Extractive Industries and Sustainable De

Extractive Indust & Sust Devp

The guiding questions behind the course are: How can extractive industry investments be leveraged for sustainable and equitable development, particularly in low-income resource-rich countries? What is the international, national and regional regulatory framework under which such investments are made? Who are the stakeholders, and what are their respective interests, roles, responsibilities and opportunities? How can the challenges of poverty alleviation, environmental sustainability and governance be addressed in an integrated, multi-stakeholder framework for extractive industry investments that promotes sustainable development, respects the profitability of private-sector investments, and builds the mutual trust needed for long-term investments? The course covers the inter-related challenges of governance (fair and efficient negotiations, contracts, policy and planning framework, sound resource management, effective institutions), infrastructure (concession arrangements for shared platforms, corridor development), economic diversification (industrial policy, training, local procurement), environmental management (climate change resilience and adaptation, avoidance and management of catastrophic environmental events), and economic development (budgetary processes and tools, community engagement, integrated approaches to poverty alleviation at the local and national levels). Students who are interested in registering for this course should e-mail the instructor for permission.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa E Sachs
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• 3 points

Selected Issues on the Federal Reserve &

Sel Issues Fed Reserve & Finan

The seminar will offer an insider perspective on current issues facing the Federal Reserve and detail the various interconnections between the Fed and financial markets.  The course will cover the extraordinary policy actions of the Fed in response to the global pandemic, and compare this crisis to the global financial crisis of 2007-2009.  The seminar will include studying the evolution of the Fed’s monetary policy framework, including specifics on the Fed’s market transactions, and will also explore key financial market concepts that are relevant to the central bank and fundamental to financial stability.  There will also be a focus on other topical issues relevant for the Federal Reserve.  For the Fall 2021 semester, current issues include the shifting outlook for the Fed’s monetary policy and asset purchases, the question of whether central banks should target income inequality, the escalating focus on the potential for central bank to issue digital currencies, and other emerging topics.​

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Patrick O Dwyer
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• 1.5 points

Managerial Economics

• Department: Business Economics
• FMW 3:50 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• FMW 10:20 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• FMW 8:30 a.m.-10 a.m.
• FMW 10:20 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• FMW 3:50 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• FMW 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Frank R Lichtenberg
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• Instructor: Thomas J Prusa
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• Instructor: Jonah Rockoff
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• Instructor: Nachum Sicherman
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• Instructor: Thomas J Prusa
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• Instructor: Frank R Lichtenberg
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• Instructor: Nachum Sicherman
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• Instructor: Thomas J Prusa
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• Instructor: Nachum Sicherman
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• 1.5 points

READING MARX GLOBALLY

This is not an introductory course. We will read Marx carefully, with full reference to German original. We will relate primitive accumulation to the narrative of contemporary climate disaster. There will be relevant race, class, and gender diversifications in reading toward the end of the course. Etienne Balibar’s philosophical objection Marx as a leader for our times will be carefully considered. One 20 minute class presentation 25%, one final colloquium 40%, class participation 35%. No incompletes. Participation by interview.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• W 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Gayatri C Spivak
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• 4 points

Accounting for International and Public

The purpose of this course is to enable you to become an informed user of financial information. To be properly informed you need to understand financial statements, the note disclosures and the language of accounting and financial reporting. We will focus on the three major financial statements – the balance sheet, the income statement and the statement of cash flows - that companies prepare for use by management and external parties. We will examine the underlying concepts that go into the preparation of these financial statements as well as specific accounting rules that apply when preparing financial statements. As we gain an understanding of the financial information, we will look at approaches to analyze the financial strength and operations of an entity. We will use actual financial statements to understand how financial information is presented.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• R 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• F 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• F 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Norman Bartczak
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• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO DRAMATURGY

This course provides an introduction to major schools of thought about play structure and the practice of dramaturgy in the western theatre. Through directed readings and an ongoing practical project centered around one play, students will develop a deeper understanding of how dramatic writing functions as a blueprint for a life on the stage, and a refined vocabulary to describe story structures and dramatic writing techniques. By learning to view and question a play from a kaleidoscopic range of angles, students will enhance their abilities to take a printed text onto the live stage.

