POLYMER PHYSICS

Prerequisites: CHEE E3110 and E4620. Senior undergraduate/first-year graduate course on the physics of polymer systems. Topics include scaling behavior of chains under different conditions, mixing thermodynamics, networks and geation, polymer dynamics, including retation and entanglements. Special topics: nanocomposites.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Sanat Kumar
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 79 Info
• 3 points

BUSINESS ANALYTICS

Prepares students to gather, describe, and analyze data, using advanced statistical tools to support operations, risk management, and response to disruptions. Analysis is done by targeting economic and financial decisions in complex systems that involve multiple partners. Topics include probability, statistics, hypothesis testing, experimentation, and forecasting.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Charles R Guetta
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• 3 points

THRY-SOCIAL/PERSONALITY PSYCH

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Comparison of major theoretical perspectives on social behavior. The nature of theory construction and theory testing in psychology generally. Exercises comparing the predictions of different theories for the same study are designed to acquire an appreciation of how to operationalize theories and an understanding of the various features of a good theory.

• Department: Psychology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Tory Higgins
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia h-index: 134 Info
• 3 points

HOUSING AFTER SCARCITY: POLICY, ENERGY,

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Bell
  Wikipedia h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

RECOMBINANT URBANISM

PUB SPACE/RECOMBINANT URB

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: David G Shane
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• 3 points

ADVANCED PROF PRACTICE

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

Social Interaction

In this seminar, we will read and discuss current literature in psychology related to social interaction. We will examine fundamental processes involved in social interaction, consider how social interaction varies as a function of people’s social identities (e.g., gender, social class, and race), and discuss how social interaction influences close relationships, intergroup attitudes, and well-being. We will pay close attention to how these topics are studied (e.g., to methods, samples, and researcher identities) and to the broader implications of the research.

• Department: Psychology
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Katherine Thorson
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 7 Info
• 4 points

INTRO TO FINANCIAL ENGINEERING

Prerequisite(s): IEOR E4106 or E3106. Required for undergraduate students majoring in OR:FE. Introduction to investment and financial instruments via portfolio theory and derivative securities, using basic operations research/engineering methodology. Portfolio theory, arbitrage; Markowitz model, market equilibrium, and the capital asset pricing model. General models for asset price fluctuations in discrete and continuous time. Elementary introduction to Brownian motion and geometric Brownian motion. Option theory; Black-Scholes equation and call option formula. Computational methods such as Monte Carlo simulation.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Xunyu Zhou
  h-index: 54 Info
• 3 points

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134 or COMS W3136 or COMS W3137) and any course on probability. Prior knowledge of Python is recommended. Provides a broad understanding of the basic techniques for building intelligent computer systems. Topics include state-space problem representations, problem reduction and and-or graphs, game playing and heuristic search, predicate calculus, and resolution theorem proving, AI systems and languages for knowledge representation, machine learning and concept formation and other topics such as natural language processing may be included as time permits.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Tony B Dear
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 3 points

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134 or COMS W3136 or COMS W3137) and any course on probability. Prior knowledge of Python is recommended. Provides a broad understanding of the basic techniques for building intelligent computer systems. Topics include state-space problem representations, problem reduction and and-or graphs, game playing and heuristic search, predicate calculus, and resolution theorem proving, AI systems and languages for knowledge representation, machine learning and concept formation and other topics such as natural language processing may be included as time permits.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Tony B Dear
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 3 points

DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS

Digital communications for both point-to-point and switched applications is further developed. Optimum receiver structures and transmitter signal shaping for both binary and M-ary signal transmission. An introduction to block codes and convolutional codes, with application to space communications.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexei Ashikhmin
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• 3 points

METHODS OF INQUIRY & RES DESIGN

This course will cover research methods and research design in political science. We will focus on concrete and practical issues of conducting research: picking a topic, generating hypotheses, case selection, measurement issues, designing and conducting experiments, interviews, field work, archival research, coding data and working with data sets, combining quantitative and qualitative methods, etc. The course is designed for several audiences, including: (1) PhD students in Political Science, (2) MAO students undertaking a major research project, and (3) advanced undergrads contemplating an honors thesis, or another major research project.

• Department: Political Science
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Virginia Page Fortna
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia h-index: 17 Info
• 4 points

MONTE CARLO SIMULATION METHODS

This graduate course is only for M.S. Program in Financial Engineering students. Multivariate random number generation, bootstrapping, Monte Carlo simulation, efficiency improvement techniques. Simulation output analysis, Markov-chain Monte Carlo. Applications to financial engineering. Introduction to financial engineering simulation software and exposure to modeling with real financial data. Note: Students who have taken IEOR E4404 Simulation may not register for this course for credit.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Ali Hirsa
  h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134 or COMS W3136 or COMS W3137) or the instructors permission. Computational approaches to natural language generation and understanding. Recommended preparation: some previous or concurrent exposure to AI or Machine Learning. Topics include information extraction, summarization, machine translation, dialogue systems, and emotional speech. Particular attention is given to robust techniques that can handle understanding and generation for the large amounts of text on the Web or in other large corpora. Programming exercises in several of these areas.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Zhou Yu
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• Instructor: Yassine Benajiba
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

