis. Preparation and prerequisites: Instructor’s permission is required to enroll. Students are strongly encouraged to discuss the feasibility of potential thesis topics with a faculty member in Religion (preferably their advisor or other suitable faculty member), and if relevant, also strive to identify key primary texts or sources, in advance of the semester.

• Department: Religion
• Instructor: Gil Anidjar
  CULPA: 22 Info
• 4 points

Topics in Database Systems

TOPICS IN AGENTIC SYSTEMS

• Department: Computer Science
• Instructor: Kostis Kaffes
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• 3 points

Environmental Law and Policy in New York

New York City has positioned itself as a global leader in the fight against climate change, often serving as a model for other jurisdictions to follow. This course explores the development and implementation of environmental legislation and policy in New York City during the past two decades. It includes discussions about historical context, environmental policymaking considerations, political processes, outcomes, and the role of stakeholders such as advocates, business, industry, labor, government actors, and community. Students will gain broad knowledge of key legislation and policies related to sustainability, resiliency, energy, emissions, waste and the circular economy, transportation, water and air quality, and green space. Furthermore, students will consider how environmental justice and equity play a role in the development of legislation and policy, and assess best practices for providing equitable treatment and engaging all communities. While the focus of the class will be on New York City, students will also learn about environmental policies implemented in other jurisdictions.

Introduction to Environmental Law and Policy in New York City is available to students in the Graduate Program for Sustainability Management. It is designed to provide future sustainability practitioners and others with a fundamental understanding of how legislation and policy is made, what influences this development, and how legislation and policy seek to address climate change in New York City in urban environments like New York City. Students will be able to use this knowledge to help government and public and private organizations achieve more sustainable solutions.

This is a semester-long elective class that will be taught on campus. Specific competencies or prerequisites are not required. This course will be interactive and discussion-intensive, engaging students to utilize and reflect critical and analytical thinking about how environmental legislation and policy is developed and how they can create innovative environmental legislation and policy in the future. Students will participate in class discussions, think critically about policy development and assigned readings, write a reaction essay on environmental justice and equity, and present their analysis to classroom colleagues. For the final project, students will write a research report and present their report to the class, focusing on a particular environmental policy topic, identifying areas where policymaking can be improved upon and/or expande

• Department: Sustainability Management
• Instructor: Laura Popa
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• 3 points

INTRO TO EPID FOR NUTRITIONIST

• Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
• 3 points

VOICE II

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: Corinna May
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• 2 points

VOICE II

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: Corinna May
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• 2 points

PRACTICUM: RES PLANNING

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Kate Dunham
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• 1.5 points

FASHION POLICY AND THE POLITICS OF GOVER

The fashion industry is an ideal case study on how governments, citizens and international institutions attempt to limit the environmental and social impacts of complex consumer industries with global supply chains. Historically, apparel and textiles have been at the center of some of the most consequential government actions under liberal Western democracy, including the abolition of slavery and the passage of the first workplace safety and labor laws in the United States. In recent years, fashion has returned to the center of dynamic policy debates within the sustainability and social impact space.

 

The $2.5 trillion global fashion industry’s social and environmental impacts often evade regulation. Major brands leverage long and opaque supply chains for raw materials and cheap manufacturing costs with very little accountability. Private regulation and voluntary commitments have policed fashion for the better part of four decades, an approach that arguably has ended in failures to protect human and environmental rights. The industry’s lack of accountability has cost lives, including the notorious Rana Plaza building collapse in 2013 where 1,132 garment makers died, and now contributes to a sizable percentage of annual climate change. Profits have been pushed to the top of the supply chain while garment makers consistently toil for poverty wages, and the pollution and environmental degradation of fashion is a burden almost exclusively carried by low-and-middle income nations and communities of color that manufacture clothing and produce raw materials.

