Continuation of IEOR E6711, covering further topics in stochastic modeling in the context of queueing, reliability, manufacturing, insurance risk, financial engineering, and other engineering applications. Topics from among generalized semi-Markov processes; processes with a non-discrete state space; point processes; stochastic comparisons; martingales; introduction to stochastic calculus.
European (and more locally, German) modernity has been thoroughly shaped by its concepts and
imaginations of gender and sexuality, as deeply entangled with each other as well as racialized
notions of culture and religion. Conceptual claims and fantasies about differences between men
and women and a spectrum of sexualities, often connected to distinctions between West and East
or Christian, Jewish, and Muslim traditions worked to configure—as well as contest—individual
and collective identities throughout the moments of modernism, fascism, and the Cold War. The
1968 “sexual revolution,” second and third wave feminisms, queer and trans* activism, and the
contemporary realities of immigration and globalization have challenged and regrouped these
cultural fictions of identity, without ever entirely undoing them. And in the twenty-first century,
some of these fictions have had forceful comebacks, not limited to but including in contexts of
right-wing populism, “anti-gender” activism, and political conflict around “identity politics.” The course starts from this contemporary renaissance of cultural fictions of identity and
proceeds to deepen and anchor their analysis in the study of selected historical paradigms and
texts, before returning to our present moment towards the end of the semester. We will draw on
an interdisciplinary range of materials, including literature and film, philosophical, scholarly, and
socio-political materials. Geographically, the emphasis is on German and German-language
contexts within the larger frames of Europe, post/colonialism and globalization. The course is
taught in English, and all required materials will be available in English or with English subtitles.
However, Germanic Languages and Literatures students (& other German speakers) will be
encouraged to read aesthetic and philosophical texts in the original German and explore
additional materials for research assignments in German. Other linguistic competencies can be
similarly put to use in comparative assignments.
In this course, we shall survey the political underpinnings of Arab art in the 20th century, and the socio-political conditions that shaped cultural production in the region. Whether it is under the Baathist regimes of Syria and Iraq or under Egypt’s pan-Arabism championed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, painting and sculpture in addition to film and performance have been employed by various governments as a tool of soft power to propagate their policies to the public not only in their respective states but throughout the region and beyond. Despite this widespread government patronage of the arts, many artists have chosen to challenge their authorities through subversive movements and practices, which we will address at different moments in the semester. This course, through its focus on creative practices and strategic use of the arts, will attempt to shed light on an often neglected dimension of the modern history of the Arab World and other parts of the Middle East.
Cultural identity has become a potent force in global politics, even seemingly independent from the economic and geopolitical considerations that traditionally constitute the field of international political science. The Middle East and North Africa region exhibits a complex history of identity development through widespread proliferation of religion, Ottoman and Western European imperialism, and Arab renaissance and nationalist movements in the 19th and 20th centuries. But where does all of this leave the region today in terms of Arab identity and its politics? What can be learned from this particular context about how identity operates in global politics in the 21st century broadly conceived? Does the notion of a unified “Arabness” hold water socially, psychologically, or politically? The region’s social, cultural, religious, institutional, linguistic, and economic diversity would seem to complicate any notion of so-called Arab “unity.” This course will interrogate political interests caught up in modern-day Arab nationalism—both authoritarian governments and Western neo-Orientalists. What would the ramifications of moving
past
Arab identity be, not only for political actors in the West and postcolonial Arab regimes, but also for individuals’ sense of their own multi-layered selves? Who benefits from perpetuation and politicization of Arab identity—and who loses? Special focus will be placed on the regionalization and religionization of identity in an Israel/Palestine context, and the ramifications of these trends for Palestinian human rights claims. In short, the course will explore how identity politics has gone global and map the contours of its effects on regions, nations, and individual lives.
This course introduces students to the field of social work and the law – specifically the practice of social work in legal settings. Students will develop competency in forensic social work practice - working knowledge as a practitioner in an interdisciplinary setting representing clients entangled in legal systems including criminal, civil, family and immigration. Students will deconstruct the complexities of the criminal legal systems and further develop awareness in addressing clients’ concerns related to their criminal justice history – pre-arrest, arrest, disposition and re-entry. Similarly, students will gain insight into the filing of Article X petitions in family court and the pathway of a child protection case. This course complements field placements in legal/forensic settings, law minors and students interested in social work and law rooted in rights-based advocacy. This course is premised on a basic understanding of how the legacy of slavery led to mass criminalization and incarceration. Black Lives Matter.
