STUDIES IN NARRATIVE FICTION
YA FICTION
This course will focus on literature written and published expressly for young adults between the ages of 14-19. Although young adult literature spans a range of genres, in this course we will focus on “problem” novels, science fiction/fantasy dystopian literature, and graphic memoir. We will begin with S.E. Hinton’s classic 1967 novel,
The Outsiders
but will then focus on contemporary literature, with some reference back to influential authors like Judy Bloom, Louis Lowry, and Martin Ritt. We will study the features of YA literature and ask what distinguishes it from other literary categories; how YA explores questions of teen identity, sociality, and development; how it uses or challenges genre conventions; and how it engages with current events and social problems. Students should expect heavy reading over this short summer term, but readings are guaranteed to be interesting, relevant, and fast paced.
- Department: Summer Session (SS)
- TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rachel Adams
CULPA: 16 Info - 3 points
PRODUCING THE LOW BUDGET FILM
LAB PRODUCING LOW BUDGET FILM
This practical lab focuses on the fundamental aspects of development, planning and preparation for low budget films. While using a short film script as their own case study – students will learn pitching, development, script breakdown, scheduling, budgeting and fundraising. Discussion of legal issues, location scouting, deliverables, marketing, distribution and film festival strategy will allow students to move forward with their own projects after completing the class. Using weekly assignments, in-class presentations and textbook readings to reinforce each class discussion topic, students will complete the class having created a final prep/production binder for their project, which includes the script breakdown, production schedule, line item budget, financing/fundraising plan and film festival strategy for their chosen script.
- Department: Summer Session (SS)
- MW 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
- 3 points
MODERNISM
Our critical examination of the aesthetics of literary modernism will seek out history even in those works of high modernism that have traditionally been viewed as ahistorical. We will take up questions of nationalism, empire, and imperialism apparent in a number of the works. Syllabus: Selected Poems of W.B. Yeats, Conrad's
Nostromo
, Woolf's
The Voyage Out
, Rebecca West's
Return of the Soldier
, T.S. Eliot's
The Wasteland
, Proust's
Remembrance of Things Past
, Forster's
A Passage to India
, Kafka's
The Castle
, Stein's
Tender Buttons
, Selected Cantos of Ezra Pound.
- Department: Summer Session (SS)
- TR 6:15 p.m.-9:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Georgette Fleischer
CULPA: 55 Info - 3 points
PARADISE LOST,FRANKENSTEIN,AND
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
(Seminar). As the great imperial powers of Britain, France, and Belgium, among others, ceded self-rule to the colonies they once controlled, formerly colonized subjects engaged in passionate discussion about the shape of their new nations not only in essays and pamphlets but also in fiction, poetry, and theatre. Despite the common goal of independence, the heated debates showed that the postcolonial future was still up for grabs, as the boundary lines between and within nations were once again redrawn. Even such cherished notions as nationalism were disputed, and thinkers like the Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore sounded the alarm about the pitfalls of narrow ethnocentric thinking. Their call for a philosophy of internationalism went against the grain of ethnic and racial particularism, which had begun to take on the character of national myth. The conflict of perspectives showed how deep were the divisions among the various groups vying to define the goals of the postcolonial nation, even as they all sought common cause in liberation from colonial rule. , Nowhere was this truer than in India. The land that the British rulers viewed as a test case for the implementation of new social philosophies took it upon itself to probe their implications for the future citizenry of a free, democratic republic. We will read works by Indian writers responding to decolonization and, later, globalization as an invitation to rethink the shape of their societies. Beginning as a movement against imperial control, anti-colonialism also generated new discussions about gender relations, secularism and religious difference, the place of minorities in the nation, the effects of partition on national identity, among other issues. With the help of literary works and historical accounts, this course will explore the challenges of imagining a post-imperial society in a globalized era without reproducing the structures and subjectivities of the colonial state. Writers on the syllabus include Rabindranath Tagore, M.K. Gandhi, B.R. Ambedkar, Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao, Mahasweta Devi, Bapsi Sidwa, Rohinton Mistry, Amitav Ghosh, and Arundhati Roy. ,
Application Instructions:
E-mail Professor Viswanathan (gv6@columbia.edu ) with the subject heading "Indian Writing in English seminar." In your message, include basic information: your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course.
