CAPITAL MARKETS & INVESTMENTS

This course provides students with a rigorous foundation in capital markets and investments, emphasizing asset valuation from an applied perspective. It covers valuation techniques for financial securities, essential to portfolio management and risk management applications. Key topics include arbitrage, the term structure of interest rates, portfolio theory, diversification, equilibrium asset pricing models such as the CAPM, market efficiency and inefficiencies, performance evaluation, analysis of common pooled investment vehicles, behavioral finance, and tax-aware investment strategies. Through interactive activities, case studies, and simulations utilizing real-world market data, students will acquire analytical skills and foundational knowledge required for advanced finance courses and practical roles within the investment industry

• Department: Finance
• MW 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
• TR 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• TR 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• TR 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Jian Li
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• Instructor: Xuelin Li
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• Instructor: Brian P Lancaster
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• 3 points

Corporate Financial Management

Formerly known as Advanced Corporate Finance develops the art and science of optimal strategic decision-making by applying corporate financial theory to cases of financial policy, financial instruments and valuation. In particular, the following topics are studied: cost of capital and capital budgeting, discounted cash flow valuation and financial multiples, payout policy, equity and debt financing, option pricing theory and applications, corporate control and recapitalizations. The classes are structured to maximize the synergy between theory and practice, providing students portable, durable and marketable tools for their internships and careers.

• Department: Finance
• MW 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• MW 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Xavier Giroud
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• 3 points

Concepts in Therapeutic Exercise

Concepts in Ther Ex

This 8-week course, during the second term of the DPT curriculum, applies the concepts learned in Gross Anatomy, Kinesiology & Biomechanics I, Examination & Evaluation, and Applied Physiology into therapeutic exercise interventions for patient/client care. This course is constructed to introduce basic movement patterns, the common impairments/dysfunctions associated with these patterns, and an introduction to the concepts of patient/client therapeutic exercise design, implementation, and re- evaluation.

The Concepts in Therapeutic Exercise course introduces the student to the underlying frameworks and constructs for normal and dysfunctional movement assessments, and the development of individualized exercise programs as part of the patient management model. Exercise applications that are utilized throughout lifespan that address identified impairments; activity and participation limitations are emphasized. Students will apply clinical decision-making strategies to practice, design, modify and progress exercise programs with proper biomechanical alignment, and proper muscle balance for optimal performance that may include range of motion, postural stabilization, progressive resistive exercise, flexibility, pain, proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation, closed and open chain exercise applications, and proprioception/balance strategies. These underlying concepts are applied to disorders of the upper quarter, lower quarter, and spine. Video/Case studies presenting with a variety of musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, integumentary and cardiopulmonary impairments will be used to develop clinical decision-making and therapeutic exercise design for a variety of clinical disorders. Patient-practitioner interaction as well as patient instruction will be integrated throughout the series.

• Department: Physical Therapy
• 2 points

DERIVATIVES

Successful investing in Equities Markets requires more than just picking stocks given the wide
array of products at a portfolio manager's disposal. Through a combination of lectures, a case
study and guest speakers, this course is intended to provide firsthand experience on how
products like Options, Swaps, Futures, ETFs, and Structured Notes, and are structured, valued,
and used. Although most of the course relates to Equities, there will be some content on
Derivatives on other Asset Classes

• Department: Finance
• MW 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Zurack
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• 1.5 points

ECONOMETRICS COLLOQUIUM

Prerequisites: ECON G6411 and G6412. Students will make presentations of original research.

• Department: Economics
• W noon-1 p.m.
• 2 points

DIGITAL STORY TELLING II

BUILDING STORYWORLDS

• Department: Film
• M 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Lance Weiler
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• 3 points

VIEWPOINTS

• Department: Theatre Arts
• T 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Kelly Maurer
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• 3 points

Basic and Applied Nutritional Science: E

BASIC & APPL NUTRITIONAL

Whether you realize it or not, policies over which you have little or no control dictate the nutritional content of the foods you consume. Are these policy decisions well informed by solid scientific evidence? In developing countries where such policies do not exist there is a disproportionately higher prevalence of malnutrition – is there sufficient scientific evidence to warrant implementation of new policies abroad? The overarching goal of this course is to provide a framework for students to become proficient in translational aspects of nutritional science, using a case-studies approach to allow for a very broad, but also in-depth, comprehensive evaluation of a select number of major nutritional issues that are currently being heatedly debated on both local and global scales. The primary focus of the course is on engaging students in the critical appraisal of the continuum between basic research, applied research, and programs and policy decisions related to nutrition. The “cases” in our case-studies approach will use as paradigms a set of emerging international issues related to nutrition and health.
The course is appropriate for students who are interested in expanding their general knowledge base in nutritional sciences and who wish to improve their proficiency in skills necessary to become effective, well-informed consultants for program leaders and policy makers on nutrition-related topics, with broader applications in public health.

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• W 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Mary V Gamble
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• 3 points

INTRO-LIT OF EUROPEAN HISTORY

• Department: History
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Mazower
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• 4 points

PT Management of Integumentary Impairmen

PT Mgmt of Integ Impair

This 7-week course during the fifth term of the DPT curriculum, focuses on the physical therapy management of individuals with: (a) lymphedema and (b) impairments to their skin and its associated structures including the hair, nails, and glands.

This course presents the physical therapy diagnosis and management of clients with lymphedema and integumentary impairments with an emphasis on open wounds. Principles of skin anatomy, wound healing physiology, and factors affecting wound repair provide the foundational knowledge necessary for understanding the principles of integumentary impairments. Physical therapy examination (patient, skin, and wound) and interventions (setting up a sterile field, sharp debridement, management of infection, dressing selection, compressive wrapping, and modalities available for adjunctive care) are covered. Wound etiologies including acute surgical wounds, burns, pressure, vascular and neuropathic ulcers encountered in the clinical arena and current treatment that facilitate wound healing and closure are delineated. The principles of lymphedema pathophysiology, including classification by level of tissue involvement, and treatment are covered. Course content is framed in a biopsychosocial model that explores interprofessional collaboration and psychosocial factors influencing care delivery through cased-based learning strategies.

• Department: Physical Therapy
• 2 points

SECURITY ANALYSIS

Hybrid Fund Investing

In this class, students will be introduced to a variety of hybrid public/private equity investing strategies and situations, including (pre-IPO) crossover funds, tactical opportunity funds, SPACs, PIPEs, take-privates, and more. We will discuss the key similarities and differences between public and private investing, highlighting areas of synergy (and dis-synergy) in the investment process. Teaching methods will include an upfront review of hybrid investment frameworks, hands-on analysis of case studies and real-life situations, and insights from many guest speakers.

Pre-Req: B8306 - Capital Markets & Investments

• Department: Finance
• M 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Charles Murphy
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• 1.5 points

Wayfinding in Crisis: Genealogies of Cli

“Our violence towards the Earth springs from, and is modeled on, our violence towards other human beings.” — Amitav Ghosh in conversation with Lucia Pietroiusti, Guggenheim Museum, February 5, 2022

Many contemporary artists are trying to find sustainable and equitable ways of operating in a global economy hellbent on growth no matter the cost, including extinction. If, as Earth inhabitants in the Anthropocene, we are all contributing to the current climate crisis, we can also be among the millions of solutions needed. In this class, we will expand our climate awareness and process our climate grief by learning lessons from non-human entities, Indigenous teachings and traditions, and current legal actions and grassroots activism against extractivism and the legacies of conquest, imperialism, and settler colonialism. In hopes for a more livable earth, Ben Okri’s concept of “existential creativity,” Amitav Ghosh’s call for a return to animist storytelling, Four Arrows’ goal for mainstream education to adopt Indigenous worldviews, and recent art that proposes the possibility of a regenerative future will be our guides.

