Conceptual Foundations of International

Conceptual Found of Intl Polit

Through a review of major academic writings, lectures, and class discussions, Conceptual Foundations of International Politics examines many of the central concepts, theories, and analytical tools used in contemporary social science to understand and explain international affairs. The theoretical literature is drawn from different fields in the social sciences, including comparative politics, international relations, political sociology, and economics; the lecturers include members of the Columbia faculty who are authorities in these fields (as well as, in many cases, experienced practitioners in their own right) alongside a number of outside guest speakers. The course is designed to enhance students' abilities to think critically and analytically about current problems and challenges in international politics. Conceptual Foundations is a semester-long course. The lecture/plenary session is held weekly, and the seminar-style sections also meet every week. Attending lectures and discussion sections is obligatory. Students are required to complete assigned readings before their discussion section.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 4 points

STRUCTURAL DARING & THE SUBLIME

STRUCT DARING & THE SUBLI

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Rory O O'Neill
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• 3 points

THEORIES OF INT'L RELATIONS

Prerequisites: the instructors permission prior to registration. Issues and problems in theory of international politics; systems theories and the current international system; the domestic sources of foreign policy and theories of decision making; transnational forces, the balance of power, and alliances.

• Department: Political Science
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jack L Snyder
  CULPA: 27 Info
• 4 points

SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY

• Department: Social Work
• W 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• W 2 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 2 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• R 11:10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Mashura Akilova
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• 3 points

International Law

Designed for non-lawyers
, this course delves into the pressing challenges of international law governing the actions of states, international organizations, multinationals, and civil society. It highlights how we can turn internal and transnational issues into
cooperative efforts for mutual benefits
in today's world. The course strengthens participants'
analytical and debate skills
, while providing
practical tools and up-to-date knowledge
of international law methodologies. This equips them with the necessary skills and understanding to contribute meaningfully to solutions for current global crises.

 

Students will
engage directly with current, critical global issues
such as the ongoing plastic waste negotiations in the INC, the UN climate change conference COP 28 in Dubai, and the new EU regulatory framework on artificial intelligence. We use
case studies
drawn from urgent, real-world scenarios – like the South China Sea crisis, countermeasures against cyber operations, Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Starshield program, the UN's Digital Platforms Code of Conduct proposal, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile, WTO disputes on intellectual property rights, the ICJ opinion on the Chagos Archipelago, and the enhanced role of the International Criminal Court – as key learning tools.
Key research areas
, such as artificial intelligence, climate induced migration, nuclear security, transnational organized crime, and prosecution of crimes against humanity with hybrid courts, will be explored.

 

In this course, we employ several strategies to foster a
cooperative learning environment
. These include study teams for collaborative out-of-class review, 'jigsaw activities' that transform students into topic experts, 'think-pair-share' activities promoting discussion, and role-playing simulations to make learning interactive and practically relevant.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• F 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Horst Fischer
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• 3 points

DENTAL IMPLANTOLOGY

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• 0 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
• T 1 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Passaro
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• 3 points

Formal Methods in Text Analysis I

Formal Methods Text Analy

This course on method in literary studies will introduce graduate students to the principles of formal (as opposed to speculative) analysis. More than an emphasis on “form” or “computation,” formal analysis requires the development of theoretical commitments, vulnerable, at the outset, to empirical verification (being wrong). Many questions in the social sciences and the humanities can benefit from formal analysis grounded in the particularities of language. The attention to low-order single-document textual building blocks (“formal features”)—word, sentence, paragraph, story—will sharpen our intuitions about higher-order phenomena, such as agency, power, authority, style, race, gender, or influence. How complex cultural dynamics can be broken down into components, and then reassembled into models yielding scholarly insight—that’s the topic of this class. Comparison between documents, over time, and across many texts will comprise Part II of the course.

