PROJECTS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

A second-level independent project involving laboratory work, computer programming, analytical investigation, or engineering design. May be repeated for credit. Consult the department for section assignment.

• Department: Computer Science
• Instructor: Kaveri A Thakoor
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• Instructor: Brian K Plancher
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• Instructor: Kostis Kaffes
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• Instructor: Corey Toler-Franklin
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• Instructor: Shalmali Joshi
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• Instructor: Yunzhu Li
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• Instructor: Silvia Sellan
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• Instructor: John Hewitt
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• Instructor: Chris Murphy
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• Instructor: Zhuo Zhang
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• Instructor: Eysa Lee
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• 1-3 points

DIRECTED READINGS

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Topics chosen in consultation between members of the staff and students.

• Department: Classics
• Instructor: Elizabeth K Irwin
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 1-4 points

ACQ OF CHINESE AS A 2ND LANG

For more than forty years, second language acquisition (SLA) has been emerging as an independent field of inquiry with its own research agenda and theoretical paradigms. The study of SLA is inherently interdisciplinary, as it draws on scholarship from the fields of linguistics, psychology, education, and sociology. This course explores how Chinese is acquired by non-native speakers. Students will learn about general phenomena and patterns during the process of acquiring a new language. They will become familiar with important core concepts, theoretical frameworks, and research practices of the field of SLA, with Chinese as the linguistic focus.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 2:40 p.m.-4:05 p.m.
• Instructor: Shaoyan Qi
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED TURKISH I

Advanced Turkish I is designed to use authentic Turkish materials around projects that are chosen by the student in a research seminar format where students conduct their own research and share it in class in a friendly atmosphere. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Zuleyha M Fikret
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• 3 points

MICROECONOMICS SEMINAR

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412  Selected topics in microeconomics.

• Department: Economics
• Instructor: Susan M Elmes
  CULPA: 44 Info
• 4 points

MICROECONOMICS SEMINAR

SPORTS ECONOMIS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412  Selected topics in microeconomics.

• Department: Economics
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sunil K Gulati
  CULPA: 113 Info
• 4 points

MICROECONOMICS SEMINAR

ECONOMICS OF THE ARTS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412  Selected topics in microeconomics.

• Department: Economics
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Prajit K Dutta
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 4 points

MICROECONOMICS SEMINAR

HEDGE FUND INVESTING

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412  Selected topics in microeconomics.

• Department: Economics
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Tri Vi Dang
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 10 Info
• 4 points

MICROECONOMICS SEMINAR

SEMINAR-MICROECONOMIC THY

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412  Selected topics in microeconomics.

• Department: Economics
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Douglas V Almond
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• Instructor: Waldo Ojeda
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• Instructor: Neal Masia
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• 4 points

Computational Psychology

The development of computational tools, such as artificial intelligence, has transformed daily life and many areas of research. For instance, the development of large language models such as ChatGPT, have changed the way people write and think. These computational tools also hold great potential for advancing psychological research. However, they are still unfamiliar to many students and psychologists.

In this class, you will learn about how to apply computational tools to facilitate practical problem solving in the real world and research at different stages, including before, during, and after data collection. Specifically, through a combination of lectures (which focus on the mathematical basics and developments of these computational methods), in-class engagements (which focus on translational application of the computational methods to solving new practical problems), and coding workshops (which focus on practical coding skills that implement the computational methods), I will introduce you to methods for handling complex stimuli, validating data quality, and modeling big data. Workshops will be administered via Colab using Python, so please be sure to bring a laptop to every class.

• Department: Psychology
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Chujun Lin
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• 4 points

BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Prerequisites: introductory college-level biology and chemistry. An overview of the biology and ecology of the oceans with a focus on the interaction between marine organisms and the physics and chemistry of the oceans.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew R Juhl
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• 3 points

INTRO TO PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Prerequisites:
 Recommended preparation: a solid background in mathematics, physics, and chemistry. 
Topics:
 Physical properties of seawater, hydrography (water masses and their distribution), dispersal (advection and diffusion), ocean dynamics (Navier Stokes equation), processes (eddies, waves, tides), large-scale circulation (wind-driven gyres, overturning circulation).

