Introduction to Developmental Psychology

INTRO DEV PSYCH LIFESPAN

This introductory course covers human development across the lifespan. The course will provide an overview of development and the complexity of human growth through physical, cognitive, emotional, and social capacities. A review of historical and modern-day developmental theories as well as more complex interpersonal constructs, such as cultural variations, will be discussed. Special emphasis is placed upon examining the dynamic interplay between biology and environment with relevant application to nursing practice. The role of social and cultural stressors such as racism and socioeconomics in shaping human development will be examined. This undergraduate-level course will lay the foundation for further advanced study of human development within a nursing curriculum.

• Department: Nursing
• Instructor: Gabrielle A Ranger-Murdock
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• 3 points

TECH II STRUCTURES IN ARCHITECTURE

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 9 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Zak Kostura
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• 3 points

TRANSPORT IN FLUID MIXTURES

Develops and applies non-equilibrium thermodynamics for modeling of transport phenomena in fluids and their mixtures. Continuum balances of mass, energy and momentum for pure fluids; non-equilibrium thermodynamic development of Newtons law of viscosity and Fouriers law; applications (conduction dominated energy transport, forced and free convection energy transport in fluids); balance laws for fluid mixtures; non-equilibrium thermodynamic development of Ficks law; applications (diffusion-reaction problems, analogy between energy and mass transport processes, transport in electrolyte solutions, sedimentation).

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher J Durning
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• 3 points

TRANSPORT IN FLUID MIXTURES

Develops and applies non-equilibrium thermodynamics for modeling of transport phenomena in fluids and their mixtures. Continuum balances of mass, energy and momentum for pure fluids; non-equilibrium thermodynamic development of Newtons law of viscosity and Fouriers law; applications (conduction dominated energy transport, forced and free convection energy transport in fluids); balance laws for fluid mixtures; non-equilibrium thermodynamic development of Ficks law; applications (diffusion-reaction problems, analogy between energy and mass transport processes, transport in electrolyte solutions, sedimentation).

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 7:40 p.m.-8:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Christopher J Durning
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED MECHANICS OF SOLIDS

Stress and deformation formulation in two-and three-dimensional solids; viscoelastic and plastic material in one and two dimensions energy methods.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Huiming Yin
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 25 Info
• 3 points

TECH V CONSTRUCTION AND LIFE CYCLE SYSTE

TECH V CNSTRCTN & LIFE CY

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 1:30 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

PROGRAMMING LANG & TRANSLATORS

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134 or COMS W3136 or COMS W3137) and (COMS W3261) and (CSEE W3827) or equivalent, or the instructors permission. Modern programming languages and compiler design. Imperative, object-oriented, declarative, functional, and scripting languages. Language syntax, control structures, data types, procedures and parameters, binding, scope, run-time organization, and exception handling. Implementation of language translation tools including compilers and interpreters. Lexical, syntactic and semantic analysis; code generation; introduction to code optimization. Teams implement a language and its compiler.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Baishakhi Ray
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

PROGRAMMING LANG & TRANSLATORS

PROGRAMMING LANG-TRANSLATORS

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134 or COMS W3136 or COMS W3137) and (COMS W3261) and (CSEE W3827) or equivalent, or the instructors permission. Modern programming languages and compiler design. Imperative, object-oriented, declarative, functional, and scripting languages. Language syntax, control structures, data types, procedures and parameters, binding, scope, run-time organization, and exception handling. Implementation of language translation tools including compilers and interpreters. Lexical, syntactic and semantic analysis; code generation; introduction to code optimization. Teams implement a language and its compiler.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Baishakhi Ray
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

OPERATING SYSTEMS I

Prerequisites: (CSEE W3827) and knowledge of C and programming tools as covered in COMS W3136, W3157, or W3101, or the instructors permission. Design and implementation of operating systems. Topics include process management, process synchronization and interprocess communication, memory management, virtual memory, interrupt handling, processor scheduling, device management, I/O, and file systems. Case study of the UNIX operating system. A programming project is required.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• 3 points

COMPUTER NETWORKS

Prerequisites: Comfort with basic probability. Programming fluency in Python, C++, Java, or Ruby (please see section course page for specific language requirements).  Introduction to computer networks and the technical foundations of the Internet, including applications, protocols, local area networks, algorithms for routing and congestion control, security, elementary performance evaluation. Several written and programming assignments required.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• W 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Gil Zussman
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 39 Info
• Instructor: Vishal Misra
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia h-index: 53 Info
• Instructor: Gil Zussman
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 39 Info
• 3 points

STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND COMP METHODS

Boltzmann’s entropy hypothesis and its restatement to calculate the Helmholtz and Gibbs free energies and the grand potential. Applications to interfaces, liquid crystal displays, polymeric materials, crystalline solids, heat capacity and electrical conductivity of crystalline materials, fuel cell solid electrolytes, rubbers, surfactants, molecular self assembly, ferroelectricity. Computational methods for molecular systems. Monte Carlo (MC) and molecular dynamics (MD) simulation methods. MC method applied to liquid-gas and ferromagnetic phase transitions. Deterministic MD simulations of isolated gases and liquids. Stochastic MD simulation methods.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• T 7:10 p.m.-9:55 p.m.
• F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Ben O'Shaughnessy
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• 3 points

