STATISTICAL METHODS IN FINANCE

Prerequisites: STAT GU4205 or the equivalent. A fast-paced introduction to statistical methods used in quantitative finance. Financial applications and statistical methodologies are intertwined in all lectures. Topics include regression analysis and applications to the Capital Asset Pricing Model and multifactor pricing models, principal components and multivariate analysis, smoothing techniques and estimation of yield curves statistical methods for financial time series, value at risk, term structure models and fixed income research, and estimation and modeling of volatilities. Hands-on experience with financial data.

• Department: Statistics
• F 8:40 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Hammou El Barmi
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

STAT INF/TIME-SERIES MODELLING

Prerequisites: STAT GU4204 or the equivalent. STAT GU4205 is recommended. Modeling and inference for random processes, from natural sciences to finance and economics. ARMA, ARCH, GARCH and nonlinear models, parameter estimation, prediction and filtering. This is a core course in the MS program in mathematical finance.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• S 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Li Haoran
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• 3 points

STOCHASTC PROCSSES-APPLICTNS I

Prerequisites: STAT GU4203. STAT GU4207 is recommended. Basics of continuous-time stochastic processes. Wiener processes. Stochastic integrals. Ito's formula, stochastic calculus. Stochastic exponentials and Girsanov's theorem. Gaussian processes. Stochastic differential equations. Additional topics as time permits.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Johannes Wiesel
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• Instructor: Lars T Nielsen
  h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

PARADIGMS OF THE EURO NOVEL

• Department: Germanic Languages
• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Mark M Anderson
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

CORPORATE FINANCE

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and STAT UN1201 An introduction to the economics principles underlying the financial decisions of firms. The topics covered include bond and stock valuations, capital budgeting, dividend policy, market efficiency, risk valuation, and risk management. For information regarding REGISTRATION for this course, go to: http://econ.columbia.edu/registration-information.

• Department: Economics
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ethan Namvar
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Tri Vi Dang
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 10 Info
• 3 points

CORE KNOWLEDGE

Prerequisites: For undergraduates: courses in introductory psychology, cognitive or developmental psychology, and the instructors permission. Core Knowledge explores the origins and development of knowledge in infants and children, with an additional emphasis on evolutionary cognition. In this course, we will examine evidence from cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, comparative psychology, neuroscience, and linguistics to look at the childs conception of objects, number, space, language, agency, morality and the social world. We will look at which aspects of knowledge are uniquely human, which are shared with other animals, and how this knowledge changes as children develop.

• Department: Psychology
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Koleen McCrink
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 17 Info
• 4 points

THEORY OF INTEREST

Prerequisites: At least one semester of calculus. Introduction to the mathematical theory of interest as well as the elements of economic and financial theory of interest. Topics include rates of interest and discount; simple, compound, real, nominal, effective, dollar (time)-weighted; present, current, future value; discount function; annuities; stocks and other instruments; definitions of key terms of modern financial analysis; yield curves; spot (forward) rates; duration; immunization; and short sales. The course will cover determining equivalent measures of interest; discounting; accumulating; determining yield rates; and amortization.

• Department: Statistics
• W 6:10 p.m.-8:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Duncan Szeto
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

The Neurobiology and Psychology of Play

Neurobio & Psych of Play

Play is a highly rewarding activity that is considered critical to cognitive, social, and emotional development. How do we define play and how do we study it? How does play help humans and other animals learn about their world and prepare them for adulthood? This course will examine the latest developments in the field of play from various methodological approaches to understand the relationship between play, learning, and normative development.

• Department: Psychology
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Melanie Pincus
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• 4 points

ADVANCED DATA ANALYSIS

Prerequisites: STAT GU4205 and at least one statistics course numbered between GU4221 and GU4261. This is a course on getting the most out of data. The emphasis will be on hands-on experience, involving case studies with real data and using common statistical packages. The course covers, at a very high level, exploratory data analysis, model formulation, goodness of fit testing, and other standard and non-standard statistical procedures, including linear regression, analysis of variance, nonlinear regression, generalized linear models, survival analysis, time series analysis, and modern regression methods. Students will be expected to propose a data set of their choice for use as case study material.

