LANGUAGES OF AFRICA

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: John H McWhorter
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

WRITING ARCHAEOLOGY

• Department: Anthropology
• WR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Zoe Crossland
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

Think Bigger

Innovative solutions to complex problems that are both novel and useful. Focuses on The Think Bigger Innovation Method, uses decision-making theory, cognitive science, and industry practice to facilitate creativity and innovation. Designed to foster new ideas during the beginning of the semester which will then function as the seeds for entrepreneurially minded. Culminates in a final project with presentation of formal and polished pitch of an innovative idea in front of a distinguished panel of successful minds from across the city.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• W 8:30 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
• Instructor: Sheena Iyengar
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SECURITY I

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Steven M Bellovin
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

HUMAN RIGHTS AND GLOBAL ECONOMIC JUSTICE

The world economy is a patchwork of competing and complementary interests among and between governments, corporations, and civil society. These stakeholders at times cooperate and also conflict over issues of global poverty, inequality, and sustainability. What role do human rights play in coordinating the different interests that drive global economic governance? This seminar will introduce students to different structures of global governance for development, trade, labor, finance, the environment, migration, and intellectual property and investigate their relationship with human rights. Students will learn about public, private, and mixed forms of governance, analyze the ethical and strategic perspectives of the various stakeholders and relate them to existing human rights norms. The course will examine the work of multilateral organizations such as the United Nations and the International Financial Institutions, as well as international corporate and non-governmental initiatives.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Rainer Braun
  Info
• 3 points

MALWARE ANALYSIS&REVERSE ENGINEERING

• Department: Computer Science
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael S Sikorski
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT

ECON OF SUSTAINABILITY MG

• Department: Auditing
• Instructor: Graciela Chichilnisky
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info
• 0 points

ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT

ECON OF SUSTAINABILITY MGMT

This course builds on core economics courses and addresses issues of environmental, resource and sustainable economics. It focuses on the interaction between markets and the environment; policy issues related to optimal extraction and pricing; property rights in industrial and developing countries and how they affect international trade in goods such as timber, wood pulp, and oil. An important goal of the class is to have students work in groups to apply economic concepts to current public policy issues having to do with urban environmental and earth systems. The use of the worlds water bodies and the atmosphere as economic inputs to production are also examined. The economics of renewable resources is described and sustainable economic development models are discussed and analyzed. Some time will also be devoted to international trade and regulation, and industrial organization issues. Students not only learn economic concepts, but they will also learn how to explain them to decision-makers. The instructor will tailor this course to the skill level of the students in order to most effectively suit the needs of the class.

• Department: Sustainability Management
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 3 points

MOD DISPLAY SCI & TECHNOLOGY

Prerequisites: Linear algebra, differential equations, and basic semiconductor physics. Introduction to modern display systems in an engineering context. The basis for visual perception, image representation, color space, metrics of illumination. Physics of luminescence, propagation and manipulation of light in anisotropic media, emissive displays, and spatial light modulators. Fundamentals of display addressing, the Alt-Pleshko theorem, multiple line addressing. Large area electronics, fabrication, and device integration of commercially important display types. A series of short laboratories will reinforce material from the lectures. Enrollment may be limited.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Ioannis Kymissis
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 48 Info
• 3 points

LITERATURE AND OIL

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer Wenzel
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 15 Info
• 3 points

MSIEOR Quantitative Bootcamp

Zero-credit course. Primer on quantitative and mathematical concepts. Required for all incoming MSOR and MSIE students.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• Instructor: Michael Miller
  CULPA: 18 h-index: 14 Info
• 0 points

PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

Prerequisites: Course in ordinary differential equations. Techniques of solution of partial differential equations. Separation of the variables. Orthogonality and characteristic functions, nonhomogeneous boundary value problems. Solutions in orthogonal curvilinear coordinate systems. Applications of Fourier integrals, Fourier and Laplace transforms. Problems from the fields of vibrations, heat conduction, electricity, fluid dynamics, and wave propagation are considered.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Qiang Du
  Wikipedia h-index: 67 Info
• 3 points

PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

Partial Differential Equation

Prerequisites: Course in ordinary differential equations. Techniques of solution of partial differential equations. Separation of the variables. Orthogonality and characteristic functions, nonhomogeneous boundary value problems. Solutions in orthogonal curvilinear coordinate systems. Applications of Fourier integrals, Fourier and Laplace transforms. Problems from the fields of vibrations, heat conduction, electricity, fluid dynamics, and wave propagation are considered.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Qiang Du
  Wikipedia h-index: 67 Info
• 3 points

BIOPHARMACEUTICAL DEV & REG

The program aims to provide current life sciences students with an understanding of what drives the regulatory strategies that surround the development decision making process, and how the regulatory professional may best contribute to the goals of product development and approval. To effect this, we will examine operational, strategic, and commercial aspects of the regulatory approval process for new drug, biologic, and biotechnology products both in the United States and worldwide. The topics are designed to provide a chronological review of the requirements needed to obtain marketing approval. Regulatory strategic, operational, and marketing considerations will be addressed throughout the course. We will examine and analyze the regulatory process as a product candidates are advanced from Research and Development, through pre-clinical and clinical testing, to marketing approval, product launch and the post-marketing phase. The goal of this course is to introduce and familiarize students with the terminology, timelines, and actual steps followed by Regulatory Affairs professionals employed in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry. Worked examples will be explored to illustrate complex topics and illustrate interpretation of regulations.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ron Guido
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

