MASTER'S THESIS

This course fulfills the Masters Thesis requirement of the QMSS MA Program. It is designed to help you make consistent progress on your master’s thesis throughout the semester, as well as to provide structure during the writing process. The master’s thesis, upon completion, should answer a fundamental research question in the subject matter of your choice. It should be an academic paper based on data that you can acquire, clean, and analyze within a single semester, with an emphasis on clarity and policy relevance.

• Department: Quantitative Methods/Social Sciences
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Elena B Krumova
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• Instructor: Maiko Yomogida
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• Instructor: Kenneth Grossberger
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• Instructor: Ishaq Chowdhury
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• Instructor: Emma Sacks
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• 3-4 points

Professional Development Requirement

Zero Credit Enrichment

PDR is designed to expose incoming students to the program’s professional development and improvement offerings and provide you with industry and career experiences that will complement your work in the classroom, enhance and enrich your experience in the program and prepare you for your next career steps in the sports industry.

The PDR requirements have been divided into 2 categories: Core and Elective.


Each incoming 
full-time 
student will need to attend/complete a minimum of 40 hours of PDR events in order to graduate, including a minimum of 20 Core hours.  

Each incoming 
part-time 
student will need to attend/complete a minimum of 20 hours of PDR events in order to graduate, including a minimum of 10 Core hours.  


You will fulfill the PDR requirements by participating in and attending events such as:


project-based educational work

networking events

career coaching and advising

industry discussions and information sessions and workshops

• Department: Sports Management
• Instructor: Jennifer Dick
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• 0 points

MA Research Specialization in Statistics

Research Specialization/S

Each year, approximately 10–15% of MA in Statistics students participate in on-campus academic research, contributing to advances in statistical methodology and applied areas. Some projects demonstrate exceptional promise and benefit from additional time and support for further development. The MA Research Specialization in Statistics allows qualified students to extend their MA program to a fourth semester to continue their research under the supervision of a faculty mentor. This competitive, merit-based program requires demonstrated research progress, a nomination from a faculty mentor, and an outstanding academic record. STAT GR5999 serves as the course through which students admitted to the MA Research Specialization fulfill their research requirements.

• Department: Statistics
• Instructor: Gabriel Young
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 6 points

CAPSTONE WORKSHOP IN SUSTAINABLE SCIENCE

Students study the sustainability science behind a particular sustainability problem, collect and analyze data using scientific tools, and make recommendations for solving the problem. The capstone course is a client-based workshop that will integrate each element of the curriculum into an applied project, giving students hands-on experience.

• Department: Sustainability Science
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 3 points

Ready 4 MCY

• Department: Medicine
• 0 points

Ready 4 MCY

• Department: Medicine
• 0 points

THE TEACHING OF MATHEMATICS

A seminar required of all incoming graduate students, designed to instill effective teaching techniques.

• Department: Mathematics
• W 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: George Dragomir
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 0 points

WORKSHOP (CERT)

This workshop provides an intense immersion in the methods and skills of narrative medicine. Lectures will open up themes of how stories work, creativity, ethics, bearing witness, and empathy, while the small groups practice rigorous skills in close reading, creative writing, and responding to the writings of others. The learning objectives of the workshops are to 1) provide personal contact to introduce and solidify intersubjective relationships among participants; 2) to ignite use of methods that have been and will be utilized in the on-line component, e.g., writing to prompts from literary texts and responding to both form and content of colleagues’ writing; 3) plenary lectures from the architects of the discipline of Narrative Medicine in the foundational theories to be studied; 4) scheduled cultural learning opportunities of New York City (music, museums, literary readings) for shared creative experiences; 5) contact with Master of Science in Narrative Medicine graduate program for certification participants toward their understanding of the breadth of the field and the potential for their continuing to study NM after the CPA; 6) introduction to the national and international reach of Columbia Narrative Medicine so that participants grasp the value and magnitude of the community they have entered as certification program students. Participants will be given the chance to present their own works-in-progress to assembled participants and faculty as a jump-start to collaborative projects during and after the participation in the certification program.

