Qualitative Data Analysis
QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS
The collection of qualitative data is widespread and growing in public health research, however the credibility and quality of qualitative research rests upon utilizing systematic rigor in collecting, recording, organizing, categorizing, and interpreting qualitative findings. Focusing on focus group data and individual in-depth interview data, this course introduces several approaches to the process of qualitative data analysis. Through a mixture of hands-on group work and independent work, students will apply thematic analysis or framework analysis on real qualitative data starting with developing a research question to writing a scientific manuscript of peer-review quality. Students will use qualitative data analysis software Dedoose to analyze data.
- Department: Population and Family Health
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Instructor:
Stephanie A Grilo
Info - 3 points
Gender-Based Violence in Complex Emergen
GENDR-BASED VIOL-COMPLEX
This course, taught over seven weeks, explores the structural, social and political factors that contribute to the existence of gender-based violence and which lead to an increased occurrence of acts of gender-based violence in complex emergencies, including conflict zones and natural disasters. Students will learn about a range of practical resources and guidelines for effective programming and discuss contemporary research on considerations for designing interventions, all within a survivor-centered framework. Students will develop a practical understanding of effective interventions for preventing and responding to violence against women and girls in different phases of complex emergencies. Specifically, students will learn a conceptual and practical framework for preventing and responding to GBV. This will include looking at the International Rescue Committee’s field-tested GBV Emergency Response & Preparedness Model; Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Guidelines, and other resources. Discussions will focus on the role of States, the United Nations, national/international non-governmental organizations and civil society actors—especially women’s rights organizations and activists—in addressing GBV in emergencies; the role of effective coordination among humanitarian agencies; and how the voices of women and girls drive programming.
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to design an intervention to address gender-based violence in different phases of a complex emergency, in addition to adapting data collection and research methods as appropriate to GBV programming needs.
- Department: Population and Family Health
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Instructor:
Alina Potts
h-index: 8 Info - 1.5 points
Methods in Program Evaluation
Increasing demand for transparency and accountability, particularly with respect to donor-funded humanitarian programs, has heightened the need for skilled evaluators. To this end, students in this course will become familiar with various forms of evaluation and acquire the technical skills necessary for their development, design and execution through lectures and discussion, exercises, guest presentations and real-world examples. Specifically, students will discover evidence-based methods for identifying stakeholders, crafting evaluation questions, designing instruments, sampling and data gathering to achieve good response rates, analysis and synthesis of information for report-writing and case studies.
- Department: General Public Health
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Instructor:
Vandana Tripathi
Info - 3 points
Methods in Program Evaluation
METHODS IN PROGRAM EVALUA
Increasing demand for transparency and accountability, particularly with respect to donor-funded humanitarian programs, has heightened the need for skilled evaluators. To this end, students in this course will become familiar with various forms of evaluation and acquire the technical skills necessary for their development, design and execution through lectures and discussion, group exercises, guest presentations and real-world examples. Specifically, students will discover evidence-based methods for identifying stakeholders, crafting evaluation questions, designing instruments, sampling and data gathering to achieve good response rates, analysis and synthesis of information for report-writing and case studies.
- Department: Population and Family Health
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Instructor:
Vandana Tripathi
Info - 3 points
Environmental Justice Advocacy
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
In this course, students will learn about the disproportionate burdens of environmental contamination and resultant health disparities affecting marginalized communities across the United States and globally. The curriculum will explore the ways in which the environmental justice movement in the US has succeeded in implementing just forms of health research, progressive environmental health policies, and protections from racial/cultural injustice, as well as obstacles, policy impediments and potential paths forward. We will examine environmental health/justice theories and perspectives in the contexts of health impacts on various populations, including American communities of color and the socioeconomically disadvantaged, indigenous peoples, women, and children. We will study climate change, natural disasters, urban pollution and segregation, extractive industries, and environmental sustainability. Students will be asked to critically examine these topics and explore unresolved, chronic problems relating to environmental injustices and their health impacts.
- Department: Population and Family Health
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Instructor:
Yolande A Cadore
Info - 1.5 points
REHEARSAL AND PRODUCTION
R&P: ASM
The Materials, Chekhov, & 3rd Year PWF presentations provide an excellent opportunity for stage managers to apply the skills they have acquired through their classroom work and practical training. Each of these productions is attached to three separate “Rehearsal & Production” courses; as such, each requires stage managers to take the lead position as PSM (Production Stage Manager) and shepherd each of the following from pre-production and rehearsals through final presentation.
- Department: Theatre Arts
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Instructor:
Linda Marvel
Info - 1.5 points
REHEARSAL AND PRODUCTION
R&P: PSM
The Materials, Chekhov, & 3rd Year PWF presentations provide an excellent opportunity for stage managers to apply the skills they have acquired through their classroom work and practical training. Each of these productions is attached to three separate “Rehearsal & Production” courses; as such, each requires stage managers to take the lead position as PSM (Production Stage Manager) and shepherd each of the following from pre-production and rehearsals through final presentation.
- Department: Theatre Arts
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Instructor:
Linda Marvel
Info - 1.5 points
Problems in Kano Painting
The graduate seminar “Problems in Kano Painting,” is a graduate seminar offered periodically to investigate the hereditary lineage of painters that dominated the field of painting in Japan’s late medieval and early modern eras. This semester we will begin with the work of Kano Motonobu and his grandson Eitoku, but will spend most of our time focused on their descendants at the turn of the seventeenth century, particularly Kano Sanraku and Kano Sansetsu. The seminar address the question of how this clan of painters managed to secure its position as official painters to Japan’s rulers for nearly three centuries—a phenomenon unique in the history of art. We will also explore such topics as the ways in which it expanded its painting repertoire beyond its origins in monochrome ink painting, what is meant by an “academic” painting tradition in the Japanese context, its systems of training, promotion, and the economics of their enterprise, and the institutionalization of the Kano project through the writing of art historical treatises.
- Department: Art History and Archaeology
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Instructor:
Matthew P McKelway
CULPA: 6 Info - 4 points
Planning, Managing & Communicating For E
PLN MNG & COMMS
Evidence-based public health (M Plescia, AJPH 2019) includes making decisions based on peer-reviewed evidence, using data systematically, and disseminating what is learned. Conducting evidence-based public health that reflects the mission and values of the Department of Population & Family Health (PopFam) requires skills to: clarify gaps in knowledge and evidence to explicate how such gaps can be filled; solicit funding and community support for research and evaluation projects that can inform public health practice; ensure applied public health research and evaluation is feasible, and carried out efficiently and according to plan; and that the results and “lessons learned” are disseminated to guide next action steps. This course focuses on practical skills that can be applied in post-Mailman work, with an emphasis on generating key work products such as Specific Aims, letters of support, and data briefs. This course will provide students with skills to center health equity in our public health work from the get-go – recognizing how to be attentive to inclusion and equity in generating research and evaluation questions, project management, and communication and dissemination. This course is designed as a complement to students’ experiences with research or program-based APEx and their subsequent capstone/integrated learning experience (ILE); therefore, priority will be given to second-year PopFam and PHRM students.
