Prerequisites: Obtained internship and approval from a faculty advisor.
May be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 total points may be used for degree credit. Only for Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering graduate students who include relevant off-campus work experience as part of their approved program of study. Final report required. May not be taken for pass/fail credit or audited.
Subject to approval by faculty member
Research in an area of Mechanical Engineering culminating in a verbal presentation and a written thesis document approved by the thesis advisor. A student enrolling in this course must obtain permission from a thesis advisor. Students are recommended to enroll in M.S. thesis for two terms, one of which can be the summer. Students may count a maximum of 6 points of Master's Thesis towards an MS degree and cannot count additional research points. On completion of all Master's Thesis credits, the thesis advisor will assign a single grade. Additional MS Thesis guidelines: • Students must use a department recommended format for thesis writing. A copy of the thesis will be uploaded on an electronic archive accessible through the Mechanical Engineering department website.
Subject to approval by faculty member
Research in an area of Mechanical Engineering culminating in a verbal presentation and a written thesis document approved by the thesis advisor. A student enrolling in this course must obtain permission from a thesis advisor. Students are recommended to enroll in M.S. thesis for two terms, one of which can be the summer. Students may count a maximum of 6 points of Master's Thesis towards an MS degree and cannot count additional research points. On completion of all Master's Thesis credits, the thesis advisor will assign a single grade. Additional MS Thesis guidelines: • Students must use a department recommended format for thesis writing. A copy of the thesis will be uploaded on an electronic archive accessible through the Mechanical Engineering department website.
Subject to approval by faculty member
Research in an area of Mechanical Engineering culminating in a verbal presentation and a written thesis document approved by the thesis advisor. A student enrolling in this course must obtain permission from a thesis advisor. Students are recommended to enroll in M.S. thesis for two terms, one of which can be the summer. Students may count a maximum of 6 points of Master's Thesis towards an MS degree and cannot count additional research points. On completion of all Master's Thesis credits, the thesis advisor will assign a single grade. Additional MS Thesis guidelines: • Students must use a department recommended format for thesis writing. A copy of the thesis will be uploaded on an electronic archive accessible through the Mechanical Engineering department website.
Prerequisites:
CHNS W4007-4008
,
W4017-4018
, one year of an 8000-level course, and the student's adviser and the instructor's written permission.
Reading of advanced texts chosen in consultation with the student's advisor. GF
Prerequisites:
JPNS W4007-W4008
or the equivalent, and the instructor’s permission.
This graduate seminar reads canonical medieval poems against their relevant counterparts in leishu (compendiums arranged by classification systems that served as writing handbooks). We examine these compendiums as thresholds—lying outside the poems as their ostensible background material, these thesholds not only frame questions of genre and genealogy but also mediate the borders of poems. Some questions posed by this course: What conceptual paradigms are operative in the deployment of particular classifications? What are the implications for interpretive practice to regard a genre not as an archetype of abstracted qualities but, as these compendiums suggest, as something embodied by exemplars? Insofar as categories are organized by intertextual references, what is the relationship between lei and the work of allusion? What are the criteria and ramifications for determining the operative scope of allusions—are ‘contiguous’ but elided passages also in play? What is the family resemblance between leishu and commentaries like that of Li Shan for the Wenxuan anthology that do not so much give glosses as draw intertextual relationships? In what ways do lei furnish genealogies for things? What are the limits of ‘close reading’ on one hand and sprawling ‘intertextuality’ on the other?
This course will focus on the historical study of the religious orders and communities of the Middle Ages. Alongside of the papally approved religious Orders, the course will include also religious communities that did not officially become an Order but nevertheless shared a common religious faith and practice, such as the beguines, or the lesser known mendicant orders. The course will follow a roughly chronological order, starting with the Benedictine Order, and ending with the beguines and Waldensians. Generally, each session will concentrate on a single order, take into account both men and women’s monasteries and convents. The rules as the founding texts of the orders will be given special consideration, and other aspects governing the life of the members of these Orders such as the liturgy, prayer, charitable acts, child oblation, endowments, financial sustenance and learning will be explored in depth. A concluding session will attempt to understand the place of religious orders in the medieval world at large.