The Photograph and the Book

This class has no photo prerequisites, however those who have taken Photo I and Photo II will find additional linkages. Access to a laptop with Adobe Creative Cloud (Student Edition) installed will be necessary at a certain point in the semester.
  Over the last decade, a significant change in the circulation of the photographic image has been the rise of the “photo book.” Artists such as Dayanita Singh in India have complemented wall-based, framed displays of their work with limited edition photo books as spatialized objects–for display and collection. Venerable publishers such as Steidl in Germany have focused on the individual photo book as one of their focuses of new activity. Taschen Books injects an absurd monumentality by producing a 50 Pound weight
GOAT (Greatest Of All Time
) paean to Muhammad Ali.

Beyond these more contemporary forays within the circulation of the still image, the photograph and the published book have a long history, much of it within the domain of journalism, travelogue, and fiction. Illustrated magazines such as
Life
and
National Geographic
once held such a dominant position that they anointed global images with a hegemony that would trouble us today. The myth-making of the Indian independence movement received a strange diversion when Margaret Bourke-White’s photograph of Gandhi with his spinning wheel arrived on American doorsteps. In more recent times, the economic troubles of Magnum Photos, or even the shuttering of
Life
, show that photo publishing is in new, turbulent waters. At the same time, novelists such as Teju Cole and photographers such as Gauri Gill produce books that weave text and image in a new way.

This class will explore a long history of the dialogue between the photograph and the book. Discussions of conceptual readings will be paired with practicums on how to design and make your own photo book, which will be your final project. We will also have special guests from the industry, and field trips subject to public safety regulations.

• Department: Visual Arts
• F 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Naeem Mohaiemen
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• 3 points

FE CONTINUOUS TIME MODELS

This graduate course is only for MS program in FE students. Modeling, analysis, and computation of derivative securities. Applications of stochastic calculus and stochastic differential equations. Numerical techniques: finite-difference, binomial method, and Monte Carlo.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Xunyu Zhou
  h-index: 54 Info
• 3 points

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS AND TIME SERIES

STAT ANALYSIS & TIME SERI

This graduate course is only for M.S. Program in Financial Engineering students. Empirical analysis of asset prices: heavy tails, test of the predictability of stock returns. Financial time series: ARMA, stochastic volatility, and GARCH models. Regression models: linear regression and test of CAPM, non-linear regression and fitting of term structures.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Agostino Capponi
  h-index: 19 Info
• 3 points

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS AND TIME SERIES

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS & TIME SE

This graduate course is only for M.S. Program in Financial Engineering students. Empirical analysis of asset prices: heavy tails, test of the predictability of stock returns. Financial time series: ARMA, stochastic volatility, and GARCH models. Regression models: linear regression and test of CAPM, non-linear regression and fitting of term structures.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Agostino Capponi
  h-index: 19 Info
• 3 points

MORPHOGENESIS:BIOL MAT SHP/STR

Introduction to how shape and structure are generated in biological materials using engineering approach emphasizing application of fundamental physical concepts to a diverse set of problems. Mechanisms of pattern formation, self-assembly, and self-organization in biological materials, including intracellular structures, cells, tissues, and developing embryos. Structure, mechanical properties, and dynamic behavior of these materials. Discussion of experimental approaches and modeling. Course uses textbook materials as well as collection of research papers.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Karen Kasza
  h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

OCCULT IN THE MUSLIM PAST

This seminar is designed to explore the rich but sorely understudied occult scientific lore in the pre-modern Islamic world. For over a millennium, from the seventh through even the twenty-first century, and spanning a broad geographical spectrum from the Nile to Oxus, different forms and praxis of occult scientific knowledge marked intellectual and political endeavors, everyday lives and customs, and faith-based matters of individuals constituting the so-called Islamicate world. However, despite the impressive array of textual, material, and visual sources coming down to us from the Muslim past, the topic has been severely marginalized under the post-Enlightenment definitions of scientific knowledge, which also shaped how the history of sciences in the Islamicate world was written in the last century. One of this seminar’s main objectives is to rehabilitate such biased perspectives through a grand tour of occult knowledge and practice appealed in the pre-modern Muslim world. Over the semester, by relying on a set of secondary studies and translated primary sources, we will revisit the question of the marginalization of Islamicate occult sciences, explore the actors’ definitions and discussions about the epistemic value of these sciences, trace their social and political implications in everyday life and imperial politics, and examine the key textual, technical, and material aspects of the occult tradition. In several of our sessions, we will have hands-on practice to better familiarize ourselves with the instructed techniques and methods in different branches of occult sciences. We will also regularly visit the Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library to view texts and materials available in our collection.

