Mimesis and Empire: Imitation, Replicati

The practice of copying is one of the most distinctive features of ancient Roman sculpture. Rather than analyzing this phenomenon simply as a problem of artistic style, this seminar will consider copies and related sculptures as manifestations of the Imperial period’s broader attitudes to form conceived as a means of cultural expression, communication, and experience. To this effect, it will focus on the performative aspects of the notion of mimesis and on its links to ideas of embodiment and enactment. It will consider both Plato’s theory of imitation and its incarnations in the Roman imperial period. In particular, it will investigate the role that mimesis played in ancient pedagogical thinking; its place within performative practices such as dance and oratory; the tension deriving from the difference in social status between different kinds of performers. Of course, artistic style will remain at the core of this exploration: instead of being understood in narrow formalistic terms, however, it will be discussed comprehensively, as a manifestation of lifestyle 
qua
 aesthetic phenomenon. Ultimately, the aim of the seminar is to achieve an anthropologically informed re-interpretation of the practices associated with the Roman copying industry—from the production of exact replicas to the use of Greek prototypes for the bodies of portrait statues, and from stylistic eclecticism to the relationship of artistic making with rhetorical theory. Special attention will be devoted to the properly 
imperial
 frame of the phenomena: what functions do imitation, replication, variation acquire within the specific cultural system of the Roman empire, and how are they affected by this context? The introductory sessions will review and discuss the most significant episodes in the history of scholarship on Roman copies, from the 19th century to the present.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Francesco de Angelis
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• 4 points

HUMAN POPULATION GENETICS

Prerequisites: At least one course each in probability and genetics and the instructor's permission. Fundamental principles of population genetics, with emphasis on human populations. Genetic drift; natural selection; nonrandom mating; quantitave genetics; linkage analysis; and applications of current technology (e.g. SNPs). Students will master basic principles of population genetics and will be able to model these principles mathematically/statistically.

• Department: Biostatistics
• M 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Prakash Gorroochurn
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• 3 points

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• Instructor: Joseph M Mc Manus Jr
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• 0 points

ANALYSIS OF LONGITUDINAL DATA

Prerequisite: Public Health P8111. Features of repeated measurements studies; balance in time, time-varying covariates, and correlation structure. Examination of the models for continuous repeated measures based on normal theory; random effects models, mixed models, multivariate analysis of variance, growth curve models, and autoregressive models. Non-parametric approaches and models for repeated binary data. Applications of generalized linear models to repeated data. Empirical Bayes approaches are discussed as time allows.

• Department: Biostatistics
• T 5 p.m.-7:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Srikesh G Arunajadai
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• 3 points

Management of Patients with Special Need

SPECIAL NEEDS ROTATION

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• Instructor: Gregory N Bunza
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• 0 points

Religion and Capitalism

This colloquium aims to introduce graduate students to the diverse literature on religion and capitalism, with an emphasis on early modern Europe. Readings range from classical sociological literature and major historical monographs to more recent work in heterodox economics. Our discussions will address a number of persistent questions in the field, both methodological and empirical: (1) How have historians, sociologists, and philosophers characterized the relationship between God and Mammon, between religious and economic life? (2) What is the nature of this relationship (unidirectional causality, mutual constitution, supersession, etc.)? (3) How have explanatory possibilities been brought to bear in scholarship on different periods, and for different traditions (Christianity and Judaism, Catholicism and Protestantism, Jansenism and devout humanism, Calvinism and Anglicanism)? (4) How should one approach religious institutions in light of the massive wealth at their disposal? (5) To what extent have theological categories and economic axioms informed each other over time, and under what political and cultural conditions?

• Department: History
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Matthew L Jones
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• 4 points

RELATIONAL DATABASES AND SQL PROGRAMMING

Prerequisites: Public Health P6104. Introduction to the principles of research data management and other aspects of data coordination using structured, computer-based exercises. Targeted to students with varying backgrounds and interests: (1) established and prospective investigators, scientists, and project leaders who want to gain a better understanding of the principles of data management to improve the organization of their own research, make informed decisions in assembling a data management team, and improve their ability to communicate with programmers and data analysts; and (2) students considering a career in data management, data analysis, or the administration of a data coordinating center.

