Data Analysis for Policy Research Using
Data Analysis Using R
This course will develop the skills to prepare, analyze, and present data for policy analysis and program evaluation using R. In Quant I and II, students are introduced to probability and statistics, regression analysis and causal inference. In this course we focus on the practical application of these skills to explore data and policy questions on your own. The goal is to help students become effective analysts and policy researchers: given available data, what sort of analysis would best inform our policy questions? How do we prepare data and implement statistical methods using R? How can we begin to draw conclusions about the causal effects of policies, not just correlation? We’ll learn these skills by exploring data on a range of policy topics: COVID-19 cases; racial bias in NYPD subway fare evasion enforcement; the distribution of Village Fund grants in Indonesia; US police shootings; wage gaps by gender/race; and student projects on topics of your choosing.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- R 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Harold B Stolper
Info - 3 points
Machine Learning and High-Dimensional Da
Mchn lrning&Hgh-dmntnl da
Discusses recent advances in fields of machine learning: kernel methods, neural networks (various generative adversarial net architectures), and reinforcement learning (with applications in robotics). Quasi Monte Carlo methods in the context of approximating RBF kernels via orthogonal transforms (instances of the structured technique). Will discuss techniques such as TD(0), TD(λ), LSTDQ, LSPI, DQN.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- M 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
- None None-None
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Instructor:
Krzysztof M Choromanski
Info - 3 points
CLIMATE JUSTICE IN OUR OWN BACKYARD
RESILIENT URBAN SYSTEMS
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Instructor:
Thaddeus Pawlowski
Info - 3 points
INTRO TO URBAN DATA AND INFORMATICS
URBAN INFORMATICS I
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Boyeong Hong
h-index: None Info - 3 points
STAGE MANAGEMENT METHODOLOGIES I
SM METHODS: CREATING BWAY SHOW
The course aims to offer students a realistic view and understanding of what is involved in maintaining a long-running commercial musical production. Through discussion with professionals and practical presentation we will explore the many and varied aspects of this collaborative industry.
- Department: Theatre Arts
- M 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
- 3 points
Social Policy Challenges in Brazil and L
Social Pol Challenges: Brazil
The goal of this course is to familiarize students with some of the key public policy challenges facing Latin America and, in particular, Brazil. The course focuses on four topics: inequality, education, crime, and health. Though the topics are interconnected, each has its particularities and has been the object of specifically designed public policies and of intense debate. The connecting thread running through the course is the idea that social exclusion and inequality permeate most of the main social policy challenges in the region. The classes cover a combination of conceptual issues, historical conditions, current patterns, and empirical evidence on specific policy interventions. The course frames these four topics in the context of Latin America, but Brazil receives a more than proportional emphasis when discussing empirical evidence. The dominant perspective adopted throughout the course is an economic one, even though other approaches are also considered. Most of the readings assigned in the course are from the academic literature in economics, therefore making extensive use of statistical analysis and basic economic concepts.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rodrigo Reis Soares
Info - 1.5 points
From NIMBY to YIMBY to Mayor Quimby
LOCAL GOVT POLITICS
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Instructor:
Howard H Slatkin
Info - 3 points
Pediatric Primary Care Nursing II: Didac
PEDIATRIC PRIM CARE II: D
Pediatric Primary Care Nursing II focuses on the delivery of primary health care to school-age children and adolescents. This includes health promotion, the prevention of illness, and the management of common episodic problems. Using the school for clinical experience, the student will assess the status, teach individuals and groups of children, and will work with teachers and parents. Students will utilize knowledge of growth and development to develop age appropriate teaching plans, and assess children and families to assume an active role as health consumers. Current courses in pediatric pathophysiology and child development contribute to the student's knowledge base. Students continue to provide primary care to their caseload of well children in their pediatric primary care sites.
