Decision Models & Management
This course provides an introduction to computer-based models for decision-making. The emphasis is on models that are widely used in diverse industries and functional areas, including finance, accounting, operations, and marketing. Applications will include advertising planning, revenue management, asset-liability management, environmental policy modeling, portfolio optimization, and corporate risk management, among others. The aim of the course is to help students become intelligent consumers of these methods. To this end, the course will cover the basic elements of modeling -- how to formulate a model and how to use and interpret the information a model produces. The course will attempt to instill a critical viewpoint towards decision models, recognizing that they are powerful but limited tools. The applicability and usage of computer-based models have increased dramatically in recent years, due to the extraordinary improvements in computer, information and communication technologies, including not just hardware but also model-solution techniques and user interfaces. Thirty years ago working with a model meant using an expensive mainframe computer, learning a complex programming language, and struggling to compile data by hand; the entire process was clearly marked "experts only." The rise of personal computers, friendly interfaces (such as spreadsheets), and large databases has made modeling far more accessible to managers. Information has come to be recognized as a critical resource, and models play a key role in deploying this resource, in organizing and structuring information so that it can be used productively.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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STATISTICAL MECHANICS
Prerequisites: PHYS W4021-W4022-W4023, or their equivalents. Fundamentals of statistical mechanics; theory of ensembles; quantum statistics; imperfect gases; cooperative phenomena.
- Department: Physics
- TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Ana Asenjo Garcia
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JOURNALISM, THE LAW & SOCIETY
This course is designed to acquaint students with the basic protections and restrictions of the law as they apply to the media. First Amendment rights and legal responsibilities and limitations will be examined and discussed. The course will look at these questions from three viewpoints: from (i) the practical view of a journalist doing his job and (ii) from a legal perspective, all the while (iii) considering the rules in a public policy context: are they fair and appropriate in our society? Significant court cases and fundamental legal rules will be explored in the context of political and historical realities, and in terms of journalistic standards and practices; contemporary media law issues will also be focused on. Among the basic First Amendment issues which will be examined are libel, invasion of privacy, prior restraints, newsgathering and newsgathering torts, copyright and the reporter's privilege.
- Department: Journalism
- W 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Nabiha Syed
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QUANTUM MECHANICS I
Prerequisites: PHYS W4021-W4022, or their equivalents. The fundamental principles of quantum mechanics; elementary examples; angular momentum and the rotation group; spin and identical particles; isospin; time-independent and time-dependent perturbation theory.
- Department: Physics
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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MASTERS PROJECT I
The master’s project will be your most sustained effort during your time at the journalism school, encompassing both fall and spring semesters. It’s not a thesis in the traditional academic sense; think of it instead as an in-depth exploration of a topic as a journalist would pursue it. Master’s projects can take a variety of forms, some of them incorporating elements from more than one medium: print, photo, audio, video, data. Regardless of format, you’ll work on your project under the guidance of an experienced advisor, who will help you to hone your topic, figure out your reporting strategy and serve as your editor for the duration of the project.
- Department: Journalism
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Helen Benedict
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The master’s project will be your most sustained effort during your time at the journalism school, encompassing both fall and spring semesters. It’s not a thesis in the traditional academic sense; think of it instead as an in-depth exploration of a topic as a journalist would pursue it. Master’s projects can take a variety of forms, some of them incorporating elements from more than one medium: print, photo, audio, video, data. Regardless of format, you’ll work on your project under the guidance of an experienced advisor, who will help you to hone your topic, figure out your reporting strategy and serve as your editor for the duration of the project.
- Department: Journalism
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Nina J Berman
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MASTERS PROJECT I
The master’s project will be your most sustained effort during your time at the journalism school, encompassing both fall and spring semesters. It’s not a thesis in the traditional academic sense; think of it instead as an in-depth exploration of a topic as a journalist would pursue it. Master’s projects can take a variety of forms, some of them incorporating elements from more than one medium: print, photo, audio, video, data. Regardless of format, you’ll work on your project under the guidance of an experienced advisor, who will help you to hone your topic, figure out your reporting strategy and serve as your editor for the duration of the project.
