TV PILOT - COMEDY

FILM AF 8131 Intro to Pilot: Comedy

 

With the comedy pilot as a focal point, (and by comedy, that could also include dramedies like
Transparent
and
Insecure
) this course explores the opportunities and challenges of telling and sustaining a serialized half-hour story over a protracted period of time with an emphasis on the creation, borne out of character, of the quintessential premise and the ongoing conflict, be it thematic or literal, behind a successful series.

Early in the semester, students may be required to present/pitch their series idea. During the subsequent weeks, students will learn the process of pitching, outlining, and writing a television pilot, that may include story breaking, beat-sheets or story outline, full outlines, and the execution of a thirty-minute teleplay. This seminar may include reading pages and giving notes based on the instructor but may also solely focus on the individual process of the writer.  

Students may only enroll in one TV Writing workshop per semester.

• Department: Film
• M 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Williams
  Info
• 3 points

Digital Health Startups

Healthcare represents 18% of the U.S. economy, yet it is one of the last sectors to undergo technology-based transformation. Digital health represents the convergence of healthcare and technology, with the aim to improve access to care, reduce inefficiencies in healthcare delivery, lower costs, enhance the quality of patient care, make treatments more targeted and personalized, and empower consumers to better manage their own health and well-being.
In recent years there has been an explosion of new digital health startups focused on these key objectives. Digital health has become the bellwether of venture funding, outgrowing both traditional healthcare and technology sectors. Venture funding in this category exceeded $29 billion in 2021, double the previous year and a 2,325% increase from 2011.
This course will analyze the unique characteristics and strategies of digital health companies as students form groups to act as venture capitalists and develop investment memos for real companies that are pitched by their founders. Past companies that have been pitched in this course— Maven Clinic, Grand Rounds (Included Health), and Simple Health— have gone on to become high-growth, billion-dollar companies.
Students will analyze key objectives of new businesses and determinants of success including unit economics, product differentiation, go-to market strategies, customer acquisition, marketing tactics, scale-up/growth opportunities, and other business optimization approaches. The course will allow students to hone their investment skills including questions to ask during an entrepreneur’s pitch, developing an investment thesis, and how to structure and write an investment memo. This course will address these issues through a mixture of lectures, case studies, and guest speakers (entrepreneurs and investors) from the digital health sector.

• Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
• MTWRF 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Halle Tecco
  Wikipedia Info
• 1.5 points

THE JEWISH BOOK IN EARLY MOD WORLD

This course will situate the Jewish book within the context of the theoretical and historical literature on the history of the book: notions of orality and literacy, text and material platform, authors and readers, print and manuscript, language and gender, the book trade and its role in the circulation of people and ideas in the early age of print.

• Department: History
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• 4 points

Intro to Databases for Busines

We don’t think about databases much, right? At least not when they’re working right. But they’re all around us. They’re in every product we use. And when they don’t work (think about the iCloud, LinkedIn, or Ashley Madison data breaches in which hundreds of millions of emails and passwords were exposed) the consequences can be extreme.
Every modern company stores their data in a database (it’s like a really big version of Excel), and if you want to analyze the data, you may be expected to know how to access it yourself. In fact, at many companies are requiring even their business leaders to have an understanding of databases. At the very least, knowing how to set up and interact with databases will improve your ability to GSD (get stuff done), strengthen your understanding of how technology works, and make you less of a pain for developers to work with.
In this class, we’ll explore basic SQL (the most common database language) for business analytics. At the end of the course, students should have a deeper understanding of how databases work, how they fit into the general technology stack, how to connect to databases, and know how to browse and exporting data from databases.

• Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
• R 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Mattan Griffel
  Info
• 1.5 points

Intro to Databases for Busines

We don’t think about databases much, right? At least not when they’re working right. But they’re all around us. They’re in every product we use. And when they don’t work (think about the iCloud, LinkedIn, or Ashley Madison data breaches in which hundreds of millions of emails and passwords were exposed) the consequences can be extreme.
Every modern company stores their data in a database (it’s like a really big version of Excel), and if you want to analyze the data, you may be expected to know how to access it yourself. In fact, at many companies are requiring even their business leaders to have an understanding of databases. At the very least, knowing how to set up and interact with databases will improve your ability to GSD (get stuff done), strengthen your understanding of how technology works, and make you less of a pain for developers to work with.
In this class, we’ll explore basic SQL (the most common database language) for business analytics. At the end of the course, students should have a deeper understanding of how databases work, how they fit into the general technology stack, how to connect to databases, and know how to browse and exporting data from databases.

• Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
• R 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Mattan Griffel
  Info
• 1.5 points

Introduction to Randomized Clinical Tria

INTRO TO RAND CLINICAL TR

Students in this course will learn and practice the fundamental methods and concepts of the randomized clinical trial: protocol development, randomization, blindedness, patient recruitment, informed consent, compliance, sample size determination, crossovers, collaborative trials. Each student prepares and submits the protocol for a real or hypothetical clinical trial.

• Department: Biostatistics
• W 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: John L Thompson
  h-index: 61 Info
• 3 points

Clinical Trial Methodology

CLINICAL TRIAL METHODOLOG

Clinical trials are the pilars of clinical research. The main objective of this course is to prepare researchers to design and conduct complex clinical trials that yield valid and reliable results. The course emphasizes on several methodological and practical issues related to the design and analysis of clinical experiments. The course builds on the knowledge and skills gained in the course Randomized Clinical Trial (P8140). The objective of this course is to provide students with working knowledge of certain methodological issues that arise in designing a Clinical Trial. Topics include: Design of small studies (Phase I and II studies), Interim analyses and group sequential methods, Design of survival studies, Multiple outcome measures, Equivalency Trials, Multi-center studies, and trials with multiple outcome measures.

• Department: Biostatistics
• R 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Cheng-Shiun Leu
  h-index: 28 Info
• 3 points

The Global Enlightenment

Since the eighteenth century, defenders of the Enlightenment have heralded their project as a world-historical event. This colloquium aims to introduce graduate students to the emerging scholarly literature on the global Enlightenment. The field now casts far beyond the cohort of free-thinking European philosophers around which it was initially conceived to encompass the broader cultural, economic, and religious preoccupations of the long eighteenth century—from Paris to Port-au-Prince, from Manchester to Madras, from Nantes to Nanjing. Given these tendencies, how has the significance of the Enlightenment expanded both as a historical period and interpretive framework? In what ways do scholars explicate its origins and outcomes in light of renewed attention to its global reach? In response to such questions, the readings will trace the development of Enlightenment thought and practices in dialogue with interlocutors from around the early modern world: Jesuit missionaries, European colonial trading company officials, French
philosophes
, African voodoo healers, Scottish political economists, Native American fur traders, Confucian scholars, Brahmin cultural elites, and reform-minded Muslim sultans. Topics to be addressed include the relationship between traditional political and religious authorities to the global public sphere, the search for historical, philosophical, and linguistic origins, entrepreneurial and epistemological innovations made possible by transatlantic and Eurasian encounters, debates surrounding effects of luxury in early capitalist society, and the multiple sites of knowledge production that defined the Enlightenment in word and in deed.

