Global Health and Public Policy

Global Health & Public Policy

This course will provide students with an overview of the most important health challenges in low and middle income countries. Student will gain insight into the burden of disease on vulnerable populations and how interventions have evolved to tackle them. We will discuss international strategies and programs that promote human health, and will review both best practices and pitfalls of Global Health implementation programs. Specific areas of focus will include disease profiles, technological interventions, health systems design, and key stakeholders in the global health arena. Following this course, students will be able to understand the broad scope of health challenges and think strategically about solutions.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

PARTNERSHIP TAXATION

• Department: Law
• TR 10:40 a.m.-noon
• 3 points

PROGRAM EVAL IN SOCIAL SVCS

• Department: Social Work
• T 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• Instructor: David B Howard
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• Instructor: Eri Noguchi
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• Instructor: David B Howard
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• Instructor: Eri Noguchi
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• 3 points

INTRO-THEORY OF ELASTICITY I

Analysis of stress and strain. Formulation of the problem of elastic equilibrium. Torsion and flexure of prismatic bars. Problems in stress concentration, rotating disks, shrink fits, and curved beams; pressure vessels, contact and impact of elastic bodies, thermal stresses, propagation of elastic waves.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• M 9:10 a.m.-11:40 a.m.
• Instructor: Jeffrey W Kysar
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 37 Info
• 3 points

SECURITIES REGULATION

Prerequisites: L6231 This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search

• Department: Law
• TR 2:50 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
• 4 points

Communicating in Organizations

Priority Reg: Executive MPA. 
Communicating in Organizations is a survey course that explores aspects of day-to-day managerial communication relating to presentations and other high-profile moments and more familiar elements of interpersonal communication. The course uses many teaching techniques: short lectures, individual and group exercises, video-recorded presentations, role plays, case discussions, video clips, and writing assignments. It is highly experiential, with exercises or presentations scheduled in most sessions. Initially, we’ll focus on the communication skills and strategies that help you present your ideas to others.  I’ll ask you to do two benchmark assignments―a letter and a brief presentation―to assess the abilities you bring to the course. In several of our class sessions, you’ll be the one “in front of the room,” delivering either a prepared talk or brief, impromptu comments. Such assignments will allow you to develop your skills as a presenter.  I’ll also discuss the link between listening and speaking, showing you how developing your listening skills will improve your effectiveness as a speaker.  And we’ll explore several elements of visual communication, including how to design effective visual aids and written documents. To communicate effectively in such roles as coach, interviewer, negotiator, or facilitator, you need to be skilled at listening, questioning, observing behavior, and giving feedback.  We’ll practice each of these skills in-class exercises and assignments. The Social Style instrument will provide detailed feedback about how others view your communication style. You’ll discover how style differences may lead to miscommunication, missed opportunities, or mishandled conflict.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Joann P Baney
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• 3 points

FEDERAL COURTS

• Department: Law
• TR 2:50 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
• 4 points

The Protest Novel

This course asks a simple question: what kind of action (political, social, instrumental) can a novel take? In the seminar, we will consider the tradition of protest fiction, taking stock of how the novel has embraced the overt aim of creating change. Our goal as a class will be to set our own terms for what a protest novel is, was, should be, or might be, and to consider both the reach and limitations of this tradition. The terrain is broad, covering 19 th -21 st century works, with a center of gravity in the early-mid 20th century, and engaging a range of topics on which novels have sought to make change. The course is organized thematically and chronologically, with works (mostly English language) from the U.S., England, Ireland, Canada, India, Nigeria, and elsewhere. Each week we will read a novel (some novels are spread across two weeks), paired with other materials, such as visual works, other literary materials, theoretical readings, etc. Themes to which these activist works are geared include: slavery and abolition; working conditions; gender and patriarchy; war, peace, and revolution; race and racism; incarceration; and environmental crisis. This is a discussion seminar, and each student is expected to participate in every class meeting.

The primary written work for the course is a final project, on a subject of your choosing. A 15-page seminar paper is the norm. Given our activist theme and orientation toward creative uses of literature, however, your final project may take other forms. Weekly reading responses, posted to the Canvas page, are also required. In addition, after the first two weeks, we will begin each class with a short student presentation on the material (an outline is also required, to be shared with the group). Your grade for the course will be determined as follows: final paper (30%); presentation and outline (20%); class participation and reading responses (50%). Please note the heavy weight toward classroom participation
and reading responses. If participating in class is not comfortable for you, please see me early on and we can work out some alternatives. The goal for our classroom is to be inclusive and to stimulate a positive, active learning environment for all.