 

But the tide is turning. Governments are being asked to step in and regulate the fashion industry. Can effective fashion policies police international supply chains and achieve their intended aims? Might they unleash unintended consequences and in what ways? This course is an introduction to the fast-evolving space of modern environmental and labor policy as it intersects with fashion, and which seeks to incentivize more responsible business behavior in the realm of social, environmental and governance impacts. The class will use recently passed and proposed fashion social and sustainability policies as our case studies, including the New York State Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act; mandatory human rights due diligence in Europe; California’s Garment Worker Protection Act and Congress’s FABRIC Act; the FTC Green Guides and the UK CMA’s Green Claims Code; and Europe&rsquo

• Department: Sustainability Management
• 3 points

Navigating Global Sustainability: Corpor

Global Sustainability Dis

This course takes a dual-pronged approach to the importance of sustainability reporting: examining both the corporate perspective on preparing sustainability disclosures and the investor perspective on how these disclosures are used to inform capital allocation, risk assessment, and stewardship decisions. At a time when the sustainability reporting landscape—both voluntary and mandatory—is rapidly evolving, focusing on the investor perspective provides clarity. This approach helps students anchor their learning in what matters most for capital markets, enabling them to organize and lead sustainability reporting processes within their own organizations. The goal of this two-sided lens is to equip students with the skills to deliver decision-useful, transparent, and consistent sustainability information that aligns with the demands of today’s regulatory and investment environments.

In the first half of the course, students will explore the evolving landscape of sustainability frameworks and regulations. Key regulatory regimes—such as California’s SB 253 and SB 261, the EU’s CSRD, and the CSDDD and GRI, Sustainability Reports, ISSB —will serve as anchors for case discussions. These discussions will play a crucial role in helping students understand how to administer sustainability reporting as a strategic organizational function, and in emphasizing the organizational capacity and management practices needed to comply with these frameworks. By the end of the course, students will be able to design, manage, and implement the internal processes required to respond to mandatory and evolving ESG disclosure expectations.

The second half of the course will adopt the lens of the investor, exploring how ESG disclosures are integrated into decision-making across three asset classes: public equity, private equity/alternatives, and fixed income. Students will engage in structured modules for each asset class, assuming the role of institutional investors tasked with interpreting disclosures, engaging with companies, and making recommendations. Each module will feature live engagements with real-world investors, offering students direct insight into market practices and expectations.

• Department: Sustainability Management
• Instructor: Carolyn Allwin
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• 3 points

WAR & SOCIAL THEORY

WAR AND SOCIAL THEORY

In this class, we will think about the various ways in which philosophers, social theorists, historians and anthropologists have thought about war. More specifically, the course focuses on a set of key themes and questions that have been central to such writings: the nature of violence and the question of responsibility or accountability, shifting technologies of warfare (including, technologies of representation), and the phenomenology and aftermath of warfare, for civilians and for combatants. The questions that drive this seminar are theoretical and historical, as well as ethical and political. For example, how do shifting understandings of the trauma of soldiers shape ethical questions and political conversations regarding perpetration and the question of responsibility? Or, when we think warfare through new technologies (cinematic, action at a distance) from whose perspective are we theorizing or trying to understand the experience of war? How might we analyze the very different affective responses that different forms of violence-or of perpetration -elicit?

• Department: Anthropology
• Instructor: Nadia Abu El-Haj
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• 4 points

SUMA PS6135 Art & Sustainability

Since the first Earth Day in 1970, artists have increasingly addressed ecological issues in their work. This trend has magnified greatly in the past two decades. Around the globe, artists are creating artwork that addresses the impact of loss of biodiversity, rising sea levels, extreme weather events, plastic pollution, and the fragility of our shared ecosystems. Their art raises awareness of the need to act collectively, suggesting frameworks for replacing anthropocentric and colonial approaches to nature, and amplifying the urgent need for environmental justice. In this pivotal moment of climate change, artists inspire by cultivating new narratives and giving form to the invisible or unimaginable, demonstrating how art can help awaken resolve and shape our next steps. They invite viewer participation and action, and suggest ways to make a difference. In the process, they expand our potential for empathy and agency.

The cultural sector has an important role to play in shifting attitudes that would lead to developing more sustainable and equitable global futures. Artists focus on both local and global environmental issues, expanding the field of climate change communication and at times offering out-of-the-box solutions. The artists covered in the course are cognizant of the need for systemic social change in order to achieve policy change. Blurring the boundaries between art and activism, many are working collaboratively across disciplines and with various communities to address both the physical and ethical dimensions of sustainability. Others work independently to provide new visions for the future. The course is designed for people who are interested in the contribution that art can play in creating fresh paradigms.

