RECOMBINANT RENAISSANCE

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Rakatansky
  Info
• 3 points

THE ECONOMICS OF LABOR I

Prerequisites: completion of 1st year graduate program in Economics, or the instructor's permission plus passage of the math qualifying exam.
Introduction to labor economics, theory and practice.

• Department: Economics
• M 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• 3 points

BLOOD/LUST: EARLY MOD MEDIT

This course examines, in 16th and 17th century Spain and England (1580-1640), how the two countries staged the conflict between them, and with the Ottoman Empire; that is, how both countries represented national and imperial clashes, and how the concepts of being "Spanish", "English", or "Turk" often played out on the high seas of the Mediterranean with Islam and the Ottoman Empire. We will consider how the Ottoman Empire depicted itself artistically through miniatures and court poetry. The course will include travel and captivity narratives from Spain, England, the Ottoman Empire, and the Barbary States.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Patricia E Grieve
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

MILITARY URBANISM

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Victoria Sanger
  Info
• 3 points

GAMES IN THE LAB. APPS TO POLITICAL ECON

POLITICAL ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: strongly recommended:
ECON G6211
,
ECON G6212
.
The course studies collective decision-making, and exposes students to experimental laboratory methods, grounded in a strong foundation in microeconomics and formal political theory. We will exploit our new lab and students will acquire experience from participating in at least two experiments. The course will cover voting as aggregator of preferences; voting as aggregator of information; communication and deliberation; vote-buying and vote trading; behavioral game theory.

• Department: Economics
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Alessandra Casella
  CULPA: 8 Wikipedia h-index: 30 Info
• 3 points

BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: Completion of 1st year graduate program in Economics, or the instructor's permission.
The standard model of economic behavior describes a perfectly rational, self interested utility maximizer with unlimited cognitive resources. In many cases, this provides a good approximation to the types of behavior that economists are interested in. However, over the past 30 years, experimental and behavioral economists have documented ways in which the standard model is not just wrong, but is wrong in ways that are important for economic outcomes. Understanding these behaviors, and their implications, is one of the most exciting areas of current economic inquiry. This course will study three important topics within behavioral economics: Bounded rationality, temptation and self control and reference dependent preferences. It will draw on research from behavioral economics, experimental economics, decision theory, psychology and neuroscience in order to describe the models that have been developed to explain failures of the standard approach, the evidence in support of these models, and their economic implications.

• Department: Economics
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Dean
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 26 Info
• 4 points

THE ART OF FIELDWORK

• Department: Anthropology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Taussig
  CULPA: 33 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

TPCS IN EAST ASIAN BUDDHISM

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Bernard Faure
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

INTRODUCTN TO HEALTH ECONOMICS

This is a Public Health Course.  Public Health classes are offered on the Health Services Campus at 168th Street. For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• Instructor: Lawrence Bartlett
  Info
• 3 points

ADV SCAFFOLD DES/COMPLX TISSUE

Prerequisites: (BMEN E4501) or BMEN E4501 or equivalent.
Corequisites: BMEN E4001 or BMEN E4002
Advanced biomaterial selection and biomimetic scaffold design for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Formulation of bio-inspired design criteria, scaffold characterization and testing, and applications on forming complex tissues or organogenesis. Laboratory component includes basic scaffold fabrication, characterization and
in vitro
evaluation of biocompatibility. Group projects target the design of scaffolds for select tissue engineering applications.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• T 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Helen Lu
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 54 Info
• 3 points

NEIGHBORHOOD PRES + ZONING

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Carol A Clark
  Info
• 1.5 points

FICTION LECTURE

LONG CENTURY SHORT NOVELS

• Department: Writing
• T 3:50 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Joshua A Cohen
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

