SITE DESIGNS: DEEP DIVES INTO THE CAPSTO
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- W 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Adam F Lubinsky
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HEALTH SYSTEMS
The
Health Systems studio
contains three concentrations which, taken together, provide an overview of health systems in the United States and around the world.
In
Health Economics
, students will look at health from an economic perspective, which offers unique insights into the determinants of health and the functioning of health systems. Students will learn about such concepts as scarcity, opportunity cost, individual choice, decentralization, efficiency and quality, externalities and public goods. The concentration will prepare students to understand the varied components of health care costs, major economic theories of health insurance, models of investment in health, and issues of health behavior and choice.
In
Comparative Health Systems
, students will learn about the historical foundations of the health care systems in Germany, England, Canada, and Australia and how those health care systems function today, with a focus on financing, coverage, population-level health outcomes and health disparities. We will examine similarities and differences across these cases studies and how they compare to the United States. We will also discuss how lessons learned from these countries may be relevant to health policy debates in the United States.
In
U.S. Public Health and Health Care Systems
, students will learn about the historical foundations of the U.S health care system. How did the system evolve? How is it organized? Who pays the health care bill? What role does government play (and how do different levels of government share these tasks)? What best explains the politics of health reform? How has the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, enacted in March 2010, impacted the uninsured, the effort to contain health care costs, and the effort to improve the quality and efficiency of the American health care system? What are the pros and cons of the nation’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic? How has the nation responded to racial and other disparities in health care access and quality? What are the key issues on the nation’s long-term care policy agenda? What are the key market-driven health care trends and how are they changing the health system?
- Department: Public Health
- W 8:10 p.m.-9:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alexander Preker
Info - 2.5 points
Quantum Optics: Atoms and Photons
Quantum optics, including: quantiziation of the electromagnetic field, open quantum systems, light-matter interaction, coherent control, collective phenomena, measurement theory and decoherence, and applications in quantum information science.
- Department: Physics
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ana Asenjo Garcia
Wikipedia h-index: 19 Info - 3 points
LANGUAGE AND ITS LIMITS
This course examines
language and its limits
from the perspective of practice and theory, drawing on linguistic and sociocultural anthropology, semiotics, and deaf and disability studies. The first weeks focus on foundational texts and frameworks for language, semiotics, and communication, paying attention to the placement, and theorization, of boundaries that separate language from not-language and to the work such boundaries (are intended to) do. The second part of the course explores materials where the subjects and objects of study approach or even cross those boundaries, asking what kinds of ethical, intellectual, and relational demands these materials make in both social and analytic contexts. Focal topics may include linguistic relativity; semiotics; modality (signed, spoken, written languages); disability; trauma and colonialism; human-nonhuman communication; and gender. Please email for instructor permission.
- Department: Anthropology
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth M Green
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
ON SPATIAL EXCLUSN & PLAN
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Hiba Bou Akar
h-index: 5 Info - 3 points
WORLDINGS & DEVELOPMENT: SOCIO-SPATIAL T
SOCIO-SPATIAL TRANSPOSITI
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- F 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
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Instructor:
Patrice Derrington
h-index: 4 Info - 1.5 points
Reckoning with Asian America
It took the mass murder of six Asian women in Atlanta on March 16, 2021 to draw national attention to what Asian Americans have been warning about since the wake of Covid-19: a surge in anti-Asian violence and hate. Since the onset of the coronavirus, 1 in 8 Asian American adults experienced a hate incident, and 1 in 7 Asian American women worry all the time about being victimized, reflecting an under-recognized legacy of anti-Asian violence, bigotry, misogyny, and discrimination in the United States that dates back more than 150 years. Drawing on research and readings from the social sciences, this course links the past to the present in order to understand this legacy, and how it continues to affect Asian Americans today.
