MODERN GEOMETRY

Manifold theory; differential forms, tensors and curvature; homology and cohomology; Lie groups and Lie algebras; fiber bundles; homotopy theory and defects in quantum field theory; geometry and string theory.

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Chiu-Chu Liu
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• 4.5 points

INTRO ORAL/MAXILLOFACIAL SURGY

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• 0 points

MODERN STATE/COLONIAL SUBJECT

On the development of legal thought on the colonial subject. Focus on the American Indian in the New World, post-1857 India, indirect rule in post-Mahdciyya Sudan and South Africa, and Israel/Palestine

• Department: Anthropology
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Mahmood Mamdani
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• 3 points

MINIMALISM & POSTMINIMALISM

Minimalism, which developed in the 1960s, has been widely recognized as one of the most important aesthetic movements, styles, or tendencies of the later half of the twentieth century.  More than simply of interest for itself, minimalism has served as a pivotal reference or turning point for nearly all the developments in the visual arts that have come after it (including postminimal sculpture, conceptual art, performance art, process art, and institutional critique) and remains a major touchstone for contemporary artistic practices.  This course considers minimalism within a historical and interdisciplinary perspective (including related developments in music, dance, and film) and follows its development into postminimalism.  In addition to providing important historical information, the course and topic allow for important investigations into questions of artistic formalism and its challengers and notions of art’s critical and political role within the pivotal moment of the 1960s.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Branden W Joseph
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• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMETRICS I-DIS

• Department: Economics
• F 8 a.m.-9:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Matthias N Buchta
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• 0 points

MATH METHODS FOR ECONOMISTS

Prerequisites: multi-variable differential calculus, linear algebra and basic real analysis. Introduction to the mathematical techniques needed for the study of economics and econometric methods. Topics include the vector spaces, Hilbert spaces, Banach spaces, linear transformations; optimization theory, and linear differential and difference equations.

• Department: Economics
• T 6:10 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Jushan Bai
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• 4 points

Social Movements & Citizenship in Africa

Social Movemt & Citizen-Africa

This course focuses on social movements and citizenship in sub-Saharan Africa to examine how people form political and social movements and deploy citizenship strategies within social, historical, and economic structures that are both local and global. It draws on readings and lectures from scholars in history, political science, anthropology, sociology, and African studies to explore the following topics and themes: histories and theories of social movements and citizenship; cities and social movements and citizenship; citizenship outside the nation-state; social movements and democracy; citizenship as a creative enterprise that emphasizes claim-making and improvisation; citizenship within imperial, international, and national contexts; infrastructures, claim-making, and coalition building; opposition, leadership and democracy; and social movements of African youth and women. This course features guest lectures by and discussions with French and American scholars from Sciences-Po, Universite Paris 1, NYU, and Columbia, and is part of the Joint African Studies Program (JASP) at the Institute of African Studies that is supported by the Partnership University Fund (PUF) and the French Alliance Program at Columbia. It includes foundational readings on concepts, theories, and histories of social movements and citizenship in Africa as well as in-depth case studies on selective themes by various experts working on sub-Saharan Africa. It is unique insofar as it offers a strong foundation in social movements and citizenship while exposing students to in-depth case studies by leading experts working in a variety of disciplines and geographical contexts. All lectures and discussions are conducted in English.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Jinny K Prais
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• 3 points

CREATING A PLAY

The goal of the Fall Semester is to create a rough draft of a one-act play or the first act of a full-length play. The first four weeks will be devoted to writing assignments - both in class and outside - to stimulate the identification of personal themes, interests or questions that can inspire a story. This rest of the semester will be dedicated to crafting a draft that reflects conscientious investigation. The Spring Semester will provide the opportunity for each student to hone her/his play through further drafts into a finished work. Students will serve as dramaturges for each other. The semester will end with presentations of the completed plays. Each presentation is the responsibility of the author.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• F 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Leslie Ayvazian
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• 3 points

TRANSLATION SEMINAR

CREATIVE (MIS)TRANSLATION

TRANSLATION SEMINAR

• Department: Writing
• T 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Matvei E Yankelevich
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• 3 points

TRANSLATION SEMINAR

ESSAY AS PORTRAITURE

TRANSLATION SEMINAR

• Department: Writing
• R 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Katrina Dodson
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• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMETRICS I

Corequisites: ECON G6410 and the director of graduate studies' permission. Introduction to probability theory and statistical inference.