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Andreas Thurnherr
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• 3 points

READINGS IN OTTOMAN TEXTS I

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Dilek Oztoprak
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• 3 points

QUEER CINEMA

This course examines themes and changes in the (self-)representation of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgender people in cinema from the early sound period to the present. It pays attention to both the formal qualities of film and filmmakers’ use of cinematic strategies (mise-en-scene, editing, etc.) designed to elicit certain responses in viewers and to the distinctive possibilities and constraints of the classical Hollywood studio system, independent film, avant-garde cinema, and world cinema; the impact of various regimes of formal and informal censorship; the role of queer men and women as screenwriters, directors, actors, and designers; and the competing visions of gay, progay, and antigay filmmakers. Along with considering the formal properties of film and the historical forces that shaped it, the course explores what cultural analysts can learn from film. How can we treat film as evidence in historical analysis? We will consider the films we see as evidence that may shed new light on historical problems and periodization, and will also use the films to engage with recent queer theoretical work on queer subjectivity, affect, and culture.

• Department: Film
• M 10:10 a.m.-1:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Ronald Gregg
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO SEISMOLOGY

Prerequisites: advanced calculus and general physics, or the instructors permission. Methods and underpinnings of seismology including seismogram analysis, elastic wave propogation theory, earthquake source characterization, instrumentation, inversion of seismic data to infer Earth structure.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Felix Waldhauser
  h-index: 37 Info
• 3 points

HUMAN RIGHTS & HUMAN WRONGS

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Please e-mail the instructor at bc14@columbia.edu. This course will examine the tension between two contradictory trends in world politics. On the one hand, we have emerged from a century that has seen some of the most brutal practices ever perpetrated by states against their populations in the form of genocide, systematic torture, mass murder and ethnic cleansing. Many of these abuses occurred after the Holocaust, even though the mantra never again was viewed by many as a pledge never to allow a repeat of these practices. Events in the new century suggest that these trends will not end anytime soon. At the same time, since the middle of the twentieth century, for the first time in human history there has been a growing global consensus that all individuals are entitled to at least some level of protection from abuse by their governments. This concept of human rights has been institutionalized through international law, diplomacy, international discourse, transnational activism, and the foreign policies of many states. Over the past two decades, international organizations, non-governmental organizations, and international tribunals have gone further than any institutions in human history to try to stem state abuses. This seminar will try to make sense of these contradictions.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Bruce L Cronin
  CULPA: 13 Info
• 3 points

NEW MEDIA ART

The rapid democratization of technology has led to a new wave of immersive storytelling that spills off screens into the real world and back again. These works defy traditional constraints as they shift away from a one-to-many to a many-to-many paradigm, transforming those formerly known as the audience from passive viewers into storytellers in their own right. New opportunities and limitations offered by emergent technologies are augmenting the grammar of storytelling, as creators wrestle with an ever-shifting digital landscape. New Media Art pulls back the curtain on transmedial works of fiction, non-fiction, and emergent forms that defy definition. Throughout the semester well explore projects that utilize Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and the Internet of Things, alongside a heavy-hitting selection of new media thinkers, theorists, and critics. The course will be co-taught as a dialogue between artistic practice and new media theory. Lance Weiler, a new media artist and founder of Columbia’s Digital Storytelling Lab, selected the media artworks; Rob King, a film and media historian, selected the scholarly readings. It is in the interaction between these two perspectives that the course will explore the parameters of emerging frontiers in media art and the challenges these pose for existing critical vocabularies.

• Department: Film
• M 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 3 points

The Ottoman Empire: History and Legacies

This 4000-level seminar explores the Ottoman Empire with emphasis on the long nineteenth century, while also tracing how the century that followed remained profoundly marked by the afterlives of its institutions, ideas, and the disruptions it set in motion. After an overview Ottoman history and historiography, and an exploration of recent digital humanities trends in Ottoman Studies, the course proceeds in three sections: 1) imperial reconfiguration and crisis, 2) revolution, war, and genocide, and 3) afterlives of empire. Case studies spotlight the empire’s ethno-religious communities, including Arabs, Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks, Jews, Kurds, and Muslim refugees from the Balkans and the Russian Empire. Anchored in
The I.B. Tauris Handbook of the Late Ottoman Empire: History and Legacy
, the course aims to equip students with the conceptual and historiographical tools needed to critically analyze the Ottoman past and its enduring legacies across the modern Middle East.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Khatchig Mouradian
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• 4 points