• Department: Sustainability Management
• Instructor: Julie Reiss
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• 3 points

STAGE COMBAT

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: Jacqueline Holloway
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• 1 points

STAGE COMBAT

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: Jacqueline Holloway
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• 1 points

Advances in Ecology, Evolution, and Envi

Advances in E3B

This one-credit seminar is designed for PhD students from any department in any school at Columbia University. We will read contemporary literature and examine case studies on designing, conducting, and communicating research projects that contribute to solutions to climate change and related problems of the Anthropocene. PhD students will have the opportunity to share their research and reflect on how it might contribute to solutions.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• Instructor: Bekka Brodie
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• 1-3 points

Modernism, Dance, and Diaspora

How do dancers, poets, and novelists use the resources of their genres to imagine new forms of embodiment and belonging? This graduate seminar brings together recent work in the fields of modernism, dance, and diaspora studies to explore the relationship between theories of movement, space, and dwelling in the literature and drama of global modernity. We will study representations of modern dance in literary works, as well as performances by modern dancers and choreographers, to consider the reciprocity and continuity of forms long associated with expressivity and social change. At the same time, we will chart how such texts become invested in strategic withholding and inexpression, or what performance scholar Tina Post has called “deadpan” aesthetics. Can there be a kind of revelation in concealment—or, conversely, a concealment in the guise of outward projection? At the level of form, how might we understand phenomena that seem to cross disciplinary lines, such as choreographic narration, kinaesthetic empathy, self-talk as social dress rehearsal, or theatrically-populated interior monologue? And how might these insights be brought to bear on the embodied and psychic experience of diaspora, that conundrum of enforced movement that can so often feel like stuckness-in-place?

Weekly readings will include a work of literature and/or dance, critical social theory, and recent literary criticism. In addition to offering students a broad introduction to critical approaches in modernism, performance and Black studies, the course has the larger aim of demonstrating innovative methods at the
intersection
of these disciplines. Primary authors will include Jessie Redmon Fauset, Nella Larsen, Zelda Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, Mina Loy, Zadie Smith, and James Joyce alongside the performances of Serge Diaghilev, Josephine Baker, Pearl Primus, Ruth Page, Katherine Dunham and Bill T. Jones. Secondary criticism will include works by Toni Morrison, Martin Heidegger, Michel de Certeau, Gaston Bachelard, Anne Anlin Cheng, Katherine McKittrick and Sianne Ngai.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• Instructor: Zoe L Henry
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• 4 points

ANALYSIS & PROBABILITY I

Prerequisites: the instructor's written permission. This is a course for Ph.D. students, and for majors in Mathematics. Measure theory; elements of probability; elements of Fourier analysis; Brownian motion.

• Department: Mathematics
• Instructor: Ioannis Karatzas
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 58 Info
• 4.5 points

Mass Spectrometry

This course offers a comprehensive introduction to mass spectrometry (MS), a state-of-the-art technique widely used in modern chemical and biological research. Students will learn the theoretical principles, practical applications, and data interpretation across various MS techniques. Key topics include ionization methods, mass analyzers, and applications in organic and bio-organic compound analysis.

By the end of the course, students will develop both the theoretical understanding and practical skills needed to design and interpret MS experiments effectively.

• Department: Chemistry
• Instructor: Fereshteh Zandkarimi
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• 3 points

IDEA OF A BL RADICAL TRADITION

This course will seek to raise and think through the following questions: What does it mean to talk today about a black radical tradition? What has it meant in the past to speak in these (or cognate) terms? And if we take the debate in part at least to inhabit a normative discursive space, an argumentative space in which to make claims on the moral-political present, what ought it to mean to talk about a black radical tradition?

• Department: Anthropology
• Instructor: David Scott
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 72 Info
• 3 points

ACTING I

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: Ronald Van Lieu
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• 3 points

Dynamics of the Israeli-Palestinian Conf

The seminar will explore the Israeli-Palestinian (and Israeli-Arab) conflict from the beginning of the 20th century  until today. The first part of the seminar will focus on the historical background informing the conflict and leading  to the Palestinian refugee problem and the establishment of a Jewish, but not Palestinian, state in 1948. The  second part of the seminar focuses on Palestinian-Arab citizens in Israel, Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and  Gaza, the settlement project, and possible political solutions, as well as the USA's role and its impact on the  conflict, the occupation, and the current Gaza war.

