Quantitative Analysis II for Internation

Prerequisites: SIPA U6500

This course is the second semester in the SIPA statistics sequence, extending the multiple regression framework introduced in the first semester as a tool for policy analysis and program evaluation (also known as 
econometrics
). The first half of the course will focus largely on the fundamentals of multiple regression analysis for causal inference. The second half builds on this foundation and introduces experimental and quasi-experimental methods that are widely used in empirical research. Additional topics on data collection, statistical analysis and interpretation will also be covered to help students become thoughtful consumers of statistical analysis for public policy. Students will receive instructional support in Stata to carry out regression analysis and complete assignments. Assignments and supplementary topics may vary by instructor, please review syllabi for further details.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• F 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• 0 points

SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH

• Department: Social Work
• W 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• W 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• R 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• R 2 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Amy Werman
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• Instructor: Robin T Kelley
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• Instructor: Alexandra Seals
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• 3 points

Into to Text Analysis in Python

This introductory course will explore a variety of approaches to studying text-as-data, collected from newspapers, social media, websites, and any other kind of text data source using th programming language Python. Designed for beginners with no prior coding experience, students will leave this course with beginner-to-intermediate Python programming abilities and the tools to continue building their skills beyond the classroom. Students will learn the fundamentals of the data process in addition to gaining hands-on experience with methods for data collection (e.g., web scraping and working with APIs) and text analysis (e.g., sentiment analysis, topic modeling, and more). Practical in nature, the course will culminate in a final project that will ask students to explore a research question of their choice using the various methods for data collection and analysis learned across the semester, which students can then share as public scholarship and/or with prospective employers. The course content is geared towards students interested in pursuing careers in journalism, marketing, social media strategy, policy analysis, financial analysis, and tech.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Rebecca S Krisel
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• 3 points

INTRO TO HEALTH ECONOMICS

• Department: Executive Classes in HPM
• Instructor: Matthew J Neidell
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• 3 points

Introduction to Health Economics

INTRODUCTN TO HEALTH ECON

Health economics provides theories and tools for understanding, predicting, and changing human behavior. Understanding and changing the behavior of firms and individuals, designing health policies, and managing firms and organizations concerned with delivering health care and improving health, requires a solid foundation in health economics. In this course, students will learn the concepts in health economics most relevant and important to public health professionals and how these economic concepts can be applied to improving health care and the public health systems. Students will identify the basic concepts of health economics for the purposes of solving problems using these concepts, and apply these concepts in new contexts within public health.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• W 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Lawrence Bartlett
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• 3 points

Python for Public Policy

This 7-week mini course exposes the students to the application and use of Python for data analytics in public policy setting. The course teaches introductory technical programming skills that allow students to learn Python and apply code on pertinent public policy data. The majority of the class content will utilize the New York City 311 Service Requests dataset. It’s a rich dataset that can be explored from many angles relevant to real-world public policy and program management responsibilities.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Aidan Feldman
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• 1.5 points

INTRO TO STATISTICS

• Department: Social Work
• Instructor: Melissa D Begg
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• 0 points

CLOWN II - RESEARCH ARTS

• Department: Theatre Arts
• T 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Ralf Jean-Pierre
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• 0 points

Modification and Assistive Technology

Modification & Assistive

• Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
• Instructor: Rochelle Mendonca
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• 3 points

Health Policy and the Political System

HEALTH POLICY-POLITICAL S

Why does the government play such a central role in the health of its citizens? What factors unique to American politics have given us the healthcare system we currently have, and how much change can be accomplished within our philosophical and ethical confines? How do political changes yield policy shifts - or not? This course analyzes the role of major institutions - the central government, the federal system, the private sector, interest groups, and so on - in formulating and implementing health policy in the United States. We will discuss underlying normative issues and crossnational perspectives on healthcare to situate American healthcare policy along a broader global political spectrum, and attempt to forecast what changes are likely - or unlikely - to occur. Topics will include political history, policy formation and recommendations, market forces and economic influences, and more.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• M 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Lawrence D Brown
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• 3 points

