INTEGR OF SCI & PRACT I

• Department: Public Health
• 1.5 points

INTEGR OF SCI & PRACT I

• Department: Public Health
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INTEGR OF SCI & PRACT I

• Department: Public Health
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INTEGR OF SCI & PRACT I

• Department: Public Health
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INTEGR OF SCI & PRACT I

• Department: Public Health
• 1.5 points

INTEGR OF SCI & PRACT I

• Department: Public Health
• 1.5 points

INTEGR OF SCI & PRACT I

• Department: Public Health
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INTEGR OF SCI & PRACT I

• Department: Public Health
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INTEGR OF SCI & PRACT I

• Department: Public Health
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INTEGR OF SCI & PRACT I

• Department: Public Health
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INTEGR OF SCI & PRACT I

• Department: Public Health
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INTEGR OF SCI & PRACT I

• Department: Public Health
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INTEGR OF SCI & PRACT I

• Department: Public Health
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INTEGR OF SCI & PRACT I

• Department: Public Health
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INTEGR OF SCI & PRACT I

• Department: Public Health
• 1.5 points

INTEGRATION OF SCIENCE & PRACTICE

INTEGR OF SCI & PRACT

The different studios in the Mailman Core teach a set of foundational perspectives, knowledge, and skills. But the practice of public health requires applying this education in a context characterized by uncertainty, risk, competing interests, conflicting values, and systems of oppression that perpetuate racism and drive inequities across multiple dimensions of society

 

The Integration of Science and Practice (ISP) uses case studies of actual events to help students analyze the complicated nature of public health practice. The course immerses students in the complex arena of public health decision-making and debate, placing them in the role of stakeholders and policymakers who must marshal both their core knowledge and disciplinary perspectives to explore different options and create and justify interdisciplinary responses to public health challenges. The cases also provide an opportunity to identify crosscutting themes and questions (e.g. knowledge gaps; used of evidence; trade-offs in public health decision making, inequities and inequalities; discrimination; public health ethics; politics; interest group agendas; funding and available resources; organization; public perception, etc.).

 

Fundamental to all the cases, ISP provides a structured space to explore systems of oppression, our relationship to these systems, and their impact on public health.

 

In the Fall semester these cases are based upon classic public health dilemmas, and links are made to their relevance to current public health issues. The cases serve as an archive of sorts, a library of examples to draw on as points of comparison when they encounter similar problems and issues in other classes or during their careers.

• Department: Public Health
• 1.5 points

STUDIES IN DANTE

Inferno

A variable-content course that rotates through various texts of Dante's and various areas of Dante studies. The fall 2026 course will be an in-depth reading of
Inferno
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• Department: Italian
• Instructor: Teodolinda Barolini
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

READING, WRITING, ETHNOGRAPHY

READING WRITING ETHNOGRAPHY

Anthropology GR6079x READING WRITING ETHNOGRAPHY. Reading, Writing, Ethnography” asks students to imagine learning to read and then to write anew. It explores a series of exemplary texts in order to explore the histories, genre conventions and experimental forms for writing ethnography.  The course is especially concerned with the ways in which empirical observation is made the ground of theoretical abstraction and generalizing claims. Additionally, it examines the relationship between different theoretical and aesthetic movements as these have influenced the writings of anthropologists and those whose work can be considered to have an anthropological ambition—even when they have not been formally trained in anthropology.

• Department: Anthropology
• Instructor: Rosalind Morris
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Personal Leadership in Public Health

PERSONAL LEADERSHIP IN P

• Department: Public Health
• 1.5 points

Personal Leadership in Public Health

PERSONAL LEADERSHIP IN P

• Department: Public Health
• 1.5 points

THING THEORY

Anthropology GR6085x THING THEORY. The ‘material turn’ is a shorthand for the vast and messy literature on things/objects/materials/ stuff/matter that crosses between and interweaves anthropology, archaeology, art history, science & technology studies (STS), political science, philosophy, and literary studies. Material cultural studies, of varying sorts, ask how things make us. This course explores the turn towards things across the humanities and social sciences over the past few decades. Engaging with the material of worlds, scholars have generated new questions, new modes of analysis, and new accounts of subjectivity, agency, and being. We will read a variety of texts from anthropology, STS, and other disciplines, in order to trace some of the ways in which material objects have become important to scholars in the humanities and social sciences.

