ADVANCED AFFORDABLE HOUSING FINANCIAL AN

ADV AFFORD HOUS FIN ANALY

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: C Marisa Rodriguez
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• 1.5 points

PUBLIC SPACE: RHETORICS & PRACTICES

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: David J Smiley
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

Engaging on the Ground: Contemporary Tib

Contemporary Tibetan Cine

This 7-sess­­ion master class examines the craft of thematic expression and social engagement by filmmakers who are successfully bringing non-dominant voices to the screen and working in regions with people whose stories are rarely heard. Through film screenings, lectures, critical analysis, and Q&A with guest filmmakers, the class aims to raise awareness, foster discussion, and instruct on visual storytelling techniques that integrate themes of social change, cultural heritage, and environmental transformations in Asia today, with a special focus on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau in China.

The class opens by surveying the emergence and development of the Tibetan New Wave Cinema movement, represented by filmmakers such as Pema Tseden, Sonthar Gyal, Lhapal Gyal, Dukar Tserang, Khyentse Norbu, Tenzin Seldon, Khashem Gyal, and others. Together, we will examine how Tibetan filmmakers bring lived realities, identity, spiritual traditions, and social tensions to the screen. We will analyze narrative strategies, visual poetics, and the ethical responsibilities of representing communities "on the ground."

This class also explores the intersection of cinema and mindfulness. Through selected films, readings, and reflective practices, students will engage with film not only as a medium of storytelling but also as a space for introspection, contemplation, emotional awareness, and shared experience.
 Mindfulness here is not confined to meditation but understood as a broader, integrative approach to being attentive, ethical, and present at every stage of filmmaking. It is a way of honoring the people, places, and processes that make cinema meaningful.

• Department: Film
• 1.5 points

Altered States: Cultures of Intoxication

Altered States Intoxic Ad

Altered States: Cultures of Intoxication and Addiction 

This seminar investigates the literary and philosophical treatment of intoxication and addiction from Romanticism to critical theory to contemporary recovery literature with an eye toward the  Germanophone context. Examining intoxication not merely as a pathological or medical  phenomenon but as a site of existential inquiry and aesthetic experimentation, the course explores  how thinkers and writers have grappled with states of excess, compulsion, altered consciousness, enlightenment, and the dissolution of the self. We will situate these discussions within three important historical developments: 1) the colonial drug trade, 2) drug production in Germany,  which was the site of the synthesis and manufacture of morphine, heroin, and codeine in the  nineteenth century as well as in Switzerland, which was the site of the discovery of LSD and psilocybin in the twentieth century, and 3) the medicalization of the discourse around addiction  and drug treatment programs.  

Points of emphasis include the metaphysics of intoxication, the aesthetics of fragmentation, the  tension between autonomy and compulsion, and the role of intoxication in critiques of bourgeois  rationality, modernity, and capitalism. We will engage with a range of genres—poetry, fiction,  philosophy, psychoanalysis, memoir, and recovery literature—as well as relevant secondary  scholarship and critical theory. Discussions and materials will be in English.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Annie Pfeifer
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

GENTRIFICATION AND DISPLACEMENT: POWER,

GENTRIFICATION & DISPLACE

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

THE MASSIVE MIDDLE: STRATEGIES FOR HOUSI

STRAT FOR HOUSING DEVELOP

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

CLINIC

Kokrobitey Sands

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F noon-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Adam F Lubinsky
  Info
• 3 points

TOWARD RESILIENT CITIES + LANDSCAPES

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Samuel Carter
  Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED DESIGN FOR DEVELOPMENT

ADV DESIGN FOR DEVELOPMEN

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• 1.5 points

CRIT ISSUES IN ART IV

N/A

• Department: Visual Arts
• T 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Luba Drozd
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• 3 points

INSIDE DEVELOPMENT: LESSONS FROM THE FIE

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• 1.5 points

GRADUATE STUDIO IV

N/A

• Department: Visual Arts
• Instructor: Miya Masaoka
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

GRADUATE STUDIO IV

• Department: Visual Arts
• M 4 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Miya Masaoka
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

URBAN DESIGN STUDIO III

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 9 points

MIGRANT POLICY AND THE CITY

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Vojislava Filipcevic
  Info
• 3 points

Grad Sem IV in Sound Art & Related Media

The Graduate Seminar in Sound Art and Related Media is designed to create a space that is inclusive yet focused on sound as an art form and a medium. Class time is structured to support, reflect, and challenge students as individual artists and as a community. The course examines the medium and subject of sound in an expanded field, investigating its constitutive materials, exhibition and installation practices, and its ethics in the 21st century. The seminar will focus on the specific relations between tools, ideas, and meanings and the specific histories and theories that have arisen when artists engage with sound as a medium and subject in art. The seminar combines discussions of readings and artworks with presentations of students' work and research, as well as site visits and guest lectures.

