ADVANCED HINDI I

Advanced Hindi I and II are third year courses in the Hindi-Urdu program that aim to continue building upon the existing four language skills (speaking, listening, reading and writing) along with grammar and vocabulary in a communicative approach. The objective of these courses is to strengthen students’ language skills and to go beyond them to understand and describe situations and the speech community, understand and discuss Hindi literature and films, news items, T.V. shows and current events. Students will also be given opportunities to work on their areas of interest such as popular culture, professional and research goals in the target language. Students will be expected to expand their vocabulary, enhance grammatical accuracy and develop cultural appropriateness through an enthusiastic participation in classroom activities and immersing themselves in the speech community outside. This course will be taught in the target language. All kinds of conversations such as daily life, on social/public interests’ topics as well as on academic interests, will occur in the target language. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Rakesh Ranjan
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 5 points

TENSILE/COMPRESSION SURFACES

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert E Marino
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• 3 points

Transregional

• Department: Auditing
• Instructor: Mana Kia
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 11 Info
• 0 points

Transregional

History, Politics, Literature, Society -- all these are studied as within national, or, at best, regional frames. What other scales and approaches might be appropriate to the study of particular phenomena or categories in the past, as well as some of the challenges of the present? This course introduces advanced undergraduates and graduate students to transregional studies. We explore topics, approaches, methods, problems, and disciplines through which we can cross the regions, particularly the regions of MESAAS. Case studies will consider thinking through and with oceanic studies, circulation, diaspora, shared hermeneutical traditions, lingua francas and their stories (world literatures?), and connected histories to rethink concepts of societies, collective affiliations, cosmopolitanism, and world history. Undergraduates must have taken at least one of the following: Intro to Islamic Civ (UN 2003), Intro to Indian Civ (UN 2357), African Before Colonialism (UN 2915), Societies and Cultures across the Indian Ocean (UN 3445), or some equivalent (check with me).

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Mana Kia
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 11 Info
• 4 points

RECORDED SOUND

Prerequisites: The instructors permission. As music moves into the 21st century, we find ourselves surrounded by an ever-evolving landscape of technological capability. The world of music, and the music industry itself, is changing rapidly, and with that change comes the opening – and closing – of doorways of possibility. What does this shift mean for today’s practicing artist or composer? With big label recording studios signing and nurturing fewer and fewer artists, it seems certain that, today, musicians who want to record and distribute their music need to be able to do much of the recording and production work on their own. But where does one go to learn how to do this – to learn not only the “how to” part of music production, but the historical underpinnings and the development of the music production industry as well? How does one develop a comprehensive framework within which they can place their own artistic efforts? How does one learn to understand what they hear, re-create what they like and develop their own style? This class, “Recorded Sound,” aims to be the answer. It’s goal is to teach artists how to listen critically to music from across history and genres in order to identify the production techniques that they hear, and reproduce those elements using modern technology so they can be incorporated into the artist’s own musical works.

• Department: Music
• M 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Seth Cluett
  h-index: 4 Info
• 3 points

Advanced Urdu

ADVANCED URDU

Prerequisites: Two years of prior study in Urdu or one year of Urdu for Heritage Speakers I&II courses at Columbia University, or approval of the professor. This is a one-semester course in advanced Urdu language. It will be taught in the fall semester. The goal of the course is to develop students’ linguistic skills i.e. listening, speaking, reading, writing and cultural skills in Urdu, and give students in-depth exposure to some of the finest works of classical and modern Urdu prose. Special emphasis will be given to developing a high-register vocabulary. Necessary grammar points will also be explained for developing an accurate and nuanced understanding of the Urdu language. After completing this course, students will be able to read and enjoy Urdu classics and critical academic texts related to various disciplines i.e. old tales, short stories, essays, history, satire, criticism, politics, current issues etc. along with effective speaking skills suited to active interaction in the speech community and a more advanced academic discussion for undergraduate and graduate students. Students will develop an in-depth understanding of South Asian society and culture as well. This course will prepare students to take MDES GU4635 Readings in Urdu Literature I.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Aftab Ahmad
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 4 points

REVOLUTION IN/ON THE CARIBBEAN

Although a geographically small area, the Caribbean has produced major revolutionary movements, and two globally influential revolutions: the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) and the Cuban Revolution (1959-1976). It has also produced literature and poetic discourse that has sought to revolutionize politics through language. In this course, we will examine texts that reflect on revolution and/or attempt to revolutionize by writers such as Aimé Césaire, CLR James, Derek Walcott, Alejo Carpentier, Frantz Fanon, Reinaldo Arenas, Michelle Cliff, and V.S. Naipaul, among others. We will also read essays by Hannah Arendt, André Breton, Paul Breslin, A. James Arnold, Phyllis Taoua, Robin D.G. Kelley, Brad Epps, Kimberle Lopez, Bruce King, Maria Elena Lima, Yoani Sánchez, and Audre Lorde. In addition, we will listen to a variety of music by Caribbean and African American musicians that take revolution as its theme in form and/or content.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Frances Negron-Muntaner
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

CULTR,MOTIVATN,PROSOCIAL BEHAV

Prerequisites: Some knowledge of Research Methods, Statistics, and Social Psychology, plus Instructors Permission. Reviews and integrates current research on three important topics of social psychology: culture, motivation, and prosocial behavior. Discussions and readings will cover theoretical principles, methodological approaches, and the intersection of these three topics. Students will write a personal research proposal based on the theories presented during the seminar.