- Department: Summer Session (SS)
- MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Julie Crawford
CULPA: 24
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- 3 points
FR EXPRESSV DANCE-NYC & PARIS
Cross-Atlantic influences from both French ballet and French modern dance as seen on the stages of New York City. The course examines not only French dancers and choreographers, but also French conceptions of the expressive body seen in other urban art forms. We study the New York School of Poetry, Painting, Theatre, Dance and Music; French influences on the repertory of American Ballet Theatre and New York City Ballet; the Paris Opera Ballet; the contributions of American choreographers such as Merce Cunningham and Trisha Brown on French dance; and the theatrical impulse in recent French contemporary dance. We will make use of French critical theory ( Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Barthes, Proust, and the work of recent French feminists) to understand how distinct cultures create differing notions of the expressive body. These texts will also help us to see how individual and social movement patterns are created on the stages and in the streets of metropolitan Paris and New York City. When possible, we will attend modern dance performances, and productions of American Ballet Theatre and New York City Ballet. As well, we will visit New York City museums and gallery exhibits, and allied cultural events that help to illustrate the lyric French style. The course will be conducted in English. No prerequisites.
- Department: Summer Session (SS)
- MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jonathan Robinson-Appels
CULPA: 4 Info - 3 points
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROJECT
Candidates for the B.S. degree may conduct an investigation of some problem in chemical engineering or applied chemistry or carry out a special project under the supervision of the staff. Credit for the course is contingent upon the submission of an acceptable thesis or final report. No more than 6 points in this course may be counted toward the satisfaction of the B.S. degree requirements.
- Department: Chemical Engineering
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Instructor:
Kyle Bishop
h-index: 42 Info - 0-6 points
UNDERGRAD RESEARCH OR PROJECT
Prerequisites:
approval by a faculty member who agrees to supervise the work.
Independent work involving experiments, computer programming, analytical investigation, or engineering design.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
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Shipra Agrawal
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Daniel Bienstock
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Agostino Capponi
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Emanuel Derman
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Adam N Elmachtoub
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Donald Goldfarb
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Ali Hirsa
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Garud Iyengar
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Soulaymane Kachani
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Daniel Lacker
CULPA: 4
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Henry Lam
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Soulaymane Kachani
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Karl Sigman
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Clifford Stein
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Ward Whitt
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David D Yao
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Yi Zhang
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Xunyu Zhou
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Jenny S Mak
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GRIEF AND THE LITERATURE OF EM
- Department: Summer Session (SS)
- MW 6:15 p.m.-9:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ala Alryyes
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THE ART OF THE ESSAY
“Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.”
―
Michel de Montaigne
“There is something you find interesting, for a reason hard to explain. It is hard to explain because you have never read it on any page; there you begin. You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment.” Annie Dillard
,
The Writing Life
“Find a subject you care about and which in your heart you feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.” Kurt Vonnegut
What makes the essay of personal experience an
essay
rather than a journal entry? How can one's specific experience transcend the limits of narrative and transmit a deeper meaning to any reader? How can a writer transmit the wisdom gained from personal experience without lecturing her reader? In The Art of the Essay, we explore the answers to these questions by reading personal essays in a variety of different forms. We begin with Michel de Montaigne, the 16
th
-century philosopher who popularized the personal essay as we know it and famously asked, “What do I know?,” and follow the development of the form as a locus of rigorous self-examination, doubt, persuasion, and provocation. Through close reading of a range of essays from writers including Annie Dillard, Salman Rushdie, Jamaica Kincaid, and June Jordan, we analyze how voice, form, and evidence work together to create a world of meaning around an author's experience, one that invites readers into conversations that are at once deeply personal and universal in their consequences and implications.