• Department: Sociology
• Instructor: Yinon Cohen
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 33 Info
• 4 points

History of Archaeology Theory

This seminar examines the history of archaeological thought from its antiquarian beginnings in the 19th century, through archaeology’s professionalization and redefinition as an anthropological science during the mid-20th century, to the emergence of archaeology as a critically self-reflexive discipline during the late-20th century, defined by complicated intellectual ties across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Our driving questions are epistemological. How have archaeologists understood the project of interpretation? How have they articulated their relationship to data? What has come to count as evidence and what has not? How have archaeologists organized material remains in the present to make claims about the past? What questions have been posed about past cultures, and how were these “cultures” constructed as objects of study in the first place? Is archaeology best understood as a generalizing science, a historically oriented humanity, or both—and how and why has the discipline’s answer to this question evolved over time? How do the situated positions of archaeologists within contemporary society impact the claims they make about the past?

• Department: Anthropology
• Instructor: Zoe Crossland
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info
• 4 points

PRE-ATLANTIC SLAVERY AFRICA AND SOUT

PRE-ATLANTIC SLAVERY - AF

This seminar on pre-Atlantic Slavery in Africa and Asia will focus on the history of captivity and bondage in modern and the premodern Africa. Conceptually, what is the difference between a captive and a slave? How has captivity been central to the history of social difference and state formation in premodern Africa? By introducing the student to the history of trade in captives within Africa and across the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, the student will be encouraged to rethink premodern Africa as central to premodern world history rather than marginal to it.

• Department: Anthropology
• Instructor: Mahmood Mamdani
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia h-index: 57 Info
• 4 points

Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality

Virtual and Augmented Rea

This course will cover selected topics in virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). There are two main components, with everyone participating in both: papers and projects.

• Department: Computer Science
• Instructor: Steven K Feiner
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• 3 points

COMPLEX ANALYSIS/RIEMANN SURF

Topics include holomorphic functions; analytic continuation; Riemann surfaces; theta functions and modular forms.

• Department: Mathematics
• Instructor: Duong H Phong
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• 4.5 points

MODELING & PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

Introduction to queuing analysis and simulation techniques. Evaluation of time-sharing and multiprocessor systems. Topics include priority queuing, buffer storage, and disk access, interference and bus contention problems, and modeling of program behaviors.

• Department: Computer Science
• Instructor: Vishal Misra
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia h-index: 53 Info
• 3 points

BLACK GEOGRAPHIES: A PLACE FOR BLACK STU

BLK GEOGR A PLACE FOR BLK

This Ph.D. seminar explores the inextricable connection between blackness and geographic inquiry by exploring the intersections of Black Studies and Geography. Considering Katherine McKittrick’s claim that Black geographies are ‘
the terrain
of political struggle itself’ or
where
the imperative of a perspective of struggle takes place,” we will situate the spatial relations of blackness by placing Black people at the core of spatial production and examine the mechanisms by which this takes place. In this course we ask: what are the limitations
and
possibilities of traditional geographies and how does Black study attend to these boundaries? How does Black geographic thought produce wider material and conceptual space for geographic knowledge? How does Black Studies account for and understand Black spatial condition, experience, and imaginaries?

• Department: African American and African Diaspora
• Instructor: Brandi Summers
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• 4 points

Managerial Economics

• Department: Business Economics
• Instructor: Paola M Valenti
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• Instructor: Jonah Rockoff
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• Instructor: Nachum Sicherman
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• Instructor: Paola M Valenti
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• Instructor: Jonah Rockoff
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• 1.5 points

Managerial Economics

• Department: Business Economics
• Instructor: Jonah Rockoff
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• Instructor: Maria Doval
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• Instructor: Paola M Valenti
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• Instructor: Maria Doval
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• 1.5 points

Managerial Economics

• Department: Business Economics
• Instructor: Maria Doval
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• 1.5 points

