SUPERVISED STUDIES IN GERMANY (BCGS)

German Discourse&Cult.III

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Carmen Mueller
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• 6 points

THE SOCIOLOGY OF PUNISHMENT

This graduate seminar mixes sociological and historical accounts in order to explore thesocial determinants and consequences of the U.S. criminal justice system. The class casts awide net – exploring classical texts as well as contemporary scholarship from a range ofsociological traditions. We begin by discussing classical texts in order to understand the theoretical traditions thatunderlie the most interesting contemporary work on the sociology of punishment. Buildingon the work of Marxist criminologists like Rusche and Kirchheimer, we explore therelationship between the U.S. criminal justice system and the market. To what extent can weunderstand the penal field as autonomous from economic relationships? To what extent doeconomic forces or logics determine criminological thinking and practice? Building onDurkheim, we explore how punishment is both reflective of social values and constitutive ofsocial solidarity, and investigate the symbolic consequences (intended and unintended) ofcontemporary punishment regimes. Building on readings from Foucault, we explorepunishment and its relationship to the emergence of new forms of bureaucratic anddisciplinary power. Finally, with Goffman, we explore the interactive context of the prisonas relatively autonomous from the external forces that bring it into being. With the classical theorists behind us, we turn to a history of the present. What is the age atwhich we are living today? What are the economic, political, and symbolic causes andconsequences of mass incarceration? To what extent can we understand mass incarceration,and more recent reform efforts, as reflective or constitutive of new forms of power incontemporary society?Finally, we conclude by asking what the future might hold. After four decades of explosivegrowth, the U.S. incarceration rate has been declining slowly for the last several years. Crimerates have declined steadily for the last quarter century. At the same time, Black LivesMatter has put renewed focus on the ways in which the state continues to exert violence inpoor communities of color. How should we understand the current period of reform. What are its social and political possibilities and limitations? What would a just justice systemeven entail?

• Department: Sociology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Adam Reich
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

FOURTH-YEAR RUSSIAN II

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MWF 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Tatiana Mikhailova
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• 4 points

ARCHITECT WRITERS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Hilary M Sample-Meredith
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• 3 points

World Religions

(1)       We begin with a study for the Parliament of the World’s Religions (PWR), held at the Columbian Exhibition at Chicago in 1893, because it is so often regarded as one of the great annunciatory moments for the field. A number of the 19th-century European “founding fathers” were invited or present, as was Swami Vivekananda, who has been at least as significant as any of them for the development of the field as a global idea. The PWR’s American location broadens Tomoko Masuzawa’s magisterial description of the “invention of world religions” by initially shifting attention away from its European base. It also introduces us to the element of display involved in announcing this idea and to one of its most important institutional partners: the University of Chicago.

 

(2)       In the second part of the course we investigate the consolidation/invention of the conceptual entities that comprise “world religions,” as well as debates about just how many of them they are, and by what principle of accounting:  To exemplify the production of “isms” that are said to comprise the world religions, we investigate the conceptual origins of Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, the Judeo-Christian Tradition, and most recently The Indigenous.  

 

(3)        At the end we consider an institution founded around the idea of World Religions—Harvard’s Center for the Study of World Religions—and wonder how it compares to what has been done at Columbia and its neighbor institutions in New York: the Interfaith Center of New York, the Jewish Theological Seminary, and Union Theological Seminary.

 

(4)       The course includes a workshop (2/21) in which we discuss various materials we might use if we ourselves were asked to teach a “world religions” course. We conclude with a mini-conference (4/24) in which you present your work and respond to that of others. There are two possibilities for the sort of work you might do, as listed below. Whichever you choose, please discuss your intentions with me by Friday, February 23.  A two-page proposal and draft bibliography are due by midnight that day. OPTIONS:

 

            (a) You can do a research paper on some aspect of the course—possibly

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: John S Hawley
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 4 points

Black Sea Virtual Textbook: A Digital Re

This course is a continuation of History 4218, The Black Sea in History. It is open to all alumni of that class, from Fall 2023 or earlier. The goal of this research seminar is to craft a “virtual textbook” that gathers materials for each session of The Black Sea in History and posts them to a student-designed site. The primary “pull” of this class is that upper-level undergraduates, MA students, and PhD students will write (at least) one research article that will be published on the site. The site will serve as a textbook for future iterations of The Black Sea in History, and, while we will have a complete version by the end of the semester, future students will also be able to contribute. BSVT will be publicly accessible, so not limited to classroom use.

• Department: History
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Catherine Evtuhov
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

QUES IN ARCH HISTORY II

Developments in architectural history during the modern period. Emphasis on moments of significant change in architecture (theoretical, economic, technological, and institutional). Themes include positive versus arbitrary beauty, enlightenment urban planning, historicism, structural rationalism, the housing reform movement, iron and glass technology, changes generated by developments external or internal to architecture itself and transformations in Western architecture.

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

Biomechanics of Developmental Biology

BIOMECHANICS DEVELOPMENTA

Biophysical mechanisms of tissue organization

during embryonic development: conservation laws, reaction-diffusion, finite elasticity, and fluid mechanics are reviewed and applied to a broad range of topics in developmental biology, from early development to later organogenesis of the central nervous, cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, respiratory, and gastrointestinal systems. Subdivided into modules on patterning (conversion of diffusible cues into cell fates) and morphogenesis (shaping of tissues), the course will include lectures, problem sets, reading of primary literature, and a final project.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Nandan L Nerurkar
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• 3 points

CINEMA OF SUBVERSION

Russian filmmaker Andre Tarkovsky said that “the artist has no right to an idea in which he is not socially committed.” Argentine filmmaker Fernando Solanas and Spanish-born Octavio Getino postulated an alternative cinema that would spur spectators to political action. In this course we will ask the question: How do authoritarian governments influence the arts, and how do artists respond? We will study how socially committed filmmakers have subverted and redefined cinema aesthetics to challenge authoritarianism and repression. In addition, we will look at how some filmmakers respond to institutional oppression, such as poverty and corruption, even within so-called “free” societies. The focus is on contemporary filmmakers but will also include earlier classics of world cinema to provide historical perspective. The course will discuss these topics, among others: What is authoritarianism, what is totalitarianism, and what are the tools of repression within authoritarian/totalitarian societies? What is Third Cinema, and how does it represent and challenge authoritarianism? How does film navigate the opposition of censorship, propaganda and truth? How do filmmakers respond to repressive laws concerning gender and sexual orientation? How do they deal with violence and trauma? How are memories of repressive regimes reflected in the psyche of modern cinema? And finally, what do we learn about authority, artistic vision, and about ourselves when we watch these films?

