PROF DEVELOPMENT&LEADERSHIP

PDL FOR CHEMICAL ENG

The Professional Development and Leadership course aims to enhance and expand Columbia Engineering graduate students’ interpersonal, professional and leadership skills, through six modules, including: (1) professional portfolio; (2) communication skills; (3) business etiquette and networking; (4) leadership, followership and teamwork; (5) life management; and (6) ethics and integrity. Students in the course will build upon and enhance their interpersonal and intrapersonal skills to further distinguishing themselves in the classroom and in their careers. This course is offered at the Pass/D/Fail grading option.

• Department: Engineering
• 0 points

PROF DEVELOPMENT&LEADERSHIP

PDL FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE

The Professional Development and Leadership course aims to enhance and expand Columbia Engineering graduate students’ interpersonal, professional and leadership skills, through six modules, including: (1) professional portfolio; (2) communication skills; (3) business etiquette and networking; (4) leadership, followership and teamwork; (5) life management; and (6) ethics and integrity. Students in the course will build upon and enhance their interpersonal and intrapersonal skills to further distinguishing themselves in the classroom and in their careers. This course is offered at the Pass/D/Fail grading option.

• Department: Engineering
• 0 points

PROF DEVELOPMENT&LEADERSHIP

PDL FOR DATA SCIENCE

The Professional Development and Leadership course aims to enhance and expand Columbia Engineering graduate students’ interpersonal, professional and leadership skills, through six modules, including: (1) professional portfolio; (2) communication skills; (3) business etiquette and networking; (4) leadership, followership and teamwork; (5) life management; and (6) ethics and integrity. Students in the course will build upon and enhance their interpersonal and intrapersonal skills to further distinguishing themselves in the classroom and in their careers. This course is offered at the Pass/D/Fail grading option.

• Department: Engineering
• 0 points

PROF DEVELOPMENT&LEADERSHIP

PDL FOR EARTH&ENV ENG

The Professional Development and Leadership course aims to enhance and expand Columbia Engineering graduate students’ interpersonal, professional and leadership skills, through six modules, including: (1) professional portfolio; (2) communication skills; (3) business etiquette and networking; (4) leadership, followership and teamwork; (5) life management; and (6) ethics and integrity. Students in the course will build upon and enhance their interpersonal and intrapersonal skills to further distinguishing themselves in the classroom and in their careers. This course is offered at the Pass/D/Fail grading option.

• Department: Engineering
• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• 0 points

PROF DEVELOPMENT&LEADERSHIP

PDL FOR COMPUTER ENG

The Professional Development and Leadership course aims to enhance and expand Columbia Engineering graduate students’ interpersonal, professional and leadership skills, through six modules, including: (1) professional portfolio; (2) communication skills; (3) business etiquette and networking; (4) leadership, followership and teamwork; (5) life management; and (6) ethics and integrity. Students in the course will build upon and enhance their interpersonal and intrapersonal skills to further distinguishing themselves in the classroom and in their careers. This course is offered at the Pass/D/Fail grading option.

• Department: Engineering
• 0 points

PROF DEVELOPMENT&LEADERSHIP

PDL FOR ELECTRICAL ENG

The Professional Development and Leadership course aims to enhance and expand Columbia Engineering graduate students’ interpersonal, professional and leadership skills, through six modules, including: (1) professional portfolio; (2) communication skills; (3) business etiquette and networking; (4) leadership, followership and teamwork; (5) life management; and (6) ethics and integrity. Students in the course will build upon and enhance their interpersonal and intrapersonal skills to further distinguishing themselves in the classroom and in their careers. This course is offered at the Pass/D/Fail grading option.

• Department: Engineering
• 0 points

PROF DEVELOPMENT&LEADERSHIP

PDL FOR BUSINESS ANALYTICS

The Professional Development and Leadership course aims to enhance and expand Columbia Engineering graduate students’ interpersonal, professional and leadership skills, through six modules, including: (1) professional portfolio; (2) communication skills; (3) business etiquette and networking; (4) leadership, followership and teamwork; (5) life management; and (6) ethics and integrity. Students in the course will build upon and enhance their interpersonal and intrapersonal skills to further distinguishing themselves in the classroom and in their careers. This course is offered at the Pass/D/Fail grading option.

• Department: Engineering
• 0 points

PROF DEVELOPMENT&LEADERSHIP

PDL FOR FINANCIAL ENG

The Professional Development and Leadership course aims to enhance and expand Columbia Engineering graduate students’ interpersonal, professional and leadership skills, through six modules, including: (1) professional portfolio; (2) communication skills; (3) business etiquette and networking; (4) leadership, followership and teamwork; (5) life management; and (6) ethics and integrity. Students in the course will build upon and enhance their interpersonal and intrapersonal skills to further distinguishing themselves in the classroom and in their careers. This course is offered at the Pass/D/Fail grading option.

