Climate Finance, Policy, and Just Transi
Clim Fin, Policy, & Just
The field of responsible investment has grown rapidly over the last twenty years, with the climate crisis serving as the paradigmatic ESG issue for investors. In the private sector, investors pledge to decarbonize their portfolios, ask for carbon reporting to manage that task, join together to engage corporations on their transition plans. As activity has grown, questions about the effectiveness and limitations of climate finance approaches to the climate crisis have grown along with them. A narrow focus on decarbonization has begun to give way to broader considerations of the transition and the risks and opportunities it poses for affected workers and communities, on the belief that social cohesion is a precondition for successful transition. Private sector initiatives have been complemented with public policy and public investment efforts to shape environmental, social, and economic outcomes. Climate finance is in a moment of reflection, change, and doubt.
This course will survey and analyze the ways that public and private investment are being or could be directed in support of a Just Transition (i.e., a low-carbon transition that does not worsen social inequalities), and various ways to think about how effective climate finance can be. We will look at investors’ approaches to the decarbonization of the economy in political and social context, asking: how do or should investors integrate concerns for workers, communities, and environment into climate finance? what kinds of public policies are needed to ensure that investment points towards a Just Transition? The result, we hope, will lead both to a better understanding of the roles public and private investment in a Just Transition, climate policy, and an expanded critical capacity to analyze how well it’s working.
- Department: Climate, Energy, & Environment
- W 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
David C Wood
Info - 3 points
ESG and Corporate Political Strategy
ESG and Corporate Political Strategy examines how organizations align environmental, social, and governance (ESG) priorities with corporate political strategies to shape policy, manage risk, and advance system-level change. As public expectations of corporate responsibility grow, firms must navigate both market and non-market arenas to sustain value, engage with stakeholders, and influence the rules by which they operate.
This course equips students with practical tools and analytical frameworks to understand and implement integrated strategies that align ESG goals with legislative, regulatory, and political engagement. Case studies and applied exercises explore how companies influence policy, respond to regulatory shifts, and act as stewards of systemic transformation. Topics include corporate lobbying, public positioning on social issues, regulatory influence, and the strategic use of litigation and partnerships.
Ideal for students pursuing careers in business, policy, nonprofit, or advocacy sectors, this course complements
Social Impact: Business, Society, and the Natural Environment
and is open to graduate students across SIPA, Columbia Business School, the Climate School, and other Columbia schools.
- Department: Climate, Energy, & Environment
- T 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dylan Minor
Info - 1.5 points
Quantitative Valuation of the Environmen
Quant Valuation of Enviro
The Quantitative Valuation of the Environment course will explore theory and methods of economically valuing environmental benefits and disbenefits, and how they can be applied in decision-making processes to improve stated outcomes. Specifically, it examines model specification for stated preference valuation, generating awareness of the theoretical and empirical questions being investigated in the area, generating awareness of environmental and resource issues currently being debated, and practical issues such as how these welfare economics measures can be used in efficiency measures such as benefit cost analysis.
- Department: Climate, Energy, & Environment
- M 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lorie Srivastava
Info - 3 points
Campaigning for Change - Media, Mobiliza
Strategic Campaigning & R
This course introduces the history, strategy, and practice of human rights campaigning, with a focus on media-driven advocacy. Students will examine the foundations of campaigning journalism, explore modern digital mobilization tactics, and learn to develop and execute impactful advocacy campaigns. The course emphasizes the intersection of strategic communications, digital tools, and policy advocacy, and provides hands-on experience in campaign design, messaging, and evaluation.
Students will develop an original advocacy campaign on a contemporary human rights issue using the 2026 FIFA World Cup as a global platform. Course assignments include writing advocacy letters and op-eds, designing media strategies, and producing a final campaign pitch deck. Case studies will include successful campaigns addressing labor rights, gender equity, and corporate responsibility in sport.
The course is suitable for students interested in human rights, journalism, digital strategy, and public advocacy. Sessions include skill-building workshops, guest speakers, and applied project work in collaboration with Human Rights Watch and other advocacy professionals.
- Department: Human Rights, Gender, and Equity
- R 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
- 3 points
Social Impact: Business, Society, and th
Social Impact:Bus,Soc,Nat
The Social Impact: Business, Society, and the Natural Environment course explores the relationship between corporations, society, and the natural environment. Specifically, it examines the ways in which governments, (for-profit and non-profit) organizations, and investors (fail to) have positive impact and manage issues where the pursuit of private goals is deemed inconsistent with the public interest.
