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An introduction to the culture, politics and international relations of Iran which will explore the country's transition from the 19th to the 21st century. Topics include continuity and change in traditional social structure, the conflict between clergy and state and the modernization of Iran under the Pahlavi shahs (1925-79). The role of women will be explored. The roots of the Iranian revolution will be examined, and an assessment made of the present Islamic Republic. The role of Iran in international affairs, including the course of U.S.-Iranian relations, will also be considered. Sources will be multidisciplinary and include historical works, literature and films.
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 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 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 is designed to give students the practical opportunity to develop their cross-cultural teamwork and negotiating skills while learning about key contemporary issues in U.S.-China relations. It is centered around a series of exercises in which teams of students take "sides" to negotiate win-win, win-lose, or lose-lose outcomes to a number of business, economic, and geopolitical disputes between the United States and China that regularly dominate today's headlines. Classroom case studies and guest speakers augment these practical exercises by offering wisdom and lessons learned from past U.S.-China interactions. Assigned readings are designed to provide conceptual frameworks to help students integrate these lessons and apply them in practice. Specific issues covered in case studies and negotiating exercises include: Business joint ventures; WTO and intellectual property protections; Internet and media censorship; CFIUS and Chinese outbound investment; SEC-CSRS dispute over audit inspections; Proposed Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT); Currency "manipulation"; Cybersecurity; Maritime territorial disputes; North Korea. This course requires instructor permission in order to register. Please add youself to the waitlist in SSOL and submit any required documents in order to be considered.
In this course we explore recent literature and film from North Africa, asking how the region's political trajectories have intersected with developments in the sphere of the arts. Our examination begins in the 1990s with the violent conflict of Algeria's Black Decade, and continues through the Tunisian Revolution of 2011 and its complex aftermath. We consider how cultural productions have participated in political opposition as well as their role as custodians of repressed memory. Over the last quarter century, new media, genres and aesthetic currents have emerged in the region, and new writers and film-makers have won recognition. We examine some of the most interesting examples of this Maghrebi new wave. The course is divided into units examining questions such as gender and sexual politics, the changing realities of migration and transnationalism, new media, and developments in the production and circulation of literature and film. The Course is taught in English. Readings are in French and English and students may write in either language, though French Department students should write in French. Each member of the seminar will undertake a research project focusing on a particular artist or work, which s/he will introduce in a multimedia class presentation and write up as a final paper.
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 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 graduate colloquium will introduce students to the literature of modern Latin American history, discussing both recent and “classic” books. Readings will include examples of the most significant areas of research on the region, with an emphasis on the diversity if approaches that characterize the historiography of post-independent Latin America in the past two decades, from social and political history to studies of culture, economic development, and international relations. Topics will include the causes and significance of the independence, histories of “nation-building,” the origins of economic backwardness, peasant societies and social movements, twentieth century populism, authoritarianism and social change, and transnational histories of culture and the Cold War. Field(s): LA
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 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
Prerequisites: SIPA U6401, PEPM U6105 or EMPA U8216
The goal of this course is to teach students about the historical relationships between financial risk, capital structure and legal and policy issues in emerging markets. Our strategy will be to develop a model of how and why international capital flows to emerging market countries and to use the model to examine various topics in the history of international financing from the 1820's to the present. Students will identify patterns in investor and borrower behavior, evaluate sovereign capital structures, and analyze sovereign defaults, including the debt negotiation process during the various debt crises of the past 175 years. We will focus primarily on Latin America, emerging Asia, and Russia, although the lessons will be generalized to cover all emerging market countries.
Prerequisites: SIPA U6400 or SIPA U6401 or PEPM U6101 or PEPM U6104 or EMPA U8216
This course gives students the tools they need to identify which emerging market countries (EMs) have potential for rapid growth and determining what investments are best positioned to benefit from this growth. The course also investigates how to assess the risks inherent in EM investing and fitting this exposure into a broader portfolio. Section One assumes knowledge of basic economics and uses macro theory to identify key sources of expansion and why some countries grow faster than others. The roll of fiscal, monetary and exchange rate policies are investigated, as well as, how national institutions can support - or deter - development. This section focuses on countries that have not yet "emerged" but appear to be on the verge of doing so - "frontier" economies. Section Two takes a micro approach to investing and identifies the specific avenues of investments and their relative attractiveness. This section also investigates managing exchange rate exposure and how emerging market investments fit into a global portfolio. Section Three looks at methods of assessing sovereign risk and the potential for other external crises. It also looks at how to determine which domestic markets are most vulnerable to financial shock. The third section includes case studies in which all three components of the course will be incorporated.
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
Prerequisites: SIPA U6401, PEPM U6105, or EMPA U8216
This course explores the performance of the financial systems of emerging market countries (EMs) over the past three decades, and historically, both from the standpoint of market participants and public policy makers. EMs are countries that have decided to "emerge" from a condition of financial underdevelopment (sometimes called "financial repression"). EMs engage in a combination of market reforms which include: foreign trade opening, privatization of state-owned enterprises, and the liberalization and deregulation of domestic financial systems and international capital markets. Emergence typically involves a variety of such changes, as well as related institutional changes that support those efforts (reforms of the legal and regulatory systems, the corporate laws, and the fiscal and monetary systems). This course investigates the determinants of successful or unsuccessful emergence. Said differently, the course helps to identify factors that make emergence more or less likely to succeed. Failure of emergence often takes the form of a major financial crisis, in which the failings of the EM policy regime are brought to light. Thus, an important part of analyzing the success or failure of emergence entails the analysis of EM financial crises.
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
Prerequisites: SIPA U6401
This course will give an overview of history, function, and future prospects of the financial markets in Asian countries (mainly ASEAN-10, Japan, Korea, China, and India). How financial supervision and regulation should be formed will be examined too. The financial crisis, as well as financial development, will be covered as an instrumental event for reforms. The stages of financial and economic development will be explained and Asian countries will be placed on the development stages. Economic and financial policies will be examined from efficiency point of view.
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
Prerequisites: SIPA U6401
The objective of this course is to provide students with knowledge of why the Japanese economic growth rate was high in the 1950s and 1960s and later declined; how financial market developments contributed to growth; how quickly its markets were opened to international trade and finance; and why the Japanese economy has suffered stagnation and deflation in the last twenty years. The description and explanation is based on intermediate microeconomic and macroeconomic theory and empirical evidence. The role of economic policies-monetary policy, fiscal policy, financial supervision and regulation, industrial policy-will be carefully examined.
This course focuses on the actual management problems of humanitarian interventions and helps students obtain the professional skills and insight needed to work in complex humanitarian emergencies, and to provide oversight and guidance to humanitarian operations from a policy perspective. It is a follow-up to the fall course that studied the broader context, root causes, actors, policy issues, and debates in humanitarian emergencies.
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