Macroeconomic Analysis for International

Prerequisites: SIPA U6400 or SIPA U6300 This course continues the one-year sequence initiated with SIPA U6400 and focuses on macroeconomics. The goal of this course is to provide students with the analytical framework to examine and interpret observed economic events in the global economy. The causal relationships between macroeconomic aggregates is based upon microeconomic principles. The subject matter always refers to concrete situations with a particular focus on the causes and effects of the current global financial crisis. The controversial nature of macroeconomic policies is central.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 6:15 p.m.-7:45 p.m.
• R 8 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• F 9:15 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
• F 11 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
• F 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
• 0 points

MODERN GEOMETRY

Continuation of Mathematics GR6402x (see Fall listing).

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Simon Brendle
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• 4.5 points

INTRO ORAL/MAXILLOFACIAL SURGY

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• 0 points

Human Rights and the Politics of Inequal

Human Rights & Devpt Policy

This course investigates the relationship between human rights and key policies affecting economic and social equality and equity issues. In particular, the course will focus on how human rights criteria have been integrated into economic governance in various arenas, including trade, labor, development, and environmental policy. The course will introduce students to both theory and practical points of leverage for advancing human rights in the public and the private sector. Students will learn about the strengths, weaknesses and impacts of grievance mechanisms that are tied to economic policies, such as free trade agreements or World Bank complaint mechanisms. They will analyze the impacts of development and investment policies on human rights and strategies for incorporating human rights criteria into governmental and non-governmental decision-making processes.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

INTRO TO ECONOMETRICS II-DISC

• Department: Economics
• M 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Seung-Hun Lee
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• 0 points

ORIGINS OF MOD VISUAL CULTURE

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• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan K Crary
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

CREATING A PLAY

The goal of the Fall Semester is to create a rough draft of a one-act play or the first act of a full-length play. The first four weeks will be devoted to writing assignments - both in class and outside - to stimulate the identification of personal themes, interests or questions that can inspire a story. This rest of the semester will be dedicated to crafting a draft that reflects conscientious investigation. The Spring Semester will provide the opportunity for each student to hone her/his play through further drafts into a finished work. Students will serve as dramaturges for each other. The semester will end with presentations of the completed plays. Each presentation is the responsibility of the author.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• W 9:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Leslie Ayvazian
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• 3 points

TRANSLATION SEMINAR

WOMEN OF THE WORLD

TRANSLATION SEMINAR

• Department: Writing
• W 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Susan Bernofsky
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• 3 points

TRANSLATION SEMINAR

WRITER-TRANSLATORS

TRANSLATION SEMINAR

• Department: Writing
• R 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Katrina Dodson
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• 3 points

Universal Food Security

Global Food Systems

This course addresses the challenges and opportunities for achieving a productive, profitable, inclusive, healthy, sustainable, resilient, and ethical global food system. Our first class will provide a brief historical perspective of the global food system, highlighting relevant developments over the past 10,000 years and will explain key concepts, critical challenges, and opportunities ahead. For the ensuing few weeks, we will cover the core biophysical requirements for food production: soil and land, water and climate, and genetic resources. We include an introduction to human nutrition – 
Nutrition Week
 – that focuses on dietary change and food-based solutions to malnutrition. Building on this, the course will survey a selection of important food systems and trends across Asia, Africa, and Latin America that provide food security and livelihoods for more than half of the world’s population. Case studies and classroom debates throughout the course will explore the roles of science, technology, policies, politics, institutions, business, finance, aid, trade, and human behavior in advancing sustainable agriculture, and achieving food and nutritional security. We will probe the interactions of food systems with global issues including poverty and inequality, the persistence of chronic hunger and malnutrition, climate change, environmental degradation, international food business and value chains, biotechnology (GMOs), post-harvest losses, and food waste. With a sharp eye for credible evidence, we will confront controversies, reflect on historical trends, identify common myths, and surface little-known but important truths about agriculture and food systems. In our final sessions, we address the ultimate question: can we feed and nourish the world without wrecking it for future generations?