- Department: Climate, Energy, & Environment
- T 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Instructor:
Caroline Flammer
Info - 3 points
Sustainability Reporting
The Sustainability Reporting course explores the ever-evolving global Sustainability and ESG reporting environment and the standards and frameworks that are being used by companies to report on their sustainability related performance. Environmental, Social, and Governance Reporting (“ESG”) also referred to in parts as Corporate Responsibility /Accountability Reporting. The course explores the market drivers that generate the demand for sustainability reporting by companies, key areas of focus for investors and other capital providers, regulatory activities and the intersection of sustainability reporting with traditional corporate financial reporting.
- Department: Climate, Energy, & Environment
- W 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Avner Bukspan
Info - 3 points
Geoeconomic Fragmentation
A seminar on the growing fragmentation of the global economy. The course explores how the rise of geoeconomics—marked by the proliferation of sanctions, tariffs, export controls, and industrial policies—is reshaping the global financial system, energy markets, supply chains, and technology industry. Topics include dedollarization and digital currencies, the bifurcation of the global oil market, China’s dominance of critical minerals and clean-energy supply chains, and the race for leadership in artificial intelligence. The course also examines alternative futures for the world economic order as the era of globalization gives way to something new.
- Department: International Finance & Economic Policy
- M 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Edward B Fishman
Info - 1.5 points
SIRI Practicum
Instructor permission required. Students must 1) submit an application via
https://forms.gle/TRbJrFMZKE8NbpJu7
and 2) join the waitlist in Vergil to be considered for enrollment. Without both of these steps complete, student applications cannot be considered. Please do not email any materials to the Professor or the TA.
The Sustainable Investing Research Consulting Project provides an action-oriented, client-based learning experience for students interested in sustainable investing, covering both sustainable investing in the financial sector (impact investing, climate finance, and sustainable finance) and the real economy (for-profit companies and some nonprofit organizations). The course is open to SIPA and non-SIPA students. Students will learn about the opportunities, challenges, and limitations faced by companies, institutions and investors to finance a more sustainable world. Moreover, they will learn how organizations of all types develop innovative products and services to mitigate climate change, biodiversity loss, and all forms of poverty.
Throughout the semester, students will work on a challenging sustainable investing research consulting project for a client. Clients include start-ups and established firms, nonprofit and for-profit organizations, primarily from the corporate, finance, and investing world. They will (e-)meet with the client on a regular basis, discuss their progress, obtain feedback, and present their research and recommendations to the client. Furthermore, students will conduct research and interviews to learn about the broader business environment and institutional context (including cultural, political, economic, and social factors) to better understand the opportunities and challenges the clients face. For more information on client projects and the student experiences, please see the SIRI website:
https://siri.sipa.columbia.edu/news
This course is ideal for students interested in pursuing careers in impact and sustainable finance, impact investing,impact and ESG accounting and assurance, corporate sustainability, social entrepreneurship, and sustainable development policy and practice.
Registration in this course is instructor-managed. Student
- Department: Climate, Energy, & Environment
- R 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
- 3 points
Negotiation & Conflict Resolution
This highly participatory course equips students with the tools and frameworks to negotiate effectively, resolve conflict, and build consensus in public and international affairs contexts. Through simulations, students learn to navigate a range of scenarios, including environmental disputes, diplomatic negotiations, and organizational conflicts, using both distributive and interest-based strategies. Core topics include preparation and strategy, cross-cultural communication, power dynamics, consensus building, and coalition management. Students will also explore measures of negotiation success and practice applying concepts to real-world challenges. The course emphasizes experiential learning, reflective writing, and practical skill-building to prepare students for high-stakes negotiations in diverse professional settings.
- Department: Development and Governance
- W 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
Seth Freeman
Info - 3 points
HOMELESSNESS POLICY
- Department: Social Work
- T 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Frederick Shack
Info - 3 points
Leadership in Times of Disruption
Leadership during Disrupt
This intensive, seven-week course prepares students to lead and manage effectively through periods of significant change. Combining research-backed frameworks with reflective practice, students explore the intersection of vision, strategy, culture, and people management. The course draws on examples from the social impact sector and high-growth startups to examine how leaders drive transformation, build resilient organizations, and inspire performance. Students will apply concepts through the design of a hypothetical organization, culminating in the development of a strategic plan, organizational structure, and leadership toolkit. Ideal for students preparing to lead teams or initiatives across sectors.