- Department: Journalism
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Kevin Coyne
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Samuel G Freedman
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Howard French
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Keith A Gessen
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William Grueskin
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Marguerite Y Holloway
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MASTERS PROJECT I
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The master’s project will be your most sustained effort during your time at the journalism school, encompassing both fall and spring semesters. It’s not a thesis in the traditional academic sense; think of it instead as an in-depth exploration of a topic as a journalist would pursue it. Master’s projects can take a variety of forms, some of them incorporating elements from more than one medium: print, photo, audio, video, data. Regardless of format, you’ll work on your project under the guidance of an experienced advisor, who will help you to hone your topic, figure out your reporting strategy and serve as your editor for the duration of the project.
- Department: Journalism
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Sally W Herships
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MASTERS PROJECT I
The master’s project will be your most sustained effort during your time at the journalism school, encompassing both fall and spring semesters. It’s not a thesis in the traditional academic sense; think of it instead as an in-depth exploration of a topic as a journalist would pursue it. Master’s projects can take a variety of forms, some of them incorporating elements from more than one medium: print, photo, audio, video, data. Regardless of format, you’ll work on your project under the guidance of an experienced advisor, who will help you to hone your topic, figure out your reporting strategy and serve as your editor for the duration of the project.
- Department: Journalism
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Margaret Boynton
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Dale Maharidge
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Michael Shapiro
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Paula Span
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MASTERS PROJECT I
STABILE MP
The master’s project will be your most sustained effort during your time at the journalism school, encompassing both fall and spring semesters. It’s not a thesis in the traditional academic sense; think of it instead as an in-depth exploration of a topic as a journalist would pursue it. Master’s projects can take a variety of forms, some of them incorporating elements from more than one medium: print, photo, audio, video, data. Regardless of format, you’ll work on your project under the guidance of an experienced advisor, who will help you to hone your topic, figure out your reporting strategy and serve as your editor for the duration of the project.
- Department: Journalism
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Sheila Coronel
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Ellen P Gabler
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Jacob B Pearson
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Benjamin P Protess
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Steven Eder
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Dual SEAS Master's Project I
- Department: Journalism
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Jonathan Soma
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MASTERS PROJECT
THE DOCUMENTARY FILM
The master’s project will be your most sustained effort during your time at the journalism school, encompassing both fall and spring semesters. It’s not a thesis in the traditional academic sense; think of it instead as an in-depth exploration of a topic as a journalist would pursue it. Master’s projects can take a variety of forms, some of them incorporating elements from more than one medium: print, photo, audio, video, data. Regardless of format, you’ll work on your project under the guidance of an experienced advisor, who will help you to hone your topic, figure out your reporting strategy and serve as your editor for the duration of the project.
- Department: Journalism
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Pamela J Hogan
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Master's Project I_PT C19
DOCUMENTARY FILM
- Department: Journalism
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Alyse Spiegel
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Master's Project I_PT C19
- Department: Journalism
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Marguerite Y Holloway
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Kevin Coyne
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Dale Maharidge
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Master's Project I_PT C19
STABILE
- Department: Journalism
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Margaret Boynton
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Graduate Symposium in Medical Humanities
Graduate Symposium Medica
The field of medicine has been tasked with responding to a host of new ethical dilemmas, ranging from questions arising from technological advances in genomic, reproductive, and cancer care to exacerbated disparities in health justice and problems of provider burnout. Meanwhile, as a set of disciplines, the humanities face the challenge of how to write about embodied experiences (illness, pain, and healing) that resist easy verbal categorization. The interdisciplinary field of
medical humanities
offers both a set of methodological approaches to address such challenges and a broad umbrella under which to study the mutual influences of medico-scientific ideas and cultural/aesthetic practices. Medicine—from intimate clinical care of the individual patient to public health policymaking—has much to contribute to a humanistic understanding of how knowledge is produced and communicated, while the approaches that emerge from a historiographical or interpretive framework can enrich those coming from the physician’s black bag. Co-sponsored by the Department of English and Comparative Literature (Morningside) and the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics (CUIMC), this innovative pilot course will offer humanists and health professionals a rare opportunity to be trained in the habits of mind of one another’s discipline, with the aim of preparing all students to teach in the medical humanities. Together, we will examine how literature, history, and philosophy make visible the experience of bodies in different stages of health and disease. We will consider how the medical humanities build on and revise earlier notions of the “medical arts” and how they attend to the historical and modern interplay between physicians, writers, and artists. Through guest lectures drawn from both humanities and medical disciplines, we will explore field-specific approaches. And through clinical witnessing at CUIMC, we will encounter the realities of caregiving. By the end of the course, students will be able to communicate to learners in the medical humanities the habits of mind of clinicians and humanities scholars; to mutually appraise positions from humanities and clinical practice; and to conjecture areas in which humanities and clinical practice are complementary. The pilot course is open to graduate students in GSAS and to health professions students and practitioners at CUIMC (MD, PhD, MPH).