A variety of media and content will be covered including the work of Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Artists Commit, Richard Bell, Octavia Butler, Rachel Carson, Meehan Crist, Ben Davis, Torkwase Dyson, Extinction Rebellion, Carolyn Finney, Fridays for Future, Dina Gilio-Whitaker, Amitav Ghosh, Linda Goode Bryant, The Harrison Studio, Katharine Hayhoe, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Yun Ko-eun, Bill McKibben, Gustav Metzger, Timothy Morton, Darcia Narvaez, The Natural History Museum, Ben Okri, Lucia Pietroiusti, Kim Stanley Robinson, Mary Robinson, Astra Taylor, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) aka Donald Trent Jacobs, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Elvia Wilk, Isabel Wilkerson, and Tyson Yunkaporta. Class guests and field trips will include artists and thinkers working on the precipice of climate education, action, healing, and justice.

• Department: Visual Arts
• T 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Tyler Rowland
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• 3 points

Game Theory and Business

In most business circumstances, managers and organizations take decisions that affect each other. We call such situations games." Game Theory provides a framework for analyzing and predicting behaviors and outcomes in situations of strategic interaction. The goal of this course is to provide students with the essential tools of game theory, and demonstrate their use by applying them to a variety business situations and cases."

• Department: Business Economics
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
• TR 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Alessandro Citanna
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• 1.5 points

ECONOMIC FLUCTUATIONS COLLOQ

Prerequisites: G6215 and G6216. Open-economy macroeconomics, computational methods for dynamic equilibrium analysis, and sources of business cycles.

• Department: Economics
• M 1 p.m.-2 p.m.
• 2 points

World-Building and Unbuilding

What happens when we reject the classic hero’s journey in favor of new myths? From folktales to franchises, this course from the Digital Storytelling Lab will explore transportive worlds and the methods used to create them. Collectively, we will deconstruct the idea that World-Building is a private practice and instead, uplift the notion that it is a creative tool to strengthen stories and expand ideas. As Author and activist Clarice Lispector writes: “Creating isn't imagination, it's taking the great risk of grasping reality,” but what happens when we use World-Building to shift the systems that govern our reality?

Leveraging storytelling techniques of Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) and Role Playing Games (RPGs), we will collectively build a world that transcends the classroom and moves into the outside world, ultimately bringing participants together to tackle complex issues and redefine solo authorship as a collaborative space. This course culminates in the collective experience of each other’s worlds and the Alternate Reality experiences therein. There are no prerequisites for this course.

• Department: Film
• R 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Char Simpson
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• 3 points

Spolia: Architecture & Reuse c. 300 16

This seminar takes the recent explosion in spolia scholarship as a point of departure to analyze how artists and builders transformed ancient and foreign artifacts and incorporated them into new settings. It also seeks to understand the ways in which reuse has been interpreted and theorized retrospectively by historians, from Vasari who saw spoliation as a pragmatic phenomenon indicative of artistic decline to modern scholars who have argued for a wide range of interpretations—these include, but are not limited to, spolia as aesthetic choice, political gesture, revivalist impulse, religious symbol, triumphalist sign, and apotropaic talisman. While the course will focus primarily on monuments produced Italy and the wider Mediterranean world from late-antiquity to the Renaissance, students will be encouraged to think broadly about reuse as a theoretical problem across art-historical disciplines.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Michael J Waters
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• 4 points

Investment Banking Tax Factors

As the course title implies, we will familiarize students with the tax principles that must be considered by corporate managers and their advisers with respect to transactions that result in a re-alignment of the corporations business activities or its capital structure. In most respects, the course will be taught from the perspective of the outside adviser engaged to provide guidance regarding a major corporate transaction or financing decision. The student will, once the course is completed, secure an ability to recognize common re-structuring/financing scenarios confronting management and be positioned to propose viable solutions to these problems in a manner that minimizes tax outlays, consistent with prudent and, above all, ethical business practice.The course features a final examination and a term paper; typically, but not necessarily, the paper is prepared on a group basis. The readings for the course consist, primarily, of Lehman Brothers Tax and Accounting" Research Reports and "The Willens Report" research pieces and articles from professional taxation journals as well as decided cases and I.R.S. pronouncements.We will supply all such reading materials on the first day of class."

• Department: Finance
• R 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Willens
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• 3 points

Applied Environmental and Industrial Hyg

APPLD ENVRNTL & INDUST HY

This essential course for EHS professionals introduces the student to the field of Industrial Hygiene and Safety Engineering and the application of their principles in the protection of workers and public. EHS Managers, Researchers, Engineers and Consultants will all find the course of benefit. It provides information on contaminants, hazardous work procedures, exposure monitoring, personal protective equipment, site testing and the equipment used to perform work which has the potential to expose workers above permissible levels. The course curriculum integrates the training requirements for certification by OSHA necessary to conduct basic EHS field activities and allows the student to test for and obtain certification. The OSHA training certificate is an industry recognized continuing education certificate that is accepted by EHS employers.
Superfund sites, environmental investigations, and any other work operation requiring sampling or field research of toxic substances at uncontrolled sites is subject to compliance requirements under OSHA. At the completion of the course the participant will be eligible to take an examination for certification under the OSHA 29 CFR 1910.120 standard as an “Occasional Site Worker.” Successful completion of the exam and course will give the certificate holder the ability to access hazardous sites to conduct Environmental Health Investigations.

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• R 4:30 p.m.-7:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Marco J Pedone
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• 3 points

APPLIED SECURITY ANALYSIS I

Climate Tech

Climate Tech refers to a broad range of technologies designed to mitigate the drivers and impacts of climate change. Development and commercialization of these technologies is essential if humanity is to maintain global prosperity while also avoiding catastrophic climate change. This immersion course provides students with the opportunity to work on a real-world technology to address climate change.

Students will be placed in teams of four, composed of two CBS students and two SEAS engineering students. Student teams will be matched with venture capital funds actively financing climate tech that have identified an innovative technology for mitigating or adapting to climate change. Students will meet virtually with their assigned venture fund at the beginning of the course, during a mid-point check-in, and at the end of the course for the final presentation.

Each team will be tasked with assessing their assigned technology on (i) technical viability, (ii) commercial opportunity, and (iii) impact on mitigating or adapting to climate change. The final course deliverables are a presentation to classmates, a presentation to each team’s assigned investment fund, and a written report or presentation deck for the investment fund. Students are also required to complete a reflections assignment at the conclusion of the course. During weeks 4 – 11 students will spend up to nine hours every week doing independent research, collaborating with the fund, and completing assignments.

The purpose of this immersion course is for students to learn to work in teams across different skill sets and disciplines, combining expertise in business and engineering, with the objective of learning how to evaluate technology solutions to climate change. This course is designed to replicate the real-world experience in which collaborative teams use a multi-disciplinary approach to assess the opportunities, challenges, and impacts of new technology solutions to climate change.

• Department: Finance
• R 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
• 3 points

SHAKESPEARE IN PERFORMANCE

This class, will primarily focus on the challenges of interpreting and performing Shakespeare.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• R 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Davis McCallum
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• 3 points

Introduction to Data Science for Environ

Intro to Data Sci Enviro

The goal of this course is to give students a stronger theoretical foundation on data science and a provide them with a technical toolkit. This course will prepare students with skills they will need to undertake research that relies on strong quantitative and data science foundations and will help prepare students to excel in other Data Science-focused course offerings in the department of Biostatistics and Environmental Health Science (EHS). This course will build on the first half of P6360 Analysis of Environmental Health Data, which introduces coding in R and the basic framework for conducting EHS-related data analysis across EHS disciplines (e.g., toxicology, epidemiology, climate and health). This course will cover both conceptual and practical topics in data science as they relate to environmental health sciences. Each session will be divided into two parts. In the first hour of the class there will be a lecture. Following a brief 5-minute break, the last two hours of the class will be spent on a lab project where students will apply the methods they learned in the lecture.