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

Global Economic Environment

• Department: Business Economics
• MW 3:50 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• MW 10:20 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• MW 8:30 a.m.-10 a.m.
• MW 10:20 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• MW 3:50 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• MW 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Conor Walsh
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• 1.5 points

THEORETICAL STATISTICS I

Prerequisites: students in a masters program must seek the director of the M.A. program in statistics' permission; students in an undergraduate program must seek the director of undergraduate studies in statistics' permission. A general introduction to mathematical statistics and statistical decision theory. Elementary decision theory, Bayes inference, Neyman-Pearson theory, hypothesis testing, most powerful unbiased tests, confidence sets. Estimation: methods, theory, and asymptotic properties. Likelihood ratio tests, multivariate distribution. Elements of general linear hypothesis, invariance, nonparametric methods, sequential analysis.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Cynthia Rush
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• 4 points

THEORETICAL STATISTICS III

Prerequisites: STAT G6201 and STAT G6201 This course will mainly focus on nonparametric methods in statistics. A tentavie list of topics to be covered include nonparametric density and regression function estimation -- upper bounds on the risk of kernel estimators and matching lower bounds on the minimax risk, reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces, bootstrap and resampling methods, multiple hypothesis testing, and high dimensional stastistical analysis.

• Department: Statistics
• R 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Arian Maleki
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• 4 points

Development Economics

This course describes the history and current situation of the level and distribution of global income, analyses the theory of economic growth and the empirical evidence on the factors influencing growth, including physical and human capital accumulation, technical change and population growth, explores the effects of trade, foreign direct investment, natural resources, geography, and public sector institutions on economic growth and distribution of income, and examines how financial development and exchange rate regimes affect the prospects for economic growth.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Francisco L Rivera-Batiz
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• 3 points

FOUNDATIONS IN GRIEF THERAPY

This course is designed to prepare social workers for clinical work with bereaved families.  We emphasize the idea that grief therapy focuses importantly on active listening linked to interventions that provide validation, support or guidance. We provide a way of understanding grief using an attachment theory model that explains a big-picture framework for understanding grief and adaptation to loss.  The centerpiece of the course is a presentation of an approach to grief therapy derived from our efficacy-tested treatment for complicated grief and incorporating attention to self-care, racism, ethical obligations and dilemmas and using peer or experienced supervision in doing grief therapy.

• Department: Social Work
• T 2 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Katherine Shear
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• 3 points

Biochemical and Physiological Basis of N

Biochem/Physiol Basis Nut

• Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
• F 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Ruben A Igal
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• 4 points

FIN STATEMNT ANALYSIS & INTERP

This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search

• Department: Law
• R 4:30 p.m.-7:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Norman Bartczak
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• 3 points

SW PRACTICE WITH CHILDREN

• Department: Social Work
• T 2 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• W 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• M 8:30 p.m.-10:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Jessica Godwin
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• Instructor: Nancy F Cincotta
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• Instructor: Alexza Gutierrez
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• 3 points

FOUNDATION OF CLINICAL MED III: TUTORIAL

• Department: Medicine
• 0 points

MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS I-DIS

• Department: Economics
• R 10 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Tianhao Liu
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• 0 points

Tech & Tactics for Innovative Policymaki

Tech & Tactics-Innov Policymak

This course will equip the next generation of policymakers with the skills, strategies, and savvy they’ll need to secure lasting change in their governments. Building on a foundation that extracts practical guidance from political philosophers and public servants, the course will draw from behind-the-scenes experiences of how policy is developed using technology and tools. It will also provide students with a suite of resources for their own careers with communication, persuasion, and political tactics that will empower them to navigate the complex and frustrating bureaucracies in any government agency or risk-averse institutions.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexis Wichowski
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• 3 points

DIRECTING III

Students explore more deeply the range of skills and techniques necessary to direct both short and feature films including script breakdown of sequences, scenes, turning points and beats as well as advanced study of actor and camera staging. Students will hone their directing skills by preparing, shooting, and editing, in video, a minimum of three significant scenes from published or original work, depending on priority of the instructor. When taken concurrently, at least one of these scenes will be presented in Directing the Actor workshops. Students should also be working on a first draft of a short screenplay for their second-year project if they intend to take Directing 4.

