RES DATA COORDINATN:PRINC/PRAC

Prerequisites:  Public Health P6104. 
Introduction to the principles of research data management and other aspects of data coordination using structured, computer-based exercises.  Targeted to students with varying backgrounds and interests:  (1) established and prospective investigators, scientists, and project leaders who want to gain a better understanding of the principles of data management to improve the organization of their own research, make informed decisions in assembling a data management team, and improve their ability to communicate with programmers and data analysts; and (2) students considering a career in data management, data analysis, or the administration of a data coordinating center.

• Department: Biostatistics
• W 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• T 1 p.m.-1:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Debra D'Angelo
  Info
• Instructor: Shing M Lee
  Info
• 3 points

CAPSTONE CONSULTING SEMINAR

• Department: Biostatistics
• T 10 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• T 11 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Shing M Lee
  Info
• 1 points

Theoretical Statistics

• Department: Statistics
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Shaw-Hwa Lo
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 3 points

Theoretical Statistics

TOPICS IN Theoretical STATISTI

• Department: Statistics
• F 1:10 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jingchen Liu
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 19 Info
• 3 points

NEW DIRECTIONS IN RUSSIAN HIST

The field of Imperial Russian history has undergone profound transformations since the August Revolution of 1991. Curiously, the basic outlines of our understanding of Soviet history have remained fundamentally unchanged despite the explosion of new archival materials over the past twenty years. In contrast, interpretations of the pre-revolutionary period have changed dramatically. New chronologies, new thematic approaches, new topics, and new transnational juxtapositions all characterize the historiography of the last two decades. One particularly important element is attention to geographical space and location. In this colloquium, we will examine some of the most influential recent research in the field, using particular books as a jumping-off point to delve deeper into topics such as empire and frontier, environment, religion, monarchy, Russian-Ottoman encounters, and the transmission of ideas.

• Department: History
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Catherine Evtuhov
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

POLITICAL ECON OF INSTITUTIONS

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission prior to registration.
This course will prepare graduate students in political science and economics who have completed their basic formal and quantitative training for the challenges and appeals of interdisciplinary research in political economy. Substantively, the course will focus on interest groups and political influence, which remains one of the broad areas of interest within the field. The main activities of special interest groups include lobbying, campaign contributions, direct mobilization of citizens, and providing information to the public. Clearly all of them have political significance, and we will study both theoretically and empirically the most significant channels of influence on policies, sometimes through the influence on elected officials (before or after the election) and sometimes through influence on bureaucrats. The topic should be of clear relevance for graduate students in American politics, comparative politics, political economy and public economics, and should complement well the other courses available in those four fields.

• Department: Political Science
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Carlo Prato
  h-index: 11 Info
• 4 points

CITY POLICY & FEDERALIAM IN AGE OF TRUMP

CITY POL & FEDERALISM: TRUMP

Federalism in America fundamentally reshaped the geopolitical power balance in the world over the course of less than 150 years. Federalism helped define what it meant to be an American at large and even helped define regional American identities. The role of local government in America is dependent on the size of the constituency and the powers allotted to the city by State constitutions. So why do cities even exist? 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. In this course, we will use a three-tiered analysis – Legal, Political, and Fiscal – to explore the roles that each level of government plays in the political processes of modern federalism. We will discuss the difference in city-state relations and differences in city-federal relations based on regions of the United States. We will seek to answer the questions: How do these differences and the evolution of the relationship shape our current policies and America’s path for the future? How does federalism constrict and empower cities in the modern political climate?

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

ADV STATISTICAL MECHANICS

Prerequisites:
CHEM G4221
and
CHEM G4230
, or their equivalents.
Stochastic processes; Brownian motion; Langevin equations and fluctuation-dissipation theorems; reaction rate theory; time correlation functions and linear response theory.

• Department: Chemistry
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Angelo Cacciuto
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 30 Info
• 2.5 points

SEM IN MUSIC COMPOSITION II

Individual projects in composition.

• Department: Music
• W 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Sophia C Di Castri
  Info
• 3 points

SEM IM MUSIC COMPOSITION II

SEM IN MUSIC COMPOSITION II

Individual projects in composition.