• Department: Psychology
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Svetlana Komissarouk
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 3 Info
• 4 points

FOUCAULT AND THE ARTS

Michel Foucault was a great historian and critic who helped change the ways research and criticism are done today – a new ‘archivist’. At the same time, he was a philosopher. His research and criticism formed part of an attempt to work out a new picture of what it is to think, and think critically, in relation to Knowledge, Power, and Processes of Subjectivization. What was this picture of thought? How did the arts, in particular the visual arts, figure in it? How might they in turn give a new image of Foucault’s kind of critical thinking for us today? In this course, we explore these questions, in the company of Deleuze, Agamben, Rancière and others thinkers and in relation to questions of media, document and archive in the current ‘regime of information’. The Seminar is open to students in all disciplines concerned with these issues.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: John Rajchman
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• 4 points

ANATOMY FOR PHYSICISTS & ENGR

Prerequisites: Engineering or physics background Systemic approach to the study of the human body from a medical imaging point of view: skeletal, respiratory, cardiovascular, digestive, and urinary systems, breast and womens issues, head and neck, and central nervous system. Lectures are reinforced by examples from clinical two- and three-dimensional and functional imaging (CT, MRI, PET, SPECT, U/S, etc.).

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 4 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• 3 points

CONVEX OPTIMIZATION FOR ENG

CONVEX OPTIMIZATION ELCT ENG

Prerequisites: (ELEN E3801) or instructor permission. Theory of convex optimization; numerical algorithms; applications in circuits, communications, control, signal processing and power systems.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: James Anderson
  h-index: 18 Info
• 3 points

CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ADVOCACY

This course is designed to introduce contemporary children’s rights issues and help students develop practical advocacy skills to protect and promote the rights of children. Students will explore case studies of advocacy campaigns addressing issues including juvenile justice, child labor, child marriage, the use of child soldiers, corporal punishment, migration and child refugees, female genital mutilation, and LBGT issues affecting children. Over the course of the semester, students will become familiar with international children’s rights standards, as well as a variety of advocacy strategies and avenues, including use of the media, litigation, and advocacy with UN, legislative bodies, and the private sector. Written assignments will focus on practical advocacy tools, including advocacy letters, op-eds, submissions to UN mechanisms or treaty bodies, and the development of an overarching advocacy strategy, including the identification of goals and objectives, and appropriate advocacy targets and tactics.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

BUSINESS ANALYTICS

Prerequisites: (STAT GU4001) or (IEOR E4150) In this course, you will learn how to identify, evaluate, and capture business analytic opportunities that create value. Toward this end, you will learn basic analytical methods and analyze case studies on organizations that successfully deployed these techniques. In the first part of the course, we focus on how to use data to develop insights and predictive capabilities using machine learning and data mining techniques. In the second part, we focus on the use of optimization and simulation to support prescriptive decision-making in the presence of a large number of alternatives and business constraints. Finally, throughout the course, we explore the challenges that can arise in implementing analytical approaches within an organization.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• MW 2:40 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Adam N Elmachtoub
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 13 Info
• Instructor: Van Anh Truong
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Prerequisites: (CHEN E4320) or CHEN E4320 or instructor's permission. Engineering of biochemical and microbiological reaction systems. Kinetics, reactor analysis, and design of batch and continuous fermentation and enzyme processes. Recovery and separations in biochemical engineering systems.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Allie Obermeyer
  h-index: 16 Info
• 3 points

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING DATA ANALYSIS

Prerequisites: (CHEN E4230) and (CHEN E3120) and (CHEN E3210) or

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Kyle Bishop
  h-index: 42 Info
• 3 points

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING DATA ANALYSIS

CHEM E DATA ANALYSIS

Prerequisites: (CHEN E4230) and (CHEN E3120) and (CHEN E3210) or

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Kyle Bishop
  h-index: 42 Info
• 3 points

MORAL PSYCHOLOGY

Prerequisites: Two courses in psychology, including at least one course with a focus on social and/or developmental psychology, and permission of the instructor. Review of theories and current research on moral cognition and behavior. Topics include definitions of morality, the development of moral cognition, the role that other aspects of human experience (e.g. emotion, intentions) play in moral judgments, and the relationship between moral psychology and other areas of study (e.g. religious cognition, prejudice and stereotyping, the criminal justice system).

• Department: Psychology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Larisa A Heiphetz
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

FAQS ABOUT LIFE:APPL OF PSYC RSCH TO EVE

Prerequisites: Two courses in psychology, with at least one focusing on statistics and/or research methods in psychology, and permission of the instructor. Review of basic psychological research that is relevant to questions people frequently encounter during the course of everyday life. Potential topics for this seminar include research on decision-making, emotion, and/or interpersonal relationships.

• Department: Psychology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Larisa A Heiphetz
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Davidson Norris
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

Violence in Mexico: A Historical Approac

The course will develop the analytical tools to understand violence as a complex phenomenon with multiple causes and effects. It will also take a deep look at key moments and places in the history of modern Mexico in order to build the context of those forms of violence. The goal will be to let students deploy the tools of history to understand critically a problem of great contemporary relevance. Students should have reading proficienty in Spanish.

• Department: History
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Pablo Piccato
  CULPA: 22 h-index: 20 Info
• 4 points

WRITERS ON HISTORY: THOMAS MANN

WRITERS ON HISTORY:THOMAS

This seminar is devoted to examining the work of writers who address the nature and course of history in their imaginative and non-fiction work. This semester we will be exploring the work of Thomas Mann in the context of the First and Second World Wars. This will include his relation to the German “conservative revolution,” the Weimar political experience, and the United States, where he spent several years in exile. We will pay particular attention to his conceptions of modern history as expressed in his novels.