• Department: Engineering
• 0 points

PROF DEVELOPMENT&LEADERSHIP

PDL FOR MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

The Professional Development and Leadership course aims to enhance and expand Columbia Engineering graduate students’ interpersonal, professional and leadership skills, through six modules, including: (1) professional portfolio; (2) communication skills; (3) business etiquette and networking; (4) leadership, followership and teamwork; (5) life management; and (6) ethics and integrity. Students in the course will build upon and enhance their interpersonal and intrapersonal skills to further distinguishing themselves in the classroom and in their careers. This course is offered at the Pass/D/Fail grading option.

• Department: Engineering
• 0 points

PROF DEVELOPMENT&LEADERSHIP

PDL FOR IEOR

The Professional Development and Leadership course aims to enhance and expand Columbia Engineering graduate students’ interpersonal, professional and leadership skills, through six modules, including: (1) professional portfolio; (2) communication skills; (3) business etiquette and networking; (4) leadership, followership and teamwork; (5) life management; and (6) ethics and integrity. Students in the course will build upon and enhance their interpersonal and intrapersonal skills to further distinguishing themselves in the classroom and in their careers. This course is offered at the Pass/D/Fail grading option.

• Department: Engineering
• 0 points

PROF DEVELOPMENT&LEADERSHIP

PDL FOR MECHANICAL ENG

The Professional Development and Leadership course aims to enhance and expand Columbia Engineering graduate students’ interpersonal, professional and leadership skills, through six modules, including: (1) professional portfolio; (2) communication skills; (3) business etiquette and networking; (4) leadership, followership and teamwork; (5) life management; and (6) ethics and integrity. Students in the course will build upon and enhance their interpersonal and intrapersonal skills to further distinguishing themselves in the classroom and in their careers. This course is offered at the Pass/D/Fail grading option.

• Department: Engineering
• 0 points

FILM AND MEDIA THEORY

This course offers a historical and critical overview of film and media theory from its origins up to the present.

• Department: Film
• M 2 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Nico Baumbach
  Info
• 3 points

THE ANCIENT EMPIRES

The principal goal of this course is to examine the nature and histories of a range of early empires in a comparative context. In the process, we will examine influential theories that have been proposed to account for the emergence and trajectories of those empires. Among the theories are the core-periphery, world-systems, territorial-hegemonic, tributary-capitalist, network, and IEMP approaches. Five regions of the world have been chosen, from the many that could provide candidates: Rome (the classic empire), New Kingdom Egypt, Qin China, Aztec Mesoamerica, and Inka South America. These empires have been chosen because they represent a cross-section of polities ranging from relatively simple and early expansionist societies to the grand empires of the Classical World, and the most powerful states of the indigenous Americas. There are no prerequisites for this course, although students who have no background in Anthropology, Archaeology, History, or Classics may find the course material somewhat more challenging than students with some knowledge of the study of early societies. There will be two lectures per week, given by the professor.

• Department: Anthropology
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Terence N D'Altroy
  CULPA: 37 Info
• 3 points

PRINCIPLES OF APPLIED MATH

Prerequisites: Introductory Linear Algebra required. Ordinary Differential Equations recommended. Review of finite-dimensional vector spaces and elementary matrix theory. Linear transformations, change of basis, eigenspaces. Matrix representation of linear operators and diagonalization. Applications to difference equations, Markov processes, ordinary differential equations, and stability of nonlinear dynamical systems. Inner product spaces, projection operators, orthogonal bases, Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization. Least squares method, pseudo-inverses, singular value decomposition. Adjoint operators, Hermitian and unitary operators, Fredholm Alternative Theorem. Fourier series and eigenfunction expansions. Introduction to the theory of distributions and the Fourier Integral Transform. Greens functions. Application to Partial Differential Equations.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Lu Zhang
  Info
• 3 points

CORE STUDIO SEMESTER I

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Ana Puigjaner Barbera
  Info
• 9 points

INTRO-COMP APPL-HLTH CRE/BIOMD

Overview of the field of biomedical informatics,combining perspectives from medicine, computer science, and social science. Use of computers and information in health care and the biomedical sciences, covering specific applications and general methods, current issues, capabilities and limitations of biomedical informatics.