• Department: Film
• W 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• W 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• T 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• W 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Tom Kalin
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• 3 points

GENETIC APPRCH TO BIOLGCL PBLM

Required for first year Genetics and Development students. Open to all students. Designed to illustrate how genetic systems have played a fundamental role in our understanding of basic biological problems: mitosis and meiosis, chromosomal linkage and mapping, consequences of chromosomal rearrangements, mechanisms of recombination and gene conversion, the use of mutants to study gene structure, regulation and the cell cycle, uses of recombinant DNA in genetic analysis, and the genetic analysis of development in Drosophila.

• Department: Genetics and Development
• F 1:30 p.m.-3 p.m.
• 3 points

ISSUES & DEBATES-AMER POLITICS

Prerequisites: the instructors permission prior to registration. Please contact the instructors for more information. This graduate student field survey provides an overview of the scholarly study of American politics. The course has been designed for students who intend to specialize in American politics, as well as for those students whose primary interests are comparative politics, international relations, or political theory, but who desire an intensive introduction to the ;American; style of political science.

• Department: Political Science
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Justin H Phillips
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• 4 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

ARTS WRITING LIFE WRITING

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• Department: Writing
• W 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Margo L Jefferson
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• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

WRITING THE BODY

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• Department: Writing
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Leslie S Jamison
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• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

STUDIES IN THE ESSAY

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• Department: Writing
• T 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Phillip Lopate
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• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

THE BRILLIANT VOICE

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• Department: Writing
• W 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Wendy Walters
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• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

Women Writ. Memoir & Crit

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• Department: Writing
• F 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Hilton L Als
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• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

WRITING ABOUT COMMUNITIES

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• Department: Writing
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Susan Hartman
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• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

REPORTING NON-NEWS

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• Department: Writing
• M 1:10 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Gideon Lewis-Kraus
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• 3 points

MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS I

Prerequisites: the director of graduate studies' permission. Corequisites: ECON G6410. Consumer and producer behavior; general competitive equilibrium, welfare and efficiency, behavior under uncertainty, intertemporal allocation and capital theory, imperfect competition, elements of game theory, problems of information, economies with price rigidities.

• Department: Economics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• 4 points

CARBON SEQUESTRATION

Carbon Sequestration

New technologies for capturing carbon dioxide and disposing of it away from the atmosphere. Detailed discussion of the extent of the human modifications to the natural carbon cycle, the motivation and  scope of future carbon management strategies and the role of carbon sequestration. Introduction of several carbon sequestration technologies that allow for the capture and permanent disposal of carbon dioxide. Engineering issues in their implementation, economic  impacts, and the environmental issues raised by the various methods.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Ah-Hyung Alissa Park
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• 3 points

MACROECONOMIC ANALYSIS I-DIS

• Department: Economics
• F 10 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Mitchell J Vaughn
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• 0 points

SW PRACTICE WITH FAMILIES

• Department: Social Work
• T 2 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Alirio Guerrero
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• 3 points

MACROECONOMIC ANALYSIS I

Prerequisites: the director of graduate studies' permission. Concept of full employment. Models of underemployment and theory applicability, determinants of consumption and of investment, multiplier and accelerator analysis, an introduction to monetary macroeconomics, the supply side and inflation. Integration of macroeconomics with microeconomic and monetary analysis.

• Department: Economics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• 4 points

PRIN/APP SENSORS STRC HLTH MON

Concepts, principles, and applications of various sensors for sensing structural parameters and nondestructive evaluation techniques for subsurface inspection, data acquisition, and signal processing techniques. Lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on laboratory experiments.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• W 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria Q Feng
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• 3 points

Analytical Perspectives in New Music

Analytical Persp in New M

This course will explore plausible analytical responses to a selection of diverse sonic works from the past five decades, with emphasis on works that expand or challenge existing analytical methodologies and assumptions. The goal of this course is not to offer strict analytical models or standard procedures, but to foster analytical conversations that are pertinent to their subjects while broadening the understanding of what music analysis as it relates to new music can offer.

• Department: Music
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Marcos Balter
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• 3 points

MARSEA I: CRIT APPROACHES

Prerequisites: Enrollment in the MARSEA program This seminar represents the first half of a year-long course designed for students in the MARSEA program. It offers an introduction to the social scientific study of East Asia, with special attention to China, Japan, the two Koreas, and Taiwan. With the aid of guest presentations by faculty and scholars affiliated with the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, we will explore critically some of the major conceptual and methodological concerns that inform social scientific scholarship in the region. A linked aim for the course is to support students as they choose and develop topics and research designs for their M.A. theses. To that end, the course includes sessions introducing key resources and tools for research, as well as collaborative workshops designed to help students frame and draft thesis proposals.

