MODELING & ID OF DYNAMIC SYST

Prerequisites: APMA E2101, ELEN E3801 or corequsite EEME E3601, or instructor's permission
Generalized dynamic system modeling and simulation. Fluid, thermal, mechanical, diffusive, electrical, and hybrid systems are considered. Nonlinear and high order systems. System identification problem and Linear Least Squares method. State-space and noise representation. Kalman filter. Parameter estimation via prediction-error and subspace approaches. Iterative and bootstrap methods. Fit criteria. Wide applicability: medical, energy, others. MATLAB and Simulink environments.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicolas W Chbat
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• 3 points

SEEING NARRATIVE

• Department: Film
• M 6 p.m.-9:45 p.m.
• Instructor: James A Schamus
  CULPA: 8 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

TOPICS-NEUROBIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Examines current topics in neurobiology and behavior.

• Department: Psychology
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Svetlana Rosis
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• Instructor: Julie A Spicer
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• Instructor: Helen C Brew
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• 3 points

LIN REGRESS/TIME SERIES MTHDS

Prerequisites:
STAT W4107
or the program adviser's permission.
A one semester course covering: Simple and multiple regression, including testing, estimation, and confidence procedures, modeling, regression diagnostics and plots, polynomial regression, colinearity and confounding, model selection, geometry of least squares. Linear time series models. Auto-regressive, moving average and ARIMA models. Estimation and forecasting with time series models. Confidence intervals and prediction error. Students may not receive credit for more than two of STAT W4315, W4437, and W4440. Satisfies the SOA VEE requirements in regression and in time-series.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Flavio C Bartman
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• 3 points

ESG & RESPONSIBLE INVSTNG PRACTICES

ESG & RESP INVESTING PRACTICES

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Rina Kupferschmid-Rojas
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• 3 points

PROGRAMMING & PROBLEM SOLVING

Prerequisites:
COMS W3134
,
W3136
, or
W3137
and
CSEE W3827
.
Hands-on introduction to solving open-ended computational problems. Emphasis on creativity, cooperation, and collaboration. Projects spanning a variety of areas within computer science, typically requiring the development of computer programs. Generalization of solutions to broader problems, and specialization of complex problems to make them manageable. Team-oriented projects, student presentations, and in-class participation required.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Kenneth A Ross
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• 3 points

FREEDOM DREAMS: US & BEYOND

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preregistration required.
This course will interrogate freedom as a conceptual categroy and explore how the meaning and practice of freedom has been deployed in different historical moments. We will consider how gender, race, sexuality, slavery, colonization, work and religion influenced thinking about individual and collective notions of freedom.

• Department: History @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Premilla Nadasen
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

RESEARCH ETHICS

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 3 points

RESEARCH ETHICS

RESEARCH ETHICS (ONLINE)

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• W 5:30 p.m.-7 p.m.
• 3 points

RESEARCH ETHICS

RESEARCH ETHICS (ONLINE)

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• W 5:30 p.m.-7 p.m.
• 2 points

RESEARCH ETHICS

RESEARCH ETHICS (ONLINE)

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• W 5:30 p.m.-7 p.m.
• 1 points

RESEARCH ETHICS

RESEARCH ETHICS (ONLINE)

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• W 5:30 p.m.-7 p.m.
• 0 points

EVOL-INTELLIGENC/CONSCIOUSNESS

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
A systematic review of the implications of Darwin's theory of evolution and Freud's theory of the unconscious for contemporary studies of animal and human cognition.

• Department: Psychology
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Herbert S Terrace
  CULPA: 29 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

POLITICL SYSTEMS OF SOUTH ASIA

This course first compares the post-independence political histories of South Asian countries, particularly India and Pakistan.  It then explores selected topics across countries: social and cultural dimensions of politics; structures of power; and political behavior.  The underlying theme is to explain the development and durability of the particular political regimes – democratic or authoritarian – in each country.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Philip K Oldenburg
  CULPA: 13 Info
• 4 points

SPECIAL TOPICS IN LOGIC

SPEC TPCS IN LOGIC:MODAL LOGIC

A logical treatment of necessity, possibility, and other intentional operators.

• Department: Philosophy
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Achille Varzi
  CULPA: 30 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info
• 3 points

PRIN-INNOVATN/ENTREPRENEURSHIP

• Department: Computer Science
• F 1:10 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• 3 points

COG NEUROSCIENCE & THE MEDIA

COGNITIVE NEUROSCI & THE MEDIA

Prerequisites: A neuroscience course, such as
PSYC 1010
, and the instructor's permission
This seminar will discuss recent topics in cognitive neuroscience, and how research in this field is impacting public opinion. We will engage in a critical review of how the media represents research on the brain, with a focus on current issues and controversies related to the use of neuroimaging in the study of brain and behavior in humans.