- Department: Summer Session (SS)
- TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Wendy C Schor-Haim
CULPA: 11
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- 3 points
ANTI-COLONIALISM
The age of colonialism, so it seems, is long over. Decolonization has resulted in the emergence of postcolonial polities and societies that are now, in many instances, two generations old. But is it clear that the problem of colonialism has disappeared? Almost everywhere in the postcolonial world the project of building independent polities, economies and societies have faltered, sometimes run aground. Indeed, one might say that the anti-colonial dream of emancipation has evaporated. Through a careful exploration of the conceptual argument and rhetorical style of five central anti-colonial texts—C.L.R. James’
The Black Jacobins
, Mahatma Gandhi’s
Hind Swaraj
, Aimé Cesairé’s
Discourse on Colonialism
, Albert Memmi’s
Colonizer and Colonized
, and Frantz Fanon’s
The Wretched of the Earth
—this course aims to inquire into the image of colonialism as a structure of dominant power, and the image of its anticipated aftermaths: What were the perceived ill-effects of colonial power? What did colonialism do to the colonized that required rectification? In what ways did the critique of colonial power (the identification of what was wrong with it) shape the longing for its anti-colonial overcoming?
- Department: Summer Session (SS)
- TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
David Scott
CULPA: 6
h-index: 72
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- 3 points
HELLENISM AND THE TOPOGRAPHICA
Course Overview:
This course examines the way particular spaces—cultural, urban, literary—serve as sites for the production and reproduction of cultural and political imaginaries. It places particular emphasis on the themes of the
polis
, the city, and the nation-state as well as on spatial representations of and responses to notions of the Hellenic across time. Students will consider a wide range of texts as spaces—complex sites constituted and complicated by a multiplicity of languages—and ask: To what extent is meaning and cultural identity, site-specific? How central is the classical past in Western imagination? How have great metropolises such as Paris, Istanbul, and New York fashioned themselves in response to the allure of the classical and the advent of modern Greece? How has Greece as a specific site shaped the study of the Cold War, dictatorships, and crisis?
- Department: Summer Session (SS)
- TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dimitrios Antoniou
h-index: 5 Info - 3 points
FIELDWORK
- Department: Electrical Engineering
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Instructor:
Xiaofan Jiang
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Instructor:
Ioannis Kymissis
CULPA: 4 h-index: 48 Info - 1-2 points
INDEPENDENT STUDY
Independent Study (set up for MLS service learning)
- Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
- M 9 a.m.-10:15 a.m.
- 1-3 points
PROJECTS IN MECH ENGINEERING
Prerequisites: Approval by faculty member who agrees to supervise the work.
Normally not to be taken in a student's final semester. Independent project involving theoretical, computational, experimental or engineering design work. May be repeated, but no more than 3 points may be counted toward degree requirements. Projects requiring machine-shop use must be approved by the laboratory supervisor. Students must submit both a project outline prior to registration and a final project write-up at the end of the semester.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
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Sunil Agrawal
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Gerard H Ateshian
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James Hone
CULPA: 11
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Jeffrey W Kysar
CULPA: 9
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Qiao Lin
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Michael J Massimino
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Kristin Myers
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Arvind Narayanaswamy
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Y. Lawrence Yao
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Hod Lipson
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Karen Kasza
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UNDERGRADUATE FIELDWORK
Prerequisites: Obtained internship and approval from faculty advisor.
May be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 total points may be used toward the 128credit degree requirement. Only for APAM undergraduate students who include relevant off-campus work experience as part of their approved program of study. Final report and letter of evaluation required. Fieldwork credits may not count toward any major core, technical, elective, and nontechnical requirements. May not be taken for pass/fail credit or audited.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
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Instructor:
Yuan Yang
h-index: 49 Info - 1-2 points
UNDERGRADUATE FIELDWORK
UNDEERGRADUATE FIELDWORK
Prerequisites: Obtained internship and approval from faculty advisor.