 

While the Columbia Visual Arts Program is dedicated to maintaining an interdisciplinary learning environment where students are free to use and explore different mediums while also learning to look at, and critically discuss, artwork in any medium, we are equally committed to providing in-depth knowledge concerning the theories, histories, practices, tools and materials underlying these different disciplines. We offer Graduate Seminars in different disciplines, or combinations of disciplines, including moving image, new genres, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, as well as in Sound Art in collaboration with the Columbia Music Department through their Computer Music Center. These Discipline Seminars are taught by full-time and adjunct faculty, eminent critics, historians, curators, theorists, writers, and artists.

• Department: Visual Arts
• 3 points

GROUP CRITIQUE IV

• Department: Visual Arts
• W 5:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• 3 points

Business Bankruptcy: Financial Restructu

• Department: Law
• 3 points

INTERNATIONAL DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT

INTL DESIGN + DEVELOPMENT

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• 1.5 points

ARTIST MENTORSHIP / VALS IV

This required Visual Arts core MFA curriculum course, comprising two parts, allows MFA students to deeply engage with and learn directly from a wide variety of working artists who visit the program each year.

Lecture Series
The lecture component, taught by an adjunct faculty member with a background in art history and/or curatorial studies, consists of lectures and individual studio visits by visiting artists and critics over the course of the academic year. The series is programmed by a panel of graduate Visual Arts students under the professor's close guidance. Invitations are extended to artists whose practice reflects the interests, mediums, and working methods of MFA students and the program. Weekly readings assigned by the professor provide context for upcoming visitors. Other course assignments include researching and preparing introductions and discussion questions for each of the visitors. Undergraduate students enrolled in Visual Arts courses are encouraged to attend and graduate students in Columbia's Department of Art History are also invited. Following each class-period the conversation continues informally at a reception for the visitor. Studio visits with Visual Arts MFA students take place on or around the week of the artist or critic's lecture and are coordinated and assigned by lottery by the professor.

Artist Mentorship
The Artist-Mentor component allows a close and focused relationship to form between a core group of ten to fifteen students and their mentor. Students are assigned two mentors who they meet with each semester in two separate one-week workshops. The content of each workshop varies according to the Mentors’ areas of expertise and the needs of the students. Mentor weeks can include individual critiques, group critiques, studio visits, visits to galleries, other artist's studios, museums, special site visits, readings, and writing workshops. Here are a few descriptions from recent mentors:
• During Mentor Week we will individually and collectively examine our assumptions and notions about art. What shapes our needs and expectations as artists and the impact of what we do?
• Our week will include visits to exhibition spaces to observe how the public engages the art. Throughout, we will consider art's ability to have real life consequences and the public's desire to personally engage with and experience art without mediation.
• The week will be conducted in two parts, f

• Department: Visual Arts
• T 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Miya Masaoka
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• 3 points

EMBEDDED SCALABLE PLATFORMS

Inter-disciplinary graduate-level seminar on design and programming of embedded scalable platforms. Content varies between offerings to cover timely relevant issues and latest advances in system-on-chip design, embedded software programming, and electronic design automation. Requires substantial reading of research papers, class participation, and semester-long project.

• Department: Computer Science
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Luca Carloni
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia h-index: 45 Info
• 3 points

China's Impact on Global Governance

China & Global Governance

This seminar explores China’s rise and its implications for global governance. The course introduces core international relations concepts and theoretical debates, then examines China’s behavior in areas such as trade, development finance, human protection, maritime disputes, nuclear policy, and technology. The final weeks focus on national strategy debates in the United States and China. Students will engage in critical reading, policy writing, and seminar discussion.

