MASTERS RESEARCH

Individual research in the student's field of specialization at the masters level.  DEES PhD students register for this in the semester in which thay take their Masters Exam.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• Instructor: Carol Mountain
  Info
• 4 points

MESAAS RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM

This course provides a structured setting for stand-alone M.A. students in their final year and Ph.D. students in their second and third years to develop their research trajectories in a way that complements normal coursework. The seminar meets approximately biweekly and focuses on topics such as research methodology; project design; literature review, including bibliographies and citation practices; grant writing. Required for MESAAS graduate students in their second and third year.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Sudipta Kaviraj
  Wikipedia Info
• 2 points

IBERIAN COLLECTIVE MEMORY

This class is at once an introduction to the material archive and scholarly practices that characterized early modern Iberian antiquarianism and an exploration of how modern political polemics have transformed the meaning of that archive. Our first of two principal goals will be to examine the works of sixteenth-century peninsular antiquarians such as Pedro de Medina and Ambrosio de Morales, who catalogued and studied buildings, monuments, landscapes, neighborhoods, ruins, manuscripts, coins, relics, and myriad other sorts of artifacts. The compilations produced by these scholars did not simply function as inventories of ancient and medieval antiquities, which local, regional, or imperial apologists might then celebrate as a source of pride. They also established these antiquities as “sites of memory,” to borrow a term from the French historian Pierre Nora. By experimenting with different ways to document and interpret the peninsula’s multiconfessional past, early modern antiquarians moreover demarcated the conceptual territory upon which conservative apologists for a Catholic Spain and liberal proponents of religious and cultural pluralism have subsequently clashed. In order to trace this modern debate over the legacy of pre-modern material culture, which is the second main goal of this class, we will balance our early modern sources with interdisciplinary scholarship on collective memory and the anthropology and sociology of religion. Readings include early modern texts and visual materials by Francisco Bermúdez de Pedraza, Rodrigo Caro, Pablo de Céspedes, Pedro Díaz de Ribas, Pedro de Medina, Ambrosio de Morales, and Lucius Marineus Siculus, as well as scholarship by Eric Calderwood, Astrid Eril, Barbara Fuchs, Maurice Halbwachs, Andreas Huyssen, Susan Martín-Márquez, Pierre Nora, and Mikaela Rogozen-Soltar, among others.

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• W 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Seth R Kimmel
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

ASTROPHYSICS I

Prerequisites: a strong undergraduate background in E-M and classical mechanics. Qualified undergraduates may be admitted with the instructor's permission.
The basic physics of high energy astrophysical phenomena. Protostars, equations of stellar structure; radiative transfer theory;  stellar nucleosynthesis; radiative emission processes; equations of state and cooling theory  for neutron stars and white dwarfs, Oppenheimer-Volkoff equation; Chandrasekhar limit; shocks and fluids; accretion theory for both disks and hard surfaces; black hole orbits and light bending.

• Department: Physics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Charles J Hailey
  CULPA: 42 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE PHILOLOGY

• Department: Medieval and Renaissance Studies
• Instructor: Adam Kosto
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 3 points

MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE PHILOLOGY

• Department: Medieval and Renaissance Studies
• Instructor: Adam Kosto
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 4 points

NATL IN MID EAST AS IDEA/PRAC

Intends to familiarize students with the most recent theories dealing with nationalism from a variety of angles and perspectives.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph A Massad
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

CLIMATE CHANGE LAW

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
• Instructor: Michael Gerrard
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

QUANTUM MECHANICS II

Prerequisites:
PHYS W4021-W4022
, or their equivalents.
Applications to atoms and molecules, including Thomas-Fermi and Hartree-Fock atoms; interaction of radiation with matter; collision theory; second quantization.

• Department: Physics
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Norman H Christ
  CULPA: 34 Wikipedia Info
• 4.5 points

INTL ENERGY PROJECT FINANCE

Project finance is frequently employed in energy investment to allocate risk between major energy companies, entrepreneurs, equity and debt providers, government agencies, and other industry participants. The course will explain how this risk allocation is accomplished through a survey of projects in the various energy sectors: international oil & gas production, LNG export, electric generation both fossil-fueled and renewables, price-hedged and merchant. The objective of the course is to provide participants with a practical grasp of which types of energy projects are suitable for project finance. The following areas will be addressed: business risk analysis, cashflow analysis, and sources of equity and debt capital.

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

INT'L ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

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
• Instructor: Susan Biniaz
  Info
• 2 points

EXPERIMENTAL METHODS

EXPT'L METHODS IN NUCL/PART PH

Prerequisites:
PHYS W4021
or the instructor's permission.
Introduction to current experimental methods and techniques in nuclear and particle physics. Radiation properties, passage of radiation through matter, and the statistical treatment of experimental data. General characteristics and the principles of operation of different detectors.