May be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 total points may be used toward the 128credit degree requirement. Only for APAM undergraduate students who include relevant off-campus work experience as part of their approved program of study. Final report and letter of evaluation required. Fieldwork credits may not count toward any major core, technical, elective, and nontechnical requirements. May not be taken for pass/fail credit or audited.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
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Instructor:
Kyle Mandli
h-index: 14 Info - 1-2 points
UNDERGRADUATE FIELDWORK
Prerequisites: Obtained internship and approval from faculty advisor.
May be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 total points may be used toward the 128credit degree requirement. Only for APAM undergraduate students who include relevant off-campus work experience as part of their approved program of study. Final report and letter of evaluation required. Fieldwork credits may not count toward any major core, technical, elective, and nontechnical requirements. May not be taken for pass/fail credit or audited.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
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Instructor:
Adam H Sobel
CULPA: 6
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Latha Venkataraman
CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 55 Info - 1-2 points
UNDERGRADUATE FIELDWORK
Prerequisites: Obtained internship and approval from faculty advisor. BMEN undergraduate students only.
May be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 total points may be used toward the 128-credit degree requirement. Only for BMEN undergraduate students who include relevant off-campus work experience as part of their approved program of study. Final report and letter of evaluation required. Fieldwork credits may not count toward any major core, technical, elective, and non-technical requirements. May not be taken for pass/fail credit or audited.
- Department: Biomedical Engineering
- 1-2 points
UNDERGRADUATE FIELDWORK
Prerequisites: Restricted to Chemical Engineering undergraduate students.
Provides work experience on chemical engineering in relevant intern or fieldwork experience as part of their program of study as determined by the instructor. Written application must be made prior to registration outlining proposed internship/study program. A written report describing the experience and how it relates to the chemical engineering core curriculum is required. Employer feedback on student performance and the quality of the report are the basis of the grade. This course may not be taken for pass/fail or audited. May not be used as a technical or non­technical elective. May be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 points total of CHEN E3999 may be used for degree credit.
- Department: Chemical Engineering
- 1-2 points
FIELDWORK
Prerequisites: Obtained internship and approval from faculty advisor.
May be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 total points may be used toward the 128-credit degree requirement. Only for SEAS computer science undergraduate students who include relevant off-campus work experience as part of their approved program of study. Final report and letter of evaluation required. May not be used as a technical or non-technical elective. May not be taken for pass/fail credit or audited.
- Department: Computer Science
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Instructor:
Paul S Blaer
CULPA: 46
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Xi Chen
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Stephen A Edwards
CULPA: 21
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FIELDWORK
Prerequisites: Obtained internship and approval from faculty advisor.
Only for IEOR undergraduate students who need relevant work experience as part of their program of study. Final reports are required. This course may not be taken for pass/fail credit or audited.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- 1-2 points
FIELDWORK
Prerequisites: Obtained internship and approval from faculty advisor.
May be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 total points may be used toward the 128-credit degree requirement. Only for MECE undergraduate students who include relevant on-campus and off-campus work experience as part of their approved program of study. Final report and letter of evaluation required. Fieldwork credits may not count toward any major core, technical, elective, and non-technical requirements. May not be taken for pass/fail credit or audited.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
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Instructor:
Qiao Lin
h-index: 41 Info - 1-2 points
DATA J/LEDE
FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTING
- Department: Journalism
- TR 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jonathan Soma
Info - 3 points
DATA J/LEDE
DATA AND DATA BASES
- Department: Journalism
- MW 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jonathan S Thirkield
Info - 3 points
DATA J/LEDE
DATA ANALYSIS STUDIO
- Department: Journalism
- MW 9 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Ashlyn Still
Info - 3 points
Adv Chinese II: Beijing
ADV CHINESE II: BEIJING
Prerequisites:
CHNS W4005
or the equivalent.
Admission after Chinese placement exam and an oral proficiency interview with the instructor. Especially designed for students who possess good speaking ability and who wish to acquire practical writing skills as well as business-related vocabulary and speech patterns. Introduction to semiformal and formal Chinese used in everyday writing and social or business-related occasions. Simplified characters are introduced.
MATH METHODS IN CHEMICAL ENGIN
MATH METHODS IN CHEMICAL ENFIN
Prerequisites: (CHEN E3120) and (CHEN E4230) or equivalent, or instructor's permission.