• Department: Narrative Medicine
• 0 points

Leadership in Action

MIA & MPA Leadership and Management I Core. 
Leadership in Action
integrates strategic leadership frameworks, real-world case studies, and an immersive multi-week simulation to build students’ capacity to lead in complex, high-stakes environments. Through a sequence of applied exercises, ranging from team formation and innovation design to crisis response, students will develop critical skills in decision-making, influence, and organizational change. The course emphasizes adaptive leadership, cross-sector collaboration, and ethical judgment, equipping students to lead effectively under conditions of uncertainty and pressure.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• R 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• M 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• T 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• R 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• W 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• M 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Gary Bagley
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• 1.5 points

Financial Accounting

• Department: Accounting (ACCT)
• R 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• R 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• R 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• R 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Glover
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• Instructor: Yao Liu
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• 3 points

EARTH SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM

Current topics in the Earth sciences.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• F 3:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Kaleigh B Matthews
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• 1 points

Professional development and leadership

Prof Dev for Doctoral: 1s

For first year doctoral students, emphasizing the skills needed for success in orienting them to Columbia and doctoral studies, including teaching and presentation skills (i.e., Microteaching, how to grade, hold office hours, conduct recitations, etc.); cultivating relationships with mentors, faculty, and colleagues; inclusivity; managing your budget; wellness; research and academic integrity and ethics.

• Department: Engineering
• Instructor: Elizabeth M Strauss
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• 0 points

Intro Social Data Analysis II

Corequisites: SOCI G4076 This course examines quantitative methods used in sociology. Students will need to have completed SOCI GR4074 before enrolling. The approach taken in this class is highly applied with an emphasis on developing practical skills for data analysis. We begin with a focus on linear models, discussing the regression model as a tool for data description and causal analysis. We then introduce generalized linear models and conclude by reviewing some special applied including weighting and missing data. Data analysis for the course will be conducted in Stata which is available for download from the department of Sociology.

• Department: Sociology
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Gerard Torrats-Espinosa
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• 4 points

Theory & Practice of Second Language Tea

Theory& Practice Lang Tea

This graduate seminar serves as an introduction to second language (SL) teaching for in-service instructors of language, and language and content courses. It highlights pedagogical principles, methodological strategies, and practical activities that are critical for new instructors teaching SL courses at the university level for the first time at Columbia University.

Students consider major theoretical constructs (culture, language, mind, metaphor, communication, context) and contemporary teaching approaches in the field of instructed second language acquisition (concept-based teaching, communicative language teaching, literacy-oriented approaches, task-project based learning). They will also engage with basic teaching techniques (lesson planning, use of the target language, technology integration, task design, grammar teaching, utilization of written and oral authentic materials in the classroom), reflective teaching practices (teachers as learners of teaching, dynamics of classroom communication, the role of teachers’ beliefs about pedagogical practices), and the design of testing and assessment measures (contextualized test design, portfolios, and grading criteria).

The main goal of the course is to connect critical pedagogy as well as sociocultural and cognitive theories with classroom practice through guest workshops, collaborative discussion, online forums, lesson plan design, observation of SL classrooms, peer feedback, and portfolio development.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• F 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Francisca Aguilo Mora
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 2 points

THEORETICAL PARADIGMS

ABC:AN/ARCH Bodies Cities

Theoretical Paradigms in Feminist Scholarship:
 
Course focuses on the current theoretical debates of a particular topic or issue in feminist, queer, and/or WGSS scholarship. Open to graduate students, with preference given to students completing the ISSG graduate certificate. Topics differ by semester offered, and are reflected in the course subtitle. For a description of the current offering, please visit the link in the Class Notes.

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jack Halberstam
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• 4 points

COMP MODELING-PHYSIOL SYSTEMS

Advanced computational modeling and quantitative analysis of selected physiological systems from molecules to organs. Selected systems are analyzed in depth with an emphasis on modeling methods and quantitative analysis. Topics may include cell signaling, molecular transport, excitable membranes, respiratory physiology, nerve transmission, circulatory control, auditory signal processing, muscle physiology, data collection and analysis.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• 3 points

People Management and Building Organizat

People Management & Org C

MIA & MPA Leadership and Management II Core. 
This course explores key themes in people management and organizational culture, equipping students with skills to lead diverse teams and build resilient, high-performing workplaces. Through case studies, simulations, and applied exercises, students will examine talent strategy, performance management, inclusive leadership, and organizational design. The course emphasizes practical tools for navigating complex challenges such as incentive structures, conflict resolution, and talent retention in dynamic global environments.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Teemu Alexander Puutio
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• 1.5 points

BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION I

Project-based design experience for graduate students. Elements of design process, including need identification, concept generation, concept selection, and implementation. Development of design prototype and introduction to entrepreneurship and implementation strategies. Real-world training in biomedical design and innovation.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Megan Heenan
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• 3 points

Effective Management in the Public Servi

Management in Public Serv

MIA & MPA Leadership and Management II Core. 
This course introduces students to the field of public management, focusing on the tools and strategies managers use to influence organizational behavior and deliver public services. Through lectures, case studies, discussions, and group projects, students will explore management practices in government and in nonprofit and private organizations that partner with the public sector. The course draws on examples from New York City and U.S. agencies, as well as comparative cases from Asia, Latin America, and Europe. A lab section deepens engagement with course materials and features guest speakers from across sectors.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: William B Eimicke
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• 1.5 points

