Ethics in Public Policy
MIA & MPA Ethics Core.
This course investigates how ethical considerations shape, complicate, and often introduce dilemmas into the work of policymaking. It asks what justice, democracy, and responsibility demand in concrete policy contexts—should political leaders prioritize stability or accountability in post-conflict settings? Should elected officials follow their moral convictions even when doing so goes against the preferences of their constituents? Should public servants uphold the law when it conflicts with their moral principles? When is it right to work within flawed systems to achieve change, and when is it better to act from the outside? Through a mix of theoretical readings and case studies, students will learn to balance political, institutional, and ethical considerations, develop arguments for their moral choices, and advocate effectively for their policy decisions. The course is designed to cultivate reflective practitioners who can identify moral dilemmas in public policy, weigh competing values, and articulate their ethical positions in ways that are both critical and constructive.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- T 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
- T 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
- W 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
- R 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
- R 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nicole M Peisajovich
Info - 1.5 points
STRUCTURAL DARING & THE SUBLIME
STRUCT DARING & THE SUBLI
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- F 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rory O O'Neill
Info - 3 points
SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY
- Department: Social Work
- R 2 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
- W 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
- R 11:10 a.m.-1 p.m.
- W 8:30 p.m.-10:20 p.m.
- R 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Tiffany Younger
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Raysa Segura-Rodriguez
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Ash Cole
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Jason Harley
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Instructor:
Laurie Maldonado
Info - 3 points
SEMINAR IN STAGE MANAGEMENT III
MUSICAL STRUCTURE
Musicals, especially those that have traditionally originated on Broadway, are complex pieces of machinery that are designed to produce a variety of energies in the theater. When taken collectively, those energies constitute the aesthetic of the experience. As with plays, stage managers are charged with coordinating all of a musical’s production elements. However, stage managers should also be able to view a musical from every angle; that is, read it intelligently and analyze it dramatically so they can accurately gauge their contribution to the overall aesthetic. This course seeks to provide stage managers with a customized template to do that: in other words, how to connect what’s on the page and the stage to their own standard methodologies, cue calling, and the CEO/COO perspective. In the contemporary professional landscape, these are important tools that will help them optimize their work on musicals.
- Department: Theatre Arts
- M 9 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Bonnie Panson
Info - 3 points
Priorities in Global Public Health
PRIORITIES IN GLOBAL PUB
Many of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity disproportionately affect the populations of low-income countries. This course uses a multidisciplinary approach to analyse the emergence, justificiation and success of current global health priorities including reproductive health, child health water, infectious diseases, noncommunicable disease, mental health, and public health in complex emergencies (man made and Environmental). Students will learn to examine the social, economic, and political factors contributing to the rise of these global health priorities, learn about the different suggested approaches and tools for managing them as well be involved in the development of strategies for their solution. This course builds on Introduction to Global Health" (P6811) by demonstrating the application of major concepts and principles that govern the practice of global health in resource-poor countries."
- Department: Epidemiology
- R 4 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
- 3 points
VISITING ARTIST LECT. IV
N/A
- Department: Visual Arts
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Instructor:
Miya Masaoka
Wikipedia Info - 0 points
ADVANCED AFFORDABLE HOUSING FINANCIAL AN
ADV AFFORD HOUS FIN ANALY
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- M 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
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Instructor:
C Marisa Rodriguez
Info - 1.5 points
PUBLIC SPACE: RHETORICS & PRACTICES
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
David J Smiley
CULPA: 3 Info - 3 points
Engaging on the Ground: Contemporary Tib
Contemporary Tibetan Cine
This 7-session master class examines the craft of thematic expression and social engagement by filmmakers who are successfully bringing non-dominant voices to the screen and working in regions with people whose stories are rarely heard. Through film screenings, lectures, critical analysis, and Q&A with guest filmmakers, the class aims to raise awareness, foster discussion, and instruct on visual storytelling techniques that integrate themes of social change, cultural heritage, and environmental transformations in Asia today, with a special focus on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau in China.