• Department: East Asian Regional Studies
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisbeth K Brandt
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• 4 points

Science Education Theory to Practice

This course explores the multidimensional nature of teaching and learning science education. It does so through a deep dive into pedagogical theory and practice, the nature of science, and the social-cultural aspects of education. The class is intended for students who may enter fields requiring elements of public education and who want to learn how to teach others.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa M Kozlowski
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• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION

Intro to Pub Health & Nut

• Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
• TR 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 3 points

Ethics, Values and Justice

The purpose of this course is to examine the claims made by multiple stakeholders for use of the environment, both natural and built, and to determine how contention among them can be ethically resolved in the policy process. Over time, six major clusters of stakeholders have arisen, expressing environmentalist standpoints: three, including proponents of wilderness, ecosystems, and nonhuman species, have been called nonanthropocentric; and three, including proponents of conservation, environmental justice, and sustainability, have been called anthropocentric. Among them a diverse array of ethical quarrels has arisen, yet today the sustainability outlook appears to be ascendant in popular and public discourse. Claims made regarding greater or lesser use of both natural and human resources continue to be debated nonetheless. Many are related to the issues of whether present use should take into account past wrongful, often inter-racially prejudicial actions, and future-regarding, often inter-generationally beneficial actions. The course aims to examine specific principles, such as polluter pays for pollution, prior free informed consent, transboundary accountability, and common responsibility, which can be used to resolve ethical issues. Consideration is given to the possibility of both collective and individual ethical action, even in situations of corruption, including subtle forms involving campaign contributions with a pay-to-play aspect. The objective is to discover how such ethical problems can be managed in the public policy process.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Adela J Gondek
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• 3 points

APPL MACROECONOMICS & FINANCE

• Department: Economics
• F 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Noemie Pinardon-Touati
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• 3 points

NEGOTIATING M&A TRANSACTIONS

• Department: Law
• F 1:20 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
• 2 points

Comparative Social Welfare Policy

This core course explores welfare systems from a comparative perspective and analyzes the political, economic, socio-cultural, and historical factors that shape and sustain them in advanced industrialized countries. It pays particular attention to the development of key national social welfare policies, such as social security, health care, unemployment insurance, social assistance, childcare, tax expenditure, and public employment and training, and emerging best practice in these areas. The course also identifies pressing global/regional trends (e.g. greying of societies, labor market stratification, and persistent gender inequality) and compares how developed and developing countries address them through policy.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Yumiko T Shimabukuro
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• 3 points

CORPORATIONS

This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search

• Department: Law
• MW 10:10 a.m.-noon
• TR 1:50 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• MW 1:20 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Joshua R Mitts
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• Instructor: Zohar Goshen
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• Instructor: Joshua R Mitts
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• 4 points

FAMILY ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: ECON G6211, ECON G6212, ECON G6411, ECON G6412. The course will focus on the economic theory of matching both from a theoretical and empirical point of views. It is intended to give the attendees an overview of the fundamental theory of the optimal assignment problem, as well as its application to various fields such as labor, family and transportation economics. A particular emphasis is put on the empirical aspects and identification issues, and the main matching algorithms will also be discussed. The last part of the course tries to make a link with matching games with nontransferable (or partially transferable) utility and attempts to provide a unified treatment.

• Department: Economics
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Pierre-Andre Chiappori
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• 3 points

CORPORATE FINANCE

• Department: Law
• TR 10:40 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Merritt B Fox
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• 3 points

Reading Politics & Law in Classical Arab

POLT/LAW: CLASSICAL ARABC

This seminar is conducted mainly in Arabic sources. The purpose is to explore legal and political theory and (when possible) practices of Islamic cultures prior to the 19th century with a view to mapping political structures and constitutional organization in Islamic history, and their relationship to the Shari`a. Among the themes of interest are: structure and rationalization of theories of governance; ethics of rule; use of history as authorizing discourse in the culture of political administration; the nature of “branches of power” and separation thereof; siyasa shar`iyya in “law” and “politics” (or the relationship between “law” and “politics”); and the very meaning of politics and sovereignty in Islam; the possibility of a state of exception; enemy-friend distinction; and related themes. Proficiency in Arabic is required.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Wael Hallaq
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