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Eric Gamalinda
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Montaigne and the Modern Self

This seminar, which focuses on Montaigne’s 
Essays
, is one of a series on the history of the modern self.  The series has included seminars on figures like Pascal, Rousseau, and Tocqueville, and will continue to expand.

• Department: History
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Lilla
  CULPA: 57 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Mathematical Tools for Theoretical Neuro

Math Tools for Theoretica

An introduction to mathematical concepts used in theoretical neuroscience aimed to give a minimal requisite background for NBHV G4360, Introduction to Theoretical Neuroscience. The target audience is students with minimal mathematical background who are interested in rapidly acquiring the vocabulary and basic mathematical skills for studying theoretical neuroscience, or who wish to gain a deeper exposure to mathematical concepts than offered by NBHV G4360. Topics include single- and multivariable calculus, linear algebra, differential equations, dynamical systems, and probability. Examples and applications are drawn primarily from theoretical and computational neuroscience.

• Department: Neurobiology and Behavior
• TR 12:10 p.m.-1:25 p.m.
• 3 points

Armenians and the Modern World

This course provides an introductory overview of modern Armenian history, spanning from the 19th century when Armenians lived across the Ottoman, Iranian, and Russian empires up to the present. It covers key historical events, including Ottoman reforms, Armenian revolutionary movements, the Armenian Genocide, periods of independence, Soviet rule, and the emergence of the Republic of Armenia in 1991. While the history of modern state in Armenian experience is a crucial aspect of the course, it also places a substantial focus on understanding Armenians as an intersectional community crossing imperial, national, and regional boundaries and belongings. The course employs innovative methods, primary sources, and digital materials to provide a comprehensive understanding of Armenian history and culture in a global context.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Cevat Dargin
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• 4 points

Empire and Environment in Eurasia, 1700-

Empire & Environ. in Eura

The Soviet Union, like the Russian Empire before it, straddled one-sixth of the planet’s landmass. Both powers drew on this territory’s vast resources—organic, mineral, animal, and human—to dominate their neighbors and exert power on the world stage. In the process, they dramatically reconfigured local ecosystems, from Central Asian deserts to Pacific islands. This seminar traces the interaction between empire and environment across three eras: Tsarist, Soviet, and post-Soviet. Its approach is comparative, framing developments in Russia alongside those elsewhere—in China, Europe, and the US. The course asks: How have modern polities transformed Eurasia’s land, water, and air? In turn, how has the natural world shaped the trajectories of diverse imperial projects? And what legacies have these encounters left for today? Topics include settler colonialism, energy transitions, “natural” disasters, warfare, environmentalism, scientific diplomacy, ecocide, climate change, and the comparative footprints of capitalism and communism. While the approach is historical, students will engage materials from across disciplines (alongside films, novellas, and other primary sources) with an eye towards today’s political and ecological dilemmas. The seminar is designed for upper-division and graduate students with an interest in environmental history methods. Previous exposure to Russian and Eurasian Studies is helpful, but not required.

• Department: History
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Taylor Zajicek
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• 4 points

Green Chemical Engineering & Innovation

Approaches used in chemistry and chemical engineering to design green, sustainable products and processes; focus of using the tenets of green chemistry as a means for chemical innovation. Technical and design practice and measuring the impacts of green and conventional approaches emphasized. Themes of business, regulatory, ethical, and social considerations relevant to chemical engineering practice.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Christopher S Chen
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• 3 points

Advocacy for Socio-Economic RIghts

Advocacy & Camp: Soc&Econ

This course will examine practical issues, opportunities, tactics and strategies to advocate for economic and social rights. The course will incorporate central debates about economic and social rights, such as how to identify violators and define state responsibility, whether these rights can be litigated, and how to make implementable recommendations for change, measure implementation and measure impact. The course will also look more in depth at the standards and fulfillment challenges on several of the key rights including health, housing, education, and labor.  

Throughout the course, you will focus on one economic and social rights topic of your choice. Through the lens of your chosen topic, you will review how organizations and social movements have engaged to affect change on similar issues, and use that research to explore many of the practical skills of advocacy and campaigning: framing recommendations and calls to action; drafting policy briefs; crafting media pitches and social media content; and designing and evaluating an overall advocacy strategy.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Mila H Rosenthal
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• 3 points

ARAB MODERNISM(S)

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Yasser Elsheshtawy
  h-index: 18 Info
• 3 points

Trials for history: How should Nazi crim

Trials for history (1945-

Nearly 80 years have passed since the Second World War: a majority of Europeans no longer have an autobiographical memory of the war. Yet the legacy of the Second World War is all the more present because the “heroic” myths that many European nations adopted after 1945 have now been replaced by negative memories. Europe no longer celebrates the Resistance fighter who died for a cause, but now recognizes European Jews as victims. To explore the way in which the Second World War remains present in post-war European societies that it helped to shape, the seminar will take as its starting point the Nuremberg trials of 1945-1948 and continue throughout the last trials of Nazi criminals in Germany. It will also look at the responses of the judicial, political and social actors. The seminar highlights the extent to which the complex relationship between justice, history and memory surrounding the Second World War is still relevant today. Through various case studies, we will examine the political, memorial and legal issues and debates raised by this difficult history through a comparative analysis of trials in France and Germany, thereby situating these processes in a European context. The seminar questions the place of witnesses and the administration of evidence in these collective crimes and invites reflection on the types of sources that public policies of the past can mobilize to mediate these trials for the "devoir de mémoire” (obligation of remembrance). A variety of sources will be used including, news clips, photographs and legal documents, in addition to the preparatory readings for each session.

• Department: History
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Fabien Theofilakis
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• 4 points

Britain and the end of empire in Southea

Britain/Southeast Asia 19

This course examines the contraction of British imperial power in Southeast Asia from the opening of the Pacific War in 1941/42 to the decisions of the Labour Government in 1967/68 to withdraw from ‘East of Suez’.  As well as analysing the explanations offered for the retreat from formal colonial rule, the course explores how attempts were made to preserve influence and control the pace of change.  The interactions between metropolitan weakness and local nationalisms will be emphasised, as will be the effects of the Cold War.  Attention will also be paid to Anglo-American relations and the wars in Indochina.

