Lessons Unlearned in Humanitarian Asst

Despite record funding and organizations dedicated to humanitarian assistance, the prevailing narrative in our field is of a ‘humanitarianism in crisis’ - we are responding to an overwhelming number of acute crises with complex social, political and ideological challenges unprecedented in the history of humanitarian action. An examination of the true history of humanitarian action however reveals that many struggles confronting us today are neither entirely novel nor unique.
This course is premised on the belief that humanitarians rarely understand the full nature of the previous crises that have challenged our field and argues that only by better understanding these historical events can we can improve our response to future crises. This class is a critical examination of these events and an exploration of the oft-repeated themes that continue to challenge humanitarian assistance to this day. Through thoughtful reflection and interactive discussion we will explore the progress we’ve made as a field and why lessons identified so often fail to become lessons learned.
We will start by exploring the humanitarian system’s origins in the Enlightenment principles of Western Europe and the transition from ‘humanitarianism’ as an abstraction to the concrete operational imperative that exists today. Each subsequent class will focus on a separate seminal event in public health and humanitarian assistance, namely - the Nigerian Civil War; the Ethiopian Famine; the West Africa Ebola epidemic; the Haiti earthquake; and the ongoing conflict in Syria. We will examine the history of the event itself as well as the role played by the humanitarian community – in their response, challenges, and lessons learned. Throughout the course, we will identify the recurring themes across crises and critically debate what impact these historical precedents have on the current and future humanitarian sector.
It is my hope that students will recognize that the lack of historical, operational, and institutional memory is a significant problem that challenges our field, and that by better understanding the underlying pillars and the historical events that have shaped the current humanitarian sector will we be better prepared to respond to future humanitarian crises.
This course is being offered as an elective with a target audience of graduate students in Forced Migration and Health in the Department of Population and Family Health.

• Department: Population and Family Health
• M 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Carrie L Teicher
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• 1.5 points

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR

All matriculated graduate students are required to attend the seminar as long as they are in residence. No degree credit is granted. The seminar is the principal medium of communication among those with biomedical engineering interests within the University. Guest speakers from other institutions, Columbia faculty, and students within the Department who are advanced in their studies frequently offer sessions.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• R 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• 0 points

SEMINAR IN ADVANCED PETROLOGY

Classic Papers in Volcanology

In this seminar, we will explore the interactions between volcanism and climate. From week to week, we will discuss research related to the volcano-climate interactions and address questions such as: How do volcanoes affect global climate? How do we reconstruct the climate impact of past volcanic events? How and why are mass extinction events related to supervolcano and flood basalt eruptions? Can long term changes in climate affect volcanism?

The course welcomes participation from students with diverse academic backgrounds, reflecting the inherently interdisciplinary nature of the topic, which spans volcanology, atmospheric science, paleoclimatology, geophysics, and more.

The seminar will also be open to the broader Lamont community, welcoming drop-ins from all staff, postdocs and students.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• F 9:30 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Yves Moussallam
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• 1-2 points

DNP Intensive Practicum

DNP INTENSIVE PRACTICUM

The DNP intensive practicum focuses on the delivery of fully accountable, evidenced based care for patients across clinical sites. The DNP student will demonstrate an integration of comprehensive assessment, advanced differential diagnosis, therapeutic intervention, evaluation of care for patients and synthesis of evidence-based practice with patients with a variety of conditions. In this context, the DNP student will organize and develop a professional portfolio.

• Department: Nursing
• 5-6 points

DNP Intensive Practicum

DNP INTENSIVE PRACTICUM

The DNP intensive practicum focuses on the delivery of fully accountable, evidenced based care for patients across clinical sites. The DNP student will demonstrate an integration of comprehensive assessment, advanced differential diagnosis, therapeutic intervention, evaluation of care for patients and synthesis of evidence-based practice with patients with a variety of conditions. In this context, the DNP student will organize and develop a professional portfolio.