• Department: Psychology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Daphna Shohamy
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 47 Info
• 4 points

SPORTS LAW AND ETHICS

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• R 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Carla Varriale
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• 3 points

LATIN AMERICAN POLITICS

This is a lecture class that seeks to introduce students to social scientific analysis while discuss the shifting dynamics of political representation in Latin America. In analyzing political representation in the region, it focuses on demands for political inclusion by different actors and how they were resisted or accepted by established elites in a process that moved from regime change to electoral rotation in power. The course covers these political dynamics and their institutional consequences since the onset of the twentieth century, starting with the Mexican Revolution, until the contemporary period where democracy is the predominant form of government and elections a crucial tool for social and political change. While analyzing the politics of Latin America, we will cover important political science concepts associated with democratic representation, social inclusion and the rule of the law, such as social movement mobilization, political regime change, presidentialism, political party systems, political identities, state capacity, and institutional weakness.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Maria Victoria Murillo
  h-index: 37 Info
• 4 points

PUBLIC ECONOMICS

Prerequisites:
ECON W3211
and
W3213
.
Types of market failures and rationales for government intervention in the economy. Benefit-cost analysis and the theory of public goods. Positive and normative aspects of taxation. The U.S. tax structure.

• Department: Economics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Wojciech Kopczuk
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia h-index: 34 Info
• 3 points

LATIN AMER POLITICS-DISC

• Department: Political Science
• M 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• R 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• R 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• F 10 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Giancarlo Visconti
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 0 points

THE HISTORY OF ARCH THEORY

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

ADV CLINICAL BIOETHICS

ADVANCED CLINICAL BIOETHICS

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Barrie Huberman
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• 3 points

JAPANESE POLITICS

Surveys key features of the Japanese political system, with focus on political institutions and processes. Themes include party politics, bureaucratic power, the role of the Diet, voting behavior, the role of the state in the economy, and the domestic politics of foreign policy.

• Department: Political Science
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 4 points

NEUROBIOLGY OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOR

Prerequisites: at least two other psychology courses and the instructor's permission.
Seminar on recent advances in the neurobiological basis of social behaviors, interactions, relationships and structure. Primary focus will be research conducted in non-human mammalian species, particularly laboratory rodents and primates, but studies of other vertebrates as well as invertebrates will be included. This broad approach will provide an evolutionary perspective on social neuroscience as well as important insights into the applicability of translating animal research to studies of human social neuroscience.

• Department: Psychology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: James P Curley
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

COLONIAL GOTHAM 1609-1776

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preregistration required.
How did a tiny Dutch outpost become a bustling colonial urban society and a major port in the British Empire? New York City's first two centuries offer more than just "pre-history" to the modern metropolis. Topics include frontier wars, slave conspiracies, religious revivals, conflicts between legitimate and contraband economies.

• Department: History @Barnard
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew C Lipman
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES:MOVEMNT/RTS

Indigenous Peoples, numbering more that 370 million in some 90 countries and about 5000 groups and representing a great part of the world’s human diversity and cultural heritage, continue to raise major controversies and to face threats to their physical and cultural existence. The main task of this course is to explore the complex historic circumstances and political actions that gave rise to the international Indigenous movement through the human rights agenda and thus also produced a global Indigenous identity on all continents, two intertwined and deeply significant phenomena over the past fifty years.  We will analyze the achievements, challenges and potential of the dynamic interface between the Indigenous Peoples’ movement-one of the strongest social movements of our times- and the international community, especially the United Nations system. Centered on the themes laid out in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007), the course will examine how Indigenous Peoples have been contesting and reshaping norms, institutions and global debates in the past 50 years, re-shaping and gradually decolonizing international institutions and how they have contributed to some of the most important contemporary debates, including human rights, development,  law, and specifically the concepts of self-determination, governance, group rights, inter-culturality and pluriculturality, gender, land, territories and natural resources, cultural rights, intellectual property, health, education, the environment and climate justice. The syllabus will draw on a variety of academic literature, case studies and documentation of Indigenous organizations, the UN and other intergovernmental organizations as well as States from different parts of the world. Students will also have the opportunity to meet with Indigenous leaders and representatives of international organizations and States and will be encouraged to attend the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Select short films will be shown and discussed in class.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Elsa Stamatopoulou
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• 3 points