MEANINGS/MTHERHD:HIST/LEG PERS

• Department: Law
• T 5 p.m.-7:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Carol Sanger
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• 3 points

Basics of Cybersecurity

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Cartier
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• 1.5 points

NEIGHBORHOOD PRES + ZONING

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Carol A Clark
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• 1.5 points

FICTION LECTURE

Story, Plot, Narrative

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• Department: Writing
• M 1:10 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Joshua A Cohen
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• 3 points

Intro to Infographics and Data Visualiza

Intro Infographics & Data Vis

This is a seven-week course that introduces students to design principles and techniques for effective data visualization. Visualizations graphically depict data to foster communication, improve comprehension and enhance decision-making. This course aims to help students: understand how visual representations can improve data comprehension, master techniques to facilitate the creation of visualizations as well as begin using widely available software and web-based, open-source frameworks.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Douglas Williamson
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• 1.5 points

Critical Issues in Hospital Management

HOSP ORGANIZATION/MANAGEM

This course is intended to give the student a broad understanding of the components of the health care system and the basic management principles of hospital organization and management. The course will employ a variety of learning formats for students including lectures by the instructors, guest lecturers with special expertise, case studies and student presentations. Emphasis will be on the historical trends of health care statistics and operating data of health care institutions; the history of hospitals and health care systems; their organization and finances; regulatory controls; management strategies; accreditation and professional standards; government; private insurance; administrative leadership and professional interactions, emergency services, healthcare trends and marketing.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• W 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Arthur Gianelli
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• 1.5 points

SPEECH I

In this course, students will enhance and deepen their understanding of how the human voice and articulators partner together to create language.  They will explore their own individual Idiolects and gain the skills to recalibrate their instruments in order to enhance the expressiveness and dynamic contrast of their speech.  The phonemes of the International Alphabet (IPA) will be employed to specify the sounds of Detailed North American English (DNAE).

• Department: Theatre Arts
• TR 9 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Hayes
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• 2 points

Russia and the European Union

Russia and the EU

This course delves to an important, complex, and unique subsystem of the international relations: relationship between Russia and the European Union. These are relations between the union of democratic states and major consolidated autocracy that are in close proximity to each other and have a shared neighborhood. The study of complex interactions between polities of a different nature requires various theoretical explanations regarding the types of power in international relations (and their constraints and possibilities), interdependencies and their implications, as well as the role of institutions. The course covers all major dimensions of relations between Russia and the European Union – political, economic, and cultural, as well as paying attention to the countries “in between”. The war unleashed by Russia in Ukraine and its current and long-term implications for the European continent will also be the subject of close attention during the course.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Irina Busygina
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• 3 points

Cybersecurity: Technology, Policy, & Law

Cybersecurity: Tech, Pol & Law

This course will bring together professors and select students from across technology, policy, and law to discuss how different disciplines solve cybersecurity issues. Classes will cover the technical underpinnings of the Internet and computer security; the novel legal aspects from technology, crime and national security; and the various policy problems and solutions involved in this new field. Class discussion will range freely between the technologies and implications of cyber security, crime, and conflict. To keep the students focused on topical issues, the assignments and guest lecturers for the Fall 2021 session of this course will be organized around four of the “great hacks” – SolarWinds (and supply chain), NotPetya (and state-based disruptions), Colonial Pipeline (and ransomware), and 2016 election-related hacks (and cyber-related disinformation).

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 3 points

VOICE & ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE I

In the 1890s, Frederick Mathias (F.M.) Alexander, a Shakespearian actor and spoken recitalist from Australia, began experiencing severe voice loss after he performed. The medical profession of his day prescribed vocal rest which worked well enough until Alexander’s next performance when he would leave the stage as hoarse as before. Frustrated that his vocal issues were not resolving, Alexander intuited that it must be something that he was doing to himself while he performed that was contributing to the loss of his voice. Doctors agreed with Alexander but they were at a loss to say what he was doing that was causing his problems.Thus began F. M.’s journey. The discoveries he made are what we now know as the Alexander Technique, and in the past 100 plus years, AT has become a valuable part of the curriculum in music conservatories and drama schools throughout the world. Many extraordinary actors have been lifelong students of the Alexander Technique for the many ways it helps their body, voice and breath in performance. 

