English communication proficiency is important for academic achievement and career success. Columbia Engineering provides English communication instruction for students who would like to improve their communication skills in English. In a small group setting (15-20 students), enrollees will obtain opportunities to interact with the instructor and fellow classmates to improve communication skills.
English communication proficiency is important for academic achievement and career success. Columbia Engineering provides English communication instruction for students who would like to improve their communication skills in English. In a small group setting (15-20 students), enrollees will obtain opportunities to interact with the instructor and fellow classmates to improve communication skills.
English communication proficiency is important for academic achievement and career success. Columbia Engineering provides English communication instruction for students who would like to improve their communication skills in English. In a small group setting (15-20 students), enrollees will obtain opportunities to interact with the instructor and fellow classmates to improve communication skills.
Required course for first-year PhD Students in the Art History Department.
Prerequisite
: approval of adviser. Readings on topics in medical informatics under the direction of a faculty adviser.
Prerequisite
: approval of adviser. Readings on topics in medical informatics under the direction of a faculty adviser.
The dissertation colloquium is a non-credit course open to MESAAS doctoral students who have completed the M.Phil. degree. It provides a forum in which the entire community of dissertation writers meets, bridging the department's different fields and regions of research. It complements workshops outside the department focused on one area or theme. Through an encounter with the diversity of research underway in MESAAS, participants learn to engage with work anchored in different regions and disciplines and discover or develop what is common in the department's post-disciplinary methods of inquiry. Since the community is relatively small, it is expected that all post-M.Phil. students in residence will join the colloquium. Post M.Phil. students from other departments may request permission to join the colloquium, but places for non-MESAAS students will be limited. The colloquium convenes every semester, meeting once every two weeks. Each meeting is devoted to the discussion of one or two pre-circulated pieces of work (a draft prospectus or dissertation chapter). Every participant contributes at least one piece of work each year.
Prerequisite:
instructor’s permission. Participation in medical informatics educational activities under the direction of a faculty adviser.
Prerequisites:
KORN W5011
and
W5012
or equivalent, and the instructor's permission.
This course is designed to provide M.A. and Ph.D. students in Korean Studies with the necessary skills for reading advanced Korean in mixed script. It focuses on materials from the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries.
What is the relationship between homoeroticism and homosociality?How does this relationship form conceptions of gender and sexuality in ways that might be historically unfamiliar and culturally or regionally specific?We pursue these questions through the lens of friendship and its relationship to ideas and expressions of desire, love, and loyalty in pre-modern times.We begin by considering the intellectual basis of the modern idea of friendship as a private, personal relationship, and trace it back to earlier times when it was often a public relationship of social and political significance.Some of these relationships were between social equals, while many were unequal forms (like patronage) that could bridge social, political or parochial differences.Thinking through the relationships and possible distinctions between erotic love, romantic love and amity (love between friends), we will draw on scholarly works from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, particularly philosophy, sociology, political theory, literature, history, and art history.We will attend to friendship’s work in constituting, maintaining and challenging various social and political orders in a variety of Asian contexts (West, Central, South and East Asian), with reference to scholarship on European contexts.Primary source materials will include philosophy, religious manuals, autobiographies, popular love stories, heroic epics, mystical poetry, mirror for princes, paintings, material objects of exchange, and architectural monuments.
Prerequisites: Prerequisites; GR6011, another introductory astrophysics course or the instructor's permission; basic General Relativity or familiarity with tensors in flat space.
A continuation of G6011. Likely topics include shocks and their application to supernovae; pulsar wind nebulae; atomic physics of astrophysical plasmas; accretion onto magnetized neutron stars and white dwarfs; thick accretion disks, non-thermal X-ray generation processes; particle acceleration and propagation; gravitational wave radiation; magnetars.
