Financial Management

The course provides an introduction to budgeting and financial control as a means of influencing the behavior of public organizations. Concepts include the budget process and taxation, intergovernmental revenues, municipal finance, bonds, control of expenditures, purchasing, debt management, productivity enhancement, and nonprofit finance. Students learn about the fiscal problems that managers typically face, and how they seek to address them. Students also gain experience in conducting financial analysis and facility with spreadsheet programs. Case materials utilize earth systems issues as well as other policy issues. A computer lab section is an essential aspect of the course, as it teaches students to use spreadsheet software to perform practical exercises regarding the budgeting and financial management of a hypothetical state environmental agency.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• R 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Rebecca E Koike
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• 3 points

Public Education: New Strategies for a N

Innovations-Public Education

In this course we will explore distinct challenges along with precise remedies inherent in policy setting and implementation of 21st century public Pre-K -12 and higher education. This course has been designed to be responsive to issues arising in this COVID era as well as within the framework of newfound acknowledgements of the role of race and poverty in every aspect of learning and education policy. These issues will be probed through a solutions-based, case-study approach. Relying upon guest speakers, class discussion and readings, we will examine a specific individual, systemic or organization-based solution to a clearly articulated gap or need.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Belzberg
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• 1.5 points

Theoretical Statistics

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• Department: Statistics
• F 9:15 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Cynthia Rush
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

Theoretical Statistics

TOPICS IN THEORETICAL STAT

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• Department: Statistics
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Ming Yuan
  h-index: 45 Info
• 3 points

Behavioral Policy & Public Health

Applications of behavioral insights are expanding rapidly across civic, medical, social, corporate, educational, and economic professions. This class covers the underlying theories for behavioral insights, using scientific and real-world examples of applications from multiple disciplines and locations. The course will also cover methods for behavioral implementation and evaluation, focusing particularly on healthcare policy perspectives. Students will learn a broad range of strategies through a highly interactive format, taught partially in a classroom setting in addition to remote asynchronous and synchronous sessions. Students will gain experience designing and developing their own evidence- based behavioral interventions as a part of a semester-long project. The course is taught in three phases. The first phase will introduce fundamentals of behavioral science and evidence-based policy. Students will then spend the majority of the course on examples of behavioral insights such as nudges in practice, in a healthcare context and beyond. The course will end with sessions on practical applications, where students will learn to identify appropriate situations for behavioral interventions and produce a final project in a chosen context.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• T 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Kai Ruggeri
  h-index: 22 Info
• 1.5 points

S ROLE OF INSIDE COUNSEL

• Department: Law
• MW 8:30 a.m.-10 a.m.
• 1 points

OBESITY:ETIOLOGY,PREVENT,TREATMNT

• Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
• Instructor: Ari Shechter
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 23 Info
• 2 points

Project Management

While it is generally thought of to be related to construction, the truth is that Project Management can be applied to any field. It is defined as the application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to a broad range of activities in order to meet the requirements of the particular project. A project is an endeavor undertaken to achieve a particular aim. Project management knowledge and practices are best described in terms of their component processes. These processes are: Initiating, Planning, Executing, Controlling and Closing. Knowledge Areas include Scope Management, Time Management, Cost Management, Quality Management, Risk Management, and Change Management. We will discuss all of these elements in the course.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Thomas Quaranta
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• 3 points

Strategy for Health Policy

Strategic concepts and frameworks are necessary components of analytic thinking for students working in domestic and global health policy, healthcare and health systems. This course will address the intersection of health policy and strategy. Class sessions will consider how policy decisions and potential regulations impact an organization as well as questions related to strategic planning.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• W 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• 1.5 points

Venture Capital: Funding Innovation in H

Venture capital has played a major role in shaping many of the innovations that form our modern society, ranging from the ideas that spawned the tech giants to life-saving medications. In recent years, there has also been an explosion of venture investment in new areas of healthcare – namely digital health and tech-enabled healthcare services.   This course aims to provide some insight into the world of venture capital through a healthcare lens. We will explore a range of topics, from fund formation, to identifying an investment target, to negotiating and closing an investment, to managing growth, to achieving an exit. One class will focus on what makes venture investment different in healthcare than in other industries. All along the way, we’ll look at some notable successes and failures to learn how venture capital can create enormous value, and where – and why – it has come up short.   The course will conclude with a VC pitch session to give students the experience of presenting their ideas to real venture investors. Students will work in groups to create and present their pitches and will learn what this experience is like for both entrepreneurs and investors. Afterwards, the investors will also discuss their experiences in the field and provide some insights to students from a career perspective.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• W 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Gordon
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• 1.5 points