• Department: Economics
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• 4 points

PROSEMINAR-ETHNOMUSICOLOGY I

Introduction to Ethnomusicology: the history of the discipline and the evolution of theories and methods. G6412, Proseminar in Ethnomusicology II: Contemporary Ethnography is offered Fall 2012.

• Department: Music
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Aaron A Fox
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

COMPARATIVE POLITICS SURVEY I

This is the first course in the two-semester sequence surveying covering foundational research in comparative politics across the developed and developing world. The course is designed for Ph.D. students preparing for comprehensive exams and who intend to conduct research relating to comparative politics, and has two core objectives. The first objective is to expose students to a range of arguments organized around questions motivating major research agendas in comparative politics. The second objective is to expose students to processes of theorizing, hypothesis formation, and testing and to strengthen students’ analytical skills in evaluating and critiquing political science research. It should go without saying that these two classes cannot exhaustively cover the many important works, topics, and methodologies in the field. The Fall semester of this sequence will primarily focus on citizen-level and politician-level behaviors, while the Spring semester will focus on more macro-level institutions and applications of the building blocks covered in this course. However, it is not necessary to take the classes in a particular order.

• Department: Political Science
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: John Marshall
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• 4 points

Econometrics III

MACRO-ECONOMETRICS

This is the first course of the second year PhD econometrics sequence with emphasis on both economic applications and computationally intense methods for analysis of large and/or complex models. Students can attend the whole sequence or only one of them. While the details of the econometric techniques will be discussed extensively, the core and focus of the course is on the applications of these techniques to the study of actual data. Students will be practiced in econometric methods through computer-based exercises. Prerequisites: Students should have a good understanding of graduate econometrics and should have taken ECON G6411 and G6412.

• Department: Economics
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Serena Ng
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia h-index: 52 Info
• 3 points

Global Health and Public Policy

Global Health & Public Policy

This course will provide students with an overview of the most important health challenges in low and middle income countries. Student will gain insight into the burden of disease on vulnerable populations and how interventions have evolved to tackle them. We will discuss international strategies and programs that promote human health, and will review both best practices and pitfalls of Global Health implementation programs. Specific areas of focus will include disease profiles, technological interventions, health systems design, and key stakeholders in the global health arena. Following this course, students will be able to understand the broad scope of health challenges and think strategically about solutions.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Yanis Ben Amor
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• 3 points

GAME THRY WITH ECONMC APPLICTN

• Department: Economics
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Qingmin Liu
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 14 Info
• 3 points

PROGRAM EVAL IN SOCIAL SVCS

• Department: Social Work
• T 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• S 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Eri Noguchi
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• Instructor: David B Howard
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• Instructor: Peter Maugeri
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• Instructor: Matthew B Feldman
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• 3 points

CONFLICT-LAWS/JURISD:NATL/INTL

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 1:20 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Henry P Monaghan
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• 3 points

INTRO-THEORY OF ELASTICITY I

Analysis of stress and strain. Formulation of the problem of elastic equilibrium. Torsion and flexure of prismatic bars. Problems in stress concentration, rotating disks, shrink fits, and curved beams; pressure vessels, contact and impact of elastic bodies, thermal stresses, propagation of elastic waves.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• M 9:10 a.m.-11:40 a.m.
• Instructor: Kristin Myers
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 25 Info
• 3 points

SECURITIES REGULATION

Prerequisites: L6231 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
• MWR 11 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: John C Jr Coffee
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• 3 points

Communicating in Organizations

Communicating in Organizations is a survey course that explores aspects of day-to-day managerial communication relating to presentations and other high-profile moments and more familiar elements of interpersonal communication. The course uses many teaching techniques: short lectures, individual and group exercises, video-recorded presentations, role plays, case discussions, video clips, and writing assignments. It is highly experiential, with exercises or presentations scheduled in most sessions. Initially, we’ll focus on the communication skills and strategies that help you present your ideas to others.  I’ll ask you to do two benchmark assignments―a letter and a brief presentation―to assess the abilities you bring to the course. In several of our class sessions, you’ll be the one “in front of the room,” delivering either a prepared talk or brief, impromptu comments. Such assignments will allow you to develop your skills as a presenter.  I’ll also discuss the link between listening and speaking, showing you how developing your listening skills will improve your effectiveness as a speaker.  And we’ll explore several elements of visual communication, including how to design effective visual aids and written documents. To communicate effectively in such roles as coach, interviewer, negotiator, or facilitator, you need to be skilled at listening, questioning, observing behavior, and giving feedback.  We’ll practice each of these skills in-class exercises and assignments. The Social Style instrument will provide detailed feedback about how others view your communication style. You’ll discover how style differences may lead to miscommunication, missed opportunities, or mishandled conflict.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Joann P Baney
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• 3 points