LAB-TO-MARKET

Introduction to and application of commercialization of biomedical innovations. Topics include needs clarification, stakeholder analysis, market analysis, value proposition, business models, intellectual property, regulatory, and reimbursement. Development of path-to-market strategy and pitch techniques.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• R 4:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• 3 points

Crisis Leadership and Adaptive Managemen

Crisis Leadership & Mgmt

MIA & MPA Leadership and Management II Core. 
This course equips students with the skills, strategies, and resilience necessary to lead effectively during extreme events and complex crises. Drawing on case studies, personal narratives, and interactive exercises, the course examines how crises —ranging from natural disasters and terrorist attacks to cyber incidents and pandemics —require adaptive management and decisive leadership under intense pressure. Students will examine the multiple forces that shape crisis response, including social, cognitive, operational, and political dynamics. The course provides a framework for assessing risk, coordinating cross-sector efforts, developing crisis communication strategies, and fostering innovation in fast-evolving situations.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• 1.5 points

Persuasion and Applied Negotiation Skill

Persuasion & Negotiation

MIA & MPA Leadership and Management II Core. 
This course is an interactive, practice-focused experience designed to equip students with skills and confidence in negotiation and persuasion across public and private sector contexts. Drawing on negotiation psychology, best practices, and evidence-based approaches, the course will develop students’ ability to navigate complex interpersonal and multilateral dynamics.

Through simulations, roleplays, and real-world case studies, students will learn to apply integrative and distributive negotiation methods, build strong positions and alternatives, and manage collective bargaining, mediation, arbitration, and asymmetric power dynamics.

Course topics include negotiation theory, stakeholder analysis, multilateral and cross-cultural negotiation, and solution-driven communication. Students will develop the ability to assess power dynamics, leverage personal strengths, and contribute effectively in multi-stakeholder settings.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Teemu Alexander Puutio
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• 1.5 points

Material / Texts

This class will introduce graduate students to the field of material texts and probe its expanding limits. Since the 1990s, study of the so-called “material text” has been a growing methodology in literary studies, particularly (though certainly not exclusively) in premodern and early modern fields. The “material text” is usually defined as the text plus the writing surface, binding, collocated texts, marginal jottings, illustrations, and any other paratexts that might accompany them: in other words, “the whole book.” The thesis of the study of material texts is that full understanding of literary works can only come about by taking these elements into account along with the text itself. This basic argument has generated a huge amount of productive scholarship that engages closely with manuscripts and printed matter, and it’s where our course will begin.

You may have noticed that the title of this course features a forward slash. In that forward slash is the thesis we will explore together for the bulk of the semester: that it is time for a more expansive definition of the “material text” that encompasses things that are, materially speaking, non-bookish. Yet many of these artefacts are part of the same bodies of narrative as the texts literary scholars lovingly appreciate. The course asks, then, how literary history is inflected by drawing on more expansive material as potential text. The test case for this question, which we will explore together, will be the corpus of medieval and early modern narrative tapestries. But you will be invited throughout the course to apply its methods to your own field of interest, particularly through your book review and your seminar paper. Moreover, though the course centers on medieval literature and textiles with inscriptions in English, French, and Latin, it also aims to instill the critical skills of literary criticism: debate, comparison, and keen-eyed evaluation of others’ arguments, both in class discussions and written assignments. 

Reading knowledge of (Old) French, Latin, and Middle English will come in handy, as will any other foreign language competencies – but these are not prerequisites.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Hannah Weaver
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• 4 points

Managing Communications

MIA & MPA Leadership and Management II Core. 
This course trains students to become effective spokespersons and communications directors in any sector—government, nonprofit, or private enterprise. The class focuses on developing practical skills and insight into the extensive role of communications in achieving organizational goals.

Students will assume the role of a communications executive for a real organization of their choice for the duration of the course. Assignments will be framed from this perspective, including developing a public relations strategy, drafting executive communications, preparing weekly media reports, and planning crisis responses.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Hagar Hajjar Chemali
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• 1.5 points

ISRAELI SOCIETY: SPEC TOPICS

• Department: Sociology
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Yinon Cohen
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 33 Info
• 3 points

Astro-Skills: Observational and Analytic

This class will consist of:
● A survey of astronomical instrumentation and modern observational techniques

● An overview of the skills to use those tools to learn about the Universe

● An introduction to the data analysis techniques that allow robust inferences from what

    has been observed,

This course will alternate on a weekly basis between lectures and lab applications (i.e each

week has a lecture and lab component).