• Department: History
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Charly J Coleman
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

Intelligence & US Foreign Policy

Prerequisites: Instructor-Managed Waitlist & Course Application.
Intelligence issues have been at the center of US security policy controversies since Benedict Arnold spied for the British during the American revolution.  In the past two decades, critics have blamed U.S. intelligence agencies for failing to prevent the 9/11 attacks, missing the mark on Iraq’s WMD capabilities, and underestimating the threat posed by Iran’s nuclear programs. Critics also have zeroed in on the collection and covert action side of the intelligence business, questioning the efficacy and morality of harsh interrogation techniques, the disclosure of NSA’s collection capabilities by Edward Snowden, or the implications of cyber for all aspects of intelligence work. 

During and since the Trump administration, allegations of involvement of intelligence agencies in US domestic politics have raised fundamental questions—some old, some new--about the relationship between the intelligence community and policymakers. What role should the intelligence community play in the formulation and implementation of US foreign policy and broader national security strategy?  Should retired senior intelligence officials stay outside the political fray?

Recent major intelligence failures—Russia’s failure to assess the magnitude of Ukrainian resistance and Israel’s flawed assessment of HAMAS’ intentions—have revived the central question faced by all intelligence services: are intelligence failures inevitable—and if not, can they be averted? Through a  review of these and other historical cases, the class will also will consider how one might best define “success” and “failure” in the intelligence business, and who should make these determinations?

This seminar provides an overview of the key elements of the intelligence business: human and technical 
collection
 (including cyber
), covert action, analysis, 
and 
the relationship between the Intelligence Community and policymakers
. Course readings focus largely on the period from World War II to the present, with a review of several cases of intelligence failures. It also covers ongoing efforts to reform and improve the U.S. intelligence community and the uneasy role of clandestine and covert intelligence activities in a democracy.

There will be three guest speakers in this course--practitione

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter Clement
  Info
• 3 points

Primary Care Across the Lifespan: Practi

PC Across Lifespan Prac I

The clinical practicum builds upon knowledge obtained in Diagnosis and Management II. This practicum is designed to expand the role of the nurse practitioner student to provide primary care to complex patients, families and communities, in an outpatient setting across the lifespan. The goal of the practicum is to prepare the students for the delivery of comprehensive primary care.  The practicum focuses on chronic physical and mental illness causing various complications.

• Department: Nursing
• Instructor: Aluem Tark
  Info
• 3 points

Introduction to Programming in

This class is an intensive introduction to R. It starts with the very basics of assigning variables and reading data. It then progresses to using RMarkdown for document and presentation creation. - Week 1 - Introduction to R - RMarkdown - Week 2 - Data Manipulation with dplyr - Creating Visualizations - Week 3 - Reading Data - Iterate Over Lists with purrr - Reshaping Data - Week 4 - Linear Models - Generalized Linear Models - Assessing Model Quality - Week 5 - Cross-Validation - Penalized Regression - Boosted Trees - Week 6 - Shiny Basics - Shiny Dashboard
DROMB8145

• Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
• MF 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Jared P Lander
  Info
• 1.5 points

Analytics in Action (Master Cl

This course provides students the opportunity to learn business analytics and data science by working on a set of company sponsored applied projects. Students teams of 5-6 people, with 3-4 MBA students and 1-2 engineering (SEAs) students, will work hand in hand with the instructors and company representatives to achieve company goals through the practical application of data analytics.
It is highly recommended that before taking this class, students take the basic python qualification exam (see gsb.columbia.edu/courses/python). It is also highly recommended that students take DROMB8101, Business Analytics II, as a co-requisite.
Prerequisites listed below.

• Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
• W 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
• 3 points

Human Population Genetics

HUMAN POPULATION GENETICS

A good grasp of the fundamentals of Population Genetics is crucial for an understanding of any field of human genetics. This is precisely the aim of this course: to provide to students the key elements of Population Genetics with a view to equip them with the right tools to understand the field of genetics in general and to pursue further studies in human genetics. The course uses various evolutionary principles to explain key population genetics concepts.

• Department: Biostatistics
• M 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Prakash Gorroochurn
  Info
• 3 points

ACTING TECHNIQUES

ACTING THROUGH SONG

• Department: Theatre Arts
• R 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Jenn Colella
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• 0 points

Python for MBAs

From the ads that track us to the maps that guide us, the twenty-first century runs on code. The business world is no different. Programming has become one of the fastest-growing topics at business schools around the world. This course is an introduction to business uses of Python for MBA students. In this course, well be learning how to write Python code that automates tedious tasks, parses and analyzes large data sets, interact with APIs, and scrapes websites. This might be one of the most useful classes you ever take. Required Course Material Students must have a laptop that they can bring to class - Mac or PC is fine, as long as your operating system is up to date (at least Windows 10 and Mac OS 11). This course does not require a textbook. (Optional Reading: Python for MBAs, Griffel and Guetta) Any required readings will be provided via Canvas. Slides and files will be uploaded to Canvas after each class.
Students will need to complete an introductory Python class (https://courseworks2.columbia.edu/courses/152704) and pass the Basic Python Qualification exam (https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/courses/python#basic_qual) before the first day of classes.

• Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
• T 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
• Instructor: David L Bendes
  Info
• Instructor: Sunny Israni
  Info
• 1.5 points

Analysis of Longitudinal Data

ANALYSIS OF LONGITUDINAL

The course will introduce students to statistical models and mthods for longitudinal data, i.e., repeatedly measured data over time or under different conditions. The topics will include design and sample size calculation, Hotelling's T^2, multivariate analysis of variance, multivariate linear regression (Generalized linear models), models for correlation, unbalanced repeated measurements, Mixed effects models, EM algorithm, methods for non-normally distributed data, Generalized estimating equations, Generalized linear mixed models, and Missing data.

• Department: Biostatistics
• TR 3 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Zhonghua Liu
  Info
• 3 points

Neoliberalism

This course will examine the work of the twentieth-century thinkers often lumped together as “neoliberals,” as well as some of the scholarly literature around neoliberalism that has proliferated in recent decades. We do not begin from the assumption that neoliberalism has a single clear and coherent meaning. Instead, we will ask some of the following questions: Is there such a thing as neoliberalism at all? If so, how does its meaning differ from other terms of analysis such as “liberalism” or “capitalism”? Is neoliberalism best understood as an intellectual movement, or as a social formation whose key characteristics may not be captured in the works of its theorists? When did neoliberalism begin, and how might identify its end?

• Department: Political Science
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Luban
  Info
• 4 points

Management of Patients with Special Need

MGMT OF PTS WITH SPEC NDS

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• Instructor: Marc W Michalowicz
  Info
• 0 points

S MEDIA LW FR PRINT TO DIGITAL

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

COLLOQ IN ATLANTIC HISTORY

This colloquium provides an intensive exploration of the Atlantic World during the early modern era. Readings will attend to the sequence of contact, conquest, and dispossession that enabled the several European empires to gain political and economic power. In this regard, particular attention will be given to the role of commerce and merchant capitalism in the formation of the Atlantic World. The course will focus also, however, on the dynamics of cultural exchange, on the two-way influences that pushed the varied peoples living along the Atlantic to develop new practices, new customs, and new tastes. Creative adaptations in the face of rapid social and cultural change will figure prominently in the readings. Students may expect to give sustained attention the worlds Africans, Amerindians, and Europeans both made together and made apart.