URBAN MODERNISM

This course reads late 19th c American literature through a transatlantic lens: novels and stories by Henry James, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, W.E. B. Du Bois, Charles Chesnutt, Kate Chopin (save for Chesnutt, set largely in New York and Chicago) are situated in the context of a larger tapestry of visual, literary and sociological representations of late 19th c urban life in Paris and Berlin. The turn of the century Berlin sociologist Georg Simmel and  the mid-19th c Parisian flaneur Baudelaire directly inspire influential late 20th c American theorists of 19th c modernity--Marshall Berman & Richard Sennett. Together these four analysts form a matrix of modernist theorizing against which our literary texts acquire enlarged contexts and dimensions.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ross Posnock
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 4 points

HOSP ORGANIZATION/MANAGEM

ISSUES IN HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• W 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• 1.5 points

HEALTH CARE FACILITY PLANNING

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• T 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard S Thomas
  Info
• 3 points

NONFICTION LECTURE

• Department: Writing
• R 3:50 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard Locke
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

HLTH CARE ACCOUNTING&BUDGETING;

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• R 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• W 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• 3 points

ISSUES-APPROACHES-HLTH POL&MGT;

This is a Public Health Course.  Public Health classes are offered on the Health Services Campus at 168th Street. For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• M 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Lawrence D Brown
  Info
• 3 points

POETRY LECTURE

FROST STEVENS BISHOP BROOKS

• Department: Writing
• W 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Alice Quinn
  Info
• 3 points

CHEMICAL ENGIN RES METHODOLOGY

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• M 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Kyle Bishop
  h-index: 42 Info
• 1 points

ANALYTCS/MANAGR DECISION MAKNG

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• R 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Alan D Weinberg
  Info
• 3 points

QUESTIONS-ANTHROP THRY I:TEXTS

Presents students with critical theories of society, paying particular attention to classic continental social theory of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We will trace a trajectory through important French and German writings essential for any understanding of the modern discipline of anthropology: from Saussure through Durkheim and Mauss, Marx, Weber, and on to the structuralist elaboration of these theoretical perspectives in Claude Lévi-Strauss, always bearing in mind the relationship of these theories to contemporary anthropology. We come last to Foucault and affiliated theorists as successors both to French structuralism and to German social theory and its concerns with modernity, rationality, and power. Throughout the readings, we will give special care to questions of signification as they inform anthropological inquiry, and we will be alert to the historical contexts that situate the discipline of anthropology today.

• Department: Anthropology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: David Scott
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 72 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO CONTROL THEORY

Prerequisites: (MATH UN2030)
A graduate-level introduction to classical and modern feedback control that does not presume an undergraduate background in control. Scalar and matrix differential equation models and solutions in terms of state transition matrices. Transfer functions and transfer function matrices, block diagram manipulations, closed loop response. Proportional, rate, and integral controllers, and compensators. Design by root locus and frequency response. Controllability and observability. Luenberger observers, pole placement, and linear-quadratic cost controllers.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard W Longman
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 45 Info
• 3 points

OPTIMIZATION I

Prerequisites: Refer to course syllabus.
Theory and geometry of linear programming. The simplex method. Duality theory, sensitivity analysis, column generation and decomposition. Interior point methods. Introduction to nonlinear optimization: convexity, optimality conditions, steepest descent and Newton's method, active set and barrier methods.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Donald Goldfarb
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 55 Info
• 4.5 points

THE EPISTEMOLGY OF EDWARD SAID

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Stathis Gourgouris
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Media Materialisms

MEDIA MATERIALISMS

This graduate seminar offers a survey of debates on materiality and object-oriented ontologies that are currently revitalizing the humanities and social sciences. How does the physical world of objects and things affect our social and perceptual reality? Is it possible to imagine a world with the non-human at its center? Should we learn to study a “thing in itself” or is it better to approach matter as always-already entangled in networks and relations? In this interdisciplinary seminar we will keep media objects and contexts at the center of our study and travel through a long history of critical interest in materialism. The seminar begins with foundational debates from Marx to McLuhan and gradually moves through modules on materialism as understood vis-a-vis things, actors, relations, bodies, images, infrastructures, aesthetics, and ecologies. Weekly sessions combine historical and philosophical approaches to media forms and their material lives. A special emphasis is placed on complicating dominant disciplinary frameworks with theories and case studies from the South and insights from feminist theory. This is an interdisciplinary weekly course that will be relevant to students interested in media, film, cultural history, material culture, object histories, infrastructure studies, and environmental humanities.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Debashree Mukherjee
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 5 Info
• 4 points

