SENIOR THESIS IN RESEARCH
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to senior Theatre majors. Combined and special majors may be considered under exceptional circumstances. Permission of the instructor required. In-depth research project culminating in a substantial written thesis on any aspect of drama, performance, or theatre research.
- Department: Theatre @Barnard
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Instructor:
William B Worthen
CULPA: 10
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SENIOR THESIS SEM IN ANTHROPOL
Prerequisites: The instructors permission. Students must have declared a major in Anthropology prior to registration. Students must have a 3.6 GPA in the major and a preliminary project concept in order to be considered. Interested students must communicate/meet with thesis instructor in the previous spring about the possibility of taking the course during the upcoming academic year. Additionally, expect to discuss with the instructor at the end of the fall term whether your project has progressed far enough to be completed in the spring term. If it has not, you will exit the seminar after one semester, with a grade based on the work completed during the fall term. This two-term course is a combination of a seminar and a workshop that will help you conduct research, write, and present an original senior thesis in anthropology. Students who write theses are eligible to be considered for departmental honors. The first term of this course introduces a variety of approaches used to produce anthropological knowledge and writing; encourages students to think critically about the approaches they take to researching and writing by studying model texts with an eye to the ethics, constraints, and potentials of anthropological research and writing; and gives students practice in the seminar and workshop formats that are key to collegial exchange and refinement of ideas. During the first term, students complete a few short exercises that will culminate in a substantial draft of one discrete section of their senior project (18-20 pages) plus a detailed outline of the expected work that remains to be done (5 pages). The spring sequence of the anthropology thesis seminar is a writing intensive continuation of the fall semester, in which students will have designed the research questions, prepared a full thesis proposal that will serve as a guide for the completion of the thesis and written a draft of one chapter. Only those students who expect to have completed the fall semester portion of the course are allowed to register for the spring; final enrollment is contingent upon successful completion of first semester requirements. In spring semester, weekly meetings will be devoted to the collaborative refinement of drafts, as well as working through issues of writing (evidence, voice, authority etc.). All enrolled students are required to present their project at a symposium in the late spring, and the final grade is based primarily on successful completion of the thesis/ capstone project. Note: The senior thesis seminar is open t
- Department: Anthropology
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Instructor:
Lila Abu-Lughod
CULPA: 17 Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info - 4 points
INDEPENDENT STUDY
Prerequisites: Open to majors who have fulfilled basic major requirements or written permission of the staff member who will supervise the project. Specialized reading and research projects planned in consultation with members of the Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures teaching staff.
- Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
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Instructor:
Rachel McDermott
CULPA: 37
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David L Moerman
CULPA: 18
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Nicholas A Bartlett
CULPA: 5
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Matthew L Keegan
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Lili Xia
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Nathanael P Shelley
CULPA: 6
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INDIVIDUAL STUDY II
Prerequisites: open only to qualified majors in the department; the director of undergraduate studies permission is required. An opportunity for research under the direction of an individual faculty member. Students intending to write a year-long senior thesis should plan to register for C3996 in the spring semester of their senior year and are strongly advised to consult the undergraduate studies as they plan their programs.
- Department: Sociology @Barnard
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Deborah Becher
CULPA: 8
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Elizabeth Bernstein
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Maricarmen Hernandez
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Debra Minkoff
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Mignon R Moore
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Jonathan Rieder
CULPA: 17
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Angela Simms
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Amy Zhou
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Randa B Serhan
CULPA: 2 Info - 1-6 points
SENIOR SEMINAR
Intensive study of a philosophical issue or topic, or of a philosopher, group of philosophers, or philosophical school or movement. Open only to Barnard senior philosophy majors.
