This course introduces students to central questions and debates in the fields of African American Studies, and it explores the various interdisciplinary efforts to address them. The seminar is designed to provide an interdisciplinary foundation and familiarize students with a number of methodological approaches. Toward this end we will have a number of class visitors/guest lecturers drawn from members of IRAAS's Core and Affiliated Faculty.
An M.S. degree requirement. Students attend at least three Applied Mathematics research seminars within the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and submit reports on each.
This course explores the challenges of understanding the global world in which we live, a world that demands new conceptual approaches and ways of thinking. The objectives are: To examine multidisciplinary approaches to key global issues through readings, class discussions, and conversations with select CGT faculty members as guest speakers. This will take place through multi-week modules that center on a critical issue, asking students to familiarize themselves with key questions and context, engage with an expert on the topic, and apply their insights to a specific case or question. To develop a focused and feasible research project and hone the practices of scholarly data collection, analysis, and communication through workshops and assignments. This work begins in the fall and continues to completion in the spring semester of the seminar. The perspectives and skills developed in M.A. Seminar will support students in the development and completion of their thirty-five page M.A. essays, which they will present to each other and to CGT faculty at the Spring Symposium.
Eulerian and Lagrangian descriptions of motion. Stress and strain rate tensors, vorticity, integral and differential equations of mass, momentum, and energy conservation. Potential flow.
Policymaking—the process by which political actors make decisions on a range of policy issues—is strongly influenced by context. This course creates a better understanding of how policymaking in developing and developed countries is shaped by specific forms of government, state institutions, actor constellations, political competition, and the way policy processes are informed by data and lived experiences. The first part of the course introduces students to different political systems, actors, and approaches to understanding politics. This will enable students to analyze the contexts, determinants, and outcomes of political processes. The analytical foundations include approaches of mainstream and intersectional policy analysis, varieties of democracy and autocracy and the role of external donors, such as donors and international organizations. The second part of the course focuses on concrete ways to make, negotiate, and influence policies. This includes discussions on a toolbox for policymaking, evidence-based and participatory policymaking, social movements, and advocacy. In addition to providing participants with the conceptual foundations of politics and policymaking, the course teaches students a set of policy tools that students can apply throughout their careers in government, think tanks, international organizations, civil society, and the private sector. A centerpiece of these skills is policy memo writing, in which students will learn to conduct concise, evidence-based policy analysis that diagnoses a policy problem, evaluates potential solutions, and conducts analysis of the relevant political institutions and actors. Other policy tools include the use and design of indicators, polls, randomized control trials, and stakeholder engagement mappings. Besides the material covered in the lectures, students will also attend a weekly recitation section. Recitation sections will help students develop the skills necessary for policy analysis, and in particular, policy memo writing, or involve the discussion of case studies to explore key concepts related to the lecture. By the end of the course, students will have a better understanding of how public policy is made and implemented in a range of countries, enhanced skills and tools to design policies and be able to actively participate in policymaking processes in a variety of roles.
This class will look at selected eras of theater with an emphasis on performance.
What happens when we understand art as an active producer of theory, rather than as an object to which theory might be “applied?” This seminar proposes that recent art has catalyzed and shaped advanced feminist and queer thought, and asks how visual art practices have been engines of theoretical propositions about the entanglements of genders, sexualities, racialization, desire, state power, archives, migration, utopias/dystopias, loss, anger, visibility/opacity, world-making, etc. We will focus our speculations around a series of case studies from around the world to think about how insistently intersectional feminist, trans, and queer knowledge is embodied, generated, and performed within works, acts, and objects themselves. Modeling more horizontal methods of learning in alignment with queer feminist pedagogies, students will participate in building our reading list and will collaboratively lead discussions. Artists/artist’s groups might include Asco, Sadie Barnette, fierce pussy, Jeffrey Gibson, Félix González-Torres, Glenn Ligon, Candice Lin, Julie Mehretu, Yasumasa Morimura, Zanele Muholi, Senga Nengudi, Cecilia Vicuña, and Martin Wong.
Debye screening. Motion of charged particles in space- and time-varying electromagnetic fields. Two-fluid description of plasmas. Linear electrostatic and electromagnetic waves in unmagnetized and magnetized plasmas. The magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model, including MHD equilibrium, stability, and MHD waves in simple geometries.
Prerequisites: the instructors permission prior to registration. A survey of selected issues and debates in political theory. Areas of the field discussed include normative political philosophy, history of political thought, and the design of political and social institutions.