Non-Profit Law, Taxation and Policy

NON-PROFIT LAW TAXATION P

See CLS Curriculum Guide

• Department: Law
• TR 1:20 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
• Instructor: David M Schizer
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• 3 points

PSYCHOANALYSIS, IDENTITY, CULT

PSYCHOANALYSIS IDENTITY CULT

This graduate seminar aims to introduce students to Freud and Freudian Psychoanalysis and the integration of both in critical theory. The main question the seminar aims to study is the formation of identity in psychoanalysis and how it relates to civilization and culture more generally, whether in its gender, sexual, or national configurations. The influence of Social Darwinism and Developmentalism more generally on Freudian psychoanalysis will be discussed as well as the importance of related temporal concepts deployed in psychoanalysis' insistence on the divide between primitivism and culture. We will discuss a number of major scholarly works engaging Freud's theories on all these questions and their relevance to social and cultural analysis.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph A Massad
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

BIOCHEM-PHYSCL BASIS NUTRTN II

• Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
• Instructor: Ruben A Igal
  Info
• 3 points

INTEGRATIVE NUTRITION & PATHOPHYSIOLOGY

Prerequisite: registration as a nutrition degree candidate or instructors permission. Discussion of pathology, symptomatology, and clinical manifestations with case presentations when possible. Laboratory assessments of each condition. Principles of nutritional intervention for therapy and prevention.

• Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
• Instructor: Moneek Madra
  Info
• 3 points

Climate Justice, Real Estate and Vulnera

Climate Justice, RE and V

• Department: Business Economics
• M 8:30 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
• Instructor: Marco Tedesco
  Wikipedia h-index: 47 Info
• 3 points

BIOSTAT IN NUTR THRU CASE STDY

• Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
• Instructor: Rajasekhar Ramakrishnan
  Info
• 3 points

The Untold Stories in US Health Policy H

Untld Stries US Hlth Pol

This course introduces students to persons of color whose impact on public health have largely been left out of US history. From African American physicians whose work has gone unnoticed to policy makers whose legacy has yet to be written, this course will review unsung heroes, their impact, the discrimination and structural racism they faced, and the work they left behind. Students will also engage in oral history projects highlighting the works of these policymakers.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• R 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Heather M Butts
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• 1.5 points

PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

Prerequisites: MATH GR8209 MATH G8209. Prerequisites: Math GR8209. Topics of linear and non-linear partial differential equations of second order, with particular emphasis to Elliptic and Parabolic equations and modern approaches.

• Department: Mathematics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard Hamilton
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 4.5 points

Race and Public Policy: Interpreting Sub

RACE AND PUBLIC POLICY

Racism in the United States may be, as often alleged, “systemic,” but it plays out sub-systemically—in distinct patterns in different policy arenas. The aim of this course is to examine the influence of racial considerations in the formulation and implementation of policies in five arenas: health care, housing, education, employment, and law enforcement. In each of the areas students will analyze the nature of policy challenges, the role(s) of race in defining and addressing them, and the requisites of and prospects for more equitable policies and outcomes. The course will feature lectures and class discussions.

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

POL ECON OF INSTITUTIONS

Prerequisites: the instructors permission prior to registration. This course will prepare graduate students in political science and economics who have completed their basic formal and quantitative training for research in formal political theory. The specific substantive focus of the course will depend on the distribution of students interests, but topics will include: electoral and legislative institutions, autocratic politics, political behavior, persuasion, and conflict. The topics should be of broad relevance for graduate students interested in political economy.

• Department: Political Science
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Carlo Prato
  h-index: 11 Info
• 4 points

Digital Health Revolution

DIGITAL HEALTH REVOLUTION

Digital health is the use of any and all digital resources to improve health by making it safer, more efficient, maximize outcomes and lower costs. It is transforming the delivery of healthcare and behaviors of all health sectors.  The size and scope are fast growing and difficult to define at this point in its history. The Covid-19 pandemic has magnified the importance and uses of digital health.   This course provides an overview of digital healthcare in the US, focusing on how and why digital health is revolutionizing healthcare for providers, patients and payors.  Students will be equipped with the vocabulary, concepts and tools to understand the dynamic aspects of digital healthcare in today's environment, including its definition, its role in improving patient outcomes, provider satisfaction, reduction in costs and why this is accelerating. Students are encouraged to take the perspective of the executive and policy-maker in class discussions.  In addition, the course surveys current digital tools and investment strategies in digital health.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• T 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Catherine Foster
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• 1.5 points

PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP & PRACTICE II

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

This 15-week course is the second of the four Professional Leadership and Practice courses. The course occurs in the second semester of the DPT curriculum and is designed to educate students about the multiple dimensions of professional practice in physical therapy. The course will examine the professional roles of the physical therapist as an interprofessional team member and health promotion advocate. Topics covered in the series include behavior change, motivational interviewing, health promotion, team decision-making, and narrative medicine. This hybrid course combines lecture, independent reading, group discussion, active experiential learning activities, narrative medicine seminars and written assignments to provide students with the opportunity to effectively promote health behavior change with effective communication strategies and cultural humility. Students will be asked to engage in reflective writing and reflective listening during class discussions, small group activities and on-line activities in order to develop skills that optimize shared meaning, motivation, and self- efficacy. Students will participate in the campus-wide interprofessional day activities and will develop e-Portfolio content and reflections as part of the three-year professional development e-portfolio project.

• Department: Physical Therapy
• 2 points

Health Claims Data Analytics: Real-World

HEALTH CLAIMS DATA ANALYT

Integrated individual-level health claim, biometric and risk data have many business uses across insurance, consulting, disease management, engagement and other digital healthcare organizations. The purpose of this course is to provide training to meet the data analytical job demands of these organizations with practical, hands-on experience exploring real corporate longitudinal data.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• T 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Howard Tarre
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• 1.5 points

CASE COMPETITION FUNDAMENTALS

The Course introduces students to the fundamentals of case competitions and prepares them to compete in select case competitions over the course of the year. Case competitions afford students the opportunity to apply classroom learning to dynamic health care organizational and industry problems. The Course covers topics ranging from the framework for breaking down cases to common analytical techniques and presentation skills. We will build the foundational skills for students to prepare and deliver comprehensive, professional analyses in competitive settings.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• M 11:30 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: John McHugh
  Info
• 1.5 points

Applied Geopolitics: Risk Analysis

Geopolitics-Risk Analysis

The course introduces students to political risk analysis risks by exploring three key concepts and related frameworks for understanding this phenomenon at the international, country, and sectorial levels respectively: G-ZERO, J-Curve, and state capitalism. The course also equips students with key qualitative and quantitative techniques for doing political risk analysis, including the identification of top risks, fat tails, and red herrings, as well as the construction of political risk indices, models, and game-theory simulations. In addition, these concepts and techniques are further applied to analyzing and forecasting current, real-world problems and business concerns, such as market entry or portfolio investment allocation. These concepts and techniques are further practiced in the course practicums, which include interactive activities that invite students to grapple with the challenges of identifying and forecasting the range of outcomes of current, real-world risks as those come up at the time of the course. In the process, the course explores a range of political-risk topics on the macro- and micro-economic impacts of geopolitics—including issues of international and civil war, international trade, unconventional conflict, and a shifting global political order—as well as of politics at the national and sub-national level, including elections and political transitions, social unrest, the social and political drivers of economic and investment policies, and emerging vs developed markets dynamics.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 1.5 points

ECONOMICS OF STRATEGIC BEHAVIOR

• Department: Business Economics
• R 8:30 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
• R 2 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
• TWRFS 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria Doval
  Info
• 3 points

Microeconomics for Policy Analysis II

Microecon & Policy Analysis II

This is a core economics course for the MPA in Environmental Science and Policy. The course explores the use of the tools of economic analysis in the discussion and evaluation of environmental policies. It builds on the microeconomic framework developed in Microeconomics and Policy Analysis I and extends it in a few directions. First, we deepen the discussion of theoretical issues particularly relevant for the analysis of environmental policies, such as externalities and public goods. Second, we explore how the theoretical concepts covered can be measured and used in actual environmental policy, and discuss real world examples of such applications. And finally, we discuss some aggregate implications related to – and the available evidence on – the two-way relationship between natural resources and economic growth. The objective of the course is to provide students with the necessary background for an understanding of the logic underlying the economic perspective on environmental policies. This is important to develop the skills necessary to conceptualize the trade-offs implicit in such policy decisions and to give a glimpse of the tools available to evaluate such trade-offs. As a result, it also helps build knowledge useful in a critical reading of policy proposals and evaluations in the environmental field.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Eren Selcuk
  h-index: 4 Info
• 3 points

Changing the Narrative: Disrupting Assum

DSRPT ASSPT THRH DIALG SL

This course will provide students with the foundational skills to communicate in diverse settings about a number of topics that individuals tend to avoid including those related to race, gender, ethnicity and national origins, gender identity, sexuality, socio-economic class, age, religion, mental health, and disability. People become connected through their conversations and through these connections they can change how they understand and feel about each other (Livingston, 2021). Conversations are a tool for individuals to learn to build trust, develop relationships, and create productive communities. Today’s workplaces are diverse, including people from many backgrounds and experiences; this course seeks to develop students’ understanding of others experiences, increase their awareness of biases and judgments, overcome fears around communicating, and translate this knowledge into developing more cohesive and dynamic work environments.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• R 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• 1.5 points