• Department: Biostatistics
• T 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• W 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Debra D'Angelo
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• 3 points

SEMINAR DEALS LITIGATION

• Department: Law
• M 5:40 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
• 2 points

TUTORIALS IN BIOSTATISTICS

• Department: Biostatistics
• Instructor: Debra D'Angelo
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• Instructor: Shing M Lee
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• 0-6 points

Effective Management in the Public Servi

Effective Mgmt in the Pub Serv

The course is designed to introduce you to the field of public management. It is a practical course organized around the tools managers may use to influence the behavior of their organizations. The course also discusses the political environment in which public managers must interact.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• S 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Robert Z Tumin
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• 3 points

Phys & Nutrition Through the Lifecycle

Phys & Nut Though Lifecyl

General aspects of normal human growth and development from viewpoints of physical growth, cellular growth and maturation, and adjustments made at birth; the impact of altered nutrition on these processes. Prenatal and postnatal malnutrition, the role of hormones in growth; relationships between nutrition and disease in such areas as anemia, obesity, infection, and carbohydrate absorption.

• Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
• T 2 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Moneek Madra
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• 3 points

NONFICTION THESIS WORKSHOP

• Department: Writing
• T 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• R 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• M 2:10 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
• T 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Lis Harris
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• Instructor: Leslie S Jamison
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• Instructor: Phillip Lopate
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• Instructor: Wendy Walters
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• 9 points

SAS Insights for CEOR

Data is most useful when it can tell a story. Health analytics merges technologies and skills used to deliver business, clinical and programmatic insights into the complex components that drive medical outcomes, costs and oversight. By focusing on business intelligence and developing tools to evaluate clinical procedures, devices, and programs, organizations can use comparative and outcomes data to strengthen financial performance. This information can improve the way healthcare is evaluatedand delivered for better outcomes across the spectrum of health industries.   In this course, students will learn SAS as a tool to manipulate and analyze healthcare data and begin to understand what clinical and public health interventions work best for improving health, for example. Students will learn how to organize and analyze data to inform the practices of healthcare providers and policymakers to make evidence-based resource allocation decisions.Comparative & Effectiveness Outcomes Research (CEOR) certificate students will take this course inpreparation for the capstone class.SAS basics (e.g., creating SAS datasets and new variables, sorting, merging, reporting) and advanced statistics (e.g., using a logistical regression to create propensity scores for matched cohort analyses) will be covered.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• M 5 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Yongmei Huang
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• 1.5 points

Critical Read of Biological Clinical Lit

Crit Read of Bio Clin Lit

Fall: Review of current literature providing complementary information pertinent to other nutrition areas, with a view to developing a critical approach to the assimilation of scientific information. Spring: Obesity: Etiology, Prevention, and Treatment. Controversies involving regulation of weight and energy balance. Interaction between genetics and the environment are considered as well as clinical implications of our current knowledge.

• Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
• M 9 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Rajasekhar Ramakrishnan
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• 3 points

NEW DIRECTION IN ECON SOCIOLOGY

This is an advanced graduate seminar in Economic Sociology looking at new developments in this field. It addresses the disciplinary division of labor in which economists study value and sociologists study values; and it rejects the pact whereby economists study the economy and sociologists study social relations in which they are embedded.

• Department: Sociology
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: David Stark
  CULPA: 15 Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN THEORETICAL STATISTI

STAT ANALYSIS OF NEURAL DATA

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• Department: Statistics
• F 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Liam M Paninski
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• 3 points

TOPICS IN THEORETICAL STATISTI

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• Department: Statistics
• F 9:15 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Zhiliang Ying
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 62 Info
• 3 points

Behavioral Policy & Public Health

Applications of behavioral insights are expanding rapidly across civic, medical, social, corporate, educational, and economic professions. This class covers the underlying theories for behavioral insights, using scientific and real-world examples of applications from multiple disciplines and locations. The course will also cover methods for behavioral implementation and evaluation, focusing particularly on healthcare policy perspectives. Students will learn a broad range of strategies through a highly interactive format, taught partially in a classroom setting in addition to remote asynchronous and synchronous sessions. Students will gain experience designing and developing their own evidence- based behavioral interventions as a part of a semester-long project. The course is taught in three phases. The first phase will introduce fundamentals of behavioral science and evidence-based policy. Students will then spend the majority of the course on examples of behavioral insights such as nudges in practice, in a healthcare context and beyond. The course will end with sessions on practical applications, where students will learn to identify appropriate situations for behavioral interventions and produce a final project in a chosen context.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• R 5 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Kai Ruggeri
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• 1.5 points

