DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
This studio is concerned with
etiology
, or the “cause, set of causes, or manner of causation of disease or condition”. As such, we will explore the patterning (who/what) and determinants (why) of population health. The course will focus on determinants ranging from upstream features of the social and physical environment to downstream, proximal risk factors at the level of individual biology, as well as the interactions between them. While often we think about our health as a function of behaviors we can control and genetics we can’t, the reality is much more complex, involving dynamic interplay between biology and the environment over the life course. Where we live, what we are exposed to, and the social and economic positions we occupy are major influences on our health, becoming encoded in our biology and expressed in the diseases we develop (or avoid) and, ultimately, in our longevity. Identifying these factors and understanding their health consequences is central to public health.
In this studio, students become acquainted with a) the major environmental issues that we face, b) the social factors such as race/racism, socioeconomic status and gender that influence health, and c) the underlying biological basis of human disease. In addition, students will be presented with the approaches used to address the health consequences of these determinants.
- Department: Public Health
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Instructor:
Greg A Freyer
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Historical Approaches in the Social Scie
Historical Aprchs Scl Scn
This course introduces students to historical approaches in sociology and political science (and some economics). In the first part, the course surveys the major theoretical approaches and methodological traditions. Examples of the former are classic comparativist work (e.g. Skocpol’s study of revolutions), historist approaches (such as Sewell’s), or the historical institutionalist tradition (Mahoney, Thelen, Wimmer, etc.). In terms of methodological approaches, we will discuss classical Millean small-N comparisons, Qualitative Comparative Analysis, process tracing, actor-centered modeling, quantitative, large-N works, and causal inference type of research designs. In the second part, major topics in macro-comparative social sciences are examined, from world systems and empire to the origins of democracy.
- Department: Sociology
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Andreas Wimmer
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CAPSTONE: Conflict Analysis Models
Conflict analysis is central to understanding the context and content of any conflict. It is also critical for the person doing the conflict analysis to have a good understanding of who they are as a conflict resolution practitioner, including the frames with which they view the conflict analysis. Our worldviews, assumptions, values, and beliefs shape how we frame and create meaning from conflicts that we choose to examine, and how we understand the dynamics of those conflicts. Therefore, to conduct an impartial analysis of any conflict, and add value for the stakeholders involved, self-awareness is crucial.
This course is the foundation for developing the necessary mindset for conflict analysis. We want you to be able to enter any situation and ask the question, “What is really going on here?” and to use that inquiry to uncover underlying needs, issues, and assumptions. In this course, in addition to increasing your self-awareness as a conflict resolution practitioner, you will explore and become familiar with diverse conflict analysis approaches and tools, beginning with creating a conflict map to identify the actors, dynamics, and structures that are creating, escalating, and perpetuating the conflict. You will work with a variety of conflict analysis tools to examine the stakeholder perspectives and will be asked to identify issues that surfaced as a result of this analysis. You will define goals for your inquiry that correspond to the conflict issues you have identified and coalesce thematically around a specific purpose of appropriate scope for your capstone study. You will utilize the Coordinated Management of Meaning and Case Study frameworks to engage in desk-based qualitative inquiry using secondary sources. You will put theory into practice by interpreting the secondary data through the lens of applicable theory. The data will be further analyzed using CMM models and conflict analysis tools as a means of surfacing several needs to be addressed in your intervention design (in the next capstone course).
This course is the first of three (3) required courses of the capstone sequence.
In 6050, students will complete conflict analysis for their capstone case study.
In 6250, students will design an intervention that addresses the needs identified in their earlier analysis. In 6350, students will consider sustainability, as well as monitoring and evaluation strategies for their proposed intervention.
- Department: Negotiation & Conflict Resolution
- S 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
Amy E Sereday
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RED ELECTIVE INTERNSHIP
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Rebecca A Andersen Polimeda
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VALUE, OBJECTS, AND MEANING
VALUE OBJECTS AND MEANING
This course explores how anthropologists have engaged with the question of value as means of understanding and comparing human social engagement with the creation, circulation, and consumption of objects and ideas. In doing so, this course will read classical anthropological texts concerned with exchange, social meaning and action and consider a variety of topics of anthropological interest such as gifts, commodities, capitalism, inequality, and the relationships between humans and nonhumans of many kinds. The course traces how questions and arguments that emerged out of earlier debates in “economic” anthropology were taken up and altered in later conversations about the analytical importance and utility of material and semiotic approaches. In doing so, the course explores what these genealogies might say about the possibility of, and the potential usefulness or desirability of, a contemporary or future-looking anthropology of value.