INTRODUCTION TO DRAMATURGY

This course provides an introduction to major schools of thought about play structure and the practice of dramaturgy in the western theatre. Through directed readings and an ongoing practical project centered around one play, students will develop a deeper understanding of how dramatic writing functions as a blueprint for a life on the stage, and a refined vocabulary to describe story structures and dramatic writing techniques. By learning to view and question a play from a kaleidoscopic range of angles, students will enhance their abilities to take a printed text onto the live stage.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: E. C Parker
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• 3 points

Global Economic Environment

• Department: Business Economics
• Instructor: Tommaso Porzio
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• 1.5 points

Global Economic Environment

• Department: Business Economics
• Instructor: Tommaso Porzio
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• Instructor: Conor Walsh
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• Instructor: Tommaso Porzio
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• Instructor: Conor Walsh
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• 1.5 points

Global Economic Environment

• Department: Business Economics
• Instructor: Conor Walsh
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• Instructor: Brett House
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• Instructor: Tommaso Porzio
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• Instructor: Conor Walsh
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• Instructor: Brett House
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• 1.5 points

THEORETICAL STATISTICS I

Prerequisites: students in a masters program must seek the director of the M.A. program in statistics' permission; students in an undergraduate program must seek the director of undergraduate studies in statistics' permission. A general introduction to mathematical statistics and statistical decision theory. Elementary decision theory, Bayes inference, Neyman-Pearson theory, hypothesis testing, most powerful unbiased tests, confidence sets. Estimation: methods, theory, and asymptotic properties. Likelihood ratio tests, multivariate distribution. Elements of general linear hypothesis, invariance, nonparametric methods, sequential analysis.

• Department: Statistics
• Instructor: Sumit Mukherjee
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 13 Info
• 4 points

THEORETICAL STATISTICS III

Prerequisites: STAT G6201 and STAT G6201 This course will mainly focus on nonparametric methods in statistics. A tentavie list of topics to be covered include nonparametric density and regression function estimation -- upper bounds on the risk of kernel estimators and matching lower bounds on the minimax risk, reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces, bootstrap and resampling methods, multiple hypothesis testing, and high dimensional stastistical analysis.

• Department: Statistics
• Instructor: Marco A Avella Medina
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• 4 points

FOUNDATION OF CLINICAL MED III: TUTORIAL

• Department: Medicine
• Instructor: Marguerite Costich
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• 0 points

DIRECTING III

Students explore more deeply the range of skills and techniques necessary to direct both short and feature films including script breakdown of sequences, scenes, turning points and beats as well as advanced study of actor and camera staging. Students will hone their directing skills by preparing, shooting, and editing, in video, a minimum of three significant scenes from published or original work, depending on priority of the instructor. When taken concurrently, at least one of these scenes will be presented in Directing the Actor workshops. Students should also be working on a first draft of a short screenplay for their second-year project if they intend to take Directing 4.

• Department: Film
• Instructor: Tom Kalin
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• Instructor: Eric Mendelsohn
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• 3 points

DIRECTING III

Students explore more deeply the range of skills and techniques necessary to direct both short and feature films including script breakdown of sequences, scenes, turning points and beats as well as advanced study of actor and camera staging. Students will hone their directing skills by preparing, shooting, and editing, in video, a minimum of three significant scenes from published or original work, depending on priority of the instructor. When taken concurrently, at least one of these scenes will be presented in Directing the Actor workshops. Students should also be working on a first draft of a short screenplay for their second-year project if they intend to take Directing 4.

• Department: Film
• Instructor: Eric Mendelsohn
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• Instructor: Tom Kalin
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• 3 points

ISSUES & DEBATES-AMER POLITICS

Prerequisites: the instructors permission prior to registration. Please contact the instructors for more information. This graduate student field survey provides an overview of the scholarly study of American politics. The course has been designed for students who intend to specialize in American politics, as well as for those students whose primary interests are comparative politics, international relations, or political theory, but who desire an intensive introduction to the ;American; style of political science.

