Clinical focus is on the delivery of anesthesia care in a broad range of clinical settings to patients with multi-system problems. Emphasis is placed on refinement and perfection of decision-making skills in patient care management and rapid assessment of health status of patients. Collaborative practice within a team structure is emphasized. In addition to direct patient care, participation in journal club, clinical case reports, and in-service presentations to a multidisciplinary audience provide the environment for the student to enact his or her role as a SRNA. CRNA and MD faculty members and preceptors act as guides.
This is the third of four seminar courses. This course represents the capstone of the Nurse Anesthesia master's program. It provides an opportunity for the student to integrate and synthesize didactic and clinical core content with the experiences of the residencies as they progress from competent student nurse anesthetist to proficient student nurse anesthetists. Student and faculty will work collaboratively to identify content areas that are essential to the beginning practice of a master's prepared nurse anesthetist. Results of this inquiry will be formally presented to the class and interested public members as an abstract and a poster presentation.
Clinical focus is on the delivery of anesthesia care in a broad range of clinical settings to patients with multi-system problems. Emphasis is placed on refinement and perfection of decision-making skills in patient care management and rapid assessment of health status of patients. Collaborative practice within a team structure is emphasized. In addition to direct patient care, participation in journal club, clinical case reports, and in-service presentations to a multidisciplinary audience provide the environment for the student to enact his or her role as a SRNA. CRNA and MD faculty members and preceptors act as guides.
This course represents a hands-on approach to decision-making and diplomacy. It is designed to allow students to take part in diplomatic and decision-making exercises in the context of international political issues and problems. Important historical decisions will be evaluated and re-enacted. In addition, more current international problems that face nations today will be analyzed and decisions will be made on prospective solutions. Finally, various modern day diplomatic initiatives will be scrutinized and renegotiated. The class will essentially function as a working committee, considering a different problem or issue each week. Preparations for decisions and diplomatic bargaining will rely both on assigned readings as well as additional outside materials collected by the students. A significant part of the preparations and class activities will involve team work.
Demonstrate integration of learning of didactic core content (nursing research, issues, and ethics) along with didactic specialty content (anesthesia) to clinical application of practice.
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In recent years, a global movement has begun around menstruation, ranging from research and policies addressing the barriers that school girls may be facing in low-resource contexts, to initiatives fighting the on-going stigma experienced by girls, women and people with periods in high- and low-resource contexts, to the advocacy focused on period poverty. How did this global movement begin? What is the existing evidence base for addressing menstruation as a public health issue? And what gaps remain? The purpose of this course is to provide students with a foundation on the topic of menstruation, including the existing research, program and policy approaches underway globally, to equip students with an understanding of the research methodologies most appropriate for understanding the experiences of those who menstruate, and the ways in which advocacy has served to shift attention to this fundamental issue. Students in this course will learn to analyze the current status of the global menstruation movement through debates, news media critiques, and a proposal addressing ‘new frontiers’ in menstruation. The course fits into the MPH curriculum in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences by increasing students’ knowledge and skills of key perspectives and approaches to research and intervention around menstruation that include social science theories
U.S. agricultural practice has been presented as a paradigm for the rest of the world to emulate, yet is a result of over a century of unique development. Contemporary agriculture has its historical roots in the widely varied farming practices, social and political organizations, and attitudes toward the land of generations of farmers and visionaries. We will explore major forces shaping the practice of U.S. agriculture, particularly geographical and social perspectives and the development and adoption of agricultural science and technology. We will consider how technological changes and political developments (government policies, rationing, subsidies) shape visions of and transmission of agriculture and the agrarian ideal.
This course will provide a structured environment in which graduate students will write a research paper. It will be offered in the spring and will not be field-specific. It will be recommended for first-year students in particular, who will be expected to enter from GR8910 (the required first-year course) and with a topic and/or prospectus for the paper they plan to complete in the course. The aim of the course is to ensure that all PhD students complete one of their two research papers within the first year. This seminar is recommended for, and restricted to, PhD students in the History Department. The aim of the seminar is to guide and assist students in the completion of a 10,000-12,000 word research paper appropriate for publication in a scholarly journal. The seminar is not field-specific, and students may work on any subject of their choosing. The paper must however be based on primary source research and represents a substantial departure from earlier work. The assignments for the course are designed to help students complete a polished piece of work by the end of term.