• Department: Physics
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Elena Aprile
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

QUANTUM FIELD THEORY I

Lagrangian density formalism of Lorentz scalar, Dirac and Weyl spinor, and vector gauge fields. Action variations, symmetries, conservation laws.  Canonical quantization, Fock space.  Interacting local fields, temporal evolution. Wicks theorem, propagators, and vertex functions, Feynman rules and diagrams.  Scattering S matrix examples with tree level amplitudes. Path quantization. 1-loop intro to renormalization.

• Department: Physics
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Frederik Denef
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 36 Info
• 4.5 points

PSYCHOPHYSIOLGCL METH/ANALYSIS

• Department: Psychology
• MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Niall Bolger
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 55 Info
• 4 points

TPC NEUROSCI & DEEP LEARN

TPC: FRUIT FLY BRAIN AS NEURO

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• M 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Aurel A Lazar
  h-index: 53 Info
• 3 points

CURRENT ISSUES:ENERGY POLICY

Prerequisites: INAF U6072
The purpose of this course is: (1) to familiarize participants with six current issues in energy policy, (2) to better understand the interplay of policy and political factors that guide public sector decision-making, and (3) to improve skills for drafting memoranda to senior policymakers.  The class will focus on U.S. energy policy, but explore policies in other countries as well.  Sub-national, national and international issues will be examined.  The five issues studied will be: Carbon tariffs; Solar net metering; Cyber attacks on the electric grid; Global energy governance; Energy jobs.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: David Sandalow
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• 1.5 points

ENERGY MANAGEMENT: PUBLIC & PRIVATE SECT

ENERGY MANAGEMENT PUB/PRI SECT

This course delivers students a practical view and associated tools for management of energy in individual facilities as well as throughout larger portfolios of facilities or assets. Students will review aspects of the operations involved in the Energy Manger's role including how energy markets and policies intersect with the facility and portfolio investment and management. Through class lectures, industry articles, site visits, assigned readings, and expert speakers, the course will provide students with the ability to understand how energy policy, markets, and regulation intersect with operational personnel, equipment, budgets, and contracts. Case studies where students assess the success of various theoretical concepts and applications are included.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Kristin L Barbato
  Info
• 3 points

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS I

Prerequisites:
PHYS E6081
or the instructor’s permission.
Semiclassical and quantum mechanical electron dynamics and conduction; dielectric properties of insulators; semiconductors; defects; magnetism; superconductivity; low-dimensional structures; soft matter.

• Department: Physics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Boris Altshuler
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ENERGY & NATIONAL SECURITY

This course will examine the nexus between global energy issues and national security. It will provide students with a deeper understanding of the often complex technological, political, and national security issues that arise from the intersection of global energy issues and national security. They will learn how policy is formed around these issues in the US and other countries, including domestic political and geopolitical considerations. The course will begin with an overview of the dramatic paradigm shifts currently taking place in the global energy industry. We will then analyze and discuss the geopolitical and national security implications associated with these transformations. During the next two classes, students will take a deeper dive into two specific areas: threats to energy infrastructure and nuclear security. The nuclear security session will feature a case study of the MOX plutonium disposition project, which will provide students with a candid look at the competing political, economic, foreign policy and national security objectives that one often finds in a highly complex, multibillion dollar project. In the last section of the course, students will prepare for and actively participate in a mock White House Situation Room decision meeting with respect to an energy-related national security crisis, which will be provided to them in advance. Throughout the course, students will be expected to analyze the technology, geopolitical, and national security implications of each topic, to make policy recommendations, and to advocate for their positions during class discussions.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: John Macwilliams
  Info
• 1.5 points

CLASSICAL FIELDS & WAVES

Prerequisites:
PHYS G6092
.
This course will study the classical field theories used in electromagnetism, fluid dynamics, plasma physics, and elastic solid dynamics. General field theoretic concepts will be discussed, including the action, symmetries, conservation laws, and dissipation. In addition, classical field equations will be analyzed from the viewpoint of macroscopic averaging and small-parameter expansions of the fundamental microscopic dynamics. The course will also investigate the production and propagation of linear and nonlinear waves; with topics including linearized small-amplitude waves, ordinary and extraordinary waves, waves in a plasma, surface waves, nonlinear optics, wave-wave mixing, solitons, shock waves, and turbulence.

• Department: Physics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Andrei Beloborodov
  Info
• 4.5 points

CONFLICT ASSESSMENT

CAPSTONE - CONFLICT ANALYSIS

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• SUSU 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Beth Fisher-Yoshida
  Info
• 6 points

STAT MODELLNG/DATA ANALYSIS II

Prerequisites: STAT GR6101
 Continuation of
STAT GR6101
.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Yang Feng
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS

• Department: Statistics
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Liam M Paninski
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

OLD RUSSIAN LITERATURE II

• Department: Slavic Languages
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Valentina Izmirlieva
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 3 points

Statistical Consulting

Prerequisites: STAT GR6102 or instructor permission.
The Deparatment's doctoral student consulting practicum.  Students undertake pro bono consulting activities for Columbia community researchers under the tutelage of a faculty mentor.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Regina Dolgoarshinnykh
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 2 points

STATISTICAL COMPUTING WITH SAS

This is a Public Health Course.  Public Health classes are offered on the Health Services Campus at 168th Street. For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses

• Department: Biostatistics
• F 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Jihui Lee
  Info
• 3 points

FICTION SEMINAR

COMEDY AND CALAMITY

• Department: Writing
• M 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Rivka R Galchen
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

FICTION SEMINAR

THE PERIPHERAL WRITER

• Department: Writing
• M 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Erroll G McDonald
  Info
• 3 points

FICTION SEMINAR

AN EARNEST LOOK AT IRONY

• Department: Writing
• M 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Ben Metcalf
  Info
• 3 points

FICTION SEMINAR

ARCHITECTURE OF A STORY

• Department: Writing
• W 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Lara Vapnyar
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• 3 points

FUNDAMENTALS OF ECOLOGY

Prerequisites: Required course for first year Ph.D. students and second year M.A. students on academic track.
Covers foundational topics and developments in many branches of ecology, including population, community, and ecosystems ecology.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• 3 points

THESIS RESEARCH & WRITING SEMINAR

THESIS RES & WRITING SEM

Course description:
This seminar is intended for masters students in Religion who are writing and completing a thesis or other paper of similar length and scope. Enrolled students will work with the instructor, their advisor or second faculty reader, and seminar participants to develop, research, and write a thesis.

Preparation and prerequisites:
Instructor’s permission is required to enroll. Students are
strongly
encouraged to discuss the feasibility of potential thesis topics with a faculty member in Religion (preferably their advisor or other suitable faculty member), and if relevant also strive to identify key primary texts or sources, in advance of the semester.  

Course structure:
The seminar will meet weekly. The first part of the term will focus on thesis development including scholarly scope, “fit” between theory and methodological approach, and the organization of a literature review and bibliography. The second part of the term will focus on workshopping drafts and sections in development, and ultimately full drafts.

• Department: Religion
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Courtney Bender
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

RELIABLE SOFTWARE

• Department: Computer Science
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Junfeng Yang
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 33 Info
• 3 points

FOUNDATIONS OF CONFLICT ANALYSIS

FOUND OF CONFL ANALYSIS

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Beth Fisher-Yoshida
  Info
• 3 points

NUMERICAL MTHS IN GEOMECHANICS

Prerequisites: (EAEE E3112) and (CIEN E4241) or instructor's permission.
A detailed survey of numerical methods used in geomechanics, emphasizing the Finite Element Method (FEM). Review of the behavior of geological materials. Water and heat flow problems. FEM techniques for solving nonlinear problems, and simulating incremental excavation and loading on the surface and underground.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Xi Chen
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia h-index: 64 Info
• 3 points

ENGLISH RENAISSANCE DRAMA

This graduate seminar course focuses on the theatre of Elizabethan England, with particular emphasis on London’s emergent commercial theatre from the 1560s through to the 1590s. It will introduce students to a range of plays in all genres, from 
Gorboduc
 to 
Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay
, with special attention to the output of John Lyly and Christopher Marlowe, and use these plays to explore aspects of Elizabeth theatre, including the playhouses, companies, repertory, playwriting, and the printing of plays.  Special attention will be paid to the archival manuscript sources of theatre history and critical study, and a series of current critical debates about all aspects of this rich dramatic tradition.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Alan Stewart
  CULPA: 14 h-index: 13 Info
• 4 points

ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROCESSES

Prerequisites: (CIEE E4252) and (CIEE E4163) or the equivalent, or the instructor's permission.
Fundamentals and applications of key physicochemical processes relevant to water quality engineering (such as water treatment, waste water treatment/reuse/recycling, desalination) and the natural environment (e.g., lakes, rivers, groundwater).

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Yin Yip Ngai
  h-index: 26 Info
• 3 points

INDUSTRIAL CATALYSIS

Prerequisites: (EAEE E4550) or equivalent, or instructor's permission.
Fundamental principles of kinetics, characterization and preparation of catalysts for production of petroleum products for conventional transportation fuels, specialty chemicals, polymers, food products, hydrogen and fuel cells and the application of catalysis in biomass conversion to fuel. Update of the ever changing demands and challenges in environmental applications, focusing on advanced catalytic applications as described in modern literature and patents.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Farrauto
  h-index: 52 Info
• 3 points

APPLYING CONFLICT ANALYSIS

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Beth Fisher-Yoshida
  Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Topics in Software engineering arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis. Since the content of this course changes, it may be repeated for credit with advisor approval. Consult the department for section assignment.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Gail E Kaiser
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

CHEKHOV:STORIES&PLAYS;

A detailed consideration, in the original, of Chekhov’s corpus of innovative short stories and dramas, with particular attention to how they work, how they work together, what they work with, and how best to work with them.  Readings include both primary and secondary sources; students will also have the opportunity to attend or view productions of some of the theatrical works.  Strong reading proficiency in Russian required.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Cathy Popkin
  CULPA: 21 Info
• 4 points

SEXUAL DIFF OF PSYCHOANAL

Psychoanalysis makes a difference.
This difference is both at its most fragile and most flagrant when it comes to
sexuality
. Since its invention by Freud, psychoanalysis may be seen as a place where sexuality, the difference that it makes in respect to any other determination of the “human”—philosophical, social, historical, or scientific—as well as the difference and differences that occur with and as the sexual, can invent their own language or speak in their own voice. And it cannot be excluded that these, language, voice, and speaking, appear in the name of a criticism or refusal of the very concepts linked to “sexual difference.”
This seminar presents an occasion to read or reread some of the classical psychoanalytic texts on sex, sexuality, sexual difference, and sexuation as well as their commentaries, criticisms, or refutations.
The French contributions to this complex since the 1960s, coming from psychoanalysis as well as from philosophy and literature, have been extremely rich. Therefore, particular attention will be paid to some of these contributions.

