The Just City: Global Debates in Urban P
THE JUST CITY
Urbanization is inherently unequal, inscribing social, economic, environmental, and political unevenness into the spatial fabric of the city. But the distribution of such inequality is not inevitable. Urbanization is a product of the collective decisions we make (or choose not to make) in response to the shared challenges we face in our cities. And, thus, the patterns of urbanization can be changed. This is the task of urban planning and the starting point for this advanced seminar, which asks how we can reshape our cities to be more just—to alleviate inequality rather than compound it. In embarking on this effort, we face numerous “wicked” problems without clear-cut solutions. The approaches one takes in addressing urban inequality are therefore fundamentally normative—they are shaped by one’s place in the world and one’s view of it. The central challenge in addressing inequality is thus establishing a basis for collective action amongst diverse actors with differing—and sometimes conflicting—values and views. In other words, planning the just city a matter of both empathy and debate. In this course, we will endeavor to develop informed positions that can help us engage with others as a basis for taking collective action.
The course is organized into four 3-week modules, each of which addresses a dimension of the just city: equity, democracy, diversity, and sustainability. In the first week of each module, we will discuss how the issue has been understood in history and theory (with an emphasis on tradeoffs between different priorities and values); in the second week, we will apply this discussion to a global case study prepared and presented by a team of students; and in the third week, we will hold an in-class debate to determine what should be done. Specific case studies vary each year.
- Department: Architecture @Barnard
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Instructor:
Nick R Smith
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Corporate Finance and Valuation
Corporate Finance & Valua
This course introduces the fundamental principles of corporate finance and their application to real-world business decisions. Students will examine how companies determine value, measure risk, and make financing choices, while developing the tools to analyze corporate investments and capital structures.
Intellectual Goals and Rationale
The course addresses core questions that drive business decision-making:
How do we determine what a company or investment opportunity is worth?
How do we value financial securities in an uncertain world?
What is risk? How do we measure it, and how does it affect the cost of capital?
What is the appropriate balance between debt and equity?
Course Content and Learning Approach
Through a combination of theoretical frameworks, case discussions, and Excel-based financial modeling, students will build the ability to analyze complex financial scenarios. Lectures provide the foundations of valuation and financing, while case work applies these tools to real business challenges.
Why This Course Matters
Valuation, investment evaluation, and financing decisions are central to careers in finance, consulting, entrepreneurship, and management. The skills gained—financial modeling, risk assessment, and valuation analysis—are directly relevant to roles in investment banking, private equity, corporate development, consulting, and executive leadership.
Who Should Take This Course
This introductory finance course is open to students from all academic backgrounds who seek to strengthen their financial literacy and analytical capabilities. It is particularly valuable for:
Students considering careers in finance, consulting, or general management
Entrepreneurs who need to understand funding and valuation
Students in other fields interested in how businesses create and measure value
Those planning to pursue graduate business education
Prerequisites
Economics:
ECON UN1105 Principles of Economics
Statistics (one of the following):
STAT UN1001 Intro to Statistical Reasoning
STAT UN1101 Introduction to Statistics
STAT UN1201 Calc-Based Introduction to Statistics
PSYC UN1610 Introductory Statistics for Behavioral Science
Cours
- Department: Mendelson Center
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Haran Segram
Info - 3 points
DISABILITY AND ARCHITECTURE
This course explores the manifold relationships between architecture and disability. We will discuss how architecture mediates different bodily experiences and relationships and negotiates social norms and forms of assembly that intervene in shaping shifting understandings and performances of impairment, assistance, access, rehabilitation, and oppression that have historically framed disability. We will explore disability as a culture, an episteme, and a politics, often negotiated by architecture.
We will assess the disabling effects of the built environment as well as architectural projects and designs defined to normalize, segregate, or eradicate disability. We will also study environments, artifacts, and infrastructures that have allowed disabled individuals and communities to thrive, often against expectations of integration in normative life frameworks. We will additionally explore how disability contributes to framing architecture differently and opens up space for new aesthetic experiences, different cultures of making, and diverse politics of the built environment. We will discuss how it challenges normalizing understandings of space and form, functionalist paradigms in architecture, and modern and contemporary interpretations of nature, the city, and society. We will discuss the ideologies enacted by different projects shaping the life of disabled individuals, including their own designs and interventions in the built environment.