• Department: History
• M 4:10 p.m.-7:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Lilla
  CULPA: 57 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

PRINCIPLES OF GENOMIC TECHNOL

Prerequisites: Undergraduate-level biology, organic chemistry and instructors permission. Chemical and physical aspects of genome structure and organization, genetic information flow from DNA to RNA to Protein. Nucleic acid hybridization and sequence complexity of DNA and RNA. Genome mapping and sequencing methods. The engineering of DNA polymerase for DNA sequencing and polymerase chain reaction. Fluorescent DNA sequencing and high-throughput DNA sequencer development. Construction of gene chip and micro array for gene expression analysis. Technology and biochemical approach for functional genomics analysis. Gene discovery and genetics database search method. The application of genetic database for new therapeutics discovery.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 7 p.m.-8:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Jingyue Ju
  h-index: 77 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO FINANCIAL ENGINEERING

Prerequisites: (IEOR E3106) or (IEOR E4106) This course is required for undergraduate students majoring in OR:FE. Introduction to investment and financial instruments via portfolio theory and derivative securities, using basic operations research/engineering methodology. Portfolio theory, arbitrage; Markowitz model, market equilibrium, and the capital asset pricing model. General models for asset price fluctuations in discrete and continuous time. Elementary introduction to Brownian motion and geometric Brownian motion. Option theory; Black-Scholes equation and call option formula. Computational methods such as Monte Carlo simulation.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Emanuel Derman
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 30 Info
• 3 points

MATH & STATS FOR POLI SCI

This course presents basic mathematical and statistical concepts that are essential for formal and quantitative analysis in political science research. It prepares students for the graduate-level sequence on formal models and quantitative political methodology offered in the department. The first half of the course will cover basic mathematics, such as calculus and linear algebra. The second half of the course will focus on probability theory and statistics. We will rigorously cover the topics that are directly relevant to formal and quantitative analysis in political science such that students can build both intuitions and technical skills. There is no prerequisite. The course is aimed for both students with little exposure to mathematics and those who have taken some courses but wish to gain a more solid foundation.
NOTE: This course does not satisfy the Political Science Major/Concentration research methods requirement.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Naoki Egami
  h-index: 8 Info
• 4 points

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134 or COMS W3136 or COMS W3137) and any course on probability. Prior knowledge of Python is recommended. Provides a broad understanding of the basic techniques for building intelligent computer systems. Topics include state-space problem representations, problem reduction and and-or graphs, game playing and heuristic search, predicate calculus, and resolution theorem proving, AI systems and languages for knowledge representation, machine learning and concept formation and other topics such as natural language processing may be included as time permits.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Tony B Dear
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 3 points

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134 or COMS W3136 or COMS W3137) and any course on probability. Prior knowledge of Python is recommended. Provides a broad understanding of the basic techniques for building intelligent computer systems. Topics include state-space problem representations, problem reduction and and-or graphs, game playing and heuristic search, predicate calculus, and resolution theorem proving, AI systems and languages for knowledge representation, machine learning and concept formation and other topics such as natural language processing may be included as time permits.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Tony B Dear
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 3 points

STOCHASTIC MODELS FOR FIN ENG

Prerequisites: (STAT GU4001) This graduate course is only for MS Program in FE students, offered during the summer session. Review of elements of probability theory, Poisson processes, exponential distribution, renewal theory, Wald's equation. Introduction to discrete-time Markov chains and applications to queueing theory, inventory models, branching processes.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 8:40 a.m.-11:10 a.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Lacker
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 13 Info
• 3 points

MATH & STATS FOR POLI SCI-DISC

This is the required discussion section for 
POLS GU4700.

• Department: Political Science
• Instructor: Thomas Leavitt
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• 0 points

Photo III: Photobook

This course will explore the photobook as a central medium of contemporary lens-based practice. Students are exposed to a variety of approaches and viewpoints through historical lectures, class trips, and presentations by guest photographers, curators, critics, editors, graphic designers, etc. Each student will propose, develop, and produce editioned books during this course. This course requires reading, independent research, and work outside of class time.

• Department: Visual Arts
• TR 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Dana N Buhl
  Info
• 3 points

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134 or COMS W3136 or COMS W3137) or the instructors permission. Computational approaches to natural language generation and understanding. Recommended preparation: some previous or concurrent exposure to AI or Machine Learning. Topics include information extraction, summarization, machine translation, dialogue systems, and emotional speech. Particular attention is given to robust techniques that can handle understanding and generation for the large amounts of text on the Web or in other large corpora. Programming exercises in several of these areas.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• F 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Daniel Bauer
  CULPA: 17 h-index: 13 Info
• Instructor: Yassine Benajiba
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

FOUNDATIONS FR FINANCIAL ENGIN

FOUNDATIONS OF FINANCIAL ENGIN

Prerequisites: (IEOR E4701) and (IEOR E4702) and linear algebra. This graduate course is only for MS Program in FE students, offered during the summer session. Discrete-time models of equity, bond, credit, and foreign-exchange markets. Introduction to derivative markets. Pricing and hedging of derivative securities. Complete and incomplete markets. Introduction to portfolio optimization, and the capital asset pricing model.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MTWR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Wenpin Tang
  h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS AND TIME SERIES

STAT ANALYSIS & TIME SERI

Prerequisites: Probability. Corequisites: IEOR E4706,IEOR E4702 This graduate course is only for MS Program in FE students. Empirical analysis of asset prices: heavy tails, test of the predictability of stock returns. Financial time series: ARMA, stochastic volatility, and GARCH models. Regression models: linear regression and test of CAPM, nonlinear regression and fitting of term structures.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 11:40 a.m.-2:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Agostino Capponi
  h-index: 19 Info
• 3 points

RAD INSTRUMENT/MEASUREMENT LAB

Prerequisites: (APPH E4010) or Corequisites: APPH E4010 Lab fee: $50. Theory and use of alpha, beta, gamma, and X-ray detectors and associated electronics for counting, energy spectroscopy, and dosimetry; radiation safety; counting statistics and error propagation; mechanisms of radiation emission and interaction. (Topic coverage may be revised.)