FREUD

Clinic, Culture, Cruelty: With these three terms one could indicate both the wide range of Freud’s work and the specific force it kept addressing without shying away from the theoretical and practical consequences that came with it. In
Civilization and its Discontent
Freud develops—in part openly, in part secretly—a peculiar, paradoxical and abyssal logic in order to formalize how culture (or civilization) is in a mortal battle with itself. Even more so, culture
is
this battle; and civilization
is
the result of a violence the sole aim and source of which is the destruction of civilization. The determining factors of this logic form the proper object of psychoanalysis which had developed out of clinical concerns; and what occurs here as “violence,” or “destruction,” as it does in several texts whose themes are cultural, historical, or sociological, is given multiple other names in all of Freud’s work or is linked to such names: the unconscious, the drive, libido, Eros, Thanatos, sexuality, narcissism, masochism, even hysteria, obsession and psychosis. All these terms mark instances of the same logic in which what we call the “sexual” and “language” are entangled with a “cruelty” that is neither the opposite of pleasure nor can be derived from any supposedly natural ground. In this seminar, we will trace this logic as well as its material in its reiterations, displacements, and reinventions from Freud’s clinical writings, through his constructions and theories of the “psyche,” to his analyses and speculations in civilization and history. Freud’s text will be read closely, with the attention to details that he himself performed as a virtue and a method. No previous acquaintance with Freud or psychoanalysis is required—only a mind as open as possible to the surprises over what they have to offer today.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Marcus Coelen
  Info
• 3 points

Introduction to Sustainable Production o

Intro Sust Mineral Produc

Earth mineral and metal resources, the backbone of civilization, are critical to economic development and meeting the demands of a growing population. Their development today faces several big challenges: (i) declining value content in the available ore bodies and poor quality of the resources; (ii) increasing focus on safety and health risks, and environmental impacts; (iii) inefficient and high energy and water consumption; (iv) huge risks associated with waste generation and management. In view of many of these challenges, the U.S. Department of the Interior in 2018 identified 35
Critical Minerals
necessary to sustain current and future needs, demands, and economic growth in the U.S. It is well recognized in the resource development industry that the traditional processing paradigm is no longer sustainable and cannot address these serious challenges. There is now a major push in the industry to develop and implement technologies for sensible and sustainable use of earth resources. That overall goal is part of a “mines of the future” paradigm, which encompasses topics such as mine-to-metal integration, modular processing, digital optimization, machine learning and AI, sensors and chemometrics, benign process chemicals, and a host of other forward-looking concepts. A similar effort and outlook exist for urban mining and recycling. An introductory course, which bridges and integrates the foundational engineering principles and processes with the transformational innovations under development, is much needed today. This course introduces the engineering principles and unit operations involved in: (i) the sustainable processing of both primary and secondary earth mineral and metal resources; (ii) waste and pollution management; (iii) water and energy efficiency and management; (iv) minimizing safety and health risks; (v) environmental impact assessment and control; and (vi) economic efficiency. Emphasis will be placed on concepts and practical applications that are part of the ‘mines of the future’ framework in order to highlight the transformational technological changes already begun in the industry and those under development. The course is designed to equip future engineers with an understanding of fundamental engineering concepts, a deep understanding and appreciation of practical complex systems, and the skills necessary to facilitate application of this knowledge to develop robust and sustainable processes for the production of mineral and metal resources.  The course

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• 3 points

HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN AND INNOVATION

HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN & I

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Harry West
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 1 Info
• 3 points

MATHEMATICS AND THE HUMANITIES

This course is being taught by two senior faculty members who are theorists and practitioners in disciplines as different as mathematics and literary criticism. The instructors believe that in today's world, the different ways in which theoretical mathematics and literary criticism mold the imaginations of students and scholars, should be brought together, so that the robust ethical imagination that is needed to combat the disintegration of our world can be produced. Except for the length of novels, the reading is no more than 100 pages a week. Our general approach is to keep alive the disciplinary differences between literary/philosophical (humanities) reading and mathematical writing.  Some preliminary questions we have considered are: the survival skills of the logicist school over against the Foundational Crisis of the early 20th century; by way of Wittgenstein and others, we ask, Are mathematical objects real? Or are they linguistic conventions? We will consider the literary/philosophical use of mathematics, often by imaginative analogy; and the role of the digital imagination in the humanities: Can so-called creative work as well as mathematics be written by machines? Guest faculty from other departments will teach with us to help students and instructors understand various topics.  We will close with how a novel animates “science” in prose, stepping out of the silo of disciplinary mathematics to the arena where mathematics is considered a code-name for science: Christine Brooke-Rose’s novel
Subscript
.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 4 points

THEORY CRYSTALLIN MAT: PHONONS

THEORY OF CRYSTALLINE MATERIAL

Prerequisites: (MSAE E4100) or instructors permission. Theoretical understanding of vibrational behavior of crystalline materials; introducing all key concepts at classical level before quantizing the Hamiltonian. Basic notions of Group Theory introduced and exploited: irreducible representations, Great Orthogonality Theorem, character tables, degeneration, product groups, section rules, etc. Both translational and point symmetry employed to block diagonalize the Hamiltonian and compute observables related to vibrations/phonons. Topics include band structures, density of states, band gap formation, nonlinear (anharmonic) phenomena, elasticity, thermal conductivity, heat capacity, optical properties, ferroelectricity. Illustrated using both minimal model Hamiltonians in addition to accurate Hamiltonians for real materials (e.g. Graphene).

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Chris A Marianetti
  Info
• 3 points

THEORY CRYSTALLIN MAT: PHONONS

THEORY CRYSTAL MAT: PHONONS

Prerequisites: (MSAE E4100) or instructors permission. Theoretical understanding of vibrational behavior of crystalline materials; introducing all key concepts at classical level before quantizing the Hamiltonian. Basic notions of Group Theory introduced and exploited: irreducible representations, Great Orthogonality Theorem, character tables, degeneration, product groups, section rules, etc. Both translational and point symmetry employed to block diagonalize the Hamiltonian and compute observables related to vibrations/phonons. Topics include band structures, density of states, band gap formation, nonlinear (anharmonic) phenomena, elasticity, thermal conductivity, heat capacity, optical properties, ferroelectricity. Illustrated using both minimal model Hamiltonians in addition to accurate Hamiltonians for real materials (e.g. Graphene).