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• T 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Haotian Wu
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• 1.5 points

Diagnosis and Management in Primary Care

DIAGNOSIS & MANAGMNT ACRO

This is the first of three consecutive courses focusing on utilizing a systems and developmental approach in primary care. This course will focus on the differential diagnosis and comprehensive care management of commonly encountered acute and chronic physical and mental health illnesses as they affect individuals across the lifespan. For each system studied, health assessment, diagnostic findings, and multi-modal management will be highlighted.

• Department: Nursing
• W 9 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Eleni Pellazgu
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• 3 points

Environmental Determinants of Human Heal

ENVIR DETERM OF HUMAN HLT

This course was designed to provide a foundation in major topics in Environmental Health, aimed at MPH students in EHS. The course explores fundamental principles of environmental health that are not provided in the other departmental required courses; Risk Assessment, Analysis of Environmental Health Science Data and Fundamentals of Toxicology. Lectures will expand on topics introduced in the Environmental Determinants of Health core course, as well as introducing additions topics deemed central to an MPH student in EHS. This will be team taught and use both didactic and case based approaches to learning. Students will also engage in scientific writing and critical analysis of research in topics relevant to environmental health sciences.

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• M 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Matthew Perzanowski
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• 3 points

Private Equity Field Study

The “Private Equity Lab” offers a distinctive experiential learning opportunity for students to engage directly with private equity firms on real-world projects. This course is a blend of academic instruction and hands-on experience, tailored for those looking to deepen their understanding of private equity (PE) through practical application. Partnering with PE firms identified through the Columbia Business School's (CBS) alumni network in the New York City area, this program supports students who work on specific research projects integral to the firms' current deals, portfolio management, or investment strategy. These projects are screened to be mission-crucial but not mission-critical for the firms. This ensures students will work on meaningful projects while protecting the partner firm’s performance.  The course thus facilitates a connection between a student and a PE firm with a self-contained research project that could benefit from the student’s skills.  
The course aims to coordinate a collection of such projects that would otherwise be organized as “Field Study Projects” in independent studies and seeks to overcome the challenge of students sourcing these opportunities and identifying faculty advisors to mentor the project. Importantly, this is not an internship arrangement, and students are not paid (thus, the hours worked are capped at the usual amount of total expected class time).

• Department: Finance
• T 2:20 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Ewens
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• 1.5 points

Laboratory Methods in Environmental Heal

LABORATORY METHODS IN EHS

This course explores foundational environmental health laboratory approaches and techniques that cannot be taught in a classroom setting. It provides the necessary hands-on lab experience to supplement theoretical and case-study examples taught in the classroom. Students are exposed to a wide variety of experimental approaches and techniques used in Environmental Health Sciences. Laboratory exercises are flexible and directed, in part, by students’ interests and expertise but may include DNA and/or RNA purification from various biological samples, forensic analysis by polymerase chain reaction (PCR), epigenetic modification/DNA methylation studies, gel electrophoresis, ELISA, heavy metal analysis by MS-ICP, cell culture analysis of potential neurotoxins, radiochemistry, Western blotting, microbial contamination, and others. Students will be expected to read relevant foundational manuscripts and relevant methods papers, as well as keep an accurate and detailed laboratory notebook with their experimental notes, findings and subsequent data analysis. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the material with either written or oral final exam presentations.

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• T 5 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Norman Kleiman
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• 3 points

Climate and Health Weekly Seminar

SEM-CLIMATE & HEALTH STUD

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• T 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Lewis Ziska
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The Business of Asset Management

The Business of Asset Mgm

This first objective will be achieved via an overview of the industry, overviews of specific subsets of the industry and guest speakers with expertise building and operating businesses in asset management.

The second objective will be to arm students with enough information around the practical aspects of asset management, such that they can put together a reasonable business plan for a start-up asset manager. Students will then present those business plans on the last day of class.

• Department: Finance
• M 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert E Bortz
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• 1.5 points

Mergers & Acquisitions

This course is designed to be an applications oriented course and will draw heavily upon real world change of control case studies. The course builds on the prior courses in corporate finance. The course will not introduce significantly new finance principles or analytical techniques other than those to which the student has been exposed to previously in the prerequisite introductory courses in finance at Columbia. The course will seek to apply basic finance principles and analytical techniques to actual problems likely to be encountered by senior management of major corporations or those who are the advisors to such management in the context of an M&A transaction. At the conclusion of the course, the student will have gained an appreciation for the role M&A plays on today's corporate landscape and have formed an opinion as to whether or not an M&A transaction makes sense" for the firm. The student should expect at the conclusion of this course to have gained a level of competency in M&A commensurate with an entry-level investment banking associate in M&A. Whether or not the student "practices" M&A, the course will afford the student with an insider's look into what is an undeniable major force on today's corporate landscape. Accordingly, students who are interested in investment banking, consulting, equity research, corporate development, corporate lending, strategic planning, private equity, leveraged finance, or proprietary trading many wish to consider this course."

• Department: Finance
• R 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• R 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
• Instructor: Donna M Hitscherich
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• Instructor: Luigi Rizzo
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• 3 points

Environmental Justice Health and Policy

ENV JUSTICE HLTH POL ANLY

This course is designed to prepare public health professionals to identify, analyze, and address Environmental Justice (EJ) concerns in the development and implementation of policy and practice related to environmental health, land use, and environmental protection. We will begin by establishing a firm grounding in the theory and evidence behind the American EJ movement through study of the seminal research literature as well as government assessments and case studies of touchstone events. From that point of departure, we will examine existing health disparities and emerging EJ issues, emphasizing the tools available to public health policy makers, researchers, and advocates. We will assess the progress the movement has made in its 30-year history, evaluate the limitations of “first-generation” advocates’ toolbox, explore new approaches that would fully realize EJ goals, and the application of EJ analysis to environmental and health policy. When appropriate, individual class meetings will incorporate interactive exercises, such as role play, aimed at building the students’ ability to analyze issues from different perspectives.

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• M 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Anhthu Hoang
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• 1.5 points

From Feast to Famine & Back Ag

This course studies the evolution of the high yield bond and loan markets, and the behavior of market participants from
peak to trough and back again through various credit cycles. Through lectures, case studies, and guest speakers, we
discuss through-cycle changes in valuation, structure, capital raising, liquidity and other investor considerations.
To provide context, we will use the Caesars/Harrah’s 2006 leveraged buyout as a case study that illustrates each phase
of the credit cycle. Four other case studies (HCA, NXP, Realogy and a contemporary case, TWTR) will be used to highlight
the two extremes of the cycle (“feast” and “famine”), and how they build on the calmer (some might even say boring)
phases of the credit cycle.

Students should leave the course with an understanding of the concept of the credit cycle and the ability to identify peak
and trough conditions and behaviors.

• Department: Finance
• TWRFS 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Ellen Carr
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• 3 points

Water, Sanitation, and Human Health

WATER,SANITATION & HUM HE

This course presents an in-depth analysis of issues relating to water, sanitation and hygiene in both the developed and developing worlds. Students will become familiar with the hydrologic cycle, the major causes of enteric morbidity and mortality, and the design, financing and implementation of sanitation systems. This course is designed for both engineering and public health students and is intended to foster dialog between the two communities. Class meets once per week for 3 hours, and consists of lecture, discussion of assigned reading, break-out work and student presentations. Student requirements include assigned readings, in-class participation in break-out work, group presentations and a final term paper. Each student will be assigned a break-out group that will work together both during and outside class on a variety of water and sanitation problems. Each group will pick two cities, one in the developed world and one in the developing world, on which they will focus their efforts throughout the term.