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• R 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Glenn Denning
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• 3 points

INTRODUCTN TO ECONOMETRICS II

Corequisites: ECON G6410 and the director of graduate studies permission. Introduction to the general linear model and its use in econometrics, including the consequences of departures from the standard assumptions.

• Department: Economics
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• 4 points

LIGHTWAVE DEVICES

Electro-optics: principles; electro-optics of liquid crystals and photo-refractive materials. Nonlinear optics: second-order nonlinear optics; third-order nonlinear optics; pulse propagation and solitons. Acousto-optics: interaction of light and sound; acousto-optic devices. Photonic switching and computing: photonic switches; all-optical switches; bistable optical devices. Introduction to fiber-optic communications: components of the fiber-optic link; modulation, multiplexing and coupling; system performance; receiver sensitivity; coherent optical communications.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• M 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Xiang Meng
  h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

Foreign Affairs Law

• Department: Law
• MW 2:50 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• 3 points

COMPARATV POLITICS SURVEY II

GR6412 is one of two survey courses in comparative politics offered by the Political Science Department. The two courses complement each other, but need not be taken in any particular order. The course includes a great deal of student involvement and is designed to help you educate yourselves about the major themes in comparative politics and develop the analytic skills need to conduct research at a high level.

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

RESEARCH DESIGH SEMINAR

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

• Department: Music
• T 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher J Washburne
  CULPA: 31 Info
• 3 points

DIG HERTITAGE DOCUMENTATI

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Bilge Kose
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• 3 points

MICRO-ECONOMETRICS

• Department: Economics
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Simon Lee
  h-index: 28 Info
• 3 points

PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS

Photonic integrated circuits are important subsystem components for telecommunications, optically controlled radar, optical signal processing, and photonic local area networks. An introduction to the devices and the design of these circuits. Principle and modeling of dielectric waveguides (including silica on silicon and InP based materials), waveguide devices (simple and star couplers), and surface diffractive elements. Discussion of numerical techniques for modeling circuits, including beam propagation and finite difference codes, and design of other devices: optical isolators, demultiplexers.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Michal Lipson
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 114 Info
• 3 points

PARTNERSHIP TAXATION

• Department: Law
• TR 2:50 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• 3 points

PROGRAM EVAL IN SOCIAL SVCS

• Department: Social Work
• W 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• W 2 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• W 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• Instructor: David B Howard
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• Instructor: Prema L Filippone
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• Instructor: Eri Noguchi
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• 3 points

NATL REGISTER OF HIST PLACES

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Andrew S Dolkart
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

POST SUPERVISING FOR PRODUCERS

This class is an intensive introduction to Post Production, with a specific focus on the role of the producer and post-production supervisor. We will examine the different components of Post-Production (Editing, Sound Design/Mixing, Music, Picture finishing, VFX, Titles) from Pre-Production through Delivery. Throughout the course, post department heads will come in as guests, and we will attend site visits to local post facilities.  Required for all second-year Creative Producing students and only open to students in that concentration.

• Department: Film
• W 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark S Haynes
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• 1.5 points

POST SUPERVISING FOR PRODUCERS

This class is an intensive introduction to Post Production, with a specific focus on the role of the producer and post-production supervisor. We will examine the different components of Post-Production (Editing, Sound Design/Mixing, Music, Picture finishing, VFX, Titles) from Pre-Production through Delivery. Throughout the course, post department heads will come in as guests, and we will attend site visits to local post facilities.  Required for all second-year Creative Producing students and only open to students in that concentration.