SEMINAR-SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE

SEM IN ADVANCED SW PRAC

• Department: Social Work
• T 2 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Susan S Witte
  h-index: 28 Info
• 3 points

Sports and the Law

SPORTS AND THE LAW

• Department: Law
• Instructor: Martin Edel
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• 2 points

BIOCHEM-PHYSIOL BASIS-NUTR I

BIOCHEM-PHYSIOL BASIS-NUTRTION

Aspects of carbohydrate, lipid, protein, and energy metabolism relevant to the understanding of nutrition at cellular and organism levels. Biochemical and physiological aspects of vitamin and mineral metabolismand action during both normal conditions and deficiency toxicity states.

• Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
• M 2 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Ruben A Igal
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• 3 points

SEM IN PAINTING AND RELATED MEDIA

This is a critique-based seminar. We will apply a critical and inquisitive lens to all things for the purpose of examining all the parts: deconstruction is hopeful in this way. Critique posits that something new might be built if we carefully and assiduously take apart the big structural body and honestly attend to its parts, and maybe forget their names. There will be much looking, many discussions, many slides, some readings, some writing exercises, an assigned instructional video and as many critiques.

• Department: Visual Arts
• T noon-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Dana M Deguilio
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• 3 points

NEW DIRECTIONS IN RUSSIAN HIST

• Department: History
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Catherine Evtuhov
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

Advanced Consulting Practice

The Advanced Consulting is a project-based, experiential learning course that ensures the curriculum is built around project work where students are guided, rather than directed, by faculty. Students will be responsible for applying their coursework and prior consulting practice experience to this class. The course provides students with the opportunity to work in a small group under the guidance of an experienced faculty member on a semester long project to resolve a problem or conduct an analysis for a health service or public health organization. Students address challenges and identify opportunities for a client organization, utilizing competencies acquired in methods, management and other courses. They are able to experience first-hand the translation of their studies into practice. Projects, new each semester, require students to get up-to-speed quickly; enhance key process skills including project management and teamwork; and develop competency in gathering, analyzing, and reporting out on data. Students work in real-time with real deadlines acquiring a deep familiarity with an organization. They develop a rigorous definition of the nature of a problem and its larger context, an understanding of the potential opportunities, and a plan for a solution or solutions which is then presented to the client. The Advanced Consulting Practice will also require students to finish the term with recommendations for future projects based on their assessments, analysis, current strategic goals for the organization and/or immediate needs.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• Instructor: John Winkleman
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• 3 points

Vaccine Innovation & Public Policy

Vaccine Innov. & Public P

Spurring vaccine innovation has once again become a top priority in health policy. Inthis course we’ll learn about the race for a COVID-19 vaccine, following real-time developments and situating in the broader literature on innovation policy and economics.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• T 1 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Bhaven N Sampat
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• 1.5 points

COLLOQ ON POLITICAL BEHAVIOR

Courses on public opinion and political behavior (including the GR8210 seminar taught by Professor Shapiro) ordinarily move briskly through a wide array of topics having to do with how American tend to think and act. This class has a narrower scope but tries to delve more deeply into the literature.  We focus on four topics that are arguably crucial understanding contemporary American politics (and perhaps the politics of other times and places). 

The first topic addresses what might be thought of as the legacies of slavery: prejudice, resentment, racial/ethnic group identification, issue preferences on topics that are directly or indirectly connected to race/ethnicity, and group differences in political behavior. 

The second topic considers the literature on partisanship and polarization, as well as related topics on “macropartisan” change and party realignment.  What are the causes of micro- and macropartisan change, and what are its consequences? 

The third topic is support for democratic norms, civil liberties, and respect for the rights of unpopular groups.  How deeply committed are Americans to democratic values and constitutional rights?  

The fourth topic is the influence of media on public opinion, a vast topic that includes the effects of advertising, news, social media, narrative entertainment, and so forth. 

