Navigating conflict: Diverging stakehold

This course will explore ways in which the shifting relationship between the human economy and our physical environment drive divergent, often conflicting, responses from different segments of society, including distinct economic classes, communities, nations, industries, etc. For the sustainability professional, such conflicts are important in the development of equitable solutions. They are also critical pragmatic issues in implementation of any new policies. The relative strength of different stakeholders, and the tactics they deploy to pursue their goals can determine what actually happens “on the ground”. We will take a case study approach, looking at how specific socio-economic impacts of environmental change generate calls for social change, shift alignments, deepen stakeholder entrenchment, and influence sustainability policy. Our cases include impacts of global warming, land-use changes, and expanded material throughputs as a result of growing demand in agriculture, fishing, forestry, mining and manufacturing.

• Department: Sustainability Science
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Newton
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• 3 points

GLOBAL COMMUNICATION FOR PROFESSIONALS

GLOBAL COMM FOR PROFESSIONALS

The global knowledge economy, cross-border market permeability, and worldwide talent mobility have accelerated the rise of multinational and domestic organizations comprised of individuals from many different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. As these trends strengthen, so, too, does the likelihood that the 21st-century worker will spend a significant part of her/his professional career in a multicultural workplace. While such diversity affords great benefits to organizations, their employees and clients, it is often accompanied by a rise in communication misfires and misunderstandings that can undermine individual, team, and organizational performance.

• Department: Strategic Communication
• M 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Ciara Ungar
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• 3 points

CAPITAL MARKETS & INVESTMENTS

Risk/return tradeoff, diversification and their role in the modern portfolio theory, their consequences for asset allocation, portfilio optimization. Capitol Asset Pricing Model, Modern Portfolio Theory, Factor Models, Equities Valuation, definition and treatment of futures, options and fixed income securities will be covered.

• Department: Mathematics
• S 7 p.m.-9:20 p.m.
• 3 points

THE NONPROFIT SECTOR: SCOPE & IMPACT

NONPROFIT SECTOR: SCOPE&I

This course introduces students to the roles the nonprofit sector plays in providing for social needs, such as healthcare, education, and basic needs.  Throughout this course, we will also grapple with the ethical questions inherent in these pursuits, including the challenge of tainted money, participatory grantmaking, social impact, and the politicization of nonprofit organizations. The course will also explore distinctions, similarities and relationships among the nonprofit, government, and for-profit sectors. The course examines the parameters of the United States’ nonprofit sector and philanthropic practice, with some opportunity for global comparison.  

The course will require students to utilize and reflect critical and analytical thinking; students will write individual papers, actively participate in discussion both in class and through postings on Canvas and present material to classroom colleagues.  This full-semester course is required the first semester of study.

• Department: Non Profit Management
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• W 6:30 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Erwin Vincent S de Leon
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• Instructor: Shaba Keys
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• Instructor: Jill Lalonde
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• 3 points

COMMUNICATION RESEARCH & INSIGHTS

COMM RESEARCH & INSIGHTS

To make informed decisions about communication, we need a clear understanding of our audience and its motivations. We begin by asking the right questions and interpreting the results. This course covers essential market research methods, including quantitative and qualitative techniques. Students gain direct experience in collecting and analyzing data, developing insights and choosing research-driven communication strategies that meet client objectives.

• Department: Strategic Communication
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• R 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Laura Milewczik
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• 3 points

NARRATIVES-DEATH,LIVING,CARING

We would like to shift this course from Online Only to fully In Person

• Department: Narrative Medicine
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Cherie M Henderson
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• 3 points

RESEARCH DESIGN

• Department: Applied Analytics
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: David Shilane
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• 3 points

STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS FOR RISK PROFES

STRATEGIC COMM FOR RISK P

Workshop-like course that addresses a variety of communication skills, including listening skills, presentation skills, leadership communications, conflict resolution, management interactions, and professional communication techniques.