- Department: Philosophy @Barnard
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Instructor:
Karen Lewis
CULPA: 12 h-index: 7 Info - 4 points
Effective Global Leadership for Economic
Effective Global Leadership II
These two-part mid-career global leadership development courses (1.5 credit course in the summer and spring) provide intensive, collaborative, and highly interactive hands-on instruction, constructive evaluation, and ample opportunities to transform theory into practice. It utilizes cutting-edge, research-based methodologies and customized case studies to build the next generation of leaders that turn differences into opportunities, ideas into solutions, and knowledge into action. Students will acquire a variety of leadership skills in global contexts, including cross-cultural negotiation strategies, consensus building, collaborative facilitation, persuasion, inclusionary leadership, design-thinking-based problem-solving techniques, and public speaking in knowledge-intensive industries. They will gain a competitive edge in their professional careers by participating in a variety of simulation games, role-playing exercises, and mock public policy panels to apply the skills they have learned and receive valuable feedback.
- Department: MPA IN ECON POLICY MANAGEMENT
- 1.5 points
SENIOR ESSAY
A substantial paper, developing from an Autumn workshop and continuing into the Spring under the direction of an individual adviser. Open only to Barnard senior philosophy majors.
- Department: Philosophy @Barnard
- 3 points
AESTHETICS:EXPER & EXPRESSION
- Department: Philosophy @Barnard
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Instructor:
Christopher P Prodoehl
Info - 3 points
INTRO MODERN ANALYSIS I
Prerequisites: MATH UN1202 or the equivalent, and MATH UN2010. The second term of this course may not be taken without the first. Real numbers, metric spaces, elements of general topology, sequences and series, continuity, differentiation, integration, uniform convergence, Ascoli-Arzela theorem, Stone-Weierstrass theorem.
- Department: Mathematics @Barnard
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Instructor:
Faculty
h-index: 37 Info - 3 points
TOPICS IN THE BLACK EXPERIENCE
Please refer to Institute for African American and African Diaspora Studies Department for section-by-section course descriptions.
- Department: African American and African Diaspora
- R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Johanna F Almiron
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Instructor:
Vivaldi Jean-Marie
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(Y)OUR LONGER LIFE
People are living 30 years longer than we did 100 years ago. We have created a whole new stage of life. How do we prepare to benefit from our longer lives? What can you do in your own life? This course explores the personal, population, community, and societal dimensions of our now-longer lives, of aging itself, and the role of health and societal design in the experience of aging. The course examines the meaning of aging and the attendant expectations, myths, fears, and realities. The course examines an aging society as a public health success, the potential for building health futures, the health plan you want to be healthy in old age, and the potential for longer lives and how we unlock it. It addresses the roles public health currently plays and can play in shaping a society for an aging population. The course explores how a public health system—indeed, a society—optimized for an aging population stands to benefit all. The course also examines the physical, cognitive, and psychological aspects of aging, the exposures across our lives that affect these, the attributes and challenges of aging, keys to successful aging, and aging around the globe. The culminating project will design elements of our society that are needed to support the opportunity of having longer lives. This course comprises lectures, class discussions, individual assignments, in-class case activities, and a group project in which students shall take an active role. You will be responsible for regular preparatory assignments, writing assignments, one group project, and attending course sessions. Please note: GSAS students must receive permission from their department before registering for this course.
- Department: Columbia College
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dana March
CULPA: 8
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ELEMENTARY UGARITIC I
- Department: Language Resource Center
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Instructor:
Stephane A Charitos
CULPA: 6
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GENDER IN ANC CHRISTIANITY
This seminar considers the difference gender makes in interpreting ancient Christian texts, ideas, and practices. Topics will include gender hierarchy and homoeroticism, prophecy and authority, outsiders’ views of Christianity, bodily pieties such as martyrdom and asceticism, and gender politics in the establishment of church offices. Emphasis will be placed on close readings of primary sources and selected scholarly framings of these sources.
- Department: Religion @Barnard
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Instructor:
Elizabeth Castelli
CULPA: 17 Wikipedia Info - 4 points
CONTEM AMER JEWISH WOMEN'S LIT
CONTEM AMER JEWSH WOMEN'S LIT
The seminar will focus on trends that have emerged over the past three decades in Jewish American women's writing in the fields of memoirs, fiction and Jewish history: the representation and exploration through fictive narratives of women's experiences in American Jewish orthodox communities; reinterpretation of Jewish history through gender analysis; the recording of migration and exile by Jewish women immigrants from the former Soviet Union, Morocco, Iran, and Egypt; and gender transformations. Texts will be analyzed in terms of genre structures, narrative strategies, the role of gender in shaping content and Jewish identity, and the political, cultural and social contexts in which the works were created. The course aims for students to discuss and critically engage with texts in order to develop the skills of analytical and abstract thinking, as well as the ability to express that critical thinking in writing. Prerequisites:
Both
one introductory WGSS course
and
Critical Approaches to Social and Cultural Theory,
or
Permission of the Instructor.
- Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
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Instructor:
Agnieszka Legutko
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
EMBODIMENT AND BODILY DIFFERENCE
EMBODIMENT & BODILY DIFFE
At once material and symbolic, our bodies exist at the intersection of multiple competing discourses, including the juridical, the techno-scientific, and the biopolitical. In this course, we will draw upon a variety of critical interdisciplinary literatures—including feminist and queer studies, science and technology studies, and disability studies—to consider some of the ways in which the body is constituted by such discourses, and itself serves as the substratum for social relations. Among the key questions we will consider are the following: What is natural about the body? How are distinctions made between presumptively normal and pathological bodies, and between psychic and somatic experiences? How do historical and political-economic forces shape the perception and meaning of bodily difference? And most crucially: how do bodies that are multiply constituted by competing logics of gender, race, nation, and ability offer up resistance to these and other categorizations?
- Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
- F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Margot L Kotler
Info - 4 points
Topics in Moral Psychology
Intensive study of a particular topic in Moral Psychology.
- Department: Philosophy @Barnard
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Instructor:
Francey Russell
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
Technologies of Modern Drama
TECHNOLOGIES OF MOD DRAMA
This seminar will consider theatre intermedially, taking up its use of dramatic writing as one, only one, of its determining technologies. In the first half of the semester we will use a series of philosophical questions—tools vs. technologies, techne vs. medium—to consider several dimensions of modern theatricality as technologies: of gender and genre, of space and place, of the body and its performance. After spring break, we will use the terms generated to consider a series of topics specifically inflected by the design and practice of modern theatricality. Students will each write one longer essay, and will have the opportunity to receive feedback on a draft, if desired.
- Department: Theatre @Barnard
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
William B Worthen
CULPA: 10
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- 4 points
DIVINE HUMAN ANIMAL
This course focuses on thinking with animals (Levi-Strauss) through the lens of the religious imagination. The concentration will be primarily on Western religious cultures, especially Judaism and the question of Jewishness.
- Department: Religion @Barnard
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Instructor:
Beth A Berkowitz
CULPA: 2 h-index: 6 Info - 4 points
INDEPENDENT STUDY-GRADUATE
- Department: African American and African Diaspora
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Brandi Summers
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Jafari S Allen
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Farah Griffin
CULPA: 10
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ELEMENTS LATIN PROSE STYLE
Prerequisites: at least four semesters of Latin, or the equivalent. Intensive review of Latin syntax with translation of English sentences and paragraphs into Latin.
- Department: Classics @Barnard
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Instructor:
Kristina Milnor
CULPA: 21
Wikipedia
h-index: 10
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INVESTMENT PLANNING
The Investment Planning course explores the essential principles of investing and how to apply them wisely as
wealth advisors. Students will examine how investment wisdom and theory has evolved – from the insights of
Benjamin Graham to Modern Portfolio Theory, the Capital Asset Pricing Model, factor-based investing and more --
and identify how these theories can be utilized as a framework for understanding and using investments of the present and future. Students will calculate and apply mathematical formulas to learn how to manage risk and return in investment portfolios. This course will compare and contrast each of the major asset classes, ranging from cash and near-cash investments to public and private equity, debt and alternative investments. Students will learn how to apply investment skills to deliver and demonstrate value to clients, net of fees and adjusted risk. In addition, this course will emphasize the parallel development of investment knowledge and communication and counseling skills to conduct investment relationships with clients effectively.