FEDERAL COURTS

• Department: Law
• TR 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Gillian E Metzger
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• 4 points

Energy Transition in Latin America

Energy Industry: Latin Am

Pledges by countries after the Paris Climate Accords in 2015 to significantly reduce carbon emissions with the goal of achieving net zero by 2050 will have a drastic impact on the world economy. Such pledges of government action are grounded on the risks outlined by the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change, which last year confirmed that human activity is the main driver of global warming and that the current energy system, as we know it, is unsustainable. Thus, if we are to reduce green-house gas emissions, the global energy sector must aim towards accelerating the transition to a clean energy future. A future where the energy sector reduces its dependence on fossil fuels and relies on renewable energy, electrification, and low carbon fuels. The challenges of a net-zero future vary significantly across regions, particularly in emerging markets. This course is intended to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the challenges and opportunities of the energy transition in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The objective of the course is for students to gain a solid understanding of the political economy issues underpinning Latin America’s energy transition. Throughout the course, students will learn about the institutional architecture and business models that are promoting clean energy deployment from long-term power auctions to clean energy certificates, to corporate renewable procurement. Together, we will use comparative analysis to learn from best practices and lessons applied across LAC. The course will also expose students to the challenges, tensions and tradeoffs posed by legacy assets (fossil fuels) in Latin America and their implications for policy. The course will be organized into four modules. The first module will study the international policy framework underpinning the Energy Transition in Latin America and the debates surrounding climate change discussions.

The second module

will study the current energy landscape in Latin America to understand the region’s starting point and the fundamental drivers of change. For this, we will look at the evolving primary energy matrix and the growing share of renewable resources in the energy mix, with a particular focus on the integration of renewables in electric power grids. It will also look at how the oil sector is adjusting to the energy transition and the different decarbonization strategies taking place. The class will also look at the laggards of the energy transition. The third mod

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• 3 points

Beyond Crises in Latin America Finan

Latin America is much more than a series of economic crises that have regularly punctured the region’s growth path. But a full understanding of the region requires grappling with the recurrent crises of the past two and a half decades. This seminar will focus on the region’s three largest economies by examining three pivotal moments: Brazil’s crisis of 2003, Argentina’s crisis of 2001 and Mexico’s peso crisis of 1994 and then using each of the historical episodes as a basis to analyze the current outlook in each of the economies—Brazil, Argentina and Mexico. We will examine each episode with particular focus on the perspective of institutional investors as well as the role that financial markets played in precipitating the crises and in shaping the economic aftermath. The instructor has spent more than two decades on Wall Street working closely with institutional investors as well as policy makers in the region in his capacity as chief Latin American economist and will draw on his experiences as students revisit three major turning points in the region and explore the current outlook in the region’s largest economies. The course is designed to allow students in a small class setting to apply the macroeconomic theory they have learned in previous courses both to probe three pivotal turning points in the region as well as to analyze the current economic outlook in the region’s largest economies. A special focus will be placed on how research is conducted in financial institutions along with the perspective of a financial markets practitioner. Guest lecturers, including institutional investors, will also be invited to provide students with an opportunity to learn from financial market participants who are grappling with the macroeconomics issues being explored in class. During each session, the instructor will summarize the main ideas on the policy issue or case study of the day as well as guide the class in a discussion of the topics.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Gray Newman
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• 3 points