• Department: History
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Tunc Sen
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• 4 points

GLOBAL CAPITAL MARKETS

An introduction to capital markets and investments providing an overview of financial markets and tools for asset valuation. Topics covered include the pricing of fixed-income securities (treasury markets, interest rate swaps futures, etc.), discussions on topics in credit, foreign exchange, sovereign ad securitized markets—private equity and hedge funds, etc.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• M 6 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Siddhartha Ghosh Dastidar
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED PERSIAN II

While helping students advance their levels of oral and written expression, this course focuses on literature of the modern and medieval periods, with particular emphasis on the development of the modern novella and traditional and new forms of poetry. In addition to literature, students are introduced to a wide variety of genres from political and cultural essays and blogs to newspaper translations of the early 20th century. They will be further exposed to ta?rof in reference to a wide variety of socio-cultural contexts and be expected to use ta?rof in class conversations. Students will be exposed to popular artists and their works and satirical websites for insight into contemporary Iranian culture and politics. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Saeed Honarmand
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• 3 points

PRINC OF QUANT POL RESEARCH 2

Prerequisites: POLS W4710 or the equivalent.  This course will
intensively
examine some of the data analysis methods which deal with problems occurring in the use of multiple regression analysis.  It will stress computer applications and cover, as needed, data coding and data processing. Emphasis will also be placed on research design and
writing research reports
.  The course assumes that students are familiar with basic statistics, inference, and multiple regression analysis and have analyzed data using computer software (e.g., any standard statistical programs on micro-computers or larger machines -- Stata, “R”, SPSS, SAS, etc.). Students will be instructed on the use of the microcomputers and the R and Stata statistical software program(s) available as freeware (R) or in the CUIT computer labs (Stata; several campus locations) or through SIPA. The lectures and required discussion section will emphasize the use of “R.” Students may use whatever computer programs they prefer for all data analysis for the course. There may be an
additional fee
for classroom instructional materials.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Andrew Gelman
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia h-index: 112 Info
• 4 points

PRINC OF QUANT POL RESEARCH 2-DISC

PRINC OF QUANT POL RES 2-

This is the required discussion section for
POLS GU4712.

• Department: Political Science
• T 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• R 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Samuel J Houskeeper
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• Instructor: da In Lee
  h-index: 1 Info
• 0 points

RE-THINKING BIM

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph A Brennan
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• 3 points

GAP I:DESIGN + TYPOGRAPHY

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Yoonjai Choi
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• 3 points

INTRO-IMPLIED VOLATILITY SMILE

During the past 15 years the behavior of market options prices have shown systematic deviations from the classic Black-Scholes model. Examines the empirical behavior of implied volatilities, in particular the volatility smile that now characterizes most markets, the mathematics and intuition behind new models that can account for the smile, and their consequences for hedging and valuation.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Emanuel Derman
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 30 Info
• 3 points

20TH CENTURY TIBETAN HISTORY

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Gray W Tuttle
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

MACHINE LEARNING FOR DATA SCI

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Hsu
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 44 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN QUANT FINANCE

AI Applications in Finance

Selected topics of interest in the area of quantitative finance. Offerings vary each year; some topics include energy derivatives, experimental finance, foreign exchange and related derivative instruments, inflation derivatives, hedge fund management, modeling equity derivatives in Java, mortgage-backed securities, numerical solutions of partial differential equations, quantitative portfolio management, risk management, trade and technology in financial markets.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ali Hirsa
  h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

Politics of Archaeology

“Who owns antiquities?” “Who owns culture?” These questions that appear frequently today in both popular and scholarly discourse are deeply embedded in political issues and have a long history, going back to the nineteenth century. The seminar will investigate the origins of the battles over antiquities and their links empire building, colonialism, Orientalism, modernity, power, identity construction, racial hierarchies, and money. The chronological frame is from the 1850s to1914 and the geographical focus in the Ottoman Middle East, which was the major theater of contestations. We will look closely into two areas: archaeological excavations and museums. If objects were unearthed (“discovered”) in the first, they were displayed in the second; the Middle East was crowded with the first, while the major museums were in the West, with the exception of the Museum of Antiquities in Istanbul. We will also consider the vast and complex human landscape around the antiquities. In addition to archaeologists, this community included emperors, sultans, diplomats, spies, artists, inspectors, bureaucrats, technocrats, and workers, hence a cohort of individuals from many nationalities, economic strata, ethnic groups, and religions.