• Department: Statistics
• F 6:10 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Demissie Alemayehu
  h-index: 14 Info
• 3 points

COMPUT MATH:INTRO-NUMERCL METH

Prerequisites: (MATH UN1201) and (MATH UN2030) and (APMA E3101) and (ENGI E1006) or their equivalents. Programming experience in Python extremely useful. Introduction to fundamental algorithms and analysis of numerical methods commonly used by scientists, mathematicians and engineers. Designed to give a fundamental understanding of the building blocks of scientific computing that will be used in more advanced courses in scientific computing and numerical methods for PDEs (e.g. APMA E4301, E4302). Topics include numerical solutions of algebraic systems, linear least-squares, eigenvalue problems, solution of non-linear systems, optimization, interpolation, numerical integration and differentiation, initial value problems and boundary value problems for systems of ODEs. All programming exercises will be in Python.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Marc W Spiegelman
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

APPLIED ELECTRODYNAMICS

Prerequisites: (APPH E3300) Overview of properties and interactions of static electric and magnetic fields. Study of phenomena of time dependent electric and magnetic fields including induction, waves, and radiation as well as special relativity. Applications are emphasized.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexander Gaeta
  Wikipedia h-index: 89 Info
• 3 points

DRUGS AND DISEASE

Prerequisites: four semesters of biology with a firm foundation in molecular and cellular biology. Introduces students to the current understanding of human diseases, novel therapeutic approaches and drug development process. Selected topics will be covered in order to give students a feeling of the field of biotechnology in health science. This course also aims to strengthen students’ skills in literature comprehension and critical thinking.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Lili Yamasaki
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

CHEM PROC. CONTROL & SAFETY

Prerequisites: Material and energy balances. Ordinary differential equations including Laplace transforms. Reactor Design. An introduction to process control applied to chemical engineering through lecture and laboratory. Concepts include the dynamic behavior of chemical engineering systems, feedback control, controller tuning, and process stability.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• TR 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

Retranslation: Worlding C. P. Cavafy

Focusing on a canonical author is an immensely productive way to explore translation research and practice. The works of Sappho, Dante, Rilke, Césaire or Cavafy raise the question of reception in relation to many different critical approaches and illustrate many different strategies of translation and adaptation. The very issue of intertextuality that challenged the validity of author-centered courses after Roland Barthes’s proclamation of the death of the author reinstates it if we are willing to engage the oeuvre as an on-going interpretive project. By examining the poetry of the Greek Diaspora poet C. P. Cavafy in all its permutations (as criticism, translation, adaptation), the Cavafy case becomes an experimental ground for thinking about how a canonical author can open up our theories and practices of translation. For the final project students will choose a work by an author with a considerable body of critical work and translations and, following the example of Cavafy and his translators, come up with their own retranslations. Among the materials considered are commentary by E. M. Forster, C. M. Bowra, and Roman Jakobson, translations by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, James Merrill, Marguerite Yourcenar, and Daniel Mendelsohn, poems by W.H. Auden, Lawrence Durrell, and Joseph Brodsky, and visual art by David Hockney, and Duane Michals.

• Department: Classics
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Karen R Van Dyck
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

RELIGION AND THE ENGLISH NOVEL

Although the novel seems like a secular form, some of the earliest examples in English can be strangely religious. Authors of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century prose fiction often claimed to write from a religious perspective or at least to be in step with religious ideals, and many of them wrote about unabashedly religious topics. We will spend a little over half of this seminar reading and discussing early British novels, from Samuel Richardson’s moment through to Jane Austen’s, that address the reality of evil, the nature of faith, the hope for an afterlife, the need for spiritual community, and the difficulty of religious pluralism. Among our particular concerns will be the role of place in representations of different religious traditions and the overlap between romance plots and conversion stories. Instead of treating such topics as exclusively things of the literary past, we will read our older novels alongside a few later Anglophone works, written between 1945 and today, that continue to use the novel form for the atypical purposes of portraying religious practice and religious identity and reassessing religion’s role in modern life.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Dustin Stewart
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

INTRO TO CLASSICAL CHINESE I

Prerequisites: completion of three years of modern Chinese at least, or four years of Japanese or Korean.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MWF 11 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Lening Liu
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 3 points

ECONOMIC GROWTH & DEVELOPMNT I

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 Empirical findings on economic development, theoretical development models; problems of efficient resource allocation in a growing economy; balanced and unbalanced growth in closed and open economic systems; the role of capital accumulation and innovation in economic growth.

• Department: Economics
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Xavier Sala-I-Martin
  CULPA: 82 Wikipedia h-index: 80 Info
• 3 points

METHODS IN COMPUTATIONAL SCI

METHODS IN COMPUTATIONAL SCIEN

Prerequisites: (APMA E4300) and application and knowledge in C, Fortran or similar complied language. Introduction to the key concepts and issues in computational science aimed at getting students to a basic level of understanding where they can run simulations on machines aimed at a range of applications and sizes from a single workstation to modern super-computer hardware. Topics include but are not limited to basic knowledge of UNIX shells, version control systems, reproducibility, Open MP, MPI, and many-core technologies. Applications will be used throughout to demonstrate the various use cases and pitfalls of using the latest computing hardware.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Kyle Mandli
  h-index: 14 Info
• 3 points