CHAN/ZEN BUDDHISM

Prerequisites: Some background in East Asian Buddhism, or instructor permission required. Zen has become a household term, but the reality behind this term is not well known. Originating in China around the 6th century C.E. the Chan/Zen tradition became one of the major Buddhist schools and rapidly spread to Korea, Japan, Vietnam (and, to a certain extent, Tibet). This course examines some aspects of this tradition, emphasizing its historical development, its mythological elements, and its multifaceted practice, which has for too long been reduced in the Western mind to meditation.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Bernard Faure
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• 4 points

LANG DOCUMENTATION/FIELD MTHDS

Prerequisites: LING UN3101 In light of the predicted loss of up to 90% of the world languages by the end of this century, it has become urgent that linguists take a more active role in documenting and conserving endangered languages. In this course, we will learn the essential skills and technology of language documentation through work with speakers of an endangered language.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Meredith Landman
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

COMPUTER SYSTEMS FOR DATA SCIENCE

An introduction to computer architecture and distributed systems with an emphasis on warehouse scale computing systems. Topics will include fundamental tradeoffs in computer systems, hardware and software techniques for exploiting instruction-level parallelism, data-level parallelism and task level parallelism, scheduling, caching, prefetching, network and memory architecture, latency and throughput optimizations, specialization, and an introduction to programming data center computers.

• Department: Computer Science
• R 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Sambit Sahu
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• 3 points

RENAISSANCE IN EUROPE II

Major texts of the Renaissance both south and north of the Alps, including those of Petrarch, Valla, Machiavelli, Castiglione, Erasmus, Thomas More, and Montaigne, with special emphasis on diverse style of early modern writing and the habits of reading they encouraged.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Kathy H Eden
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• 3 points

THE NOVEL IN AFRICA

The main task of this course will be to read novels by African writers. But the novel in Africa also involves connections between the literary genre of the novel and the historical processes of colonialism, decolonization, and globalization in Africa. One important question we'll consider is how African novels depict those historical experiences in their themes and plots—we'll read novels that are about colonialism, etc. A more complex question is how these historical processes relate to the emergence of the novel as an important genre for African writers. Edward Said went so far as to say that without imperialism, there would be no European novel as we know it. How can we understand the novel in Africa (whether read or written) as a product of the colonial encounter? How did it shape the process of decolonization? What contribution to history, whether literary or political, does the novel in Africa make? We'll undertake a historical survey of African novels from the 1930s to the present, with attention to various subgenres (village novel, war novel, urbanization novel, novel of postcolonial disillusion, Bildungsroman). We'll attend to how African novelists blend literate and oral storytelling traditions, how they address their work to local and global audiences, and how they use scenes of characters reading novels (whether African or European) in order to position their writing within national, continental, and world literary space.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer Wenzel
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 15 Info
• 4 points

MOD BUILDING TECH

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Theodorus H Prudon
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• 3 points

Remediating Protest: Transgressive Aesth

In the past ten years the authoritarian regime in Russia has rendered political protest exceedingly dangerous but it has not immobilized the cultural forms of dissent shaping contemporary anti-war resistance. From a feminist performance in a church to satirical documentary and whimsical trial speeches, contemporary artists, journalists, and activists have been creating the language of protest essential to understanding post-Soviet space. Why has protest in the post-Soviet region been taking these specific aesthetic forms? Taking our point of departure from Rancière’s idea of resistance – signifying both firm persistence and a practice yielding change – we will explore how contemporary post-Soviet protest genres rely on the communication strategies that return to Soviet parody, poetic form, underground art, and dissident practices of cultural distribution. Looking at laughter as a transgressive communicative device, we will search for the reverberations of Soviet satire in Russian and Belorussian stand-up, as well as in less obvious genres, such as the recent documentary work by Alexey Navalny. We will focus on mimesis as a tool of resistance in Soviet underground art and contemporary performative practices. Exploring the aesthetics of testimony rooted in Soviet show trials, we will examine how Soviet journalistic prose and, later, contemporary theater reclaimed its devices. We will study the persistence of bodily tropes and language of violence in women’s prose, drama, contemporary feminist poetry and feminist performance from Russia and Belarus. Finally, we will discuss how dissident practices of samizdat and tamizdat helped create cultural networks in Soviet Russia and beyond as we reflect on the use of new media platforms and technologies of digital activism in post-Soviet space. Rather than searching for instances of direct influence between cultural producers, we will examine how protest strategies are shaped and remediated while activating multiple layers of cultural memory. Students will learn to annotate images and videos online, write blog posts and carry out an independent research project in consultation with the instructor. At the end of the course they have a choice of presenting the project in the form of a paper or a multimedia digital piece. Enrollment is open to upper level undergraduate and graduate students. All primary and secondary readings are in English or have subtitles.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Tatiana Efremova
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• 3 points

DISEASE ECOLOGY

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Introduction to the ecology and epidemiology of infectious diseases of humans and wildlife.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Maria Diuk-Wasser
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• 3 points

DISEASE ECOLOGY

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Introduction to the ecology and epidemiology of infectious diseases of humans and wildlife.