• Department: Film
• W 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark S Haynes
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• 1.5 points

RELIGION & PUBLIC LIFE

• Department: Religion
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Clemence C Boulouque
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

SECURITIES REGULATION

Prerequisites: L6231 This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search

• Department: Law
• MW 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Joshua R Mitts
  Info
• 4 points

HARDWARE SECURITY

• Department: Computer Science
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Simha Sethumadhavan
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

IMAGING WAR, IMAGINING PEACE: MEMORY, JU

This course explores the ways in which both war and peace since the twentieth century have been imagined and represented, and how those visual practices might be unlearned and reimagined. We will discuss the project of making images of and against war from World War I and II, to nuclear war and Holocaust, colonial wars, proxy wars, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. What do these images and imaginings of war and peace leave out of view, and how can we bring both underlying social vulnerability and extant networks of protest and resistance into greater visibility?  How might we avoid automatized reiterations of well-worn locations and scenarios of violence, for example in constructions of “the enemy,” and develop new approaches to the nationalist, racialized, and gendered stakes of conflict?  What alternative acts of intervention, witnessing, memorialization and reparation might we create so as to see emergencies more freshly –at a time of conflict, as well as in anticipation and in retrospect? Can the visual archives of violence be reframed and re-circulated to shape more firmly the potential of justice, cohabitation and peace? How can visualizations of anti-war movements and peace actions be mobilized more effectively?  Our discussions will be based on the close study of essays, films, images, photo-books, archives, exhibitions and memorials by, among others, Leni Riefenstahl, Virginia Woolf, Hannah Arendt, Robert Capa, Keiji Nakasawa, Alain Resnais, Susan Sontag, Sigmund Freud, Judith Butler, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Diana Taylor, Thy Phu, David Schneer, Michael Rothberg, Amitav Gosh, Sharon Sliwinski, Nina Berman, Jenny Holzer, Walid Raad, Harun Farocki, Jon Berger, Gilo Pontecorvo, Alfredo Jaar, and more. This-team taught course is inspired by the documentary work of Susan Meiselas. Her distinctive photographic practice with communities in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chile, Kurdistan and elsewhere, her repeated return to sites of conflict over time and her collaboration with the subjects of her images, as well as her extensive and innovative archival work, serve as one model for the kinds of approaches we want to explore and foster.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• F 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
• 4 points

Energy Transition in Europe

The course is intended to provide students with an understanding of the issues and dynamics underlying the European Union’s (EU’s) efforts to lead the worldwide transition to low- and zero-greenhouse gas energy systems. The energy transition is unfolding around the globe with features that reflect each country’s distinct energy endowments, economic strengths and weaknesses, political priorities, and governance systems. In this course, we will examine the drivers of the European debate over the energy transition, from public pressure to protect the environment and avoid climate change, to technology innovations that are impacting all aspects of energy use – in power generation, industrial energy systems, buildings and transportation.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• 1.5 points

FEDERAL COURTS

• Department: Law
• TR 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Kellen R Funk
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• 4 points

FEDERAL CRIMINAL LAW

• Department: Law
• MW 10:40 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Daniel Richman
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• 3 points

East Asian Security

This course explores the principal hard power security issues facing East Asia: the rise of China; the US relationship with its allies and security partners in the region; Japan’s security strategy; the political-military disputes centered on the East and South China seas, the Korean peninsula, and the Taiwan Strait; and military strategies in the region. Through a set of readings and discussions, students will come to a deeper understanding of the major issues in the region’s security; how the histories and domestic politics of China, Japan, the two Koreas and Taiwan shape and impact on the region’s security; and how some of the major scholars and practitioners who have thought about the region have viewed its security problems.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Markus Garlauskas
  Info
• 3 points

CRITICAL WRITING FOR THEATRE

• Department: Theatre Arts
• F 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Linda Winer
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• 3 points

Persistent Problems in the Global South:

Persistent Probs-Global South

This course, Persistent Problems in the Global South: Policies and Politics for Sustainable Development, examines the politics around some persistent policy problems in the Global South, against the background of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The term Global South, used mostly by intergovernmental organizations, refers to the economically disadvantaged countries also known as developing countries or the Third World. However, in recent years and within a variety of fields, Global South is also employed in a post-national sense to address spaces and peoples within the borders of wealthier countries negatively impacted by globalization. This course is explicitly comparative, and will draw on the histories and national experiences of developing countries around the world. Each week we will address one persistent sustainable development problem in the Global South in an empirically grounded case-based method, while also referring to solid theoretical frameworks and policy literature. Alongside recognizing national-level specificities, we will also examine how these countries face similar constraints arising from shared colonial experience, resource paucity and institutional barriers, which distinguish them from richer countries in the Global North.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Rumela Sen
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN PLAYS