Although we will be focusing on just four broad topics, time constraints nevertheless prevent us from covering more than a fraction of each scholarly literature.  Students are encouraged to read beyond the syllabus, and I am happy to offer suggestions.

• Department: Political Science
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Y Shapiro
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

PROF LEADERSHIP & PRACTICE I

This is the first in a series of 4 courses designed to educate students about the multiple dimensions of professional practice in contemporary physical therapy.  These courses will explore the professional roles of the physical therapist as a clinician, educator and advocate. This will be the first in a series of courses that will address trans-curricular themes including leadership, service, health promotion, advocacy, teaching & learning, interprofessional teamwork, and self-reflection, culminating in the creation of a digital portfolio. The course series will include broad exposure to a variety of professional and personal development experiences and expect more in-depth engagement in the student’s chosen area of focus. This first course in the professional leadership and practice series will explore health and wellness and promote strategies for well being. Students will broaden their understanding of physical therapy practice, structure and governance of the American Physical Therapy Association, APTA vision and core values, and legislative action at the national, state and local levels. Students will have the opportunity to reflect on personal strengths and develop a personal development and professional leadership plan. An overview of the Digital Professional Portfolio will also be included.

• Department: Physical Therapy
• 2 points

Microeconomics and Policy Analysis I

Microecon & Policy Analysis I

This two-semester course shows students that it is both possible and useful to think about public policy rigorously to see what assumptions work; to understand how formal models operate; to question vagueness and cliches; and to make sophisticated ethical arguments. An important goal of the class is to have students work in groups to apply microeconomic concepts to current public policy issues having to do with urban environmental and earth systems. The course includes problem sets designed to teach core concepts and their application. In the spring semester, the emphasis is on the application of concepts to analyze contemporary policy problems. Some time is also devoted to international trade and regulation, and industrial organization issues. Students not only learn microeconomic concepts, but also how to explain them to decision-makers. Student groups take on specific earth system policy issues, analyze options through the use of microeconomic concepts, and then make oral presentations to the class.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• S 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• S 1:30 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
• S noon-1:30 p.m.
• 3 points

Microeconomics and Policy Analysis I

Microecon & Policy Analysis I

The objective of Microeconomics and Policy Analysis I is to ensure that students are able to use an economic framework to analyze environmental policy choices. Students will be expected to understand, apply and critique micro-economic models that inform environmental policy. By the end of the semester, students will be expected to use economic concepts fluently to advocate various public policy positions. We will begin with the big picture; how did economics evolve, what is a capitalist economy, and how do we think about it. We will then focus on tools for understanding core institutions such markets, individual workers and consumers, and firms. We describe simple supply-demand relationships and apply these to economic problems. We introduce the concepts of opportunity cost and choice, which are fundamental to an economic framework for environmental policy. We then examine basic tools used by economists. We examine in detail the underlying theory of consumers and producers necessary to derive supply and demand relationships. This detailed analysis facilitates an intelligent application and critique of these basic economic tools. We will incorporate environmental examples throughout the class, but this is not a class on environmental economics. It will introduce you to microeconomics more generally, and give you a view of the economy interacting with lots of other political, social, and environmental factors.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• R 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Dong Guo
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• 3 points

RABELAIS AND MONTAIGNE

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Antoine M Compagnon
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO CINEMATOGRAPHY

• Department: Film
• W 9 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Tal Lazar
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• 1.5 points

ECONOMICS OF STRATEGIC BEHAVIOR

• Department: Business Economics
• M 8:30 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
• M 5:40 p.m.-8:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jacopo Perego
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• 3 points

SEM IN MUSIC COMPOSITION I

Individual projects in composition.