Though all of the methods introduced can be done by pen and paper, the course will serve as a gentle introduction to Python programming, using industry-standard tools for text processing. No prior experience required to participate.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Dennis Tenen
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 3 Info
• 4 points

PUBLIC FINANCE I

• Department: Economics
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Wojciech Kopczuk
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia h-index: 34 Info
• 3 points

VISITING ARTIST LECT. III

• Department: Visual Arts
• Instructor: Miya Masaoka
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• 0 points

VISITING ARTIST LECT. III

Visiting artists and critics are invited over the course of the academic year to give a one-hour lecture followed by discussion, and conduct 3 40-minute studio visits. These lecturers will join the previously listed Visiting Critics and will be available as one of your allotted studio visits each semester.

• Department: Visual Arts
• T 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew E Buckingham
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• 1 points

URBAN DESIGN STUDIO II

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• 9 points

Theory of International Political Econom

Thry of Intl Political Economy

The course serves as an introduction to the politics of international economic relations. It examines the major conceptual approaches in the field of international political economy and the main elements of several key substantive issue areas such as money, finance, trade, economic development and globalisation. Students need not have an extensive background in international economics to complete the course, but those unfamiliar with basic economic principles may find several sections of the course challenging.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Markus H Jaeger
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• 3 points

TEACHING FELLOWS

• Department: Law
• 1-4 points

TEACHING FELLOWS

• Department: Law
• 1-4 points

TEACHING FELLOWS

• Department: Law
• 1-4 points

MICROBIAL OCEANOGRAPHY

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• MW 2 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Sonya Dyhrman
  Wikipedia h-index: 47 Info
• 3 points

Race, Caste and the University

B. R. Ambedkar is arguably one of Columbia University’s most illustrious alumni, and a democratic thinker and constitutional lawyer who had enormous impact in shaping India, the world’s largest democracy. As is well known, Ambedkar came to Columbia University in July 1913 to start a doctoral program in Political Science. He graduated in 1915 with a Masters degree, and got his doctorate from Columbia in 1927 after having studied with some of the great figures of interwar American thought including Edwin Seligman, James Shotwell, Harvey Robinson, and John Dewey.

This course follows the model of the Columbia University and Slavery course and draws extensively on the relevant holdings and resources of Columbia’s RBML, Rare Books and Manuscript Library Burke Library (Union Theological Seminar), and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture among others to explore a set of relatively understudied links between Ambedkar, Columbia University, and the intellectual history of the interwar period. Themes include: the development of the disciplines at Columbia University and their relationship to new paradigms of social scientific study; the role of historical comparison between caste and race in producing new models of scholarship and political solidarity; links between figures such as Ambedkar, Lala Lajpat Rai, W. E. B. Du Bois and others who were shaped by the distinctive public and political culture of New York City, and more.    

This is a hybrid course which aims to create a finding aid for B. R. Ambedkar that traverses RBML private papers. Students will engage in a number of activities towards that purpose. They will attend multiple instructional sessions at the RBML to train students in using archives; they will make public presentations on their topics, which will be archived in video form; and students will produce digital essays on a variety of themes and topics related to the course. Students will work collaboratively in small groups and undertake focused archival research.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Anupama Rao
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 4 points