OPTICAL SYSTEMS

Prerequisites: ELEN E3401 or equivalent.
Introduction to optical systems based on physical design and engineering principles. Fundamental geometrical and wave optics with specific emphasis on developing analytical and numerical tools used in optical engineering design. Focus on applications that employ optical systems and networks, including examples in holographic imaging, tomography, Fourier imaging, confocal microscopy, optical signal processing, fiber optic communication systems, optical interconnects and networks.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Christine P Hendon
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• 3 points

HEALTH PHYSICS

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• R 6:30 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Thomas L Morgan
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• 3 points

SUPERVISED RESEARCH

Students conduct research related to biotechnology under the sponsorship of a mentor within the University. The student and the mentor determine the nature and extent of this independent study. In some laboratories, the student may be assigned to work with a postdoctoral fellow, graduate student or a senior member of the laboratory, who is in turn supervised by the mentor. The mentor is responsible for mentoring and evaluating the student's progress and performance. Credits received from this course may be used to fulfill the laboratory requirement for the degree.  Instructor permission required.  Web site: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/g4500-g4503/index.html

• Department: Biological Sciences
• Instructor: Lili Yamasaki
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3-6 points

PROCESS & PRODUCT DESIGN I

PRINCIPLES OF PROCESS DESIGN

Prerequisites: CHEN E2100, CHEN E4140.
The practical application of chemical engineering principles for the design and economic evaluation of chemical processes and plants.  Use of ASPEN Plus for complex material and energy balances of real processes.  Students are expected to build on previous coursework to identify creative solutions to two design projects of increasing complexity.  Each design project culminates in an oral presentation, and in the case of the second project, a written report.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• W 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• None None-None
• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Prerequisites:
ECON W3211
and
W3213
.
The theory of international trade, comparative advantage and the factor endowments explanation of trade, analysis of the theory and practice of commercial policy, economic integration. International mobility of capital and labor; the North-South debate.

• Department: Economics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Waseem Noor
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

APPLICATIONS PROGRAMMNG FOR FE

Prerequisites: Computer programming or instructor's approval.
This course is required for undergraduate students majoring in OR:FE. In this course we will take a hands-on approach to developing computer applications for Financial Engineering. Special focus will be placed on high-performance numerical applications that interact with a graphical interface. In the course of developing such applications we will learn how to create DLLs, how to integrate VBA with C/C++ programs, and how to write multithreaded programs. Examples of problems settings that we will consider include: simulation of stock price evolution, tracking, evaluation and optimization of a stock portfolio; optimal trade execution. In the course of developing these applications we will review topics of interest to OR/FE in a holistic fashion.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• F 2 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Bienstock
  h-index: 38 Info
• 3 points

JAZZ TRANSCRIPTION & ANALYSIS

• Department: Music
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Christopher J Washburne
  CULPA: 31 Info
• 3 points

CANCER BIOLOGY I

• Department: Pathology
• MW 5 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Benjamin Tycko
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• 3 points

BIOCHEM I-STRUCTURE/METABOLISM

Prerequisites: one year of
BIOL C2005
and
BIOL C2006
and one year of organic chemistry.
Lecture and recitation. Students wishing to cover the full range of modern biochemistry should take both BIOC C3501 and C3512. C3501 covers subject matters in modern biochemistry, including chemical biology and structural biology, discussing the structure and function of both proteins and small molecules in biological systems. Proteins are the primary class of biological macromolecules and serve to carry out most cellular functions. Small organic molecules function in energy production and creating building blocks for the components of cells and can also be used to perturb the functions of proteins directly. The first half of the course covers protein structure, enzyme kinetics and enzyme mechanism. The second half of the course explores how small molecules are used endogenously by living systems in metabolic and catabolic pathways; this part of the course focuses on mechanistic organic chemistry involved in metabolic pathways.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Brent R Stockwell
  CULPA: 14 Wikipedia h-index: 79 Info
• 4 points

SUPERVISED RESEARCH

Students conduct research related to biotechnology under the sponsorship of a mentor outside the University within the New York City Metropolitan Area unless otherwise approved by the Program. The student and the mentor determine the nature and extent of this independent study. In some laboratories, the student may be assigned to work with a postdoctoral fellow, graduate student or a senior member of the laboratory, who is in turn supervised by the mentor. The mentor is responsible for mentoring and evaluating the student's progress and performance. Credits received from this course may be used to fulfill the laboratory requirement for the degree. Instructor permission required. Web site: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/g4500-g4503/index.html