- Department: Wealth Management
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Instructor:
Stephen Bodurtha
Info - 3 points
TAX PLANNING
The Tax Planning course explores the various methods of the U.S. tax system, its development, its applicability to individual (and corporate) taxpayers, and steps taxpayers of various income and wealth levels take to determine,
meet, and minimize their tax obligations, depending on their goals. Students will learn how to identify sources, nature, and taxability of taxpayers’ income and gains, to determine the deductibility of any expenses they incur to reduce income, identify credits they may have to offset taxes due, understand filing and payment obligations, and apply the methods of minimizing tax - avoidance, deferral, and use of lower brackets or realization by other taxpayers.
- Department: Wealth Management
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Instructor:
Adam Ludman
Info - 3 points
Leadership in Action
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.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Gary Bagley
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Instructor:
William B Eimicke
Info - 1.5 points
Leadership in Action
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.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
William B Eimicke
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Instructor:
Teemu Alexander Puutio
Info - 1.5 points
Leadership in Action
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.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Teemu Alexander Puutio
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Instructor:
Kirsti Samuels
Info - 1.5 points
People Management and Building Organizat
People Management & Org C
MIA & MPA Leadership and Management II Core.
This course explores key themes in people management and organizational culture, equipping students with skills to lead diverse teams and build resilient, high-performing workplaces. Through case studies, simulations, and applied exercises, students will examine talent strategy, performance management, inclusive leadership, and organizational design. The course emphasizes practical tools for navigating complex challenges such as incentive structures, conflict resolution, and talent retention in dynamic global environments.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Teemu Alexander Puutio
Info - 1.5 points
Effective Management in the Public Servi
Management in Public Serv
MIA & MPA Leadership and Management II Core.
This course introduces students to the field of public management, focusing on the tools and strategies managers use to influence organizational behavior and deliver public services. Through lectures, case studies, discussions, and group projects, students will explore management practices in government and in nonprofit and private organizations that partner with the public sector. The course draws on examples from New York City and U.S. agencies, as well as comparative cases from Asia, Latin America, and Europe. A lab section deepens engagement with course materials and features guest speakers from across sectors.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
William B Eimicke
Info - 1.5 points
Crisis Leadership and Adaptive Managemen
Crisis Leadership & Mgmt
MIA & MPA Leadership and Management II Core.
This course equips students with the skills, strategies, and resilience necessary to lead effectively during extreme events and complex crises. Drawing on case studies, personal narratives, and interactive exercises, the course examines how crises —ranging from natural disasters and terrorist attacks to cyber incidents and pandemics —require adaptive management and decisive leadership under intense pressure. Students will examine the multiple forces that shape crisis response, including social, cognitive, operational, and political dynamics. The course provides a framework for assessing risk, coordinating cross-sector efforts, developing crisis communication strategies, and fostering innovation in fast-evolving situations.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- 1.5 points
Crisis Communications
MIA & MPA Leadership and Management II Core.
This course blends crisis communication theory, case studies, and immersive simulations to prepare students for high-stakes communications challenges in the public and nonprofit sectors. Students will develop strategic judgment and tactical skills necessary to lead during crises while practicing rapid-response communication under pressure.
Topics include defining and diagnosing crises, designing messaging strategies, working with the media, coordinating across agencies, and maintaining public trust. The course also explores the role of tone and humor, legal considerations, and the dynamics of internal and external communication during emergencies.
Students will engage in hands-on simulations replicating real-world crises, such as natural disasters, viral incidents, and organizational failures. Through weekly assignments and scenario-based exercises, students will gain experience developing crisis memos, talking points, and live-response strategies.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- 1.5 points
Persuasion and Applied Negotiation Skill
Persuasion & Negotiation
MIA & MPA Leadership and Management II Core.
This course is an interactive, practice-focused experience designed to equip students with skills and confidence in negotiation and persuasion across public and private sector contexts. Drawing on negotiation psychology, best practices, and evidence-based approaches, the course will develop students’ ability to navigate complex interpersonal and multilateral dynamics.
Through simulations, roleplays, and real-world case studies, students will learn to apply integrative and distributive negotiation methods, build strong positions and alternatives, and manage collective bargaining, mediation, arbitration, and asymmetric power dynamics.
Course topics include negotiation theory, stakeholder analysis, multilateral and cross-cultural negotiation, and solution-driven communication. Students will develop the ability to assess power dynamics, leverage personal strengths, and contribute effectively in multi-stakeholder settings.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Teemu Alexander Puutio
Info - 1.5 points
Managing Communications
MIA & MPA Leadership and Management II Core.