Methods for Sustainable Development Prac

Methods for Development Pract

This course is the first part of a two-course sequence for advanced students concentrating in Economic and Political Development. The second part is the Workshop in Sustainable Development Practice (SIPA U9001). These courses are integrated into a year-long encounter with the actual practice of sustainable development, guided by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals. The course seeks to help students develop a conceptual and critical understanding of some of the key tools and approaches employed by organizations in sustainable development practice, and to skill students in using these approaches and tools in a discerning, ethical and effective manner that recognizes their shortcomings and limitations. The course takes a hands-on approach and promotes learning by doing. Questions of Whose development? Whose priorities and agenda? Whose proposed solutions and strategies? are ever present in choosing development approaches and outcomes. Development work, to the extent it involves development organizations and workers entering as external agents of change into a national arena or local community, is an intensely political exercise. What has changed in the course of sustainable development practice is that development workers increasingly perceive themselves less as direct agents of change - delivering top-down transfers of knowledge and resources from those who know best or have more, to those in need or who need to be influenced - and more as facilitators of change. According to this approach, the development worker seeks to act as a medium and partner in identifying local needs and priorities, and helping to translate these into equitable and sustainable development outcomes through knowledge-sharing, empowerment, capacity building and/or additional resources. However, this transition has been uneven, and externally-driven, top-down approaches persist. Development workers also need to be continually aware of the values, assumptions and biases that they bring to their interactions with local actors and that are implicit in the approaches and tools that they use. With needs, priorities and agendas contested across many levels and sets of interests, the job of a development worker is a complex and responsible one. To that end, this course also challenges students to reflect on their goals and desired approaches in their future roles as development agents. Registration in this course requires an application. Priority will be given to second-year EPD students. Apply at:

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• F 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• F 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Eugenia McGill
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• 3 points

Methods for Sustainable Development Prac

Methods for Development Pract

This course is the first part of a two-course sequence for advanced students concentrating in Economic and Political Development. The second part is the Workshop in Sustainable Development Practice (SIPA U9001). These courses are integrated into a year-long encounter with the actual practice of sustainable development, guided by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals. The course seeks to help students develop a conceptual and critical understanding of some of the key tools and approaches employed by organizations in sustainable development practice, and to skill students in using these approaches and tools in a discerning, ethical and effective manner that recognizes their shortcomings and limitations. The course takes a hands-on approach and promotes learning by doing. Questions of Whose development? Whose priorities and agenda? Whose proposed solutions and strategies? are ever present in choosing development approaches and outcomes. Development work, to the extent it involves development organizations and workers entering as external agents of change into a national arena or local community, is an intensely political exercise. What has changed in the course of sustainable development practice is that development workers increasingly perceive themselves less as direct agents of change - delivering top-down transfers of knowledge and resources from those who know best or have more, to those in need or who need to be influenced - and more as facilitators of change. According to this approach, the development worker seeks to act as a medium and partner in identifying local needs and priorities, and helping to translate these into equitable and sustainable development outcomes through knowledge-sharing, empowerment, capacity building and/or additional resources. However, this transition has been uneven, and externally-driven, top-down approaches persist. Development workers also need to be continually aware of the values, assumptions and biases that they bring to their interactions with local actors and that are implicit in the approaches and tools that they use. With needs, priorities and agendas contested across many levels and sets of interests, the job of a development worker is a complex and responsible one. To that end, this course also challenges students to reflect on their goals and desired approaches in their future roles as development agents. Registration in this course requires an application. Priority will be given to second-year EPD students. Apply at:

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• F 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• 0 points

DIFFERENCE AND DESIGN

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Justin G Moore
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• 3 points

DENTAL MATERIALS II

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• 0 points

TOWARD RESILIENT CITIES + LANDSCAPES

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Kate Orff
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• 3 points

CRIT ISSUES IN ART III

• Department: Visual Arts
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: James Hoff
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• 3 points

Diagnosis and Management of the Critical

DIAG/MGT OF ACUTE CRIT IL

This course is designed for students to become familiar with the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of common critical illnesses of the cardiac, pulmonary, acid/base/electrolyte, and renal systems, and will also include an introduction to trauma and orthopedics.

• Department: Nursing
• M 8 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Leon Chen
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• 3 points

RE INVESTMENT FUNDAMENTALS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 4 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Schoetz
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• 1.5 points

GRADUATE STUDIO III

• Department: Visual Arts
• R 12:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Miya Masaoka
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• 3 points

GRADUATE STUDIO III

• Department: Visual Arts
• M 4 p.m.-10 p.m.
• 3 points

BODIES AND PUBLIC SPACE

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Bryony W Roberts
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• 3 points