The class opens by surveying the emergence and development of the Tibetan New Wave Cinema movement, represented by filmmakers such as Pema Tseden, Sonthar Gyal, Lhapal Gyal, Dukar Tserang, Khyentse Norbu, Tenzin Seldon, Khashem Gyal, and others. Together, we will examine how Tibetan filmmakers bring lived realities, identity, spiritual traditions, and social tensions to the screen. We will analyze narrative strategies, visual poetics, and the ethical responsibilities of representing communities "on the ground."
This class also explores the intersection of cinema and mindfulness. Through selected films, readings, and reflective practices, students will engage with film not only as a medium of storytelling but also as a space for introspection, contemplation, emotional awareness, and shared experience.
Mindfulness here is not confined to meditation but understood as a broader, integrative approach to being attentive, ethical, and present at every stage of filmmaking. It is a way of honoring the people, places, and processes that make cinema meaningful.
- Department: Film
- 1.5 points
Altered States: Cultures of Intoxication
Altered States Intoxic Ad
Altered States: Cultures of Intoxication and Addiction
This seminar investigates the literary and philosophical treatment of intoxication and addiction from Romanticism to critical theory to contemporary recovery literature with an eye toward the Germanophone context. Examining intoxication not merely as a pathological or medical phenomenon but as a site of existential inquiry and aesthetic experimentation, the course explores how thinkers and writers have grappled with states of excess, compulsion, altered consciousness, enlightenment, and the dissolution of the self. We will situate these discussions within three important historical developments: 1) the colonial drug trade, 2) drug production in Germany, which was the site of the synthesis and manufacture of morphine, heroin, and codeine in the nineteenth century as well as in Switzerland, which was the site of the discovery of LSD and psilocybin in the twentieth century, and 3) the medicalization of the discourse around addiction and drug treatment programs.
Points of emphasis include the metaphysics of intoxication, the aesthetics of fragmentation, the tension between autonomy and compulsion, and the role of intoxication in critiques of bourgeois rationality, modernity, and capitalism. We will engage with a range of genres—poetry, fiction, philosophy, psychoanalysis, memoir, and recovery literature—as well as relevant secondary scholarship and critical theory. Discussions and materials will be in English.
- Department: Germanic Languages
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Annie Pfeifer
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
GENTRIFICATION AND DISPLACEMENT: POWER,
GENTRIFICATION & DISPLACE
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tom Slater
Info - 3 points
THE MASSIVE MIDDLE: STRATEGIES FOR HOUSI
STRAT FOR HOUSING DEVELOP
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Philip Wharton
Info - 1.5 points
CLINIC
Kokrobitey Sands
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- F noon-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Adam F Lubinsky
Info - 3 points
TOWARD RESILIENT CITIES + LANDSCAPES
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Instructor:
Samuel Carter
Info - 3 points
ADVANCED DESIGN FOR DEVELOPMENT
ADV DESIGN FOR DEVELOPMEN
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- F 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
- 1.5 points
CRIT ISSUES IN ART IV
N/A
- Department: Visual Arts
- T 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Luba Drozd
Info - 3 points
INSIDE DEVELOPMENT: LESSONS FROM THE FIE
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- W 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
- 1.5 points
GRADUATE STUDIO IV
N/A
- Department: Visual Arts
- R noon-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Miya Masaoka
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
GRADUATE STUDIO IV
- Department: Visual Arts
- M 4 p.m.-10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Miya Masaoka
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
URBAN DESIGN STUDIO III
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- F 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
- 9 points
MIGRANT POLICY AND THE CITY
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- M 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
Vojislava Filipcevic
Info - 3 points
Grad Sem IV in Sound Art & Related Media
The Graduate Seminar in Sound Art and Related Media is designed to create a space that is inclusive yet focused on sound as an art form and a medium. Class time is structured to support, reflect, and challenge students as individual artists and as a community. The course examines the medium and subject of sound in an expanded field, investigating its constitutive materials, exhibition and installation practices, and its ethics in the 21st century. The seminar will focus on the specific relations between tools, ideas, and meanings and the specific histories and theories that have arisen when artists engage with sound as a medium and subject in art. The seminar combines discussions of readings and artworks with presentations of students' work and research, as well as site visits and guest lectures.
