Research Training

Research training course. Recommended in preparation for laboratory related research.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• Instructor: Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
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• Instructor: Qi Wang
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• Instructor: Nandan L Nerurkar
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• Instructor: Stephen H Tsang
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• Instructor: Elham Azizi
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• Instructor: Jose McFaline-Figueroa
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• Instructor: Treena L Arinzeh
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• Instructor: Sanja Vickovic
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• Instructor: Santiago Correa
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• Instructor: Parisa Yousefpour
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Research Training

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• Instructor: Xuan Di
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• 0 points

Research Training

Research training course. Recommended in preparation for laboratory related research.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• Instructor: Christopher S Chen
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Research Training

Research training course. Recommended in preparation for laboratory related research.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• Instructor: Chaoqun Dong
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• Instructor: Matei T Ciocarlie
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• Instructor: Michael Burke
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• Instructor: Homayoon Beigi
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• Instructor: P J Schuck
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• Instructor: Jeffrey W Kysar
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• Instructor: Sunil Agrawal
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• 0 points

MASTERS RESEARCH OR PROJECT

Prerequisite(s): Approval by a faculty member who agrees to supervise the work. Independent work involving experiments, computer programming, analytical investigation, or engineering design.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• Instructor: Anish Agarwal
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• Instructor: Shipra Agrawal
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• Instructor: Eric Balkanski
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• Instructor: Daniel Bienstock
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• Instructor: Agostino Capponi
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• Instructor: Rachel Cummings
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• Instructor: Antonius B Dieker
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• Instructor: Adam N Elmachtoub
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• Instructor: Yuri Faenza
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• Instructor: Vineet Goyal
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• Instructor: Ali Hirsa
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• Instructor: Anran Hu
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• Instructor: Garud Iyengar
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• 1-3 points

MASTERS RESEARCH OR PROJECT

Prerequisite(s): Approval by a faculty member who agrees to supervise the work. Independent work involving experiments, computer programming, analytical investigation, or engineering design.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• Instructor: Garud Iyengar
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• Instructor: Hardeep Johar
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• Instructor: Cedric Josz
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• Instructor: Soulaymane Kachani
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• Instructor: Yaren Kaya
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• Instructor: Christian Kroer
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• Instructor: Daniel Lacker
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• Instructor: Henry Lam
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• Instructor: Fabrizio Lecci
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• Instructor: Tianyi Lin
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• Instructor: Uday Menon
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• Instructor: Bento Natura
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• Instructor: Jay Sethuraman
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• Instructor: Eric Stratman
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• Instructor: Clifford Stein
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• Instructor: Wenpin Tang
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• Instructor: Harry West
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• Instructor: Kaizheng Wang
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• Instructor: Lily Xu
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• Instructor: David D Yao
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• Instructor: Yi Zhang
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• Instructor: Xunyu Zhou
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• Instructor: Kelly Katsigris
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SEM-PROBLEMS IN APPLIED MATH

Required for, and can be taken only by, all applied mathematics majors in the junior year. Introductory seminars on problems and techniques in applied mathematics. Typical topics are nonlinear dynamics, scientific computation, economics, operation research, etc.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: chris wiggins
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• 0 points

SEM-PROBLMS IN APPLIED PHYSICS

Required for, and can be taken only by, all applied physics majors and minors in the junior year. Discussion of specific and self-contained problems in areas such as applied electrodynamics, physics of solids, and plasma physics. Topics change yearly.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• 1 points

DIRECTED READINGS

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Topics chosen in consultation between members of the staff and students.

• Department: Classics
• Instructor: Elizabeth K Irwin
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• Instructor: Darcy Krasne
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• Instructor: Nancy Worman
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• Instructor: John T Ma
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• 3 points

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Basic microbiological principles; microbial metabolism; identification and interactions of microbial populations responsible for the biotransformation of pollutants; mathematical modeling of microbially mediated processes; biotechnology and engineering applications using microbial systems for pollution control.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Kartik Chandran
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• 3 points

DIRECTED READINGS

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Topics chosen in consultation between members of the staff and students.

• Department: Classics
• Instructor: Elizabeth K Irwin
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• Instructor: Joseph A Howley
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• Instructor: Nancy Worman
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• 1-4 points

SEM-PROBLEMS IN APPLIED MATH

Required for all applied mathematics majors in the senior year. Term paper required. Examples of problem areas are nonlinear dynamics, asymptotics, approximation theory, numerical methods, etc. Approximately three problem areas are studied per term.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: chris wiggins
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• 3-4 points

SEM-PROBLMS IN APPLIED PHYSICS

Required for, and can be taken only by, all applied physics majors in the senior year. Discussion of specific and self-contained problems in areas such as applied electrodynamics, physics of solids, and plasma physics. Formal presentation of a term paper required. Topics change yearly.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• 2 points