• Department: Music
• W 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Georg Friedrich Haas
  Info
• 3 points

AUTHORITARIANISM

The vast major of human society has been governed by non-democratic regimes historically; even 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 institutions whose regimes are not democratic. Yet almost all of the literature of political science and on policy-making is devoted to democracy-its origins, development, processes, flaws and merits. This course examines instead how we should understand the regimes we collect together as "non-democratic," contesting the notion of "authoritarianism" as a useful analytical concept and exploring how we might understand policy-making processes in regimes that are stable, enduring, sometimes even dynamic and enlightened, but not democratic.

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

SEM-SOURCES-MOD TIBETAN HIST

SOURCES FOR MODERN TIBETAN HIS

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Gray W Tuttle
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN PROBABILITY THEORY

TOPICS IN ADVANCED PROBABILITY

• Department: Statistics
• R 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Murad Taqqu
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

CLIMATE INFORMATION PUBLIC HLTH ACTION

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• T 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Madeleine Thomson
  Info
• 3 points

PUB HLTH IMPACTS-CLIMATE CHGE

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: Environmental Health Sciences
• MW 10 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Jeffrey Shaman
  h-index: 50 Info
• 3 points

WRITING EUROPEAN & WORLD HIST

PROBLEMS IN EUROPEAN HISTORY

The aim of this seminar is to assist its members in the conception, organization, and execution of a 8,000-13,000 word manuscript suitable for publication in a scholarly journal. Participants may write on any subject of their choosing. The final product, however, should satisfy three broad criteria: 1) the essay must be grounded principally in primary source research; 2) the essay must represent a departure from earlier work; and 3) the essay must bear upon or have implications for some aspect of European History. Each of the assignments for the course is designed to help members of the seminar complete a polished manuscript by the end of term.

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

MOLECULAR TOXICOLOGY

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• R 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Greg A Freyer
  Info
• 3 points

BASIC & APPL NUTRITIONAL SCI

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• W 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Mary V Gamble
  Info
• 3 points

TOXICOKINETICS

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• T 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Gregory P Geba
  Info
• 3 points

ECOMOMIC FLUCTUATIONS COLLOQ

ECONOMIC FLUCTUATIONS COLLOQ

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

• Department: Economics
• W 4:10 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
• 3 points

APPLD ENVRNTL & INDUST HYGIENE

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• R 4:30 p.m.-7:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Marco J Pedone
  Info
• 3 points

ENVIR DETERM OF HUMAN HLTH II

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• TR 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Mary V Gamble
  Info
• 3 points

LABORATORY METHODS IN EHS

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• W 4:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Greg A Freyer
  Info
• 3 points

EUROPE & THE US,18TH TO 21TH C

This graduate seminar examines the History of Soft Power and how it has been used in diplomacy and foreign relations from the Napoleonic Wars down to the Global War on Terrorism. Focusing on Europe and the U.S., the weekly classes bring together readings from history, international relations, and communications studies to probe how states have deployed "soft" or "normative power" in foreign relations. After four to five class sessions dedicated to clarifying related concepts (power and soft power, norms, hegemony, empire, propaganda, strategic communication, public diplomacy and the relationship between domestic and foreign policy and the capacity to act as a global model) subsequent classes address case studies including Napoleon's Propaganda Wars, imperial European Civilizing Missions, The US vs. USSR, Wilson versus Lenin, The Axis Powers in the Muslim World, Vatican Diplomacy, The Marshall Plan, U.S. Public Diplomacy in the wake of 9/11, The European Union's Norms Empire

• Department: History
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Victoria de Grazia
  CULPA: 15 h-index: 22 Info
• 4 points

SEM-CLIMATE & HEALTH STUDENTS

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• T 11:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeffrey Shaman
  h-index: 50 Info
• 0 points

RISK, ASSESSMENT, COMM/MGMT

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• M 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael P Musso
  Info
• 3 points

PUBLIC HEALTH EPIGENETICS

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• M 4 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrea Baccarelli
  Wikipedia h-index: 96 Info
• 3 points

ENV JUSTICE HLTH POL ANLYS-ENV HLTH PROF

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• W 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Anhthu Hoang
  Info
• 1.5 points

WATER,SANITATION & HUM HEALTH

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

WORLD RELIGIONS

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
This course explores the creation, maintenance, and performance of the dominant rubric in the field of Religious Studies -- the concept "world religions." It also asks about the creation of the "isms" that sustain it: Since when? By whom? How contested?