Our work together is experiential and sensory, and it involves a way of thinking which is highly creative and improvisational. It is an art, and it takes time to evolve in us. At the beginning things are bound to be confusing. You are learning a new language—a language of body and breath—and you cannot understand it through your old ways of feeling or visualizing. Confusion is absolutely normal, but it shifts as you develop a new awareness of yourself. Our work is a process of discovery and the only requirement for you as a student is to stay open and to try not to worry about getting something “right.” This is easier said than done, but I will be reminding you of it all the time. It helps if you can keep a “beginner’s mind” so that every lesson becomes a source of wonder.

For an actor, your body is your instrument and how you use your body determines how well you move on stage, produce your voice, and perform. The Alexander Technique is a mind-body discipline that helps students improve their psycho-physical coordination while helping them become aware of physical habits that may be inhibiting their breathing and the expressiveness, energy and strength of their voice and body. In our work together, you will begin to gain an awareness of improved physical coordination and ease leading to a freer and more expressive voice and body.

Vocal production relies on psychological and physical coordination—an alignmen

• Department: Theatre Arts
• M 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Jean McClelland
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• 1 points

ENVIRONMENTL CHAL IN HLTH CARE

• Department: Executive Classes in HPM
• Instructor: Jeanne M Stellman
  h-index: 34 Info
• 1.5 points

Healthcare in the Arts

HEALTHCARE IN THE ARTS &

The goal of this course is to give future health care workers and researchers a richer understanding of how their profession relates to the rest of society, and how art and popular entertainment has constructed, shaped, and sometimes distorted our shared social and cultural understanding of the field. The class will offer a whole new and different context to explore the issues students are studying in their other classes: from policy to management, from epidemiology to global health, even
economics. Among other things, we will humanize the data and theory students learn at Mailman. This leads to more complex and rigorous thinking. At its heart a class on communication, this course will consider healthcare, art, and the media in the
broadest sense. We will examine the ways society?s sometimes-troubled, but always fascinating healthcare systems has evolved with, and perhaps due to, its depictions by artists through the years. Using academic journal articles to provide context, we will consider sources as disparate as the Egyptian Book of the Dead; fiction by Denis Johnson, Virginia Wolf, Celine, Ernest Hemingway, and others; the poetry of Emily Dickenson, Lucie Brock-Broido, Henri Cole, and William Carlos
Williams; literary essays by Montaigne, George Orwell, Meehan Crist, Malcolm Gladwell; Movies by Vittorio Di Sica, and Michael Moore; and perhaps the weirdest musical ever made: a sci-fi, healthcare horror starring Anthony Stewart Head (Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Paris Hilton, Sarah Brightman and Paul Sorvino. We will take a look at some fantastic pieces of propaganda and commercials that can be viewed as activist art; and finally students will produce their own piece of healthcare-inspired creative work.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• S 9 a.m.-3:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter A Muennig
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• 1.5 points

NONFICTION LECTURE

REAPING THE WHIRLWIND

NONFICTION LECTURE

• Department: Writing
• R 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Benjamin Taylor
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• 3 points

Writing on Eurasia

This course is designed to help MA-level students improve their researching and writing skills, and become adept at distilling acquired knowledge into straightforward prose. The aim is to assist students in being more effective communicators regardless of whether they pursue careers in academia, journalism, government service, private enterprise or the non-governmental sector. The course will also promote better understanding of how to get work published by mass media outlets. The course places particular emphasis on practical work, including the preparation of commentaries and book reviews concerning current affairs in Eurasia. Lectures examine the basic elements of editing, interviewing and concise writing. Other lectures focus on how to maintain personal and digital security while living and researching/working in Eurasia, and discuss best practices on harnessing social media for career advancement. Guest speakers will provide additional perspectives on ways to make writing on academic topics more accessible to the general reading public, and how to leverage expertise in Eurasian-area affairs in ways that can jump-start careers.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Justin Burke
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• 1.5 points