MACROECON & POLICY ANALYSIS II
- Department: Social Work
- T 11:10 a.m.-1 p.m.
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ruben Rahman
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Instructor:
Ryan M Zamarripa
Info - 3 points
MACROECON & POLICY ANALYSIS II-LAB
- Department: Social Work
- T 4:10 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
- W 6:10 p.m.-7:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ruben Rahman
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Instructor:
Ryan M Zamarripa
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User Experience (UX) in Digital Developm
UX in Digital Development
Drawing on the co-instructors' experience at MERL Tech Initiative and Dalberg Design, this course challenges the notion that technology alone can solve complex development problems and that a human-centered ecosystem approach is critical. While innovations like mobile money and AI are often hailed as silver bullets, history shows that their impact depends on context, users, and systems. Drawing on lessons from decades of “tech for good” — from community radio to drones — we encourage students to question technological determinism and instead focus on the lived realities and needs of users.
To do so, the course adopts a human-centered design (HCD) and systems-thinking approach. We start the course with UX principles and how they are applied in digital development, and follow this with weekly case studies in class, e.g., designing a digital ID for refugee camps, AI chatbots for low-income women entrepreneurs, participatory digital campaigns, capacity building in communities, community health worker tablets/iPads and so on.
Students will learn how to design relevant solutions by understanding users — such as refugees, entrepreneurs, or health workers — within their social, cultural, and institutional contexts. Emphasizing empathy, participation, and sustainability, the course moves from abstract theory to practical, user-driven design methods, supported by tools and case studies from Savita’s experience in digital development with clients including Mastercard Foundation, Gates Foundation and many others, and Claudia’s experience at Dalberg Design. Assessment is through a combination of participation in class, case study design and a group project.
- Department: Development and Governance
- R 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
- 3 points
Economic Measurement of Discrimination
Econ Measures-Discriminat
Discrimination is the differential treatment of people based on identity or perceived identity (race, gender, ethnicity, LGBTQ+ status, age, religion, disability, immigration status, etc.). Such behavior violates some legal, social, and moral norms and has a negative impact on those discriminated against.
For these and other reasons, it is important to be able to formally identify discrimination from data. But how do we know that A’s treatment of B is because of B’s identity as opposed to some other characteristic of B or A that we may not even have a variable for?
In this class, we will explore economists’ methodologies for answering this question. We will survey the economic literature on discrimination against a variety of types of people in a variety of markets and across countries. Students are encouraged to explore discrimination in contexts not covered in the reading in their final projects.
- Department: International Finance & Economic Policy
- W 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Ebonya L Washington
Info - 3 points
Islam, Judaism, and the Israeli-Palestin
This course seeks to help students learn
how
to think, not
what
to think – we pursue fuller thinking by drawing on the broadest range of evidence from right and left, Arab, Israeli and Palestinian, Jewish and Muslim, and others. No questions are banned: all perspectives are open to challenge. What tools are required to engage, understand and be involved with improving the Israeli-Palestinian issue by acquiring greater intelligence, nuance, and awareness of the claims and sensitivities of both sides? Too often, American and European policymakers bring our own biases and blind-spots to the negotiating table, and do not understand the beliefs of local nations. Which leads to the question: How do policy practitioners help participants in the conflict move forward, while taking seriously the claims and cultures of the people involved? This course respects and meets the people involved in the conflict in their words, narratives, and deeds. The longest war in the Middle East is not only about that region: American university campuses, political parties, and different communities are being torn apart by slogans of “Zionism is racism”, “white colonial settlements”, “apartheid”, “globalize the Intifada”, and “Islam is terrorism”. Why does this conflict matter so much? How do we approach it with intellectual honesty, empathy, openness, facts and mutual respect?
- Department: International Security & Diplomacy
- T 8 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Ed Husain
Info - 3 points
Middle East Conflicts and Global Securit
ME Conflicts & Global Sec
This course analyzes the impact of domestic and regional conflicts in the Middle East on global security. Key concepts include: regime change, revolution, civil war, conflict management, security sector reform, arms transfers, nuclear proliferation, counterterrorism, and international criminal justice. These conceptual tools are used for comparative analysis of three sub-regional conflict zones: Saudi Arabia / Iran / Iraq, Egypt / Syria / Lebanon, and Palestine / Jordan / Israel. Each of these regions has galvanized substantial global engagement.