Gender-Based Violence & Human Rights

GENDER-BASED VIOL & HUM R

The term 'gendercide' highlights a range of distinct and specific forms of violence executed against human beings based on their own gender self-identification as well as patriarchal assumptions about their gender. In this course, we will examine research discerning, movements challenging, and the adjudication, and/or lack thereof, of Gender Based Violence (GBV) in several major categories traversing spatial, temporal, and ideological contexts, including: reproductive rights and health; trafficking and migration; and disaster and pandemics. It is critical to: interrogate the ideologies that drive and sustain GBV; examine in detail the harm it presents to human beings; explore what can be done to protect the security of those experiencing GBV; and to think about measures of prevention to guard additional human beings from experiencing it. The heart of the course will involve an intersectional analysis of specific case studies; highlighting the GBV associated with each case; examining the impact of GBV on human rights; and how GBV has been addressed in society. The close study of each case will assist students in illuminating intricacies, complexities, and challenges to human security in specific contexts.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Julie Rajan
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• 3 points

Refugees, Citizenship, Migration

Refugees Citizenship Migr

This interdisciplinary course grapples with nation-states and cities at its margins, exploring the exclusions, oppositions, silences and, in particular, the 'Others' or 'in-betweens' of the nation-state as an organizing tool. ‘Illegal migrants’, ‘refugees’, ‘asylum seekers’, ‘exiles’, ‘nomads’, ‘aliens’, and other ‘Others’: these are all in-between figures, exceptions to a political order defined by membership in the city, borders, sovereignty and nation-states. In their very existence, they represent a challenge to this political order, as social and political theorists have long recognized. This seminar explores the dynamics, contradictions and politics surrounding nation-states and their Others with particular attention to the responses to them on the part of ostensibly liberal-democratic states. We examine the relationship between citizenship, statelessness, refugee-hood and migration as exceptions to a political order defined by membership in the city, borders, sovereignty and nation-states. Students will engage with film, fiction, visual animations and displacement maps to examine key theoretical and critical interventions by scholars who examine nation-states and cities at their margins. To this end, participants will examine key theoretical interventions by Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Giorgio Agamben alongside scholars who have grappled with, contested, and developed their ideas, such as Étienne Balibar, Didier Bigo, Jacques Rancière, and Seyla Benhabib. With these texts, the participants will attempt to explore non-national or post-national alternatives to the nation-state and citizenship as a tool for planning and organization of people and space.

Taken together, this course provides an alternative to conventional scholarship on this subject. It engages with and provides an alternative to the mainstream literature to take for granted the inclusive and integrative character of nation-states and its respective memberships in the form of refugees, citizens and migrants.
At first glance, the course may appear highly theoretical, but not to worry—we will move slowly through the texts and concepts together. The instructor will also ensure that we apply the ideas discussed in class to concrete and tangible case studies with examples given to enable easier access and collective learning.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Shourideh Molavi
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Queer Theory

This course surveys the relationship between sociology as a discipline and the body of thought, action and critique that coheres under the term queer theory. Many people understand these two projects to be constitutionally at odds. Sociology as a discipline concerns itself with the empirical study of, as Norbert Elias wrote, “the problem of human societies.” How we do this is distinct. Sociologists have a defined set of technical skills that make use of social categories and classifications. We organize individuals by behavior and identity, document diverse cultural milieus, and even attempt to quantify the demographic details of sexual identities, practices and communities. Queer theory, on the other hand, emerged as a field of academic thought in the early 1990’s, at the apex of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The urgency of the political moment demanded new analytical tools for thinking about gender, sexuality, medicine and bodies. Queer theorists took to task the restrictive categories of gender and sexual life that relegated gay men and lesbians to sociological studies of “deviant” people and practices, in favor of rich and pointed critiques of the organization of culture, institutions and politics that renders some people and practices deviant in the first place. Queer theorists document their suspicion of methods, of categories, and of knowledge practices themselves. Social science is often the target of such critiques.