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• M 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Shannon Marquez
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• 3 points

Private Equity: Value Creation

This course studies how private equity sponsors increase the value of their investments from deal closing to exit. Using examples from real-world transactions and guest lectures, students will learn the how of value creation in private equity.The course focuses on three types of value creation strategies: financial engineering, governance engineering, and operational engineering.

• Department: Finance
• M 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Ewens
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• 1.5 points

ENTERTAINMENT LAW FILMMAKERS

• Department: Film
• F 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Domenic Romano
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• 1.5 points

Real Estate Finance

The course focuses on the set of concepts and techniques used to analyze and finance income-producing real property. It starts with the characteristics that make real property different, including cash flow uncertainties, debt sources and tax features. It then considers the available strategies and structures of real estate finance, including capital structure choices for construction and permanent financing. Extensive use is then made of cases to illustrate the range of choices and outcomes.

• Department: Finance
• TR 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• TR 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• TR 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Boaz Abramson
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• 3 points

Diagnosis and Management of the Complex

DIAG & MGMNT COMPLEX PATI

This is the third course of three consecutive courses focusing on a systems and developmental approach in primary care with emphasis on risk assessment, comorbidities and acuity to determine the most appropriate level of care. This course will focus on the differential diagnosis and comprehensive management of commonly encountered acute and chronic physical and mental health illnesses as they affect individuals across the lifespan.

• Department: Nursing
• W 9 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• 3 points

Advanced Analytic Methods in EHS

ADVANCED ANALYTIC METHODS

This course will introduce advanced methods and tools commonly used in Environmental Health Sciences. These topics include advanced regression techniques especially pertinent to environmental health, methods to quantify and correct for exposure measurement error, mixtures methods, etc. Each class will have two components: a lecture and a coding lab. Although other courses in the School and other Departments might also present some of the methods covered here, the emphasis of this course will be on applications in EHS specifically and the appropriateness, assumptions, strength, limitations and interpretation of results in the EHS framework. Air pollution will be primarily used in class as the example exposure of interest (as many of these methods were first used in air pollution health studies), but not exclusively. R will be used for all coding.

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• M 2 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Marianthi-Ann Kioumourtzoglou
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• 3 points

Computational Toxicology

COMPUTATIONAL TOXICOLOGY

We are exposed to thousands of chemicals in the air, on our food, and as part of consumer products with many hundreds more new chemicals brought to market every year. Yet, only a very small proportion of these have been comprehensively tested for safety. Existing toxicological methods are often insufficient to test every new or existing product due to various constraints including economics, relevance, politics, and ethics. The advent of computational strategies, with high-throughput in vitro and in vivo toxicology data, now permits predictive approaches to a priori, predict potential health risks of chemicals which have not be tested in the laboratory. These strategies range from predicting cellular toxicity based on similarities of chemical structure with chemicals of known toxicity, to forecasting human cellular toxicity from pesticides on food and other exposures using high-throughput cellular assays. Integrating publicly available “omics” data, environmental and personal monitoring data, and bioinformatics, is empowering innovative discovery about exposure-outcome relationships. The goal of this course will be to expose students to the various data sources and approaches that are used to predict toxicity and introduce innovative data manipulation and display strategies that are increasingly needed in data heavy disciplines. This is a hands-on course; students will be required to mine publicly accessible data and perform their own analyses, regularly presenting their work in the classroom. Students will be evaluated on their ability to integrate the material and apply it to real data in order to garner thoughtful, novel insight into predictive or integrative toxicity.

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• T 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Norman Kleiman
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• 3 points

Capstone: Real Estate Investment

Capstone: RE Investment

The Real Estate Project Class provides students who intend on pursuing careers in real estate the opportunity to learn how to analyze and execute value-add investments and presentations of same under the guidance of an experienced professor and practitioner, as well as a veteran real estate owner/investor/intermediary sponsor. The course will include instruction in investment conceptualization, analysis, strategy, research and execution. Presentation skills, both oral and written, are integral to the course and project. Two student groups, each group consisting of three or four students, will work with an outside project sponsor to create a transaction presentation based on a real-world sponsor investment.

Personal laptops will NOT be permitted in class. CBS iPads will be permitted only.

Either B8332 RE Transactions or at least 1-year experience of real estate/ transactions experience with instructors permission is required for this course.

• Department: Finance
• M 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Jane Yang
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• 3 points

Global Real Estate Investment

This half-term course will introduce students to the fundamentals of global real estate investment from an institutional perspective through an exploration of specific strategies for structuring global real estate portfolios. It will also provide students with an analytical framework and the tools to analyze and value cross-border real estate investments in developed and emerging markets. Given current market conditions, attention will also be paid to asset management strategies.

• Department: Finance
• W 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Gregorio Schneider
  Info
• 1.5 points

Real Estate Development

Real estate development is the physical and financial process by which society fulfills its spatial needs. Housing, office buildings, hotels, industrial space, retail; all of these are created by private developers who have the vision and capacity to manage the risks of development. This course will provide an understanding of the real estate development process and its role in value creation for investors and the surrounding community. Topics will include project envisioning; location and site selection and evaluation; highest and best use analysis; zoning and land use regulation; building design and construction; capital stack (debt and equity; developer compensation); ownership structures; marketing, leasing, and asset management; and exit strategies. The class will also cover non-traditional development (e.g., adaptive re-use, affordable housing, modular and pre-fab), as well as the opportunities for entrepreneurs in this space. The class will include prominent guest speakers who will share their experience from the trenches. There will be one or two site visits to projects currently underway. Real Estate Finance or demonstrated financial work experience is a pre-requisite of this class.

• Department: Finance
• W 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Ben Atkins
  Info
• 3 points

Advanced Seminar in Real Estate (Half-Te

Adv. Seminar in RE (Half-

This case-based course addresses and, where possible, simulates complex problem solving applied to real estate. The emphasis is on strategic decision making and the types of issues that principals and investors face in acquiring, financing, owning, managing, developing, and restructuring real estate. Using cutting-edge case materials developed for the Columbia MBA Real Estate Program, the course focuses on analyzing complex problems and developing a recommended course of action based on in-depth analysis, both quantitative and qualitative. The course aims to develop your understanding of and appreciation for the multiple dimensions - economic, financial, and institutional - that shape the decision-making environment for real estate investment. Drawing upon the participation of case principals in the classroom, the course also addresses the issues and tactics of how the various industry actors - pubic companies, private equity funds, and individuals - execute their strategies, including dynamics that constrain actors and organizations in the real estate business. The course is designed to challenge students with complex situations so that they can not only hone their analytical skills, but also develop effective means of communicating their analytical insights and conclusions to different audiences: investors, lenders, clients, and joint-venture partners.

• Department: Finance
• T 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
• 1.5 points

SEM-MUSIC THEORY: ADV ANALYSIS

• Department: Music
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph P Dubiel
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

CRITICAL ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY ART

• Department: Visual Arts
• F 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth C Devita
  Info
• 3 points

Private Equity Finance

The course "Private Equity Finance" focuses on the essential aspects of corporate finance relevant to the private equity industry. It covers topics that are critical for interviews and practice in PE investing. The course follows the "private equity cycle" of selection, valuation, and harvesting. Initially, students learn to evaluate a target company from the perspective of a private equity firm, keeping in mind the needs of investors and management. The course then delves into funding negotiations, deal structuring, and private equity investment management. Classic valuation techniques such as DCF, comparables, and APV are reviewed, along with models specific to private equity transactions (for example, the LBO model). Additionally, students will gain insight into the legal and regulatory frameworks that govern private equity finance and the ethical considerations that arise in this field. Finally, the course concludes with a study of investment exit strategies.

