SOC-HIST FOUND OF AMER SPORT

SOC-HIST FND OF AMER SPRT

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• R 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher Lencheski
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• Instructor: Michael Dittelman
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• 3 points

QUANTUM CHEMISTRY I

Prerequisites: elementary physical chemistry.
Basic quantum mechanics: the Schrodinger equation and its interpretation, exact solutions in simple cases, methods or approximation, angular Mementum and electronic spin, and an introduction to atomic and molecular structure.

• Department: Chemistry
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: David Reichman
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 68 Info
• 4.5 points

TRAD LIT/CONTEMP FILM OF CHINA

The past is seen through today’s concerns and perspective. In view of this dialogue between pre-modern and modern culture, this course eschews a chronological coverage of Chinese literature and culture that proceeds from one dynasty or time period to the next. Instead, this course will focus on touchstone texts from pre-modern Chinese traditions, and then attend to how this cultural legacy is remembered, appropriated, and re-invented in contemporary cinema.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• R 7:35 p.m.-9:35 p.m.
• Instructor: Harrison Huang
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• 4 points

THE COGNITV NEUROSCI OF AGING

Prerequisites: courses in introductory psychology and cognitive psychology; and the instructor's permission.
Comprehensive overview of various conceptual and methodologic approaches to studying the cognitive neuroscience of aging. The course will emphasize the importance of combining information from cognitive experimental designs, epidemiologic studies, neuroimaging, and clinical neuropsychological approaches to understand individual differences in both healthy and pathological aging.

• Department: Psychology
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• 4 points

SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY

Prerequisites:
EESC W2200
or equivalent introductory geology course approved by the instructor.
Two required weekend field trips in September. An overview of sedimentology and stratigraphy for majors and concentrators in Earth and environmental sciences, and for graduate students from other disciplines. Lectures, class discussions, labs, and field exercises are integrated, with emphasis on processes, the characteristics of sediments and sedimentary rocks, interpretation of the geological record, and practical applications. Details at http://eesc.columbia.edu/courses/w4223/

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• T 4 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicholas Christie-Blick
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 45 Info
• 4 points

DELIVERING THE STRAT MESSAGE

DELIVERING THE STRATEGIC MESSA

Prerequisites: Five introductory core courses
Communications professionals are frequently called upon to make presentations, but too often, don’t apply their knowledge of strategic thinking to presenting. This semester, this course focuses exclusively on developing and delivering strategic presentations. Students are be asked to work in pairs to create a professional presentation that will be delivered to select “outsiders” at the end of the term. Class exercises focus on audience analysis, strategic thinking, theme development, argument construction, techniques for creating “stickiness,” openings and closings, and impromptu public speaking. Students give mini-presentations on readings throughout the term, as well as practice and get feedback on giving presentations.

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• M 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Jane Praeger
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• 3 points

FUTURE OF THE SOVIET UNION

The Soviet Union ceased to exist within living memory. Its dissolution largely coincided with the end of much of the post-World-War-Two international order, whether called Cold War or Détente. We are still living through the reverberations of these two "ends of history." One consequence is that our perspective on Soviet history has been changing and will continue to change.  This course will introduce its participants to what is new about the Soviet past. It will combine approaches that are mostly still new when applied to Soviet history (subaltern studies or the history of sexuality, for instance), topics that are largely new (capitalism, for instance), and topics that are traditional (revolution or Communism, for instance), which we will seek to look at in a fresh way. Focusing on what is new does not mean to exclude the "classics"; in fact, sometimes it means to return to them.   Field(s); MEU

• Department: History
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Tarik C Amar
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

US-ASIA REL/GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

This course charts the history of U.S.-Asian relations from the U.S. entrance into Asia as a colonial power to the legacy of the Second World War. It engages with comparisons and connections across a variety of U.S.-Asian relationships in their cultural, economic, social and political aspects.  Complementing more prominent histories of the Asian region and of U.S. politics in Asia, a special focus of this course will be the role of transnational forces, involving one or more non-state actors. We will discuss a broad spectrum of Asian and U.S. transnational initiatives as they emerged for the first time: migration, lobbying, the early history of development and transnational investment, short-term travel and its long-term reception, hegemony and imperialism, inter-cultural and inter-religious encounters, new repertoires of cooperation and conflict and the origins of Cold War configurations in social and political perceptions and ideologies.  The course objectives are: a) to hone analytic skills for detecting what makes a U.S.-Asian relationship special or part of a broader pattern, b) to understand when and why governments responded to transnational challenges the way they did, and c) to develop a thorough understanding of transnational and international interactions across the Pacific as deeply intertwined.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Steffen Rimner
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• 4 points

URBAN ECONOMICS

Prerequisites:
ECON W3211
and
W3213
.
Congestion and other games, and the pricing of transit services. Location theory and land rents. Segregation and discrimination. The fiscal structure of American cities. Zoning and the taking issue. Abandonment and city-owned property. Economic development, abatements, subsidies, and eminent domain. Crime, deadweight losses, and the allocation of police services.

