HARDWARE SECURITY

• Department: Computer Science
• M 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Simha Sethumadhavan
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• 3 points

INT'L SECURITIES REGULATION

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
• 2 points

Communicating in Organizations

Communicating in Organizations is a survey course that explores aspects of day-to-day managerial communication relating to presentations and other high-profile moments and more familiar elements of interpersonal communication. The course uses many teaching techniques: short lectures, individual and group exercises, video-recorded presentations, role plays, case discussions, video clips, and writing assignments. It is highly experiential, with exercises or presentations scheduled in most sessions. Initially, we’ll focus on the communication skills and strategies that help you present your ideas to others.  I’ll ask you to do two benchmark assignments―a letter and a brief presentation―to assess the abilities you bring to the course. In several of our class sessions, you’ll be the one “in front of the room,” delivering either a prepared talk or brief, impromptu comments. Such assignments will allow you to develop your skills as a presenter.  I’ll also discuss the link between listening and speaking, showing you how developing your listening skills will improve your effectiveness as a speaker.  And we’ll explore several elements of visual communication, including how to design effective visual aids and written documents. To communicate effectively in such roles as coach, interviewer, negotiator, or facilitator, you need to be skilled at listening, questioning, observing behavior, and giving feedback.  We’ll practice each of these skills in-class exercises and assignments. The Social Style instrument will provide detailed feedback about how others view your communication style. You’ll discover how style differences may lead to miscommunication, missed opportunities, or mishandled conflict.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• S 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Joann P Baney
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• 3 points

FEDERAL COURTS

• Department: Law
• MW 2:50 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Thomas P Schmidt
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• 4 points

CRITICAL WRITING FOR THEATRE

• Department: Theatre Arts
• R 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Vinson Cunningham
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• 3 points

Literature and Temporality: Reading, Wri

In his classic essay “Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism,” E.P. Thompson argued that the transition to industrial modernity in the decades around 1800 marked a shift in the very experience and “inward notion of time.” This graduate seminar will take the elasticity of time—in both its experience and its expression—as a starting point to explore a host of aesthetic, theoretical, and political questions related to temporality. While we’ll have one foot in the long Romantic period and the age of revolutions (the era Thompson discusses), the course will, as it only appropriate, range over time periods and milieus up to the present. The class will have a strong theoretical component, visiting a number of important theorist and paradigms (e.g., Marx, Benjamin, Wynter), but will also investigate literature as a distinct mode of
telling
time, with particular attention to poetry and drama. Conceptual terrain we might explore includes revolt and revolution, festivity and the ordinary, genre and history, work and slavery, collectivity and individuation, seasonality and ecology, and more.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph Albernaz
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• 4 points

CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN PLAYS

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• Department: Theatre Arts
• R 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Kate Loewald
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• 3 points

Climate Finance

This graduate course will develop both models and empirical methods that are necessary to assess the role of the financial system in addressing the risks of global warming.  The course will take a continuous-time approach and feature financial markets that provide crucial information on expectations and plans of economic agents regarding climate change.  After a primer on continuous time methods and stochastic growth models, we will cover a number of topics including: an asset pricing approach to integrated assessment models, pricing natural capital such as tropical rain forecasts, mitigation of weather disaster risks that are becoming more frequent with global warming, sustainable finance mandates in fostering the transition of the industrial sector to net-zero emissions, corporate adaptation strategies to heatwaves, and integrating climate tipping points and financial frictions into assessments.

• Department: Economics
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• 3 points

NATURAL RESOURCE & ENVIR ECON

• Department: Economics
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Graciela Chichilnisky
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info
• 3 points

RECOMBINANT RENAISSANCE

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Rakatansky
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• 3 points

THE ECONOMICS OF LABOR II

• Department: Economics
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Tatiana Mocanu
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• 3 points

Social Justice Movements in the Age of S

Social Justice & Social M

This course is an introduction to how emerging hybrid models of traditional and digital organizing and advocacy are building unprecedented social justice movements in the United States. During the first half of the course, students will examine the theory and practice of successful traditional offline organizing and advocacy campaigns as well as principles and characteristics of successful digital activism. In the second half of the course, students w2ill analyze contemporary social movements that have fused offline and online organizing and advocacy tactics, including ongoing activism for racial equity, drug policy reform, LGBTQ rights, criminal justice reform, gender equity, and immigration reform. Using a blend of book and journal readings, case studies, videos, and hands-on group project, and guest speaker practitioners, this course will paint a vivid picture of how social change happens in our age of social media coexisting within the practical realities of longstanding power dynamics.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard F Greenberg
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• 3 points