• Department: Music
• W 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 3 points

Urban Politics and Policy

All public policy occurs within a political context. The purpose of this seminar is to examine the politics of America's large cities. While we rely on case material from American cities the theoretical and applied problems we consider are relevant to understanding public policy in any global city. Cities are not legal entities defined in the American Constitution. Yet, historically they have developed a politics and policymaking process that at once seems archetypically American and strangely foreign We will consider whether America's traditional institutions of representation work for urban America; how the city functions within our federal system; and whether neighborhood democracy is a meaningful construct. We will also consider the impact of politics on urban policymaking. Can cities solve the myriad problems of their populations under existing institutional arrangements? Are cities really rebounding economically or does a crisis remain in communities beyond the resurgence in many downtown business districts? Do the economic and social factors which impact urban politics and policy delimit the city's capacity to find and implement solutions to their problems? Finally, can urban politics be structured to make cities places where working and middle class people choose to live and work and businesses choose to locate; the ultimate test of their viability in the twenty first century.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Ester Fuchs
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

VISUAL EXPERIENCES

The course seeks to bridge two intimately related studies that currently exist within the Film Program: 1. intensive academic analysis of filmmaking practices/principles and, 2.  the practitioner’s creative/pragmatic application of those practices/principles in their own work. Students will study, through screenings, lectures and personal research, an overview of various directing forms/methodologies (conventional coverage, expressive directing, comedy directing, subjective directing, objective directing, multiple-protagonist narrative, etc.) with a primary focus on the Western classic narrative tradition. The visual grammar, axiomatic principles, structural necessities of a variety of directing forms/genres will be analyzed and compared with works of art from other disciplines (poetry, painting, sculpture, etc.) and cultures.  The ultimate goal is student implementation of these principles in their own work, exposure to and examination of some works of the established canon, as well as a greater understanding of the context in which creation occurs.

• Department: Film
• F 9 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Eric Mendelsohn
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• 3 points

Music Beyond 12 Tone Temperament I

INTRO TO MICROTONAL MUSIC

This class is intended for students to develop composing skills for creating music “between the keys” (or “outside the keys”) of a traditionally tuned piano or organ. We will be analyzing relevant works and techniques of the present and of the past. Students compose and perform/present their own music influenced by these works and techniques.  We will start with quartertones and with music independent from Western traditions.

• Department: Music
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Georg Friedrich Haas
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• 3 points

Urban Policy by Design

This course brings together schools of design and policy to help students gain experience in identifying, framing, and solving urban governance problems from the user perspective. Drawing on the methodology of human centered design or user-centered design (also known as design thinking), students will be asked to integrate the needs of people, the potential of technology, and the requirements of urban service delivery. While this approach has been successfully integrated into business management practices and is increasingly being used in the public sector, it is a methodology that must be learned through practical engagement with real world, messy problems. The course will be comprised of lectures, workshops and field research. Students will work in mixed teams of 4-6 students. Guest lecturers from design labs and government agencies will be invited to speak to the students, as well as representatives from democratic innovations such as participatory budgeting and public space advocates.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Erika B Whillas
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• 3 points

Leadership & Urban Transformation

Michael A. Nutter, who served as mayor of Philadelphia from January 2008 to January 2016, is widely recognized for his transformational leadership across a wide range of urban issues, including policing, municipal finance, economic development and sustainability policy. In this course, former Mayor Nutter will combine case studies, urban policy research and policy documents from a range of cities to present a framework for leading change in a major urban environment. Topics to be covered include vision, policy agenda and coalition building; managing the city as a business enterprise; challenges of crisis and creating opportunities to drive change; and identifying and implementing transformative policies.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael A Nutter
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• 3 points

STDY GEN/SEXUALITY-ARAB WORLD

This course aims to familiarize graduate students with the different methods and approaches that US and European scholars have used to study gender and sexuality in other societies generally, and the way they study them in the context of the Arab World specifically. The course will also explore how Arab scholars have also studied their own societies. We will survey these different approaches, both theoretical and empirical, outlining their methodological difficulties and limitations. Readings will consist of theoretical elaborations of these difficulties and the methodological and empirical critiques that the field itself has generated in order to elaborate how gender and sexuality in the Arab World have been studied, or more accurately, not studied, and how many of these methodological pitfalls can be avoided.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Joseph A Massad
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

GLOBAL GOVERNANCE REGIMES

Global Governance has become an increasingly common term to capture an enormous diversity of governance regimes and specific public and private agreements. It includes well-established public institutions such as the WTO (World Trade Organization) and the ISO (International Standards Organization). But it also includes private agreements among actors in specialized domains, such as private commercial arbitration --which has become the dominant form for settling cross-border business disputes. The course will cover the full range of these governance modes even if not all specific agreements -- a number so vast it is impossible to cover in a single course.