• Department: History
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher L Brown
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

Relational Databases and SQL Programming

RELATIONAL DATABASES AND

In this course, you will learn to design and build relational databases in MySQL and to write and optimize queries using the SQL programming language. Application of skills learned in this course will be geared toward research and data science settings in the healthcare field; however, these skills are transferable to many industries and application areas. You will begin the course examining the pitfalls of using Excel spreadsheets as a data storage tool and then learn how to build properly-designed relational databases to eliminate the issues related to spreadsheets and maintain data integrity when storing and modifying data. You will then learn two aspects of the SQL programming language: 1) the data manipulation language (DML), which allows you to retrieve data from and populate data into database tables (e.g., SELECT, INSERT INTO, DELETE, UPDATE, etc.), and 2) the data definition language (DDL), which allows you to create and modify tables in a database (e.g., CREATE, ALTER, DROP, etc.). You will additionally learn how to optimize SQL queries for best performance, use advanced SQL functions, and utilize SQL within common statistical software programs: R and SAS.

• Department: Biostatistics
• T 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• R 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Zoe Verzani
  Info
• 3 points

SEMINAR DEALS LITIGATION

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

Politics of History and Reconciliation

Politics of History & Reconcil

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

Diagnosis and Management of Acute & Crit

DX & MGMT ACUTE CRIT ILLN

This is the second of three Diagnosis and Management courses designed to educate students on the assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of common acute and critical illnesses via a systems-based approach. Pathophysiologic alterations, assessment, diagnostic findings, and multimodal management will be discussed.  The course will examine social determinants of health and health disparities that may impact patients and family outcomes. Focus will be on the differential diagnosis and comprehensive healthcare management of commonly encountered acute and chronic physical illnesses using didactic lectures, case studies and simulation.

• Department: Nursing
• M 9 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• 3 points

Effective Management in the Public Servi

Effective Mgmt in the Pub Serv

Priority Reg: Executive MPA. 
The course is designed to introduce you to the field of public management. It is a practical course organized around the tools managers may use to influence the behavior of their organizations. The course also discusses the political environment in which public managers must interact.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• S 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Robert Z Tumin
  Info
• 3 points

S. Intellectual Property Transactions Wo

S. IP Transactions Worksh

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

Phys & Nutrition Through the Lifecycle

General aspects of normal human growth and development from viewpoints of physical growth, cellular growth and maturation, and adjustments made at birth; the impact of altered nutrition on these processes. Prenatal and postnatal malnutrition, the role of hormones in growth; relationships between nutrition and disease in such areas as anemia, obesity, infection, and carbohydrate absorption.

• Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
• TR 1:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Moneek Madra
  Info
• 3 points

NONFICTION THESIS WORKSHOP

• Department: Writing
• W 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• M 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• M 1:10 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• T 1:10 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• R 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Chloe Jones
  Info
• Instructor: Jaquira Diaz
  Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Wendy Walters
  Info
• Instructor: Brenda Wineapple
  Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Kate Zambreno
  Info
• 9 points

SAS Insights for CEOR

Data is most useful when it can tell a story. Health analytics merges technologies and skills used to deliver business, clinical and programmatic insights into the complex components that drive medical outcomes, costs and oversight. By focusing on business intelligence and developing tools to evaluate clinical procedures, devices, and programs, organizations can use comparative and outcomes data to strengthen financial performance. This information can improve the way healthcare is evaluatedand delivered for better outcomes across the spectrum of health industries.

 

In this course, students will learn SAS as a tool to manipulate and analyze healthcare data and begin to understand what clinical and public health interventions work best for improving health, for example. Students will learn how to organize and analyze data to inform the practices of healthcare providers and policymakers to make evidence-based resource allocation decisions.Comparative & Effectiveness Outcomes Research (CEOR) certificate students will take this course inpreparation for the capstone class.SAS basics (e.g., creating SAS datasets and new variables, sorting, merging, reporting) and advanced statistics (e.g., using a logistical regression to create propensity scores for matched cohort analyses) will be covered.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• R 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• 1.5 points

Critical Read of Biological Clinical Lit

Crit Read of Bio Clin Lit

Fall: Review of current literature providing complementary information pertinent to other nutrition areas, with a view to developing a critical approach to the assimilation of scientific information. Spring: Obesity: Etiology, Prevention, and Treatment. Controversies involving regulation of weight and energy balance. Interaction between genetics and the environment are considered as well as clinical implications of our current knowledge.

• Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
• M 8 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Rajasekhar Ramakrishnan
  Info
• 3 points

NEW DIRECTION IN ECON SOCIOLOGY

This is an advanced graduate seminar in Economic Sociology looking at new developments in this field. It addresses the disciplinary division of labor in which economists study value and sociologists study values; and it rejects the pact whereby economists study the economy and sociologists study social relations in which they are embedded.

• Department: Sociology
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: David Stark
  CULPA: 15 Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info
• 3 points

Theoretical Statistics

STAT ANALYSIS-NEURAL DATA

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• Department: Statistics
• F 1:30 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Liam M Paninski
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

SEMINAR IN SCULPTURE AND RELATED MEDIA

The Seminar in Sculpture and Related Media will focus on the specific relationships between tools, ideas and meanings in contemporary sculptural practices. Each semester Visual Arts offers one Graduate Seminar in a different discipline, or combination of disciplines, including moving image, new genres, painting, photography, printmaking, or sculpture. These Discipline Seminars are taught by full-time and adjunct faculty, eminent critics, historians, curators, theorists, writers, and artists. Each seminar focuses on the specific relations between tools, ideas and meanings that arise when artists engage with a particular medium. The seminars combine discussions of readings and artworks with presentations of students' work and research.

• Department: Visual Arts
• R 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Ajay G Kurian
  Info
• 3 points

Behavioral Policy & Public Health

Applications of behavioral insights are expanding rapidly across civic, medical, social, corporate, educational, and economic professions. This class covers the underlying theories for behavioral science, using scientific and real-world examples of applications from multiple disciplines and locations. The course will also cover methods for behavioral policy implementation and evaluation, focusing particularly on healthcare policy perspectives. Students will learn a broad range of strategies through a highly interactive format, taught partially in a classroom setting in addition to remote asynchronous and synchronous sessions. Students will gain experience designing and developing their own evidence-based behavioral interventions as a part of a group project.