This course examines major historiographical shifts in the Modern British field from the 1950s to the present. “Modern Britain” is conceived here as Britain from the eighteenth century to the present. We will look at how historians engaged in turn with: “high politics”, social history, gender, the state, the linguistic/cultural turn, Foucault, the “new imperial history”, transnational history, personality and emotions, multiculturalism and “race,” and the rise of neoliberalism.
Prerequisites:
JPNS W4017-W4018
and the instructor’s permission.
Selected works in modern Japanese fiction and criticism.
Research in an area of Mechanical Engineering culminating in a verbal presentation and a written thesis document approved by the thesis advisor. Must obtain permission from a thesis advisor to enroll. Recommended enrollment for two terms, one of which can be the summer. A maximum of 6 points of master's thesis may count towards an MS degree , and additional research points cannot be counted. On completion of all master's thesis credits, the thesis advisor will assign a single grade. Students must use a department recommended format for thesis writing.
Prerequisites:
CHNS W4007-4008
,
W4017-4018
, one year of an 8000-level course, and the student's adviser and the instructor's written permission.
Reading of advanced texts chosen in consultation with the student's advisor. GF
A synoptic overview of theory and research.
Prerequisites:
JPNS W4007-W4008
or the equivalent, and the instructor’s permission.
Prerequisites:
PHYS G6037-G6038
.
Relativistic quantum mechanics and quantum field theory.
This is an intense reading seminar in new directions in the study of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe from the era of Enlightenment to the present. Based on a premise that global history should be narrated beyond center-periphery framework and from any place where people have reimagined their relationship to a shared global modernity, the seminar explores the non-Western, “Other Europe” as a specific region as much as a key locality from which to view the world. We will investigate the question of land multi-confessional and multi-ethnic land empires (German, Russian, Habsburg, Ottoman), unfree labor, the making of the nation-state, World War Two, Cold War, communism, international women movements, decolonization, environmental politics, and the rise of illiberalism. Through the lens of culture, intellectual and social history, gender history, and history of science, we will explore the region’s historic liminality (bridge between ‘East’ and “West’) and its historic ties with the black Atlantic, Western Europe, as well as Ottoman, Soviet and South Asia.
Prerequisite: Public Health P6103 or P6104. The study of linear statistical models. Regression and correlation with one independent variable. Partial and multiple correlation. Multiple and polynomial regression. Single factor analysis of variance. Simple logistic regression
This colloquium examines the problem of the integrated study of Mediterranean societies and institutions in the pre-modern period. Students will read synthetic works that attempt to encompass the entire region, as well as local studies from a comparative perspective. The course is intended for graduate students in medieval history and others preparing for original research or oral examinations fields on Mediterranean subjects.
Field(s): MED
Prerequisites: Faculty adviser's permission.
Selected topics of current research interest. May be taken more than once for credit.
Prerequisites: Faculty adviser's permission.
Selected topics of current research interest. May be taken more than once for credit.
Prerequisites: Faculty adviser's permission.
Selected topics of current research interest. May be taken more than once for credit.
Prerequisites: Faculty adviser's permission.
Selected topics of current research interest. May be taken more than once for credit.
Prerequisites: Faculty adviser's permission.
Selected topics of current research interest. May be taken more than once for credit.
Prerequisite: Public Health P6104 and working knowledge of calculus. Fundamentals, random variables, and distribution functions in one or more dimensions: moments, conditional probabilities, and densities; Laplace transforms and characteristic functions. Infinite sequences of random variables, weak and strong large numbers: central limit theorem
Prerequisite: Public Health P8104 and P8109 or the equivalent. Clinical trials concerning chronic disease, comparison of survivorship functions, parametric models for patterns of mortality and other kinds of failures, and competing risks.
Prerequisite: Public Health P6104, P8100 and a working knowledge of calculus.
An introduction to the application of statistical methods in survival analysis, generalized linear models, and design of experiments. Estimation and comparison of survival curves, regression models for survival data, log-linear models, logit models, analysis of repeated measurements, and the analysis of data from blocked and split-plot experiments. Examples drawn from the health sciences.