This course is intended to provide a broad yet thorough grounding in the major themes in South Asian historiography. Historians of/and about South Asia have participated in defining major debates across academy, especially in postcolonial studies and in the prominence of Subaltern Studies in the 80s and 90s. In 1947, the twinned “Republic of India” and “Islamic Republic of Pakistan,” gained independence from British colonial rule. With independence came the establishment of new universities and history departments but also the continuation of centuries old tradition of ‘studying’ the subcontinent at Oxford and Cambridge. After 1957’s launch of Sputnik, United States embarked on a massive investment in the study of the “Third World” to keep Communism at bay: giving rise to “Area Studies.” The longer “Indology” gave way to new anthropologies of “Village India” and the rise of “Development Studies.” Fulbright and Rhoades scholarships took students from Lahore and Delhi and Calcutta to UK and US to study. From such grounds would the study of colonial rule and governance, ideas of Kingship, Hinduism develop along both nationalist and Marxist lines to make the first major, international intervention globally: the School of Subaltern Studies in 1983. Since then, South Asian historiography has contributed importantly to postcolonial thought and to the study of Women, Gender and Sexuality. This course focuses on important themes—that cut across medieval to modern period—and highlight the key debates in the historiography as a series of “Questions” of Colonial Knowledge, of Governance, of the Origins, of the King, of the Peasant, of the Nation, of the Woman, of the Muslim, of Caste, of the Riot, of Language, of the City, of Borders, of the Citizen, and finally, of History itself. The attempt throughout the course is to introduce students to the ‘canonical,’ field-defining texts which create the foundations from which South Asian studies—as a field—contributed to historiographies in North America, Latin American, Asia and Africa.
This residency focuses on the delivery of full scope health care to clients. The post-graduate student will learn to integrate assessment, therapeutic planning, and evaluation of care for clients. Post-graduate students will synthesize their knowledge of primary care concepts, health, and illness. This residency is designed to expand clinical knowledge and skills for the graduate nurse practitioner.
This graduate colloquium provides a substantial introduction to the history of sexuality, primarily but not exclusively in the United States. Readings and discussions emphasize both classic and recent historiographic themes, including the emergence of the category of “sexuality” itself and how it has articulated with hierarchies of gender, race, class, nation, and empire, and how the history of sexuality intersects with and might illuminate scholarship on other major themes in American history. The course also considers sexuality as a source of public and personal identity, a component of social organization and subcultural social life, an object of scientific study, biopolitical management, and legal regulation, and a site of political and cultural conflict.This graduate colloquium provides a substantial introduction to the history of sexuality, primarily but not exclusively in the United States. Readings and discussions emphasize both classic and recent historiographic themes, including the emergence of the category of “sexuality” itself and how it has articulated with hierarchies of gender, race, class, nation, and empire, and how the history of sexuality intersects with and might illuminate scholarship on other major themes in American history. The course also considers sexuality as a source of public and personal identity, a component of social organization and subcultural social life, an object of scientific study, biopolitical management, and legal regulation, and a site of political and cultural conflict.
Supervised Reserach for Classical Studies Graduate Students.
All graduate students are required to attend the department colloquium as long as they are in residence. No degree credit is granted.
The EMPA Capstone workshop applies the practical skills and analytical knowledge learned during the EMPA program to a current, real-world issue. Students are organized into small consulting teams (typically 7 students per team) and assigned a policy-oriented project with an external client. Student teams, working under the supervision of a faculty expert, answer a carefully defined problem posed by the client. Each team produces an actionable report and presents an oral briefing of their findings at the close of the workshop that is designed to translate into real change on the ground. Capstone or Portfolio Presentation Workshop is a graduation requirement for the EMPA program and it is typically taken in the final semester at SIPA. Registration in this course is managed by the EMPA Assistant Director and requires an application.
MFA Film students in their 3rd, 4th and 5th years register for this class to maintain full-time enrollment status.
Capstone workshops apply the practical skills and analytical knowledge learned at SIPA to a real-world issue. Students are organized into small consulting teams (typically 6 students per team) and assigned a substantive, policy-oriented project with an external client. Student teams, working under the supervision of a faculty expert, answer a carefully defined problem posed by the client. Each team produces an actionable report and an oral briefing of their findings at the close of the workshop that is designed to translate into real change on the ground. The Capstone is a graduation requirement for all Masters of Public Administration and Masters of International Affairs students; it is typically taken in the final semester at SIPA. Registration in this course requires an application, please visit: sipa.columbia.edu/academics/workshops/workshop-students for more information