SPURRING SOCIAL JUSTICE IN PUBLIC HEALTH

This course will introduce the theory and frameworks that ground advocacy and community organizing with the aim of enabling such practices within public health and beyond. Students will deepen their understanding of the strategies behind effective advocacy, capacity building, and organizing, both in the field and within institutions. In learning history, power structures, power relations, and pre-existing models, students will learn not only about changemaking but how to affect systemic change themselves. They will learn frameworks to understand social problems and alter power relations including theory of change, relational power building, and power mapping. By examining epidemics, social movements, community health, institutional failures, and public policy, this course will provide students the ability to understand the “why” and the “how” of becoming an advocate and organizer.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• W 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Kifah Shah
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• 1.5 points

HEALTHCARE LEADERSHIP: LEADING WITH EQUI

HLTHCRE LDRS: LEADING W E

The events over year and a half have brought a renewed focus and an increased sense of urgency to recognize and address inequality in our society and institutions. These events have challenged organizational leaders to respond with comprehensive strategies to promote equity and embed racial and social justice within their organizational domains of influence. To achieve this and advance equity, an intentional and dedicated focus that recognizes the harmful effects of systemic inequities is required. Historically in healthcare, structural inequities have resulted in disproportionately poor outcomes for marginalized groups in our society.  The intersections of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity gender expression, language, disability, religion and other characteristics further identifies disadvantages and poor outcomes for marginalized groups—notably those with less access to power and resources. Additionally, false notions of racial superiority, white supremacy culture, and explicit or implicit biases contribute to disparities in patient outcomes among people of color and other socially marginalized groups. This course will explore how leaders are able to effectively advance health equity by dismantling systems of oppression and racism in health care. The focus will be to examine leadership imperatives to establish a collaborative consciousness to instill and promote just policies and practices. To this end, the course will require students to develop an understanding of self-identity and an awareness of how one’s individual actions impact interactions between colleagues, team members and others. The course will provide strategies for effective leaders to establish a foundation to advance diversity management, promote equity and establish inclusion best practices within organizations.  In particular, the emphasis will be on leadership accountability to initiate conversations and set forth strategic actions to sustain organizational change.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• R 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Pamela Y Abner
  Info
• 1.5 points

PUBLIC HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS: TAKE THIS

One of the lessons learned during COVID is the importance of clear communications. Effective public health communications saves lives; bad communications creates fear, uncertainty and worse. Good communications can also make better health policy and expand budgets, saving even more lives.    But too often, senior executives in the public, private or non-profit sector expect that their good works alone are sufficient to gain the support of others, maintain funding, or advance a critical policy agenda.  Unfortunately, it isn’t so.  In an age of media oversaturation, rapid technology advances that continually atomize people’s attention, and intense competition among interest groups for decisionmakers’ hearts, minds and budgets, successful health professionals must include issue advocacy and communications in their arsenal of weapons to keep their interests relevant and compelling, to move others to action, or to affect public policy.    This course focuses on the practical aspects of issue advocacy and public health communications. It is designed to give the public health professional an introduction to issue advocacy and public health communications, and an understanding of the critical components of developing and implementing such campaigns.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• T 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Shepardson
  Info
• 1.5 points

CINEMATOGRAPHY

This course serves as a hands-on introduction to both the aesthetics and craft of cinematography geared for the non-cinematographer. The syllabus is designed to deepen students' understanding of the craft and develop the communication skills that enhance a filmmaker's collaboration with a Cinematographer.

• Department: Film
• R 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Tal Lazar
  Info
• 3 points

ECONOMICS OF PREVENTION

Health promotion and disease prevention have a major role to play in health policy, and the case for investing in this area is now stronger than ever.  Chronic diseases are one of the main causes of death and disability worldwide. While many associated risk factors are largely preventable, prevention policies are severely underused, partly because lack of strong evidence to support the economic return on investment on interventions.   The aim of this course is to provide an economic perspective on the challenges to improve health promotion and chronic disease prevention. The first part of the course explores how economics can contribute to our understanding of the crucial role of prevention to improve the health of our society. We will discuss basic concepts and theories, such as externalities, public goods, economic incentives, and cost-benefit analysis. The second part of the course consists of a review of the empirical literature and analytical models used to evaluate prevention policies, exploring available evidence on some of the most prevalent chronic diseases with a focus on how to understand the economic GDP and societal ROI and how to use this information to inform and conduct policy. We will also discuss whether there are better methods to gather evidence than those currently employed.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• T 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Sebastian Calonico
  h-index: 14 Info
• 3 points

U.S. & INT'L NUTRITION

U.S. & INT'L NUTRITION POLICY

Prerequisite: instructors permission. An introduction to the problem of food and nutritional diseases from a public health perspective, and the relationship between the determinants and the program designed to solve these problems. Various types of interventions, with emphasis on the health sector role.

• Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
• Instructor: Jeri W Nieves
  Info
• 3 points

Economics of Healthcare and Ph

• Department: Business Economics
• M 8:30 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
• Instructor: Frank R Lichtenberg
  Info
• 3 points

S REAL ESTATE M&A WKSHP

• Department: Law
• M 4:30 p.m.-7:45 p.m.
• Instructor: John T Haggerty
  Info
• 2 points

FUTURE-WORLD ECON AFT FINC CRIS

• Department: Business Economics
• TWRFS 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
• 3 points

Democratic Institutions under Stress

This course will explore the core principles of constitutional democracy, beginning with a close reading of the US founding documents, and proceeding through the key institutions, from citizenship and elections to the branches of government, the role of the military and a free press.  We will alternate between a discussion of history and text and consideration of contemporary topics in the US and around the world.  The course will stress the inherent tensions and guardrails in democracy that protect individual and minority rights while allowing for orderly governance and security, and some of the challenges that exist today in both mature and emerging democracies.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Jacob J Lew
  Info
• 1.5 points

C LAW AND FINANCE THEORIS

• Department: Law
• T 4:20 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Katharina Pistor
  Info
• 2 points

SEM IN MUSIC COMPOSITION II

Individual projects in composition.

• Department: Music
• W 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 3 points

VISUAL EXPERIENCES

The course seeks to bridge two intimately related studies that currently exist within the Film Program: 1. intensive academic analysis of filmmaking practices/principles and, 2.  the practitioner’s creative/pragmatic application of those practices/principles in their own work. Students will study, through screenings, lectures and personal research, an overview of various directing forms/methodologies (conventional coverage, expressive directing, comedy directing, subjective directing, objective directing, multiple-protagonist narrative, etc.) with a primary focus on the Western classic narrative tradition. The visual grammar, axiomatic principles, structural necessities of a variety of directing forms/genres will be analyzed and compared with works of art from other disciplines (poetry, painting, sculpture, etc.) and cultures.  The ultimate goal is student implementation of these principles in their own work, exposure to and examination of some works of the established canon, as well as a greater understanding of the context in which creation occurs.

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

S ENTREPRENEURSHIP

• Department: Law
• R 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• 2 points

CONTROVERSIES IN AMER POLITICS

Controversial topics include, the quality of voters’ electoral decision-making, the responsiveness of policy to voter preferences, inequalities in political representation, the engines driving voter polarization, whether efforts to increase voter turnout would result in different election outcomes, plus more. 
This class is not about debates and controversies about politics but rather, controversies within political science, largely about causal inference in the study  of US politics.

• Department: Political Science
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Robert Erikson
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia h-index: 59 Info
• 4 points

S ADVANCED BANKRUPTCY

• Department: Law
• T 4:20 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert E Gerber
  Wikipedia Info
• 2 points

GLOBAL ECON ENV II

• Department: Business Economics
• R 8:30 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
• R 2 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
• R 5:40 p.m.-8:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Francesco Bianchi
  Info
• 1.5 points

Governing the 21st Century City

Governing-21st Century City

This course will examine the linkages between urban governance structures and an economically successful democratic city. We will consider the particular policy challenges that confront both developed and developing cities in the 21st century. It will be important to understand the institutional political causes of urban economic decline, the unique fiscal and legal constraints on city governments as well as the opportunities that only cities offer for democratic participation and sustainable economic growth. The course will draw on case material from primarily American cities and from other developing and developed cities around the globe. It is important to keep in mind that creative policy solutions to the problems of urban economic sustainability may be found in small towns, in rural areas, in private businesses or in other global cities. The utility of importing ideas and programs rests on a practical understanding of politics in that city or community and an effective implementation strategy. Our objective in this course is not simply to understand the challenges to governing the 21st century city but also the policies that promote effective urban governance and economic sustainability.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Ashley R Macquarrie-Tomey
  Info
• 3 points

GLOBAL ECON ENV III

• Department: Business Economics
• MW 12:10 p.m.-1:40 p.m.
• MW 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Frederic S Mishkin
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

FinTech: Consumer Financial Services

• Department: Business Economics
• W 10:20 a.m.-1:35 p.m.
• Instructor: Stephen Zeldes
  h-index: 23 Info
• 3 points