• Department: Anthropology
• Instructor: Hannah Chazin
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• 3 points

INTRO TO INTL PLANNING

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Ebru A Gencer
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• 3 points

Waste and Leftovers

Generations of anthropologists have seized upon waste as an object to think through issues as wide-ranging as labor divisions, religious devotion, and processes of social classification and value production. In recent years the discipline has renewed attention to this object by way of puzzling through how apparently intensifying global processes of industrialization, consumption, and extraction shape contemporary politics and ecological sensibilities. This seminar charts some of these moves within and beyond our discipline by inviting students to consider how and to what ends societies work through wasted things but also other kinds of durable leftovers (i.e. “ruins,” “byproducts,” “rubble,” “remainders” etc). Of particular concern for us will be the production and (re)appropriation of things that defy strict classification as “waste,” that is, as things imagined to be readily and permanently ejected from a social group or order. Students will read seminal texts on waste, excess, abjection, and reappropriation alongside ethnographic and historical monographs that take up these themes.

• Department: Anthropology
• Instructor: Catherine Fennell
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• 3 points

ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY

Prerequisites: PHYS W3008 or its equivalent. Fundamentals of electromagnetism from an advanced perspective with emphasis on electromagnetic fields in vaccum with no bounding surfaces present. A thorough understanding of Maxwells equations and their application to a wide variety of phenomena. Maxwells equations (in vacuum) and the Lorentz force law - noncovariant form. Scalar and vector potentials, gauge transformations. Generalized functions (delta functions and their derivatives), point changes. Fourier transforms, longitutdinal ad transverse vector fields. Solution of Maxwells equations in unbounded space for electrostatics and magnetostatics with given charge and current sources. Special relativity, Loretnz transformations, 4-momentum, relativistic reactions. Index mechanics of Cartesian tensor notation. Covariatn formulation of Maxwells equations and the Lorentz force law, Lorentz transformation properties of E and B. Lagrangian density for the electromagnetic field, Langrangian density for the Proca field. Symmetries and conservation laws, Noethers theorem. Field conservation laws (energy, linear momentum, angular momentum, stress tensor). Monochromatic plane wave solutions of the time-dependent source-free Maxwell equations, elliptical polarization, partially-polarized electromagnetgic waves, Stokes parameters. Solution of the time-dependent Maxwell equations in unbounded space with given chare and current sources (retarded and advanced solutions). Properties of electromagnetic fields in the radiaion zone, angular distribution of radiated power, frequency distribution of radiated energy, radiation form periodic and non-periodic motions. Radiation from antennas and antenna arrays. Lienard-Wiechert fields, the relativistic form of the Larmor radiation forumla, synchrotron radiation, bremsstrahlung, undulator and wiggler radiation. Electric dipole and magnetic dipole radiation. Scattering of electromagnetic radiation, the differential scattering cross-section, low-energy and high-energy approximations, scattering from a random or periodic array of scatterers. Radiation reaction force, Feynman-Wheeler theoryy. The macroscopic Maxwell equations (spatial averaging to get P, M, D, H). Convolutions, linear materials (permittivity, permeability, and conductivity), causality, analytics continuation, Kramers-Kronig relations. Propagation of monochromatic plane waves in isotropic and non-isotropic linear materials, ordinary ad extraordinary waves. Cherenkov radiation, transition radiation.

• Department: Physics
• Instructor: Brian Metzger
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 77 Info
• 4.5 points

DESIGNS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH

Required of all incoming sociology doctoral students. Prepares students who have already completed an undergraduate major or its equivalent in some social science to evaluate and undertake both systematic descriptions and sound explanations of social structures and processes.

• Department: Sociology
• Instructor: Peter Bearman
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia h-index: 54 Info
• 4 points

AF-AM: PRO SEMINAR

This course introduces students to central questions and debates in the fields of African American Studies, and it explores the various interdisciplinary efforts to address them. The seminar is designed to provide an interdisciplinary foundation and familiarize students with a number of methodological approaches. Toward this end we will have a number of class visitors/guest lecturers drawn from members of IRAAS's Core and Affiliated Faculty.