- Department: Sociology
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jennifer Lee
CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info - 4 points
TPC NEUROSCI & DEEP LEARN
Comp. w. Brain Cir of MO
Selected advanced topics in neuroscience and deep learning. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6070 to 6079.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- M 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Aurel A Lazar
h-index: 53 Info - 3 points
LAW AND DEVELOPMENT
- Department: Law
- TR 1:20 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Katharina Pistor
Info - 3 points
INTEGR OF SCI & PRACT II
- Department: Public Health
- W 10 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
- W 4 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
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Sumeet Banker
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John Santelli
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Stephen S Morse
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Lisa Bates
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Danielle Laraque-Arena
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Helen de Pinho
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Greg A Freyer
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Bill L Bower
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Christian Gloria
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Thelma Mielenz
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Stephen P Kachur
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Heather M Butts
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Helen de Pinho
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Brandon Pearson
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Maya A Kappil
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Urmi A Desai
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Andrew S Geneslaw
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NYU Doctoral PHD Exchange
- Department: Journalism
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Instructor:
Melanie G Huff
Info - 1-6 points
INTEGRATION OF SCIENCE AND PRACTICE II
INTEGRAT OF SCI & PRACT I
The different studios in the Mailman Core teach a set of foundational perspectives, knowledge, and skills. But the practice of public health requires applying this education in a context characterized by uncertainty, risk, competing interests, and conflicting values. In the fall semester, Integration of Science and Practice (ISP) involved contained cases where the stories and evidence were organized and arranged for us. Often the decision-points were relatively unambiguous. This spring we will expand our reach, taking on cases in a way that looks more like the real world. We will start with a complex case specifically selected to integrate key concepts from the Core Semester. You will write a policy memo by focusing in on an issue within the case that you find compelling. The policy memo will serve as a model for you to then construct your own cases in small groups and take responsibility for teaching an ISP session devoted to your case. This team-based approach to problem-solving will also allow you to bring the concepts you explore in Leadership and Development to bear in ISP. These student-led cases, drawing on a range of skills and tools, represent the culmination of the Core.
- Department: Public Health
- W 6:40 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Marlyn M Delva
Info - 1.5 points
REAL ESTATE FIXED INCOME/DEBT PRODUCTS
RE FIXED INCOME/DEBT PROD
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Merrie Frankel
Info - 1.5 points
Personal Leadership in Public Health
PERSONAL LEADERSHIP IN P
- Department: Public Health
- W 8:30 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
- W 1 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
- W 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
- W 1 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
- 1.5 points
Personal Leadership in Public Health
PERSONAL LEADERSHIP IN P
- Department: Public Health
- W 1 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
- W 8:30 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
- W 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
- 1.5 points
CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS I
Prerequisites: PHYS E6081 or the instructors permission. Semiclassical and quantum mechanical electron dynamics and conduction; dielectric properties of insulators; semiconductors; defects; magnetism; superconductivity; low-dimensional structures; soft matter.
- Department: Physics
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Raquel Quieroz
Info - 3 points
PERSONAL LEADERSHIP IN PUBLIC HEALTH
The goal of the course is to provide students with an overview of some of the fundamental principles and practice of leadership as it applies to a career in public health, with a specific concentration on personal leadership development. Students will focus on four critical competencies of personal leadership: 1) self-awareness, 2) power, 3) leading through others, and 4) negotiating effectively (Figure below). Students will also critically examine traditional notions of leadership, exploring concepts of ‘who gets to lead?’, the inequities that result and the diversity of effective leadership roles and styles. With this understanding, students will develop and improve their ability 1) to lead individuals and teams in a wide range of settings, including research centers and domestic as well as international public health organizations, 2) to perform more effectively as both team members and individual contributors to organizations and communities; 3) to promote their own leadership plan and credo.
Given its weight, it is important to stress that developing a leadership credo means more than coming up with a snappy one liner or finding just the right quote to capture your leadership style. It is an opportunity to develop an authentic leadership stance – a set of beliefs and/or values that you stand for as a leader and that you expect from others who you will lead, whether as the head of an organization or a member of a team, to support and eventually allow them to follow you. Your role is to move individuals towards success in meeting specific goals and overcoming certain challenges. Developing your credo will enable you to verbalize how you will achieve this through an authentic presentation of yourself. This course aims at ensuring you are comfortable, capable and confident in the authenticity of You as a leader.
- Department: Public Health
- R 6:40 p.m.-7:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Heather M Butts
Info - 1.5 points
FOOD SYSTEMS AND THE HEALTH OF THE PUBLI
FOOD SYST & HLTH OF THE P
The course will provide an overview of the science, policy, politics, and economics of food systems as a critical element of public health. The course will have a primary focus on the food system in the United States, but will include a global perspective. Students will learn and apply the fundamentals of public health scientific research methods and theoretical approaches to assessing the food landscape though a public health lens. In addition, the course will cover how diet – at first glance a matter of individual choice – is determined by an interconnected system of socio-economic-environmental influences, and is influenced by a multitude of stakeholders engaged in policymaking processes.