To apply, please write to the course instructors with a statement of intere
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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NEUROGENOMICS
The course integrates Neuroscience, Genomics, and Data Science. We provide an introduction to the analysis of large datasets with a focus on whole-tissue and single-cell transcriptomics and other ‘omics’, including gene expression and gene pathway analysis, in Neuroscience applications. The course is taught by wet-lab scientists – thus the emphasis on practical tools and skills required to analyze data and on the interconnection between experimental design and data analysis. Each session combines a lecture and a computer workshop. An introduction to R programming and statistical concepts, for experimental biologists /neuroscientists to plan the experiments and analyze, visualize and interpret their own data. The course will culminate in student project presentations on differential gene expression analysis. The course is designed for graduate students in Neuroscience/Biological sciences. No prior knowledge of programming or statistics is required, but will be beneficial.
- Department: Neurobiology and Behavior
- W 2:40 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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PARTICLE PHENOMENOLOGY
Prerequisites: PHYS G6037 or the equivalent. The elementary particles and their properties; interactions of charged particles and radiation with matter; accelerators, particle beams, detectors; conservation laws; symmetry principles; strong interactions, resonances, unitary symmetry; electromagnetic interactions; weak interactions; current topics.
- Department: Physics
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gustaaf Brooijmans
CULPA: 11 Info - 3 points
RED ELECTIVE INTERNSHIP
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Rebecca A Andersen Polimeda
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VALUE, OBJECTS, AND MEANING
- Department: Anthropology
- R 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Hannah Chazin
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SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY: THE ORIGINS
Prerequisites: this course is intended for sociology Ph.D. and SMS students. No others without the instructors written permission. Foundational sources and issues in sociological theory: Adam Smith, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel, Mead, Mauss, others; division of labor, individualism, exchange, class and its vicissitudes, social control, ideas and interests, contending criteria of explanation and interpretation.
- Department: Sociology
- W 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Gil Eyal
CULPA: 15
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CARIOLOGY
- Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
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David A Albert
CULPA: 32 Wikipedia h-index: 17 Info - 0 points
ADVNCD TPCS IN IMMUNOLOGY
ADVNCD TPCS IN IMMUNOLOGY I
- Department: Microbiology
- R 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Christian W Schindler
CULPA: 3 Info - 3 points
MAKING ETHNOG:METHOD & WRITING
This course begins with two central and related epistemological problems in conducting ethnographic research: first, the notion that objects of scientific research are ‘made’ through adopting a particular relational stance and asking certain kinds of questions. From framing a research problem and choosing a ‘research context’ story to tell, to the kinds of methods one selects to probe such a problem, the ‘how’ and ‘what’ – or means and content – are inextricably intertwined. A second epistemological problem concerns the artifice of reality, and the nebulous distinction between truth and fiction, no less than the question of where or with whom one locates such truth. With these issues framing the course, we will work through some key themes and debates in anthropology from the perspective of methodology, ranging from subject/object liminality to incommensurability and radical alterity to the politics of representation. Students will design an ethnographic project of their choosing and conduct research throughout the term, applying different methodological approaches popular in anthropology and the social sciences more generally, such as participant observation, semi-structured interview, diary-keeping and note-taking.