• Department: Economics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jason M Barr
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

STATISTICAL THERMODYNAMICS

Prerequisites: elementary physical chemistry.
Corequisites:
CHEM G4221
.
Topics include the classical and quantum statistical mechanics of gases, liquids, and solids.

• Department: Chemistry
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Bruce Berne
  CULPA: 14 h-index: 115 Info
• 4.5 points

INNOVATIONS IN PHILANTHROPY

INNOV IN PHILANTHROPY

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard T Feiner
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• 3 points

THE EARTH'S CLIMATE SYSTEM

This course is offered through the School of Professional Studies.
This course examines the fundamental physical processes that control the primary features and patterns of variability of the Earth's climate system. Specific topics include energy balance and the greenhouse effect, the circulation of the oceans and atmosphere, land surface interactions and feedbacks, the role of the biosphere and cryosphere, paleoclimatoloy, climate modeling, and global and regional patterns of climate variability and change observed and expected as a consequence of anthropogenic influences. The goal of the course is to provide students with the opportunity to gain a fundamental understanding of the processes that give rise to observed climate variability at a range of temporal and spatial scales. Students will develop the quantitative skills and knowledge to allow them to independently evaluate scientific claims about the state and behavior of Earth's climate system in the past, present and future. The course includes case study modules that integrate an understanding of the physical processes and important feedbacks in the context of policy- and management-relevant aspects of current and future climate change.

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Benjamin I Cook
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 56 Info
• 3 points

ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS I

Prerequisites:
COMS W3134
,
W3136
, or
W3137
, and
W3203
.
Introduction to the design and analysis of efficient algorithms. Topics include models of computation, efficient sorting and searching, algorithms for algebraic problems, graph algorithms, dynamic programming, probabilistic methods, approximation algorithms, and NP-completeness.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Mihalis Yannakakis
  CULPA: 14 Wikipedia h-index: 93 Info
• Instructor: Clifford Stein
  CULPA: 31 Wikipedia h-index: 53 Info
• 3 points

ADVNCD DSGN-CONCRETE STRUCTURS

Prerequisites: CIEN E3125 or the equivalent.
Design of concrete slabs, deep beams, walls, and other plane structures; introduction to design of prestressed concrete structures.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• F 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Tom T Panayotidi
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

DESIGN OF LARGE SCALE BRIDGES

Prerequisites: CIEN E3121 or the equivalent, and CIEN E3127 or the equivalent.
Design of large scale and complex bridges with emphasis on cable-supported structures.  Static and dynamic loads, componet design of towers, superstructures & cables; conceptual design of major bridge types including arches, cable stayed bridges and suspension bridges.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Theodore Zoli
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

MULTI-HAZARD DESIGN OF STRUCTURES

MULTI-HAZARD DESIGN OF STCTURS

Prerequisites: CIEN E3125 or CIEN E4232, or instructor's permission.
Fundamental considerations of wave mechanics; design philosophies; reliability and risk concepts; basics of fluid mechanics; design of structures subjected to blast; elements of seismic design; elements of fire design; flood considerations; advanced analysis in support of structural design.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• R 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Pawel Woelke
  h-index: 10 Info
• 3 points

CENT ASIA:IMP LEGACIES,NEW IMG

This course is designed to give an overview of the politics and history of the five Central Asian states, including Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan starting from Russian imperial expansion to the present. We will examine the imperial tsarist and Soviet legacies that have profoundly reshaped the regional societies’ and governments’ practices and policies of Islam, gender, nation-state building, democratization, and economic development. Field(s): ME/EA

• Department: History
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Gulnar T Kendirbai
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

MIRACLES IN SUNNI/SHI'I THEOLGY

This course covers the idea of miracles in the Muslim theological tradition. These range from splitting the moon for Muhammad as a sign of his prophethood to the inimitability of the Qur'anic text, in addition to the supernatural acts ascribed to Biblical figures and Muslim saints. The discussion of miracles in the works of major classical theologians, Shi'i and Sunni, is given priority.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Hussein A Abdulsater
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• 4 points

SPECIAL TOPICS IN VISION

SPEC. TOPICS IN VISION

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. Please contact Prof. Graham by e-mail (
nvg1@columbia.edu
) if you are interested in this course.