• Department: Biomedical Informatics
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicholas Tatonetti
  Wikipedia h-index: 36 Info
• 3 points

QUANTITATIVE PHYSIOLOGY I

Prerequisites: (BIOL UN2005) and (BIOL UN2006) Corequisites: BMEN E3010,BMEN E3810 Physiological systems at the cellular and molecular level are examined in a highly quantitative context. Topics include chemical kinetics, molecular binding and enzymatic processes, molecular motors, biological membranes, and muscles.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Lance Kam
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 38 Info
• 3 points

ESSENTIALS OF CHEM ENGIN A

Prerequisites: First-year chemistry and physics, vector calculus, ordinary differential equations, and the instructors permission. Part of an accelerated consideration of the essential chemical engineering principles from the undergraduate program, including selected topics from Introduction to Chemical Engineering, Transport Phenomena I and II, and Chemical Engineering Control. While required for all M.S. students with Scientist to Engineer status, the credits from this course may not be applied toward any chemical engineering degree.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 1:10 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• 3 points

INDUST ECOLOGY-EARTH RESOURCES

Industrial ecology examines how to reconfigure industrial activities so as to minimize the adverse environmental and material resource effects on the planet. Engineering applications of methodology of industrial ecology in the analysis of current processes and products and the selection or design of environmentally superior alternatives. Home assignments of illustrative quantitative problems.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Athanasios Bourtsalas
  Info
• 3 points

FILM & MEDIA THEORY-DISC

Co-requisite undergraduate discussion section for FILM GU 4000 Film & Media Theory.

• Department: Film
• T 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• T 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Justin A Goncalves
  Info
• Instructor: Carlos E Gutierrez Aza
  Info
• Instructor: Madeleine H Collier
  Info
• Instructor: Lauren J Goetzman
  Info
• 0 points

DATA JOURNALISM

DATA & DATABASES

• Department: Journalism
• TR 9 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Jonathan S Thirkield
  Info
• 3 points

DATA JOURNALISM

BASIC COMPUTING

• Department: Journalism
• W 8 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Soma
  Info
• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO PROBABILITY AND STATISTI

INTRODUCTION TO PROB & ST

Prerequisites: Calculus through multiple integration and infinite sums. A calculus-based tour of the fundamentals of probability theory and statistical inference. Probability models, random variables, useful distributions, conditioning, expectations, law of large numbers, central limit theorem, point and confidence interval estimation, hypothesis tests, linear regression. This course replaces SIEO 4150.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Larry Wright
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 3 points

ESSENTIALS OF CHEM ENGIN B

Prerequisites: First-year chemistry and physics, vector calculus, ordinary differential equations, and the instructors permission. Part of an accelerated consideration of the essential chemical engineering principles from the undergraduate program, including topics from Reaction Kinetics and Reactor Design, Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics, I and II, and Chemical and Biochemical Separations. While required for all M.S. students with Scientist to Engineer status, the credits from this course may not be applied toward any chemical engineering degree.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• TR 1:10 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• 3 points

CORE STUDIO SEMESTER III

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Hilary M Sample-Meredith
  Info
• 9 points

METHODS III: SYMBOLIC METHODS

METHODS II:SYMBOLIC METHODS

• Department: Biomedical Informatics
• TR 9 a.m.-10:15 a.m.
• Instructor: Chunhua Weng
  h-index: 37 Info
• 3 points

AQUATIC CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: (CHEE E3010) Principles of physical chemistry applied to equilibria and kinetics of aqueous solutions in contact with minerals and anthropogenic residues. The scientific background for addressing problems of aqueous pollution, water treatment, and sustainable production of materials with minimum environmental impact. Hydrolysis, oxidation-reduction, complex formation, dissolution and precipitation, predominance diagrams; examples of natural water systems, processes for water treatment and for the production of inorganic materials from minerals.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Yin Yip Ngai
  h-index: 26 Info
• 3 points

CORPORATE FINANCE FOR ENGINEERS

This course is required for all undergraduate students majoring in IEOR. Introduction to the economic evaluation of industrial projects. Economic equivalence and criteria. Deterministic approaches to economic analysis. Multiple projects and constraints. Analysis and choice under risk and uncertainty.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• R 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Maya Waisman
  Info
• 3 points

NEUROBIO I:CELLULAR & MOLECULR

Prerequisites: one year of biology; a course in physics is highly recommended. Lecture and recitation. This is an advanced course intended for majors providing an in depth survey of the cellular and molecular aspects of nerve cell function. Topics include the cell biology and biochemistry of neurons, ionic and molecular basis of electrical signals, synaptic transmission and its modulation, function of sensory receptors. Although not required, it is intended to be followed by Neurobiology II (see below). The recitation meets once per week in smaller groups and emphasizes readings from the primary literature.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Stuart J Firestein
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 50 Info
• 4 points