• Department: Auditing
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Maria Diuk-Wasser
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• 0 points

MANAGING ENG & CONST PROCESSES

Introduction to the principles, methods and tools necessary to manage design and construction processes. Elements of planning, estimating, scheduling, bidding and contractual relationships. Valuation of project cash flows. Critical path method. Survey of construction procedures. Cost control and effectiveness. Field supervision.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Timothy McManus
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• 3 points

DESIGN OF CONSTRUCTION SYSTEMS

Prerequisites: (CIEN E3125) equivalent, or the instructors permission. Introduction to the design of systems that support construction activities and operations. Determination of design loads during construction. Design of excavation support systems, earth retaining systems, temporary supports and underpinning, concrete formwork and shoring systems. Cranes and erection systems. Tunneling systems. Instrumentation and monitoring. Students prepare and present term projects.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Vincent Tirolo
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• 3 points

LIT THRY:NIETZSCHE-AGAMBEN(ENG)

A survey of the most influential literary theories of the twentieth century, this seminar will discuss seminal contributions to hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, structuralism, deconstruction, discourse analysis, and gender theory. Each section will juxtapose two representative authors whose texts either complement or contradict one another. Based on close readings of exemplary texts, we will explore basic concepts of these theories and examine their intersections and differences. A second focal point of the seminar will be on applications of theory to literature. We will analyze their reformulation as methodologies in literary studies and discuss how they influenced different approaches to literature. The aim of the seminar will ultimately be to scrutinize critically these “applications” of theory to literature. Readings and discussions in English. No prior knowledge of literary theories required.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Oliver Simons
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• 3 points

PRIN OF CONSTRUCTN TECHNIQUES

Prerequisites: (CIEN E4129) or equivalent. Current methods of construction, cost-effective designs, maintenance, safe work environment. Design functions, constructability, site and environmental issues.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Ibrahim Odeh
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• 3 points

CAPITAL FACILITY PLANNING/FIN

Planning and financing of capital facilities with a strong emphasis upon civil infrastructure systems. Project feasibility and evaluation. Design of project delivery systems to encourage best value, innovation and private sector participation. Fundamentals of engineering economy and project finance. Elements of life cycle cost estimation and decision analysis. Environmental, institutional, social and political factors. Case studies from transportation, water supply and wastewater treatment.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher Latuso
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• 3 points

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY LAW

Prerequisites: Graduate standing or the instructors permission. Practical focus upon legal concepts applicable to the construction industry. Provides sufficient understanding to manage legal aspects, instead of being managed by them. Topics include contractual relationships, contract performance, contract flexibility and change orders, liability and negligence, dispute avoidance/resolution, surety bonds, insurance and site safety.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• M 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Steven Charney
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• 3 points

MODERN POLITICAL THOUGHT

Interpretations of civil society and the foundations of political order according to the two main traditions of political thought--contraction and Aristotelian. Readings include works by Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Montesquieu, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Saint-Simon, Tocqueville, Marx, and Mill.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Nadia Urbinati
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• 4 points

STRATEGIC MGT - ENG & CONSTR

Core concepts of strategic planning, management and analysis within the construction industry. Industry analysis, strategic planning models and industry trends. Strategies for information technology, emerging markets and globalization. Case studies to demonstrate key concepts in real-world environments.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Feniosky Pena-Mora
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• 3 points

Topics Through Greek Film

This course explores issues of memory and trauma, public history and testimony, colonialism and biopolitics, neoliberalism and governmentality, and crisis and kinship, all through the medium of Greek film. It brings the Greek cinema canon (Angelopoulos, Cacoyannis, Gavras, Koundouros, et al.) into conversation with the work of contemporary artists, ethnographers, documentary filmmakers, and the recent “weird wave” and asks: what kind of lens does film offer onto the study of a society’s history and contemporary predicament? The viewing and discussion of films is facilitated through a consideration of a wide range of materials, including travelogues, criticism, archival footage, and interviews with directors. The course does not assume any background knowledge and all films will have English subtitles. An additional 1-credit bilingual option (meeting once per week at a time TBD) is offered for students who wish to read, view, and discuss materials in Greek.

• Department: Classics
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Argyro Nicolaou
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• 4 points

MODERN POLITICAL THOUGHT-DISC

• Department: Political Science
• W 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Charles G Battaglini
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• 0 points

ENTREPRENEURSHP - ENG & CONSTR

Capstone practicum where teams develop strategies and business plans for a new enterprise in the engineering and construction industry. Identification of attractive market segments and locations; development of an entry strategy; acquisition of financing, bonding and insurance; organizational design; plans for recruiting and retaining personnel; personnel compensation/incentives. Invited industry speakers. Priority given to graduate students in Construction Engineering and Management.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Feniosky Pena-Mora
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• 3 points

MANAGE CIV INSTRASTUCTURE SYST

Prerequisites: (IEOR E4003) and (CIEN E4133) or IEOR E4003, CIEN E4133, or equivalent. Examination of the fundamentals of infrastructure planning and management, with a focus on the application of rational methods that support infrastructure decision-making. Institutional environment and issues. Decision-making under certainty and uncertainty. Capital budgeting and financing. Group decision processes. Elements of decision and finance theory. Priority given to graduate students in Construction Engineering and Management.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Julius Chang
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• 3 points

