The data master’s project is an ambitious, serious, sustained, data-driven work of journalism. You will design, undertake and complete the project independently or in pairs, working with individual advisors. To meet these requirements, your project needs to include a data component that shows mastery of obtaining, analyzing and presenting data to a broad audience. The final product should include text, visualization or any multimedia elements mounted in a standalone website, and must include a separated detailed description of the methodology followed during the research process (nerd box) as well as the code documentation.
A journey through movement, connecting the basic principles of movement techniques, such as Ballet, Horton, Graham, Jazz, and Musical Theatre to apply to an actor's body and the physical creation of a character.
The master’s project will be your most sustained effort during your time at the journalism school, encompassing both fall and spring semesters. It’s not a thesis in the traditional academic sense; think of it instead as an in-depth exploration of a topic as a journalist would pursue it. Master’s projects can take a variety of forms, some of them incorporating elements from more than one medium: print, photo, audio, video, data. Regardless of format, you’ll work on your project under the guidance of an experienced advisor, who will help you to hone your topic, figure out your reporting strategy and serve as your editor for the duration of the project.
The master’s project will be your most sustained effort during your time at the journalism school, encompassing both fall and spring semesters. It’s not a thesis in the traditional academic sense; think of it instead as an in-depth exploration of a topic as a journalist would pursue it. Master’s projects can take a variety of forms, some of them incorporating elements from more than one medium: print, photo, audio, video, data. Regardless of format, you’ll work on your project under the guidance of an experienced advisor, who will help you to hone your topic, figure out your reporting strategy and serve as your editor for the duration of the project.
The master’s project will be your most sustained effort during your time at the journalism school, encompassing both fall and spring semesters. It’s not a thesis in the traditional academic sense; think of it instead as an in-depth exploration of a topic as a journalist would pursue it. Master’s projects can take a variety of forms, some of them incorporating elements from more than one medium: print, photo, audio, video, data. Regardless of format, you’ll work on your project under the guidance of an experienced advisor, who will help you to hone your topic, figure out your reporting strategy and serve as your editor for the duration of the project.
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.
The course offers an introduction to ancient numismatics and its methods. As a highly interdisciplinary discipline, numismatics helps understand aspects of ancient history, economic history, art and archaeology. It has its origins in the late 15th century, when coins were used to provide a structure to identify Roman imperial portraits or illustrate what early humanists read in the re-discovered manuscripts of ancient authors. Over the centuries, numismatists have developed methodologies and a highly specialized vocabulary to describe and organize coins. What makes numismatics particularly daunting is the sheer quantity of coins that were produced in antiquity and survive to this day. Combined, such detailed textual descriptions and the quantity of coins provide, however, an opportunity for a new digital approach to the study of numismatics, which opens up opportunities for research of the ancient economy, politics, iconography and much more.
This course will provide an overview of numismatic methods while giving a basic introduction to ancient coins. The goal is that at the end of the seminar, any student will be able to find and critically read numismatic literature. During each seminar, students will be expected to describe a coin related to the period or region under discussion and attempt an identification. Particular emphasis will be placed on learning on how to use online resources. Following a chronological structure, the course will provide a general narrative of Greek and Roman numismatics based on specific subjects discussed in the latest scholarly literature.
The course offers an introduction to ancient numismatics and its methods. As a highly interdisciplinary discipline, numismatics helps understand aspects of ancient history, economic history, art and archaeology. It has its origins in the late 15th century, when coins were used to provide a structure to identify Roman imperial portraits or illustrate what early humanists read in the re-discovered manuscripts of ancient authors. Over the centuries, numismatists have developed methodologies and a highly specialized vocabulary to describe and organize coins. What makes numismatics particularly daunting is the sheer quantity of coins that were produced in antiquity and survive to this day. Combined, such detailed textual descriptions and the quantity of coins provide, however, an opportunity for a new digital approach to the study of numismatics, which opens up opportunities for research of the ancient economy, politics, iconography and much more.
This course will provide an overview of numismatic methods while giving a basic introduction to ancient coins. The goal is that at the end of the seminar, any student will be able to find and critically read numismatic literature. During each seminar, students will be expected to describe a coin related to the period or region under discussion and attempt an identification. Particular emphasis will be placed on learning on how to use online resources. Following a chronological structure, the course will provide a general narrative of Greek and Roman numismatics based on specific subjects discussed in the latest scholarly literature.