While the Columbia Visual Arts Program is dedicated to maintaining an interdisciplinary learning environment where students are free to use and explore different mediums while also learning to look at, and critically discuss, artwork in any medium, we are equally committed to providing in-depth knowledge concerning the theories, histories, practices, tools and materials underlying these different disciplines. We offer Graduate Seminars in different disciplines, or combinations of disciplines, including moving image, new genres, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, as well as in Sound Art in collaboration with the Columbia Music Department through their Computer Music Center. These Discipline Seminars are taught by full-time and adjunct faculty, eminent critics, historians, curators, theorists, writers, and artists.
- Department: Visual Arts
- R 10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Miya Masaoka
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
INTERNATIONAL DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
INTL DESIGN + DEVELOPMENT
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- W 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
- 1.5 points
ARTIST MENTORSHIP / VALS IV
This required Visual Arts core MFA curriculum course, comprising two parts, allows MFA students to deeply engage with and learn directly from a wide variety of working artists who visit the program each year.
Lecture Series
The lecture component, taught by an adjunct faculty member with a background in art history and/or curatorial studies, consists of lectures and individual studio visits by visiting artists and critics over the course of the academic year. The series is programmed by a panel of graduate Visual Arts students under the professor's close guidance. Invitations are extended to artists whose practice reflects the interests, mediums, and working methods of MFA students and the program. Weekly readings assigned by the professor provide context for upcoming visitors. Other course assignments include researching and preparing introductions and discussion questions for each of the visitors. Undergraduate students enrolled in Visual Arts courses are encouraged to attend and graduate students in Columbia's Department of Art History are also invited. Following each class-period the conversation continues informally at a reception for the visitor. Studio visits with Visual Arts MFA students take place on or around the week of the artist or critic's lecture and are coordinated and assigned by lottery by the professor.
Artist Mentorship
The Artist-Mentor component allows a close and focused relationship to form between a core group of ten to fifteen students and their mentor. Students are assigned two mentors who they meet with each semester in two separate one-week workshops. The content of each workshop varies according to the Mentors’ areas of expertise and the needs of the students. Mentor weeks can include individual critiques, group critiques, studio visits, visits to galleries, other artist's studios, museums, special site visits, readings, and writing workshops. Here are a few descriptions from recent mentors:
• During Mentor Week we will individually and collectively examine our assumptions and notions about art. What shapes our needs and expectations as artists and the impact of what we do?
• Our week will include visits to exhibition spaces to observe how the public engages the art. Throughout, we will consider art's ability to have real life consequences and the public's desire to personally engage with and experience art without mediation.
• The week will be conducted in two parts, f
- Department: Visual Arts
- T 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
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Instructor:
Miya Masaoka
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
EMBEDDED SCALABLE PLATFORMS
Inter-disciplinary graduate-level seminar on design and programming of embedded scalable platforms. Content varies between offerings to cover timely relevant issues and latest advances in system-on-chip design, embedded software programming, and electronic design automation. Requires substantial reading of research papers, class participation, and semester-long project.
- Department: Computer Science
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Luca Carloni
CULPA: 2 Wikipedia h-index: 45 Info - 3 points
China's Impact on Global Governance
China & Global Governance
This seminar explores China’s rise and its implications for global governance. The course introduces core international relations concepts and theoretical debates, then examines China’s behavior in areas such as trade, development finance, human protection, maritime disputes, nuclear policy, and technology. The final weeks focus on national strategy debates in the United States and China. Students will engage in critical reading, policy writing, and seminar discussion.
- Department: International Security & Diplomacy
- T 8 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Raymond Wang
Info - 3 points
EQUITABLE DEVELOPMENT
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- R 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
Cecily C King
Info - 3 points
Statistical signal processing and learni
STATISTICAL SIGNAL PROCES
Introduction to the fundamental principles of statistical signal processing related to detection and estimation. Hypothesis testing, signal detection, parameter estimation, signal estimation, and selected advanced topics. Suitable for students doing research in communications, control, signal processing, and related areas.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- M 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Guido H Jajamovich
Info - 3 points
WILLIAMS INSTITUTE MOOT COURT
Formerly known as the Williams Moot Court.