- Department: Population and Family Health
- 3 points
Child Development & Health Programs
CHILD DEVELOPMENT & HLTH
Childhood and adolescence are critical windows of opportunity in human development to influence health, learning, and productivity throughout life. In the earliest years of childhood, survival, growth and development are interlinked; growth affects both the chances of survival and the child's development, and family care practices, resources and access to services influence all three. Adolescence is the second period of rapid growth when foundational learning associates with distinct neuro-maturational changes. Contributing to increased investment in the early years and adolescence are new demands related to changing economic, social, demographic, political and educational conditions. The course will focus on populations throughout their lifespan, thinking through child development and explaining why and how programs positively affect health outcomes. Students will understand the role of early child development programs (ECD) in the achievement of improved educational success and improved long-term health. The course will also explore adolescence through a developmental lens and the complex life events and social constructs that can influence adolescent behaviors. Through interactive lectures, small-group discussions and debates, and presentations by established guest speakers, students will learn to analyze programs and services, including how we can work with parents, support young children and adolescents in times of emergencies, and work within the healthcare system through a variety of hospital, community, school and family-based approaches to promote health and positive development.
- Department: Population and Family Health
- 3 points
HISTORIOGRAPHY-LAT AM-MOD PER
- Department: History
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Instructor:
Pablo Piccato
CULPA: 22 h-index: 20 Info - 4 points
Advanced Techniques in Global Health
Adv Techniques Global Hea
Global health has long been shaped by broader national interests and geopolitical forces. Global health practitioners must be able to adapt to an ever-changing landscape. Many in the sector are scrambling to do just that as resource flows and collaborative structures that have been relied upon for decades have been diminished in recent years and calls to redefine global public health reverberate. At its heart, however, are a set of essential practice activities that equip the global health workforce to deliver effective and equitable programs across borders and in challenging settings. This course builds on students’ foundational global health knowledge and experience with an emphasis on skills and techniques for successful public health practice in global settings. It will address competencies for the advanced certificate in global health as well as those defined in WHO’s 2024 Global Competency and Outcomes Framework for the Essential Public Health Functions. Units in this course are organized around 5 key domains from this framework: collaboration, decision making, community-centeredness, evidence-informed practice and communication. In each unit, students will learn and apply global health frameworks, as well as critical historical and theoretical perspectives in a series of guided readings, interactive lectures, asynchronous learning modules, in-class discussions, individual and group presentations, and case-based practice simulations where students apply graduate level advanced techniques in real-world global health settings.
- Department: Population and Family Health
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Instructor:
Stephen P Kachur
Info - 3 points
Global Health Practice Seminar 2
Global Health Pract Semin
This weekly seminar held during the Fall semester is required for all second-year MPH students enrolled in the Global Health certificate. Each certificate student is required to conduct a presentation synthesizing their applied practice experience (APEx), aligning field experience with skills and perspectives gained through coursework. Students present to their peers and Global Health faculty. Two student presentations will be scheduled per week. A sign-up sheet will be distributed at the first seminar session. In addition, this seminar will provide opportunities to meet with global health professionals and discuss methods for finding careers that align with skills and interests. This full-semester course is limited to students enrolled in the Global Health certificate.
- Department: Population and Family Health
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Instructor:
Stephen P Kachur
Info - 0.5 points
Training of Trainers of Public Health Pr
TRAINING OF TRAINERS OF P
The purpose of the course is to teach participants the key principles and skills needed to design, deliver, and evaluate participatory training activities for public health programs across a range of geographies, settings, and content areas. Students will experience and experiment with a range of adult learning theories, tools, strategies, and methodologies, and use this learning to collaboratively develop a real-world training program. Instruction will include self-paced pre-work to devote more in-class time to application, problem-solving, and in-depth discussion. As a workshop-style course, students do not need to be expert educators to succeed, but must be willing to get creative, take risks, and critically examine our values and beliefs around the practice of teaching and learning.
- Department: Population and Family Health
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Instructor:
Ryan M Mateo Sharnbroich
Info - 1.5 points
SCENE STUDY II
SCENE STUDY II: CHEKHOV
- Department: Theatre Arts
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Instructor:
Brian Kulick
Info - 3 points
TOPICS IN NUMBER THEORY
The course will cover various topics in number theory located at the interface of p-adic Hodge theory, p-adic geometry, and the p-adic Langlands program.
- Department: Mathematics
- 4.5 points
CURRENT ISSUES IN STAGE MANAGEMENT
PEOPLE AND PRACTICE
The function of a stage manager in the process of a musical – through the use of technological advances. This class will be an in-depth examination of how modern stage management contributes to this process through the implementation of seminal methodologies. Focus will be placed on how digital platforms can be used to support this process from beginning to end.
- Department: Theatre Arts
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Instructor:
Michael Passaro
Info - 3 points
Epidemiological Methods for Measuring Hu
EPID MTHDS-MEAS HUM RTS A
People across the world turn to the language and legal structures of human rights to advance justice and accountability. This course explores the intersections between epidemiology and human rights, examining how epidemiologic concepts and methods can help document violations, assess inequities, monitor progress, and support accountability. With its focus on the distribution and determinants of disease, disability, death, and injury, epidemiology offers powerful tools for substantiating claims related to the rights to health, a healthy environment, equitable resources, and freedom from violence and trauma.
The course has three central goals: to help students critically examine the connections between human rights, justice, epidemiology, and quantitative measurement; to introduce epidemiologic methods relevant to human rights research, including vital statistics, population-based surveys, capture-recapture analyses, latent variable modeling, policy mapping, and causal inference; and to guide students in designing and communicating rigorous research that can inform human rights advocacy. Through this course, students will learn to select and design indicators of civil, cultural, economic, political, social, and collective rights; to evaluate and interpret quantitative evidence used in human rights contexts; to identify and articulate theories of change underlying human rights research; and to translate epidemiologic findings for diverse audiences in ways that maintain scientific integrity while advancing advocacy goals. The course culminates in a final paper in which students apply these skills to a set of human rights concerns in a particular context.
- Department: Population and Family Health
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Instructor:
Justin Feldman
Info - 1.5 points
Public Health and Humanitarian Action
PUB HLTH & HUMANITARIAN A
Humanitarian action has come to occupy a central place in world politics. Increasingly grounded in rights rather than charity, international assistance and protection are expected to reach people affected by disasters, organized violence, climate change, and other emergencies in a timely, informed, and impartial manner. Global wealth suggests that such a response is possible; global morality suggests that it is necessary.
This course examines efforts to provide humanitarian assistance and protection in crisis-affected settings. It considers the political, technical, organizational, moral, and ethical forces that shape humanitarian action, as well as the distortions and performance challenges that continue to compromise effective and impartial response. While public health practice often focuses on technical and organizational capacity, this course emphasizes that political and ethical dimensions are equally central to alleviating human suffering. Combining theory with practice, the course explores the constraints and possibilities of humanitarian action from the perspectives of humanitarian agencies, field professionals, and people affected by crisis. Students will examine the principles guiding humanitarian response and their influence on evidence-based decision-making across key public health priorities. The course also addresses the need for sustainable approaches in protracted crises and emerging challenges, including climate change and efforts to decolonize the aid sector. Students will engage current trends and debates, take and defend positions, and contribute actively to a participatory learning environment.
