RESEARCH PROJECT
May be repeated for credit. A special investigation of a problem in nuclear engineering, medical physics, applied mathematics, applied physics, and/or plasma physics consisting of independent work on the part of the student and embodied in a formal report.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
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Instructor:
Steven A Sabbagh
Info - 1-6 points
Central Asian Politics and Security
Central Asian Pol & Secur
This course surveys the politics and history of the five countries of contemporary Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan). In addition to imparting a substantive understanding of these countries, the course explores several conceptual lenses through which the region can be analyzed both over time and in comparison with other parts of the world. The first half of the course examines the political history of the region, with particular reference to how policies and practices of the Soviet state shaped the former republics of Soviet Central Asia. The second half turns to special topics at the center of the region’s political and social life today. Coverage of these topics—which include democratization, Islam and the politics of counter-insurgency, women and definitions of the public sphere, the politics of nation-building, and international security—will involve light reading from other regions to provide comparative perspective.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Lawrence Markowitz
Info - 3 points
OTHER FRONTIERS IN STAGE MANAGEMENT
OTHER FRONTIERS: DANCE
TBD
- Department: Theatre Arts
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Instructor:
Jacqueline Reid
Info - 1.5 points
OTHER FRONTIERS IN STAGE MANAGEMENT
OTHER FRONTIERS: OPERA
TBD
- Department: Theatre Arts
- 1.5 points
OTHER FRONTIERS IN STAGE MANAGEMENT
OTHER FRONTIERS: CORP. EVENTS
TBD
- Department: Theatre Arts
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Instructor:
Linda Marvel
Info - 1.5 points
SUBJECT_OBJECT
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Suchi Reddy
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
TOPICS DATA-DRIVEN ANAL & COMP
MACH LEARNING IN BIO&INF
Selected advanced topics in data-driven analysis and computation. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6690 to 6699.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
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Instructor:
Predrag R Jelenkovic
CULPA: 1 h-index: 35 Info - 3 points
TOPICS DATA-DRIVEN ANAL & COMP
Adv VLSI DA & Methodology
Selected advanced topics in data-driven analysis and computation. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6690 to 6699.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
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Instructor:
Matthew M Ziegler
Info - 3 points
TOPICS DATA-DRIVEN ANAL & COMP
GenAI & Modern Deep Learn
Selected advanced topics in data-driven analysis and computation. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6690 to 6699.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
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Instructor:
Micah Goldblum
Info - 3 points
Inside the Situation Room
Prerequisite: Course Application.
In an era increasingly defined by geopolitical competition, it is more important than ever for future policymakers to understand why and how foreign policy decisions are made. Inside the Situation Room, co-taught by Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton and Dean Keren Yarhi-Milo, employs insights from diverse academic fields—including political psychology, domestic politics, and international relations—and the direct experience of high-level principals in the room to understand the key factors which underpin a nation’s most crucial decisions. This course allows students to engage with a range of case studies and examine decision-making in a variety of historical and contemporary contexts, from the search for Osama bin Laden, to the “red line” in Syria, to negotiating with Iran.
Students will be taught how to analyze and understand the complex interplay between individual psychology, domestic politics, public opinion, bureaucracy, the international environment, and other factors which feed into decisions about foreign policy—from crisis diplomacy to the use of force, signaling and perception, intelligence and its analysis, the deployment of other instruments of statecraft, and more. Through this course, students will think carefully and analytically about how leaders and other actors view the world, how they arrive at their decisions, and how various social, political, and psychological factors shape the policies they devise to promote their interests abroad. For more information, visit: https://www.sipa.columbia.edu/situationroom
- Department: International Security & Diplomacy
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Instructor:
Keren Yarhi-Milo
Wikipedia Info - 0 points
THEATRE MANAGEMENT & ADMINISTRATION I
THEATRE MGMT & ADMIN I
- Department: Theatre Arts
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Instructor:
Steven E Chaikelson
CULPA: 5
Info
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Instructor:
Timothy A Hess
Info - 3 points
Inside the Situation Room - Discussion
ISR SIPA Discussion
Required Discussion Section For Inside the Situation Room.
- Department: International Security & Diplomacy
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Instructor:
Lincoln A Mitchell
Info - 3 points
Inside the Situation Room - Discussion
ISR SIPA Discussion
Required Discussion Section For Inside the Situation Room.
