This course fulfills the Masters Thesis requirement of the QMSS MA Program. It is designed to help you make consistent progress on your master’s thesis throughout the semester, as well as to provide structure during the writing process. The master’s thesis, upon completion, should answer a fundamental research question in the subject matter of your choice. It should be an academic paper based on data that you can acquire, clean, and analyze within a single semester, with an emphasis on clarity and policy relevance.
PDR is designed to expose incoming students to the program’s professional development and improvement offerings and provide you with industry and career experiences that will complement your work in the classroom, enhance and enrich your experience in the program and prepare you for your next career steps in the sports industry.
The PDR requirements have been divided into 2 categories: Core and Elective.
Each incoming
full-time
student will need to attend/complete a minimum of 40 hours of PDR events in order to graduate, including a minimum of 20 Core hours.
Each incoming
part-time
student will need to attend/complete a minimum of 20 hours of PDR events in order to graduate, including a minimum of 10 Core hours.
You will fulfill the PDR requirements by participating in and attending events such as:
project-based educational work
networking events
career coaching and advising
industry discussions and information sessions and workshops
PDR is designed to expose incoming students to the program’s professional development and improvement offerings and provide you with industry and career experiences that will complement your work in the classroom, enhance and enrich your experience in the program and prepare you for your next career steps in the sports industry.
The PDR requirements have been divided into 2 categories: Core and Elective.
Each incoming
full-time
student will need to attend/complete a minimum of 40 hours of PDR events in order to graduate, including a minimum of 20 Core hours.
Each incoming
part-time
student will need to attend/complete a minimum of 20 hours of PDR events in order to graduate, including a minimum of 10 Core hours.
You will fulfill the PDR requirements by participating in and attending events such as:
project-based educational work
networking events
career coaching and advising
industry discussions and information sessions and workshops
The M.S. in Sustainability Management program is offering a panel workshop series, featuring SUMA alumni who will share firsthand insights into the courses that shaped their professional journeys. The workshops will offer a unique opportunity to hear how alumni applied their classroom learning in real-world sustainability careers across sectors, including corporate sustainability, sustainability finance, policy, consulting, environmental justice, and more.
This is a 0 credit ungraded course open to all students in the MS in Sustainability Management, MS in Sustainability Science, MPA in Environmental Science and Policy, MS in Climate, MS in Climate Finance, and MA in Climate and Society programs. Students can attend as many or as few workshops as they'd like, in person or virtually. The Zoom link and classroom location will be confirmed in the coming weeks.
Workshop dates and topics:
September 9 - Governmental Sustainability, Decarbonization, and Environmental Protection
September 16 - Corporate Sustainability
September 21 - Sustainability Finance
October 7 - Environmental Justice
October 14 - The Built Environment
October 21 - International Careers
November 11 - Energy Consulting
November 18 - Sustainability Analytics
December 2 - Nonprofit and Advocacy
Students study the sustainability science behind a particular sustainability problem, collect and analyze data using scientific tools, and make recommendations for solving the problem. The capstone course is a client-based workshop that will integrate each element of the curriculum into an applied project, giving students hands-on experience.
Current topics in biomedical engineering. Subject matter will vary by year.
Current topics in biomedical engineering. Subject matter will vary by year.
Current topics in biomedical engineering. Subject matter will vary by year.
This introductory course will explore computing concepts and coding in the context of solving policy problems. Such problems might include troubleshooting sources of environmental pollution, evaluating the effectiveness of public housing policy or determining the impact that local financial markets have on international healthcare or education. Using policy scenarios as examples, students will be exposed to topics including: requirements gathering, data collection, data cleansing, writing pseudocode and code, using Python packages to help solve policy problems, presenting technical solutions and the constraints of computing. The hands-on nature of the class will help students to develop a strong, transferable skill-set that could be applied to both current coursework and future employment. Between the computer science and policy context lectures, students will see how computer science will become a fundamental component of their policy analysis education.
Current topics in earth and environmental engineering. Subject matter will vary by year. Instructors may impose prerequisites depending on the topic.
This course introduces key concepts, theories, and challenges in the study and practice of international security policy. Drawing on historical and contemporary examples, students will examine the causes and consequences of war, the evolution of strategic thought, and the tools available to prevent and manage violent conflict. The course includes the purposes and limitations of military force, alliance politics, deterrence and coercion, weapons of mass destruction, civil-military relations, cyber threats, and the ethical dimensions of security decision-making. The course emphasizes critical thinking, policy evaluation, and real-world application, preparing students for advanced study in the International Security Policy concentration and future roles in government, international organizations, or related fields. Students will leave with a foundational framework for analyzing security policy and contributing to efforts that reduce the human and strategic costs of armed conflict.
This workshop provides an intense immersion in the methods and skills of narrative medicine. Lectures will open up themes of how stories work, creativity, ethics, bearing witness, and empathy, while the small groups practice rigorous skills in close reading, creative writing, and responding to the writings of others. The learning objectives of the workshops are to 1) provide personal contact to introduce and solidify intersubjective relationships among participants; 2) to ignite use of methods that have been and will be utilized in the on-line component, e.g., writing to prompts from literary texts and responding to both form and content of colleagues’ writing; 3) plenary lectures from the architects of the discipline of Narrative Medicine in the foundational theories to be studied; 4) scheduled cultural learning opportunities of New York City (music, museums, literary readings) for shared creative experiences; 5) contact with Master of Science in Narrative Medicine graduate program for certification participants toward their understanding of the breadth of the field and the potential for their continuing to study NM after the CPA; 6) introduction to the national and international reach of Columbia Narrative Medicine so that participants grasp the value and magnitude of the community they have entered as certification program students. Participants will be given the chance to present their own works-in-progress to assembled participants and faculty as a jump-start to collaborative projects during and after the participation in the certification program.
MIA & MPA Leadership and Management I Core.
Leadership in Action
integrates strategic leadership frameworks, real-world case studies, and an immersive multi-week simulation to build students’ capacity to lead in complex, high-stakes environments. Through a sequence of applied exercises, ranging from team formation and innovation design to crisis response, students will develop critical skills in decision-making, influence, and organizational change. The course emphasizes adaptive leadership, cross-sector collaboration, and ethical judgment, equipping students to lead effectively under conditions of uncertainty and pressure.
Basic techniques for analyzing quantitative social science data. Emphasis on conceptual understanding as well as practical mastery of probability and probability distributions, inference, hypotheses testing, analysis of variance, simple regression, and multiple regression.
Research in medical informatics under the direction of a faculty adviser.
Research in medical informatics under the direction of a faculty adviser.
Current topics in the Earth sciences.
May be repeated for up to 6 points of credit. Graduate-level projects in various areas of electrical engineering and computer science. In consultation with an instructor, each student designs his or her project depending on the students previous training and experience. Students should consult with a professor in their area for detailed arrangements no later than the last day of registration.