• Department: History
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew Jones
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• 4 points

Romanticism

This course is designed as an overview of major texts (in poetry and prose), contexts, and themes in British Romanticism. The movement of Romanticism was born in the ferment of revolution, and developed alongside so many of the familiar features of the modern world—features for which Romanticism provides a vantage point for insight and critique. As we read authors including William Blake, Jane Austen, John Keats, Mary Shelley, and many others, we will situate our discussions around the following key issues: the development of individualism and new formations of community; industrialization and ecology (changes in nature and in the very conception of “nature”); and slavery and abolition.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph Albernaz
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED PRINTMAKING

Prerequisites: VIAR R2420, or VIAR R2430. (Formerly R3415) Designed for students who have already taken one semester of a printmaking course and are interested in continuing on an upper level. Students are encouraged to work in all areas, separate or combined, using their own vocabulary and imagery to create a body of work by the end of the semester. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• F 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

WAVE TRANSMISSION-FIBER OPTICS

Waves and Maxwell’s equations. Field energetics, dispersion, complex power. Waves in dielectrics and in conductors. Reflection and refraction. Oblique incidence and total internal reflection. Transmission lines and conducting waveguides. Planar and circular dielectric waveguides; integrated optics and optical fibers. Hybrid and LP modes. Graded-index fibers. Mode coupling; wave launching.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Xiang Meng
  h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

Corporate Finance, Accounting & Investme

CorpFin, Account & Invest

Interpret financial statements, build cash flow models, value projects, value companies, and make Corporate Finance decisions. Additional topics include: cost of capital, dividend policy, debt policy, impact of taxes, Shareholder/Debtholder agency costs, dual-class shares, using option pricing theory to analyze management behavior, investment banking activities, including equity underwriting, syndicated lending, venture capital, private equity investing and private equity secondaries. Application of theory in real-world situations: analyzing financial activities of companies such as General Electric, Google, Snapchat, Spotify, and Tesla.

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

SIMULATION

Generation of random numbers from given distributions; variance reduction; statistical output analysis; introduction to simulation languages; application to financial, telecommunications, computer, and production systems. Graduate students must register for 3 points. Undergraduate students must register for 4 points. Note: Students who have taken IEOR E4703 Monte Carlo simulation may not register for this course for credit. Recitation section required.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Christopher J Dolan
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

PRODUCTION SCHEDULING

Required for undergraduate students majoring in IE and OR. Job shop scheduling: parallel machines, machines in series; arbitrary job shops. Algorithms, complexity, and worst-case analysis. Effects of randomness: machine breakdowns, random processing time. Term project.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Yuri Faenza
  h-index: 11 Info
• 3 points

METHODS IN SPATIAL RESEARCH

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Adam K Vosburgh
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• 1.5 points

CLIMATE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY

CLIMATE, TECH, AND SOCIET

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

GAME THEORY

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 Introduction to the systematic treatment of game theory and its applications in economic analysis.

• Department: Economics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Evan D Sadler
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• 3 points

The Creative Self: Autofiction, Psychoan

Creative Self: Autofict P

Fictional autobiography, or autofiction, forces us to question our assumptions about the links
between creativity, truth, and authenticity. Can one invent, or create, one’s own story? It is possible
to write the truth of our selves, by creating it? Intriguingly, a process much like autofictional writing
is at the heart of modern psychoanalytic technique — and research in neuroscience increasingly
suggests that the human brain’s potential to morph and adapt might be instrumental to human
mentation as we know it. Might it be possible, then, to invent our way to a healthier narrative, to a
different life of the mind, or even, perhaps, to a different neural life?
This course explores creativity and self-alteration broadly in three parallel but distinct domains:
autofiction, object-relations psychoanalysis and neuroscience. At one level, this is a course about the
theories of creativity revealed and implied by the peculiar art-form of autofictional writing, by
contemporary psychotherapeutic techniques, and by discoveries pertaining to neural plasticity. At
another level, this is a course about interdisciplinary itself. We will seek to understand when and how
these three disciplines can be used together to create a rich and multilayered understanding of the
problem of human creativity, without resorting to simplistic mergers and crude forms of
reductionism. Literary readings to include Wilfred Bion, Christine Brooke-Rose, Marguerite Duras,
Chris Kraus, Maggie Nelson, Luisa Passerini and others.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Valerio Amoretti
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

Versailles

Along with the Eiffel tower and Notre-Dame cathedral, Versailles is one of the key iconic sites of French history and culture. This course will examine ancient régime court culture through the history of the château de Versailles from Louis XIV’s assumption of power in 1661, when he began building what twenty years later became the seat of the monarchy and center of power, through the reigns of Louis XV to 1789, the end of Versailles as Louis XIV had conceived it. We will concentrate on literature from that period, while also taking a multidisciplinary approach to cultural history through the examination of social, architectural, and artistic aspects of the château de Versailles as concept, mythology, and lived reality. Readings will include memoirs, letters, plays and other contemporary literary accounts of life at Versailles, and we will also watch film treatments from Sacha Guitry’s 1954 “Si Versailles m’était conté” to the recent television series “Versailles.” Students may choose to concentrate on any aspect of the topic for their final project. Authors read will include Sévigné, Saint-Simon, Molière, Racine, La Fontaine, Montesquieu, and Voltaire.

• Department: French
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Caroline Weber
  CULPA: 8 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

"MPA-DP ""Getting Started"""

Prior to the SIPA orientation, MPA-DP students participate in a week-long intensive program called Getting Started. The program introduces students to the MPA-DP program, including skills and resources that lay the foundation for a successful graduate learning experience.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• Instructor: Glenn Denning
  h-index: 14 Info
• 0 points

Medieval Animals, Human and Other

How did medieval people separate themselves from other (non-human) animals? Was it the ability of humans to talk, use tools, exercise rationality or something else? We will consider these questions in the first unit of this class, in which we’ll look at cases of what Agamben calls “the anthropological machine”—the ways in which humans have distinguished themselves from other species. Why do some bestiaries (catalogues of animals) include human animals but not others? How did medieval people understand Genesis and the notion of ‘dominion’ given to humans over the rest of creation? In the next unit, we will turn to talking animals, both in medieval philosophical texts and in literature. Do they speak differently from human animals? Do humans speak differently when speaking of them (for example, do texts about parrots or other bird mimics start to ‘parrot’ other texts?). We next turn to cases of metamorphosis (human to animal or vice versa) and hybridity (in which a single body is both human and animal). What do these texts reveal about what is proper to the human and how does the body play a role in shoring up species identity? In a final unit, we turn to assemblages—conglomerations in which human and nonhuman animals act together. We will look both at chivalry (knight+horse) and at medieval lovers, who are often surrounded by birds.