• Department: History
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Zeynep Celik
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• 4 points

PIRANDELLO & MOD ITALIAN DRAMA

• Department: Italian
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Leake
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• 3 points

PIRANDELLO & MOD ITALIAN DRAMA

• Department: Auditing
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Leake
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• 0 points

HENRY JAMES

The seminar will scrutinize four novels and three shorter works by Henry James. It will concentrate on style and structure, how James’s style developed between ‘Washington Square’ (1879) to ‘The Golden Bowl’ (1904). The four novels on the course – ‘The Portrait of a Lady’, ‘The Ambassadors’, ‘The Wings of the Dove’, ‘The Golden Bowl’ – each dramatize the same subject, a single American (or in the case of ‘The Golden Bowl’ a group of Americans) arriving in Europe to confront their destiny. As he proceeds, James narrows the perspective while deriving more energy from the intensity of the relations between the characters. He refines the narrative structure, the point of view. His late style is not a simple matter of longer and more complex sentences, but a way of rendering consciousness and describing scenes that shifts between a diction that is nuanced and a sharp use of phrasal verbs and a conversational tone. The three shorter texts are ‘Washington Square’ and ‘The Turn of the Screw’. The outcome for the students will be a close knowledge of these texts, with some passages studied in detail and with much emphasis on the idea of narrative structure. They will learn to look with care at the creation of scenes in James, with emphasis on his interest in configuration as much as character. They will also learn to read and study style and tone in James’s fiction as complex, requiring close attention. By the end of the semester, they will have come to see that, in the study of any literary text, making distinctions is as important as making connections. The seminar will also look at these novels – especially ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ – in the context of other nineteenth century novels, especially George Eliot’s ‘Middlemarch’ and ‘Daniel Deronda’, and in the light of Henry James’s ‘Hawthorne’ and some of his letters and prefaces. Thus, the outcome for the students will include a knowledge of James as a novelist of his time and also of James as a singular figure, working in isolation, getting his energy from concerns that are pressing and personal as he seeks to dramatize what is secret and concealed, as his style itself moves between suggestion, implication and moments of pure clarity.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Colm Toibin
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• 4 points

QUANT METH 4 TOPICS IN METHODS

This course is the fourth course in the graduate-level sequence on quantitative political methodology offered in the Department of Political Science. Students will learn a variety of ad-vanced topics in political methodology, such as machine learning, recent measurement methods (e.g., ideal point estimation, text analysis, list experiment, and conjoint experiment), network analysis, and causal inference with spatial and network data. Students will collaborate to present discussion papers throughout the semester. The main goal of this course is to help students to write a final paper that applies or develops advanced statistical methods. This course builds on the materials covered in POLS 4700, 4720, 4722, and 4724, or their equivalent courses (i.e., probability, statistics, linear regression, logistic regression, causal inference with observational and experimental data, and knowledge of statistical computing environment R).

• Department: Political Science
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Naoki Egami
  h-index: 8 Info
• 4 points

QUANTITATIVE METHODS 4 DISCUSSION

QUANTITATIVE METH 4 DISCU

This is the required discussion section for 
POLS GU4726.

• Department: Political Science
• W 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 0 points

Literature in the Age of Artificial Inte

In this course we will consider the long history of literature composed with, for, and by machines. Our reading list will start with Ramon Llull, the thirteenth-century combinatorial mystic, and continue with readings from Gottfried Leibniz, Francis Bacon, Jonathan Swift, and Samuel Butler. We will read "Plot Robots" instrumental to the writing of Hollywood scripts and pulp fiction of the 1920s, the avant-garde poetry of Dada and OULIPO, computer-generated love letters written by Alan Turing, and novels created by the first generation of artificial intelligence researchers in the 1950s and 60s. The course will conclude at the present moment, with an exploration of machine learning techniques of the sort used by Siri, Alexa, and other contemporary chat bots.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Dennis Tenen
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 3 Info
• 3 points

CANTERBURY TALES

(Lecture). Beginning with an overview of late medieval literary culture in England, this course will cover the entire Canterbury Tales in the original Middle English. We will explore the narrative and organizational logics that underpin the project overall, while also treating each individual tale as a coherent literary offering, positioned deliberately and recognizably on the map of late medieval cultural convention. We will consider the conditions—both historical and aesthetic—that informed Chaucer’s motley composition, and will compare his work with other large-scale fictive works of the period. Our ultimate project will be the assessment of the Tales at once as a self-consciously “medieval” production, keen to explore and exploit the boundaries of literary convention, and as a ground-breaking literary event, which set the stage for renaissance literature.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Eleanor Johnson
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 3 points

GLOBAL ANGLOPHONE DRAMA

This seminar explores a wide range of twentieth- and twenty-first century dramas from Africa, the Caribbean, South Asia, and North America as well as their diverse diaspora cultures. We investigate how theater artists have worked to dismatle imperial structures and to make sense of the social and material conditions that persist in the wake of colonial violence. Reading internationally renowned playwrights such as Derek Walcott, Wole Soyinka, and Cherrie Moraga as well as emerging contemporary dramatists, we consider how these playwrights have enagaged with the cultures, economies, and ecologies of imperialism. In the process, we discover how dramatic literature invents new vocabularies for describing and theorizing diaspora, migration, and transcultural exchange. Drawing upon criticial approaches from theater and performances studies as well as postcolonial theory, we ask how dramatists receive and reinterpret a model of the global Anglophone world. We also track how theories of global Anglophone literature are themselves entagled with the language and practice of performace.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Rebecca Kastleman
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• 4 points

Science and Technology in Chinese Media

Science& Tech in Chinese

Covering a period from the late 19th century to the present, this class explores how ideas and practices in science and technology have historically entered popular imagination, social organization and political contestation, as they become mediated by various media forms and technologies such as photography, cinema, novels, television, video, internet platforms and data algorithms. In particular, we focus on how science and technology have shaped our understandings of the human body, and impacted on the various bodily experiences, from perception, cognition, to emotion and connection with others in the environment. This class helps students read media artefacts in a historically grounded and conceptually generative way, understanding media artefacts as historically conditioned, yet offering us resources for envisioning the future.