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

RESEARCH SEMINAR

An M.S. degree requirement. Students attend at least three Applied Mathematics research seminars within the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and submit reports on each.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• 0 points

MA SEMINAR IN GLOBAL THOUGHT

This course explores the challenges of understanding the global world in which we live, a world that demands new conceptual approaches and ways of thinking. The objectives are:

To examine multidisciplinary approaches to key global issues through readings, class discussions, and conversations with select CGT faculty members as guest speakers. This will take place through multi-week modules that center on a critical issue, asking students to familiarize themselves with key questions and context, engage with an expert on the topic, and apply their insights to a specific case or question.

To develop a focused and feasible research project and hone the practices of scholarly data collection, analysis, and communication through workshops and assignments. This work begins in the fall and continues to completion in the spring semester of the seminar. The perspectives and skills developed in M.A. Seminar will support students in the development and completion of their thirty-five page M.A. essays, which they will present to each other and to CGT faculty at the Spring Symposium.

• Department: Committee on Global Thought
• Instructor: Kevin Funk
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• Instructor: Vishakha Desai
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• 4 points

ADVANCED MECHANICS OF FLUIDS

Eulerian and Lagrangian descriptions of motion. Stress and strain rate tensors, vorticity, integral and differential equations of mass, momentum, and energy conservation. Potential flow.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• Instructor: Gerard A Ateshian
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• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO SLAVIC LITERARY THEORY

INTRO TO SLAVIC LITERARY

This course introduces graduate students to the major 20th-century literary theories that emerged in Russia and Eastern Europe. The course's main purpose is to familiarize students with these approaches and teach them how to use theoretical models as tools for analyzing literary texts.

By the end of the course, students will be required to write a paper investigating the theoretical aspects of one or more literary texts discussed in class. This paper will test not only students' mastery of literary analysis through the prism of multiple theoretical models, but also their ability to challenge a literary text through theory and vice versa.

Writing the paper will include a workshop-style class in which students design their thesis and outline. The course will also introduce students to the Bahmeteff Archive and Columbia's library holdings.

This course counts as Proseminar for Slavic graduate students but is also open to students in other disciplines, which is why all readings are in English.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• Instructor: Mark Lipovetsky
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• 4 points

PLASMA PHYSICS I

Debye screening. Motion of charged particles in space- and time-varying electromagnetic fields. Two-fluid description of plasmas. Linear electrostatic and electromagnetic waves in unmagnetized and magnetized plasmas. The magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model, including MHD equilibrium, stability, and MHD waves in simple geometries.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Ben Zhu
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• 3 points

Proseminar for PhD and MA Students

Offered in both semesters, the weekly seminar is for incoming PhD students (required) and for MA students of the first year (required) and second year (optional).  MA students can take the class at any stage during their studies for the MA. The class is graded Pass/Fail.  Every two weeks, the seminar will be co-led by the instructor and an invited member of the department who will select a reading for discussion, historical or contemporary, from their area of expertise. Students will submit responses to the readings. The alternate weeks will be divided into an hour for the PhD cohort and an hour for the MA students. Here, research skills in reading, writing, and conversing will be developed through a range of intellectual exercises.

• Department: Philosophy
• Instructor: Lydia Goehr
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ISSUES IN POLITICAL THEORY

Prerequisites: the instructors permission prior to registration. A survey of selected issues and debates in political theory. Areas of the field discussed include normative political philosophy, history of political thought, and the design of political and social institutions.

• Department: Political Science
• Instructor: Turkuler Isiksel
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 9 Info
• 4 points