CONTEMPORARY ECOLOGICAL THEORY

There are numerous ways to approach ecological theory in our current Anthropocene moment. One could address ecological literary criticism, or energy studies, or ecological feminism to name only a few possibilities. But this class won’t go down any of those potential paths. Instead, we will focus on a cluster of philosophical and theoretical texts that have grounded contemporary ecological thinking. Our question will consist less in reading about specific problems of contemporary climate change (such as, for instance, the carbon imprint) than focusing on the ecological as a way of thinking and being, mobilizing a whole range of concepts that enable and guide such a thinking. They will include: the rhizome, chaos, nomadology, the concept of the island, archipelagic thinking, the perspectival, relational, oceanic, etc. We will also look very closely into ecological ontologies that emerge in the work of thinkers like Glissant and Ferdinand, which are beholden to an experience of specific geographical locales (the Caribbean) and specific histories (slavery, colonialism, postcolonialism). In the last section of the class we will move – via the work of Brazilian philosophical anthropologist, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro – to the ecological thinking of the Amerindian peoples. Their ecological thinking is, of course, ancient, but the recent transcription of oral teachings make it a very relevant source for all of those who are searching – as we will be doing – for a mode of thinking that moves away from the philosophical traditions of the West, which have significantly contributed to the emergence of the Anthropocene in the first place.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Branka Arsic
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• 4 points

SMALL-SCALE MECH BEHAVIOR

Mechanics of small-scale materials and structures require nonlinear kinematics and/or nonlinear stress vs. strain constitutive relations to predict mechanical behavior. Topics include variational calculus, deformation and vibration of beam, strings, plates, and membranes; fracture, delamination, bulging, buckling of thin films, among others. Thermodynamics of solids will be reviewed to provide the basis for a detailed discussion of nonlinear elastic behavior as well as the study of the equilibrium and stability of surfaces.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeffrey W Kysar
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 37 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO TRANSPORTATION PLAN

Prerequisites: A4404: or the instructor's permission Discussion of major issues in transportation at several levels, from national to local, and covering the economic, political, and social implications of decision-making in transportation. Current topics and case studies are investigated.\n \n

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Rachel Weinberger
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• 3 points

RES METHODS IN ANIMAL BEHAVIOR

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Marina Cords
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 3 points

The Visual Turn in Literary Studies

An important portion of Latin American literature of the recent decades has been characterized by a crisis of the book. Contemporary writers have actively left the boundaries of literary fiction to incorporate other registers and methods to their work—historical, visual, anthropological. Critical and theoretical scholarship from and about the region has enacted a similar displacement. Literary scholars have diversified their objects of study to include not only the unique manifestations proposed by these contemporary writers but also other, mostly visual, materials—a phenomenon that has been identified as the visual turn in literary studies. This course maps and explores some of the most influential projects that constitute this phenomenon. Our class discussions will alternate between the analysis of works of contemporary art and literature and the examination of the critical and theoretical scholarship around them. We will pay particular attention to the ways in which these scholars articulate and design their projects and how they develop frameworks to approach objects that may at first appear as dissimilar and/or disciplinarily hybrid.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• R 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeronimo Duarte Riascos
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• 4 points

Economic Theory of Climate Change

Econ Theory of Climate Ch

The dramatic rise of the world's population in the last two centuries, coupled with an even more dramatic acceleration of economic development in many parts of the world, has led to an unprecedented transformation of the natural environment by humans. In particular, on account of the greenhouse effect, global climate change has emerged as an existential problem, unrivaled in its potential for harm to life as we know it. The aim of this course is to examine the economics of climate change in a systematic fashion, with an emphasis on economic theory. Topics of coverage can include welfare economics, the theory of dynamic games, dynamic commons problems, club theory, hold up, and endogenous treaty emergence.

• Department: Economics
• M 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Prajit K Dutta
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 3 points

Conflict in the 21st Century: Rethinking

After a long period of decline, conflict is again on the rise. We need to better understand the causes of that reversal, and we must adapt our strategies and tactics for conflict prevention and conflict resolution. The course will help students develop a conceptual framework for the understanding and resolution of contemporary conflicts, but it will be taught from a practitioner’s perspective, with a strong emphasis on case studies. When possible, practitioners who have been involved in the resolution of conflicts will contribute to the discussion of case studies. Each class discussion will be structured by specific questions which will confront students with conceptual, operational and ethical choices.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Jean-Marie Guehenno
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• 3 points

BLOOD/LUST: EARLY MOD MEDIT

This course examines, in 16th and 17th century Spain and England (1580-1640), how the two countries staged the conflict between them, and with the Ottoman Empire; that is, how both countries represented national and imperial clashes, and how the concepts of being Spanish, English, or Turk often played out on the high seas of the Mediterranean with Islam and the Ottoman Empire. We will consider how the Ottoman Empire depicted itself artistically through miniatures and court poetry. The course will include travel and captivity narratives from Spain, England, the Ottoman Empire, and the Barbary States.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Patricia E Grieve
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