• Department: Religion
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: John S Hawley
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 4 points

FASCISM

This course aims to familiarise students with the extraordinarily rich historiography on fascism. Its goal is to enable a more critical approach to the subject, to parse its conceptual and historical ambiguities and to engage with theoretical framings of the subject through an immersion in the main case studies. Focusing on the emergence of fascist regimes in interwar Italy and Germany, it will range across countries and time, distinguishing fascism from other forms of the authoritarian Right, exploring the extent to which the Second World War marked a watershed in fascism’s fortunes, and asking to what extent the term remains a useful one in the early twenty-first century. Course readings will include contemporary documents, classic articles and major monographs on the subject. Students will be expected to read widely.

• Department: History
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Mark Mazower
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

REMBRANDT

This course will look at all aspects of Rembrandt’s work. It will consider Rembrandt’s paintings as well as his work in an exceptionally wide range of other visual media. We will examine, whenever possible in museum settings, Rembrandt’s use not only of oil, but of pen and ink, chalk, wash, quill pen, reed pen, etching, engraving, drypoint, different kinds of paper and so on. We will assess his role in Dutch politics, religion, and morality; his relations with other artists; the ways his studio functioned; and his own concept of how the market worked and ought to work. Above all we will focus on his art – whether his own changing concept of art, the techniques he used or the place of his work in the visual culture of his time. In every case questions of agency and materiality – old before they became new again – will be considered.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: David A Freedberg
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

PUBLIC HEALTH GIS

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• M 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• W 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeremy Porter
  h-index: 19 Info
• 3 points

EHS GLOBAL SEMINAR

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• T 11:30 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Darby W Jack
  Info
• 0 points

POLICY CERT PREPRACTICUM SEM

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• R 4 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Darby W Jack
  Info
• 0 points

GRADUATE INDEPENDENT RESEARCH

Prerequisites: a member of the department's permission.
Reading in special topics under the guidance of a member of the faculty.

• Department: Statistics
• Instructor: David Madigan
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• 2-4 points

INFECTIOUS DISEASE EPIDEMOLOGY

INFECTIOUS DISEASE EPIDEMIOLOG

• Department: Epidemiology
• M 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• 3 points

EPIDEMIOLOGY OF AGING

• Department: Epidemiology
• R 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Thelma Mielenz
  Info
• 3 points

READINGS IN AMER POLITICL HIST

This seminar examines historical debates about the rise and fall of New Deal liberalism. From the 1950s to the 1990s historians agreed that the New Deal order marked the latest phase in an American political reform tradition that reached back to Progressivism and Populism, even as they disagreed about its social origins and intensity. In this reading, the triumph of modern conservatism in the 1970s and 1980s represented a backlash—a fundamentally new force in American politics. More recently, some scholars have challenged this view by arguing that the New Deal order was an exception to a much longer conservative political tradition. In this reading, the rise of conservatism after 1968 marked a return to national type. We will explore these historiographical turning points by reading major works that deal with the social and cultural origins of modern liberalism, the creation of the New Deal, and the roots of modern conservatism. The purpose of this exploration is to provide essential historiographical training for students undertaking research in the modern period and to reinforce substantive historical knowledge for students who will teach classes that cover the modern period. Students from all subfields are welcome.

• Department: History
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Jarod Roll
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

SEM-ETHOMUSICLGY:FLD MTHDS II

Prerequisites:
MUSI G8412
.
A study of the theoretical and practical aspects of ethnomusicological field work, using the New York area as a setting for exercises and individual projects.