Cyber Risks & Vulnerabilities

The purpose of this course is to familiarize SIPA students with the protocols and devices used in the function of the internet while focusing on the flaws and vulnerabilities. This course will approach each session in the following manner: discussion of the topic to include what the topic is and how it is used, vulnerabilities and specifically, and example, and will follow up with a video or other demonstration of a common hacker technique or tool to illustrate the problem so the students can better understand the impact. This course is intended to complement Basics of Cybersecurity with a tighter focus on specific vulnerabilities and how these can be exploited by hackers, criminals, spies, or militaries. This course is intended to be an introduction to cybersecurity and is thus suitable for complete newcomers to the area. It is a big field, with a lot to cover; however this should get students familiar with all of the basics. The class is divided into seven topics; the first five iteratively build on each other. Session six will look to future technologies. Session seven will challenge students to understand the authorities encountered and the friction between the authorities and agencies in responding to a cyber incident. Many cyber jobs are opening up with companies that need international affairs analysts who, while not cybersecurity experts, understand the topic well enough to write policy recommendations or intelligence briefs. Even if you don’t intend your career to focus on cyber issues, having some exposure will deepen your understanding of the dynamics of many other international and public policy issues.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Cartier
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• 1.5 points

Healthcare Accounting and Budgeting

HLTH CARE ACCOUNTING&BUDG

The current market places increasing demands on healthcare managers so it is essential that individuals possess basic skills related to financial management and financial reporting. Current events make these demands more dynamic than ever. This course is intended for students who are interested in expanding their knowledge of healthcare financial issues and/or pursuing careers that involve financial management in the healthcare sector. The focus will be on non-profit healthcare delivery organizations.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• M 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• T 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Francine M Caracappa
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• Instructor: Jonathan Engel
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• 3 points

Cyberspace in Strategy and Grand Strateg

Debates over grand strategy have taken on renewed importance as the United States has shifted away from a predominant focus on counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency toward a new era of great power competition. Questions over things like military deployments, the utility of force, the purpose of alliances, the value of free trade, and the role of international institutions are informed to a large degree about how states conceive of their role in the world and how policymakers believe they can best cause security for their countries; in other words, much of it boils down to grand strategy. Despite the importance of grand strategy in contemporary discussions about international security dynamics and foreign policy, the role that cyberspace plays in these debates has largely been neglected. Yet, cyberspace has unique implications for grand strategy—it affects nearly every aspect of contemporary strategy, from the employment of military power and alliances to diplomacy and economic statecraft.

This course will explore the intersection of cyberspace in strategy and grand strategy, with a focus on the United States, although we will also examine other non-U.S. critical cases throughout the semester. We will evaluate how existing theories and concepts extend to cyberspace, as well as how cyberspace is shaping the development and conduct of strategy. The course is largely organized around the different instruments of national power and their application to cyberspace, with a focus on critical use cases. We will address questions such as, what is the nature of cyber power and how do states use cyberspace for strategic ends? How do states use cyberspace as a military tool and what are the implications for international stability? What are the prospects for cyber diplomacy and international cooperation? The goal of this course is to bridge theory and policy—to explore how esoteric concepts like deterrence apply (or don’t) to the reality of state behavior in cyberspace. Throughout the semester, we will hear from guest lecturers with both practical and academic experiences to enhance our discussions.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Erica D Borghard
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• 3 points

ISSUES/APPROC-HLTH POLICY/MGMT

• Department: Executive Classes in HPM
• Instructor: Michael S Sparer
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• 3 points