MILITARY URBANISM

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

JURISPRUDENCE:SELECT PROBLEMS

LAW AND PHILOSOPHY

• Department: Law
• TR 10:40 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: George P Fletcher
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• 3 points

Economic Espionage

Intelligence activities are traditionally thought to comprise the activities of a nation state’s intelligence organizations attempting to steal secrets, usually those pertaining to national security, from the organizations of another nation state.  However, intelligence activities have seldom, if ever, been confined to the government sphere.  Most nation states have employed their national intelligence systems to steal privately held economic information from other countries to benefit their economies: many continue to do so. Private enterprises have long employed methodologies associated with “traditional” intelligence to obtain trade secrets from domestic and foreign competitors.  The establishment of a legal and ethical framework to govern this activity –- the discipline of “competitive intelligence’, is a relatively recent phenomenon. This course will examine in depth the interaction of intelligence and private sector on these three levels.  Part one of the course will cover economic espionage: the deliberate targeting of private sector entities by foreign intelligence services.  Soviet/Russian and Chinese conduct of Economic Espionage will be discussed in detail.  A separate class will examine the prevalence of economic espionage among democratic nations, usually considered allies of the United States in both theory and practice.  The U.S. attitude towards economic espionage, and the U.S reaction to the threat, will be the subject other class meetings. The course will then move on to industrial espionage, companies spying on other companies, and its’ more socially acceptable counterpart, competitive intelligence.   The course will conclude with an in-depth look at the development of the private intelligence sector, and rare instances of private sector espionage against a government entity, including the notorious “Fat Leonard” conspiracy to penetrate and suborn the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: David Gutschmit
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• 3 points

LAW OF THE POLITICAL PROCESS

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 9:10 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Richard Briffault
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• 3 points

REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS

See Law School Curriculum Guide for details.

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

LAW OF THE WTO

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 8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Petros C Mavroidis
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• 4 points

Human Rights Research and Reporting

Human Rights Research & Report

In the global context of the rise of anti-rights populism, human rights activism requires increasingly sophisticated approaches on the part of human rights activists. Technological developments have enabled new kinds of cybersurveillance and other threats to human rights; as well as new methodological approaches for documenting human rights violations from geo-spatial analysis to open source investigations. Emerging areas of work from disability rights to a growing focus on economic and social rights has created demands for new approaches to identifying, documenting and rights violations. The seasoned human rights activist needs quantitative skills as well as the ability to sensitively interview victims and witnesses or assess a morgue report. An ever more hostile environment for human rights with “fake news” deployed as rebuttal by autocrats – as well as the possibility of creating “deep fakes” through artificial intelligence - has intensified the stakes for research and the need for rigor. This course seeks to introduce practical skills of a human rights investigator: how to identify and design a research project, how to conduct the research, and how to present compelling findings and principled but pragmatic recommendations to the public, media and advocacy targets. There will be a strong emphasis on practical engagement, and students will be expected, in group work, to develop project concepts and methodological approaches to contemporary human rights problems. Each week, they will review and discuss in class new reporting from human rights investigations by journalists and human rights activists. They will also hone their writing skills to present human rights findings in a clear, concise and compelling manner, whether in internal memos, press releases, or detailed public reports. Guest speakers from diverse parts of the global human rights movement will present their experiences and advice.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Iain Levine
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• 3 points

Int'l Humanitarian Law & Human Rights in

Int Hum Law & Hum Right in War

This course introduces students to international humanitarian law (IHL) and human rights law (IHRL) applicable in wars with specific references to humanitarian policies and humanitarian action. Participants will advance their understanding of working for IHL/IHRL civil society organizations, international organizations, the media and for political, social and humanitarian institutions in light of the actual challenges to the application of the law for wars. As parties in recent wars have deliberately made the violation of rules their policy, options and mechanisms to enforce and develop the rules are one of the foundations of the course. The course examines challenges to IHL/IHRL posed by inhuman treatment of prisoners, bombarding civilians, use of child soldiers, starving cities, fighting terror groups, threatening the use of nuclear weapons, polluting the environment and cyber warfare. How can law control fighters in the way they attack enemy soldiers and civilians? How can rules be implemented and enforced, and which institutions can be used to control fighters? What rules protect persons when they are prisoners or detained in war? What weapons and their use endanger civilians unlawfully? How can humanitarian assistance be delivered and what law protects humanitarian workers? What new law do we need to limit cyber warfare and the use of drones? Questions will be explored by references to actual conflicts such as the conflicts in Syria, Libya, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Ukraine.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Horst Fischer
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• 3 points

BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: Completion of 1st year graduate program in Economics, or the instructor's permission. The standard model of economic behavior describes a perfectly rational, self interested utility maximizer with unlimited cognitive resources. In many cases, this provides a good approximation to the types of behavior that economists are interested in. However, over the past 30 years, experimental and behavioral economists have documented ways in which the standard model is not just wrong, but is wrong in ways that are important for economic outcomes. Understanding these behaviors, and their implications, is one of the most exciting areas of current economic inquiry. This course will study three important topics within behavioral economics: Bounded rationality, temptation and self control and reference dependent preferences. It will draw on research from behavioral economics, experimental economics, decision theory, psychology and neuroscience in order to describe the models that have been developed to explain failures of the standard approach, the evidence in support of these models, and their economic implications.

• Department: Economics
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Dean
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 26 Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED TEACHING ASSISTANCE

Prerequisites: permission of the faculty member who will direct the teaching. Participation in ongoing teaching.

• Department: Psychology
• 3 points

Quantitative Analysis I for Internationa

This survey course introduces students to the fundamentals of statistical analysis. We will examine the principles and basic methods for analyzing quantitative data, with a focus on applications to problems in public policy, management, and the social sciences. We will begin with simple statistical techniques for describing and summarizing data and build toward the use of more sophisticated techniques for drawing inferences from data and making predictions about the social world. The course will assume that students have little mathematical background beyond high school algebra. Students will be trained on STATA. This powerful statistical package is frequently used to manage and analyze quantitative data in many organizational/institutional contexts. Because each faculty member takes a somewhat different approach to teaching this course, students should examine each professors syllabus to understand the differences.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• T 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• F 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• F 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• W 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• R 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Eren Selcuk
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• Instructor: Alan S Yang
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

PLAYWRITING I

• Department: Theatre Arts
• W 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Rogelio Martinez
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• 3 points

Quantitative Analysis II for Internation

Prerequisites: SIPA U6500 This course is the second semester in the SIPA statistics sequence. Students conduct a major research project, which will serve as an important vehicle for learning about the process and challenges of doing applied empirical research, over the course of the semester. The project requires formulating a research question, developing testable hypotheses, gathering quantitative data, exploring and analyzing data using appropriate quantitative techniques, writing an empirical research paper, proposing policy recommendations, and presenting findings and analyses.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• R 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• F 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Harold B Stolper
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• 3 points

SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH

• Department: Social Work
• W 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• W 2 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• R 2 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 11:10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• W 8:30 p.m.-10:20 p.m.
• W 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• S noon-1:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexandra Seals
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• Instructor: Craig S Schwalbe
  h-index: 10 Info
• Instructor: Mary E Sormanti
  Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO HEALTH ECONOMICS

• Department: Executive Classes in HPM
• Instructor: Matthew J Neidell
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• 3 points

INTRODUCTN TO HEALTH ECONOMICS

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

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• W 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Stephen Coussens
  h-index: 2 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO STATISTICS

• Department: Social Work
• Instructor: Melissa D Begg
  h-index: 32 Info
• 0 points

CLOWN II - RESEARCH ARTS

• Department: Theatre Arts
• T 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Ralf Jean-Pierre
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• 0 points

Modification and Assistive Technology

Modification & Assistive

• Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
• Instructor: Rochelle Mendonca
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• 3 points

LEAD I

LEAD II

• Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
• Instructor: Tyra M Banks
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• 1 points

Basics of Cybersecurity

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Cartier
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• 1.5 points

NEIGHBORHOOD PRES + ZONING

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Carol A Clark
  Info
• 1.5 points

CHINESE BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Feng Li
  CULPA: 12 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

FICTION LECTURE

THE BIG BLUR: ART AND LIFE

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• Department: Writing
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Lee Siegel
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Intro to Infographics and Data Visualiza

Intro Infographics & Data Vis

This is a seven-week course that introduces students to design principles and techniques for effective data visualization. Visualizations graphically depict data to foster communication, improve comprehension and enhance decision-making. This course aims to help students: understand how visual representations can improve data comprehension, master techniques to facilitate the creation of visualizations as well as begin using widely available software and web-based, open-source frameworks.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Douglas Williamson
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• 1.5 points

HOSP ORGANIZATION/MANAGEM

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• W 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Arthur Gianelli
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• 1.5 points

SPEECH I

In this course, students will enhance and deepen their understanding of how the human voice and articulators partner together to create language.  They will explore their own individual Idiolects and gain the skills to recalibrate their instruments in order to enhance the expressiveness and dynamic contrast of their speech.  The phonemes of the International Alphabet (IPA) will be employed to specify the sounds of Detailed North American English (DNAE).