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Chris A Marianetti
  Info
• 3 points

Environment, Health, and Justice: Concep

ENVIRONMENT HEALTH JUSTIC

Please note: this class was designed as part of the Special Concentration in Public Health. It is open to undergraduates, as well as students in Public Health, and will be taught on the Morningside campus. This course introduces key concepts on environmental health sciences and environmental justice and their application to address environmental health disparities affecting communities in New York City, across the United States and globally. The course will present theory and methods needed to characterize, understand and intervene on environmental health problems with a focus on methods that are particularly appropriate for environmental justice research and interventions. We will describe environmental health disciplines such as exposure sciences, environmental epidemiology, environmental biosciences and toxicology, as well as methods to assess expected environmental health impacts

• Department: Public Health
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Ana Navas Acien
  h-index: 73 Info
• 3 points

ENGIN APPL OF ELECTROCHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: Physical chemistry and a course in transport phenomena. Engineering analysis of electrochemical systems, including electrode kinetics, transport phenomena, mathematical modeling, and thermodynamics. Common experimental methods are discussed. Examples from common applications in energy conversion and metallization are presented.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Alan West
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 48 Info
• 3 points

ECO, BEHAVIOR & CONSERVATION OF MAMMALS

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Scott Silver
  Info
• 3 points

Theories of Change in Human Development

Theories of Change-Human

What are the agents of developmental change in human childhood? How has the scientific community graduated from nature versus nurture, to nature
and
nurture? This course offers students an in-depth analysis of the fundamental theories in the study of cognitive and social development.

• Department: Psychology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Dima Amso
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 31 Info
• 4 points

PROBABILITY THEORY

Prerequisites: At least one semester, and preferably two, of calculus. An introductory course (STAT UN1201, preferably) is strongly recommended. A calculus-based introduction to probability theory. A quick review of multivariate calculus is provided. Topics covered include random variables, conditional probability, expectation, independence, Bayes’ rule, important distributions, joint distributions, moment generating functions, central limit theorem, laws of large numbers and Markov’s inequality.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Shaw-Hwa Lo
  CULPA: 14 Info
• Instructor: Cristian G Pasarica
  Info
• 3 points

PROBABILITY THEORY

Prerequisites: At least one semester, and preferably two, of calculus. An introductory course (STAT UN1201, preferably) is strongly recommended. A calculus-based introduction to probability theory. A quick review of multivariate calculus is provided. Topics covered include random variables, conditional probability, expectation, independence, Bayes’ rule, important distributions, joint distributions, moment generating functions, central limit theorem, laws of large numbers and Markov’s inequality.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Cristian G Pasarica
  Info
• 3 points

FUNCTNS OF A COMPLEX VARIABLE

Prerequisites: (MATH UN1202) or the equivalent. Complex numbers, functions of a complex variable, differentiation and integration in the complex plane. Analytic functions, Cauchy integral theorem and formula, Taylor and Laurent series, poles and residues, branch points, evaluation of contour integrals. Conformal mapping, Schwarz-Christoffel transformation. Applications to physical problems.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Kui Ren
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

STATISTICAL INFERENCE

Prerequisites: STAT GU4203. At least one semester of calculus is required; two or three semesters are strongly recommended. Calculus-based introduction to the theory of statistics. Useful distributions, law of large numbers and central limit theorem, point estimation, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals maximum likelihood, likelihood ratio tests, nonparametric procedures, theory of least squares and analysis of variance.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Irene Hueter
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 3 points

STATISTICAL INFERENCE

Prerequisites: STAT GU4203. At least one semester of calculus is required; two or three semesters are strongly recommended. Calculus-based introduction to the theory of statistics. Useful distributions, law of large numbers and central limit theorem, point estimation, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals maximum likelihood, likelihood ratio tests, nonparametric procedures, theory of least squares and analysis of variance.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Irene Hueter
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 3 points

LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS

Prerequisites: STAT GU4204 or the equivalent, and a course in linear algebra. Theory and practice of regression analysis. Simple and multiple regression, testing, estimation, prediction, and confidence procedures, modeling, regression diagnostics and plots, polynomial regression, colinearity and confounding, model selection, geometry of least squares. Extensive use of the computer to analyse data.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Gabriel Young
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Ronald Neath
  CULPA: 13 Info
• Instructor: Xiaofei Shi
  h-index: 4 Info
• Instructor: Haiyuan Wang
  Info
• 3 points

Intellectual Property for Engineers

Intellctl Prprty for Engi

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Orin Herskowitz
  Info
• 0 points

ELEC & MAGNETIC PROP OF SOLIDS

Prerequisites: (PHYS UN1401) and (PHYS UN1402) and (PHYS UN1403) or equivalent. A survey course on the electronic and magnetic properties of materials, oriented towards materials for solid state devices. Dielectric and magnetic properties, ferroelectrics and ferromagnets. Conductivity and superconductivity. Electronic band theory of solids: classification of metals, insulators, and semiconductors. Materials in devices: examples from semiconductor lasers, cellular telephones, integrated circuits, and magnetic storage devices. Topics from physics are introduced as necessary.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: William Bailey
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 3 points

ELEC & MAGNETIC PROP OF SOLIDS

Prerequisites: (PHYS UN1401) and (PHYS UN1402) and (PHYS UN1403) or equivalent. A survey course on the electronic and magnetic properties of materials, oriented towards materials for solid state devices. Dielectric and magnetic properties, ferroelectrics and ferromagnets. Conductivity and superconductivity. Electronic band theory of solids: classification of metals, insulators, and semiconductors. Materials in devices: examples from semiconductor lasers, cellular telephones, integrated circuits, and magnetic storage devices. Topics from physics are introduced as necessary.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: William Bailey
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 3 points

STAT COMP & INTRO DATA SCIENCE

Prerequisites: STAT GU4204 and GU4205 or the equivalent. Introduction to programming in the R statistical package: functions, objects, data structures, flow control, input and output, debugging, logical design, and abstraction. Writing code for numerical and graphical statistical analyses. Writing maintainable code and testing, stochastic simulations, paralleizing data analyses, and working with large data sets. Examples from data science will be used for demonstration.