REAL ESTATE FIN/CONST MANAG

Prerequisites: (IEOR E2261) and (CIEN E3129) or instructors permission. Introduction to financial mechanics of public and private real-estate development and management. Working from perspectives of developers, investors and taxpayers, financing of several types of real estate and infrastructure projects are covered. Basics of real-estate accounting and finance, followed by in-depth studies of private, public, and public/private-partnership projects and their financial structures. Focused on U.S.-based financing, with some international practices introduced and explored. Financial risks and rewards, and pertinent capital markets and their financing roles. Impacts and incentives of various government programs, such as LEED certification and solar power tax credits. Case studies provide opportunity to compare U.S. practices to several international methods.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Kevin J Riordan
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• 3 points

PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP IN GLOBAL INF

Delivery of infrastructure assets through Public-Private Partnerships (PPP). Value for Money analysis. Project organization. Infrastructure sector characterization. Risk analysis, allocation and mitigation. Monte Carlo methods and Real Options. Project finance and financing instruments. Case studies from transportation, water supply and energy sectors.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Julius Chang
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• 3 points

Urban South Africa

Histories of Urban Africa

The aims of this seminar are 1) to introduce students to the broad parameters of urban South African history 2) to familiarize students with the immense creativity and resilience of African peoples, even in the most difficult colonial contexts 3) to illustrate how race, class and gender were socially, historically and politically constructed in South Africa 4) to guide students in the completion of an original research paper on some aspect of black South African urban life 5) to enhance student appreciation for the ways in which a researcher's perspective and interests influences their interpretation of sources 6) to make visible the ways in which research outcomes are shaped by a researcher's choice of source material 7) to develop student research and writing skills.

            This course provides only a bare introduction to the history of South Africa.  The chief aim is to provide students with a hands-on opportunity to conduct original research and to help students develop skills in documenting African agency and resilience in the face of colonial oppression, often by ‘reading between the lines’ of state-produced documents.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Laura Fair
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• 4 points

ACCUSATION

This course examines the politics and practices of collective accusation in comparative perspective. It treats these phenomena in their relation to processes of political and economic transition, to discourses of crisis, and to the practices of rule by which the idea of exception is made the grounds for extreme claims on and for the social body-usually, but not exclusively, enacted through forms of expulsion. We will consider the various theoretical perspectives through which forms of collective accusation have been addressed, focusing on psychoanalytic, structural functional, and poststructuralist readings. In doing so, we will also investigate the difference and possible continuities between the forms and logics of accusation that operate in totalitarian as well as liberal regimes. Course readings will include both literary and critical texts.

• Department: Anthropology
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Rosalind Morris
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

NMR SPECTROSCOPY

Prerequisites: elementary organic chemistry. Introduction to theory and practice of NMR spectroscopy. Instrumental aspects, basic NMR theory, NOE, and a survey of 2D methods are covered.

• Department: Chemistry
• F 11 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: John D Decatur
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• 1 points

Topics in Israeli Cinema

Israel has a unique and constantly-evolving national cinema, the product of its diverse immigrant population, influences from neighboring nations, and dramatic national history. Beginning with artistic influences from abroad and culminating with native self-examinations, this course will provide a survey of Israeli film history, recurring foci of Israeli cinema, and introductions to influential filmmakers from early director and impresario Menahem Golan to Orthodox writer/director Rama Burshtein.

Each class meeting will include a complete screening of an Israeli feature film, as well as clips of related works. Readings will include critical essays and histories which elaborate on in-class screenings and cover additional topics and films. Written assignments will be three analytical essays which will encourage critical thinking, close analysis of films, and independent research beyond the materials presented in class.

All readings are in English. All feature films and film clips are in Hebrew (some include Arabic), and will be presented with English subtitles. Students fluent in Hebrew and Arabic are encouraged to interpret the dialogue for additional meaning that may not be translated in the subtitles.

• Department: Institute for Israel & Jewish Studies
• T 10 a.m.-1:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Stuart Weinstock
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• 3 points

DESIGN IN ACTION

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 2 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Seth C Thompson
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• 6 points

Advanced AEC Data Management

ADVANCED AEC DATA MGMT

Focused on broadening knowledge of AEC data management.  Use of industry data sets from the design, construction, and operations of buildings to learn and practice data management and solve problems by aggregating industry data and creating data-driven reports in dashboard format. Exploration of industry data through ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) Services. Hands-on learning experiences through a series of workshops and case studies. Guides where predictive analysis is performed and how it is used for Project Management Information System (PMIS) and Facility Management (FM), leading to Digital Twin data management, data processing, and data visualization.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• 3 points

Between Tradition & Innovation: Readings

The popular eighteenth-century mystical revivalist movement known as Hasidism transformed the religious and cultural life of Eastern European Jewry and remains a vibrant form of Judaism to this day. This seminar will introduce students to the history, ideology and major personalities of the Hasidic movement through a close reading of a broad selection of primary texts, including mystical tracts, collections of sermons, spiritual directives, hagiographical tales and polemical writings. We will explore the mystical ideas and practices taught by the founders of the movement, the new forms of leadership they developed and the fierce controversies they aroused. We will also consider the role played by Hasidic literature in the formation and spread of the movement and the tensions it embodied between tradition and innovation, elitism and populism, and oral and written modes of communication.   