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Marcus Coelen
  Info
• 4 points

NEW DRUG DEV:REGULAT OVERVIEW

NEW DRUG DEV: REGULAT OVERVIEW

• Department: Biostatistics
• F 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Robert Mac Arthur
  Info
• 3 points

RESOLUTION STRATEGIES

CAPSTONE - RESOLUTION STRATEGI

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• SUS 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Jose Pascal da Rocha
  h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points

STATISTICL INFERENCE THEORY II

Prerequisites: STAT GR6201
Continuation of
STAT G6201

• Department: Statistics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Sumit Mukherjee
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 13 Info
• 4 points

THEORETICAL STATISTICS III

MATH STAT III

Prerequisites: STAT G6201 and STAT G6201
This course will mainly focus on nonparametric methods in statistics.  A tentavie list of topics to be covered include nonparametric density and regression function estimation -- upper bounds on the risk of kernel estimators and matching lower bounds on the minimax risk, reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces, bootstrap and resampling methods, multiple hypothesis testing, and high dimensional stastistical analysis.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Bodhisattva Sen
  h-index: 24 Info
• 4 points

SW PRACTICE WITH CHILDREN

SOCIAL WORK WITH CHILDREN

• Department: Social Work
• W 2 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Elisabeth Carpenter
  Info
• 3 points

THEORIES & DEBATES-AMER POL II

This is the second of two semester-long courses that provide graduate students with an overview of the scholarly study of American politics. G6210 and G6211 constitute the American politics "field survey." The field survey is designed for political science graduate students who intend to specialize in American politics, as well as for those students whose primary interests are comparative politics, international relations, or political theory, but who desire an intensive introduction to the "American" style of political science. In this course we will cover a range of topics related to American politics that, for the most part, are not covered in G6210. The reading assignments are a mix of foundational contributions (i.e., the canons of American politics literature) and recent research. The first part of each seminar session will aim to clarify and probe enduring puzzles, theories, and debates highlighted in the foundational texts. The latter portion of the seminar session will focus on how recent research is continuing to engage the ongoing debates and puzzles.

• Department: Political Science
• Instructor: Donald P Green
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 87 Info
• 4 points

HISTORY FOR FUTURE POLICYMAKERS

HIST FOR FUTURE POLICYMAKERS

Leaders often invoke the lessons of history, but rarely talk about anything but a few familiar episodes. Even if we can all agree that we should avoid another attack on Pearl Harbor or war in Vietnam, does this actually help us make decisions about the future? In this course, students will explore both the problems and the opportunities with using historical analysis to grapple with present and future challenges. They will develop a deeper understanding of the most often cited historical episodes, but also learn how to avoid using analogies in the place of more original thinking. That means thinking like a historian, and the course will introduce key concepts that can be used to analyze a range of complex challenges, including continuity and change, contingency and inevitability, human agency and structural constraints. But they will also learn how NOT to think like a historian, such as using history as a weapon, and extrapolating into the future.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Sarah C Kovner
  Info
• 3 points

INTERMEDIATE STATISTICAL MECH

Prerequisites:
CHEM G4221
and
CHEM G4230
.
Phase transitions and critical phenomena; renormalization group methods; classical theory of fluids.

• Department: Chemistry
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Bruce Berne
  CULPA: 14 h-index: 115 Info
• 2.5 points

READINGS IN MOD ISLAMIC TEXTS

READINGS IN MODERN ISLAMIC TEX

Prerequisites: proficiency in reading advanced Arabic.
This seminar is conducted entirely in the original Arabic writings of the Moroccan philosopher Taha Abdurrahman. Having recently emerged as the premier moral philosopher of the Muslim world, Abdurrahman requires an attentive reading in light of the intellectual, historical and cultural constructions of the modern Islamic world, on the one hand, and Western moral and political conceptions, on the other. The seminar attempts to assess Abdurrahman’s critique of modernity as one that integrates the intellectual productions of Islamic history as serious contributions to modernity’s critiques currently placed on Western academic tables. On a wider scale, and through an examination of this philosopher’s work, this seminar also aims to bring the modern Islamic tradition into dialogue with the relevant questions and debates now animating modern moral philosophy (and to a lesser extent political theory, law and philosophy at large). Please note, this course must be taken for a letter grade.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Wael Hallaq
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

ADV INTERNATIONAL MACRO

Prerequisites: ECON GR6211 and ECON GR6212 and ECON GR6215 and ECON GR6216 and ECON GR6411 and ECON GR6412 and ECON GR6410 and ECON GR6930
This course brings students to the frontier of research in International Macroeconomics.  It covers developments in a number of topics relevant for understanding the workings of open economies, including financial frictions, sovereign default, nominal frictions and exchange-rate policy, terms-of-trade shocks and real exchange-rate determination. By the end of the course, students are expected to demonstrate ability to formulate, characterize, estimate, and simulate theoretical and statistical models at the level of a paper publishable in a top field journal.