- Department: Nursing
- M 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
- 2 points
Microeconometrics
This course introduces students to multiple regression methods for analyzing data in economics and related disciplines. Extensions include regression with discrete random variables, instrumental variables regression, analysis of random experiments and quasi-experiments, and regression with time series data. The objective of the course is for the student to learn how to conduct – and how to critique – empirical studies in economics and related fields. Accordingly, the emphasis of the course is on empirical applications. The mathematics of econometrics will be introduced only as needed and will not be a central focus.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- TR 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
- F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alan S Yang
CULPA: 5
Info
- 4 points
STAGE MANAGEMENT & TECHNICAL PRODUCTION
STAGE MGMT. & TECH. PRODU
The class will explore all aspects of modern technical theatre as currently practiced on Broadway. The intent will be to develop the vernacular and concepts necessary for the modern Stage Manager to communicate effectively with their technical departments and to have a more than passing understanding of what problems those departments are forced to cope with in the production scheme. The ultimate goal being an appreciation and deeper understanding of the work performed by the technical departments, leading to enhanced co-operation on the part of all concerned.
- Department: Theatre Arts
- F 2:30 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Daniel Hoffman
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
Pediatric Primary Care Nursing II: Clini
PED PRIM CARE NURS II: CL
The student will gain knowledge and skill in assessing and evaluating the health status of children and adolescents to determine and maintain an optimum level of health.
- Department: Nursing
- 4 points
Gender and Development in Southeast Asia
Gender & Developmnt in SE Asia
This course is designed to introduce students to issues of gender and development in Southeast Asia in comparative context. Development debates are currently in flux with important implications for the practice and analysis of gender and development. Some argue for market-driven, neo-liberal solutions to gender equality, while others believe that equitable gender relations will only come when women (and men) are empowered to understand their predicaments and work together to find local solutions to improve their lives. Empowerment and human rights approaches are popular among development practitioners, particularly those concerned with gender equity. This course uses the context of development in Southeast Asia to critically engage with issues important to development planners, national leaders and women’s groups throughout Southeast Asia. This course is designed for maximum student participation, engagement and community learning. While the course will be taught remotely during Fall 2020, student attendance and participation throughout the semester is expected. There will be options to make up work for the occasional missed class due to technology mishaps, personal illness, or family emergencies. However, more than three (3) missed classes will significantly affect students’ grades. Please do not enroll this term if you anticipate difficulties in being able to actively participate via Zoom during the assigned class time.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kristy Kelly
h-index: 3 Info - 3 points
METROPOLITAN PLANNING
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- W 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Instructor:
Thomas K Wright
Info - 3 points
AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT IN NYC
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- R 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
- 3 points
DELIVERING URBAN PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- M 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jamie Torres-Springer
Info - 3 points
DARK ECOLOGIES: ECOCRITICAL THOUGHT NOW
DARK ECOL: ECOCRTICAL THOUGHT
This seminar aims to disclose what an anthropologically informed, ecocritical cultural studies can offer in this moment of intensifying ecological calamity. With global warming and associated crises of pollution, habitat and species extinction, new forms of disease, and the ongoing issue of the nuclear, there is a pervasive anxiety about the fate of the earth and, with it, life itself. How can ecocritical thought grapple with this “great unraveling,” as ecotheorist Joanna Macy has put it? This seminar will engage significant works in anthropology, ecocriticism, philosophy, literature, political thought, and art to help us think about this central question. Readings will include works by Morton, Bonneuil and Fressoz, Bennett, Zizek, Kohn, Descola, Stengers, Haraway, Latour, Macy, and others. Enrollment limit is 15 and the instructor's permission is required.