The course will focus on understanding the theory and varied practices of restorative justice (RJ) and transformative justice (TJ), and how they are being used as alternatives to retributive and punitive responses to social problems and individual, community and institutional harm. Students will learn – through modeling and practice – how to facilitate a restorative circle which can serve as the foundation for continued use of restorative practices in social work. The class will provide an understanding of the values and principles of RJ and R, and the most-commonly used RJ models and where they are being used. It will support students in understanding their own relationship to conflict and teach students how to facilitate restorative processes using peacemaking circles. Issues of power, privilege, oppression and identity will be substantial themes throughout the course, both in understanding the need for RJ and TJ, how RJ/TJ can address them, and the ways in which these issues arise in facilitation and the RJ/TJ movement. In addition to understanding RJ, the course will also provide students with a critical analysis of other theories and practices of conflict resolution including mediation, truth and reconciliation, and transitional justice, and how all of these relate to addressing individual, communal and institutional harm. Finally, the course will discuss how social workers can use restorative justice in a variety of settings.
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
We are currently living through a significant transformation of some of the core features of the international system, or what is more broadly often referred to as, “world order.” Several recent events have highlighted and impacted this sweeping change. The first is the failure of multilateral institutions (such as the UN, WHO or even the G-7 countries) to meet the challenge of the 2020 Covid pandemic. The failure of international collective action is also an obstacle to tackling the effects of global warming. In both cases narrow national interests trumped transnational values. The second is the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine which highlights the failure of multilateral institutions (such as the UN Security Council) to protect the independence of territorial nation-states, a principal unit of the international system since 1945. Narrow national interests continue to outweigh the commitment to the long-standing norm of territorial integrity of nation-states as the foundation for the modern post-imperial international order. Nationalism remains the most powerful force in international affairs. Third, the optimism of the post-Cold War (post-1989) era that economic globalization would lead to the liberalization of China and Russia has now almost entirely faded. The current moment is marked by the rise of these authoritarian states (together with Iran and others) which are seeking to overturn the Western liberal international order that was established after 1945. This Western order consists of three components: capitalist market economics, democratic self-rule and universal human rights, and peaceful diplomacy as the preferred way to manage inter-state conflicts. In its stead we are seeing in major parts of the world the persistence of socialist command economies, the rise of illiberal authoritarianism, and a return to 19th century patterns of war and conquest. Finally, the era of expanding globalization, driven by capitalist economic integration across the globe, appears to be over. The world is de-globalizing. This course will examine some of the key institutional challenges and most vexing conceptual controversies in the current rethinking, some might say turmoil, over global governance and competing forms of world order. These debates reveal at least two key features. First, a depth of disagreement about the shape of the international system which is arguably unprecedented in the last seventy years. Almost every dimension of global government and governance is today the subject of robus
This course introduces students to international human rights law (IHRL). In what sense are internationally-defined human rights "rights" and in what sense can the instruments which define them be considered "law"? How do we know that a claim is actually a "human right"? What are the relations among international, regional and national institutions in establishing and enforcing (or not) IHRL? Does IHRL represent an encroachment on national sovereignty? Is the future of IHRL regional? What enforcement mechanisms can we use, and who can decide upon their use? Finally, what redress is there for human rights violations, and how effective is it? Attendance is required in the first class.