• Department: Statistics
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Gabriel Young
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

HUMAN FACTORS: PERFORMANCE

Prerequisites: Refer to course syllabus. This course is required for undergraduate students majoring in IE. This course provides a survey of human performance engineering in the design of consumer products, user interfaces and work processes. The goal of the course is to provide the student with the ability to specify human performance variables affecting user performance, safety and satisfaction for a variety of products and task requirements. Topics include task analysis, information processing, anthropometry, control and display design, human computer interaction, usability testing, usability cost/ benefit analysis, forensics, motivation, group dynamics and personnel selection. Course requirements include a research paper and a (group) product redesign project. At the end of the course students will have a deeper understanding of the research and psychological principles underlying human performance capabilities and limitations. The hope is that this course will encourage students to become more of a user advocate in their future endeavors.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Leon S Gold
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

ELEMENTARY STOCHASTIC PROCESS

Prerequisites: STAT GU4203 and two, preferably three, semesters of calculus. Review of elements of probability theory. Poisson processes. Renewal theory. Walds equation. Introduction to discrete and continuous time Markov chains. Applications to queueing theory, inventory models, branching processes.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Anne Van Delft
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

PLANNING METHODS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• 3 points

PLANNING METHODS LAB

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 4 p.m.-6 p.m.
• M 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• 0 points

Religion, Politics and Culture in Contem

Reli in Cont Black Americ

This course examines the period commonly referred to as the "post-Civil Rights era"—that is, from the 1960s up through the current moment: a span of time also theorized through the related rhetorics of "postmodern," "postcolonial" and "post-Soul. We will explore the inter-workings of religion, politics and culture (as they converge and diverge) in contemporary black life. Attention will be given to formal religious traditions (i.e. Christianity, Islam, African-derived traditions), but also to a range of ideas about religion and/or spirituality are as they are revealed in the artistic expression, politics and activism, and popular culture and media. Taking analytical cues from critical race theory, questions of agency, power and difference will be fore-grounded, as witnessed in how religious discourses and practices negotiate such categories as race, class, gender and sexuality. Ultimately, bringing together developments within the inter-disciplinary fields of black studies and the study of religion, ultimately this class will examine the ways in which various ideas about “religion” shape and circulate across various forms of black political organizing and cultural expression in our current moment. This seminar is open undergraduates and graduate students. While there are no require pre-requisites, students are expected have some prior background in religious studies and/or African American Studies.

• Department: Religion
• MW 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Josef Sorett
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

THIRD YEAR ARABIC I

NOTE: There are 2 sections of Third Year Arabic I. Section 001 follows the standard curriculum building all 4 language skills, as described below. Section 002 follows a reading-intensive curriculum, with less emphasis on listening and writing while still conducted in Arabic, and is intended for those preparing for advanced research in modern or classical Arabic texts. Students in the regular third-year Arabic track improve reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills through close reading, compositions, class discussions, and presentations in Arabic on topics such as cultures of the Arab world, classical and modern Arabic literature, and contemporary Arabic media. Review of grammatical and syntactic rules as needed. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MTWR 11:40 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Reem Faraj
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 5 points

MILTON IN CONTEXT

This course will look at the major works of the poet and revolutionary John Milton in the context of seventeenth-century English (and European) religious, political, and cultural events. In addition to reading Milton’s shorter poems, major prose (including 
Areopagitica
), and the full text of 
Paradise Lost, 
we will look at the authors and radicals whose activities and writings helped to provide the contexts for Milton’s own: poets and polemicists, natural scientists and utopians, sectarians and prophets, revolutionaries and regicides. The course has one required textbook: 
The Complete Poetry and Major Prose of John Milton
, eds. Kerrigan et al.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Julie Crawford
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 3 points

ENERGY SOURCES AND CONVERSION

Prerequisites: (MECE E3301) MECE E3301. Energy sources such as oil, gas, coal, gas hydrates, hydrogen, solar, and wind. Energy conversion systems for electrical power generation, automobiles, propulsion and refrigeration. Engines, steam and gas turbines, wind turbines; devices such as fuel cells, thermoelectric converters, and photovoltaic cells. Specialized topics may include carbon-dioxide sequestration, cogeneration, hybrid vehicles and energy storage devices.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Vijay Modi
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 40 Info
• 3 points

ENERGY SOURCES AND CONVERSION

Energy Sources and Conversion

Prerequisites: (MECE E3301) MECE E3301. Energy sources such as oil, gas, coal, gas hydrates, hydrogen, solar, and wind. Energy conversion systems for electrical power generation, automobiles, propulsion and refrigeration. Engines, steam and gas turbines, wind turbines; devices such as fuel cells, thermoelectric converters, and photovoltaic cells. Specialized topics may include carbon-dioxide sequestration, cogeneration, hybrid vehicles and energy storage devices.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Vijay Modi
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 40 Info
• 3 points

Data Analytics for OR

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Hardeep Johar
  Info
• 3 points

MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS

MEMS markets and applications; Scaling laws; Silicon as a mechanical material; Sensors and actuators; micromechanical analysis and design; substrate (bulk) and surface micromachining; computer aided design; packaging; testing and characterization; microfluidics.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• MW 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter J. Schuck
  Info
• 3 points

Cold War Reason: Cybernetics and the Sys

The Cold War epoch saw broad transformations in science, technology, and politics. At their nexus a new knowledge was proclaimed, cybernetics, a putative universal science of communication and control. It has disappeared so completely that most have forgotten that it ever existed. Its failure seems complete and final. Yet in another sense, cybernetics was so powerful and successful that the concepts, habits, and institutions born with it have become intrinsic parts of our world and how we make sense of it. Key cybernetic concepts of information, system, and feedback are now fundamental to our basic ways of understanding the mind, brain and computer, of grasping the economy and ecology, and finally of imagining the nature of human life itself. This course will trace the echoes of the cybernetic explosion from the wake of World War II to the onset of Silicon Valley euphoria.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Adam Leeds
  h-index: 2 Info
• 3 points