- Department: Anthropology
- R 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Hannah Chazin
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PUBLIC HEALTH INTERVENTIONS
- Department: Public Health
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Instructor:
Samantha V Garbers
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PUBLIC HEALTH INTERVENTIONS
- Department: Public Health
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Instructor:
Samantha V Garbers
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PUBLIC HEALTH INTERVENTIONS
- Department: Public Health
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Instructor:
Samantha V Garbers
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PUBLIC HEALTH INTERVENTIONS
- Department: Public Health
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Instructor:
Samantha V Garbers
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SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY: THE ORIGINS
Prerequisites: this course is intended for sociology Ph.D. and SMS students. No others without the instructors written permission. Foundational sources and issues in sociological theory: Adam Smith, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel, Mead, Mauss, others; division of labor, individualism, exchange, class and its vicissitudes, social control, ideas and interests, contending criteria of explanation and interpretation.
- Department: Sociology
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Joshua Whitford
h-index: 14 Info - 3 points
GLOBAL & DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVES
- Department: Public Health
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Instructor:
Helen de Pinho
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GLOBAL & DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVES
- Department: Public Health
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Instructor:
Helen de Pinho
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GLOBAL & DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVES
- Department: Public Health
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Instructor:
Helen de Pinho
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GLOBAL & DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVES
- Department: Public Health
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Instructor:
Helen de Pinho
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ADVNCD TPCS IN IMMUNOLOGY
ADVNCD TPCS IN IMMUNOLOGY I
- Department: Microbiology
- R 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Steven Reiner
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Genomics & Machine Learning in Neuro Sci
This is a graduate-level course on data generation and analysis in neuroscience and neurology for wet-lab scientists, using a combined lecture and workshop format with exercises in R. The first half of the course covers basic statistics, machine learning, and neurogenomics, and the second half examines machine learning on non-genomics modalities.
- Department: Neurobiology and Behavior
- W 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
- 3 points
SPECIALIZED SOCIAL WORK PRACTICUM
SPECIALIZED SW PRACTICUM
- Department: Social Work
- 6 points
SPECIALIZED SOCIAL WORK PRACTICUM
SPECIALIZED SW PRACTICUM
- Department: Social Work
- 6 points
SPECIALIZED SOCIAL WORK PRACTICUM
SPECIALIZED SW PRACTICUM
- Department: Social Work
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Instructor:
Gina Onayiga
Info - 6 points
MAKING ETHNOG:METHOD & WRITING
This course begins with two central and related epistemological problems in conducting ethnographic research: first, the notion that objects of scientific research are ‘made’ through adopting a particular relational stance and asking certain kinds of questions. From framing a research problem and choosing a ‘research context’ story to tell, to the kinds of methods one selects to probe such a problem, the ‘how’ and ‘what’ – or means and content – are inextricably intertwined. A second epistemological problem concerns the artifice of reality, and the nebulous distinction between truth and fiction, no less than the question of where or with whom one locates such truth.
With these issues framing the course, we will work through some key themes and debates in anthropology from the perspective of methodology, ranging from subject/object liminality to incommensurability and radical alterity to the politics of representation. Students will design an ethnographic project of their choosing and conduct research throughout the term, applying different methodological approaches popular in anthropology and the social sciences more generally, such as participant observation, semi-structured interview, diary-keeping and note-taking.
- Department: Anthropology
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sheng Long
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INTEGR OF SCI & PRACT I
- Department: Public Health
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Heather M Butts
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Matthew Perzanowski
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Brandon Pearson
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Sumeet Banker
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John Santelli
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Stephen S Morse
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Lisa Bates
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Danielle Laraque-Arena
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Thelma Mielenz
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Helen de Pinho
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Bill L Bower
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Greg A Freyer
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Bill L Bower
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Darby W Jack
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Christian Gloria
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Thelma Mielenz
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Stephen P Kachur
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Heather M Butts
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Helen de Pinho
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Todd Ogden
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Brandon Pearson
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Maya A Kappil
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Urmi A Desai
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Andrew S Geneslaw
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Energy Systems Fundamentals
The purpose of this course is to establish a core energy skill set for SIPA students and prepare them for more advanced energy courses by providing a basic language and toolset for understanding energy issues. Existing energy sources and the infrastructures that deliver them to users around the world are undergoing a period of rapid change. Limits to growth, rapidly fluctuating raw material prices, and the emergence of new technology options all contribute to heightened risk and opportunity in the energy sector.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- F 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Travis Bradford
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info - 3 points
NYU Doctoral PHD Exchange
- Department: Journalism
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Instructor:
Melanie G Huff
Info - 1-6 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
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Instructor:
Marlyn M Delva
Info - 1.5 points
Intellectual and Institutional Framework
- Department: Journalism
- R 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Michael Schudson
Wikipedia h-index: 65 Info - 3 points
Introduction to Neural Networks and Deep
Neural Networks&Deep Lear
This seminar will introduce both the concepts and practical implementation in PyTorch of neural networks and deep learning, with a focus on general principles and examples from vision.
