Note: SIPA IA9013 – Internship is available only to MIA and MPA students who entered SIPA before Fall 2025. Students who begin their studies in Fall 2025, as well as any continuing students who have opted into the new curriculum, must register for SIPA IA9015.
Internships are an integral part of the student experience at SIPA. Students in most of the MPA and MIA degree programs are required to register for and conduct an internship as part of their academic coursework. Still, all students are encouraged to explore internships as part of their education and career development. Students can register for a maximum of three internship credits toward their degree. Students who wish to earn internship credit for non-research internships will register for
SIPA U9013
in the fall or spring semesters. Note: SIPA does not permit registration for internship credit during the summer term. Students completing their internship during the summer months and wishing to earn academic credit must register in the Fall or Spring semester.
SIPA IA9013 Section 001: 1.5-points, Section 002: 3-points; Section 003: 0-points.
Note: SIPA IA9013 – Internship is available only to MIA and MPA students who entered SIPA before Fall 2025. Students who begin their studies in Fall 2025, as well as any continuing students who have opted into the new curriculum, must register for SIPA IA9015.
Internships are an integral part of the student experience at SIPA. Students in most of the MPA and MIA degree programs are required to register for and conduct an internship as part of their academic coursework. Still, all students are encouraged to explore internships as part of their education and career development. Students can register for a maximum of three internship credits toward their degree. Students who wish to earn internship credit for non-research internships will register for
SIPA U9013
in the fall or spring semesters. Note: SIPA does not permit registration for internship credit during the summer term. Students completing their internship during the summer months and wishing to earn academic credit must register in the Fall or Spring semester.
SIPA IA9013 Section 001: 1.5-points, Section 002: 3-points; Section 003: 0-points.
Note: SIPA IA9013 – Internship is available only to MIA and MPA students who entered SIPA before Fall 2025. Students who begin their studies in Fall 2025, as well as any continuing students who have opted into the new curriculum, must register for SIPA IA9015.
Internships are an integral part of the student experience at SIPA. Students in most of the MPA and MIA degree programs are required to register for and conduct an internship as part of their academic coursework. Still, all students are encouraged to explore internships as part of their education and career development. Students can register for a maximum of three internship credits toward their degree. Students who wish to earn internship credit for non-research internships will register for
SIPA U9013
in the fall or spring semesters. Note: SIPA does not permit registration for internship credit during the summer term. Students completing their internship during the summer months and wishing to earn academic credit must register in the Fall or Spring semester.
SIPA IA9013 Section 001: 1.5-points, Section 002: 3-points; Section 003: 0-points.
Note: Beginning with the entering class of Fall 2025, all MIA and MPA SIPA students are required to register for SIPA IA9015 to fulfill the School’s internship requirement. This course carries no academic credit and is intended to formally record completion of the internship component of the degree program.
the internship experience is a vital component of a SIPA education, providing students with opportunities to apply their classroom learning to real-world challenges, develop professional skills, and expand their networks. The Career Advancement Center supports students throughout this process with dedicated advising, access to a wide range of internship opportunities, and professional development resources to ensure each internship contributes meaningfully to their career goals.
Visit SIPA Career Advancement Center for more information.
Note: Beginning with the entering class of Fall 2025, all MIA and MPA SIPA students are required to register for SIPA IA9015 to fulfill the School’s internship requirement. This course carries no academic credit and is intended to formally record completion of the internship component of the degree program.
the internship experience is a vital component of a SIPA education, providing students with opportunities to apply their classroom learning to real-world challenges, develop professional skills, and expand their networks. The Career Advancement Center supports students throughout this process with dedicated advising, access to a wide range of internship opportunities, and professional development resources to ensure each internship contributes meaningfully to their career goals.
Visit SIPA Career Advancement Center for more information.
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
This seminar supports the writing and revision of the MIA policy thesis. Building on the Fall Preparatory Seminar, students will conduct in-depth research, develop their arguments, and produce a polished, 30-page thesis that examines a pressing international policy challenge. The thesis must include historical and contextual background, policy analysis, and a reasoned recommendation for reform, continuation, or change. Students will meet individually with the instructor throughout the semester and present a brief oral defense of their findings. A mid-semester draft and final submission are required.
Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Individual research and tutorial in archaeology for advanced graduate students.
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
This course is restricted to PhD in Sustainable Development
This course has two primary objectives: first, to provide a structured way to think about—and conduct research in—the field of sustainable development. Second, to introduce formal models of dynamic, coupled human and environmental systems.
When externalities go uncorrected, and public goods go undersupplied, the reason is not that the market fails; the reason is that governments are unable or unwilling to intervene effectively. The biggest problem is with transnational externalities and regional and global public goods. This is partly because of the scale of these problems, but it is also because the institutional arrangements at this level make effective intervention difficult. There is no World Government. Instead, there are around 200 sovereign states. To support sustainable development globally, states must cooperate, and yet states' self-interests often conflict with their collective interests. This is why all countries agree that collective action must be taken to limit climate change, and yet, though they try and try again, countries seem unable to muster the individual action needed to meet their own collective goal. The aim of this course is to develop an apparatus for understanding international collective action for sustainable development. By an apparatus, I mean a theory, a structured way of looking at and understanding the world. Rather than just present the theory, my aim is to show you why theory is needed, how it has been constructed, and what its strengths and weaknesses are. Basically, in addition to teaching you principles and tools, I want you to come to see how this field has developed, what it has achieved, and where it has fallen short. Throughout the course, we shall also be looking at tests and applications of the theory-empirical and experimental papers in addition to case studies. The course draws from a number of disciplines, especially economics, game theory (analytical and experimental), and international relations-but also international law, philosophy, history, the natural and physical sciences, and engineering. The focus will be on institutions, and the way that they restructure the relations among states to cause states to behave differently-that is, to cause them to undertake collective action. In terms of applications, the course will address not only climate change but also depletion of the ozone layer, trans-boundary air pollution, pollution of the oceans, over-fishing, biodiversity loss, and the emergence and spread of infectious diseases.
This is a course designed for first- and second-year graduate students who are interested in the issue of community formation, lineage, genealogy, transmission, and translation, whether textual or cultural. Course texts will be a combination of theoretical interventions and case studies drawn from major religious traditions. The learning goals of the course are the following: (1) to introduce seminal interpretive and/or methodological issues in the contemporary study of transmission; (2) to read several theoretical “classics” in the field, to provide a foundation for further reading; (3) to sample, where possible, new writing in the field; and (4) to encourage students to think of ways in which the several issues and authors surveyed might provide models for their own ongoing research work.
All anthropology graduate students are required to attend. Reports of ongoing research are presented by staff members, students, and special guests.