• Department: Astronomy
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: David Schiminovich
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

EFFECTIVE PARTNERSHIP STRATEGIES FOR HUM

PARTNERSHIP FOR HCM SOLUT

• Department: Human Capital Management
• T 8:30 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Steven I Safier
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• 3 points

Strategic Management of Nonprofit Organi

Strategic Mgmt-Nonprofit

MIA & MPA Leadership and Management II Core. 
This course explores how core functional areas, such as governance, finance, talent strategy, communications, and accountability, interconnect to support a nonprofit organization’s mission and strategic goals. Students will examine key management practices in nonprofit settings, emphasizing mission alignment, ethical fundraising, board effectiveness, and impact measurement. Through applied learning, the course equips students with the skills to assess organizational performance, design inclusive cultures, and develop strategic approaches to growth and sustainability.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Gary Bagley
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• 1.5 points

Decisions and Behavior

MIA & MPA Leadership and Management II Core. 
This course introduces students to the field of behavioral economics and the study of individual decision-making. Students will examine how behavior often departs from standard rational models and consider the implications for public policy and management. The course begins with the economic concept of rationality, then proceeds to evidence on systematic deviations, including impatience, framing, reference dependence, and social preferences. Class meetings will incorporate in-class experiments, discussions, and analyses of empirical research. The course concludes with applications to policy design and organizational practices. Students will prepare presentations, participate in recitations, and either develop a policy proposal or complete a final exam to demonstrate their understanding of behavioral approaches to decision-making.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Ting
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 1.5 points

Stars and Planets

An in-depth exploration of the physical processes governing the structure, formation, and evolution of stellar and planetary systems, with emphasis on the underlying astrophysical principles.

• Department: Astronomy
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jane Huang
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• 3 points

Sustainability Management

MIA & MPA Leadership and Management II Core. 
Sustainability management matters because we only have one planet, and we must learn how to manage our organizations in a way that ensures that our planet is maintained. The course is designed to introduce you to the field of sustainability management. This is not an academic course that reviews the literature of the field and discusses how scholars think about the management of organizations that are environmentally sound. It is a practical, professional course organized around the core concepts of management and the core concepts of sustainability. The course will have a specific emphasis on urban sustainability as the planet’s urban population continues to expand.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Steven Cohen
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 21 Info
• 1.5 points

Molecules to Life II

This course extends the principles introduced in Molecules to Life I to the organization and behavior of cells and tissues. It examines how the nucleus, protein quality-control systems, cell cycle, cytoskeleton, intracellular trafficking, signaling, cell division, and tissue organization work together to produce coordinated cellular and physiological function. Molecules to Life II replaces Biochemistry, Cell, and Molecular Biology II.

• Department: Biomedical Life Sciences
• MW 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 3 points

MEDIEVAL/RENAISSANCE PHILOLOGY

MEDIEVAL/RENAISSANCE PHILOLGY

• Department: Medieval and Renaissance Studies
• Instructor: Susan Boynton
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 3 points

FRONTIERS OF COND MATTER PHYS

• Department: Physics
• M 7:40 p.m.-8:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Yasutomo Uemura
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• 3 points

MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE PHILOLOGY

Medieval and Renaissance Philology for MA students.

• Department: Medieval and Renaissance Studies
• Instructor: Susan Boynton
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 4 points

Edouard Glissant

This class is conceived as a series of sustained close readings of Édouard Glissant’s oeuvre—his poetry, novels, manifestoes, treatises, and philosophical essays. Over the last decade in particular, Glissant’s work has become increasingly central across an extraordinary range of disciplines, including literary theory, critical theory, critical race theory, performance studies, postcolonial studies, Indigenous studies—as witnessed, for example, by collections of essays by Australian Aboriginal scholars engaging his thought—and even fields such as architecture and design, as demonstrated by recent exhibitions devoted to his work.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Branka Arsic
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

QUANTUM MECHANICS II

Prerequisites: PHYS W4021-W4022, or their equivalents. Applications to atoms and molecules, including Thomas-Fermi and Hartree-Fock atoms; interaction of radiation with matter; collision theory; second quantization.

• Department: Physics
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Norman H Christ
  CULPA: 34 Wikipedia Info
• 4.5 points

Cost Benefit Analysis

Pre-req: EMPA IA8213 - Microeconomics or equivalent.
Familiarity with Excel is strongly recommended. This course introduces students to the principles and practice of cost-benefit analysis for evaluating policies and projects. Emphasizing practical skills over theoretical complexity, students will learn to apply key tools, including valuation methods, discounting, sensitivity analysis, and Excel-based modeling. The first half of the course focuses on the economic and methodological foundations; the second half applies these tools to real-world case studies in various sectors, including transportation, health, education, energy, and security. The course culminates in a major project requiring students to conduct and present an independent cost-benefit analysis on a topic of their choice.