BIOMECHANICS OF MUSCULOSKELETAL SOFT TIS

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• 3 points

BIOMECHANICS OF MUSCULOSKELETAL SOFT TIS

• Department: Video Network
• 3 points

CLOSING THE CARBON CYCLE

Prerequisites: Calculus, basic inorganic chemistry and basic physics including thermodynamics or permission of the instructor. Introduction to complex systems, their impact on our understanding and predictability of the carbon cycle , the use of systems analysis and modeling tools, as well as Bayesian statistics and decision theory for evaluating various solutions to close the carbon cycle, a detailed examination of the geochemical carbon cycle, major conceptual models that couple its changes to climate change, analysis of the anthropogenic carbon sources and sinks and role of carbon in energy production, closing the carbon cycle impacts on energy security, economic development and climate change protection, analysis of solutions to close the carbon cycle.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter Eisenberger
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

KRISHNA

Study of a single deity in the Hindu pantheon as illuminated in art, music, dance, drama, theological treatises, patterns of ritual, and texts both classic and modern. Special attention to Krishna's consort Radha, to Krishna's reception in the West, and to his portrayal on Indian television.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• MR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: John S Hawley
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 4 points

STATISTICS AND DATA ANALYSIS

Prerequisites: Probability, linear algebra. Descriptive statistics, central limit theorem, parameter estimation, sufficient statistics, hypothesis testing, regression, logistic regression, goodness-of-fit tests, applications to operations research models.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Kaizheng Wang
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

BUDDHISM & DAOISM IN CHINA

In recent decades, the study of the so-called “Buddho-Daoism” has become a burgeoning field that breaks down the traditional boundary lines drawn between the two Chinese religious traditions. In this course we will read secondary scholarship in English that probes the complex relationships between Buddhism and Daoism in the past two millennia. Students are required not only to be aware of the tensions and complementarity between them, but to be alert to the nature of claims to either religious purity or mixing and the ways those claims were put forward under specific religio-historical circumstances. The course is organized thematically rather than chronologically. We will address topics on terminology, doctrine, cosmology, eschatology, soteriology, exorcism, scriptural productions, ritual performance, miracle tales and visual representations that arose in the interactions of the two religions, with particular attention paid to critiquing terms such as “influence,”  “encounter,” “dialogue,” “hybridity,” “syncretism,” and “repertoire.” The course is designed for both advanced undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of East Asian religion, literature, history, art history, sociology and anthropology. One course on Buddhism or Chinese religious traditions is recommended, but not required, as background.

• Department: Religion
• MR 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Zhaohua Yang
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• 4 points

ADVANCED ARMENIAN I

Advanced instruction in the Armenian dialect. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Charry Karamanoukian
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• 3 points

REAL ESTATE FINANCE I

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 9 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Patrice Derrington
  h-index: 4 Info
• 3 points

WITNESS,RECORD,DOCUMENT

WITNESSRECORDDOCUMENT

Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT required. This seminar takes up the terms witness, record, and document as nouns and verbs. What is poetry of witness? Documentary poetry? Poetry as (revisionist ) historical record? What labor and what ethical, political, and aesthetic considerations are required of poets who endeavor to witness, record, or document historical events or moments of trauma? How is this approach to poetry informed by or contributing to feminist theories, aesthetic innovation, and revisionist approaches to official histories? Course materials include: 1) essays that explore the poetics and politics of poetry of witness or documentary poetry; 2) a range of contemporary American Poetry that has been classified as or has productively challenged these categories; 3) and audio, video, and photographic projects on which poets have collaborated. Our encounters with this work will be guided by and grounded in conversations about ideas of truth, text, the power relations of documentation, and issues of language and representation in poetry. We will also critically examine the formal (rhyme, rhythm, diction, form, genre, point of view, imagery, etc.) and philosophical components and interventions of the work we study and create.

• Department: Writing
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Deborah Paredez
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

EUROPEAN ROMANTICISM

• Department: History
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael F Stanislawski
  CULPA: 66 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Derivatives Marketing & Structuring

Derivative Mrkting Struc

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Khosrow Dehnad
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 1.5 points

RE FIN CONCEPTS TUTORIAL

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Chok S Lei
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• 0 points

CHEMICAL BIOLOGY

Prerequisites: (CHEM UN2443 and CHEM UN2444) and (CHEM UN3079 and CHEM UN3080) and (BIOC UN3501) , or the equivalent. Development and application of chemical methods for understanding the molecular mechanisms of cellular processes. Review of the biosynthesis, chemical synthesis, and structure and function of proteins and nucleic acids. Application of chemical methods--including structural biology, enzymology, chemical genetics, and the synthesis of modified biological molecules--to the study of cellular processes--including transcription, translation, and signal transduction.