OPTIMIZATION MODELS AND METHODS

This is required for students in the Undergraduate Advanced Track. For students who have not studied linear programming. Some of the main methods used in IEOR applications involving deterministic models: linear programming, the simplex method, nonlinear, integer and dynamic programming.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 11:40 a.m.-2:10 p.m.
• MW 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• MW 11:40 a.m.-2:10 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Cedric Josz
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 13 Info
• Instructor: Mingliu Chen
  h-index: 3 Info
• Instructor: Garud Iyengar
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 30 Info
• Instructor: Mingliu Chen
  h-index: 3 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED STUDIO V

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
• 9 points

RAPID READ&TRANSLATION IN ITAL

For graduate students and others who need to develop their reading knowledge of Italian. Open to undergraduate students as well, who want a compact survey/review of Italian structures and an approach to translation. Grammar, syntax, and vocabulary review; practice in reading and translating Italian texts of increasing complexity from a variety of fields, depending on the needs of the students. No previous knowledge of Italian is required. Note: this course may not be used to satisfy the language requirement or to fulfill major or concentration requirements.

• Department: Italian
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria Luisa Gozzi
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 3 points

Advanced Ukrainian Through Literature, M

ADV UKRN THRU MED LIT POL

This course is organized around a number of thematic centers or modules. Each is focused on stylistic peculiarities typical of a given functional style of the Ukrainian language. Each is designed to assist the student in acquiring an active command of lexical, grammatical, discourse, and stylistic traits that distinguish one style from the others and actively using them in real-life communicative settings in contemporary Ukraine. The styles include literary fiction, scholarly prose, and journalism, both printed and broadcast.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Yuri Shevchuk
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

PROGRAMMING IN JAVA

• Department: School of Professional Studies (DVSP)
• WF 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Samuel Sultan
  Info
• 3 points

OPT MODELS & METHODS FOR FE

OPTIMIZATION MODELS & METHODS

Prerequisites: Linear algebra. This graduate course is only for MS Program in FE students. Linear, quadratic, nonlinear, dynamic, and stochastic programming. Some discrete optimization techniques will also be introduced. The theory underlying the various optimization methods is covered. The emphasis is on modeling and the choice of appropriate optimization methods. Applications from financial engineering are discussed.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• W 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Jay Sethuraman
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO CLASSICAL JAPANESE I

Prerequisites: JPNS C1202 or the equivalent. Introduction to the fundamentals of classical Japanese grammar. Trains students to read Japanese historical and literary texts from the early period up to the 20th century.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• R 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Haruo Shirane
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE

Prerequisites: advanced calculus and general physics, or the instructors permission. Basic physical processes controlling atmospheric structure: thermodynamics; radiation physics and radiative transfer; principles of atmospheric dynamics; cloud processes; applications to Earths atmospheric general circulation, climatic variations, and the atmospheres of the other planets.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Lorenzo M Polvani
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 69 Info
• 3 points

HISTORY & THEORY OF PLANNING

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M noon-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Hiba Bou Akar
  h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

SELECTNS FROM GREEK LIT

Prerequisites: GREK V1201 and V1202, or their equivalent. Since the content of the course changes from year to year, it may be taken in consecutive years.

• Department: Classics @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Helene P Foley
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

LATIN LIT PROSE SELECTIONS

Prerequisites: LATN V3012 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.

• Department: Classics @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Caleb P Simone
  Info
• 3 points

INTRODUCTN TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE

Prerequisites: (MATH UN1202) and (MATH UN2030) and (PHYS UN1403) or or equivalents. This introductory course is for individuals with an interest in medical physics and other branches of radiation science. Topics covered include: basic concepts, nuclear models, semi-empirical mass formula, interaction of radiation with matter, nuclear detectors, nuclear structure and instability, radioactive decay process and radiation, particle accelerators, and fission and fusion processes and technologies.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• T 6:30 p.m.-9 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Stephen L Ostrow
  Info
• 3 points

MATH METHODS IN CHEMICAL ENGIN

Prerequisites: (CHEN E3120) and (CHEN E4230) or equivalent, or instructors permission. Mathematical description of chemical engineering problems and the application of selected methods for their solution. General modeling principles, including model hierarchies. Linear and nonlinear ordinary differential equations and their systems, including those with variable coefficients. Partial differential equations in Cartesian and curvilinear coordinates for the solution of chemical engineering problems.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert G Bozic
  Info
• 3 points

MATH METHODS IN CHEMICAL ENGIN

Prerequisites: (CHEN E3120) and (CHEN E4230) or equivalent, or instructors permission. Mathematical description of chemical engineering problems and the application of selected methods for their solution. General modeling principles, including model hierarchies. Linear and nonlinear ordinary differential equations and their systems, including those with variable coefficients. Partial differential equations in Cartesian and curvilinear coordinates for the solution of chemical engineering problems.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Robert G Bozic
  Info
• 3 points

RESP COND OF RES/REL PLCY ISSU

Explores a variety of ethical and political issues that arise during the conduct of basic and clinical scientific research. Course sessions include lectures, discussion periods, and analyses of case studies.