These explorations are organized thematically, with sessions engaging design and disability scholarship and providing students with a robust introduction to disability studies. In dialogue with this field, students will explore how design and architecture have operated in relation to medical, social, environmental, cultural, and political paradigms of disability. They will discuss the role that built environments play in the agendas of the disability rights and disability justice movements. Sessions engage both historical and theoretical questions.
Three assignments will allow students to explore the intersections of the built environment and disability in a diversity of formats. Advanced students will have the opportunity to write a research paper.
- Department: Architecture @Barnard
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Instructor:
Ignacio Gonzalez Galan
Info - 4 points
CONTEM AMER JEWISH WOMEN'S LIT
The seminar will focus on trends that have emerged over the past three decades in Jewish American women's writing in the fields of memoirs, fiction and Jewish history: the representation and exploration through fictive narratives of women's experiences in American Jewish orthodox communities; reinterpretation of Jewish history through gender analysis; the recording of migration and exile by Jewish women immigrants from the former Soviet Union, Morocco, Iran, and Egypt; and gender transformations. Texts will be analyzed in terms of genre structures, narrative strategies, the role of gender in shaping content and Jewish identity, and the political, cultural and social contexts in which the works were created. The course aims for students to discuss and critically engage with texts in order to develop the skills of analytical and abstract thinking, as well as the ability to express that critical thinking in writing. Prerequisites:
Both
one introductory WGSS course
and
Critical Approaches to Social and Cultural Theory,
or
Permission of the Instructor.
- Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
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Instructor:
Agnieszka Legutko
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
SWANA Diasporas: Culture, Politics and I
In this class we will study South-West Asian and North African (SWANA) diasporic populations, social movements and cultural production that have responded to the multi-faceted ramifications of the 21st century war on terror. We will focus on diverse Arab, Iranian, and Afghan diasporas in the United States, where 19th and 20th century legacies of racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia and Orientalism combined in new ways to target these groups after the September 11th, 2001 attacks. Drawing on an interdisciplinary array of texts, including ethnography, fiction, feminist and queer theory, social movement theory, and visual and performance art, we will look at how the “war on terror” has shaped the subjectivities and self-representation of SWANA communities. Crucially, we will examine the gender and sexual politics of Islamophobia and racism and study how scholars, activists and artists have sought to intervene in dominant narratives of deviance, threat, and backwardness attributed to Muslim and other SWANA populations. This course takes up the politics of naming, situating the formation of “SWANA” as part of an anti-colonial genealogy that rejects imperial geographies such as “Middle East.” We will ask how new geographies and affiliations come into being in the context of open-ended war, and what new political identities and forms of cultural production then become possible.
- Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
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Instructor:
Manijeh Moradian
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Literati Culture in Pre-Modern China
Literati Cult. Pre-Mod. C
Premodern Chinese literati have long been regarded as active historical agents who shaped “This Culture of Ours”—a metonym for civilization in the premodern Sinitic context—while they also fed from, partook in, and influenced popular and foreign cultures. Besides “literary writings” like poetry and prose, literati also engaged in calligraphy, painting, and antiquarianism under the umbrella term of “literary or cultural arts.” In turn, the creation and appreciation of artwork were intrinsic to the aesthetic life of literati community and further established their self-identity. At the same time, social exclusivity, (self-)doubt and identity crises, along with the looming threat of cultural decline, have continually haunted this literati community throughout the ages.
Covering the long trajectory of imperial China, this course reveals the birth and development of literati culture. In particular, we take an interdisciplinary approach, introducing intellectual and poetic discourses, socio-historical contexts, literary criticism, visual and material culture, to envision a “common ground” for their civil world. Textual, visual sources plus material objects are meant to have conversations with each other in this course. Important issues include historical transformations of the elite class, cultural geography in different eras, materiality and visuality of elite calligraphy and painting, literati self-expression through aesthetic practice, the roles of the court and literati in producing and preserving art, as well as other relevant issues such as gender studies, vernacular literature, and commodity society.
This course is cross-listed in AMEC and CPLT. For undergraduates, no background in Chinese language is required in this course, and all reading materials—either translation of primary sources or secondary scholarship—are accessible in English.
Investment Strategies
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to modern investment analysis, integrating two distinct yet complementary approaches: fundamental value investing and quantitative investment strategies. The first half focuses on value investing, emphasizing the economic analysis and valuation of a firm's business operations to estimate its fundamental value. Students will learn to assess competitive advantages and barriers to entry, apply valuation frameworks beyond standard DCF models, and manage risk in concentrated portfolios. The methodology is grounded in identifying a 'margin of safety' by investing when a company's market value is significantly below its intrinsic worth.