- Department: Law
- 0 points
Sparse and Low-Dimensional Models for Hi
SPARSE MODELS FOR HI-D DA
Overview of theory, computation and applications for sparse and low-dimensional data modeling. Recoverability of sparse and low-rank models. Optimization methods for low-dim data modeling. Applications to imaging, neuroscience, communications, web data.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
John Wright
CULPA: 1 h-index: 44 Info - 3 points
Towards a Trans-Species Architecture
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mark Wigley
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
TOPICS IN SIGNAL PROCESSING
INTRO TO BLOCKCHAIN TECH
Advanced topics in signal processing, such as multidimensional signal processing, image feature extraction, image/video editing and indexing, advanced digital filter design, multirate signal processing, adaptive signal processing, and wave-form coding of signals. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6880 to 6889.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- F 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
- 3 points
TOPICS IN SIGNAL PROCESSING
LARGE-SCALE STREAM PROCESSING
Advanced topics in signal processing, such as multidimensional signal processing, image feature extraction, image/video editing and indexing, advanced digital filter design, multirate signal processing, adaptive signal processing, and wave-form coding of signals. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6880 to 6889. Topic: Large Data Stream Processing.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- R 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Deepak S Turaga
Info - 3 points
TOPICS-INFORMATION PROCESSING
The class will give you a richer understanding of networking, focusing on principles and systems that have shaped the Internet. Via classic and contemporary literature, topics covered include routing, content delivery, congestion control, data centers, SDN, and the cloud.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
- 3 points
Principles and Practice of Oncology II:
PRIN & PRACTICE OF ONCOLO
This course presents a systematic overview of the most common cancer diagnoses across the lifespan and associated prevention, screening, and early detection. The course presents genetic predispositions and mutations as well as familial syndromes that increase risk for a diagnosis of cancer. The course examines cancer diagnoses that appear in all age groups as well as cancers mostly specific to set age groups. It incorporates the pathophysiology of pediatric, adolescent, young adult, and adult cancers, current evidence-based treatment modalities and regimens for each cancer, and data from ongoing clinical trials about cutting-edge therapies being developed. The course provides a framework for the oncology nurse practitioner (NP) for synthesis, integration, and application of this knowledge for diagnosing, assessing, and managing patients with a cancer diagnosis in clinical practice.
- Department: Nursing
- M 6:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Shanelly Singh
Info - 2 points
1:1 CRAFTING AND FABRICATION OF DETAILS
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- F 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Zachary E Mulitauaopele
Info - 3 points
TOPICS-INFORMATION PROCESSING
Reinforcement Learning
Advanced topics spanning electrical engineering and computer science such as speech processing and recognition, image and multimedia content analysis, and other areas drawing on signal processing, information theory, machine learning, pattern recognition, and related topics. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6890 to 6899.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- R 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
- None None-None
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Instructor:
Javad Ghaderi
h-index: 17 Info - 3 points
Literature & Independent Publishing in L
Lit & Indp Publishing Lat
This course, focused on the phenomenon of independent publishing in Latin America, begins with a review of the history of these publishing houses on the continent, their relationship with the popular press, and the avant-garde movements (César Vallejo, Vicente Huidobro). It will also explore the experiments of the second half of the 20th century (Ulises Carrión, Mirtha Dermisache). With this background, we will study the phenomenon in the 21st century, from "cartonera" publishing houses to self-published publications and self-managed projects. Based on the concept of bibliodiversity, we will problematize writing practices and their circulation in unequal societies, with differential access to literacy, but in which literature remains a culturally relevant practice. We will study books by César Aira, Verónica Gerber-Bicecci, Giselle Beiguelman, Mario Bellatin, among others. We will also study the extensive reflection on the independent phenomenon through authors such as E. Schierloh, M. Rabasa, Ana Gallego, Hernán López-Winne, and many others.
- Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
- T 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Graciela Montaldo
Info - 4 points
TOPICS-INFORMATION PROCESSING
TPC: Adv Big Data & AI
Advanced topics spanning Electrical Engineering and Computer Science such as speech processing and recognition, image and multimedia content analysis, and other areas drawing on signal processing, information theory, machine learning, pattern recognition, and related topics. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6890 to 6899. Topic: Advanced Big Data Analytics.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
- None None-None
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Instructor:
Ching-Yung Lin
h-index: None Info - 3 points
RESEARCH
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Danielle S Smoller
Info - 2-3 points
QUODLIBETAL STUDIES II
- Department: Philosophy
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Instructor:
Allison Aitken
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Instructor:
David Albert
CULPA: 32 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info -
Instructor:
Akeel Bilgrami
CULPA: 28 Wikipedia Info -
Instructor:
Justin Clarke-Doane
h-index: 10 Info -
Instructor:
Jessica Collins
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Melissa S Fusco
CULPA: 1 Info -
Instructor:
Haim Gaifman
CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 30 Info -
Instructor:
Lydia Goehr
CULPA: 26
Wikipedia
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Axel Honneth
CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info -
Instructor:
Timothy Williamson
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Tamar A Lando
CULPA: 8 Info -
Instructor:
Wolfgang R Mann
CULPA: 36 Info -
Instructor:
Christia Mercer
CULPA: 56
Wikipedia
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Instructor:
Michele Moody-Adams
CULPA: 20
Wikipedia
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Instructor:
Christopher Peacocke
CULPA: 4
Wikipedia
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Instructor:
Carol Rovane
CULPA: 13 Info -
Instructor:
Achille Varzi
CULPA: 30
Wikipedia
h-index: 40
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Instructor:
Katja Vogt
CULPA: 36
Info
- 3-6 points
QUODLIBETAL STUDIES IV
- Department: Philosophy
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Instructor:
Allison Aitken
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Instructor:
David Albert
CULPA: 32 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info -
Instructor:
Akeel Bilgrami
CULPA: 28 Wikipedia Info -
Instructor:
Justin Clarke-Doane
h-index: 10 Info -
Instructor:
Jessica Collins
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Melissa S Fusco
CULPA: 1 Info -
Instructor:
Haim Gaifman
CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 30 Info -
Instructor:
Lydia Goehr
CULPA: 26
Wikipedia
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Axel Honneth
CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info -
Instructor:
Timothy Williamson
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Tamar A Lando
CULPA: 8 Info -
Instructor:
Wolfgang R Mann
CULPA: 36 Info -
Instructor:
Christia Mercer
CULPA: 56
Wikipedia
Info
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Instructor:
Michele Moody-Adams
CULPA: 20
Wikipedia
Info
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Instructor:
Christopher Peacocke
CULPA: 4
Wikipedia
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Carol Rovane
CULPA: 13 Info -
Instructor:
Achille Varzi
CULPA: 30
Wikipedia
h-index: 40
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Instructor:
Katja Vogt
CULPA: 36
Info
- 3-6 points
GRAD SEM IN CONSERVATION BIOL
Prerequisites: biology, ecology, genetics, and evolution. Introduction to the applied science of maintaining the earths biological diversity, its landscapes, and wilderness. Focus on the biological principles relevant to the conservation of biodiversity at the genetic, population, and community and landscape levels.
- Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Bekka Brodie
Info - 3 points
BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY
Buddhist philosophers generally agree about what doesn’t exist: an enduring, unitary, and
independent self. But there is surprisingly little consensus across Buddhist traditions about what
does exist and what it’s like. In this course, we will examine several Buddhist theories about the
nature and structure of reality and consider the epistemological and ethical implications of these
radically different pictures of the world. We will analyze and evaluate arguments from some of
the most influential Indian Buddhist philosophers from the second to the eleventh centuries,
including Nāgārjuna, Vasubandhu, Dignāga, Candrakīrti, Śāntarakṣita, Śāntideva, and
Ratnakīrti. Topics will include the existence and nature of the external world, the mind, and the
self; practical and epistemological implications of the Buddhist no-self principle; personal
identity; the problem of other minds; and causal determinism and moral responsibility.
- Department: Philosophy
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Allison Aitken
Info - 3 points
TOPICS IN ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINE
Embedded AI
Selected topics in electrical and computer engineering. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6900 to 6909.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- M 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Xiaofan Jiang
h-index: 24 Info - 3 points
REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT AND ASSET MANAGEM
RE INVESTMENT + ASSET MGT
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- R 4:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
- 1.5 points