- Department: Anthropology
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Juan C Mazariegos
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CRITICAL ISSUES IN JOURNALISM
This course is an exercise in discussing philosophical and ethical choices -- quandaries, at times -- in the covering of news, the construing of news, judging the newsworthiness of news. Among the subjects explored during the class are the responsibilities of journalists; the ideal of objectivity, the impacts of new technology, use of anonymous sources, and using experts.
- Department: Journalism
- W 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Kia Gregory
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Intellectual and Institutional Framework
- Department: Journalism
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Michael Schudson
Wikipedia h-index: 65 Info - 3 points
READING, WRITING, ETHNOGRAPHY
- Department: Anthropology
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Rosalind Morris
CULPA: 20 Wikipedia Info - 3 points
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING
- Department: Physics
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Robert D Mawhinney
CULPA: 6 h-index: 49 Info - 3 points
SOLID STATE PHYSICS I
Prerequisites: (APPH E3100) or the equivalent. Knowledge of statistical physics on the level of MSAE E3111 or PHYS GU4023 strongly recommended. Crystal structure, reciprocal lattices, classification of solids, lattice dynamics, anharmonic effects in crystals, classical electron models of metals, electron band structure, and low-dimensional electron structures.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:35 p.m.
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Aron Pinczuk
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Personal Leadership in Public Health
PERSONAL LEADERSHIP IN P
- Department: Public Health
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Personal Leadership in Public Health
PERSONAL LEADERSHIP IN P
- Department: Public Health
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Personal Leadership in Public Health
PERSONAL LEADERSHIP IN P
- Department: Public Health
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INTRO TO INTL PLANNING
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Kathryn Owens
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TPCS IN COMP NEUROSCI/ENGINEERING
TPC:DEVICES&ANALYSIS FOR NEURO
Prerequisites: The instructors permission. Topic: Devices and Analysis for Neural Circuits.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- T 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
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Dion Khodagholy Araghy
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ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY
Prerequisites: PHYS W3008 or its equivalent. Fundamentals of electromagnetism from an advanced perspective with emphasis on electromagnetic fields in vaccum with no bounding surfaces present. A thorough understanding of Maxwells equations and their application to a wide variety of phenomena. Maxwells equations (in vacuum) and the Lorentz force law - noncovariant form. Scalar and vector potentials, gauge transformations. Generalized functions (delta functions and their derivatives), point changes. Fourier transforms, longitutdinal ad transverse vector fields. Solution of Maxwells equations in unbounded space for electrostatics and magnetostatics with given charge and current sources. Special relativity, Loretnz transformations, 4-momentum, relativistic reactions. Index mechanics of Cartesian tensor notation. Covariatn formulation of Maxwells equations and the Lorentz force law, Lorentz transformation properties of E and B. Lagrangian density for the electromagnetic field, Langrangian density for the Proca field. Symmetries and conservation laws, Noethers theorem. Field conservation laws (energy, linear momentum, angular momentum, stress tensor). Monochromatic plane wave solutions of the time-dependent source-free Maxwell equations, elliptical polarization, partially-polarized electromagnetgic waves, Stokes parameters. Solution of the time-dependent Maxwell equations in unbounded space with given chare and current sources (retarded and advanced solutions). Properties of electromagnetic fields in the radiaion zone, angular distribution of radiated power, frequency distribution of radiated energy, radiation form periodic and non-periodic motions. Radiation from antennas and antenna arrays. Lienard-Wiechert fields, the relativistic form of the Larmor radiation forumla, synchrotron radiation, bremsstrahlung, undulator and wiggler radiation. Electric dipole and magnetic dipole radiation. Scattering of electromagnetic radiation, the differential scattering cross-section, low-energy and high-energy approximations, scattering from a random or periodic array of scatterers. Radiation reaction force, Feynman-Wheeler theoryy. The macroscopic Maxwell equations (spatial averaging to get P, M, D, H). Convolutions, linear materials (permittivity, permeability, and conductivity), causality, analytics continuation, Kramers-Kronig relations. Propagation of monochromatic plane waves in isotropic and non-isotropic linear materials, ordinary ad extraordinary waves. Cherenkov radiation, transition radiation.