Modern Econometrics For Busine

• Department: Business Economics
• R 8:30 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
• Instructor: Laura E Boudreau
  Info
• 3 points

Authoritarianism

The vast major of human society has been governed by non-democratic regimes.  Today more than half the world’s people live in autocracies.  Many SIPA students come from countries whose governments are not democratic, and will work in the public sector where the regime is not democratic.  Yet almost all of the literature of political science on how policy is made is devoted to democracy—its genesis, stability, challenges, consolidation, processes, merits and flaws. How are we to understand the regimes we collect together as “non-democratic?”  Do the authoritarian regimes of the world have anything in common? Are there effective ways to understand how policy in made in the absence of the transparent and routinized laws and procedures associated with democratic regimes? And are democratic regimes, once installed, immune to breakdown or change into less transparent, routinized and accountable regimes? This course is designed to examine these questions, to probe the notion of “authoritarianism” as an analytical concept, to explore how we should approach the study of policy-making processes in regimes that are stable, enduring, sometimes even dynamic and enlightened, but not democratic, and to investigate how such regimes arise from or develop into democracies. Note: this course entails a heavy reading load, frequent written assignments and active and sustained participation in class discussions.  Students who do not have prior experience in English medium university-level coursework may find it difficult and they should consult with the instructor about how to manage the course requirements. Attendance is required; class sessions will not be recorded.

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

Anti-Trust in the Modern Economy

• Department: Business Economics
• W 3:50 p.m.-7:05 p.m.
• Instructor: Paola M Valenti
  Info
• 3 points

FIRST FEATURES

• Department: Film
• W 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Tom Kalin
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• 1.5 points

S. Sovereignty, Constitutionalism and Ju

S SOVER, CONST & JUD RVW

• Department: Law
• T 4:20 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Seyla Benhabib
  Wikipedia Info
• 2 points

S. Academic Scholars

• Department: Law
• T 4:20 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Jody Kraus
  Wikipedia Info
• 1 points

BIOPHOTONICS

• Department: Chemistry
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Wei Min
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 42 Info
• 2.5 points

BUSINESS OF TELEVISION

Explores the different types of television and the ways in which producing is defined differently from theatrical narratives. Covers series television (both scripted and unscripted), made-for-TV movies, mini-series and other forms of television; the roles of the writer/producer, the show runner, and the director in different forms of television; how television is developed; and the implications of changing business models.  Open to all SoA students.

• Department: Film
• T 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard Perello
  Info
• 1.5 points

POETRY THESIS WORKSHOP

• Department: Writing
• R 4:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
• T 4:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
• R 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• M 1:10 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Timothy B Donnelly
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• Instructor: Alan Gilbert
  Info
• Instructor: Shane McCrae
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• Instructor: Mark C Wunderlich
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• 9 points

The Case for Boring: Investing in Invest

• Department: Finance
• M 2 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Ellen Carr
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• 1.5 points

TOPICS IN PROBABILITY THEORY

• Department: Statistics
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard Davis
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 60 Info
• 3 points

Food Security, Plant Biology, Climate Ch

Food Secur Plant Bio Clim

As human populations continue to expand, concurrent increases in energy and food will be required. Consequently, fossil fuel burning and deforestation will continue to be human-derived sources of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). The current annual rate of CO2 increase (~0.5%) is expected to continue with global atmospheric concentrations exceeding 600 parts per million (ppm) by the end of the current century. The increase in carbon dioxide, in turn, has ramifications for both climate change but also for plant biology. In this course, our focus will be on how CO2 and climate change alter plant biology and the subsequent consequences for human health. Overall, the course will have three main components. We begin with an overview of interactions between the plant kingdom and human health, from food supply and nutrition to toxicology, contact dermatitis, aero-biology, inter alia. In the second section, we segue to an overview of rising CO2 and climate change, and how those impacts in turn, will influence all of the interactions related to plant biology and health with a merited focus on food security. Finally, for the remainder of the course, our emphasis will be on evaluating preventative strategies related to mitigation and adaptation to climate change impacts specific to potential transformations of plant biology’s traditional role in human society. The course is appropriate for students who are interested in global climate change and who wish to expand their general knowledge as to likely outcomes related to plant biology, from food security to nutrition, from pollen allergens to ethnopharmacology.