• Department: Psychology
• Instructor: Norma V Graham
  CULPA: 29 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ARAB WOMEN NOVELISTS

This course is primarily a comprehensive introduction to Arab women novelists and the representation of race and gender, foregrounding the discussion of race in classical and medieval Arabic literary and intellectual texts. We will explore the questions of blackness, race, and gender in novels from Algeria, the Arabian Peninsula, Lebanon, Syria, and Sudan, allowing the students to develop critical understanding of how these concepts operate within institutional and cultural frameworks. All texts are read in English.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Moneera Al-Ghadeer
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• 4 points

INTRO-COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 7:10 p.m.-8:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Xi Chen
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia h-index: 64 Info
• 3 points

ANIMAL MIGRATION IN THRY/PRAC

This course presents an overview of migration, from the selective pressures animals face in migrating to the mechanisms of navigation and orientation. We will explore migration in a variety of animal taxa. Bird migration will be studied in-depth, as birds exhibit some of the most spectacular long distance migrations and are the most well-studied of animal migrators. The challenges of global climate change and changing land use patterns, and how species are coping with them, will also be explored.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• W 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Susan Elbin
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• 3 points

ANNUAL & MAJOR GIVING

ANN/CPTL CAMP & MJR GIFTS

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• S 9 a.m.-2 p.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Timothy Higdon
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• Instructor: Robert E Wahlers
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• Instructor: Christine Owens
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• 3 points

GREAT BOOKS ON RACE,POLIT,SOC

This seminar introduces students to classic works on race, social science, and public policy. The course will explore how social scientists have defined and constructed the conditions of black communities and how those definitions and constructions have varied and influenced policy debates over time.  Students are required to write an original research paper on a policy area that examines the tensions between individual and structural explanations for the persistence of racial inequality.

• Department: Political Science
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Fredrick Harris
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• 4 points

DATA MINING

Prerequisites: Linear Algebra, Calculus, and an introductory class in statistics.
Corequisites: either
STAT W3105
or
W4105
, and either
STAT W3107
or
W4107
.
Data Mining is a dynamic and fast growing field at the intersection of statistics and computer science, driven by the growing prevalence of large data sets. This course covers the elementary theory of bias-variance trade-offs and cross-validation in supervised learning, and surveys methods for regression, classification, and clustering. Students implement the methods on large and small data sets using a statistical package.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• S 8:40 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Giovanni Motta
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Daniel Rabinowitz
  CULPA: 19 h-index: 34 Info
• 3 points

DATA MINING

Prerequisites: Linear Algebra, Calculus, and an introductory class in statistics.
Corequisites: either
STAT W3105
or
W4105
, and either
STAT W3107
or
W4107
.
Data Mining is a dynamic and fast growing field at the intersection of statistics and computer science, driven by the growing prevalence of large data sets. This course covers the elementary theory of bias-variance trade-offs and cross-validation in supervised learning, and surveys methods for regression, classification, and clustering. Students implement the methods on large and small data sets using a statistical package.

• Department: Statistics
• S 8:40 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Rabinowitz
  CULPA: 19 h-index: 34 Info
• 3 points

GEOTECHNCL ENGNEERNG FUNDMNTLS

Prerequisites: CIEN E3141 or the instructor's permission.
Bearing capacity and settlement of shallow and deep foundations; earth pressure theories; retaining walls and reinforced soil retaining walls; sheet pile walls; braced excavation; slope stability.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• M 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Hoe I Ling
  h-index: 45 Info
• 3 points

FOUNDATION ENGINEERING

Prerequisites: CIEN E3141 or the equivalent.
Conventional types of foundations and foundation problems: subsurface exploration and testing. Performance of shallow and deep foundations and evaluation by field measurements. Case histories to illustrate typical design and construction problems. To alternate with CIEN E4246.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Lixun Sun
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• 3 points

TUNNEL DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION

This course covers the engineering  design and construction of different types of tunnel, including cut and cover tunnel, rock tunnel, soft ground tunnel, immersed tub tunnel, and jacked tunnel.  The design for the liner, excavation, and instrumentation are also covered.  A field trip will be arranged to visit the tunneling site.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• F 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Nasri Munfakh
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• 3 points