• Department: French
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Eliza Zingesser
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 3 Info
• 3 points

EUROPEAN POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT

Prerequisites: Course in European history or political science or relevant comparative politics courses. This is an upper-level course in European political development. It is designed for undergraduates who already have some exposure to European history and politics and graduate students. The course will analyze important theoretical works, and debates about, the evolution of European political systems and institutions since the Second World War and place the European experience in comparative perspective

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Sheri Berman
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia h-index: None Info
• 4 points

PRIN OF MAG RESONANCE IMAGING

Fundamental principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), including the underlying spin physics and mathematics of image formation with an emphasis on the application of MRI to neuroimaging, both anatomical and functional. The examines both theory and experimental design techniques.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Christoph Juchem
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 23 Info
• 3 points

NERVOUS SYSTEMS

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

ETH POL ACROS POST-SOV EURASIA

Various forms of ethnic politics have characterized politics in many states throughout Eurasia since 1991, from nationalist separatism to violent conflict to political competition among ethnic minorities and majorities. This course is designed to encourage students to think deeply about the relationship between ethnicity and politics. We will consider several questions. First, why does ethnicity become politicized? We investigate this question by examining nationalist secessionism and ethnic conflict—phenomena that mushroomed at the end of the Cold War. We will focus on East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union, devoting special attention to the cases of Yugoslavia, the USSR, Moldova, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and Chechnya. However, we will also study cases in which the dog didn’t bark, i.e. places where nationalist mobilization and ethnic violence either did not occur, or emerged and then receded as in the ethnic republics of the Russian Federation (including the “Muslim” regions of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan, etc.). In the second part of the course, we will analyze ethnic politics after independent statehood was achieved throughout the post-Soviet space. How do nationalist state-builders try to construct a nation and a state at the same time? Have they incorporated or discriminated against minorities living within “their” states? How have ethnic minorities responded? We will study Ukraine, the Baltics and Kazakhstan where ethnic Russians and Russian-speaking populations form large portions of the population, devoting particular attention to the crisis in Ukraine. We will also examine how the post-conflict regions of Bosnia and Kosovo have dealt with ethnic pluralism. These cases allow us to gain greater understanding of how multi-ethnic states use forms of federalism, consociationalism, and power-sharing as state-building strategies.

• Department: Political Science
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Elise Giuliano
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

NON-MNEMONIC FUNC OF MEMORY SYSTEMS

NON-MNEMONIC FUNC MEMORY

Prerequisites: (PSYC UN1010) or equivalent introductory course in neuroscience or cognitive psychology The past decade has produced an extraordinary amount of evidence that challenges the classic view of a “medial temporal lobe memory system”, namely, the idea that the medial temporal lobe plays a necessary role in long-term memory but not other cognitive functions. This course will introduce these challenges to the traditional perspective by exploring functions of the so-called memory system in domains outside of long-term memory.

• Department: Psychology
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Mariam Aly
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 15 Info
• 4 points

State and Society in Ukraine

State & Society in Ukrain

This course deals with the functioning of the state and society in post-Soviet Ukraine, from its peaceful establishment in 1991 to its affirmation and revision in the crucible of the war with neoimperial Russia since 2014. On the one hand, it examines the formation and subsequent transformation of the state, including he branches of government, the party system, elections, foreign policy, education and social welfare. On the other hand, it discusses various facets of society such as religion, media, language use, gender relations, poverty, racism, etc. In tracing the relations between the state and society on a rocky road from totalitarianism to democracy, particular attention is paid to two upsurges of popular protest against state abuse, namely the Orange and Euromaidan revolution and subsequent attempts to empower society and strengthen its control over the state. No less prominent will be discussions of two military interventions by Russia seeking to keep Ukraine its its sphere of influence, the annexation of Crimea and the instigation of a separatist conflict in the Donbas in 2014, and the full-blown invasion in 2022, and the Ukrainian state and society’s responses to these interventions.

• Department: Political Science
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Volodymyr Kulyk
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• 4 points

TOPICS-NEUROBIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Examines current topics in neurobiology and behavior.

• Department: Psychology
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Carl Hart
  CULPA: 43 Wikipedia h-index: 54 Info
• Instructor: Rae Silver
  Wikipedia h-index: 69 Info
• 3 points

Fundamentals of Human Brain Imaging: fro

Fund of Human Brain Imagi

Fundamentals of human brain imaging is an advanced course open to undergraduates students from the Psychology, Neuroscience, Engineering, and Statistics Departments, that traces the key steps of the recent “neuroimaging revolution”, and introduces the various methodologies and associated analytic approaches that are now available in the field of cognitive neuroscience. Specifically, the course develops around three main questions, currently under-represented in our undergraduate curriculum:
1) What is the advantage to study human cognition using correlational methodologies (e.g., EEG, MEG, fMRI)? 2) Which is the particular contribution of each method in the understanding of brain/behavior relationship? 3) Which are the most common ways to approach the analyze the neuroimaging data?
By promoting an inclusive environment and implementing active learning strategies, this course stimulates critical thinking and fosters collaboration among students from different departments.

• Department: Psychology
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Alfredo Spagna
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 15 Info
• 4 points

Climate Technology

Scientific and economic analysis of real-world technologies for climate change mitigation and adaptation.  Partner with students from the business school to assess and assigned technology based on technical viability, commercial opportunity, and impact on mitigating or adapting to climate change. Assigned technologies provided by the investment community to teams of four, with expectations for independent research on the technologies, with deliverables of written and oral presentations.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• W 2 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Alan West
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 48 Info
• 3 points

Berliner Topographien / Berlin Topograph

Berlin Topographies

The development of Berlin's urban space goes hand in hand with the emergence of an urban perception in literature.  The seminar traces these interactions--and tensions--between real and imaginary spaces from the early 19th century to today, with particular attention to the diversity of the city, which always has been shaped by immigration. Combining methodologies of the spatial turn with those of affect studies, we will study affective topographies that take place (or make place) in literature and unfold the dialogical, polyphonic character of metropolitan life, from E.T.A. Hoffmann, Walter Benjamin, and Alfred Döblin, to Aras Ören and contemporary voices including Fatma Aydemir and Tomer Gardi.