• Department: International Security & Diplomacy
• T 8 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Raymond Wang
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• 3 points

EQUITABLE DEVELOPMENT

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Cecily C King
  Info
• 3 points

Statistical signal processing and learni

STATISTICAL SIGNAL PROCES

Introduction to the fundamental principles of statistical signal processing related to detection and estimation. Hypothesis testing, signal detection, parameter estimation, signal estimation, and selected advanced topics. Suitable for students doing research in communications, control, signal processing, and related areas.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• M 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Guido H Jajamovich
  Info
• 3 points

Sparse and Low-Dimensional Models for Hi

SPARSE MODELS FOR HI-D DA

Overview of theory, computation and applications for sparse and low-dimensional data modeling. Recoverability of sparse and low-rank models. Optimization methods for low-dim data modeling. Applications to imaging, neuroscience, communications, web data.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: John Wright
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 44 Info
• 3 points

Towards a Trans-Species Architecture

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

TOPICS IN SIGNAL PROCESSING

INTRO TO BLOCKCHAIN TECH

Advanced topics in signal processing, such as multidimensional signal processing, image feature extraction, image/video editing and indexing, advanced digital filter design, multirate signal processing, adaptive signal processing, and wave-form coding of signals. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6880 to 6889.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• F 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• 3 points

TOPICS IN SIGNAL PROCESSING

LARGE-SCALE STREAM PROCESSING

Advanced topics in signal processing, such as multidimensional signal processing, image feature extraction, image/video editing and indexing, advanced digital filter design, multirate signal processing, adaptive signal processing, and wave-form coding of signals. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6880 to 6889.  Topic: Large Data Stream Processing.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• R 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Deepak S Turaga
  Info
• 3 points

TOPICS-INFORMATION PROCESSING

The class will give you a richer understanding of networking, focusing on principles and systems that have shaped the Internet. Via classic and contemporary literature, topics covered include routing, content delivery, congestion control, data centers, SDN, and the cloud.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• 3 points

Principles and Practice of Oncology II:

PRIN & PRACTICE OF ONCOLO

This course presents a systematic overview of the most common cancer diagnoses across the lifespan and associated prevention, screening, and early detection. The course presents genetic predispositions and mutations as well as familial syndromes that increase risk for a diagnosis of cancer.  The course examines cancer diagnoses that appear in all age groups as well as cancers mostly specific to set age groups. It incorporates the pathophysiology of pediatric, adolescent, young adult, and adult cancers, current evidence-based treatment modalities and regimens for each cancer, and data from ongoing clinical trials about cutting-edge therapies being developed. The course provides a framework for the oncology nurse practitioner (NP) for synthesis, integration, and application of this knowledge for diagnosing, assessing, and managing patients with a cancer diagnosis in clinical practice.

• Department: Nursing
• M 6:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Shanelly Singh
  Info
• 2 points

1:1 CRAFTING AND FABRICATION OF DETAILS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Zachary E Mulitauaopele
  Info
• 3 points

TOPICS-INFORMATION PROCESSING

Reinforcement Learning

Advanced topics spanning electrical engineering and computer science such as speech processing and recognition, image and multimedia content analysis, and other areas drawing on signal processing, information theory, machine learning, pattern recognition, and related topics. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6890 to 6899.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• R 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Javad Ghaderi
  h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

Literature & Independent Publishing in L

Lit & Indp Publishing Lat

This course, focused on the phenomenon of independent publishing in Latin America, begins with a review of the history of these publishing houses on the continent, their relationship with the popular press, and the avant-garde movements (César Vallejo, Vicente Huidobro). It will also explore the experiments of the second half of the 20th century (Ulises Carrión, Mirtha Dermisache). With this background, we will study the phenomenon in the 21st century, from "cartonera" publishing houses to self-published publications and self-managed projects. Based on the concept of bibliodiversity, we will problematize writing practices and their circulation in unequal societies, with differential access to literacy, but in which literature remains a culturally relevant practice. We will study books by César Aira, Verónica Gerber-Bicecci, Giselle Beiguelman, Mario Bellatin, among others. We will also study the extensive reflection on the independent phenomenon through authors such as E. Schierloh, M. Rabasa, Ana Gallego, Hernán López-Winne, and many others.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• T 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Graciela Montaldo
  Info
• 4 points

TOPICS-INFORMATION PROCESSING

TPC: Adv Big Data & AI

Advanced topics spanning Electrical Engineering and Computer Science such as speech processing and recognition, image and multimedia content analysis, and other areas drawing on signal processing, information theory, machine learning, pattern recognition, and related topics. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6890 to 6899.  Topic: Advanced Big Data Analytics.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Ching-Yung Lin
  h-index: None Info
• 3 points

RESEARCH

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Danielle S Smoller
  Info
• 2-3 points