- Department: International Security & Diplomacy
- T 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
Naomi Weinberger
CULPA: 11 Info - 3 points
Gender, Politics, and Development
Gender, Politics, & Devel
Gender equality, and women’s and girls’ empowerment, are now widely accepted as development goals in their own right, and essential to inclusive and sustainable development. But despite progress in many areas, gender gaps and discrimination persist. How did gender equality move from the periphery to the center of development discourse, and what difference has this made? Is gender equality a human right, an essential aspect of human development, or “smart economics”? What are the implications of a gender equality agenda for men and boys, and for broader understandings of gender identities and sexualities? What policies, strategies and practices have been effective – or ineffective – in narrowing gender gaps and improving outcomes for both women and men in particular development settings? And what are possible responses to the "gender backlash" that has emerged in some countries and institutions?
In this course, we approach gender, politics and development in terms of theory, policy and practice. We explore multiple constructions of gender in development discourse; the intersection of gender with race, ethnicity, caste, class, sexual orientation, disability and other social categories, and with dominant economic and political trends; and the ways in which gender norms inform the different approaches of governments, development agencies, civil society organizations, and the private sector. We apply a critical gender lens to a wide range of development sectors and issue areas, including economic development, political participation, education and health, environment and climate change, and conflict and displacement. We also consider current debates and approaches related to gender mainstreaming and gender metrics in development practice. Students engage with the course material through class discussion, exercises and case studies, and the development of a gender-related project proposal. Guest speakers share practical strategies for advancing gender equality in the current environment.
- Department: Development and Governance
- T 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
- 3 points
Global Constitutionalism
Instructor permission required. Join the waitlist in Vergil to request registration.
The class compares a variety of proposals that have been advanced to promote constitutional world order. We begin with traditional conceptions of the balance of power among independent “Westphalian” states and then explore arrangements designed to produce alternative forms of constituted international and world order. These include liberal and authoritarian internationalism, collective security through the League Covenant and the United Nations Charter, John Rawls’s
Law of Peoples
and various other contemporary models of international law, global governance networks and global democratization.
In addition to assessing the particular merits and limitations of these visions of world order, we will examine the underlying principles of international politics, ethics and constitutional design that characterize these efforts to establish rules for the globe.
- Department: Development and Governance
- W 1:20 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michael Doyle
Info - 3 points
China's Foreign Relations
This course examines the foreign policy of the People’s Republic of China from 1949 to the present, analyzing the political, strategic, and economic drivers of Beijing’s engagement with the world. Topics include China’s relations with the United States, Russia, Asia, and the Global South; key historical turning points such as the Cold War, reform era, and post-Tiananmen period; and contemporary challenges including cross-Strait relations, great power competition, and global governance. Emphasis is placed on the causes and consequences of China’s external behavior and how domestic politics, nationalism, and leadership shape policy. Graduate students participate in additional precepts and complete analytic memos designed to build policy-relevant skills.
- Department: International Security & Diplomacy
- F 9 a.m.-10 a.m.
- F 11 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Thomas J Christensen
CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info - 3 points
The U.S. Role in World Affairs, II
This course is the second half of the year-long International Fellows Program (IFP) seminar examining the United States’ evolving role in global affairs. Building on themes from the fall, the spring semester focuses on the challenges confronting a new U.S. presidential administration and the strategic decisions that will shape American leadership in a contested international environment. Through a combination of seminar discussions, case studies, guest speakers, and two regional crisis simulations, students will examine U.S. policy responses to geopolitical competition, regional instability, and transnational threats. Enrollment is limited to students in the International Fellows Program (IFP).
