ARTIST MENTORSHIP / VALS IV
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
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Miya Masaoka
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EMBEDDED SCALABLE PLATFORMS
Inter-disciplinary graduate-level seminar on design and programming of embedded scalable platforms. Content varies between offerings to cover timely relevant issues and latest advances in system-on-chip design, embedded software programming, and electronic design automation. Requires substantial reading of research papers, class participation, and semester-long project.
- Department: Computer Science
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Instructor:
Luca Carloni
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China's Impact on Global Governance
China & Global Governance
This seminar explores China’s rise and its implications for global governance. The course introduces core international relations concepts and theoretical debates, then examines China’s behavior in areas such as trade, development finance, human protection, maritime disputes, nuclear policy, and technology. The final weeks focus on national strategy debates in the United States and China. Students will engage in critical reading, policy writing, and seminar discussion.
- Department: International Security & Diplomacy
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Instructor:
Raymond Wang
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EQUITABLE DEVELOPMENT
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Cecily C King
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Statistical signal processing and learni
STATISTICAL SIGNAL PROCES
Introduction to the fundamental principles of statistical signal processing related to detection and estimation. Hypothesis testing, signal detection, parameter estimation, signal estimation, and selected advanced topics. Suitable for students doing research in communications, control, signal processing, and related areas.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
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Instructor:
Guido H Jajamovich
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WILLIAMS INSTITUTE MOOT COURT
Formerly known as the Williams Moot Court.
- Department: Law
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Japanese Politics
This course surveys key features of the Japanese political system, with a focus on political institutions and agents. The major actors create the structure for the course: the prime minister, the Diet, political parties, the bureaucracy, non-government actors such as big business and the media, and so on (see the class schedule below). Cutting across this course structure, we will examine key issues such as social and demographic change, political reform, administrative reform, foreign policy, national security, fiscal policy, energy, and others of particular interest to students. Tying these together, we will examine the positions that different actors take with respect to policies, as well as the sources of these policy preferences.
Towards a Trans-Species Architecture
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Mark Wigley
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TOPICS IN SIGNAL PROCESSING
INTRO TO BLOCKCHAIN TECH
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
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TOPICS IN SIGNAL PROCESSING
LARGE-SCALE STREAM PROCESSING
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. Topic: Large Data Stream Processing.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
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Instructor:
Deepak S Turaga
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TOPICS-INFORMATION PROCESSING
Quantum Engineering
This course covers the fundamentals of quantum engineering, including core quantum information concepts, noise and decoherence in quantum hardware, as well as basic quantum control and error correction strategies.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
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Instructor:
Zhaoyou Wang
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Principles and Practice of Oncology II:
PRIN & PRACTICE OF ONCOLO
This course presents a systematic overview of the most common cancer diagnoses across the lifespan and associated prevention, screening, and early detection. The course presents genetic predispositions and mutations as well as familial syndromes that increase risk for a diagnosis of cancer. The course examines cancer diagnoses that appear in all age groups as well as cancers mostly specific to set age groups. It incorporates the pathophysiology of pediatric, adolescent, young adult, and adult cancers, current evidence-based treatment modalities and regimens for each cancer, and data from ongoing clinical trials about cutting-edge therapies being developed. The course provides a framework for the oncology nurse practitioner (NP) for synthesis, integration, and application of this knowledge for diagnosing, assessing, and managing patients with a cancer diagnosis in clinical practice.
- Department: Nursing
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Instructor:
Shanelly Singh
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1:1 CRAFTING AND FABRICATION OF DETAILS
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Zachary E Mulitauaopele
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TOPICS-INFORMATION PROCESSING
Reinforcement Learning
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:
Javad Ghaderi
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TOPICS-INFORMATION PROCESSING
Reinforcement Learning
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: Video Network
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Instructor:
Javad Ghaderi
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Literature & Independent Publishing in L
Lit & Indp Publishing Lat
This course, focused on the phenomenon of independent publishing in Latin America, begins with a review of the history of these publishing houses on the continent, their relationship with the popular press, and the avant-garde movements (César Vallejo, Vicente Huidobro). It will also explore the experiments of the second half of the 20th century (Ulises Carrión, Mirtha Dermisache). With this background, we will study the phenomenon in the 21st century, from "cartonera" publishing houses to self-published publications and self-managed projects. Based on the concept of bibliodiversity, we will problematize writing practices and their circulation in unequal societies, with differential access to literacy, but in which literature remains a culturally relevant practice. We will study books by César Aira, Verónica Gerber-Bicecci, Giselle Beiguelman, Mario Bellatin, among others. We will also study the extensive reflection on the independent phenomenon through authors such as E. Schierloh, M. Rabasa, Ana Gallego, Hernán López-Winne, and many others.
- Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
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Instructor:
Graciela Montaldo
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TOPICS-INFORMATION PROCESSING
TPC: Adv Big Data & AI
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: Advanced Big Data Analytics.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
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Instructor:
Ching-Yung Lin
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TOPICS-INFORMATION PROCESSING
TPC: Adv Big Data & AI
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: Advanced Big Data Analytics.
