Sylvia Wynter and the Question of Litera
Sylvia Wynter & Lit Metho
The work of Sylvia Wynter presents readers with a multi-disciplinary corpus, spanning plays, critical essays, interviews, a novel, poetry, and dance. In addition to her overarching critique of the idea of “Man”, Wynter’s work invites us to rethink disciplinarity, genre, and how critical practice is defined. If we take seriously the creative component of Wynter’s work, the generative capacity and urgency of poesis, how then might we envision the contours and stakes of a “literary method” in the context of her work? By what means might we read her work, the kind of knowledge it produces by means of the literary, and the alternatives it offers us for thinking through the question of literary method? What, in short, does reading literature do? Does it reproduce complicity with or challenge the kinds of structures Wynter critiques?
Beginning with her essay “Rethinking ‘Aesthetics’” this seminar takes seriously the question of normative forces at work under the rubric of aesthetics to better understand elements at work (poetics, performatives, epistemologies, concepts) and the philosophic, anthropo-centric, ecologic, and racialized topographies that appear. The seminar is divided into three parts: the aesthetic, the performative, and the poetic.
Above all, this course aims to generate
readings
of Wynter’s work and its complex attentions to multiple threads and tensions that constitute and animate modern knowledge.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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ADV STUDIO III- JT HP/ARCH
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- M 1:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jorge Otero-Pailos
Wikipedia h-index: 12 Info - 6 points
ALGEBRAIC TOPOLOGY I
Topics include homology and homotopy theory; covering spaces; homology with local coefficients; cohomology; Chech cohomology.
- Department: Mathematics
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
John W Morgan
CULPA: 7 Info - 4.5 points
Political Economy I
This course is a PhD-level introduction to political economy. The first part of the course is mostly theoretical and covers the most widely used models in topics such as social choice, direct and indirect democracy, accountability, lobbying, and redistributive politics. The second part of the course is a mix of abstract theory, applied theory and empirical work, and it covers some of the most research-active areas in political economy, such as media, corruption, and institutions.
- Department: Economics
- R 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Andrea Prat
Wikipedia h-index: 39 Info - 3 points
FEATURE FILM DEVELOPMENT
An overview of film financing, sales, and distribution, including private equity, tax incentives, international co-productions, soft money, pre-sales, studio financing, and grants. Students will learn how to set up a legal production entity, create a financing plan and recoupment waterfall, navigate the distribution landscape, and approach prospective financiers, sales agents, and distributors. Students will workshop the same feature project from Feature Film Development and complete the pitch deck they had started. Weekly assignments will be entered into a collective class database of industry players.
- Department: Film
- F 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mynette Louie
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Diane Houslin
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Instructor:
Mary Jane Skalski
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POETRY SEMINAR
SHAKESPEARE'S POETICS
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- Department: Writing
- R 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Timothy B Donnelly
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POETRY SEMINAR
THE END OF SOLITUDE
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- Department: Writing
- T 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Joshua Edwards
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POETRY SEMINAR
UNLEASHING THE POETIC DEMON
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- Department: Writing
- W 10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Dorothea S Lasky
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POETRY SEMINAR
HOW TO CHANGE YOUR PAST
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- Department: Writing
- T 10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Shane McCrae
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Art in Protest-Protest in Art
ART IN PROTEST-PROTEST IN
All art is political, but some art is made as a form of protest or to incite an audience to protest. Most often it is both. This course – though far from exhaustive in its coverage – will present a sample of genres (music, plastic arts, theater, dance, installation, photography) in a variety of locations and times to understand how art and artists have engaged in protest. Much of modern art is conceptual, using installations and performance, to communicate. Therefore, we will start the class by turning to T. J. Clark, the preeminent art historian, for his answer to the question, when did modern art begin? This question will lead us to explore the debate on the purpose of art. We will then move to how artists responded to moments of crisis in the early 20th century - world wars, economic depression, and the rise of fascism – because the art that emerged informs much of what we see today. Based on these foundational questions, the class will turn to case studies from around the globe.