- Department: International Security & Diplomacy
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Instructor:
Lincoln A Mitchell
Info - 3 points
Inside the Situation Room - Discussion
ISR SIPA Discussion
Required Discussion Section For Inside the Situation Room.
- Department: International Security & Diplomacy
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Instructor:
Lincoln A Mitchell
Info - 3 points
Inside the Situation Room - Discussion
ISR SIPA Discussion
Required Discussion Section For Inside the Situation Room.
- Department: International Security & Diplomacy
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Instructor:
Lincoln A Mitchell
Info -
Instructor:
Carlos Vargas-Ramos
CULPA: 4 Info - 3 points
Inside the Situation Room - Discussion
ISR SIPA Discussion
Required Discussion Section For Inside the Situation Room.
- Department: International Security & Diplomacy
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Instructor:
Carlos Vargas-Ramos
CULPA: 4 Info -
Instructor:
Jayme R Schlesinger
Info - 3 points
Inside the Situation Room - Discussion
ISR ISD Discussion
Required Discussion Section For Inside the Situation Room.
- Department: International Security & Diplomacy
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Instructor:
Jayme R Schlesinger
Info - 3 points
Inside the Situation Room - Discussion
ISR ISD Discussion
Required Discussion Section For Inside the Situation Room.
- Department: International Security & Diplomacy
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Instructor:
Jayme R Schlesinger
Info - 3 points
Inside the Situation Room - Discussion
ISR Undergrad Discussion
Required Discussion Section For Inside the Situation Room.
- Department: International Security & Diplomacy
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Instructor:
Kyle Evanoff
Info - 3 points
Inside the Situation Room - Discussion
ISR Undergrad Discussion
Required Discussion Section For Inside the Situation Room.
- Department: International Security & Diplomacy
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Instructor:
Kyle Evanoff
Info - 3 points
Inside the Situation Room - Discussion
ISR Undergrad Discussion
Required Discussion Section For Inside the Situation Room.
- Department: International Security & Diplomacy
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Instructor:
Kyle Evanoff
Info -
Instructor:
Cybele Chester
Info - 3 points
Inside the Situation Room - Discussion
ISR Undergrad Discussion
Required Discussion Section For Inside the Situation Room.
- Department: International Security & Diplomacy
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Instructor:
Cybele Chester
Info - 3 points
Inside the Situation Room - Discussion
ISR Undergrad Discussion
Required Discussion Section For Inside the Situation Room.
- Department: International Security & Diplomacy
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Instructor:
Cybele Chester
Info -
Instructor:
Garrett A Hinck
Info - 3 points
Inside the Situation Room - Discussion
ISR Undergrad Discussion
Required Discussion Section For Inside the Situation Room.
- Department: International Security & Diplomacy
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Instructor:
Garrett A Hinck
Info - 3 points
Probabilistic Models and Machine Learnin
Stat ML: Theory to Practi
Probabilistic Models and Machine Learning is a PhD-level course about how to design and use probability models. We study their mathematical properties, algorithms for computing with them, and applications to real problems. We study both the foundations and modern methods in this field. Our goals are to understand probabilistic modeling, to begin research that makes contributions to this field, and to develop good practices for building and applying probabilistic models.
- Department: Statistics
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Instructor:
David Blei
Wikipedia h-index: 98 Info - 3 points
Advanced Spoken Language Processing
ADV SPOKEN LANG PROC
Applications of spoken language processing, including text-to-speech and dialogue systems. Analysis of speech and text, including entrainment, empathy, personality, emotion, humor, sarcasm, deception, trust, radicalization, and charisma.