Course readings and discussion will be in German.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Anne Fleig
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• 3 points

Russian Propaganda Dom & Global Politics

Russian Propaganda Dom&Gl

Propaganda is a key tool of contemporary authoritarian politics. Autocrats such as Russia’s Vladimir Putin, China’s Xi Jinping, or Hungary’s Viktor Orbán use state-controlled media to manipulate citizens, and some of them extensively rely on propaganda to undermine democracy in other countries. This course encourages students to think about the specific roles that media and propaganda play in autocracies, focusing on Russia in particular. We will read and discuss cutting-edge empirical research in political science and media studies to understand how autocrats such as Putin manipulate public opinion, why their propaganda can be successful, what its limits are, and how we can spot authoritarian propaganda in practice.

• Department: Political Science
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Anton Shirikov
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• 4 points

Young Romance

The literary mode we call “romance” has been enormously popular and influential from its origins in Hellenistic antiquity to current science fiction, and at all levels of textual ambition from popular culture to canonical literature.  Within this mass of material, one constant element is romance’s encounter with boundaries.  This course will explore such boundary moments in texts from the 5th to the 20th centuries: boundaries and transgressions of desire (romances of marriage and adultery), of time (the reimagining of antiquity), of national foundation, of geography (settings in a fantasy east), of gender, and of class, indeed the boundary of the human and the monstrous.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher C Baswell
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

Deep Learning in Biomedical Imaging

Deep Learning in BME / Im

Introduction to methods in deep learning, with focus on applications to quantitative problems in biomedical imaging and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in medicine. Network models: Deep feedforward networks, convolutional neural networks and recurrent neural networks. Deep autoencoders for denoising. Segmentation and classification of biological tissues and biomarkers of disease. Theory and methods lectures will be accompanied with examples from biomedical image including analysis of neurological images of the brain (MRI), CT images of the lung for cancer and COPD, cardiac ultrasound. Programming assignments will use tensorflow / Pytorch and Jupyter Notebook. Examinations and a final project will also be required.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew Laine
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• 3 points

PRIN-INNOVATN/ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Team project centered course focused on principles of planning, creating, and growing a technology venture. Topics include: identifying and analyzing opportunities created by technology paradigm shifts, designing innovative products, protecting intellectual property, engineering innovative business models.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: William Reinisch
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• 3 points

SUPERVISED INDEPENDENT RESEARCH

All supervisors will be Columbia faculty who hold a PhD. Students are responsible for identifying their own supervisor and it is at the discretion of faculty whether they accept to supervise independent research. Projects must be focused on Hellenic Studies and can be approached from any disciplinary background. Students are expected to develop their own reading list in consultation with their supervisor. In addition to completing assigned readings, the student must also write a Hellenic studies paper of 20 pages. Projects other than a research paper will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Hellenic Studies is an interdisciplinary field that revolves around two main axes: space and time. Its teaching and research are focused on the study of post-classical Greece in various fields: Language, Literature, History, Politics, Anthropology, Art, Archaeology, and in various periods: Late Antique, Medieval, Byzantine, Modern Greek etc. Therefore, the range of topics that are acceptable as a Hellenic Studies seminar paper is broad. It is upon each supervisor to discuss the specific topic with the student. The work submitted for this independent study course must be different from the work a student submits in other courses, including the Hellenic Studies Senior Research Seminar.

• Department: Classics
• Instructor: Karen Van Dyck
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• Instructor: Nikolas Kakkoufa
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• Instructor: Dimitris Antoniou
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• Instructor: Stathis Gourgouris
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Climate Justice

The unfolding climate emergency occurs at the confluence of three global systems of domination – capitalism, racialized imperialism, and patriarchy. Premised as they are on exploitation, competition, and inequality rather than consideration, cooperation and balance, these systems of domination not only have caused the crisis but are seemingly unable to resolve it. Among the injustices of the contemporary impasse is the likelihood the people who have least benefited from the global (dis)order, and especially minorities in the global south, will be the worst affected casualties of climate change.

Encompassing a focus on equity and frameworks for accountability and redress, the human rights paradigm is a useful lens through which to analyze the emergency, exert accountability, and imagine better futures. It is against this backdrop that this interdisciplinary (climate science, law, politics, social science, development studies and anthropology) course on Climate Justice has been introduced to the Human Rights Studies MA program.

This 3-credit course addresses contemporary issues in the evolving discourse and epistemology of climate justice. How should we understand the climate emergency from a social justice perspective? What terminologies, discourses and paradigms are useful? How have individuals, non-government organizations and social movements sought to overcome climate change vulnerabilities and advance climate justice? What litigation, law and policy initiatives have been brought, and with what level of success? And what alternative models of living, working and being are conceivable for a more socially, ecologically, and existentially sustainable world?

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Jacqueline Dugard
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• 3 points

PUBLIC ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 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 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Timothy Goodspeed
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• 3 points

CHINESE POLITICS

This course offers a historical and thematic survey of Chinese politics and of salient issues in China’s public policy and governance. The first half of the course reviews the patterns and dynamics of political development in China, focusing mainly on the last two hundred years, during which the country has been on a rugged yet fascinating path toward modernity. We will examine major political events including the collapse of the Imperial China, the rise of the Communist Party, the Cultural Revolution, and the post-Mao shift toward reform and opening. The second half of the course will look various special topics, including the structure of the party and the state, the relationship between state and society, the modes of economic development, and the governance of the media and the Internet. Throughout the course, special attention will be paid to how China’s domestic political and economic processes intersected with major world events and transnational forces, such as imperialism, world wars, and economic globalization.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Junyan Jiang
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• 3 points

Statistical machine learning for genomic

Statistical ML for genomi

Introduction to statistical machine learning methods using applications in genomic data and in particular high-dimensional single-cell data. Concepts of molecular biology relevant to genomic technologies, challenges of high-dimensional genomic data analysis, bioinformatics preprocessing pipelines, dimensionality reduction, unsupervised learning, clustering, probabilistic modeling, hidden Markov models, Gibbs sampling, deep neural networks, gene regulation. Programming assignments and final project will be required.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Elham Azizi
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• 3 points