• Department: Sociology
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Saskia Sassen
  CULPA: 16 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ATMOSPHERIC & CLIMATE SCIENCE FOR PUBLI

ATMOSPHERIC & CLIMATE SCI

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• TR 10 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Jeffrey Shaman
  h-index: 50 Info
• 3 points

EXAMINATION & EVALUATION

This is the first of the clinical courses designed to overview basic patient/client examination and evaluation skills in accordance with the International Classification of Functioning (ICF) and the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) Guide to Physical Therapy Practice. Introduction to the patient management model with emphasis on examination is presented in a lecture-lab format. The examination process is detailed including systems review and tests and measures of peripheral nerve integrity, flexibility, motor function, muscle performance, posture, and range of motion. Emphasis is placed on, manual muscle testing and goniometry. Students are introduced to clinical decision-making.

• Department: Physical Therapy
• 3 points

CRITICAL ISSUES METHODOLOGIES

A LASSOA LOOPTRAVELS IN TIME

• Department: Visual Arts
• M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Tyler S Coburn
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• 3 points

DIGITAL STORY TELLING I: History and The

HISTORY&THEORY OF INTERACTIVIT

What does interaction have to do to storytelling? How do we tell stories within media that are non-linear, including games, virtual reality, and immersive theater? How can we craft narratives that emerge from the dynamics of interaction, narratives experienced through exploration and choice? What design strategies exist regarding an understanding of character, plot, drama, time, space, and event within interactive fictions? This course will take a close look at the mechanics of storytelling within dynamic media, exploring connections between interactivity and narrative experience. The course will examine examples ranging from the design of Live Action Role Playing games to massively multi-player experiences, from hypertext to tarot cards, from Oculus to Punchdrunk. Content will be delivered through lectures, reading, discussion, case studies, and small studio-based exercises. Elective open to all SOA students.

• Department: Film
• W 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicholas Fortugno
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• 3 points

OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HYGIENE

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: Environmental Health Sciences
• W 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher F Pettinato
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• 3 points

CAPITAL MARKETS & INVESTMENTS

• Department: Finance
• MW 10:20 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• MW 12:10 p.m.-1:40 p.m.
• R 10:20 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• R 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• R 3:50 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Harry Mamaysky
  h-index: 15 Info
• 3 points

MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• R 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Frederica P Perera
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• 3 points

Advanced Corporate Finance

• Department: Finance
• MW 7:30 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: John Moon
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• 3 points

MOLECULAR TOXICOLOGY

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• R 4 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Greg A Freyer
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• 3 points

DEBT MARKETS

• Department: Finance
• MW 10:20 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Mahadevan S Sundaresan
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• 3 points

ECONOMETRICS COLLOQUIUM

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

• Department: Economics
• W noon-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Serena Ng
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia h-index: 52 Info
• 2 points

ADV CONTINUUM MECHANICS

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• T 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Gautam Dasgupta
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 19 Info
• 4 points

PHYSICAL MODALITIES

The content of this course focuses on safe and appropriate applications of physical modalities in physical therapy practice. This course is designed to provide students with a theoretical knowledge base and the psychomotor skills required for the therapeutic application of commonly used physical modalities in a safe and appropriate manner. Clinical reasoning will be fostered through lectures, group discussions, hands-on laboratory activities, and case studies. Students will be expected to apply information from previous coursework in a relevant manner to critically analyze a variety of clinical scenarios.

• Department: Physical Therapy
• 1 points

PRINCIPLES OF TOXICOLOGY

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• M 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Gregory P Geba
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• 3 points

Game Theory and Business

• Department: Business Economics
• R 2 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
• TR 10:20 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Andrea Prat
  Wikipedia h-index: 39 Info
• Instructor: Paolo Siconolfi
  h-index: 16 Info
• 1.5 points

ECONOMIC FLUCTUATIONS COLLOQ

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

• Department: Economics
• W 4:15 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe
  CULPA: 8 Wikipedia h-index: 41 Info
• 2 points