• Department: Music
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ana Maria Ochoa
  Info
• 3 points

COMMUN & POWER SINCE ENLIGHTEN

This course provides graduate students with a topical introduction to major themes in the history of communications since the Enlightenment. The focus is on media organizations and public policy. Attention will be paid to visual media, news reporting, and digital journalism. Readings are drawn not only from history, but also from media studies, literature, and historical sociology.
Field(s): EME

• Department: History
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 4 points

CHRONIC DISEASE EPIDEMIOLOGY

• Department: Epidemiology
• R 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Steven D Stellman
  h-index: 65 Info
• 3 points

SELECT PROBLME IN MEASUREMENT

SELECT PROBLEMS IN MEASUREMNT

• Department: Epidemiology
• W 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrea Norcini Pala
  h-index: 14 Info
• 3 points

PASCAL,HERMENEUTICS & RHETORIC

PASCAL HERMENEUTICS & RHETORIC

A study of Blaise Pascal’s complete works, including the 
Pensées
, the 
Lettres provinciales
, and the 
Entretiens sur Epictète et Montaigne
, with a focus on issues of persuasion, Biblical interpretation, epistemology, and politics.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Pierre Force
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 11 Info
• 3 points

PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE

• Department: Epidemiology
• Instructor: Jennifer A Calder
  Info
• 3 points

ART/THEORY IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: John Rajchman
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

LATIN AMER POLIT IN COMP PERSP

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission prior to registration.
Political structures, conflict and change in the region including discussion of selected countries, patterns of regime change and the involvement of the U.S.

• Department: Political Science
• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Robert Kaufman
  Info
• 4 points

DESIGN & CONDUCT OF OBS EPI

• Department: Epidemiology
• T 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Sharon B Schwartz
  Info
• 3 points

DESIGN/CONDUCT OF OBS EPI-LAB

• Department: Epidemiology
• M 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
• M 10:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• M 12:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Sharon B Schwartz
  Info
• 0 points

COLL IN INDUST ORGANIZATION

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Students will make presentations of original research.

• Department: Economics
• W 1 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Katherine Ho
  Info
• 3 points

EPID CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES

EPI OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES

• Department: Epidemiology
• R 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Moise Desvarieux
  Info
• 3 points

EPIDEMIOLOGY & CONTROL OF TB

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

ISSUES IN INJURY & VIOLENCE

Issues in Injury & Violence

• Department: Epidemiology
• M 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Joyce Pressley
  Info
• 1.5 points

EPI OF CHRONIC DISEASE SEMINAR

• Department: Epidemiology
• R 11:30 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Steven D Stellman
  h-index: 65 Info
• 0.5 points

EPIDEMIC MODEL MTHD-INFECT DIS

• Department: Epidemiology
• W 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Wan Yang
  h-index: 25 Info
• 3 points

SEMINAR IN SOCIAL DETERM OF HLTH

SEM-SOC DETERMINANTS IN HEALTH

• Department: Epidemiology
• Instructor: Lisa Bates
  Info
• 0-1 points

APPL OF EPIDEMIOLOGC RES MTHDS

• Department: Epidemiology
• T 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew R Lamb
  Info
• 3 points

CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN SECURITY POLICY

Moscow's annexation of Crimea in March 2014 and military intervention in Syria in 2015 demonstrates that two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia remains a major world actor. Russia retains the world’s largest arsenal of nuclear weapons, sits atop large reserves of oil and natural gas, and enjoys veto power in the UN Security Council—allowing it to exert influence on such international issues as the Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs. This course revolves around a single guiding question: Which factors in Russia’s security calculus are most influential in Moscow’s policies on the range of key international issues? To address this question, the course will focus on three areas (1) the core factors that shape Russia’s  security perspective, including geography, demography, natural resources, and historical-cultural factors—as well as Russia’s military capabilities; (2) Russia’s foreign/security policies in each region of the world  and how those policies align with Moscow’s stated national security goals, as enunciated in official documents and policy statements; and (3) a comparative review of the last six cases of military intervention to assess which security factors predominated in Moscow’s decisions to intervene in Afghanistan (1979), Chechnya (1994, 1999), Georgia (2008), Ukraine (2014) and Syria (2015).