PSYCHOBIOLOGY OF INFANT DEVPT

Prerequisites: (PSYC UN1001 or PSYC UN1010) and a course in developmental psychology, and the instructors permission. The focus of the seminar is on human development during the fetal period and early infancy. We will examine the effects of environmental factors on perinatal perceptual, cognitive, sensory-­motor, and neurobehavioral capacities, with emphasis on critical conditions involved in both normal and abnormal brain development. Other topics include acute and long term effects of toxic exposures (stress, smoking, and alcohol) during pregnancy, and interaction of genes and the environment in shaping the developing brain of high-risk infants, including premature infants and those at risk for neurodevelopmental disorders such as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

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

Neural Plasticity

This seminar provides an overview of the mechanisms and behaviors associated with neural plasticity. Students will obtain a basic working knowledge of the different types of neural plasticity, and how these affect cognition and behaviors.

• Department: Psychology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Tina Kao
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

WOMEN IN CITIES: SUST URB DSGN,PLNG,MGMT

The course will examine both acknowledged indicators of women’s and girls’ inclusion in the conceptualization and life of a city (e.g., access to shelter, clean water, sanitation, safe transport, healthcare, education, jobs and leadership positions), and those not sufficiently acknowledged (stability and tenure in housing, labor force inclusion and wage parity, physical, mental and environmental health, sexual and reproductive rights, freedom from violence, assured levels of participation in policy- and decision-making, etc.). Migrating between multiple cultural and sociopolitical contexts, and between the individual and metropolitan, national and indigenous levels of policymaking, the course will look at how today’s cities have evolved; the consequential disconnect between enshrined legal frameworks, regulatory and administrative structures, and concrete urban realities; and at how, through a sustainable process of inclusive community and private sector engagement, responsive design, and strategic budgeting to realize select well-defined priorities, tomorrow’s cities can be better attuned to the human scale of their primary constituents by becoming more aware, inclusive, accommodating and enabling of women and families. Each week, one or more leading and cutting-edge thinkers and practitioners in the areas of urban and environmental design and management, corporate social responsibility, landscape architecture and planning, sustainable engineering, and urban health,  wellbeing and women’s rights will share their experience, current thinking and ideas in featured guest lectures; these will be followed by wide-ranging conversations among the instructor, lecturers and students, enabling students to hear firsthand how private, public and non-profit sector managers, policymakers and designers approach and deal with such issues as (for instance) making transport hubs equally navigable for women with strollers, walkers or young children, or implementing green or family-friendly CSR policies.

• Department: Sustainability Management
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Susan M Blaustein
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• 3 points

WOMEN IN CITIES: SUST URB DSGN,PLNG,MGMT

The course will examine both acknowledged indicators of women’s and girls’ inclusion in the conceptualization and life of a city (e.g., access to shelter, clean water, sanitation, safe transport, healthcare, education, jobs and leadership positions), and those not sufficiently acknowledged (stability and tenure in housing, labor force inclusion and wage parity, physical, mental and environmental health, sexual and reproductive rights, freedom from violence, assured levels of participation in policy- and decision-making, etc.). Migrating between multiple cultural and sociopolitical contexts, and between the individual and metropolitan, national and indigenous levels of policymaking, the course will look at how today’s cities have evolved; the consequential disconnect between enshrined legal frameworks, regulatory and administrative structures, and concrete urban realities; and at how, through a sustainable process of inclusive community and private sector engagement, responsive design, and strategic budgeting to realize select well-defined priorities, tomorrow’s cities can be better attuned to the human scale of their primary constituents by becoming more aware, inclusive, accommodating and enabling of women and families. Each week, one or more leading and cutting-edge thinkers and practitioners in the areas of urban and environmental design and management, corporate social responsibility, landscape architecture and planning, sustainable engineering, and urban health,  wellbeing and women’s rights will share their experience, current thinking and ideas in featured guest lectures; these will be followed by wide-ranging conversations among the instructor, lecturers and students, enabling students to hear firsthand how private, public and non-profit sector managers, policymakers and designers approach and deal with such issues as (for instance) making transport hubs equally navigable for women with strollers, walkers or young children, or implementing green or family-friendly CSR policies.

• Department: Auditing
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Susan M Blaustein
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• 0 points

Stress and the Brain

This course will use clinical studies and experimental research on animals to understand the impact of stress during various periods of development on brain function and behavior.  We will address the long- and short-term consequences of stress on cognition, emotion, and ultimately psychopathology through investigating how various stressors can induce neurobiological and behavioral outcomes through genetic, epigenetic, and molecular mechanisms in the brain.

• Department: Psychology
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer Blaze
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• 4 points

HEALTH PHYSICS

Fundamental principles and objectives of health physics (radiation protection), the quantities of radiation dosimetry (the absorbed dose, equivalent dose, and effective dose) used to evaluate human radiation risks, elementary shielding calculations and protection measures for clinical environments, characterization and proper use of health physics instrumentation, and regulatory and administrative requirements of health physics programs in general and as applied to clinical activities.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• M 5:30 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter Caracappa
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• 3 points

PROCESS & PRODUCT DESIGN I

PRINCIPLES OF PROCESS DESIGN

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
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Sakul Ratanalert
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• 4 points

Mediterranean Humanities II

Med Hum II

What is the Mediterranean and how was it constructed and canonized as a space of civilization? A highly multicultural, multilingual area whose people represent a broad array of religious, ethnic, social and political difference, the Mediterranean has been seen as the cradle of western civilization, but also as a dividing border and a unifying confluence zone, as a sea of pleasure and a sea of death. The course aims to enhance students’ understanding of the multiple ways this body of water has been imagined by the people who lived or traveled across its shores. By exploring major works of theory, literature and cinema since 1800, it encourages students to engage critically with a number of questions (nationalism vs cosmopolitanism, South/North and East/West divides, tourism, exile and migration, colonialism and orientalism, borders and divided societies) and to ‘read’ the sea through different viewpoints: through the eyes of a German Romantic thinker, a Sephardic Ottoman family, an Algerian feminist, a French historian, a Syrian refugee, an Italian anti-fascist, a Moroccan writer, an Egyptian exile, a Bosnian-Croat scholar, a Lebanese-French author, a Cypriot filmmaker, an Algerian-Italian journalist, and others. In the final analysis,
Med Hum II
is meant to arouse the question of what it means to stand on watery grounds and to view the world through a constantly shifting lens.