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• Department: Theatre Arts
• R 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Kate Loewald
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• 3 points

Failures and Successes of Three Decades

Peacemaking Failures & Su

The return to power of the Taliban in Afghanistan, coming after a twenty years engagement of the international community, raises hard questions on the wisdom of intervening in the lives of others. At the same time, the wars in Syria and Yemen, in which there was no intervention, have generated immense humanitarian crises, while the short but decisive intervention in Libya, once trumpeted as an example of the responsibility to protect, has led to a decade of political crisis. Have we learned the right lessons from the crises of the 90’s (Somalia, Bosnia, Rwanda…)? Or has the world changed so radically that the lessons of the 90’s no longer apply? At a time when geopolitical confrontation is deepening, is there still a space for intervention? Are there new lessons that we should learn from the last two decades? To answer those questions, we will go through several case studies – with a focus on conflicts in which the United Nations have been involved-, not only to better understand the causes of failure, and in some cases of success, but also to sharpen a definition of what can be called success. I will draw on my own experience as under-secretary-general for peacekeeping, as deputy of Kofi Annan when he tried to stop the Syrian conflict, and as chair of the board of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue and CEO of the International Crisis Group. I will also call on a few experts and practitioners with specific experience of particular conflicts. In the end, we will test our understanding of the causes of success and failure on two ongoing crises, Afghanistan and Syria, trying to identify the inflection points that have led to the present state of affairs, and what could/should have been done differently.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Jean-Marie Guehenno
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• 3 points

Using Concepts from Kinesiology to Promo

• Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
• Instructor: Glen Gillen
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• 1 points

Ethology and the Evolution of Behavior

Ethology & Evol. of Behav

How do studies of behavior in nature and the lab complement each other? For example, how does our knowledge of animal behavior in the wild shape the design, execution, and interpretation of studies of behavior in the laboratory? And what, in turn, do lab studies tell us about how animals experience their world and behave? What are the sources and mechanisms of diversity of behavior and how does behavior evolve at genetic, molecular, and neuronal levels? Readings will cover the work of classical ethologists, as well as modern literature. These readings will be presented and discussed in a seminar format.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Andres Bendesky
  h-index: 14 Info
• 3 points

Justice for Black Veterans

In the wake of the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and others, activists and scholars have taken up the call to further examine the covert structural and systemic racism within existing U.S. structures. One such structure is the U.S. military. This “course” will broadly examine the historical and contemporary contributions and experiences of Black military men and women. This will be juxtaposed to the history of racism within the military system and how it presents in the U.S. today. Using datasets obtained via FOIA requests to the Board of Veterans, the Veterans Benefits Administration, and the Veterans Health Administration, particular attention will be made on the persistence of racial discrimination and benefit obstruction within the U.S. military. Students will consider ways to explore meaningful repair based on the narratives of those most directly affected.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Linda Mann
  Info
• 1.5 points

INTEGRATV OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY

• Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
• Instructor: Glen Gillen
  Info
• 1 points

Counterterrorism and Policing

INSTRUCTOR: Rebecca Weiner. The terrorism threat environment in the United States has evolved considerably in the 20 years since 9/11. Today’s threat is ideologically diverse, tactically unsophisticated, geographically dispersed, and driven by a combination of digital catalysts and local threat actors. The threat has evolved from one that is primarily external in origin and nature to one that is primarily homegrown and domestic—and driven by online radicalization that turns into real-world violence. This change has required different strategies and approaches from the counterterrorism community. Law enforcement, and in particular police, play a growing role in countering terrorism. This course will examine: the evolution of the terrorism threat in the United States since 9/11; the role that the digital realm has played in changing the threat landscape; some of the challenges and opportunities in policing terrorism; and how the various structures that developed since 9/11 have had to adapt to meet the changed threat.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Rebecca Weiner
  Info
• 3 points