TOPICS IN EE & CE

Software Defined Radio

Selected topics in electrical and computer engineering. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 4900 to 4909.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jack L Kouloheris
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• 3 points

ACQ OF CHINESE AS A 2ND LANG

For more than forty years, second language acquisition (SLA) has been emerging as an independent field of inquiry with its own research agenda and theoretical paradigms. The study of SLA is inherently interdisciplinary, as it draws on scholarship from the fields of linguistics, psychology, education, and sociology. This course explores how Chinese is acquired by non-native speakers. Students will learn about general phenomena and patterns during the process of acquiring a new language. They will become familiar with important core concepts, theoretical frameworks, and research practices of the field of SLA, with Chinese as the linguistic focus.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 2:40 p.m.-4:05 p.m.
• Instructor: Shaoyan Qi
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• 4 points

ADVANCED TURKISH I

Advanced Turkish I is designed to use authentic Turkish materials around projects that are chosen by the student in a research seminar format where students conduct their own research and share it in class in a friendly atmosphere. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Zuleyha M Fikret
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• 3 points

MICROECONOMICS SEMINAR

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412  Selected topics in microeconomics.

• Department: Economics
• Instructor: Susan M Elmes
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• 0 points

MICROECONOMICS SEMINAR

SPORTS ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412  Selected topics in microeconomics.

• Department: Economics
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sunil K Gulati
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• 4 points

MICROECONOMICS SEMINAR

ECONOMICS OF THE ARTS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412  Selected topics in microeconomics.

• Department: Economics
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Prajit K Dutta
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• 4 points

MICROECONOMICS SEMINAR

HEDGE FUND INVESTING

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412  Selected topics in microeconomics.

• Department: Economics
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Tri Vi Dang
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• 4 points

MICROECONOMICS SEMINAR

SEMINAR-MICROECONOMIC THY

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412  Selected topics in microeconomics.

• Department: Economics
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Douglas V Almond
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• Instructor: Waldo Ojeda
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• 4 points

MICROECONOMICS SEMINAR

PUB POLECON & HEALTHCARE IND

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412  Selected topics in microeconomics.

• Department: Economics
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Neal Masia
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• 4 points

MICROECONOMICS SEMINAR

SEMINAR-MICROECONOMIC THY

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412  Selected topics in microeconomics.

• Department: Economics
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Andrew E Abere
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• Instructor: Ingmar O Nyman
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• 4 points

MACROECONOMICS SEMINAR

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 Registration information is posted on the departments Seminar Sign-up webpage. Selected topics in macroeconomics. Selected topics will be posted on the departments webpage.

• Department: Economics
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Gabriel Single Toledo
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• Instructor: David Wiczer
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• 4 points

Computational Psychology

The development of computational tools, such as artificial intelligence, has transformed daily life and many areas of research. For instance, the development of large language models such as ChatGPT, have changed the way people write and think. These computational tools also hold great potential for advancing psychological research. However, they are still unfamiliar to many students and psychologists.

In this class, you will learn about how to apply computational tools to facilitate practical problem solving in the real world and research at different stages, including before, during, and after data collection. Specifically, through a combination of lectures (which focus on the mathematical basics and developments of these computational methods), in-class engagements (which focus on translational application of the computational methods to solving new practical problems), and coding workshops (which focus on practical coding skills that implement the computational methods), I will introduce you to methods for handling complex stimuli, validating data quality, and modeling big data. Workshops will be administered via Colab using Python, so please be sure to bring a laptop to every class.

• Department: Psychology
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Chujun Lin
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• 4 points

BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Prerequisites: introductory college-level biology and chemistry. An overview of the biology and ecology of the oceans with a focus on the interaction between marine organisms and the physics and chemistry of the oceans.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew R Juhl
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• 3 points

INTRO TO PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Prerequisites:
 Recommended preparation: a solid background in mathematics, physics, and chemistry. 
Topics:
 Physical properties of seawater, hydrography (water masses and their distribution), dispersal (advection and diffusion), ocean dynamics (Navier Stokes equation), processes (eddies, waves, tides), large-scale circulation (wind-driven gyres, overturning circulation).

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Andreas Thurnherr
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• 3 points

READINGS IN OTTOMAN TEXTS I

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Dilek Oztoprak
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• 3 points

Fundamentals of Human Brain Imaging: fro

Fund of Human Brain Imagi

Fundamentals of human brain imaging is a new advanced course open to undergraduates students from the Psychology, Neuroscience, Engineering, and Statistics Departments, that traces the key steps of the recent “neuroimaging revolution”, and introduces the various methodologies and associated analytic approaches that are now available in the field of cognitive neuroscience. Specifically, the course develops around three main questions, currently under-represented in our undergraduate curriculum:
1) What is the advantage to study human cognition using correlational methodologies (e.g., EEG, MEG, fMRI)? 2) Which is the particular contribution of each method in the understanding of brain/behavior relationship? 3) Which are the most common ways to approach the analyze the neuroimaging data?
By promoting an inclusive environment and implementing active learning strategies, this course stimulates critical thinking and fosters collaboration among students from different departments.