 

So, is there actually a way to do something we might call queer sociology? Or is it, fundamentally, an oxymoron? As what we think of as data becomes “bigger” and ever more categorically precise, what use has sociology for queer theory? How can a body of thought that operates from an anti-categorical impulse inform empirical work that seeks, at least in some part, to identify and observe particular types of people and particular forms of social life? In this course, we will read a set of foundational texts in the queer theoretical tradition alongside sociology that makes use of queer phenomena, frameworks and world-making projects. Expect to cover topics like ephemera, ghosts, messy affect, political lesbianism, perversion and a variety of other things you don’t typically see on a sociology syllabus. Each week, we will survey a select set of orienting ideas from queer theory–the heterosexual matrix, heteronormativity, antidisciplinarity, and homonormativity–and examine the ways in which sociologists of sexuality aim

• Department: Sociology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Tey Meadow
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• 4 points

Hum Rights, Activism & US Carceral State

HRs Activism US Carceral

What is the state of anti-incarceral activism today? What visions of social transformation are available for tomorrow? Mass incarceration remains one of the most pressing human rights issues in the United States. This course explores what has been done, is being done, and can be done to rethink incarceration in the U.S. and to provoke change.
We will actively engage with prominent activists at Columbia who will visit some classes during the second half of the semester.

Incarcerated people in the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn (a maximum-security federal prison) and in Rikers Island (a mixed security New York State detention center) regularly claim to be tortured (and show apparent evidence of torture), and yet their claims are rarely thoroughly examined. There has never been real accountability. Compare the New York cases to those in Chicago. From 1972 to 1991, former Chicago police commander Jon Burge and white detectives under his command systematically tortured at least 117 Black people in police custody. In May 2015, 43 years after clear evidence of torture, Chicago became the first municipality in the U.S. to provide reparations to those harmed by racially-motivated law enforcement violence, passing legislation for survivors of the Burge police torture regime. What is the difference between those tortured in Chicago and those who (at least claim to) have been tortured in New York? Decades of community activism.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Christia Mercer
  CULPA: 56 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

AFR-AMER RESEARCH-WRITING

• Department: African American and African Diaspora
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Rachel Grace Newman
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ADVANCED MASTER'S RESEARCH

Research Course for Master's Students. Students must be nominated by a faculty member. The research credits may not be counted towards the credits required for the Master’s degree.

• Department: Engineering
• Instructor: Alexis R Moore
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Topics in Jewish Studies

This course approaches Jewish Studies from theoretical and pedagogical standpoints. In addition to looking back at ancient, medieval and Early Modern approaches to the study of Jewish topics and examining the theoretical, historical and religious underpinnings of Jewish Studies as a modern discipline, we will also read theoretical writings from related disciplines. The course will balance these materials with pedagogical materials and exercises. Faculty from disciplines related to Jewish Studies will visit the seminar to offer perspectives on current approaches to the field, and the class will visit the Rare Book and Manuscript Library with Jewish Studies Librarian Michelle Chesner. This course is required for students in the Jewish Studies MA program. It is open to graduate students, and advanced undergraduates may register with permission from the instructor. Please note that faculty visits will be added to the syllabus as they are scheduled.

• Department: Institute for Israel & Jewish Studies
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Isabelle C Levy
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

PARALLEL FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMIN

Selected topics in computer science. Content and prerequisites vary between sections and semesters. May be repeated for credit. Check “topics course” webpage on the department website for more information on each section.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Stephen A Edwards
  CULPA: 21 h-index: 35 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

DESIGN USING C++

Selected topics in computer science. Content and prerequisites vary between sections and semesters. May be repeated for credit. Check “topics course” webpage on the department website for more information on each section.

• Department: Computer Science
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Bjarne Stroustrup
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 38 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

RESILIENT QUANTUM COMP

Selected topics in computer science. Content and prerequisites vary between sections and semesters. May be repeated for credit. Check “topics course” webpage on the department website for more information on each section.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Daniel S Rubenstein
  CULPA: 29 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

ADV SFTWR DEVELOP W/ AI

Selected topics in computer science. Content and prerequisites vary between sections and semesters. May be repeated for credit. Check “topics course” webpage on the department website for more information on each section.

• Department: Computer Science
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Baishakhi Ray
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

HACKING 4 DEFENSE

Selected topics in computer science. Content and prerequisites vary between sections and semesters. May be repeated for credit. Check “topics course” webpage on the department website for more information on each section.

• Department: Computer Science
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• 3 points

TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

INNOVATION & DESIGN LAB

Selected topics in computer science. Content and prerequisites vary between sections and semesters. May be repeated for credit. Check “topics course” webpage on the department website for more information on each section.

• Department: Computer Science
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Gary Zamchick
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• 3 points

TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

COMPETITIVE PROGRAMMING

Selected topics in computer science. Content and prerequisites vary between sections and semesters. May be repeated for credit. Check “topics course” webpage on the department website for more information on each section.