SOFT TISSUE MOBILIZATION

This course provides the basic principles of and evidence supporting several forms of soft tissue mobilization. Great emphasis is placed on the development of manual skills required to perform safe and effective soft tissue interventions in the clinical setting. Students in this course will develop knowledge of and skills in performing soft tissue interventions used in physical therapy for upper-extremity, lower-extremity, and trunk dysfunctions. The basic physiologic principles and the evidence-base supporting varying soft tissue interventions will be presented and discussed as will the clinical decision making that leads to appropriate integration of soft tissue interventions into the plan of care for the individual patient/client. Significant laboratory time will be spent and particular emphasis will be placed on developing manual skills to perform safe, effective, and professional soft tissue interventions in a clinical setting

• Department: Physical Therapy
• 2 points

FRAMEWORKS FOR ENVIR HLTH POL

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• T 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Darby W Jack
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• 3 points

SCI BASIC TO PUB HEALTH PRACT

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• R 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Norman Kleiman
  h-index: 26 Info
• 3 points

BIOMARKERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• W 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Regina P Santella
  Info
• 3 points

SEMINAR IN MUSIC THEORY

INTERDISC/HUMANISTC APPROACHES

A study of the meanings and cultural significance of music and music theory; integration of music theory with areas outside of music, such as aesthetics, literary criticism, cognitive psychology, sociology of music, semiotics, phenomenology, theories of narrative, hierarchy theory, and linguistics.

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

VISCOELASTICITY AND PLASTICITY

Prerequisites: (ENME E6315) or ENME E6315 or the equivalent, or the instructors permission. Constitutive equations of viscoelastic and plastic bodies. Formulation and methods of solution of the boundary value, problems of viscoelasticity and plasticity.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Gautam Dasgupta
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 19 Info
• 4 points

DOCUMENTARY PRODUCING

Through the process of developing, pitching, researching, and writing a treatment for a documentary short, students will develop an overview of the documentary process from development through distribution. The course will touch on research, story, production and post production logistics, legal, financing, budgeting, distribution, and ethical issues in the creation of documentary films.

• Department: Film
• T 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Jameka Autry
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• 3 points

CRITICAL ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY ART

CRIT ISSUES:IDIOMS

• Department: Visual Arts
• F 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Shirly Bahar
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• 3 points

Diagnosis and Management in Primary Care

DIAG & MGT ACROSS LIFESPA

This second course of three consecutive courses focuses on using a systems and developmental approach to expand the knowledge of the advanced practice student. This course will focus on the differential diagnosis and comprehensive multi-modal management of commonly encountered acute and chronic physical and mental health illnesses as they affect individuals across the lifespan. Emphasis will be placed on the age­ specific biopsychosocial variables influencing those health problems and behaviors which are most likely to present, and are most amenable to management in a community setting.

• Department: Nursing
• W 9 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• 3 points

ASSET MANAGEMENT

• Department: Finance
• Instructor: Geert Bekaert
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 75 Info
• 3 points

RISK, ASSESSMENT, COMM/MGMT

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• T 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael P Musso
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• 1.5 points

Mergers & Acquisitions

• Department: Finance
• F 8:30 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
• F 12:10 p.m.-3:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Donna M Hitscherich
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• 3 points

Real Estate Finance

• Department: Finance
• R 8:30 a.m.-10 a.m.
• R 10:20 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Stijn G Van Nieuwerburgh
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• 3 points

Real Estate Transactions

• Department: Finance
• MW 8:30 a.m.-10 a.m.
• 3 points

Real Estate Portfolio Manageme

• Department: Finance
• Instructor: Michael Giliberto
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• 1.5 points

DIRECTING IV

• Department: Theatre Arts
• FS 9 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Anne Bogart
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

S INTL TRADE REGN ISSUES

• Department: Law
• M 5:40 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Petros C Mavroidis
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• 2 points

Financial Crises, Regulatory Responses

• Department: Finance
• R 3:50 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Patrick Bolton
  h-index: 69 Info
• 3 points