- Department: Population and Family Health
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Instructor:
Sabrina C Hermosilla
Info - 3 points
Forced Migration Practicum Seminar
FORCED MIGRATION PRACTICU
This weekly seminar, held during the Fall semester, is required for all second-year students enrolled in the Public Health and Humanitarian Action (PHHA) certificate. Each certificate student is required to conduct a presentation synthesizing applied practice experience, aligning field experience with skills and perspectives gained through coursework. Students present to their peers and PHHA faculty. The seminar is limited to students enrolled in the PHHA certificate, and to first-year students considering or intending to enroll in the PHHA certificate. Two student presentations will be scheduled per week. A sign-up sheet will be distributed prior to the first seminar session.
- Department: Population and Family Health
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Instructor:
Sara E Casey
h-index: 16 Info - 0-1 points
Capstone Paper-Heilbrunn Department of P
CAPSTONE
No syllabus.
- Department: Population and Family Health
- 0 points
Key Issues in Adolescent Sexual and Repr
ISS IN ADOLESC SXL/REPRO
This graduate seminar examines key issues in adolescent sexual and reproductive health research. The course emphasizes how research shapes policy, clinical practice, advocacy, and public health programming for adolescents. Using a journal club format, students will critically read, discuss, and debate both classic and emerging research through a combination of student-led presentations, guided deconstruction of scientific papers, and collaborative discussion. Students will learn how to evaluate the quality and relevance of diverse research designs, compare findings across studies, and identify gaps in the evidence. This 7-week course will also introduce students to the thoughtful and responsible use of artificial intelligence tools to support scholarly work, including literature discovery, question development, synthesis, and scientific communication, while emphasizing critical judgment, transparency, and verification of sources. Topics include adolescent sexuality, sexual health communication, abstinence-only programs, STI prevention and testing, sexual violence, abortion, LGBTQ+ health, and other emerging issues in adolescent sexual and reproductive health. By the end of the course, students will be better prepared to interpret evidence, lead informed discussions, and apply research to their future work in public health, clinical care, education, and policy.
- Department: Population and Family Health
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Instructor:
Lauren S Chernick
Info - 1.5 points
Health Advocacy
HEALTH ADVOCACY
For anybody who’s spent even a little time in public health circles, it doesn’t take much effort to list the many societal ills that desperately call for action. What’s equally important, though, is answering the classic question that’s bedeviled advocates for centuries: “What is to be done?” This course will help us sharpen our answers to that question through study of recent advocacy efforts around CHIV/AIDS; climate change; reproductive rights; environmental justice/racism; mass incarceration and criminal justice reform, and others. Along the way, we’ll also learn about enduring dilemmas scholars have identified that confront all health advocates. These include: the costs and benefits of working within (versus outside of) formal politics; framing rhetoric to reach wider audiences; the virtues and drawbacks of confrontational direct action; public apathy towards “health” issues; oppositional movements at complete odds with theirs; and more recently, the potential of social media.
This course also contains a skills component, where students will learn basic legislative, legal, and media research that can aid advocacy efforts.
- Department: Sociomedical Sciences
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Instructor:
Merlin Chowkwanyun
Info - 3 points
Business and Climate Change
Climate science informs us that global emissions of greenhouse gas emissions must be rapidly and dramatically reduced if humanity is to avoid catastrophic climate change. After three centuries of rising emissions, the entire global economy must now decarbonize in the coming three decades. Fortunately, most of the technologies and investment capital necessary to reduce and eventually eliminate emissions exist or are in development, but the urgency to implement those solutions is critical.
This course provides an overview of climate change, its effects on business, and how businesses can (and should) respond. The course covers emissions sources and their impact on climate change, followed by an exploration of the policy landscape, including current legislation, carbon markets, and climate justice. The course then evaluates current and evolving mitigation technologies, reviews the tools of climate finance, and considers strategies for reducing emissions to net zero. Finally, the course introduces the role of businesses in addressing climate change, including net-zero goals, actions they can take to mitigate their impact, and the perspectives of shareholders.
Throughout the course, the business case for climate action is emphasized, highlighting the economic benefits of taking action to address climate change.
- Department: Business
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Instructor:
Bruce M Usher
Info - 1.5 points
Business and Climate Change
Climate science informs us that global emissions of greenhouse gas emissions must be rapidly and dramatically reduced if humanity is to avoid catastrophic climate change. After three centuries of rising emissions, the entire global economy must now decarbonize in the coming three decades. Fortunately, most of the technologies and investment capital necessary to reduce and eventually eliminate emissions exist or are in development, but the urgency to implement those solutions is critical.
This course provides an overview of climate change, its effects on business, and how businesses can (and should) respond. The course covers emissions sources and their impact on climate change, followed by an exploration of the policy landscape, including current legislation, carbon markets, and climate justice. The course then evaluates current and evolving mitigation technologies, reviews the tools of climate finance, and considers strategies for reducing emissions to net zero. Finally, the course introduces the role of businesses in addressing climate change, including net-zero goals, actions they can take to mitigate their impact, and the perspectives of shareholders.
Throughout the course, the business case for climate action is emphasized, highlighting the economic benefits of taking action to address climate change.
- Department: Business
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Instructor:
Bruce M Usher
Info - 1.5 points
Evaluation Of Health Programs
EVALUATION OF HEALTH PROG
Program evaluation is an essential competence in public health. Across all areas of public health, stakeholders pose questions about effectiveness and impact of programs and interventions. This course will examine principles, methods and practices of evaluating health programs. A range of evaluation research designs and methods will be introduced and strategies to address challenges in real world program settings will be emphasized. The course will incorporate examples of evaluations of actual health programs and opportunities to learn through professional program evaluation experiences of the instructor. The combination of lectures, textbook readings, examples, discussions, in-class exercises, and an extensive applied group assignment to design an evaluation for a real program will help students gain evaluation skills and an appreciation for the art and science of program evaluation. The goal is for students to learn competencies required of an entry-level program evaluator, including design and implementation of evaluation studies and interpretation and communication of evaluation findings.
