MACHINE LEARNING

Prerequisites: Any introductory course in linear algebra and any introductory course in statistics are both required. Highly recommended: COMS W4701 or knowledge of Artificial Intelligence.
Topics from generative and discriminative machine learning including least squares methods, support vector machines, kernel methods, neural networks, Gaussian distributions, linear classification, linear regression, maximum likelihood, exponential family distributions, Bayesian networks, Bayesian inference, mixture models, the EM algorithm, graphical models and hidden Markov models. Algorithms implemented in MATLAB.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Hsu
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 44 Info
• 3 points

MAN, MACHINE & LAND

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Sean A Gallagher
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• 3 points

META TOOL I

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Taeyoung Lee
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• 1.5 points

ARCH + HUMAN RIGHTS

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

Heroes, Lovers, and Visionaries: English

HEROES,LOVERS,VISIONARIES

This course will introduce some of the most fascinating texts of the first eight hundred years of English literature, from the period of Anglo-Saxon rule through the Hundred Years’ War and beyond—roughly, 700–1500 CE. We will proceed by exploring the role of some crucial figures in medieval writing: heroes, lovers, and visionaries. These key players relate in complex ways to the major genres of the Middle Ages, such as epic, romance, and spiritual writing; part of our work will be disentangling these relationships. We’ll hit on some texts you’ve heard of – 
Beowulf
 and selections from Chaucer’s 
Canterbury Tales
 – while leaving time for some you may not have encountered – Marie de France’s 
Lais
 and Margery of Kempe’s 
Book
. Along the way, we’ll also hone skills of reading, writing, and oral expression crucial to appreciating and discussing literature in nuanced, supple ways. 
If you take this course, you’ll discover how medieval literature is both a mirror and a foil to modern literature. You’ll explore the plurilingual and cross-cultural nature of medieval literary production and improve (or acquire!) your knowledge of Middle English. You’ll discover sources for famous texts, like
King Lear,
and see the posterity of other famous texts, like the
Aeneid.
Plus, you’ll flex your writing muscles with two short textual analyses (2-4 pp.) and one longer research paper (8-10pp).

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 2:40 a.m.-3:55 a.m.
• 3 points

PROGRAM (PRACTICES)

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Enrique Walker
  h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

META TOOL II

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Taeyoung Lee
  Info
• 1.5 points

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING

Prerequisites: (ELEN E3801)
Digital filtering in time and frequency domain, including properties of discrete-time signals and systems, sampling theory, transform analysis, system structures, IIR and FIR filter design techniques, the discrete Fourier transform, fast Fourier transforms.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• M 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: John Wright
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 44 Info
• 3 points

HACKING THE URBAN EXPERIENCE

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: John H Locke
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• 1.5 points

Space and Place in Urbanizing Tibet: Ind

SPACE & PLACE URBAN TIBET

This course engages with approaches from anthropology, geography, and indigenous studies to analyze contemporary urban transitions on the Tibetan plateau.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Eveline Washul
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

X INFO MODELING I

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Luc B Wilson
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• 1.5 points

Faith and Empire: Art and Politics in Ti

ART & POLI TIBET BUDDHISM

Religious claims to political power are a global phenomenon, and Tibetan Buddhism once offered a divine means to power and legitimacy to rule. This class will explore the intersection of politics, religion, and art in Tibetan Buddhism--the force of religion to claim political power. Images were one of the primary means of political propagation, integral to magical tantric rites, and embodiments of power.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Karl P Debreczeny
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• 4 points

19TH CENTURY EUROPEAN NOVEL

The European novel in the era of its cultural dominance.  Key concerns: the modern metropolis (London, Paris, St. Petersburg); the figures of bourgeois narrative (
parvenus
, adulterers, adolescents, consumers) and bourgeois consciousness (nostalgia, 
ressentiment
, sentimentalism, ennui); the impact of journalism, science, economics. Authors to be drawn from: Goethe, Stendhal, Balzac, Dickens, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Turgenev, Zola.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicholas Dames
  CULPA: 35 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED LOGIC DESIGN