• Department: Political Science
• Instructor: Michael Ting
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

WRITING THE GULF SOUTH

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• Department: Writing
• Instructor: Emmeline L Clein
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• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

SPECULATIVE FUTURES

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• Department: Writing
• Instructor: Jaquira Diaz
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• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

ARCHIVE FEVER

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• Department: Writing
• Instructor: Leslie S Jamison
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• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

MEMOIR AND IMAGINATION

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• Department: Writing
• Instructor: Margo L Jefferson
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

REPORTING NON-NEWS

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• Department: Writing
• Instructor: Gideon Lewis-Kraus
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• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

JANET MALCOLM

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• Department: Writing
• Instructor: Michelle Orange
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• 3 points

MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS I

Prerequisites: the director of graduate studies' permission. Corequisites: ECON G6410. Consumer and producer behavior; general competitive equilibrium, welfare and efficiency, behavior under uncertainty, intertemporal allocation and capital theory, imperfect competition, elements of game theory, problems of information, economies with price rigidities.

• Department: Economics
• 4 points

CARBON SEQUESTRATION

Carbon Sequestration

New technologies for capturing carbon dioxide and disposing of it away from the atmosphere. Detailed discussion of the extent of the human modifications to the natural carbon cycle, the motivation and  scope of future carbon management strategies and the role of carbon sequestration. Introduction of several carbon sequestration technologies that allow for the capture and permanent disposal of carbon dioxide. Engineering issues in their implementation, economic  impacts, and the environmental issues raised by the various methods.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• 3 points

AFFORDABLE HOUSING, DEVELOPMENT & POLICY

AFFORD HOUSING, DEV & POL

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Edward Poteat
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• 1.5 points

FRONTIERS OF MACROECONOMICS

• Department: Economics
• 3 points

MACROECONOMIC ANALYSIS I

Prerequisites: the director of graduate studies' permission. Concept of full employment. Models of underemployment and theory applicability, determinants of consumption and of investment, multiplier and accelerator analysis, an introduction to monetary macroeconomics, the supply side and inflation. Integration of macroeconomics with microeconomic and monetary analysis.

• Department: Economics
• 4 points

PRIN/APP SENSORS STRC HLTH MON

Concepts, principles, and applications of various sensors for sensing structural parameters and nondestructive evaluation techniques for subsurface inspection, data acquisition, and signal processing techniques. Lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on laboratory experiments.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• Instructor: Maria Q Feng
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 46 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED MACRO ANALYSIS I

• Department: Economics
• Instructor: Jennifer La'O
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• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION

Intro to Pub Health & Nut

• Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
• Instructor: Kim Hekimian
  h-index: 7 Info
• 3 points

Longitudinal Data Analysis & Causal Infe

Longitudinal Data Anal &

Panel data or longitudinal data consist of multiple measures over time on a sample of individuals. These types of data occur extensively in both observational and experimental studies in social, behavioral, and health sciences. This course will provide an introduction to the principles and methods for the analysis of panel data. Whereas some supporting statistical theory will be given, emphasis will be on data analysis and interpretation of models for longitudinal data. Problems will be motivated by applications primarily in social sciences.

• Department: Sociology
• Instructor: Xi Song
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• 4 points

FAMILY ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: ECON G6211, ECON G6212, ECON G6411, ECON G6412. The course will focus on the economic theory of matching both from a theoretical and empirical point of views. It is intended to give the attendees an overview of the fundamental theory of the optimal assignment problem, as well as its application to various fields such as labor, family and transportation economics. A particular emphasis is put on the empirical aspects and identification issues, and the main matching algorithms will also be discussed. The last part of the course tries to make a link with matching games with nontransferable (or partially transferable) utility and attempts to provide a unified treatment.

• Department: Economics
• Instructor: Pierre-Andre Chiappori
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• 3 points