Prerequisites:
faculty adviser's permission.
Selected topics of current research interest. May be taken more than once for credit. Please refer to the course site for more information.
Prerequisites:
faculty adviser's permission.
Selected topics of current research interest. May be taken more than once for credit. Please refer to the course site for more information.
Prerequisites:
faculty adviser's permission.
Selected topics of current research interest. May be taken more than once for credit. Please refer to the course site for more information.
This colloquium provides an intensive exploration of the Atlantic World during the early modern era. Readings will attend to the sequence of contact, conquest, and dispossession that enabled the several European empires to gain political and economic power. In this regard, particular attention will be given to the role of commerce and merchant capitalism in the formation of the Atlantic World. The course will focus also, however, on the dynamics of cultural exchange, on the two-way influences that pushed the varied peoples living along the Atlantic to develop new practices, new customs, and new tastes. Creative adaptations in the face of rapid social and cultural change will figure prominently in the readings. Students may expect to give sustained attention the worlds Africans, Amerindians, and Europeans both made together and made apart.
The seminar, instructed by Csaba BÉKÉS, a leading scholar on the Cold War will examine the origins of the Cold War and the still much debated process of the Sovietization of Eastern Europe. The détente process emerging in the middle of the nineteen-fifties will be presented by a novel approach and the analysis of the different types of international crises during the Cold War will show that some of the most spectacular crises of the era were in reality not genuine East–West conflicts. Due attention will be paid to NATO and the Warsaw Pact as institutions of foreign policy coordination, as well as to the German question and European security. The last classes will be devoted to the analysis of the radical transformation of East–West relations in the Gorbachev era and to the end of the Cold War.
The field of Imperial Russian history has undergone profound transformations since the August Revolution of 1991. Curiously, the basic outlines of our understanding of Soviet history have remained fundamentally unchanged despite the explosion of new archival materials over the past twenty years. In contrast, interpretations of the pre-revolutionary period have changed dramatically. New chronologies, new thematic approaches, new topics, and new transnational juxtapositions all characterize the historiography of the last two decades. One particularly important element is attention to geographical space and location. In this colloquium, we will examine some of the most influential recent research in the field, using particular books as a jumping-off point to delve deeper into topics such as empire and frontier, environment, religion, monarchy, Russian-Ottoman encounters, and the transmission of ideas.
This two-semester course shows students that it is both possible and useful to think about public policy rigorously to see what assumptions work; to understand how formal models operate; to question vagueness and clichés; and to make sophisticated ethical arguments. An important goal of the class is to have students work in groups to apply microeconomic concepts to current public policy issues having to do with urban environmental and earth systems. The course includes problem sets designed to teach core concepts and their application. In the spring semester, the emphasis is on the application of concepts to analyze contemporary policy problems. Some time is also devoted to international trade and regulation, and industrial organization issues. Students not only learn microeconomic concepts, but also how to explain them to decision-makers. Student groups take on specific earth system policy issues, analyze options through the use of microeconomic concepts, and then make oral presentations to the class.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
The survey course on political psychology is organized around three main themes. The first is social influence and intrinsic predispositions: obedience, conformity, social pressure, authoritarianism, and personality traits. The second theme concerns the manner in which people interpret new information about politics and use it to update their beliefs and evaluations. This section invites discussion of topics such as: To what extent and in what ways do media and politicians manipulate citizens? Can and do voters use "information shortcuts" to compensate for their lack of direct information about policies? The third theme is the meaning, measurement, and expression of ideology and prejudice.
Individual projects in composition.
Emergent findings in the interactions of particles with reagents and solutions, especially inorganics, surfactants, and polymers in solution, and their role in grinding, flotation, agglomeration, filtration, enhanced oil recovery, and other mineral processing operations.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission prior to registration.