• Department: Chemistry
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Virginia W Cornish
  CULPA: 47 Wikipedia h-index: 46 Info
• 4 points

TIBETAN SACRED SPACE(IN COMPARATIVE CONT

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Gray W Tuttle
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

ANALOG ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS

Prerequisites: (ELEN E3331) and (ELEN E3801) Differential and multistage amplifiers; small-signal analysis; biasing techniques; frequency response; negative feedback; stability criteria; frequency compensation techniques. Analog layout techniques. An extensive design project is an integral part of the course.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• MW 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Shahriar Shahramian
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Peter Kinget
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 47 Info
• Instructor: Shahriar Shahramian
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

INTERPRETING BUDDHIST YOGA

• Department: Religion
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: David R Kittay
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

BUDDHISM AND KOREAN CULTURE

Since Buddhism was introduced to Korea 1,600 years ago, the religion has had great impact on almost all aspects of the Korean society, making significant contributions to the distinct development of Korean culture. In this course, we will explore how Buddhism has influenced and interacted with various fields of Korean culture such as art, architecture, literature, philosophy, politics, religions, and popular culture. Buddhist scriptures, written in classical Chinese, with their colorful imaginations, have stimulated the development of Korean literature. Buddhist art, sculpture, and architecture have also catalyzed the Korean counterparts to bloom. The sophisticated philosophy and worldview of Buddhism, along with its diverse religious practices and rituals have added richness to the spiritual life of Korean people. Buddhism also attracted a significant number of followers, often playing important roles in politics. Throughout the course, we will not only investigate the influence of Buddhism on diverse aspects of Korean culture on their forms and at their depths, but also examine the interactions between Buddhism and other religions, as well as politics. Students will learn how Korean people have formed and reformed Korean culture through the medium of Buddhism

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Seong-Uk Kim
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• 4 points

INTRO TO COMBUSTION

Prerequisites: Course in introductory thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer at the undergraduate level or instructor's permission Thermodynamics and kinetics of reacting flows; chemical kinetic mechanisms for fuel oxidation and pollutant formation; transport phenomena; conservation equations for reacting flows; laminar non-premixed flames (including droplet vaporization and burning); laminar premixed flames; flame stabilization, quenching, ignition, extinction, and other limit phenomena; detonations; flame aerodynamics and turbulent flames.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Burke
  h-index: 22 Info
• 3 points

DIGITAL VLSI CIRCUITS

Recommended preparation: ELEN E3331, CSEE W3827, and ELEN E3106. Design and analysis of high speed logic and memory. Digital CMOS and BiCMOS device modeling. Integrated circuit fabrication and layout. Interconnect and parasitic elements. Static and dynamic techniques. Worst-case design. Heat removal and I/O. Yield and circuit reliability. Logic gates, pass logic, latches, PLAs, ROMs, RAMs, receivers, drivers, repeaters, sense amplifiers.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Kenneth Shepard
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia h-index: 64 Info
• 3 points

HUM NATURE:DNA,RACE & IDENTITY

The course focuses on human identity, beginning with the individual and progressing to communal and global viewpoints using a framework of perspectives from biology, genetics, medicine, psychiatry, religion and the law.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 4 points

REAL ESTATE FIN EXCEL MOD

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 3 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Johnny C Din
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• 0 points

EXPLORING SHARIA: ISLAMIC LAW

The platform of every modern Islamist political party calls for the implementation of the sharia. This term is invariably (and incorrectly) interpreted as an unchanging legal code dating back to 7th century Arabia. In reality, Islamic law is an organic and constantly evolving human project aimed at ascertaining God's will in a given historical and cultural context. This course offers a detailed and nuanced look at the Islamic legal methodology and its evolution over the last 1400 years. The first part of the semester is dedicated to classical Islamic jurisprudence, concentrating on the manner in which jurists used the Qur'an, the Sunna (the model of the Prophet), and rationality to articulate a coherent legal system. The second part of the course focuses on those areas of the law that engender passionate debate and controversy in the contemporary world. Specifically, we examine the discourse surrounding Islamic family (medical ethics, marriage, divorce, women's rights) and criminal (capital punishment, apostasy, suicide/martyrdom) law. The course concludes by discussing the legal implications of Muslims living as minorities in non-Islamic countries and the effects of modernity on the foundations of Islamic jurisprudence.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Najam I Haider
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY I

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• 4 points

RELIGION AND POLITICS IN KOREA

This course explores diverse aspects of the interactions between religion and politics in modern, pre-modern, and contemporary Korea. It focuses on how Korean religions such as Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity, and new religions have influenced and been influenced by politics, thereby leading to the mutual transformation of the two major social phenomena.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Seong-Uk Kim
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• 4 points

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF JAPAN

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 The growth and structural changes of the post-World War II economy; its historical roots; interactions with cultural, social, and political institutions; economic relations with the rest of the world.

