Applied Energy Methods in Affordable Hou

This course looks to legal definitions of “low-income” and “disadvantaged community” codified in federal and state statutes to frame discussions on energy insecurity and resiliency risks. Using these guiding points, a cross-disciplinary approach is followed to explore how the construction of energy efficient and resilient buildings contribute to their affordability in operations and maintenance. The course primarily focuses on creating sustainable and affordable multifamily housing, a building type unique to urban areas located in the US Northeast. However, in view of recommended strategies to meet carbon reduction goals, such as building electrification, the parameters of the course are expanded to highlight best practices in equitable policy-making around the design of utility rates and rules for low-income electric customers.

• Department: Sustainability Management
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Kenyetta N Lovings
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• 3 points

RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CULTURE

From Prince Valdimir’s Rus’ to the Post-Soviet Russia of Vladimir Putin, religion has remained a key factor in the making and remaking of Russian polity and culture. This course will explore how Orthodox Christianity—whether privileged or persecuted—came to dominate the Russian religious scene and shape Russian institutions, discourses, and lived experiences. Students will draw from a variety of primary and secondary sources—chronicles, saints’ lives, travel narratives, memoirs, letters, legal documents, icons and other ritual objects, films and fictional texts, as well as a large body of scholarly works and contemporary media materials—to examine how Russia’s Orthodox past and its rewriting into competing “histories” have been used over time as “legacies” shaping the present and the future.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Valentina Izmirlieva
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 4 points

Energy, Corporate Responsibility & Human

Energy, Corp Resp & Hum Rights

This class examines how to reconcile the differing/conflicting interests/goals of energy, and mining, companies and the public interest (e.g. governments); how to negotiate PPP agreements; understand the function/impact of laws and international trade agreements; and determine how CSR, especially environment and anti-corruption, and human rights apply. Case studies of multi-billion international energy pipeline projects, including TAP in Albania and Greece, TAPI in Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, BTC in Georgian and the Caucasus and , for comparative purposes, the controversial Keystone in US and Canada, will be the prism/focus for analysis. The class is dynamic and cross-disciplinary.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jenik Radon
  Info
• 3 points

Advances in Ecology, Evolution, and Envi

Advances in E3B

This one-credit seminar is designed for PhD students from any department in any school at Columbia University. We will read contemporary literature and examine case studies on designing, conducting, and communicating research projects that contribute to solutions to climate change and related problems of the Anthropocene. PhD students will have the opportunity to share their research and reflect on how it might contribute to solutions.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Shahid Naeem
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia h-index: 70 Info
• 1-3 points

Maternal-Fetal-Newborn Physiology

MAT-FETAL-NEWBORN PHYSIOL

The fundamental purpose of this course is to facilitate an understanding of the physiological mechanisms relevant to the maternal experience, fetal life, and the neonatal period. This course will focus primarily on the physiology of normal maternal/fetal/newborn issues and cover some common complications and pathology.

• Department: Nursing
• W 3 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Sally W Aboelela
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 2 points

CLOWN

CLOWN II

In this class, we will build up the actor’s physical and mental muscles via exercises, games, and assignments that rediscover uncensored child-like wonder. We will attempt to relax our brains, open up our hearts and move our bodies with great pleasure together, which will cultivate an intrinsic appetite for an open, vulnerable, generous, ferocious, playful, rigorous, surprising and impulsive presence. This state of flow, hopefully, will be able to find its rightful place in any role and in any medium you pursue.

Most of this semester will be spent on exercises in pursuit of your unique individual clowns as we necessarily soften and shed physical and emotional holds by inviting a sense of play and imagination. These exercises will gradually allow your latent clown-within (i.e. your talent / humanity) to show up in the room. Towards the end of this introductory class, we will encounter the smallest mask on earth – the Red Nose! – which not only doesn't mask, but instead draws attention to and magnifies YOU.

We will invite your generous openness, ferocious abandon, insistent honesty and gleeful mischief to make a larger footprint in your work, so the top layer of the iceberg that is your socially-conditioned selves can slowly melt away. You will sweat. You will make songs. You will listen deeper and harder. You will be engaged and relaxed at the same time. You will release some glorious ha-ha’s and emotional wa-wa’s into the ether. This all will be silly. You will make something disastrous and messy. You will confront fears and conjure bravery. You will make something wonderful and surprising – as you unearth the engine behind all that makes you interesting, that which makes you authentic. What makes you YOU. Your clown – the one and only.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• W 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Ralf Jean-Pierre
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• 3 points

ANALYSIS II

Continuation of MATH GR6151x (see Fall listing).