QUODLIBETAL STUDIES II

• Department: Philosophy
• Instructor: Allison Aitken
  Info
• Instructor: David Albert
  CULPA: 32 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info
• Instructor: Akeel Bilgrami
  CULPA: 28 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Justin Clarke-Doane
  h-index: 10 Info
• Instructor: Jessica Collins
  Info
• Instructor: Melissa S Fusco
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Haim Gaifman
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 30 Info
• Instructor: Lydia Goehr
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Axel Honneth
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Timothy Williamson
  Info
• Instructor: Tamar A Lando
  CULPA: 8 Info
• Instructor: Wolfgang R Mann
  CULPA: 36 Info
• Instructor: Christia Mercer
  CULPA: 56 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Michele Moody-Adams
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Christopher Peacocke
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Carol Rovane
  CULPA: 13 Info
• Instructor: Achille Varzi
  CULPA: 30 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info
• Instructor: Katja Vogt
  CULPA: 36 Info
• 3-6 points

QUODLIBETAL STUDIES IV

• Department: Philosophy
• Instructor: Allison Aitken
  Info
• Instructor: David Albert
  CULPA: 32 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info
• Instructor: Akeel Bilgrami
  CULPA: 28 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Justin Clarke-Doane
  h-index: 10 Info
• Instructor: Jessica Collins
  Info
• Instructor: Melissa S Fusco
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Haim Gaifman
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 30 Info
• Instructor: Lydia Goehr
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Axel Honneth
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Timothy Williamson
  Info
• Instructor: Tamar A Lando
  CULPA: 8 Info
• Instructor: Wolfgang R Mann
  CULPA: 36 Info
• Instructor: Christia Mercer
  CULPA: 56 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Michele Moody-Adams
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Christopher Peacocke
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Carol Rovane
  CULPA: 13 Info
• Instructor: Achille Varzi
  CULPA: 30 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info
• Instructor: Katja Vogt
  CULPA: 36 Info
• 3-6 points

GRAD SEM IN CONSERVATION BIOL

Prerequisites: biology, ecology, genetics, and evolution. Introduction to the applied science of maintaining the earths biological diversity, its landscapes, and wilderness. Focus on the biological principles relevant to the conservation of biodiversity at the genetic, population, and community and landscape levels.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Bekka Brodie
  Info
• 3 points

BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY

Buddhist philosophers generally agree about what doesn’t exist: an enduring, unitary, and
independent self. But there is surprisingly little consensus across Buddhist traditions about what
does exist and what it’s like. In this course, we will examine several Buddhist theories about the
nature and structure of reality and consider the epistemological and ethical implications of these
radically different pictures of the world. We will analyze and evaluate arguments from some of
the most influential Indian Buddhist philosophers from the second to the eleventh centuries,
including Nāgārjuna, Vasubandhu, Dignāga, Candrakīrti, Śāntarakṣita, Śāntideva, and
Ratnakīrti. Topics will include the existence and nature of the external world, the mind, and the
self; practical and epistemological implications of the Buddhist no-self principle; personal
identity; the problem of other minds; and causal determinism and moral responsibility.

• Department: Philosophy
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Allison Aitken
  Info
• 3 points

TPCS-ELEC & COMPUT ENGINEERING

Model Predictive Control

Selected topics in electrical and computer engineering. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6900 to 6909.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Navid Asr
  Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINE

Embedded AI

Selected topics in electrical and computer engineering. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6900 to 6909.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• M 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Xiaofan Jiang
  h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT AND ASSET MANAGEM

RE INVESTMENT + ASSET MGT

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 4:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• 1.5 points

TOPICS IN ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY

Topics in Economic Geography

• Department: Economics
• W 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Donald R Davis
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia h-index: 31 Info
• 3 points

METABOLIC MATERIALS: BETWEEN THE ANIMATE

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Wang
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

URBAN PLANNING STUDIO

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 3 p.m.-7 p.m.
• F 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 6 points

URBAN PLANNING STUDIO

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• F noon-4 p.m.
• 6 points

EMERGING OPTIMISM: RESOURCES + THE FOURT

RESOURCES + 4TH IND REVOL

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Sean A Gallagher
  Info
• 3 points

TRANSNATIONAL LITIGATION

• Department: Law
• Instructor: Robert H Smit
  CULPA: 13 Info
• 3 points

TEACHING WRITING:THEORY & PRAC

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. (Seminar). This course aims to contribute to your professional development while preparing you to teach University Writing, Columbia’s required first-year writing course. By the end of this course, you should have a basic grasp of the goals and structure of University Writing, the principles that inform its design, and the kinds of materials used in the course. While the course has an immediate goal—to prepare you for your fall teaching assignment—it aims simultaneously to enrich your teaching in the broadest sense. Your fall University Writing syllabus, as well as your lesson plans and homework assignments for the first eight classes, are due for review on August 1, 2016. This course will give you opportunity to prepare these materials throughout this semester with the support of the UWP directors, senior instructors, and advising lecturers. This course is the first of your ongoing professional development obligations as a UW instructor. You must successfully complete G6913 to teach in the UWP. Every subsequent semester, you will be required to attend a staff orientation, attend at least one workshop, and meet with your mentor and advising UWP director. All instructors new to the UWP must take this 1-credit, ungraded course during the fall of their first year of teaching. The course is intended to guide instructors through their first semester and emphasizes the practical application of the knowledge and expertise developed in G6913. Successful completion of the course is required for continuation as a UWP instructor.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicole Wallack
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