- Department: Anthropology
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Marilyn Ivy
CULPA: 11
Wikipedia
Info
- 3 points
RESEARCH PROJECT
May be repeated for credit. A special investigation of a problem in nuclear engineering, medical physics, applied mathematics, applied physics, and/or plasma physics consisting of independent work on the part of the student and embodied in a formal report.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
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Instructor:
Kyle Mandli
h-index: 14 Info -
Instructor:
Yuan Yang
h-index: 49 Info -
Instructor:
Klaus A Hamacher
Info -
Instructor:
Kui Ren
CULPA: 2 Info -
Instructor:
Carlos Paz Soldan
h-index: 28 Info -
Instructor:
Joseph Kraisler
Info -
Instructor:
Michael I Weinstein
CULPA: 2 h-index: 47 Info -
Instructor:
Alexander Gaeta
Wikipedia h-index: 89 Info -
Instructor:
Marc W Spiegelman
CULPA: 15
Info
- 1-6 points
Cities in a Globalizing World
Cities such as New York, London, Hong Kong, Sao Paolo, Tokyo and Mumbai, have been at the heart of deepening economic, social and political globalization. International trade, financial flows, the arts, and migration have shaped their process of urbanization and position in national life and they in turn have influenced the character of globalization. Policymakers in global cities have abundant resources at their disposal but face complicated governance challenges due to their size, complexity and deep linkages to the rest of the world. In addition, global cities increasingly must compete for human capital and investment. This course examines the key features of global cities and the main stages of their development. It explores the governance challenges that policymakers in global cities face in the areas of economics, infrastructure, environment, human capital development, and social welfare. For instance, in the area of economic policymaking, students will analyze the importance of agglomeration, economic clusters, economies of scale, and spillovers as well as the possible strategies for gaining a competitive edge over other cities.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Francisco L Rivera-Batiz
Info - 3 points
EXT. NYS ATTORNEY GENERAL
- Department: Law
- F noon-2 p.m.
- None None-None
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Instructor:
Monica Wagner
Info - 1-5 points
MUSA DIGITAL MEDIA,MATERIALITY&PRACTICE
Class sessions will include the discussion of assigned readings, multimedia, and digital resources, as well as short lectures. Each student will co-lead one discussion section during the term. During most classes there will be presentation and discussion of student assignments. In this course we will learn how to digitally map and visualize museum systems and use this knowledge to facilitate a visitors journey from thinking to making. In the first part of the semester readings, class discussion and weekly “experiments” will be used to investigate how mapping, sketching, and modeling techniques can help develop sustainable frameworks for exhibition. In the second part of the semester we will begin modeling solutions and use these models to refine the way we communicate them to various stakeholders and audiences. Ultimately, the course aims to help students clearly articulate their thinking, explore ways of planning and communicating solutions and develop new models of engagement and action in an exhibition context. The class will combine lectures, seminars, field observation and prototyping.
- Department: Anthropology
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Marco Castro
Info - 3 points
EXT. FEDERAL COURT CLERK EDNY
- Department: Law
- R 5:50 p.m.-7:40 p.m.
- None None-None
- 1 points
Central Asian Politics and Security
Central Asian Pol & Security
This course surveys the politics and history of the five countries of contemporary Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan). In addition to imparting a substantive understanding of these countries, the course explores several conceptual lenses through which the region can be analyzed both over time and in comparison with other parts of the world. The first half of the course examines the political history of the region, with particular reference to how policies and practices of the Soviet state shaped the former republics of Soviet Central Asia. The second half turns to special topics at the center of the region’s political and social life today. Coverage of these topics—which include democratization, Islam and the politics of counter-insurgency, women and definitions of the public sphere, the politics of nation-building, and international security—will involve light reading from other regions to provide comparative perspective.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lawrence Markowitz
Info - 3 points
LEVEL II FIELDWRK: Mental Health
- Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
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Instructor:
Phyllis R Simon
Info - 0 points
EXTERNSHIP: COMMUNITY DEFENSE
- Department: Law
- W 4:20 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
- None None-None
- 2 points
Security and International Politics of t