Rethinking Policing in the 21st Century

Rethinking Policing-21st Cent

Social movements and activists are reshaping the debate on the traditional role of policing in our society. The Black Lives Matter movement has been pivotal in leading the call for systemic change, accountability and transparency. A chorus of diverse voices has called into question unchecked police power. The tragic deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Eric Garner and other Black and brown people has led to a breakdown of trust between the public and police. This course is designed to examine current police practices through the lens of history, race, recent events, and jurisprudence.  This class will serve as a laboratory of ideas and recommendations as we analyze police training, disciplinary procedures, use of force guidelines and other practices in an effort to foster and improve community - police relations. Several cities have deconstructed police authorities, focusing on a more democratic force and in some cases diverting funds towards a more non-violent and community-based approach to policing. Some governmental leaders have criticized recent movements for their lack of structure and stated objectives other than demanding change. This class will discuss common threads and differences between recent movements and those of the past. Lastly, this class will tackle those issues that have impeded progress in advancing a police force that promotes trust and service.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Basil A Jr Smikle
  Info
• 3 points

MILITARY LAW AND THE CONST

• Department: Law
• M 4:20 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Michel Paradis
  Info
• 2 points

LABOR LAW

• Department: Law
• MW 10:10 a.m.-noon
• 4 points

Economic Espionage

Intelligence activities are traditionally thought to comprise the activities of a nation state’s intelligence organizations attempting to steal secrets, usually those pertaining to national security, from the organizations of another nation state.  However, intelligence activities have seldom, if ever, been confined to the government sphere.  Most nation states have employed their national intelligence systems to steal privately held economic information from other countries to benefit their economies: many continue to do so. Private enterprises have long employed methodologies associated with “traditional” intelligence to obtain trade secrets from domestic and foreign competitors.  The establishment of a legal and ethical framework to govern this activity –- the discipline of “competitive intelligence’, is a relatively recent phenomenon. This course will examine in depth the interaction of intelligence and private sector on these three levels.  Part one of the course will cover economic espionage: the deliberate targeting of private sector entities by foreign intelligence services.  Soviet/Russian and Chinese conduct of Economic Espionage will be discussed in detail.  A separate class will examine the prevalence of economic espionage among democratic nations, usually considered allies of the United States in both theory and practice.  The U.S. attitude towards economic espionage, and the U.S reaction to the threat, will be the subject other class meetings. The course will then move on to industrial espionage, companies spying on other companies, and its’ more socially acceptable counterpart, competitive intelligence.   The course will conclude with an in-depth look at the development of the private intelligence sector, and rare instances of private sector espionage against a government entity, including the notorious “Fat Leonard” conspiracy to penetrate and suborn the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet.

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

LAW OF THE POLITICAL PROCESS

This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search

• Department: Law
• MW 1:20 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Jamal K Greene
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• 3 points

ADV CON LAW: TPCS IN FED COURTS

• Department: Law
• TR 10:40 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Henry P Monaghan
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Professional Issues in Nurse-Midwifery

PROF ISSUES NURS/MIDWIFER

The Professional Issues in Nurse-Midwifery course is designed to concentrate on the transition from student to beginning nurse-midwife practitioner. It examines the history of the profession and the role of its leadership organizations including the ACNM. Students will submit articles for publication to the Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health. The course curriculum also examines current critical issues that impact on the profession, both national and international, and addresses organizational and legislative means of effecting change.

• Department: Nursing
• T 1 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Rebekah L Ruppe
  Info
• 2 points

Fanily Activity Adaptation Model (FAAM)

Family Activity Adaptatio

• Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
• Instructor: Katherine Dimitropoulou
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• 1 points

REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS

See Law School Curriculum Guide for details.