This course is open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates may register with permission from the instructor.

• Department: Institute for Israel & Jewish Studies
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Elly Moseson
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• 3 points

WATER RESOURCES AND CLIMATE

This course will cover the science needed to understand hydrology, the link between hydrology and climate, and why climate change will affect the hydrologic cycle. It will then look at what changes have occurred in the past, and what changes are projected for the future and how these changes may affect other sectors, such as agriculture. The final module of the course will look at adaptation measures to adapt to climate change. The course will be formatted to be a mixture of lectures and seminars, with the lecture portion used to introduce scientific concepts and the seminar portion to discuss and evaluate the readings assigned. At the end of this course, students will the hydrologic cycle and its connection to climate, how changes in climate have affected/will affect how much water is available on land, how water impacts ecosystem services, and how to diagnose the cause of a climate-related water problem and develop solutions to address it.

• Department: Sustainability Management
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 3 points

WATER RESOURCES AND CLIMATE

This course will cover the science needed to understand hydrology, the link between hydrology and climate, and why climate change will affect the hydrologic cycle. It will then look at what changes have occurred in the past, and what changes are projected for the future and how these changes may affect other sectors, such as agriculture. The final module of the course will look at adaptation measures to adapt to climate change. The course will be formatted to be a mixture of lectures and seminars, with the lecture portion used to introduce scientific concepts and the seminar portion to discuss and evaluate the readings assigned. At the end of this course, students will the hydrologic cycle and its connection to climate, how changes in climate have affected/will affect how much water is available on land, how water impacts ecosystem services, and how to diagnose the cause of a climate-related water problem and develop solutions to address it.

• Department: Auditing
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 0 points

HUMAN SKELETAL BIOLOGY II

INTRO-LAB TECH-PHYS ANTHRO II

Recommended for archaeology and physical anthropology students, pre-meds, and biology majors interested in the human skeletal system. Intensive study of human skeletal materials using anatomical and anthropological landmarks to assess sex, age, and ethnicity of bones. Other primate skeletal materials and fossil casts used for comparative study.

• Department: Anthropology
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Ralph L Holloway
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Construction Engineering and Management

CEM Industry Field Studie

Expose students to various aspects of project management in the construction industry, enhance learning experience with real-world challenges and prepare for internships and future employment. Run for two semesters. First semester focuses on Traditional Project Management, and second semester focuses on Agile Project Management. For class project, development of a Project Management Plan (PMP) and an Operations Dashboard based on real-life examples of contracts (traditional project management) and operational excellence initiatives (agile project management).

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• F 3:45 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
• F 11:10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Feniosky Pena-Mora
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• 1-3 points

APPLIED FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS

Introduction to modern tools in functional analysis that are used in the analysis of deterministic and stochastic partial differential equations and in the analysis of numerical methods: metric and normed spaces. Banach space of continuous functions, measurable spaces, the contraction mapping theorem, Banach and Hilbert spaces bounded linear operators on Hilbert spaces and their spectral decomposition, and time permitting distributions and Fourier transforms.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael I Weinstein
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 47 Info
• 3 points

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS I

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• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher M Boyce
  h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

INTRO-PROBABILITY & STATISTICS

Covers the following topics: fundamentals of probability theory and statistical inference used in engineering and applied science; Probabilistic models, random variables, useful distributions, expectations, law of large numbers, central limit theorem; Statistical inference: pint and confidence interval estimation, hypothesis tests, linear regression. For IEOR graduate students.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Antonius B Dieker
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 19 Info
• 3 points

ECONOMICS FOR PLANNERS

Formal background in economics is not required. A review of the basic concepts and methods of urban economics, with a major emphasis on location and land-use economics. Examination of both equilibrium-based models and the new critical models derived from analyses of the production process and spatial organization.

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Jon Meyers
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• 3 points

Engineering Software-as-a-Service

Modern software engineering concepts and practices including topics such as Software-as-a-Service, Service-oriented Architecture, Agile Development, Behavior-driven Development, Ruby on Rails, and Dev/ops.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Junfeng Yang
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 33 Info
• 3 points

RETHINKING FREEDOM IN AFRICA

Through the study of a set of key theoretical and fictional texts that range from the late 1960s to the present we will attempt to understand the “pitfalls of national consciousness” within historically existing African emancipatory projects. The texts that we will read will help us comprehend the nature of race, racism, ethnicity, and class struggle within the struggle for African freedom. Overall, the course will unfold in four sequences. In the first sequence we will examine the new debates that have emerged from within the Afro-pessimist literature. Here we will be concerned with the assertion within this body of writing about the impossibility of a collective African emancipatory project in this world. Secondly, because the Afro-pessimist literature is primarily concerned with rethinking freedom in Africa through Frantz Fanon, the course will then turn to the most recent secondary literature on Fanon from Africa (broadly conceived). Our objective here is twofold: to stage a debate regarding stakes between this secondary literature and the Afro-pessimist literature and to pose the question more generally of what it has meant to think of freedom from within Africa. The third sequence of the course will then turn to a rereading of classic texts associated with African emancipatory projects including the writings of Fanon, Amìlcar Cabral, and Steve Biko as a way to ground our thinking within these debates. Lastly, we will turn to the novels of Ben Okri so as to potentially identify and rethink the limits of contemporary debates about the prospects for freedom in Africa today.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Elleni Zeleke
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