• Department: Psychology
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul A Bloom
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QUEER CINEMA

This course examines themes and changes in the (self-)representation of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgender people in cinema from the early sound period to the present. It pays attention to both the formal qualities of film and filmmakers’ use of cinematic strategies (mise-en-scene, editing, etc.) designed to elicit certain responses in viewers and to the distinctive possibilities and constraints of the classical Hollywood studio system, independent film, avant-garde cinema, and world cinema; the impact of various regimes of formal and informal censorship; the role of queer men and women as screenwriters, directors, actors, and designers; and the competing visions of gay, progay, and antigay filmmakers. Along with considering the formal properties of film and the historical forces that shaped it, the course explores what cultural analysts can learn from film. How can we treat film as evidence in historical analysis? We will consider the films we see as evidence that may shed new light on historical problems and periodization, and will also use the films to engage with recent queer theoretical work on queer subjectivity, affect, and culture.

• Department: Film
• M 10:10 a.m.-1:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Ronald Gregg
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• 3 points

INTRO TO MODERN ALGEBRA I-REC

Modern Algebra I-REC

Recitation section for MATH GU4041 Intro to Modern Algebra I.
Students must register for both GU4041 and GU4941.

• Department: Mathematics
• M 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Giulia Sacca
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INTRO TO MODERN ALGEBRA I-REC

Recitation section for MATH GU4041 Intro to Modern Algebra I.
Students must register for both GU4041 and GU4941.

• Department: Mathematics
• M 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Giulia Sacca
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PRNCPLS OF DEVICE MICROFABRCTN

Science and technology of conventional and advanced microfabrication techniques for electronics, integrated and discrete components. Topics include diffusion; ion implantation, thin-film growth including oxides and metals, molecular beam and liquid-phase epitaxy; optical and advanced lithography; and plasma and wet etching.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO SEISMOLOGY

Prerequisites: advanced calculus and general physics, or the instructors permission. Methods and underpinnings of seismology including seismogram analysis, elastic wave propogation theory, earthquake source characterization, instrumentation, inversion of seismic data to infer Earth structure.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Felix Waldhauser
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• 3 points

HUMAN RIGHTS & HUMAN WRONGS

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Please e-mail the instructor at bc14@columbia.edu. This course will examine the tension between two contradictory trends in world politics. On the one hand, we have emerged from a century that has seen some of the most brutal practices ever perpetrated by states against their populations in the form of genocide, systematic torture, mass murder and ethnic cleansing. Many of these abuses occurred after the Holocaust, even though the mantra never again was viewed by many as a pledge never to allow a repeat of these practices. Events in the new century suggest that these trends will not end anytime soon. At the same time, since the middle of the twentieth century, for the first time in human history there has been a growing global consensus that all individuals are entitled to at least some level of protection from abuse by their governments. This concept of human rights has been institutionalized through international law, diplomacy, international discourse, transnational activism, and the foreign policies of many states. Over the past two decades, international organizations, non-governmental organizations, and international tribunals have gone further than any institutions in human history to try to stem state abuses. This seminar will try to make sense of these contradictions.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Bruce L Cronin
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• 3 points

Beginner Medical Spanish

BEGINNER MEDICAL SPANISH

This class is designed for the beginner student to gain working level knowledge of basic Spanish vocabulary, verb conjugation, and medical terminology for use in a clinical setting. In addition to short lectures to facilitate grammar and usage patterns, class time will be used for intensive speaking practice to improve pronunciation, enhance comprehension, and build confidence in using Spanish through the use of hypothetical scenarios, student presentations, and small group discussions to improve Spanish language and Spanish language proficiency.

• Department: Nursing
• T 7 p.m.-7:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Ana I Esteban Gonzalez
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• 1 points

NEW MEDIA ART

The rapid democratization of technology has led to a new wave of immersive storytelling that spills off screens into the real world and back again. These works defy traditional constraints as they shift away from a one-to-many to a many-to-many paradigm, transforming those formerly known as the audience from passive viewers into storytellers in their own right. New opportunities and limitations offered by emergent technologies are augmenting the grammar of storytelling, as creators wrestle with an ever-shifting digital landscape. New Media Art pulls back the curtain on transmedial works of fiction, non-fiction, and emergent forms that defy definition. Throughout the semester well explore projects that utilize Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and the Internet of Things, alongside a heavy-hitting selection of new media thinkers, theorists, and critics. The course will be co-taught as a dialogue between artistic practice and new media theory. Lance Weiler, a new media artist and founder of Columbia’s Digital Storytelling Lab, selected the media artworks; Rob King, a film and media historian, selected the scholarly readings. It is in the interaction between these two perspectives that the course will explore the parameters of emerging frontiers in media art and the challenges these pose for existing critical vocabularies.