ANALOG FILTER SYNTHESIS/DESIGN

Prerequisites: (ELEN E3201) and (ELEN E3801) or equivalent. Approximation techniques for magnitude, phase, and delay specifications, transfer function realization sensitivity, passive LC filters, active RC filters, MOSFET-C filters, Gm-C filters, switched-capacitor filters, automatic tuning techniques for integrated filters. Filter noise. A design project is an integral part of the course.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Timothy Dickson
  Info
• 3 points

THEORY OF VIBRATIONS

Frequencies and modes of discrete and continuous elastic systems. Forced vibrations-steady-state and transient motion. Effect of damping. Exact and approximate methods. Applications.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Raimondo Betti
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 31 Info
• 3 points

NGOs & THE HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT

This class takes a social movement perspective to analyze and understand the international human rights movement. The course will address the evolution of the international human rights movement and focus on the NGOs that drive the movement on the international, regional and domestic levels. Sessions will highlight the experiences of major human rights NGOs and will address topics including strategy development, institutional representation, research methodologies, partnerships, networks, venues of engagement, campaigning, fundraising and, perhaps most importantly, the fraught and complex debates about adaptation to changing global circumstances, starting with the pre-Cold War period and including some of the most up-to-date issues and questions going on in this field today.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Louis Bickford
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 13 Info
• 3 points

Energy System Economics and Optimization

Energy System Econ. & Opt

Prerequisites: Senior standing or instructor permission. Fundamentals of power system economics. Sustainable energy system operation and optimization. Formulation and solution to economic dispatch, unit commitment, and linear optimal power flow. Overview of electricity market designs. Pricing, trading, and settlement of electric energy and ancillary services. Market models and economics for alternative energy resources and energy storage. Optimal planning and operation of sustainable energy systems.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Bolun Xu
  h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

QUANTUM CHEMISTRY I

Prerequisites: elementary physical chemistry. Basic quantum mechanics: the Schrodinger equation and its interpretation, exact solutions in simple cases, methods or approximations including time-independent and time-dependent perturbation theory, spin and orbital angular momentum, spin-spin interactions, and an introduction to atomic and molecular structure.

• Department: Chemistry
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Milan Delor
  h-index: 16 Info
• 4.5 points

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS

Prerequisites: STAT GU4205 or the equivalent. Least squares smoothing and prediction, linear systems, Fourier analysis, and spectral estimation. Impulse response and transfer function. Fourier series, the fast Fourier transform, autocorrelation function, and spectral density. Univariate Box-Jenkins modeling and forecasting. Emphasis on applications. Examples from the physical sciences, social sciences, and business. Computing is an integral part of the course.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Flavio C Bartmann
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• 3 points

BAYESIAN STATISTICS

This course introduces the Bayesian paradigm for statistical inference.  Topics covered include prior and posterior distributions: conjugate priors, informative and non-informative priors; one- and two-sample problems; models for normal data, models for binary data, Bayesian linear models; Bayesian computation: MCMC algorithms, the Gibbs sampler; hierarchical models; hypothesis testing, Bayes factors, model selection; use of statistical software. Prerequisites: A course in the theory of statistical inference, such as STAT GU4204 a course in statistical modeling and data analysis, such as STAT GU4205.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ronald Neath
  CULPA: 13 Info
• 3 points

GENDER,CLASS,REAL ESTATE-CHINA

This is a seminar for advanced undergraduates and master’s degree students, which explores the socioeconomic consequences of China’s development of a boom, urban residential real-estate market since the privatization of housing at the end of the 1990s. We will use the intersecting lenses of gender/sexuality, class and race/ethnicity to analyze the dramatic new inequalities created in arguably the largest and fastest accumulation of residential-real estate wealth in history. We will examine topics such as how skyrocketing home prices and state-led urbanization have created winners and losers based on gender, sexuality, class, race/ethnicity and location (hukou), as China strives to transform from a predominantly rural population to one that is 60 percent urban by 2020. We explore the vastly divergent effects of urban real-estate development on Chinese citizens, from the most marginaliz4d communities in remote regions of Tibet and Xinjiang to hyper-wealthy investors in Manhattan. Although this course has no formal prerequisites, it assumes some basic knowledge of Chinese history. If you have never taken a course on China before, please ask me for guidance on whether or not this class is suitable for you. The syllabus is preliminary and subject to change based on breaking news events and the needs of the class.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Leta Hong Fincher
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 6 Info
• 4 points

ATTENTION AND PERCEPTION

Prerequisites: (PSYC UN1010) or Equivalent introductory course in neuroscience or cognitive psychology This seminar aims to provide an in-depth overview of neuroscientific knowledge regarding two critical cognitive functions: attention and perception. For each topic, results from behavioral studies are combined with those from recent neurocognitive approaches – primarily neuropsychological and functional brain imaging studies – that reveal the underlying neural networks and brain mechanisms.

• Department: Psychology
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Alfredo Spagna
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 15 Info
• 4 points

STATISTICAL THERMODYNAMICS

Prerequisites: elementary physical chemistry. Corequisites: CHEM G4221. Topics include the classical and quantum statistical mechanics of gases, liquids, and solids.