• Department: Economics
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Martin Uribe
  CULPA: 16 Wikipedia h-index: 52 Info
• 3 points

ENERGY POLICY

The course provides a survey and analysis of the various dimensions, domestic and international, of policy formulation that, taken together, constitute energy policy. These dimensions include contributing to access to and production of natural energy resources; insuring the security and reliability of energy sources; promoting the diversity of fuels and development of new  technologies in light of energy security and climate change mitigation objectives; promoting energy conservation and energy efficiency; environmental regulation at the domestic (air and water quality) and global (climate) levels. The objectives inspiring these policies are pursued through a combination of reliance on energy markets; subsidies and tax policy; development of energy infrastructure and a broad array of international policies influencing relations among and between net exporting and net importing countries. The origin of each policy issue, and lessons from significant "market failures," are examined and the consequences of policy alternatives are evaluated.  The major legal and regulatory themes of U.S. energy policy are examined (Part 1) and so are the essential dimensions of international policies affecting the international energy scene.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Jason E Bordoff
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• 3 points

CAPSTONE: RESOLUTION STRATEGIES

CAPSTONE RESOLUTION STRATEGIES

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Jose Pascal da Rocha
  h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points

INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION III

Prerequisites:
ECON G6211
and
ECON G6212
.
This is an empirical course comprised of two parts. The first part examines single agent dynamics, and multi-agent dynamics (dynamic games). Both methodological advances and empirical applications will be discussed. Some of the topics that will be covered include: investment and replacement problems, durable goods, consumer learning, price dispersion and search costs, learning by doing, and networks and switching costs. There will be a strong focus on estimation details of dynamic oligopoly models. The second part of the course will review empirical models of imperfect information including auctions, moral hazard, and adverse selection.

• Department: Economics
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Tobias Salz
  Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED CRYPTOGRAPHY

Prerequisites: (COMS W4261)
A study of advanced cryptographic research topics such as: secure computation, zero knowledge, privacy, anonymity, cryptographic protocols.  Concentration on theoretical foundations, rigorous approach, and provable security.  Contents varies between offerings. May be repeated for credit.

• Department: Computer Science
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Allison Bishop
  Info
• 3 points

ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY ISRAELI-ARAB CONFL

ENVIRO HIST ISRAELI-ARAB CONFL

This course looks at the environmental connections of the century long Israeli-Arab conflict. Focusing on the core element of the conflict - the territorial contest over historic Palestine – it also looks at environmentally pertinent events and processes along and across Israel's frontiers with its other Arab neighbors Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. Relatively small in size, historic Palestine was defined in the 20th century by two opposing demographic transformations: the arrival of millions of diasporic Jews driven by a desire to 'return' to a historic homeland from which, they believe, their ancestors had been banished 2000 years ago; and the forced departure in early 1948 of 750,000 Palestinians refugees. Fleeing a war which ended with a sovereign  Israel and the demise, for many decades, of hopes for their own self determination, Palestinian refugees, their descendants and Palestinians generally harbor a powerful persuasion of their own of an imminent return. This two pronged demographic upheaval coincided with a relentless drive  for modernization and rapid economic growth, first in Israel, later in Palestinian nation-building  and state-building efforts. Interlocked in a dual of nationalizing territorial projects, the two communities developed important public institutions which, while inherently committed to development and growth, are equally preoccupied with an external nemesis. It is a struggle in which Israel has so far had the upper hand, with consequences also for its relations with its other Arab neighbors.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Dan Rabinowitz
  h-index: 34 Info
• 3 points

RESEARCH SEMINAR

Prerequisites: degree in biological sciences.
Lectures by visiting scientists, faculty, and students; specific biological research projects; with emphasis on evolution, ecology, and conservation biology.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• R 2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria Diuk-Wasser
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• 1 points

GEOPHYSICAL INVERSE THEORY

Basic techniques of linear and non-linear inverse theory, and the validation of numerical models with sparse and noisy data. Includes discussion of genetic algorithms and evolutionary programming, theories of optimization, parameter tradeoffs, and hypothesis testing.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• MW 3:30 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
• Instructor: William H Menke
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 3 points

NETWORKING & SUSTAINABILITY

CAPSTONE - NETWORKING & SUS

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• R 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark A Whitlock
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• 3 points