The second half shifts to quantitative investment strategies, exploring the tools and techniques used in an environment of continuous financial innovation. Topics include hedging and risk management, single- and multi-period portfolio optimization, the use of factor models and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) for investment decisions, and the construction of systematic and volatility-based strategies. A hands-on approach is used to highlight the applications and limitations of these quantitative methods. Upon completion, students will have a rich and coherent view of investing that combines a sound understanding of business economics with robust quantitative and risk management techniques.
We recommend that students take Corporate Finance (BUSI 4280 and ECON 4280) beforehand and Capital Markets (BUSI 3705) or Financial Economics (ECON 3025) concurrently.
- Department: Mendelson Center
- T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
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Crime, Sex, Race and the Politics of Pur
The Politics of Purity
The politics of what and who counts as worthy, good, or pure mediates possibilities for political and legal life. This course takes as its central question: how do certain ideas around purity and innocence come to appear natural? By considering a wide range of topics including carceral studies, immigration, race-making, settler colonialism, gender and sexuality and cultural studies, we will uncover the ways that cultural objects circulate and do political work. How are notions of race, crime, and purity produced, policed, and lived? And finally, how might we live otherwise—against innocence?
- Department: American Studies @Barnard
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Instructor:
Daria Reaven
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ITL CULTRL ST II:WWI-PRESENT
ITL CULTRL STUDIES II:WWI-PRE
An interdisciplinary investigation into Italian culture and society in the years between World War I and the present. Drawing on historical analyses, literary texts, letters, film, cartoons, popular music, etc. the course examines some of the key problems and trends in the cultural and political history of the period. Lectures, discussion and required readings will be in English. Students with a knowledge of Italian are encouraged to read the primary literature in Italian.
- Department: Italian @Barnard
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Instructor:
Nelson Moe
CULPA: 10 h-index: 6 Info - 3 points
Foundations of Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is one of the most important economic activities shaping the United States. Entrepreneurial processes play a role in delivering new solutions to social problems, they are a strong determinant of wealth inequality and spatial disparities, and underlie technological progress. The class Foundations of Entrepreneurship provides any undergraduate student a comprehensive introduction to what entrepreneurship is and how it functions, including understanding how an idea evolves into a company, the role of key actors in an entrepreneurial ecosystem, and experiencing the entrepreneurial process. The class is valuable to any student in science, engineering, and liberal arts who would like to understand what determines whether promising inventions and solutions fulfill their potential impact. It is offered as part of the Mendelson Center’s special program in business management.
The content is delivered incorporating lecture-based content, case discussions of existing companies, and group work to develop an early-stage idea and pitch it to a panel of investors.
Foundations of Entrepreneurship is a prerequisite to future lab-based entrepreneurship classes for undergraduates, Launch Your Startup and Entrepreneurial Greenhouse.
Prerequisite or Corequisite:
ECON 1105W
(Principles of Economics)
AND
one of the following Statistics courses:
STAT 1001W
(Intro to Statistical Reasoning)
STAT 1101W
(Introduction to Statistics)
STAT 1201W
(Calc-Based Intro to Statistics)
PSYC 1610W
(Statistics for Behavioral Scientists)
- Department: Mendelson Center
- T 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michael Mauskapf
h-index: 5 Info - 3 points
JUDAISM & CHRISTIANITY S.ASIA
An introduction to the indigenous traditions of Judaism and Christianity in the subcontinent, with attention to historical development, community diversity, cultural patterns, interactions with Hindus and Muslims, and contemporary controversies over caste and conversion. Concluding classes focus on South Asian Jews and Christians in the diaspora, particularly Israel and New York. An academic background in Judaism, or Christianity, or Hinduism / Indian history is highly recommended.
- Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
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Instructor:
Rachel McDermott
CULPA: 37
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- 3 points
DIVINE HUMAN ANIMAL
This course focuses on thinking with animals (Levi-Strauss) through the lens of the religious imagination. The concentration will be primarily on Western religious cultures, especially Judaism and the question of Jewishness.