- Department: Committee on Global Thought
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ramona H Bajema
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Fundamentals of Toxicology for Health-re
FUNDAMENTALS OF TOXICOLOG
This course is designed to introduce the basic concepts of toxicology to students from multiple fields and disciplines related to health. Nowadays excellence in health research and in its translation to the public can only be reached through multidisciplinary team effort, and teamwork is always more efficient when its different contributors have an appropriate understanding of each other’s expertise. The objectives of the first part of the course are to detail the routes of exposure to xenobiotics (chemicals and drugs) and to trace the biochemical and biological pathways through which xenobiotics are absorbed, metabolized, distributed, excreted, and biomonitored. In the second section of the course, we examine the effects of molecular/cellular changes on the function of representative organ systems including the respiratory, cardiovascular, endocrine/reproductive, immune, liver, kidney, and nervous systems. Students are also introduced to applications of toxicology such as occupational and food toxicology. At the completion of the course students are expected to have an extensive toxicology vocabulary which will aid in their future collaborations in related disciplines. Students will also have a working knowledge of: 1) general toxicological principles, 2) inter-species and inter-individual differences in responses to toxicants, 3) the effects of several key toxicants on the normal function of several organ systems, and 4) the basic approach to applications of toxicology. The overall objective of this course is to provide the student with an introduction to the language and principles of toxicology such that these principles may be applied to public health and other health-related disciplines and communicated to the general public.
- Department: Environmental Health Sciences
- M 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Diane Re
Wikipedia h-index: 17 Info - 3 points
MILLIMETER-WAVE IC DESIGN
Millimeter-Wave IC Design
Principles behind the implementation of millimeter-wave (30GHz-300GHz) wireless circuits and systems in silicon-based technologies. Silicon-based active and passive devices for millimeter-wave operation, millimeter-wave low-noise amplifiers, power amplifiers, oscillators and VCOs, oscillator phase noise theory, mixers and frequency dividers for PLLs. A design project is an integral part of the course.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Harish Krishnaswamy
Info - 3 points
SITE PLANNING & SUPPORT SYSTEMS
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- M 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Instructor:
Graham L Trelstad
Info - 3 points
WRIT/SCRIPT ANALYSIS-PRODUCERS
This is a specialized course designed to provide prospective producers with a nuanced framework for understanding the screenwriting process. The course will explore all the ways a producer might interact with screenwriters and screenplays, including coverage, script analysis, notes, treatments, and rewrites. Each student will complete a series of writing and rewriting assignments over the course of the semester. Required for all second-year Creative Producing students and only open to students in that concentration.
- Department: Film
- T 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
- W 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jack Lechner
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Instructor:
Anthony Weintraub
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RADIATION THERAPY PHYS PRACT
Students spend two to four days per week studying the clinical aspects of radiation therapy physics. Projects on the application of medical physics in cancer therapy within a hospital environment are assigned; each entails one or two weeks of work and requires a laboratory report. Two areas are emphasized: 1. computer-assisted treatment planning (design of typical treatment plans for various treatment sites including prostate, breast, head and neck, lung, brain, esophagus, and cervix) and 2. clinical dosimetry and calibrations (radiation measurements for both photon and electron beams, as well as daily, monthly, and part of annual QA).
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
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Instructor:
Cheng S Wuu
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
PROSEMINAR IN MUSIC THEORY
Overview of current work in Music Theory, an analysis, perception, and philosophy. Major areas of research and methodological challenges.
- Department: Music
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Joseph P Dubiel
CULPA: 3 Info - 3 points
STORY STRUCTURE WRITERS/DIR
This is a lecture course designed to provide writers and directors with a thorough understanding of screenplay structure, from the basic to the rococo. Each week, students will watch a feature film outside of class, then analyze it structurally in class. Students will also read and parse Robert McKee’s
Story
, a dense but rewarding guide to the techniques of cinematic storytelling. Finally, lectures will include numerous modules on particular structures, genres, and storytelling paradigms.
- Department: Film
- R 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jack Lechner
Info - 1.5 points
ADV TPCS IN RADIATION THERAPY
Advanced technology applications in radiation therapy physics, including intensity modulated, image guided, stereotactic, and hypofractionated radiation therapy. Emphasis on advanced technological, engineering, clinical, and quality assurance issues associated with high technology radiation therapy and the special role of the medical physicist in the safe clinical application of these tools.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- R 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Cheng S Wuu
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
DIAGNOSTIC RADIOL PRACTICUM
Practical applications of diagnostic radiology for various measurements and equipment assessments. Instruction and supervised practice in radiation safety procedures, image quality assessments, regulatory compliance, radiation dose evaluations and calibration of equipment. Students participate in clinical QC of the following imaging equipment: radiologic units (mobile and fixed), fluoroscopy units (mobile and fixed), angiography units, mammography units, CT scanners, MRI units and ultrasound units. The objective is familiarization in routine operation of test instrumentation and QC measurements utilized in diagnostic medical physics. Students are required to submit QC forms with data on three different types of radiology imaging equipment.