• Department: Cellular, Molecular, and Biophysical Studies
• W 1 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Patrice Spitalnik
  Info
• 1 points

MGMT OF HEALTH INFORMATION TECH

• Department: Biomedical Informatics
• F 1 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Virginia G Lorenzi
  Info
• 3 points

ORAL HISTORY WORKSHOP

This year-long course introduces students to important conversations within and about oral history through a series of curated public lectures. We will meet for six events a semester, plus one session to orient you to the class. From 5:00 – 6:00, students will meet with the speaker for an informal conversation about their career path and research process. The public portion of the event will be from 6:10 to 7:30 PM. You should plan to be in class until 8 in case an event runs slightly over, and so that you can stick around after the event to chat with the speaker or have a glass of wine.

• Department: Oral History
• R 5 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Carlin L Zia
  Info
• 1 points

Excel Fundamentals

This introductory course surveys fundamental Microsoft Excel concepts and functionality applicable to SIPA courses and in professional settings. Topics include understanding references and functions, writing formulas, interacting with spreadsheets, building basic models, controlling formatting and presentation and creating basic charts. The course is targeted at students with limited or no prior Excel experience. The course is open to SIPA students only. Note: A laptop is required for this course

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• SU 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Kenyon S Saverance
  Info
• 0 points

Excel Fundamentals

This introductory course surveys fundamental Microsoft Excel concepts and functionality applicable to SIPA courses and in professional settings. Topics include understanding references and functions, writing formulas, interacting with spreadsheets, building basic models, controlling formatting and presentation and creating basic charts. The course is targeted at students with limited or no prior Excel experience. The course is open to SIPA students only. Note: A laptop is required for this course

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• SU 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Kenyon S Saverance
  Info
• 0 points

LANGUAGE CROSSING IN LATIN CARRIBEAN CUL

Prerequisites: Intermediate reading knowledge of Spanish This course considers how language has traditionally shaped constructs of national identity in the Caribbean vis-à-vis the US. By focusing on language ‘crossings’ in Latinx Caribbean cultural production, we critically explore how various sorts of texts–narrative, drama, performance, poetry, animated TV series, and songs–contest conventional notions of mainstream American, US Latinx, and Caribbean discourses of politics and identities. Taking 20th-century social and historical context into account, we will analyze those contemporary styles and uses of language that challenge monolingual and monolithic visions of national and ethnolinguistic identities, examining societal attitudes, cultural imaginaries, and popular assumptions about the Spanish language in the Greater Caribbean and the US.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Francisca Aguilo Mora
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

ACCULTURATN TO MED & CLIN INFO

Overview of the field of medicine for informaticians. Medical language and terminology, introduction to pathology and pathophysiology, the process of medical decision making, and an understanding of how information flows in the practice of medicine.

• Department: Biomedical Informatics
• M 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Sivan Kinberg
  Info
• 3 points

INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS OPTIMIZATION

Prerequisites: Basic linear algebra. Basic probability and statistics. Engineering economics concepts. Basic spreadsheet analysis and programming skills. Subject to instructor's permission. Infrastructure design and systems concepts, analysis and design under competing/conflicting objectives, transportation network models, traffic assignments, optimization and the simplex algorithm.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• F 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Xuan Di
  h-index: 15 Info
• 3 points

DOSTOEVSKY,TOLSTOY & ENG NOVEL

A close reading of works by Dostoevsky (Netochka Nezvanova; The Idiot; A Gentle Creature) and Tolstoy (Childhood, Boyhood, Youth; Family Happiness; Anna Karenina; The Kreutzer Sonata) in conjunction with related English novels (Bronte's Jane Eyre, Eliot's Middlemarch, Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway). No knowledge of Russian is required.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Liza Knapp
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 3 points