Writing the Irish Revolution: Yeats, Syn

‘Writing the Irish Revolution’ is a course that sets out to interrogate what the literature of witness could mean, how it could range from O’Casey’s plays – some of which were performed even as the violence raged outside a theatre run by Lady Gregory and Yeats – to Yeats’s own poems that were filled with both argument and ambivalence. And could range also from private diaries written in the heat of the moment to subsequent testimony composed with deliberation.

The course examines one strand in the Irish Revolution that was the Irish Literary Renaissance, and it studies how literary texts – poems, translations, plays, travel writing – created an atmosphere in Ireland in the first decade of the twentieth century that led in ways both direct and oblique to insurrection. The outcome of such scrutiny should include a recognition of the porous, unstable nature of the literary text in a colonial crisis, in a time of deep political ferment.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Colm Toibin
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• 4 points

Rethinking Policing in the 21st Century

Rethinking Policing-21st Cent

Social movements and activists are reshaping the debate on the traditional role of policing in our society. The Black Lives Matter movement has been pivotal in leading the call for systemic change, accountability and transparency. A chorus of diverse voices has called into question unchecked police power. The tragic deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Eric Garner and other Black and brown people has led to a breakdown of trust between the public and police. This course is designed to examine current police practices through the lens of history, race, recent events, and jurisprudence.  This class will serve as a laboratory of ideas and recommendations as we analyze police training, disciplinary procedures, use of force guidelines and other practices in an effort to foster and improve community - police relations. Several cities have deconstructed police authorities, focusing on a more democratic force and in some cases diverting funds towards a more non-violent and community-based approach to policing. Some governmental leaders have criticized recent movements for their lack of structure and stated objectives other than demanding change. This class will discuss common threads and differences between recent movements and those of the past. Lastly, this class will tackle those issues that have impeded progress in advancing a police force that promotes trust and service.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Basil A Jr Smikle
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• 3 points

Benchmarking Skills for Process & Organi

Benchmarking Skills-Proc & Org

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the structural basis of benchmarking.  Using a public sector-based case study with “hands-on” group activities, as well as various other examples given by the instructors, this course will teach students the benchmarking process along with the different tools and techniques to be used in  implementation.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• F 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
• 1 points

JURISPRUDENCE:SELECT PROBLEMS

• Department: Law
• 3 points

MILITARY LAW AND THE CONST

• Department: Law
• M 4:20 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Michel Paradis
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• 2 points

LABOR LAW

• Department: Law
• MTW 1:20 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Barenberg
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• 4 points

LAW OF THE POLITICAL PROCESS

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
• 3 points

Professional Issues in Nurse-Midwifery

PROF ISSUES NURS/MIDWIFER

The Professional Issues in Nurse-Midwifery course is designed to concentrate on the transition from student to beginning nurse-midwife practitioner. It examines the history of the profession and the role of its leadership organizations including the ACNM. Students will submit articles for publication to the Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health. The course curriculum also examines current critical issues that impact on the profession, both national and international, and addresses organizational and legislative means of effecting change.

• Department: Nursing
• T 1 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Rebekah L Ruppe
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• 2 points

REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS

See Law School Curriculum Guide for details.

• Department: Law
• W 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard Sobelsohn
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• 2 points

TRADEMARKS

• Department: Law
• MW 2:50 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Jane C Ginsburg
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• 3 points

TOPICS IN THEATRE HISTORY & THEORY

TOPICS IN THEA HIST & THE

A course description will be forthcoming.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• R 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria Jose Contreras
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• 3 points

Experimental Economics

A PhD course on experimental economics will cover various topics that have been
explored using experimental economics including: other regarding preferences,
charitable giving, public goods, individual decision making, cognitive limitations,
motivated reasoning, market design, and gender. While the instructor will expose
students to high-quality experimental work across these topics, the main focus of the
class will be on experimental methodology to give students insight into how they can run
their own experiments on these and other topics. Additional course lectures will cover:
the history of experimental economics, preference elicitation strategies, large scale
RCTs, nudges, and partnering with organizations for research. Finally, the course will
cover debates in experimental economics including those surrounding lab vs. field
experiments, subject populations, and replication. The course is geared towards getting
PhD students to actually start producing their own experimental research. Students will
be asked to produce two short assignments: one proposing a lab experiment and one
proposing a field experiment. In addition, the final project for the course will ask
students to write up a longer proposal for an experiment the student might actually
consider running and to prepare a slide deck about the proposed project. The final
lecture of the course will have students present their proposed designs, allowing
students to receive feedback from their classmates.