The following books will be read in full and ordered at Book Culture, 112 th St between Broadway and Amsterdam. Other, shorter readings are listed on the syllabus, or will be added during the term, and can be acquired online.
Chinua Achebe,
Things Fall Apart
Mulk Raj Anand,
Unt

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Sarah Cole
  CULPA: 23 Info
• 4 points

East Asian Security

This course explores the principal hard power security issues facing East Asia: the rise of China; the US relationship with its allies and security partners in the region; Japan’s security strategy; the political-military disputes centered on the East and South China seas, the Korean peninsula, and the Taiwan Strait; and military strategies in the region. Through a set of readings and discussions, students will come to a deeper understanding of the major issues in the region’s security; how the histories and domestic politics of China, Japan, the two Koreas and Taiwan shape and impact on the region’s security; and how some of the major scholars and practitioners who have thought about the region have viewed its security problems.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Scott W Harold
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

CONTEMPORARY ECOLOGICAL THEORY

There are numerous ways to approach ecological theory in our current Anthropocene moment. One could address ecological literary criticism, or energy studies, or ecological feminism to name only a few possibilities. But this class won’t go down any of those potential paths. Instead, we will focus on a cluster of philosophical and theoretical texts that have grounded contemporary ecological thinking. Our question will consist less in reading about specific problems of contemporary climate change (such as, for instance, the carbon imprint) than focusing on the ecological as a way of thinking and being, mobilizing a whole range of concepts that enable and guide such a thinking. They will include: the rhizome, chaos, nomadology, the concept of the island, archipelagic thinking, the perspectival, relational, oceanic, etc. We will also look very closely into ecological ontologies that emerge in the work of thinkers like Glissant and Ferdinand, which are beholden to an experience of specific geographical locales (the Caribbean) and specific histories (slavery, colonialism, postcolonialism). In the last section of the class we will move – via the work of Brazilian philosophical anthropologist, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro – to the ecological thinking of the Amerindian peoples. Their ecological thinking is, of course, ancient, but the recent transcription of oral teachings make it a very relevant source for all of those who are searching – as we will be doing – for a mode of thinking that moves away from the philosophical traditions of the West, which have significantly contributed to the emergence of the Anthropocene in the first place.

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

INTRO TO TRANSPORTATION PLAN

Prerequisites: A4404: or the instructor's permission Discussion of major issues in transportation at several levels, from national to local, and covering the economic, political, and social implications of decision-making in transportation. Current topics and case studies are investigated.\n \n

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Rachel Weinberger
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• 3 points

Current Environmental and Natural Resour

Enviro Issues in Latin Am

In this course, students will acquire an understanding of Latin America’s principal environmental issues, focusing on the challenges related to the management of natural resources. To that end, using an economic framework, case studies will be discussed to understand policy and economic instruments applied by the state and decentralized solutions implemented in the region.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria Alejandra Velez
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• 3 points

RES METHODS IN ANIMAL BEHAVIOR

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• W 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Marina Cords
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 3 points

Foreign Policy and Domestic Politics in

Foreign Pol & Domestic Po

Henry Kissinger remarked in the 1970s that "Israel has no foreign policy, only domestic politics." Moshe Dayan, Israel's quintessential general, observed that "Israel has no foreign policy, only a defense policy with international implications." 

These statements highlight an enduring question for the Middle East: What explains Israeli foreign policy? How do history, security challenges, ideology, and domestic politics influence Israel's position in a globalized world? This question carries special relevance when considering the war in Gaza. Since late 2023, Israel and the Middle East have been engulfed in a highly consequential conflict, with various actors—Hamas launching the October 7 attack, Iran, the Houthis of Yemen, and Hezbollah. 

The war is still ongoing, and its attachment to Israeli domestic politics cannot be overstated. The conflict has refocused attention on the history and dynamics of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the decades-long successes and failures in the peace process.

We will explore significant episodes that reflect the intersection of Israel's foreign policy and domestic politics, specifically within the context of the Middle East peace process. Analyzing how Israeli politics has shaped major regional shifts over the last four decades, we'll debate whether the predominance of a fragmented political system necessarily leads to a crisis of national strategy or might ensure a more flexible and adaptive foreign policy.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Nadav Eyal
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• 1.5 points

Conflict in the 21st Century: Rethinking

After a long period of decline, conflict is on the rise; the nature of conflict is also evolving, as new actors and new battlefields emerge, blurring the line that separates war and peace. We must adapt our strategies and tactics for conflict prevention and conflict resolution. The course will help students develop a conceptual framework for the understanding and resolution of contemporary conflicts, but it will be taught from a practitioner’s perspective, with a strong emphasis on policy challenges and dilemmas. When possible, practitioners who have been involved in the resolution of conflicts will contribute to the discussion. Each class discussion will be structured by specific questions which will confront students with conceptual, operational and ethical choices.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Jean-Marie Guehenno
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• 3 points

THE ECONOMICS OF LABOR I

Prerequisites: completion of 1st year graduate program in Economics, or the instructor's permission plus passage of the math qualifying exam. Introduction to labor economics, theory and practice.