• Department: Enterprise Risk Management
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• W 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Sim Segal
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• Instructor: Rod Aday
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• Instructor: Neil Barman
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• 3 points

FOUNDATIONS FOR THE KNOWLEDGE-DRIVEN ORG

FOUND. FOR KNWLDGE-DRIVEN

Note: This course starts with a multi-day, on-campus Residency in late Aug./early Sept. and continues online thereafter. 

Knowledge-driven organizations increasingly dominate the economy. What are their attributes? What vision and strategy guides their development? How are they designed? What are the jobs necessary for this new workplace? This course has been designed to give students a grounding that will be important for their future working career. It will focus on how the global economy and all its subsequent ramifications has evolved from a predominantly industrial base to one based on knowledge.

The Foundations course will begin by giving students a historical perspective as to how the "knowledge" economy specifically came about. We will be using historical and economic data and models which offer a clear understanding as to how the global economy and organizations evolved into their current state-where value is produced by knowledge and ideas significantly more than the earlier industrial processes and operations. 

The course will then present detailed and comprehensive treatments of how societies, organizations and individual lives have been changed due to this great shift in the factors of production. The course will also focus on how networks, communities and practices work and have evolved to focus more on knowledge production and transfer than on the more industrial factors of production such as land, labor and capital. In addition, the course will examine the critical role of intangibles such as culture, trust and missions in the workings of organizations in this new era. Insights from anthropology, psychology and sociology as well as economics will be incorporated into the course curriculum.

A complex and comprehensive case study on NASA and their knowledge operations will be one of the key learning tools for this course as it proceeds.

• Department: Information & Knowledge Strat
• W 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Edward J Hoffman
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• 3 points

CLAIMS MANAGEMENT

IMGT5300PS

• Department: Insurance Management
• Instructor: Richard Woollams
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• 3 points

HEDGE FUNDS STRATEGIES & RISK

The hedge fund industry has continued to grow after the financial crisis, and hedge funds are increasingly important as an investable asset class for institutional investors as well as wealthy individuals. This course will cover hedge funds from the point of view of portfolio managers and investors. We will analyze a number of hedge fund trading strategies, including fixed income arbitrage, global macro, and various equities strategies, with a strong focus on quantitative strategies. We distinguish hedge fund managers from other asset managers, and discuss issues such as fees and incentives, liquidity, performance evaluation, and risk management. We also discuss career development in the hedge fund context.

• Department: Mathematics
• T 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• 3 points

SOCIAL IMPACT & PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT

SOCIAL IMPACT & MEASUREME

Nonprofit organizations compete for scarce philanthropic and government funding and are expected to account for how these resources are utilized for the greater good. However, understanding how well nonprofit programs and services produce their desired outcomes can be a challenge. This course is designed to provide a broad – yet rigorous – overview of the knowledge and tools available to evaluate the effects of nonprofit and social impact programs and policies.

• Department: Non Profit Management
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Erwin Vincent S de Leon
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• 3 points

SCULPTURE I

• Department: Visual Arts
• F 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• T 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jon Kessler
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• Instructor: Justin Lowe
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• 3 points

DENTAL ANATOMY & MORPHOLOGY

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• 0 points

INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

INTL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

International Environmental Law is a fascinating field that allows students to consider some of the most important questions of the 21st century – questions that have profound ramifications for the quality of life for our generation as well as future generations. Global environmental problems are real and urgent. Their resolution requires creative and responsible thought and action from many different disciplines. 

 

Sustainability practitioners must understand global environmental issues and their effects on what they are charged to do. At one level, this course will consider the massive challenge of the 21st century:  how to alleviate poverty on a global scale and maintain a high quality of life while staying within the bounds of an ecologically limited and fragile biosphere -- the essence of sustainable development.  From a more practical perspective, the course will provide students with an understanding of international environmental policy design and the resulting body of law in order to strengthen their ability to understand, interpret and react to future developments in the sustainability management arena.