Prerequisites: (CSEE W3827) or a half semester introduction to digital logic, or the equivalent.
An introduction to modern digital system design. Advanced topics in digital logic: controller synthesis (Mealy and Moore machines); adders and multipliers; structured logic blocks (PLDs, PALs, ROMs); iterative circuits. Modern design methodology: register transfer level modelling (RTL); algorithmic state machines (ASMs); introduction to hardware description languages (VHDL or Verilog); system-level modelling and simulation; design examples.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Mingoo Seok
  h-index: 31 Info
• 3 points

TRANSF. DESIGN METHODS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew Davis
  h-index: 2 Info
• 3 points

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

Prerequisites: (CSEE W3827) or equivalent.
Focuses on advanced topics in computer architecture, illustrated by case studies from classic and modern processors. Fundamentals of quantitative analysis. Pipelining. Memory hierarchy design. Instruction-level and thread-level parallelism. Data-level parallelism and graphics processing units. Multiprocessors. Cache coherence. Interconnection networks. Multi-core processors and systems-on-chip. Platform architectures for embedded, mobile, and cloud computing.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Simha Sethumadhavan
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

X INFO MODELING II

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Luc B Wilson
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• 1.5 points

LINES NOT SPLINES

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Christoph Kumpusch
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• 1.5 points

DATAMINING THE CITY

DATAMINING THE CITY I

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Violet Whitney
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• 3 points

WETLANDS & CLIMATE CHANGE

Prerequisites: introductory biology or chemistry, or the instructor's permission.
Analysis of modern wetland dynamics and the important ecological, biogeochemical, and hydrological functions taking place in marshes, bogs, fens, and swamps, with a field emphasis. Wetlands as fossil repositories, the paleoenvironmental history they provide, and their role in the carbon cycle. Current wetland destruction, remediation attempts, and valuation. Laboratory analysis and field trips.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Dorothy Peteet
  h-index: 38 Info
• 3 points

JAZZ & THE LITERARY IMAGINATN

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Brent H Edwards
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

CHINA AND POLITICS OF DESIRE

POL OF DESIRE CONTEMP CHINA

A recent American newspaper headline announced that China has become “the most materialistic country the world.” Globally circulating narratives often interpret Chinese consumers’ demand for commodities as an attempt to fill a void left by the absence of the Maoist state, traditional religious life, and Western-style democracy. But things aren’t as simple as they appear. This course explores the intertwined questions of “Chinese” desire and the desire for China. Avoiding reductionist understandings of desire as either a universal natural human attribute or a particular Chinese cultural trait, we will track the production and management of desire within a complex global field. Drawing on ethnographies, films, short stories, and psychoanalytic and postcolonial theory, this course will explore the shifting figure of desire across the Maoist and post-Maoist eras by examining how academics, government officials, intellectuals, and artists have represented Chinese needs, wants and fantasies. From state leaders’ attempts to improve the “quality” of the country’s population to citizens’ dreams of home ownership, from sexualized desire to hunger for food, drugs and other commodities, we will attend to the continuities and disjunctures of recent Chinese history by tracking how desire in China has been conceptualized and refracted through local and global encounters.

• Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Nicholas A Bartlett
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

HACKING THE URBAN EXP II

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: John H Locke
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• 1.5 points

CONTAMINATED SITE CLEAN UP

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Christos D Tsiamis
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• 3 points

COGNITIVE MECH & ECON BEHAVIOR

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and STAT UN1201
Standard economic theory seeks to explain human behavior (especially in "economic" settings, such as markets) in terms of rational choice, which means that the choices that are made can be predicted on the basis of what would best serve some coherent objective, under an objectively correct understanding of the predictable consequences of alternative actions. Observed behavior often seems difficult to reconcile with a strong form of this theory, even if incentives clearly have some influence on behavior; and the course will discuss empirical evidence (both from laboratory experiments and observations "in the field") for some well-established "anomalies." But beyond simply cataloguing anomalies for the standard theory, the course will consider the extent to which departures from a strong version of rational choice theory can be understood as reflecting cognitive processes that are also evident in other domains such as sensory perception; examples from visual perception will receive particular attention. And in addition to describing what is known about how the underlying mechanisms work (something that is understood in more detail in sensory contexts than in the case of value-based decision making), the course will consider the extent to which such mechanisms --- while "suboptimal" from a normative standpoint that treats perfect knowledge of one's situation as costless and automatic --- might actually represent efficient uses of the limited information and bounded information-processing resources available to actual people (or other organisms). Thus the course will consider both ways in which the realism of economic analysis may be improved by taking into account cognitive processes, and ways in which understanding of cognitive processes might be advanced by considering the "economic" problem of efficient use of limited (cognitive) resources.

