This course is an introduction to the role of politics in policymaking in the developing world—where weak state institutions, a range of regime types (democracies, non-liberal democracies, authoritarian) and multiethnic/multi-national divisions are often the norm. Policymaking of all kinds and at all levels (local, state, national, global) takes place in a particular political environment that shapes how strategic political actors identify specific policy preferences, seek to advance their own goals and realize their own visions of how the world ought to be. Public policy professionals must navigate the intersecting realms of political institutions, multiple political actors and stakeholders, political ideas and discourse, the capacity of bureaucracies to successfully and independently implement and evaluate those policies, and, today, traditional and new media and access to big data.
Aim of the class, in part, is to bring the attention towards a relatively marginalized part of Marx’s “Critique of political economy” that seems to have acquired a new relevance in the context of Global Migrations which, increasingly, appear as one of the sites of extreme violence and determinants of politics in the framework of today’s “absolute capitalism” (also known as “neoliberalism”). However these texts (contained in the last section of
Capital,
Volume One) cannot be used in acritical manner. They call for a careful genealogy, in order to reconstruct their articulation with 19th century polemical debates about demography and industrialization. They are unintelligible without references to imperialism and colonization as geopolitical and geoeconomic tendencies forming the “Nomos of the Earth” in the period of “historical capitalism” and its aftermath. On such bases, it will be proposed to articulate some new hypotheses about the possibility and obstacles of a “class” perspective on contemporary migrations.
Corequisites: PUAF U6120 This course is the required discussion section for PUAF U6120.
This graduate seminar course focuses on the theatre of Elizabethan England, with particular emphasis on London’s emergent commercial theatre from the 1560s through to the 1590s. It will introduce students to a range of plays in all genres, from
Gorboduc
to
Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay
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with special attention to the output of John Lyly and Christopher Marlowe, and use these plays to explore aspects of Elizabeth theatre, including the playhouses, companies, repertory, playwriting, and the printing of plays. Special attention will be paid to the archival manuscript sources of theatre history and critical study, and a series of current critical debates about all aspects of this rich dramatic tradition.
This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search
Prerequisites: the instructor's written permission. This is a course for Ph.D. students, and for majors in Mathematics. Measure theory; elements of probability; elements of Fourier analysis; Brownian motion.
Topics in Software engineering arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis. Since the content of this course changes, it may be repeated for credit with advisor approval. Consult the department for section assignment.
Topics in Software engineering arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis. Since the content of this course changes, it may be repeated for credit with advisor approval. Consult the department for section assignment.
This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search
Topics include holomorphic functions; analytic continuation; Riemann surfaces; theta functions and modular forms.
Most modern commercial implementations of electrochemical energy storage are not-fully deterministic: this course provides the context and best-hypotheses for these modern challenges. Topics include:
Current understanding of the Lithium/Lithium Anode Solid-Electrolyte-Interphase
Reversible and Irreversible Side Reactions in Redox Flow Systems
Electrochemically Correlated Mechanical Fracture at Multiple Scales
Relationships Between Electrolyte Solvation and Electrode Insertion
Roughening, Smoothing, and Detachment Behavior of Metal Anodes
Best Practices in Structural, Chemical, and Microscopic Characterization
Morphological vs. Macro-Homogenous Transport Models
Particle to Electrode to Cell Non-Linearity
Genomic Innovation is a project-oriented course focused on understanding the current landscape of genome science and on building ideas and organizations to accelerate progress in technology innovation, scientific understanding and industrial applications of genomics. The course will introduce students to cutting-edge technologies and applications in genetics and genomics and their responsible use in science and society. Students from diverse majors and backgrounds (including biology, medicine, engineering, business, sociology, and law) are welcome to participate. The course consists of guest lectures by leaders of their field, including science and business development, complemented by class discussions and activites, homework assignments, and a midterm and final projects. This course is held in a hybrid format with in-person classes at the New York Genome Center (101 Avenue of the Americas), and remote attendance is also possible. Enrollment is based on application (deadline August 26, 2020) and the instructor’s permission is needed for enrollment. See
https://genomicinnovation.org
for further details.
Practical and theoretical issues relating to the teaching of psychology and the psychology of teaching.
The purpose of this course is to enable you to become an informed user of financial information. To be properly informed you need to understand financial statements, the note disclosures and the language of accounting and financial reporting. We will focus on the three major financial statements – the balance sheet, the income statement and the statement of cash flows - that companies prepare for use by management and external parties. We will examine the underlying concepts that go into the preparation of these financial statements as well as specific accounting rules that apply when preparing financial statements. As we gain an understanding of the financial information, we will look at approaches to analyze the financial strength and operations of an entity. We will use actual financial statements to understand how financial information is presented.
This course provides an introduction to major schools of thought about play structure and the practice of dramaturgy in the western theatre. Through directed readings and an ongoing practical project centered around one play, students will develop a deeper understanding of how dramatic writing functions as a blueprint for a life on the stage, and a refined vocabulary to describe story structures and dramatic writing techniques. By learning to view and question a play from a kaleidoscopic range of angles, students will enhance their abilities to take a printed text onto the live stage.
Prerequisites: students in a masters program must seek the director of the M.A. program in statistics' permission; students in an undergraduate program must seek the director of undergraduate studies in statistics' permission. A general introduction to mathematical statistics and statistical decision theory. Elementary decision theory, Bayes inference, Neyman-Pearson theory, hypothesis testing, most powerful unbiased tests, confidence sets. Estimation: methods, theory, and asymptotic properties. Likelihood ratio tests, multivariate distribution. Elements of general linear hypothesis, invariance, nonparametric methods, sequential analysis.
Prerequisites: STAT G6201 and STAT G6201 This course will mainly focus on nonparametric methods in statistics. A tentavie list of topics to be covered include nonparametric density and regression function estimation -- upper bounds on the risk of kernel estimators and matching lower bounds on the minimax risk, reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces, bootstrap and resampling methods, multiple hypothesis testing, and high dimensional stastistical analysis.
This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search
This course provides an introduction to the political economy of financial and international monetary policy, presenting both theoretical perspectives and more policy-oriented concerns. Wherever possible, it looks at the issues covered from the perspective of developing and emerging market countries. The course has three main sections. The first examines the political economy of the global monetary system. We begin by surveying the evolution of international monetary arrangements from the gold standard period to the present day. Then we analyze the difficulties of managing the crises and global imbalances that have been frequent features of contemporary times. The second section examines the political economy of financial policy, regulation and central banking. The role of financial policy in economic development, especially of industry, in developing and emerging market countries is the primary lens for exploring this topic. The final section considers financial crises, with a special focus on the Asian financial crisis of 1997/98 and recent global crisis that had its origins in the United States.
Students explore more deeply the range of skills and techniques necessary to direct both short and feature films including script breakdown of sequences, scenes, turning points and beats as well as advanced study of actor and camera staging. Students will hone their directing skills by preparing, shooting, and editing, in video, a minimum of three significant scenes from published or original work, depending on priority of the instructor. When taken concurrently, at least one of these scenes will be presented in Directing the Actor workshops. Students should also be working on a first draft of a short screenplay for their second-year project if they intend to take Directing 4.
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Prerequisites: the director of graduate studies' permission. Corequisites: ECON G6410. Consumer and producer behavior; general competitive equilibrium, welfare and efficiency, behavior under uncertainty, intertemporal allocation and capital theory, imperfect competition, elements of game theory, problems of information, economies with price rigidities.