• Department: Economics
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Judd Kessler
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• 3 points

SUPERVISED TEACHING ASSISTANCE

Prerequisites: permission of the faculty member who will direct the teaching. Participation in ongoing teaching.

• Department: Psychology
• Instructor: Katherine T Fox-Glassman
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 4 Info
• 3 points

SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH

• Department: Social Work
• W 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• M 8:30 p.m.-10:20 p.m.
• W 8:30 p.m.-10:20 p.m.
• W 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• R 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Nino Makharadze
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• Instructor: Natasha Johnson
  Info
• Instructor: Alissa Davis
  h-index: 11 Info
• Instructor: Laurie Maldonado
  Info
• Instructor: Hyunjoon Um
  Info
• Instructor: Eva C Haldane
  Info
• Instructor: Melissa A Meinhart
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• 3 points

ADV CRIM LAW: DEATH PENALTY

• Department: Law
• MW 2:50 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeffrey A Fagan
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• 3 points

Introduction to Health Economics

INTRODUCTN TO HEALTH ECON

Health economics provides theories and tools for understanding, predicting, and changing human behavior. Understanding and changing the behavior of firms and individuals, designing health policies, and managing firms and organizations concerned with delivering health care and improving health, requires a solid foundation in health economics. In this course, students will learn the concepts in health economics most relevant and important to public health professionals and how these economic concepts can be applied to improving health care and the public health systems. Students will identify the basic concepts of health economics for the purposes of solving problems using these concepts, and apply these concepts in new contexts within public health.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• W 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Adam J Sacarny
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• 3 points

INTRO TO STATISTICS

• Department: Social Work
• Instructor: Melissa D Begg
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• 0 points

SUZUKI

• Department: Theatre Arts
• R 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Shanga Parker
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• 0-1 points

GENDER JUSTICE

• Department: Law
• T 4:20 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Katherine Franke
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• 2 points

LEAD I

• Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
• Instructor: Tyra M Banks
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• 2 points

STEM CELL, GENOME ENG & REGEN MED

General lectures on stem cell biology followed by student presentations and discussion of the primary literature. Themes presented include: basic stem cell concepts; basic cell and molecular biological characterization of endogenous stem cell populations; concepts related to reprogramming; directed differentiation of stem cell populations; use of stem cells in disease modeling or tissue replacement/repair; clinical translation of stem cell research.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• T 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• 3 points

PLAYWRITING II

• Department: Theatre Arts
• R 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Rogelio Martinez
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• 3 points

FICTION LECTURE

LONG CENTURY SHORT NOVELS

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• Department: Writing
• M 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Joshua A Cohen
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• 3 points

PARTICIPATORY DESIGN FROM THE BARRIO TO

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Samuel Stewart-Halevy
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• 3 points

Critical Issues in Hospital Management

HOSP ORGANIZATION/MANAGEM

This course is intended to give the student a broad understanding of the components of the health care system and the basic management principles of hospital organization and management. The course will employ a variety of learning formats for students including lectures by the instructors, guest lecturers with special expertise, case studies and student presentations. Emphasis will be on the historical trends of health care statistics and operating data of health care institutions; the history of hospitals and health care systems; their organization and finances; regulatory controls; management strategies; accreditation and professional standards; government; private insurance; administrative leadership and professional interactions, emergency services, healthcare trends and marketing.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• M 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• 1.5 points

SPEECH II

In this course, students will continue an exploration of their Idiolects in relationship to both extemporaneous and heightened texts through class and small group work that focuses on audibility, clarity, resonance, vocal dynamics by way of imaginative activation, articulation and ownership. The objective of this course is for students to activate their speech in such a way that it ignites and expands both their imaginations and their capacity to communicate language with honesty. They will experience a full and balanced sound that is neither pushed nor half-baked, neither rushed nor indulgent, and fill space onstage and in the world with their voice and their presence. Students will also hone their skills of self-observation, offer useful feedback and take ownership of and interpret a variety of texts to be expressed on vibration.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• T 9 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Hayes
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• 2 points

SPEECH III

In this course, students will continue their individual development of
greater ownership
, expression and embodiment of heightened (mostly Shakespeare’s) text. The objective of this course is for students to practice landing heightened text with honesty and clarity, uniting the Givens and the Imaginatives. “It’s not about making it right, it’s about making it ALIVE.” 