• Department: Mathematics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Daniela de Silva
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia Info
• 4.5 points

PROBABILITY II

Prerequisites: MATH GR6151 MATH G4151 Analysis & Probability I. Continuation of MATH GR6152x (see fall listing).

• Department: Mathematics
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Julien Dubedat
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4.5 points

LATIN PALEOGRAPHY

This course will survey the history of Latin manuscript books and Latin scripts from late Antiquity to the early years of printing (4th -15th century). Students will study the questions that have driven the field of paleography since its inception, and the canonical history of the main scripts used in Western Europe through the end of the Middle Ages. We will consider the manuscript book as a physical artifact, in a codicological approach; and we will look at the production of books in their social and political settings. Students will develop practical skills in reading and transcription, and will begin to recognize the features that allow localization and dating of manuscripts. We will use original materials from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library whenever possible.

• Department: Classics
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• 3 points

TOPICS IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Topics in Software engineering arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis. Since the content of this course changes, it may be repeated for credit with advisor approval. Consult the department for section assignment.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Gail E Kaiser
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

ISRAELI SOCIETY - SPEC TOPICS

• Department: Sociology
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Yinon Cohen
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 33 Info
• 3 points

Russian Drama and Theater: Performative

Russian Drama & Theater

In this course, our goal is to provide students with a comprehensive overview of the rich tradition of Russian dramaturgy. We will embark on a journey that starts with court drama and ends with contemporary political plays. In addition to exploring literary works, we will explore theories related to theatricality and performativity. Our primary emphasis will be on tracing the evolution of dramatic genres and their significance within a broader cultural context. Through the lens of these dramatic genres, we will illuminate the developmental stages of key aesthetic systems in Russian culture, ranging from the Baroque, Classicism, Romanticism, the avant-garde, and modernism up to postmodernism and docudrama.

The course is designed primarily for graduate students in the Slavic field who are interested in Russian drama and theater (a subfield that we are rarely addressing).  It is designated GR6***, because few of these texts are available in translation, and reading the originals requires advanced knowledge of Russian.  The course will fulfill requirements for M.A. and M.Phil. degrees.  Advanced Russian undergraduate majors with native or near native knowledge of Russian will be allowed to take the course with the instructor's permission.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 4 points

MATERIALS CHEMISTRY IIB

Prerequisites: CHEM UN2443 , or the equivalent.

• Department: Chemistry
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Xavier Roy
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 31 Info
• 2.5 points

LEGISLATION AND REGULATION

• Department: Law
• TWR 1:20 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
• TWR 10:40 a.m.-noon
• None None-None
• Instructor: Jessica J Bulman
  h-index: 14 Info
• Instructor: Kathryn E Judge
  Info
• 4 points

New Drug Development: A Regulatory Overv

NEW DRUG DEV:REGULAT OVER

This course will provide an introduction to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the drug development and approval process, often referred to as the “Critical Path”. The class will begin with a review of the history and organization of the FDA, and analysis of the principle steps along the critical path, including preclinical testing, clinical testing (drug development phase 0 thru IV), Good Laboratory Practices, Good Manufacturing Practices, Good Clinical Practices, and adverse event reporting. Different types of FDA submissions (IND, NDA, ANDA, SPA, eCTD), and FDA meetings will be examined, along with accelerated drug approval strategies, orphan drug development strategies, generic drug development, and post-marketing Sponsor commitments. Throughout the class we will study the related legislation and regulations that empower FDA, and the interrelated FDA guidance documents that define FDA expectations.