- Department: International Security & Diplomacy
- R 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
Victoria Nuland
Info - 3 points
Graduate Independent Research
Independent Study with Faculty Advisor must be registered for every semester after first academic year
- Department: Statistics
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Marco A Avella Medina
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David Blei
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John P Cunningham
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Richard Davis
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Victor H de la Pena
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Bianca Dumitrascu
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Andrew Gelman
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Yuqi Gu
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Ioannis Karatzas
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Samory Kpotufe
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Jingchen Liu
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Arian Maleki
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Sumit Mukherjee
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Marcel F Nutz
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Liam M Paninski
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Philip Protter
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Daniel Rabinowitz
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Cynthia Rush
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Bodhisattva Sen
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Michael Sobel
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Simon Tavare
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Anne Van Delft
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Zhiliang Ying
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Ming Yuan
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Tian Zheng
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Genevera Allen
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Christopher Harshaw
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Graduate Independent Research
Independent Study with Faculty Advisor must be registered for every semester after first academic year
- Department: Statistics
- 3 points
GRAD STUDENT & FACULTY COLLOQ
FEMINIST PEDAGOGY
This is a course is oriented to graduate students who are thinking about issues in teaching in the near and distant future and want to explore forms of pedagogy. The course will ask what it means to teach “as a feminist” and will explore how to create a classroom receptive to feminist and queer methodologies and theories regardless of course theme/content. Topics include: participatory pedagogy, the role of political engagement, the gender dynamics of the classroom, modes of critical thought and disagreement. Discussions will be oriented around student interest. The course will meet 4-5 times per SEMESTER (dates TBD) and the final assignment is to develop and workshop a syllabus for a new gender/sexuality course in your field. Because this course is required for graduate students choosing to fulfill Option 2 for the Graduate Certificate in Feminist Studies at IRWGS, priority will be given to graduate students completing the certificate.
- Department: Women's and Gender Studies
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Julia Bryan-Wilson
Wikipedia Info - 1 points
DIR RSCH POLISH LITERATURE II
Prerequisites: the departments permission.
- Department: Slavic Languages
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Instructor:
Christopher Caes
Info - 1-4 points
TICKETING
An in-depth, seminar-style course on the management of ticketing with a focus on practical strategies to maximize grosses efficiently while providing a seamless audience experience. The course includes a semester-long group project intended to demonstrate the various decisions that theater managers must make to ensure the financial stability of their productions and institutions.
- Department: Theatre Arts
- M 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
- 3 points
BACKGROUNDS IN PHARMACOLOGY I
Open only to Ph.D. candidates in the Department of Pharmacology. A detailed analysis of classical studies in pharmacology and related fields and the research which has led to our current understanding of the mode of drug action. Students are required to present material for oral presentation and written report.
- Department: Pharmacology
- 2 points
Clinical Education Seminar I
This 15-week course during the second term of the DPT curriculum is the first in a series of four clinical education seminars designed to prepare students for their full-time clinical education experiences.
This course includes an overview of the clinical education program, policies and procedures, and the site selection process. Students participate in training sessions required for the clinic including HIPPA and Blood-borne Pathogens training. Students are introduced to the practice sites available for Clinical Education I and participate in the placement process.
- Department: Physical Therapy
- 1 points
ADVANCED TUTORIAL
COMM-BASED PARTICIPATORY RES
Students may take these courses provided they have completed relevant work available in the regular course program. Tutorials are offered in social gerontology, children and family services, health services, substance abuse, AIDS, family policy, and comparative social policy, among others. Social work practice and social science tutorials are offered when required by students in attendance.
- Department: Social Work
- W noon-1:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Susan S Witte
h-index: 28 Info - 3 points
Clinical Education Seminar III
This 14-week course during the Spring Term in the second year of the DPT curriculum is the third in a series of four clinical education seminars designed to prepare students for their full-time clinical education experiences.
This course offers an opportunity to reflect on the challenges and highlights of the First Clinical Education experience. Facilitated discussions address topics such as initiative, communication and problem solving in clinical scenarios. Expectations for the Clinical Education II experience are discussed and students set individualized goals and fulfill clinical site prerequisites. Students are introduced to the practice sites available for the Terminal Clinical Education experience(s) and prepare for the Terminal Experience placement process.
- Department: Physical Therapy
- 1 points
SEM-DOMESTIC VIOLENCE/THE LAW
This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Dorchin Leidholdt
Info - 2 points
Financial Planning & Analysis
This course explores the use of financial information for internal planning, analysis, and decision-making. The main objective of the course is to equip you with the knowledge to understand, evaluate, and act upon the many financial and non-financial reports used in managing modern firms.
Managing any modern firm requires information about the firm’s products, processes, assets, and customers. This information is a key input into a wide range of decisions: analyzing profitability of various products, managing product-line portfolios, setting prices, measuring and managing profitability of customers, making operational and strategic decisions, evaluating investments, guiding improvement efforts, and so on.
