TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
INTRODUCTION TO DEVOPS
Prerequisites: Instructor's permission. Special topics arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis. Since the content of this course changes each time it is offered, it may be repeated for credit. Consult the department for section assignment.
- Department: Computer Science
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tristan Boutros
CULPA: 6 Info - 3 points
TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
ELEMENTS DATA SCI FIRST CRSE
Prerequisites: Instructor's permission. Special topics arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis. Since the content of this course changes each time it is offered, it may be repeated for credit. Consult the department for section assignment.
- Department: Computer Science
- M 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Bryan Gibson
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TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
APPLIED DEEP LEARNING
Prerequisites: Instructor's permission. Special topics arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis. Since the content of this course changes each time it is offered, it may be repeated for credit. Consult the department for section assignment.
- Department: Computer Science
- R 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Joshua B Gordon
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TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Prerequisites: Instructor's permission. Special topics arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis. Since the content of this course changes each time it is offered, it may be repeated for credit. Consult the department for section assignment.
- Department: Computer Science
- TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Timothy K Paine
CULPA: 4 Info - 3 points
TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
PARALLEL FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMIN
Prerequisites: Instructor's permission. Special topics arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis. Since the content of this course changes each time it is offered, it may be repeated for credit. Consult the department for section assignment.
- Department: Video Network
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Instructor:
Stephen A Edwards
CULPA: 21
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TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
APPLIED DEEP LEARNING
Prerequisites: Instructor's permission. Special topics arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis. Since the content of this course changes each time it is offered, it may be repeated for credit. Consult the department for section assignment.
- Department: Video Network
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Instructor:
Joshua B Gordon
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RESEARCH COURSE
Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies permission. Provides students with the experience of participating in the research process by matching them to a faculty mentor who will put them to work on one of his or her current research projects. A list of available research positions is distributed each semester on the major listserv.
- Department: Economics
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Instructor:
Susan M Elmes
CULPA: 44
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INDEPENDENT STUDY
ITAL INDEPENDENT STUDY
- Department: Italian
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Instructor:
Teodolinda Barolini
CULPA: 7
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INDEPENDENT STUDY
- Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
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Arden A Hegele
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Danielle R Spencer
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SUPERVISED INDEPENDENT STUDY
Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies permission.
- Department: Economics
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Instructor:
Susan M Elmes
CULPA: 44
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INTERMEDIATE PROJECTS
Prerequisites: Requires approval by a faculty member who agrees to supervise the work. May be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 total points may be used for degree credit. Substantial independent project involving laboratory work, computer programming, analytical investigation, or engineering design.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
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Dimitris Anastassiou
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Keren Bergman
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Shih-Fu Chang
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Javad Ghaderi
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Christine P Hendon
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Predrag R Jelenkovic
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Michal Lipson
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Nima Mesgarani
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Debasis Mitra
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Kenneth Shepard
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Yannis P Tsividis
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Xiaodong Wang
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John Wright
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Charles A Zukowski
CULPA: 5
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Gil Zussman
CULPA: 3
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James Anderson
h-index: 18 Info - 0-3 points
MS PROJECTS IN MECH ENGINEER
MS PROJECTS IN MECH ENGINEERIN
Masters level independent project involving theoretical, computational, experimental or engineering design work. May be repeated, subject to Masters Program guidelines.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
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Instructor:
Sunil Agrawal
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Peter J. Schuck
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Gerard H Ateshian
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Michael Burke
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Nicolas W Chbat
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James Hone
CULPA: 11
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Jeffrey W Kysar
CULPA: 9
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Qiao Lin
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Richard W Longman
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Michael J Massimino
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Vijay Modi
CULPA: 3
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Kristin Myers
CULPA: 3
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Arvind Narayanaswamy
CULPA: 9
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Vijay Vedula
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Sinisa Vukelic
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Y. Lawrence Yao
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Hod Lipson
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Karen Kasza
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Instructor:
Graham Walker
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SUPERVISED INDEPENDENT STUDY
- Department: Music
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Instructor:
Seth Cluett
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DIRECTED READINGS
- Department: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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Instructor:
Katherine Ewing
CULPA: 1 h-index: 22 Info - 1-4 points
INDEPENDENT STUDY
- Department: Women's and Gender Studies
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jack Halberstam
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SUPERVISED INTERNSHIP
Only for masters students in the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics who may need relevant work experience a part of their program of study. Final report required. This course may not be taken for pass/fail or audited.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
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Klaus A Hamacher
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Kui Ren
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Michael E Mauel
CULPA: 9
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FIELDWORK
Prerequisites: Obtained internship and approval from faculty advisor. BMEN graduate students only. Only for BMEN graduate students who need relevant work experience as part of their program of study. Final reports required. May not be taken for pass/fail credit or audited.