• Department: Nursing
• Instructor: Ellen M Fahey
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• Instructor: Clare C McKegney
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• 5-6 points

Nature: History & Politics of Environmen

Encounters with Nature

This course offers an understanding of an interdisciplinary field of environmental, health and population history and will discuss historical and health, environmental and disease policy debates with a cross cutting, comparative relevance. This course uses global South Asia as a microcosm, and views it as a connected space with mobile human networks and migrations, and as an analytic lens to discuss critical, global debates on the politics of public health, the uses of science and power of experts and expertise in the South; and to analyze continuing structures of colonization, marginalization and the connected implications of globalization for environment and health in society. This course will help students analyze debates on the historical structures and transnational relations underlying colonization, decolonization and globalization in the domain of environment and health

They will be able to describe and explain how public health and environmental knowledge has been focused on prejudices and misconceptions relating to race, ethnicity, gender and poverty, that are also justified by narrow teleological, biological, ecological and social ideas and justifications. It focuses on several historical conjunctures and scales of historical analysis set in Asia and more widely in the global South, and aims to demonstrate and critique current social actors and multinational and local private, corporate interests that have limited equitable access to health, safe environments for communities and societies, and to see the pathways that have led to 'endemic risks' and crises to our global health and climate.

It is in a seminar format and expectations are to critically analyze, present readings build class participation and training in research paper writing, and strengthen conceptual methods and analysis of primary sources.

• Department: Sociomedical Sciences
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Kavita Sivaramakrishnan
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• 4 points

THESIS RESEARCH

Independent nutrition research arranged in conjunction with one of the faculty. This forms the basis for the M.S. thesis.

• Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
• 3 points

ACUTE CARE PORTFOLIO ADVISEMENT II

The DNP portfolio is designed to assist students in meeting CUSON DNP competencies as demonstrated in written case narrative and competency based clinical encounters. Students will be assigned a faculty member who will provide guidance in identifying appropriate patient encounters, reviewing and editing all written work associated with demonstrating competency-based learning. This course repeats sequentially for 3 semesters.

• Department: Nursing
• 1 points

DOCTORAL RESEARCH INSTRUCTION

A candidate for the Eng.Sc.D. degree in biomedical engineering must register for 12 points of doctoral research instruction. Registration may not be used to satisfy the minimum residence requirement for the degree.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• Instructor: Gerard A Ateshian
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• Instructor: Tal Danino
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• Instructor: X. Edward Guo
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 70 Info
• Instructor: Henry Hess
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 45 Info
• Instructor: Shunichi Homma
  h-index: 88 Info
• Instructor: Clark T Hung
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 65 Info
• Instructor: Lance Kam
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 38 Info
• Instructor: Elisa Konofagou
  Wikipedia h-index: 71 Info
• Instructor: Andrew Laine
  Wikipedia h-index: 43 Info
• Instructor: Kam W Leong
  h-index: 126 Info
• Instructor: Helen Lu
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 54 Info
• Instructor: Barclay Morrison
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 42 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth Olson
  h-index: 28 Info
• Instructor: Paul Sajda
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 47 Info
• Instructor: Kenneth Shepard
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia h-index: 64 Info
• Instructor: Samuel Sia
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 39 Info
• Instructor: Milan N Stojanovic
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• Instructor: Stavros Thomopoulos
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• Instructor: John T Vaughan
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• Instructor: Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
  Wikipedia h-index: 132 Info
• Instructor: Qi Wang
  h-index: 24 Info
• Instructor: Nandan L Nerurkar
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• Instructor: Stephen H Tsang
  Wikipedia h-index: 58 Info
• Instructor: Elham Azizi
  h-index: 10 Info
• Instructor: Jose McFaline-Figueroa
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• Instructor: Treena L Arinzeh
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• Instructor: Sanja Vickovic
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• Instructor: Santiago Correa
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• Instructor: Kaveri A Thakoor
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• Instructor: Ke Cheng
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• Instructor: Grace McIlvain
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• Instructor: Despina Kontos
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• Instructor: Nadeen O Chahine
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• Instructor: Parisa Yousefpour
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• 3-12 points