 

After grounding in the history and foundational concepts of international environmental law and governance, students will explore competing policy shapers and the relevant law in the areas of stratospheric ozone protection, climate change, chemicals and waste management, and biodiversity. The course satisfies the public policy course requirement for the M.S. in Sustainability Management program.

• Department: Sustainability Management
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard Horsch
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• 3 points

PRE-CLINICAL OPPERATIVE DENT

PRE-CLINICAL OP DENT

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• 0 points

PRECLINICAL OPERATIVE DENTISTRY LAB

PRECLIN OPERTV DENT LAB

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• Instructor: Roseanna Graham
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• 0 points

NARRATIVE ETHICS (CERT)

• Department: Narrative Medicine
• 3 points

Oral Health Considerations for Patients

Special Health Care Needs

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• Instructor: Emily R Byington
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• 0 points

Oral Health Considerations for Patients

Special Health Care Needs

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• 0 points

SQL

SQL & RELATIONAL DB

• Department: Applied Analytics
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael J Coakley
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• 3 points

SQL

SQL & RELATIONAL DB ONLINE

• Department: Applied Analytics
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Nikolaos Machairas
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• 3 points

EMPIRICAL METHODS IN BIOETHICS

• Department: Bioethics
• M 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Joanne E Mantell
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• 3 points

ETHICAL DECISION MAKING FOR COMMUNICATOR

• Department: Strategic Communication
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Skye Cleary
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• 3 points

ECONOMIC POLICY ANALYSIS

• Department: Economics
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Tam Mai
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• 3 points

Foundations and Social Change: Theories,

This course explores the evolving field of philanthropy by examining its historical foundations and the rationale for the continued existence of philanthropic organizations, like foundations, today. From the industrial-era legacies of figures like Rockefeller and Ford to the modern innovations driven by today's billionaires, students will analyze how generational and societal shifts have shaped the strategies and impact of philanthropy over time.

A key focus of the course is on how philanthropic organizations respond to complex societal issues such as racial justice, climate change, healthcare, and human rights. Through centering diverse perspectives and critical engagement with power structures, this course equips students with the tools to navigate, critique, and influence the philanthropic sector in impactful ways. Students will appraise both the catalytic role philanthropy can play in driving social change and instances where such efforts have backfired and reinforced systematic inequities. The course will further explore how foundations’ missions, values, and goals shape their decisions on funding, project duration, grantee expectations, and impact evaluation methods.

The course will examine different approaches to grantmaking, including social entrepreneurship, effective altruism, social justice grantmaking, and strategic philanthropy. Students will learn the differences across these conceptual frameworks and understand how they influence the ways in which foundations operate. By exploring both the conceptual and pragmatic dimensions of across these frameworks, students will understand the tensions and debates within the philanthropic sector and be well prepared to identify those foundations most likely to support their work. 

Students will also analyze the role of foundation program officers as change agents who navigate power, influence, and institutional constraints to drive change. Through case studies, guest speaker sessions, and real-world examples, participants will learn how these professionals influence funding priorities and partnerships in response to societal needs.

Students will develop and pitch a concept for a new funding initiative to a mock foundation board. This exercise will require them to demonstrate an understanding of the foundation’s mission and approach while proposing improvements to its strategic direction. The final assignment will require the student to pull together their funding concept into a Transformative Phil

• Department: Non Profit Management
• T 6:30 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Ali Webb
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• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHICAL BIOETHICS

INTRO TO PHILOSOPHICAL BI

In contemporary bioethics, we find ourselves grappling with practically important, and at the same time, philosophically fundamental questions such as: When does someone’s life begin and how should it end? What is the proper role of physicians, nurses and other health care providers and what are the rights of their patients? What is a just and fair way to provide access to health-care services and resources? Which potential uses of new genetic and reproductive technologies would represent a legitimate advance in medicine and which would signify the beginning of a humanly degrading "brave new world"? Indeed, in a society committed to protecting a diversity of lifestyles and opinions, how can citizens resolve significant policy controversies such as whether there should be public funding of human embryonic stem cell research, or a legally protected right to physician assistance in ending one’s life?