- Department: Biomedical Engineering
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Instructor:
Katherine E Reuther
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FIELDWORK
Instructors written approval. May be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 total points may be used for degree credit. Only for Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics graduate students who include relevant off-campus work experience as part of their approved program of study. Final report and letter of evaluation required. May not be taken for pass/fail credit or audited.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
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Instructor:
Jacob Fish
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 54 Info - 1-1.5 points
FIELDWORK
Prerequisites: Instructors written permission. Only EAEE graduate students who need relevant off-campus work experience as part of their program of study as determined by the instructor. Written application must be made prior to registration outlining proposed study program. Final reports required. This course may not be taken for pass/ fail credit or audited. International students must also consult with the International Students and Scholars Office.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
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Instructor:
Pierre Gentine
CULPA: 1 h-index: 43 Info - 1 points
SENIOR HONORS THESIS WORKSHOP
Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 and the director of the departmental honors programs permission. Students must have a minimum GPA of 3.7 in all required major courses, including calculus and statistics, prior to enrollment. The honors thesis seminar is a year-long course, beginning in the fall semester and ending in the spring semester. Students who have been approved to enter the workshop will be registered for both semesters by the department during the first two weeks of classes; 3 points are earned per semester. This workshop may only be taken by students applying for departmental honors, and it also fulfills the economics seminar requirement for the economics major and all joint majors. Students must see the director during mid-semester registration in the spring to discuss their proposed thesis topic, at which time they will be matched with appropriate faculty who will act as their thesis adviser. Students will meet their adviser over the course of the year at mutually agreed upon times. A rough draft of the thesis will be due during the first week of February in the spring semester, and the final draft will be due three weeks before the last day of classes. Please note that for those joint majors that require two seminars, one in economics and one in the other discipline (i.e. Political Science), the economics senior honors thesis seminar only fulfills the economics seminar requirement.
- Department: Economics
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michael C Best
CULPA: 1 h-index: 8 Info - 3 points
INDEPENDENT STUDY
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
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Instructor:
Joseph Albernaz
CULPA: 4
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Christopher C Baswell
CULPA: 8
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Instructor:
Frances Negron-Muntaner
CULPA: 18
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FIELDWORK
Prerequisites: Obtained internship and approval from faculty advisor. Only for IEOR graduate students who need relevant work experience as part of their program of study. Final reports required. This course may not be taken for pass/fail credit or audited.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- 1-1.5 points
SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH
- Department: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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Instructor:
Kathryn Spellman Poots
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Instructor:
Tahira S Khan
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SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH
- Department: Institute for Israel & Jewish Studies
- M 9 a.m.-10:15 a.m.
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Instructor:
Isabelle C Levy
CULPA: 5
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FIELDWORK
Prerequisites: Instructors written approval. Only for ME graduate students who need relevant off-campus work experience as part of their program of study as determined by the instructor. Written application must be made prior to registration outlining proposed study program. Final reports required. May not be taken for pass/fail credit or audited. International students must consult with the International Students and Scholars Office.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
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Instructor:
Hod Lipson
Wikipedia h-index: 79 Info - 1 points
GLOBAL INDIGENOUS RELIGIOUS HISTORIES
Nomads, natives, peasants, hill people, aboriginals, hunter-gatherers, First Nations—these
are just a handful of the terms in use to define indigenous peoples globally. The names these groups
use to describe themselves, as well as the varying religious practices, attitudes, and beliefs among
these populations are far more numerous and complex. For much of recorded history however,
colonial centers of power have defined indigenous peoples racially and often in terms of lacking
religion; as pagan, barbarian, non-modern, and without history or civilization. Despite this conundrum of identity and classification, indigenous religious traditions often
have well-documented and observable pasts. This course considers the challenges associated with
studying indigenous religious history, as well as the changing social, political, and legal dimensions
of religious practice among native groups over time and in relationship to the state. Organized
thematically and geographically, we will engage with classic works of ethnohistory, environmental
history, indigenous studies, anthropology, and religious studies as well as primary sources that
include legal documentation, military records, personal testimony, and oral narrative.