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

GAME THEORY & POLIT THEORY

Prerequisites: POLS GU4700 or equivalent level of calculus. Introduction to noncooperative game theory and its application to strategic situations in politics. Topics include solution concepts, asymmetric information, and incomplete information. Students should have taken POLS GU4700 or have equivalent background in calculus. Permission of instructor required.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: John Huber
  CULPA: 15 h-index: 31 Info
• 4 points

GAME THEORY & POL THEORY-DISC

This is the required discussion section for POLS GU4730.

• Department: Political Science
• F 11:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Lauren E Futter
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• 0 points

Computer Vision II: Learning

Advanced course in computer vision. Topics include convolutional networks and back-propagation, object and action recognition, self-supervised and few-shot learning, image synthesis and generative models, object tracking, vision and language, vision and audio, 3D representations, interpretability, and bias, ethics, and media deception.

• Department: Computer Science
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Carl Vondrick
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

Computer Vision II: Learning

Advanced course in computer vision. Topics include convolutional networks and back-propagation, object and action recognition, self-supervised and few-shot learning, image synthesis and generative models, object tracking, vision and language, vision and audio, 3D representations, interpretability, and bias, ethics, and media deception.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Carl Vondrick
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

Matters of Life/Death

The imbricated crises of a global pandemic and the legacies of structural anti-Black racism necessitate reflection, at once political and philosophic. One might argue that they reframe twentieth century French traditions of thought as a sustained critical reflection on
le vivant
(life); the way society classifies and treats its dead, its “living dead” or excluded members; the political economy of death and life management; death sentences (both legal and literary.) In the twenty first century, Black feminist thought addresses the ecological catastrophe of the pandemic and the resultant unequal distribution of life and death, pressuring what is at stake under the philosopheme of the “human.” This seminar is structured as a conversation between representative thinkers from each “tradition.” Yet neither tradition has discrete borders; twenty first century thinkers inherit from their French predecessors even as they contest and bring to light fraught presuppositions. We might also say, with Jacques Derrida, that the twentieth century French thinkers -Bergson, Canguilhem, Deleuze, Foucault- inherit from the future- from Hortense Spillers, Alexander Weheliye, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Octavia Butler, Fred Moten. How might this urgent reframing and conversation enable a critical resistance?

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Diane Rubenstein
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• 3 points

COMPUT METHODS IN FINANCE

MS IEOR students only. Application of various computational methods/techniques in quantitative/computational finance. Transform techniques: fast Fourier transform for data de-noising and pricing, finite difference methods for partial differential equations (PDE), partial integro-differential equations (PIDE), Monte-Carlo simulation techniques in finance, and calibration techniques, filtering and parameter estimation techniques. Computational platform will be C++/Java/Python/Matlab/R.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• T 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Alireza Javaheri
  Info
• 3 points

COMPUTATNL ASPECTS OF ROBOTICS

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134 or COMS W3136COMS W3137) Introduction to robotics from a computer science perspective. Topics include coordinate frames and kinematics, computer architectures for robotics, integration and use of sensors, world modeling systems, design and use of robotic programming languages, and applications of artificial intelligence for planning, assembly, and manipulation.

• Department: Computer Science
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Shuran Song
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 28 Info
• 3 points

ALGORITHMIC TRADING

Prerequisite(s): IEOR E4700. Large and amorphous collection of subjects ranging from the study of market microstructure, to the analysis of optimal trading strategies, to the development of computerized, high-frequency trading strategies. Analysis of these subjects, the scientific and practical issues they involve, and the extensive body of academic literature they have spawned. Attempt to understand and uncover the economic and financial mechanisms that drive and ultimately relate them.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• W 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Sebastien Donadio
  Info
• 3 points

Art and Theory in a Global Context

Art & Theory in Global Co

What is “globalization”? How does it change the way we think about or show art today? What role does film and media play in it? How has critical theory itself assumed new forms in this configuration moving outside post-war Europe and America? How have these processes helped change with the very idea of ‘contemporary art’? What then might a transnational critical theory in art and in thinking look like today or in the 21st century? In this course we will examine this cluster of questions from a number of different angles, starting with new questions about borders, displacements, translations and minorities, and the ways they have cut across and figured in different regions, in Europe or America, as elsewhere. In the course of our investigations, we will look in particular at two areas in which these questions are being raised today -- in Asia and in Africa and its diasporas. The course is thus inter-disciplinary in nature and is open to students in different fields and areas where these issues are now being discussed.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: John Rajchman
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• 4 points

Engineering the Modern Middle East: Hist

Engineering the Modern ME

This course examines the history of science, technology and medicine in the modern Middle East. We will consider a number of themes from energy infrastructures and communication and transportation systems to modern medical, agricultural and environmental developments.