ANALYTIC METHODS FOR PDE'S

Prerequisites: (APMA E3101) and (APMA E4200) or their equivalents, Advanced calculus, basic concepts in analysis, or instructor's permission.
Introduction to analytic theory of PDEs of fundamental and applied science; wave (hyperbolic), Laplace and Poisson equations (elliptic), heat (parabolic) and Schroedinger (dispersive) equations; fundamental solutions, Green's functions, weak/distribution solutions, maximum principle, energy estimates, variational methods, method of characteristics; elementary functional analysis and applications to PDEs; introduction to nonlinear PDEs, shocks; selected applications.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• 3 points

PROBABILITY THEORY II

Prerequisites: STAT GR6301.
Conditional distributions and expectations. Martingales; inequalities, convergence and closure properties, optimal stopping theorems, Burkholder-Gundy inequalities, Doob-Meyer decomposition, stochastic integration, Ito's rule. Brownian motion: construction, invariance principles and random walks, study of sample paths, martingale representation results Girsanov Theorem. The heat equation, Feynman-Kac formula. Dirichlet problem, connections with potential theory. Introduction to Markov processes: semigroups and infinitesimal generators, diffusions, stochastic differential equations.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Philip Protter
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• 4 points

INEQUALITY & AMERICAN POLITICS

A substantial number of scholarly and popular analyses of rising inequality have appeared in recent years, and the subject has occasioned increasing debate. Yet there are many unresolved questions about the role of American politics and policy in reshaping the U.S. economic distribution, as well about the effects that this changing distribution have had on American political organization, participation, and influence. And, of course, there is currently intense debate about which political and economic reforms might be desirable or possible in the face of these linked transformations of the polity and economy. These are the issues taken up in this course. The purpose of this course is to encourage students to think critically and analytically about the ways in which growing inequality—particularly the hyper-concentration of income and wealth at the very top of the economic ladder—have intersected with the transformation of American politics over the past generation. In addition to developing a better of understand of why inequality has risen and how this development is related to politics and policy, the course encourages students to think seriously about what can be done to address both inequality itself and the political imbalances associated with it.

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

NONPROFIT FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

There are more than one million nonprofit organizations in the United States and hundreds of thousands more internationally and the number is growing.  The nonprofit sector includes an enormous diversity of organizations, ranging from complex health care systems, to education and arts institutions, to small community-based human service organizations.  This course will provide students with a comprehensive understanding of how to conduct the financial management of a nonprofit entity. Through the use of readings, case studies, a class project and lecture, we will study financial statements, financial analysis, and accounting for non-profit organizations and international NGOs.  We will examine how the principles of financial management assist the nonprofit and NGO manager in making operating, budgeting, capital, and long-term financial planning decisions.  We will also explore contemporary ethical, accountability, and mission issues facing national and international organizations.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• WR 1 p.m.-2 p.m.
• 0 points

ANALOG SYSTEMS IN VLSI

Prerequisites: (ELEN E4312)
Analog-digital interfaces in very large scale integrated circuits. Precision sampling; A/D and D/A converter architectures; continuous-time and switched capacitor filters; system considerations. A design project is an integral part of this course.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Timothy Dickson
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• 3 points

MICROWAVE CIRCUIT DESIGN

Prerequisites: (ELEN E3331) and (ELEN E3401) or equivalent.
Introduction to microwave engineering and microwave circuit design. Review of transmission lines. Smith chart, S-parameters, microwave impedance matching, transformation and power combining networks, active and passive microwave devices, S-parameter-based design of RF and microwave amplifiers. A microwave circuit design project (using microwave CAD) is an integral part of the course.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Yves Baeyens
  h-index: 31 Info
• 3 points

CLIN NUCLEAR MEDICINE PHYSICS

Prerequisites: (APPH E4010) or equivalent.
Introduction to the instrumentation and physics used in clinical nuclear medicine and PET with an emphasis on detector systems, tomography and quality control. Problem sets, papers and term project.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Pat Zanzonico
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• 3 points

TOXIC BASICS HLTH DISCIP

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• R 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Diane Gourion-Arsiquaud
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• 3 points

PROSEMINAR IN MUSIC THEORY

Overview of current work in Music Theory, an analysis, perception, and philosophy. Major areas of research and methodological challenges.

• Department: Music
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Benjamin A Steege
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• 3 points

SUSTAIN DEVEL & GLOB ENVIRO HLTH

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• R 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Yasmin von Schirnding
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• 3 points

ANALYSIS OF ENVIRONMENTAL HLTH

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• T 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Julie B Herbstman
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• 3 points

JOURNAL CLUB-MOL EPI&TOXICOLOGY;

JOURNAL CLUB-MOL EPI&TOXICOLOG;

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• R 11:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• 0 points

MUSIC SINCE 1900 (II)

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Investigation and analysis of styles and techniques of music since 1900, carried out in part through individual projects. (Prior to Spring 2008, the course was titled 20-Century Styles and Techniques.)