- Department: Computer Science
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Instructor:
Julia Hirschberg
CULPA: 8
h-index: 77
Info
- 3 points
STOCHASTIC MODELING I
Advanced treatment of stochastic modeling in the context of queueing, reliability, manufacturing, insurance risk, financial engineering and other engineering applications. Review of elements of probability theory; exponential distribution; renewal theory; Wald’s equation; Poisson processes. Introduction to both discrete and continuous-time Markov chains; introduction to Brownian motion.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
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Instructor:
Henry Lam
h-index: 17 Info - 4.5 points
BUDGETING AND REPORTING
- Department: Theatre Arts
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Instructor:
Michael Naumann
Info - 3 points
HIST PRESV THEORY & PRACTICE
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Jorge Otero-Pailos
Wikipedia h-index: 12 Info - 3 points
COMPUTER COMMUNICATNS NETWORKS
COMPUTER COMMUNCATION NETWORKS
Analytical approach to the design of (data) communication networks. Necessary tools for performance analysis and design of network protocols and algorithms. Practical engineering applications in layered Internet protocols in Data link layer, Network layer, and Transport layer. Review of relevant aspects of stochastic processes, control, and optimization.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
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Instructor:
Javad Ghaderi
h-index: 17 Info - 3 points
PRESERVATION PLANNING
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Erica C Avrami
Info - 3 points
INTERNET ECON, ENG & SOCIETY
Mathematical models, analyses of economics and networking interdependencies in the internet. Topics include microeconomics of pricing and regulations in communications industry, game theory in revenue allocations, ISP settlements, network externalities, two-sided markets. Economic principles in networking and network design, decentralized vs. centralized resource allocation, “price of anarchy,” congestion control. Case studies of topical internet issues. Societal and industry implications of internet evolution.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
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Instructor:
Debasis Mitra
Wikipedia h-index: 61 Info - 3 points
ARCH METALS
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Richard Peiper
Info - 1.5 points
TOPICS IN NETWORKING
TPC:NET VIRTUAL & CLOUD COMPUT
Further study of areas such as communication protocols and architectures, flow and congestion control in data networks, performance evaluation in integrated networks. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6770 to 6779.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
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Instructor:
Thomas Woo
Info - 3 points
Health Communication
Health Communication has emerged as an important field of theory, research, and practice in the 21st century. As recognized by several public health and global health agendas, well-designed and implemented health communication interventions can have a positive impact on public health and health care outcomes, as well as contribute to advancing health equity. This course will introduce students to the field of Health Communication theory and practice, and its key action areas. It will prepare them to design, implement and evaluate health communication interventions within a systematic, participatory, engaging, process-oriented, and multidisciplinary framework that aims at behavioral, social, and organizational results and ultimately, improved public health outcomes. As health communication is grounded in many theories and principles (e.g., behavioral and social change, marketing, intergroup, sociology, anthropology, cultural-centered and positive deviance theory, mass media and new media theory, medical models, community organizing, social networks, etc.) that are also shared by other disciplines in the public health, health care, and community development fields, these theories will be briefly reviewed as part of session two in relation to their specific application to health communication theory and practice. The planning frameworks and practical exercises discussed and implemented in this course are specific to the field of health communication and provide students with core competencies and practical skills for future work in health communication within the nonprofit, corporate, academic, and government sectors both in the United States and globally.
- Department: General Public Health
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Instructor:
Natalie Gyenes
Info - 3 points
Health Communication
HEALTH COMMUNICATION
Health Communication has emerged as an important field of theory, research, and practice in the 21st century. As recognized by several public health and global health agendas, well-designed and implemented health communication interventions can have a positive impact on public health and health care outcomes, as well as health equity. This course will introduce students to the field of Health Communication theory and practice, and its key action areas. It will prepare them to design, implement and evaluate health communication interventions within a systematic, participatory, engaging, process-oriented, and multidisciplinary framework that aims at behavioral, social, and organizational results and ultimately, improved public health outcomes.
As health communication is grounded in many theories and principles (e.g., behavioral and social change, marketing, intergroup, sociology, anthropology, cultural-centered and positive deviance theory, mass media and new media theory, medical models, community organizing, social networks, etc.) that are also shared by other disciplines in the public health, health care, and community development fields, these theories will be briefly reviewed as part of session two in relation to their specific application to health communication theory and practice. The planning frameworks and practical exercises included in this course are specific to the field of health communication and provide students with core competencies and skills for future work in health communication within the nonprofit, corporate, academic, and government sectors both in the United States and globally.