• Department: General Public Health
• R 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Kai Ruggeri
  h-index: 22 Info
• 1.5 points

Behavioral Policy & Public Health

Applications of behavioral insights are expanding rapidly across civic, medical, social, corporate, educational, and economic professions. This class covers the underlying theories for behavioral insights, using scientific and real-world examples of applications from multiple disciplines and locations. The course will also cover methods for behavioral implementation and evaluation, focusing particularly on healthcare policy perspectives. Students will learn a broad range of strategies through a highly interactive format, taught partially in a classroom setting in addition to remote asynchronous and synchronous sessions. Students will gain experience designing and developing their own evidence- based behavioral interventions as a part of a semester-long project.

The course is taught in three phases. The first phase will introduce fundamentals of behavioral science and evidence-based policy. Students will then spend the majority of the course on examples of behavioral insights such as nudges in practice, in a healthcare context and beyond. The course will end with sessions on practical applications, where students will learn to identify appropriate situations for behavioral interventions and produce a final project in a chosen context.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• R 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Kai Ruggeri
  h-index: 22 Info
• 1.5 points

SEMINAR-SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE

• Department: Social Work
• W 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Susan S Witte
  h-index: 28 Info
• 3 points

The Modern American Presidency: Its Evol

The dramatic Trump presidency forced a reexamination of the institution of the U.S. presidency at home and abroad in a way not witnessed for a generation. Allies of the President celebrated the disruption of presidential “norms” in support of populist ideals. Critics of the President bemoaned the disappearance of those “norms” and warned of the threat that a resurgent “Imperial Presidency” poses to American democracy and its constitutional system. In the three years since January 2021, the current President, Joe Biden, has sought to return the presidency to a more “normal” condition. This course will not only introduce students to the evolution of the most important office in the most powerful country in the World, but provide them with the tools to understand, analyze and contextualize current developments in Presidential power. 

The toolbox of the contemporary policy analyst and policymaker must include some familiarity with historical investigation and argumentation. Policy debates, especially in international relations, are almost always punctuated by references to historical lessons, parallels, or analogies. Yet these are not only often inaccurate but even when they are accurate can restrict creativity by the policymaker. The past can be helpful: the challenge for the policymaker is figuring out when that is the case. This is a lecture course, which combines historical perspective and analysis with first-person accounts of what it is like to work in and for the White House. What are the limits on presidential power at home and abroad? How were these limits established and, under the US constitutional system, can they be undone? How have the nuclear and digital ages affected those powers? What role does the character or personality of the incumbent play in the functioning or effectiveness of a presidency? Although more attention will be given to the President as a World actor, given the importance of domestic considerations in US foreign policy, the growth of the presidency in domestic affairs will also be discussed.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Timothy Naftali
  Info
• 3 points

Sports and the Law

SPORTS AND THE LAW

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

BIOCHEM-PHYSIOL BASIS-NUTR I

Aspects of carbohydrate, lipid, protein, and energy metabolism relevant to the understanding of nutrition at cellular and organism levels. Biochemical and physiological aspects of vitamin and mineral metabolismand action during both normal conditions and deficiency toxicity states.

• Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
• MW 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 3 points

Professional Leadership & Practice I

Prof Leadership & Prac I

This is the first in a series of 4 courses designed to educate students about the multiple dimensions of professional practice in contemporary physical therapy. These courses will explore the professional roles of the physical therapist as a clinician, educator, and advocate. This will be the first in a series of courses that will address trans-curricular themes including leadership, service, health promotion, advocacy, teaching & learning, interprofessional collaboration and teamwork, cultural humility, and self-reflection, culminating in the creation of a digital portfolio.  The course series will include broad exposure to a variety of professional and personal development experiences and expect more in-depth engagement in the student’s chosen area of focus.

This first course in the professional leadership and practice series will explore the process of professional identity formation, including exploration of attitudes and biases, personality, self-awareness, emotional intelligence, authentic leadership, health & well-being practices, and inclusive excellence. The course will also explore structural and racial barriers to health and healthcare. Students will broaden their understanding of physical therapy practice, structure, and governance of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA), the APTA vision and core values, and legislative action at the national, state, and local levels. Students will be introduced to the core competencies for interprofessional education and collaborative practice. Students will have the opportunity to reflect on personal strengths and goals and develop a personal development and professional leadership plan. An overview of the Digital Professional Portfolio project will be included.

• Department: Physical Therapy
• 2 points

Global Macroeconomic Investing

This course builds on the core Global Economic Environment curriculum to equip students with toolkits for applying open-economy macro frameworks to the analysis of the fundamental forces shaping economic turning points and the development of public-market trading strategies around them.

Key concepts in global macro investing are delivered through a mix of interactive lectures, case-study discussions, and directed conversations with practitioners. The course is structured in three sections: (1) a review and extension of core macroeconomic principles, an annotated discussion of key macroeconomic indicators, a structured look at the principal features of major risk assets (i.e., equities, currencies, fixed income, and commodities), and the development of templates for global macro trading strategies and risk management; (2) case studies around recent, disruptive major global macro inflection points; and (3) the application of the course’s key learning objectives to the development of broad global macro trading strategies around prevailing macroeconomic conditions, special cases, and instances of asset mispricing.

This course will provide introductory knowledge and skills for students wishing to pursue activities in markets-focused macroeconomic research and strategy, global tactical asset allocation, the application of macroeconomic overlays on a wide range of investment platforms, strategic planning, and policy development.

• Department: Business Economics
• TR 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Brett House
  Info
• 1.5 points

Microeconomics and Policy Analysis I

Microecon & Policy Analysis I

Open to Executive MPA Only. 
The objectives of the course are: (i) To provide you with the analytical tools needed to understand how economists think (ii) To help you develop an open-minded and critical way to think about economic issues (iii) To help you understand motivations and consequences of microeconomic policies (iv) To facilitate your understanding of the concepts underlying microeconomics models and make you familiar with the jargon that is used in the economic profession (v) To get you used to work effectively with diverse groups.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• S 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• S 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrea Bubula
  Info
• 3 points

Microeconomics and Policy Analysis I

Microecon & Policy Analysis I

Open to MPA-ESP Only.
This two-semester course demonstrates that it is both possible and useful to think about public policy rigorously: to examine underlying assumptions; to understand how formal models operate; to question vagueness and clichés; and to make sophisticated ethical arguments. An important goal of the class is to have students work in groups as they apply microeconomic concepts to current public policy issues having to do with urban environmental and earth systems. The course includes problem sets designed to teach core concepts and their application. In the spring semester, the emphasis is on the application of concepts to analyze contemporary policy problems. Some time is also devoted to international trade and regulation, and industrial organization issues. Students not only learn microeconomic concepts, but also how to explain them to decision-makers. Student groups take on specific earth system policy issues, analyze options through the use of microeconomic concepts, and then make oral presentations to the class.