This course trains students to become effective spokespersons and communications directors in any sector—government, nonprofit, or private enterprise. The class focuses on developing practical skills and insight into the extensive role of communications in achieving organizational goals.
Students will assume the role of a communications executive for a real organization of their choice for the duration of the course. Assignments will be framed from this perspective, including developing a public relations strategy, drafting executive communications, preparing weekly media reports, and planning crisis responses.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Hagar Hajjar Chemali
Wikipedia Info - 1.5 points
Strategic Management of Nonprofit Organi
Strategic Mgmt-Nonprofit
MIA & MPA Leadership and Management II Core.
This course explores how core functional areas, such as governance, finance, talent strategy, communications, and accountability, interconnect to support a nonprofit organization’s mission and strategic goals. Students will examine key management practices in nonprofit settings, emphasizing mission alignment, ethical fundraising, board effectiveness, and impact measurement. Through applied learning, the course equips students with the skills to assess organizational performance, design inclusive cultures, and develop strategic approaches to growth and sustainability.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Gary Bagley
Info - 1.5 points
Decisions and Behavior
MIA & MPA Leadership and Management II Core.
This course introduces students to the field of behavioral economics and the study of individual decision-making. Students will examine how behavior often departs from standard rational models and consider the implications for public policy and management. The course begins with the economic concept of rationality, then proceeds to evidence on systematic deviations, including impatience, framing, reference dependence, and social preferences. Class meetings will incorporate in-class experiments, discussions, and analyses of empirical research. The course concludes with applications to policy design and organizational practices. Students will prepare presentations, participate in recitations, and either develop a policy proposal or complete a final exam to demonstrate their understanding of behavioral approaches to decision-making.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Michael Ting
CULPA: 4 Info - 1.5 points
Sustainability Management
MIA & MPA Leadership and Management II Core.
Sustainability management matters because we only have one planet, and we must learn how to manage our organizations in a way that ensures that our planet is maintained. The course is designed to introduce you to the field of sustainability management. This is not an academic course that reviews the literature of the field and discusses how scholars think about the management of organizations that are environmentally sound. It is a practical, professional course organized around the core concepts of management and the core concepts of sustainability. The course will have a specific emphasis on urban sustainability as the planet’s urban population continues to expand.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Steven Cohen
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 21 Info - 1.5 points
Sustainability Management
MIA & MPA Leadership and Management II Core.
Sustainability management matters because we only have one planet, and we must learn how to manage our organizations in a way that ensures that our planet is maintained. The course is designed to introduce you to the field of sustainability management. This is not an academic course that reviews the literature of the field and discusses how scholars think about the management of organizations that are environmentally sound. It is a practical, professional course organized around the core concepts of management and the core concepts of sustainability. The course will have a specific emphasis on urban sustainability as the planet’s urban population continues to expand.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Steven Cohen
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 21 Info - 1.5 points
Managing Yourself as a Leader: Skills an
MIA & MPA Leadership and Management II Core.
This experiential course focuses on the self-management and interpersonal skills essential for effective leadership in high-pressure, high-stakes situations. Through role-plays, structured exercises, video analysis, and Leadership Labs, students will develop greater self-awareness, communication agility, and emotional resilience. Emphasizing the analysis of leadership failure as a learning tool, the course uses individual student cases to explore how personal patterns and behaviors impact leadership effectiveness. Active participation and small group work are central to this hands-on, practice-based learning environment.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Kirsti Samuels
Info - 1.5 points
CLIMATE CHANGE LAW
This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Michael Gerrard
CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info - 3 points
SECOND YEAR DOCTORAL PROPOSAL SEMINAR
2ND YR DOCTORAL PROPOSAL
Prerequisites: 2ND YEAR PHD STATUS IN GOOD STANDING Corequisites: ANTH G6205 Within this seminar, one will master the art of research design and proposal writing, with special emphasis on the skills involved in writing a dissertation prospectus and research proposals that target a range of external funding sources. Foci include: bibliography development; how one crafts and defends a research problem; the parameters of human subjects research - certification; and the key components of grant proposal design. Required of, and limited to, all Second Year PHD anthropology students.