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

TUTORIALS IN EPIDEMIOLOGY

• Department: Epidemiology
• Instructor: Sharon B Schwartz
  Info
• Instructor: Steven D Stellman
  h-index: 65 Info
• Instructor: Judith S Jacobson
  Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Kathleen Pike
  h-index: 50 Info
• 1-6 points

FIELD METHODS IN EPIDEMIOLOGY

• Department: Epidemiology
• T 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• 3 points

M. PHIL SEMINAR

Individual work with an adviser to develope a topic and proposal for the Ph.D. dissertation.

• Department: Music
• Instructor: Susan Boynton
  CULPA: 18 Info
• Instructor: Alessandra M Ciucci
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Sophia C Di Castri
  Info
• Instructor: Julia Doe
  Info
• Instructor: Joseph P Dubiel
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Kevin Fellezs
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Aaron A Fox
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Bradford G Garton
  CULPA: 14 Info
• Instructor: Giuseppe Gerbino
  CULPA: 12 Info
• Instructor: Georg Friedrich Haas
  Info
• 3 points

M. PHIL SEMINAR

Individual work with an adviser to develope a topic and proposal for the Ph.D. dissertation.

• Department: Music
• 3 points

M. PHIL SEMINAR

Individual work with an adviser to develope a topic and proposal for the Ph.D. dissertation.

• Department: Music
• 3 points

M. PHIL SEMINAR

Individual work with an adviser to develope a topic and proposal for the Ph.D. dissertation.

• Department: Music
• Instructor: Ana Maria Ochoa
  Info
• Instructor: Elaine Sisman
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Benjamin A Steege
  Info
• 3 points

GRAD READINGS IN AMER & WORLD

• Department: History
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul T Chamberlin
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

RESEARCH SEMINAR IN U.S.

This seminar is designed to provide a guided research experience for graduate students working in U.S. history.  The goal of the course is to assist its members in the conception, organization, and writing of a 10,000 word manuscript suitable to publication in a scholarly journal.  Participants may write on any topic of their choice.  The finished article-length paper should meet three basic criteria:  (1) the essay must be grounded principally in primary source materials/research; (2) the essay must represent a departure from earlier work; and (3) the essay must bear upon or have implications for some aspect of U.S. or early American history.  The course is designed to serve as a place to explore potential dissertation and Master’s thesis topics.

• Department: History
• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Stephanie McCurry
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

MOD IRAN: MONARCHY-ISLAM REPUB

An introduction to the culture, politics and international relations of Iran which will explore the country's transition from the 19th to the 21st century. Topics include continuity and change in traditional social structure, the conflict between clergy and state and the modernization of Iran under the Pahlavi shahs (1925-79). The role of women will be explored. The roots of the Iranian revolution will be examined, and an assessment made of the present Islamic Republic. The role of Iran in international affairs, including the course of U.S.-Iranian relations, will also be considered. Sources will be multidisciplinary and include historical works, literature and films.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Lawrence G Potter
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

S THE PSYCHOLOGY OF RACIAL JUSTICE&POLIC;

• Department: Law
• Instructor: Phillip A Goff
  Info
• 2 points

INK PAINTING OF MEDIEVAL JPN

Explores the origins and development of the ink painting tradition in Japan from the 14th - 16th centuries, paying special attention to Chinese precedents, the format of the poem-picture scroll, and the Japanese Zen monastic milieu in which the genre flourished.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew P McKelway
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

Behav Econ & Decision Making

Behavioral Economics & Decisio

• Department: Marketing
• TR 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Webb
  Info
• 3 points

IMPERIALISM & POLITICAL THEORY

EMPIRE & POLITICAL THEORY

• Department: Political Science
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Joshua Simon
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF JUSTICE

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission prior to registration.
Twofold focus involves discussion of possible explanations of why people hold or profess specific ideas of justice and the role of justice and fairness motivations in explaining behavior. Examination of experimental studies of these issues as well as real-life case studies, most importantly the study of local justice and transitional justice.