MUSA DIGITAL MEDIA,MATERIALITY&PRACTICE;

MUSA DIGITAL MEDIA & MATE

Class sessions will include the discussion of assigned readings, multimedia, and digital resources, as well as short lectures. Each student will co-lead one discussion section during the term. During most classes there will be presentation and discussion of student assignments.
In this course we will learn how to digitally map and visualize museum systems and use this knowledge to facilitate a visitors journey from thinking to making. In the first part of the semester readings, class discussion and weekly “experiments” will be used to investigate how mapping, sketching, and modeling techniques can help develop sustainable frameworks for exhibition. In the second part of the semester we will begin modeling solutions and use these models to refine the way we communicate them to various stakeholders and audiences. Ultimately, the course aims to help students clearly articulate their thinking, explore ways of planning and communicating solutions and develop new models of engagement and action in an exhibition context. The class will combine lectures, seminars, field observation and prototyping.

• Department: Anthropology
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Marco Castro
  Info
• 3 points

Porous Bodies

POROUS BODIES

How are bodies in the world?
How is the world in bodies?
Building from these deceptively simple questions, ours will be an interdisciplinary reading seminar on how bodies (mostly human, but sometimes nonhuman) are made and remade in and through their environments and via their relationships to the material world. Privileging
porosity
as a rubric, we consider the ever-permeable boundaries between bodies and the other beings (be they viral, chemical, microbial or otherwise) with which they become entangled. Alongside the monographs under study, we will tackle article-length engagements with theories of new feminist/queer materialisms, decolonial and critical science studies. Further, a key aim of this course is to provide students the opportunity to hone some of the most important skills we have in our toolbox as academics, relative to our teaching, our public voice/s as critics, and to our own research.

• Department: Anthropology
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Vanessa L Agard-Jones
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

TRANSPACIFIC APPRO TO AMER LIT

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Denise Cruz
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS DATA-DRIVEN ANAL & COMP

TPC:STAT LRNING BIOL&INFO; SYST

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Predrag R Jelenkovic
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 35 Info
• 3 points

IGNEOUS PROCESSES

Prerequisites: Graduate student status and coursework equivalent to admissions requirements to the Earth and Environmental Sciences PhD program ( one year each of chemistry, physics, calculus) and at least two courses in geology/geophysics/geochemistry disciplines; or permission of the instructor
This course explores igneous and metamorphic processes during creation and evolution of the Earth's crust and mantle lithosphere. We will start with decompression melting and melt transport in the mantle beneath the mid-ocean ridges, focusing on petrological, geochemical, geophysical and geological constraints on these processes. Then, we will take a similar approach to understanding igneous accretion of oceanic crust, and subsequent cooling and alteration via hydrothermal convection.This topic leads naturally into crustal formation during continental rifting. Then we will consider evidence for formation of continental crust via magmatism in volcanic arcs, review constraints on arc magmatic processes, and consider proposed processes for modification of arc crust to produce continental crust. Finally, if there is time, we will review data and ideas on formation of  the cratonic upper mantle ("mantle lithosphere"). The course is designed to serve as an accessible breadth course for Earth Science graduate students in any discipline.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter Kelemen
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 84 Info
• 3 points

SUSTAINABLE RETROFITS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Adlerstein
  Wikipedia Info
• 1.5 points