THEORY & METHOD-STUDY OF RELIG

“Theories and Methods” courses in any field are commonly unwieldy beasts. They cannot but be a compromise-formation between contemporary questions and texts, ideas, and definitions (alongside a whole lot of problems) that we have inherited as “canonical” in a field. In the best case, such a course is a passageway into deeper engagement with a field, its histories, its complexities, and its possibilities from which we might wrest and build viable futures. Disciplinary fields are structures where power and knowledge are produced and reproduced. The study of religion is no exception. The questions of “how is ‘religion’ constructed as a category here?” and “what work does the designation of something or someone as ‘religious’ do?” will, therefore, accompany us throughout our work over the course of this semester. We will also examine how different methodological commitments shape what objects of study and which questions come to the fore for the study of religion. This course will explore how the study of religion is not reducible to the study of traditions and communities that are readily recognized as “religious.” However, the vexed histories of the construction of “religion” as a category of knowledge production does also not negate that there are large, varied, and flourishing communities of practice beyond the university for whom whether or not “religion” exists is not at all a question. Holding these layers of complexity in play, this course seeks to introduce students exemplarily to key texts and concepts that have shaped the study of religion as we encounter it today as an academic discipline.

• Department: Religion
• Instructor: Yannik Thiem
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• 3 points

APPLIED STATISTICS I

First semester of the doctoral program sequence in applied statistics.

• Department: Statistics
• Instructor: Ming Yuan
  h-index: 45 Info
• 4 points

World s End: 20th and 21St Century Dys

World's End: 20th and 21s

In this class, we will read a range of ambiguous utopias and dystopias (to use a term from Ursula LeGuin) and explore various models of temporality, a range of fantasies of apocalypse and a few visions of futurity. While some critics, like Frederick Jameson, propose that utopia is a “meditation on the impossible,” others like José Muñoz insist that “we must dream and enact new and better pleasures, other ways of being in the world, and ultimately new worlds.” Utopian and dystopian fictions tend to lead us back to the present and force confrontations with the horrors of war, the ravages of capitalist exploitation, the violence of social hierarchies and the ruinous peril of environmental decline. In the films and novels and essays we engage here, we will not be looking for answers to questions about what to do and nor should we expect to find maps to better futures. We will no doubt be confronted with dead ends, blasted landscapes and empty gestures. But we will also find elegant aesthetic expressions of ruination, inspirational confrontations with obliteration, brilliant visions of endings, breaches, bureaucratic domination, human limitation and necro-political chaos. We will search in the narratives of uprisings, zombification, cloning, nuclear disaster, refusal, solidarity, for opportunities to reimagine world, ends, futures, time, place, person, possibility, art, desire, bodies, life and death.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• Instructor: Jack Halberstam
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• 4 points

URBAN SENSING AND DATA

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Anthony P Vanky
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• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO BIOSTATISTICS

• Department: ONLINE MS IN EPIDEMIOLOGY
• Instructor: Dan Liao
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• 3 points

MPHIL THESIS WRITING SEMINAR II

MPHIL THS WRTNG SMNR II

This seminar is PART 2 for second and third year students who are writing their MPhil thesis. It will assume the form of a yearlong seminar during which students design, research, and write up their MPhil projects. These projects can be based on any kind of sociological method, quantitative or qualitative. The thesis will assume the form of an article that can be submitted to a social science journal. The seminar will help you to find an interesting question, a way to answer it, and a mode of communicating this to fellow sociologists in a way that they might find worth paying attention to. The summer break between the two semesters will allow students who don’t come to the first semester with ready-to-analyze data to gather such data (through ethnographic work, archival research, scraping the internet, combining existing survey data, etc.).

• Department: Sociology
• Instructor: Barbara J Kiviat
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• 4 points

APPLIED STATISTICS III

Prerequisites: STAT GR6102 Modern Bayesian methods offer an amazing toolbox for solving science and engineering problems. We will go through the book Bayesian Data Analysis and do applied statistical modeling using Stan, using R (or Python or Julia if you prefer) to preprocess the data and postprocess the analysis. We will also discuss the relevant theory and get to open questions in model building, computing, evaluation, and expansion. The course is intended for students who want to do applied statistics and also those who are interested in working on statistics research problems.

• Department: Statistics
• Instructor: Andrew Gelman
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia h-index: 112 Info
• 4 points

Introduction to Biostatistical Methods

INTRO-BIOSTATISTICAL METH

Like many fields of learning, biostatistics has its own vocabulary often seen in medical and public health literature. Phrases like statistical significance", "p-value less than 0.05", "95% confident", and "margin of error" can have enormous impact in a world that relies on statistics to make decisions: Should Drug A be recommended over Drug B? Should a national policy on X be implemented? Does Vitamin C truly prevent colds? However, do we really know what these terms and phrases mean? Understanding the theory and methodology behind study design, estimation and hypothesis testing is crucial to ensuring that findings and practices in public health and biomedicine are supported by reliable evidence.