- Department: Sociomedical Sciences
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Instructor:
Robert E Fullilove
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Instructor:
Michael P McNeil
h-index: 3 Info - 3 points
Global Immersion: Doing Busine
Tunisia, the birthplace of the Arab Spring, was a crossroads of many civilizations from its indigenous Berber population to the Phoenicians who founded Carthage in 814 BC, to the Romans who destroyed Carthage in 146 BC after three Punic wars, to the Arabs introducing Islam and Arabic in the 7th century, to the Turkish Ottomans who ruled Tunisia from 1574 to 1881, and more recently to the French who occupied Tunisia from 1881 to 1956. This melting pot of more than 3000-year history is what distinguishes Tunisia from other countries in the Middle East and North Africa. Because of its free trade agreements with Europe and several countries in Africa and the Middle East, Tunisia can potentially become a gateway to a market of more than a billion people. As Tunisia is still going through profound political changes following the initial upheaval of the Arab Spring in 2011, there are many questions that await. Will Tunisia transition to a stable democracy? Will it be able to create a business environment that is attractive to investors? If so, what investment opportunities exist in Tunisia? What are the risks involved and the future challenges? And, how best to enter such a market? The course will explore these questions with a focus on the entrepreneurship ecosystem and doing business in Tunisia. The course project involves working closely with start-ups from Africa. The project provides a truly immersive, multicultural experience where students will partner, mentor, coach, and interact with young entrepreneurs, both online and offline. Travel to Tunis will take place prior the class meetings, October 12-18, 2025. A predeparture meeting will take place on Tuesday, September 30 12:30-2:00pm to prepare students for the pre travel assignment and week of travel. This class will follow the A term add/drop period. No program fee refunds will be given after the add/drop period has closed. Upon return from Tunisia, the class will meet for 6 weeks during the fall B term; students will continue to work on their projects during this time as well. Global Immersion Program classes bridge classroom lessons and business practices in another country. These three credit classes combine half a term in New York with a one week visit to the country of focus where students will meet with business executives and government officials while working on team projects. The 2025-2026 Global Immersion Program mandatory fee for all classes is $2100 and provides students with double occupancy lodging, ground transportation and some meals. It does
- Department: Business
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Instructor:
Kamel Jedidi
Info - 3 points
SMS Thesis Proposal
SMS THESIS PROPOSAL
The Master's Thesis is the capstone requirement of all students in all tracks of the MPH program of the Department of Sociomedical Sciences (SMS). The thesis is intended to reflect the training you have received in the MPH program and demonstrate your ability to design, implement, and present professional work relevant to your major field of interest. Writing the thesis is an essential experience that could further your career development. Employers seek in potential employees with a MPH degree the ability to write articles and reports, and want to see evidence that you can design studies, analyze data, write a needs assessment, and/or design a health program. If you plan to continue your academic studies, developing expertise and demonstrating your ability as a writer are two important skills required of doctoral candidates. A well-written paper is a great asset that you can bring with you to a job interview or include in an application for further study. The thesis ought to demonstrate your ability to think clearly and convey your thoughts effectively and thereby provide an example of your understanding and insight into a substantive area in which you have developed expertise.
- Department: Sociomedical Sciences
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Instructor:
Christian Gloria
Info - 1 points
MICROECONOMIC THEORY COLLOQ
Prerequisites: G6215, G6216, G6211, G6212, G6411, G6412. Students will make presentation of original research in Microeconomics.
- Department: Economics
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Instructor:
Prajit K Dutta
CULPA: 20 Info - 2 points
Global Immersion: The Brazilia
Brazil is the largest national economy in Latin America, and the world's tenth largest. It is one of the world's leading producers and exporters of food, it has become self-sufficient in energy thanks to the development of ethanol and deep-sea drilling and has a sizeable and well-developed consumer market. It is also a stable and peaceful democracy. However, it is a complex economy with large inequalities and systemic deficiencies in infrastructure, education, and basic services. After a spurt of healthy and resilient growth for more than a decade, the economy is facing serious headwind lately. Most of Brazil’s problems, however, are self-inflicted and can be corrected. The purpose of the Global Immersion Program is to understand the sources and the challenges impacting current and future growth in the Brazilian economy, identify business opportunities that appear as the country grows and, through your research towards the final project, gain in-depth knowledge and become an “expert” in an aspect of Brazilian business and economics that particularly interests you. Global Immersion Program classes bridge classroom lessons and business practices in another country. These three credit classes meet for half a term in New York prior to a one week visit to the country of focus where students will meet with business executives and government officials while working on team projects. Upon return from the travel portion of the class, students will have a wrap up meeting at Columbia Business School. The course consists of six 1.5-hour sessions in New York during the first six weeks of Fall 2025 semester before traveling to Brazil. There will be a follow-up post-visit class for 2 hrs on a Friday in the B term.. We will be visiting companies and meeting with business leaders in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Attendance and regular participation both in New York and Brazil are a crucial part of the learning experience and as such attendance is mandatory. Students who miss the first class meeting may be removed from the course. No program fee refunds will be given after the add/drop period has closed. Travel to Brazil will take place October 12-18, 2025 to Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The 2024-2025 Global Immersion Program mandatory fee for all classes is $2100 and provides students with double occupancy lodging, ground transportation and some meals. It does not cover roundtrip international airfare. Attendance both in New York and in-country and regular participation are a crucial part of the learn
- Department: Business
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Instructor:
Medini Singh
Info - 3 points
Labor & Public Finance colloquium
Labor & Public Finance Co
Prerequisites: G6215, G6216, G6211, G6212, G6411, G6412. Students will make presentations of original research in Microeconomics.
- Department: Economics
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Global Immersion Program: Navigating Arg
GIP: Argentina
Argentina offers a unique context for understanding how macroeconomic volatility and shifting global dynamics shape business strategy and innovation. Over the past century, the country has experienced cycles of rapid growth, chronic inflation, sovereign defaults, and deep economic reforms, creating a resilient and highly adaptive business ecosystem. Argentina has globally competitive sectors in agriculture, energy, and technology, and plays an important role in global trade, connecting South America to China, the United States, and Europe. The country is currently undertaking major reform and stabilization efforts, including fiscal adjustment, monetary restructuring, and renewed engagement with international financial partners, such as the U.S. Treasury.
Building on the Argentina foundations introduced in the Global Economic Environment core course, this elective expands the coverage of Latin America while exploring the opportunities and challenges of operating in complex dynamics. It examines Argentina’s historical cycles, macroeconomic context, and the strategies that local and multinational companies have used to succeed in a volatile environment.
Argentina provides a compelling lens to study resilience and strategic adaptation. Companies in the country have developed sophisticated approaches to pricing, financing, supply chain management, and vertical integration under recurring instability, generating lessons transferable to other emerging and frontier markets. The course highlights the successes of firms such as Mercado Libre, Arcor, and YPF, as well as high-growth technology companies like Ualá and Despegar, analyzing how each navigated structural volatility to build competitive advantage.
- Department: Business
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Instructor:
Brett House
Info - 3 points
Sociomedical Sciences Master s Capston
SMS Master's Capstone
The SMS Master’s Capstone course is required for all students in the Master of Science (MS), Accelerated Master of Public Health (MPH), and 4+1 MPH programs of the Department of Sociomedical Sciences (SMS). For MS students, the culminating high-quality written manuscript of this course involves original research or program evaluation based either on primary data collected by the student or secondary analysis of available data. For Accelerated and 4+1 MPH students, the culminating high-quality written manuscript of this course involves comprehensive review of the literature. The student’s work must focus within the field of sociomedical sciences and demonstrate integration of the coursework and training from the master’s program. Based on each student’s methods and areas of study, they will be matched with a faculty sponsor who will provide supervision and mentoring throughout the course.