- Department: Sociomedical Sciences
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Instructor:
Renata Schiavo
h-index: 10 Info - 3 points
TOPICS IN NETWORKING
Massive Content Mining&Di
Further study of areas such as communication protocols and architectures, flow and congestion control in data networks, performance evaluation in integrated networks. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6770 to 6779.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
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Instructor:
Anwar I Walid
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
Data Visualization And Storytelling
Data Visualization & Stor
During this course, students will be introduced to the methods and techniques of creating infographics and data visualizations. They will learn about storytelling and how to create various charts using Tableau Desktop software. Students will also learn the practical aspects of managing a public health data visualization project. Tableau is becoming widely used and is now also connectable to the “big 4” SPSS/SAS/STAT/R, as such it is an essential data analytics tool for understanding and manipulating data for public health. Students will learn methodologies on how to approach public health data to create data visualizations that display statistics in a compelling form in Tableau. This hands-on introductory course will teach students to develop meaningful public health data stories that reveal insights. Students will utilize health data to tell visual stories and develop an aesthetic for presenting their findings to a lay audience.
- Department: Sociomedical Sciences
- 3 points
STONE, BRICK + TERRA COTTA
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- 1.5 points
INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
This course introduces the fundamental concepts and problems of international human rights law. What are the origins of modern human rights law? What is the substance of this law, who is obligated by it, and how is it enforced? The course will cover the major international human rights treaties and mechanisms and consider some of todays most significant human rights issues and controversies. While the topics are necessarily law-related, the course will assume no prior exposure to legal studies.
- Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
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Instructor:
Jacqueline Dugard
Info - 3 points
STRUCTURAL DARING & THE SUBLIME
STRUCT DARING & THE SUBLI
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Rory O O'Neill
Info - 3 points
THEORIES OF INT'L RELATIONS
Prerequisites: the instructors permission prior to registration. Issues and problems in theory of international politics; systems theories and the current international system; the domestic sources of foreign policy and theories of decision making; transnational forces, the balance of power, and alliances.
- Department: Political Science
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Instructor:
Elizabeth N Saunders
Wikipedia Info - 4 points
SEMINAR IN STAGE MANAGEMENT III
MUSICAL STRUCTURE
Musicals, especially those that have traditionally originated on Broadway, are complex pieces of machinery that are designed to produce a variety of energies in the theater. When taken collectively, those energies constitute the aesthetic of the experience. As with plays, stage managers are charged with coordinating all of a musical’s production elements. However, stage managers should also be able to view a musical from every angle; that is, read it intelligently and analyze it dramatically so they can accurately gauge their contribution to the overall aesthetic. This course seeks to provide stage managers with a customized template to do that: in other words, how to connect what’s on the page and the stage to their own standard methodologies, cue calling, and the CEO/COO perspective. In the contemporary professional landscape, these are important tools that will help them optimize their work on musicals.
- Department: Theatre Arts
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Instructor:
Michael Passaro
Info - 3 points
PUBLIC FINANCE I
- Department: Economics
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Instructor:
Wojciech Kopczuk
CULPA: 5 Wikipedia h-index: 34 Info - 3 points
Coding for Media Studies
The term “digital humanities” (DH) has long been used to describe scholarship at the intersection of digital technologies and humanities disciplines. Although initially characterized by quantitative analysis and number-crunching, DH today enjoys a far broader mandate encompassing new fields like software studies, data visualization, critical code studies, and more. This course proposes to ride the wave of these developments.
Specifically, it explores how coding can be harnessed to the disciplines of film and media studies. Over the past few years, developments in generative AI have placed basic coding expertise within the reach of all. But what possibilities open up from these changes? Over the course of over a dozen weeks, students in this class will learn ways in which coding can help refine and reimagine traditional scholarly agendas (e.g., film analysis, media industry studies, archival restoration, etc.). But the class also shows how coding opens up entirely new ways of working with media as objects of study.
- Department: Film
- 3 points
VISITING ARTIST LECT. III
- Department: Visual Arts
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Instructor:
Miya Masaoka
Wikipedia Info - 0 points
PUBLIC SPACE: RHETORICS & PRACTICES
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
David J Smiley
CULPA: 3 Info - 3 points
DIFFERENCE AND DESIGN
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Justin G Moore
Info - 3 points
CRIT ISSUES IN ART III
N/A
- Department: Visual Arts
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Instructor:
Miles J Scharff
Info - 3 points
RE ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND DEVELOPMENT
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Haig G Nazarian
Info - 1.5 points
RE VALUATION + INVESTMENT ANALYSIS
RE VAL+INVESTMENT ANALYSI
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Jake Pesci
Info - 1.5 points
GRADUATE STUDIO III
N/A
- Department: Visual Arts
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Instructor:
Miya Masaoka
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
THESIS DEVELOPMENT
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. This course will help guide E3B Ph.D. students towards candidacy by teaching them the skills necessary to be effective and independent scientists. Students will conduct an extensive literature review, write a preliminary dissertation proposal, and present their research ideas to the group on multiple occasions. Students will learn how to give and receive constructive written and oral feedback on their work.
- Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
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Instructor:
Maria Uriarte
Wikipedia h-index: 56 Info - 6 points
ENVIRONMENTS OF GOVERNANCE
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Felicity Scott
Info - 3 points
ARTIST MENTORSHIP / VISITING ARTIST LECT
ARTIST MENTORSHIP / VALS
This required Visual Arts core MFA curriculum course, comprising two parts, allows MFA students to deeply engage with and learn directly from a wide variety of working artists who visit the program each year.
Lecture Series
The lecture component, taught by an adjunct faculty member with a background in art history and/or curatorial studies, consists of lectures and individual studio visits by visiting artists and critics over the course of the academic year. The series is programmed by a panel of graduate Visual Arts students under the professor's close guidance. Invitations are extended to artists whose practice reflects the interests, mediums, and working methods of MFA students and the program. Weekly readings assigned by the professor provide context for upcoming visitors. Other course assignments include researching and preparing introductions and discussion questions for each of the visitors. Undergraduate students enrolled in Visual Arts courses are encouraged to attend and graduate students in Columbia's Department of Art History are also invited. Following each class-period the conversation continues informally at a reception for the visitor. Studio visits with Visual Arts MFA students take place on or around the week of the artist or critic's lecture and are coordinated and assigned by lottery by the professor.
Artist Mentorship
The Artist-Mentor component allows a close and focused relationship to form between a core group of ten to fifteen students and their mentor. Students are assigned two mentors who they meet with each semester in two separate one-week workshops. The content of each workshop varies according to the Mentors’ areas of expertise and the needs of the students. Mentor weeks can include individual critiques, group critiques, studio visits, visits to galleries, other artist's studios, museums, special site visits, readings, and writing workshops. Here are a few descriptions from recent mentors:
• During Mentor Week we will individually and collectively examine our assumptions and notions about art. What shapes our needs and expectations as artists and the impact of what we do?
• Our week will include visits to exhibition spaces to observe how the public engages the art. Throughout, we will consider art's ability to have real life consequences and the public's desire to personally engage with and experience art without mediation.
• The week will be conducted in two parts, f
- Department: Visual Arts
- 3 points
FORMAL VERIF HW SW SYSTEMS
Introduction to the theory and practice of formal methods for the design and analysis of correct (i.e. bug-free) concurrent and embedded hardware/software systems. Topics include temporal logics; model checking; deadlock and liveness issues; fairness; satisfiability (SAT) checkers; binary decision diagrams (BDDs); abstraction techniques; introduction to commercial formal verification tools. Industrial state-of-art, case studies and experiences: software analysis (C/C++/Java), hardware verification (RTL).
- Department: Computer Science
- 3 points
FINANCIAL MODELING CASE STUDIES
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Chok S Lei
Info - 1.5 points
UNSETTLING SOUTH ASIA MODERN
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Ateya A Khorakiwala
Info - 3 points
FEASTING + FASTING
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Ateya A Khorakiwala
Info - 3 points
REIMAGING NYC's INDUSTRIAL WATERFRONT
REIMAG NYC's INDSTRL WATE
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- 1.5 points
TOPICS IN SIGNAL PROCESSING
TPC:REINFORCEMENT LEARNING
Advanced topics in signal processing, such as multidimensional signal processing, image feature extraction, image/video editing and indexing, advanced digital filter design, multirate signal processing, adaptive signal processing, and wave-form coding of signals. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6880 to 6889.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- 3 points
TOPICS-INFORMATION PROCESSING
TPC:BIG DATA ANALYTICS
Advanced topics spanning electrical engineering and computer science such as speech processing and recognition, image and multimedia content analysis, and other areas drawing on signal processing, information theory, machine learning, pattern recognition, and related topics. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6890 to 6899. Topic: Big Data Analytics.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
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Instructor:
Ching-Yung Lin
h-index: None Info - 3 points
TOPICS-INFORMATION PROCESSING
DATA CENTER PROCESSING
Advanced topics spanning electrical engineering and computer science such as speech processing and recognition, image and multimedia content analysis, and other areas drawing on signal processing, information theory, machine learning, pattern recognition, and related topics. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6890 to 6899.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
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Instructor:
Tanvir Ahmed Khan
Info - 3 points
TOPICS-INFORMATION PROCESSING
Learning and Storage
Advanced topics spanning electrical engineering and computer science such as speech processing and recognition, image and multimedia content analysis, and other areas drawing on signal processing, information theory, machine learning, pattern recognition, and related topics. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6890 to 6899. Topic: Quantum Computing and Communication.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
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Instructor:
Alexei Ashikhmin
Info - 3 points
RESEARCH
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Danielle S Smoller
Info - 2-3 points
TUTORIAL IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
A reading course in an advanced topic for a small number of students, under faculty supervision.