Students will:


(Continue to) refine their articulation skills via a strong working knowledge of the IPA and corresponding Lexical Sets

Dance along the fine line between control and freedom of their muscles of articulation in order to share complicated thoughts and speak heightened language with invisible technique

Unpack and investigate texts in order to marry structure with meaning

Interpret texts with Musiclarity – the musicality of the language supporting the clarity of the thought

Play with passion, curiosity, specificity and
humanity.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• F 9 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Hayes
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• 2 points

S. Rebuilding Government

S REBUILDING GOVERNMENT

• Department: Law
• M 4:20 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Charles Sabel
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• 2 points

VOICE & ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE II

Voice and Alexander Technique II deepens and expands the work we did in Voice and Alexander Technique I. This continuing course presupposes that you have continued our work in your daily practice and in your other classes and have begun to develop clarity around the inner structure of the body which is your physical and vocal support. Our work this term will help you develop a solid vocal technique, a body that is strong, open and free, and a mind which is clear and focused.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• M 9 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• M 11 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jean McClelland
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• 1 points

Clinical Conditions II: Physical Health

CLINICAL CONDITIONS II

• Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
• 3 points

Politics of Identity in Post-Communist E

Politics of ID in ECE

The course examines the complex relations between politics and identities in various countries of post-communist Eastern, Central and Southern Europe. It deals with various aspects of the politics of identity, including language, ethnicity, religion, and memory, in an array of social domains encompassing education, public administration, media, churches, linguistic landscapes, and public monuments. It seeks to describe post-communist processes in these domains as both grounded in ideologies and practices of the communist and pre-communist past and shaped by the domestic sociopolitical situation and external (geo)political contexts. A case featured in the course is Ukraine, which is very interesting in view of its ambivalent historical legacy, contradictory policies in post-Soviet years, and the remarkable resilience that has been demonstrated in time of war with Russia. At the same time, considerable attention will be paid to cases as different as Belarus, Moldova, Georgia, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, the Baltic and post-Yugoslav states. This choice of cases makes it possible to present a diversity and complexity of identity politics in post-communist societies.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Volodymyr Kulyk
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• 3 points

FUNDAMENTALS OF SCREENWRITING

• Department: Theatre Arts
• M 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: David Auburn
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• 3 points

NONFICTION LECTURE

The Self

NONFICTION LECTURE

• Department: Writing
• M 1:10 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Leslie S Jamison
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• 3 points

ACCOUNTING & BUDGETING

• Department: Executive Classes in HPM
• 3 points

Healthcare Accounting and Budgeting

HLTH CARE ACCOUNTING&BUDG

The current market places increasing demands on healthcare managers so it is essential that individuals possess basic skills related to financial management and financial reporting. Current events make these demands more dynamic than ever. This course is intended for students who are interested in expanding their knowledge of healthcare financial issues and/or pursuing careers that involve financial management in the healthcare sector. The focus will be on non-profit healthcare delivery organizations.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• M 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• T 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Ting Shi
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• Instructor: Jonathan Engel
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• 3 points

POETRY LECTURE

POETRY LECTURE

• Department: Writing
• T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Jared D Fagen
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• 3 points

BANKRUPTCY LAW

• Department: Law
• TR 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Edward R Morrison
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• 4 points

Global Reliance on Russian Energy

Globl Reliance-Russ Enrgy

Russian unprovoked war in Ukraine dramatically changed the world energy landscape and created one of the primary energy crises in the world. Russian Federation is the world's largest energy exporter of fossil fuels. However, shocked by the war, the West imposed sanctions on the Russian energy sector. The course will discuss a significant energy geopolitical shift happening worldwide because of the war. We will focus on how the EU navigates this crisis and how Russia tries to escape sanctions. What new energy alliances appear, and what disappear because of this war?