• Department: History
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Marwa Elshakry
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• 4 points

COMPUTATIONAL GENOMICS

Prerequisites: Working knowledge of at least one programming language, and some background in probability and statistics. Computational techniques for analyzing genomic data including DNA, RNA, protein and gene expression data. Basic concepts in molecular biology relevant to these analyses. Emphasis on techniques from artificial intelligence and machine learning. String-matching algorithms, dynamic programming, hidden Markov models, expectation-maximization, neural networks, clustering algorithms, support vector machines. Students with life sciences backgrounds who satisfy the prerequisites are encouraged to enroll.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Itsik Pe'er
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• 3 points

Machine Learning for Functional Genomics

ML for Functional Genomic

This course will introduce modern probabilistic machine learning methods using applications in data analysis tasks from functional genomics, where massively-parallel sequencing is used  to measure the state of cells: e.g. what genes are being expressed, what regions of DNA (“chromatin”) are active (“open”) or bound by specific proteins.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: David A Knowles
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• 3 points

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
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Nakul Verma
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 16 Info
• 3 points

A Thousand-Year Old Romance: Reading The

Reading The Tale of Genji

This course presents a synchronous and diachronous exploration of The Tale of Genji, a masterpiece of Japanese literature. During the first half of the course, students will read the entire English translation of the tale, as well as a number of other primary texts from roughly the same time period in order to gain an understanding of the sociohistorical and literary context in which the tale came about, while the second half of the course is devoted to the reception and adaptations of the tale across various media, genres, and time periods, ranging from commentaries, noh plays, traditional paintings and even “fan fiction” to modern novels and manga. The aim of the course is to provide the students with an understanding of The Tale of Genji’s place within the Japanese literary tradition, and the impact it has had and continues to exert on all facets of Japanese culture.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Nhat-Phuong Ngo-Vu
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• 4 points

Financial Engineering Practitioners Semi

FE Seminar Series

Degree requirement for all MSFE first-year students. Topics in Financial Engineering. Past seminar topics include Evolving Financial Intermediation, Measuring and Using Trading Algorithms Effectively, Path-Dependent Volatility, Artificial Intelligence and Data Science in modern financial decision making, Risk-Based Performance Attribution, and Financial Machine Learning. Meets select Monday evenings.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• M 7 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• 0 points

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF CANCER

Tracing the discovery of the role of DNA tumor viruses in cancerous transformation. Oncogenes and tumor suppressors are analyzed with respect to their function in normal cell cycle, growth control, and human cancers. SCE and TC students may register for this course, but they must first obtain the written permission of the instructor, by filling out a paper Registration Adjustment Form (Add/Drop form). The form can be downloaded at the URL below, but must be signed by the instructor and returned to the office of the registrar. http://registrar.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/reg-adjustment.pdf

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Carol L Prives
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• 3 points

DATA SCIENCE CAPSTONE&ETHICS

• Department: Engineering
• Instructor: Sining Chen
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• 3 points

LANGUAGE & SOCIETY

How language structure and usage varies according to societal factors such as social history and socioeconomic factors, illustrated with study modules on language contact, language standardization and literacy, quantitative sociolinguistic theory, language allegiance, language, and power.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: William Foley
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• 3 points

Israel and the Palestinians

The seminar will examine the main political, economic, and social processes that have been shaping contemporary Israel. The underlying assumption in this seminar is that much of these processes have been shaped by the 100-year Israeli-Arab/Palestinian conflict. The first part of the course will accordingly focus on the historical background informing the conflict and leading to the Palestinian refugee problem and establishment of a Jewish, but not Palestinian, state in 1948.  The second part of the seminar focuses on Israel’s occupation of the West Bank (and Gaza) and the settlement project, as well as on USA's role and its impact on the conflict, the occupation, and Israel. These topics did not get much academic attention until recently, but as researchers began to realize that the Occupation and the West Bank settlements are among the most permanent institutions in Israel, they have come under the scrutiny of academic research.  The third part the seminar will concentrate on the development of the conflict after the establishment of Israel and its effects on sociological processes and institutions in contemporary Israel.  Analyzing patterns of continuity and change in the past seven decades, we will discuss immigration and emigration patterns, as well as issue relating to ethnicity, gender, religion and politics, and the Israeli military.