Power Management Integrated Circuits
Power Mgmt Integrated Cir
Modern power management integrated circuits (PMIC) design introduced comperhensively. Advanced topics in power management introduced, including linear regulators, digital linear regulators, switch-mode power converters, control schemes for DC-DC converters, compensation methods of DC-DC converters, power losses in DC-DC converters, switched capacitor converters, power converter modeling and simulation, design examples.
PRE-PROD OF A MOTION PICTURE
Pre-Production of the Motion Picture teaches Creative Producing students how to breakdown, schedule and prep all aspects of a low budget independent feature film. Using one shooting script as a case study, the class will learn to think critically and master each step of the pre-production process. Students will prepare script breakdowns, production strip boards, call sheets and a full production binder. Topics will include state tax incentives, payroll services, union contracts, deal memos/hiring paperwork, casting, labor laws, hiring BTL crew, legal, insurance and deliverables. Additionally, students will become proficient in Movie Magic Scheduling. Required for all second-year Creative Producing students and only open to students in that concentration.
- Department: Film
- R 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dana Kuznetzkoff
Info - 3 points
LIE GROUPS & REPRESENTATIONS
Topics include basic notions of groups with algebraic and geometric examples; symmetry; Lie algebras and groups; representations of finite and compact Lie groups; finite groups and counting principles; maximal tori of a compact Lie group.
- Department: Mathematics
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Andrei Okounkov
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 55 Info - 4.5 points
Exposure Assessment
EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT
This course provides an overview of environmental exposure assessment in public health. The course addresses chemical, noise, and radiation exposures through air, soil, water and food contact. Exposure routes considered include inhalation, ingestion and absorption. Methods for environmental and personal exposure monitoring will be covered, including biomarkers of internal exposure. Moreover, methods for quantifying environmental injustice or racism will be covered. In a hands-on class project, smartphones will be used to conduct environmental exposure assessment in a local community, and data bio-shared for spatio-temporal analyses by the students. Finally evolving concepts in exposure science such as the exposome will be introduced.
- Department: Environmental Health Sciences
- T 4 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Markus Hilpert
Info - 1.5 points
CAPSTONE: NETWORKING & SUSTAINABILITY
CAPSTONE: NETWORKNG & SUS
- Department: Negotiation & Conflict Resolution
- USU 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mark A Whitlock
Info - 3 points
MUSEUM ANTHROP:HIST & THEORY
This course will consider museums as reflectors of social priorities which store important objects and display them in ways that present significant cultural messages. Students visit several New York museums to learn how a museum functions.
- Department: Anthropology
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Brian Boyd
CULPA: 6
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NUCLEAR MEDICINE PRACTICUM
Practical applications of nuclear medicine theory and application for processing and analysis of clinical images and radiation safety and quality assurance programs. Topics may include tomography, instrumentation, and functional imaging. Reports.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
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Instructor:
Klaus A Hamacher
Info - 3 points
ORCHESTRATION
- Department: Music
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Amy Williams
Info - 3 points
ORAL PATHOLOGY
- Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
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Instructor:
Elizabeth Philipone
h-index: 11 Info - 0 points
INVESTMENT DECISION AND CAPITAL FORMATIO
INVESTMENT DECISION & CAP
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- TR 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
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Instructor:
Mark Weidner
Info - 1.5 points
HEALTH PHYSICS PRACTICUM
Radiation protection practices and procedures for clinical and biomedical research environments. Includes design, radiation safety surveys of diagnostic and therapeutic machine source facilities, the design and radiation protection protocols for facilities using unsealed sources of radioactivity – nuclear medicine suites and sealed sources – brachytherapy suites. Also includes radiation protection procedures for biomedical research facilities and the administration of programs for compliance to professional health physics standards and federal and state regulatory requirements for the possession and use of radioactive materials and machine sources of ionizing and non ionizing radiations in clinical situations. Individual topics are decided by the student and the collaborating Clinical Radiation Safety Officer.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
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Instructor:
Peter Caracappa
h-index: 12 Info - 3 points
Scientist and the Storyteller
Designed for students in science and public health programs, this course bridges the gap between scientific research and the distribution of important health information to the public. Students are given an in-depth look at how science journalists work: their reporting techniques, writing and producing methods, and, ultimately, how they contextualize and distribute scientific information to their audiences. Students will be taught best practices for collaborating with journalists to ensure that their research reaches the public in the most intelligible and factual ways. For students training in science journalism, this course will provide perspective into how scientists think and the way they are trained to report research findings to scientific and lay audiences. Providing an opportunity for cross-talk between these two adjacent disciplines, this class will train scientists to be better communicators and journalists to be better translators of scientific information. Co-taught by leaders in the fields of public health and journalism, this course is a practical guide for researchers hoping to extend the reach and impact of their work.