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

Law & Policy: Mass Incarceration in the

LAW & POLICY: MASS INCAR

From 1970 until today, America’s prison and jail population has increased sevenfold, from some 300,000 to around 2.2 million adults and children behind bars. Accounting for less than 5 percent of the world’s inhabitants, but about 25 percent of the world’s incarcerated inhabitants, the United States is the most incarcerating society in human history. The U.S. federal and state governments imprison more people and at higher rates than do any other governments on the planet, and they do so today more than they did at any other period in American history.
This astounding amount of human confinement (commonly called “mass incarceration”) disproportionately impacts the polity’s poorest communities of color—especially young Black males—which suffer from chronic conditions and infectious disease; face higher mortality rates; and experience, because of criminal records, less opportunity to secure gainful employment, stable housing, access to safety net programs, and education. Female incarceration over the past few decades has grown at twice the rate of male incarceration, and black women, specifically, are twice as likely as white women to serve time. Imprisonment exposes people to a wide range of circumstances proving detrimental to long-term physical and mental health, like inadequate sanitation, poor ventilation, and solitary confinement. And most formerly incarcerated people return to their communities with deep wounds and new traumas resulting from incarcerated life and from isolation through long separations from families and social supports.
This course sits at the intersection of public health, policy, and law. The course will explore the full spectrum of causes and costs of mass incarceration as a public health crisis. This course will examine how exposures to different structures of the American criminal punishment apparatus (e.g., law enforcement, jail, prison, or detention centers, community supervision) shape the health of people, families, and society. Observing mass incarceration as an epidemic, this course will adopt a useful public-health model of prevention to contemplate a concerted approach consisting of primary, secondary, and tertiary strategies for unwinding mass human imprisonment while advancing enhanced public health for the nation’s most disempowered members. This course will pay special attention to acutely at-risk populations, including detained youth and youth of incarcerated adults, pregnant incarcerated people, and the elderly. And the role that

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• R 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Hernandez Stroud
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• 1.5 points

INTRO TO CINEMATOGRAPHY

• Department: Film
• R 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Frank Prinzi
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• 1.5 points

Case Competition Fundamentals

CASE COMPETITION FUNDAMEN

The Course introduces students to the fundamentals of case competitions and prepares them to compete in select case competitions over the course of the year. Case competitions afford students the opportunity to apply classroom learning to dynamic health care organizational and industry problems. The Course covers topics ranging from the framework for breaking down cases to common analytical techniques and presentation skills. We will build the foundational skills for students to prepare and deliver comprehensive, professional analyses in competitive settings.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• M 10 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• 1.5 points

ECONOMICS OF STRATEGIC BEHAVIOR

This course examines the underlying economics of successful business strategy: the strategic imperatives of competitive markets, the sources and dynamics of competitive advantage, managing competitive interactions, and the organizational implementation of business strategy.
The course combines case discussion and analysis (approximately two thirds) with lectures (one third). The emphasis is on the ability to apply a small number of principles effectively and creatively, not the mastery of detailed aspects of the theory. The course offers excellent background for all consultants, managers and corporate finance generalists.

• Department: Business Economics
• R 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
• R 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Jacopo Perego
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• 3 points

Spurring Social Justice in Public Health

SPURRING SOCIAL JUSTICE I

This course will introduce the theory and frameworks that ground advocacy and community organizing with the aim of enabling such practices within public health and beyond. Students will deepen their understanding of the strategies behind effective advocacy, capacity building, and organizing, both in the field and within institutions. In learning history, power structures, power relations, and pre-existing models, students will learn not only about changemaking but how to affect systemic change themselves. They will learn frameworks to understand social problems and alter power relations including theory of change, relational power building, and power mapping. By examining epidemics, social movements, community health, institutional failures, and public policy, this course will provide students the ability to understand the “why” and the “how” of becoming an advocate and organizer.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• W 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Kifah Shah
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• 1.5 points

Professional Leadership IV

This 14-week course, during the third year of the DPT curriculum, is the final in a series of 4 courses designed to educate students about the multiple dimensions of professional practice in contemporary physical therapy.  These courses will explore the professional roles of the PT as a clinician, educator and advocate and address trans-curricular themes including leadership, service, health promotion, advocacy and health policy, teaching & learning, interprofessional teamwork, management of the practice, and self-reflection, culminating in the creation of a digital portfolio. The course series includes broad exposure to a variety of professional and personal development experiences.

PLP IV will cover three intersecting content areas of the practicing clinician: Business Management, Health Care Policy, and Professional Practice. This course will also include the finalization and completion of the e-portfolio started in PLP I. 

Business Management

This course applies basic business, management and marketing concepts and principles to the practice of physical therapy across all settings. The course is designed to review and apply the framework of the US healthcare system within the confines of its capitalistic economy; ultimately driving the models within which patient care is provided in physical therapy. This content area is divided into four areas: 1) General Business Concepts & Organizational Capacity, 2) Entrepreneurial and Administrative Aspects of Health Care Delivery, 3) Branding & Marketing Communications, & 4) Economically Viable Plans for Sustainability of the Practice

Health Care Policy

An understanding of United States health care policy is necessary for physical therapists to participate effectively in the system. Health Care Policy introduces students to aspects of the United States health care system with an awareness of the needs and interests of the various stakeholders, including physical therapists. The content area examines both the pros and cons of select health care policies and encourages a discussion of the reasons and potential solutions for current issues in health policy and health care. The course explains the: 


Historical development and current organization of the United States health care system, including the influencing social philosophies and public policies of the different time periods 

Financing for and oversight of health care within the US system

Current issues in health policy an

• Department: Physical Therapy
• 2 points

Korean Cultural Studies Seminar

This course inaugurates a new seminar series that moves across the pre- and post-1945 divide to address cultural forms that navigate intersections among gender, sexuality, mind, body, self, race, empire, technology, militarism (among other concerns). Working across disciplines, the present seminar will focus on the institutionalization of care as central to the idea of the modern and the empirical project of modernization. We begin with an overview on science and technology followed by an engagement with clinical psychiatry, women’s health, and literary representations that connect incarceration to broader rehabilitative praxis. Building off of the discussion of the colonial medical complex, the seminar will conclude with a consideration of the relations between the colonial modern and postcolonial developmentalism.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Theodore Hughes
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• 4 points

Advanced Case Competition Fundamentals

Adv Case Competition Fund

The Course expands on the original case competition fundamentals course, offering students opportunities to mentor, teach and hone their analytical and case writing skills. Case competitions afford students the opportunity to apply classroom learning to dynamic health care organizational and industry problems. Students in their second year of the course will be asked to teach sections of the class and to research and write their own healthcare business case.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• W 4 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• Instructor: John McHugh
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• 1.5 points

Political Communication

POLS GR8228 is designed as a graduate-level introduction to the study of political communication. As an introduction to the field, it is structured to cover a wide range of topics and methodological approaches. No single course can provide comprehensive coverage of a fascinating subfield with as long and diverse a history as political communication. As such, this seminar will focus on relatively recent work. Students will leave this course with a strong grasp of major theories, trends, methods, findings and debates in this area of study, as well as the gaps in our knowledge and promising directions for future research.