Issues and Approaches in Health Policy a

ISSUES-APPROACHES-HLTH PO

How is the health care system organized? Who pays the bill? Why have efforts to enact national health insurance failed? What role does government now play in the US health care system, and how do different levels of government share these tasks? Contrary to many perceptions, the fervent debate of these questions is not a recent phenomenon; these are issues that have been argued vigorously throughout American political history. Exploring these debates is critical both to the development of public health policy and the management of delivery systems.
This course focuses on policy and management issues that affect all health care practitioners. We will examine, among other topics, the historical foundations of the American health care system, the rise of managed care, the make-up of the healthcare workforce, the key issues on the nation’s long-term care policy agenda, and ways in which government can encourage good quality care. This introductory course is intended for MHA students and serves to fulfill a core course requirement in Health Policy and Management.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• T 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• M 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Lawrence D Brown
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• Instructor: Sorcha Brophy
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• 3 points

POETRY LECTURE

A POETS TAXONOMY OF MOVES

POETRY LECTURE

• Department: Writing
• M 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Jay A Deshpande
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

Cyber Conflict and Cybersecurity in the

Cyber Conflict&Sec-Indo Pacifc

This class will study the dynamics of cyber conflict and cybersecurity in the Indo-Pacific. Students will examine cybersecurity threats across the region; compare policies, actors, and institutions across countries; and analyze competition within the region and with other major cyber actors such as the United States, Russia, and the European Union. Topics will include: development of cyber strategies; regional approaches to cyber norms, confidence building measures, and capacity building; information operations; and crime and non-state actors. Prior knowledge of cybersecurity and/or Indo-Pacific security is not necessary, but is useful.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Adam Segal
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• 3 points

Systemic Corruption in Eurasia: Competit

Systemic Corrupt: Eurasia

In Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, and other countries of the Eurasia region, corruption is systemic.  Corruption, defined as the abuse of public trust and power for private gain, is institutionalized in government at the national, regional, and local levels.  Formal government decision-making processes have been captured by informal networks of political and business elites who exert significant control over the allocation of public resources. They utilize this control to make illegal financial gains with the support of government authorities and protection of the law. 

When President Putin began Russia’s expanded military invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the imprisoned Russian anticorruption activist and political opposition leader Alexey Navalny was on trial once again over fabricated charges of embezzlement. Though Mr. Navalny faced another 15 years in a penal colony, he seized the opportunity during his February 24 hearing to publicly state his opposition to Russia’s war on Ukraine. “This war between Russia and Ukraine was unleashed to cover up the theft from Russian citizens and divert their attention from problems that exist inside the country,” he said. 

This seminar examines the role that Russia’s systemic corruption played as a cause of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Is the war an extension, and drastic escalation, of the Putin regime’s campaign against both his own citizens and the citizens of post-Maidan Ukraine? We will consider how the Kremlin’s strategic use of corruption is threatening the sovereignty of other nations in Eurasia. 

This seminar analyzes the political economy, power relationships, historical and cultural factors that have engendered systemic corruption in Eurasian countries. We identify different types of corrupt systems that have emerged in the regions. We will also examine how systemic corruption causes conflict and war, and poses a threat to the global economy and democracy. Finally, we analyze various anti-corruption reforms to understand why some failed while others succeeded.

The seminar will benefit SIPA and Harriman Institute students who specialize in regional studies of countries of the Eurasia.  It will also benefit SIPA and other graduate students who specialize in international security, economics, finance, energy, law, development, conflict resolution, and journalism.  To achieve a deep understanding of Eurasia corruption, we will examine

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew H Murray
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• 3 points

BANKRUPTCY LAW

• Department: Law
• TWR 9:10 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Ronald Mann
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• 4 points

International Investment Law and Arbitra

INTER INVEST LAW & ARBITR

• Department: Law
• TR 10:40 a.m.-noon
• 3 points

CHEMICAL ENGIN RES METHODOLOGY

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• F 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jingguang Chen
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• 1 points