The aims of this course are to identify the fundamental ethical questions that underlie contemporary biomedical practice; develop skill in analyzing and clarifying key concepts such as autonomy, justice, health and disease; critically assess the healthcare implications of different ethical outlooks; explore how citizens can reasonably address controversial bioethical issues in a mutually respectful and constructive way.

The course meets once a week for an hour and a half. Live-session interaction and post-session discussion forums play a key role as students explore, in a give-and-take spirit, the pros and cons of each position.

This course is designed for medical students, nursing students, and other healthcare professionals, as well as for students at the graduate or advanced undergraduate level in biology, philosophy, political science, public health, law, and related fields.

• Department: Bioethics
• R 12:10 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
• T 8 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Arthur Kuflik
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• 3 points

STRATEGIC RISK MANAGEMENT

Review of the types of strategic risks, such as a flawed strategy, inability to execute the strategy, competitor risk, supply chain risk, governance risk, regulatory risk, M&A risk, international risk, etc. Includes case studies, research, and common mitigation techniques, such as strategic planning practices, management techniques, governance practices, supply-chain management, etc.

• Department: Enterprise Risk Management
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• R 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Violet Diamant
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• Instructor: Raj Mittal
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• Instructor: Melody Feinberg
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• Instructor: Celia Kapsomera
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• Instructor: Carlo Di Florio
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• 3 points

LAW & BIOETHICS

This course introduces students to selected legal and policy texts that have addressed issues in bioethics and shaped their development. Students will explore and contrast legal reasoning and bioethical analysis, often of the same issues. By the end of the course, students will understand the legal or regulatory status of selected issues and have begun to independently navigate major legal, regulatory, and policy texts. Individual sessions will be focused around particular issues or questions that have been addressed by (usually) American courts and/or in legislation, regulation or policy, and that have been the subject of scholarship and debate within bioethics.

The course begins with a theoretical look at the relationship between law and ethics, and includes a brief introduction to legal decision-making and policy development. We then survey a range of bioethics issues that have been addressed by the courts and/or in legislation, regulation, or significant policy documents, contrasting and comparing legal argument and reasoning with arguments utilized in the bioethics literature.

• Department: Bioethics
• R 8 p.m.-10 p.m.
• W 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
• Instructor: David N Hoffman
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• Instructor: Susan Regan
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• 3 points

DIGITAL COMMUNICATION STRATEGY

As digital media increasingly drives the field of strategic communication, leading successful communication efforts also require a platform specific, evidence-based strategic approach. Leaders must know how to use a broad and rapidly changing mix of digital media platforms and tools to connect their message with the right audience. To that end, this course covers major topics in digital media and communication, such as content strategy, digital experience, channel planning, online reputation management, programmatic marketing, audience targeting, artificial intelligence and more. Through in-class lectures, discussion, case studies, guest speakers, group projects and individual writing assignments, students in this course will be introduced to strategic decision-making and communications planning for social media, mobile, digital advertising, search, email, digital out-of-home and interactive media (video, radio, podcasts). Students will also gain an in-depth understanding of how to integrate digital strategies and tactics with traditional communication efforts.

• Department: Strategic Communication
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Lilian Ore
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• Instructor: Mariana Y Pinos
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• 3 points

SPORTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP

• Department: Sports Management
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Grant J Son
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• 3 points

LEADING COLLABORATION

This course is about leading boundary-spanning coalitions. An old African proverb tells us that, "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." While this advice is especially relevant in our interconnected 21st-century world, we have learned that working together is not always easy to do well.

“Collaboration at Scale: Leading Boundary-Spanning Coalitions” takes the study of collaboration into an even wider realm by examining the potential and complexity of large-scale, cross-organizational collaboration, and how to lead it.