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Natasha Udensiva
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• 3 points

ANALYTCS/MANAGR DECISION MAKNG

• Department: Executive Classes in HPM
• 3 points

Analytics and Managerial Decision-Making

ANALYTCS/MANAGR DECISION

Analytics and Managerial Decision-Making I is the first of two required quantitative methods courses taken in sequence by all MHA students. These courses are foundational to the MHA curriculum. The two courses are fully integrated with respect to materials, exercises and cases, and by a two-term, team-based application project.
Managers are continually confronted with the need to make significant decisions concerning the organizational and financial performance of a health organization, based on a combination of strategic intention, practical experience, and interpretation and application of complex data and information. Data analysis is one tool that supports such decision-making. This course is designed to provide management students with the tools to generate and present data-driven and model-based management recommendations that are meaningful and implementable.
The course focuses on learning basic tools for the collection, analysis, and presentation of data in support of managerial/executive decision-making. Topics will include introductory data and statistical exploration from basic descriptive statistics to population and market estimation, comparison testing and decision-making, sampling design and analysis, and predicting/forecasting using linear regression. Using Excel as an additional tool, the course develops analytical skills to prepare managers to make and to present informed decisions in the overall healthcare sector.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• M 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul W Thurman
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• 3 points

AOP Adults I: Behavioral and Physical He

AOP ADULTS I

• Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
• Instructor: Patricia Precin
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• 3 points

August Wilson

In this seminar we will read the complete published plays of August Wilson along with several significant unpublished and obscurely published plays, prose, and poetry. The centerpieces of this course will be what Wilson termed his “century cycle” of plays: each work focusing on the circumstances of Black Americans during a decade of the twentieth century. We also will explore closely on what Wilson identified as the “four B’s” that influenced his art most emphatically: Bessie Smith (sometimes he called this first B the Blues), Amiri Baraka, Romare Bearden, and Jorge Luis Borges. Accordingly, as we consider theoretical questions of cross-disciplinary conversations in art, we will study songs by Bessie Smith (and broad questions of the music and literary form), plays, prose, and poetry of Baraka (particularly in the context of Wilson’s early Black Arts Movement works), the paintings of Bearden, and the poetry and prose (along with a few lectures and transcribed interviews) of Borges. We will use archival resources (online as well as “hard copy” material, some of it at Columbia) to explore Wilson’s pathways as a writer, particularly as they crisscrossed the tracks of his “four B’s.” Along the way we will examine several drawings and paintings (from his University of Pittsburgh archives) as we delve into the rhythmical shapes, textures, and colors he used on paper and canvas as well as in his plays. Visitors to the class will include Wilson’s musical director Dwight Andrews and at least one of his regular actors.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert G O'Meally
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• 4 points

THE ACTOR'S BODY II

• Department: Theatre Arts
• MR 9 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Sita Mani
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• 1 points

Politics of the Caucasus

This course tracks the trajectories of politics in the Caucasus, focusing on the political development of the independent states of the South Caucasus: Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. While the focus is on contemporary political dynamics, the course considers the mechanisms through which the legacies of Imperial Russian expansion and Soviet structures interact with current mechanisms of interest articulation and power. Students in this course will examine the contours and mechanisms of the collapse of Soviet hegemony in the South Caucasus, spending some time examining the conflicts that accompanied this process and persist today. The course will address the country contexts both individually and comparatively, thereby encouraging students to delve deeply into the politics of each state, but then also enabling them to find continuities and contrasts across major thematic considerations.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Julie George
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• 3 points

AMERICAN MUSICAL THEATRE

• Department: Theatre Arts
• W 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Korie
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• 3 points

Research II: Inquiry of Evidence

RSCH II

• Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
• Instructor: Razan Hamed
  h-index: 8 Info
• 2 points

Culture and Identity in Global Issues

Culture Identity Global I

Pick up any news article today, and you’ll see references to culture, identity, and globalization. The growth of white nationalism in the United States. The prolonged politics of Brexit in Europe. The rise and fall of the Islamic State across the Middle East. Constructions of culture, identity, and globalization appear all around us. In fact, all of you invoked these terms in your essays to join our Master’s program in Global Thought.