Mathematical description of chemical engineering problems and the application of selected methods for their solution. General modeling principles, including model hierarchies. Linear and nonlinear ordinary differential equations and their systems, including those with variable coefficients. Partial differential equations in Cartesian and curvilinear coordinates for the solution of chemical engineering problems.
- Department: Video Network
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Instructor:
Michael I Hill
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN RIGHTS
INTRO TO HUMAN RIGHTS
This course will provide a wide-ranging survey of conceptual foundations and issues in contemporary human rights. The class will examine the philosophical origins of human rights, contemporary debates, the evolution of human rights, key human rights documents, and the questions of human rights enforcement. This course will examine specific civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights and various thematic topics in human rights.
- Department: Summer Session (SS)
- MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sandra L Sirota
Info - 3 points
SCREENWRITING I: INTRO
Modern feature-length screenplays demand a specific architecture. In this class students will enter with an idea for a film, and during the first eight sessions build a coherent treatment; that is, a summary of the events and major emotional arcs of the film's three acts. In the final four sessions students will begin and complete the first act of their feature-length screenplay.
- Department: Summer Session (SS)
- TR 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Loren-Paul Caplin
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
ARCH ELECTIVE INTERNSHIP
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Francesca Fanelli
Info - 1.5 points
INTRO TO MODERN ANALYSIS I
Prerequisites:
MATH S1202
,
MATH S2010
, or the equivalent. Students must have a current and solid background in the prerequisites for the course: multivariable calculus and linear algebra.
Elements of set theory and general topology. Metric spaces. Euclidian space. Continuous and differentiable functions. Riemann integral. Uniform convergence.
- Department: Summer Session (SS)
- MTWR 10:45 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mitchell Faulk
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Fabio Nironi
CULPA: 17 Info - 3 points
INTRO TO MODERN ANALYSIS II
Prerequisites:
MATH S4061
, or the equivalent with the instructor's permission.
Equicontinuity. Contraction maps with applications to existence theorems in analysis. Lebesgue measure and integral. Fourier series and Fourier transform
- Department: Summer Session (SS)
- MTWR 10:45 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Karsten T Gimre
Info - 3 points
HP ELECT INTERNSHIP
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Meredith A Brull
Info - 1.5 points
MECHANISMS OF TRANSPORT
TRANSPORT PHENOMENA III
Prerequisites: (CHEN E3120) CHEN E3110X and CHEN E3120Y or the equivalent
Continuum frame-work for modeling non-equilibrium phenomena in fluids with clear connections to the molecular/microscopic mechanisms for "conductive" transport. Continuum balances of mass and momentum; continuum-level development of conductive momentum flux (stress tensor) for simple fluids; applications of continuum framework for simple fluids (lubrication flows, creeping flows). Microscopic developments of the stress for simple and/or complex fluids; kinetic theory and/or liquid state models for transport coefficients in simple fluids; Langevin/Fokker- Plank/Smoluchowski framework for the stress in complex fluids; stress in active matter; applications for complex fluids.
- Department: Video Network
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Instructor:
Christopher J Durning
CULPA: 3 Info - 3 points
COMPUTER NETWORKS
Prerequisites: Corequisites: IEOR E3658 or equivalent.
Corequisites: IEOR E3658
Introduction to computer networks and the technical foundations of the Internet, including applications, protocols, local area networks, algorithms for routing and congestion control, security, elementary performance evaluation. Several written and programming assignments required.
- Department: Video Network
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Instructor:
Gil Zussman
CULPA: 3
h-index: 39
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- 3 points
HUM RIGHTS/GLOBAL ECON JUSTICE
HUMAN RGHTS & GLOBAL ECON JUST
The world economy is a patchwork of competing and complementary interests among and between governments, corporations, and civil society. These stakeholders at times cooperate and also conflict over issues of global poverty, inequality, and sustainability. What role do human rights play in coordinating the different interests that drive global economic governance? This seminar will introduce students to different structures of global governance for development, trade, labor, finance, the environment, migration, and intellectual property and investigate their relationship with human rights. Students will learn about public, private, and mixed forms of governance, analyze the ethical and strategic perspectives of the various stakeholders and relate them to existing human rights norms. The course will examine the work of multilateral organizations such as the United Nations and the International Financial Institutions, as well as international corporate and non-governmental initiatives.