• Department: Biostatistics
• 3 points

Statistical Consulting

Prerequisites: STAT GR6102 or instructor permission. The Deparatments doctoral student consulting practicum. Students undertake pro bono consulting activities for Columbia community researchers under the tutelage of a faculty mentor.

• Department: Statistics
• Instructor: Tian Zheng
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 25 Info
• 3 points

Finite Element Method for Fluid Flow and

FEM for Fluid Flow and FS

Solving convection-dominated phenomena using finite element method (FEM), including convection-diffusion equation, Navier-Stokes, equation for incompressible viscous flows, and nonlinear fluid-structure interactions (FSI). Foundational concepts of FEM include function spaces, strong and weak forms, Galerkin FEM, isoparametric discretization, stability analysis, and error estimates. Mixed FEM for Stokes flow, incompressibility and inf-sup conditions. Stabilization approaches, including residue-based variational multiscale methods. Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) formulation for nonlinear FSI, and selected advanced topics of research interest.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• Instructor: Vijay Vedula
  h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

THE BODY IN HLTH & DISEASE II

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• Instructor: John T Grbic
  h-index: 36 Info
• 0 points

Statistical Computing with SAS

STATISTICAL COMPUTING WIT

This is a Public Health Course. Public Health classes are offered on the Health Services Campus at 168th Street. For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses

• Department: Biostatistics
• 3 points

FUNDAMENTALS OF EVOLUTION

Lectures cover principal topics in evolutionary biology including genetics, genome organization, population and quantitative genetics, the history of evolutionary theory, systematics, speciation and species concepts, co-evolution, and biogeography.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• Instructor: Kira Delmore
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• 3 points

SCREENWRITING THREE

A two-semester intensive screenwriting workshop with one instructor.  The Screenwriting 3 and Screenwriting 4 class sequence allows for the careful and more sustained development of a feature-length script.  In the fall semester, students further develop an idea for a screenplay and write the first act (approximately 30 pages).  In the spring semester, students finish writing the script and, time permitting, begin a first revision.

• Department: Film
• Instructor: Minhal Baig
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• Instructor: David B Schwab
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• Instructor: Andrew S Bienen
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• Instructor: Trey Ellis
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• Instructor: Rania Attieh
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• 3 points

ORAL HISTOLOGY GROWTH & DVLPMT

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• Instructor: Letty Moss-Salentijn
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• 0 points

FICTION SEMINAR

DEATH AND DESIRE

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• Department: Writing
• Instructor: Hannah L Assadi
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• 3 points

FICTION SEMINAR

SPEAK THE SPEECH

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• Department: Writing
• Instructor: James Canon
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• 3 points

FICTION SEMINAR

PLANT PEOPLE

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• Department: Writing
• Instructor: Anelise I Chen
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• 3 points

FICTION SEMINAR

THE GHOST STORY

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• Department: Writing
• Instructor: Scott Cheshire
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• 3 points

FICTION SEMINAR

TIME IN FICTION

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• Department: Writing
• Instructor: Joshua Furst
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• 3 points

FICTION SEMINAR

MYSTERIES

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• Department: Writing
• Instructor: Rivka R Galchen
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

FICTION SEMINAR

THE INTIMATE

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• Department: Writing
• Instructor: Joanna B Hershon
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

FICTION SEMINAR

SPECULATIVE FICTION

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• Department: Writing
• Instructor: Lincoln M Michel
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• 3 points

FICTION SEMINAR

AUTHORITY

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• Department: Writing
• Instructor: Mina Seckin
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• 3 points

FICTION SEMINAR

WET LAND/DRY LAND

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• Department: Writing
• Instructor: Darcey Steinke
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• 3 points

FICTION SEMINAR

BUILDING A SCENE

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• Department: Writing
• Instructor: Lara Vapnyar
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• 3 points

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
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 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

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
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia Info
• 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
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info
• 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

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

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

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
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• 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