- Department: Psychology
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nikolaus Kriegeskorte
h-index: 56 Info - 3 points
Personal Leadership in Public Health
PERSONAL LEADERSHIP IN P
- Department: Public Health
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Heather M Butts
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Matthew Perzanowski
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Heather M Butts
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Environmental Advocacy: From Interest to
Recognition, prevention and resolution of environmental problems depends on effective environmental advocacy, but what constitutes effective collective action? Advocates typically argue that they represent the collective interests of the general public and underrepresented groups, and use a variety of tactics to express themselves over a range of scale. Government regulation and environmental science also often rely upon the product of advocacy to different degrees. How much has advocacy influenced environmental policy and political and civic engagement? This class examines the role of advocacy and science inside and outside the US environmental policy-making process, and addresses different approaches to environmental advocacy from the local to the global. Using both historical and contemporary sources, the course investigates how different groups experience the natural and built worlds, the interplay of citizens and science, the treatment of science by advocates and the media, and the role of advocates of various types in legislative, administrative and judicial decision making. It also takes a comparative approach of how other political systems (e.g. China) experience and responds to environmental advocacy. Along the way, we will explore connections between environmental change and social inequality, the rise of modern environmental politics, environmentalism and nationalism, and differing visions for the future of nature.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sara Tjossem
Info - 3 points
INTRO TO INTL PLANNING
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- M 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ebru A Gencer
Info - 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
- F 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Catherine Fennell
Info - 3 points
Specialized Social Work Practicum
SPECIALIZED SW PRACTICUM
- Department: Social Work
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Instructor:
Stephanie M Palau
Info - 9 points
TPCS IN COMP NEUROSCI/ENGINEERING
TPC:DEVICES&ANALYSIS FOR NEURO
Selected advanced topics in computational neuroscience and neuroengineering. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6090-6099. Topic: Devices and Analysis for Neural Circuits.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- T 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dion Khodagholy Araghy
Info - 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
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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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
- W 9 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Peter Bearman
CULPA: 19
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Financial Risk Management and Public Pol
Financial Risk Mgmt & Pub Pol
The development of quantitative risk management by the financial industry has gone hand-in-hand with that of quantitative approaches to financial regulation. The interactions between industry best practice and regulation have grown even closer since the global financial crisis, reflecting lessons learned (or not), the widening scope of regulation, and the now-central role of financial risk in the public policy agenda. This course introduces risk management principles in the context of public policy, presenting market, liquidity and credit risk measurement techniques employed by banks and other intermediaries, as well as their drawbacks and limitations. To help understand current approaches to risk management and regulation, the course studies financial market behavior in normal times and crises, the treatment of firms and debt in bankruptcy and how it differs for financial firms, the role of securitization in the financial system, and the roles of leverage and of market and funding liquidity in times of calm and distress.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Allan M Malz
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
Independent Study
INDEPENDENT STUDY
Individualized, guided learning experiences at the graduate level in a selected area of concentration. The area of concentration selected should reflect both the role of the clinical specialist/nurse practitioner and the student's specific interests. Proposed work must be outlined prior to registration and agreed upon by both faculty and student.
- Department: Nursing
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Instructor:
Judy Honig
h-index: 13 Info - 0-8 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
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Megan French-Marcelin
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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
- T 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kui Ren
CULPA: 2 Info - 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
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Laura L Neitzel
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Reinhold Martin
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Managerial Statistics
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
- MW 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
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Boaz Galinson
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Jing Dong
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Alex Mills
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Boaz Galinson
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Jing Dong
h-index: 11 Info - 1.5 points
EUROPEAN STUDIES COLL I
- Department: Modern European Studies
- F 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Tsveta A Petrova
Info - 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
- W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gerard A Ateshian
Info - 3 points
RESEARCH & PROF DEVPT WORKSHOP
- Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
- R 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jacqueline Garcia Suarez
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HISTORY OF PERFORMANCE
This class will look at selected eras of theater with an emphasis on performance.
- Department: Theatre Arts
- F 2:15 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
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Instructor:
Bertha Ferdman
Info - 3 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
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Michael E Mauel
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Business Analytics
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
- MW 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gustavo J Vulcano
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CIVIL PROCEDURE
- Department: Law
- TWR 2:50 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
- MW 1:20 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
- TWR 10:40 a.m.-noon
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Thomas P Schmidt
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Kellen R Funk
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Olatunde Johnson
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