• Department: Computer Science
• M 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Yongwhan Lim
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• 3 points

TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

HEALTH DATA MGMT AGENTS

Selected topics in computer science. Content and prerequisites vary between sections and semesters. May be repeated for credit. Check “topics course” webpage on the department website for more information on each section.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Eugene Wu
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 32 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

AGENIC ENGINEERING

Selected topics in computer science. Content and prerequisites vary between sections and semesters. May be repeated for credit. Check “topics course” webpage on the department website for more information on each section.

• Department: Computer Science
• F 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• 3 points

TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

DEEP LRNG FOR COMP VISION

Selected topics in computer science. Content and prerequisites vary between sections and semesters. May be repeated for credit. Check “topics course” webpage on the department website for more information on each section.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter Belhumeur
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 59 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

C++ DEEP DIVE FOR C PRGS

Selected topics in computer science. Content and prerequisites vary between sections and semesters. May be repeated for credit. Check “topics course” webpage on the department website for more information on each section.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Hans J Montero
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• 3 points

TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

LAB2MKT QUANTUM AI INNOVA

Selected topics in computer science. Content and prerequisites vary between sections and semesters. May be repeated for credit. Check “topics course” webpage on the department website for more information on each section.

• Department: Computer Science
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• 3 points

TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

CASL MLTPLAYER GAME OCAML

Selected topics in computer science. Content and prerequisites vary between sections and semesters. May be repeated for credit. Check “topics course” webpage on the department website for more information on each section.

• Department: Computer Science
• F 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Yoav Zibin
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• 3 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY-GRADUATE

• Department: African American and African Diaspora
• Instructor: Brandi Summers
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• Instructor: Kellie Jones
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Farah Griffin
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Edwidge Danticat
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• Instructor: Rachel Grace Newman
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• Instructor: Jafari S Allen
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• Instructor: Nyle Fort
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• 1-4 points

RELIGION AND THE INDIAN WARS

The frontier is central to the United States’ conception of its history and place in the world. It is an abstract concept that reflects the American mythology of progress and is rooted in religious ideas about land, labor, and ownership. Throughout the nineteenth century, these ideas became more than just abstractions. They were tested, hardened, and revised by U.S. officials and the soldiers they commanded on American battlefields. This violence took the form of the Civil War as well as the series of U.S. military encounters with Native Americans known as the Indian Wars. These separate yet overlapping campaigns have had profound and lasting consequences for the North American landscape and its peoples.

This course explores the relationship between religious ideology and violence in the last half of nineteenth century. Organized chronologically and geographically, we will engage with both primary sources and classic works in the historiography of the Indian Wars to examine how religion shaped U.S. policy and race relations from the start of the Civil War through approximately 1910.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Tiffany Hale
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

FIELDWORK

Only for BMEN graduate students who need relevant work experience as part of their program of study. Final reports required. May not be taken for pass/fail credit or audited.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• Instructor: Clark T Hung
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 65 Info
• 1-2 points

FIELDWORK

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• Instructor: Christopher S Chen
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• 1-3 points

SENIOR HONORS THESIS WORKSHOP

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 and the director of the departmental honors programs permission. Students must have a minimum GPA of 3.7 in all required major courses, including calculus and statistics, prior to enrollment. The honors thesis seminar is a year-long course, beginning in the fall semester and ending in the spring semester. Students who have been approved to enter the workshop will be registered for both semesters by the department during the first two weeks of classes; 3 points are earned per semester. This workshop may only be taken by students applying for departmental honors, and it also fulfills the economics seminar requirement for the economics major and all joint majors. Students must see the director during mid-semester registration in the spring to discuss their proposed thesis topic, at which time they will be matched with appropriate faculty who will act as their thesis adviser. Students will meet their adviser over the course of the year at mutually agreed upon times. A rough draft of the thesis will be due during the first week of February in the spring semester, and the final draft will be due three weeks before the last day of classes. Please note that for those joint majors that require two seminars, one in economics and one in the other discipline (i.e. Political Science), the economics senior honors thesis seminar only fulfills the economics seminar requirement.