• Department: Economics
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Sandra Black
  Wikipedia h-index: 43 Info
• 3 points

MILITARY URBANISM

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Victoria Sanger
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• 3 points

RESISTANCE THEORY AND EARLY MODERN LITER

RESISTANCE THEORY EARLY M

This class will focus on premodern theories of political resistance and the ways in which literary texts engage and reimagine them. In particular, we will focus on many of the key political analogies of the period with a gendered dimension, including those between the household and the state, the marital and the social contract, and rape and tyranny. We will consider the ways in which early modern poems and plays present multiple forms of resistance to repression and subordination, and reimagine sexual, social, and political relationships in new and creative ways.

Readings will include key classical and biblical intertexts, domestic conduct books, defenses of women, poetry (by William Shakespeare, Aemilia Lanyer and Lucy Hutchinson), drama (
Macbeth
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Othello
,
The Winter’s Tale
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Gallathea
), and fiction (by Margaret Cavendish). The class will also include visits to The Morgan Library, Columbia’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Julie Crawford
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 4 points

ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION

Prerequisites: (ECON GR6211 and ECON GR6212 and ECON GR6215 and ECON GR6216 and ECON GR6412 and ECON GR6411 and This course will provide an overview of current research on the economics of education. The course will pay special attention to: i) the use of credible research designs, and ii) the use of theory in evaluating the mechanisms that underlie the identied eects

• Department: Economics
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Sebastian Otero
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• 3 points

Economic Espionage

Intelligence activities are traditionally thought to comprise the activities of a nation state’s intelligence organizations attempting to steal secrets, usually those pertaining to national security, from the organizations of another nation state.  However, intelligence activities have seldom, if ever, been confined to the government sphere.  Most nation states have employed their national intelligence systems to steal privately held economic information from other countries to benefit their economies: many continue to do so. Private enterprises have long employed methodologies associated with “traditional” intelligence to obtain trade secrets from domestic and foreign competitors.  The establishment of a legal and ethical framework to govern this activity –- the discipline of “competitive intelligence’, is a relatively recent phenomenon. This course will examine in depth the interaction of intelligence and private sector on these three levels.  Part one of the course will cover economic espionage: the deliberate targeting of private sector entities by foreign intelligence services.  Soviet/Russian and Chinese conduct of Economic Espionage will be discussed in detail.  A separate class will examine the prevalence of economic espionage among democratic nations, usually considered allies of the United States in both theory and practice.  The U.S. attitude towards economic espionage, and the U.S reaction to the threat, will be the subject other class meetings. The course will then move on to industrial espionage, companies spying on other companies, and its’ more socially acceptable counterpart, competitive intelligence.   The course will conclude with an in-depth look at the development of the private intelligence sector, and rare instances of private sector espionage against a government entity, including the notorious “Fat Leonard” conspiracy to penetrate and suborn the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: David Gutschmit
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• 3 points

LAW OF THE POLITICAL PROCESS

This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search

• Department: Law
• MW 9:10 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• 3 points

Professional Issues in Nurse-Midwifery

PROF ISSUES NURS/MIDWIFER

The Professional Issues in Nurse-Midwifery course is designed to concentrate on the transition from student to beginning nurse-midwife practitioner. It examines the history of the profession and the role of its leadership organizations including the ACNM. Students will submit articles for publication to the Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health. The course curriculum also examines current critical issues that impact on the profession, both national and international, and addresses organizational and legislative means of effecting change.

• Department: Nursing
• T 1 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Rebekah L Ruppe
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• 2 points

ARTISTIC RESEARCH

This graduate course is designed to explore the ways in which research can be approached through artistic practices. Through interdisciplinary approaches, students will explore and develop the use of artistic methodologies in their research practices, culminating in a final multidisciplinary art project that demonstrates the integration of these practices into their research.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• W 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria Jose Contreras
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• 3 points

REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS

See Law School Curriculum Guide for details.

• Department: Law
• W 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• 2 points

Humanitarian Engagement-Armed Actors

Upon completing this course, students will have an understanding of: Why engagement with armed actors is essential for humanitarian action, and what the normative bases for such engagement are; What Civil-Military Coordination comprises, how it works, and what elements need to be integrated in an assessment and strategy; How to address the challenge of non-state armed groups and their role and obligations in the conduct of hostilities, and towards the civilians under their control; What the limits of engagement are, but also how armed actors can, at times, support humanitarian action.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ezequiel Heffes
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• 3 points