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• M 5 p.m.-10 p.m.
• 3 points

ADVANCED PERSIAN I

While helping students advance their levels of oral and written expression, this course focuses on literature of the modern and medieval periods, with particular emphasis on the development of the modern novella and traditional and new forms of poetry. In addition to literature, students are introduced to a wide variety of genres from political and cultural essays and blogs to newspaper translations of the early 20th century. They will be further exposed to ta´rof in reference to a wide variety of socio-cultural contexts and be expected to use ta´rof in class conversations. Students will be exposed to popular artists and their works and satirical websites for insight into contemporary Iranian culture and politics. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Saeed Honarmand
  Info
• 3 points

RE-THINKING BIM

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Jared Friedman
  Info
• 3 points

Persian Poetry (In Translation)

• Department: Auditing
• Instructor: Hamid Dabashi
  CULPA: 30 Wikipedia Info
• 0 points

Persian Poetry (In Translation)

The purpose of this seminar is to introduce students to the long history and multiple genres of Persian poetry.  The seminar will begin with the classical period and come down to the contemporary periods.  The geographical span of the course extends from Central Asia to the Indian subcontinent to Iran.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Hamid Dabashi
  CULPA: 30 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

QUANT METH 1 APPL REG CAUS INF

Fitting and understanding linear regression and generalized linear models, simulation, causal inference, and the basics of design of quantitative studies. Computation in R. Textbook: Regression and Other Stories by Gelman, Hill, and Vehtari.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Andrew Gelman
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia h-index: 112 Info
• 4 points

QUANTITATIVE METHODS 1 DISCUSSION

QUANT METH 1 DISCUSSION

This is the required discussion section for 
POLS GU4720.

• Department: Political Science
• F 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Merlin N Heidemanns
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• 0 points

TOPICS IN QUANT FINANCE

STOCH CONTROL & FINANCIAL APP

Prerequisites: IEOR E4707 Refer to course syllabus. This course covers stochastic control theory and applications in finance. It includes the following topics: Formulation of stochastic control; maximum principle and backward stochastic differential equations; dynamic programming and Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation; linear-quadratic control and Riccati equations; optimal stopping and variational inequalities; continuous-time expected utility maximization; continuous-time mean-variance portfolio selection and properties of efficient strategies; algorithmic and high frequency trading.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Xunyu Zhou
  h-index: 54 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN QUANTATIVE FINANCE

Introduction to Bitcoin, Crypt

ESG (Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance) Finance is a rapidly growing area of Investment Management – and Finance more broadly – that has received a lot of attention in the past several years from the investor community, financial regulatory agencies, and the general public alike. This course provides an introduction to ESG Finance from a financial engineer’s perspective.
The course combines a theoretical basis underlying risk factor investing and risk management with an in- depth discussion of ESG applications. Climate risk is an area of particular focus due to its increasing general importance. Lectures are supplemented with a number of hands-on exercises, which allow students to immediately try applying learned techniques to publicly available data.

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

QUANT METH 3 EXPERIMENTAL METH

In this course, we will discuss the logic of experimentation, its strengths and weaknesses compared to other methodologies, and the ways in which experimentation has been — and could be — used to investigate social phenomena. Students will learn how to interpret, design, and execute experiments. Special attention will be devoted to field experiments, or randomized trials conducted in real-world settings.
  Prerequisites: Students should have taken at least one or two semesters of statistics. Some understanding of probability, hypothesis testing, and regression are assumed. Familiarity with statistical software such as R is helpful. We will be working with data in class throughout the term. The examples used in the textbook and lectures are written in R, and R tutorials will be taught in special sessions early in the term.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Donald P Green
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 87 Info
• 4 points

QUANTITATIVE METHODS 3: DISCUSSION

QUANT METH 3-DISC

This is the required discussion section for 
POLS GU4724.

• Department: Political Science
• F 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Arnaud A Maurel
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• 0 points

GAP III: DESIGN SEMINAR

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

RESEARCH TOPICS IN GAME THEORY

Prerequisites: POLS W4730 or the instructors permission. Advanced topics in game theory will cover the study of repeated games, games of incomplete information and principal-agent models with applications in the fields of voting, bargaining, lobbying and violent conflict. Results from the study of social choice theory, mechanism design and auction theory will also be treated. The course will concentrate on mathematical techniques for constructing and solving games. Students will be required to develop a topic relating political science and game theory and to write a formal research paper.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Carlo Prato
  h-index: 11 Info
• 4 points

COMPUTATNL ASPECTS OF ROBOTICS

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134 or COMS W3136COMS W3137) Introduction to robotics from a computer science perspective. Topics include coordinate frames and kinematics, computer architectures for robotics, integration and use of sensors, world modeling systems, design and use of robotic programming languages, and applications of artificial intelligence for planning, assembly, and manipulation.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Shuran Song
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 28 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS GAME THEORY - DISC

• Department: Political Science
• F 11:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Lauren E Futter
  Info
• 0 points

EARTH INSTITUTE PRACTICUM

• Department: Auditing
• 0 points

EARTH INSTITUTE PRACTICUM

EARTH INST PRACTICUM ENV/POL

Within the Earth Institute, many centers use their expertise to approach the multifaceted problems currently facing the planet.  Students taking this course will have the opportunity to attend lectures and presentations given by prominent researchers from the following centers from across the Earth Institute: Center for Climate Change Systems Research; Roundtable on Sustainable Mobility; Center for Sustainable Urban Development; Water Center; Center for International Earth Science Information Network; Millennium Villages Project/Tropical Agriculture and Rural Environmental Program; International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution; Center for Global Health and Economic Development.