Finance & Sustainability

• Department: Finance
• Instructor: Bruce M Usher
  Info
• 3 points

Travel: Art, Architecture, and Mapping W

ART, ARCH, MAPPING WORLDS

This aim of this seminar is two-fold. On the one hand, it explores how travels of people, objects, and knowledge have contributed to the mapping of art and architecture as well as the making of art and architectural history on a world-wide scale. On the other, it studies how art and architectural expertise (making of views, survey drawings and maps) have contributed to the physical and mental mapping of the world. The seminar approaches issues of mobility, translation, appropriation, forgery, cultural transmission, knowledge migrations, as well as of constructions of national identities. Together with a critical approach to secondary sources, the class will focus on literary and visual primary sources, from travel accounts to cartography. The semester starts in the fourteenth century and ends in the nineteenth century, and it addresses travels (true, fabricated, or deliberately imaginary) that span—listed in alphabetic order—the Americas, China, India, Japan, and the Mediterranean.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Eleonora Pistis
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• 4 points

DIRECTOR-DESIGNER WORKSHOP

To begin to develop an understanding and vocabulary in relation to theatrical design with a central emphasis on the roles of scenery and costumes in telling a dramatic story. The class will begin with a general introduction into the issues and goals of the course, after which there will be three sessions devoted to issues of scene design and three sessions devoted to issues of costume design. Shakespeare’s Hamlet will be the focus for these discussions. Over the course of these sessions, directors will be asked to gather visual research and, in the end, arrive at a concept for their production of the play. Directors will also be asked to visit one set and one costume class so that they can see how designers are grappling with the same principles and developing different approaches to interpreting and realizing a theatrical text for the stage.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• T 6:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• 3 points

Anthropocene & History

The Anthropocene is one of the key concepts of the 21st century. In recognizing the dramatic scale of the impact of human activity on the global environment, it subverts the distinction between human and natural history. The concept of the Anthropocene has attracted attention from a wide range of disciplines. Graduate students of any discipline are welcome to apply for enrollment in this course. Please note, however, that this course addresses the theme from a historical point of view, specifically that of modern history.

• Department: History
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Adam Tooze
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Colloquium on Early Modern Art History

EARLY MODERN ART HIST COL

Colloquium on Early Modern Art History. Open to graduate students in the Department of Art History and Archaeology. Application required; see department website.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: David A Freedberg
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Crime, Journalism, and Public Policy

Crime, Journalism & Public Pol

Crime narratives have dominated news coverage from the beginning of mass communication. This course examines the prominence and impact of these crime narratives on citizens and public policy. We will explore how reports of crime have been harnessed to advance political, governmental and ideological objectives for centuries. We will study the power of mass communication and the impact that crime events can have on public policy and crime legislation. We will examine what responsibilities (if any) media organizations, individual journalists, media consumers, legislators, government officials should assume when producing, consuming and otherwise engaging highly publicized crime events. The objective of the course is to provide historical and theoretical background (criminological, journalistic, political and legal) to critically analyze the dynamic interaction among criminal events, the media, and policymakers.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Cory T Way
  Info
• 1.5 points

The Italian Renaissance Literature of Ar

ITALIAN REN LITERATURE OF

Renaissance Italians wrote prolifically about the visual arts: contracts detailing commissions, treatises codifying good practice, manuals describing techniques, biographies of artists, descriptions of real and imagined painters, letters reporting on things seen, poems attacking new public works, dialogues debating different aesthetic perspectives, religious tracts on the proper use of religious imagery, guidebooks to cities. This seminar will survey the Renaissance texts that are sometimes grouped under the heading “art theory,” looking at the major genres and themes and examining the approaches that key scholars have taken in writing about them. Regular course meetings will take place online, but conditions permitting, the group will convene in person for three visits to the Metropolitan Museum over the course of the semester. Students will be asked to do a lead at least one class discussion, and to write a research paper, on a topic developed in consultation with the instructor.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Cole
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Writing For the Screen

• Department: Film
• M 9 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Michael Sardo
  Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED PLAY DIRECTING SEMINAR

ADV. PLAY DIRECTING SEMIN

This class will focus in on how to direct opera and will cover the process of making an opera from analysing the score until the opening night. The aims are to: 1) Introduce theatre directing students to the practical differences between theatre and opera directing; 2) Equip them with practical skills and knowledge so that they could walk into any opera rehearsal room (either as an assistant or a director) and know exactly what to expect and how to manage the process; 3) Offer them techniques to strengthen their skill of interpretation or concept by guiding them to focus in on one specific opera case study; and 4) Introduce them to specialist professional practitioners, like conductors, singers and set designers, to allow them to understand the art form through the lens of the collaborators the opera director works with.

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