LAW OF THE WTO

This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search

• Department: Law
• RF 10:40 a.m.-noon
• 3 points

Human Rights Research and Reporting

Human Rights Research & Report

In the global context of the rise of anti-rights populism, human rights activism requires increasingly sophisticated approaches on the part of human rights activists. Technological developments have enabled new kinds of cybersurveillance and other threats to human rights; as well as new methodological approaches for documenting human rights violations from geo-spatial analysis to open source investigations. Emerging areas of work from disability rights to a growing focus on economic and social rights has created demands for new approaches to identifying, documenting and rights violations. The seasoned human rights activist needs quantitative skills as well as the ability to sensitively interview victims and witnesses or assess a morgue report. An ever more hostile environment for human rights with “fake news” deployed as rebuttal by autocrats – as well as the possibility of creating “deep fakes” through artificial intelligence - has intensified the stakes for research and the need for rigor. This course seeks to introduce practical skills of a human rights investigator: how to identify and design a research project, how to conduct the research, and how to present compelling findings and principled but pragmatic recommendations to the public, media and advocacy targets. There will be a strong emphasis on practical engagement, and students will be expected, in group work, to develop project concepts and methodological approaches to contemporary human rights problems. Each week, they will review and discuss in class new reporting from human rights investigations by journalists and human rights activists. They will also hone their writing skills to present human rights findings in a clear, concise and compelling manner, whether in internal memos, press releases, or detailed public reports. Guest speakers from diverse parts of the global human rights movement will present their experiences and advice.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew C Heinrich
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• 3 points

Humanitarian Law and Human Rights in Glo

Intl Hum Law & Crim Law

This course explores both foundational and advanced aspects of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) within the context of contemporary warfare and provides an overview of International Human Rights Law (IHRL). It elucidates the mechanisms that establish, apply, and enforce rules in both domains. The course develops students' critical analytical and research skills. Contemporary warfare case studies are used methodically, supplemented by interactive activities and simulations. It also addresses the roles and capacities of international courts and tribunals in prosecuting perpetrators.

The structure, content, and methodology of the course are designed to achieve specific objectives and outcomes for students, enabling them to navigate complex humanitarian landscapes effectively. By the end of the course, students will not only understand IHL’s core concepts and terminology but will also have developed analytical thinking regarding key rules and relevant international bodies. They will enhance their collaboration and communication skills through practical activities aimed at addressing global challenges in the protection of victims. They will practice formulating law-based, action-oriented proposals and key research questions, which are central to further work at Columbia, as well as international organizations, the media, and humanitarian institutions. The course uses interactive elements such as a whiteboard platform, simulations of current conflict case studies, and peer teaching, fostering an engaging and collaborative learning environment. Through a case analysis framework—specifically developed by the professor for this course—students will gain the capacity to properly approach the IHL elements of humanitarian crises, outlining the steps to
follow and the skills to apply.

The course examines the challenges to IHL and the application of protective rules in major wars and armed conflicts, such as those in Ukraine, Gaza, Ethiopia, Congo, Syria, Yemen, and Myanmar. Fundamental questions guide the exploration of current global challenges and tendencies resulting from these wars in ensuring adherence to international legal standards. Broader areas essential to understanding and addressing these challenges in legal protections and mitigating the impacts of warfare will be coherently discussed. Some of these fundamental questions include: What protection do the Geneva Conventions provide to internees, prisoners, and hostages, and what are the challenges in ensuring humane tr

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Horst Fischer
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• 3 points

BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: Completion of 1st year graduate program in Economics, or the instructor's permission. The standard model of economic behavior describes a perfectly rational, self interested utility maximizer with unlimited cognitive resources. In many cases, this provides a good approximation to the types of behavior that economists are interested in. However, over the past 30 years, experimental and behavioral economists have documented ways in which the standard model is not just wrong, but is wrong in ways that are important for economic outcomes. Understanding these behaviors, and their implications, is one of the most exciting areas of current economic inquiry. This course will study three important topics within behavioral economics: Bounded rationality, temptation and self control and reference dependent preferences. It will draw on research from behavioral economics, experimental economics, decision theory, psychology and neuroscience in order to describe the models that have been developed to explain failures of the standard approach, the evidence in support of these models, and their economic implications.

• Department: Economics
• F 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Dean
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 26 Info
• 3 points

CONNECTIONS OF LAW AND LIT

• Department: Law
• TR 10:40 a.m.-noon
• 3 points

SUPERVISED TEACHING ASSISTANCE

DIRECTED RSRCH/SUPERVISD TEACH

Prerequisites: permission of the faculty member who will direct the teaching. Participation in ongoing teaching.