• Department: Political Science
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Eunji Kim
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• 4 points

Human-Centered Non-Fiction In Public Hea

HMN-CNTRD NON-FCTN IN PBL

We are currently living in a climate of apathy, collective outrage, growing distrust in public institutions, and an onslaught of dangerous dis- and misinformation, especially about science. For those of us in public health these are challenging times. How can we write about pressing issues—race, disease, poverty, women’s rights, depression, homeless—and reach an audience that is contentious or refuses to listen? How can get these same people to care? In this class, we delve into the art of storytelling through reading human centered non-fiction and essays that focus on/speak to different public health issues. We will look closely at each genre, reading with an eye toward examining its goal, the narrative structure, main character, and issue at hand. Taking what we’ve learned we will apply these techniques to our own writing, developing the storytelling skills necessary to effectively communicate and “win over” the general public, and hopefully inspire and persuade readers to listen and act.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• R 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria Smilios
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• 1.5 points

Lessons from Transformative Advances

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Popular media routinely tout imminent breakthroughs that often fizzle. In this course, we examine advances that indisputably changed medical practice in the last quarter of the 20th century through case histories. The case histories suggest that protracted,
multiplayer
innovations – not solitary breakthroughs – produce transformational results. Yet venturesome individuals who do not follow the crowd remain crucial. Engaging stories make the vast number of facts presented in the case histories memorable. But the course treats learning new facts mainly as a valuable byproduct. Rather, we rely on the case histories in two more subtle ways, namely: (1) developing skills and judgment and (2) sharpening goals and aspirations.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• W 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Amarnath V Bhide
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• 3 points

SEM IN MUSIC COMPOSITION I

Individual projects in composition.

• Department: Music
• W 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 3 points

Urban Politics and Policy

All public policy occurs within a political context. The purpose of this seminar is to examine the politics of America's large cities. While we rely on case material from American cities the theoretical and applied problems we consider are relevant to understanding public policy in any global city. Cities are not legal entities defined in the American Constitution. Yet, historically they have developed a politics and policymaking process that at once seems archetypically American and strangely foreign We will consider whether America's traditional institutions of representation work for urban America; how the city functions within our federal system; and whether neighborhood democracy is a meaningful construct. We will also consider the impact of politics on urban policymaking. Can cities solve the myriad problems of their populations under existing institutional arrangements? Are cities really rebounding economically or does a crisis remain in communities beyond the resurgence in many downtown business districts? Do the economic and social factors which impact urban politics and policy delimit the city's capacity to find and implement solutions to their problems? Finally, can urban politics be structured to make cities places where working and middle class people choose to live and work and businesses choose to locate; the ultimate test of their viability in the twenty first century.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Ester Fuchs
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Race, Ethnicity, and Politics

• Department: Political Science
• T 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Andrew J McCall
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• 4 points

Blackness and the Psy Disciplines in Nin

19th-20th Cen Blackness &

This course offers a sample of historical research on debates around African-American intelligence, mental health, family organization, and other social scientific controversies from the era of slavery to the late 20th century. The principal assignment is a lesson plan, instructions for which will be supplied on the CourseWorks site.

Please note that you may not take this course as an auditor or pass/fail without the permission of the instructor.

Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences guidelines may be found at
http://gsas.columbia.edu/
. Those for the history department may be found at
http://history.columbia.edu/graduate/index.html
.

• Department: History
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Samuel K Jr Roberts
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• 4 points

S. The Business of Health and the Law

S. Bus of Health and Law

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

Music Beyond 12 Tone Temperament I

This class is intended for students to develop composing skills for creating music “between the keys” (or “outside the keys”) of a traditionally tuned piano or organ. We will be analyzing relevant works and techniques of the present and of the past. Students compose and perform/present their own music influenced by these works and techniques.  We will start with quartertones and with music independent from Western traditions.

• Department: Music
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Georg Friedrich Haas
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• 3 points

PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF NURSE ANESTHE

PRIN & PRAC NURS ANES III

This is the third of four didactic courses that discuss the various methods and techniques of anesthesia administration with an emphasis on the physiological basis for practice. Alterations in homeostatic mechanisms and advanced anesthetic management throughout the perioperative continuum of obstetric and pediatric care, and patients undergoing cardiac surgery are emphasized. Cultural humility will be incorporated into care plans to develop anesthetic management individualized to patient identities and cultures while including an emphasis on social and cultural health disparities.

• Department: Nursing
• M 9 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• 3 points

An Economic History of Central East and

Econ HIST: Austro-Hungari

Austria-Hungary was seen for a long time as a land of oppositions: an empire without colonies, a liberal parliamentarian state oppressing its nationalities, a Great Power shrinking instead of building an empire, the second largest state in Europe (except Russia) in terms of population numbers and still weak in terms of its economy. This course will look at one of these oppositions, the alleged absence of imperialism. In doing so we shall focus on the economics of the empire, its high capitalist circles, and Austria-Hungary’s economic presence in East, Central and Southeastern Europe.  Thus, the course presents the economic history of the region not in the conventional form of parallel national narratives, it is rather focusing on a structure that lent a kind of coherence to it.

Mobilizing the toolkit of political, social, economic and business history, the discussions shall revolve around what is economic and political imperialism, how businesses are embedded in national and local contexts, and how business networks operate and delineate economic regions without necessarily relying on politics or clashing with each other. We shall look at Austria-Hungary particularly as the story of its economic networks runs through the dissolution of the empire, shifting the focus from politics to business and social continuities. We shall think about how an Austro-Hungarian economic space was part of broader continental economic configurations reaching to the late Ottoman Empire and how a regional economic space is created. Finally, this story is a good starting point to think about rival understandings of capitalism.

This course is partly based on the ongoing research project of the instructor. Based on the linguistic skills of attendees, the students could engage with primary sources, and they will be able to gain experience with how research is developed and operationalized.

• Department: History
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Gabor Egry
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• 4 points

Leadership & Urban Transformation

American cities are playing an increasingly important role in America’s economic future. Whether it is high tech, clean energy, finance or expanded retail, the Mayor plays a unique and vital role in finding the solutions to our nation’s most important problems. Even as there is extraordinary optimism about the future of America’s cities, most continue to grapple with the devastating effects of 20th century deindustrialization and racial disparities in education, income, housing, and health. It has become the task of the Mayor to both balance the demands of disparate interests and govern fairly and effectively. As the federal government continues to disinvest in domestic policy, Mayors have taken up the challenge to ensure an urban future that both supports innovative economic development, sustainability, and social inclusion. In this course, we will explore how Mayors make their cities work, including campaigning for election, the relationship of politics to governing; managing the city bureaucracy; leadership during crisis, and transforming policy through innovation. I will rely on my experiences as Mayor of Philadelphia, but we will focus broadly on American cities. The readings will help provide additional theoretical and empirical context. With limited power but vast possibility, today’s Mayors can help set agendas not only for their cities, but also for their nation.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael A Nutter
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• 3 points

Authoritarianism

Priority Reg: EPD Concentration. 
The vast major of human society has been governed by non-democratic regimes.  Today more than half the world’s people live in autocracies.  Many SIPA students come from countries whose governments are not democratic, and will work in the public sector where the regime is not democratic.  Yet almost all of the literature of political science on how policy is made is devoted to democracy—its genesis, stability, challenges, consolidation, processes, merits and flaws. How are we to understand the regimes we collect together as “non-democratic?”  Do the authoritarian regimes of the world have anything in common? Are there effective ways to understand how policy in made in the absence of the transparent and routinized laws and procedures associated with democratic regimes? And are democratic regimes, once installed, immune to breakdown or change into less transparent, routinized and accountable regimes? This course is designed to examine these questions, to probe the notion of “authoritarianism” as an analytical concept, to explore how we should approach the study of policy-making processes in regimes that are stable, enduring, sometimes even dynamic and enlightened, but not democratic, and to investigate how such regimes arise from or develop into democracies. Note: this course entails a heavy reading load, frequent written assignments and active and sustained participation in class discussions.  Students who do not have prior experience in English medium university-level coursework may find it difficult and they should consult with the instructor about how to manage the course requirements. Attendance is required; class sessions will not be recorded.