- Department: Summer Session (SS)
- TR 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rainer Braun
Info - 3 points
WOMEN & GENDER IN SOUTH ASIA
This course is an ethnographic and historical introduction to the construction of gender and feminist theory in the South Asian context. We will focus on textual and visual material, primarily ethnographies and films, to provide a critique of normative representations of the "South Asian woman". These readings will be used to reveal the complex social and historical configurations that institute and obscure gendered experiences and representations within the colonial imagination and their colonized others. A significant motif of this course will be to develop alternative ways of knowing and understanding gender construction, sexual relations, and community formation in South Asia.
- Department: Summer Session (SS)
- MW 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sonia Ahsan
CULPA: 4
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- 3 points
HUMAN RIGHTS & VISUAL CULTURE
This course examines the relationship between visual culture and human rights. It considers a wide range of visual media (photography, painting, sculpture), as well as aspects of visuality (surveillance, profiling). We will use case studies ranging in time from the early modern period (practices in which the body was marked to measure criminality, for example), to the present day. Within this framework, we will study how aspects of visual culture have been used to advocate for human rights, as well as how images and visual regimes have been used to suppress human rights. An important part of the course will be to consider the role played by reception in shaping a discourse around human rights, visuality, and images. Subjects to be addressed include: the nature of evidence; documentation and witness; censorship; iconoclasm; surveillance; profiling; advocacy images; signs on the body; visibility and invisibility.
- Department: Summer Session (SS)
- TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Susan M Merriam
Info - 3 points
PHYSICS OF FLUIDS
Prerequisites: (APMA E3102) or (PHYS UN1401) or (PHYS UN1601) or or equivalent.
An introduction to the physical behavior of fluids for science and engineering students. Derivation of basic equations of fluid dynamics: conservation of mass, momentum, and energy. Dimensional analysis. Vorticity. Laminar boundary layers. Potential flow. Effects of compressibility, stratification, and rotation. Waves on a free surface; shallow water equations. Turbulence.
- Department: Video Network
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Instructor:
Michael E Mauel
CULPA: 9
Info
- 3 points
PROBABILITY THEORY
Prerequisites:
MATH V1101
Calculus I and
MATH V1102
Calculus II, or the equivalent, and
STAT W1111
or
STAT W1211
(Introduction to Statistics).
Corequisites:
MATH V1201
Calculus III, or the equivalent, or the instructor's permission.
This course can be taken as a single course for students requiring knowledge of probability or as a foundation for more advanced courses. It is open to both undergraduate and master students. This course satisfies the prerequisite for
STAT W3107
and
W4107.
Topics covered include combinatorics, conditional probability, random variables and common distributions, expectation, independence, Bayes' rule, joint distributions, conditional expectations, moment generating functions, central limit theorem, laws of large numbers, characteristic functions.
- Department: Summer Session (SS)
- MTWR 6:15 p.m.-7:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Young S Kim
CULPA: 5
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- 3 points
INT/ADV JAPANESE LANG PEDAGOGY
The theory and practice of teaching intermediate and advanced Japanese courses. Practicum on teaching practice.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- MTWRF 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.
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Mariko Moroishi Wei
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Fumiko Nazikian
CULPA: 6
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- 3 points
CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL DOCUMENTAR
Documentaries are increasingly proliferating across small and large screens around the world. They circulate as market commodities, forms of entertainment, and vehicles for social change. In this seminar we will compare different national and region contexts of contemporary documentary production, including projects created within the media industries of Mexico, Peru, India, China, Cambodia, and Israel. We will also examine how documentaries resonate locally, but can still transcend geographic borders and engage viewers across the globe. Crucial to our course will be the close analysis of how documentaries actively address civil rights struggles, oppressive government regimes, cultural trends, environmental crises, and progressive social movements to create more inclusive, equitable communities. So, too, will we examine emerging technologies (such as VR/AR), strategies of international co-production, star-studded film festivals, as well as the global reach and impact of mega studios such as Netflix and Wanda. This course partially satisfies the Global Core requirement.