• Department: Biological Sciences
• Instructor: Lili Yamasaki
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3-6 points

TISSUE ENGINEERING I

Prerequisites: BIOL C2005-C2006; BMEN E4001-E4002.
An introduction to the strategies and fundamental bioengineering design criteria in the development of biomaterials and tissue engineered grafts. Material structural-functional relationships, biocompatibility in terms of material and host responses. Through discussions, readings, and a group design project, students acquire an understand of cell-material interactions and identify the parameters critical in the design and selection of biomaterials for biomedical applications.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Henry Hess
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 45 Info
• 3 points

METHDS IN GENETICS & DEVELPMNT

Open only to students in the department.  A survey of  laboratory methods used in research. Students rotate through the  major laboratories of the department.

• Department: Genetics and Development
• 4 points

READINGS IN HEBREW TEXTS I

Prerequisites:
MDES W4510
,
MDES W4511
, or the instructor's permission.
This course focuses on central identities shaping Israeli society and is designed to give students extensive experience in reading Hebrew. Through selected readings of contemporary literary works and media texts, students will increase their proficiency in Hebrew and enhance their understanding of Israeli culture and society. All readings, written assignments, and class discussions are in Hebrew. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Naama Harel
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

ITALIAN CULTURAL STUDIES I

An interdisciplinary investigation into Italian culture and society in the years between Unification in 1860 and the outbreak of World War I. Drawing on novels, historical analyses, and other sources including film and political cartoons, the course examines some of the key problems and trends in the cultural and political history of the period. Lectures, discussion and required readings will be in English. Students with a knowledge of Italian are encouraged to read the primary literature in Italian.

• Department: Italian @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Nelson Moe
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points

BEGINNING VIDEO

• Department: Visual Arts
• T 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Shelly Silver
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

POSTWAR BRITISH LITERATURE

(Lecture). In a relatively short period of time after World War II, British literature and culture underwent a rapid transformation. This course will examine writers from a diverse set of backgrounds (British, Irish, Indian, Japanese, Trinidadian, Jamaican) who contributed to an expanding and lively literary marketplace. We will discuss the tension between rupture and continuity by examining the omnipresent theme of memory in texts of the period. Authors include Philip Larkin, Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jeanette Winterson, Zadie Smith, Seamus Heaney. If you are interested in twentieth-century literature and culture, please feel free to email the instructor for a syllabus or more information. Email: ecb2180@columbia.edu.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Emily Bloom
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

GENDER JUSTICE

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• MW 1:15 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Katherine Franke
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• 3 points

HEALTHCARE OPERATIONS MGT

Prerequisites: For senior undergraduate Engineering students: SIEO W3600: Introduction to Probability and Statistics and IEOR E3608: Introduction to Mathematical Programming; For Engineering graduate students (MS or PhD): Probability and Statistics at the level of SIEO W4150, and Deterministic Models at the level of IEOR E4004. For Healthcare Management students: P8529: Analytic Methods for Health Services Management.
Develops modeling, analytical and managerial skills of Engineering students. Enables students to master an array of fundamental Operations Management tools adapted to the management of manufacturing and service systems in banks, hospitals, factories, and government. Special emphasis is placed on healthcare systems. Through real-world business cases, students learn to identify, model and analyze operational improvements and innovations in a range of business contexts, especially healthcare contexts.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Van Anh Truong
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

JEWISH PHILOSOPHY & KABBALAH

The purpose of this seminar is to study the interactions between two major intellectual trends in Jewish History, the philosophical and the mystical ones. Focusing on the medieval period but not only, we will discuss their interactions, polemics and influences. We will compare Philosophy and Kabbalah in light of their understanding of divine representation and in light of their respective Theology and conception of God.

• Department: Religion
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Clemence C Boulouque
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

HISTORIC PRESERVATION STUDIO I

READING BUILDINGS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• MR 2 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew S Dolkart
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

3RD YR MODERN HEBREW I

Prerequisites: Hebrew W1513 or W1515 or the instructor's permission. Students are expected to have basic familiarity with regular and irregular verbs in five categories of the Hebrew verb system: Pa'al, Pi'el, Hif'il, Hitpa'el and Nif'al.
The course focuses on vocabulary building and on development of reading skills, using adapted literary and journalistic texts with and without vowels. Verb categories of Pu'al and Huf'al are taught systematically. Other verb forms are reviewed in context. A weekly hour is devoted to practice in conversation. Daily homework includes reading, short answers, compositions, listening to web-casts, and giving short oral presentations via voice e-mail. Frequent vocabulary quizzes. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Rina Kreitman
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED VIDEO