ALGORITHMS FOR DATA SCIENCE

Prerequisites: basic knowledge in programming (e.g., at the level of
COMS W1007
), a basic grounding in calculus and linear algebra.
Methods for organizing data, e.g. hashing, trees, queues, lists,priority queues. Streaming algorithms for computing statistics on the data. Sorting and searching. Basic graph models and algorithms for searching, shortest paths, and matching. Dynamic programming. Linear and convex programming. Floating point arithmetic, stability of numerical algorithms, Eigenvalues, singular values, PCA, gradient descent, stochastic gradient descent, and block coordinate descent. Conjugate gradient, Newton and quasi-Newton methods. Large scale applications from signal processing, collaborative filtering, recommendations systems, etc.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• TR 7:40 p.m.-8:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Eleni Drinea
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

DES OF LARGE-SCALE FOUND SYST

DES LARGE SCALE FOUND SYSTEMS

Prerequisites: CIEN E3141.
This course builds upon the teachings of soil mechanics and introduction to foundation courses by focusing on deep foundations in difficult conditions. The course introduces practical considerations and constraints of designing foundations. The course will cover the design process from the start of field investigations through construction and the application of deep foundations by analyzing two real world class projects.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• 3 points

IRAQ: WAR, LOVE AND EXILE

This course explores three major thematic concerns that distinguish Iraqi narrative after 2003. War, love, and exile are at the center of Iraqi writers' narrative which has been winning the attention of very large audiences in Iraq, the Arab world, the US and Europe. These narratives demonstrate richness and dexterity and have been winning high acclaim as great writings of war, estrangements and love.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Muhsin Al-Musawi
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

AESTHETICS & PHIL OF HIST(ENG)

This course offers an introduction to German intellectual history by focusing on the key texts from the 18th and 19th century concerned with the philosophy of art and the philosophy of history. Instead of providing a general survey, this thematic focus that isolates the relatively new philosophical subspecialties allows for a careful tracing of a number of key problematics. The texts chosen for discussion in many cases are engaged in lively exchanges and controversies. For instance, Winckelmann provides an entry into the debate on the ancients versus the moderns by making a claim for both the historical, cultural specificity of a particular kind of art, and by advertising the art of Greek antiquity as a model to be imitated by the modern artist. Lessing's Laocoon counters Winckelmann's idealizing approach to Greek art with a media specific reflection. According to Lessing, the fact that the Laocoon priest from the classical sculpture doesn't scream has nothing to do with the nobility of the Greek soul but all with the fact that a screaming mouth hewn in stone would be ugly. Herder's piece on sculpture offers yet another take on this debate, one that refines and radicalizes an aesthetics based on the careful examination of the different senses, especially touch and feeling versus sight.—The second set of texts in this class deals with key enlightenment concepts of a philosophical anthropology informing the then emerging philosophy of history. Two literary texts will serve to mark key epochal units: Goethe's Prometheus, which will be used in the introductory meeting, will be examined in view of its basic humanist program, Kleist's "Earthquake in Chili" will serve as a base for the discussion of what would be considered the "end" of the Enlightenment: be that the collapse of a belief in progress or the critique of the beautiful and the sublime. The last unit of the class focuses on Hegel's sweeping supra-individualist approach to the philosophy of history and Nietzsche's fierce critique of Hegel. Readings are apportioned such that students can be expected to fully familiarize themselves with the arguments of these texts and inhabit them.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Dorothea von Muecke
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• 3 points

PSYCHOANALYSIS & ARCHITECTURE

Long applied to literary and visual works of art, psychoanalytic theory has only more recently been used to interrogate and illuminate non-figurative art-most notably, architectural design. In this course, selections from foundational psychoanalytic texts will be read in parallel with contemporary efforts that utilize psychoanalytic theory to explore architecture. Primary psychoanalytic sources will include Bion, Freud, Klein, Kristeva, Loewald, Mahler, and Winnicott. Three distinguished architects and scholars will also the class to discuss their recent work. Requirements will include one twenty-page paper to be presented to the class.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Center for
• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• 4 points

CERAMICS & COMPOSITES

Corequisites: Prerequisite or corequisite: MSAE E3142 and MSAE E3104, or the instructor's permission.
The course will cover some of the fundamental processes of atomic diffusion, sintering and microstructural evolution, defect chemistry, ionic transport, and electrical properties of ceramic materials. Following this, we will examine applications of ceramic materials--specifically ceramic thick and thin film materials in the areas of sensors and energy conversion/storage devices such as fuel cells, and batteries. The coursework level assumes that the student has already taken basic courses in the thermodynamics of materials, diffusion in materials, and crystal structures of materials.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew J Martin
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• 3 points

CO-CONSTRUCTING NARRATIVES

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• M 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• 4 points

SOVIET ARCHITECTURE & FILM

"Soviet Avant-garde Architecture and Film" is a cross-disciplinary class, focused on progressive artistic discourse with the emphasis on politically and ideologically charged media of cinematography and architecture in 1917 - 1933. During these years, USSR became the black box and the laboratory for the most redical experiments in visual cultures. The essential goal of this experimental academic activity is to re-think the legacy of the Soviet Avant-Garde as a powerful domain and to contextualize it within the borader fabric of contemporary cultures.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Ksenia Vytuleva
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• 3 points

INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION

Prerequisites:
ECON W3211
and
W3213
.
The study of industrial behavior based on game-theoretic oligopoly models. Topics include pricing models, strategic aspects of business practice, vertical integration, and technological innovation.