• Department: Psychology
• Instructor: Katherine T Fox-Glassman
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 4 Info
• 3 points

Quantitative Analysis I for Internationa

Open to MIA, MPA, and MPA-DP Only. 
This course introduces students to the fundamentals of statistical analysis. We will examine the principles and basic methods for analyzing quantitative data, focusing on applications to problems in public policy, management, and the social sciences. We will begin with simple statistical techniques for describing and summarizing data and build toward more sophisticated methods for drawing inferences from data and making predictions about the social world. The course assumed that students have at least high school algebra. Students will be trained on STATA. This powerful statistical package is frequently used to manage and analyze quantitative data in many organizational/institutional contexts. A practical mastery of a significant statistical package is an essential proficiency.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• R 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• W 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• W 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• F 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• F 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Doru Cojoc
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• 3 points

PLAYWRITING I

• Department: Theatre Arts
• W 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Rogelio Martinez
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• 3 points

Quantitative Analysis II for Internation

Pre-req: Quant I.
 This course introduces students to regression analysis as a tool for policy analysis and program evaluation (i.e., econometrics). As future practitioners and policymakers, your professional decisions will impact the world in many ways. This course will equip you with the empirical skills needed to evaluate these impacts and assess the causal effects of programs and policies.

The first half of the course will focus on the fundamentals of multiple regression analysis (including a review of Quant I), emphasizing causal inference. The second half builds on this foundation, introducing experimental and non-experimental methods widely used in empirical research and program evaluation.

Note that this is not a math course. Instead of solving math problems, you will be asked to articulate the statistical concepts we have learned and how they relate to different policy settings. Beyond the technical and conceptual foundations, a key emphasis is developing the ability to apply and explain statistical concepts in non-technical language. This skill is crucial for communicating effectively with policymakers who are not statistical experts, as you would be expected to do in many jobs and with most audiences. This course will also prepare you to take any of SIPA’s Quant III courses. This course aims to achieve three broad goals: 


Develop the technical foundations and intuition to become intelligent consumers of statistical analysis for policy research and program evaluation. This enables you to assess empirical studies and articulate findings in non-technical language critically.

Understand causal thinking and its role in interpreting data analysis and empirical studies.

Build the skills to apply and explain statistical concepts in accessible language, fostering effective communication with policymakers and non-experts.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• R 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• F 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Harold B Stolper
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• 3 points

SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH

• Department: Social Work
• W 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• W 2 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• R 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Amy Werman
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• Instructor: Natasha Johnson
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• 3 points

Into to Text Analysis in Python

Priority Reg: DAQA and TMaC Specializations. 
This introductory course will explore a variety of approaches to studying text-as-data, collected from newspapers, social media, websites, and any other kind of text data source using th programming language Python. Designed for beginners with no prior coding experience, students will leave this course with beginner-to-intermediate Python programming abilities and the tools to continue building their skills beyond the classroom. Students will learn the fundamentals of the data process in addition to gaining hands-on experience with methods for data collection (e.g., web scraping and working with APIs) and text analysis (e.g., sentiment analysis, topic modeling, and more). Practical in nature, the course will culminate in a final project that will ask students to explore a research question of their choice using the various methods for data collection and analysis learned across the semester, which students can then share as public scholarship and/or with prospective employers. The course content is geared towards students interested in pursuing careers in journalism, marketing, social media strategy, policy analysis, financial analysis, and tech.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Rebecca S Krisel
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• 3 points

INTRO TO HEALTH ECONOMICS

• Department: Executive Classes in HPM
• Instructor: Matthew J Neidell
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• 3 points

Introduction to Health Economics

INTRODUCTN TO HEALTH ECON

Health economics provides theories and tools for understanding, predicting, and changing human behavior. Understanding and changing the behavior of firms and individuals, designing health policies, and managing firms and organizations concerned with delivering health care and improving health, requires a solid foundation in health economics. In this course, students will learn the concepts in health economics most relevant and important to public health professionals and how these economic concepts can be applied to improving health care and the public health systems. Students will identify the basic concepts of health economics for the purposes of solving problems using these concepts, and apply these concepts in new contexts within public health.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• W 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Adam J Sacarny
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• Instructor: Lawrence Bartlett
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• 3 points

INTRO TO STATISTICS

• Department: Social Work
• Instructor: Melissa D Begg
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• 0 points

CLOWN II - RESEARCH ARTS

• Department: Theatre Arts
• T 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Ralf Jean-Pierre
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• 0 points

Modification and Assistive Technology

Modification & Assistive

• Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
• Instructor: Rochelle Mendonca
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• 3 points

Health Policy and the Political System

HEALTH POLICY-POLITICAL S

Why does the government play such a central role in the health of its citizens? What factors unique to American politics have given us the healthcare system we currently have, and how much change can be accomplished within our philosophical and ethical confines? How do political changes yield policy shifts - or not? This course analyzes the role of major institutions - the central government, the federal system, the private sector, interest groups, and so on - in formulating and implementing health policy in the United States. We will discuss underlying normative issues and crossnational perspectives on healthcare to situate American healthcare policy along a broader global political spectrum, and attempt to forecast what changes are likely - or unlikely - to occur. Topics will include political history, policy formation and recommendations, market forces and economic influences, and more.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• M 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Lawrence D Brown
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• 3 points