• Department: EXECUTIVE MPA
• S 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Eva Weissman
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• 3 points

MOVEMENT FOR ACTORS

A journey through movement, connecting the basic principles of movement techniques, such as Ballet, Horton, Graham, Jazz, and Musical Theatre to apply to an actor's body and the physical creation of a character.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: Will Rhem Jr
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• 1.5 points

QUANTUM FIELD THEORY I

Lagrangian density formalism of Lorentz scalar, Dirac and Weyl spinor, and vector gauge fields. Action variations, symmetries, conservation laws. Canonical quantization, Fock space. Interacting local fields, temporal evolution. Wicks theorem, propagators, and vertex functions, Feynman rules and diagrams. Scattering S matrix examples with tree level amplitudes. Path quantization. 1-loop intro to renormalization.

• Department: Physics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Sebastian Mizera
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• 4.5 points

Character Development Lab

In this seven-week class, open to Writing for Film and Television and Screenwriting & Directing concentrates we will do the deep work of creating at least two unforgettable and irreplaceable characters for a future screen or teleplay. In weekly group meetings, students will be assigned a slot to discuss first a main character and then in response to that character, their main antagonist/foil, working through specific exercises until their two characters are sufficiently rich and nuanced that the writer is now able to build a story around them.

• Department: Film
• T 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Trey Ellis
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• 1.5 points

RED ELECTIVE INTERNSHIP

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Hera Suh
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• 1.5 points

COLLABORATION INTENSIVE

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: John Haas
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• 0 points

PUBLIC HEALTH INTERVENTIONS

The 
Public
Health Interventions studio 
provides an integrated approach to the theory and practice of designing, implementing, and evaluating interventions to improve health in the context of a complex real world. The studio will expose students to major theories of public health intervention, how to integrate understanding of these theories in the planning and evaluation of public health interventions and programs, and how these interventions and programs can be effective given the complexity of social and health systems. The studio introduces frameworks to address the complexity inherent in improving the health and quality of life of individuals and populations. 

 

Individual concentrations in the studio explore multiple dimensions of how interventions can improve health and quality of life, including how: (a) individuals’ interpretations of and interactions with the social environment affect their behaviors and well-being; (b) interventions and programs can be designed to improve knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and achieve population impact – and evaluate if, in fact, they do have impact; and (c) systems thinking can be used as a tool to evaluate and understand the complex systems that interact to affect health and quality of life. Students will complete this studio with a solid understanding of the inter-relationship among theory, program planning, implementation and evaluation, and with the skills to apply these insights to the practice of service delivery, policy advocacy, and research. 

 

This studio is being offered via face-to-face instruction, supplemented with asynchronous work for the Fall 2022 semester. Asynchronous content consists of elements such as recorded lectures accessed through CourseWorks and interactive modules. Students will be provided with a timeframe within which the asynchronous content must be completed. Live sessions will be offered on the Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC). Whether content will be asynchronous or live is indicated throughout the syllabus. All times and due dates listed are in Eastern Daylight Time. Students are expected to complete the readings, surveys, labs, and watch recorded lectures by the stated deadlines.

• Department: Public Health
• W 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• 1.5-4 points

GLOBAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVES

GLOBAL & DEVELOPMENTAL PE

The
Global and Developmental Perspectives
studio consolidates and extends students' analysis of the field of public health through the exploration of global and developmental perspectives on challenges and strategies to address them. Lifecourse research recognizes that adverse exposures experienced by individuals and populations, both biological and social, during critical developmental periods (including prenatal, childhood, and adolescence) have specific, cumulative, and often long-standing implications for health which may not manifest until many years later.

The concept of globalization and its interconnected and interdependent forces and relations are used as the basis for considering the increasingly global nature of public health practice and its politics regarding both the nature of health risk and inequity and the capacities to address these. Globalization and its causal pathways linked to patterns of risk, illness, injury and mortality will be explored; and also the effects of colonization, decolonization and the Cold War, and neoliberal reforms and globalization in creating conditions that exposed the globe to intense migration, trade and ecological shifts that have intensified the risks of old and new diseases and exacerbated public health disparities. Developmental and global perspectives are crucial to addressing primary health care, and disease-specific approaches include maternal child health (MCH), communicable disease (CD), and non-communicable disease, and injury (NCDI), the consideration of which is woven into the studio schedule. 

Concentration: Lifecourse

The
Lifecourse
concentration is the first of the two concentrations in this studio. The concentration contains 5 classes, including 2 demography-focused units. In this concentration, students will learn how lifecourse approaches have emerged in public health, how health varies within and across the stages of the lifecourse and across societies shaped both by biological and social pathways that shape our identities and health, how demographic data is collected and spans the lifecourse, and how an understanding of this variation improves public health policies and programs, as well as identifies targets for interventions. 