• Department: Chemistry
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Bruce Berne
  CULPA: 14 h-index: 115 Info
• 4.5 points

REFUGEES, FORCED MIGR & DISPLACEMENT

Refugees, forced migration, and displacement: these subjects top the headlines of the world’s newspapers, not to mention our social media feeds. Over a million refugees have reached Europe’s shores in recent years, and conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere continue to force people to flee their homes. In the aftermath of the financial crisis and 9/11, politicians in the Global North have focused on borders: who crosses them and how. Walls are being erected. Referendums are being held. We are consumed with thorny questions about who gets to join our political communities. Today there are over 65 million refugees, displaced persons, and stateless persons in the world, represented at last summer’s Olympics by their own team for first the time, a testament to their increasing visibility on the world stage. Global forced displacement recently hit a historical high. And while numbers are increasing, solutions are still elusive. The modern refugee regime, the collection of laws and institutions designed to address the problems faced by refugees, has developed slowly over the course of the last 100 years, first in response to specific crises. That regime has been shaped by a changing geopolitical landscape. At the end of the Cold War, institutions in the field expanded their mandates and preferred solutions to the “problem” of refugees changed. And yet today many scholars and policy makers argue the regime is not fit for purpose. They point to the European refugee crisis as the latest case in point. Why? What went wrong and where? Can it be fixed? This course will largely focus on the issues of forced migration, displacement and refugees related to conflict, although this subject is inevitably intertwined with larger debates about citizenship and humanitarianism. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, this course will address both scholarly and policy debates. Utilizing human rights scholarship, it will draw on work in history that charts the evolution of institutions; legal scholarship that outlines international and domestic laws; work in political science that seeks to understand responses in a comparative perspective, and anthropological studies that address how refugees understand these institutions and their experiences of exile and belonging. These topics are not only the purview of those in the academy, however. Investigative journalists have most recently provided trenchant coverage of the world’s refugees, especially the current European crisis, where many have reported from the shores of the

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Lara J Nettelfield
  h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

SOLAR FUELS

Prerequisites: (CHEN E4230) or Graduate standing or CHEN E4230. Fundamentals and applications of solar energy conversion, especially technologies for conversion of sunlight into storable chemical energy or solar fuels. Topics include fundamentals of photoelectrochemistry, kinetics of solar fuels production, solar harvesting technologies, solar reactors, and solar thermal production of solar fuels. Applications include solar fuels technology for grid-scale energy storage, chemical industry, manufacturing, environmental remediation.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Daniel Esposito
  h-index: 22 Info
• 3 points

ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS I

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134 or COMS W3136COMS W3137) and (COMS W3203) Introduction to the design and analysis of efficient algorithms. Topics include models of computation, efficient sorting and searching, algorithms for algebraic problems, graph algorithms, dynamic programming, probabilistic methods, approximation algorithms, and NP-completeness.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• MTWR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Mihalis Yannakakis
  CULPA: 14 Wikipedia h-index: 93 Info
• Instructor: Alexandr Andoni
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 34 Info
• 3 points

ADVNCD DSGN-CONCRETE STRUCTURS

Prerequisites: (CIEN E3125) or CIEN E3125 or the equivalent. Design of concrete slabs, deep beams, walls, and other plane structures; introduction to design of prestressed concrete structures.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• F 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Tom T Panayotidi
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

DESIGN OF LARGE SCALE BRIDGES

Prerequisites: (CIEN E3121) and (CIEN E3127) or equivalent. Design of large-scale and complex bridges with emphasis on cable-supported structures. Static and dynamic loads, component design of towers, superstructures - cables; conceptual design of major bridge types including arches, cable stayed bridges and suspension bridges.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Theodore Zoli
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SAMPLE SURVEYS

Prerequisites: STAT GU4204 or the equivalent. Introductory course on the design and analysis of sample surveys. How sample surveys are conducted, why the designs are used, how to analyze survey results, and how to derive from first principles the standard results and their generalizations. Examples from public health, social work, opinion polling, and other topics of interest.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Rongning Wu
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

MULTI-HAZARD DESIGN OF STRUCTURES

Prerequisites: (CIEN E3125) or (CIEN E4232) or CIEN E3125 or CIEN E4232, or instructors permission. Fundamental considerations of wave mechanics; design philosophies; reliability and risk concepts; basics of fluid mechanics; design of structures subjected to blast; elements of seismic design; elements of fire design; flood considerations; advanced analysis in support of structural design.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• R 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• 3 points

Indigenous Feminisms

Indigenous women, queers, trans- and Two Spirit people have been at the forefront of activism and resistance to state incursion into Indigenous lands and waters. This was evident most recently at Mauna Kea, a mountain sacred to Kanaka Maoli in Hawaii as women, trans and queer formed the first line of resistance and occupation against the construction of a 1000-meter telescope on the site. This is not unique, their voices, along with indigenous queer and feminist scholars, have been working to address issues as far-ranging as mascots, settler appropriation of indigenous cultures, missing and murdered indigenous women and girls, and the violence against indigenous urban youth. This seminar will consider how those indigenous feminist, queer, and Two Spirit scholars have theorized gender, sexuality, race, and colonialism, alongside issues of land, water and sovereignty. We will read works that consider how indigeneity challenges how gender and sexuality are expressed in the context of settler colonialism and racial capitalism.

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Audra Simpson
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

INTRO-COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY

Prerequisites: (COMS W3261) Develops a quantitative theory of the computational difficulty of problems in terms of the resources (e.g. time, space) needed to solve them. Classification of problems into complexity classes, reductions, and completeness. Power and limitations of different modes of computation such as nondeterminism, randomization, interaction, and parallelism.

• Department: Computer Science
• F 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Xi Chen
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia h-index: 64 Info
• 3 points

CHINA'S LONG 1980's: INTERROGATING THE C

CHINA 1980s: CULTURAL POL

This course examines the experiences and legacies of China’s “long 1980s” (1978-1992), a time characterized by a state-led turn from central planning to a market approach to economic and social governance, an increasing integration of China into the world economy, and the emergence of a “cultural fever” characterized by artistic experimentations at all levels of society.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• T 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• 4 points

Machine Intelligence

This course will survey historical and modern developments in machine intelligence from fields such as psychology, neuroscience, and computer science, and from intellectual movements such as cybernetics, artificial intelligence, neural networks, connectionism, machine learning, and deep learning. The emphasis is on the conceptual understanding of topics. The course does not include, nor require background in, computer programming and statistics. A crucial aspect of the seminar is for students to become informed consumers of applications of artificial intelligence.