Advanced Techniques in Excel

Prerequisites: SIPA U4010 or equivalent experience This course explores skills needed for sophisticated spreadsheet development and problem solving in Microsoft Excel. Topics include implementing advanced logic using complex formulas, managing complexity with Excel's auditing features, leveraging lookup functions leveraging and calculated references, parsing and cleaning raw data, refining data structure, and constructing and leveraging PivotTables. The course does not focus on specific models or applications, but instead explores general concepts and techniques that can be flexibly applied to different solutions in Excel. The course is open to SIPA students only. Instructor approval is required: students will be waitlisted in SSOL and contacted by the instructor. Part of the Excel at SIPA course series. Deadline to drop this course is one week prior to the start date of the course. A notation of "W" will be assigned if requests to drop are not made by this deadline.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Kenyon S Saverance
  Info
• 0 points

BUSINESS CHINESE I

The Business Chinese I course is designed to prepare students to use Chinese in a present or future work situation. Students will develop skills in the practical principles of grammar, vocabulary, and cross-cultural understanding needed in today’s business world.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MTWR 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Zhong Qi Shi
  Info
• 4 points

Fourth Year Business Japanese I

FOURTH YR BUSINESS JPNS I

Prerequisites: Third Year Level Japanese I and II, or equivalent. This course is designed for intermediate students to acquire advanced Japanese proficiency in all four skills: speaking, listening, writing, and reading with the focus on using Japanese in business settings. The main objective of this course is to foster not only students' practical communication skills in business Japanese but also to develop their ability to carry out business activities in a global society (a society of multiple languages and cultures) by incorporating interdisciplinary subjects.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MWF 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Kyoko M Loetscher
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

Best Practices for Financial Modeling in

Financial Modeling in Excel

This intensive one-day workshop develops financial modeling skills through the hands-on construction of an interactive financial model. Using a real company as a case study, the lectures will direct participants to blend accounting, corporate finance and Excel skills to create a dynamic, three-statement financial model. The completed product has five years of projections, three years of historical data and supporting schedules including working capital, debt, equity, depreciation and amortization. Other advanced topics include understanding and controlling circularity errors, troubleshooting, sensitivity analysis and discounted cash flow valuations.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• S 10:15 a.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Kenyon S Saverance
  Info
• 0 points

MEDIA CHINESE

MEDIA CHINESE I

Prerequisites: at least 3 years of intensive Chinese language training at college level and the instructor's permission. This advanced course is designed to specifically train students' listening and speaking skills in both formal and colloquial language through various Chinese media sources. Students view and discuss excerpts of Chinese TV news broadcasts, soap operas, and movie segments on a regular basis. Close reading of newspaper and internet articles and blogs supplements the training of verbal skills.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MTWR 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• MTWR 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Yuan-Yuan Meng
  CULPA: 33 Info
• 4 points

FOURTH YEAR CHINESE I

Prerequisites: CHNS W4004 or the equivalent. Implements a wide range of reading materials to enhance the students speaking and writing as well as reading skills. Supplemented by television broadcast news, also provides students with strategies to increase their comprehension of formal style of modern Chinese. CC GS EN CE

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MTWR 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• MWR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jia Xu
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Ling Yan
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 4 points

ITALIAN FOOD/GLOBALIZED WORLD

This seminar examines the many meanings of food in Italian culture and tradition; how values and peculiarities are transmitted, preserved, reinvented and rethought through a lens that is internationally known as ;Made in Italy;; how the symbolic meanings and ideological interpretations are connected to creation, production, presentation, distribution, and consumption of food. Based on an anthropological perspective and framework, this interdisciplinary course will analyze ways in which we can understand the Italian taste through the intersections of many different levels: political, economic, aesthetic, symbolic, religious, etc. The course will study how food can help us understand the ways in which tradition and innovation, creativity and technology, localism and globalization, identity and diversity, power and body, are elaborated and interpreted in contemporary Italian society, in relation to the European context and a globalized world. Short videos that can be watched on the computer and alternative readings for those fluent in Italian will be assigned. In English.

• Department: Italian
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Barbara Faedda
  Info
• 3 points

ORAL HIST: METHOD & THEORY

• Department: Oral History
• T 10:10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Mary M Clark
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

ANCIENT EMPIRES-DISC

• Department: Anthropology
• 0 points

SKILLS/MGMT OF HLTH INFO TECHNOLOGY

• Department: Biomedical Informatics
• F 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Virginia G Lorenzi
  Info
• 3 points

FOURTH YEAR CHINESE ADV I

Prerequisites: CHNS W4006 or the equivalent. This is a non-consecutive reading course designed for those whose proficiency is above 4th level. See Admission to Language Courses. Selections from contemporary Chinese authors in both traditional and simplified characters with attention to expository, journalistic, and literary styles.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MWF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Chen Wu
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 22 Info
• 4 points