The concentration emphasizes the importance of historical context and time (e.g. socioeconomic, cultural) in shaping health across the lifecourse. The approach particularly focuses on individuals and the connections between

• Department: Public Health
• R 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• 1.5 points

Quantum Many Body Physics

Course Summary: the quantum many-body problem and its the conceptual formulation in terms of functional integrals, the basics of perturbative calculations at both zero and non-zero temperature, mean field theory and its interpretation as a saddle point of a functional integral, fluctuations including collective modes, the field theory of linear response and transport calculations and the new features associated with nonequilibrium physics.

• Department: Physics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Raquel Quieroz
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• 4.5 points

Art and Artists in Society: The Subversi

The Subversive Imaginatio

This interdisciplinary graduate seminar is designed to bring together students from multiple disciplines within the School of the Arts working in different forms as well as students from other graduate programs in the university who are interested in examining the subversive nature of art and artists in society.

Readings and visual material will cover diverse ways of thinking about how art and artists are catalysts for social change from the point of view of artists and their audiences. How do artists cultivate their imaginations? How do these imaginings disrupt society? Readings will be taken from texts such as: C.J. Jung
Active Imagination,
Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi
Flow
, Mircea Eliade,
Images and Symbols: Studies in Religious Symbolism
, Jack Halberstam
Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire,
William Blake
The Book of Urizen
, James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time,
Guy Debord The
Society of the Spectacle
, Johan Huizinga
Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture
, Jacques Rancière
The Emancipated Spectator
, Augusto Boal
Theatre of the Oppressed
.

These readings will help establish a common discourse with which to discuss how art and artists subvert society and also allow us to reflect on how artists prepare and sustain themselves to actualize the messages they seek to convey.

• Department: Arts, School of the
• R 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Carol Becker
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• 3 points

HEALTH SYSTEMS

The
Health Systems studio
contains three concentrations which, taken together, provide an overview of health systems in the United States and around the world.

 

In
Health Economics
, students will look at health from an economic perspective, which offers unique insights into the determinants of health and the functioning of health systems. Students will learn about such concepts as scarcity, opportunity cost, individual choice, decentralization, efficiency and quality, externalities and public goods. The concentration will prepare students to understand the varied components of health care costs, major economic theories of health insurance, models of investment in health, and issues of health behavior and choice.

 

In
Comparative Health Systems
, students will learn about the historical foundations of the health care systems in Germany, England, Canada, and Australia and how those health care systems function today, with a focus on financing, coverage, population-level health outcomes and health disparities. We will examine similarities and differences across these cases studies and how they compare to the United States. We will also discuss how lessons learned from these countries may be relevant to health policy debates in the United States.

In
U.S. Public Health and Health Care Systems
, students will learn about the historical foundations of the U.S health care system. How did the system evolve?  How is it organized? Who pays the health care bill? What role does government play (and how do different levels of government share these tasks)? What best explains the politics of health reform? How has the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, enacted in March 2010, impacted the uninsured, the effort to contain health care costs, and the effort to improve the quality and efficiency of the American health care system?  What are the pros and cons of the nation’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic?  How has the nation responded to racial and other disparities in health care access and quality?  What are the key issues on the nation’s long-term care policy agenda?  What are the key market-driven health care trends and how are they changing the health system?

• Department: Public Health
• W 8:10 p.m.-9:10 p.m.
• 2.5 points

Quantum Optics: Atoms and Photons

Quantum optics, including: quantiziation of the electromagnetic field, open quantum systems, light-matter interaction, coherent control, collective phenomena, measurement theory and decoherence, and applications in quantum information science.

• Department: Physics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ana Asenjo Garcia
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• 3 points

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT

ENVIRON IMPACT ASSESSMENT

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Graham L Trelstad
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• 3 points

ON SPATIAL EXCLUSN & PLAN

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Hiba Bou Akar
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• 3 points

Reckoning with Asian America

It took the mass murder of six Asian women in Atlanta on March 16, 2021 to draw national attention to what Asian Americans have been warning about since the wake of Covid-19: a surge in anti-Asian violence and hate. Since the onset of the coronavirus, 1 in 8 Asian American adults experienced a hate incident, and 1 in 7 Asian American women worry all the time about being victimized, reflecting an under-recognized legacy of anti-Asian violence, bigotry, misogyny, and discrimination in the United States that dates back more than 150 years. Drawing on research and readings from the social sciences, this course links the past to the present in order to understand this legacy, and how it continues to affect Asian Americans today.