• Department: Economics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Michael D Woodford
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• 4 points

TRANSITIONAL GEOMETRIES

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Joshua C Jordan
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• 3 points

CROSS-SPECIES TESTSITES

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher Woebken
  Info
• 3 points

SYSTEM-ON-CHIP PLATFORMS

Prerequisites: (COMS W3157) and (CSEE W3827)
Design and programming of System-on-Chip (SoC) platforms. Topics include: overview of technology and economic trends, methodologies and supporting CAD tools for system-level design, models of computation, the SystemC language, transaction-level modeling, software simulation and virtual platforms, hardware-software partitioning, high-level synthesis, system programming and device drivers, on-chip communication, memory organization, power management and optimization, integration of programmable processor cores and specialized accelerators. Case studies of modern SoC platforms for various classes of applications.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Luca Carloni
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia h-index: 45 Info
• 3 points

JAPANESE IMPERIALISM IN E ASIA

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: James J Gerien-Chen
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• 4 points

HISTORY OF MODERN CHINA I

China’s transformation under its last imperial rulers, with special emphasis on economic, legal, political, and cultural change.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Madeleine H Zelin
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

BIOMEDICAL IMAGING

This course covers image formation, methods of analysis, and representation of digital images. Measures of qualitative performance in the context of clinical imaging. Algorithms fundamental to the construction of medical images via methods of computed tomography, magnetic resonance, and ultrasound. Algorithms and methods for the enhancement and quantification of specific features of clinical importance in each of these modalities.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Andreas Hielscher
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

SEM-PROBLEMS IN APPLIED MATH

This course is required for, and can be taken only by, all applied mathematics majors in the junior year. Introductory seminars on problems and techniques in applied mathematics. Typical topics are nonlinear dynamics, scientific computation, economics, operation research, etc.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• W 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: chris wiggins
  CULPA: 12 Wikipedia h-index: 34 Info
• 0-1 points

SEM-PROBLMS IN APPLIED PHYSICS

This course is required for, and can be taken only by, all applied physics majors and minors in the junior year. Discussion of specific and self-contained problems in areas such as applied electrodynamics, physics of solids, and plasma physics. Topics change yearly.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael E Mauel
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 1 points

DIRECTED READINGS

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Topics chosen in consultation between members of the staff and students.

• Department: Classics
• Instructor: Deborah Steiner
  CULPA: 12 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
  CULPA: 20 Info
• Instructor: Darcy Krasne
  h-index: 5 Info
• Instructor: Marcus Folch
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Paraskevi Martzavou
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Kathy H Eden
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: John T Ma
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Gareth Williams
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Joseph A Howley
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth K Irwin
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

(Lecture). A survey of the history of the English language from before Old English to 21st Century Modern English, with no background in linguistics required. Grammar, dialectal variety, and social history will be covered to roughly equal extents. Requirements include three examinations, one of them an extended take-home exercise. Lecture format with some discussion depending on the topic.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: John H McWhorter
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SEM-PROBLEMS IN APPLIED MATH

For 4 pts. credit, term paper required. This course is required for all applied mathematics majors in the senior year. Examples of problem areas are nonlinear dynamics, asymptotics, approximation theory, numerical methods, etc. Approximately three problem areas are studies per term.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: chris wiggins
  CULPA: 12 Wikipedia h-index: 34 Info
• 3-4 points

SEM-PROBLMS IN APPLIED PHYSICS

This course is required for, and can be taken only by, all applied physics majors in the senior year. Discussion of specific and self-contained problems in areas such as applied electrodynamics, physics of solids, and plasma physics. Formal presentation of a term paper required. Topics change yearly.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael E Mauel
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 2 points

SYNTAX

Prerequisites: LING UN3101
Syntax - the combination of words - has been at the center of the Chomskyan revolution in Linguistics. This is a technical course which examines modern formal theories of syntax, focusing on later versions of generative syntax (Government and Binding) with secondary attention to alternative models (HPSG, Categorial Grammar).