International Political Economy

Int'l Political Economy

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Arvid J Lukauskas
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

Sustainability Management

The course translates academic study in organization theory, bureaucracy, and public management into practical lessons for public managers. We develop a framework for understanding and applying tools that can be used to influence organization behavior and obtain resources from the organization's environment. Memo-writing, group process and communication skills are taught through hands-on assignments. Earth system-related case studies present a set of problems for public managers to address. The focus is on state and local environmental management cases, and treatment of local land use and NIMBY (not in my backyard) issues. Cases will deal with public, private, and nonprofit environmental management, and will include U.S. and international cases. Each week students are either briefed by a group of their colleagues on a case or submit a two-page memo on the week's case.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Howard N Apsan
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• 3 points

CRIMINAL ADJUDICATION

• Department: Law
• MW 1:20 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Richman
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• 3 points

CAVENDISH, HUTCHINSON, MILTON

This seminar will address the major works of Margaret Cavendish (1623-73), Lucy Hutchinson (1620-81), and John Milton (1608–1674). While there are many differences between the three writers – one was a royalist and two were republicans; one was largely indifferent to religion and the other two were devoted reformists; two were active in print, one only in manuscript; two were skilled linguists, and one only read English – they also had a surprising amount in common. All three were actively involved in the central political conflicts of their time and suffered imprisonment, harassment, and/or exile because of their political views. All three wrote accounts and defenses of (their positions in) the English civil wars (and contributed to political thought more broadly). All three actively engaged with and contributed to debates in natural philosophy. And all three were astonishingly original, creative, and prolific writers of literature. Participants will discuss many aspects of their work, including the books they read as well as those they wrote; the household, local, national and international contexts in which they worked; and their interlocutors and critics.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Julie Crawford
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 4 points

Ex. Criminal Prosecution: Manhattan/Bkl

EX. CRIMINAL PROSECUTION

• Department: Law
• W 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• None None-None
• 2 points

Comparative Urban Policy: Global Develop

Studying developing cities, such as Johannesburg, Sao Paulo, and Shanghai, has never been more important. Over half of the world's population is now urban. As cities continue to expand, metropolitan areas around the globe face a growing number of challenges, including: sprawl, poor sanitation, poverty, pollution, corruption, and crime. This course in comparative urban policy will help you develop a keener understanding of these challenges. Our focus will be on how academics and analysts study and debate global developing cities. We will explore questions, such as: What accounts for the global pace of migration from rural to urban places in our time? What are the major challenges facing developing cities? What strategies do individuals, neighborhoods, and economic interest groups have available to influence, and to optimize their experiences in developing cities? How well are developing cities' urban governance and planning geared to resolve controversies and, where appropriate, implement effective remedies? What can we learn from innovative change initiatives?

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Vojislava Filipcevic
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• 3 points

DIRECTING ACTORS III

More sophisticated principles are applied and more challenging scenes are presented. Collaboration with a writer is a requirement.  Required for Screenwriting and Directing concentrates.

• Department: Film
• R 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Jon Shear
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• Instructor: Lisa Milinazzo
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• Instructor: Abigail Zealey Bess
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• Instructor: Shira-Lee Shalit
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• 3 points

Environmental Science for Sustainable De

Enviro Science for Sust Devp

This course provides a rigorous survey of the key areas of natural science that are critical to understanding sustainable development. The course will provide the theories, methodological techniques and applications associated with each natural science unit presented. The teaching is designed to ensure that students have the natural science basis to properly appreciate the co-dependencies of natural and human systems, which are central to understanding sustainable development. Students will learn the complexities of the interaction between the natural and human environment. After completing the course, students should be able to incorporate scholarly scientific work into their research or policy decisions and be able to use scientific methods of data analysis. This is a modular course that will cover core thematic areas specifically, climate, natural hazards, water management, public health/epidemiology, and ecology/biodiversity. To achieve coherence across lectures this course will emphasize how each topic is critical to studies of sustainable development and place-based case studies in recitation will integrate various topics covered. In the lectures and particularly the recitation sections this course will emphasize key scientific concepts such as uncertainty, experimental versus observational approaches, prediction and predictability, the use of models and other essential methodological aspects.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: John C Mutter
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• 3 points