• Department: Economics
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: David Weinstein
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 42 Info
• 3 points

RADIOBIOLOGY FOR MED PHYS

Prerequisites: (APPH E4010) or equivalent or Corequisites: APPH E4010 Interface between clinical practice and quantitative radiation biology. Microdosimetry, dose-rate effects and biological effectiveness thereof; radiation biology data, radiation action at the cellular and tissue level; radiation effects on human populations, carcinogenesis, genetic effects; radiation protection; tumor control, normal-tissue complication probabilities; treatment plan optimization.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• R 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Marco Zaider
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• 3 points

INTRO-TERRESTRIAL PALEOCLIMATE

Understanding the fundamental processes driving our Climate System is more important than ever. In this course, I will give an overview of the archives in which evidence of terrestrial paleoclimate is preserved, the approaches to developing and applying proxies of climate from these archives, approaches for constraining the time represented by the information, and interpretations that have been developed from such archives. Important archives to be included are ice cores, caves, wetlands, lakes, trees, and moraines. The time interval covered will be mostly the last few tens of thousands of years, and chronometers based on radiocarbon, U-series and cosmogenic nuclide dating will be presented. A particular emphasis will be put on natural climate processes and interactions that are relevant for the ongoing climate crisis and potential solutions. The course will consist of formal lectures that alternate with recitation and discussing examples and problem solving.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Jorg Schaefer
  h-index: 50 Info
• 3 points

THERMOFLUID SYSTEMS DESIGN

Prerequisites: (MECE E3100) and (MECE E3301) and (MECE E3311) Theoretical and practical considerations, and design principles, for modern thermofluids systems. Topics include boiling, condensation, phase change heat transfer, multimode heat transfer, heat exchangers, and modeling of thermal transport systems. Emphasis on applications of thermodynamics, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics to modeling actual physical systems. Term project on conceptual design and presentation of a thermofluid system that meets specified criteria.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• S 9 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Sean Bradshaw
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• 3 points

ADV BOSNIAN/CROATIAN/SERBIAN

Prerequisites: BCRS UN2102 Further develops skills in speaking, reading, and writing, using essays, short stories, films, and fragments of larger works. Reinforces basic grammar and introduces more complete structures.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Aleksandar Boskovic
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS I

Prerequisites: Mechanics of solids, structural analysis, elementary computer programming (MATLAB) is recommended, linear algebra and ordinary differential equations. Direct stiffness approach for trusses. Strong and weak forms for one-dimensional problems. Galerkin finite element formulation, shape functions, Gauss quadrature, convergence. Multidimensional scalar field problems (heat conduction), triangular and rectangular elements, Isoparametric formulation. Multidimensional vector field problems (linear elasticity). Practical FE modeling with commercial software (ABAQUS). Computer implementation of the finite element method. Advanced topics. Not open to undergraduate students.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• M 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Haim Waisman
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 29 Info
• 3 points

READINGS IN CZECH LITERATURE I

Prerequisites: two years of college Czech or the equivalent. A close study in the original of representative works of Czech literature. Discussion and writing assignments in Czech aimed at developing advanced language proficiency.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher W Harwood
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

POLIT-SPACE: CITIES,INST,SPACE

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Mary C McLeod
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• 3 points

SURVEY OF NEUROSCIENCE

• Department: Auditing
• MW 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• 0 points

SURVEY OF NEUROSCIENCE

• Department: Neurobiology and Behavior
• MW 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• 6 points

TRAD AM ARCHITECTURE

Guiding ideals in American architecture from the centennial to around 1960. The evolution of modernism in America is contrasted with European developments and related to local variants.

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew S Dolkart
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

FOURTH-YEAR RUSSIAN I

Prerequisites: RUSS UN3101 and RUSS UN3102 Third-Year Russian I and II, or placement test. Systematic study of problems in Russian syntax; written exercises, translations into Russian, and compositions. Conducted entirely in Russian.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MWF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Tatiana Mikhailova
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• 4 points

ADV RUSSIAN THROUGH HISTORY

CHTENIIA PO RUSSKOI KUL'T

Prerequisites: RUSS UN3101 and RUSS UN3102 Third-Year Russian I and II, or placement test. A language course designed to meet the needs of those foreign learners of Russian as well as heritage speakers who want to develop further their reading, speaking, and writing skills and be introduced to the history of Russia.