The need for more effective and equitable engagement with communities has become increasingly evident to public health professionals in recent years. Now, more than ever, the importance of developing deeper and more engaged academic/institutional-community partnerships is necessary to address systems of structural inequity. However, developing these relationships requires not only knowledge of equity-based partnering formats, but the cultivation of complex skill sets that allow public health practitioners to most fully develop relationships across all phases of community collaboration. Two valuable forms of community engagement that public health practitioners and students can make use of are community-based participatory research and service learning, which are the focus of this course. Additionally, this course acknowledges that community engagement is a diverse space where people from a variety of professional and personal backgrounds come together. For many years, people working in the technology space have recognized the benefits of “matrixed teams,” similarly over the past few years the notion of interprofessionalism has become an important and required aspect of allied health and public health professional training. Research has shown that bringing together students from two or more professions to learn about, from, and with each other is extremely effective in all forms of collaboration (within research and intervention teams and with communities) and ultimately lead to improved health outcomes. According to the World Health Organization, “Once students understand how to work interprofessionally, they are ready to enter the workplace as a member of the collaborative practice team. This is a key step in moving health systems from fragmentation to a position of strength.” Pinsert course number – insert studio name 2 of 24 The overall goal of this course is for students to learn about and begin to practice the tenets of three frameworks: Interprofessional Education (IPE), Service-Learning (SL), and Community?Based Participatory Research (CBPR). With regard to interprofessional engagement, the course will provide students with a solid understanding of four key IPE competencies: roles/responsibilities, teams/teamwork, ethics/values, and communication. Complementing this, the course will introduce and integrate SL pedagogy to prepare students to engage in community service projects. The SL model prioritizes three aspects of project implementation: student learning, direct attention
The objective of the class is to introduce students to the practice of risk management as a tool for enabling delivery across the range of UN responses in crisis and conflict contexts, including in the areas of peace and security, human rights, development and humanitarian support. The class emphasizes skills development and their application to concrete UN crisis responses.
The European Union (EU) has a deep and broad commitment to the respect and promotion of human rights, both in its internal and its external policies. However, it often faces difficulties in living up to this commitment. In this course we will study the EU’s commitment to human rights as outlined in its founding Treaties, the role of its institutional actors in following up on this commitment, and the EU’s internal and external actions and policies in this respect. For the EU’s internal policies we will focus in particular on its non-discrimination policies as well as its migration policy. In the area of the EU’s external relations we will explore the role of human rights in the EU’s development cooperation, trade policy and humanitarian aid, as well as in the EU’s multilateral relations with other international organizations, both global (e.g. the United Nations) and regional (e.g. Organization of American States; African Union; Council of Europe; OSCE).
Mathematical models, analyses of economics and networking interdependencies in the internet. Topics include microeconomics of pricing and regulations in communications industry, game theory in revenue allocations, ISP settlements, network externalities, two-sided markets. Economic principles in networking and network design, decentralized vs. centralized resource allocation, “price of anarchy,” congestion control. Case studies of topical internet issues. Societal and industry implications of internet evolution.
Mathematical models, analyses of economics and networking interdependencies in the internet. Topics include microeconomics of pricing and regulations in communications industry, game theory in revenue allocations, ISP settlements, network externalities, two-sided markets. Economic principles in networking and network design, decentralized vs. centralized resource allocation, “price of anarchy,” congestion control. Case studies of topical internet issues. Societal and industry implications of internet evolution.
The process of continuity and change in American cities from the colonial period through the 20th century, covering industrialization, political conflict, reform movements, geographical and ethnic diversity, bureaucratic rationalism, and urban culture--with a focus on how physical form responded to or influenced social and political forces over time.
Further study of areas such as communication protocols and architectures, flow and congestion control in data networks, performance evaluation in integrated networks. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6770 to 6779.
A proper development strategy must be inclusive and sustainable. Policies to fight poverty, alleviate all inequalities, and promote social mobility are the focus of this course. It deals with emerging and persistent issues in developing countries: the design of a social safety net, biodiversity and sustainability, education, gender and racial inequalities, public health, labor policies, fiscal and social responsibility, the distributive aspects of fiscal policy, taxation, and government size and efficiency. The course combines problem-based learning and lectures.
During this course, students will be introduced to the methods and techniques of Storytelling and Data Visualizations using Tableau Public software. Tableau is becoming widely used and is now also connectable to the “big 4” SPSS/SAS/STAT/R, as such it is an essential data analytics tool for understanding and manipulating data visual language. Students will learn methodologies on how to approach public health data and use Tableau to create data visualizations and infographics that display statistics in a compelling form. This hands-on introductory course will teach students to develop meaningful public health data stories that reveal visual insights accessible for lay audiences. Students will utilize health data to tell visual stories and develop an aesthetic for presenting their data visually.