Major theories of religion and principal approaches to the study of religion.
First semester of the doctoral program sequence in applied statistics.
Students first meet in person at Columbia Global Centers | Europe in Paris for five days of intensive study. Instructional hours for two core courses (Technology in the Business Environment and Accounting and Finance for Technology) will begin, as well as Seminar 1: Product or Service Realization, Additional activities designed to immerse all participants in a collaborative exploration of technology leadership roles and their importance to organizations complement the coursework. The activities will involve the active participation of faculty, outside industry experts, selected program mentors, and alumni, and will include sessions at company sites and social events
The course focuses on representations of childhood in literature and everyday culture during the period of late socialism in Bulgaria and East Central Europe. We will examine examples from fiction, as well as personal stories and fragmentary textual traces of children. In addition, we will work on visual artefacts related to childhood experience and self- representation: albums, lexicons (informal pupil’s notebook questionnaire), ABC books of socialism (alphabet and propaganda), objects and toys, and scenes from children’s movies. We will combine scholarly analysis of that material with a personal “archaeology’”on the topic of childhood. We will explore what it was like to be a child in Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, in particular) during late socialism (1970s-1980s). We will seek an immersive knowledge of the disappearing world of childhood through literature, oral histories, and ego-documents from that period. The word "immersive" is important, because the topic of remembering childhood is always personal. Creative writing tasks will be used to involve students in exploring their childhood memories and family stories. What is specific in remembering and storytelling about childhood, both our own and others’? An important issue to consider isl whether we can learn more about the context, the ideology, and the time while trying to see and remember it from a child’s point of view. We will explore how the child and the adolescent expressed themselves, how they constructed their identity on the border of private and public life; how the informal private language of their self-representation interfered or coincided with the totalitarian public language. We’ll discuss the problematic authenticity of their voices, which are torn between the banality of the ideology and the cliches of popular culture. Key texts from contemporary authors such as Olga Tokarczuk, Dubravka Ugresic, Mircea Cartarescu will be examined, as well as classic literary texts of childhood memoirs, such as Marcel Proust, Walther Benjamin's My Berlin Childhood, Anne Frank's Diary, and Elias Canetti's The Tongue Set Free. I will also draw on my own experience as a fiction writer as well as a scholar in the field of literary studies, memory of the recent past, and oral history.
To design and manage successful economic policy professionals need a sophisticated command of modern microeconomics. This course strengthens and extends understanding of microeconomic theory, and gives practice applying it. We study the relationship between market structure and market performance, exploring conditions under which policy intervention can improve market performance, and when it can be counter-productive. Both distributional and efficiency aspects of intervention are stressed. An introduction to formal strategic analysis is included, along with its application in the modern theory of auctions.
This course is the required discussion section for PUAF U6100.
This seminar is PART 2 for second and third year students who are writing their MPhil thesis. It will assume the form of a yearlong seminar during which students design, research, and write up their MPhil projects. These projects can be based on any kind of sociological method, quantitative or qualitative. The thesis will assume the form of an article that can be submitted to a social science journal. The seminar will help you to find an interesting question, a way to answer it, and a mode of communicating this to fellow sociologists in a way that they might find worth paying attention to. The summer break between the two semesters will allow students who don’t come to the first semester with ready-to-analyze data to gather such data (through ethnographic work, archival research, scraping the internet, combining existing survey data, etc.).
Prerequisites: STAT GR6102 Modern Bayesian methods offer an amazing toolbox for solving science and engineering problems. We will go through the book Bayesian Data Analysis and do applied statistical modeling using Stan, using R (or Python or Julia if you prefer) to preprocess the data and postprocess the analysis. We will also discuss the relevant theory and get to open questions in model building, computing, evaluation, and expansion. The course is intended for students who want to do applied statistics and also those who are interested in working on statistics research problems.
Introduction to Historical Musicology: the history of the discipline, major areas of research, source materials, and methodological problems.