The focus of this course is on modern internal-reporting systems. We will discover that many firms do not provide their managers with useful information; we will see numerous examples of value destruction and bankruptcies caused by this. We will also investigate some modern ideas in how an organization’s internal information system should be designed to enhance value creation; and we will see how world-class firms take advantage of their competitors’ internal-reporting mistakes.
To attain the right level of understanding, we will briefly explore the mechanics of the many techniques used to prepare internal reports. But the emphasis in this course is very much on interpretation, evaluation, and decision-making.
We will examine the following key topics:
Designing managerial information systems to support an organization’s strategy.
Determining which financial and non-financial metrics are necessary for success in various competitive environments.
Evaluating profitability of products, services, assets, and customers.
The capabilities and the limitations of various reporting systems in guiding value-maximization, cost-control, and improvement efforts.
The limitations of traditional cost-estimation systems.
Activity-based costing and activity-based management.
Estimating and managing the costs of capacity resources.
Relevant costs and relevant revenues in business decisions.
The information necessary to evaluate long-term business decisions.
The incentives created by various performance-evaluation techniques.
- Department: Accounting (ACCT)
- MW 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
- MW 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tim Baldenius
Info - 1.5 points
Earnings Quality & Fundamental
Financial reporting provides a window into the operational and financial workings of a company. However, translating this information into actionable insights is anything but straightforward. It requires an understanding of: Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), the quality of financial information, and the adjustments and analyses used to assess profitability, risk, growth, and value.
The course starts with a short review of financial reporting and then focuses on various modules of fundamental analysis, including earnings quality analysis, performance evaluation, risk assessment, forecasting, and valuation. The remaining class meetings (approximately 14 out of 24) are devoted to a deeper dive into the reporting and analysis of key transactions (e.g., business combinations, leasing) and financial statement line items (e.g., revenue, income taxes).
To allow for dynamic progress, the class schedule is flexible:
Topic Approximate # of class meetings
1. Review of financial reporting 2
2. Financial statement analysis 4
3. Forecasting and valuation 4
4. Revenue and related items 2
5. Operating capacity 3
6. Estimated items 3.5
7. Financial instruments 2
8. Investments in businesses 2.5
9. Equity and related items 1
Total 24
While the course covers the theoretical underpinning of the various analyses, it focuses on implementation and practical uses. We will study many actual financial disclosures and cases of accounting abuses, and we will conduct fundamental-based valuation and other financial analyses, including using Excel tools that will be provided to the students. Studying financial disclosures will help you better understand the underlying assumptions and accounting choices the firm made in arriving at its accounting numbers. This information can be used to make earnings quality adjustments to the accounting numbers to make them more consistent across time or more comparable across companies. Studying cases of accounting abuses will help you improve your ability to “read between the lines” and develop a set of red flags to look for in analyzing financial statements. The class also incorporates insights from practitioner and academic research.
The primary objective of the course is to acquire a deep understanding of accounting information and how to intelligently use it in making investment, credit, and similar resource allocation decisions. Such knowledge is required of investors, consultants, analysts, banke
- Department: Accounting (ACCT)
- MW 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
- MW 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Doron Nissim
h-index: 24 Info - 3 points
DISSERTATION COLLOQUIUM
The dissertation colloquium is a non-credit course open to MESAAS doctoral students who have completed the M.Phil. degree. It provides a forum in which the entire community of dissertation writers meets, bridging the departments different fields and regions of research. It complements workshops outside the department focused on one area or theme. Through an encounter with the diversity of research underway in MESAAS, participants learn to engage with work anchored in different regions and disciplines and discover or develop what is common in the departments post-disciplinary methods of inquiry. Since the community is relatively small, it is expected that all post-M.Phil. students in residence will join the colloquium. Post M.Phil. students from other departments may request permission to join the colloquium, but places for non-MESAAS students will be limited. The colloquium convenes every semester, meeting once every two weeks. Each meeting is devoted to the discussion of one or two pre-circulated pieces of work (a draft prospectus or dissertation chapter). Every participant contributes at least one piece of work each year.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gil Hochberg
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 14 Info - 0 points
Financial Statement Analysis a
This course will provide students with hands-on experience analyzing financial statements. Students will learn about the general tools, theoretical concepts, and practical valuation issues of financial analysis. By the end of the course, students should be comfortable using firms' financial statements (along with other information) to assess firm performance and make reasonable valuation estimates.