The Chinese Economy

When asking a Chinese citizen about a particularly puzzling aspect of China’s economy, the response will sometimes be
“
这是中国特色的“ or this is the Chinese way of doing things. In this course, we will think deeply about what exactly that means in terms of how China’s macro-economy and financial system operates and what are the policy implications for those differences. This course has three distinguishing characteristics: i. It uses modern tools from macroeconomics and finance to analyze the Chinese economy; ii. It compares and contrasts the Chinese economy with the United States as a way of highlighting what makes the Chinese economy (and incidentally the US economy) special; and iii. It treats a country like a company using methods from finance, accounting and management to shed new light on macroeconomic questions. While the focus of the course is, of course China, what students will also learn is how to think more broadly about all emerging economies. Many scholars have written about the significant steps in China’s development process since 1978. Wu Jinglian (2005) or Barry Naughton (2007 – see below), for example, provides excellent step-by-step descriptions of China’s remarkable path of economic progress from both before and after that critical year. This course takes a different approach from that very worthwhile historical/institutional approach in that it asks which tools from the modern economics and finance toolbox can and cannot be used to understand the Chinese economy and financial system. There will be both quantitative and qualitative aspects involved in our pursuit of that understanding. Every lecture will have a theory component, policy discussion component and data analytic component. By the completion of this course, students will know how to work with data related to the Chinese economy and how to go about thinking analytically about China’s economy and financial system. This will allow the student to intelligently answer challenging questions related to China’s current and future economic/financial circumstance.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Ronald M Schramm
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• 3 points

PROPTECH: NOTHING VENTURED, NOTHING GAIN

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Zachary D Aarons
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• 1.5 points

Threat Financing & Anti-Money Laundering

Threat Finc & Antimoney Launde

This class provides a comprehensive look at the efforts to prevent and detect money laundering and terrorist financing in a post 9/11 world. Developments in the United States, as well as internationally, are discussed. The evolution of the area is examined, including a review of the relevant statutes and regulations such as the Patriot Act, the Bank Secrecy Act and the Material Support statute. Analysis is done of the Suspicious Activity Reporting that is required to be done by all financial institutions, including banks, securities firms and money services businesses. Cases and actions brought relating to money laundering issues are discussed, including detailed review of the requirements for an Anti-Money Laundering compliance program. There is also analysis of threat financing, from the viewpoint of the requirements placed upon financial institutions, charities and companies, along with a review of cases involving terror financing. In addition, the course addresses the role of lawmakers, lawyers, companies, financial institutions and law enforcement in the process of trying to stop money laundering and terrorist financing.

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

THESIS DEVELOPMENT

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. This course will help guide E3B Ph.D. students towards candidacy by teaching them the skills necessary to be effective and independent scientists. Students will conduct an extensive literature review, write a preliminary dissertation proposal, and present their research ideas to the group on multiple occasions. Students will learn how to give and receive constructive written and oral feedback on their work.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• M 2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria Uriarte
  Wikipedia h-index: 56 Info
• 6 points

PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION IN HEALTHCARE

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• 0 points

Grad Sem III in Sound Art & Related Medi

Grad Seminar III in Sound

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
• T 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Miya Masaoka
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• 3 points

GROUP CRITIQUE III

• Department: Visual Arts
• W 5:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• 3 points

Chinese Foreign Policy

This seminar examines the extent to which Chinese societal actors, from foreign policy experts at universities and think tanks over business representatives to the general public, can still debate and influence China’s foreign policy despite the tightening of authoritarian rule under Xi Jinping. At the end of the course, students will have developed an in-depth understanding of how foreign policy is discussed in China and how China’s foreign policy has changed over the past decade. In addition, they will have acquired a solid overview of China’s political system and the mechanisms of authoritarian rule in China and beyond. Since this course centers around original research, students will learn how to read and evaluate research articles and books.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sabine Mokry
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• 3 points