• Department: Law
• W 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard Sobelsohn
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• 2 points

BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: Completion of 1st year graduate program in Economics, or the instructor's permission. The standard model of economic behavior describes a perfectly rational, self interested utility maximizer with unlimited cognitive resources. In many cases, this provides a good approximation to the types of behavior that economists are interested in. However, over the past 30 years, experimental and behavioral economists have documented ways in which the standard model is not just wrong, but is wrong in ways that are important for economic outcomes. Understanding these behaviors, and their implications, is one of the most exciting areas of current economic inquiry. This course will study three important topics within behavioral economics: Bounded rationality, temptation and self control and reference dependent preferences. It will draw on research from behavioral economics, experimental economics, decision theory, psychology and neuroscience in order to describe the models that have been developed to explain failures of the standard approach, the evidence in support of these models, and their economic implications.

• Department: Economics
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Dean
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 26 Info
• 3 points

Human Rights and Humanitarian Policy Pra

Hum Rights & Hum Pol Practicum

This 1.5 credit, 7-week course is designed as a forum in which human rights practitioners, humanitarian aid workers, practitioners and academics share their professional experiences and insights on the modern development of international human rights and humanitarian law, policy, and practice. The Practicum plays an important role in the Human Rights and Humanitarian Policy Concentration as a means by which students: 1. interact with speakers and gain an understanding of the different roles that humanitarian aid workers and actors play in a variety of contexts, and 2. examine current trends in the human rights field and remain informed on the different roles that human rights actors play in a variety of contexts. The Practicum is designed, therefore, to enhance students’ abilities to think critically and analytically about current problems and challenges confronting the field, and to do so in the context of a vibrant community of their peers. Whereas most courses integrate conceptual and theoretical perspectives of human rights, the Human Rights and Humanitarian Policy Practicum is meant to emphasize the processes of implementing human rights from the practitioner’s perspective.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Elazar Barkan
  Info
• 1.5 points

TPCS IN EAST ASIAN BUDDHISM

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Bernard Faure
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Computational Phylogenetics

This course will teach basic and advanced concepts in phylogenetics through interactive discussions and computational exercises. It is intended for graduate level students with a research interest in phylogenetics, molecular evolution, and/or phylogenetic comparative methods. Each week class sessions are organized to (1) introduce a new topic and discuss readings; and (2) implement the topic/method in a computational lab.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Deren Eaton
  h-index: 15 Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED TEACHING ASSISTANCE

Prerequisites: permission of the faculty member who will direct the teaching. Participation in ongoing teaching.

• Department: Psychology
• 3 points

Quantitative Analysis I for Internationa

This survey course introduces students to the fundamentals of statistical analysis. We will examine the principles and basic methods for analyzing quantitative data, with a focus on applications to problems in public policy, management, and the social sciences. We will begin with simple statistical techniques for describing and summarizing data and build toward the use of more sophisticated techniques for drawing inferences from data and making predictions about the social world. The course will assume that students have little mathematical background beyond high school algebra. Students will be trained on STATA. This powerful statistical package is frequently used to manage and analyze quantitative data in many organizational/institutional contexts. Because each faculty member takes a somewhat different approach to teaching this course, students should examine each professors syllabus to understand the differences.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• T 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• T 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Doru Cojoc
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• 3 points

Quantitative Analysis II for Internation

Prerequisites: SIPA U6500 This course is the second semester in the SIPA statistics sequence. Students conduct a major research project, which will serve as an important vehicle for learning about the process and challenges of doing applied empirical research, over the course of the semester. The project requires formulating a research question, developing testable hypotheses, gathering quantitative data, exploring and analyzing data using appropriate quantitative techniques, writing an empirical research paper, proposing policy recommendations, and presenting findings and analyses.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• R 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• F 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• F 3 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• M 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Alan S Yang
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH

• Department: Social Work
• W 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 8:30 p.m.-10:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Amy Werman
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• Instructor: Craig S Schwalbe
  h-index: 10 Info
• Instructor: Sara Bartlett
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• 3 points

INTRODUCTN TO HEALTH ECONOMICS

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: Health Policy & Management
• R 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Stephen Coussens
  h-index: 2 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO STATISTICS