Prerequisites:
VIAR R3503
Beginning Video or prior experience in video or film production.
Advanced Video is an advanced, intensive project-based class on the production of digital video. The class is designed for advanced students to develop an ambitious project or series of projects during the course of the semester. Through this production, students will fine-tune shooting and editing skills as well as become more sophisticated in terms of their aesthetic and theoretical approach to the moving image. The class will follow each student through proposal, dailies, rough-cut and fine cut stage. The course is organized for knowledge to be shared and accumulated, so that each student will learn both from her/his own process, as well as the processes of all the other students. Additional screenings and readings will be organized around the history of video art and the problematics of the moving image in general, as well as particular issues that are raised by individual student projects. NOTE: There is only one section offered per semester. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• F 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew E Buckingham
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• 3 points

LYRIC WRITING

• Department: Theatre Arts
• W 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Deborah Brevoort
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• 3 points

RACE & THE ARTICULATN OF DIFF

This seminar examines the intersection of race, gender, and nation in the formation of hierarchical social systems and their legitimating ideologies. A leading premise of this course is that racial ideologies are, foundationally, claims about the heritability of socially produced and imagined differences—claims that muster, mimic, and articulate notions of differences associated with a variety of social distinctions, including sex/gender, class, and nation-based identities. This seminar will situate the process of racialization within the wider problematic of political subjectivity and direct attention to the symbolic and structural organization of modern, hierarchical social systems.

• Department: African-American Studies, Institute for Research in
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Steven Gregory
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

CONTEMP GERMAN WOMEN WRITERS

Examines prose works of women writers in the late 20th century; emphasis on new modes of writing and topical issues such as cultural memories of Eastern Europe, the Balkan wars, the impact of media, and family conflicts; discussions are informed by theorists such L. Adelson, S. Benhabib, N. Fraser.

• Department: German @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Erk Grimm
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

APPLIED SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Ebad Jahangir
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• 3 points

NAPLES: PORTRAIT OF A CITY

Explores the cultural history of Naples and the Neapolitans over the past two centuries in diverse areas including literature, film, theatre, and music. Works will include texts by Serao, Croce, Benjamin, Gramsci, De Filippo, and Ortese; films by Rossellini, Rosi, and Pasolini.

• Department: Italian @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Nelson Moe
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points

INSTRUMENTATION

Prerequisites: extensive musical background.
Analysis of instrumentation, with directional emphasis on usage, ranges, playing techniques, tone colors, characteristics, interactions and tendencies, all derived from the classic orchestral repertoire. Topics will include theoretical writings on the classical repertory as well as 20th century instrumentation and its advancement. Additional sessions with live orchestral demonstrations are included as part of the course.

• Department: Music
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeffrey Milarsky
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

Few events in American history can match the significance of the American Civil War and few left a better cache of records for scholars seeking to understand its signal events, actors, and processes. Indeed, between 1861 and 1865, as the war assumed a massive scope it drove a process of state building and state-sponsored slave emancipation in the United States that ultimately reconfigured the nation and remade the terms of political membership in it. This is a research seminar. The course introduces students to key issues and contributions to the literature, and provides an opportunity to undertake independent research on any topic related to the history of the American Civil War. Pedagogically the course pursues a parallel process of reading in the relevant literature and guided research on a topic of the student's choice. The course is designed to model the research and writing process professional historians use, beginning with a paper proposal and bibliography of primary and secondary. sources. It proceeds through the various stages of the research process to produce drafts of the essay and finally the finished essay. All major written work is for peer review. The course fulfills the research requirement for the history major.

• Department: History
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Stephanie McCurry
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

TECHNIQUES OF THE ULTRAREAL

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• 1.5 points

CAPITALISM IN THE ARCHIVES

This course explores how documentary sources of the history of capitalism have been created, preserved, collected, and organized in the archives; and how scholars have used these sources to interpret changing economic institutions, social relations, politics, and cultural practices of capitalism in the United States. The course meets at Columbia's Rare Books and Manuscripts Library and links its collections to the historiography of capitalism in the twentieth century. Learning how to evaluate and use archival materials to interpret the past, students will write a substantial research paper based on Rare Books and Manuscript Library collections.   NOTE: This course meets in the Chang Room in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library on the 6th floor of Butler Library.