- Department: Computer Science
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Instructor:
Timothy A Roughgarden
Info - 1-3 points
RSRCH COMPUTING EARTH SCI
Prerequisites: Graduate student status, calculus, or instructor permission Priority given to first year PhD students in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Computing has become an indispensable tool for Earth Scientists. This course will introduce incoming DEES PhD students to modern computing software, programming tools and best practices that are broadly applicable to carrying out research in the Earth Sciences. This includes an introduction to Unix, programming in three commonly used languages (Python, MATLAB and Fortran), version control and data backup, tools for visualizing geoscience data and making maps. Students will learn the basics of high performance computing and big data analysis tools available on cluster computers. Student learning will be facilitated through a combination of lectures, in-class exercises, homework assignments and class projects. All topics will be taught through example datasets or problems from Earth Sciences. The course is designed to be accessible for Earth Science graduate students in any discipline.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
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Instructor:
Yutian Wu
h-index: 15 Info - 3 points
THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE
- Department: Economics
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Instructor:
David Weinstein
CULPA: 13
Wikipedia
h-index: 42
Info
- 3 points
TPCS-ELEC & COMPUT ENGINEERING
Selected topics in electrical and computer engineering. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6900 to 6909.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
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Instructor:
Savannah Eisner
Info - 3 points
What Is An Image?
How can we define the image in the digital age? Can we (still) believe our eyes? What is underneath the image? As we will see in this course, these fundamental questions are not new within the history of media. Through the ages, the image has been questioned and redefined as image, surface, visual representation, index, etc. Philosopher Vilém Flusser once remarked that the composite essence of digital technology was already embedded in photography because the photographic image is an image composed of points, which the human eye synthesizes into an image. This course revisits Flusser’s notion of the “technical image” and proposes to rethink the image beyond its visual dimensions, from the perspectival image of the Renaissance to the AI-generated image of today. Instead of following a strict chronological path, we will delve into various theoretical debates on “what is an image?” – ranging from the binary image of textile to the haptic image of video art, from the technological image of the optical toy to the operational image of surveillance and warfare. Both mainstream and experimental films will be analyzed and discussed as critical interventions in the history of image technologies.