• Department: Sociology
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer Lee
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

TPC NEUROSCI & DEEP LEARN

Comp. w. Brain Cir of MO

Selected advanced topics in neuroscience and deep learning. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6070 to 6079.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• M 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Aurel A Lazar
  h-index: 53 Info
• 3 points

INTEGRATION OF SCIENCE AND PRACTICE II

INTEGRAT OF SCI & PRACT I

The different studios in the Mailman Core teach a set of foundational perspectives, knowledge, and skills. But the practice of public health requires applying this education in a context characterized by uncertainty, risk, competing interests, and conflicting values. In the fall semester, Integration of Science and Practice (ISP) involved contained cases where the stories and evidence were organized and arranged for us. Often the decision-points were relatively unambiguous. This spring we will expand our reach, taking on cases in a way that looks more like the real world. We will start with a complex case specifically selected to integrate key concepts from the Core Semester. You will write a policy memo by focusing in on an issue within the case that you find compelling. The policy memo will serve as a model for you to then construct your own cases in small groups and take responsibility for teaching an ISP session devoted to your case. This team-based approach to problem-solving will also allow you to bring the concepts you explore in Leadership and Development to bear in ISP. These student-led cases, drawing on a range of skills and tools, represent the culmination of the Core.

• Department: Public Health
• W 6:40 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 1.5 points

Introduction to Neural Networks and Deep

Neural Networks&Deep Lear

This seminar will introduce both the concepts and practical implementation in PyTorch of neural networks and deep learning, with a focus on general principles and examples from vision.

• Department: Psychology
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Nikolaus Kriegeskorte
  h-index: 56 Info
• 3 points

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS I

Prerequisites: PHYS E6081 or the instructors permission. Semiclassical and quantum mechanical electron dynamics and conduction; dielectric properties of insulators; semiconductors; defects; magnetism; superconductivity; low-dimensional structures; soft matter.

• Department: Physics
• 3 points

PERSONAL LEADERSHIP IN PUBLIC HEALTH

The goal of the course is to provide students with an overview of some of the fundamental principles and practice of leadership as it applies to a career in public health, with a specific concentration on personal leadership development.  Students will focus on four critical competencies of personal leadership: 1) self-awareness, 2) power, 3) leading through others, and 4) negotiating effectively (Figure below).  Students will also critically examine traditional notions of leadership, exploring concepts of ‘who gets to lead?’, the inequities that result and the diversity of effective leadership roles and styles.  With this understanding, students will develop and improve their ability 1) to lead individuals and teams in a wide range of settings, including research centers and domestic as well as international public health organizations, 2) to perform more effectively as both team members and individual contributors to organizations and communities; 3) to promote their own leadership plan and credo.

Given its weight, it is important to stress that developing a leadership credo means more than coming up with a snappy one liner or finding just the right quote to capture your leadership style.  It is an opportunity to develop an authentic leadership stance – a set of beliefs and/or values that you stand for as a leader and that you expect from others who you will lead, whether as the head of an organization or a member of a team, to support and eventually allow them to follow you.  Your role is to move individuals towards success in meeting specific goals and overcoming certain challenges.  Developing your credo will enable you to verbalize how you will achieve this through an authentic presentation of yourself. This course aims at ensuring you are comfortable, capable and confident in the authenticity of You as a leader.

• Department: Public Health
• R 6:40 p.m.-7:40 p.m.
• 1.5 points

QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS

The course is designed to introduce PhD students in Sociology to basic techniques for collecting, interpreting, analyzing, reporting, and theorizing from interview and observational data. Through instructional and exemplary readings and practical exercises, students will learn the theory and practice behind inductive and abductive field-based analysis, with an aim toward developing or refining an ongoing research project.

• Department: Sociology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Tey Meadow
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• 4 points

CLASSICAL FIELDS & WAVES

Prerequisites: PHYS G6092. This course will study the classical field theories used in electromagnetism, fluid dynamics, plasma physics, and elastic solid dynamics. General field theoretic concepts will be discussed, including the action, symmetries, conservation laws, and dissipation. In addition, classical field equations will be analyzed from the viewpoint of macroscopic averaging and small-parameter expansions of the fundamental microscopic dynamics. The course will also investigate the production and propagation of linear and nonlinear waves; with topics including linearized small-amplitude waves, ordinary and extraordinary waves, waves in a plasma, surface waves, nonlinear optics, wave-wave mixing, solitons, shock waves, and turbulence.