Analytics and Managerial Decision-Making

ANALYTCS/MANAGR DECISION

Analytics and Managerial Decision-Making I is the first of two required quantitative methods courses taken in sequence by all MHA students. These courses are foundational to the MHA curriculum. The two courses are fully integrated with respect to materials, exercises and cases, and by a two-term, team-based application project.
Managers are continually confronted with the need to make significant decisions concerning the organizational and financial performance of a health organization, based on a combination of strategic intention, practical experience, and interpretation and application of complex data and information. Data analysis is one tool that supports such decision-making. This course is designed to provide management students with the tools to generate and present data-driven and model-based management recommendations that are meaningful and implementable.
The course focuses on learning basic tools for the collection, analysis, and presentation of data in support of managerial/executive decision-making. Topics will include introductory data and statistical exploration from basic descriptive statistics to population and market estimation, comparison testing and decision-making, sampling design and analysis, and predicting/forecasting using linear regression. Using Excel as an additional tool, the course develops analytical skills to prepare managers to make and to present informed decisions in the overall healthcare sector.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• R 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Alan D Weinberg
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• 3 points

Human Rights in the Western Balkans

Human Rights-Western Balkans

This Human Rights practicum course focuses on the Western Balkans of the Former Yugoslavia in a contemporary context. The course focuses on war crimes and their respective consequences that have occurred during the most recent Balkan Wars 1991-1999 in the Former Yugoslav states and will include a detailed review and examination of human rights policies and practices carried out by international, regional and national bodies, laws, organizations, frameworks of transitional justice and evaluative tools employed in an effort to stabilize a post-war, post-Communist, post-conflict scenario. The course will present and examine in detail policies and practices deployed by international and national state structures to address the legacies of war crimes and the emergence of new human rights issues that are currently present in the Former Yugoslav space. The course will require students to prepare a 10-page paper on a human rights issue in the region, analyze the issues, review implementation to date and recommend policy initiatives that will address the problem (75 percent of the grade). Students are expected read weekly assignments and regularly participate and attend the class, which will constitute 25 percent of their final grade. Failure to attend class without a justifiable explanation will be penalized by a reduction of one grade letter.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Tanya L Domi
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• 1.5 points

Artificial Intelligence and Conflict Pre

AI & Conflict Prevention

In this course, we will review several case studies in which AI technologies have been (and are being) developed with the express purpose of better predicting and understanding human conflict dynamics. The course instructor will draw on his own experience developing AI tools for multilateral organizations, as well as on a wide range of literature from both academia and policy research. Ultimately, the course is designed to further students' overall understanding of the practical, policy, and ethical aspects of the introduction of AI technologies in international peacekeeping and peacebuilding efforts (in particular, the UN conflict prevention/response architecture).

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Eduardo Albrecht
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• 3 points

TERROR & CONSENT

• Department: Law
• MW 1:20 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Philip Bobbitt
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• 3 points

TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIP

TEACHING ASSISTANSHIP

• Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
• Instructor: Colleen M Maher
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• 0 points

Occupation: Science and Practice

Occupation: Science & Pra

• Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
• Instructor: Tyra M Banks
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• 3 points

INTERNATIONAL COMML ARBITRATN

• Department: Law
• TR 1:20 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
• Instructor: George A Bermann
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• 3 points

AOP Older Adults II

AOP OLDER ADULTS II

• Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
• Instructor: Danielle J Mahoney
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• 3 points

AOP Children II

AOP CHILDREN II

• Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
• Instructor: Julia Guzman
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• 4 points

INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN LAW

• Department: Law
• MTWRF 10 a.m.-noon
• MTWRF 10:30 a.m.-noon
• MTWRF 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Kendall Thomas
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• Instructor: Jeremy K Kessler
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• Instructor: Ashraf Ahmed
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• 2 points

THE ACTOR'S BODY I

• Department: Theatre Arts
• F 9 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Sita Mani
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• 1 points