• Department: Economics
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Lena Edlund
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

GLOBAL INDIGENOUS RELIGIOUS HISTORIES

GLOBAL INDIGENOUS RELIG H

Nomads, natives, peasants, hill people, aboriginals, hunter-gatherers, First Nations—these
are just a handful of the terms in use to define indigenous peoples globally. The names these groups
use to describe themselves, as well as the varying religious practices, attitudes, and beliefs among
these populations are far more numerous and complex. For much of recorded history however,
colonial centers of power have defined indigenous peoples racially and often in terms of lacking
religion; as pagan, barbarian, non-modern, and without history or civilization.

Despite this conundrum of identity and classification, indigenous religious traditions often
have well-documented and observable pasts. This course considers the challenges associated with
studying indigenous religious history, as well as the changing social, political, and legal dimensions
of religious practice among native groups over time and in relationship to the state. Organized
thematically and geographically, we will engage with classic works of ethnohistory, environmental
history, indigenous studies, anthropology, and religious studies as well as primary sources that
include legal documentation, military records, personal testimony, and oral narrative.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Tiffany Hale
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

CRITICAL COLLOQUIUM

The structure of the colloquium combines reading and analysis of texts by major theorists and critics. Each week discussions focus on key terms and analytical lenses in the history of art and art criticism. The course is designed to allow for guest presentations on particular issues by critics and writers, just as it draws on the expertise and participation of Columbia faculty. The aim is to develop students critical thinking and for them to learn directly from leading practitioners writing about modern and contemporary art. In addition to department faculty, writers for Artforum, Grey Room, Parkett, Texte zur Kunst, and October, among other venues, regularly participate in the colloquium.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Janet L Kraynak
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• 4 points

MA THESIS

This course will enable students to complete a research study of considerable length that will (i) enable them to explore a given area of research in substantive detail; (ii) put them on the path to true competence as independent researchers; and (iii) provide those who go on to apply to PhD programs with a substantial writing sample that shows off their technical abilities to the best advantage.

• Department: Classics
• Instructor: Elizabeth K Irwin
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

INTRO TO AMERICAN STUDIES

This course explores the set of possibilities presented by American Studies as a comparative field of study. We begin with a brief overview of the history of the field, and then we’ll focus primarily on the range of modes in which its interdisciplinary work has been undertaken (literary, historical, legal, digital, etc.). The idea here is not to arrive a comprehensive picture of American Studies, but to think about the many ways people have produced knowledge under its aegis. We will also focus on work by Columbia faculty, and sessions of the course are built around visits by faculty in the field to Columbia’s University Seminar in American Studies. Our guiding questions include: How does one do research in a multimedia, “cultural” environment? How does one situate oneself as an “intellectual” or “critic” in relation to one’s object of study? How does one write about different media/genres? How does one incorporate different methodologies into one research project?

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew Sandler
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

WORKPLACE COMMUNICATION IN ENGLISH

WORKPLACE COMM IN ENGLISH

English communication proficiency is important for academic achievement and career success. Columbia Engineering provides English communication instruction for students who would like to improve their communication skills in English. In a small group setting (15-20 students), enrollees will obtain opportunities to interact with the instructor and fellow classmates to improve communication skills.

• Department: Engineering
• MWF 7:50 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• MWF 8 a.m.-9:40 a.m.
• MWF 10 a.m.-11:40 a.m.
• T 10 a.m.-11:40 a.m.
• W 1:10 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
• R 1:10 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
• R 3 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
• F 11 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• S 10:20 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Hyoseon Lee
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• 0 points

RES SKILLS/MTHDS-INT/WRLD HIST

In the first semester a series of workshops will introduce the field of international history and various research skills and methods such as conceptualization of research projects and use of oral sources. The fall sessions will also show the digital resources available at Columbia and how students can deploy them in their individual projects. In the second semester students will apply the skills acquired in the fall as they develop their proposal for the Master's thesis, which is to be completed next year at the LSE. The proposal identifies a significant historical question, the relevant primary and secondary sources, an appropriate methodology, what preliminary research has been done and what remains to be done. Students will present their work-in-progress.