- Department: Religion @Barnard
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tiffany Hale
CULPA: 4
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CRITICAL COLLOQUIUM
The structure of the colloquium combines reading and analysis of texts by major theorists and critics. Each week discussions focus on key terms and analytical lenses in the history of art and art criticism. The course is designed to allow for guest presentations on particular issues by critics and writers, just as it draws on the expertise and participation of Columbia faculty. The aim is to develop students critical thinking and for them to learn directly from leading practitioners writing about modern and contemporary art. In addition to department faculty, writers for Artforum, Grey Room, Parkett, Texte zur Kunst, and October, among other venues, regularly participate in the colloquium.
- Department: Art History and Archaeology
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Janet L Kraynak
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MA THESIS
This course will enable students to complete a research study of considerable length that will (i) enable them to explore a given area of research in substantive detail; (ii) put them on the path to true competence as independent researchers; and (iii) provide those who go on to apply to PhD programs with a substantial writing sample that shows off their technical abilities to the best advantage.
- Department: Classics
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Instructor:
Nancy Worman
CULPA: 23
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Instructor:
Helene P Foley
CULPA: 18
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INTRO TO AMERICAN STUDIES
This course explores the set of possibilities presented by American Studies as a comparative field of study. We begin with a brief overview of the history of the field, and then we’ll focus primarily on the range of modes in which its interdisciplinary work has been undertaken (literary, historical, legal, digital, etc.). The idea here is not to arrive a comprehensive picture of American Studies, but to think about the many ways people have produced knowledge under its aegis. We will also focus on work by Columbia faculty, and sessions of the course are built around visits by faculty in the field to Columbia’s University Seminar in American Studies. Our guiding questions include: How does one do research in a multimedia, “cultural” environment? How does one situate oneself as an “intellectual” or “critic” in relation to one’s object of study? How does one write about different media/genres? How does one incorporate different methodologies into one research project?
- Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Matthew Sandler
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
WORKPLACE COMMUNICATION IN ENGLISH
WORKPLACE COMM IN ENGLISH
English communication proficiency is important for academic achievement and career success. Columbia Engineering provides English communication instruction for students who would like to improve their communication skills in English. In a small group setting (15-20 students), enrollees will obtain opportunities to interact with the instructor and fellow classmates to improve communication skills.
- Department: Engineering
- MR 7 a.m.-8:40 a.m.
- MR 10 a.m.-11:40 a.m.
- TR 8 a.m.-9:40 a.m.
- TR 10:30 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
- TR 8 a.m.-9:40 a.m.
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Instructor:
Hyoseon Lee
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RES SKILLS/MTHDS-INT/WRLD HIST
In the first semester a series of workshops will introduce the field of international history and various research skills and methods such as conceptualization of research projects and use of oral sources. The fall sessions will also show the digital resources available at Columbia and how students can deploy them in their individual projects. In the second semester students will apply the skills acquired in the fall as they develop their proposal for the Master's thesis, which is to be completed next year at the LSE. The proposal identifies a significant historical question, the relevant primary and secondary sources, an appropriate methodology, what preliminary research has been done and what remains to be done. Students will present their work-in-progress.