- Department: Religion @Barnard
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Instructor:
Beth A Berkowitz
CULPA: 2 h-index: 6 Info - 4 points
MASTERS RESEARCH OR PROJECT
Prerequisite(s): Approval by a faculty member who agrees to supervise the work. Independent work involving experiments, computer programming, analytical investigation, or engineering design.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
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Anish Agarwal
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Prerequisite(s): Approval by a faculty member who agrees to supervise the work. Independent work involving experiments, computer programming, analytical investigation, or engineering design.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
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Garud Iyengar
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Lily Xu
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David D Yao
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Yi Zhang
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Xunyu Zhou
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MASTERS RESEARCH OR PROJECT
Prerequisite(s): Approval by a faculty member who agrees to supervise the work. Independent work involving experiments, computer programming, analytical investigation, or engineering design.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- 1-3 points
Labor and Life: Critiques of Capitalism
LABOR AND LIFE
This advanced seminar examines materialist conceptions of labor and life as approached through feminist, black, anti-racist, indigenous, queer, postcolonial, and Marxist perspectives. We will trace the ways that labor and life as well as their constitutive relations have been understood in historical and contemporary radical critiques of capitalism, with a focus on gender, race and sexuality as analytical categories for understanding their shifting roles in structures and practices of social reproduction, the production and expropriation of value, the logic and exercise of violence, the organization of sociality and culture, and the practice and imagination of freedom, justice, and new forms and potentials of collective existence. Finally, we will consider the limits and possibilities of different conceptions of “material life” for understanding politics today.
- Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
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Instructor:
Neferti Tadiar
CULPA: 10
Wikipedia
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- 4 points
Education in Conflict Zones
Across the world, conflict and violence are on the rise, in many forms and due to myriad factors. This course explores the relationship between war, conflict, and education. Drawing on a human rights framework and its applications to education, this course will explore the possibilities and limitations inherent in this framework. Questions we will explore include: How does education contribute to, or mitigate conflict? What is the role of education in emergencies? What is the role of education in addressing the needs of refugees? What is the role of education in post conflict contexts and peacebuilding? What is human rights education?
- Department: Education @Barnard
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Instructor:
Thea R Abu El-Haj
Info - 4 points
FOUNDATIONS OF CLINICAL MEDICINE II
FOUNDATIONS OF CLINICAL MED II
- Department: Medicine
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Foundations of Clinical Medicine: Tutori
FNDATION CLINICAL MED: TU
- Department: Medicine
- 0 points
From Ruins to Remains: Palestine & Archa
This new course aims to provide advanced undergraduate and graduate students with a critical history of Palestine-related archaeology from the mid-19th century to the present, and (b) an examination of how archaeological narratives relating to Palestine have been impacted by state nationalism, colonialism and conflicting local, regional and global religious interests from the "Classical World" to the 21st century.
- Department: Anthropology
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Brian Boyd
CULPA: 6
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- 4 points
Vegetalities
This seminar examines the "vegetal turn" in the humanities through the lens of Black studies, Indigenous studies, and feminist/queer studies approaches to science and technology. Beginning with Suzanne Césaire's 1942 definition of Caribbean being as fundamentally vegetal, the course reads across plant science, multispecies ethnography, critical race theory, queer ecologies, and plantation studies to ask what plants know, who knows them, and what vegetality offers as an analytic for thinking about racialized and gendered life in the Anthropocene. Students produce an annotated bibliography, a vegetal fieldwork exercise, and a seminar paper suitable for development toward publication. They also maintain a living plant throughout the semester.
- Department: Anthropology
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Vanessa L Agard-Jones
CULPA: 3 Info - 4 points
THE TEACHING OF MATHEMATICS
A seminar required of all incoming graduate students, designed to instill effective teaching techniques.
- Department: Mathematics
- W 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
George Dragomir
CULPA: 5
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Leadership in Action
MIA & MPA Leadership and Management I Core.
Leadership in Action
integrates strategic leadership frameworks, real-world case studies, and an immersive multi-week simulation to build students’ capacity to lead in complex, high-stakes environments. Through a sequence of applied exercises, ranging from team formation and innovation design to crisis response, students will develop critical skills in decision-making, influence, and organizational change. The course emphasizes adaptive leadership, cross-sector collaboration, and ethical judgment, equipping students to lead effectively under conditions of uncertainty and pressure.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Gary Bagley
Info - 1.5 points
Leadership in Action
MIA & MPA Leadership and Management I Core.