The concept of scalability is common in the business world and this course demonstrates what it takes to make collaboration scalable and suitable for a variety of challenging contexts larger than a single organization. Inherent in the concept of scalability are the notions of "appropriate scale" and also "at scale." Both of these notions raise valid questions that we will address in this course. (Though our interpretations of scale have evolved with the advent of social media, specific technology selection is not the focus of the course.)

Students will learn the characteristics, conditions and dynamics of various large-scale collaborations, as well as how to design and lead them effectively. Course materials will be drawn from the for-profit and nonprofit worlds. Using a balance of practice and theory of networks and large system facilitation, students will demonstrate their mastery of course materials through an assignment in which they diagnose and (re)design a “collaboration at scale.” This could be in the business, scientific, religious, political, or humanitarian domains.

• Department: Information & Knowledge Strat
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Blake Dicosola
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• Instructor: Angela Finlay
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• 3 points

OPERATIONAL RISK MANAGEMENT

Review of the types of operational risks, such as technology risk (e.g., cyber-security), human resources risk, disasters, etc. Includes case studies, risk analysis frameworks and metrics, and common mitigation techniques, such as insurance, IT mitigation, business continuing planning, etc.

• Department: Enterprise Risk Management
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• R 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• M 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• W 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• M 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Rossano Rossi
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• Instructor: Francis Tobin
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• Instructor: Chris Lee
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• Instructor: Nabeed Zaman
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• Instructor: Mark Jankiewicz
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• Instructor: Umesh Akki
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• Instructor: Lisa Broomer
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• 3 points

INTRO TO QUANTITATIVE RISK MANAGEMENT

INTRO TO QUANT RISK MGMT

Students without a strong math background and experience with Excel will require significant additional time and effort to achieve the learning objectives and work through the course assignments.

This course builds a foundation in the mathematics and statistics of risk management. Students are empowered to understand the output of quantitative analysts and to do their own analytics. Concepts are presented in Excel and students will have the opportunity to practice those concepts in Excel, R or Python.

This course is a required prerequisite for registering for the following courses: Coding for Risk Management, Financial Risk Management, Quantitative Risk Management, Credit Risk Management, Market Risk Management, Credit Risk Analytics, Applied Coding for Risk Management, Derivatives Risk Management, Model Risk Management, ERM Modeling, and Machine Learning for Risk Management.

• Department: Enterprise Risk Management
• R 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• R 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• T 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• M 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: David J Romoff
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• 3 points

CARBON CAPTURE UTILIZATION AND STORAGE

CARBON CAPTURE UTIL & STO

This course covers the technical and non-technical aspects of Carbon Utilization and Storage (CCUS), one of our most important and achievable tools to mitigate climate change. The course begins by presenting our global energy needs and the environmental motivation for CCUS and its natural analogues. Students will review the basic concepts and methods involved in CO2 capture, trapping, and monitoring, as well as established methods for modeling the fate of CO2in the subsurface. Students will then consider the needs and implications of CO2 capture from industrial sources (power plants) and directly from ambient air and examine current examples from around the world. This course will go on to discuss integrating CCUS with renewable energy sources (negative emission) and ocean storage options. Students will think through the challenges associated with CCUS, including the transportation of CO2to storage locations, regulations and incentives, and the public view and acceptance of this technology. The course will end with a discussion of where to go from here to find pathways to a carbon neutral future. At the conclusion of this course, each student will have gained a practical understanding of the potential for CCUS solutions to mitigate climate change and gain experience in presenting related technical and non-technical information to their peers. This will critically inform decision making and hone communication skills for future careers in fossil and renewable energy generation, power distribution, manufacturing, environmental policy, and scientific outreach.

• Department: Sustainability Science
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: David S Goldberg
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• 3 points

IKNS CAPSTONE

IKNS CAPSTONE PROJECT

Note: This course is offered both in an online (synchronous) format as well as in an in-person format. Both formats conclude with a multi-day, on-campus Residency in December. Please refer to the
Important Dates
section of the
Curriculum & Courses page
for upcoming Residency dates.