• Department: History
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Elizabeth Blackmar
  CULPA: 22 Info
• 4 points

FUNDAMENTALS OF DIGITAL DESIGN

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• 3 points

RE ENTREPRENEURIALISM FOR ARCH

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

IMAGINING THE ULTRAREAL

IMAGINING THE UNREAL

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• 1.5 points

CONTEMPORARY DIPLOMACY

This course examines the process of diplomacy; the patterns, purposes, and people that shape the contemporary interactions of states. In the first, entitled "Making War and Peace"- we look at a series of the most important episodes in twentieth-century diplomacy. In the second section under the heading "Professional Norms and Pathologies"-we consider some of the problems faced by diplomats in any period. The concluding section of the course called "The Newest 'New Diplomacy'"- takes up distinctive aspects of diplomacy in the current period: how the United States and other governments have dealt with the proliferation of multilateral organizations (and of weapons of mass destruction), with ethnic warfare and genocide, with the pressures and opportunities of globalization, and with the war on terrorism that began after September 11, 2001.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: John Hirsch
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• 3 points

TOPICS IN NARRATIVE

NARRATIVE & HUMAN RIGHTS

(Lecture). We can't talk about human rights without talking about the forms in which we talk about human rights. This course will study the convergences of the thematics, philosophies, politics, practices, and formal properties of literature and human rights. In particular, it will examine how literary questions of narrative shape (and are shaped by) human rights concerns; how do the forms of stories enable and respond to forms of thought, forms of commitment, forms of being, forms of justice, and forms of violation? How does narrative help us to imagine an international order based on human dignity, rights, and equality? We will read classic literary texts and contemporary writing (both literary and non-literary) and view a number of films and other multimedia projects to think about the relationships between story forms and human rights problematics and practices. Likely literary authors: Roberto Bolaño, Miguel de Cervantes, Assia Djebar, Ariel Dorfman, Slavenka Drakulic, Nuruddin Farah, Janette Turner Hospital, Franz Kafka, Sahar Kalifeh, Sindiwe Magona, Maniza Naqvi, Michael Ondaatje, Alicia Partnoy, Ousmane Sembène, Mark Twain . . . . We will also read theoretical and historical pieces by authors such as Agamben, An-Na'im, Appiah, Arendt, Balibar, Bloch, Chakrabarty, Derrida, Douzinas, Habermas, Harlow, Ignatieff, Laclau and Mouffe, Levinas, Lyotard, Marx, Mutua, Nussbaum, Rorty, Said, Scarry, Soyinka, Spivak, Williams.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph R Slaughter
  CULPA: 13 h-index: 13 Info
• 3 points

CATALYSIS OF EMISSIONS CONTROL

Prerequisites: One year of general college chemistry.
Fundamentals of heterogeneous catalysis including modern catalytic preparation techniques. Analysis and design of catalytic emissions control systems. Introduction to current industrial catalytic solutions for controlling gaseous emissions. Introduction to future catalytically enabled control technologies.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Farrauto
  h-index: 52 Info
• 3 points

PLANT ECOPHYSIOLOGY

Prerequisites: General biology or the instructor's permission.
Given in alternate years. Plant organismal responses to external environmental conditions and the physiological mechanisms of plants that enable these responses. An evolutionary approach is taken to analyze the potential fitness of plants and plant survival based on adaptation to external environmental factors.  One weekend field trip will be required.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Kevin L Griffin
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 59 Info
• 3 points

ENTREPRENEURIAL BUS CREA-ENGIN

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: David A Gulley
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

YIDD THEATRE: TEXT&PERFORMANCE;

This course attempts to investigate the historical and cultural development of the modern Yiddish theater, viewed through the lens of some of its most unique, popular, and innovative works.  Discussion will center not merely on the scripts as literary texts but as imperfect records of a performance--records supplemented both by autobiographical and critical materials as well as secondary sources from the recently burgeoning field of Yiddish theater studies.  Recent approaches incorporating digital technologies and new media resources willl also be explored.  Reading knowledge of Yiddish strongly preferred.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeremy Dauber
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

HISTORY OF AMERICAN NATIVISM

This seminar examines the history of nativism, or intense hostility toward foreigners, in the United States. While the constant influx of immigrants characterizes the history of the United States, intolerance with foreigners who seemed to threaten the cultural, economic, and political fabric of American society from the perspective of native-born Americans has equally shaped the American immigration experience. By exploring nativist writings, cartoons, images, immigrant memoirs, and laws as well as scholarly books and articles based on intensive reading and class discussion, we will trace the historical development of American nativism from the late colonial period to the present. Themes to be pursued in the course include the ideological and religious origins of anti-alien sentiment in America; the social, economic, and political circumstances of the time for the rise of nativism; principal targets of nativism in each period; the various ways hostile sentiment was expressed; and governmental policy against foreigners. An exercise in interdisciplinary study, this course draws materials from a wide range of academic disciplines, including History, Law, Ethnic Studies, and Political Science.