- Department: General Public Health
- W 5:30 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
- 3 points
Principles of Epidemiology I
PRINCIPLES OF EPIDEMIOLOG
Epidemiology is one of the pillars of public health. Epidemiologists study the distribution and determinants of disease in human populations; they also develop and test ways to prevent and control disease. The discipline covers the full range of disease occurrence, including genetic and environmental causes for both infectious and noninfectious diseases. Increasingly, epidemiologists view causation in the broadest sense, as extending from molecular factors at the one extreme, to social and cultural determinants at the other. This course introduces students to the theory, methods, and body of knowledge of epidemiology. Principles of Epidemiology is designed for students in all fields of public health. The primary objective of the course is to teach the basic principles and applications of epidemiology.
- Department: Epidemiology
- WR 5:30 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
- 3 points
PRINCIPLES OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
- Department: ONLINE MS IN EPIDEMIOLOGY
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Instructor:
Melissa Dupont
Info - 3 points
LIT/RES-LAT AMER/CARIB STUD I
- Department: Latin-American & Carib RS
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gustavo S Azenha
h-index: 6 Info - 4 points
TRANSLATION WORKSHOP
LIT TRANSLATION WRKSHP
- Department: Writing
- R 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
- T 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Susan Bernofsky
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Instructor:
Natasha Wimmer
Info - 3 points
MODERN GEOMETRY
Manifold theory; differential forms, tensors and curvature; homology and cohomology; Lie groups and Lie algebras; fiber bundles; homotopy theory and defects in quantum field theory; geometry and string theory.
- Department: Mathematics
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Elena Giorgi
h-index: 5 Info - 4.5 points
Technology Management Capstone
The TMGT Capstone serves as the culmination of the M.S. in Technology Management program journey. In this course, students will apply the learnings from the entire program to solve a real-world challenge that an organization is facing with a technology solution.
- Department: Technology Management
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
- 3 points
Technology Management Capstone
The TMGT Capstone serves as the culmination of the M.S. in Technology Management program journey. In this course, students will apply the learnings from the entire program to solve a real-world challenge that an organization is facing with a technology solution.
- Department: Technology Management
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Katja Schroeder
Info - 3 points
Technology Management Capstone
The TMGT Capstone serves as the culmination of the M.S. in Technology Management program journey. In this course, students will apply the learnings from the entire program to solve a real-world challenge that an organization is facing with a technology solution.
- Department: Technology Management
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
- 3 points
MATH METHODS FOR ECONOMISTS
Prerequisites: multi-variable differential calculus, linear algebra and basic real analysis. Introduction to the mathematical techniques needed for the study of economics and econometric methods. Topics include the vector spaces, Hilbert spaces, Banach spaces, linear transformations; optimization theory, and linear differential and difference equations.
- Department: Economics
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jennifer La'O
h-index: 9 Info - 4 points
Settlers and Natives
This course is designed to introduce the student to key debates in the study of societies marked by the centrality of settler-native relations: We shall focus on four key debates: (a) how to conceptualize extreme violence, as criminal or political; (b) the relationship of perpetrators to beneficiaries; (c) the significance of human rights institutions, from the Nuremberg Court to the International Criminal Court to the question of decolonization: and (d) the making of a political community of survivors after catastrophe. The class will be organized around several case studies: (a) Ireland; (b) the Americas; (c) Haiti; (d) Australia; (e) the Nuremberg Court; (f) South Africa; and (g) Israel / Palestine.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mahmood Mamdani
CULPA: 21
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h-index: 57
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- 4 points
TRANSLATION SEMINAR
IMPOSSIBLE TRANSLATIONS
TRANSLATION SEMINAR
- Department: Writing
- R 1:10 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Katrina Dodson
Info - 3 points
TRANSLATION SEMINAR
THE GLOBAL SURREAL
TRANSLATION SEMINAR
- Department: Writing
- T 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Emma Ramadan
Info - 3 points
INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMETRICS I
Corequisites: ECON G6410 and the director of graduate studies' permission. Introduction to probability theory and statistical inference.