• Department: Slavic Languages @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Julia Trubikhina
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• 3 points

NEANDERTHAL ALTERITIES

Using The Neanderthals partly as a metaphorical device, this course considers the anthropological, philosophical and ethical implications of sharing the world with another human species. Beginning from a solid grounding in the archaeological, biological and genetic evidence, we will reflect critically on why Neanderthals are rarely afforded the same reflexive capacities, qualities and attributes - agency- as anatomically modern humans, and why they are often regarded as lesser or nonhuman animals despite clear evidence for both sophisticated material and social engagement with the world and its resources. Readings/materials are drawn from anthropology, philosophy, ethics, gender studies, race and genetics studies, literature and film.

• Department: Anthropology
• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Brian Boyd
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

QUES IN ARCH HIST I

Developments in architectural history during the modern period. Emphasis on moments of significant change in architecture (theoretical, economic, technological, and institutional). Themes include positive versus arbitrary beauty, enlightenment urban planning, historicism, structural rationalism, the housing reform movement, iron and glass technology, changes generated by developments external or internal to architecture itself and transformations in Western architecture.

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Lucia Allais
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• Instructor: Reinhold Martin
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• Instructor: Mabel O Wilson
  Wikipedia h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

PRIMATE SEXUALITY

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Alba Lucia Morales Jimenez
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• 3 points

GERMAN FILM AFTER 1945

• Department: Germanic Languages
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Claudia Breger
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

Performing Feminist Activisms in Contemp

FEM ACTIVISM LATIN AMERIC

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Maria Jose Contreras
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• 4 points

ANALYSIS OF TONAL MUSIC

Detailed analysis of selected tonal compositions. This course, for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduates, is intended to develop understanding of tonal compositions and of theoretical concepts that apply to them, through study of specific works in various forms and styles.

• Department: Music
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Benjamin A Steege
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• 3 points

Documenting Disaster

COURSE DESCRIPTION
How have writers from across the Americas written into and from and through and beyond disaster? How can their work guide us through our current moment?  Disaster simultaneously obliterates and generates language. The language of disaster is found in the silenced plea or the official decree that denies or ensures the disaster's spread. To speak toward and against the disaster is to speak in a stutter or a slash or a song. What labor and what ethical, political, and aesthetic considerations are required of and modelled by writers who document disaster? What can we learn from the techniques of point of view, form, voice, silence, sound, and shape used by these writers? What do their works teach us about the intersections among racial and class disparities, gendered and sexual violence, homo-and trans-phobia, war, public health emergencies, disaster capitalism, environmental racism, authoritarian regimes, and militarized policing? Genres studied include poetry, lyric essays, fiction, graphic novels, memoir, and drama.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Deborah Paredez
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

POLITICAL ECONOMY

The objective of this course is to develop understanding of how political institutions and behavior shape economic outcomes, and vice versa. Starting from the micro level study of political behavior, we will build up to analyze the internal workings of institutions and ultimately macro level economic and political outcomes. During the course we will cover the following topics • Limits and potential of markets • Public goods provision • Voting • Redistribution

• Department: Economics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Alessandra Casella
  CULPA: 8 Wikipedia h-index: 30 Info
• 3 points

PROC OF STRATIFICTN/INEQUALITY

The nature of opportunity in American society; the measurement of inequality; trends in income and wealth inequality; issues of poverty and poverty policy; international comparisons.

• Department: Sociology
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Yinon Cohen
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 33 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO QUANTUM MECHANICS

This course will focus on quantum mechanics, paying attention to both the underlying mathematical structures as well as their physical motivations and consequences. It is meant to be accessible to students with no previous formal training in quantum theory. The role of symmetry, groups and representations will be stressed.

• Department: Mathematics
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter G Woit
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

METROPOLITAN SUBLIMES

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Sandro Marpillero
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• 3 points

MSE 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

SEXUAL ORIENT,GENDR ID,HUM RTS

Debates over the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people have never been more visible in the international arena. Advocates are beginning to have some success in putting sexual orientation and gender identity on the agenda for inclusion in human rights instruments. But in many local and regional contexts, state-sanctioned homophobia is on the rise, from the official anti-gay stance of Russia featured during the Sochi Winter Games to the passage of Mississippi’s anti-gay bill and Uganda’s anti-homosexuality act. This course examines these trends in relation to strategies pursued by grassroots activists and NGOs and the legal issues they raise, including marriage and family rights, discrimination, violence, torture, sex classification, and asylum. We will also focus on current debates about the relation between sexual rights and gender justice, tensions between universalisty constructions of gay/trans identity and local formations of sexual and gender non-conformity, and legacies of colonialism.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Paisley Currah
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

COMPUTER LABORATORY ACCESS

Sign up for this class to obtain a computer account and access to the Department of Mechanical Engineering Computer Laboratory.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• 0 points

TRANSSCALARITIES

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Andres Jaque
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• 3 points

ROMANTIC POETRY

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Erik Gray
  CULPA: 35 Info
• 3 points