Leadership in Action
integrates strategic leadership frameworks, real-world case studies, and an immersive multi-week simulation to build students’ capacity to lead in complex, high-stakes environments. Through a sequence of applied exercises, ranging from team formation and innovation design to crisis response, students will develop critical skills in decision-making, influence, and organizational change. The course emphasizes adaptive leadership, cross-sector collaboration, and ethical judgment, equipping students to lead effectively under conditions of uncertainty and pressure.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Gary Bagley
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Instructor:
William B Eimicke
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Leadership in Action
MIA & MPA Leadership and Management I Core.
Leadership in Action
integrates strategic leadership frameworks, real-world case studies, and an immersive multi-week simulation to build students’ capacity to lead in complex, high-stakes environments. Through a sequence of applied exercises, ranging from team formation and innovation design to crisis response, students will develop critical skills in decision-making, influence, and organizational change. The course emphasizes adaptive leadership, cross-sector collaboration, and ethical judgment, equipping students to lead effectively under conditions of uncertainty and pressure.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
William B Eimicke
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Instructor:
Teemu Alexander Puutio
Info - 1.5 points
Leadership in Action
MIA & MPA Leadership and Management I Core.
Leadership in Action
integrates strategic leadership frameworks, real-world case studies, and an immersive multi-week simulation to build students’ capacity to lead in complex, high-stakes environments. Through a sequence of applied exercises, ranging from team formation and innovation design to crisis response, students will develop critical skills in decision-making, influence, and organizational change. The course emphasizes adaptive leadership, cross-sector collaboration, and ethical judgment, equipping students to lead effectively under conditions of uncertainty and pressure.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Teemu Alexander Puutio
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Instructor:
Kirsti Samuels
Info - 1.5 points
THEORETICAL PARADIGMS
ABC:AN/ARCH Bodies Cities
Theoretical Paradigms in Feminist Scholarship:
Course focuses on the current theoretical debates of a particular topic or issue in feminist, queer, and/or WGSS scholarship. Open to graduate students, with preference given to students completing the ISSG graduate certificate. Topics differ by semester offered, and are reflected in the course subtitle. For a description of the current offering, please visit the link in the Class Notes.
- Department: Women's and Gender Studies
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jack Halberstam
Wikipedia Info - 4 points
People Management and Building Organizat
People Management & Org C
MIA & MPA Leadership and Management II Core.
This course explores key themes in people management and organizational culture, equipping students with skills to lead diverse teams and build resilient, high-performing workplaces. Through case studies, simulations, and applied exercises, students will examine talent strategy, performance management, inclusive leadership, and organizational design. The course emphasizes practical tools for navigating complex challenges such as incentive structures, conflict resolution, and talent retention in dynamic global environments.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Teemu Alexander Puutio
Info - 1.5 points
Effective Management in the Public Servi
Management in Public Serv
MIA & MPA Leadership and Management II Core.
This course introduces students to the field of public management, focusing on the tools and strategies managers use to influence organizational behavior and deliver public services. Through lectures, case studies, discussions, and group projects, students will explore management practices in government and in nonprofit and private organizations that partner with the public sector. The course draws on examples from New York City and U.S. agencies, as well as comparative cases from Asia, Latin America, and Europe. A lab section deepens engagement with course materials and features guest speakers from across sectors.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
William B Eimicke
Info - 1.5 points
Crisis Leadership and Adaptive Managemen
Crisis Leadership & Mgmt
MIA & MPA Leadership and Management II Core.
This course equips students with the skills, strategies, and resilience necessary to lead effectively during extreme events and complex crises. Drawing on case studies, personal narratives, and interactive exercises, the course examines how crises —ranging from natural disasters and terrorist attacks to cyber incidents and pandemics —require adaptive management and decisive leadership under intense pressure. Students will examine the multiple forces that shape crisis response, including social, cognitive, operational, and political dynamics. The course provides a framework for assessing risk, coordinating cross-sector efforts, developing crisis communication strategies, and fostering innovation in fast-evolving situations.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- 1.5 points
Persuasion and Applied Negotiation Skill
Persuasion & Negotiation
MIA & MPA Leadership and Management II Core.
This course is an interactive, practice-focused experience designed to equip students with skills and confidence in negotiation and persuasion across public and private sector contexts. Drawing on negotiation psychology, best practices, and evidence-based approaches, the course will develop students’ ability to navigate complex interpersonal and multilateral dynamics.