• Department: Sustainability Management
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 1-3 points

STRUCTURED&HYBRID PRODUCTS

Prerequisites: (IEOR E4700) Conceptual and practical understanding of structured and hybrid products from the standpoint of relevant risk factors, design goals and characteristics, pricing, hedging and risk management. Detailed analysis of the underlying cash-flows, embedded derivative instruments and various structural features of these transactions, both from the investor and issuer perspectives, and analysis of the impact of the prevailing market conditions and parameters on their pricing and risk characteristics. Numerical methods for valuing and managing risk of structured/hybrid products and their embedded derivatives and their application to equity, interest rates, commodities and currencies, inflation and credit-related products. Conceptual and mathematical principles underlying these techniques, and practical issues that arise in their implementations in the Microsoft Excel/VBA and other programming environments. Special contractual provisions often encountered in structured and hybrid transactions, and attempt to incorporate yield curves, volatility smile, and other features of the underlying processes into pricing and implementation framework for these products.

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

STRUCTURED&HYBRID PRODUCTS

Prerequisites: (IEOR E4700) Conceptual and practical understanding of structured and hybrid products from the standpoint of relevant risk factors, design goals and characteristics, pricing, hedging and risk management. Detailed analysis of the underlying cash-flows, embedded derivative instruments and various structural features of these transactions, both from the investor and issuer perspectives, and analysis of the impact of the prevailing market conditions and parameters on their pricing and risk characteristics. Numerical methods for valuing and managing risk of structured/hybrid products and their embedded derivatives and their application to equity, interest rates, commodities and currencies, inflation and credit-related products. Conceptual and mathematical principles underlying these techniques, and practical issues that arise in their implementations in the Microsoft Excel/VBA and other programming environments. Special contractual provisions often encountered in structured and hybrid transactions, and attempt to incorporate yield curves, volatility smile, and other features of the underlying processes into pricing and implementation framework for these products.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Alireza Javaheri
  Info
• 3 points

Re-Reading American Photographs

New methodologies for studying the history of photography drawing on affect theory, new materialism, explorations of circulation and exchange, and other scholarly trends vex established modes of American photo history and invite an expansion of the canon. This seminar surveys recent publications in photo theory and examples of photo history, including the fall 2020 special issue of Panorama on “Re-Reading American Photographs” to deepen our engagement with photographic works from the medium’s first century (1839-1939).

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Hutchinson
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 4 points

Deep Learning for OR and FE

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Ali Hirsa
  h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

MANUSCRIPTS OF THE MUSLIM WORLD

This course is designed to provide the foundations for exploring the rich and fascinating history of Islamic manuscripts from the 9th through the 19th century. Its structure is shaped mainly by thematic considerations in a notable chronological fashion. The meetings amount to a series of “cuts” through the topic and cover themes such as the paper revolution, authorship, scribal culture, technologies of book production, readers and their notes, libraries and book collections, or textual as well as extra-textual components of manuscripts. Over the semester, we will study key material, textual, and visual elements of Islamic book culture spanning many centuries and continents, and visit major historiographical questions on the millennium-long history of Islamic manuscript tradition before the widespread adoption of print technology.

• Department: History
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Tunc Sen
  Info
• 4 points

GLOBALIZATION & ITS RISKS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 The world is being transformed by dramatic increases in flows of people, goods and services across nations. Globalization has the potential for enormous gains but is also associated to serious risks. The gains are related to international commerce where the industrial countries dominate, while the risks involve the global environment, poverty and the satisfaction of basic needs that affect in great measure the developing nations. Both are linked to a historical division of the world into the North and the South-the industrial and the developing nations. Key to future evolution are (1) the creation of new markets that trade privately produced public goods, such as knowledge and greenhouse gas emissions, as in the Kyoto Protocol; (2) the updating of the Breton Woods Institutions, including the creation of a Knowledge Bank and an International Bank for Environmental Settlements.

• Department: Economics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Graciela Chichilnisky
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info
• 3 points

Heterogeneous Computing for Signal and D

HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING

Prerequisites: (ELEN E3801) and (COMS W3134) or similar courses recommended. Methods for deploying signal and data processing algorithms on contemporary general purpose graphics processing units (GPGPUs) and heterogeneous computing infrastructures. Using programming languages such as OpenCL and CUDA for computational speedup in audio, image and video processing and computational data analysis. Significant design project.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Zoran Kostic
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

COMPUTATIONAL GENOMICS

Prerequisites: Working knowledge of at least one programming language, and some background in probability and statistics. Computational techniques for analyzing genomic data including DNA, RNA, protein and gene expression data. Basic concepts in molecular biology relevant to these analyses. Emphasis on techniques from artificial intelligence and machine learning. String-matching algorithms, dynamic programming, hidden Markov models, expectation-maximization, neural networks, clustering algorithms, support vector machines. Students with life sciences backgrounds who satisfy the prerequisites are encouraged to enroll.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 6:40 p.m.-7:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Itshack Pe'er
  CULPA: 14 h-index: 49 Info
• 3 points