- Department: Sociomedical Sciences
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Instructor:
Christian Gloria
Info - 3 points
THEATRE MANAGEMENT SEMINAR: PRODUCING PA
Over the last twenty years, as both funding and new work development models in the not-for-profit theater have changed, various partnerships among theater-makers have sprung up to support the creation of new work. In the current post-pandemic climate, partnerships are more urgent and necessary for most productions and producers. Over the course of seven conversations, we will explore what makes a successful collaboration, as well as current models for collaboration/partnership (both “traditional” and “non traditional”) within the industry. We’ll explore the best practices for seeking, structuring, and maintaining healthy partnerships so that you can get a project from inception to production, with the “right people on the bus.” This topic will be explored through discussion of current practices, case studies, and interviews/discussions with producers who have recently partnered with others.
Theories and Perspectives on Sexuality a
THEOR & PERSP ON SEXUALTY
This course will provide an overview of theoretical perspectives and concepts relevant to the study of sexuality, particularly as they relate to public health. This entails exploring perspectives from across the social sciences, with an emphasis on sociology, anthropology, and histroy, and somewhat more limited reference to work in psychology and political science. Drawing upon assigned readings, lectures, discussions and individual assignments, students will develop the capacity to identify the strengths and limitations of perspectives used to frame research and interventions related to sexuality. Although the substantive focus of this course is the theorization of sexuality, over the course of the semester we will address a more fundamental question in public health – namely, what shapes ‘health behaviors’? Developing a sophisticated conceptualization of why people engage in behaviors that have detrimental health consequences, or conversely why they fail to take health-enhancing actions, lays the foundation for effective health promotion policies and programs. Because a great deal of sexual health promotion programming draws implicitly on behavioral science and interpersonal-level determinants of health practices, a goal of this course is to counter-balance that through an emphasis on the broader structural and institutional determinants of sexual practices.
- Department: Sociomedical Sciences
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Instructor:
Martez Smith
Info - 3 points
Social and Economic Determinants of Heal
SOCL & ECON DETERMNTS OF
Disparities in health and illness related to social and economic inequality in the U.S. Theoretical and empirical research on factors linked to class, gender, racial and ethnic differences that have been hypothesized to explain the generally poorer health and higher rates of mortality among members of socioeconomically disadvantaged groups. Concepts, theories and empirical evidence will be examined to expand our understanding of the impact of structural factors on health behavior, lifestyles and outcomes.
- Department: Sociomedical Sciences
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Instructor:
Kim J Hopper
Info - 3 points
Investing in Medical Technolog
This course focuses on the critical factors and approaches that managers and sophisticated investors use to identify and value attractive business opportunities and investments in the medical technologies sector. It will provide students with an understanding of the current economic and competitive environment for the development and commercialization of new medical devices, including regulatory, pricing, and reimbursement factors. It will highlight new emerging technologies in the field, and explore how to assess such novel technologies and build commercial models for valuation purposes.
Guest speakers from the medical device industry (company executives, physicians/ surgeons, investors, investment bankers) and investment case studies will be used to provide students with practical insight into this complex sector. Critical issues to be examined include:
- Strategies and risks associated with discovering, developing, and approving new medical technologies, including impact of government oversight and regulation;
- Pricing/reimbursement and health policy/ legislative matters impacting the medical technology sector; - Keys to evaluating novel medical technologies and analyzing business drivers and future performance of medical device & diagnostic companies (public and private);
- How to build commercial models, including valuation methodologies that successful investors use to value/price companies in this sector;
- Conducting due diligence and market analysis on medical technologies from which to formulate investment ideas;
- Considerations in taking long and short investment positions in this sector.
The course is cross-functional in its approach and focuses on real-world" problems currently facing senior managers and investors in this sector. This course will be useful for students interested in careers in the life science and healthcare services sectors, as well as healthcare consulting, investment banking, equity research, venture capital, private equity, and investment management given the large and growing healthcare practices of such firms. Some understanding of, or experience in, the healthcare/medical technologies sector will be highly valuable."
- Department: Finance
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Instructor:
Efrem J Kamen
Info - 1.5 points
Race and Health
RACE AND HEALTH
Over the 17 years that I have taught this course, I have tried to present students with articles that would provide an exposure to the growing body of research, commentaries, and critiques that discuss the relationships between race, ethnicity, and health. The premise upon which our work is based is rather simple: race is highly correlated with health status, but after many years of investigating this association, researchers are not entirely clear what this association means, nor are they clear how to use their research to improve the lot of people of color who are at risk for a wide variety of health conditions. Put more precisely, we don’t know what it is about someone’s race that causes the excess morbidity and mortality that is observed among members of so many ethnic minority groups. Typically, in the first class of the semester, students find this to be a puzzling way of defining the key issues in race and health. Given the dynamics of last year’s presidential elections where race played a huge role, it seems all the more bizarre to suggest that race is a concept of limited value to the science of public health. To students born in this country or who have lived here for an extended period of time, nothing could be more obvious than the fact that race matters. Racism is a fact of American life, and that its victims should suffer poorer health status than mainstream Americans seems almost self-evident. As the semester progresses and as the critique of current health research about race becomes more pronounced in the readings, students of all races, I hasten to add often feel compelled to say: “I don’t care what the articles say, race MATTERS!!!!!” Agreed. Race does matter, and it often matters in ways that are intensely personal, painful, and gut-wrenching. But the point of this course is not to deny the student’s personal experience of race, but rather to ask you to look beyond such experiences to develop a science of public health that specifies how and in what way race “acts” to cause the excess morbidity and mortality we observe in so many communities of color.
- Department: Sociomedical Sciences
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Instructor:
Robert E Fullilove
Info - 3 points
Propaganda, Russia, & The World Informat
Propaganda, Russia & Info
Prerequisite: Instructor-Managed Waitlist.
Propaganda, Russia and the World Information War is a highly current guide to propaganda and disinformation, the geopolitical impact of information, and how false, weaponized narratives threaten the world's news and information environment.
The course teaches how propaganda and disinformation work, the most effective ways to counter them, and the effects of artificial intelligence. The course draws many of its examples from information operations by Russia, but also considers operations by state and private actors worldwide. This includes overt and covert activities by Western governments, including in the Ukraine war.
The course also discusses information at a more philosophical and sociological level. How do we receive and process information? Can there actually be more than one truth? What is the future of the world’s information climate given all the political, social, and technological stresses on it?
The course is aimed at students with interests in geopolitical analysis involving Russia or any region; the techniques of public persuasion, in any context; or in countering propaganda and disinformation.
Interested students are encouraged to contact the instructor at
tjk17@columbia.edu
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- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Thomas Kent
Info - 3 points
Introduction to Medical Anthropology
INTRO TO MEDICAL ANTHROPO
Overview of medical anthropology, the examination of health, disease, and medicine in the context of human culture. Examine the relationship between culture, structural factors, and health gain ways to utilize ethnographic, anthropological, and qualitative data in health interventions, policy, and evaluation gain critical skills in evaluating the adequacy and validity of formulations about 'culture' and 'tradition' in health programs and research become familiar with range of work on culture and health, domestically and internationally acquire skill in utilizing data about culture and health at macro and micro levels.