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

FIRST FEATURES

• Department: Film
• M 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Tom Kalin
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• 1.5 points

S. Academic Scholars

• Department: Law
• T 2:20 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• 1 points

S. Advanced Seminar in Jewish Law

• Department: Law
• 1 points

Atmospheric and Climate Science for Publ

ATMOSPHERIC & CLIMATE SCI

This course introduces the fundamental physical principles that govern the behavior of the earth's atmosphere and climate. Topics to be studied include the general circulation of the atmosphere, motions on a rotating sphere, atmospheric thermodynamics, radiative transfer, the basic chemistry and physics of air pollution, the hydrologic cycle, climate dynamics and synoptic weather. The effects of these systems on public health, including mental health, rates of exercise, infectious disease, allergens and asthma, heat morbidity and mortality, will be assessed throughout the course.

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• TR 10 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Robbie Parks
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• 3 points

Examination & Evaluation

This is the first 15-week course during the first term of the DPT curriculum and the first clinical courses designed to overview basic patient/client examination and evaluation skills in accordance with the International Classification of Functioning (ICF) and the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) Guide to Physical Therapy Practice.

Introduction to the patient management model with emphasis on examination is presented in a lecture-lab format. The examination process is detailed including systems review and tests and measures of peripheral nerve integrity, flexibility, motor function, muscle performance, posture, and range of motion. Emphasis is placed on, manual muscle testing and goniometry. Students are introduced to clinical decision-making.

• Department: Physical Therapy
• 3 points

CRITICAL ISSUES METHODOLOGIES

• Department: Visual Arts
• M 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Tyler S Coburn
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• 3 points

DIGITAL STORY TELLING I: History and The

HISTORY&THEORY OF INTERACTIVIT

What does interaction have to do to storytelling? How do we tell stories within media that are non-linear, including games, virtual reality, and immersive theater? How can we craft narratives that emerge from the dynamics of interaction, narratives experienced through exploration and choice? What design strategies exist regarding an understanding of character, plot, drama, time, space, and event within interactive fictions? This course will take a close look at the mechanics of storytelling within dynamic media, exploring connections between interactivity and narrative experience. The course will examine examples ranging from the design of Live Action Role Playing games to massively multi-player experiences, from hypertext to tarot cards, from Oculus to Punchdrunk. Content will be delivered through lectures, reading, discussion, case studies, and small studio-based exercises. Elective open to all SOA students.

• Department: Film
• W 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Akmyrat Tuyliyev
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• 3 points

Occupational and Environmental Hygiene

OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONM

This course introduces students to the basic principles and practices of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene. This field encompasses the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, and control of chemical, physical, and biological hazards arising in and from the workplace, home, and ambient environments. The course content encompasses many diverse aspects of the field such as the inhalation hazards of gases and vapors, the effects of particle size and morphology on aerodynamic behavior, respiratory system deposition, and disease risk, factors influencing dermal permeation of chemicals, biological monitoring for chemicals and their metabolites, and approaches to measurement and associated instrumentation. This course is intended to provide a basic understanding of the field for students in Public Health disciplines, and is the starting point for students who may choose to pursue occupational and environmental hygiene as a career.

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• W 5 p.m.-7:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher F Pettinato
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• 3 points

CAPITAL MARKETS & INVESTMENTS

This course provides students with a rigorous foundation in capital markets and investments, emphasizing asset valuation from an applied perspective. It covers valuation techniques for financial securities, essential to portfolio management and risk management applications. Key topics include arbitrage, the term structure of interest rates, portfolio theory, diversification, equilibrium asset pricing models such as the CAPM, market efficiency and inefficiencies, performance evaluation, analysis of common pooled investment vehicles, behavioral finance, and tax-aware investment strategies. Through interactive activities, case studies, and simulations utilizing real-world market data, students will acquire analytical skills and foundational knowledge required for advanced finance courses and practical roles within the investment industry

• Department: Finance
• TR 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• TR 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• F 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m.
• T 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Kent Daniel
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• 3 points

Molecular Epidemiology

MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY

Molecular epidemiology is an interdisciplinary research approach that incorporates advanced laboratory methods into epidemiology to identify causes of disease and facilitate intervention. It is increasingly utilized as a tool to understand interactions between external ‘environmental’ exposures and genetic and other susceptibility factors, and to identify ‘at-risk’ populations and individuals. This course will cover conceptual and methodological issues in molecular epidemiology including the application of biomarkers to the study of disease causation, risk assessment, and prevention. The course covers principles in the selection and validation of biomarkers, study design and statistical methods in data analysis including gene-environment interactions, biological sample collection, storage, and banking, and current laboratory methods for biomarker analysis. These principles will be illustrated using examples from current molecular epidemiologic research in cancer, neurodevelopment, childhood asthma, screening, risk assessment and disease prevention. Students will gain proficiency and experience in critically evaluating key papers in molecular epidemiologic studies.

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• W 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• 3 points

Corporate Financial Management

Formerly known as Advanced Corporate Finance develops the art and science of optimal strategic decision-making by applying corporate financial theory to cases of financial policy, financial instruments and valuation. In particular, the following topics are studied: cost of capital and capital budgeting, discounted cash flow valuation and financial multiples, payout policy, equity and debt financing, option pricing theory and applications, corporate control and recapitalizations. The classes are structured to maximize the synergy between theory and practice, providing students portable, durable and marketable tools for their internships and careers.

• Department: Finance
• MF 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
• Instructor: John Moon
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• 3 points

Molecular Toxicology

MOLECULAR TOXICOLOGY

This course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive mechanistic understanding of the molecular events associated with chemically-induced degenerative and proliferative diseases.