• Department: Economics
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Katherine Ho
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• 3 points

INTRO-SURFACE AND COLLOID CHEM

Prerequisites: elementary physical chemistry.
Thermodynamics of surfaces, properties of surfactant solutions and surface films,electrostatic and electrokinetic phenomena at interfaces, adsorption; interfacial mass transfer and modern experimental techniques.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ponisseril Somasundaran
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia h-index: 82 Info
• 3 points

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

Prerequisites: CHEM C1403 or the equivalent; ENME E3161 or the equivalent.
Engineering aspects of problems involving human interaction with the natural environment.  Review of fundamentals principles that underlie the discipline of environmental engineering, i.e., constituent transport and transformation processes in environmental media such as water, air and ecosystems. Engineering applications for addressing environmental problems such as water quality and treatment, air pollutant emissions, and hazardous waster remediation.  Presented in the context of current issues facing practicing engineers and government agencies, including legal and regulatory framework, environmental impact assessments, and natural resource management.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Kartik Chandran
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 51 Info
• 3 points

INTRO-COMPUTATIONAL LEARN THRY

Prerequisites:
CSOR W4231
or
COMS W4236
or
COMS W3203
and the instructor's permission, or
COMS W3261
and the instructor's permission.
Possibilities and limitations of performing learning by computational agents. Topics include computational models of learning, polynomial time learnability, learning from examples and learning from queries to oracles. Computational and statistical limitations of learning. Applications to Boolean functions, geometric functions, automata.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Rocco Servedio
  CULPA: 15 h-index: 48 Info
• 3 points

FINITE ELEMENTS-GEOTECH ENGIN

Prerequisites: CIEN E3141 and ENME E4332.
State-of-the-art computer solutions in geotechnical engineering; 3-D consolidation, seepage flows, and soil-structure interaction; element and mesh instabilities. To be offered in alternate years with CIEN E4254.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Waiching Sun
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 30 Info
• 3 points

CONTAM TRANSP-SUBSURFACE SYSTM

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert D Mutch
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• 3 points

PROTEOMICS LABORATORY

This course deals with the proteome: the expressed protein complement of a cell, matrix, tissue, organ or organism. The study of the proteome (proteomics) is broadly applicable to life sciences research, and is increasing important in academic, government and industrial research through extension of the impact of advances in genomics. These techniques are being applied to basic research, exploratory studies of cancer and other diseases, drug discovery and many other topics. Techniques of protein extraction, two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and mass spectrometry will be covered. Emphasis will be on mastery of practical techniques of MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry and database searching for identification of proteins separated by gel electrophoresis as well as background tutorials and exercises covering other techniques used in descriptive and comparative proteomics. Open to students in M.A. in Biotechnology Program (points can be counted against laboratory requirement for that program), Ph.D. and advanced undergraduate students with background in genetics or molecular biology. Students should be comfortable with basic biotechnology laboratory techniques as well as being interested in doing computational work in a Windows environment.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• R 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Lewis Brown
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• 3 points

URBAN ECOLOGY STUDIO

Prerequisites: Senior undergraduate or graduate student standing and the instructor's permission.
Conjoint studio run with the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation  (GSAPP) that explores solutions to problems of urban density. Engineering and GSAPP students will engage in a joint project that address habitability and sustainability issues in an urban environment, and also provides community service. Emphasis will be on the integration of science, engineering and design within a social context. Interdisciplinary approaches and communication will be stressed.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• W 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Patricia J Culligan
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

CRIT ISSUES IN URBN PUB POLICY

This course is designed to prepare future policymakers to critically analyze and evaluate key urban policy issues in New York. It is unique in offering exposure to both practical leadership experience and urban affairs scholarship that will equip students to meet the challenges that face urban areas. Students will read academic articles and chapters from books dealing with urban politics and policy, and will hear from an exciting array of guest lecturers from the governmental, not-for-profit, and private sectors. Drawing from my experiences as former Mayor of New York City, I will lay out the basic elements of urban government and policymaking, emphasizing the most important demographic, economic, and political trends facing urban areas.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: David Dinkins
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO CRYPTOGRAPHY