Corporate Finance, Accounting & Investme

CorpFin, Account & Invest

Covers primary financial theories and alternative theories underlying corporate finance, such as CAPM, Miller Modigliani, Fama French factors, Smart Beta, etc. Includes interpreting financial statements, building cash flow models, valuing projects, companies, and making Corporate Finance decisions. Topics include: cost of capital, dividend policy, debt policy, the impact of taxes, shareholder/debtholder agency costs, dual class shares, use of option pricing theory in management behavior, investment banking activities, including equity underwriting, syndicated lending, venture capital, private equity investment and private equity secondaries. Real-world applications include: analysis of financial activities of companies such as General Electric, Google, Snapchat, Spotify, and Tesla.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• M 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Rodney Sunada-Wong
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• 3 points

SIMULATION

Prerequisites: (IEOR E3658) and (IEOR E4307) or (STAT GU4001) and computer programming. Corequisites: IEOR E3106,IEOR E4106 This course is required for MSIE and MSOR. Graduate students must register for 3 points. Undergraduate students must register for 4 points. Generation of random numbers from given distributions; variance reduction; statistical output analysis; introduction to simulation languages; application to financial, telecommunications, computer, and production systems. Students who have taken IEOR E4703 Monte Carlo simulation may not register for this course for credit. Recitation section required.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Yi Zhang
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Karl Sigman
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

GAME THEOR MODELS OF OPERATION

Prerequisites: (IEOR E4004) or (IEOR E3608) and (IEOR E4106) or (IEOR E3106) and familiarity with differential equations and computer programming; or instructor's permission. This course is required for undergraduate students majoring in OR:FE and OR. A mathematically rigorous study of game theory and auctions, and their application to operations management. Topics include introductory game theory, private value auction, revenue equivalence, mechanism design, optimal auction, multiple-unit auctions, combinatorial auctions, incentives, and supply chain coordination with contracts. No previous knowledge of game theory is required.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Jay Sethuraman
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

GAME THEOR MODELS OF OPERATION

Prerequisites: (IEOR E4004) or (IEOR E3608) and (IEOR E4106) or (IEOR E3106) and familiarity with differential equations and computer programming; or instructor's permission. This course is required for undergraduate students majoring in OR:FE and OR. A mathematically rigorous study of game theory and auctions, and their application to operations management. Topics include introductory game theory, private value auction, revenue equivalence, mechanism design, optimal auction, multiple-unit auctions, combinatorial auctions, incentives, and supply chain coordination with contracts. No previous knowledge of game theory is required.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Jay Sethuraman
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

NINE THOUGHT TRENDS IN CHINA

Prerequisites: fluency in Chinese (the course will be taught in Chinese, and a large number of readings will be in Chinese). This is an elective course designed for both undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in the contemporary politics in China. The course focuses on nine major thought trends in China today that include 1) the Liberalism; 2) the New Authoritarianism; 3) the New Left; 4) Mao Left; 5) the Democratic Group within the Communist Party; 6) Governing through Confucian Theory; 7) Constitutional Socialism; 8) the so-called Neither-Left and Nor-Right Governing Theory; and 9) the New Nationalism Calling Tough Foreign Policies. China is deep in the social and political transition process, and the thoughts and actions of intellects themself have formed an important part in this transition. In this sense, the course not only helps understand the thoughts of intellects, but also better help understand todays China affairs as a whole.

• Department: Political Science
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Boshu Zhang
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• 4 points

TIBETAN MONASTIC INSTITUTIONS

Through interdisciplinary theoretical approaches (mostly in the fields of religion, anthropology, and history), this course examines THE key institution in Tibetan culture, namely monasteries. We will address the monastery from many different angles, from the physical infrastructure and soteriological justification to its governing documents as well as economic and educational roles.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Gray W Tuttle
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

ADV ECONOMETRICS-DISC

• Department: Economics
• 0 points

FUNDAMENTALS OF PHOTONICS

Prerequisites: (ELEN E3401) or ELEN E3401 or equivalent. Planar resonators. Photons and photon streams. Photons and atoms: energy levels and band structure; interactions of photons with matter; absorption, stimulated and spontaneous emission; thermal light, luminescence light. Laser amplifiers: gain, saturation, and phase shift; rate equations; pumping. Lasers: theory of oscillation; laser output characteristics. Photons in semiconductors: generation, recombination, and injection; heterostructures; absorption and gain coefficients. Semiconductor photon sources: LEDs; semiconductor optical amplifiers; homojunction and heterojunction laser diodes. Semiconductor photon detectors: p-n, p-i-n, and heterostructure photo diodes; avalanche photodiodes.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Michal Lipson
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 114 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED ECONOMETRICS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 and MATH UN2010 Students must register for required discussion section. The linear regression model will be presented in matrix form and basic asymptotic theory will be introduced. The course will also introduce students to basic time series methods for forecasting and analyzing economic data. Students will be expected to apply the tools to real data.