PAN AFRICANISM

“Pan Africanist” ideologies were very diverse from Garveyism, Negritude to the various African America, Caribbean and African discourses of “neo-pharaohnism” and “Ethiopianism.” This seminar explores how Black leaders, intellectuals, and artists chose to imagine Black (Africans and people of African descent) as a global community from the late 19th century to the present. It examines their attempts to chart a course of race, modernity, and emancipation in unstable and changing geographies of empire, nation, and state. Particular attention will be given to manifestations identified as their common history and destiny and how such a distinctive historical experience has created a unique body of reflections on and cultural productions about modernity, religion, class, gender, and sexuality, in a context of domination and oppression.

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

PROBABILITY THEORY

Prerequisites: MATH GU4061 or MATH UN3007 A rigorous introduction to the concepts and methods of mathematical probability starting with basic notions and making use of combinatorial and analytic techniques. Generating functions. Convergence in probability and in distribution. Discrete probability spaces, recurrence and transience of random walks. Infinite models, proof of the law of large numbers and the central limit theorem. Markov chains.

• Department: Mathematics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ioannis Karatzas
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 58 Info
• 3 points

HIST OF RUSSIAN/SOVIET FILM

This course surveys developments in Russian film history and style from the prerevolutionary beginnings of cinema through the Soviet and post-Soviet experience. We will be studying both the aesthetic qualities of the films and their historical and cultural contexts. Students will be exposed to a wide range of visual media, including experimental films of the 1920s, films on Russia’s experience of World War II, Soviet classics, late Soviet and contemporary Russian films. The films are paired with the writings of the practitioners as well as the works of such theorists as André Bazin, Jacques Rancière, and Laura Mulvey. All readings are in English and the films will be screened with English subtitles. No knowledge of Russian is required or expected.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Vadim Shkolnikov
  Info
• 3 points

CULTURES IN COLONIAL KOREA

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Theodore Hughes
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

Transnational Feminisms-China and Beyond

Transntl Feminism-China/B

This is an interdisciplinary seminar for graduate students and advanced undergraduates to explore transnational feminisms, gender politics in China, and the movement of feminist (and anti-feminist) ideas across borders. We will read some translations of primary works by Chinese writers, as well as feminist scholarship in English to gain insight into the following areas: social movements; gender, race, ethnicity and class; global capitalism and inequalities; sexualities; identities; digital activism; nationalisms; marriage and families; and the politics of reproduction. Although the course has no formal prerequisites, it assumes some basic knowledge about Chinese history and intersectional approaches to gender. If you have never taken a course on China before,please ask me for guidance on whether or not the course is suitable for you.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Leta Hong Fincher
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points

SUSTAINABLE WATER TREAT/REUSE

Fundamentals of water pollution and wastewater characteristics. Chemistry, microbiology, and reaction kinetics. Design of primary, secondary, and advanced treatment systems. Small community and residential systems.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul Knowles
  Info
• 3 points

MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY

• Department: Philosophy @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Christina Van Dyke
  Info
• 3 points

LANGUAGES OF AFRICA

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

3D UI AND AUGMENTED REALITY

Prerequisites: (COMS W4160) or (COMS W4170) or the instructors permission. Design, development, and evaluation of 3D user interfaces. Interaction techniques and metaphors, from desktop to immersive. Selection and manipulation. Travel and navigation. Symbolic, menu, gestural, and multimodal interaction. Dialogue design. 3D software support. 3D interaction devices and displays. Virtual and augmented reality. Tangible user interfaces. Review of relevant 3D math.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Steven K Feiner
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SECURITY II

Advanced security. Centralized, distributed, and cloud system security. Cryptographic protocol design choices. Hardware and software security techniques. Security testing and fuzzing. Blockchain. Human security issues. Note: May not earn credit for both W4182 and W4180 or W4187.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Steven M Bellovin
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

Prerequisites: LING UN3101 How discourse works; how language is used: oral vs. written modes of language; the structure of discourse; speech acts and speech genres; the expression of power; authenticity; and solidarity in discourse, dialogicity, pragmatics, and mimesis.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: John C Wright
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT

ECON OF SUSTAINABILITY MG

This course builds on core economics courses and addresses issues of environmental, resource and sustainable economics. It focuses on the interaction between markets and the environment; policy issues related to optimal extraction and pricing; property rights in industrial and developing countries and how they affect international trade in goods such as timber, wood pulp, and oil. An important goal of the class is to have students work in groups to apply economic concepts to current public policy issues having to do with urban environmental and earth systems. The use of the worlds water bodies and the atmosphere as economic inputs to production are also examined. The economics of renewable resources is described and sustainable economic development models are discussed and analyzed. Some time will also be devoted to international trade and regulation, and industrial organization issues. Students not only learn economic concepts, but they will also learn how to explain them to decision-makers. The instructor will tailor this course to the skill level of the students in order to most effectively suit the needs of the class.