- Department: History
- F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Line Lillevik
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FOUNDATION TO ISLAMIC STUDIES
This course provides students with a foundation to the key concepts, theories and debates in the field of Islamic studies. Interdisciplinary in scope, and wide-ranging in substantive coverage, the seminar features weekly visits by faculty from across the university. The course will utilize major approaches in the classic areas of history, law and political economy as well as sociology, anthropology, media studies, and colonial and postcolonial studies. We will critically address theoretical questions and debates about culture and civilization, religion, secularization, law and authority, nation-states, globalization, minority rights and technology. While engaging with archetypal themes in Islamic studies, this course will also concentrate on gender and sexuality, cultural production and articulations, transnational movements, and modes of religious association and ritual in everyday life. We will examine the variety of ways that Islamic norms and practices are developed, reinterpreted, embodied and regulated in contemporary Muslim societies as well as among Muslims minorities in western contexts. This seminar is a core course for the MA in Islamic Studies and will be helpful for graduate students studying the Middle East, South Asia and Africa. Qualified undergraduates may register with permission of the instructor.
- Department: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Kathryn Spellman Poots
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THEORY AND METHODS I
This course will be the first part of a two part introduction to theoretical approaches to modern social science and cultural studies in Asian and African contexts. The first course will focus primarily on methodological and theoretical problems in the fields broadly described as historical social sciences - which study historical trends, and political, economic and social institutions and processes. The course will start with discussions regarding the origins of the modern social sciences and the disputes about the nature of social science knowledge. In the next section it will focus on definitions and debates about the concept of modernity. It will go on to analyses of some fundamental concepts used in modern social and historical analyses: concepts of social action, political concepts like state, power, hegemony, democracy, nationalism; economic concepts like the economy, labor, market, capitalism, and related concepts of secularity/secularism, representation, and identity. The teaching will be primarily through close reading of set texts, followed by a discussion. A primary concern of the course will be to think about problems specific to the societies studied by scholars of Asia and Africa: how to use a conceptual language originally stemming from reflection on European modernity in thinking about societies which have quite different historical and cultural characteristics.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Sudipta Kaviraj
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Contentious Politics: Europe, 1960s-1970
Contentious Politics 1960
During the 1960s and 1970s critical thought and social movements reemerged with unprecedented force and diffusion, defying inherited values, challenging power relations, and raising revolutionary expectations. This course will survey a set of radical ideas and collective mobilizations that developed in Europe during that period. Classes will be organized around key issues and areas of intervention such as labor, environment, and education. Following a transnational approach, the course will bring to light cross-border influences, interactions, and similarities among different movements both at continental and global level. Drawing on a combination of primary sources, case studies, and historiographical interpretations, students will learn how to contextualize movements, explore their intellectual references and repertoires of action, analyze the way they (sometimes) shifted from the margins to the mainstream, and understand the conditions under which they failed or were defeated. Ultimately, students will be able to assess the complex legacy of that season of activism, which ranges from moral standards to visions of emancipation and criteria of justice.
- Department: Modern European Studies
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Luca Falciola
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ORIENTATION
This course is a no-credit class designed to start providing critical material to incoming QMSS students overthe summer to help prepare them for the coding demands of the program. We will post links, exercises andresources for students to work on before they start their classes in the Fall of 2018.
- Department: Quantitative Methods/Social Sciences
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Instructor:
Gregory M Eirich
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Introduction to the Study of South Asia
INTRODUCTION TO SOUTH ASI
- Department: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
- R 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Katherine Ewing
CULPA: 1 h-index: 22 Info - 4 points
FOUNDATIONS OF WEALTH MANAGEMENT
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In this course, students will explore the history and current state of the wealth
management industry and gain exposure to the fundamentals of financial planning,
including Accounting and Finance. This course will address the function, purpose,
and regulation of financial institutions, the regulations and requirements governing
financial services, and the ethical responsibilities of wealth management
professionals. This course will provide an introduction to tax concepts and trusts
and estates. Students will also learn about the major asset classes, including cash
and cash alternatives, fixed income, equities and alternative investments. In
addition, students will be able to apply core accounting and finance concepts,
including: time value of money, weighted average cost of capital, discounted cash
flow, internal rate of return, US GAAP standards, and three-statement financial
analysis. Finally, students will be provided an overview of the importance of
communication and counseling.
- Department: Wealth Management
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Instructor:
Ronald Sages
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