• Department: Biostatistics
• R 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Mac Arthur
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• 3 points

ACTING II

The scenes selected for study and practice will come from dramatic works by playwrights of the 20th and 21st centuries. For the most part these writers will be American dramatists, but exceptions may sometimes be made. The scenes being used are assigned by the instructor, sometimes by way of suggestions by the student, if the student has a particular interest in a specific writer or character. Three scenes are presented each class. Each scene will be able to work with the teacher for approximately 50 minutes. The emphasis of the working session is on process, methods of rehearsal, engagement of body and voice, employment of principles of craft, and self-analysis.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• M 2:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ronald Van Lieu
  Info
• 3 points

PRE-ATLANTIC SLAVERY AFRICA AND SOUT

This seminar on pre-Atlantic Slavery in Africa and Asia will focus on the history of captivity and bondage in modern and the premodern Africa. Conceptually, what is the difference between a captive and a slave? How has captivity been central to the history of social difference and state formation in premodern Africa? By introducing the student to the history of trade in captives within Africa and across the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, the student will be encouraged to rethink premodern Africa as central to premodern world history rather than marginal to it.

• Department: Anthropology
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Mahmood Mamdani
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia h-index: 57 Info
• 4 points

CRITICAL LEGAL THOUGHT

• Department: Law
• MW 1:20 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Katherine Franke
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

COMPLEX ANALYSIS/RIEMANN SURF

Continuation of MATH GR6175x (see Fall listing).

• Department: Mathematics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Duong H Phong
  Wikipedia Info
• 4.5 points

LAW AND CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY

• Department: Law
• TR 1:20 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Eben Moglen
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Human-Computer Interaction

Human–computer interaction (HCI) studies (1) what computers are used for, (2) how people interact with computers, and (3) how either of those should change in the future. Topics include ubiquitous computing, mobile health, interaction techniques, social computing, mixed reality, accessibility, and ethics. Activities include readings, presentations, and discussions of research papers. Substantial HCI research project required.

• Department: Computer Science
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Brian A Smith
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

Politics of Education Policy

The course will examine the role of states, districts, the federal government, private foundations, and corporations in American education policy We will focus in depth on a range of educational policy issues influenced by politics: including governance, equitable funding, choice, charter schools, teacher preparation, teacher evaluation, standards, accountability, collective bargaining, and the school to college pipeline.

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

US & INTL LEGAL SYSTEM

• Department: Law
• MW 1:20 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew Waxman
  Wikipedia h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

LAW AFTER NEOLIBERALISM

• Department: Law
• 3 points

CREATIVE CODING

In the production of immersive experiences, technology is used in creative ways to promote interactivity with an audience. Imagine creating performances where effects are magically triggered by participants, bespoke props can be controlled through theatrical cueing systems and online experiences are connected to the physical world. The Internet of Things (IoT) can be much more than smart toaster ovens - connected devices open up the possibility for unique storytelling opportunities beyond the screen.

This course provides a hands-on introduction to programming and the development of physical computing devices. We will explore various sensors, outputs, communication protocols and methods for connecting internet services together to create interactive prototypes for your immersive concepts.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• R 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Josh Corn
  Info
• 3 points

EXHIBITION PRAC-GLOBAL CONTEXT

Prerequisites: ANTH G6352 Museum Anthropology: history and theory / ANTH G6353 Politics and Practice of Museum Exhibitions; G9110, G9111 and the instructors permission. Corequisites: ANTH G6353. This course addresses the practical challenges entailed in the process of creating a successful exhibition. Developing an actual curatorial project, students will get an opportunity to apply the museum anthropology theory they are exposed to throughout the program. They will be given a hands-on approach to the different stages involved in the curation of a show, from the in-depth researching of a topic to the writing, editing and design of an exhibition that will be effective for specific audiences.

• Department: Anthropology
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Cine Ostrow
  Info
• 3 points

Managerial Economics

• Department: Business Economics
• TR 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• TR 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• TR 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Cristobal Otero Ruiz-Tagle
  Info
• 1.5 points

MA WORKSHOP/E ASIAN HISTORY

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Zach S Berge-Becker
  Info
• 4 points

Global Economic Environment

• Department: Business Economics
• TR 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• TR 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• TR 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Brett House
  Info
• 1.5 points

EXECUTIVE SEMINAR

EXECUTIVE SEMINAR II - NYC

n/a

• Department: Technology Management
• T 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
• 4 points

ADV CORP LAW: MERG & ACQUISTNS

• Department: Law
• Instructor: Jeffrey Gordon
  Info
• 4 points

STATISTICL INFERENCE THEORY II

Prerequisites: STAT GR6201 Continuation of STAT G6201

• Department: Statistics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Cynthia Rush
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 12 Info
• 4 points

FOUNDATIONS IN GRIEF THERAPY

This course is designed to prepare social workers for clinical work with bereaved families.  We emphasize the idea that grief therapy focuses importantly on active listening linked to interventions that provide validation, support or guidance. We provide a way of understanding grief using an attachment theory model that explains a big-picture framework for understanding grief and adaptation to loss.  The centerpiece of the course is a presentation of an approach to grief therapy derived from our efficacy-tested treatment for complicated grief and incorporating attention to self-care, racism, ethical obligations and dilemmas and using peer or experienced supervision in doing grief therapy.