• Department: Sustainability Management
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Amin Mohseni-Cheraghlou
  Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS

Prerequisites: SDEV W3390 or EESC W4050 or the instructors permission. This class provides basic theory in landscape analysis and training in methods for analyzing landscapes, focusing on interpretation of satellite images. The class covers approaches and definitions in landscape analysis, data sources, land cover classification, change detection, accuracy assessment, projections of future land cover change, and techniques to interpret results of these analyses. Students will obtain hands-on experience working with data from a landscape related to his/her research or a landscape chosen by the instructors.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Shivani Agarwal
  Info
• 3 points

MARINE CONSERVATION ECOLOGY

Prerequisites: EEEB GR6110, EEEB GR6112, or EEEB GR6990, basic statistics, or the instructors permission. This course provides an overview of marine ecology, introducing processes and systems from which the marine environment is formed and the issues and challenges which surround its future conservation. Coursework will be evaluated using debates, oral presentations and more traditional metrics. Topics to be covered include fisheries, invasive species, habitat alteration, climate change. While we will focus on general threats there will be special emphasis placed on coral reef ecosystems.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jenny Burgman
  Info
• 3 points

MARINE CONSERVATION ECOLOGY

Prerequisites: EEEB GR6110, EEEB GR6112, or EEEB GR6990, basic statistics, or the instructors permission. This course provides an overview of marine ecology, introducing processes and systems from which the marine environment is formed and the issues and challenges which surround its future conservation. Coursework will be evaluated using debates, oral presentations and more traditional metrics. Topics to be covered include fisheries, invasive species, habitat alteration, climate change. While we will focus on general threats there will be special emphasis placed on coral reef ecosystems.

• Department: Auditing
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jenny Burgman
  Info
• 0 points

PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

Techniques of solution of partial differential equations. Separation of the variables. Orthogonality and characteristic functions, nonhomogeneous boundary value problems. Solutions in orthogonal curvilinear coordinate systems. Applications of Fourier integrals, Fourier and Laplace transforms. Problems from the fields of vibrations, heat conduction, electricity, fluid dynamics, and wave propagation are considered.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph Kraisler
  Info
• 3 points

HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN AND INNOVATION

HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN & I

Open to SEAS graduate and advanced undergraduate students, Business School, and GSAPP. Students from other schools may apply. Fast-paced introduction to human-centered design. Students learn the vocabulary of design methods, understanding of design process. Small group projects to create prototypes. Design of simple product, more complex systems of products and services, and design of business.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• T 5:25 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Harry West
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 1 Info
• 3 points

SEM-BIOTECH DEVPT & REGULATION

Prerequisites: BIOT W4200 (OK without prerequisite). This course will provide a practical definition of the current role of the Regulatory Professional in pharmaceutical development, approval and post-approval actions. This will be illustrated by exploration, and interactive discussion of regulatory history, its evolution, current standards, and associated processes. The course will seek to clarify the role of Regulatory in development and lifecycle opportunities, demonstrating the value Regulatory adds by participation on research, development and commercial teams. The course will utilize weekly case studies and guest lecturers to provide color to current topical events related to the areas.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ron Guido
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

BASIC CONCEPTS-POST-FREUD THGT

This course examines psychoanalytic movements that are viewed either as post-Freudian in theory or as emerging after Freuds time. The course begins by considering the ways Freuds cultural and historical surround, as well as the wartime diaspora of the European psychoanalytic community, shaped Freudian and post-Freudian thought. It then focuses on significant schools and theories of psychoanalysis that were developed from the mid 20th century to the present. Through readings of key texts and selected case studies, it explores theorists challenges to classical thought and technique, and their reconfigurations, modernizations, and total rejections of central Freudian ideas. The course concludes by looking at contemporary theorists moves to integrate notions of culture, concepts of trauma, and findings from neuroscience and attachment research into the psychoanalytic frame.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Karen Seeley
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 4 points

MATERIALS THERMODYN/PHASE DIAG

Review of laws of thermodynamics, thermodynamic variables and relations, free energies and equilibrium in thermodynamic system. Statistical thermodynamics. Unary, binary, and ternary phase diagrams, compounds and intermediate phases, solid solutions and Hume-Rothery rules, relationship between phase diagrams and metastability, defects in crystals. Thermodynamics of surfaces and interfaces, effect of particle size on phase equilibria, adsorption isotherms, grain boundaries, surface energy, electrochemistry, statistical mechanics.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Renata M Wentzcovitch
  Info
• 3 points

SECOND YEAR JAPANESE

Second Year Japanese II, JPNS4202OC, 4 points. You are required to take Second Year Japanese I, JPNS4201OC with this course.

Instructor: Kaori Nakata

The 2nd year Japanese program (JPNS4201OC & JPNS4202OC); 8 points or 2 semesters) is designed for those who have completed at least one year of college-level Japanese or the equivalent (around 150 hours of Japanese study).

Students who want to take this course are expected to be at least at the
Novice-High level
of
the ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) Proficiency Guidelines
at the beginning of the course. 

For a more detailed description, please follow the links provided:  ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines Novice: 
Speaking
 | 
Writing
 | 
Listening
 | 
Reading
(see the section of “NOVICE HIGH”)

This class will cover the entire
Genki II

(The Japan Times) and intermediate materials such as
Hiyaku
(Routledge). The coverage and materials will be contingent on the levels of students and finalized by the instructors.