• Department: Economics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Serena Ng
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia h-index: 52 Info
• 4 points

RECOVERING PLACE

• Department: Religion
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Mark C Taylor
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

GAME THEORY

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 Introduction to the systematic treatment of game theory and its applications in economic analysis.

• Department: Economics
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Guillaume Haeringer
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

INTERNET TECHNOLOGY,ECONOMICS,AND POLICY

• Department: Computer Science
• F 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Henning G Schulzrinne
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 3 points

The Caribbean Digital

The Internet is analogous in important ways to the Caribbean itself as dynamic and fluid cultural space: it is generated from disparate places and by disparate peoples; it challenges fundamentally the geographical and physical barriers that disrupt or disallow connection; and it places others in relentless relation. This class will both introduce students to the digital humanities and to the French-speaking Caribbean as a generative geo-cultural space for exploring the potential of the Internet to confront and disrupt many of the structures of dominance that have traditionally silenced marginalized voices. It will provide an introduction to several of the formats and tools that have facilitated such engagements, along with immediate critical reflection and discussion about their value to the academy. Since information technology has become one of the key ways in which the peoples of the French-speaking Caribbean and its diasporas both communicate with one another and gain access to global conversations, alongside this exploration of digital tools, in general, this class will consider how the Internet enables people in marginalized spaces to engage with crucial social problems and to express their intellectual and political perspectives.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

POLITICAL ECONOMY ANALYSIS OF ELITES & I

ELITES & INSTITUTIONS

This course examines political institutions and elite behavior from a political economy perspective. This course has three core goals. First, the substantive goal is to familiarize students with foundational theoretical arguments and frontier empirical evidence pertaining to central questions in political economy relating to political elite and institutions. Second, the methodological goal is to empower students to implement research designs that can effectively address the substantive questions driving their research. Third, the professionalization goal is to expose students to the academic processes of writing reviews, replicating and extending others’ studies, presenting research projects, and writing original research designs or academic papers.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: John Marshall
  h-index: 20 Info
• 4 points

"MPA-DP ""Getting Started"""

Prior to the SIPA orientation, MPA-DP students participate in a week-long intensive program called Getting Started. The program introduces students to the MPA-DP program, including skills and resources that lay the foundation for a successful graduate learning experience.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• Instructor: Glenn Denning
  h-index: 14 Info
• 0 points

MODAL LOGIC

• Department: Philosophy
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Tamar A Lando
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

ARCH APROPOS ART

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Steven M Holl
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• 3 points

ECONOMICS OF RACE IN THE U.S.

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 ECON GU4400 is strongly recommended. What differences does race make in the U.S. economy? Why does it make these differences? Are these differences things we should be concerned about? If so, what should be done? The course examines labor markets, housing markets, capital markets, crime, education, and the links among these markets. Both empirical and theoretical contributions are studied.

• Department: Economics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Brendan O'Flaherty
  CULPA: 64 Info
• 3 points

Society & Environment in the Ancient Med

SOC & ENVIRON IN THE ANC

In this immersive seminar we explore the socioenvironmental history of the ancient Mediterranean and seek, quite literally, to map out the influence of environment on culture. (As part of this endeavor students will draft maps utilizing QGIS, a free and open-source cross-platform geographic information system application). Readings and discussions will focus on the various ways in which different types of human societies (e.g., pastoralists, autonomous villages, cities, kingdoms, and empires) have sought to exploit specific environmental niches for their own purposes. “Nature” and “culture,” although frequently contrasted, are not easily divisible. By means of fields, orchards, gardens, and corrals, humans attempt to force the environment to conform to our desires. Yet the natural world is not so easily subdued. Animal and insect-borne diseases, droughts, floods, fires, and innumerable other disasters lay waste to villages and towns, bankrupt weak states, trigger mass migrations, and serve as the catalyst for conflicts. Such events – exacerbated by climate change, environmental depredation, as well as asymmetric power, and structural violence – demonstrate the degree to which the health of human societies is – and always has been – dependent on the environment in which we live.

• Department: Classics @Barnard
• MTWR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ellen Morris
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

PROGRAMMING & PROBLEM SOLVING

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134 or COMS W3136 or COMS W3137) and (CSEE W3827) Hands-on introduction to solving open-ended computational problems. Emphasis on creativity, cooperation, and collaboration. Projects spanning a variety of areas within computer science, typically requiring the development of computer programs. Generalization of solutions to broader problems, and specialization of complex problems to make them manageable. Team-oriented projects, student presentations, and in-class participation required.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Kenneth A Ross
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• 3 points