- Department: Public Health
- F 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Anne Paxton
Info - 3 points
THING THEORY
- Department: Anthropology
- R 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Hannah Chazin
Info - 3 points
QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS
The course is designed to introduce PhD students in Sociology to the basic techniques for collecting, interpreting, analyzing, and reporting interview and observational data. The readings and practical exercises we will do together are designed to expand your technical skillset, inspire your thinking, to show you the importance of working collaboratively with intellectual peers, and to give you experiential knowledge of various kinds of fieldwork.
Mostly, though, students will learn how to conduct indictive field-based analyses. There are many versions of this model, including Florian Znaniecki’s “analytic induction,” Barney Glaser and Anselm Straus’ “grounded theory,” John Stuart Mill’s system of inductive logic, the Bayesian approach to inference in statistics, and much of what computationally-intensive researchers refer to as data mining. This course will expose students to ways of thinking about their research shared by many of these different inductive perspectives. Remember, though, that all of these formulations of analytic work are ideal types. The actual field, and actual field workers, are often far more complex.
For that reason, this course focuses not merely on theory, but also, and fundamentally, on practice. While some skills like producing a code book or formulating a hypothesis can be developed through reading and reflection, the field demands more nuanced skillsets that can only be attained by trial and error. How do you get an honest answer to a painful or embarrassing question? How do we know that the researcher interviewed enough people? Or spent enough time in the field? Or asked the right questions? Or did not distort the truth? My hope is that by the end of class you will have done enough fieldwork to have arrived at a good set of answers, and to begin developing the ability to communicate your answers to others.
A note on intellectual parentage: The particular approach to training in this course is based on a qualitative bootcamp developed by Mario Small for Harvard’s Ph.d cohorts. Other methods courses focus on particular technical skills rather than analytic frames, or merely on empirical work itself, rather than secondary literature on method. This is one way to think through analytic training. We will try it out together.
- Department: Sociology
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Tey Meadow
h-index: 8 Info - 4 points
Specialized Social Work Practicum
SPECIALIZED SW PRACTICUM
- Department: Social Work
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Instructor:
Stacey M Wright
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Instructor:
Stephanie M Palau
Info - 9 points
CLASSICAL FIELDS & WAVES
Prerequisites: PHYS G6092. This course will study the classical field theories used in electromagnetism, fluid dynamics, plasma physics, and elastic solid dynamics. General field theoretic concepts will be discussed, including the action, symmetries, conservation laws, and dissipation. In addition, classical field equations will be analyzed from the viewpoint of macroscopic averaging and small-parameter expansions of the fundamental microscopic dynamics. The course will also investigate the production and propagation of linear and nonlinear waves; with topics including linearized small-amplitude waves, ordinary and extraordinary waves, waves in a plasma, surface waves, nonlinear optics, wave-wave mixing, solitons, shock waves, and turbulence.
- Department: Physics
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Andrei Beloborodov
Info - 4.5 points
RESEARCH SEMINAR
An M.S. degree requirement. Students attend at least three Applied Mathematics research seminars within the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and submit reports on each.
INTRO TO COMP LIT & SOC-GRAD
Please note: This course is required for ICLS graduate students, and priority will be given to these students. Generally the course fills with ICLS students each semester. Students MAY NOT register themselves for this course. Contact the ICLS office for more information at icls.columbia@gmail.com. This course was formerly numbered as G4900. This course introduces beginning graduate students to the changing conceptions in the comparative study of literatures and societies, paying special attention to the range of interdisciplinary methods in comparative scholarship. Students are expected to have preliminary familiarity with the discipline in which they wish to do their doctoral work. Our objective is to broaden the theoretical foundation of comparative studies to negotiate a conversation between literary studies and social sciences. Weekly readings are devoted to intellectual inquiries that demonstrate strategies of research, analysis, and argumentation from a multiplicity of disciplines and fields, such as anthropology, history, literary criticism, architecture, political theory, philosophy, art history, and media studies. Whenever possible, we will invite faculty from the above disciplines and fields to visit our class and share their perspectives on assigned readings. Students are encouraged to take advantage of these opportunities and explore fields and disciplines outside their primary focus of study and specific discipline.
- Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- 4 points
Managerial Statistics
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
- R 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
- W 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
- W 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
- R 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Paul Glasserman
Info - 1.5 points
MA RESEARCH SEMINAR
The MA Research Seminar supports the research projects of MA students in Philosophy.