Security/Intl Pol-Persian Gulf
The course will be divided into two sections. The first will focus on the international dimensions of security, and will situate the Gulf in the Middle East and the world. It will review the consequences of the three major wars fought there over the past three decades before addressing both hard and soft security issues (the latter including climate issues and food security), border disputes, the nuclear issue, and the role both Iran and the U.S. play in the Gulf. Part II will focus on domestic sources of instability, including national identity and the ruling bargain, the rise of the post-rentier state, sectarian conflict, the problem of migrant workers (who currently make up a majority of the population in the GCC states), and the repercussions of the Arab Spring, which has led to an ominous retreat from earlier signs of liberalization.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lawrence G Potter
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
EXT:FED CT CLERK SOUTHERN DNY
- Department: Law
- R 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
- None None-None
- 1 points
LVL II FLDWRK B
Level II FLDWRK B: PHYS D
- Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
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Instructor:
Phyllis R Simon
Info - 0 points
Approaches and Models in Occupational Th
Approaches & Models OT
- Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
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Instructor:
Glen Gillen
Info - 3 points
China s Foreign Relations
This course will review and analyze the foreign policy of the Peoples Republic of China from 1949 to the present. It will examine Beijings relations with the Soviet Union, the United States, Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Third World during the Cold War, and will discuss Chinese foreign policy in light of the end of the Cold War, changes in the Chinese economy in the reform era, the post-Tiananmen legitimacy crisis in Beijing, and the continuing rise of Chinese power and influence in Asia and beyond. This lecture course will analyze the causes and consequences of Beijing’s foreign policies from 1949 to the present.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- F 9 a.m.-10 a.m.
- F 11 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Thomas J Christensen
CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info - 3 points
S WORKSHOP IN BRIEFCRAFT
- Department: Law
- W 4:20 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
- None None-None
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Instructor:
Sophia Bernhardt
Info - 2 points
Geopolitics of Oil and Natural Gas
Geopolitics- Oil & Natural Gas
The course will examine in detail the geopolitics that support U.S. energy security and the geopolitics that may challenge it. The class will focus on U.S. energy relations with Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq, as well as with Venezuela, Brazil Russia and Nigeria. We will explore the possibility of a Canada-U.S.-Mexico united energy market and the likely geopolitical effects of a united Northern American energy system. China, and India as major growing consumer markets will also be a point of discussion. We will also look at the various factors that have made the shale oil and gas revolution so successful, the forces that continue to drive the revolution forward despite falling prices The class will discuss the geopolitical effects the U.S. shale revolution has had on the world.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Natasha Udensiva
Info - 3 points
Introduction to Addictive Behaviors
INTRO-ADDICTIVE BEHAVIORS
This foundational course provides an understanding of addictive behaviors. Current theories regarding the development of addiction will be identified. Evaluation and assessment skills will be taught based on these theoretical models. Physiological, behavioral, emotional, and societal responses to addiction will be explored. Implications for nursing research are considered.
- Department: Nursing
- M 2 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ronica Mukerjee
Info - 2-3 points
LEVEL II FLDWRK C: SPCL INT
- Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
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Instructor:
Phyllis R Simon
Info - 0 points
TOPICS DATA-DRIVEN ANAL & COMP
TPC:STAT LRNING BIOL&INFO SYST
Selected advanced topics in data-driven analysis and computation. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6690 to 6699.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
- None None-None
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Instructor:
Predrag R Jelenkovic
CULPA: 1 h-index: 35 Info - 3 points
TOPICS DATA-DRIVEN ANAL & COMP
TPC:STAT LRNING BIOL&INFO SYST
Selected advanced topics in data-driven analysis and computation. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6690 to 6699.
- Department: Video Network
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Instructor:
Predrag R Jelenkovic
CULPA: 1 h-index: 35 Info - 3 points
THEATRE MANAGEMENT & ADMINISTRATION I
THEATRE MGMT & ADMIN I
- Department: Theatre Arts
- MF 3 p.m.-6 p.m.