Basics of Cybersecurity

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Cartier
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• 1.5 points

NEIGHBORHOOD PRES + ZONING

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Carol A Clark
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• 1.5 points

FICTION LECTURE

Story, Plot, Narrative

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• Department: Writing
• M 1:10 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Joshua A Cohen
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• 3 points

Disability Studies Now

Disability studies is no longer a brand-new field.  What are its generations, key debates, and current preoccupations?  This course looks to answer these questions by reading recent works in the field.  Works on the syllabus will include new works of scholarship, particularly those that examine intersections with such fields as critical race studies, ecocriticism, and the ethics of care.  We will also consider works of embodied theory that use life writing and creative nonfiction (in a variety of forms:  prose and poetry, film, comics, visual arts) to produce and refine knowledge about disability.  Writing assignments will reflect our reading methods by encouraging students to take disability as an occasion to experiment with the forms, as well as the content, of critical writing.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Rachel Adams
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• 4 points

Intro to Infographics and Data Visualiza

Intro Infographics & Data Vis

Priority Reg: DAQA and TMaC Specializations. 
This is a seven-week course that introduces students to design principles and techniques for effective data visualization. Visualizations graphically depict data to foster communication, improve comprehension and enhance decision-making. This course aims to help students: understand how visual representations can improve data comprehension, master techniques to facilitate the creation of visualizations as well as begin using widely available software and web-based, open-source frameworks.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Douglas Williamson
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• 1.5 points

Critical Issues in Hospital Management

HOSP ORGANIZATION/MANAGEM

This course is intended to give the student a broad understanding of the components of the health care system and the basic management principles of hospital organization and management. The course will employ a variety of learning formats for students including lectures by the instructors, guest lecturers with special expertise, case studies and student presentations. Emphasis will be on the historical trends of health care statistics and operating data of health care institutions; the history of hospitals and health care systems; their organization and finances; regulatory controls; management strategies; accreditation and professional standards; government; private insurance; administrative leadership and professional interactions, emergency services, healthcare trends and marketing.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• W 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• 1.5 points

SPEECH I

In this course, students will enhance and deepen their understanding of how the human voice and articulators partner together to create language.  They will explore their own individual Idiolects and gain the skills to recalibrate their instruments in order to enhance the expressiveness and dynamic contrast of their speech.  The phonemes of the International Alphabet (IPA) will be employed to specify the sounds of Detailed North American English (DNAE).

• Department: Theatre Arts
• TR 9 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Hayes
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• 2 points

Cybersecurity: Technology, Policy, & Law

Cybersecurity: Tech, Pol & Law

Prerequisites: Instructor-Managed Waitlist & Course Application. 
This course will bring together professors and select students from technology, policy, and law to discuss how different disciplines solve cybersecurity issues. Classes will cover the technical underpinnings of the Internet and computer security, the novel legal aspects of technology, crime, and national security, and the various policy problems and solutions involved in this new field.

This course will be organized around four of the “great hacks”: SolarWinds (and the supply chain in general), NotPetya (and state-based disruptions), Colonial Pipeline (and ransomware), and the intrusion into Sony Pictures Entertainment (and major corporate intrusions).

The core of the class is a group project combining the problems identified with the Great Hacks with the solutions suggested in the U.S. National Cybersecurity Strategy. Students will work in teams to examine what went wrong in each of these incidents and what can be done to mitigate them in the future.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 3 points

VOICE & ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE I

In the 1890s, Frederick Mathias (F.M.) Alexander, a Shakespearian actor and spoken recitalist from Australia, began experiencing severe voice loss after he performed. The medical profession of his day prescribed vocal rest which worked well enough until Alexander’s next performance when he would leave the stage as hoarse as before. Frustrated that his vocal issues were not resolving, Alexander intuited that it must be something that he was doing to himself while he performed that was contributing to the loss of his voice. Doctors agreed with Alexander but they were at a loss to say what he was doing that was causing his problems.Thus began F. M.’s journey. The discoveries he made are what we now know as the Alexander Technique, and in the past 100 plus years, AT has become a valuable part of the curriculum in music conservatories and drama schools throughout the world. Many extraordinary actors have been lifelong students of the Alexander Technique for the many ways it helps their body, voice and breath in performance. 

Our work together is experiential and sensory, and it involves a way of thinking which is highly creative and improvisational. It is an art, and it takes time to evolve in us. At the beginning things are bound to be confusing. You are learning a new language—a language of body and breath—and you cannot understand it through your old ways of feeling or visualizing. Confusion is absolutely normal, but it shifts as you develop a new awareness of yourself. Our work is a process of discovery and the only requirement for you as a student is to stay open and to try not to worry about getting something “right.” This is easier said than done, but I will be reminding you of it all the time. It helps if you can keep a “beginner’s mind” so that every lesson becomes a source of wonder.