• Department: Italian
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Konstantia Zanou
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• 3 points

Columbia Commons IPE Seminar

Relationships of Care

• Department: Medical Humanities and Ethics
• Instructor: Yinde Newby-Azziz
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• 0-2 points

Columbia Commons IPE Seminar

Aging and End-of-Life

• Department: Medical Humanities and Ethics
• Instructor: Yinde Newby-Azziz
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• 0-2 points

Columbia Commons IPE Seminar

Spirituality and Healthcare

• Department: Medical Humanities and Ethics
• Instructor: Yinde Newby-Azziz
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• 0-2 points

Columbia Commons IPE Seminar

Climate Change and Health

• Department: Medical Humanities and Ethics
• Instructor: Yinde Newby-Azziz
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• 0-2 points

Columbia Commons IPE Seminar

IPEP Fellowship

• Department: Medical Humanities and Ethics
• Instructor: Yinde Newby-Azziz
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• 0-2 points

Columbia Commons IPE Seminar

Health Care Justice

• Department: Medical Humanities and Ethics
• Instructor: Yinde Newby-Azziz
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• 0-2 points

SUSTAINABILITY AND THE MEANING OF PLACE

In this class, students will travel to Cuttyhunk Island in Massachusetts to explore issues of history, sustainability, and climate change. It will serve to address the one-credit practicum requirement in the Undergraduate Program in Sustainable Development.  The overarching question students will ask is: what does it mean to inhabit a place well? To answer this, students will read a selection of literary, historical, and scientific texts while performing physical labor including meal preparation and oyster cultivation on Cuttyhunk Island and assuming responsibility for their classmate community through self-governance. Taught in collaboration with faculty at the Gull Island Institute, the course enables students to critically investigate multiple ways in which knowledge of place is produced and to explore how such knowledge informs, and ought to inform, practices of sustainable development. In traveling to Cuttyhunk Island, students will take up a standpoint from which to consider their own learning goals and develop approaches to more fruitfully engaging the places of Manhattan Island and the Columbia University campus in the course of their SDEV studies.

The class will use the physical setting of islands, and the conjunction of seminar with labor, self-governance, and everyday life, to connect different kinds of knowledge across boundaries of discipline and tradition, thought, and embodied practice. Students will analyze written texts, but they will also be challenged to read and interpret a piece of the landscape, an object, or ecosystem through their immersive experience on Cuttyhunk Island. Readings will investigate the natural and human histories of the Buzzards Bay region, contemporary sustainability efforts on Cuttyhunk, as well as the wider assumptions and categories that shape the ideas of sustainability and habitability: what models of action and agency are entailed in these concepts? What relationships between humans and non-human (beings and environments) do such concepts presuppose? Finally, what skills, structures, and actions are necessary to make places habitable, and inhabit them well?

• Department: Earth Institute
• Instructor: Jason Smerdon
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 47 Info
• 1 points

PROCESS SAFETY

Aimed at seniors and graduate students. Provides classroom experience on chemical engineering process safety as well as Safety in Chemical Engineering certification. Process safety and process control emphasized. Application of basic chemical engineering concepts to chemical reactivity hazards, industrial hygiene, risk assessment, inherently safer design, hazard operability analysis, and engineering ethics. Application of safety to full spectrum of chemical engineering operations.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Robert G Bozic
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• 3 points

TOOLS FOR ANALYTICS

MS IEOR students only. Introduction programming in Python, tools with the programmer's ecosystem. Python, Data Analysis tools in Python (NumPy, pandas, bokeh), GIT, Bash, SQL, VIM, Linux/Debia, SSH.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• M 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Lynn Root
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• 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

Analytics in Python

Intended to build familiarity with using Python for ingesting, analyzing, visualizing, and interpreting data. Includes data ingesting techniques, using libraries (pandas and numpy), data analytics, machine learning (using SciKit-Learn), visualization, and big data analytics (Spark).

• Department: Engineering
• W 2:40 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Uday Menon
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• 1.5 points

ITL CULTRL ST II:WWI-PRESENT

An interdisciplinary investigation into Italian culture and society in the years between World War I and the present. Drawing on historical analyses, literary texts, letters, film, cartoons, popular music, etc. 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

Advanced Moving Image: Video, Film, Art

Adv Moving Image:Video, F

Advanced Moving Image: Video, Film, Art & Movement
is an advanced moving image class which centers on the use of both established and emergent digital technologies as a medium for exploration and artistic expression. The focus will be on artworks that reference the body/bodies in movement, the creation of Avatars and the designing of environments and spatial narratives. Existing works from this emergent area will be shown to give cultural and historical context, seen through a personal and political lens. The course will be intensive and hands-on, the apprehension of technical and aesthetic skills will be utilized to create works based on the individual or collective expression of the artist/s.

Students are encouraged to explore areas of personal interest and to incorporate this research
into their production work. Taking an active role in class discussions and production teamwork is
required. The course is offered to both graduate and undergraduate students. It is expected that at the end of the course students will have gained an active knowledge of core concepts and techniques useful in working with performance capture within an art context.

• Department: Visual Arts
• W 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Lajune McMillian
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• 3 points

INTERNATIONAL MACROECONOMICS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213. Econ GU4505 is an

elective in the economics major. The course develops models for the

analysis of the determinants of international capital flows, trade

imbalances, and exchange rates. The models are then used as the basis

for the discussion of topics such as Global Imbalances, Uncertainty and

the Current Account, The Global Saving Glut, Purchasing Power Parity,

Sudden Stops, Real Exchange Rates and Productivity, Covered Interest

Rate Parity, Uncovered Interest Rate Parity, Borrowing Externalities and

Optimal Capital Controls, Overborrowing,  Macroeconomic Adjustment under

Flexible and Fixed Exchange Rates,  Twin Deficits, and Balance of

Payment Crises.