STOCHASTIC MODELING I

Prerequisites: (STAT GU4001) or Refer to course syllabus.
This is the first course in a two-course sequence introducing students to the theory of stochastic processes. The fall term starts with a review of probability theory and then treats Poisson processes, renewal processes, discrete-time Markov chains and continuous-time Markov chains. The spring term emphasizes martingales and Brownian motion. Although the course does not assume knowledge of measure theory or measure-theoretic probability, the focus is on the mathematics. Proofs are emphasized. This course sequence is intended for our first-year doctoral students. Indeed, one of the two qualifying exams at the end of the first year covers the material taught in this course sequence. The course is intended to provide students background, so that they will be able to effectively conduct research.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Henry Lam
  h-index: 17 Info
• 4.5 points

The Chinese Avant-Garde: A Political His

CHINESE AVANT-GARDE

This course examines the rise and demise of the Chinese Revolution from the unique angles provided by avant-garde writers, artists, designers, graphic novelists, filmmakers, playwrights, and theatre directors in modern China.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Lydia Liu
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN COMMUNICATION

TPC:MMWAVE&APPLICATIONS; FOR 5G

Prerequisites: (ELEN E6712) or (ELEN E4702) or (ELEN E4703) or equivalent, or instructor's permission.
Advanced topics in communications, such as turbo codes, LDPC codes, multiuser communications, network coding, cross-layer optimization, cognitive radio. Content may vary from year to year to reflect the latest development in the field.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• T 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Jacob Sharony
  h-index: 25 Info
• 3 points

RACE & REPRESENTATION IN CRIMNAL JUSTICE

RACE/REPRESENTATION IN CJ SYST

• Department: Social Work
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Kimberly D Westcott
  Info
• 3 points

OLD BLDGS, NEW FORMS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Francoise A Bollack
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Hannah Arendt's Essays (in English)

HANNAH ARENDT'S ESSAYS

Hannah Arendt's works are currently witnessing an unprecedented reception and revival. A slim volume of a previously untranslated English text, essentially an abbreviation, in lecture format, of her ideas on "Ideology and Terror", first published in "Elements and Origins of Totalitarians Rule" in 1958, sold 50,000 copies within three months in Germany. International publishing houses are cooperating to produce a new biography of the writer and philosophers. Moreover, the first two volumes of a hybrid, multi-lingual critical edition (edited, among others, by Barbara Hahn and James MacFarland) have appeared in recent months. What makes this maverick thinker—never accepted by the political Right and much maligned by the Left—so interesting today that even the strongly divergent reception lines in the US and Europe appear to converge and open up new venues? One possible answer is that Arendt believed courage (rather than morality or honesty) was the cardinal political virtue. In a time of 'fake news' and rising populism, her notoriously unpopular but courageous interventions in public debates (of which her report on the Eichmann-trial is only the most prominent example) stand out. Another reason for the recent surge in (not only academic) interest may have to do with the role literature plays in her thought. To explore both questions, the seminar will focus on the one hand on Arendt's 'interventions' in acute political and social conflicts, from the early essay "We Refugees" (1943) to her contested contribution to racial desegregation of schools in the south with her "Reflections on Little Rock" as well as her reflections on lying in politics, written on occasion of her publication of the Pentagon Papers on the strategies behind the Vietnam War. In addition, we will explore her (often no less contentious) portraits of US-American and European writers such as Auden, Broch, Benjamin, Brecht and others.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Eva Geulen
  Info
• 3 points

GLOBALIZATION&THE; PROBLEMS OF WORLD ORDE

• Department: Committee on Global Thought
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Yahya K Tajbakhsh
  Info
• 3 points

HIST PRESV THEORY & PRACTICE

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• 3 points

AGE OF THE ARCHITECT

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Troy C Therrien
  Wikipedia h-index: 0 Info
• 3 points

MAKE

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• 3 points

COMPUTER COMMUNICATNS NETWORKS

COMPUTER COMMUNCATION NETWORKS

Prerequisites: (IEOR E3658) or equivalent, or the instructor's permission. Recommended: CSEE W4119
Analytical approach to the design of (data) communication networks. Necessary tools for performance analysis and design of network protocols and algorithms. Practical engineering applications in layered Internet protocols in Data link layer, Network layer, and Transport layer. Review of relevant aspects of stochastic processes, control, and optimization.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Javad Ghaderi
  h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