• Department: Social Work
• T 2 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Katherine Shear
  h-index: 102 Info
• 3 points

FIN STATEMNT ANALYSIS & INTERP

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

• Department: Law
• R 3:20 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Norman Bartczak
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

Political Economy of Finance

This course provides an introduction to the political economy of financial and international monetary policy, presenting both theoretical perspectives and more policy-oriented concerns.  The course requires no knowledge of formal economic models, but it does presume familiarity with basic concepts in open economy macroeconomics and finance. Students without this background may find several sections of the course very difficult. The course has three main sections.  The first examines the political economy of the global monetary system.  We begin by surveying the evolution of international monetary arrangements from the gold standard period to the present day.  Then we analyze the difficulties posed by floating rates and capital mobility as well as the global imbalances that have been frequent features of contemporary times.  In addition, we examine the Euro crisis and trace its origins to the establishment of the monetary union.  The second section examines the political economy of financial policy, regulation and central banking.  The role of financial policy in economic development, especially of industry, in developing and emerging market countries is the primary lens for exploring this topic.  The final section considers financial crises, with a special focus on the Asian financial crisis of 1997/98 and 2007/08 global crisis that had its origins in the United States.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Arvid J Lukauskas
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

SW PRACTICE WITH CHILDREN

• Department: Social Work
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• T 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• S 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Jessica Godwin
  Info
• Instructor: Lucky K Larrosa
  Info
• Instructor: Nancy F Cincotta
  Info
• Instructor: Morgan Ritacco
  Info
• Instructor: Alexza Gutierrez
  Info
• 3 points

MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS II-DISC

• Department: Economics
• W 6:30 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Zhiming Feng
  Info
• 0 points

How Government, Civil Society & Corporat

Gov, Civ Soc, & Corp Solve Soc

The private sector has been widely criticized for economic and social conditions in the United States. Income inequality, the movement of jobs overseas, the disruption caused by technology, and the wide pay disparity between CEOs and employees are all placed squarely at the feet of leaders in the private sector. A historical review shows that much of the distrust of the private sector is justified. However, a review also shows ample examples, in the past and present, of private sector leadership shaping positive societal reforms. The substance of this course will entail a review of the past with lessons learned, where we are today in areas of critical concern to the nation, and most importantly, a review of specific next steps needed in the future to achieve real progress solving our most critical economic and social problems.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Stanley Litow
  Info
• 3 points

MACROECONOMIC ANALYSIS II-DISC

• Department: Economics
• T 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Ankit Bhutani
  Info
• 0 points

ISSUES & DEBATES-AMER POLITICS

Prerequisites: the instructors permission prior to registration. Please contact the instructors for more information. This graduate student field survey provides an overview of the scholarly study of American politics. The course has been designed for students who intend to specialize in American politics, as well as for those students whose primary interests are comparative politics, international relations, or political theory, but who desire an intensive introduction to the ;American; style of political science.

• Department: Political Science
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 4 points

Globalization and Diffusion

This course introduces students to the literature on globalization and the diffusion of culture and institutions. It covers literatures in sociology and political science as well as some anthropology and history. This course will not discuss economic, financial, or migratory globalization in depth. In the first part, we will survey the major theories of the global diffusion of culture and institutions: world polity theory, global field theory, the policy diffusion literature, etc. In the second part, we discuss select topics, such as the role of local power relations in diffusion processes or the consequences of diffusion for patterns of cultural similarity and difference across the world.