- Department: Summer Session (SS)
- MW 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Joshua L Glick
Info - 3 points
NGOS&THE; HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT
INT'L HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT
The human rights movement is one of the most successful social justice movements of our time, establishing universal principles that govern how states should treat citizens and non-citizens. The movement strengthens, and is strengthened by, a complex web of institutions, laws, and norms that constitute a functioning global system that builds on itself progressively, animated by strong NGOs. The course will address the evolution of the international human rights movement and on the NGOs that drive the movement on the international, regional and domestic levels. Sessions will highlight the experiences of major human rights NGOs and will address topics including strategy development, institutional representation, research methodologies, partnerships, networks, venues of engagement, campaigning, fundraising and, perhaps most importantly, the fraught and complex debates about adaptation to changing global circumstances.
- Department: Summer Session (SS)
- MW 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Louis Bickford
CULPA: 1 h-index: 13 Info - 3 points
INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
This course introduces the fundamental concepts and problems of international human rights law. What are the origins of modern human rights law? What is the substance of this law, who is obligated by it, and how is it enforced? The course will cover the major international human rights treaties and mechanisms and consider some of today's most significant human rights issues and controversies. While the topics are necessarily law-related, the course will assume no prior exposure to legal studies.
- Department: Summer Session (SS)
- MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Belinda Cooper
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS
Prerequisites:
COMS W3134
,
COMS W3136
, or
COMS W3137
, and
COMS W3203
.
Introduction to the design and analysis of efficient algorithms. Topics include models of computation, efficient sorting and searching, algorithms for algebraic problems, graph algorithms, dynamic programming, probabilistic methods, approximation algorithms, and NP-completeness.
- Department: Summer Session (SS)
- TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Eleni Drinea
CULPA: 8 Info - 3 points
ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS I
Prerequisites: (COMS W3134 or COMS W3136COMS W3137) and (COMS W3203)
Introduction to the design and analysis of efficient algorithms. Topics include models of computation, efficient sorting and searching, algorithms for algebraic problems, graph algorithms, dynamic programming, probabilistic methods, approximation algorithms, and NP-completeness.
- Department: Computer Science
- TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Eleni Drinea
CULPA: 8 Info - 3 points
ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS I
Prerequisites: (COMS W3134 or COMS W3136COMS W3137) and (COMS W3203)
Introduction to the design and analysis of efficient algorithms. Topics include models of computation, efficient sorting and searching, algorithms for algebraic problems, graph algorithms, dynamic programming, probabilistic methods, approximation algorithms, and NP-completeness.
- Department: Video Network
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Instructor:
Eleni Drinea
CULPA: 8 Info - 3 points
US IMMIGRATION:RGHTS,FRAMING,
- Department: Summer Session (SS)
- MW 5:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ted Perlmutter
Info - 3 points
INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION
Prerequisites: Intermediate Microeconomics(ECON UN3211) and Intermediate Macroeconomics (ECON UN3213)
The study of industrial behavior based on game-theoretic oligopoly models. Topics include pricing models, strategic aspects of business practice, vertical integration, and technological innovation.
- Department: Summer Session (SS)
- MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Arpita Saluja
Info - 3 points
CORPORATE FINANCE
Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 or ECON UN3213 or STAT UN1201
An introduction to the economic principles, theories and basic tools underlying the financial decisions of firms. The topics covered include financial statement analysis, net present value analysis, time value of money, valuation of perpetuities and annuities, opportunity cost of capital, weighted average cost of capital, valuation of bonds and stocks, capital budgeting, dividend policy, market efficiency, capital structure, Modigliani-Miller theorem, option valuation and risk management. Every effort would be made to relate the course material to real-world financial applications.