• Department: History
• R 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Hidetaka Hirota
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 9 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
• T noon-2:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul Segal
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• 3 points

EVOL IN THE AGE OF GENOMICS

Prerequisites: introductory genetics or the instructor's permission.
This course introduces basic concepts in evolutionary biology, from speciation to natural selection. While the lectures incorporate a historical perspective, the main goal of the class is to familiarize students with topics and tools of evolutionary genetics as practiced today, in the era of genomics. Thus, the focus will be on evidence from molecular evolution and genetics and exercises will assume a basic background in genetics. Examples will be drawn from across the tree of life, but with a primary focus on humans.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• 4 points

INTRO-COMP APPL-HLTH CRE/BIOMD

Prerequisites: experience with computers and a passing familiarity with medicine and biology. Undergraduates in their senior or junior years may take this course only if they have adequate background in mathematics and receive the instructor's permission.
An overview of the field of biomedical informatics, combining perspectives from medicine, computer science and social science. Use of computers and information in health care and the biomedical sciences, covering specific applications and general methods, current issues, capabilities and limitations of biomedical informatics. Biomedical Informatics studies the organization of medical information, the effective management of information using computer technology, and the impact of such technology on medical research, education, and patient care. The field explores techniques for assessing current information practices, determining the information needs of health care providers and patients, developing interventions using computer technology, and evaluating the impact of those interventions.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph E Finkelstein
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• 3 points

INTRO TO SPORTS MEDIA & MARKETING

INTRO TO SPORTS MEDIA & MKTG

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• M 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Barry Neuberger
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• 3 points

PROBABILITY & DECISION THEORY

Examines interpretations and applications of the calculus of probability including applications as a measure of degree of belief, degree of confirmation, relative frequency, a theoretical property of systems, and other notions of objective probability or chance. Attention to epistimological questions such as Hume's problem of induction, Goodman's problem of projectibility, and the paradox of confirmation.

• Department: Philosophy
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Haim Gaifman
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 30 Info
• 3 points

U.S. IN THE NUCLEAR AGE

The dropping of the first atomic bomb at the end of World War II ushered in a new era in American history. From here on, warfare posed the threat of total annihilation and Americans lived with anxiety over atomic weapons. But nuclear power, with the promise of endless energy, also reflected the hopes for a prosperous future. This course explores multiple paths Americans pursued toward securing peace and prosperity in the nuclear age and the challenges they faced along the way. Topics include the Cold War, suburbanization and the new car culture, the environmental movement, the energy crisis of the 1970s, the Middle East and terrorism, nuclear power, and global warming.

• Department: History
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Meg Jacobs
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

SPORTS BUS COMMUN/PUB RELATNS

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph Favorito
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• 3 points

TOPICS IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH

PYTHON-BASED DATA ANALYTICS-OR

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Hardeep Johar
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• Instructor: Yair Avgar
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• 3 points

TOPICS IN OR

DESIGN/AGILE PROJ MGMT ENG LAB

DAPME-Lab is an intensive project-based seminar in which students will learn and apply a multi-disciplinary approach to front-end and product design, strategy formulation and implementation, and agile application of tech-driven concepts in actual business settings. Taught by Prof. R.A. Farrokhnia, this course focuses on the practical development and execution of inventive design-centric solutions coupled with deep industrial, operational, and business analyses. Various topics in industrial product and web design as well as UX and UI will be discussed in interactive and collaborative lectures. Additional topics will include Scrum, Kanban, and the dynamics of entrepreneurial/venture-capital financing relevant to technical (co-)founders. Guest speakers, field trips, and interaction with domain experts will augment course curriculum and exercises. Class projects will encompass working with a Fortune 500 corporation as well as an entrepreneurial portfolio company of a prominent Venture Capital firm in New York (projects have been vetted and facilitated by the course faculty) - the class will also contribute to social good by working on a short project of a New York-based small or non-for-profit business (total of 3 class projects). Such endeavors will integrate classroom learning with best practices in lean startups, product development, team management, and business planning. Throughout the term, assigned teams will engage in Product Design Sprint and Agile Development, working on all aspects of exploration, ideation, design, refinement, prototype buildup, and validation. Acting as innovation-driven management consultants, teams will work simultaneously on engineering and tech-driven briefs (including field-testing) that would address real-life business challenges. The aim of the course is to ultimately empower students with the necessary skills and toolsets to transform a concept into a functional, well-designed, and value-add product. Students will be evaluated on a number of criteria, including individually on class and project-participation, collectively on team project performance, and quality and depth of teams' final presentations (no midterm or final exams). This course has limited enrollment by application, and will require the signing of Non-Disclosure Agreement for class projects. Proficiency in math, statistics, coding, and/or database management/analysis are recommended for admission consideration. TO APPLY: https://astro.ieor.columbia.edu/view.php?id=77645