- Department: Film
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Instructor:
Wanda Strauven
Info - 3 points
QUANT METHODS OF DATA ANALYSIS
Prerequisites: calculus. Recommended preparation: linear algebra, statistics, computer programming. Introduction to the fundamentals of quantitative data analysis in Earth and environmental sciences. Topics: review of relevant probability, statistics and linear algebra; linear models and generalized least squares; Fourier analysis and introduction to spectral analysis; filtering time series (convolution,deconvolution,smoothing); factor analysis and empirical orthogonal functions; covariance and correlation; methods of interpolation; statistical significance and hypothesis testing; introduction to Monte Carlo methods for data analysis. Problem sets and term project require use of MATLAB or Python.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
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Instructor:
William H Menke
CULPA: 14 Info - 4 points
INTRO TO WRITING STUDIES
Anyone who pursues a career as a college faculty member will teach writing—either formally, in a writing class, or informally, as we work with students who are new to our disciplines. However, many graduate students in the humanities have received no substantive training in the burgeoning field of writing studies. In English, career opportunities in writing studies have outpaced other field areas. The MLA’s 2016-2017 jobs list reported that 851 positions were advertised in English, 10% fewer than the previous year. Of those jobs, 217 were in writing studies, 187 were in British literature, and 172 were in American literature. Given that writing studies positions are also advertised elsewhere, the gap is likely larger. This seminar will explore key debates in writing studies research and teaching methodologies, program development, and disciplinary and institutional status. Writing studies is the newest name for “rhetoric and composition,” a field which declared its existence in the mid-1960s, and draws its praxes and theories from classical rhetoric, applied linguistics, cognitive and developmental psychology, literary criticism, civic education, creative writing, and progressive pedagogy. Scholarship in writing studies since the 1960s has sought to deepen our understanding of how transactions work among writers, readers, and texts. Writing studies prompts us to track how standards for “good” or “appropriate” academic writing change over time, and how the teaching of writing responds to social, political, institutional, and disciplinary forces. The readings in this course will help us to articulate our own philosophies of writing and shape approaches to pedagogy in our own fields. Topis will include the following: how writers develop; intellectual practices that foster community among learners; the ethics and politics of textual transactions, including assessment; students’ rights to their own language; literacy acquisition across media; working in transnational and translingual spaces; genre and rhetorical theory; fostering knowledge and skills transfer; the impact of intersectionality on pedagogy and program design; and labor justice. We will read works by foundational writing studies scholars including John Dewey, Wayne Booth, bell hooks, Victor Villaneuva, Jr. A. Suresh Canagarajah, and the current president of the Modern Language Association, Anne Ruggles Gere. Participants will have the opportunity to ask how writing studies can deepen the understanding of writing in our fields, regardless
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
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Instructor:
Nicole Wallack
CULPA: 7 Info - 4 points
Topics in Control
This proposed course allows for a variety of potential advanced courses to be taught as part of the proposed concentration on control.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
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Instructor:
Ilija Hadzic
Info - 3 points
Academic Writing and Great Presentations
ACADEMIC WRITING AND PRES
Principles of writing clear and rigorous science texts and giving great presentations. The Writing component focuses on the construction of logical arguments, reporting and interpretation of data, composing process, and strategies for redrafting and editing. Genres include Introductions, Data Commentaries, Results/Discussion, Conclusions, Abstracts, Requests for funding, Research statements, Professional emails, Blogs. The Presentation component looks at development of the presentation story, use of visuals, fluent delivery, asking and responding to questions. Speaking contexts include research talks, lab talks, conference presentations, poster talks, job talks, interviews, industry pitches. Pass/No Pass only, based on completion of assignments and participation in class exercises.
Credit may not be used to satisfy degree requirements.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
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Instructor:
Janet Kayfetz
Info - 3 points
Conspiracy Theory in American Film and C
Conspiracy Theory in US F
This class will look at the history of conspiracy theories in American culture from the 50s and 60s (UFOs, the red scare, JFK’s assassination) to the 21st century (from 9/11 truthers to Covid conspiracies and QAnon) with particular attention to cinematic representation. What is the lure of conspiracy theories? Are there particular reasons that conspiracy theories thrive in American culture? Do different media forms and platforms encourage the spread, and even transform the content, of conspiracies? What is the difference between theory in the social sciences and humanities and conspiracy theory? We will read a range of theoretical material including writings by Richard Hofstadter, Fredric Jameson, Jean Baudrillard, Eve Sedgwick, Sianne Ngai, and many others. Films will include:
Invasion of the Body Snatchers,
The Parallax View
,
Videodrome
,
The Matrix
,
Get Out
, and others.
- Department: Film
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Instructor:
Nico Baumbach
Info - 3 points
SEED BOMBS: TECHNOLOGIES IN ECOLOGICAL D
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Emily Bauer
Info - 3 points
THESIS I/CAPSTONE I WORKSHOP
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Tom Slater
Info - 3 points
THESIS II/CAPSTONE II
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Weiping Wu
Wikipedia h-index: 27 Info - 3 points
AI FOR EXISTING BUILDINGS
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Kivanc Kose
Info - 1.5 points
PRACTICUM: URBAN ANALYTICS FOR SOCIAL GO
URB ANALYTICS FOR SOCIAL
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Boyeong Hong
h-index: None Info - 3 points
DATA INFRASTRUCTURE AND MANAGEMENT IN CO
DATA MGMT IN AI
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- 1.5 points