- Department: Economics
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- 4 points
PROSEMINAR-ETHNOMUSICOLOGY I
Introduction to Ethnomusicology: the history of the discipline and the evolution of theories and methods. G6412, Proseminar in Ethnomusicology II: Contemporary Ethnography is offered Fall 2012.
- Department: Music
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alessandra M Ciucci
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
COMPARATIVE POLITICS SURVEY I
This is the first course in the two-semester sequence surveying covering foundational research in comparative politics across the developed and developing world. The course is designed for Ph.D. students preparing for comprehensive exams and who intend to conduct research relating to comparative politics, and has two core objectives. The first objective is to expose students to a range of arguments organized around questions motivating major research agendas in comparative politics. The second objective is to expose students to processes of theorizing, hypothesis formation, and testing and to strengthen students’ analytical skills in evaluating and critiquing political science research. It should go without saying that these two classes cannot exhaustively cover the many important works, topics, and methodologies in the field.
The Fall semester of this sequence will primarily focus on citizen-level and politician-level behaviors, while the Spring semester will focus on more macro-level institutions and applications of the building blocks covered in this course. However, it is not necessary to take the classes in a particular order.
- Department: Political Science
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Cesar Zucco
Info - 4 points
LIGHTWAVE DEVICES
Electro-optics: principles; electro-optics of liquid crystals and photo-refractive materials. Nonlinear optics: second-order nonlinear optics; third-order nonlinear optics; pulse propagation and solitons. Acousto-optics: interaction of light and sound; acousto-optic devices. Photonic switching and computing: photonic switches; all-optical switches; bistable optical devices. Introduction to fiber-optic communications: components of the fiber-optic link; modulation, multiplexing and coupling; system performance; receiver sensitivity; coherent optical communications.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Xiang Meng
h-index: 8 Info - 3 points
Econometrics III
This is the first course of the second year PhD econometrics sequence with emphasis on both economic applications and computationally intense methods for analysis of large and/or complex models. Students can attend the whole sequence or only one of them. While the details of the econometric techniques will be discussed extensively, the core and focus of the course is on the applications of these techniques to the study of actual data. Students will be practiced in econometric methods through computer-based exercises.
Prerequisites: Students should have a good understanding of graduate econometrics and should have taken ECON G6411 and G6412.
- Department: Economics
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jushan Bai
CULPA: 6 Wikipedia h-index: 52 Info - 3 points
INTRO-THEORY OF ELASTICITY I
Analysis of stress and strain. Formulation of the problem of elastic equilibrium. Torsion and flexure of prismatic bars. Problems in stress concentration, rotating disks, shrink fits, and curved beams; pressure vessels, contact and impact of elastic bodies, thermal stresses, propagation of elastic waves.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
- M 9:10 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
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Instructor:
Adrian Buganza Tepole
Info - 3 points
APPLIED QUANTUM OPTICS
An introduction to fundamental concepts of quantum optics and quantum electrodynamics with an emphasis on applications in nanophotonic devices. The quantization of the electromagnetic field; coherent and squeezed states of light; interaction between light and electrons in the language of quantum electrodynamics (QED); optical resonators and cavity QED; low-threshold lasers; and entangled states of light.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Xiang Meng
h-index: 8 Info - 3 points
INTRO TO TRANSPORTATION PLAN
Prerequisites: A4404: or the instructor's permission Discussion of major issues in transportation at several levels, from national to local, and covering the economic, political, and social implications of decision-making in transportation. Current topics and case studies are investigated.\n \n
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- R 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rachel Weinberger
Info - 3 points
CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN PLAYS
A Thematic Exploration
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- Department: Theatre Arts
- W 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
James Ijames
Info - 3 points
RES METHODS IN ANIMAL BEHAVIOR
- Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Marina Cords
CULPA: 19 Info - 3 points
ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION
Prerequisites: (ECON GR6211 and ECON GR6212 and ECON GR6215 and ECON GR6216 and ECON GR6412 and ECON GR6411 and This course will provide an overview of current research on the economics of education. The course will pay special attention to: i) the use of credible research designs, and ii) the use of theory in evaluating the mechanisms that underlie the identied eects
- Department: Economics
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Sebastian Otero
Info - 3 points
ARTISTIC RESEARCH
This graduate course is designed to explore the ways in which research can be approached through artistic practices. Through interdisciplinary approaches, students will explore and develop the use of artistic methodologies in their research practices, culminating in a final multidisciplinary art project that demonstrates the integration of these practices into their research.