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• T 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Greg A Freyer
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• 3 points

DEBT MARKETS

The course will describe the major players in Debt Capital Markets, key institutions, broad empirical regularities, and analytical tools that are used for pricing and risk management. Some parts of the course will be analytical while others will be largely institutional. Each session will be organized around one or two key topics. In addition, class notes will be used to supplement and clarify issues. Some selected papers will also be kept in Canvas to serve as background reading for class discussions.Outline of Key Topics:- Overview of Debt Securities: What are debt securities? What are their sources of risk and return? Historical performance of fixed income securities. - Major players and their functions: United States Treasury, Federal Reserve Banks, Primary Dealers, Inter-Dealer Brokers (IDB), Rating agencies, Sell-side and Buy-side institutions. - Bond mathematics: a) price and yield conventions, b) PVBP, Duration (modified, effective and key-rate), convexity, and negative convexity. Trading applications: spread trades, bullet vs barbell positions. - Term Structure Theory: Spot rates, forward rates, par yields, modeling interest rates and pricing bonds. - Structural models of default: Modeling credit risk, credit spreads and their behavior, Distance to default, forecasting rating changes, high-yield and investment-grade debt markets - Government, Agency and Corporate markets - Municipal markets - MBS: Structure of MBS markets, prepayments, Option Adjusted Spreads, Pass-through securities, REMICs, risk measures - Asset-backed markets - Derivatives: Treasury futures, Interest Rate Swaps, and Single-name credit default swaps - Clearinghouses vs exchanges vs OTC markets

• Department: Finance
• FMW 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Mahadevan S Sundaresan
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• 3 points

DERIVATIVES

Successful investing in Equities Markets requires more than just picking stocks given the wide
array of products at a portfolio manager's disposal. Through a combination of lectures, a case
study and guest speakers, this course is intended to provide firsthand experience on how
products like Options, Swaps, Futures, ETFs, and Structured Notes, and are structured, valued,
and used. Although most of the course relates to Equities, there will be some content on
Derivatives on other Asset Classes

• Department: Finance
• T 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Zurack
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

ECONOMETRICS COLLOQUIUM

Prerequisites: ECON G6411 and G6412. Students will make presentations of original research.

• Department: Economics
• W noon-1 p.m.
• 2 points

ADV CONTINUUM MECHANICS

Review of continuum mechanics in Cartesian coordinates; tensor calculus and the calculus of variation; large deformations in curvilinear coordinates; electricity problems and applications.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• MR 9 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Gautam Dasgupta
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 19 Info
• 4 points

Financial Stability Monitoring

Priority Reg: MPA-EPM. 
This course focuses on financial stability monitoring and evaluation as an essential discipline for macroeconomic, financial and prudential policymakers.  We begin by defining financial stability, examining the dynamic behavior of macroeconomic models with developed models of the financial sector, and considering conceptual frameworks for assessment of threats to financial stability.  From there, we identify key signatures of financial instability, how they can be measured and combined in a monitoring system, and how such measurement systems signal changes in the level of systemic risk.  Through case studies, class participation and two assignments, you will interpret these measures, develop questions for further investigation and assess the nature and extent of systemic risk. You will be asked to write two policy memoranda:  the first proposing and justifying a small set of financial stability indicators for monitoring; and the second assessing the risk of financial instability in indicators for that (or another) country, in indicators of vulnerabilities with strong network effects, and in unconventional risks such as cyber or widespread trade tensions.  Both assignments emphasize developing timely and persuasive analysis that prompts policymakers to consider the need for action to preserve financial stability.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Christine Cumming
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• 1.5 points

Principles of Toxicology

PRINCIPLES OF TOXICOLOGY

This course explains the toxic effects of chemicals (including drugs and other agents) on living organisms. An overview of the history, principles, mechanisms and regulatory applications of toxicology is provided. Also, the absorption, distribution and excretion of toxins are described. The toxic effects of chemicals (including cancer) on the digestive (liver), respiratory, cardiovascular, nervous, hematopoetic, immune, dermal, urinary, endocrine and reproductive systems and development forms the major portion of the course. Members of chemical classes such as solvents, metals, pesticides, air pollutants (sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and ozone), radiation, plants, fungi, venoms and pharmaceuticals are used as examples. Environmental toxicology form the primary emphasis, but aspects of occupational, food, pharmaceutical and clinical toxicology are also included.
An optional addition hour for credit is provided for those students needing a background in anatomy, histology, chemistry, biochemistry, cell biology, and the normal physiology of the digestive (liver), respiratory, cardiovascular, nervous, hematopoetic, immune, dermal, urinary, endocrine and reproductive systems.

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• M 1 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Allison Kupsco
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• 3 points

Macroprudential Policy

Priorty Reg: MPA-EPM. 
This short course will start with a brief overview of the post-crisis reforms and focus on the gap that macroprudential policy was meant to fill: the lack of a system-wide perspective on financial stability. It will explore the conceptual and practical difficulties in defining financial stability and setting an operational target for policy; provide a high-level overview of the tools for monitoring systemic risk, including stress tests, as well as of the various macroprudential policy instruments available to mitigate it; and discuss the governance challenges in setting up an institutional framework for macroprudential policy. The course will review how the major advanced economies (US, UK, Euro area) have tackled these issues, as well as discuss aspects of macroprudential policy specific to emerging market (EM) and developing countries. Lastly, the course will examine recent and emerging challenges to financial stability, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, cyber risk, and the transition to a low-carbon economy; discuss the experience so far with macroprudential policy responses to these challenges; and assess the adequacy of the existing tools to address them.

This course will have a practical focus, emphasizing the perspective and actual experience of policymakers. By the end of this course, students should have a good understanding of the concepts of financial stability and systemic risk and their measurement, as well as how they are applied in the real world; the difference between the micro- and macro-prudential approach to financial regulation; the architecture and working of macroprudential policy in a variety of country circumstances; the role of central banks and the associated political economy challenges; and emerging risks to financial stability. Students will be encouraged, including through class discussions and assignments, to approach these issues from the standpoint of policymakers.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Dimitrios Demekas
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• 1.5 points

THE FRAGMENT

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Eleonora Pistis
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• 4 points

ECONOMIC FLUCTUATIONS COLLOQ

Prerequisites: G6215 and G6216. Open-economy macroeconomics, computational methods for dynamic equilibrium analysis, and sources of business cycles.

• Department: Economics
• M 1 p.m.-2 p.m.
• 2 points

Frameworks for Environmental Health Poli

FRAMEWORKS FOR ENVIR HLTH

How should society regulate environmental health risks? Some argue that the health of the citizenry is paramount, and that the role of government should be to protect against any possibility of harm. Others back an approach based on a full accounting of the benefits and costs of environmental protection. And in the current political environment, ideological positions sometimes eclipse analysis. These debates occur against a backdrop of uncertainty about the health risks posed by specific environmental insults. In spite of all this ambiguity and complexity, policy happens: congress makes laws, regulatory agencies enforce the law, and most polluters comply.
In this class we will study several frameworks for thinking about these questions. Environmental economics, in the form of benefit-cost analyses, is the primary framing used by the US Federal Government. We will explore its conceptual foundations and its applications in the US regulatory context. In our discussions of the sociology of science perspective, we will examine how environmental health scientists interact with the policy process, and think through how such interactions might be improved. The third perspective is decision theory, and in particular, choice under uncertainty. We will consider the basic analytics of expected value, and some permutations and applications that are germane to the environmental health policy domain. In addition to these conceptual frameworks, we will analyze and interpret cases drawn from recent experiences with environmental health regulation in the United States.
This course is designed to introduce Mailman students to core frameworks for thinking about environmental health policy. The course is open to all students.

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• T 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Darby W Jack
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• 3 points