By the end of the course, the student will understand the language of private equity, the solutions available for valuation and deal structure, and the economic frictions that must always be addressed. This course provides a comprehensive overview of private equity finance and prepares students for careers in this exciting and dynamic industry.

This course is an applications-oriented course requiring the student to solve actual problems. After the 2023-24 academic year, this course is a pre-requisite for all 2nd year PE electives offers in the curriculum. The 2023-24 course is not available to students who have enrolled in Foundations of PE I as half of the course material has significant overlap.

• Department: Finance
• MW 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Michael Ewens
  Info
• 3 points

FILM FESTIVALS:THEORY&PRACTICE

FILM FESTIVALS: THEORY & PRACT

An overview of the history, organization, management, and purposes of film festivals, and their roles in launching films and filmmakers, facilitating industry dealmaking and networking, and nurturing cinema culture. The course is centered around a series of guest speakers, including festival directors and programmers, filmmakers, distributors, publicists, and more. Students are required to research and complete two individual presentations: (1) Festival Presentation, examining a lesser-known film festival, and (2) Film Presentation, tracking the trajectory of a recent film that utilized festivals as a key part of its sales or release plan.

• Department: Film
• M 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Mynette Louie
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Race, Gender and Political Change

Race, Gender & Political Chang

This course will examine the impact that the current social and racial justice awakening (or reckoning), at the intersection of race and gender, is having on the US politics and policy. We will look at this along several dimensions, including politics, voting rights and voter suppression, governing and philanthropy. Ultimately, political change is the natural consequence of social and economic disruption, but will the change that is to come be of the kind that activists in movements such as the Me Too movement, Black Lives Matter, and gender equity leaders have envisioned? If the US has yet to fulfill the promise of a truly representative government, what solutions might there be to address systemic barriers to power its citizens face on the basis of race and gender? There is an opportunity to influence the broader national conversation with the very best ideas and work to implement them, but this unique moment in history and the opportunity that comes with it will not last forever.  Our goal will be to critically examine and explain these systemic barriers to political power found along racial and gender lines. We will look at the causes and consequences of racial, economic and social inequality, and how that plays out in different systems, policies and spaces. In addition to readings, students will benefit from the practical knowledge of guest lecturers drawn from the political sphere. This course will help prepare policy makers and elected officials in their efforts to create an equitable government for all citizens regardless of race or gender.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Jeri E Powell
  Info
• 1.5 points

Race Policy & American Politics

The changing definitions of race in America have been shaped by political institutions for centuries. Now, as since the founding of this nation, the U.S. (and societies abroad) are marked by racial inequality. Because of this persistent reality, politics
and
race continue to be intertwined.

This course explores the various ways in which race and politics intersect (and possibly collide). We will observe how racial inequality - and the efforts to overcome it- affect various facets of American local, state, and national politics. Often, New York City will be the launching point for broader discussions and analyses pertaining to relationships between Blacks, whites, Latinos, and Asians. We will also pay particular attention to the causes of contemporary racial mobilization and to its consequences. In particular, we will discuss how NYC is affected by former executives as well as the current governor and president and the remnants of the racialized/racist tone of the Trump presidency and his administration.

We will explore the origins of race as an organizing concept before moving into a discussion of contemporary racial politics and policy. Using themes such as inequality and governance, we will attempt to further discern the institutions which support and perpetuate practices such as disenfranchisement, gentrification, tiered civil rights and liberties, and possibilities for economic and special mobility.

We will take up several topics that have engaged students of politics and scholars of policy for the past few decades and examine their relationship to race. These include but are not limited to education, immigration, transportation, housing, health, elections, social movements, poverty and homelessness, political representation, justice and inequality. We will also dissect these topics in relation to party politics and elections, group consciousness, group conflict and prejudice, political representation, and political unity – and often disunity – among dominant and non- dominant groups. As we do so, we will explore changes as well as continuities in the intersection of race and politics.

Throughout the course we will consider several questions: Does a collective racial identity exist when seeking policy change? Should the notion of race-based policy making cease on a local, national or even international level? What can we learn from coalition politics in New York City and the U.S. more broadly? What does “political change” look like in 21st cen

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Christina M Greer
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Personal Finance

This course is meant to provide an overall framework for personal finance. This course is not providing financial advice and each individual’s personal context and additional research should be done before making financial decisions Most of this course is internationally applicable. However, certain topics will have more of a US centric focus: taxes, retirement accounts, mortgages This course will not cover more advanced strategies (e.g., bitcoin, angel investing, commodities, investing on margin)

• Department: Finance
• T 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
• Instructor: Angela W Lee
  Info
• 1.5 points

Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise (MSM

Micro,Small,Med Enterprise Dev

The objective of this course is to understand the role of micro- and small- and medium- enterprises (MSMEs) in developing economies and to identify and assess a range of policies and programs to promote their development. By tracing the evolution of development thinking in finance and MSME development, students will be exposed to the intellectual underpinnings of -and practical tools used in- a wide variety of approaches to MSME development. Students will also become familiar with the strengths and weaknesses of the most common private sector development approaches currently being used by donor organizations and committed private sector actors, including the value chain approach.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• F 1:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
• 3 points

Impact Investing

This course is intended to provide students with an overview of the range of investing and funding approaches used by impact investors. This will be done through a combination of lectures, discussions, and presentations by leading impact investors and thought leaders. The substantive areas covered will include: (1) financial instruments and techniques used to fund social enterprises (for-profit, nonprofit and hybrids); (2) the differing financial return and social impact return expectations of impact investors; (3) how investors/funders and investment/wealth managers and advisors structure their portfolios and funds; and (4) strategies used by impact investors to search for impact investing opportunities. As well as investor/funder perspectives, the course will explore the role of financial innovation in creating opportunities to finance social enterprises, and the enabling regulatory framework and information intermediaries that are needed to support the development of robust social capital markets.

• Department: Finance
• W 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Berryman
  Info
• 1.5 points

Financing Innovation in Healthcare

The primary objective of this course is to provide you with a comprehensive
understanding of the significant economic, strategic, and regulatory aspects involved in financing
innovations within the healthcare industry. In the ?first half of the course, you will be introduced
to the risk-return pro?les and market failures specific to the biopharma industry. Additionally, we
will explore the integral roles played by various ?financing channels, including government funding,
non-pro?t organizations, venture capital, and mergers and acquisitions, in driving the innovation
process. The second half of the course will focus on examining the distinctive ?financial characteristics of U.S. hospitals and analyzing how external financing impacts healthcare quality and
technology adoption.