- Department: Theatre Arts
- M 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Maria Jose Contreras
Info - 3 points
OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS
Introduction to optical interconnects and interconnection networks for digital systems. Fundamental optical interconnects technologies, optical interconnection network design, characterization, and performance evaluation. Enabling photonic technologies including free-space structures, hybrid and monolithic integration platforms for photonic on-chip, chip-to-chip, backplane, and node-to-node interconnects, as well as photonic networks on-chip.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Keren Bergman
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 69 Info - 3 points
BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS
Prerequisites: Completion of 1st year graduate program in Economics, or the instructor's permission. The standard model of economic behavior describes a perfectly rational, self interested utility maximizer with unlimited cognitive resources. In many cases, this provides a good approximation to the types of behavior that economists are interested in. However, over the past 30 years, experimental and behavioral economists have documented ways in which the standard model is not just wrong, but is wrong in ways that are important for economic outcomes. Understanding these behaviors, and their implications, is one of the most exciting areas of current economic inquiry. This course will study three important topics within behavioral economics: Bounded rationality, temptation and self control and reference dependent preferences. It will draw on research from behavioral economics, experimental economics, decision theory, psychology and neuroscience in order to describe the models that have been developed to explain failures of the standard approach, the evidence in support of these models, and their economic implications.
- Department: Economics
- F 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mark Dean
CULPA: 2 h-index: 26 Info - 3 points
SUPERVISED TEACHING ASSISTANCE
Prerequisites: permission of the faculty member who will direct the teaching. Participation in ongoing teaching.
- Department: Psychology
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Instructor:
Katherine T Fox-Glassman
CULPA: 6
h-index: 4
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INTRO TO HEALTH ECONOMICS
- Department: Executive Classes in HPM
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Instructor:
Matthew J Neidell
Info - 3 points
Introduction to Health Economics
INTRODUCTN TO HEALTH ECON
Health economics provides theories and tools for understanding, predicting, and changing human behavior. Understanding and changing the behavior of firms and individuals, designing health policies, and managing firms and organizations concerned with delivering health care and improving health, requires a solid foundation in health economics. In this course, students will learn the concepts in health economics most relevant and important to public health professionals and how these economic concepts can be applied to improving health care and the public health systems. Students will identify the basic concepts of health economics for the purposes of solving problems using these concepts, and apply these concepts in new contexts within public health.
- Department: Health Policy & Management
- W 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
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Instructor:
Matthew J Neidell
Info - 3 points
CLOWN II - RESEARCH ARTS
- Department: Theatre Arts
- R 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ralf Jean-Pierre
Info - 0 points
Health Policy and the Political System
HEALTH POLICY-POLITICAL S
Why does the government play such a central role in the health of its citizens? What factors unique to American politics have given us the healthcare system we currently have, and how much change can be accomplished within our philosophical and ethical confines? How do political changes yield policy shifts - or not? This course analyzes the role of major institutions - the central government, the federal system, the private sector, interest groups, and so on - in formulating and implementing health policy in the United States. We will discuss underlying normative issues and crossnational perspectives on healthcare to situate American healthcare policy along a broader global political spectrum, and attempt to forecast what changes are likely - or unlikely - to occur. Topics will include political history, policy formation and recommendations, market forces and economic influences, and more.
- Department: Health Policy & Management
- W 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lawrence D Brown
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FICTION LECTURE
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- Department: Writing
- M 10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Joshua A Cohen
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- Department: Writing
- W 5:15 p.m.-7:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Erroll G McDonald
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Critical Issues in Hospital Management
HOSP ORGANIZATION/MANAGEM
This course is intended to give the student a broad understanding of the components of the health care system and the basic management principles of hospital organization and management. The course will employ a variety of learning formats for students including lectures by the instructors, guest lecturers with special expertise, case studies and student presentations. Emphasis will be on the historical trends of health care statistics and operating data of health care institutions; the history of hospitals and health care systems; their organization and finances; regulatory controls; management strategies; accreditation and professional standards; government; private insurance; administrative leadership and professional interactions, emergency services, healthcare trends and marketing.