Economics of US Social Policy

Economic analysis and research often provide important insights into appropriate policy.  However, how is this research used by policymakers?  How do (should) policymakers incorporate these findings when developing policy? This half-semester course will explore a variety of policy topics, focusing on current issues affecting workers and families in the United States.  All of these policies are actively being debated, many of them as potential responses to the COVID pandemic and associated economic crisis.  We will discuss the underlying economic theory and the existing empirical evidence, as well as how policymakers might incorporate this evidence in their decision-making.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sandra Black
  Wikipedia h-index: 43 Info
• 1.5 points

BRONZES/BRONZE INSCR-ANC CHINA

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Feng Li
  CULPA: 12 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

ENVIRONMENTS OF GOVERNANCE

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Felicity Scott
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• 3 points

Global Monetary Policy in the 21st Centu

This SIPA seminar will study, analyze, and assess global monetary policy since 2000 with a primary focus on the challenges faced, policies pursued, and repercussions flowing from the actions taken by Federal Reserve, the ECB, and the Bank of England during the first two decades of the 21st century. These twenty plus years have been marked by the two deepest global downturns since the Great Depression, a Eurozone sovereign debt crisis, a global pandemic, and recently, the largest sustained surge in inflation since the 1970s. Confronting these challenges subject to the constraint of an effective lower bound on interest rates , major central banks introduced a number of unconventional – and controversial – policy tools and expanded substantially their presence in financial markets and in their economies.

The format of the course will combine lectures by the instructor with student presentation on recent central bank policy decisions and will conclude in the final weeks within class seminar presentations by teams of students of term papers that critically assesses the pandemic policy reponse and the post pandemic policy normalization plans pursued by a major central bank.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Richard H Clarida
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

ARTIST MENTORSHIP / VISITING ARTIST LECT

ARTIST MENTORSHIP III

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
• Instructor: Matthew E Buckingham
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• 2 points

FORMAL VERIF HW SW SYSTEMS

Introduction to the theory and practice of formal methods for the design and analysis of correct (i.e. bug-free) concurrent and embedded hardware/software systems. Topics include temporal logics; model checking; deadlock and liveness issues; fairness; satisfiability (SAT) checkers; binary decision diagrams (BDDs); abstraction techniques; introduction to commercial formal verification tools. Industrial state-of-art, case studies and experiences: software analysis (C/C++/Java), hardware verification (RTL).

• Department: Computer Science
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 3 points

INDEPENDENT MOOT CT COACHING

• Department: Law
• 1 points

Japanese Foreign Policy

This graduate seminar course provides an overview of modern and contemporary Japanese foreign policy and the strategy behind its engagement with the world. It examines the following questions: What are the key determinants of Japanese foreign policy, and how have they evolved over time? How should Japan approach, navigate, and shape the increasingly uncertain strategic environment in the Indo-Pacific in the years ahead, including China’s growing power, the shifting role of the U.S.-Japan alliance, and the intensifying great power rivalry? In the first few weeks of the course, we will cover the making of modern Japan and the enduring themes that have long animated Japan’s strategic thinking. In the following weeks, we will survey Japan’s foreign policies toward key countries and regions while discussing topics relevant to the respective relationships, such as security, trade, identity, historical memory, and values and norms. Each week, we will identify Japan’s ends, ways, and means in its approach to a particular region or issue and end our class by discussing current policy questions Japan faces.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Ayumi Teraoka
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• 3 points

Foundations of International Security Po

Found. of Intl Security Policy

Graduate introduction to international security policy, with a focus on pre-professional preparation for students expecting to work in security policy after graduation. Covers the role, function, dynamics, and prevention of violence in the international system, via analysis of forceful diplomacy, escalation, crisis, war causation, war termination, the ethics of war and peace, threat assessment and intelligence, strategy, terrorism, insurgency, alliances, weapons of mass destruction, and cyber conflict. Introduces principles for sound defense organization and decision-making processes, civil-military relations, defense planning, and defense budgeting. Considers critical theory and its challenge to orthodox security studies and policy practice.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 3 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
• W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: John Wright
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 44 Info
• 3 points

1ST YEAR PROSEMINAR IN PHIL

Required of all first-year Ph.D. candidates. Each faculty member addresses the proseminar in order to acquaint students with the interests and areas of expertise on the faculty. Through discussion and the dissemination of readings the student learns about possible areas of doctoral research.