• Department: History
• F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Line Lillevik
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• 1 points

THEORY AND METHODS I

This course will be the first part of a two part introduction to theoretical approaches to modern social science and cultural studies in Asian and African contexts. The first course will focus primarily on methodological and theoretical problems in the fields broadly described as historical social sciences - which study historical trends, and political, economic and social institutions and processes. The course will start with discussions regarding the origins of the modern social sciences and the disputes about the nature of social science knowledge. In the next section it will focus on definitions and debates about the concept of modernity. It will go on to analyses of some fundamental concepts used in modern social and historical analyses: concepts of social action, political concepts like state, power, hegemony, democracy, nationalism; economic concepts like the economy, labor, market, capitalism, and related concepts of secularity/secularism, representation, and identity. The teaching will be primarily through close reading of set texts, followed by a discussion. A primary concern of the course will be to think about problems specific to the societies studied by scholars of Asia and Africa: how to use a conceptual language originally stemming from reflection on European modernity in thinking about societies which have quite different historical and cultural characteristics.

• 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

M.A. PROSEMINAR

This course introduces students to the different subfields of the discipline by presenting various perspectives on one key topic in political science. Throughout the course, both theoretical and empirical debates surrounding the study of democracy are explored. Although the specific topic may change from year to year, the goal and structure of the course will remain the same: to contribute to the students understanding of an important topic in political science and discuss it through the lens of the different subfields: American politics, comparative politics, international relations, and political theory. By doing so, students will also learn the technical language, important concepts, and different methodological approaches of each subfield. Please note that this course is only for students in the Political Science Departments M.A. Program.

• Department: Political Science
• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Chiara Superti
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATION

• Department: Engineering
• T 1:10 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
• T 3 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Hyoseon Lee
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• 0 points

MASTERS SEMINAR

Prerequisites: Departments permission. This course (required for all first-year graduate students in the English Department) introduces students to scholarly methodologies in the study of literature and culture. The Masters Seminar operates in tandem with the Masters Colloquium ENGL G5005, and requires short writing assignments over the course of the semester and extensive in-class participation. There are two sections of this course.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Alan Stewart
  CULPA: 14 h-index: 13 Info
• Instructor: Jennifer Wenzel
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 15 Info
• 4 points

Evidence Based Dentistry

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• 0 points

INTRODUCTION TO FINANCE

Students will be introduced to the fundamental financial issues of the modern corporation. By the end of this course, students will understand the basic concepts of financial planning, managing growth; debt and equity sources of financing and valuation; capital budgeting methods; and risk analysis, cost of capital, and the process of securities issuance.

• Department: Enterprise Risk Management
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Eleni Vrana
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• 3 points

FUNDAMENTALS OF SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE

FUND OF SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE

This course provides an introduction to the major themes of sustainability science with a focus on the application of science to the practice of sustainability.  Basic research, especially in the environmental and social sciences, explores the Earth as a system of systems, wherein the physical, chemical and biological systems interact with each other as well as human systems to affect our future.  The results of this research are often difficult to apply in practice unless the research in translated into actionable advice for individuals, governments and private enterprise.  Even so, the actual or perceived complexities of interactions between human and “natural” systems are often seen by decision makers as barriers to long-term planning, an essential element of pursuing sustainability.  A simple definition of sustainability is based on intergenerational equity.  Thus, the relationships between the here-and-now and possible global futures need to be understood.  Students enrolled in this course will discuss: Definitions of sustainability, including environmental, cultural and socio-economic components; Technologies for observing natural systems and their impacts on human systems; Summaries of scientific understanding of global-scale climate dynamics, natural hazards, biodiversity, environmental stressors and anthropogenic inputs to coupled human-natural systems; An overview of the strengths and weaknesses of science-based prediction; An introduction to geoengineering; Developing the evidence base for sustainability decisions; An introduction to risk assessment, perception and management; Decision making under uncertainty; General principles of sustainability management. An undergraduate background in any field of science or engineering and mathematics through statistical and time-series analysis is required.  An interest in coupled natural-human systems is desirable.

• Department: Sustainability Science
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Newton
  h-index: 9 Info
• 3 points

Topics in Technology Career Paths and In

Topics in Technology Career Paths and Industry
is a discussion series where faculty, alumni, and industry professionals share their experiences navigating careers across the technology landscape.

This series offers a look at how the program’s curriculum translates into real-world skills and professional opportunities. Explore how the courses, projects, and experiences shape thinking, support building technical and professional toolkits, and launch impactful careers in technology.

Students will examine a range of career paths, gain insights into industry trends, and engage in conversations that connect classroom learning to practice.