Prerequisites: comfort with basic discrete math and probability. Recommended:
COMS W3261
or
CSOR W4231
.
An introduction to modern cryptography, focusing on the complexity-theoretic foundations of secure computation and communication in adversarial environments; a rigorous approach, based on precise definitions and provably secure protocols. Topics include private and public key encryption schemes, digital signatures, authentication, pseudorandom generators and functions, one-way functions, trapdoor functions, number theory and computational hardness, identification and zero knowledge protocols.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Allison Lewko
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 20 Info
• 3 points

COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA

Commutative rings; modules; localization; primary decoposition; integral extensions; Noetherian and Artinian rings; Nullstellensatz; Dedekind domains; dimension theory; regular local rings.

• Department: Mathematics
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Eric Urban
  CULPA: 12 Wikipedia Info
• 4.5 points

TOPICS IN ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY

Affine and projective varieties; schemes; morphisms; sheaves; divisors; cohomology theory; curves; Riemann-Roch theorem.

• Department: Mathematics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Aise Johan de Jong
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• 4.5 points

ETRUSCAN ART

The Etruscans are primarily known to us through the artifacts they produced and used. Consequently, the study of their art provides a unique access key to their civilization. From the Villanovan period in the 9th c. BCE down to the end of the Hellenistic age in the 1st c. BCE, this seminar will examine all major historical developments of Etruscan art with a special focus on crucial issues such as the relationship between art and craftsmanship, issues of stylistic periodization, the special link to Greek art, the contexts and functions of Etruscan art, the social, political, and religious embeddednes of Etruscan artifacts, Etruscan notions of the body, divine anthropomorphism, gender issues, the modern historiography of Etruscan art and its intellectual backgrounds. Particular attention will be devoted to Otto Brendel, one of the great protagonists of the study of Etruscan art, who taught at Columbia from 1956 to 1973.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Francesco de Angelis
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

COGNITIVE PROCESSES

Prerequisites: For undergraduates: one course in cognitive psychology or cognitive neuroscience, or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission.
Metacognition and control processes in human cognition. Basic issues include the cognitive mechanisms that enable people to monitor what they know and predict what they will know, the errors and biases involved in self-monitoring, and the implications of metacognitive ability for people's self-determined learning, behavior, and their understanding of self.

• Department: Psychology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa K Son
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 3 points

ADV SEM IN LANGUAGE DEVELOPMNT

ADVANCED SEM LANGUAGE DEVEL

Prerequisites: a course in perception, cognition, or the psychology of language, plus the instructor's permission.
Intensive examination from a social psychological perspetive of selected topics relevant to current theory and research on the use of language and other communication behaviors.

• Department: Psychology
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Ann Senghas
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 4 points

CORPORATE FINANCE

Prerequisites:
ECON W3211
,
ECON W3213
and
STAT W1211
.
An introduction to the economics principles underlying the financial decisions of firms. The topics covered include bond and stock valuations, capital budgeting, dividend policy, market efficiency, risk valuation, and risk management. For information regarding REGISTRATION for this course, go to: http://econ.columbia.edu/registration-information.

• Department: Economics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Mauricio Larrain
  Info
• Instructor: Tri Vi Dang
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 10 Info
• 3 points

RUSSIAN RULERS: HISTORY & MYTH

To this day, the power of Russia's rulers often appears to be uncommonly expansive and even consecrated by its centuries-old tradition of monarchical government. This course will begin with medieval Eastern Slavic conceptions of kingship and focus on the emergence and development of unlimited monarchy as a key political institution in Russia, discussing the ways in which ordinary individuals -rich and poor- responded to these presentations. We will consider several of Russia's most prominent historical figures as case studies, including Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, Nicholas II, as well as Stalin, described by one recent biographer as the "red tsar."