- Department: Sociomedical Sciences
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Instructor:
Kim J Hopper
Info - 3 points
METHODS IN MIDDLE EAST HISTORY
This graduate seminar will examine key themes and methods in Middle East History. It is intended to provide graduate training for advanced students who plan to pursue a dissertation topic on or related to Middle East history. Please contact the professor first if you wish to apply for this course.
- Department: History
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Instructor:
Marwa Elshakry
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
Investing in Social Ventures
This half semester course provides students with the opportunity to perform due diligence on early-stage social ventures
(nonprofit and for-profit ventures with a social or environmental mission). This course is designed for MBA students
interested in impact investing, social entrepreneurship, or philanthropy. The objective of the course is for students to
learn both the theory of investing in early-stage social ventures and the practice of evaluating early-stage social ventures
through a due diligence process. This course is not designed for the evaluation of larger, well-established social
enterprises.
Students are placed in teams to evaluate social entrepreneurs from the Columbia University community who have applied
for funding from the Tamer Fund for Social Ventures. The course is a combination of in-class lectures and discussion, and
practical application of class lessons outside of the classroom. Major topics covered include: the due diligence process,
assessing venture pitches and teams, due diligence in emerging markets, due diligence of non-profits, impact
measurement and management, and valuations and deal structure.
During the course, each student team completes detailed due diligence on their assigned social venture, including
diligence on applicants, the social venture and the sector. The course concludes with student teams submitting a written
due diligence report and a recommendation for funding to the Investment Board of the Tamer Fund for Social Ventures.
- Department: Finance
- 1.5 points
ADVANCED SEMINAR IN THEATRE MANAGEMENT
ADV SEMINAR IN THEATRE MG
Aspects of the commercial theatre with perspectives from Executives of The Shubert Organization.
The Shubert Organization owns 17 Broadway, 6 Off-Broadway and 2 “road” theatres. It is a multi-million dollar company with significant real estate holdings, a substantial investment portfolio, a major ticketing operation and over 1,500 employees. But whether you are dealing with a 1,750-seat theatre or a converted garage, the issues are the same: What shows should be produced/booked? How to find an audience for them? How to make the most of ever-advancing modes of technology? How to contend with artistic, financial, organizational and legal challenges? The fundamental question: How to present the finest work in the best possible circumstances for the largest number of people in order to achieve the greatest artistic and financial return possible?
- Department: Theatre Arts
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Instructor:
Charles Flateman
Info - 3 points
Community-Based Participatory Research
Comm-Based Participatory
Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) has received growing attention over the past several decades as international, domestic, funding agencies and researchers have renewed a focus on an approach to health that recognizes the importance of social, political, and economic systems to health behaviors and outcomes. The long-standing importance of this approach is already reflected in the 1988 Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) landmark report The Future of Public Health and many other publications. The report indicates that communities and community-based organizations are one of six potential partners in the public health system and that building community-based partnerships is a priority area for improving public health. CBPR is not a method but an approach to research and practice that involves the active collaboration of the potential beneficiaries and recognizes and values the contributions that communities and their leaders can make to new knowledge and to the translation of research findings into public health practice and policy. CBPR is a collaborative approach to research that recognizes the value of equitably involving the intended beneficiaries throughout all phases of research and/or intervention design, implementation, and evaluation. CBPR is also an important approach to advance health and social equity and is essentially a way to promote and operationalize health and social equity in research settings.
- Department: General Public Health
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Instructor:
Renata Schiavo
h-index: 10 Info - 3 points
Designing Public Health Interventions
DESIGNING PUBLIC HEALTH I
Behavioral and environmental factors are major determinants of today's most pressing health issues. Community-level behavior change and health promotion interventions are promising strategies to address these issues on a large scale. This course will provide an overview of program planning, implementation, and evaluation – essential public health services and fundamental competencies for professionals working in the field of public health. Although the PRECEDE-PROCEED model will be used as the framework for the course structure and individual assignments, other planning models will also be presented and discussed. By the end of the course, students will develop a deep understanding of the complex processes involved in organizing public health programs, and learn the skills necessary to create a program and evaluation plan in a local community.
- Department: Sociomedical Sciences
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Instructor:
Christian Gloria
Info - 3 points
Advancing Health Literacy
In an age of both information saturation and stark inequities in information capital, how can public health professionals empower communities to make informed health decisions? How can healthcare providers partner with patients and communities to advance health self-efficacy, reduce barriers to equity, and repair legacies of health disparities? This course examines the concept of health literacy and its relationship to both information comprehension and health outcomes. With liberatory pedagogy as both the course teaching modality and our guiding framework, we will interrogate how disrupt power inequities and differentials in access to information through the co-creation of knowledge between health sciences professionals and the communities they serve. We will explore validated instruments to measure health literacy; its implications for empowering and communicating with the public; policies for promoting health literacy; and frameworks for developing materials for multimedia contexts. Emphasizing the necessity of advancing health literacy to create equity, we will discuss adult learning theory, trauma-informed methods for empowered health behavior and decision-making, guidance for healthcare providers, and the promotion of health-literate policies to advance a truly just and health world.
- Department: General Public Health
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Instructor:
Leah Hooper
Info - 1.5 points
Advancing Health Literacy
ADVANCING HEALTH LITERACY
Health Literacy is defined in Health People 2010 as “the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process and understand basic health information and services for appropriate health decisions” In this course we will explore the multi-layered interactions between health and literacy. We will begin by examining the issues related to literacy in the US and transition to the concept of health literacy. We will discuss issues related to reading comprehension, and usability of health related materials. The class will evaluate the major health literacy assessment instruments, learning how to administer these for different populations. We will focus on the role of language and culture as confounders to health literacy. Time will be spent assessing and then developing appropriate health materials for print, visual, auditory and internet venues. The course will shift towards examination of different health situations utilizing a health literacy approach including the research participants and informed consent, health literacy and medication/adherence, patient-physician communication models, and risk comprehension. Finally we will examine special topics including emergency preparedness. The classes are designed to include a mixture of didactic lectures, analysis of reading materials, group discussion and exercises.
- Department: Sociomedical Sciences
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Instructor:
Leah Hooper
Info - 1.5 points
Global Immersion: Ghana: A Gateway for E
Africa’s economy has grown significantly over the last several years, and among countries in Africa, Ghana has been a standout. Overall, Ghana is experiencing a period of robust economic stabilization, with the IMF recently revising the country's GDP growth forecast upward to 4.8% for 2026 following a strong 6.0% expansion in 2025. Investment is being aggressively attracted by the government’s new "24-Hour Economy" policy, which provides tax incentives and cheaper power to businesses operating multiple shifts to boost industrial output. A major driver of this influx is the country's reputation as the "Silicon Valley" of West Africa, a title earned through its high concentration of fintech startups and a digital-first infrastructure that outpaces its neighbors. Ghana also has focused on taking traditional businesses such as agricultural exports, and building out new infrastructure in manufacturing. Consequently, Ghana has repositioned itself as a leading gateway for the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), offering a stable, innovative hub for Western firms looking to scale across the continent.