PRESERVATION PLANNING

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Erica C Avrami
  Info
• 3 points

INTERNET ECON, ENG & SOCIETY

Prerequisites: (CSEE W4119) or (ELEN E6761) and ability to comprehend and track development of sophisticated models.
Mathematical models, analyses of economic and networking interdependencies in the Internet. Topics include microeconomics of pricing and regulations in communications industry, game theory in revenue allocations, ISP settlements, network externalities, two-sided markets. Economic principles in networking and network design, decentralized vs. centralized resource allocation, “price of anarchy”, congestion control. Case studies of topical Internet issues. Societal and industry implications of Internet evolution.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Debasis Mitra
  Wikipedia h-index: 61 Info
• 3 points

ARCH METALS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard Peiper
  Info
• 1.5 points

HISTORIES OF AMERICAN CITIES

The process of continuity and change in American cities from the colonial period through the 20th century, covering industrialization, political conflict, reform movements, geographical and ethnic diversity, bureaucratic rationalism, and urban culture—with a focus on how physical form responded to or influenced social and political forces over time.

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer L Gray
  Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN NETWORKING

TPC:NET VIRTUAL & CLOUD COMPUT

Further study of areas such as communication protocols and architectures, flow and congestion control in data networks, performance evaluation in integrated networks. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6770 to 6779.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• 3 points

TOPICS IN NETWORKING

TPC:SEM ON INTERNET MEASUREMEN

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Ethan Katz-Bassett
  h-index: 31 Info
• 3 points

CULTURAL STRATEGIES + PRODUCTION

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Karen Wong
  Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN NETWORKING

TPC:CONTENT STORAGE & DISTRIBU

Topic: Content Distribution Networks.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Anwar I Walid
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

NARRATIVE URBANISM

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Cassim C Shepard
  Info
• 3 points

THEORY OF CITY FORM

The distinctive intellectual, cultural, and formal climate of modernism in the American setting—covering architecture, design, and urbanism, as well as seminal texts, exhibitions, and public reaction.

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Vishaan Chakrabarti
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

CONCRETE, CAST STONE & MORTAR

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 1.5 points

THESIS COLLOQUIUM

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

Queer Performance Studies

Performance has been a key term in many different fields from gender studies (Butler’s concept of performativity) to sociology (Goffman’s “presentation of self”) to anthropology (Turner’s anthropology of performance) and of course theater and art. This course is an advanced survey of interdisciplinary formulations of performance studies. Students will examine a broad range of performances on and off the stage, live and recorded, including performance art, storytelling, celebrations, political speeches, concerts, protests, street happenings, and everyday encounters. We will read key texts in the field and apply them to various modes of performance and sites where we observe and participate in performance. Through the readings, discussions, and assignments, you will develop critical analytical skills with which to consider art and performance and with particular attention to how sex, gender, race, class, sexuality, sexual orientation, and other systems of power shape people’s everyday lives.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jack Halberstam
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

MAPPING BORDERLANDS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Nora Akawi
  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: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Inga T Winkler
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

MACRO FINANCE

Prerequisites: ECON GR6211 and ECON GR6212 and ECON GR6215 and ECON GR6216 and ECON GR6410 and ECON GR6411 and ECON GR6412
This course introduces students to the theoretical and empirical literature on macro finance. The course covers general equilibrium models of risk and return, models with heterogeneous agents, and models with financial frictions.  A particular emphasis is given to analytical tools to solve these models (in particular continuous time methods), as well as micro empirical techniques.