• Department: Sociology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Andreas Wimmer
  Wikipedia h-index: 41 Info
• 4 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

THE AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE

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• Department: Writing
• R 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Chloe Jones
  Info
• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

THE AGE OF PLEASURE

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• Department: Writing
• T 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Jaquira Diaz
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

PROFILES

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• Department: Writing
• T 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Lis Harris
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

CRITICAL FABULATION

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• Department: Writing
• T 2:10 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Margo L Jefferson
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

HOME AND EXILE

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• Department: Writing
• F 1:10 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Nadia Owusu
  Info
• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

INNER LIFE

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• Department: Writing
• R 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Benjamin Taylor
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

SEMINAR ON ANNIE ERNAUX

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• Department: Writing
• M 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Kate Zambreno
  Info
• 3 points

GENETIC APPROACHES TO BIOL PROBLEMS II

Required for first-year Genetics and Development students. Continuation of Genetics G6210. Basic principles and current areas of interest in mouse and human genetics. An introduction to mouse genetics; X-chromosome inactivation and genomic imprinting; genetic manipulation of the mouse; genetics of mouse coat color; genetics of sex determination; the mouse T-complex; human linkage analysis; somatic cell genetics; physical mapping of the human genome; cytogenetics; Huntington’s disease; muscular dystrophy and Alzheimer’s disease; and gene therapy.

• Department: Genetics and Development
• T 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

PRIN/APPL-SOC & CULTRL ANTHROP

Prerequisites: ANTH G4201 Principles and Applications of Social and Cultural Anthropology and the instructors permission. Focus on research and writing for the Masters level thesis, including research design, bibliography and background literature development, and writing. Prerequisites: ANTH G4201 Principles and Applications of Social and Cultural Anthropology

• Department: Anthropology
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Ellen Marakowitz
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS II

Prerequisites: the director of graduate studies permission. Corequisites: ECON G6410. Consumer and producer behavior; general competitive equilibrium, welfare and efficiency, behavior under uncertainty, intertemporal allocation and capital theory, imperfect competition, elements of game theory, problems of information, economies with price rigidities.

• Department: Economics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• 4 points

INT'L BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS

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

• Department: Law
• TR 9:10 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Alejandro M Garro
  Info
• 3 points

AFFORDABLE HOUSING, DEVELOPMENT & POLICY

AFFORD HOUSING, DEV & POL

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Edward Poteat
  Info
• 1.5 points

SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE WITH VETERANS

SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE VETE

The purpose of this course is to introduce social work students to the culture, history, policies, programs, and issues that face different generations of the United States military veterans and their families. This course will provide the essential background and knowledge base necessary to assist military veterans and their families through appropriate referrals for social and medical services. The military veteran community will be examined using both micro and macro lenses in order to provide an overarching understanding of the complex matters faced by today’s military veterans, their families, and communities.

• Department: Social Work
• W 8:30 p.m.-10:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Thomas Smith
  Info
• 3 points

SW PRACTICE WITH FAMILIES

• Department: Social Work
• T 2 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• T 11:10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Alirio Guerrero
  Info
• 3 points

Intro to TV Pilot Writing

This new class will provide Writing for Film & Television students with a foundational experience in TV Writing in the second semester of their first year at Columbia.  They will have studied feature writing in their first semester, and this class will explore how TV is different from the feature form, the unique structure of TV when compared to features, plays, and novels, the key elements of a good TV show and pilot, the different worlds of network and streaming and the current marketplace, how to structure a TV pilot, and how to write and begin revising the pilot episode for an original TV show.

• Department: Film
• M 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: David Klass
  Info
• 3 points

MACROECONOMIC ANALYSIS II

Prerequisites: the director of graduate studies permission. Concept of full employment. Models of underemployment and theory applicability, determinants of consumption and of investment, multiplier and accelerator analysis, an introduction to monetary macroeconomics, the supply side and inflation. Integration of macroeconomics with microeconomic and monetary analysis.

• Department: Economics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• 4 points

STOCHASTIC ENGINEERING MECHANICS

STOCHASTIC ENG MECHANICS

Review of random variables. Random process theory: stationary and ergodic processes, correlation functions and power spectra, non-stationary, non-white and non-Gaussian processes. Uncertainty quantification and simulation of environmental excitations and material/media properties, even when subject to limited/incomplete data: joint time-frequency analysis, sparse representations and compressive sampling concepts and tools. Stochastic dynamics and reliability assessment of diverse engineering systems: complex nonlinear/hysteretic behaviors and/or fractional derivative modeling. Emphasis on solution methodologies based on Monte Carlo simulation, statistical linearization, and Wiener path integral. Examples from civil, marine, mechanical and aerospace engineering.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• M 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou
  h-index: 26 Info
• 3 points

DIRECTING IV

• Department: Film
• W 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• W 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• R 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• R 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Anocha Suwichakornpong
  Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Bette Gordon
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

MARSEA WORKSHOP II

This is the second half of a yearlong seminar for students in the MARSEA (MA in Regional Studies: East Asia) Program. It is designed to help students develop key skills in social science research, and to support the thesis-writing process.