OVERVIEW
: The IKNS Capstone represents the culmination of learning throughout the IKNS program in which students master business-critical concepts in data, analytics, people, networks, integration, and strategy. Working individually and in small teams, students design and deliver a project for a capstone sponsor seeking IKNS expertise to help solve a real-world problem within the sponsor’s organization. Using what they have learned from across the curriculum, students apply IKNS frameworks and use both qualitative and quantitative research to develop a written business report, oral presentation. and a final product for the sponsor including but not limited to a roadmap, strategic plan, white paper, or minimum viable product (MVP). The Capstone provides a final testing ground for students to apply their learning to real organizational needs and also become familiar with consultative approaches to inspire impact for their Capstone project sponsor. 

LOGISTICS:
Open to IKNS only. Prerequisites: Before embarking on the Capstone course, students must have earned at least 18 credits towards their IKNS degree. At least 12 of these 18 credits must be specifically from required courses.

• Department: Information & Knowledge Strat
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Blake Dicosola
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• Instructor: Jamie Muskopf
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• Instructor: Matthew Perry
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• 3 points

CODING FOR RISK MANAGEMENT

Equips students with the ability to adopt the programming culture typically present in the ERM/risk areas of most financial organizations. By studying Python, SQL, R, git, and AWS, students gain exposure to different syntaxes. Students apply these skills by coding up market risk and credit risk models. Students also gain familiarity with working in the cloud.

• Department: Enterprise Risk Management
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• R 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: David Weltz
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• Instructor: Zaur Nurtaza
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• 3 points

FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT

A survey of market, credit, liquidity, and systemic risk. Includes case studies, risk quantification methods, and common mitigation techniques using portfolio management, hedging, and derivatives. Also addresses traditional risk management practices at banking institutions.

• Department: Enterprise Risk Management
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• M 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Marcus Eich
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• Instructor: Justin Hon
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• 3 points

ETHICAL ISSUES IN MUSEUMS

Ethical questions about museum activities are legion, yet they are usually only discussed when they become headlines in newspapers. At the same time, people working in museums make decisions with ethical and legal issues regularly and seldom give these judgments even little thought. In part, this is due to the fact that many of these decisions are based upon values that become second nature. This course will explore ethical issues that arise in all areas of a museum's operations from governance and management to collections acquisition, conservation, and deaccessioning. We will examine the issues that arise when the ownership of objects in a museum's are questioned; the ethical considerations involved in retention, restitution and repatriation; and what decolonization means for museums.

• Department: Anthropology
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sally Yerkovich
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• 3 points

FRM PRACTICES

Provides the opportunity to learn how business units operate at an investment bank. Several industry practitioners each spend one to two sessions providing a hands-on experience that recreates the operations and decision-making of front, middle, and back offices work at a bank. Students typically learn the common activities, the data inputs, the analytics, and the applications of the insights.

• Department: Enterprise Risk Management
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Qingji Yang
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• 3 points

BASEBALL ANALYTICS

• Department: Sports Management
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 3 points

QUANTITATIVE RISK MANAGEMENT

Quantitative Risk Management continues building your quantitative foundation in order to work with more advanced models and use mathematical and statistical intuition for building those models. At the end of this course, you will be able to use analytics algorithms for risk management; use factor models to assess the quality of investment portfolios and trader positions; hedge equity, option, and fixed-income portfolios using derivatives; estimate volatility with options models and GARCH models; and model ESG and Climate risk.

The course is highly structured and organized by topic into semester long learning threads. Each week, readings and assignments will take another step forward along these threads: regression models, classification models, time series analysis, options and volatility modeling, fixed income modeling, factor models and portfolio management, tail risk modeling. These concepts will be demonstrated in python and students are expected to be able to understand and run python code.