This course provides a comprehensive overview of real estate finance and policy. After developing a framework to analyze the global financial crisis, we will cover current issues. The study of the post-crisis period will focus on changes in preferences, technology, and the factors that brought the current housing affordability crisis. While the course will initially focus on the U.S. we will provide a thorough international perspective that will analyze both advanced and less developed countries (with particular attention paid to China and India). We will conclude the course discussing how global real estate asset flows may be a key source of international tension.
A seminar on the contemporary history and practice of economic statecraft. The course focuses on how the United States and other countries weaponize economic, financial, and technological interdependence to advance strategic objectives. Topics include economic sanctions and restrictions on trade and investment, and case studies include efforts to use economic statecraft to curb Iran’s nuclear program, counter Russia’s aggression in Ukraine and interference in democratic elections, and check China’s 5G ambitions. The course also explores how new technologies and sovereign initiatives, including cryptocurrency and other alternatives to dollar-based payment systems, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic, could impact economic statecraft in the future.
This course introduces the fundamental concepts and problems of international human rights law. What are the origins of modern human rights law? What is the substance of this law, who is obligated by it, and how is it enforced? The course will cover the major international human rights treaties and mechanisms and consider some of todays most significant human rights issues and controversies. While the topics are necessarily law-related, the course will assume no prior exposure to legal studies.
The theme for this seminar is public art--old and new. Readings from antiquity through Habermas, Arendt, Adorno, Kracauer, Benjamin, to Rancierre, etc.
There are two purposes to this course: 1. to develop your ability to negotiate in a purposeful, principled and effective way; and 2. to teach you how to build consensus and broker wise agreements with others. Negotiation is a social skill, and like all social skills you have to practice it if you want to get better at it. To give you the chance to practice, we'll do a number of simulated negotiations in and out of class. We'll also use lectures, case studies, exercises, games, videos, and demonstrations to help you develop your understanding. As we advance in the course, our focus will shift from simple one-on-one negotiations to more complex ones involving many parties, agents, coalitions, and organizations.
Musicals, especially those that have traditionally originated on Broadway, are complex pieces of machinery that are designed to produce a variety of energies in the theater. When taken collectively, those energies constitute the aesthetic of the experience. As with plays, stage managers are charged with coordinating all of a musical’s production elements. However, stage managers should also be able to view a musical from every angle; that is, read it intelligently and analyze it dramatically so they can accurately gauge their contribution to the overall aesthetic. This course seeks to provide stage managers with a customized template to do that: in other words, how to connect what’s on the page and the stage to their own standard methodologies, cue calling, and the CEO/COO perspective. In the contemporary professional landscape, these are important tools that will help them optimize their work on musicals.
This is the fourth in a sequence of four classes that is a requirement for the graduate students.
This course is designed for students progressing seamlessly from the MDE program to gain prerequisite nursing experience during the first year of their coursework. Because of the strong relationship between acute care nursing experience and successful AGACNP training, job placement, and practice,
acute care registered nursing experience is required prior to starting clinical rotations in Year 2 of the Acute Care DNP program.
This nursing experience can take the form of any acute care position; while ICU experience is beneficial and preferred, other acute care settings such as ER or inpatient medical/surgical sites also qualify. Outpatient and clinic positions do not satisfy the experience requirement. Unpaid internship positions do not satisfy the experience requirement. Each applicant should discuss their experience or plans with the Program Director in order to ensure that they meet the work experience requirement. Students are required to work 20-40 hours per week as a registered nurse for a minimum of 10-12 months.
At various historical junctures, the emergence of new media has coincided with concerns about accelerated circulations of rumor and the credence gained by unreliable or patently false information. This class will explore rumor, hearsay, disinformation, propaganda, and their interrelations to specific media formats and technologies. Often considered a purely oral medium, the spread of rumor is rendered possible not only by a mixture of fact and fabulation but also by an interaction between speech and various media formats that range from writing and print to social media. In Homer’s
Odyssey
, “hearsay” is the only source of information about Odysseus’s fate for his son, but it also stands in for the oral tradition from which the written epic emerges. Later on, rumor is frequently connected to new media technologies and formats. During the French Revolution, pamphlets, flyers, and posters play a crucial role for the wide dissemination of scandalous and incorrect news that plays on real anxieties and grievances. Around the same time, Herder dismissively compares the printing press to the Roman goddess of “fama.” Before ending with social media and the proliferation of disinformation and propaganda today, the seminar will also explore the newspaper, propaganda, and the radio as powerful conduits of rumor.