- W 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Steven E Chaikelson
CULPA: 5
Info
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Instructor:
Timothy A Hess
Info - 3 points
Probabilistic Models and Machine Learnin
FOUNDATIONS OF GRAPHICL M
Probabilistic Models and Machine Learning is a PhD-level course about how to design and use probability models. We study their mathematical properties, algorithms for computing with them, and applications to real problems. We study both the foundations and modern methods in this field. Our goals are to understand probabilistic modeling, to begin research that makes contributions to this field, and to develop good practices for building and applying probabilistic models.
- Department: Statistics
- TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
David Blei
Wikipedia h-index: 98 Info - 3 points
Environmental, Social and Governance Rep
ESG Reporting
The ESG Reporting course explores the ever‐evolving global Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG” — also referred to as Corporate Sustainability/Responsibility) reporting environment and the standards and frameworks used by companies to report on ESG performance, or non‐Financial Reporting. We will explore the market drivers that generate the demand for ESG reporting, key areas of focus for investors and other capital providers, regulatory activities and the intersection of ESG reporting with traditional corporate financial reporting. This course will provide an understanding of the various frameworks for sustainability reporting and how reported ESG information can be used to inform investment decisions and direct corporate strategic and capital allocation choices. We will cover the main reporting frameworks, including the Task Force for Climate‐Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the ISSB, among others, as well as regulatory mandates that govern sustainability reporting. The course will focus on reporting used for investment and business strategy decisions as contrasted with public policy decisions.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Avner Bukspan
Info - 3 points
RADICAL COMPOSITIONS
The course will examine literary experiments in prose and poetics by twentieth century and contemporary writers. These explorations in narrative, documentary poetics, visual graphics, textual assemblage, archival fabulation, and autotheory are critical to writing the experiences of the undocumented, the colonized, the blackened, the subaltern, the queer, the interstitial, and the disposable and to decolonizing our ways of thinking and writing. Topics range from documenting the undocumented to histories of colonial war and bombing, from autofiction to fourth person narration. This is a combination seminar-workshop course invites its participants to study and to produce works of radical composition. How do critical questions shape and engender new modalities of writing? How have writers radically challenged notions of genre, disciplinary frames, representational possibilities, and reading practices? What techniques have they deployed or disregarded and what other mediums have they drawn from to produce these works? How have these works produced radical new forms of knowledge, documentation, or the book-as-object?
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- 4 points
STOCHASTIC MODELING I
Advanced treatment of stochastic modeling in the context of queueing, reliability, manufacturing, insurance risk, financial engineering and other engineering applications. Review of elements of probability theory; exponential distribution; renewal theory; Wald’s equation; Poisson processes. Introduction to both discrete and continuous-time Markov chains; introduction to Brownian motion.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Karl Sigman
CULPA: 15
Info
- 4.5 points
TOPICS IN COMMUNICATION
TPC:MMWAVE&APPLICATIONS FOR 5G
Advanced topics in communications, such as turbo codes, LDPC codes, multiuser communications, network coding, cross-layer optimization, cognitive radio. Content may vary from year to year to reflect the latest development in the field.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- T 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
- None None-None
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Instructor:
Jacob Sharony
h-index: 25 Info - 3 points
BLDG ADAPT & REUSE
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- F 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
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Instructor:
Andy Golubitsky
Info - 1.5 points
Middle East Conflicts & Global Security
Mid East Conflicts & Globl Sec
This course analyzes the impact of domestic and regional conflicts in the Middle East on global security. Key concepts include: regime change, revolution, insurrection, conflict management, security sector reform, arms transfers, nuclear proliferation, and counterterrorism. These conceptual tools are used for comparative analysis of three sub-regional conflict zones (Egypt/Syria/Lebanon, Iraq/Iran/Saudi Arabia and Palestine/Jordan/Israel), each of which has galvanized substantial global engagement.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Naomi Weinberger
CULPA: 11 Info - 3 points
RACE & REPRESENTATION IN CRIMNAL JUSTICE
- Department: Social Work
- S 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
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Instructor:
Kimberly D Westcott
Info - 3 points
BUDGETING AND REPORTING
- Department: Theatre Arts
- F 10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Michael Naumann
Info - 3 points