For an actor, your body is your instrument and how you use your body determines how well you move on stage, produce your voice, and perform. The Alexander Technique is a mind-body discipline that helps students improve their psycho-physical coordination while helping them become aware of physical habits that may be inhibiting their breathing and the expressiveness, energy and strength of their voice and body. In our work together, you will begin to gain an awareness of improved physical coordination and ease leading to a freer and more expressive voice and body.

Vocal production relies on psychological and physical coordination—an alignmen

• Department: Theatre Arts
• M 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Jean McClelland
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• 1 points

S. Rebuilding Government

S REBUILDING GOVERNMENT

• Department: Law
• M 4:20 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
• 2 points

Instructive Biomaterials

Covers biomaterials that are instructive or have been designed or engineered to be instructive; structure-function-property relationships in natural and synthetic biomaterials. Advances in understanding of material properties emphasized; including electroactivity, chemical, mechanical, geometry/architecture, and the modification of material surfaces and context of their effect on biological function. Evolving field of smart biomaterials discussed. Exercises/demonstrations using materials characterization equipment conducted.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Treena L Arinzeh
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• 3 points

ENVIRONMENTL CHAL IN HLTH CARE

• Department: Executive Classes in HPM
• Instructor: Sasha R Berns
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• 1.5 points

Healthcare in the Arts

HEALTHCARE IN THE ARTS &

The goal of this course is to give future health care workers and researchers a richer understanding of how their profession relates to the rest of society, and how art and popular entertainment has constructed, shaped, and sometimes distorted our shared social and cultural understanding of the field. The class will offer a whole new and different context to explore the issues students are studying in their other classes: from policy to management, from epidemiology to global health, even
economics. Among other things, we will humanize the data and theory students learn at Mailman. This leads to more complex and rigorous thinking. At its heart a class on communication, this course will consider healthcare, art, and the media in the
broadest sense. We will examine the ways society?s sometimes-troubled, but always fascinating healthcare systems has evolved with, and perhaps due to, its depictions by artists through the years. Using academic journal articles to provide context, we will consider sources as disparate as the Egyptian Book of the Dead; fiction by Denis Johnson, Virginia Wolf, Celine, Ernest Hemingway, and others; the poetry of Emily Dickenson, Lucie Brock-Broido, Henri Cole, and William Carlos
Williams; literary essays by Montaigne, George Orwell, Meehan Crist, Malcolm Gladwell; Movies by Vittorio Di Sica, and Michael Moore; and perhaps the weirdest musical ever made: a sci-fi, healthcare horror starring Anthony Stewart Head (Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Paris Hilton, Sarah Brightman and Paul Sorvino. We will take a look at some fantastic pieces of propaganda and commercials that can be viewed as activist art; and finally students will produce their own piece of healthcare-inspired creative work.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• S 9:30 a.m.-3:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter A Muennig
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• 1.5 points

NONFICTION LECTURE

NARRATIVE STRUCTURE

NONFICTION LECTURE

• Department: Writing
• W 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Chloe Jones
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• 3 points

Writing on Eurasia

This course is designed to help MA-level students improve their researching and writing skills, and become adept at distilling acquired knowledge into straightforward prose. The aim is to assist students in being more effective communicators regardless of whether they pursue careers in academia, journalism, government service, private enterprise or the non-governmental sector. The course will also promote better understanding of how to get work published by mass media outlets. The course places particular emphasis on practical work, including the preparation of commentaries and book reviews concerning current affairs in Eurasia. Lectures examine the basic elements of editing, interviewing and concise writing. Other lectures focus on how to maintain personal and digital security while living and researching/working in Eurasia, and discuss best practices on harnessing social media for career advancement. Guest speakers will provide additional perspectives on ways to make writing on academic topics more accessible to the general reading public, and how to leverage expertise in Eurasian-area affairs in ways that can jump-start careers.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Justin Burke
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• 1.5 points

Cyber Risks & Vulnerabilities

The purpose of this course is to familiarize SIPA students with the protocols and devices used in the function of the internet while focusing on the flaws and vulnerabilities. This course will approach each session in the following manner: discussion of the topic to include what the topic is and how it is used, vulnerabilities and specifically, and example, and will follow up with a video or other demonstration of a common hacker technique or tool to illustrate the problem so the students can better understand the impact. This course is intended to complement Basics of Cybersecurity with a tighter focus on specific vulnerabilities and how these can be exploited by hackers, criminals, spies, or militaries. This course is intended to be an introduction to cybersecurity and is thus suitable for complete newcomers to the area. It is a big field, with a lot to cover; however this should get students familiar with all of the basics. The class is divided into seven topics; the first five iteratively build on each other. Session six will look to future technologies. Session seven will challenge students to understand the authorities encountered and the friction between the authorities and agencies in responding to a cyber incident. Many cyber jobs are opening up with companies that need international affairs analysts who, while not cybersecurity experts, understand the topic well enough to write policy recommendations or intelligence briefs. Even if you don’t intend your career to focus on cyber issues, having some exposure will deepen your understanding of the dynamics of many other international and public policy issues.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Cartier
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• 1.5 points