• Department: Music
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Sophia C Di Castri
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• 3 points

WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION

WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTTION

This course is intended to provide students with an understanding of the strategic, military, and political implications of weapons of mass destruction, understood here to be nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, with a particular focus on nuclear weapons in light of their more significant role in international politics. The course will seek to give students a grounding in the history and concepts of these weapons and then address key issues relating to WMD in the contemporary context.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Janne Nolan
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• 3 points

TRANSLATION SEMINAR

THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT

• Department: Writing
• R 2:10 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Edith Grossman
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• 3 points

PROSEM-ETHNOMUSICOLOGY II

Introduction to Ethnomusicology: the history of the discipline and the evolution of theories and methods. G6412, Proseminar in Ethnomusicology II: "Contemporary Ethnography" is offered Fall 2012.

• Department: Music
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Kevin Fellezs
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

COMPARATV POLITICS SURVEY II

This graduate level seminar is designed to introduce students to many of the main questions motivating research in comparative politics. The course is not designed as exercise in intellectual history, although some "classics" are included. It is also not designed to teach particular approaches or methods in the study of comparative politics, although many such approaches and methods are included in the readings. Instead, it is designed to give students a sense of what we "know" today about the answers to some major questions that animate the subfield and to encourage students to develop the analytical skills, substantive knowledge, and theoretical insights necessary to make their own contributions to comparative politics and political science. Comparative Politics Survey II builds on the topics developed in Comparative Politics Survey I, but can easily be taken before taking Comparative Politics Survey I. Topics to be covered in the surveys include among others, institutions, culture, parties, violence, collective action, economic development, bureaucracy, regimes and regime change, the welfare state, corruption and political behavior.

• Department: Political Science
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Timothy M Frye
  CULPA: 8 Wikipedia h-index: 31 Info
• 4 points

RESEARCH DESIGH SEMINAR

RESEARCH DESIGN SEMINAR

The purpose of this project is to teach the student how to write a research proposal. This research proposal is to be used both as the formal dissertation research proposal and to apply for grants.

• Department: Music
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Aaron A Fox
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

RELIGION & PUBLIC LIFE

• Department: Religion
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Katherine Pratt Ewing
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 22 Info
• 4 points

TALKING WITH THE ENEMY

Through a detailed investigation of eight significant case studies, this course will take a close look at past efforts of the United States to manage relations with "enemies" or adversaries. The course will examine the different strategies Presidents have used to "talk to the enemy": Roosevelt's 1933 opening of relations with the USSR; the decision at Munich to "appease" Hitler, Nixon's opening to China; the long delayed efforts to cease the war in Vietnam: the decision to invade Iraq in 2003 and the current debates over whether the US should talk directly with Iran and how best to deal with Cuba.  The course will conclude with some examination of how the US might deal with groups in the new paradigm --  non-state actors such as Taliban, Hamas, and Hezbollah Several key themes will be interwoven throughout the course.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: William Luers
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• 3 points

QUANT ANALYSIS-INT & PUB AFFRS

QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS I

This survey course introduces students to the fundamentals of statistical analysis.  We will examine the principles and basic methods for analyzing quantitative data, with a focus 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 the use of more sophisticated techniques for drawing inferences from data and making predictions about the social world.  The course will assume that students have little mathematical background beyond 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.  Because each faculty member takes a somewhat different approach to teaching this course, students should examine each professor's syllabus to understand the differences.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Alan S Yang
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

HUMAN EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS

Prerequisites: Undergraduate course in genetics. Familiarity with basic concepts in probability and statistics.
The course brings together population genetics theory, empirical studies and genetic models of disease to provide an integrated perspective on the evolutionary forces that shape human variation and in particular disease risk. Our goals are to provide you with a basic toolbox with which to approach human variation data and in parallel, to expose you to cutting-edge research and to the forefront of knowledge in human population genetics. To this end, the course includes in-depth discussions of classic papers in these fields coupled with recent findings employing new technologies and approaches.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• 4 points

FROM DATA TO SOLUTIONS

• Department: Computer Science
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• 3 points

PROGRAMMING & ELECTRONICS

• Department: Music
• R 5:30 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Benjamin Holtzman
  h-index: 18 Info
• 3 points

NORMAL-PATHLGCL ASPCT-CHLDHOOD

NRML PATHLGCL ASPCTS CHLD

• Department: Social Work
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Prudence W Fisher
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• 3 points

MASTER CLASS

LEARNING TO DIE

• Department: Writing
• T 2:10 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Farnoosh Fathi
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• 1.5 points

SOUND: AVDANCED TOPICS II

SOUND: ADVANCED TOPICS II

• Department: Music
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Bradford G Garton
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 3 points

LITERARY-CULTURAL HISTORY

U.S. HIGHER EDUCATION

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew Delbanco
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

ADV MIXED MUSIC COMPOSITION

Advanced Mixed Music Composition explores creative uses of advanced audio production tools (i.e., various DSP plug-ins, controllers, microphones, surround speaker arrays, etc.) and techniques (audio editing, mastering, performance simulations, synchronization, etc.); and looks at their impact on the aesthetics and poetics of a musical project. A special emphasis is given to the problems arising from the transition between the precisely controlled studio environment to the live concert hall (i.e., loudspeaker distance, room liveliness, monitoring, etc.), and how this transition can influence the audience’s perception of a work. importance of synchronization, notation, documentation, and portability as fundamental considerations during the compositional process. Lastly, techniques for producing simple yet high quality videos for archival purposes are shown, as a means to present yet another point of view on a musical project.