Through simulations, roleplays, and real-world case studies, students will learn to apply integrative and distributive negotiation methods, build strong positions and alternatives, and manage collective bargaining, mediation, arbitration, and asymmetric power dynamics.
Course topics include negotiation theory, stakeholder analysis, multilateral and cross-cultural negotiation, and solution-driven communication. Students will develop the ability to assess power dynamics, leverage personal strengths, and contribute effectively in multi-stakeholder settings.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Teemu Alexander Puutio
Info - 1.5 points
Managing Communications
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Hagar Hajjar Chemali
Wikipedia Info - 1.5 points
Strategic Management of Nonprofit Organi
Strategic Mgmt-Nonprofit
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Gary Bagley
Info - 1.5 points
Decisions and Behavior
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Michael Ting
CULPA: 4 Info - 1.5 points
Sustainability Management
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Steven Cohen
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 21 Info - 1.5 points
EUROPEAN STUDIES COLL II
- Department: Modern European Studies
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Tsveta A Petrova
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Contending Theories of International Rel
Theories of Int'l Relatio
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Hisham Aidi
Wikipedia Info - 1.5 points
Contending Theories of International Rel
Theories of Int'l Relatio
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Hisham Aidi
Wikipedia Info - 1.5 points
Theory and Practice of American Politics
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Lincoln A Mitchell
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Theory and Practice of American Politics
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Lincoln A Mitchell
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Energy, Corporate Responsibility, and Hu
Energy, Corp Resp, & Righ
This interdisciplinary seminar examines the role of multinational energy companies in the context of international human rights, corporate responsibility, and global governance. Drawing on case studies and legal frameworks, the course explores how extractive industries intersect with political, environmental, and social systems, particularly in transitional and emerging economies.
Key themes include the development of international human rights law, the evolving definition of corporate responsibility, environmental and minority rights, corruption and transparency, and the geopolitics of natural resource extraction. Students will investigate how transnational corporations operate in weak governance zones, how investment treaties shape state-corporate relations, and how disputes over pipelines and land use affect communities and nations alike.
The course emphasizes real-world case analysis, including the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, Canadian mining projects in Latin America, and recent developments in sovereign debt, investor-state arbitration, and standards for corporate conduct. Students will also evaluate the effectiveness of voluntary standards, multilateral codes, and legal instruments in shaping corporate behavior.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Jenik Radon
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Debates in World Politics
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Hisham Aidi
Wikipedia Info - 1.5 points
Debates in World Politics
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Hisham Aidi
Wikipedia Info - 1.5 points
ANALYSIS II
Continuation of MATH GR6151x (see Fall listing).
- Department: Mathematics
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Ovidiu Savin
CULPA: 22 Wikipedia Info - 4.5 points
PROBABILITY II
Prerequisites: MATH GR6151 MATH G4151 Analysis & Probability I. Continuation of MATH GR6152x (see fall listing).
- Department: Mathematics
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ioannis Karatzas
CULPA: 7 h-index: 58 Info - 4.5 points
Global Politics and International Organi
Global Politics & Int'l O
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- 1.5 points
American Foreign Policy in Global Perspe
American Foreign Policy-G
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Lincoln A Mitchell
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Political Parties and Elections in the U
Political Parties & Elect
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Lincoln A Mitchell
Info - 1.5 points
Public Policy in the Age of Uncertainty
Public Policy in Uncertai
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Peter Jaffe
Info - 1.5 points
Contemporary Archaeological Theory
CONTEMP ARCH THEORY
Archaeology is a sprawling, messy discipline and the role that theory does, should, and might play in the process of archaeological data collection, analysis, and interpretation has been highly contested. Archaeologists argue over whether there is such a thing as a stand-alone ‘archaeological theory’ and what kinds of theory from other disciplines should (or should not!) be imported. This course explores a range of recent theoretical conversations, orientations, and interventions within archaeology, with an eye to understanding what is currently at stake – and what is contested – in how archaeologists think about making archaeological knowledge in the contemporary moment. In doing so, this course encourages students to think about theory in archaeology as an important form of “practical knowledge” or “know how” for archaeologists (cf. Lucas 2018).
- Department: Anthropology
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Hannah Chazin
Info - 3 points
COMPLEX ANALYSIS/RIEMANN SURF
Continuation of MATH GR6175x (see Fall listing).
- Department: Mathematics
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Duong H Phong
Wikipedia Info - 4.5 points
International Human Rights Law
HRGE Concentration Registration Priority.