• Department: Theatre Arts
• TR 9 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Hayes
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• 2 points

Cybersecurity: Technology, Policy, & Law

Cybersecurity: Tech, Pol & Law

This course will bring together professors and select students from across technology, policy, and law to discuss how different disciplines solve cybersecurity issues. Classes will cover the technical underpinnings of the Internet and computer security; the novel legal aspects from technology, crime and national security; and the various policy problems and solutions involved in this new field. Class discussion will range freely between the technologies and implications of cyber security, crime, and conflict. To keep the students focused on topical issues, the assignments and guest lecturers for the Fall 2021 session of this course will be organized around four of the “great hacks” – SolarWinds (and supply chain), NotPetya (and state-based disruptions), Colonial Pipeline (and ransomware), and 2016 election-related hacks (and cyber-related disinformation).

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

VOICE & ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE I

In the 1890s, Frederick Mathias (F.M.) Alexander, a Shakespearian actor and spoken recitalist from Australia, began experiencing severe voice loss after he performed. The medical profession of his day prescribed vocal rest which worked well enough until Alexander’s next performance when he would leave the stage as hoarse as before. Frustrated that his vocal issues were not resolving, Alexander intuited that it must be something that he was doing to himself while he performed that was contributing to the loss of his voice. Doctors agreed with Alexander but they were at a loss to say what he was doing that was causing his problems.Thus began F. M.’s journey. The discoveries he made are what we now know as the Alexander Technique, and in the past 100 plus years, AT has become a valuable part of the curriculum in music conservatories and drama schools throughout the world. Many extraordinary actors have been lifelong students of the Alexander Technique for the many ways it helps their body, voice and breath in performance.  Our work together is experiential and sensory, and it involves a way of thinking which is highly creative and improvisational. It is an art, and it takes time to evolve in us. At the beginning things are bound to be confusing. You are learning a new language—a language of body and breath—and you cannot understand it through your old ways of feeling or visualizing. Confusion is absolutely normal, but it shifts as you develop a new awareness of yourself. Our work is a process of discovery and the only requirement for you as a student is to stay open and to try not to worry about getting something “right.” This is easier said than done, but I will be reminding you of it all the time. It helps if you can keep a “beginner’s mind” so that every lesson becomes a source of wonder. For an actor, your body is your instrument and how you use your body determines how well you move on stage, produce your voice, and perform. The Alexander Technique is a mind-body discipline that helps students improve their psycho-physical coordination while helping them become aware of physical habits that may be inhibiting their breathing and the expressiveness, energy and strength of their voice and body. In our work together, you will begin to gain an awareness of improved physical coordination and ease leading to a freer and more expressive voice and body. Vocal production relies on psychological and physical coordination—an alignment and coordination of th

• Department: Theatre Arts
• F 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Jean McClelland
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• 1 points

Heteroglossia: Literature and Culture of

Heteroglossia: Edo Lit/Cu

It has been argued repeatedly and convincingly that Edo (1600-1868) Japan is not a unified entity based on Tokugawa bakufu and secluded from the outside world. Edo Japanese culture was vivid and diverse with its Samurai ideal, appreciation of aristocratic culture, the dashing fashion of urban commoners, lively visual imagination, and more. This course unfolds the heteroglossic sphere of Edo literature and culture through several pairs of ostensibly opposite yet intricately intertwined concepts: Sinitic/Japanese, go/zoku, visual/textual, classical/contemporary, original/derivative. These pairing concepts complement, interact, and fuse in each Edo literary genre introduced in this course, such as Sinitic poetry and prose, waka and haikai, kana dairy, comic books, picture books, travel writings, books for reading. Through major textual and visual works of these genres, we will discuss issues including, but not limited to, canon forming, adaptation and translation, parody and irony, national and trans-national, and intermediality.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Ye Yuan
  h-index: 13 Info
• 4 points