- Department: Video Network
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Instructor:
Ching-Yung Lin
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Topics-Information Processing
Computer Storage Systems
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:
Jack L Kouloheris
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RESEARCH
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Danielle S Smoller
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QUODLIBETAL STUDIES II
- Department: Philosophy
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Allison Aitken
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David Albert
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Akeel Bilgrami
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Jessica Collins
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Melissa S Fusco
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Haim Gaifman
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Lydia Goehr
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Axel Honneth
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Timothy Williamson
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Tamar A Lando
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Wolfgang R Mann
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Christia Mercer
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Michele Moody-Adams
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Christopher Peacocke
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Carol Rovane
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Achille Varzi
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Katja Vogt
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QUODLIBETAL STUDIES IV
- Department: Philosophy
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Allison Aitken
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David Albert
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Akeel Bilgrami
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Justin Clarke-Doane
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Jessica Collins
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Melissa S Fusco
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Haim Gaifman
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Lydia Goehr
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Timothy Williamson
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Tamar A Lando
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Wolfgang R Mann
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Christia Mercer
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Michele Moody-Adams
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Christopher Peacocke
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Carol Rovane
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Achille Varzi
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Katja Vogt
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GRAD SEM IN CONSERVATION BIOL
Prerequisites: biology, ecology, genetics, and evolution. Introduction to the applied science of maintaining the earths biological diversity, its landscapes, and wilderness. Focus on the biological principles relevant to the conservation of biodiversity at the genetic, population, and community and landscape levels.
- Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
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Instructor:
Bekka Brodie
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BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY
Buddhist philosophers generally agree about what doesn’t exist: an enduring, unitary, and
independent self. But there is surprisingly little consensus across Buddhist traditions about what
does exist and what it’s like. In this course, we will examine several Buddhist theories about the
nature and structure of reality and consider the epistemological and ethical implications of these
radically different pictures of the world. We will analyze and evaluate arguments from some of
the most influential Indian Buddhist philosophers from the second to the eleventh centuries,
including Nāgārjuna, Vasubandhu, Dignāga, Candrakīrti, Śāntarakṣita, Śāntideva, and
Ratnakīrti. Topics will include the existence and nature of the external world, the mind, and the
self; practical and epistemological implications of the Buddhist no-self principle; personal
identity; the problem of other minds; and causal determinism and moral responsibility.
- Department: Philosophy
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Instructor:
Allison Aitken
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TOPICS IN ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINE
Embedded AI
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:
Xiaofan Jiang
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DISTRESSED REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT AND AS
DISTRESSED RE INVESTMENT
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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TOPICS IN ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY
Topics in Economic Geography
- Department: Economics
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Instructor:
Donald R Davis
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METABOLIC MATERIALS: BETWEEN THE ANIMATE
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Michael Wang
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EMERGING OPTIMISM: RESOURCES + THE FOURT
RESOURCES + 4TH IND REVOL
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Sean A Gallagher
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Topics in Control
Model Predictive Control
This proposed course allows for a variety of potential advanced courses to be taught as part of the proposed concentration on control.
TRANSNATIONAL LITIGATION
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Robert H Smit
CULPA: 13 Info - 3 points
TEACHING WRITING:THEORY & PRAC
Prerequisites:
the instructor’s permission. (Seminar). This course aims to contribute to your professional development as a teacher of writing. While we will focus on how to help undergraduates write argument-driven essays, the materials we will read and the teaching practices we will explore are designed to support your development as a teacher of writing across disciplines and genres. By the end of this seminar, you will learn the goals and structure of writing courses, the principles that inform their design, and the kinds of materials used in such courses. Your successful completion of this course would reflect a baseline interest in, and understanding of
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Writing Studies and its pedagogies, necessary preparation for any instructor in a writing program. You may take the course either for full seminar credit, which would require an extended final seminar paper, for an R credit (for doctoral candidates and MAO candidates, only), or for Pass/Fail (for MFA candidates, only). To apply: Please contact Dr. Nicole B. Wallack (
nw2108@columbia.edu
) with a short email in which you describe your previous experiences in teaching writing and/or studying writing pedagogy, your field study at Columbia, and what questions are of interest to you when you think about what it means to teach and learn writing at the college level.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
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Instructor:
Nicole Wallack
CULPA: 7 Info - 4 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
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PERSPECTIVES ON ECON STUDIES-DISC