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Amir R Farrokhnia
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• 3 points

BUSINESS ANALYTICS FOR OR

This course prepares students to gather, describe, and analyze data, using advanced statistical tools to support operations, risk management, and response to disruptions. Analysis is done targeting economic and financial decisions in complex systems that involve multiple partners. Topics include: probability, statistics, hypothesis testing, experimentation, and forecasting. Prerequisite: Stat-IEOR 4150 or equivalent.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• F 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• 3 points

INTRO-GEOG INFO SYST-PLANNERS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
• TR 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Jesse Braden
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• Instructor: Jeremy White
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• 3 points

PROF DEVELOPMENT FOR MS&E;

Prerequisites: Must be registered in the Management Science and Engineering (MSE) MS Program
Students will engage, learn and share their experiences in order to make meaning of professional development. The instructional team hopes that the students will obtain the following: -Gain familiarity and insight to the US job market and US career culture; recognize the skills necessary to compete effectively. -Increase student professional intelligence, develop own professional self and identify developmental needs. -Obtain information on employment trends, resources and networking opportunities. -Refine resume writing, interviewing, and job search skills. -Establish a collaborative relationship with the instructional team and provide constructive feedback where appropriate to enhance the student's professional development.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jenny S Mak
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• 0 points

PROF DEVELOPMENT FOR MS&E;

PROF DEVELOPMENT FOR MS&E; REC

Prerequisites: Must be registered in the Management Science and Engineering (MSE) MS Program
Students will engage, learn and share their experiences in order to make meaning of professional development. The instructional team hopes that the students will obtain the following: -Gain familiarity and insight to the US job market and US career culture; recognize the skills necessary to compete effectively. -Increase student professional intelligence, develop own professional self and identify developmental needs. -Obtain information on employment trends, resources and networking opportunities. -Refine resume writing, interviewing, and job search skills. -Establish a collaborative relationship with the instructional team and provide constructive feedback where appropriate to enhance the student's professional development.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• F 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Jenny S Mak
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• 0 points

PROF DEVELOPMNT FOR MSOR/MSIE

This course is for MS Program in IE and OR students only. Students will engage, learn and share their experiences in order to make meaning of professional development. The instructional team hopes that the students will obtain the following: -Gain familiarity and insight to the US job market and US career culture; recognize the skills necessary to compete effectively. -Increase student professional intelligence, develop own professional self and identify developmental needs. -Obtain information on employment trends, resources and networking opportunities. -Refine resume writing, interviewing, and job search skills. -Establish a collaborative relationship with the instructional team and provide constructive feedback where appropriate to enhance the student's professional development.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• F 3:10 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Jenny S Mak
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• 0 points

INTRO TO ENVIROMENTAL PLANNING

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Peter J Marcotullio
  Info
• 3 points

DIGITAL SPORTS MEDIA & MARKETING

DIG SPRTS MEDIA & MRKTG

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Tom Richardson
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• 3 points

BIOMEMS:CELL/MOLECULAR APPLIC

Prerequisites: Chemistry CHEM C3443 or CHEN C3545 or equivalent; and MATH V1201, BIOL C2005 and C2006.
Topics include biomicroelectromechanical, microfluidic, and lab-on-a-chip systems in biomedical engineering, with a focus on cellular and molecular applications. Microfabrication techniques, biocompatibility, miniaturization of analytical and diagnostic devices, high-throughput cellular studies, microfabrication for tissue engineering, and in vivo devices.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Samuel Sia
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 39 Info
• 3 points

12 DIALOGICAL/POETIC STRATEGES

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Yehudy Safran
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• 3 points

MODERN HOUSING

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Gwendolyn Wright
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points