So join me for a deep dive this semester to investigate what we mean by these terms. How do people define culture, identity, and globalization? What kinds of work do these loaded words do? Are their definitions the same or different across societies? How have various academic disciplines defined these terms? How can analyzing debates over their use in psychiatry, psychology, and anthropology help us understand contemporary events?

The goal of this seminar is to explore a wide range of sources on culture, identity, and globalization.
We start with big thematic ideas like culture and identity at the beginning of the course and then focus on particular issues such as nationalism and immigration.
The point is not to side with any single author, but to make our assumptions explicit when we use these terms and to better analyze the arguments of others.

• Department: Committee on Global Thought
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ramona H Bajema
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• 3 points

Readings in Evolutionary Genomics

Readings Evolutionary Gen

The course covers a range of current topics in evolutionary and quantitative genetics, with two main aims: 1) to expose students to important, open questions in the field and 2) to help them learn how to read research papers carefully and critically. This year we will focus on the genetic basis of adaptation. Adaptation is the dynamic evolutionary process by which an organism’s fitness increases in a particular environment via changes in the frequencies of alleles contributing to heritable phenotypic trait variation. Recent evidence from human genetics, and past evidence in quantitative genetics in a variety of organisms, indicate the heritable variation in many traits is highly polygenic, suggesting that when selection pressures change, adaptation should be highly polygenic as well. At the same time, there appear to be many examples in which adaptation occured by large effect changes in few genes. We will review the theory and evidence, with the goal of understanding when we should expect adaptation to proceed by these different modes.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

S. Islamic Finance, Investment and Banki

• Department: Law
• 2 points

S. Blockchain Technologies and the Secur

• Department: Law
• 2 points

AMERICAN SPECTACLE II

• Department: Theatre Arts
• F 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Lynn Nottage
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• 3 points

S. Antisemitism and U.S. Law

• Department: Law
• 2 points

S. The Arbitration Agreement and Procedu

• Department: Law
• 2 points

Psychotherapy: Theories and Techniques

PSYCHOTHERAPY:THEORIES/T

This course is designed to present major theoretical systems of psychotherapy, with a special emphasis on how clients in therapy change and how to conceptualize clients' presenting concerns from theoretical points of view. Issues related to application of theory in practice, especially those related to individual/cultural diversity will be addressed and emphasized.

• Department: Nursing
• M 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Latisha M Hanson
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• 2 points

Orientalism and PostcolonialTheory

Orientalism, Postcolonial

This course will seek to analyze some philosophical and interpretative problems raised by recent works in a field generally described as 'postcolonial theory'. At the center of the discussion would be the themes of Eurocentrism and Orientalism. While the questions associated with this field are highly significant, there is much that is indeterminate about this area of social theory. The course will start with an historical analysis of the original debates about 'Orientalism' and the nature of its arguments. It will start with a preliminary reading of Said’s Orientalism. It will then take up for a direct critical examination textual traditions that were the objects of the Orientalism debate – representative examples of European Orientalist literature – which claimed to produce, for the first time, 'scientific' studies of Oriental societies (work of linguists like William Jones, or historians like James Mill), studies of Middle Eastern Islamic societies analyzed by Said, segments of philosophies of history which dealt with non-European societies and found a place for them in a scheme of 'universal history' ( Hegel, Marx, Mill, Weber). We shall then turn to ask if social science knowledge about non-European societies still carry the methodological features of Orientalism. As Orientalism spread across different fields of modern culture – not just academic knowledge, but also art and aesthetic representations,  the next two weeks fictional and visual representations will be taken up for critical analysis.  This will be followed by a study of texts in which intellectuals from non-European societies from Asia and Africa responded to the cognitive and cultural claims of the European Orientalist literature. In the last section the course will focus on three aspects of the postcolonial critique:


the question of 
representation
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the question of the writing of history, and

the logic of basic concepts in social sciences.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sudipta Kaviraj
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• 4 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

Prerequisites: permission of the departmental adviser to Graduate Studies.