• Department: Physics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Alfred H Mueller
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 4.5 points

INTRO TO COMP LIT & SOC-GRAD

Please note: This course is required for ICLS graduate students, and priority will be given to these students. Generally the course fills with ICLS students each semester. Students MAY NOT register themselves for this course. Contact the ICLS office for more information at icls.columbia@gmail.com. This course was formerly numbered as G4900. This course introduces beginning graduate students to the changing conceptions in the comparative study of literatures and societies, paying special attention to the range of interdisciplinary methods in comparative scholarship. Students are expected to have preliminary familiarity with the discipline in which they wish to do their doctoral work. Our objective is to broaden the theoretical foundation of comparative studies to negotiate a conversation between literary studies and social sciences. Weekly readings are devoted to intellectual inquiries that demonstrate strategies of research, analysis, and argumentation from a multiplicity of disciplines and fields, such as anthropology, history, literary criticism, architecture, political theory, philosophy, art history, and media studies. Whenever possible, we will invite faculty from the above disciplines and fields to visit our class and share their perspectives on assigned readings. Students are encouraged to take advantage of these opportunities and explore fields and disciplines outside their primary focus of study and specific discipline.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 4 points

Managerial Statistics

• Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
• T 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• TWR 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• TWR 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• T 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Paul Glasserman
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• 1.5 points

MA SEMINAR IN GLOBAL THOUGHT II

MA SEM IN GLOBAL THOUGHT II

Building upon M.A. Seminar I’s global approach to core issues and conversations with CGT Faculty, M.A. Seminar II tackles new topics and supports the completion of student research and writing. Multi-week modules will continue building discussions around key questions, engaging with guest speakers, and applying new perspectives to hard problems. Research workshops will address common challenges in turning research into writing, engaging sources and citation, and communicating your findings beyond the scope of this class.

• Department: Committee on Global Thought
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Kevin Funk
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• 4 points

MA SEMINAR IN GLOBAL THOUGHT II

MA SEM IN GLOBAL THOUGHT II

Building upon M.A. Seminar I’s global approach to core issues and conversations with CGT Faculty, M.A. Seminar II tackles new topics and supports the completion of student research and writing. Multi-week modules will continue building discussions around key questions, engaging with guest speakers, and applying new perspectives to hard problems. Research workshops will address common challenges in turning research into writing, engaging sources and citation, and communicating your findings beyond the scope of this class.

• Department: Committee on Global Thought
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Kevin Funk
  h-index: 6 Info
• 4 points

Business Analytics and Artificial Intell

Business Analytics and AI

• Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
• MW 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
• MW 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• MW 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• Instructor: David Holtz
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• 1.5 points

EUROPEAN STUDIES COLL II

• Department: Modern European Studies
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Tsveta A Petrova
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• 4 points

Proseminar for PhD and MA Students

Offered in both semesters, the weekly seminar is for incoming PhD students (required) and for MA students of the first year (required) and second year (optional).  MA students can take the class at any stage during their studies for the MA. The class is graded Pass/Fail.  Every two weeks, the seminar will be co-led by the instructor and an invited member of the department who will select a reading for discussion, historical or contemporary, from their area of expertise. Students will submit responses to the readings. The alternate weeks will be divided into an hour for the PhD cohort and an hour for the MA students. Here, research skills in reading, writing, and conversing will be developed through a range of intellectual exercises.

• Department: Philosophy
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Lydia Goehr
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

PLASMA PHYSICS II

Magnetic coordinates. Equilibrium, stability, and transport of torodial plasmas. Ballooning and tearing instabilities. Kinetic theory, including Vlasov equation, Fokker-Planck equation, Landau damping, kinetic transport theory. Drift instabilities.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Carlos Paz Soldan
  h-index: 28 Info
• 3 points

OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

• Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
• MW 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• MW 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• MW 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Nicola Rosaia
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• Instructor: Hannah Q Li
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• Instructor: Mark Rodgers
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• Instructor: Nicola Rosaia
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• Instructor: Hannah Q Li
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• Instructor: Mark Rodgers
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• Instructor: Nicola Rosaia
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• Instructor: Hannah Q Li
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• Instructor: Mark Rodgers
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• Instructor: Nicola Rosaia
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• 1.5 points

Global Leadership Seminar II

Global Leadership Sem II

The Global Leadership Seminar II is one of the core classes of the MPA in Global Leadership. It provides students with concrete lessons on the practice of leadership, enables students the opportunity to interface with established leaders across the spheres of government and civil society. The course culminates with each student submitting and presenting a plan to address a global policy challenge.

• Department: MPA in Global Leadership
• M 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• 3 points

MPHIL THESIS WRITING SEMINAR

MPHIL THESIS WRITING SMR

• Department: Sociology
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Barbara J Kiviat
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• 4 points

APPLIED STATISTICS II

Prerequisites: STAT GR6101 Continuation of STAT GR6101.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Bianca Dumitrascu
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• 4 points

COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS

• Department: Statistics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher Harshaw
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• 4 points