(PHD) Research

• Department: Business
• 0 points

DOCTORAL RESEARCH INSTRUCTION

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• Instructor: Allie Obermeyer
  h-index: 16 Info
• 3-12 points

(PHD) Independent Study

• Department: Business
• 3 points

MS INTERNSHIP

• Department: Business
• 1.5 points

TOPICS IN AESTHETICS

• Department: Philosophy
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Lydia Goehr
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SCIENCE UNDERGROUND

RACE, CLIMATE, ENV JUSTIC

This seminar will be focused on close readings and discussion of social science approaches to the sciences with a special focus on the geosciences and other sciences of the underground. Beginning with readings by historians of science, then moving to anthropologies of science and STS studies, and culminating with anti-colonial approaches to doing science, students will be encouraged to think through their own research. We will discuss ethnographic methods and other forms of “co-production” and “community engagement” while exploring at least one community-based project for practical application.

This will be a small, intimate seminar only open to advanced graduate students with research projects. Instructor approval required.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Hadeel K Assali
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• 1-3 points

Dissertation Research

DISSERTATION RESEARCH

This course is intended for PhD students who are engaged in relevant scholarly activities that are associated with dissertation research.

• Department: Nursing
• Instructor: Gregory Alexander
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• Instructor: Suzanne Bakken
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• Instructor: Veronica Barcelona
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• Instructor: Melissa P Beauchemin
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• Instructor: Natalie Benda
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• Instructor: Walter O Bockting
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• Instructor: Ulf G Bronas
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• Instructor: Jean-Marie Bruzzese
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• Instructor: Billy A Caceres
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• Instructor: Elizabeth Corwin
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• Instructor: Lorraine Frazier
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• Instructor: Maureen George
  h-index: 24 Info
• Instructor: Amanda J Hessels
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• Instructor: Judy Honig
  h-index: 13 Info
• Instructor: Tonda Hughes
  Wikipedia h-index: 52 Info
• Instructor: Kasey B Jackman
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• Instructor: Haomiao Jia
  h-index: 36 Info
• Instructor: Corina Lelutiu-Weinberger
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• Instructor: Jianfang Liu
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• Instructor: Ruth M Masterson
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• Instructor: Phoenix Matthews
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• Instructor: Mary Mundinger
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• Instructor: Allison A Norful
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• Instructor: Monica O'Reilly-Jacob
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• Instructor: Lusine Poghosyan
  h-index: 28 Info
• Instructor: Meghan Reading
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• Instructor: Rebecca B Schnall
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• Instructor: Jingjing Shang
  h-index: 20 Info
• Instructor: Arlene M Smaldone
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• Instructor: Patricia Stone
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• Instructor: Jacquelyn Taylor
  Wikipedia h-index: 22 Info
• Instructor: Maxim Topaz
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• Instructor: Yihong Zhao
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• Instructor: Maryam Zolnoori
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• 4 points

PHD INTERNSHIP

• Department: Business
• 1.5 points

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION

A candidate for the doctorate in biomedical engineering or applied biology may be required to register for this course in every term after the students course work has been completed and until the dissertation has been accepted.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• Instructor: Gerard A Ateshian
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• Instructor: Tal Danino
  Wikipedia h-index: 18 Info
• Instructor: X. Edward Guo
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 70 Info
• Instructor: Henry Hess
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 45 Info
• Instructor: Shunichi Homma
  h-index: 88 Info
• Instructor: Clark T Hung
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 65 Info
• Instructor: Lance Kam
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 38 Info
• Instructor: Elisa Konofagou
  Wikipedia h-index: 71 Info
• Instructor: Andrew Laine
  Wikipedia h-index: 43 Info
• Instructor: Kam W Leong
  h-index: 126 Info
• Instructor: Helen Lu
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 54 Info
• Instructor: Barclay Morrison
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 42 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth Olson
  h-index: 28 Info
• Instructor: Paul Sajda
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 47 Info
• Instructor: Kenneth Shepard
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia h-index: 64 Info
• Instructor: Samuel Sia
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 39 Info
• 0 points