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Meredith Landman
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

ACQ OF CHINESE AS A 2ND LANG

For more than forty years, second language acquisition (SLA) has been emerging as an independent field of inquiry with its own research agenda and theoretical paradigms. The study of SLA is inherently interdisciplinary, as it draws on scholarship from the fields of linguistics, psychology, education, and sociology. This course explores how Chinese is acquired by non-native speakers. Students will learn about general phenomena and patterns during the process of acquiring a new language. They will become familiar with important core concepts, theoretical frameworks, and research practices of the field of SLA, with Chinese as the linguistic focus.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Shaoyan Qi
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 4 points

FIELD BOTANY/PLANT SYSTEMATICS

Prerequisites: introductory biology sequence, including organismal biology.
A survey of vascular plants with emphasis on features of greatest utility in identifying plants in the field to the family level. This will be coupled with a survey of the major plant communities of northeastern North America and the characteristic species found in each. The course will consist of one lecture and one laboratory per week with several lab sessions extended to accommodate field trips to local and regional natural areas.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• F 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew I Palmer
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 14 Info
• 4 points

LITERARY TRANSLATION

Prerequisites: four years of college Russian or the equivalent.
Workshop in literary translation from Russian into English focusing on the practical problems of the craft. Each student submits a translation of a literary text for group study and criticism. The aim is to produce translations of publishable quality.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Ronald Meyer
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• 3 points

MICROECONOMICS SEMINAR

ECONOMICS SEMINAR REGISTRATION

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 Registration information is posted on the department's Seminar Sign-up webpage.
Selected topics in microeconomics. Selected topics will be posted on the department's webpage.

• Department: Economics
• Instructor: Susan M Elmes
  CULPA: 44 Info
• 4 points

MICROECONOMICS SEMINAR

SPORTS ECONOMIS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 Registration information is posted on the department's Seminar Sign-up webpage.
Selected topics in microeconomics. Selected topics will be posted on the department's webpage.

• Department: Economics
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Sunil K Gulati
  CULPA: 113 Info
• 4 points

MICROECONOMICS SEMINAR

PUBLIC POLICY & HEALTHCARE

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 Registration information is posted on the department's Seminar Sign-up webpage.
Selected topics in microeconomics. Selected topics will be posted on the department's webpage.

• Department: Economics
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Neal Masia
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• 4 points

MICROECONOMICS SEMINAR

GENDER ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 Registration information is posted on the department's Seminar Sign-up webpage.
Selected topics in microeconomics. Selected topics will be posted on the department's webpage.

• Department: Economics
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Lena Edlund
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

MICROECONOMICS SEMINAR

PRIVATE EQUIT&HEDGE; FUND INVES

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 Registration information is posted on the department's Seminar Sign-up webpage.
Selected topics in microeconomics. Selected topics will be posted on the department's webpage.

• Department: Economics
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Tri Vi Dang
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 10 Info
• 4 points

MICROECONOMICS SEMINAR

ECONOMICS OF THE ARTS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 Registration information is posted on the department's Seminar Sign-up webpage.
Selected topics in microeconomics. Selected topics will be posted on the department's webpage.

• Department: Economics
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Prajit K Dutta
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 4 points

MICROECONOMICS SEMINAR

GLOBALIZATION & IT'S RISKS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 Registration information is posted on the department's Seminar Sign-up webpage.
Selected topics in microeconomics. Selected topics will be posted on the department's webpage.

• Department: Economics
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Graciela Chichilnisky
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info
• 4 points

MACROECONOMICS SEMINAR

MACROECONOMICS SEMINAR (4)

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 Registration information is posted on the department's Seminar Sign-up webpage.
Selected topics in macroeconomics. Selected topics will be posted on the department's webpage.

• Department: Economics
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthieu Gomez
  h-index: 4 Info
• 4 points

MACROECONOMICS SEMINAR

FIN INTERM IN MACROECONOMY

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 Registration information is posted on the department's Seminar Sign-up webpage.
Selected topics in macroeconomics. Selected topics will be posted on the department's webpage.

• Department: Economics
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer La'O
  h-index: 9 Info
• 4 points

MACROECONOMICS SEMINAR

EMPIRICAL ECON INST & DEVEL

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 Registration information is posted on the department's Seminar Sign-up webpage.
Selected topics in macroeconomics. Selected topics will be posted on the department's webpage.