ENVIRONMENTL CHAL IN HLTH CARE

• Department: Executive Classes in HPM
• Instructor: Jeanne M Stellman
  h-index: 34 Info
• 1.5 points

NONFICTION LECTURE

OTHER PEOPLE'S SECRETS

NONFICTION LECTURE

• Department: Writing
• R 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Benjamin Taylor
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Writing on Eurasia

This course is designed to help MA-level students improve their researching and writing skills, and become adept at distilling acquired knowledge into straightforward prose. The aim is to assist students in being more effective communicators regardless of whether they pursue careers in academia, journalism, government service, private enterprise or the non-governmental sector. The course will also promote better understanding of how to get work published by mass media outlets. The course places particular emphasis on practical work, including the preparation of commentaries and book reviews concerning current affairs in Eurasia. Lectures examine the basic elements of editing, interviewing and concise writing. Other lectures focus on how to maintain personal and digital security while living and researching/working in Eurasia, and discuss best practices on harnessing social media for career advancement. Guest speakers will provide additional perspectives on ways to make writing on academic topics more accessible to the general reading public, and how to leverage expertise in Eurasian-area affairs in ways that can jump-start careers.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Justin Burke
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• 1.5 points

Cyber Risks & Vulnerabilities

The purpose of this course is to familiarize SIPA students with the protocols and devices used in the function of the internet while focusing on the flaws and vulnerabilities. This course will approach each session in the following manner: discussion of the topic to include what the topic is and how it is used, vulnerabilities and specifically, and example, and will follow up with a video or other demonstration of a common hacker technique or tool to illustrate the problem so the students can better understand the impact. This course is intended to complement Basics of Cybersecurity with a tighter focus on specific vulnerabilities and how these can be exploited by hackers, criminals, spies, or militaries. This course is intended to be an introduction to cybersecurity and is thus suitable for complete newcomers to the area. It is a big field, with a lot to cover; however this should get students familiar with all of the basics. The class is divided into seven topics; the first five iteratively build on each other. Session six will look to future technologies. Session seven will challenge students to understand the authorities encountered and the friction between the authorities and agencies in responding to a cyber incident. Many cyber jobs are opening up with companies that need international affairs analysts who, while not cybersecurity experts, understand the topic well enough to write policy recommendations or intelligence briefs. Even if you don’t intend your career to focus on cyber issues, having some exposure will deepen your understanding of the dynamics of many other international and public policy issues.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Cartier
  Info
• 1.5 points

HLTH CARE ACCOUNTING&BUDGETING

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• R 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• M 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Francine M Caracappa
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• Instructor: Jonathan Engel
  Info
• 3 points

Cyberspace in Strategy and Grand Strateg

Debates over grand strategy have taken on renewed importance as the United States has shifted away from a predominant focus on counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency toward a new era of great power competition. Questions over things like military deployments, the utility of force, the purpose of alliances, the value of free trade, and the role of international institutions are informed to a large degree about how states conceive of their role in the world and how policymakers believe they can best cause security for their countries; in other words, much of it boils down to grand strategy. Despite the importance of grand strategy in contemporary discussions about international security dynamics and foreign policy, the role that cyberspace plays in these debates has largely been neglected. Yet, cyberspace has unique implications for grand strategy—it affects nearly every aspect of contemporary strategy, from the employment of military power and alliances to diplomacy and economic statecraft. This course will explore the intersection of cyberspace in strategy and grand strategy, with a focus on the United States, although we will also examine other non-U.S. critical cases throughout the semester. We will evaluate how existing theories and concepts extend to cyberspace, as well as how cyberspace is shaping the development and conduct of strategy. The course is largely organized around the different instruments of national power and their application to cyberspace, with a focus on critical use cases. We will address questions such as, what is the nature of cyber power and how do states use cyberspace for strategic ends? How do states use cyberspace as a military tool and what are the implications for international stability? What are the prospects for cyber diplomacy and international cooperation? The goal of this course is to bridge theory and policy—to explore how esoteric concepts like deterrence apply (or don’t) to the reality of state behavior in cyberspace. Throughout the semester, we will hear from guest lecturers with both practical and academic experiences to enhance our discussions.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Erica D Borghard
  h-index: 11 Info
• 3 points

ISSUES/APPROC-HLTH POLICY/MGMT

• Department: Executive Classes in HPM
• Instructor: Michael S Sparer
  Info
• 3 points