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

UTOPIAN VISIONS LATIN AMERICA

READING PRECISIONS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Luis Carranza
  Info
• 3 points

Aesthetics and Politics Today (in Englis

AESTHETICS/POLITICS TODAY

On which grounds can we claim, in 2020 and with scholarly confidence, that a literary text has “progressive” or “right-wing” affinities? How do we measure the success of another text’s apparent experimental critique of racist or homophobic dispositifs? Or what could justify the declaration that a film elicits a revolutionary sensibility? Against the backdrop of new political populisms and fascisms, questions such as these couldn’t be more topical today. But do we have equally topical answers? Both within and beyond academia, political reading practices have long been countered with the charge that they don’t do justice to the aesthetic qualities of their object. In the twenty-first century, old-school articulations of this point have been revamped in the name of new formalisms and a range of postcritical methods.
The course starts from the premise that these new formalist and postcritical challenges are worth listening to, but do not require that we abandon the desire to read politically. Rather, they can help us refine our skills and develop interpretative methods accounting for hateful or empathetic, egalitarian or elitist overtones and undertones of aesthetic texts in non-reductive, non-symptomatic ways, making room for ambiguity, affective incongruity and multivoicedness, without entirely separating art from ideology.
Towards the goal of describing relations between aesthetics and politics in ever more convincing terms, we will return to the tradition of theorizing their interplay from the Frankfurt School to Jacques Rancière, along with selected texts from the fields of critical race and queer studies, and put all of them in a dialogue with new formalist and postcritical perspectives. As we go along, we will probe our reading skills on a number of aesthetic objects (literature & audiovisual).

• Department: Germanic Languages
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Claudia Breger
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

DIFFERENCE AND DESIGN

THE CITY AND WHAT IT IS NOT

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• 3 points

TOWARD RESILIENT CITIES

Toward Resilient Cities

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Kate Orff
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

THEORIZING PRE-MODERN CHINA: TOPICS AND

THEORIZING PRE-MOD CHINA

This seminar looks at the chronically undertheorized pre-modern China through the lens of classical and contemporary theories and methods broadly drawn from disciplines including archaeology, history, and anthropology and raises questions about the role of theorizing in historical studies and the challenges in integrating theorization in the context of pre-modern China by examining selected recent publications.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jue Guo
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

THE INDUSTRIAL NOVEL

This seminar offers intensive study of “the industrial novel,” a body of mid-Victorian fiction responding to the economic volatility and class conflict that accompanied the rise of industrial production.  In little more than a decade, treatments of this broad concern by a number of major novelists converged in a set of distinctive formal strategies, yet the relatively brief prominence of the form underscores an unusually direct connection with contemporary political anxieties.  As the industrial novel presses against the increasingly domestic preoccupations of mid-Victorian fiction, it throws those preoccupations into sharp relief, and more broadly illuminates the construction of Victorian domesticity itself.   We’ll be especially interested in the intersections of gender and class, the interplay of socio-economic history and narrative form, and the political dimensions of the mid-Victorian novel.  Finally, the topic poses large questions about genre and literary history: does “the industrial novel” denote a genre, and why apply that tag to works that rarely depict industrial labor?   Why not the “social problem” novel, the “domestic novel in Northern dress,” or even “the novel of insurrection”?  Major authors include Disraeli, Gaskell, Charlotte Bronte, Kingsley, Dickens, and George Eliot; we’ll also gather in some of the political economy of John Stuart Mill and Marx, as well as the social reporting of Engels and others.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: James E Adams
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 4 points

FABRICS & TYPOLOGIES

FABRICS & TYPOLOGIES:NY/GLOBAL

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Richard A Plunz
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

URBAN DESIGN STUDIO II

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 4 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Kaja Kuehl
  Info
• 9 points

THESIS DEVELOPMENT

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

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria Uriarte
  Wikipedia h-index: 56 Info
• 6 points

MEASURING THE GREAT INDOORS

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

ENVIRONMENTS OF GOVERNANCE

Environments of Governance

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

FORMAL VERIF HW SW SYSTEMS

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134 or COMS W3136 or COMS W3137) and (COMS W3261)
Introduction to the theory and practice of formal methods for the design and analysis of correct (i.e. bug-free) concurrent and embedded hardware/software systems. Topics include temporal logics; model checking; deadlock and liveness issues; fairness; satisfiability (SAT) checkers; binary decision diagrams (BDDs); abstraction techniques; introduction to commercial formal verification tools. Industrial state-of-art, case studies and experiences: software analysis (C/C++/Java), hardware verification (RTL).