- Department: Anthropology
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Paige West
CULPA: 41
h-index: 23
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- 4 points
LANGUAGE AND ITS LIMITS
This course examines
language and its limits
from the perspective of practice and theory, drawing on linguistic and sociocultural anthropology, semiotics, and deaf and disability studies. The first weeks focus on foundational texts and frameworks for language, semiotics, and communication, paying attention to the placement, and theorization, of boundaries that separate language from not-language and to the work such boundaries (are intended to) do. The second part of the course explores materials where the subjects and objects of study approach or even cross those boundaries, asking what kinds of ethical, intellectual, and relational demands these materials make in both social and analytic contexts. Focal topics may include linguistic relativity; semiotics; modality (signed, spoken, written languages); disability; trauma and colonialism; human-nonhuman communication; and gender. Please email for instructor permission.
- Department: Anthropology @Barnard
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth M Green
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
Global Leadership Seminar II
Global Leadership Sem II
The Global Leadership Seminar II is one of the core classes of the MPA in Global Leadership. It provides students with concrete lessons on the practice of leadership, enables students the opportunity to interface with established leaders across the spheres of government and civil society. The course culminates with each student submitting and presenting a plan to address a global policy challenge.
- Department: MPA in Global Leadership
- 3 points
CRIMINAL LAW
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Bernard E Harcourt
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James Liebman
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Instructor:
Jed S Rakoff
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Debra A Livingston
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
Contending Theories of International Rel
Theories of Int'l Relatio
MIA Politics I Core.
This course introduces MIA students to foundational theories and analytical frameworks used to understand international affairs and the global political economy. Drawing on literature from international relations, comparative politics, political sociology, and economics, the course examines the evolution of international relations scholarship and key debates shaping the field. Through weekly discussions, case-based readings, and structured debates, students will critically engage with competing perspectives on power, institutions, regimes, markets, and global order. Special attention is given to American scholarly traditions and real-world applications, including contemporary issues such as war, climate change, and global inequality.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Lincoln A Mitchell
Info - 1.5 points
PROPERTY (FOUNDATION)
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Thomas W Merrill
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Shyamkrishna Balganesh
h-index: 20 Info -
Instructor:
Maeve H Glass
Info - 4 points
TORTS
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Ashraf Ahmed
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Instructor:
Bert Huang
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
Theory and Practice of American Politics
MPA Politics I Core.
This course provides an introduction to American political institutions and their role in shaping public policy. Students will examine how policy decisions, and inaction, affect critical aspects of daily life, including health care, education, public safety, and environmental protection. The course explores the structure and function of U.S. political institutions such as Congress, the presidency, courts, and federalism, and how these compare to other democracies. It also analyzes the influence of actors including interest groups, social movements, the media, and bureaucrats. Through case studies, group work, and applied analysis, students will gain a foundational understanding of the policymaking process, key trends in American politics, and the skills needed to engage with public policy in practice.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Lincoln A Mitchell
Info - 1.5 points
Theory and Practice of American Politics
MPA Politics I Core.
This course provides an introduction to American political institutions and their role in shaping public policy. Students will examine how policy decisions, and inaction, affect critical aspects of daily life, including health care, education, public safety, and environmental protection. The course explores the structure and function of U.S. political institutions such as Congress, the presidency, courts, and federalism, and how these compare to other democracies. It also analyzes the influence of actors including interest groups, social movements, the media, and bureaucrats. Through case studies, group work, and applied analysis, students will gain a foundational understanding of the policymaking process, key trends in American politics, and the skills needed to engage with public policy in practice.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Lincoln A Mitchell
Info - 1.5 points
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Christina M Duffy Ponsa
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Instructor:
Jessica J Bulman
h-index: 14 Info - 4 points
Energy, Corporate Responsibility, and Hu
Energy, Corp Resp, & Righ
This interdisciplinary seminar examines the role of multinational energy companies in the context of international human rights, corporate responsibility, and global governance. Drawing on case studies and legal frameworks, the course explores how extractive industries intersect with political, environmental, and social systems, particularly in transitional and emerging economies.