SPEECH I
In this course, students will enhance and deepen their understanding of how the human voice and articulators partner together to create language. They will explore their own individual Idiolects and gain the skills to recalibrate their instruments in order to enhance the expressiveness and dynamic contrast of their speech. The phonemes of the International Alphabet (IPA) will be employed to specify the sounds of Detailed North American English (DNAE).
- Department: Theatre Arts
- TR 9 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth Hayes
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Instructive Biomaterials
Covers biomaterials that are instructive or have been designed or engineered to be instructive; structure-function-property relationships in natural and synthetic biomaterials. Advances in understanding of material properties emphasized; including electroactivity, chemical, mechanical, geometry/architecture, and the modification of material surfaces and context of their effect on biological function. Evolving field of smart biomaterials discussed. Exercises/demonstrations using materials characterization equipment conducted.
- Department: Biomedical Engineering
- W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Treena L Arinzeh
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Healthcare in the Arts
HEALTHCARE IN THE ARTS &
The goal of this course is to give future health care workers and researchers a richer understanding of how their profession relates to the rest of society, and how art and popular entertainment has constructed, shaped, and sometimes distorted our shared social and cultural understanding of the field. The class will offer a whole new and different context to explore the issues students are studying in their other classes: from policy to management, from epidemiology to global health, even
economics. Among other things, we will humanize the data and theory students learn at Mailman. This leads to more complex and rigorous thinking. At its heart a class on communication, this course will consider healthcare, art, and the media in the
broadest sense. We will examine the ways society?s sometimes-troubled, but always fascinating healthcare systems has evolved with, and perhaps due to, its depictions by artists through the years. Using academic journal articles to provide context, we will consider sources as disparate as the Egyptian Book of the Dead; fiction by Denis Johnson, Virginia Wolf, Celine, Ernest Hemingway, and others; the poetry of Emily Dickenson, Lucie Brock-Broido, Henri Cole, and William Carlos
Williams; literary essays by Montaigne, George Orwell, Meehan Crist, Malcolm Gladwell; Movies by Vittorio Di Sica, and Michael Moore; and perhaps the weirdest musical ever made: a sci-fi, healthcare horror starring Anthony Stewart Head (Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Paris Hilton, Sarah Brightman and Paul Sorvino. We will take a look at some fantastic pieces of propaganda and commercials that can be viewed as activist art; and finally students will produce their own piece of healthcare-inspired creative work.
- Department: Health Policy & Management
- R 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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NONFICTION LECTURE
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NONFICTION LECTURE
- Department: Writing
- W 10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Chloe Jones
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Writing on Eurasia
This course is designed to help MA-level students improve their researching and writing skills, and become adept at distilling acquired knowledge into straightforward prose. The aim is to assist students in being more effective communicators regardless of whether they pursue careers in academia, journalism, government service, private enterprise or the non-governmental sector. The course will also promote better understanding of how to get work published by mass media outlets. The course places particular emphasis on practical work, including the preparation of commentaries and book reviews concerning current affairs in Eurasia. Lectures examine the basic elements of editing, interviewing and concise writing. Other lectures focus on how to maintain personal and digital security while living and researching/working in Eurasia, and discuss best practices on harnessing social media for career advancement. Guest speakers will provide additional perspectives on ways to make writing on academic topics more accessible to the general reading public, and how to leverage expertise in Eurasian-area affairs in ways that can jump-start careers.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- R 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Justin Burke
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Healthcare Accounting and Budgeting
HLTH CARE ACCOUNTING&BUDG
The current market places increasing demands on healthcare managers so it is essential that individuals possess basic skills related to financial management and financial reporting. Current events make these demands more dynamic than ever. This course is intended for students who are interested in expanding their knowledge of healthcare financial issues and/or pursuing careers that involve financial management in the healthcare sector. The focus will be on non-profit healthcare delivery organizations.