• Department: Economics
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Maxim Pinkovskiy
  Info
• 4 points

MACROECONOMICS SEMINAR

MACROECONOMICS SEMINAR (4)

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 Registration information is posted on the department's Seminar Sign-up webpage.
Selected topics in macroeconomics. Selected topics will be posted on the department's webpage.

• Department: Economics
• 4 points

HUMAN RIGHTS & URBAN PUB SPACE

The course will explore the often-contested terrain of urban contexts, looking at cities fron architectural, sociological, historical, and political positions. What do rights have to do with the city? Can the ancient idea of a "right to the city" tell us something fundamental about both rights and cities? Our notion of citizenship is based in the understanding of a city as a community, and yet today why do millions of people live in cities without citizenship? The course will be organized thematically in order to discuss such issues as the consequences of cities' developments in relation to their peripheries beginning with the normative idea of urban boundaries deriving from fortifying walls, debates around the public sphere, nomadic architecture and urbanism, informal settlements such as slums and shantytowns, surveillance and control in urban centers, refugees and the places they live, catastrophes natural and man-made and reconstruction, and sovereign areas within cities the United Nations, War Crimes Tribunals. At the heart of our inquiry will be an investigation of the ways in which rights within urban contexts are either granted or withheld.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Noah B Chasin
  Info
• 3 points

THE EARTH/HUMAN INTERACTIONS

Based upon the most current understanding of our planet and our impact on it and how we make decisions about the threats we face, a new knowledge-based "green" framework is developed for our relationship to our planet and to each other as well as its general implications for human stewardship of our planet and meeting the needs of 8 billion humans. This new framework is explored using case studies, class participation, and term papers on specific current scientific and policy issues like global warming, renewable energy, carbon dioxide removal and their impact on the sustainability and resilience of our planet and ourselves.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter Eisenberger
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY FOR ENGINEERS

PHARM INDUSTRY ENGINEERING

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Aaron Moment
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• 3 points

Seeing Narrative

An advanced film theory "workshop" in which we shall avoid reading film theory in favor of a selection of other texts, taken mainly from the domains of art history, philosophy, and literature. Our central question will be: What can we, who have grown up in the age of cinema and digital media, learn from discourses about vision and its relation to narrative that pre-date the cinema, or that consider the cinema only marginally? In this course, we shall begin to approach some of the major topics of contemporary film theory -- narrativity, subject-construction, the relation of words to images -- through the lens of texts that have remained largely outside the network of citations and references we normally associate with the work of professional media theory. We might begin the groundwork for an "opening up" or critique of some of the blind spots of current theory; at the very least, we shall be reading works that challenge our usual ways of theorizing.

• Department: Film
• M 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: James A Schamus
  CULPA: 8 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SPATIAL HISTORY AND HISTORICAL GIS

SPATIAL HISTORY AND HGIS

This course introduces students to the emerging methodologies that combine geographic information systems (GIS) with historical thinking. Students will study and evaluate the benefits and limitations of key works in historical GIS, become familiar with basic principles of cartographic design, and learn technical skills to create their own HGIS project.

• Department: History
• F 9:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: S. Wright Kennedy
  h-index: 3 Info
• 4 points

INTRO TO PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Prerequisites: Recommended preparation: a solid background in mathematics, physics, and chemistry.
Physical properties of seawater, water masses and their distribution, sea-air interaction influence on the ocean structure, basic ocean circulation pattern, relation of diffusion and advection with respect to distribution of ocean properties, ocean tides and waves, turbulence, and introduction to ocean dynamics.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• 3 points

PRNCPLS OF DEVICE MICROFABRCTN

Science and technology of conventional and advanced microfabrication techniques for electronics, integrated and discrete components. Topics include diffusion; ion implantation, thin-film growth including oxides and metals, molecular beam and liquid-phase epitaxy; optical and advanced lithography; and plasma and wet etching.