- Department: Physics
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Brian Metzger
CULPA: 5 h-index: 77 Info - 4.5 points
Qualitative Research Design (I)
Qualitative Resrch Design
This is a course for students who have completed the Designs of Social Research Class. It is open to 6-10 students with instructor’s permission only. The idea is to read collaboratively a set of books that feature different ways of working with qualitative, mainly ethnographic, data in order to reveal something new about the world. The goal is to understand what makes a study work. The course is planned for 14 reading sessions over the course of 1 year, meeting every other week. The readings I have in mind are listed below. The class decides along the way, especially for the 2nd semester, weeks 7-12 what we read. The participants write 2-page memos for each class in anticipation of the discussion, and read and comment on the other memos prior to class.
- Department: Sociology
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Peter Bearman
CULPA: 19
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DESIGNS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH
Required of all incoming sociology doctoral students. Prepares students who have already completed an undergraduate major or its equivalent in some social science to evaluate and undertake both systematic descriptions and sound explanations of social structures and processes.
- Department: Sociology
- W 9:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
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Peter Bearman
CULPA: 19
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Independent Study
INDEPENDENT STUDY
Individualized, guided learning experiences at the graduate level in a selected area of concentration. The area of concentration selected should reflect both the role of the clinical specialist/nurse practitioner and the student's specific interests. Proposed work must be outlined prior to registration and agreed upon by both faculty and student.
- Department: Nursing
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Judy Honig
h-index: 13 Info - 1-8 points
AF-AM: PRO SEMINAR
This course introduces students to central questions and debates in the fields of African American Studies, and it explores the various interdisciplinary efforts to address them. The seminar is designed to provide an interdisciplinary foundation and familiarize students with a number of methodological approaches. Toward this end we will have a number of class visitors/guest lecturers drawn from members of IRAAS's Core and Affiliated Faculty.
- Department: African American and African Diaspora
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Mabel O Wilson
Wikipedia h-index: 8 Info - 4 points
MA SEMINAR IN GLOBAL THOUGHT
- Department: Committee on Global Thought
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Vishakha Desai
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INTRO TO COMP LIT & SOC-GRAD
Please note: This course is required for ICLS graduate students, and priority will be given to these students. Generally the course fills with ICLS students each semester. Students MAY NOT register themselves for this course. Contact the ICLS office for more information at icls.columbia@gmail.com. This course was formerly numbered as G4900. This course introduces beginning graduate students to the changing conceptions in the comparative study of literatures and societies, paying special attention to the range of interdisciplinary methods in comparative scholarship. Students are expected to have preliminary familiarity with the discipline in which they wish to do their doctoral work. Our objective is to broaden the theoretical foundation of comparative studies to negotiate a conversation between literary studies and social sciences. Weekly readings are devoted to intellectual inquiries that demonstrate strategies of research, analysis, and argumentation from a multiplicity of disciplines and fields, such as anthropology, history, literary criticism, architecture, political theory, philosophy, art history, and media studies. Whenever possible, we will invite faculty from the above disciplines and fields to visit our class and share their perspectives on assigned readings. Students are encouraged to take advantage of these opportunities and explore fields and disciplines outside their primary focus of study and specific discipline.
- Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
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Brent H Edwards
CULPA: 6
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Managerial Statistics
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
- W 5:40 p.m.-8:55 p.m.
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Jing Dong
h-index: 11 Info - 1.5 points
Managerial Statistics
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
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Instructor:
Jing Dong
h-index: 11 Info - 1.5 points
Managerial Statistics
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
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Instructor:
Jing Dong
h-index: 11 Info - 1.5 points