- Department: Health Policy & Management
- R 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
- T 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Francine M Caracappa
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ISSUES/APPROC-HLTH POLICY/MGMT
- Department: Executive Classes in HPM
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Instructor:
Michael S Sparer
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Issues and Approaches in Health Policy a
ISSUES-APPROACHES-HLTH PO
How is the health care system organized? Who pays the bill? Why have efforts to enact national health insurance failed? What role does government now play in the US health care system, and how do different levels of government share these tasks? Contrary to many perceptions, the fervent debate of these questions is not a recent phenomenon; these are issues that have been argued vigorously throughout American political history. Exploring these debates is critical both to the development of public health policy and the management of delivery systems.
This course focuses on policy and management issues that affect all health care practitioners. We will examine, among other topics, the historical foundations of the American health care system, the rise of managed care, the make-up of the healthcare workforce, the key issues on the nation’s long-term care policy agenda, and ways in which government can encourage good quality care. This introductory course is intended for MHA students and serves to fulfill a core course requirement in Health Policy and Management.
- Department: Health Policy & Management
- T 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
- M 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lawrence D Brown
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Instructor:
Sorcha Brophy
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POETRY LECTURE
POETS ON POETS
POETRY LECTURE
- Department: Writing
- M 2:10 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alice Quinn
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CHEMICAL ENGIN RES METHODOLOGY
- Department: Chemical Engineering
- T 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Allie Obermeyer
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Analytics and Managerial Decision-Making
ANALYTCS/MANAGR DECISION
Analytics and Managerial Decision-Making I is the first of two required quantitative methods courses taken in sequence by all MHA students. These courses are foundational to the MHA curriculum. The two courses are fully integrated with respect to materials, exercises and cases, and by a two-term, team-based application project.
Managers are continually confronted with the need to make significant decisions concerning the organizational and financial performance of a health organization, based on a combination of strategic intention, practical experience, and interpretation and application of complex data and information. Data analysis is one tool that supports such decision-making. This course is designed to provide management students with the tools to generate and present data-driven and model-based management recommendations that are meaningful and implementable.
The course focuses on learning basic tools for the collection, analysis, and presentation of data in support of managerial/executive decision-making. Topics will include introductory data and statistical exploration from basic descriptive statistics to population and market estimation, comparison testing and decision-making, sampling design and analysis, and predicting/forecasting using linear regression. Using Excel as an additional tool, the course develops analytical skills to prepare managers to make and to present informed decisions in the overall healthcare sector.
Counterfactuals
Counterfactuals play a key role in philosophy, linguistics, psychology, decision theory, game theory, artificial
intelligence, and many other related fields. Our goal for this course is to cover foundational work on
counterfactuals (with some attention paid to indicative conditionals as well). Though our reading list has
a historical component, its primary purpose is to familiarize students with contemporary state of play. We
will focus on distinctions and applications that have become an essential part of the working philosopher’s
toolkit.
- Department: Philosophy
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Melissa S Fusco
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Reverse Physics: Set Theory, Determinism
Baroque questions of set-theoretic foundations are widely assumed to be irrelevant to physics. In
this seminar, we will see that they are not. Whether a physical theory is deterministic—whether
it fixes a unique future given the present—can depend on one’s stance on axioms of set theory
about which there is intractable disagreement. This is not a quirk of exotic toy models. It reaches
into the heat equation, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and general relativity. The
seminar builds from the ground up. We begin with the philosophy of determinism: what it
means, why it matters, and how it has traditionally been formalized. We then develop enough set
theory and descriptive set theory to state the key results precisely. In the second half, we work
through the sensitivity results in detail, showing how the content of fundamental physical
theories shifts with the set-theoretic background. We conclude by asking what this means for
debates about mathematical pluralism, scientific realism, and the boundary between mathematics
and physics.
No prior knowledge of set theory or mathematical physics is assumed. The seminar is open to
graduate students in philosophy and, with permission, to advanced graduate students in
mathematics, physics, and related fields.
- Department: Philosophy
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Justin Clarke-Doane
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PUB-PRIV PARTSHP-REAL EST DEV
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- R 4:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
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AMERICAN SPECTACLE
In this workshop, students will create original writing that is in conversation with American theatrical traditions beyond the proscenium. We will investigate and engage theatrical forms, such as the side show, courtroom drama, violence as spectacle and performance art. The aim is to encourage students to think more expansively and non-traditionally in their approach to writing and making theatre.
- Department: Theatre Arts
- F 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lynn Nottage
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