Course content and organization In the first half of the course, we will develop a valuation framework that integrates a firm’s strategy, its financial performance, and the credibility of its accounting. The framework consists of the following steps:
1. Understand the firm’s strategy. We will assess the firm’s value proposition and identify its key value drivers and risks.
2. Accounting Analysis. We will assess earnings quality and evaluate whether the firm's accounting policies capture the underlying business reality. If not, we will adjust the accounting to eliminate GAAP issues and management biases.
3. Financial Analysis. We will evaluate current performance with accounting data and financial ratios.
4. Prospective Analysis: Forecasting. We will assess whether current firm performance is sustainable, and we will forecast future performance. In our forecasts, we will consider growth, profitability, and future competitive advantage.
5. Prospective Analysis: Valuation. We will convert our forecasts of future earnings and book values into an estimate of the firm’s current value.
In the second half of the course, we will apply the above framework to a variety of business valuation contexts, including IPOs, mergers, and equity-investment analyses.
- Department: Accounting (ACCT)
- W 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
- R 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
- R 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kalash Jain
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M.PHIL TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Prerequisite: instructors permission. Participation in medical informatics educational activities under the direction of a faculty adviser.
- Department: Biomedical Informatics
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Instructor:
Shalmali Joshi
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Richard A Friedman
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Olena Mamykina
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Instructor:
Sivan Kinberg
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Amelia J Averitt
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Instructor:
Matthew McDermott
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PHARMACOLOGY TECHNIQUES II
Open only to Ph.D. candidates in the pharmacological sciences training program. Students are assigned to selected research laboratories to learn current fundamental laboratory techniques.
- Department: Pharmacology
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Instructor:
Nihkil Sharma
Info - 4-6 points
Inequality in High-skilled Labor Markets
Inqulity Hgh-skilled Labr
The course focuses on the U.S. labor market but will also draw research from other settings. The readings are organized by topic and highlight the extent and urgency of the issue and along the lines of gender, race/ethnicity, nativity, and class. Topics include the patterns and trends of inequality among highly-educated workers, and underlying demand and supply-side mechanisms that explain the observed patterns. Attention will be paid to student pathways through higher education to the labor market, including the school-to-work transition process. The course will also cover topics of intergenerational and intragenerational mobility processes among highly-educated workers.
- Department: Sociology
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Yao Lu
h-index: 25 Info - 4 points
EARLY MODERN SOUTH ASIA
This graduate seminar focuses on the material and political orders from 1500-1800 in South Asia. We pair primary, historical texts (in translation) with recent monographs which demonstrate the intersections between narrative and polity within material and epistemic realms. Our guiding interests will be in understanding the intimate relationship between power, agency and materiality within specific political spaces. Eschewing the center/periphery models, we take globally connective approach incorporating Western Asian, North American and Northern European histories. Some key ideas for the seminar include, “oceanic” perspective of the Indian and Atlantic oceans, role of “agents” (travelers, merchants, bureaucrats etc.), theories of colonization and decolonization, gender and sexuality.
- Department: History
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Manan Ahmed
CULPA: 6
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Leadership in Healthcare Systems
Leadership in Hthcare Systems
This graduate course will focus on health service systems.Students will study the theories, competencies, and concepts of management and leadership. Furthermore students will examine the leadership role related to quality and safety in complex health service delivery systems, the management theories and concepts such as interprofessional communication, teamwork, delegation and supervision.The core role competencies for the nurse leader fraThis graduate course prepares students to manage and lead healthcare delivery in complex, dynamic systems. Students will integrate leadership theories, management principles, and evidence-based strategies to optimize care delivery and organizational quality, and to transform healthcare outcomes. Emphasis is placed on developing competencies in strategic decision-making, systems thinking, and innovation to address challenges in healthcare leadership, including resource management, interprofessional collaboration, technology integration, and population health management. me the course activities.
- Department: Nursing
- T 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Anita Volpe
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STATISTICS FOR BASIC SCIENCES
- Department: Pharmacology
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Instructor:
Arthur Palmer
Info - 1 points
CHILD DYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY II
- Department: Psychoanalytic Center
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Instructor:
Wendy L Turchin
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