A candidate for the Eng.Sc.D. degree in electrical engineering must register for 12 points of doctoral research instruction. Registration in ELEN E9800 may not be used to satisfy the minimum residence requirement for the degree.
Internship for Film Research Arts Students Only
A candidate for the Eng.Sc.D. degree in mechanical engineering must register for 12 points of doctoral research instruction. Registration in MECE E9800 may not be used to satisfy the minimum residence requirement for the degree.
In the term following the passing of comprehensive examinations, doctoral candidates must register for a total of 6 points of instruction. Supervision and consultation are provided by the faculty to doctoral candidates in the courses of their selection of the dissertation topic, carrying out the prescribed research, and writing the dissertation. Library privileges are included.
Interenship for MFA Writing Research Arts Students
This seminar will be focused on close readings and discussion of social science approaches to the sciences and the making of knowledge with a special focus on the geosciences and other sciences of the earth. Beginning with readings by historians of science, then moving to anthropologies of science and STS studies, and culminating with anti-colonial approaches, students will be encouraged to think through their own disciplines and research. How do we study a place – and by extension – what is “place” and how do we relate to / know it? We will discuss the methods and ethics of ethnography and other forms of “community engagement” while exploring at least one community-based project for practical application. The community-based project will include optional hands-on workshops on the materiality of place, or, more specifically, on the potential role(s) of clay in addressing ecocide and military contamination through a case study in Puerto Rico.
Students will be expected to lead at least one discussion during the semester (can be in pairs), to submit weekly reflections between 1-2 paragraphs, and to respond to at least two other weekly reflections. Those taking the seminar for 3 credits will present a final paper, to be developed in consultation with the instructor.
Prerequisites: graduate standing. Students register in this course while preparing their M.Phil. examinations and prospectus--usually in the fall and spring of their third year.
This course is intended for PhD students who are engaged in relevant scholarly activities that are associated with dissertation research.
A candidate for the doctorate in biomedical engineering or applied biology may be required to register for this course in every term after the students course work has been completed and until the dissertation has been accepted.
A candidate for the doctorate may be required to register for this course every term after the students coursework has been completed and until the dissertation has been accepted.
The course is intended for PhD students who are engaged in relevant scholarly activities that are not associated with the required course sequence. Such activities must accrue more than 20 hours/week.
Provides students the opportunity to present draft dissertation proposals and draft dissertation chapters.
Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Guided individual research.
Oral Health Considerations for Patients with Special Healthcare Needs.”
It is a didactic course with 10 modules covering a very wide range of disabilities (developmental, intellectual, physical, sensory, etc).
The learning objectives are that by the end of the course, trainees will be able to
· Demonstrate an understanding of the lived experiences of people with special healthcare needs
· Distinguish impairment from disability
· Understand the social, legal, and ethical contexts of dental care for people with special needs from both an individual and systems level
· Describe psychological aspects of providing dental care to people with special needs
· Consider the value of interprofessional teams in care of people with special needs
· Detail communications techniques valuable to care of people with special needs
· Advance preventive strategies and public health approaches to care of people and populations with special needs.
Topics and their associated modules are:
A. Impairment, Disability and Oral Health Quality of Life (AoL)
Module 1: Impairment, Disability and Oral Health Quality of Life (AoL)
Module 2: Understanding Impairment and Disability Through Patient's Perspective’
B. Systems and Individual Contexts of Special Care Dentistry
Module 3: Social, Legal, and Ethical Contexts on the System Level
Module 4: Social, Legal, and Ethical Contexts on the Individual Level,
C. Psychology related to Special Care Dentistry
Module 5: Psychological approaches to Special Care Dentistry
D. Oral Healthcare Planning and Teamwork
Module 6: Patient-centered Communication & Treatment,
Module 7: Interprofessional Team Building and Communication 1,
E. Clinical Special Care Dentistry
Module 8: Interprofessional Team Building and Communication 2,
Module 9: Health Literacy & Patient Safety,
F. Dental Public Health and Oral Health
The second course is “Population Oral Health Management.”
The learning objectives are:
Participants by the end of the course will be able to:
· demonstrate an understanding of healthcare financing and delivery changes underway in the US as context for changes that are expected to impact dental practice and the care of all patients, particularly those with special needs.
· consider how population-level health surveillance, measurement, and reporting informs population oral health management including the development and use of oral health metrics.
· appreciate the importance of social, behavioral, environmental, and healthcare determinants of health attainment and maintenance and how non-clinical dental approaches are informing care.
· understand concepts of quality improvement as applied to oral health care assessment and advancement.
· identify options and opportunities to address oral healthcare policy making to advance the oral health of populations, including those with special needs.
The purposes of the Seminar are (a) to aid graduates in developing and refining material for their dissertation; (b) to give graduates experience in presenting material to a philosophical audience in an informed and supportive environment; (c) to give graduates experience in critically discussing presented material, and thereby to see how their own presentations and work can be developed to withstand critical examination. The Seminar is restricted to Columbia graduate students in their third or later years, and all such students are strongly encouraged to attend. No faculty (other than the organizer) will be present. Those attending the seminar will be expected to make one or more presentations of work in progress. The material for a presentation may range from a near-final draft of a chapter, to an early critical overview of an area with an outline plan for an approach to some chosen problem. We will attempt as far as possible to organize the presentations in such a way that they are grouped by subject-matter, and provide a rational path through the territory we cover.