MODERN AND MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC POLITICAL TH

MODERN&MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC P

• Department: Auditing
• Instructor: Hamid Dabashi
  CULPA: 30 Wikipedia Info
• 0 points

IoT - INTELLIG & CONNECTED SYS

Prerequisites: Knowledge of programming or instructors permission. Suggested preparation: ELEN E4703, CSEE W4119, CSEE W4840, or related courses. Cyber-physical systems and Internet-of-Things. Various sensors and actuators, communication with devices through serial protocols and buses, embedded hardware, wired and wireless networks, embedded platforms such as Arduino and smartphones, web services on end devices and in the cloud, visualization and analytics on sensor data, end-to-end IoT applications. Group projects to create working CPS/IoT system.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Xiaofan Jiang
  h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

MODERN&MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC POLITICAL THOUGH

MOD & MEDIEVAL ISLAM POL THGT

This course is a comparative examination of modern and medieval Islamic political thoughts. The seminar begins with the roots of Islamic political thoughts in the early Islamic history, as well as in the Qur’anic revelations and Prophetic Hadith traditions. We will then divide the course into two major component: medieval and modern, with the rise of European colonialism in the late 18th and early 19th century as the principal catalyst of groundbreaking changes in Islamic political thoughts.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Hamid Dabashi
  CULPA: 30 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

MACHINE LEARNING

Prerequisites: Any introductory course in linear algebra and any introductory course in statistics are both required. Highly recommended: COMS W4701 or knowledge of Artificial Intelligence. Topics from generative and discriminative machine learning including least squares methods, support vector machines, kernel methods, neural networks, Gaussian distributions, linear classification, linear regression, maximum likelihood, exponential family distributions, Bayesian networks, Bayesian inference, mixture models, the EM algorithm, graphical models and hidden Markov models. Algorithms implemented in MATLAB.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Nakul Verma
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 16 Info
• Instructor: Daniel Hsu
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 44 Info
• 3 points

MACHINE LEARNING

RECITATION

Prerequisites: Any introductory course in linear algebra and any introductory course in statistics are both required. Highly recommended: COMS W4701 or knowledge of Artificial Intelligence. Topics from generative and discriminative machine learning including least squares methods, support vector machines, kernel methods, neural networks, Gaussian distributions, linear classification, linear regression, maximum likelihood, exponential family distributions, Bayesian networks, Bayesian inference, mixture models, the EM algorithm, graphical models and hidden Markov models. Algorithms implemented in MATLAB.

• Department: Computer Science
• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Daniel Hsu
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 44 Info
• 0 points

MACHINE LEARNING

Prerequisites: Any introductory course in linear algebra and any introductory course in statistics are both required. Highly recommended: COMS W4701 or knowledge of Artificial Intelligence. Topics from generative and discriminative machine learning including least squares methods, support vector machines, kernel methods, neural networks, Gaussian distributions, linear classification, linear regression, maximum likelihood, exponential family distributions, Bayesian networks, Bayesian inference, mixture models, the EM algorithm, graphical models and hidden Markov models. Algorithms implemented in MATLAB.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Nakul Verma
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 16 Info
• 3 points

Unsupervised Learning

Core topics from unsupervised learning such as clustering, dimensionality reduction and density estimation will be studied in detail. Topics in clustering: k-means clustering, hierarchical clustering, spectral clustering, clustering with various forms of feedback, good initialization techniques and convergence analysis of various clustering procedures. Topics in dimensionality reduction: linear techniques such as PCA, ICA, Factor Analysis, Random Projections, non-linear techniques such as LLE, IsoMap, Laplacian Eigenmaps, tSNE, and study of embeddings of general metric spaces, what sorts of theoretical guarantees can one provide about such techniques. Miscellaneous topics: design and analysis of datastructures for fast Nearest Neighbor search such as Cover Trees and LSH. Algorithms will be implemented in either Matlab or Python.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Nakul Verma
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 16 Info
• 3 points

Causal Inference

Causal Inference theory and applications. The theoretical topics include the 3-layer causal hierarchy,  causal bayesian networks, structural learning, the identification problem and the do-calculus, linear identifiability, bounding, and counterfactual analysis. The applied part includes intersection with statistics, the empirical-data sciences (social and health), and AI and ML.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Elias Bareinboim
  h-index: 25 Info
• 3 points

MAN, MACHINE & LAND

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Sean A Gallagher
  Info
• 3 points

META TOOL I

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Taeyoung Lee
  Info
• 3 points

MYSTICISM & MEDIEVAL DRAMA

VISIONARY DRAMA

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Eleanor Johnson
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 3 points

Financial Engineering Practitioners Semi

FE Seminar Series

Degree requirement for all MSFE first year students. Seminar Series for Financial Engineering Practitioners. Topics in the field of Financial Engineering. Past seminar topics include Evolving Financial Intermediation, Measuring and Using Trading Algorithms Effectively, Path-Dependent Volatility, Artificial Intelligence and Data Science in modern financial decision making, Risk-Based Performance Attribution, and Financial Machine Learning. Meets select monday evenings.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• M 7 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• 0 points

MSFE Quantitative and Computational Boot

MSFE Quant/Comp Bootcamp

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• 0 points

DATA SCIENCE CAPSTONE&ETHICS

• Department: Engineering
• 3 points

QUESTIONS IN AFRICA LITERATURE

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Souleymane B Diagne
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