LLM LEGAL RESEARCH & WRITING

• Department: Law
• 2 points

LLM LEGAL RESEARCH & WRITING

• Department: Law
• 2 points

LLM LEGAL RESEARCH & WRITING

• Department: Law
• 2 points

LLM LEGAL RESEARCH & WRITING

• Department: Law
• 2 points

LLM LEGAL RESEARCH & WRITING

• Department: Law
• 2 points

LLM LEGAL RESEARCH & WRITING

• Department: Law
• 2 points

LLM LEGAL RESEARCH & WRITING

• Department: Law
• 2 points

LLM LEGAL RESEARCH & WRITING

• Department: Law
• 2 points

LLM LEGAL RESEARCH & WRITING

• Department: Law
• 2 points

LLM LEGAL RESEARCH & WRITING

• Department: Law
• 2 points

LLM LEGAL RESEARCH & WRITING

• Department: Law
• 2 points

LLM LEGAL RESEARCH & WRITING

• Department: Law
• 2 points

THE ACTOR'S BODY III

This course deepens the actor’s working understanding of their body as “instrument” and teaches practical application of learned skill sets for professional practice and complex use.The course achieves this objective by examining current practice and providing solutions for real time obstacles and challenges actors are encountering in their daily practice in classes and rehearsals. Challenges faced are explored specifically in context of class vocabulary as well as by providing increasingly complex tasks that require use of multiple skills sets at once.The course continues the work of developing physical ease and awareness and expands each actor also to prepare body and being for work in ensemble.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• TR 9 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Sita Mani
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• 1 points

AOP Adults III

AOP ADULTS III

• Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
• Instructor: Daniel L Geller
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• 4 points

PUB-PRIV PARTSHP-REAL EST DEV

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Mehul J Patel
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• 1.5 points

Sovereign Risk

This course will examine the multifaceted nature of sovereign risk, with a focus on its recent history and contemporary issues.  The surge in sovereign debt caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has pushed the global debt burden to historical levels, surpassing the WWII debt peak.  The course will focus on the interplay of economic, institutional, fiscal, financial, market, political and geopolitical factors that influence sovereign credit quality.  It will primarily rely on country examples to analyze pivotal periods when sovereign risk spiked—namely, starting with the 1980s Latin American debt crisis, and continuing with the 1990s Nordic and Japanese financial crises, 1997 Asian financial crisis, the 2009 Greek crisis, recent cases of sovereign default and the effect of the Covid-19 shock on high and lower-middle income countries. The course will examine sovereign risk through the prism of credit rating agency methodologies (namely, Moody’s).  The course will take a look at how Environmental, Social and corporate Governance (ESG) concerns fit into sovereign credit risk assessment.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Thomas Byrne
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Research I: Statistics and Methods

RSCH I: STAT AND MTHDS

• Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
• Instructor: Razan Hamed
  h-index: 8 Info
• 2 points

Research III: Critical Appraisal

• Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
• Instructor: Razan Hamed
  h-index: 8 Info
• 1 points

Evaluation in the UN System

Eval in the UN System

How do we know if the UN system is contributing to the realization of Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? Evaluation is one assessment tool used within the UN system to track and understand progress made (if any) towards the organization’s mandate, including its role supporting the implementation of the SDG framework. This course is designed to provide students with an overview of the evaluation ecosystem in the UN, familiarize them with the complexity faced in UN system evaluations, and understand how it is being addressed. We will consider the value and role of evaluation to the organization and prepare students to think critically about how to approach evaluation processes – whether they are a commissioner, producer, or consumer of evaluation studies. A mix of theory, policy and critical practitioner reflection will be integrated in the delivery of each weekly topic.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Shravanti M Reddy
  Info
• 3 points

Clinical Conditions I: Behavioral Health

CLIN COND I: BHV HEALTH

• Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
• Instructor: Patricia Precin
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• 3 points

AMERICAN SPECTACLE

In this workshop, students will create original writing that is in conversation with American theatrical traditions beyond the proscenium. We will investigate and engage theatrical forms, such as the side show, courtroom drama, violence as spectacle and performance art. The aim is to encourage students to think more expansively and non-traditionally in their approach to writing and making theatre.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• F 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Lynn Nottage
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED FAMILY LAW

• Department: Law
• W 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Patricia E Hennessey
  Info
• 2 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

Prerequisites: permission of the departmental adviser to Graduate Studies.