This course explores how anthropologists have engaged with the question of value as means of understanding and comparing human social engagement with the creation, circulation, and consumption of objects and ideas. In doing so, this course will read classical anthropological texts concerned with exchange, social meaning and action and consider a variety of topics of anthropological interest such as gifts, commodities, capitalism, inequality, and the relationships between humans and nonhumans of many kinds. The course traces how questions and arguments that emerged out of earlier debates in “economic” anthropology were taken up and altered in later conversations about the analytical importance and utility of material and semiotic approaches. In doing so, the course explores what these genealogies might say about the possibility of, and the potential usefulness or desirability of, a contemporary or future-looking anthropology of value.
Prerequisites: 2ND YEAR PHD STATUS IN GOOD STANDING Corequisites: ANTH G6205 Within this seminar, one will master the art of research design and proposal writing, with special emphasis on the skills involved in writing a dissertation prospectus and research proposals that target a range of external funding sources. Foci include: bibliography development; how one crafts and defends a research problem; the parameters of human subjects research - certification; and the key components of grant proposal design. Required of, and limited to, all Second Year PHD anthropology students.
1st year Neurobiology & Behavior students only. Requires instructor permission.
The electricity sector worldwide is changing more rapidly today than at any period since the inception of the industry. Billions of dollars of new investment will be required over the next decade to maintain and improve electricity service, particularly in emerging economies. Models of service delivery are changing, and the role of the traditional regulated utility continues to evolve. This class is designed to provide a full exposure to current issues across the electricity value chain, including both regulated and competitive sectors. In addition, it is intended to provide insights that are applicable to other industries, including infrastructure financing, maintaining competition in markets, structuring good governance arrangements, and promoting economic efficiency.
Prerequisites: SIPA U6300 or SIPA U6400 This course is an introduction to the economics of energy markets. We will study the main sources of ineciency in energy markets, namely market power and externalities, and discuss alternative policy responses to them. With these tools, we will analyze recent challenges faced by policy makers in energy markets, like the incorporation of renewables, electric vehicles, and the impact of energy storage at large scale.
Quantum optics, including: quantiziation of the electromagnetic field, open quantum systems, light-matter interaction, coherent control, collective phenomena, measurement theory and decoherence, and applications in quantum information science.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with Corporate Finance The global energy industry is comprised of the largest and most interrelated set of businesses in the world. From its inception, the industry has grown dramatically to provide ever increasing amounts of energy and power to commercial, industrial and retail consumers around the world. Given its unique industry structure, specialized financing techniques have been developed to expand and/or complement conventional public and private financing alternatives. These specialized financing approaches have, in turn, allowed the energy industry to access an unprecedented range of capital sources to finance its increasingly complex and challenging business model.
This course examines
language and its limits
from the perspective of practice and theory, drawing on linguistic and sociocultural anthropology, semiotics, and deaf and disability studies. The first weeks focus on foundational texts and frameworks for language, semiotics, and communication, paying attention to the placement, and theorization, of boundaries that separate language from not-language and to the work such boundaries (are intended to) do. The second part of the course explores materials where the subjects and objects of study approach or even cross those boundaries, asking what kinds of ethical, intellectual, and relational demands these materials make in both social and analytic contexts. Focal topics may include linguistic relativity; semiotics; modality (signed, spoken, written languages); disability; trauma and colonialism; human-nonhuman communication; and gender. Please email for instructor permission.
It took the mass murder of six Asian women in Atlanta on March 16, 2021 to draw national attention to what Asian Americans have been warning about since the wake of Covid-19: a surge in anti-Asian violence and hate. Since the onset of the coronavirus, 1 in 8 Asian American adults experienced a hate incident, and 1 in 7 Asian American women worry all the time about being victimized, reflecting an under-recognized legacy of anti-Asian violence, bigotry, misogyny, and discrimination in the United States that dates back more than 150 years. Drawing on research and readings from the social sciences, this course links the past to the present in order to understand this legacy, and how it continues to affect Asian Americans today.
The course focuses on relatively recent research, and is intended to introduce you to many of the major themes and ndings in this area. As many of the central questions in strati cation research are now active research sites for researchers in other social sciences as well as in sociology, the literature on this reading list is interdisciplinary whenever appropriate.