Worldmaking in the Long Poem

In this seminar we will take as our topic the long poem and the worlds, exterior and interior, that it both perceives and creates. Following some initial conceptual work to pin down the genre (if that’s the right word for it) as it developed before modernism, the heart of the course comes in the close study of three main examples in their entirety:
The Seasons
by James Thomson,
The Task
by William Cowper, and
The Prelude
by William Wordsworth. These major English poems, which date to the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, are all about growth, and they are in truth really, really long. They just keep growing and growing. They push, you might say, against their finitude. We will confront their too-much-ness and figure out how to think and feel about it, but also how to work with it, how to ride it. From week to week we will ask how the expansiveness of these authors relates on the one hand to their smaller-scale poetic techniques and on the other to their grand social, environmental, philosophical, and spiritual ambitions. The sheer energy these works demand of their readers can (this is the gamble of the long poem) make experiencing them deeply meaningful. In their own time they became tremendously influential models, radically reshaping what poetry could do and be, and they still have much to teach critical readers and creative writers today. Interspersed among the main examples on the schedule will be a few other (shorter!) poems from the same period. Along the way, although our focus will stay on primary texts, we will sample several different works of exemplary criticism. And we will end our semester with a glance ahead to the twentieth-century long poem. Active contributions (in and out of class) to discussion, a short paper, and (of course) a long paper make up the required coursework.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• Instructor: Dustin Stewart
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• 4 points

Lanyer, Cavendish, and Hutchinson

Lanyer, Cavendish, Hutchi

This seminar will address the major works of Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645), Margaret Cavendish (1623-73), and Lucy Hutchinson (1620-81). There are many differences between the three writers: one was a royalist, one a republican and one something in between; one was largely indifferent to religion and the other two were devoted Protestants; two were active in print, one only in manuscript; two were skilled linguists, and one only read English (or so she claimed). Yet they also had a surprising amount in common: all three were actively involved in the central political conflicts of their time and suffered losses, imprisonment, harassment, and/or exile because of their political views; two (Cavendish and Hutchinson) wrote accounts and defenses of (their positions in) the English civil wars (and contributed to political thought and historiography more broadly); two (also Cavendish and Hutchinson) were actively engaged with and contributed to debates in natural philosophy; and all three were astonishingly original, and creative writers of literary, philosophical and polemical texts. Students will discuss many aspects of these three writers’ work, including the books they read as well as those they wrote; the genres to which they were committed (and in which they innovated); the household, local, national and international contexts in which they worked and in which their work was received; and their interlocutors and critics. While the three authors will be the explicit focus of the class, we will also discuss the idea of “the woman writer” - one which deserves our skepticism.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• Instructor: Julie Crawford
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• 4 points

DIRECTING ACTORS III

More sophisticated principles are applied and more challenging scenes are presented. Collaboration with a writer is a requirement.  Required for Screenwriting and Directing concentrates.

• Department: Film
• Instructor: Jon Shear
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• Instructor: Emil Benjamin
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• Instructor: Keith Manning
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• Instructor: Shira-Lee Shalit
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• 3 points

CAPSTONE: RESOLUTION STRATEGIES

• Department: Negotiation & Conflict Resolution
• Instructor: Peter Dixon
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• 3 points

SOLO SHOWS

We will use the experience of writing a piece with built-in constraints – cast size with a solo show – to expand our thinking about what is a theatrical event. We will work toward becoming more in touch with our imaginations and in greater awareness and command of what we know. We will explore what is of interest to each of us now, through in-class writing and outside assignments.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: Leslie Ayvazian
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• 3 points

TOPICS-INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION

• Department: Economics
• Instructor: Maria Doval
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• 3 points

INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION I

Prerequisites: ECON G6211 and ECON G6212 or the instructor's permission. This course provides an introduction to a number of exciting research questions in industrial organization and organizational economics. While most of the content is theoretical, great emphasis is placed on the testable implications of the models we study: related empirical work is surveyed. The course aims to bring students to the research frontier by identifying open research questions and highlighting particularly active research areas.

• Department: Economics
• Instructor: Pietro Tebaldi
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• 3 points

US REIT ANALYSIS & INVESTMENT

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: David A Kruth
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• 3 points

COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA

Commutative rings; modules; localization; primary decoposition; integral extensions; Noetherian and Artinian rings; Nullstellensatz; Dedekind domains; dimension theory; regular local rings.

• Department: Mathematics
• Instructor: Michael Thaddeus
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• 4.5 points

UNDERWRITING

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Christopher W Munsell
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• 3 points

NEW YORK RISING: HOW RE SHAPES A CITY

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Kate J Ascher
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• 3 points

TPCS IN DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: G6211, G6212, G6215, G6216, G6411, G6412 or the instructor's permission. This course covers prominent topics in micro-development economics. Lectures and readings will cover theoretical frameworks; emphasize empirical research; and highlight gaps in the literature.