This course introduces the legal frameworks, institutions, and advocacy strategies that underpin the international human rights system. With a practitioner’s lens, students will explore civil, political, economic, social, cultural, and environmental rights through treaties, customary law, and jurisprudence. Emphasis is placed on understanding where and how the law offers avenues for redress, and the evolving role of human rights advocacy in confronting modern challenges, including corporate accountability, gender discrimination, and climate justice.
Students will examine the structure and operation of key international and regional human rights mechanisms, the limits and opportunities of legal enforcement, and the relationship between international human rights law and international humanitarian law. The course integrates doctrinal learning with applied analysis through case studies, reflections, and simulations.
Attendance in the first class session is mandatory.
- Department: Human Rights, Gender, and Equity
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Instructor:
Betsy Apple
Info - 3 points
Financial Accounting & Analysis
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Norman Bartczak
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
ARITH & ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
Affine and projective varieties; schemes; morphisms; sheaves; divisors; cohomology theory; curves; Riemann-Roch theorem.
- Department: Mathematics
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Aise Johan de Jong
CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info - 4.5 points
TOPICS IN ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
- Department: Mathematics
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Robert D Friedman
CULPA: 44 Info - 4.5 points
The Political Economy of Europe
Instructor: Michael Broening.
This seminar provides a bird’s eye view of Europe's political economy in the "poly-crisis" of overlapping global challenges ranging from the climate crisis and geopolitical tensions to migration and authoritarianism. Students will analyze patterns, responses, and repercussions of these challenges, with a critical focus on overcoming existing economic policy dilemmas. The course aims to equip students with the necessary tools to analyze the complex parameters of European integration and study the global implications of European politics at the intersection of economics and politics in times of crisis.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Stella Ladi
Info - 1.5 points
ALGEBRAIC TOPOLOGY II
Continuation of MATH GR6307x (see Fall listing).
- Department: Mathematics
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Francesco Lin
Info - 4.5 points
European Union Human Rights: Law & Polic
EU Human Rights: Law & Po
The European Union (EU) has a deep and broad commitment to the respect and promotion of human rights, both in its internal and its external policies. However, it often faces difficulties in living up to this commitment. In this course we will study the EU’s commitment to human rights as outlined in its founding Treaties, the role of its institutional actors in following up on this commitment, and the EU’s internal and external actions and policies in this respect. For the EU’s internal policies we will focus in particular on its non-discrimination policies as well as its migration policy. In the area of the EU’s external relations we will explore the role of human rights in the EU’s development cooperation, trade policy and humanitarian aid, as well as in the EU’s multilateral relations with other international organizations, both global (e.g. the United Nations) and regional (e.g. Organization of American States; African Union; Council of Europe; OSCE).
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Jan Wouters
Info - 1.5 points
Diplomacy in Practice: the EU & the Worl
Diplomacy in Practice:EU/
This course introduces students to the practice of modern diplomacy through case studies of global and regional crises and the European Union’s responses to them. Students will examine how foreign policy is developed and implemented from the perspective of a professional diplomat.
The course begins with an overview of the history of EU foreign policy, followed by an introduction to the key institutions and instruments involved in external relations. Subsequent sessions will focus on case studies that illustrate the EU’s approach to various international partners: allies (including the transatlantic partnership and the UN system), neighboring regions (such as the Southern Neighborhood policy, the Eastern Partnership, and the European Political Community), and other global powers (including Russia, China, India, and Turkey). Additional topics include the war in Ukraine, conflicts in the Middle East (Libya, Syria, and the Middle East peace process), the Iran nuclear agreement, and the migration crisis.
Each case will explore the interplay among the EU’s foreign policy tools, including crisis management, defense and security, trade, financial aid, humanitarian assistance, and public diplomacy. The course concludes with a reflection on lessons learned and potential future directions for the EU’s foreign policy agenda and institutional framework.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Pierre Vimont
Info - 1.5 points
LIE GROUPS & REPRESENTATIONS
Continuation of MATH GR6343x (see Fall listing).
- Department: Mathematics
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Andrei Okounkov
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 55 Info - 4.5 points
MODERN GEOMETRY
Continuation of Mathematics GR6402x (see Fall listing).
- Department: Mathematics
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Simon Brendle
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info - 4.5 points
Quantitative Analysis I for Internationa
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Doru Cojoc
Info - 3 points