Key themes include the development of international human rights law, the evolving definition of corporate responsibility, environmental and minority rights, corruption and transparency, and the geopolitics of natural resource extraction. Students will investigate how transnational corporations operate in weak governance zones, how investment treaties shape state-corporate relations, and how disputes over pipelines and land use affect communities and nations alike.
The course emphasizes real-world case analysis, including the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, Canadian mining projects in Latin America, and recent developments in sovereign debt, investor-state arbitration, and standards for corporate conduct. Students will also evaluate the effectiveness of voluntary standards, multilateral codes, and legal instruments in shaping corporate behavior.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Jenik Radon
Info - 3 points
Global Politics and International Organi
Global Politics & Int'l O
MIA and MPA Politics II Core.
Global Politics & International Organizations
introduces the actors, coalitions, institutions, and processes of global politics. It creates the conceptual foundations for understanding the role of international organizations in today’s multipolar and complex (or, ‘multiplex’) world. It sheds light on how states, non-state actors, and international bureaucracies act within international organizations and how they negotiate international agreements. The discussions will focus on formal and informal decision-making processes, working methods, and power in international relations. It will highlight processes within Bretton Woods institutions (the World Bank and the IMF), as well as at the United Nations, including bargaining processes at the UN Security Council. As a spillover from global politics, the course will also explore the role of international organizations in domestic policymaking processes.
In addition to critical scholarship on international organizations and global governance, the course relies on students’ analysis of relevant proceedings and debates at the UN, original policy documents, as well as expert testimony from a range of guest speakers, who share their extensive first-hand observations as actors of global governance processes. By these means,
Global Politics & International Organizations
offers insights into the processes, challenges, and impacts of activities by international organizations to make global governance regimes stronger, more effective, and hold actors more accountable.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Daniel Naujoks
Info - 1.5 points
American Foreign Policy in Global Perspe
American Foreign Policy-G
MIA and MPA Politics II Core.
This course examines the evolution of American foreign policy within the context of U.S. political institutions, domestic dynamics, and historical experiences. It emphasizes the interplay between foreign and domestic policy, considering how American identity, political culture, and internal debates have shaped international engagement. While grounded in key moments in U.S. history, the course also addresses recent shifts in America's global role and examines the strategic, ideological, and institutional forces that continue to influence foreign policy decisions.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Lincoln A Mitchell
Info - 1.5 points
Political Parties and Elections in the U
Political Parties & Elect
MIA and MPA Politics II Core.
This course examines the development and dynamics of political parties in the United States, with a focus on the evolution of the two-party system and its influence on American politics and policymaking. Students will explore the historical foundations of party formation, ideological shifts over time, and the distinct roles parties play at national and subnational levels. The course also analyzes the structure and impact of party primaries, as well as recent technological and communication changes that have transformed modern electoral strategy and campaign practices.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Lincoln A Mitchell
Info - 1.5 points
Politics of Policymaking: A Comparative
Comparative Policymaking
MIA and MPA Politics II Core.
This course examines the unique challenges and opportunities of the Global South, integrating theoretical frameworks, historical analysis, and contemporary case studies to develop a thorough understanding of how the region confronts and navigates some of the most significant issues shaping its politics and policies. By analyzing diverse political and policy dynamics in the Global South, it encourages students to think globally and recognize interconnectedness across political systems. Over seven weeks, we examine various challenges posed by institutional legacies of colonialism, the rise of populism, democratic backsliding, corruption, and political violence, while also highlighting innovative responses emerging from the Global South through contemporary case studies.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Rumela Sen
CULPA: 1 Info - 1.5 points
Public Policy in the Age of Uncertainty
Public Policy in Uncertai
MIA and MPA Politics Core II.