This course aims to train students’ knowledge of entrepreneurial ecosystems, i.e. their understanding of how the institutional laws, environment, and government policies, affect entrepreneurs across an ecosystem – using Ghana as a case study. A West African country with 29 million inhabitants, Ghana is changing rapidly but predicting how it will change and who will be able to capture entrepreneurial value is affected by the environment facing entrepreneurs. In this course we will peel back the component of institutional environments affecting entrepreneurs, using Ghana as our case study. This will allow students who want to invest in startups or build start ups of their own, valuable knowledge about how to “see” what is often hidden beneath the surface, but that affects the day to day lives of entrepreneurs. In addition to understanding entrepreneurship in West Africa, and Ghana in particular, the course should also strengthen student’s cultural intelligence, i.e. their capabilities to function and manage effectively in culturally diverse settings.
Please note this class will meet in the B term, and travel to Ghana will take place during December 12-19, 2026. This class adheres to full term add/drop but will not have a class meeting during the A term add/drop week; please reach out to the faculty or Chazen Institute with any questions you may have
- Department: Business
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Instructor:
Adina Sterling
Info - 3 points
Seminar in Research and Professional Dev
SEM IN RESEARCH & PROF DE
This seminar is designed for pre-doctoral students from the Departments of Sociomedical Sciences, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Population and Family Health who have been accepted to the T32, on Social Determinants of HIV, a training grant sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health of the National Institutes of Health. Students in this T32 program are required to take this 2-year seminar (1 credit per semester). The seminar will highlight structural interventions designed to reduce the impact of HIV among underrepresented populations, professional development issues; funding mechanisms such as diversity supplements, diverse research careers for doctoral students in public health, and guest speakers who are experts in HIV structural interventions and social determinants of health. Students will lead many of the seminar discussions and they are given the opportunity to present their work in progress. Graded on a pass/fail basis.
- Department: Sociomedical Sciences
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Instructor:
Gina M Wingood
Info - 1 points
INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
Prerequisites: the instructors permission prior to registration. This is a survey course in international political economy. This course examines how domestic and international politics influence the economic relations between states. It will address the major theoretical debates in the field and introduce the chief methodological approaches used in contemporary analyses. We will focus attention on different types of cross-border flows and the policies and international institutions that regulate them: the flow of goods (trade policy), the flow of people (immigration policy), the flow and location of production (foreign investment policy), the flow of capital (financial and exchange rate policy), and the flow of pollution (environment policy). The goal of this course is to cover, in some depth, many of the main topics and readings in international political economy. The readings each week are designed to tackle some of the essential points of a substantive topic, as well as raise deeper methodological questions that have application to other issues and themes in the sub-field. Not coincidentally, a related goal is to partially prepare students for the IR Field Exam. To help with that, a number of recommended readings accompany each weeks topic.
- Department: Political Science
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Instructor:
Nikhar Gaikwad
h-index: 7 Info - 4 points
INTERNATIONAL PRODUCING & PRESENTING
INTL PRODUCING & PRESENTI
Theatrical experiences are more frequently crossing borders to not only share art around the world, but also to remain financially and culturally sustainable. This is the first course offered by the Theatre Program that looks at the vision and logistics of bringing theatre to places all over the world.
“The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.” -- Peter Brook,
On Directing
As theatre producers and managers, we’ll ask “Why and How” in a preliminary investigation into the missions and mechanics of producing international festivals and tours. We will consider our roles as members of the international performing arts community and our relationships to our artists, our audiences, and our international partners and colleagues.
Quantitative Pricing & Revenue
Quantitative pricing and revenue analytics collectively refers to the set of practices and tools that firms in various industries use to quantitatively model consumer preferences, segment their market, and tactically optimize (often in micro targeted or personalized manner) their product assortment, pricing, and promotion strategies. The origins of this field, often referred to as revenue management as it is also called, are in the airline industry during the late 80s. The prototypical question is how a firm should set and update pricing and product availability decisions across its various selling channels in order to maximize its profitability. In the airline industry, as most of us know, tickets for the same flight may be sold at many different fares, the availability of which is changing as a function of purchase restrictions, the forecasted future demand, and the number of unsold seats. The adoption of such systems has transformed the transportation and hospitality industries, and is increasingly important in retail, telecommunications, entertainment, financial services, health care, manufacturing, as well as on-line advertising, online retailing, and online markets. In parallel, pricing and revenue optimization has become a rapidly expanding practice in consulting services, and a growing area of software and IT development. We will be doing a hands-on dive into the above tools in the context of 2-3 case studies and datasets, in conjunction with lectures to set the stage. The case studies will cover markdown pricing for a retailer, demand and inventory data for a self-storage company, customer research data of a mortgage lender, and peak load pricing data for a highway toll booth.Through this course, students will be able to model and identify opportunities for revenue optimization in different business contexts. As the ensuing outline reveals, most of the topics covered in the course are either directly or indirectly related to customer segmentation, demand modeling, and tactical price optimization.TextbookOne recommended book for the course is by Robert Phillips titled "Pricing and Revenue Optimization. This will primarily be done in teams, much of it in class, and with the help of the TA(s) and the professor. Sample code will be shared for various parts of these analyses. Course deliverables align. Apart from class participation (30% of the total grade), the other course deliverables consist of a set of in-class (homework) assignments (40%) and a take-home final exam (30%).Class participation: I wi
The U.S. Healthcare Industry
The U.S. healthcare system is an enormously complex, trillion-dollar industry. It includes thousands of hospitals, nursing homes, specialized care facilities, independent practices and partnerships, web-based and IT supported service companies, managed care organizations, and major manufacturing corporations. Healthcare is the fastest growing component of many consulting practices and investment portfolios. In dollar terms, it accounts for over 18% of GDP and is larger than the total economy of Italy. It continues to grow in size and complexity, complicating the long-standing problems of increasing costs, limited consumer access, and inconsistent quality. And, the historic Affordable Care Act has resulted in significant changes throughout the entire industry and will have major implications for years to come. This tremendous dynamism is unmatched by any other industry and offers incredible opportunities for new business endeavors."
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
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Instructor:
Carri Chan
h-index: 17 Info - 1.5 points
Migration and Empire
This seminar explores key topics in the historiography of migration and empire. This includes slavery, abolition and indenture, quarantine and public health restrictions on migration, diaspora and displacements of the twentieth century, revolutionaries on the move, borders and border policing, the politics of guestworker programs, globalization, migration and development, among others. The course adopts a capacious understanding of Asia and Asian migrations, to facilitate thinking, reading, and writing across disciplinary boundaries. How did empires regulate migration? How were social and political identities shaped by imperial forces, and vice versa? What are the afterlives of the imperial regulation of migration? The final paper will be a literature review on a topic of your choosing.