Healthcare Accounting and Budgeting

HLTH CARE ACCOUNTING&BUDG

The current market places increasing demands on healthcare managers so it is essential that individuals possess basic skills related to financial management and financial reporting. Current events make these demands more dynamic than ever. This course is intended for students who are interested in expanding their knowledge of healthcare financial issues and/or pursuing careers that involve financial management in the healthcare sector. The focus will be on non-profit healthcare delivery organizations.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• T 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Francine M Caracappa
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• Instructor: Jonathan Engel
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• 3 points

ISSUES/APPROC-HLTH POLICY/MGMT

• Department: Executive Classes in HPM
• Instructor: Michael S Sparer
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• 3 points

Issues and Approaches in Health Policy a

ISSUES-APPROACHES-HLTH PO

How is the health care system organized? Who pays the bill? Why have efforts to enact national health insurance failed? What role does government now play in the US health care system, and how do different levels of government share these tasks? Contrary to many perceptions, the fervent debate of these questions is not a recent phenomenon; these are issues that have been argued vigorously throughout American political history. Exploring these debates is critical both to the development of public health policy and the management of delivery systems.
This course focuses on policy and management issues that affect all health care practitioners. We will examine, among other topics, the historical foundations of the American health care system, the rise of managed care, the make-up of the healthcare workforce, the key issues on the nation’s long-term care policy agenda, and ways in which government can encourage good quality care. This introductory course is intended for MHA students and serves to fulfill a core course requirement in Health Policy and Management.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• T 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• M 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Lawrence D Brown
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• Instructor: Sorcha Brophy
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• 3 points

POETRY LECTURE

POETS ON POETS

POETRY LECTURE

• Department: Writing
• M 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Alice Quinn
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• 3 points

Cyber Conflict and Cybersecurity in the

Cyber Conflict&Sec-Indo Pacifc

This class will study the dynamics of cyber conflict and cybersecurity in the Indo-Pacific. Students will examine cybersecurity threats across the region; compare policies, actors, and institutions across countries; and analyze competition within the region and with other major cyber actors such as the United States, Russia, and the European Union. Topics will include: development of cyber strategies; regional approaches to cyber norms, confidence building measures, and capacity building; information operations; and crime and non-state actors. Prior knowledge of cybersecurity and/or Indo-Pacific security is not necessary, but is useful.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Adam Segal
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• 3 points

Systemic Corruption in Eurasia: Competit

Systemic Corrupt: Eurasia

In Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, and other countries of the Eurasia region, corruption is systemic.  Corruption, defined as the abuse of public trust and power for private gain, is institutionalized in government at the national, regional, and local levels.  Formal government decision-making processes have been captured by informal networks of political and business elites who exert significant control over the allocation of public resources. They utilize this control to make illegal financial gains with the support of government authorities and protection of the law. 

When President Putin began Russia’s expanded military invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the imprisoned Russian anticorruption activist and political opposition leader Alexey Navalny was on trial once again over fabricated charges of embezzlement. Though Mr. Navalny faced another 15 years in a penal colony, he seized the opportunity during his February 24 hearing to publicly state his opposition to Russia’s war on Ukraine. “This war between Russia and Ukraine was unleashed to cover up the theft from Russian citizens and divert their attention from problems that exist inside the country,” he said. 

This seminar examines the role that Russia’s systemic corruption played as a cause of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Is the war an extension, and drastic escalation, of the Putin regime’s campaign against both his own citizens and the citizens of post-Maidan Ukraine? We will consider how the Kremlin’s strategic use of corruption is threatening the sovereignty of other nations in Eurasia. 

This seminar analyzes the political economy, power relationships, historical and cultural factors that have engendered systemic corruption in Eurasian countries. We identify different types of corrupt systems that have emerged in the regions. We will also examine how systemic corruption causes conflict and war, and poses a threat to the global economy and democracy. Finally, we analyze various anti-corruption reforms to understand why some failed while others succeeded.

The seminar will benefit SIPA and Harriman Institute students who specialize in regional studies of countries of the Eurasia.  It will also benefit SIPA and other graduate students who specialize in international security, economics, finance, energy, law, development, conflict resolution, and journalism.  To achieve a deep understanding of Eurasia corruption, we will examine

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew H Murray
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• 3 points