• Department: Psychology
• Instructor: Niall Bolger
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 55 Info
• 1-4 points

EXT: CITY & STATE POLICY ADV

• Department: Law
• W 2:20 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• None None-None
• 2 points

QUESTIONS IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY II:

QUESTIONS-ANTHROP THRY II:HIST

This course surveys the historical relationships between anthropological thought and its generic inscription in the form of ethnography. Readings of key ethnographic texts will be used to chart the evolving paradigms and problematics through which the disciplines practitioners have conceptualized their objects and the discipline itself. The course focuses on several key questions, including: the modernity of anthropology and the value of primitivism; the relationship between history and eventfulness in the representation of social order, and related to this, the question of anti-sociality (in crime, witchcraft, warfare, and other kinds of violence); the idea of a cultural world view; voice, language, and translation; and the relationship between the form and content of a text. Assignments include weekly readings and reviews of texts, and a substantial piece of ethnographic writing. Limited to PhD students in Anthropology only.

• Department: Anthropology
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Nadia Abu El-Haj
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

EXT: REPRESENTNG NYC

• Department: Law
• M 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• None None-None
• 2 points

DEV ASPCT-ADOLESCN:THEOR/INTER

• Department: Social Work
• T 2 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Ronald A Feldman
  h-index: 18 Info
• 3 points

NORMAL-PATHLGCL ASPCT-CHLDHOOD

• Department: Social Work
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Prudence W Fisher
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• 3 points

Externship: Environmental Practice

Ex. Environmental Practic

• Department: Law
• R 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Scott A Edwards
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• 2 points

CONTEMP SOC ISSUES: ISMS LAB

This course fosters students to challenge bias, prejudice, and forms of discrimination that operate in the lives of social workers and our clients. As a “laboratory,” learning begins with hands-on participation in a series of interactive exercises designed to elicit and deconstruct dynamics of racism, sexism, ageism, ableism, heterocentrism, classism, etc. Each activity is followed by a facilitated exploration and critical analysis of the experiential process. An emphasis is placed on professional and personal insight and skill with regards to culturally/contextually competent practice, processing of charged issues, and use of self. This course is well-suited for students who are authentic, willing to take risks, and committed to becoming effective agents of change towards social justice. 

This course is conceived to assist social work practitioners identify and examine the ways various populations experience oppression and discrimination, with an eye towards the various dimensions that shape how “-isms” occur in our lives and society, including but not limited to:


Societal levels: personal, institutional, cultural

Visibility: overt, covert

Temporal: historical, periodic/occasional, everyday/ongoing

Actor: me, us, them

Dynamics of invalidation/forms of denial

• Department: Social Work
• W 2 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Elwin Wu
  h-index: 37 Info
• 3 points

MASTER CLASS

FIC - NONSTANDARD ENGLISH

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• Department: Writing
• M 12:05 p.m.-2:05 p.m.
• Instructor: Maisy Card
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• 1.5 points

MASTER CLASS

FIRST PERSON & PLACE

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• Department: Writing
• R 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Carina D Schorske
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• 1.5 points

MASTER CLASS

BUILDING A WRITING CAREER

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• Department: Writing
• W 5:15 p.m.-7:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Michele Filgate
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• 1.5 points

MASTER CLASS

THE ART OF MURDER

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• Department: Writing
• M 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• Instructor: David M Gordon
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• 1.5 points

MASTER CLASS

THE COMPASS OF THE LARGE

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• Department: Writing
• M 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Nathan Heller
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• 1.5 points

MASTER CLASS

KITCHEN TABLE TRANSLATION

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• Department: Writing
• W 5:15 p.m.-7:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Madhu H Kaza
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• 1.5 points

MASTER CLASS

1ST PERSON & DISCONTENTS

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• Department: Writing
• M 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Edward J Park
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• 1.5 points

MASTER CLASS

NARRATIVE RESILIENCE

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• Department: Writing
• W 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Chase Rhys
  Info
• 1.5 points

MASTER CLASS

LITERARY ART AND PHILOSOPHY

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• Department: Writing
• F 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Leonard W Schwartz
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• 1.5 points

MASTER CLASS

INDEPENDENT PEOPLE

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• Department: Writing
• M 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Salvatore Scibona
  Info
• 1.5 points

MASTER CLASS

SYLVIA PLATH

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• Department: Writing
• T 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Vijay Seshadri
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• 1.5 points

MASTER CLASS

DEFINING THE DICTIONARY

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• Department: Writing
• M 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Jesse Sheidlower
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• 1.5 points

MASTER CLASS

EXCAVATING IDEAS

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• Department: Writing
• M 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
• 1.5 points

MASTER CLASS

EXPERIENCE THE EVERYDAY

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• Department: Writing
• R 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Tan A Lin
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• 1.5 points