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• T 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Lewis Ziska
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• 3 points

PT PROCEDURES

This clinical science course emphasizes foundational patient care skills with an emphasis on physical therapy practice in the acute care and inpatient rehabilitation settings.  This course focuses on developing basic knowledge and skills required to deliver physical therapy services in the earliest stages of recovery, from critical care to inpatient rehabilitation. Students will learn to combine data from multiple sources (including patient history, laboratory results, and patient examination) to produce a diagnosis and prognosis and develop an individualized plan of care. Students learn basic patient handling skills they will utilize throughout the remainder of the DPT curriculum, and they practice and demonstrate proper selection and use of common assistive devices. There is a concurrent focus on physical therapy documentation and the use of functional goal writing to support clinical decisions and justify skilled care. Clinical decision-making is developed through role-playing, case study, and review of scientific literature. Emphasis will be placed on the physical therapist acting as part of an interdisciplinary team of providers, and the important role of patient-centered care.

• Department: Physical Therapy
• 3 points

PUB HLTH IMPACTS-CLIMATE CHGE

This is a Public Health Course. Public Health classes are offered on the Health Services Campus at 168th Street. For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• M 10 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Cecilia J Sorensen
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• 3 points

CAPITAL MARKETS & INVESTMENTS

• Department: Finance
• MW 8:30 a.m.-10 a.m.
• MW 10:20 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• T 8:30 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
• T 2 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
• MW 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• MW 3:50 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• TR 8:30 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Anton Lines
  h-index: 2 Info
• 3 points

CAPITAL MARKETS & INVESTMENTS

Exemption: Capital Markets

• Department: Finance
• Instructor: Faculty
  h-index: 37 Info
• 0 points

Advanced Corporate Finance

• Department: Finance
• MW 3:50 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• MW 5:40 p.m.-7:10 p.m.
• T 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Xavier Giroud
  h-index: 15 Info
• 3 points

CONCEPTS IN THERAPEUTIC EXERCISE

The Concepts in Therapeutic Exercise course is taught over the spring semester of year one. The course introduces the student to the underlying frameworks and constructs for normal and dysfunctional movement assessments, and the development of individualized exercise programs as part of the patient management model. Exercise applications that are utilized throughout lifespan that address identified impairments; activity and participation limitations are emphasized. Students will apply clinical decision-making strategies to practice, design, modify and progress exercise programs with proper biomechanical alignment and proper muscle balance for optimal performance that may include range of motion, postural stabilization, progressive resistive exercise, flexibility, pain, proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation, closed and open chain exercise applications, proprioception and/or balance strategies. These underlying concepts are applied to disorders of the upper quarter, lower quarter and trunk. Video/Case studies presenting with a variety of musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, integumentary and cardiopulmonary impairments will be used to develop clinical decision-making and therapeutic exercise design for a variety of clinical disorders. Patient-practitioner interaction as well as patient instruction will be integrated throughout the series.

• Department: Physical Therapy
• 2 points

DERIVATIVES

• Department: Finance
• MW 12:10 p.m.-1:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Zurack
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• 1.5 points

ECONOMETRICS COLLOQUIUM

Prerequisites: ECON G6411 and G6412. Students will make presentations of original research.

• Department: Economics
• W noon-1 p.m.
• 2 points

DIGITAL STORY TELLING II

• Department: Film
• M 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Lance Weiler
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• 3 points

Financial Stability Monitoring

This course focuses on financial stability monitoring and evaluation as an essential discipline for macroeconomic, financial and prudential policymakers.  We begin by defining financial stability, examining the dynamic behavior of macroeconomic models with developed models of the financial sector, and considering conceptual frameworks for assessment of threats to financial stability.  From there, we identify key signatures of financial instability, how they can be measured and combined in a monitoring system, and how such measurement systems signal changes in the level of systemic risk.  Through case studies, class participation and two assignments, you will interpret these measures, develop questions for further investigation and assess the nature and extent of systemic risk. You will be asked to write two policy memoranda:  the first proposing and justifying a small set of financial stability indicators for monitoring; and the second assessing the risk of financial instability in indicators for that (or another) country, in indicators of vulnerabilities with strong network effects, and in unconventional risks such as cyber or widespread trade tensions.  Both assignments emphasize developing timely and persuasive analysis that prompts policymakers to consider the need for action to preserve financial stability.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Christine Cumming
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• 1.5 points

VIEWPOINTS

• Department: Theatre Arts
• T 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Leon P Ingulsrud
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• 3 points

The Equity Analyst Toolkit

• Department: Finance
• T 2 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael B Kimpel
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• 1.5 points