Ethnography and Representation in Tibet

ETHNOGRAPHY REPRESENT TIB

This course introduces contemporary Tibetan society through the lens of anthropology and how various representations have produced different understandings of Tibet within China and beyond.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Eveline Washul
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

FOURTH YEAR JAPANESE I

Prerequisites: JPNS W4006 or the equivalent. Sections 1 & 2: Readings of advanced modern literary, historical, political, and journalistic texts, and class discussions about current issues and videos. Exercises in scanning, comprehension, and English translation. Section 3: Designed for advanced students interested in developing skills for reading and comprehending modern Japanese scholarship.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MWF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Shigeru Eguchi
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 4 points

MATHEMATICL METHODS OF PHYSICS

• Department: Auditing
• Instructor: Andrei Beloborodov
  Info
• 0 points

TOPICS in MICROHISTORY

ITALIAN/HIST ITALIAN STORIES

In the 1970s and 1980s a group of young Italian historians transformed the methods of historical inquiry and narrative. This class explores the origins, the diffusion, as well as the debate around Italian Microhistory across Europe and the United States. In particular, we will focus on “cultural” and “social” Microhistory and its evolution in Italy, France, and the US. We will read masterpieces such as Carlo Ginzburg’s
The Cheese and the Worms
, as well as Nathalie Zemon Davis’s
The Return of Martin Guerrre.
Also, we will analyze the current application of microhistorical methods to contemporary global history and the genre of biography. Topics include pre-modern popular culture and literacy, minority and marginality, the Inquisition, individual and collective identities, and the relation between the pre-modern Mediterranean, Europe and the world.
In Italian.

• Department: Italian
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Pier Mattia Tommasino
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

MATHEMATICL METHODS OF PHYSICS

Prerequisites: PHYS UN3003 and PHYS UN3007 and differential and integral calculus; linear algebra; or the instructor's permission. This course will present a wide variety of mathematical ideas and techniques used in the study of physical systems. Topics will include: ordinary and partial differential equations; generalized functions; integral transforms; Green’s functions; nonlinear equations, chaos, and solitons; Hilbert space and linear operators; Feynman path integrals; Riemannian manifolds; tensor analysis; probability and statistics. There will also be a discussion of applications to classical mechanics, fluid dynamics, electromagnetism, plasma physics, quantum mechanics, and general relativity.

• Department: Physics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Andrei Beloborodov
  Info
• 3 points

COMP NEURO: CIRCUITS IN BRAIN

Prerequisites: (ELEN E3801) or (BIOL UN3004) The biophysics of computation: modeling biological neurons, the Hodgkin-Huxley neuron, modeling channel conductances and synapses as memristive systems, bursting neurons and central pattern generators, I/O equivalence and spiking neuron models. Information representation and neural encoding: stimulus representation with time encoding machines, the geometry of time encoding, encoding with neural circuits with feedback, population time encoding machines. Dendritic computation: elements of spike processing and neural computation, synaptic plasticity and learning algorithms, unsupervised learning and spike time-dependent plasticity, basic dendritic integration. Projects in MATLAB.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Aurel A Lazar
  h-index: 53 Info
• 3 points

ECON OF UNCERTAINTY & INFORMTN

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and STAT UN1201 Topics include behavior uncertainty, expected utility hypothesis, insurance, portfolio choice, principle agent problems, screening and signaling, and information theories of financial intermediation.

• Department: Economics
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Pierre-Andre Chiappori
  Wikipedia h-index: 64 Info
• 3 points

ORAL HIST:FIELDWORK/DOCUMENTN

• Department: Oral History
• W 10:10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Amy A Starecheski
  h-index: 5 Info
• 4 points

MA THESIS: REG STUDIES

• Department: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
• F 12:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Elise Giuliano
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 1 points

QUANTUM MECHANICS I

• Department: Auditing
• Instructor: William A Zajc
  CULPA: 16 Wikipedia Info
• 0 points

ELAS/PLAS ANALYSIS-STRUCTURES

Prerequisites: (CIEN E3121) or equivalent. Overview of classical indeterminate structural analysis methods (force and displacement methods), approximate methods of analysis, plastic analysis methods, collapse analysis, shakedown theorem, structural optimization.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Shiho Kawashima
  h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

QUANTUM MECHANICS I

Prerequisites: PHYS UN3003 and PHYS UN3007 Formulation of quantum mechanics in terms of state vectors and linear operators. Three dimensional spherically symmetric potentials. The theory of angular momentum and spin. Identical particles and the exclusion principle. Methods of approximation. Multi-electron atoms.