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

KITCHENLESS STORIES

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Ana Puigjaner Barbera
  Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN SIGNAL PROCESSING

TPC:REINFORCEMENT LEARNING

Prerequisites: (ELEN E4810)
Topic: Reinforcement Learning.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• F 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• 3 points

TOPICS-INFORMATION PROCESSING

TPC:BIG DATA ANALYTICS

Topic: Big Data Analytics.

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

TOPICS-INFORMATION PROCESSING

TPC:QUANTUM COMPUT & COMM

Topic: Quantum Computing and Communication.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• W 1:30 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexei Ashikhmin
  Info
• 3 points

RESEARCH

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

RSRCH COMPUTING EARTH SCI

Prerequisites: Graduate student status, calculus, or instructor permission
Priority given to first year PhD students in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. 
Computing has become an indispensable tool for Earth Scientists. This course will introduce incoming DEES PhD students to modern computing software, programming tools and best practices that are broadly applicable to carrying out research in the Earth Sciences. This includes an introduction to Unix, programming in three commonly used languages (Python, MATLAB and Fortran), version control and data backup, tools for visualizing geoscience data and making maps. Students will learn the basics of high performance computing and big data analysis tools available on cluster computers. Student learning will be facilitated through a combination of lectures, in-class exercises, homework assignments and class projects. All topics will be taught through example datasets or problems from Earth Sciences. The course is designed to be accessible for Earth Science graduate students in any discipline.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• 3 points

GRADUATE STUDENT SEMINAR

All first-year graduate students in the physics department must register for this course each term. Discussion of the experimental and theoretical research in the department.

• Department: Physics
• F 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• 0 points

QUANT METHODS OF DATA ANALYSIS

Prerequisites: calculus. Recommended preparation: linear algebra, statistics, or the instructor's permission.
Introduction to the fundamentals of data analysis. Topics: review of relevant statistics and linear algebra; methods of interpolation (different interpolants, advantages/disadvantages); methods of least squares (linear, weighted, constrained, error analysis); linear and nonlinear correlation; spectral analysis (Fourier analysis, convolution, deconvolution, distribution theory, Fourier theorems, smoothing, error analysis, power and phase spectral estimation, different approaches); filtering time series; forecast models (AR, MA, ARMA, ARIMA), empirical orthogonal functions (EOF), and related techniques.

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

INTRO TO WRITING STUDIES

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

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicole Wallack
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

PRINCIPLES OF ART HUMANITIES

Art Humanities aims to instill in undergraduate students a passion and a critical vocabulary for the study of art as well as a fundamental capacity to engage the world of images and built environments. Principles of Art Humanities aims to prepare instructors to teach Art Humanities. We will study each unit of Art Humanities with an eye toward pedagogy, formal and critical analysis, and a capacious understanding of art and culture of past epochs. The course comprises presentations by the Art Humanities Chair and by weekly invited guests, as well as discussion among all participants. Required of all first-time Art Humanities instructors. Open to retuning instructors.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Noam M Elcott
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 7 Info
• 3 points

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS

Prerequisites: EESC W4008, APPH E4210, and advanced calculus, or the instructor's permission.
This course is a continuation of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (
APPH E4210
) which is a prerequisite for this course. Exploration of atmospheric circulation based upon oabservations and interpretive models. Topics include wave/mean-flow interaction (the equilibration of instabilities and the wave-driven contribution to meridional transport), zonally symmetric circulations (Hadley and Ferrel Cells), maintenance of the mid-latitude circulation through extratropical cyclones, the zonally asymmetric circulation (stationary waves and storm tracks), and the stratospheric circulation (the quasi-biennial oscillation and meridional transport).