• Department: Sociology
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Yinon Cohen
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• 4 points

Contradictions of Care: From Intimacy to

CONTRADICTIONS OF CARE

Care is central to the interpersonal claim that is made by the other. It is a response that recognizes and satisfies a need. Care can be motivated by pain and sorrow, but also by desire and the desire for recognition. But while care is a fundamental aspect of healing, it can also be a demand that extracts obligations and liabilities. Care is an ambiguous concept that always already contains or is determined by its oppositions; we will begin by analyzing the concept of care itself, drawing on resources from the history and philosophy of medicine as well as literary sources. Ideals of care that many of us have for our loved ones are difficult to render at scale, and are often in tension with the for-profit motivations behind the development of medications, the administration of healthcare services, and the distribution of goods. We will consider the sorts of compromises that are made every day through readings in literature, history, political science and philosophy and also through first-person experience in the form of a practicum that that will run parallel to the course.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Arden A Hegele
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• 3 points

HISTORY OF ENGLISH NOVEL II

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: James E Adams
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• 3 points

RELIGION AND HUMAN RIGHTS

The resurgence of religion over the past three decades has had a transformative influence globally and within nations. Religious nationalism, fundamentalism, and communalism have arisen to forcefully compete with secular democracy. With the fall of the Soviet bloc and the bilateralism of the Cold War, ethnic particularism, often of a religious character, has emerged as the locus of identity for people on all continents. These rapid changes engendered by a new, often commanding, role for religion challenge the very concept of individual and universal human rights. They raise difficult theoretical and painfully practical questions as to the preservation of individual human rights, and the relationship of democracy to religion. At the same time, recent currents such as economic globalization, the triumph of the free market, and the communications revolution promote individual autonomy, a cornerstone of human rights. There can be no doubt that religion will occupy an increasingly salient role in the social and political life of nations during the course of the 21st century. The relevance of religion to human rights in our time cannot be undervalued. The course examines the relationship of religion to human rights from several standpoints, including religions role in abetting intolerance, religious minorities as victims of human rights violations, and religion as a framer of human rights ideals which inspire action.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph N Chuman
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• 3 points

INTRO TO HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT

Introduction to human spaceflight from a systems engineering perspective. Historical and current space programs and spacecraft. Motivation, cost, and rationale for human space exploration. Overview of space environment needed to sustain human life and health, including physiological and psychological concerns in space habitat. Astronaut selection and training processes, spacewalking, robotics, mission operations, and future program directions. Systems integration for successful operation of a spacecraft. Highlights from current events and space research, Space Shuttle, Hubble Space Telescope, and International Space Station (ISS). Includes a design project to assist International Space Station astronauts.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• F 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael J Massimino
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• 3 points

ADVANCED SANSKRIT II

Prerequisites: Two years of Sanskrit or the instructors permission. Prerequisites: Two years of Sanskrit or the instructors permission. The two levels of advanced Sanskrit are given in alternate years. In 2017-2018 court literature (fall) and literary criticism (spring) will be offered; in 2018-2019, philosophy. Close reading of major works, exploring both philological and literary-theoretical aspects of the texts. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Tyler M Richard
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• 4 points

X INFO MODELING I

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

RANDOM SIGNALS & NOISE

Characterization of stochastic processes as models of signals and noise; stationarity, ergodicity, correlation functions, and power spectra. Gaussian processes as models of noise in linear and nonlinear systems; linear and nonlinear transformations of random processes; orthogonal series representations. Applications to circuits and devices, to communication, control, filtering, and prediction.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Irving Kalet
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

SUSTAINABILITY AND PRESERVATN

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

DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING

Introduction to the mathematical tools and algorithmic implementation for representation and processing of digital pictures, videos, and visual sensory data. Image representation, filtering, transform, quality enhancement, restoration, feature extraction, object segmentation, motion analysis, classification, and coding for data compression. A series of programming assignments reinforces material from the lectures.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• R 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Christine P Hendon
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• 3 points

Post/socialist Cosmologies in Asia

POSTSOCIALIST COSMOLOGIES

Why have spiritual worlds returned or persisted in post/socialist Asia where people once thought they would disappear? What does religiosity look like in socialist and postsocialist contexts today? According to secularization theorists, religion was destined to fade with the passage of modern progressive time. In Asia and elsewhere, socialist states were known for embracing atheism and curtailing or banishing institutions and practices they deemed religious or superstitious. Yet, engagements with spirited worlds—including those with ghosts and ancestors, spirit mediumship and possession, Buddhism, Daoism, and Abrahamic religions—did not vanish.

In this class, we will read social and political theories of communism/socialism, postsocialism, religion, and secularism, alongside contemporary ethnographies of China, Vietnam, Mongolia, and elsewhere, to consider how global communities live out spirited worlds amid post-Cold War geographies.

• Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Emily Ng
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• 4 points

DATAMINING THE CITY

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Hsien-Hsin Chou
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• 3 points

BUILDING CONDITIONS ASSESSMENT

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Kyle C Normandin
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• 1.5 points

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

Prerequisites: (CSEE W4823) Embedded system design and implementation combining hardware and software. I/O, interfacing, and peripherals. Weekly laboratory sessions and term project on design of a microprocessor-based embedded system including at least one custom peripheral. Knowledge of C programming and digital logic required.