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

PLATE TECTONICS

Prerequisites: course in solid earth geology or geophysics; solid background in math and physics
Development of a comprehensive understanding of deformation and evolution of Earth's surface through cross-disciplinary analysis of the plate-tectonic cycle. Topics include the thermal and chemical evolution of mid-ocean ridges, the deep-ocean basins, subduction zones, continental rifts and collisions, and hot spots; driving forces of plate motion and mantle convection; magmatism and volcanism; and faulting and earthquakes.  Emphasizes integration of geophysical, geological and geochemical observations and processes, with a particular focus on observations from the ocean basins.
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• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• 3 points

ENIVRON BIOCHEMICAL PROCESSES

ENVIRON BIOCHEMICAL PROC

Prerequisites: (EAEE E4901) and (EAEE E4003) and (CIEE E4252) or EAEE E4901, E4003, CIEE E4252 or the instructor's approval.
Qualitative and quantitative considerations in engineered environmental biochemical processes. Characterization of multiple microbial reactions in a community and techniques for determining associated kinetic and stoichiometric parameters. Engineering design of several bioreactor configurations employed for biochemical waste treatment. Mathematical modeling of engineered biological reactors using state-of-the-art simulation packages.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Kartik Chandran
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 51 Info
• 3 points

HUMAN RIGHTS & HUMAN WRONGS

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. Please e-mail the instructor at
bc14@columbia.edu
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This course will examine the tension between two contradictory trends in world politics. On the one hand, we have emerged from a century that has seen some of the most brutal practices ever perpetrated by states against their populations in the form of genocide, systematic torture, mass murder and ethnic cleansing. Many of these abuses occurred after the Holocaust, even though the mantra "never again" was viewed by many as a pledge never to allow a repeat of these practices. Events in the new century suggest that these trends will not end anytime soon. At the same time, since the middle of the twentieth century, for the first time in human history there has been a growing global consensus that all individuals are entitled to at least some level of protection from abuse by their governments. This concept of human rights has been institutionalized through international law, diplomacy, international discourse, transnational activism, and the foreign policies of many states. Over the past two decades, international organizations, non-governmental organizations, and international tribunals have gone further than any institutions in human history to try to stem state abuses. This seminar will try to make sense of these contradictions.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Bruce L Cronin
  CULPA: 13 Info
• 3 points

COMPOSITE MODELLING

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Jackie Martinez
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• 1.5 points

NEW MEDIA ART

The rapid democratization of technology has led to a new wave of immersive storytelling that spills off screens into the real world and back again. These works defy traditional constraints as they shift away from a one-to-many to a many-to-many paradigm, transforming those formerly known as the audience from passive viewers into storytellers in their own right. New opportunities and limitations offered by emergent technologies are augmenting the grammar of storytelling, as creators wrestle with an ever-shifting digital landscape.  
New Media Art pulls back the curtain on transmedial works of fiction, non-fiction, and emergent forms that defy definition. Throughout the semester we'll explore projects that utilize Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and the Internet of Things, alongside a heavy-hitting selection of new media thinkers, theorists, and critics.
The course will be co-taught as a dialogue between artistic practice and new media theory. Lance Weiler, a new media artist and founder of Columbia’s Digital Storytelling Lab, selected the media artworks; Rob King, a film and media historian, selected the scholarly readings. It is in the interaction between these two perspectives that the course will explore the parameters of emerging frontiers in media art and the challenges these pose for existing critical vocabularies.

• Department: Film
• M 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 3 points

Film TV and Internet in Brazilian Re-dem

FILM TV & INTERNET BRAZIL

This course highlights the process of diversification of platforms, forms, and voices through which film, television, and the internet have taken part in what might perhaps be called the most democratic period in the history of this highly unequal Southern country. The idea is to discuss the diversification of the audio-visual scene, and the emergence of new political and social cultural voices in a process that started in the mid-eighties, and that has intensified, with the advent of cable television, the internet, YouTube, VOD, and with the emergence of specific public policies to finance film.

• Department: Film
• R 2:10 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
• 3 points

ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY

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

SPEC TOPICS IN APPLIED MATH

LINEAR ALGEBRA,DATA,LEARNING

Prerequisites: Advanced calculus and junior year applied mathematics, or their equivalents.
This course may be repeated for credit. Topics and instructors from the Applied Mathematics Committee and the staff change from year to year. For advanced undergraduate students and graduate students in engineering, physical sciences, biological sciences, and other fields.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• 3 points

TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

HACKING 4 DEFENSE

Prerequisites: Instructor's permission.
Special topics arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis. Since the content of this course changes each time it is offered, it may be repeated for credit. Consult the department for section assignment.