LANGUAGE & SOCIETY

How language structure and usage varies according to societal factors such as social history and socioeconomic factors, illustrated with study modules on language contact, language standardization and literacy, quantitative sociolinguistic theory, language allegiance, language, and power.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: John H McWhorter
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

MATH LOGIC II

• Department: Philosophy
• F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Haim Gaifman
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 30 Info
• 3 points

Theories of the Subject

This seminar will revisit some major texts and concerns in the theoretical humanities that develop genealogical, psychoanalytical or political theories of the subject, roughly from Marx until today. The goal is to come to a critical understanding of the centrality of this notion of the subject as one of the founding concepts of modernity, as well as to draw out all the consequences of its crisis in radical humanistic (or even so-called posthumanist)  thought today. Thinkers to be discussed further include Freud, Foucault, Badiou, Butler, Althusser, Rozitchner, Žižek and Zupančič.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Bruno Bosteels
  Wikipedia h-index: 21 Info
• 4 points

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING

Prerequisites: (ELEN E3801) Digital filtering in time and frequency domain, including properties of discrete-time signals and systems, sampling theory, transform analysis, system structures, IIR and FIR filter design techniques, the discrete Fourier transform, fast Fourier transforms.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• MW 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: John Wright
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 44 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED SANSKRIT I

This course constitutes the first half of a year-long advanced reading course in Classical Sanskrit. In 2021-2022, the focus of Advanced Sanskrit will be the genres of literary theory (alaṅkāraśāstra) and belles-lettres (kāvya). Lending equal attention to literary theory and literary practice, this course will introduce students to iconic works of Sanskrit literature along with the interpretive frameworks whereby they were analyzed, relished, and appraised. Literary excerpts may be drawn from an array of subgenres, including courtly epic (mahākāvya), epic drama (nāṭaka), literary prose (gadya), and individual verses (muktaka). Rigorous analysis of primary texts will be supplemented by occasional discussions about what implications the disciplined reading of kāvya may hold for practices such as translation, comparative literature, and transdisciplinarity. Prerequisites: Intermediate Sanskrit II or instructor’s permission.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Tyler M Richard
  Info
• 4 points

Sound: Foundations

SOUND: FOUNDATIONS

This foundational course in sound will begin by exploring how listening happens as well the tools necessary capture and present that listening. Through hands-on experimentation and demonstration, this seminar will examine both the technical and semiotic use of sound as amaterial within creative practice. Fundamental studio techniques will be explored including soldering for building cables, microphones, and loudspeakers. We will also explore the building blocks of analog and digital processes for the creation of sound, including microphones (types, patterns, and placement), basic synthesis, and techniques for recording, mixing, editing, and mastering. Through creative projects that implement these skills we will learn by doing. We will study theories of sound and listening that determine or are determined by technology, from the physical and social dimensions of the sounds we use to create, language (sound as a symbol or object), acoustics (sound in space), acousmatics (sound without a visual reference), and psycho-acoustics (sound as cognitive process). This class assumes no prior knowledge or technical skill. Some reading will be assigned and we will look and listen to a lot of work, students are encouraged to participate actively in discussions.

• Department: Music
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Seth Cluett
  h-index: 4 Info
• 3 points

Aerospace Human Factors Engineering

Engineering fundamentals and experimental methods of human factors design and evaluation for spacecraft which incorporate human-in-the-loop control. Develop understanding of human factors specific to spacecraft design with human-in-the-loop control. Design of human factors experiments utilizing task analysis and user testing with quantitative evaluation metrics to develop a safe and high-performing operational space system. Human-centered design, functional allocation and automation, human sensory performance in the space environment, task analysis, human factors experimental methods and statistics, space vehicle displays and controls, situation awareness, workload, usability, manual piloting and handling qualities, human error analysis and prevention, and anthropometrics.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• F 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael J Massimino
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Conquests, Colonialism, and the Normans

Conquests, Colonialism, N

The fearsome Normans, descended from the Viking Rollo, wrested territory from the king of France, established outposts in Sicily and Antioch, and – most famously – conquered England in 1066. This course asks questions about these Norman conquests, about the Normans’ role as colonizers, and the persistence (or lack thereof) of the Norman identity over time. We will encounter familiar objects, like the Bayeux Tapestry, and texts more often talked about than read, like Wace’s
Roman de Rou
and Orderic Vitalis’s
Ecclesiastical History
. Many of our readings will fall under the category of historiography (=writing about history); another project of the course is the consideration of how to evaluate and analyze questionably literary texts. All required readings will be made available in modern English translation, though familiarity with French, Latin, and/or Arabic could be useful. If you take this course, you will learn not only about the Normans, but about the interactions between northern and southern Europe and the Mediterranean from the tenth to the early thirteenth century. Along the way, you’ll also hone skills of writing, source evaluation, and oral communication.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Hannah Weaver
  Info
• 4 points

The People s Republic of China and the

The Ppls Rep. of China &

This seminar will examine the history of the People’s Republic of China’s relations, struggles, and interconnections with the wider world
since its founding in 1949. Spanning the dramatic upheavals of revolution and the Cold War, the profitable transformations of “reform and opening,” and China’s reemergence as a global power, this course centers on the ways in which China’s leaders have understood and interacted with the world outside their borders since 1949. It focuses primarily on: (1) diplomatic and security engagements, (2) international economic interactions, and (3) transnational intellectual and cultural exchanges. The seminar is designed to enable students to examine major themes in the history of socialism, development, and globalization; to discuss methods in the study of modern Chinese history and international and transnational history, and to develop a deeper historical understanding of China’s rise at a moment when it is dramatically reshaping the world.