TECH WRITING FOR CS AND ENGINRS

Topics to help CS/CE and EE graduate students’ communication skills. Emphasis on writing, presenting clear, concise proposals, journal articles, conference papers, theses, and technical presentations.  Credit may not be used to satisfy degree requirements.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• R 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Janet Kayfetz
  Info
• 3 points

PERSPECTIVES ON ECON STUDIES-DISC

• Department: Economics
• 0 points

Queer Theory

Recent scholarship in queer theory speaks of “bad education” and “ugly feelings,” “beautiful experiments” and “poor queer studies.” In this survey of mostly recent queer theoretical work we will read a range of texts that debate the use, the abuse and the uselessness of queer theory in an era of anti-intellectual policies aimed at both critical race theory and gender and sexuality studies. While Lee Edelman, in
Bad Education
, insists that queer theory has nothing to teach us, Paul Preciado in
Dysphoria Mundi
proposes that the whole world is ailing from a shared dysphoria. Meanwhile, at the intersections of Afro-Pessimism and queer theory, Calvin Warren proposes that to speak of Black trans identities is impossible given the negative ontologies that pertain to Black personhood. Working through oppositions between optimism and pessimism, utopia and dystopia, good and bad feelings, beauty and ugliness, we will ask: What constitutes the ethical in queer theory and how does queer theory approach the good, the bad and the beautiful? At stake here are questions about aesthetic experimentation and politics and unpredictable links between beauty and power, alternative subjects and domination, and bodies and language.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jack Halberstam
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

THESIS II/CAPSTONE II

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Tom Slater
  Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED RESEARCH II

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Weiping Wu
  Wikipedia h-index: 27 Info
• 2-3 points

UCL Exchange FT Reg

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Danielle S Smoller
  Info
• 15 points

PERSPECTVS ON ECONOMIC STUDIES

Prerequisites: ECON G6412, ECON G6411, ECON G6215, ECON G6211. Corequisites: ECON G6212, ECON G6216, ECON G6412. This course will critically examine mainstream approaches to economic theory and practice, particularly in the areas of macroeconomic stabilization policy, poverty reduction, economic development, environmental sustainability, and racial and gender inequality. Topics will vary from year to year, but may include responses to the credit crisis and Great Recession, global warming and international negotiations, globalization, the measurement of poverty and inequality, different approaches to poverty reduction, AIDS and malaria, mass imprisonment, childrens wellbeing, the IMF and the World Bank, intellectual property in an international context, racial disparities in life expectancy, public pension systems in developed countries, health care, and homelessness. The course will also examine biases in economic discourse, both among policy makers and scholars.

• Department: Economics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• 4 points

QUANTITATIVE METHODS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Abdullah A Khawarzad
  Info
• 3 points

ARCHITECTURES OF DISPLAY

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• 3 points

OLD BUILDINGS, NEW ENERGY: HISTORY AND C

OLD BLDGS, NEW ENERGY

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Francoise A Bollack
  Wikipedia Info
• 1.5 points

DOCUMENTARY ACTIVISM:THEORY

This is a course in how to think about documentary but not about “how to” make documentary work. Its premise is that documentary as an approach is still undergoing revision as a definitional problem. Relevant to our times, cameras and sound recorders are called upon to “witness” events. Basic readings on the history and theory of documentary are the heart of the course and practical exercises test theoretical questions. Students conduct low end exercises with their own smart phone cameras. Topics and issues center on the history of the radical documentary—from the Workers Film and Photo League of the 1930s to the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings, comparing then new 16 and 35mm film camera capabilities with contemporary internet distribution. Other topics include climate change and documentary work; motion picture film and photography in labor struggles; uses of anti-war and nuclear bomb footage; sexualities and video camera activism.

• Department: Film
• T 2:10 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
• Instructor: James L Hoberman
  Info
• 3 points

CITIES AT RISK: CLIMATE ADAPTATION IN A

CLIM ADAPTN IN GLOBAL CON

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Hugo Sarmiento
  Info
• 3 points

DESIGNING SPACES FOR CHILDREN

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Anna Knoell
  Info
• 3 points