• Department: Economics
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Martin Uribe
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• 3 points

OPERATION RES IN PUBLIC POLICY

OR in Public Policy

Aims to give the student a broad overview of the role of Operations Research in public policy. The specific areas covered include voting theory, apportionment, deployment of emergency units, location of hazardous facilities, health care, organ allocation, management of natural resources, energy policy, and aviation security. Draws on a variety techniques such as linear and integer programming, statistical and probabilistic methods, decision analysis, risk analysis, and analysis and control of dynamic systems.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Yaren Kaya
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• 3 points

UNORTHODOX PRACTICES 3: PRACTICE AS A PR

UNORTHODOX ARCH PRACTICES

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Juan Herreros
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• 3 points

HEALTHCARE OPERATIONS MGT

Prerequisite(s): for senior undergraduate Engineering students: IEOR E3608, E3658, and E4307; for Engineering graduate students (M.S. or Ph.D.): Probability and statistics at the level of IEOR E4150, and deterministic models at the level of IEOR E4004; for healthcare management students: P8529 Analytical methods for health services management.

Develops modeling, analytical, and managerial skills of engineering and health care management students. Enables students to master an array of fundamental operations management tools adapted to the management of health care systems. Through real-world business cases, students learn to identify, model, and analyze operational improvements and innovations in a range of health care contexts.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• M 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Amit Arora
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• 3 points

READINGS IN CLASSICAL CHINESE

Prerequisites: CHNS W4007 or the equivalent. Admission after placement exam. Focusing on Tang and Song prose and poetry, introduces a broad variety of genres through close readings of chosen texts as well as the specific methods, skills, and tools to approach them. Strong emphasis on the grammatical and stylistic analysis of representative works. CC GS EN CE

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• WF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Andrew Plaks
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• 4 points

PROBLEMS IN INT'L HISTORY

US in the World 1970s

The 1970s were a pivotal decade for the United States, both as a society and a superpower. Runaway spending and an energy crisis brought on the worst recession since the 1930s, revealing the tenuous basis of American prosperity and ending the spectacular “postwar boom.” The Vietnam War’s conclusion and revelations of CIA perfidies prompted soul-searching and eventually human rights as a new justification for U.S. foreign policy, yet those rights—and who deserved them—remained unclear. A radical “New Left” and “New Right” challenged the political center, each with lasting (though disproportionate) impacts on American politics.

This course will explore these and other major changes in American society and foreign relations in the 20th century through the lens of  the 1970s. Familiarity with the contours of post-1945 American and/or international history is useful, but there are no requirements beyond an interest in the readings, topics, and current affairs.

• Department: History
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Franczak
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• 4 points

GENOMICS OF GENE REGULATION

• Department: Biological Sciences
• M 2:40 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Harmen Bussemaker
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• 4 points

SOL ENERGY/SMART GRID POWR SYS

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• R 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Mohamed Kamaludeen
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• 3 points

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Project Mgmt of Complex System

Management of complex projects and the tools that are available to assist managers with such projects. Topics include project selection, project teams and organizational issues, project monitoring and control, project risk management, project resource management, and managing multiple projects.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• W 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Moshe Rosenwein
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• 3 points

Industry Projects in Analytics & Operati

Industry Projs in Analyti

Teams of students work on real-world projects in analytics. Focus on three aspects of analytics: identifying client analytical requirements; assembling, cleaning and organizing data; identifying and implementing analytical techniques (e.g., statistics and/or machine learning); and delivering results in a client-friendly format. Each project has a defined goal and pre-identified data to analyze in one semester. Client facing class. Class requires 10 hours of time per week and possible client visits on Fridays.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• M 9 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Michael Robbins
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• 3 points

3RD YR MODERN HEBREW II

Prerequisites: Third Year Modern Hebrew I or Hebrew for Heritage Speakers II Focus on transition from basic language towards authentic Hebrew, through reading of un-adapted literary and journalistic texts without vowels. Vocabulary building. Grammar is reviewed in context. A weekly hour is devoted to practice in conversation. Daily homework includes reading, short answers, short compositions, listening to web-casts, or 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
• MW 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• 4 points

Molecular Biology

Prerequisites: one year of biology. This is a lecture course designed for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. The focus is on understanding at the molecular/biochemical level how genetic information is stored within the cell, how it is replicated and expressed, and how it is regulated. Topics covered include genome organization, DNA replication and repair, transcription, RNA processing, and translation. This course will also emphasize the critical analysis of the scientific literature and help students understand how to identify important biological problems and how to address them experimentally. SPS and TC students may register for this course, but they must first obtain the written permission of the instructor, by filling out a paper Registration Adjustment Form (Add/Drop form). The form can be downloaded at the URL below, but must be signed by the instructor and returned to the office of the registrar.
http://registrar.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/reg-adjustment.pdf

• Department: Biological Sciences
• W 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Alice Heicklen
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

FIFTH YEAR KOREAN II

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Joowon Suh
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• 4 points

FIFTH YEAR CHINESE II

The Fifth Year Chinese course is designed for advanced learners who have a proficient command of the Chinese language in all four aspects: listening, speaking, reading, and writing, regardless of whether they have Chinese heritage. The course provides a wide variety of literary genres, ranging from short stories to aesthetic essays to academic articles, to enhance students' mastery of formal written Chinese. While the primary objectives of this course lie in reading, students also have opportunities to develop their speaking competence through a variety of in-class discussions, debates, and presentations.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Tao Peng
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• 5 points

DATA ANALYTICS

IEOR students only; priority to MSBA students. Survey tools available in Python for getting, cleaning, and analyzing data. Obtain data from files (csv, html, json, xml) and databases (Mysql, PostgreSQL, NoSQL), cover the rudiments of data cleaning, and examine data analysis, machine learning, and data visualization packages (NumPy, pandas, Scikit-lern, bokeh) available in Python. Brief overview of natural language processing, network analysis, and big data tools available in Python. Contains a group project component that will require students to gather, store, and analyze a data set of their choosing.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Uday Menon
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• 3 points

ANALYTICS IN PRACTICE

MSBA students only. Groups of students will work on real world projects in analytics, focusing on three aspects: identifying client analytical requirements; assembling, cleaning, and organizing data; identifying and implementing analytical techniques (statistics, OR, machine learning); and delivering results in a client-friendly format. Each project has a well-defined goal, comes with sources of data preidentified, and has been structured so that it can be completed in one semester. Client-facing class with numerous on-site client visits; students should keep Fridays clear for this purpose.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• R 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• 3 points