• Department: History
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Julian Gewirtz
  Info
• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT EXPERTS

The goal of the instructors of this course is to use the online format to students’ advantage by enlisting a team of top international relations scholars from universities around the USA to lecture on what they know best. Students will hear from, and have the opportunity to engage, a range of both prominent and up-and-coming scholars on cutting-edge topics. The overarching theme will be international conflict. Within that theme, we will explore a diverse array of topics, including: global governance and the US-China conflict, deception and secrecy, the origins of coups, the effectiveness of peacekeeping, the role of women in violent conflict, the role of leaders in conflict, how artificial intelligence and robotics will influence international politics, and norms of civilian protection during warfare, among others. While faculty members can often give lectures on a wide range of subjects, there are typically one or two things that they know really, really well—possibly better than anyone else on Earth. Our goal is to have an entire class in which those people talk about the things they know best. We thus hope to turn the “lemons” of the need for online classes due to the covid-19 pandemic into “lemonade” by enabling students to learn directly from the foremost experts on each week’s topic. While students will hear lectures from and have access to discussion sections with faculty at fourteen different institutions, Professor Fortna will be responsible for the course throughout the semester for all Columbia students enrolled in the class.

• Department: Political Science
• W 7 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Virginia Page Fortna
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

X INFO MODELING I

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Luc B Wilson
  Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED LOGIC DESIGN

Prerequisites: (CSEE W3827) or a half semester introduction to digital logic, or the equivalent. An introduction to modern digital system design. Advanced topics in digital logic: controller synthesis (Mealy and Moore machines); adders and multipliers; structured logic blocks (PLDs, PALs, ROMs); iterative circuits. Modern design methodology: register transfer level modelling (RTL); algorithmic state machines (ASMs); introduction to hardware description languages (VHDL or Verilog); system-level modelling and simulation; design examples.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Mingoo Seok
  h-index: 31 Info
• 3 points

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

Prerequisites: (CSEE W3827) or equivalent. Focuses on advanced topics in computer architecture, illustrated by case studies from classic and modern processors. Fundamentals of quantitative analysis. Pipelining. Memory hierarchy design. Instruction-level and thread-level parallelism. Data-level parallelism and graphics processing units. Multiprocessors. Cache coherence. Interconnection networks. Multi-core processors and systems-on-chip. Platform architectures for embedded, mobile, and cloud computing.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Simha Sethumadhavan
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

LINES NOT SPLINES

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Christoph Kumpusch
  Info
• 3 points

GENERATIVE DESIGN

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Danil Nagy
  Info
• 3 points

ISRAELI NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY, POLI

ISRAELI NATL SEC STRAT PO

Ever since its establishment, Israel has confronted an external environment of nearly unremitting hostility. Repeated wars, perpetual hostilities at lower levels, the failed peace processes with the Palestinians and Syria, and even the “cold” peace with Egypt and Jordan, have reinforced this image. As a result, national security has been at the forefront of Israeli life for six decades. Israel has responded by building a disproportionate national security establishment and by developing a "hunkering down" decision making style. Due to the importance of the Middle East, from the Cold War to this day, as well as its own unique circumstances, Israel has also become an important player in the international arena, far beyond its size. The course is designed for those with a general interest in Israel and the Middle East, especially those interested in national security affairs, military strategy, foreign policy and decision making, students of comparative politics and practitioners/future practitioners, with an interest in "real world" international relations and national security. It focuses on the basic tenets of Israeli foreign and defense strategy, the threats and opportunities facing Israel today, structures and processes of Israeli national security decision making, including their strengths and weaknesses, and the role of the peace process in Israel’s national security strategic thinking. The course presumes reasonable familiarity with Israel and the Middle East. For those in need of further background, a number of basic texts are suggested below.

• Department: Political Science
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Charles D Freilich
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

TRANSITIONAL GEOMETRIES

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Joshua C Jordan
  Info
• 3 points

NMR BIOSOFTENG

Prerequisites: Prerequisites: Physics UN1401, Principles of Chem. Eng. Thermodynamics CHEE E3010, or instructors approval This course is for junior/senior undergraduates and graduate (MS) students. The course focuses on the fundamentals of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and imaging in fields ranging from biomedical engineering to electrochemical energy storage. Course material covers basic NMR theory, instrumentation (including in situ/operando setup), data interpretation, and experimental design to couple with other materials characterization strategies. Course grade based on problem sets, quizzes, and final project presentation.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Lauren E Marbella
  Info
• 3 points

FOOTPRINT: CARBON & DESIGN

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: David E Benjamin
  Info
• 3 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DEVEL

IPE OF DEVELOPING COUNTRI

This course examines how domestic and international politics influence the economic policies of developing countries. We will critically evaluate different theoretical debates related to foreign economic policymaking in emerging markets, and introduce chief methodological approaches used in contemporary analyses. We will focus attention on different types of cross-border flows: the flow of goods (trade policy), the flow of people (immigration policy), the flow and location of production (foreign investment policy), the flow of capital (financial and monetary policy), and the flow of pollution (environment policy). In the process, we will address several themes that are central to understanding the politics of economic policymaking in emerging economies, including, the legacies of colonialism, trade protectionism and liberalization, globalization and the race to the bottom, the relationship between economic policy and culture, and development and redistribution. There will be an emphasis on applying concepts through the analysis of policy-relevant case studies designed for this course.

• Department: Political Science
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Nikhar Gaikwad
  h-index: 7 Info
• 4 points