MGMT INTEGUMENTARY IMPAIRMENTS

This 8-week course focuses on the physical therapy management for individuals with impairments to their skin and its associated structures including the hair, nails, and glands. Myers (2004) notes the number of individuals with open wounds treated by physical therapists will only increase due to an aging population, the increased prevalence of chronic diseases and the growth of comorbidities such as diabetes.  This course presents the physical therapy diagnosis and management of clients with integumentary impairments with an emphasis on open wounds and burns. Principles of skin anatomy, wound healing physiology, and factors affecting wound repair provides the foundational knowledge necessary for understanding the principles of integumentary impairments. Physical therapy examination (patient, skin, and wound) and interventions (setting up a sterile field sharp debridement, management of infection, dressing selection, compressive wrapping, and modalities available for adjunctive care) are covered. Wound etiologies including acute surgical wounds, pressure, vascular and neuropathic ulcers encountered in the clinical arena and current surgical procedures that facilitate wound healing and closure are delineated. The principles of burn injury including burn assessment, types of burn injuries, classification by level of tissue involvement, burn severity, and systematic complications of the cardiovascular, pulmonary, and immune systems are covered.  A multidisciplinary patient management model and implications to physical therapists are discussed.

• Department: Physical Therapy
• Instructor: Debra Krasinski
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• 2 points

Macroprudential Policies and Regulation

Macroprudential Pol & Reg

In the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008-09, the design and implementation of macroprudential financial regulations and policies, an approach that underscores the importance of containing systemic risks, has taken center stage in the agendas of policymakers around the world. The key reason is that the crisis made it clear that focusing on indicators of the financial strength of individual financial institutions (a micro approach) is insufficient to prevent the build-up of excessive risk affecting the financial system as a whole, which in turn results in severe systemic banking crises, credit crunches, and contractions in economic growth. Limiting systemic financial risk translates into avoiding the build-up of asset price bubbles and unsustainable credit booms. This course will focus on understanding the issues and challenges of implementing macroprudential regulations and policies in emerging markets. After revising the overall goals and types of instruments included in the macroprudential approach, the course will address topics that are particularly relevant for emerging market economies. Key questions to be addressed include: What type of macroprudential policies are most appropriate for emerging markets? Should Basel III recommendations on banks’ capital requirements be equally implemented in advanced and emerging market economies? What type of regulatory requirements on liquidity suit the needs of emerging financial markets the best? Should the participation of systemically important global banks in emerging markets be a concern for emerging market regulators? And, how can macroprudential policies complement the goals of monetary policy? In addition, the course will discuss the usage of macroprudential tools during COVID-19 and the challenges posed by the pandemic for the effectiveness of this type of regulation.

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

The Secret Lives of Lives: Art, Autobiog

Art, Autobiography, Fiction, &

“Accuracy is fundamental to genealogical research. Without it, a family’s history would be fiction.” (Genealogy Standards)With the emergence of autofiction, creative non-fiction, and the transformation of the memoir as a genre, along with the explosion of amateur online genealogy, social media, and before it, reality television and video game avatars, the concept of the individual in their minutiae has never been so evident. But even with all this self-portraiture, autobiography, documentation of daily life, surrogates, and general oversharing—are we any closer to really knowing the truth about ourselves or our species?Using ourselves and our art as starting points, we will explore throughout this course other artists’ lives and how autobiography and genealogy play a role in art and fiction and vice versa.  During this “lives of lives” genealogical adventure, surprises, micro-histories, and secrets will be discovered and divulged with accuracy and abundance.A variety of media and content will be covered including the work of Hilton Als, Gloria Anzaldúa, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Edmund de Waal, Percival Everett, Lauren Elkin, Amy Fung, Henry Louis Gates, Laura E. Goméz, Saidiya Hartman, Todd Haynes, Derek Jarman, Fenton Johnson, Nella Larsen, Édouard Louis, Helen MacDonald, Martha Menchaca, Brian O’Doherty/Patrick Ireland, Gordon Parks, George Perec, Robert Pollack, Dorothea Tanning, Yoko Tawada, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and Agnés Varda. Guests this semester will include practitioners in art, autobiography, fiction, and genealogy.

• Department: Visual Arts
• T 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Tyler Rowland
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• 3 points

TOXICOKINETICS

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• M 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Gregory P Geba
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• 1.5 points

Game Theory and Business

• Department: Business Economics
• TR 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• TR 3:50 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Paolo Siconolfi
  h-index: 16 Info
• 1.5 points

ECONOMIC FLUCTUATIONS COLLOQ

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

• Department: Economics
• M 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
• 2 points

Investment Banking Tax Factors

• Department: Finance
• R 2 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Willens
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• 3 points

APPLD ENVRNTL & INDUST HYGIENE

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

SHAKESPEARE IN PERFORMANCE

This class, will primarily focus on the challenges of interpreting and performing Shakespeare.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• F 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Brian Kulick
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• 0-3 points