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Ronald L Miller
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

INTL SOCIAL WELFARE SERVICES

• Department: Social Work
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Mashura Akilova
  Info
• 3 points

Idealized Models of Climate Processes

IDEALIZED MODELS OF CLIM

Prerequisites: EESC GR6901
This course teaches students to design and apply idealized models to study the fundamental properties of climate system processes and their interactions. Though these models typically have at their core only a handful of interacting differential equations, they can significantly advance process understanding. We cover three topical areas in climate system science: (1) the interpretation and attribution of atmospheric methane trends (2) the role of the ocean in regulating atmospheric carbon dioxide, and (3) the influence of climate system feedbacks on the Earth’s energy balance. Throughout the course, emphasis is placed on identifying assumptions underlying conclusions drawn from simple models and the time scales over which different processes operate.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• 3 points

TRAD BUILDING TECHNOLOGY

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 5:30 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Tim Micheils
  h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

POWER + PRESERVATION

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Erik F Langdalen
  Info
• 1.5 points

M.A. THESIS RESEARCH

MASTER OF ARTS THESIS WORKSHOP

Provides students the opportunity to present work in progress or final drafts to other students and relevant faculty to receive guidance and feedback.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• Instructor: Ulug Kuzuoglu
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 2 points

HUMAN RIGHTS RESEARCH SEM

HUMAN RIGHTS GRAD RES SEMINAR

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Lara J Nettelfield
  h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

M.A. THESIS WRITING

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• Instructor: Ulug Kuzuoglu
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 2 points

TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

TOPICS DATACENTER NETWORKING

Prerequisites: Instructor's permission.
Selected topics in computer science. Content varies from year to year. May be repeated for credit.

• Department: Computer Science
• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Vishal Misra
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia h-index: 53 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

CYBERSECURITY: TECH POLICY LAW

Prerequisites: Instructor's permission.
Selected topics in computer science. Content varies from year to year. May be repeated for credit.

• Department: Computer Science
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Steven M Bellovin
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

ADV WEB DESIGN STUDIO

Prerequisites: Instructor's permission.
Selected topics in computer science. Content varies from year to year. May be repeated for credit.

• Department: Computer Science
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Lydia Chilton
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 18 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

COMPUTATION AND THE BRAIN

Prerequisites: Instructor's permission.
Selected topics in computer science. Content varies from year to year. May be repeated for credit.

• Department: Computer Science
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Christos H Papadimitriou
  CULPA: 11 h-index: 129 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

FORMAL VERIFICATION SYSTEM SW

Prerequisites: Instructor's permission.
Selected topics in computer science. Content varies from year to year. May be repeated for credit.

• Department: Computer Science
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ronghui Gu
  h-index: 11 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

ANALYSIS OF NETWORKS & CROWDS

Prerequisites: Instructor's permission.
Selected topics in computer science. Content varies from year to year. May be repeated for credit.

• Department: Computer Science
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Augustin Chaintreau
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 33 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

FUND SPEECH RECOGNITION

Prerequisites: Instructor's permission.
Selected topics in computer science. Content varies from year to year. May be repeated for credit.

• Department: Computer Science
• R 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Homayoon S Beigi
  Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

CLOUD COMPUTING&BIG; DATA

Prerequisites: Instructor's permission.
Selected topics in computer science. Content varies from year to year. May be repeated for credit.

• Department: Computer Science
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Sambit Sahu
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

ADV SPOKEN LANGUAGE PROCESSING

Prerequisites: Instructor's permission.
Selected topics in computer science. Content varies from year to year. May be repeated for credit.

• Department: Computer Science
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Sarah I Levitan
  Info
• 3 points

GRADUATE LECTURE

WEST AFRICAN HISTORY

• Department: History
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Gregory Mann
  CULPA: 15 h-index: 13 Info
• 4 points