This course explores how sudden disruptions—such as elections, economic shocks, natural disasters, and conflict—can challenge or derail long-term policy efforts. Using analytical tools from game theory, economics, management, and law, students will assess how policy responses are developed under pressure and how to design adaptive programs capable of withstanding unexpected change. The course combines discussion, interactive exercises, and real-world case studies to build the strategic, ethical, and communication skills needed to lead through uncertainty. Guest speakers with firsthand experience in policymaking during crises will offer practical insights into decision-making when the stakes are high. Students will learn to anticipate and manage change, balance competing demands, and identify opportunities to advance policy goals even amid disruption.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- 1.5 points
LEGISLATION AND REGULATION
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Kathryn E Judge
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Instructor:
Jeremy K Kessler
Info - 4 points
US & INTL LEGAL SYSTEM
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Matthew Waxman
Wikipedia h-index: 24 Info - 3 points
International Human Rights Law
This course introduces the legal frameworks, institutions, and advocacy strategies that underpin the international human rights system. With a practitioner’s lens, students will explore civil, political, economic, social, cultural, and environmental rights through treaties, customary law, and jurisprudence. Emphasis is placed on understanding where and how the law offers avenues for redress, and the evolving role of human rights advocacy in confronting modern challenges, including corporate accountability, gender discrimination, and climate justice.
Students will examine the structure and operation of key international and regional human rights mechanisms, the limits and opportunities of legal enforcement, and the relationship between international human rights law and international humanitarian law. The course integrates doctrinal learning with applied analysis through case studies, reflections, and simulations.
Attendance in the first class session is mandatory.
- Department: Human Rights, Gender, and Equity
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Instructor:
Betsy Apple
Info - 3 points
Financial Accounting & Analysis
MPA Financial Management Core I and II.
This course introduces the principles and practices of financial reporting, with the goal of enabling students to become informed users of financial information in both public and private sector contexts. Emphasis is placed on understanding the three primary financial statements: the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows; and the accounting concepts and rules that shape them. Students will examine how financial information is prepared, disclosed, and interpreted, and will develop analytical tools to assess an organization’s financial health and operational effectiveness. Real-world financial statements will be used throughout the course to build fluency in the language and application of accounting.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Norman Bartczak
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
Financial Accounting & Analysis
MPA Financial Management Core I and II.
This course introduces the principles and practices of financial reporting, with the goal of enabling students to become informed users of financial information in both public and private sector contexts. Emphasis is placed on understanding the three primary financial statements: the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows; and the accounting concepts and rules that shape them. Students will examine how financial information is prepared, disclosed, and interpreted, and will develop analytical tools to assess an organization’s financial health and operational effectiveness. Real-world financial statements will be used throughout the course to build fluency in the language and application of accounting.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Norman Bartczak
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
FIN STATEMNT ANALYSIS & INTERP
This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Norman Bartczak
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
INT'L BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS
This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Alejandro M Garro
Info - 3 points
Ethnographies at the End of the World
What can we learn from anthropological and ethnographic research in and about a damaged world, a world confronted by the violence and effects of war, climate change, transnational migration, post-industrial abandonment, and the lives and afterlives of colonialism and slavery? What are the ethnographic debates that address the catastrophes produced by capitalism and the lifeforms that emerge out of its ruins? What types of anthropological critique emerge in times enunciated as ‘the end of the world’? And what comes after this end? Ethnographies at the End of the World addresses these questions by paying close attention to some of the most relevant debates in contemporary anthropological theory and anthropological critique. These debates include, among others, discussions on violence and trauma, the politics of life and death, the work of memory and oblivion, and the material entanglements between human and non-human forms of existence. The aim of this seminar is to generate a discussion around the multiple implications of these theoretical arrangements and how anthropologists deploy them in their ethnographic understandings of the world we live in. In doing so, this course provides students with a fundamental understanding and conceptual knowledge about how anthropologists use and produce theory, and how this theoretical production is mobilized as a social critique. This course is reading intensive and operates in the form of a seminar. It is intended, primarily, for MA students in the department of anthropology and graduate students in other departments.
- Department: Anthropology
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nicholas Glastonbury
Info - 3 points
CORPORATE TAXATION
This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Rick D'Avino
Info - 3 points
CORPORATIONS
This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
John C Jr Coffee
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Instructor:
Katharina Pistor
Info - 4 points
CORPORATIONS
This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search
- Department: Law
- 4 points