• Department: Computer Science
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul S Blaer
  CULPA: 46 h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

Randomized Algorithms

Prerequisites: Instructor's permission.
Special topics arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis. Since the content of this course changes each time it is offered, it may be repeated for credit. Consult the department for section assignment.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Timothy A Roughgarden
  Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

PARALLEL FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMIN

Prerequisites: Instructor's permission.
Special topics arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis. Since the content of this course changes each time it is offered, it may be repeated for credit. Consult the department for section assignment.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Stephen A Edwards
  CULPA: 21 h-index: 35 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

OPTIMIZATION METHODS LEARNING

Prerequisites: Instructor's permission.
Special topics arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis. Since the content of this course changes each time it is offered, it may be repeated for credit. Consult the department for section assignment.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Nakul Verma
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 16 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

METHODS UNSUPERVISED LEARNING

Prerequisites: Instructor's permission.
Special topics arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis. Since the content of this course changes each time it is offered, it may be repeated for credit. Consult the department for section assignment.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Nakul Verma
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 16 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

MACH LEARN FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS

Prerequisites: Instructor's permission.
Special topics arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis. Since the content of this course changes each time it is offered, it may be repeated for credit. Consult the department for section assignment.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: David A Knowles
  h-index: 35 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

DEEP LRNG FOR COMP VISION

Prerequisites: Instructor's permission.
Special topics arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis. Since the content of this course changes each time it is offered, it may be repeated for credit. Consult the department for section assignment.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter Belhumeur
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 59 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

INTRO AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Prerequisites: Instructor's permission.
Special topics arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis. Since the content of this course changes each time it is offered, it may be repeated for credit. Consult the department for section assignment.

• Department: Computer Science
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Tristan Boutros
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

INTRODUCTION TO DEVOPS

Prerequisites: Instructor's permission.
Special topics arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis. Since the content of this course changes each time it is offered, it may be repeated for credit. Consult the department for section assignment.

• Department: Computer Science
• R 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Tristan Boutros
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

DEEP LEARNING

Prerequisites: Instructor's permission.
Special topics arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis. Since the content of this course changes each time it is offered, it may be repeated for credit. Consult the department for section assignment.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 6:40 p.m.-7:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Iddo Drori
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 15 Info
• 3 points

RESEARCH COURSE

• Department: Economics
• Instructor: Susan M Elmes
  CULPA: 44 Info
• 1 points

RESEARCH COURSE

Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies' permission.
Provides students with the experience of participating in the research process by matching them to a faculty mentor who will put them to work on one of his or her current research projects. A list of available research positions is distributed each semester on the major listserv.

• Department: Economics
• Instructor: Susan M Elmes
  CULPA: 44 Info
• 1-2 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

• Department: Classics
• Instructor: Helene P Foley
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

MATH METHODS FOR BUSINESS

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• M 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Andreas Kakolyris
  Info
• 3 points

MATH METHODS FOR BUSINESS

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• M 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Andreas Kakolyris
  Info
• 1 points

SUPERVISED INDEPENDENT STUDY

Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies' permission.

• Department: Economics
• Instructor: Susan M Elmes
  CULPA: 44 Info
• 1-4 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• 3 points

MANAG TECH INNOV & ENTREPRENEURSHIP

MANAGING TECH INNOVATION

This is a required course for undergraduate students majoring in OR:EMS.
Focus on the management and consequences of technology-based innovation. Explores how new industries are created, how existing industries can be transformed by new technologies, the linkages between technological development and the creation of wealth and the management challenges of pursuing strategic innovation.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Gerard A Neumann
  Info
• 3 points

MS PROJECTS IN MECH ENGINEER

MS PROJECTS IN MECH ENGINEERIN

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• Instructor: Sunil Agrawal
  Wikipedia h-index: 65 Info
• Instructor: Peter J. Schuck
  Info
• Instructor: Gerard H Ateshian
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Michael Burke
  h-index: 22 Info
• Instructor: Nicolas W Chbat
  Info
• Instructor: Matei T Ciocarlie
  Info
• 1-3 points