Sec. 1: Ethnomusicology; Sec. 2: Historical Musicology; Sec. 3: Music Theory; Sec. 4: Music Cognition; Sec. 5: Music Philosophy.
Prerequisite: Public Health P6103 or P6104. The study of linear statistical models. Regression and correlation with one independent variable. Partial and multiple correlation. Multiple and polynomial regression. Single factor analysis of variance. Simple logistic regression
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.
Prerequisite: Public Health P8104. Suggested preparation: P6104, P8104 and working knowledge of calculus, population parameters, sufficient statistics. Basic distribution theory. Point and interval estimation. Method of maximum likelihood. Method of least squares regression. Introduction to the theory of hypothesis testing. Likelihood ration tests. Nonparametric procedures. Statistical design theory.
Prerequisite: Public Health P6104, P8100 and a working knowledge of calculus. An introduction to the application of statistical methods in survival analysis, generalized linear models, and design of experiments. Estimation and comparison of survival curves, regression models for survival data, log-linear models, logit models, analysis of repeated measurements, and the analysis of data from blocked and split-plot experiments. Examples drawn from the health sciences.
This is a Public Health Course. Public Health classes are offered on the Health Services Campus at 168th Street.For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses
The use of multinuclear NMR spectroscopy in the determination of the structures of inorganic molecules and the use of dynamic NMR spectroscopy (variable temperature NMR and magnetization transfer techniques) to provide information concerned with reaction mechanisms.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Prerequisite: Public Health P8111 or the equivalent. Principles in the design and analysis of controlled experiments: Latin squares, incomplete block designs, crossover designs, fractional factorial designs, confounding.
What did it mean to be queer in the francophone Middle Ages? Was there such a thing? The term ‘sodomy' was used in the period to describe a wide variety of acts (not all sexual), and the term would seem to foreclose the possibility of female same-sex desire. The questions we will address include the following: In an era in which all non-procreative sex was conceived as sinful, does the opposition between homosexual and heterosexual still hold? How does reproductive discourse underpin medieval conceptions of artistic creation? Was male and female homosexuality conceived symmetrically? Our readings will take us through a broad range of genres-from penance manuals to lyric poetry to romance. Texts include Marie de France's lais, troubadour songs, Alan of Lille's Plaint of Nature, the Roman d'Enéas, Heldris of Cornwall's Le Roman de Silence and selected saints' lives.
This is a Public Health Course. Public Health classes are offered on the Health Services Campus at 168th Street.For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses
This course will focus on the process by which U.S. foreign policy is formulated and executed, using the Persian Gulf region as case material. Readings and lectures will examine the relationship between U.S. government agencies (White House, State, Defense, CIA, Congress, etc.) and instrumentalities (declaratory policy, diplomacy, military presence, arms transfers, covert action, etc.) in the pursuit of national goals. Special attention will be devoted to the analysis of U.S. regional policy and international relations from the Iranian revolution through the two gulf wars to the present.
Prerequisites: At least one course each in probability and genetics and the instructor's permission. The theoretical foundations underlying the models and techniques used in mathematical genetics and genetic epidemiology. Use and interpretation of likelihood methods; formulation of mathematical models; segregation analysis; ascertainment bias; linkage analysis; genetic heterogeneity; and complex genetic models. Lectures, discussions, homework problems, and a final examination.
Prerequisite: Public Health P6104 or the equivalent. Fundamental methods and concepts of the randomized clinical trial; protocol development, randomization, blindedness, patient recruitment, informed consent, compliance, sample size determination, cross-overs, collaborative trials. Each student prepares and submits the protocol for a real or hypothetical clinical trial.
The major national security controversies during the last decade have all concerned intelligence. Critics blamed U.S. intelligence agencies for failing to prevent the 9/11 attacks, and then for missing the mark on Iraqi capabilities before the war. In response, Congress ordered a sweeping reorganization of the intelligence community, and scholars began to revisit basic questions: What is the relationship between intelligence and national security? How does it influence foreign policy and strategic decisions? Why does it succeed or fail? This seminar provides an overview of the theory and practice of U.S. intelligence. It details the sources and methods used by collectors, the nature of intelligence analysis, and the relationship between intelligence agencies and policymakers. It also contains a short history of the U.S. intelligence community and evaluates the ongoing efforts to reform it. Finally, it discusses the uneasy role of secret intelligence in a modern democracy.
he Lab will give students the opportunity to apply macroeconomic theory to policy issues, particularly issues that have surfaced in the context of global financial crises. These issues are at the research frontier because the current crisis took the economics profession by surprise, and relevant theory and empirical analysis is evolving at a rapid pace. In addition, the Lab is also aimed at helping students solidify their macro by having them articulate theories and empirical tests that are inspired by current events and puzzles. Current instruction programs in economics tend to leave the student very far from the policy arena and, as a result, there is the risk that future practitioners may end up discarding theory, and that future academics may miss the opportunity of addressing policy relevant issues. In addition, given the increasing SIPA student interest in working on emerging market issues, the Lab will help them decide if they should follow the Ph.D. or the "Wall Street" path. The lab is open to all SIPA, PEPM and Department of Economics students. Requirements are MA level macroeconomics with special emphasis on Open Macro, familiarity with basic mathematical techniques (algebra, calculus), econometric techniques and, above all, strong motivation to address policy issues.
Meets once a month to discuss the current literature in statistical methods for genetic epidemiology, providing opportunity and incentive for students, theoreticians, and practitioners to keep current with the rapidly-growing literature of this field.
Prerequisites: Public Health P6104. Introduction to the principles of research data management and other aspects of data coordination using structured, computer-based exercises. Targeted to students with varying backgrounds and interests: (1) established and prospective investigators, scientists, and project leaders who want to gain a better understanding of the principles of data management to improve the organization of their own research, make informed decisions in assembling a data management team, and improve their ability to communicate with programmers and data analysts; and (2) students considering a career in data management, data analysis, or the administration of a data coordinating center.
"Tools for Advocacy: Understanding How the Media Works and How to Use it to Promote a Cause or Institution" provides students of international affairs and public policy with a set of practical communications skills for use in their everyday work. Students will learn how to function effectively in our fast-changing contemporary media environment. Students will learn how to craft powerful messages, create compelling material for the media and refine their presentations techniques for interviews. They learn how to use the media to deliver messages to key audiences and how to conceive and execute an advocacy campaign as part of an organizational mission. Communications professionals from a variety of fields visit the class during the course of the semester. Students produce advocacy materials including an a press release, an op-ed and some form Internet content
General aspects of normal human growth and development from viewpoints of physical growth, cellular growth and maturation, and adjustments made at birth; the impact of altered nutrition on these processes. Prenatal and postnatal malnutrition, the role of hormones in growth; relationships between nutrition and disease in such areas as anemia, obesity, infection, and carbohydrate absorption.