• Department: Finance
• MW 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Xuelin Li
  Info
• 1.5 points

Securing Full Economic and Political Cit

Econ & Pol Citizenship-America

This course will explore how members of civil society realize their full economic and political citizenship in America. Students will examine the structural design of American political institutions, federal policy, and the individuals that are charged with the responsibility of ensuring advancement to economic independence as full citizens. What is it about the design of these policies and their implementation that prevents the achievement of economic independence for so many people in protective classes that are represented in the Civil Rights Act and other legislation? What is the relationship between economic independence and the exercise of full political citizenship? During this coursework, students will examine the correlation between economic independence and the full participation around the decisions that are made in their lives. We will look closely at why government-issued social supports have historically eliminated an individual’s decision-making power as a pre-requisite for receiving benefits. We will review specific groups where this most frequently applies. We will identify and examine federal policies and programs that were created to support protected classes of people, governing bodies, and private institutions responsible for implementation. This course will equip students with the skills necessary to analyze current and former policy and develop their own innovative solutions that increases access to economic opportunities which leads to active citizenship.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Verna Eggleston
  Info
• 1.5 points

Strategic Equity Finance

• Department: Finance
• TR 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• Instructor: David Erickson
  Info
• 1.5 points

Foreign Policy - Thinking Outside the Bo

This course, led by former Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström, offers a unique opportunity to gain firsthand insights from a seasoned diplomat experienced in navigating the complexities of global politics. Over six weeks, students will explore innovative approaches to foreign policy that challenge conventional paradigms, with a focus on feminist perspectives, conflict resolution strategies, and environmental considerations. Through engaging discussions, case studies, and guest lectures, participants will develop a nuanced understanding of the multifaceted challenges facing today's world. This course is designed to inspire future leaders in international affairs by equipping them with critical thinking skills and practical knowledge necessary to drive change in their careers and beyond.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Margot Wallstrom
  Info
• 1.5 points

Writing For the Screen

• Department: Film
• M 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Benjamin Robbins
  Info
• 3 points

Economic Measurement of Discrimination

Econ Measure of Discrimin

Pre-reqs: Microeconomics and Quant II. 
Discrimination is the differential treatment of people based on identity or perceived identity (race, gender, ethnicity, LGBTQ+ status, age, religion, ability, immigration status, etc.). Such behavior violates certain legal, social, and moral norms and negatively impacts those discriminated against. For these and other reasons, it is important to formally identify discrimination from data. But how can we determine whether A’s treatment of B is due to B’s identity as opposed to some other characteristic of B or A that may not even be captured by a variable? In this class, we will explore economists’ methodologies for addressing this question. We will survey the economic literature on discrimination against various groups across different markets and countries.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Ebonya L Washington
  Info
• 3 points

Clinical Seminar in Women's Health

CLIN SEMIN WOMEN'S HEALTH

Clinical seminar in Women's Health is designed to provide the Women's Health Subspecialty student with an opportunity to expand on clinical practicum experiences via case presentation and faculty led group clinical discussion. Each student will present a case chosen from the women's health practicum experience. The presenting student will lead a class discussion based on their case facilitated by the course instructor. Some seminar sessions will include a didactic component presented by the course instructor to further elaborate on clinical issues presented in the cases over the course of the semester.

• Department: Nursing
• Instructor: Adena Bargad
  Info
• 1 points

S ENVIRO ISSUES IN BUS TRANS

• Department: Law
• M 4:20 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
• 2 points

Climate Finance

Climate change may be today’s most serious challenge to the future of humanity. Scientists have concluded that avoiding catastrophic climate change will require a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050 or shortly thereafter, a dramatic reversal after several hundred years of industrial growth. This will require a rapid transformation of the global economy, requiring trillions of dollars in capital and creating new and risks and opportunities for investors to finance the transition. This course builds on the lessons learned in B8705 Business and Climate Change. The course begins with an introduction to climate finance and the topic of carbon markets, followed by classes on project finance to finance renewable energy, venture and growth capital to finance emerging climate technologies, and public equity strategies including divestment and ESG investing. Financial products in the fixed income and insurance markets are examined for climate impact, followed by a class session on development finance to understand the unique challenges and solutions to investing in climate solutions in emerging markets. The course wraps-up with a class session on the strategies used by banks and investment firms for the transition to net zero, concluding with a discussion of the impact of the climate crisis on opportunities and careers in finance.

• Department: Finance
• W 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• W 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
• Instructor: Parinitha R Sastry
  Info
• 1.5 points

The Media Industries: Public P

The course is designed to introduce law and business students to the unusual regulatory and business conditions and challenges in the media industries. A variety of topics are covered including intellectual property, the history and structure of the media industries, communications regulation, strategies of integration and consolidation and patterns of innovation in the media industry.

• Department: Business Economics
• M 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
• 3 points

Security Analysis

The course’s objective is to present a rational investment philosophy and process for equity security analysis and capital allocation. The course has three sections:

(1) Investment Philosophy and Capital Markets

What is the objective of security analysis and investing?
Why does a value-based methodology win over time?
Does Modern Portfolio Theory explain empirical evidence?
What is more instructive for investment analysis – determining value or expected return?
What is the difference between “cheap” and “mis-priced”?
(2) Investment Process – Valuation and Competitive Strategy

What is the difference between a great business, a good business and a bad business?
How can we evaluate when a business and/or an industry’s mid-long term economics change?
How can we evaluate company specific structural mis-pricings that exist?
How can we categorize investment opportunities to improve how we value and define them?
How can we define a process to source mis-pricings into investment categories?
What are the commonly used valuation methodologies and which are most instructive for certain situations?
What is the most effective framework for modeling a business and what are the pitfalls?
How can we evaluate management’s history of capital allocation? How important is it and how do we factor this into valuation?
(3) Capital Allocation and Global Macro

What top-down inputs are instructive for a security analyst?
What lessons have we learned from previous bubbles?
Can computing and evaluating asset class expected returns help source where a security analyst might find mis-pricings and compounding opportunities?
How do we evaluate secular headwinds or tailwinds for industries and businesses?
What are the pitfalls of consensus thinking and is there a benefit to seeking the edge of the crowd?
What are the key economic data points that truly inform the analyst where we are in certain cycles?
The curriculum will seek to answer these questions by first reviewing investing principals and concepts. Thereafter we will bring in company executives and investment practitioners to provide real world evidence of these principles in action and allow for students to participate in a
thoughtful, factual dialogue.

• Department: Finance
• W 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael J Mauboussin
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Applied Security Analysis I

Applied Security Analysis I emphases practical application of value investing. Students will work in teams to find an appropriate investment idea, perform thorough primary research, and deliver a pitch to a portfolio manager."The class is integrated with The Pershing Square Value Investing and Philanthropy Challenge. This competition, which began in 2007, signifies the commitment of both Columbia Business School and Pershing Square to produce talented and knowledgeable graduates who are ready to take on leadership roles and to demonstrate the importance of philanthropy to these future leaders in value investing. Winning teams will receive a cash prize with a percentage of those winnings to be donated to a charity of their choice.All student teams will pitch their ideas to investment professionals three times over the course of the semester, simulating the job of the analyst to convince a portfolio manager of the worthiness of an idea. Feedback will be provided on the strength of the idea, the areas of further research required, and presentation skills. *Class attendance is required when outside speakers are present including Bill Ackman, the Philanthropy Discussion, and Finals (takes place off-campus). Grades will be reduced 1 level (ex. H to an HP) for any unexcused absences.**This course will be demanding. Students should expect 20-25 hours of work per week outside of class."

• Department: Finance
• R 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
• 3 points

Strokes & Lines: On Expressive Mediality

The graduate seminar "Strokes & Lines: On expressive Mediality in Early Modern Art" investigates how the brush stroke and drawn line gained emphasis in art practice in Early Modern Europe and were conceptualized as artistic gesture in art theory. We will discuss how the visibility of the stroke challenged the primary task of mimesis to modify perception and how the artists walked a fine line to express artistic bravura. The seminar will present the many voices that constitute Early modern aesthetic theory and consider the different artistic positions that form the floor for that discourse. The seminar will be held in two groups, on at Columbia University, leaded by Diane Bodart, the other at Yale University, leaded by Nicola Suthor. We will join forces during the semester for the close-looking sessions at the Morgan Library, the Metropolitan Museum, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Yale Center for British Art, and a three-day fieldtrip/ workshop at Casa Muraro in Venice.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Diane Bodart
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

Public Health GIS

PUBLIC HEALTH GIS

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has emerged as an essential tool for public health researchers and practitioners. The GIS for Public Health course will offer students an opportunity to gain skills in using GIS software to apply spatial analysis techniques to public health research questions. The laboratory section of the course will give students the opportunity for hands-on learning in how to use GIS systems to analyze data and produce maps and reports. These laboratory exercises will be designed to increasingly challenge the students to incorporate the analytic skills and techniques they have learned in other courses with the geospatial and spatial statistics techniques commonly used in GIS. Guest speakers will be invited to share their real-world examples of GIS in Public Health research and practice. These speakers will include Columbia researchers and staff from government agencies or non-profit organizations.