The course covers major problems and methods in macroeconomics, with particular focus on issues faced by policymakers in small, open economies. Modern macro is characterized by three fundamental features: economic outcomes are determined in general equilibrium; expectations play a crucial role and all analysis must be based on micro-foundations. Firms depend on consumers, who in turn depend on labor income, profits and rents, which are influenced by government decisions and the environment in which they work. Therefore, in general equilibrium, everything is related to everything, and we must carefully analyze how the economy will respond to those forces that can be considered “exogenous.” At the same time, Current behavior crucially depends on expectations about the future and those beliefs are shaped by the credibility of policies, the reputation of policymakers and the likelihood of potential “shocks.” Finally, economic incentives determine actions and we must make sure that our analysis of decision processes is incentive compatible. Macroeconomic outcomes (unemployment, inflation, growth, income distribution) may or may not be optimal and, if they are not, there usually is room for well-designed policy actions to bring us closer to more socially desirable results. In this class we will develop a basic understanding of models and theoretical foundations, but the relevant analytical framework will be presented in the context of current policy dilemmas. Students are expected to build a technical foundation to allow them a reasonably sophisticated understanding of the existing state of economic policy debates. We will discuss theory and evidence on determinants of growth, economic stabilization, inflation, monetary, fiscal and financial policies. Along the way, we will touch on “hot” policy discussions: the future of capitalism and income distribution; policies to generate growth and the role of government; global economic imbalances, secular stagnation and the long decline in risk free interest rates; economic adjustment in the wake of shocks (technology breakthroughs, pandemics, regulatory fads); should advanced economies worry about the high levels of debt or should they engage in fiscal expansion? How about emerging markets with much more limited access to borrowing? How should monetary policy be conducted to attain desired inflation levels? Why does the financial sector play such a crucial role in a modern economy and why do financial meltdowns create such high costs?
Prerequisites: STAT GR6102 or instructor permission. The Deparatments doctoral student consulting practicum. Students undertake pro bono consulting activities for Columbia community researchers under the tutelage of a faculty mentor.
The third of three laboratory courses. The focus of this lab is alternate modalities in the management of the difficult airway. Synthesis of lecture content obtained in Seminar II course. Laboratory experience provides psychomotor skills and critical thinking inherent to advanced airway techniques. As a component of the course specific skills must be safely demonstrated.
We will learn about and get practice in several aspects of statistical communication, including teaching, writing, collaboration, programming, data display, and visualization of statistical models. After taking this class, you should be able to effectively communicate quantitative information and ideas.
This is a Public Health Course. Public Health classes are offered on the Health Services Campus at 168th Street. For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses
Lectures cover principal topics in evolutionary biology including genetics, genome organization, population and quantitative genetics, the history of evolutionary theory, systematics, speciation and species concepts, co-evolution, and biogeography.
A two-semester intensive screenwriting workshop with one instructor. The Screenwriting 3 and Screenwriting 4 class sequence allows for the careful and more sustained development of a feature-length script. In the fall semester, students further develop an idea for a screenplay and write the first act (approximately 30 pages). In the spring semester, students finish writing the script and, time permitting, begin a first revision.
Policymaking—the process by which political actors make decisions on a range of policy issues—is strongly influenced by context. This course creates a better understanding of how policymaking in developing and developed countries is shaped by specific forms of government, state institutions, actor constellations, political competition, and the way policy processes are informed by data and lived experiences. The first part of the course introduces students to different political systems, actors, and approaches to understanding politics. This will enable students to analyze the contexts, determinants, and outcomes of political processes. The analytical foundations include approaches of mainstream and intersectional policy analysis, varieties of democracy and autocracy, and the role of external donors, such as donors and international organizations. The second part of the course focuses on concrete ways to make, negotiate, and influence policies. This includes discussions on a toolbox for policymaking, evidence-based and participatory policy-making, social movements, and advocacy. In addition to providing participants with the conceptual foundations of politics and policymaking, the course teaches students a set of policy tools that students can apply throughout their careers in government, think tanks, international organizations, civil society, and the private sector. A centerpiece of these skills is policy memo writing, in which students will learn to conduct concise, evidence-based policy analysis that diagnoses a policy problem, evaluates potential solutions, and conducts an analysis of the relevant political institutions and actors. Other policy tools include the use and design of indicators, polls, randomized control trials, cost-benefit analysis, and stakeholder engagement mappings. In addition to the material covered in the lectures, students will also attend a weekly recitation section. Recitation sections will help students develop the skills necessary for policy analysis, and in particular, policy memo writing, or involve the discussion of case studies to explore key concepts related to the lecture. By the end of the course, students will have a better understanding of how public policy is made and implemented in a range of countries, enhanced skills and tools to design policies, and be able to actively participate in policymaking processes in a variety of roles.
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This course is the required discussion section for PUAF U6110.