- Department: Economics
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Instructor:
Manuel A Taboada
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Queer Theory
Recent scholarship in queer theory speaks of “bad education” and “ugly feelings,” “beautiful experiments” and “poor queer studies.” In this survey of mostly recent queer theoretical work we will read a range of texts that debate the use, the abuse and the uselessness of queer theory in an era of anti-intellectual policies aimed at both critical race theory and gender and sexuality studies. While Lee Edelman, in
Bad Education
, insists that queer theory has nothing to teach us, Paul Preciado in
Dysphoria Mundi
proposes that the whole world is ailing from a shared dysphoria. Meanwhile, at the intersections of Afro-Pessimism and queer theory, Calvin Warren proposes that to speak of Black trans identities is impossible given the negative ontologies that pertain to Black personhood. Working through oppositions between optimism and pessimism, utopia and dystopia, good and bad feelings, beauty and ugliness, we will ask: What constitutes the ethical in queer theory and how does queer theory approach the good, the bad and the beautiful? At stake here are questions about aesthetic experimentation and politics and unpredictable links between beauty and power, alternative subjects and domination, and bodies and language.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
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Instructor:
Jack Halberstam
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THESIS II/CAPSTONE II
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Tom Slater
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ADVANCED RESEARCH II
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Weiping Wu
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UCL Exchange FT Reg
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Danielle S Smoller
Info - 15 points
PERSPECTVS ON ECONOMIC STUDIES
Prerequisites: ECON G6412, ECON G6411, ECON G6215, ECON G6211. Corequisites: ECON G6212, ECON G6216, ECON G6412. This course will critically examine mainstream approaches to economic theory and practice, particularly in the areas of macroeconomic stabilization policy, poverty reduction, economic development, environmental sustainability, and racial and gender inequality. Topics will vary from year to year, but may include responses to the credit crisis and Great Recession, global warming and international negotiations, globalization, the measurement of poverty and inequality, different approaches to poverty reduction, AIDS and malaria, mass imprisonment, childrens wellbeing, the IMF and the World Bank, intellectual property in an international context, racial disparities in life expectancy, public pension systems in developed countries, health care, and homelessness. The course will also examine biases in economic discourse, both among policy makers and scholars.
- Department: Economics
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ARCHITECTURES OF DISPLAY
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Ibrahim M Kombarji
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OLD BUILDINGS, NEW ENERGY: HISTORY AND C
OLD BLDGS, NEW ENERGY
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Francoise A Bollack
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DOCUMENTARY ACTIVISM:THEORY
This is a course in how to think about documentary but not about “how to” make documentary work. Its premise is that documentary as an approach is still undergoing revision as a definitional problem. Relevant to our times, cameras and sound recorders are called upon to “witness” events. Basic readings on the history and theory of documentary are the heart of the course and practical exercises test theoretical questions. Students conduct low end exercises with their own smart phone cameras. Topics and issues center on the history of the radical documentary—from the Workers Film and Photo League of the 1930s to the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings, comparing then new 16 and 35mm film camera capabilities with contemporary internet distribution. Other topics include climate change and documentary work; motion picture film and photography in labor struggles; uses of anti-war and nuclear bomb footage; sexualities and video camera activism.
- Department: Film
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Instructor:
James L Hoberman
Info - 3 points
DEVICE NANOFABRICATION
Device Nanofabrication
This course provides an understanding of the methods used for structuring matter on the nanometer length: thin-film technology; lithographic patterning and technologies including photon, electron, ion and atom, scanning probe, soft lithography, and nanoimprinting; pattern transfer; self-assembly; process integration; and applications.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
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Instructor:
Jose A Bahamonde
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DESIGNING SPACES FOR CHILDREN
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Anna Knoell
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RAW MATERIAL LIBRARIES AND CATALOGUING T
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Lola Ben-Alon
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GRADUATE SEMINAR IN MAJOR
ARTS & CULTURE
- Department: Journalism
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Instructor:
David Hajdu
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GRADUATE SEMINAR IN MAJOR
POLITICS & GOV JOURNALISM SEM
- Department: Journalism
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Instructor:
Jacob F Kushner
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GRADUATE SEMINAR IN MAJOR
SCIENCE JOURNALISM SEMINA
- Department: Journalism
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Instructor:
Jonathan Weiner
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AGROECOLOGICAL URBANISMS
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Ana Duran Calisto
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SPATIAL AI
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
William Martin
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ADV V STUDIO CLINIC
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Nadia Christidi
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Waves on Different Shores: France, Japan
In the early 1960s, a number of new film movements in national cinemas around the world. Inevitably called “new waves” or “new cinemas,” these movements, usually made up of young filmmakers, would challenge both the cinematic industrial structures in each of their respective nations, as well propose often radically different approaches to filmmaking and to cinematic storytelling. This course will explore three important examples of this development—the French New Wave, the Japanese New Wave and the Brazilian Cinema Novo—and detail both the commonalities among these movements (aesthetic, social, political) as well those factors which made each unique. A special concern will be the relationship of the “new waves” to simultaneous radical experiments in visual arts, theater, literature and music. The course will begin with a consideration of Roberto Rossellini’s VOYAGE TO ITALY, a watershed work between Neorealism and subsequent cinematic modernism, and will conclude with Andrei Tarkovsky’s MIRROR, described by Andras Balint Kóvacs as “the last modernist film.”
- Department: Film
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Instructor:
Richard A Pena
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