• Department: Technology Management
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Shahryar Shaghaghi
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• 0 points

DRAWING II

• Department: Visual Arts
• F 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Pruitt
  Info
• 3 points

MA METHODS: COLLOQUIUM

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Frederique Baumgartner
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION IN ENGLISH

PROFESSIONAL COMM IN ENGL

• Department: Engineering
• W 3 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Hyoseon Lee
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• 0 points

ACADEMIC WRITING

• Department: Engineering
• R 11 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Hyoseon Lee
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• 0 points

FNDN EXCELLENCE DENTAL PRACTICE I

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• 0 points

CORPORATE FINANCE

Prerequisites: BUSI PS5001 Introduction to Finance/or Professor Approval is required Students will learn the critical corporate finance concepts including financial statement analysis; performance metrics; valuation of stocks and bonds; project and firm valuation; cost of capital; capital investment strategies and sources of capital, and firm growth strategies. At the end of this course students will understand how to apply these concepts to current business problems.

• Department: Enterprise Risk Management
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: John D Van Ness
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• 3 points

INTRO-STAT-ECOLOGY & EVOL BIOL

Prerequisites: Some background in ecology, evolutionary biology. Intended for those WITHOUT prior knowledge of statistics.  This is an introduction to the theoretical principles and practical application of statistical methods in ecology and evolutionary biology. The course will cover the conceptual basis for a range of statistical techniques through a series of lectures using examples from the primary literature. The application of these techniques will be taught through the use of statistical software in computer-based laboratory sessions.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Steffen Foerster
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• 3 points

OPTIONS AND FUTURES

The course seeks to familiarize students with the basic derivatives (futures and options contracts).  Both have played a role in the markets for many-many years (before the emergence of modern derivative markets in the 70s).  Following the beginning of standardization at CBOE (1973) we have witnessed a dramatic growth in options markets and options are now traded on many exchanges around the world (CBOE, PHLX, NYSE etc.) Huge volumes of options are also traded over the counter (OTC), particularly on foreign exchange and interest rates.  Many options are traded daily in the markets on a wide array of underlying assets from commodities to financial instruments (stocks, bonds, indexes, currencies, futures etc.) to… weather! The appearance of exotic options has driven volumes even higher in the OTC market providing investors with even wider possibilities for customizing risks borne and hedging against risks.

• Department: Enterprise Risk Management
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Ted Jastrzebski
  Info
• 3 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

• Department: Engineering
• T 4:50 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Hyoseon Lee
  Info
• 0 points

FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING

Students will examine the generally accepted account principles (GAAP) underlying financial statements and their implementation in practice. The perspective and main focus of the course is from the users of the information contained in the statements, including investors, financial analysts, creditors and, management. By the end of this class students will be able to construct a cash flow statement, balance sheet and decipher a 10K report.

• Department: Enterprise Risk Management
• T 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• W 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Melissa Hall
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• Instructor: Rebecca Shaffer
  Info
• 3 points

Graduate Seminar in Conservation Biology

Grad Sem Conservation Bio

This graduate-level course examines the scientific foundations, contemporary challenges, and applied practice of conservation biology in a human-dominated world. The course emphasizes how ecological theory, data, and models are used to inform real-world conservation decisions across policy, management, nonprofit, and private-sector contexts.

Designed for working professionals, the course integrates foundational conservation science with applied case studies, analytical interpretation, and professional communication. Students will engage with primary literature, policy-relevant syntheses, and practitioner perspectives to evaluate conservation tradeoffs, uncertainty, and decision-making under real constraints.

• Department: Biodiversity Data Analytics
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Bekka Brodie
  Info
• 3 points

GRADUATE RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM

The Graduate Research Colloquium is a forum that offers two types of research seminars over the course of the semester. In the first, formerly the Graduate Colloquium, up to six outside speakers are invited by the graduate organizers to present research papers to an audience of graduates, faculty and others interested within the larger NYC Classics community, and afterwards to engage in discussion. The second is a Work-in-Progress seminar in which Columbia Classics graduate students present their research to their graduate peers in whatever format they deem most conducive to conveying their research to their audience and receiving feedback. The audience for these eight seminars is restricted to graduate students, the instructor who presides over the course, and any faculty the graduate student presenters choose should choose to invite. At least one semester of the Graduate Research Colloquium is required for MAO students and PhD students must attend the course in both the Fall and Spring semesters of their first year.

• Department: Classics
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• TF 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Paraskevi Martzavou
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Katharina Volk
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 2 points