• Department: Philosophy
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Justin Clarke-Doane
  h-index: 10 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN SIGNAL PROCESSING

TPC:REINFORCEMENT LEARNING

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

TOPIC: REINFORCEMENT LEARNING

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: Video Network
• 3 points

REDEVELOPMENT IMPLEMENTATION

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

BUILDING THE ENGINE: INDUSTRY + THE AFRI

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Fatou K Dieye
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• 3 points

CLIMATE CRISIS & HOUSING CRISIS

CLIMATE CRISIS, HOUSING C

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Deborah Morris
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• 3 points

Impact Measurement & Evaluation for Sust

Measuring & Evaluating Impact

In a world driving towards the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, the measurement and evaluation (M&E) toolkit is critical for holding governments, philanthropies, impact investors and others accountable for creating benefit, preventing harm and contributing to effective solutions. During this course, we will explore both the demand and supply side of generating data and evidence for decision-making in the 21st century. We will also learn practical M&E skills that can be applied across all professions and thematic sectors and that are tailored to meet the needs of diverse stakeholders. Finally, we will ground-truth concepts and theories through discussions with experts and practitioners as well as place-based use cases (primarily from Asia and Africa) of the challenges and opportunities in measuring and evaluating impact. Students can expect to develop the critical skills needed to ensure they are able to navigate, negotiate and facilitate their way to a quality measurement and evaluation plan.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Veronica M Olazabal
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• 3 points

DESIGN BY DEVELOPMENT: UNDERWRITING AND

DESIGN BY DEV: UNDERWRITI

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 4 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Alex Barrett
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• 1.5 points

TOPICS-INFORMATION PROCESSING

TPC:BIG DATA ANALYTICS

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: Big Data Analytics.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• F 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Ching-Yung Lin
  h-index: None Info
• 3 points

TOPICS-INFORMATION PROCESSING

TPC: BIG DATA ANALYTICS

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: Big Data Analytics.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Ching-Yung Lin
  h-index: None Info
• 3 points

TOPICS-INFORMATION PROCESSING

CODING FOR DISTRIBUT STOR

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: Quantum Computing and Communication.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexei Ashikhmin
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• 3 points

SECURITIZED COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE DEBT

SECURITIZED COMM RE DEBT

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Shivani A Agarwal
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• 1.5 points

RESEARCH

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Danielle S Smoller
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• 2-3 points

E&I DISCUSSIONS

• Department: Journalism
• M 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 0 points

E&I DISCUSSIONS

• Department: Journalism
• M 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 0 points

TPCS-ELEC & COMPUT ENGINEERING

Energy Stor for Elec Grid

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
• R 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Mohamed Kamaludeen
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• 3 points

THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• Department: Economics
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: David Weinstein
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 42 Info
• 3 points

Emerging Digital Tech for Impact

Emerging Tech Impact

This course will explore the concepts and application of emerging technologies for impact. During the course, the students will gain an understanding of the enabling environment required to scale and implement emerging tech for impact though: 1) An understanding of the history of digital tech for impact; 2) In depth into emerging digital technologies; 3) Identifying the enabling infrastructure and ecosystem needed to enable emerging digital technologies to achieve social impact; 4) Analyzing the current challenges for scaling and implementing successfully emerging digital tech for impact; 5) Doing deep dives into two types of emerging technologies, their challenges, their successes and their future potential -- Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain Technologies; 6) Additionally, we will focus on the different and complex variables that should be considered to achieve social and environmental impact.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Mariela J Machado
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• 1.5 points

THE ARAB CITY IN FILM

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Yasser Elsheshtawy
  h-index: 18 Info
• 3 points

CLINICAL ORAL PATHOLOGY

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• 0 points

TOPICS IN TRADE

Prerequisites: ECON G6211 and ECON G6212 or the instructors permission. This course covers topics at the frontier of international trade research, placing an emphasis on theory. Previous topics include: trade patterns, offshoring, inequality, unemployment, trade and matching, firm organization, and trade policy.