• Department: Physics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: William A Zajc
  CULPA: 16 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Prerequisites: BIOL C2005-C2006 or equivalent. Come discover how the union of egg and sperm triggers the complex cellular interactions that specify the diverse variety of cells present in multicellular organisms. Cellular and molecular aspects of sex determination, gametogenesis, genomic imprinting, X-chromosome inactivation, telomerase as the biological clock, stem cells, cloning, the pill and cell interactions will be explored, with an emphasis on humans. Original research articles will be discussed to further examine current research in developmental biology. SCE and TC students may register for this course, but they must first obtain the written permission of the instructor, by filling out a paper Registration Adjustment Form (Add/Drop form). The form can be downloaded at the URL below, but must be signed by the instructor and returned to the office of the registrar. http://registrar.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/reg-adjustment.pdf

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Alice Heicklen
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

VISUAL STUD I:ARCH DRWG REP I

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Joshua D Uhl
  Info
• 3 points

Travel Literature in and from the Medite

This course will study various forms of travel writing within, from, and to the Mediterranean in the long nineteenth century. Throughout the semester, you will read a number of travel accounts to develop your understanding of these particular sources and reflect on the theoretical discussions and the themes framing them, namely orientalism, postcolonial studies, imaginative geographies, literature between fiction and reality, Romantic and autobiographical writing, gender, sexuality and the body, the rise of archeology, adventurism, mass migration and tourism. We will focus on Italian travel writers visiting the Ottoman Empire and the Americas (Cristina di Belgioioso, Gaetano Osculati, Edmondo de Amicis) and others visiting the Italian peninsula (Grand Tourists, Madame De Staël), and we will study the real or imaginary travels of French, British and American writers to the Eastern Mediterranean and to antique and holy lands (Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, Count Marcellus, Austen Henry Layard, Lord Byron, Mark Twain), as well as Arabic travel writers to the West (Rifāʻah Rāfiʻ al-Ṭahṭāwī).

• Department: Italian
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Konstantia Zanou
  Info
• 3 points

THERMAL & STATISTICAL PHYSICS

Prerequisites: PHYS GU4021 or the equivalent. Thermodynamics, kinetic theory, and methods of statistical mechanics; energy and entropy; Boltzmann, Fermi, and Bose distributions; ideal and real gases; blackbody radiation; chemical equilibrium; phase transitions; ferromagnetism.

• Department: Physics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew Millis
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 99 Info
• 3 points

PRACTICUM IN FR LANG PEDAGOGY

Designed for new Teaching Fellows. An introduction to the conceptual and practical tools of French language pedagogy.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Pascale Hubert-Leibler
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 3 points

SOCIAL SCIENCE CONTRIBUTIONS

• Department: Oral History
• R 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: William McAllister
  Info
• 4 points

NEURAL CONTROL ENGINEERING

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Qi Wang
  h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

POSTWAR CZECH LITERATURE

A survey of postwar Czech fiction and drama. Knowledge of Czech not necessary. Parallel reading lists available in translation and in the original.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher W Harwood
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

SPANISH PRAGMATICS

In one sense, Pragmatics is concerned with how we use the language, why and how the speakers communicate in social interactions. The interpretation of meaning in context is probably the main field of study of this multidiscipline, considering the speaker-meaning as the central point of departure. The term Pragmatics refers to a broad perspective on different aspects of communication, including linguistics, but also cognitive psychology, cultural anthropology, philosophy, sociology and rhetoric among others. Through this course we will study chronologically and apply in specific cases of study of the Spanish language the most meaningful pragmatic theories, such as: Context, Deixis, Speech acts, Implicature, Cooperative Principle, Politeness, Relevance, Pragmatic markers, Metaphors and Cross-cultural pragmatics. Pragmatics, as we know, is a most helpful criterion in the interpretation of many different types of texts. As a course within our Departments curriculum this instrument of rhetoric analysis is a basic tool in the comprehension of our students discourse in their literary, cultural, and critical papers. This discipline goes beyond the analysis of strictly forms or verbal utterances, hence its multidisciplinary applicability to a wide range of fields of studies in Spanish. Whichever the students field of study might be, Pragmatics provides a valuable and accurate vocabulary that can be applied to any textual interpretation. In this course, the pragmatic perspective is a starting point to delve into the processes of communication in Spanish. After this first approach, the student will gain an insight into new aspects of the linguistics of language use in general and the use of Spanish in particular.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Francisco Rosales-Varo
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 4 points

CCCP ARCH COLLOQUIUM I

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Felicity Scott
  Info
• 3 points