• Department: East Asian Regional Studies
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisbeth K Brandt
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

ADV MACROECONOMIC ANALYSIS II

Prerequisites: ECON G6216 and G6412, or the instructor's permission. This course deals with business cycle theories and methods for evaluating such theories. The course extends the canonical real business cycle model to analyze models with cyclical variation in markups, models of endogenous fluctuations, and models of news-driven short-run fluctuations. Attention is given to numerical methods to approximate the dynamics implied by stochastic general equilibrium models, with particular emphasis given to perturbation methods. The course will also include an operational introduction to full and limited-information approaches to the estimation of DSGE models.

• Department: Economics
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Hassan Afrouzi Khosroshahi
  Info
• 3 points

COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

• Department: Law
• 3 points

Ambitions and Accomplishments of Contemp

One ambition of the so-called “big ambitious novel”—a genre often described as masculine—has been to introduce society's public or historical dimension into the novel, a genre which has often been seen (and not without reason) as better suited to representing private emotional and familial relationships. That was the complaint of critic James Wood about Zadie Smith’s debut novel
White Teeth
in 2000.  In Smith, it was arguably not just an ambition, but an accomplishment, and the same can be said of American fiction during the last two decades. The formal innovations it has required and the thematic impulses it has mobilized repay close critical attention. Giving them that attention, and figuring out the right sort of attention, is the primary goal of this seminar. Along with it, however, the seminar also aims to extend the list of this fiction’s forms and contents, connecting back to recent classics like Pynchon and Foster Wallace but also looking hard at recent fiction which seems to be breaking new ground, morally and politically, formally and tonally.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Bruce Robbins
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• 4 points

Chorus and Collectivity

For whom does the dramatic chorus speak? In this graduate seminar, we track the figure of the chorus in drama, theater, and performance from antiquity to modernity, investigating how the chorus represents collectivity and enacts new social forms onstage. The chorus, as we’ll find, can be an instrument of tyranny or of transformation, depending on the members who comprise it – whether they are an assembly of elders (Sophocles’s Antigone), a gathering of survivors (Euripides’s The Trojan Women), a cadre of revolutionaries (Bertolt Brecht’s The Mother), a crowd of athletes 2 (Elfriede Jelinek’s Sports Play), or a digital network of chattering AI machines (Annie Dorsen’s Prometheus Firebringer). Our seminar attends to how the chorus shifts across historical, geographic, and cultural contexts: from ancient Athens to postwar Germany, and from American mass culture to decolonizing movements in the Caribbean, the chorus has proven to be a remarkably flexible and resilient element of live art. The course offers graduate students a broad introduction to canonical works of dramatic literature both ancient and modern, while also featuring lesser-known plays and productions by emerging artists. For the first two-thirds of the term, our sessions will juxtapose a dramatic text with a work of social theory (by thinkers including Nietzsche, Simmel, and Goffman), as well as at least one scholarly essay. Our broader goal in the course is to develop fluency in critical methods at the intersection of drama, philosophy, and social theory. In this course, that is, we approach theater as not only responsive to traditions of social thought, but also generative of new social practices and collective habits of body and mind. In addition to regular weekly assignments, students will complete one short essay and one seminar-length paper at the end of the term.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Rebecca Kastleman
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• 4 points

History for Future Policymakers

Leaders often invoke the lessons of history, but rarely talk about anything but a few familiar episodes. Even if we can all agree that we should avoid another attack on Pearl Harbor or war in Vietnam, does this actually help us make decisions about the future? In this course, students will explore both the problems and the opportunities with using historical analysis to grapple with present and future challenges. They will develop a deeper understanding of the most often cited historical episodes, but also learn how to avoid using analogies in the place of more original thinking. That means thinking like a historian, and the course will introduce key concepts that can be used to analyze a range of complex challenges, including continuity and change, contingency and inevitability, human agency and structural constraints. But they will also learn how NOT to think like a historian, such as using history as a weapon, and extrapolating into the future.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Sarah C Kovner
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• 3 points