• Department: Economics
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Jonathan I Dingel
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• 3 points

Fundamentals of Podcast Interviews

Fund. of Podcast Interviews

The course is designed to give students real-world experience in podcast interviews and development. Students will leave with an understanding the workflow of podcast production as well as how to interview, edit, and produce their own interviews with audacity. In the first weeks of class, students will learn how to structure a podcast interview and how to use Audacity as well as additional basics of audio production. Students will also learn how to edit transcripts and are strongly encouraged to interview subjects who correlate to work they are doing for other classes/areas of interest. In the last weeks of the class, students will focus on the presentation and hosting aspects of their interviews. Students will learn to package and pitch their interview, taking their product from idea to final pitch. Each week, students will listen to and reflect on popular podcast interviews to get a range of inspiration, interview style, subject matter, and editorial design.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Katie L Shepherd
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• 1.5 points

ADVANCED FINANCIAL MODELING - INTERVIEW

ADV FIN MODELING

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 4 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Johnny C Din
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• 1.5 points

QUANT METHODS OF DATA ANALYSIS

Prerequisites: calculus. Recommended preparation: linear algebra, statistics, computer programming. Introduction to the fundamentals of quantitative data analysis in Earth and environmental sciences. Topics: review of relevant probability, statistics and linear algebra; linear models and generalized least squares; Fourier analysis and introduction to spectral analysis; filtering time series (convolution,deconvolution,smoothing); factor analysis and empirical orthogonal functions; covariance and correlation; methods of interpolation; statistical significance and hypothesis testing; introduction to Monte Carlo methods for data analysis. Problem sets and term project require use of MATLAB or Python.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Alberto M Malinverno
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

INTRO TO WRITING STUDIES

Anyone who pursues a career as a college faculty member will teach writing—either formally, in a writing class, or informally, as we work with students who are new to our disciplines. However, many graduate students in the humanities have received no substantive training in the burgeoning field of writing studies. In English, career opportunities in writing studies have outpaced other field areas. The MLA’s 2016-2017 jobs list reported that 851 positions were advertised in English, 10% fewer than the previous year. Of those jobs, 217 were in writing studies, 187 were in British literature, and 172 were in American literature. Given that writing studies positions are also advertised elsewhere, the gap is likely larger. This seminar will explore key debates in writing studies research and teaching methodologies, program development, and disciplinary and institutional status. Writing studies is the newest name for “rhetoric and composition,” a field which declared its existence in the mid-1960s, and draws its praxes and theories from classical rhetoric, applied linguistics, cognitive and developmental psychology, literary criticism, civic education, creative writing, and progressive pedagogy. Scholarship in writing studies since the 1960s has sought to deepen our understanding of how transactions work among writers, readers, and texts. Writing studies prompts us to track how standards for “good” or “appropriate” academic writing change over time, and how the teaching of writing responds to social, political, institutional, and disciplinary forces. The readings in this course will help us to articulate our own philosophies of writing and shape approaches to pedagogy in our own fields. Topis will include the following: how writers develop; intellectual practices that foster community among learners; the ethics and politics of textual transactions, including assessment; students’ rights to their own language; literacy acquisition across media; working in transnational and translingual spaces; genre and rhetorical theory; fostering knowledge and skills transfer; the impact of intersectionality on pedagogy and program design; and labor justice. We will read works by foundational writing studies scholars including John Dewey, Wayne Booth, bell hooks, Victor Villaneuva, Jr. A. Suresh Canagarajah, and the current president of the Modern Language Association, Anne Ruggles Gere. Participants will have the opportunity to ask how writing studies can deepen the understanding of writing in our fields, regardless

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Nicole Wallack
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points