This course will examine how politics influence the economic relations between states, and the implication of this evolving international structure for national policy choice and domestic politics in general. It will address major current debates in the field by using analytical and methodological insights from political science and economics. It will mainly tackle six issue areas: international trade, global financial crises, money and exchange rates, international migration, globalization, and foreign aid. Some of the questions that we will ask in this course include why do some countries adopt protectionist policies whereas others embrace free trade? What role do domestic and international factors play in the international monetary and financial order? Who wins and who loses from globalization of trade and finance? This course complements and builds on INAF U6820: Theory of International Political Economy (not a pre-requisite). The emphasis of the course is not upon the technical aspects of international economics or economic theory, but rather upon the political and institutional context in which they operate.
A systematic exploration of advanced diagnosis and management techniques in caring for acutely and critically ill adults. This course is offered with a companion clinical course.
The Graduate Seminar in Sound Art and Related Media is designed to create a space that is inclusive yet focused on sound as an art form and a medium. Class time is structured to support, reflect, and challenge students as individual artists and as a community. The course examines the medium and subject of sound in an expanded field, investigating its constitutive materials, exhibition and installation practices, and its ethics in the 21st century. The seminar will focus on the specific relations between tools, ideas, and meanings and the specific histories and theories that have arisen when artists engage with sound as a medium and subject in art. The seminar combines discussions of readings and artworks with presentations of students' work and research, as well as site visits and guest lectures. While the Columbia Visual Arts Program is dedicated to maintaining an interdisciplinary learning environment where students are free to use and explore different mediums while also learning to look at, and critically discuss, artwork in any medium, we are equally committed to providing in-depth knowledge concerning the theories, histories, practices, tools and materials underlying these different disciplines. We offer Graduate Seminars in different disciplines, or combinations of disciplines, including moving image, new genres, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, as well as in Sound Art in collaboration with the Columbia Music Department through their Computer Music Center. These Discipline Seminars are taught by full-time and adjunct faculty, eminent critics, historians, curators, theorists, writers, and artists.
Prerequisites: SIPA U6401 Corequisites: INAF U6018 & INAF U6022 The course begins with a review of central banks monetary policy goals and objectives, followed by an overview of how central banks set and implement monetary policy in normal economic and financial market conditions. The bulk of the course will focus on how central banks adapt their policy rules and tools in the face of extraordinary financial market or economic turmoil. Different types of unconventional tools will be discussed and analyzed, with particular focus on the design and the effectiveness of various unconventional policy tools. Examples of the use unconventional policy tools - both more and less successful - across jurisdictions will be discussed in the latter half of the course. The course finishes with discussions of several important, and timely dilemmas: where is the ;line; between unconventional monetary policies and traditional fiscal policy actions; what difficulties do central banks face in handling economic side effects and the political consequences of extraordinary policy, and what are the challenges of returning monetary policy to (a new) normal.
This course is an introductory course for regional anesthesia. It includes discussion and demonstration of neuraxial anesthesia, simple peripheral nerve blocks and pain management techniques. Pharmacology regarding local anesthetics will be reviewed.
This is the second course of four that discusses the various methods and basic techniques of anesthesia administration, with an emphasis on physiological basis for practice. This course will emphasize the function and maintenance of technologies employed during perianesthetic period. The development of perianesthetic plans for specific surgical procedures as well as the psychomotor skills specific to practice will be evaluated.
Prerequisites: (CSEE W4868) or the instructor permission. Inter-disciplinary graduate-level seminar on design and programming of embedded scalable platforms. Content varies between offerings to cover timely relevant issues and latest advances in system-on-chip design, embedded software programming, and electronic design automation. Requires substantial reading of research papers, class participation, and semester-long project.