• Department: Computer Science
• F 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Stephen A Edwards
  CULPA: 21 h-index: 35 Info
• 3 points

CHINA AND POLITICS OF DESIRE

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
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Emily Ng
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• 4 points

BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 Within economics, the standard model of behavior is that of 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. The aim of this course is to provide a grounding in the main areas of study within behavioral economics, including temptation and self control, fairness and reciprocity, reference dependence, bounded rationality and choice under risk and uncertainty. For each area we will study three things: 1. The evidence that indicates that the standard economic model is missing some important behavior 2. The models that have been developed to capture these behaviors 3. Applications of these models to (for example) finance, labor and development economics As well as the standard lectures, homework assignments, exams and so on, you will be asked to participate in economic experiments, the data from which will be used to illustrate some of the principals in the course. There will also be a certain small degree of classroom ‘flipping’, with a portion of many lectures given over to group problem solving. Finally, an integral part of the course will be a research proposal that you must complete by the end of the course, outlining a novel piece of research that you would be interested in doing.

• Department: Economics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Mark Dean
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• 3 points

Gender and Religion in Post-Colonial Sou

Gender/Relig Post-Col S.

This course will examine various roles that a religion can play in shaping its believers’ socio-cultural and political identities on the basis of their natural/social differences i.e. sex and gender. An attempt will be made to search for historical explanations of gendered identities and social anxieties in the context of various religious beliefs of communities living in the South Asian region. Following a series of historical events combined with theoretical approaches which had emerged after the departure of the colonial rulers, this course will explore the following themes; (a) role of religion in construction of post colonial state and question of gender; (b) formation of state policies and challenges of existing realities; (c) representation or absence of women in post colonial political institutions. The central argument of the course is that, for historical understanding of a set of beliefs and practices regarding gender relations and women’s status in any religious group, one needs to examine the historical context and socio-economic basis of that particular religion. By using the notion of gender, class and historical feminist discourses as tools of analysis, this course intends to understand and explain existing perceptions, misperceptions, myths and realities regarding gender relations and South Asian women’s situations in the colonial past which has shaped their post colonial present. It is crucial to understand Intersectionality of institutions of authority such as, patriarchal state and controlling religious beliefs that have shaped and continue to reshape “womanhood” in South Asia. In this context, it is necessary to examine how women have challenged, questioned and resisted their subservient status through confrontation, reinterpretation and negotiation in the world of academia and media. This course revolves around a few major questions;

How have the texts and re-interpretations constructed Hindu, Muslim and Budhist femininity and masculinity?

How have post colonial states and communities applied religious texts to control women’s body and sexuality?

How have the institutions of authority kept alive customs and traditions of veiling, segregation, family honor, sexual “purity” etc.?

How have the colonial and post colonial politics affected women’s mobility and space in public and private?

How can historical re-reading of the religious texts challenge the role of patriarchy and misogyny in the

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Nimmi Gowrinathan
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• 4 points

GENERATIVE DESIGN

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Danil Nagy
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• 3 points

HEALTHY BUILDING MATERIALS

HEALTHIER BUILDING MATERI

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Catherine Murphy
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• 3 points

IF BUILDINGS COULD TALK: ART AND BUILDIN

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

THE OUTSIDE IN PROJECT

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

MODEL FICTIONS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Joshua C Jordan
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• 3 points

BEHAVIORAL FINANCE

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 Neoclassical finance theory seeks to explain financial market valuations and fluctuations in terms of investors having rational expectations and being able to trade without costs. Under these assumptions, markets are efficient in that stocks and other assets are always priced just right. The efficient markets hypothesis (EMH) has had an enormous influence over the past 50 years on the financial industry, from pricing to financial innovations, and on policy makers, from how markets are regulated to how monetary policy is set. But there was very little in prevailing EMH models to suggest the instabilities associated with the Financial Crisis of 2008 and indeed with earlier crises in financial market history. This course seeks to develop a set of tools to build a more robust model of financial markets that can account for a wider range of outcomes. It is based on an ongoing research agenda loosely dubbed “Behavioral Finance”, which seeks to incorporate more realistic assumptions concerning human rationality and market imperfections into finance models. Broadly, we show in this course that limitations of human rationality can lead to bubbles and busts such as the Internet Bubble of the mid-1990s and the Housing Bubble of the mid-2000s; that imperfections of markets — such as the difficulty of short-selling assets — can cause financial markets to undergo sudden and unpredictable crashes; and that agency problems or the problems of institutions can create instabilities in the financial system as recently occurred during the 2008 Financial Crisis. These instabilities in turn can have feedback effects to the performance of the real economy in the form of corporate investments.

• Department: Economics
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Harrison Hong
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• 3 points

FOOTPRINT: CARBON & DESIGN

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: David E Benjamin
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• 3 points