EVIDENCE

• Department: Law
• M 6:20 p.m.-9:10 p.m.
• MW 3:20 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul L Shechtman
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• Instructor: Daniel Capra
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• 3 points

Environmental Science for Sustainable De

Enviro Sci for Sus Dev Seminar

PhD Seminar for Environmental Science for Sustainable Development (SDEV U6240)

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: John C Mutter
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 1 points

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search

• Department: Law
• MW 2:50 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Gerrard
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

IN THE FIELD

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert O Garneau
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• 1.5 points

Urban Social Policy

This course surveys social policymaking processes and outcomes from the perspective of cities in the US, with a focus on New York City. It offers students analytical and empirical tools to better understand urban "social problems" (e.g., residential segregation, urban poverty, housing, immigration, crime and policing, incarceration and re-entry, education inequality, pandemic health risks) and the corresponding policies that promote more affordable, productive, inclusive, and healthier cities amidst fiscal constraints, political divisions, and intense economic competition. Case studies are utilized to delve deeper into specific issues, such as concentrated poverty, neighborhood effects, gender inequality, urban politics, urban culture, technology-enabled social innovation, public-private partnerships, and redistributive programs. At the end of the semester, we will hold an “Urban Social Policy Seminar” to feature policy-oriented research projects on New York City’s revival in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Lessons from New York City can inform new policy approaches in cities across the US and in various parts of the world.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Van C. Tran
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• 3 points

PERSONHOOD

This seminar seeks to engage with materials that question personhood. Drawing on both fictional and non-fictional accounts, we will be involved with textual and visual documents as well institutional contexts in order to revisit such notion under contemporary capitalism. We will cover topics like rites of passage and life cycle, the role of the nation state and local communities in defining a person, the relation between self and non-self, between the living and the dead. We will likewise address vicarious forms of personhood through the prosthetic, the avatar or the heteronomous. But we will also look into forms of dissipation and/or enhancement of personhood through bodybuilding, guinea-piging and pharmo-toxicities. As a whole, the course will bring to light how the question of personhood cross-culturally relates to language, performativity, religion, technology, law, gender, race, class, care, life and death.

• Department: Anthropology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria Jose de Abreu
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• 3 points

EUR UNION LAW & INSTITUTIONS

This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search

• Department: Law
• TR 9:10 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Anu Bradford
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• 3 points

Co-Designing Smart Cities

Smart cities recognize the centrality of technology and information to improve their processes by connecting people, data, and things. With the rise of urbanization world-wide there are many challenges that cities face that could be assisted by smart cities: traffic congestion, energy supply and consumption, green-house gases emissions, unplanned development, basic services, waste disposal, and increases in crime management. But they can also intensify the digital divide, and abuses of privacy, and mistrust of government and the private sector. Without public trust and confidence in smart cities they will not succeed. We need to ensure that we design smart cities with a user, or public, centered focus, to ensure they are places people want to live. This is where human-centered design approaches can help. Drawing on the methodology of human-centered design, students will be asked to integrate the needs of people, the potential of technology, and the requirements of urban service delivery. This approach has been successfully integrated into business management practices and is increasingly being used in the public sector and is a methodology that must be learned through practical engagement with real world problems. This is a practical course in which teams of students identify challenges that communities in select NYC Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) are facing, and co-design solutions to address these challenges with smart city innovations. Teams will engage, remotely or in-person, with community stakeholders and BID representatives throughout the course to identify user needs, gain feedback on potential ideas, and present their final their solution. The classes will be comprised of lectures, workshops, and team exercises to help students gain experience in identifying, framing, and solving urban governance problems from the user perspective.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Erika B Whillas
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• 3 points

IMMIGRATION LAW

This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search

• Department: Law
• T 4:20 p.m.-7:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Ajun Gupta
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• 3 points

CAPSTONE: RESOLUTION STRATEGIES

• Department: Negotiation & Conflict Resolution
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Deborah J Sachare
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• Instructor: Danny Fisher
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• 3 points

SOLO SHOWS

SOLO SHOWS AND ONE-ACT PL

We will use the experience of writing a piece with built-in constraints – cast size with a solo show – to expand our thinking about what is a theatrical event. We will work toward becoming more in touch with our imaginations and in greater awareness and command of what we know. We will explore what is of interest to each of us now, through in-class writing and outside assignments.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• W 9:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Leslie Ayvazian
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• 3 points