• Department: Psychology
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Trenton Jerde
  h-index: 11 Info
• 4 points

COG NEURO NARRATIVE FILM

Prerequisites: (PSYC UN1010 or Equivalent introductory course in neuroscience or cognitive psychology This seminar will provide a broad survey of how narrative stories, films, and performances have been used as tools to study cognition in psychology and neuroscience.

• Department: Psychology
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher Baldassano
  h-index: 13 Info
• 3 points

Science Communication

Communicating scientific research and thinking to a lay audience is a pervasive challenge with significant societal
implications. Students focusing on sustainable development will have to confront this challenge in a wide array of
circumstances, including translating their own scientific findings to people outside their field and to the public,
evaluating the scientific communication they encounter in mainstream media, and providing scientific information
across cultural divides. This course will adopt an interdisciplinary approach, weaving together content from
communications, journalism, psychology, and political science to provide students with the skills they need to address
these challenges. The course is practice-based, giving students the opportunity to try using new communication tools and tecniques

• Department: Earth Institute
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

GEOTECHNCL ENGNEERNG FUNDMNTLS

Prerequisites: (CIEN E3141) or instructors permission. Bearing capacity and settlement of shallow and deep foundations; earth pressure theories; retaining walls and reinforced soil retaining walls; sheet pile walls; braced excavation; slope stability.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• M 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Hoe I Ling
  h-index: 45 Info
• 3 points

APPLIED DATA SCIENCE

Prerequisites: Pre-requisite for this course includes working knowledge in Statistics and Probability, data mining, statistical modeling and machine learning. Prior programming experience in R or Python is required. This course will incorporate knowledge and skills covered in a statistical curriculum with topics and projects in data science. Programming will be covered using existing tools in R. Computing best practices will be taught using test-driven development, version control, and collaboration. Students finish the class with a portfolio of projects, and deeper understanding of several core statistical/machine-learning algorithms. Short project cycles throughout the semester provide students extensive hands-on experience with various data-driven applications.

• Department: Statistics
• W 6:10 p.m.-8:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ying Liu
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

LANGUAGE AND MIND

Prerequisites: PSYC UN1001 and Preferably, an additional course in psychology, focusing on cognition, development, or research methods. Instructor permission required. This seminar explores the relationship between language and thought by investigating how language is mentally represented and processed; how various aspects of language interact with each other; and how language interacts with other aspects of cognition including perception, concepts, world knowledge, and memory. Students will examine how empirical data at the linguistic, psychological, and neuroscientific levels can bear on some of the biggest questions in the philosophy of mind and language and in psychology.

• Department: Psychology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Nora Isacoff
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

ALGORITHMS FOR DATA SCIENCE

Prerequisites: basic knowledge in programming (e.g. at the level of COMS W1007), a basic grounding in calculus and linear algebra. Methods for organizing data, e.g. hashing, trees, queues, lists,priority queues. Streaming algorithms for computing statistics on the data. Sorting and searching. Basic graph models and algorithms for searching, shortest paths, and matching. Dynamic programming. Linear and convex programming. Floating point arithmetic, stability of numerical algorithms, Eigenvalues, singular values, PCA, gradient descent, stochastic gradient descent, and block coordinate descent. Conjugate gradient, Newton and quasi-Newton methods. Large scale applications from signal processing, collaborative filtering, recommendations systems, etc.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 10:10 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Eleni Drinea
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

COLONIAL PRACTICES

In this seminar, we will consider colonial practices through architectures, institutions, infrastructures, and territories. Material architectures of extraction, settlement, occupation, and development have been used to occupy territories—and thus take on a special character in deserts, oceans, and jungles, which resist colonial mapping—just as conceptual architectures have produced forms of “coloniality,” following Maldonado-Torres, occupying the mind and spirit as well as the physical world. The seminar asks students to explore colonial practices in institutional structures, cultural production, built architecture, settlement, and ecologies—as sites with which to feel and think. Students will lead discussion of shared readings, making presentations on concrete studies of the construction, destruction, maintenance, and use of architecture, infrastructure, and territories: for example, examining the figuration of Chiapas by the Zapatista movement, the colonization of space via launch sites in the Algerian desert, or the settlement of Indian coasts by abolitionist missionaries. Students are invited to bring their own historical objects of interest into the course, and should expect to follow deep inquiry into an independent research question. The thematic arrangement of empirical studies is intended to frame open questions, structuring a debate on colonial practices as a theoretical framework that takes seriously the im/possibility of decolonizing architectural history. Our discussions will be propelled by the work of artists and architects, scholarly histories of architecture, space, and territory, and critical as well as radical indigenous, black and brown consciousness, feminist, and anticolonial and decolonial theory. Using actual places as intellectual problems—around which colonial maps have been constructed, across which nomads and migrants have moved, and within which insurgents have configured—this course attempts to offer strategic positions from which to sense, write, and think with architecture.

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Anooradha I Siddiqi
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

MOLECULAR BIOPHYSICS

Prerequisites: basic physical and organic chemistry. Molecular Biophysics is an advanced special topics course with four modules: Noise and fluctuations in biophysics (Arthur Palmer), Single molecule methods (Ruben Gonzalez), Membranes and membrane proteins (Alexander Sobolevsky), and Modeling cellular networks (Karlin). Students normally would take Biophysical Chemistry I and/or Biophysical Chemistry II as prerequisites for Molecular Biophysics.

• Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
• MWF 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Arthur Palmer
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• 4.5 points

GLOBAL FREUD

Prerequisites: Prior study of Freudian theory and psychoanalysis. While there is a general familiarity with the history of psychoanalysis’s spread from Vienna throughout Europe, and from the European centers of psychoanalysis to the US, less is known about its broader internationalization. This course explores the globalization of Freudian theory, and the varying ways it has been read and deployed by intellectuals, artists, and political activists--among others--in various parts of the world. Whether its central appeal was to pre-Revolution Russian intellectuals, who wished to assert their cosmopolitanism and kinship with Europe; to Mexican judges, who employed it to analyze criminal defendants; or to Egyptian experts in dreams, who added this tool to their analytic toolkit, psychoanalysis lent itself to novel, and often contrasting, interpretations and uses. In this class, we will examine how Freud’s universal model of the mind and theory of the subject were refashioned and repurposed to address specific social problems and to advance particular political projects, and how they were revised to conform to local concepts of emotion and the self. We will consider how a system of thought grounded in secularity and individualism was adapted for faith-based and communitarian societies. In addition, we will look into the ways Freudian notions of the unconscious intersected with existing philosophical traditions, and how other cornerstones of psychoanalytic thought were blended with local interpretive practices. Finally, we will address a number of issues that have arisen in the global transmission of psychoanalysis, including problems in the translation of Freudian theory from the original German, and the formation and ongoing conflicts of the International Psychoanalytic Association.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Karen Seeley
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 3 points

INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 The study of industrial behavior based on game-theoretic oligopoly models. Topics include pricing models, strategic aspects of business practice, vertical integration, and technological innovation.

• Department: Economics
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ingmar O Nyman
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

INTRO-SURFACE AND COLLOID SCI

The principles of surfaces and colloid chemistry critical to range of technologies indispensable to modern life. Surface and colloid chemistry has significance to life sciences, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, environmental remediation and waste management, earth resources recovery, electronics, advanced materials, enhanced oil recovery, and emerging extraterrestrial mining. Topics include: thermodynamics of surfaces, properties of surfactant solutions and surface films, electrokinetic phenomena at interfaces, principles of adsorption and mass transfer and modern experimental techniques. Leads to deeper understanding of interfacial engineering, particulate dispersions, emulsions, foams, aerosols, polymers in solution, and soft matter topics.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• 3 points

Foundations of Environmental Engineering

Foundations of Env Eng

Prerequisites: (CHEM UN1403) and (ENME E3161) or CHEM C1403, or the equivalent; ENME E3161 or the equivalent. Engineering aspects of problems involving human interaction with the natural environment. Review of fundamental principles that underlie the discipline of environmental engineering, i.e. constituent transport and transformation processes in environmental media such as water, air, and ecosystems. Engineering applications for addressing environmental problems such as water quality and treatment, air pollution emissions, and hazardous waste remediation. Presented in the context of current issues facing the practicing engineers and government agencies, including legal and regulatory framework, environmental impact assessments, and natural resource management.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Kartik Chandran
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 51 Info
• 3 points

UKRAINE IN NEW YORK

Ukraine in New York is a multidisciplinary exploration of the Ukrainian-American community in New York City from its beginning in the late 19th century to the present. The course focuses on the history, demographics, economics, politics, religion, education, and culture of the community, devoting particular attention to the impact thereon of the New York setting, shifting attitudes towards American politics and culture and homeland politics and culture, the tensions encountered in navigating between American, Soviet Ukraine, and independent Ukraine...

• Department: History
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexander J Motyl
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

War Narrative: The Arab World

Arabic War Narrative

This course works along a number of axial structures that   aim to let texts voice their informing theoretical, political, and poetic strategies. It draws on war narratives in other parts of the world, especially Vietnam, insofar as these find their way into Arabic writing. A poetics of prose gives these narratives the power of literary production that makes them more readable, appealing, and provocative than ordinary journalistic reporting. Through close readings  of  a number of  Arabic war novels and  some long narrative poems, this course  proposes to  address war in its varieties  not only as liberation movements in  Algeria and Palestine,  but also  as an engagement with  invasions, as in  Iraqi narratives of war, or  as conflict as was the case between Iran and Iraq, 1980-1988,  as proxy wars in other parts of the region , or ‘civil’ wars generated and perpetuated by big powers. Although writers are no longer the leaders of thought as in the first half of the 20th century, they resume different roles of exposition, documentation, reinstatement of identities, and geographical and topographical orientation. Narrators and protagonists are not spectators but implicated individuals whose voices give vent to dreams, desires, intimations, and expectations. They are not utterly passive, however. Behind bewilderment and turbulence, there is a will to expose atrocity and brutality. Writing is an effort to regain humanity in an inhuman situation. The course is planned under thematic and theoretical divisions:
one
  that takes  writing as a deliberate exposure  of the censored and repressed;
another
as  a counter shock and awe strategy implemented under this name in the wars on Iraq   whereby brutalities are laid bare; and a
third
 that claims reporting  in order to explore its limits and complicity. On the geographical level, it takes Algeria, Palestine as locations for liberation movements; Iraq as a site of death; Egypt as the space for statist duplicity  and camouflage; and Lebanon as an initial stage for a deliberate exercise in a seemingly civil war.
A number of films will be shown as part of students’ presentations.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Muhsin Al-Musawi
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

PROTEOMICS LABORATORY

This course deals with the proteome: the expressed protein complement of a cell, organelle, matrix, tissue, organ or organism. The study of the proteome (proteomics) is broadly applicable to life sciences research, and is increasingly important in academic, government and industrial research through extension of the impact of advances in genomics. These techniques are being applied to basic research, exploratory studies of cancer and other diseases, drug discovery and many other topics. Emphasis will be on mastery of practical techniques of sample preparation, liquid chromatography/ mass spectrometry (LC/MS) with electrospray ionization, and Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption and Ionization (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry. Database searching and interpretation for identification of proteins will be intensively studied, and practiced supported by background tutorials and exercises covering other techniques used in proteomics. Open to students in M.A. in Biotechnology Program (points can be counted against laboratory requirement for that program), Ph.D. and advanced undergraduate students with background in genetics or molecular biology. Students should be comfortable with basic biotechnology laboratory techniques as well as being interested in doing computational work in a Windows environment.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• T 12:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Lewis Brown
  Info
• 3 points

FOOD, ECOLOGY & GLOBALIZATION

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 3 points