• Department: Enterprise Risk Management
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 3 points

Disability and Illness Narratives (CERT)

Disability Illness Narrat

This course examines questions such as: What does the telling and reading of narratives do for the ill or disabled individual? How can clinicians effectively elicit, interpret, and act upon such narratives? Who owns a story, and what is the role of co-authorship, power and witnessing in story-telling and story-listening? Whose voice do we hear? What are the roles of power and hierarchy in story-telling and listening? What is the impact of familial, cultural, social, institutional, political contexts on the individual story? And finally, how can personal stories be translated to political advocacy and action? Texts assigned weekly will be broadly interdisciplinary – drawing from memoir, poetry, essays, fiction, feature and documentary films, narrative theory, and disability studies, exploring the relationship between disability/illness experience and narrative. This elective course is open to all students in the Narrative Medicine CPA program. Students should be prepared to engage with each other and with the instructor and to offer their questions, comments, insights, and analysis.

This is an essential, practically applied element of narrative medicine study and it is exemplary as a way to illustrate the impact of narrative study in shaping experience, opening awareness, and highlighting the need for change and new stories. A narrative medicine course focused on disability and illness narratives is an important aspect of narrative medicine study. Exploring narratives presented in a variety of formats by using narrative medicine methods can encourage deeper perspective-taking and promote activism for underrepresented voices.

Disability and Illness Narratives: Storytelling For Awareness and Activism
is an elective course in the Narrative Medicine CPA program. In addition, this course is open to cross-registrants in other programs who demonstrate some understanding of narrative medicine and/or participate in the online asynchronous narrative medicine orientation course before the semester begins. Narrative Medicine CPA students are required to have completed, or be simultaneously enrolled in the course,
Narrative Medicine Methods: Close Reading and Writing
, course number K5120, and have completed the required program online asynchronous orientation course. CPA courses are all 10 weeks/modules long, and they are online and asynchronous, which means there are no meeting times. Each module represents one week of the course. All modules begin on a Tuesday and end on Monday of th

• Department: Narrative Medicine
• 3 points

INSURANCE RISK MANAGEMENT

Review of types of insurance risk, such as pricing risk, underwriting risk, reserving risk, etc. Includes case studies, risk quantification methods (e.g., market-consistent economic capital models, dynamic financial analysis (DFA) models, catastrophe models, etc.), and common mitigation techniques, such as asset-liability management (ALM), reinsurance, etc. Also addresses traditional risk management at insurance companies and ERM actuarial standards of practice (ASOPs).

• Department: Enterprise Risk Management
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• W 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Ding Dai
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• Instructor: Juan D Espinosa
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• 3 points

CREDIT RISK MANAGEMENT

Credit Risk Management requires business acumen, the monitoring of internal and external data, disciplined execution, and organizational intelligence. A solid understanding of this enables a credit risk manager to help organizations achieve their objectives. Through readings, case studies, and modeling projects, students learn how risk managers decide on credit risk management strategy applied throughout the client lifecycle.

• Department: Enterprise Risk Management
• W 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• R 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Christakis Droussiotis
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• Instructor: Sudeep Arora
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• 3 points

CAPSTONE

Capstone projects afford a group of students the opportunity to undertake complex, real-world, client-based projects for nonprofit organizations, supervised by a Nonprofit Management program faculty member. Through the semester-long capstone project, students will experience the process of organizational assimilation and integration as they tackle a discrete management project of long or short-term benefit to the client organization. The larger theoretical issues that affect nonprofit managers and their relationships with other stakeholders, both internal and external, will also be discussed within the context of this project-based course.

• Department: Non Profit Management
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Lonni Ryan
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• 3 points

FUNDAMENTALS OF DATA ENGINEERING

FUNDAMENTALS OF DATA ENGINEERING

• Department: Applied Analytics
• W 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• S 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Javid B Huseynov
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• Instructor: Darshan Desai
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• Instructor: Amreeta Choudhury
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• Instructor: Mohsen Golalikhani
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• Instructor: Oktie Hassanzadeh
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• 3 points