Participants practice key methods in philosophy and deepen their knowledge of classic and
contemporary contributions to the field. The seminar is suitable for everyone who is aiming to
write a research paper. Seminar participants receive detailed input throughout the semester.
Students can take the class at any stage during their studies for the MA. The class is graded Pass/
Fail.
- Department: Philosophy
- M 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Wolfgang R Mann
CULPA: 36 Info - 3 points
MA SEMINAR IN GLOBAL THOUGHT II
Building upon M.A. Seminar I’s global approach to core issues and conversations with CGT Faculty, M.A. Seminar II tackles new topics and supports the completion of student research and writing. Multi-week modules will continue building discussions around key questions, engaging with guest speakers, and applying new perspectives to hard problems. Research workshops will address common challenges in turning research into writing, engaging sources and citation, and communicating your findings beyond the scope of this class.
- Department: Committee on Global Thought
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Laura L Neitzel
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Instructor:
Sarah A Miller-Davenport
Info - 4 points
Business Analytics
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
- TR 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
- TR 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
- TR 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
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Instructor:
Yashodhan Kanoria
h-index: 18 Info - 1.5 points
EUROPEAN STUDIES COLL II
- Department: Modern European Studies
- F 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Tsveta A Petrova
Info - 4 points
PLASMA PHYSICS II
Magnetic coordinates. Equilibrium, stability, and transport of torodial plasmas. Ballooning and tearing instabilities. Kinetic theory, including Vlasov equation, Fokker-Planck equation, Landau damping, kinetic transport theory. Drift instabilities.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Carlos Paz Soldan
h-index: 28 Info - 3 points
OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
- MW 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
- MW 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
- MW 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
- MW 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
- MW 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nicole Dehoratius
Info - 1.5 points
Global Leadership Seminar II
Global Leadership Sem II
The Global Leadership Seminar II is one of the core classes of the MPA in Global Leadership. It provides students with concrete lessons on the practice of leadership, enables students the opportunity to interface with established leaders across the spheres of government and civil society. The course culminates with each student submitting and presenting a plan to address a global policy challenge.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mauricio Cardenas
Wikipedia h-index: 38 Info - 3 points
URBAN SENSING AND DATA
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Anthony P Vanky
Info - 3 points
MPHIL THESIS WRITING SEMINAR
MPHIL THESIS WRITING SMR
- Department: Sociology
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Mario Small
Wikipedia Info - 4 points
APPLIED STATISTICS II
Prerequisites: STAT GR6101 Continuation of STAT GR6101.
- Department: Statistics
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Yuqi Gu
h-index: 6 Info - 4 points
NEUROSCIENCE
- Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
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Instructor:
Dawn Nilsen
Info - 3 points
FUTURE MOBILITY WORKSHOP
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Instructor:
Anthony P Vanky
Info - 3 points
URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES & MOBILITY
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jitendra Bajpai
Info - 3 points
COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS
- Department: Statistics
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Liam M Paninski
CULPA: 4 Info - 4 points
Strategic Management of Information and
Strategic Mgmt-Info&Comm Tech
Strategic Management of Information and Communication Technologies for the Public Good” addresses the spectrum of policy issues, options, and critical decisions confronting senior managers in the public sphere. Classes will be taught by a combination of lecture, readings, and case. Each class will address policy, technical, and managerial challenges for a particular domain of practice from the introduction or use of established and leading-edge information and communication technologies (ICTs), among them cloud, mobile and social. Arenas may include, for example, health, education, energy, economic development, transportation, civic engagement, law enforcement, human resources, social services, transportation, or compliance and regulatory affairs. The cases will involve a variety of managerial dilemmas and decisions, from governance to transparency, performance management to project management, and be generalizable across multiple domains, arenas, and technologies. Our goal is to expose students to the broadest range of policy challenges, and technologies comprising ICTs in use in the principal domains of practice, giving students a comprehensive exposure to the issues and opportunities as managers encounter them today - and will in the very near future. The course is intended for general, non-technical managers and assumes no engineering capability greater than plugging in a USB stick.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Robert Z Tumin
Info - 3 points
CONTRACTS
- Department: Law
- MW 8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
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Instructor:
Talia Gillis
h-index: 4 Info - 4 points
Statistical Consulting
Prerequisites: STAT GR6102 or instructor permission. The Deparatments doctoral student consulting practicum. Students undertake pro bono consulting activities for Columbia community researchers under the tutelage of a faculty mentor.
- Department: Statistics
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Regina Dolgoarshinnykh
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points