The colloquium audits work achieved under the rubric of 'American Political Development' and looks ahead to possibilities for future research. APD's concepts, premises, substantive themes, and silences will be considered, including the subfield's engagement with history and temporality, its attempts to place the United States in comparative and international perspective, and its approaches to ideas, institutions, regimes, interests, and preferences.
This course examines the relationship between architectural culture and the technology of printing in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The advent of printing has increasingly been seen as transforming all aspects of visual culture, including architecture. The historian Mario Carpo specifically has argued that mechanical reproduction created stable architectural images that removed the drift inherent in a system of drawn copies. In doing so, the printed treatise codified a new canon of easily reproducible, standardized Orders and marginaized a fluid sketchbook tradition built on the practice of copying drawings. But was print in fact that revolutionary? By examining manuscripts, printed books, drawings, and engravings, this seminar will attempt to gain a better understanding of how print shaped architectural thought and practice. In particular, we will analyze a series Renaissance architectural treatises and try to understand the complex, dialectical relationship between medium and content, both in terms of word and image.
This course is required of, and restricted to, PhD students at Columbia and NYU participating in the New York-Cambridge Training Collaboration in Twentieth Century British History. The course incorporates a monthly transatlantic discussion of recent books in the field held collaboratively through high-resolution video-conferencing with a group of collaborators (faculty and doctoral students) at Cambridge University; readings for that component will be decided in the summer in consultation with NYI and Cambridge colleagues.
This seminar teaches writing serious research papers in various areas of 20th-century American history, based on primary sources.
Organized through a focused series of key exhibitions, collaborations, projects and artworks, the seminar examines the work and period of “Parreno & Co.”: a field (rather than singular author) that includes both his immediate collaborators (i.e. Douglas Gordon, Doug Atiken, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Liam Gillick, Pierre Huyghe, Anri Sala, and Maurizio Cattelan); as well as the wider circles of his peers (Fred Wilson, Andrea Fraser, Art Club 2000, Dave Muller, Jason Rhoades) whose work similarly restaged the object and exhibition, but for multiple ends, introducing discourses of gender, race, identity and environmentalism as medium and institutional frame. In addition to examining in depth important case studies, we will also contextualize the appropriation of television and film, the use of sound and theatrical lighting, and the extension of the work into the “event” in relation to historical precedents in Situationism, expanded cinema, Fluxus intermedia, and the reception of institutional critique.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Required of all first-year PhD students in American history. Open to history PhD students only. **formerly titled "Literature of American History"
Field(s): US
This course examines historical texts as a way of tracing major cultural shifts in American history from the colonial period to the present. It intermingles primary with secondary texts and aims to expose students to what it means to write cultural history. Themes covered include the conflict between romantic self-fulfillment and rational insitutional discipline; the culture of consumer capitalism; the tensions between place and mobility; the interaction of technology with the natural world; and the relationship of technological forces with death. Among the primary authors will be Jonathan Edwards, Thomas Jefferson, William James, George Santayana, Simon Patten, Aldo Leopold, and Annie Dillard. Secondary texts include texts by George Marsden, Robert Richardson, and Christopher Lasch, plus four books by Professor Leach.
A detailed examination based on careful analysis (as far as possible in the original languages) of Josephus, intertestamental literature and Dead Sea Scrolls, New Testament, Rabbinic literature, in addition to archaeological, epigraphical and papyrological remains, of one of the most tumultuous and best attested periods of Jewish history before modernity.
This course will provide a framework with which students can evaluate and understand the global financial services industry of both today and tomorrow. Specifically, the course will present an industry insider's perspectives on the (i) current and future role of the major financial service participants, (ii) key drivers influencing an industry that has always been characterized by significant change (e.g., regulatory, technology, risk, globalization, client needs and product development), and (iii) strategic challenges and opportunities facing today's financial services' CEOs post the 2008/09 financial crisis. Furthermore, this course is designed not only for students with a general interest in the financial system, but for those students thinking about a career in the private sector of financial services or the public sector of regulatory overseers.