• Department: Social Work
• Instructor: Melissa D Begg
  h-index: 32 Info
• 0 points

SUZUKI

• Department: Theatre Arts
• R 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Shanga Parker
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• 0-1 points

GENDER JUSTICE

• Department: Law
• T 4:20 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Katherine Franke
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• 2 points

LEAD I

• Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
• Instructor: Tyra M Banks
  Info
• 3 points

HEALTH POLICY-POLITICAL SYSTEM

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• M 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Lawrence D Brown
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• 3 points

Using Big Data to Develop Public Policy

Big Data to Develop Pub Policy

Prerequisites: SIPA U6500 Data are a critical resource for understanding and solving public policy challenges. This course provides an applied understanding of data analytics tools and approaches to policy. This course is designed to bridge the gap between the statistical theory and real-world challenges of using data in public policy. The course leverages the DATA2GO.NYC data set. DATA2GO.NYC was developed with the intention of empowering community members to understand the areas in which they work, play, and live by providing open access to aggregated city data. You will use the data set to conduct the in-depth analysis of an issue and ultimately develop a policy proposal or policy evaluation.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Francesco Brindisi
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

Basics of Cybersecurity

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Colin Ahern
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• 1.5 points

VISIONS FROM AFAR FROM NEARBY

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• M 4 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Alessandra Russo
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

STEM CELL, GENOME ENG & REGEN MED

General lectures on stem cell biology followed by student presentations and discussion of the primary literature. Themes presented include: basic stem cell concepts; basic cell and molecular biological characterization of endogenous stem cell populations; concepts related to reprogramming; directed differentiation of stem cell populations; use of stem cells in disease modeling or tissue replacement/repair; clinical translation of stem cell research.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• R 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• 3 points

PLAYWRITING II

• Department: Theatre Arts
• W 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Rogelio Martinez
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• 3 points

FICTION LECTURE

THE PICARESQUE NOVEL

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• Department: Writing
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Lee Siegel
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• 3 points

Intro to Infographics and Data Visualiza

Intro Infographics & Data Vis

This is a seven-week course that introduces students to design principles and techniques for effective data visualization. Visualizations graphically depict data to foster communication, improve comprehension and enhance decision-making. This course aims to help students: understand how visual representations can improve data comprehension, master techniques to facilitate the creation of visualizations as well as begin using widely available software and web-based, open-source frameworks.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Douglas Williamson
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• 1.5 points

Data Driven Approaches for Campaigns and

Data Driven Approaches-Campaig

Prerequisites: Basic statistics and facility with spreadsheets This class will focus on the proper understanding and use of a wide range of tools and techniques involving data, analytics, and experimentation by campaigns. We will study evolutions and revolutions in data driven advocacy and campaigns, starting with polling and continuing through micro-targeting, random controlled experiments, and the application of insights from behavioral science. Our primary focus will be on developments in US political and advocacy campaigns, but we will also examine the uses of these tools in development and other areas. The course is designed to provide an informative but critical overview of an area in which it is often difficult to separate hype from expertise. The purpose of the course is to prepare students to understand the strengths and limitations of Big Data and analytics, and to provide concrete and practical knowledge of some of the key tools in use in campaigns and advocacy. Students will be expected to examine the use of data in practical case studies and distinguish between proper and improper uses.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

HOSP ORGANIZATION/MANAGEM

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• W 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Donna Lynne
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• 1.5 points

SPEECH II

In this course, students will continue an exploration of their Idiolects in relationship to both extemporaneous and heightened texts through class and small group work that focuses on audibility, clarity, resonance, vocal dynamics by way of imaginative activation, articulation and ownership. The objective of this course is for students to activate their speech in such a way that it ignites and expands both their imaginations and their capacity to communicate language with honesty. They will experience a full and balanced sound that is neither pushed nor half-baked, neither rushed nor indulgent, and fill space onstage and in the world with their voice and their presence. Students will also hone their skills of self-observation, offer useful feedback and take ownership of and interpret a variety of texts to be expressed on vibration.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• T 9 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Hayes
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• 2 points