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• W 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• W 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Joel Capellan
  Info
• 3 points

C TAX POLICY

• Department: Law
• M 4:20 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
• 2 points

Applied Value Investing

This course combines the methods and teachings of security analysis with practical buy-side methodologies to identify and research attractive value investments. Emphasis will be placed on the development and implementation of a sound and repeatable research process. Both long and short methodologies will be covered during the semester.

This course will leverage your theoretical learning in security analysis plus require you to develop business acumen and industry expertise. A combination of fundamental analysis and assessment of intrinsic value will be balanced with thematic thinking and business judgment. The course should arm you with the tools to identify attractive value investments through a variety of methodologies for several alternative fund strategies. Throughout the semester, students will prepare five full investment memoranda on assigned stock securities. After the first name, which will be assigned to the entire class, subsequent stocks will be assigned to small groups of students. Certain students will be required to develop the long thesis while others develop the short thesis. Ultimately each student will select one of their ideas to further develop (long or short) for a final presentation to the class and outside fund managers. The class will be kept small to take advantage of the instructional method. Class discussions will be complemented by guest discussions from highly regarded investment professionals from the long only and hedge fund community.

• Department: Finance
• T 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
• 3 points

Distressed Value Investing

The goal of Distressed Value Investing is to provide students with broad-based exposure to what is one of the most complex and intellectually stimulating areas of the market. The class will introduce distressed investing broadly, touching on many different styles of investing in distressed companies and securities. The class also emphasizes hands-on distressed analysis, teaching students to interpret and learn from dynamic real-life situations. To facilitate this learning process, the class includes the insights of many guest speakers.

• Department: Finance
• M 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel E Krueger
  Info
• Instructor: Michael A Gatto
  Info
• 3 points

EHS Policy Seminar

POLICY CERT PREPRACTICUM

This course is required of EHS Policy Track students in the semester before they complete their practicum. Most class sessions will entail a presentation by a environmental health policy practioner followed by class discussion. Past guests include people from the US FDA, NYU Law School, and the New York State Department of Environmental Protection. Students will prepare biweekly position papers and a research essay. Open to non-policy track students by permission of instructor only.

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• T 11:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Darby W Jack
  Info
• 0 points

Value Investing

This class, taught in Term A, is intended to teach students the fundamentals of the value approach to investment management developed by Graham and Dodd. This will be done through a combination of formal lectures, cases and in-class valuation discussions. The substantive areas covered will include (1) the fundamental assumptions and approaches to value investing, (2) techniques for assessing fundamental value - balance sheet and earnings power approaches, (3) structuring value-based portfolios to control risk and (4) designing strategies for searching efficiently for value investing opportunities.

• Department: Finance
• W 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeffrey W Mueller
  Info
• 1.5 points

Legends in Value Investing

This class combines B8377 Value Investing in Term A with the Value Investing with Legends lecture series in Term B. Term A is intended to teach students the fundamentals of the value approach to investment management developed by Graham and Dodd. This will be done through a combination of formal lectures, cases and in-class valuation discussions. The substantive areas covered will include (1) the fundamental assumptions and approaches to value investing, (2) techniques for assessing fundamental value - balance sheet and earnings power approaches, (3) structuring value-based portfolios to control risk and (4) designing strategies for searching efficiently for value investing opportunities. The second half of the semester (Term B) is intended to expose students to the practical implementation of Graham and Dodd investing principles. Through presentations by leading value investors, students will learn how individuals develop an investment process to suit their personality and personal biases. Investors will discuss: 1. search strategy, 2. valuation approach, 3. research techniques, and 4. risk management in the context of their own investments.

• Department: Finance
• TR 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Kent Daniel
  h-index: 25 Info
• 1.5 points

Advanced Investment Research

This will be a demanding class meant for the student intent on entering the investment management industry post-graduation. As such, only students who demonstrate a compelling interest in professional investment management will be admitted, and admission will be limited to 10 students to ensure quality of experience for all involved. This seminar is not open to the bidding process and no auditors will be allowed. The purpose of this section of Advanced Investment Research is to help students learn how to rip apart" a company and draw thoughtful conclusions about whether it might make for a good investment opportunity. Topics will include stock selection, identifying the key investment factors, developing a variant view, and networking with industry contacts to help confirm or refute one's thesis. The class will culminate with students delivering a detailed research recommendation on a single investment idea to a panel of judges. The goal is for students to leave class with an actionable investment idea and a framework for how to develop and research ideas in the future.

This class will be demanding and potentially overwhelming if you are not prepared to dedicate significant time and energy to it. Students should expect 20-25 hours of work per week outside of class, and the work load may be higher if you have not previously done detailed fundamental investment research. We recommend that you do not take this class if you are unable to put in this amount of time because you will not be able to keep up, and you will not be happy with your final grade.

Note: this class will also include a substantial pre-class assignment which will be a material part of the final grade.

• Department: Finance
• M 6:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Kian Ghazi
  Info
• 3 points

Crossroads in Middle-Period China: Topic

Topics of Song, Jin, and

Middle Period China, often seen as a pivotal point of inflection and transformation, is currently subject to ongoing debate regarding its scope and definition. This graduate course aims to approach literature from this era by moving beyond the traditional framework of Tang-Song literary history. It considers literature a key variable in this historic crossroads and recontextualizes it within the broader landscape of cultural history. This course analyzes primary texts along with topics like periodization, Sino-barbarian discourses, cultural memory, materiality of texts, urban culture, gender politics, etc.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Lili Xia
  Info
• 4 points

Foundations in Environmental Justice: Fr

Socially vulnerable communities bear a disproportionately high burden of environmental exposures due to structural challenges such as racism. This multi-disciplinary course will introduce environmental justice scholarship and advocacy through a public health lens. The class will explore foundational theories critical to the environmental justice movement, innovative research approaches for characterizing inequities in environmental health as well as analyzing potential solutions, and community-driven strategies for systemic change. This course will draw on cross-disciplinary materials from academic articles and communications for a broad audience, such as podcasts, news articles, or non-technical reports. Lastly, using a range of practice-based approaches, students will have opportunities to reflect on their own social position and how that informs their public health approach.

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• T 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Ami R Zota
  Info
• 1.5 points

VC Seminar

This course focuses on the role of venture capital and venture capitalist in selecting, funding, and developing emerging growth companies. Students should expect to complete the course with a basic understanding of the processes employed by those making the risk-reward determinations to fund new and growing companies. The class should be worthwhile for students interested in venture capital, investing in growth companies, working with early stage and growth companies, and entrepreneurship.

• Department: Finance
• W 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
• Instructor: Zachary K Schwarzman
  Info
• 1.5 points

Tutorial in Environmental Health Science

TUT-ENVIRONMENTL HTLTH SC

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• Instructor: Darby W Jack
  Info
• Instructor: Nina Kulacki
  Info
• 0-6 points

Alternative Assets in Institutional Port

This course examines key themes and issues related to investing in alternative assets from the perspective of major asset owners, such as defined benefit pension plans. The course will focus on the investment process and benefits of applying alternative investments, specifically hedge funds and fund-of-funds, to traditional portfolios. The course will also address the role of real estate, timber, venture capital, private equity, hard assets, infrastructure assets and commodities within traditional portfolios.The goals of this course are for participants to: Understand the objectives and constraints of institutional investors, specifically corporate and public pension plans; Appreciate the benefits, and potential drawbacks, of including alternative assets within the context of large institutional portfolios; Gain insight into the analysis and selection of hedge funds, as well as the construction of hedge fund of fund portfolios; Develop an awareness of analysis, selection, and management of alternative asset portfolios including private equity, commodities, currencies, etc.This course will make significant use of practical, real-world examples. Moreover, the professors expect to engage CIOs of pension plans, as well as major hedge fund managers (such as David Einhorn of Greenlight, Scott Bessent of Soros, and others) to participate in the course as guest lecturers.Students who are looking to pursue careers in any traditional or alternative asset class will benefit from this course. Further, students interested in careers at corporate or public pension plans, fund of funds, consultants or research providers should benefit from this course."