• Department: Film
• M 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 3 points

The Ottoman Empire: History and Legacies

This 4000-level seminar explores the Ottoman Empire with emphasis on the long nineteenth century, while also tracing how the century that followed remained profoundly marked by the afterlives of its institutions, ideas, and the disruptions it set in motion. After an overview Ottoman history and historiography, and an exploration of recent digital humanities trends in Ottoman Studies, the course proceeds in three sections: 1) imperial reconfiguration and crisis, 2) revolution, war, and genocide, and 3) afterlives of empire. Case studies spotlight the empire’s ethno-religious communities, including Arabs, Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks, Jews, Kurds, and Muslim refugees from the Balkans and the Russian Empire. Anchored in
The I.B. Tauris Handbook of the Late Ottoman Empire: History and Legacy
, the course aims to equip students with the conceptual and historiographical tools needed to critically analyze the Ottoman past and its enduring legacies across the modern Middle East.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Khatchig Mouradian
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• 4 points

When American Television Became American

When Amer TV Became Amer

In a 2015 interview with David Simon (creator of
The Wire
) President Barak Obama offered that
The Wire
is, "one of the greatest -- not just television shows, but pieces of American art in the last couple of decades."  
The Wire
combines hyperrealism with the reinvention of fundamental American themes (from picaresque individualisms, to coming to terms with the illusory “American dream”, to a fundamental loss of faith in American institutions), and engages in a scathing expose of the shared dysfunction among the bureaucracies (police, courts, public schools etc.) that manage a troubled American inner city.  On a more macro level
The Wire
humanizes (and therefore vastly problematizes) assumptions about the individual Americans’ who inhabit America’s most dangerous urban environments from gang members to police officers to teachers and even ordinary citizens. 
The Wire
, of course, did not single-handedly reshape American television. Scholars like Martin Shuster refer to this period of television history as “new television.” That is, the product of new imaginations that felt television had exhausted its normative points of reference, subject matter and narrative technique. Many of the shows from this period sought to reinvent television for interaction with an evolving zeitgeist shaped by shared dissolution with 21st century American life: “I’d been thinking: it’s good to be in a thing from the ground floor, I came too late for that, I know.  But lately I’m getting the feeling I might be in at the end.  That the best is over,” Tony Soprano confides to Dr. Malfi in S1.E1 of the Sopranos.  Series that fall within this rubric include (in chronological order):
The Sopranos
;
The Wire
;
Deadwood
;
Madmen
; and
Breaking Bad.

We need to consider carefully that these shows emerged during a particular moment on American history.  This was a period shaped by an increasingly relativist conceptualizations of truth (and, at times, outright fraud) and a resultant loss of faith in American institutions.  Resistance movements (MeeToo, and Black Lives Mater) began to shape.  No wonder that so many of the series under discussion take place amid American cultures defined by a liminal faith in law and order, within the contexts of vague moral authorities and hold American institutions with a shared, deep, suspicion.

These show

• Department: Film
• M 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Ben Alexander
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• 3 points

Intermediate Medical Spanish

INTERMEDIATE MEDICAL SPAN

This class is designed for the intermediate student to gain a more advanced level knowledge of Spanish vocabulary, verb conjugation, and medical terminology for use in a clinical setting. In addition to short lectures to facilitate grammar and usage patterns, class time will be used for intensive speaking practice to improve pronunciation, enhance comprehension, and build confidence in using Spanish through the use of hypothetical scenarios, student presentations, and small group discussions to improve Spanish language and Spanish language proficiency.

• Department: Nursing
• T 8 p.m.-8:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Ana I Esteban Gonzalez
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• 1 points

Soft and BioNano Materials

Focuses on fundamental concepts in soft condensed matter with emphasis on biomolecular and nanoscale systems. Integrates principles from biochemistry, materials science, physics, and nanotechnology to develop a unified view of soft and biological matter. Covers structure, properties, and functions of key biomolecules, along with biomolecular design and self-assembly, including DNA/RNA-based nanotechnology and molecular programming. Examines diverse soft matter systems such as polymers, surfactants, liquid crystals, and nanoparticles, highlighting how molecular interactions determine macroscopic behavior and underlying physical principles. Introduces modern experimental and computational methods, connecting core concepts to current research in the field.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• R 5:40 p.m.-8:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Oleg Gang
  h-index: 45 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO MODERN ANALYSIS I-REC

Modern Analysis I-REC

Recitation section for MATH GU4061 Intro to Modern Analysis I.
Students must register for both GU4061 and GU4961.

• Department: Mathematics
• M 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Sven Hirsch
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• 0 points