• Department: Economics
• Instructor: Lisa Ho
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• 3 points

Practicum in Music Composition

This course provides an opportunity for students in the Music Department’s Composition DMA program to engage in off-campus practicum or internships in music composition for academic credit that will count towards the requirements for the degree.

• Department: Music
• Instructor: Zosha Di Castri
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• 1 points

Advanced Topics in Theoretical Computer

INTRO PROPERTY TESTING

Selected topics in theoretical computer science (advanced level). Content and prerequisites vary between sections and semesters. May be repeated for credit. Check "topics courses" webpage on the department website for more information on each section.

• Department: Computer Science
• Instructor: Xi Chen
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia h-index: 64 Info
• 3 points

Advanced Topics in Theoretical Computer

BOOLEAN FUNCTION ANALYSIS

Selected topics in theoretical computer science (advanced level). Content and prerequisites vary between sections and semesters. May be repeated for credit. Check "topics courses" webpage on the department website for more information on each section.

• Department: Computer Science
• Instructor: Rocco Servedio
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• 3 points

RESEARCH SEMINAR

Prerequisites: degree in biological sciences. Lectures by visiting scientists, faculty, and students; specific biological research projects; with emphasis on evolution, ecology, and conservation biology.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• 1 points

Environmental Health Sciences

ENVIRONMENTAL HLTH SCIENC

Environmental factors have a profound impact on the public's health. Essential to understanding and addressing this impact is a focused study in basic and applied environmental health sciences. Environmental health problems intersect with health disparities, government policy, reproductive health, population shifts, and economic forces. Recognizing the need for a solid grounding in both environmental health sciences and the interconnections with other societal issues significantly improves the way we conduct public health research and professional practice. In this course, students will engage in scientific inquiry into environmental health issues and develop problem-solving skills for improving health at the local, regional and global levels. This course is part of the core-course requirement for the MPH.

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• Instructor: Marcela Tamayo Y Ortiz
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• 3 points

Third Year Proseminar

This proseminar, which meets alternate weeks for the full academic year, is required for third-year PhD students in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. The seminar will help you prepare for orals, develop your dissertation ideas, expand your research skills, produce articles for publication, and generally extend your professional skills. While we will read some practical “how to” literature and models, the focus will be on writing, workshopping material, and discussing process (time-management, organization, etc). Both out-of-class assignments and in-class writing exercises should serve to extend your ideas—or shake them loose—and bring you closer to a dissertation that represents your vision, makes others want to read your work, and reminds you why you care. By the end of the year, you will have a polished dissertation prospectus and should have submitted at least one article for publication (or have one close-to-ready for submission). Above all, the seminar offers a supportive community, an opportunity to try out ideas (cooked or still raw), and encouragement from your fellow scholar-writer-thinkers as you progress toward your orals and dissertation.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• Instructor: Julie S Peters
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• 1 points

Vietnam Studies Historiography and Metho

VIET Historiography & Met

This course brings graduate students interested in Vietnam Studies together across field lines and period focus to discuss some foundational questions of historiography and methods within the field.  We have striven to combine key conceptual or theoretical work with examples drawn from the specific context of the study of Vietnam.  The course is intended to provide a common vocabulary for the discussion of Vietnam Studies.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• 4 points

DIRECTING I

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: Anne Bogart
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• 3 points

ANALYTIC METHODS FOR PDE'S

Introduction to analytic theory of PDEs of fundamental and applied science; wave (hyperbolic), Laplace and Poisson equations (elliptic), heat (parabolic) and Schroedinger (dispersive) equations; fundamental solutions, Greens functions, weak/distribution solutions, maximum principle, energy estimates, variational methods, method of characteristics; elementary functional analysis and applications to PDEs; introduction to nonlinear PDEs, shocks; selected applications.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Michael I Weinstein
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 47 Info
• 3 points

Foundations of Valuation

• Department: Finance
• Instructor: Milena Wittwer
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• Instructor: Bruno Pellegrino
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• Instructor: Laura Veldkamp
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• Instructor: Milena Wittwer
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• 1.5 points