• Department: Finance
• M 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
• 1.5 points

Foundations of Business Law

This course is not a traditional business law survey class. This course is an application-oriented class that provides the business professional with an understanding of certain essential legal concepts that are an integral part of the decision-making process for a business enterprise to operate effectively in the United States.
The purpose of this course is to provide the student with a framework that will enable the student to identify legal issues that arise in various circumstances during the operation of a business enterprise. This course will focus primarily on the legal regime in the United States, although the laws of other jurisdictions will be noted where appropriate.
The course is highly interactive – legal principles will be imparted as students seek to identify legal issues arising in actual business situations. Daily student class participation is a significant element of the course, accounting for 20% of the student grade.

• Department: Finance
• R 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
• Instructor: Donna M Hitscherich
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• 1.5 points

DRAMATURGY PRACTICUM

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• Department: Theatre Arts
• W 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: E. C Parker
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• 3 points

Pharmacoepidemiology

PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY

The course is intended to provide students with an understanding of the objectives, methods and applications of pharmacoepidemiology -- the study of the use and effects of drugs in diverse populations. Students will be exposed to the role of Pharmacoepidemiology in the biopharmaceutical development process, from the perspective of regulators (e.g. FDA), policymakers (e.g. Health Technology Assessment agencies), payers, and the biopharmaceutical industry. Epidemiologic methods will be reviewed in the context of pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device evaluation. Study designs and data sources used to evaluate drug safety and effectiveness will be discussed using real-world examples. Special attention will be paid to methodological issues, such as confounding by indication, forms of selection and information bias that are unique to pharmacoepidemiologic research. Finally, select special topics are covered, including: risk-benefit analysis, clinical outcomes assessment, and comparative effectiveness research. Students will integrate the methods and operational principles discussed in class into a group presentation, which proposes and defends a study design to address post-approval safety and effectiveness concerns of a hypothetical new drug.

• Department: Epidemiology
• W 5:30 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
• Instructor: John J Doyle
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• 1.5 points

Short Selling

There’s an old Wall Street adage: “Don’t short valuation.” So, is everything else fair game? What about frauds, are those sure things? The purpose of this class is to answer these questions and equip students to profitably employ short-selling investment strategies. We will introduce students to all aspects of short-selling. However, we will assume that students have prior knowledge of the basics mechanics of shorting a stock, as well as various accounting tricks and “shenanigans” that companies employ to mask weaknesses in their business. To that end, we will provide some materials that should be reviewed before the start of class to review these concepts.

In class, we will first dig into the academic literature behind short selling. We will discuss what has worked historically, and whether or not it has been successful as of late. We will then read and discuss case studies on “famous” shorts and frauds. We will, with the benefit of hindsight, try to identify inflection points in the arc of each company. The students will also become familiar with the risks of shorting frauds too early. We will examine various short selling strategies, including “activist shorting”, that are currently being employed in the markets. We will evaluate what elements make for a compelling short “pitch.” Additionally, students will learn about idea sourcing, portfolio management, risk management, and compliance.

While the title and focus of the class is “Short Selling,” it is important to note that the techniques and investment approaches we will discuss are highly applicable to long-focused investing as well. Deciding not to own a security that is included in a tracking index is functionally the same as shorting the security, and understanding a company’s true profitability (and not the version that it promotes through its accounting decisions) is highly important for valuation efforts. A deep and skeptical research approach should assist fundamental analysts in all fields. We will approach this topic from both theoretical and practical perspectives, drawing heavily on the academic literature around short selling as well as highly-experienced practitioners. We will examine what makes a profitable short, and pay particular attention to unsuccessful shorts and
how to avoid them. The mosaic of analysis will include accounting, market microstructure, fundamental factors, behavioral finance, value-added research, and various v

• Department: Finance
• R 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
• 1.5 points

Readings in Twentieth Century U.S. Histo

Readings in 20th C. U.S.

This is a graduate reading course focusing on twentieth century US historiography. The goal of the course is to introduce students to some of the pressing historiographic questions in the field. The first part of the semester will be spent thinking through periodization and its limits. How useful are periodizations such as “the progressive era” and the “the Cold War”? What are the major historiographic arguments surrounding their use?  In the second part of the semester, we will take a thematic approach. We will read some of the newest (and award-winning) books published in the past few years. Many of these books originated as dissertations and should be useful for students to read as they think about constructing their own research projects.

• Department: History
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Alma Steingart
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

Foundations of Deal Law

This course is not a traditional business law class. This course is an application-oriented class that provides the business professional with an understanding of certain essential legal concepts that are an integral to anyone embarking on a career which involves public or private company transactional activities.
The purpose of this course is to provide the student with a framework that will enable the student to identify legal issues that arise in various circumstances during the deal process and analyze ways to optimize the desired economic outcomes through an (a) understanding of the likely legal implications of a particular strategy and (b) appreciation of the consequences flowing from the deal structure and documentation. This course will focus primarily on the legal regime in the United States, although the laws of other jurisdictions will be noted where appropriate.
The course is highly interactive – legal principles will be imparted as students seek to identify legal issues arising in actual deal situations. Student class participation is a significant element of the course, accounting for 30% of the student grade.

• Department: Finance
• R 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
• Instructor: Donna M Hitscherich
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• 1.5 points

Nutritional Epidemiology

NUTRITIONAL EPI

The purpose of this course is for students to understand the methods involved in determining the role of nutrition in the etiology of various disease states. Examples in the literature will be used to illustrate various aspects of nutritional epidemiology including assessment of dietary intake, biochemical markers of nutritional intake, body composition and issues in analysis of nutritional data in epidemiological studies.

• Department: Epidemiology
• T 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Sandra S Albrecht
  h-index: 19 Info
• 3 points

Genetic epidemiology of aging and age re

GENETIC EPI-AGING/AGE RLT

This course integrates epidemiologic and human genetics methods to understand the complex aging traits. The first half of the course discusses substantive and epidemiologic aspects of age-related diseases (e.g., cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis), and the second half of the course discusses how genetic and epidemiologic methods can be used to examine the issues discussed in the first half. Topics include study design, modeling of aging, statistical genetics methods, epidemiology and genetics of age-related diseases and geriatric conditions.

• Department: Epidemiology
• M 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• 3 points

Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases

INFECTIOUS DISEASE EPIDEM

Infectious disease epidemiology monitors the occurrence of infectious diseases and develops strategies for preventing and controlling disease. It requires the use of traditional epidemiologic methods as well as methods that cannot be applied to non-infectious diseases, such as mathematical modeling. In addition to knowing epidemiologic methods, infectious disease epidemiologists need to be familiar with the clinical and biological features of important infectious diseases as well as laboratory techniques for the identification and quantification of infectious agents. This course is designed to provide an introduction to infectious disease epidemiology. It will focus on the tools and methods used in identifying, preventing, and controlling infectious diseases to improve public health. Case studies based on the literature and the work of faculty members will be used to illustrate the real-world application of these tools and methods to address public health problems.

• Department: Epidemiology
• M 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• 3 points

S GLOBAL INSIDE COUNSEL

• Department: Law
• R 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• 2 points