• Department: History
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sergei A Antonov
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

NARRATIVES-DEATH,LIVING,CARING

NARRATIVES, DEATH, LIVING & CA

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• T 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Marsha Hurst
  Info
• 4 points

STATISTICAL METHODS IN FINANCE

• Department: Statistics
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Hammou Elbarmi
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Dan Wang
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 13 Info
• 3 points

ADV TOPICS IN QUANTITATIVE RES

MODELS-PANEL/TIME-SERIES DATA

This course covers methods for models for repeated observations data. These kinds of data represent tremendous opportunities as well as formidable challenges for making inferences. The course will focus on how to estimate models for panel and time-series cross-section data. Topics covered include fixed effects, random effects, dynamic panel models, random coefficient models, and models for qualitative dependent variables.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Gregory Wawro
  CULPA: 32 h-index: 13 Info
• 4 points

COMPUT MATH:INTRO-NUMERCL METH

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Kyle Mandli
  h-index: 14 Info
• 3 points

APPLIED ELECTRODYNAMICS

Prerequisites: APPH E3300.
Overview of properties and interactions of static electric and magnetic fields. Study of phenomena of time dependent electric and magnetic fields including induction, waves, and radiation as well as special relativity. Applications are emphasized.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Gerald A Navratil
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 46 Info
• 3 points

HISTORY OF BIOETHICS

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: James K Colgrove
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 3 points

DRUGS AND DISEASE

Prerequisites: four semesters of biology with a firm foundation in molecular and cellular biology.
Introduces students to the current understanding of human diseases, novel therapeutic approaches and drug development process. Selected topics will be covered in order to give students a feeling of the field of biotechnology in health science. This course also aims to strengthen students’ skills in literature comprehension and critical thinking. Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/w4300/

• Department: Biological Sciences
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Lili Yamasaki
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING CONTROL

Prerequisites: Material and energy balances.
Ordinary differential equations including Laplace transforms. Reactor Design. An introduction to process control applied to chemical engineering through lecture and laboratory. Concepts include the dynamic behavior of chemical engineering systems, feedback control, controller tuning, and process stability.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• TR 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 2 points

THE EARTH'S DEEP INTERIOR

Prerequisites: calculus, differential equations, one year of college physics.
An introduction to properties of the Earth's mantle, fluid outer core, and solid inner core. Current knowledge of these features is explored, using observations of seismology, heat flow, gravity, geomagnetism, plus information on the Earth's bulk composition.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Goran Ekstrom
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 76 Info
• 3 points

WORLDING C.P. CAVAFY:DES,MEDIA,

WORLDING C.P.CAVAFY:DES,MEDIA

By examining Cavafy's work in all its permutations (as criticism, translation, adaptation), this course introduces students to a wide range of critical approaches used in World Literature, Gender Studies, and Translation Studies.  The Cavafy case becomes an experimental ground for different kinds of comparative literature methods, those that engage social-historical issues such as sexuality, diaspora, postcoloniality as well as linguistic issues such as multilingualism, media and translation. How does this poet "at a slight angle to the universe" challenge contemporary theories of gender and literature as national institution? How can studying a canonical author open up our theories and practices of translation? Among the materials considered are translations by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, James Merrill, and Marguerite Yourcenar, commentary by E.M. Forster, C.M. Bowra, and Roman Jakobson, poems by W.H. Auden, Lawrence Durrell, and Joseph Brodsky, and visual art by David Hockney and Duane Michals. Though this course presupposes no knowledge of Greek, students wanting to read Cavafy in the original are encouraged to take the 1-credit directed reading tutorial offered simultaneously.

• Department: Classics
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Karen R Van Dyck
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

ECON,SOC,CULTURAL RTS-POL/PRAC

This course will address economic and social human rights through the lens of what is happening now in the early 21st century, in light of the enormous shifts that have taken place since the modern human rights movement first emerged in the aftermath of WWII. The course will address many of the central debates about economic and social rights and then examine how those debates apply to specific rights and topics including development, health, housing, work, food and education. Throughout, the course will examine how activists and policymakers have responded to all these changes, and ask what might lie ahead for the human rights movement in addressing economic and social rights in a multilateral, globalized world.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• M 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Mila H Rosenthal
  Info
• 3 points

INFO & KNOWLDGE, 21ST CENT ECO

INFORMATION & KNOWLEDGE-21st

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• R 8 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Katrina Pugh
  h-index: 4 Info
• 3 points

QUALITATIVE METHODS & RESEARCH

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• R 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Edgar Rivera Colon
  Info
• 4 points

MANAGING INFORMATION & KNOWLEDGE

MANAGING INFO & KNOWLEDGE

• Department: Business
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Guy St. Clair
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ECONOMIC GROWTH & DEVELOPMNT I

Prerequisites:
ECON W3211
and
W3213
.
Empirical findings on economic development, theoretical development models; problems of efficient resource allocation in a growing economy; balanced and unbalanced growth in closed and open economic systems; the role of capital accumulation and innovation in economic growth.