• Department: Political Science
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jon Elster
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 108 Info
• 3 points

HISTORIOGRAPHY-LAT AM-MOD PER

This graduate colloquium will introduce students to the literature of modern Latin American history, discussing both recent and “classic” books. Readings will include examples of the most significant areas of research on the region, with an emphasis on the diversity if approaches that characterize the historiography of post-independent Latin America in the past two decades, from social and political history to studies of culture, economic development, and international relations. Topics will include the causes and significance of the independence, histories of “nation-building,” the origins of economic backwardness, peasant societies and social movements, twentieth century populism, authoritarianism and social change,  and transnational histories of culture and the Cold War.    
Field(s): LA

• Department: History
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Pablo Piccato
  CULPA: 22 h-index: 20 Info
• 4 points

MANAGING HUNANITARIAN EMERG

MANAGING HUMANITARIAN EMERG

This course focuses on the actual management problems of humanitarian interventions and helps students obtain the professional skills and insight needed to work in complex humanitarian emergencies, and to provide oversight and guidance to humanitarian operations from a policy perspective. It is a follow-up to the fall course that studied the broader context, root causes, actors, policy issues, and debates in humanitarian emergencies.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Susannah A Friedman
  Info
• 3 points

NEOLIBERAL AFRICA

This course is designed as a seminar on a historiography that does not yet exist. It asks what a history of contemporary or ‘neo-liberal’ Africa would look like. The ambition of the seminar is to consider how historians might engage with and profit from the work of anthropologists working on the frontier between African states and the institutions of global civil society. It does so by decentering the state from the macro-narrative of the continent’s recent history. It also strives to situate the African present in relation to broader historical currents at work across the globe in the contemporary period.

• Department: History
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Gregory Mann
  CULPA: 15 h-index: 13 Info
• 4 points

DESIGNING PUBLIC HEALTH INTERVENTIONS

PUB HEALTH INTERV

• Department: Sociomedical Sciences
• M 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel P Giovenco
  h-index: 19 Info
• 3 points

CAUSAL INFER IN INTL POL ECON

CASUAL INFER IN INTL POL ECON

This seminar is both a critical survey of empirical evidence on foreign aid, trade, and investment and an introduction to modern quantitative research methods used in international political economy. Substantively, the seminar will examine the relationships between economic instruments and human rights, conflict, public opinion, and other topics.

• Department: Political Science
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Allison J Carnegie
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• 4 points

ADV TOPICS IN GLOBAL HEALTH

• Department: Epidemiology
• T 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• 3 points

TERRORISM

CAUSES/CONSEQUENCES-TERRORISM

• Department: Political Science
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Virginia Page Fortna
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia h-index: 17 Info
• 4 points

INT'L LAW & INT'L RELATIONS

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission prior to registration.
The central question around which this course is organized is: Under what circumstances, and how, do international legal rules influence political outcomes? International law has been for decades dismissed by IR scholars as utopian, disconnected from political reality, or (at best) epiphenomenal to the interests and preferences of powerful states. Consequently, it has been viewed as the 'wrong' place to look when seeking to explain the past actions of states and governments, or to predict their future behavior. Nevertheless, states—including great powers—have invested, and continue to invest, enormous resources, in elaborating and maintaining international treaties and conventions, customary rules, and other types of international legal doctrine. This suggests that international law 'matters' somehow to relations between states—although perhaps not in ways we conventionally associate with domestic legal systems.

• Department: Political Science
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Tonya L Putnam
  CULPA: 29 Info
• 4 points

INTL SIGNALING & COMMUNICATION

Prerequisites: Instructor's permission prior to registration.
This course will delve into how states infer what others are likely to do in the future and how they try to project desired images of how they will behave.  This involves both purposeful or intended communication, as in diplomacy, and the ways in which perceivers try to discern others' capabilities and intentions from attributes and behaviors that the senders cannot readily manipulate.  Substantive areas to be covered--or at least touched on--include how states try to open negotiations without appearing weak, how promises and threats can be orchestrated, and the use of peace feelers.

• Department: Political Science
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Robert L Jervis
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 4 points