Ethnographies at the End of the World

What can we learn from anthropological and ethnographic research in and about a damaged world, a world confronted by the violence and effects of war, climate change, transnational migration, post-industrial abandonment, and the lives and afterlives of colonialism and slavery? What are the ethnographic debates that address the catastrophes produced by capitalism and the lifeforms that emerge out of its ruins? What types of anthropological critique emerge in times enunciated as ‘the end of the world’? And what comes after this end? Ethnographies at the End of the World addresses these questions by paying close attention to some of the most relevant debates in contemporary anthropological theory and anthropological critique. These debates include, among others, discussions on violence and trauma, the politics of life and death, the work of memory and oblivion, and the material entanglements between human and non-human forms of existence. The aim of this seminar is to generate a discussion around the multiple implications of these theoretical arrangements and how anthropologists deploy them in their ethnographic understandings of the world we live in. In doing so, this course provides students with a fundamental understanding and conceptual knowledge about how anthropologists use and produce theory, and how this theoretical production is mobilized as a social critique. This course is reading intensive and operates in the form of a seminar. It is intended, primarily, for MA students in the department of anthropology and graduate students in other departments.

• Department: Anthropology
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sheng Long
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• 3 points

TUTORIAL IN CLINICAL PRACTICE:STRUCTURED

• Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
• 1 points

Comparative Social Welfare Policy

This core course explores welfare systems from a comparative perspective and analyzes the political, economic, socio-cultural, and historical factors that shape and sustain them in advanced industrialized countries. It pays particular attention to the development of key national social welfare policies, such as social security, health care, unemployment insurance, social assistance, childcare, tax expenditure, and public employment and training, and emerging best practice in these areas. The course also identifies pressing global/regional trends (e.g. greying of societies, labor market stratification, and persistent gender inequality) and compares how developed and developing countries address them through policy.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Yumiko T Shimabukuro
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• 3 points

Political Economy Seminar

This seminar surveys the defining political economy issues of our time. It explores the interplay between politics and economics in the substantive issue areas of trade, finance, investment, development, and redistribution. The seminar surveys the most provocative, influential contributions in multiple disciplines utilizing a wide range of research methods. Contemporary debates are studied in depth, including the fragmentation of production, causes and consequences of financial crises, growing inequality, economic development challenges, and the determinants of public goods provision. The course equips students with the conceptual and empirical tools to better understand current developments, provides exposure to multiple perspectives, and builds confidence in development one's own point of view.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Yumiko T Shimabukuro
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• 3 points

CORPORATE TAXATION

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

• Department: Law
• TR 2:50 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Rick D'Avino
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• 3 points

INTERMEDIATE STATISTICAL MECH

• Department: Chemistry
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: David Reichman
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• 2.5 points

CORPORATIONS

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

• Department: Law
• TR 2:50 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Justin R McCrary
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• 4 points

CAPITAL PARTNERSHIP STRUCTURING WITH ADV

STRUCTURING W ADV EXCEL

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 4 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jose I Lievano Gomez
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• 1.5 points

CORPORATE FINANCE

• Department: Law
• TR 9:10 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Eric Talley
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• 3 points

ADVANCED SPATIAL ANALYSIS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Leah M Meisterlin
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• 3 points

International Relations Theory for Globa

IR Theory for Glob Policy

This course is designed to upgrade the students’ skills to design global policies by providing an in-depth understanding of essential International Relations theories and instructing how to apply them to solve real-world issues through exercises. As global cooperation is difficult to build yet critical for solving global issues, this course focuses on theories that are helpful to achieve such cooperation and employs issues related to the U.S.-China competition, a key obstacle to global cooperation, as case studies. At the end of the course, students will be able to define a fundamental structure in each complex and dynamic global issue and tailor policy recommendations that reflect this structure.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Fumiko Sasaki
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• 3 points

ASSET MANAGEMENT

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Sara B Queen
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• 1.5 points

CRIMINAL ADJUDICATION

• Department: Law
• MW 1:20 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Richman
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• 3 points