- Department: History
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Instructor:
Kalyani Ramnath
Info - 4 points
S CONTEMP CRITICAL THOUGHT
- Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
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Instructor:
Bernard E Harcourt
Info - 1 points
TPC-MIDDLE PERIOD-CHINESE HIST
TPC-MIDDLE PERIOD-CHINESE:MING
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
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Instructor:
Robert P Hymes
CULPA: 8 Info - 4 points
SCI/TECH-LATE IMPER/MOD CHINA
The aim of this graduate course is to provide a broad introduction to science, medicine and technology in late imperial and modern China, and their relationship to the world. The course examines how the understanding and politics of technology, body, the natural world, and medicine undergo drastic reconfiguration from the late imperial period to the modern period. To understand this shift, we will consider questions of technology and imperialism, global circuits and knowledge transfer, the formulation of the modern episteme of “science,” the popularization and wonder of science, as well as commerce, politics and changing regimes of corporeality, in both the imperial and modern periods while placing close attention to the global context and transnational connections. In addition to getting a sense of the existing historiography on Chinese science, we will also be closely examining primary documents, pertinent theoretical writings, and comparative historiography. A central goal of the course is to explore different methodological approaches including history of science, translation studies, material culture, and global history. Reading ability in Classical Chinese and modern Chinese and facility in critical theory are all required.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
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Instructor:
Eugenia Lean
CULPA: 17 Info - 4 points
DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM I
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Tom Slater
Info - 3 points
DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM III
The colloquium, brings together all students at the same level within the Ph.D. program and enriches the work of defining the dissertation topic and subsequent research and writing.
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Tom Slater
Info - 3 points
DOCTORAL RES COLLOQ I: ARCH
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Reinhold Martin
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ADVANCED CLINICAL PRACTICE OF DENTISTRY
ADV CLINC PRAC OF DENTIST
- Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
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ADV CLINCL PRACTICE OF OR
- Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
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ADVAN CLINCL PRACT OF OPERATIVE DENTSTRY
- Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
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Instructor:
Holly Shaw
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Historical Method and Craft
This course is designed to introduce all first-year graduate students in History to major books and problems of the discipline. It aims to familiarize them with historical writings on periods and places outside their own prospective specialties. This course is open to Ph.D. students in the department of History ONLY.
- Department: History
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Instructor:
Gregory Mann
CULPA: 15 h-index: 13 Info - 4 points
Advanced Clinical Practice of Oral Surge
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- Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
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Sociomedical Sciences Applied Quantitati
SMS Applied Quant Rsrch M
This course is designed to teach quantitative analysis to social and behavioral sciences students. It integrates an introduction to quantitative analysis with social science applications in public health, with instruction in use of the R statistical package. This course builds on the Quantitative Foundations concentration of the ReMA Studio of the Core and Intro to Sociomedical Science Research Methods (P8774). Weekly lectures will cover quantitative analysis with a focus on linear regression. Course lectures will begin with graphic and tabular methods for exploring and summarizing distribution of a single variable and the relationships between two and three variables. The course will then proceed with a nontechnical instruction in the application of the single equation regression model. It will introduce students to the standard linear additive model and interpretation of key model parameters. It will cover assumptions of the linear model and discuss some alternatives to the linear model when assumptions are violated. Weekly computer labs will instruct students in R programming. The lab content will parallel lecture material on quantitative analysis including writing basic R programming language. Students will learn to select and use online public use “sociomedical” data sets (e.g., NYC Community Health, NHIS, NHANES, GSS, BRFSS, YRBSS surveys, etc.) for use in the course and in their final project. The course will further emphasize the art of tabular, graphic, and written presentation of the results of quantitative analysis. This is an applied course, emphasizing hands-on work using statistical programming and skill building appropriate for research positions or further graduate study.
- Department: Sociomedical Sciences
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Instructor:
Yuan Zhang
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Justin R Knox
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Sociomedical Sciences Applied Qualitativ
SMS Applied Qual Rsrch Me
This class will provide an overview of qualitative research methods to help you develop an applied and advanced understanding of the possibilities that qualitative research offers. In this course you will practice designing a qualitative research study, and collecting, coding and analyzing data. Further, you will read methods literature and qualitative studies as well as critique qualitative work.
Course lectures will begin with foundations in the principles and practice of social science research in public health using qualitative research methodologies. The course will then proceed with a focus on the main types of qualitative data collection: ethnographic methods, interviewing focus groups, and mixed methods. It will introduce you to the idea of emergent themes, including a grounded theory approach. It will explore the importance of triangulation and other strategies for improving validity and reliability in qualitative research. Several classes will be dedicated using Atlas.ti programming. You will collect and analyze qualitative data in this course and participate in live classroom-based exercises (e.g. interviewing, focus group, coding) in smaller groups that allow time for discussion and re-doing.
The course will further emphasize the art of coding, thematic analysis, and written presentation of the results of qualitative analysis. This is an applied course, emphasizing hand-on work gathering and analyzing qualitative data and skill building appropriate for research positions, further graduate study, or applied public health settings where learning from observation or speaking with people is important. This course builds on the Qualitative Foundations of the Core and Intro to Sociomedical Science Research Methods (P8774).
- Department: Sociomedical Sciences
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Instructor:
Martez Smith
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Ohemaa B Poku
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APPROACHES TO INTL/GLOBAL HIST
How do international and global perspectives shape and conceptualization, research, and writing of history? Topics include approaches to comparative history and transnational processes, the relationship of local, regional, national, and global scales of analysis, and the problem of periodization when considered on a world scale.
- Department: History
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Instructor:
Mark Mazower
CULPA: 10
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Rebecca Kobrin
CULPA: 7 Info - 4 points
Dissertation Prospectus Writing Workshop
DISSERTATION PROSPECTUS W
The workshop provides a forum for advanced PhD students (usually in the 3rd or 4th year) to draft and refine the dissertation prospectus in preparation for the defense, as well as to discuss grant proposals. Emphasis on clear formulation of a research project, sources and historiography, the mechanics of research, and strategies of grant-writing. The class meets weekly and is usually offered in both fall and spring semesters.
Consistent attendance and participation are mandatory.
- Department: History
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Instructor:
Kimberly K Phillips-Fein
Info - 3 points
CHINESE MEDIA CULTURES
What is media and mediation? How do aesthetics, techniques and technologies of media shape perception, experience, and politics in our societies? And how have various forms of media and mediation been conceptualized and practiced in the Chinese-language environment? This graduate seminar examines critical issues in historical and contemporary Chinese media cultures, and guides students in a broad survey of primary texts, theoretical readings, and research methods that place Chinese media cultures in historical, comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives. We discuss a variety of media forms, including paintings and graphic arts, photography and cinema, soundscapes and the built environment, and television and digital media. The class covers a time span from mid-19 th century to the present, and makes use of the rich holdings at the Starr East Asian Library for historical research and media archaeology.
Open to MA and PhD students. Advanced undergraduates need to have instructor's approval.
Language prerequisites: intermediate or advanced Chinese; rare exceptions upon instructor’s approval.
Supervised Independent Research
Supervised Reserach for Classical Studies Graduate Students.
- Department: Classical Studies
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Instructor:
Seth R Schwartz
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info - 4 points
M.A. THESIS
- Department: Art History and Archaeology
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Alexander Alberro
CULPA: 12
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Zainab Bahrani
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Julia Bryan-Wilson
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Michael Cole
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Jonathan K Crary
CULPA: 11
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Anne Higonnet
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