• Department: Economics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ronald Miller
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

INTRO-SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: James Teherani
  h-index: None Info
• 3 points

MATERIALS SCIENCE LABORATORY

Prerequisites: Instructor's permission.
Materials science laboratory work so conducted as to fulfill particular needs of special students.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: William Bailey
  CULPA: 12 Info
• Instructor: Katayun Barmak
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 49 Info
• Instructor: Simon Billinge
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 75 Info
• Instructor: Siu-Wai Chan
  h-index: 36 Info
• Instructor: Irving P Herman
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia h-index: 50 Info
• Instructor: James Im
  Info
• Instructor: Chris A Marianetti
  Info
• Instructor: Ismail C Noyan
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 1-3 points

CREATIVE EXP & CHAN ARCH CAPSTONE

CREATIVE EXPRESSION & CHANNEL

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• 6 points

INTL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

This course is offered through the School of Professional Studies.
Public policy decisions made on the international level shape how sovereign governments and multinational corporations manage the man-made and natural environments. Sustainability practitioners must be able to understand global environmental issues and their effects on what they are charged to do. This course will provide students with an understanding of international environmental policy design and the resulting body of law in order to strengthen their ability to understand, interpret, and react to future developments in the sustainability management arena. This is not a comprehensive survey of international environmental law. After grounding in the history and foundational concepts of international environmental law and governance, students will explore competing policy shapers and the relevant law in the areas of stratospheric ozone protection, climate change, chemicals and waste management, biodiversity and forest conservation. The course will finish with a discussion of corporate standards and extraterritorial application of US environmental law.

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard Horsch
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

SCULPTURE I

• Department: Visual Arts
• F 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• T 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jon Kessler
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Sanford Biggers
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

EARLY JEWSH WMN IMMIG WRITERS

Prerequisites: students must attend first day of class and admission will be decided then.
Covers significant pre-Holocaust texts (including Yiddish fiction in translation) by U.S. Ashkenazi women and analyzes the tensions between upholding Jewish identity and the necessity and/or inevitability of integration and assimilation. It also examines women's quests to realize their full potential in Jewish and non-Jewish communities on both sides of the Atlantic.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Irena Klepfisz
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

CARBON CAPTURE

Prerequisites: Undergraduate level math and science or instructor's permission.
Major technologies to store carbon dioxide, geological, ocean, and in the carbon chemical pool. Carbon dioxide transport technologies also covered. In addition to basic science and engineering challenges of each technology, full spectrum of economic, environmental, regulatory, and political/policy aspects, and their implication for regional and global carbon management strategies of the future. Combination of lectures, class debates and breakout groups, student presentations, and independent final projects.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Klaus Lackner
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

FINDABILITY & INNOVATION

FINDABILITY & INNOVATION WIT

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• T 8 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Ralph Poole
  h-index: 0 Info
• 3 points

CARBON MEASUREMNT & MONITORING

Prerequisites: Undergraduate level math and science or instructor permission.
Sources of various GHGs (whether fossil/industrial or biogenic), their chemical behavior, interactions, and global warming potential once airborne; available measurement, monitoring, and detection technologies to track gas emissions, including leakage from storage sites. carbon accounting and reporting methodologies such as life cycle analysis, and corporate carbon footprinting. In addition to basic science and engineering challenges of each technology, full spectrum of economic, environmental, regulatory, and political/policy aspects, and their implication for regional and global carbon management strategies of the future. Combination of lectures, class debates and breakout groups, student presentations, and independent final projects.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Christoph J Meinrenken
  h-index: 15 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED TOPICS:GENDER JUSTICE

GENDER, GLOBALIZATION, EMPIRE

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 20 students.
Study of the role of gender in economic structures and social processes comprising globalization and in political practices of contemporary U.S. empire. This seminar focuses on the ways in which transformations in global political and economic structures over the last few decades including recent political developments in the U.S. have been shaped by gender, race, sexuality, religion and social movements.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Neferti Tadiar
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

CLOSING THE CARBON CYCLE

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Peter Eisenberger
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

TURBOMACHINERY

This course will introduce you to the basics of theory, design, selection and applications of turbomachinery. Turbomachines are widely used in many engineering applications such as energy conversion, power plants, air-conditioning, pumping, refrigeration and vehicle engines, as there are pumps, blowers, compressors, gas turbines, jet engines, wind turbines etc. Applications are drawn from energy conversion technologies, HVAC and propulsion. The course will provide you with a basic understanding of the different kinds of turbomachines.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Pejman Akbari
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

SCIENCE FOR BIOETHICISTS

SCI FOR BIOETHICISTS (ONLINE)

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• W 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• 3 points

LAW FOR KNOWLDGE INNOVATIONS & PRACTICES

INTEL PROP,ETHICS & LITIGATION

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• R 7 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Anne Kershaw
  Info
• 3 points