• Department: Psychology
• Instructor: Niall Bolger
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 55 Info
• 1-4 points

QUESTIONS-ANTHROP THRY I:TEXTS

Presents students with critical theories of society, paying particular attention to classic continental social theory of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We will trace a trajectory through important French and German writings essential for any understanding of the modern discipline of anthropology: from Saussure through Durkheim and Mauss, Marx, Weber, and on to the structuralist elaboration of these theoretical perspectives in Claude Lévi-Strauss, always bearing in mind the relationship of these theories to contemporary anthropology. We come last to Foucault and affiliated theorists as successors both to French structuralism and to German social theory and its concerns with modernity, rationality, and power. Throughout the readings, we will give special care to questions of signification as they inform anthropological inquiry, and we will be alert to the historical contexts that situate the discipline of anthropology today.

• Department: Anthropology
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Claudio Lomnitz
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO CONTROL THEORY

A graduate-level introduction to classical and modern feedback control that does not presume an undergraduate background in control. Scalar and matrix differential equation models and solutions in terms of state transition matrices. Transfer functions and transfer function matrices, block diagram manipulations, closed loop response. Proportional, rate, and integral controllers, and compensators. Design by root locus and frequency response. Controllability and observability. Luenberger observers, pole placement, and linear-quadratic cost controllers.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• R 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicolas W Chbat
  Info
• 3 points

EXT: CITY & STATE POLICY ADV

EXT: LAW&POWER SOC CHANGE

• Department: Law
• W 4:20 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
• None None-None
• 2 points

INTERACTIVE SOUND & VIDEO

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. In this year-long sequence students gain familiarity with the materials used in electroacoustic music and the techniques and equipment that are employed to transform and organize these materials into compositions. Individual projects are assigned.

• Department: Music
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Seth Cluett
  h-index: 4 Info
• 3 points

EXT:US ATTY OFF STHRN DIST NY

• Department: Law
• T 5:30 p.m.-7:20 p.m.
• None None-None
• 2 points

LEASE ANALYSIS & FIN METRICS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Sara B Queen
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• 1.5 points

Applied Econometrics

Prerequisites: SIPA U6501 The goal of this course is to enable students to evaluate the policy relevance of academic research. While academic research frequently considers treatments that approximate a potential public policy, such prima facie relevance alone does not inform policy. In particular, public policy is predicated on the credible estimation of causal treatment effects. For example, although researchers frequently document the strong correlation between years of schooling and better health, this tells us surprisingly little (and arguably nothing) about the health effects of public tuition assistance, compulsory school laws, or any other program that raises educational attainment. Policies guided by statistical correlations - even the regression-adjusted estimates that dominate the academic literature - will frequently have unintended and even perverse real-world effects. Policymakers must distinguish between causal estimates that should inform policy design and statistical correlations that should not. The catch is that distinguishing correlation from causation in empirical studies is surprisingly difficult. Econometric technique alone does not provide a reliable path to causal inference. Applications of instrumental variables (IV) techniques, while wildly popular, arguably obscure sources of identification more often than isolating exogenous variation. Similar concerns apply to popular panel data and fixed effects (FE) models, which can eliminate certain unobservable sources of bias. Furthermore, causal claims by a study's author should be regarded with skepticism - frequently this is merely the marketing of a non-transparent statistical correlation. Put differently, when has a researcher portrayed his empirical result as a mere correlation when in fact he/she had identified a credible causal impact? A basic theme of the course is that identification strategy - the manner in which a researcher uses observational real-world data to approximate a controlled/randomized trial (Angrist & Pischke, 2009) - is the bedrock of causal inference. Econometric technique cannot rescue a fundamentally flawed identification strategy. In other words, econometrics and identifications strategies are complements in the production of causal estimates, not substitutes. Examples of appropriate econometric technique applied to compelling identification strategies will be described to illustrate this approach (most often from health economics), along with their implications for public policy.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Douglas V Almond
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• 3 points

EXTERNSHIP: IMMIGRATION DEFENSE

EXTERN: IMMIGRATION DEFEN

• Department: Law
• W 4:20 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
• None None-None
• 2 points