• Department: Music
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: David Adamcyk
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

INTL RELATNS OF NORTHEAST ASIA

This graduate seminar examines the international relations of Northeast Asia, one of the most significant and dynamic regions in global politics in the twenty-first century. The course discusses the politics, foreign policies, and interrelations of China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Russia with the United States. The principal focus is on US relations with these Northeast Asian nations, as well as their bilateral and multilateral relations. The course examines the rise of nationalism in Northeast Asia, a key and growing driver for regional hostilities, and issues of history and popular memory, the source of recent ferment in relations. Participants examine the political, economic and social developments in the region and challenges that hinder increased regional integration. The class weighs the evolution of the American alliance system following World War II, Japan’s post-war transformation, South Korea’s emergence from the 1970s, North Korea’s developmental challenges and pursuit of nuclear weapons, and China’s rise as a regional and global power. The course posits nineteenth and twentieth century experiences that influence the bent of Northeast Asian foreign policies today. Participants arrive at a firm read of the politics and strategic priorities of Northeast Asia nations today and leaning forward.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Stephen Noerper
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• 3 points

TOPICS DATA-DRIVEN ANAL & COMP

TPC: STATS LEARNING IN BIO&INF;

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Predrag R Jelenkovic
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 35 Info
• 3 points

INFORMATION THEORY

Prerequisites: (IEOR E3658) or or a course in stochastic processes.
Corequisites: ELEN E4815
Mutual information and entropy. The source coding theorem. The capacity of discrete memoryless channels and the noisy channel coding theorem. The rate distortion function. Discrete memoryless sources and single-letter distortion measures. Bhattacharya bounds, convolutional codes, and the Viterbi algorithm.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Xiaodong Wang
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

HUMANOID ROBOTS

Prerequisites: A course in at least one of the following: AI, robotics, computer graphics, or computer vision
Seminar on Humanoid Robots. Analysis of existing hardware and software platforms. Programming of multi-degree-of-freedom robots. Understanding sensor feedback in perceive-act-sense control paradigms. Task-level planning and reasoning. Final project includes implementing a humanoid robot task on either a simulated or physical robot.

• Department: Computer Science
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter K Allen
  CULPA: 23 Info
• 3 points

INTERNET ECON, ENG & SOCIETY

Prerequisites: (CSEE W4119) or (ELEN E6761) and ability to comprehend and track development of sophisticated models.
Mathematical models, analyses of economic and networking interdependencies in the Internet. Topics include microeconomics of pricing and regulations in communications industry, game theory in revenue allocations, ISP settlements, network externalities, two-sided markets. Economic principles in networking and network design, decentralized vs. centralized resource allocation, “price of anarchy”, congestion control. Case studies of topical Internet issues. Societal and industry implications of Internet evolution.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Debasis Mitra
  Wikipedia h-index: 61 Info
• 3 points

PRIORITIES IN GLOBAL PUB HLTH

• Department: Epidemiology
• M 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• 3 points

PRIORITIES-GLOBAL MENTAL HLTH

• Department: Epidemiology
• W 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Kathleen Pike
  h-index: 50 Info
• 3 points

STUDIO PRACTICE/CRITICISM IV

• Department: Visual Arts
• W 5:30 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew E Buckingham
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• 6 points

GRADUATE STUDIO IV

• Department: Visual Arts
• M 4 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew E Buckingham
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• 3 points

BRONZES PART II EAST ZHOU INSCRIPTIONS

Prerequisites: Students must have good knowledge of Classical Chinese; reading ability in modern Japanese is also preferred, but not required.
The ancient Chinese bronzes, many being recently excavated, are the most splendid cultural treasures of Bronze-Age China (
ca
2000-500 B.C.), as the inscriptions they carry are critical sources of early Chinese political institution, religion, literature, as well as economic relations. This course teaches the essentials of bronze scholarship, such as the methods of authentication, dating, and deciphering and reading the bronze inscriptions. The aim of the course is to provide students with a necessary training in using bronze objects and the inscriptions in their future research in Chinese civilization. Needless to say, a good understanding of the transition of the design and decorative patterns of the bronzes is the essential underlying knowledge of the course. In this regard, the course will teach ways to contextualize such changes through links to their inscriptions and the relevant archaeological contexts.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• F 1:50 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Feng Li
  CULPA: 12 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

EMBEDDED SCALABLE PLATFORMS

Prerequisites: (CSEE W4868) or the instructor permission.
Inter-disciplinary graduate-level seminar on design and programming of embedded scalable platforms. Content varies between offerings to cover timely relevant issues and latest advances in system-on-chip design, embedded software programming, and electronic design automation. Requires substantial reading of research papers, class participation, and semester-long project.

• Department: Computer Science
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Luca Carloni
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia h-index: 45 Info
• 3 points