The goal of this course is to achieve Intermediate-Mid level or higher proficiency according to the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines. Upon successful completion of the course, the students will:


have a command of basic Japanese grammar and vocabulary (equivalent to JLPT N5-N4);

be able to communicate with others effectively in Japanese in familiar situations/about familiar topics at a sentence-level;

understand written texts about familiar topics related to everyday life and personal interests in Japanese.


This class will cover the entire
Genki II

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Miyuki Nishimata
  Info
• 8 points

KINETICS OF TRANSFORMATIONS

Review of thermodynamics, irreversible thermodynamics, diffusion in crystals and noncrystalline materials, phase transformations via nucleation and growth, overall transformation analysis and time-temperature-transformation (TTT) diagrams, precipitation, grain growth, solidification, spinodal and order-disorder transformations, martensitic transformation.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: James Im
  Info
• 3 points

Theories of Change in Human Development

Theories of Change-Human

What are the agents of developmental change in human childhood? How has the scientific community graduated from nature versus nurture, to nature
and
nurture? This course offers students an in-depth analysis of the fundamental theories in the study of cognitive and social development.

• Department: Psychology
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Dima Amso
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 31 Info
• 4 points

PROBABILITY THEORY

Prerequisites: At least one semester, and preferably two, of calculus. An introductory course (STAT UN1201, preferably) is strongly recommended. A calculus-based introduction to probability theory. A quick review of multivariate calculus is provided. Topics covered include random variables, conditional probability, expectation, independence, Bayes’ rule, important distributions, joint distributions, moment generating functions, central limit theorem, laws of large numbers and Markov’s inequality.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: David A Rios
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 3 points

STATISTICAL INFERENCE

Prerequisites: STAT GU4203. At least one semester of calculus is required; two or three semesters are strongly recommended. Calculus-based introduction to the theory of statistics. Useful distributions, law of large numbers and central limit theorem, point estimation, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals maximum likelihood, likelihood ratio tests, nonparametric procedures, theory of least squares and analysis of variance.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Johannes Wiesel
  h-index: 6 Info
• Instructor: Cristian G Pasarica
  Info
• 3 points

STATISTICAL INFERENCE

Prerequisites: STAT GU4203. At least one semester of calculus is required; two or three semesters are strongly recommended. Calculus-based introduction to the theory of statistics. Useful distributions, law of large numbers and central limit theorem, point estimation, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals maximum likelihood, likelihood ratio tests, nonparametric procedures, theory of least squares and analysis of variance.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Cristian G Pasarica
  Info
• 3 points

LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS

Prerequisites: STAT GU4204 or the equivalent, and a course in linear algebra. Theory and practice of regression analysis. Simple and multiple regression, testing, estimation, prediction, and confidence procedures, modeling, regression diagnostics and plots, polynomial regression, colinearity and confounding, model selection, geometry of least squares. Extensive use of the computer to analyse data.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 7:40 p.m.-8:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeonghoe Lee
  Info
• 3 points

THIRD YEAR JAPANESE

Third Year Japanese II, JPNS4206OC, 4 points. You are required to take Third Year Japanese I, JPNS4205OC with this course.

Instructor: Orie Maeguchi

The 3rd Year Japanese program (JPNS4205OC & JPNS4206OC; 8 points/2 semesters) is designed for those who have completed at least two years of college-level Japanese or the equivalent (around 300 hours of Japanese study).

Students who want to take this course are expected to be at least at the 
Intermediate-Mid level
 of 
the ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) Proficiency Guidelines
 at the beginning of the course. Please note that depending on the results of the placement test, the students may be placed in a different level than they apply for.

For a more detailed description, please follow the links provided: ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines Intermediate: 
Speaking
 | 
Writing
 | 
Listening
 | 
Reading
(see the section of “INTERMEDIATE MID”)

This class will cover most of the chapters in 
Tobira
 (Kuroshio). The coverage and materials will be contingent on the levels of students.

The goal of this course is to achieve Intermediate-High or above of the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines. Upon successful completion of the course, the students will:


have a command of intermediate-level grammar and vocabulary (equivalent to JLPT N3-N2);

understand both spoken and written Japanese correctly about a variety of topics;

be able to express his/her opinions at the paragraph level in socially appropriate manner.


To enroll in this course, you must apply to the

Vergil

• Department: Global Programs
• 8 points

THIRD YEAR JAPANESE

Third Year Japanese II, JPNS4206OC, 4 points. You are required to take Third Year Japanese I, JPNS4205OC with this course.

Instructor: Orie Maeguchi

The 3rd Year Japanese program (JPNS4205OC & JPNS4206OC; 8 points/2 semesters) is designed for those who have completed at least two years of college-level Japanese or the equivalent (around 300 hours of Japanese study).

Students who want to take this course are expected to be at least at the 
Intermediate-Mid level
 of 
the ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) Proficiency Guidelines
 at the beginning of the course. Please note that depending on the results of the placement test, the students may be placed in a different level than they apply for.

For a more detailed description, please follow the links provided: ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines Intermediate: 
Speaking
 | 
Writing
 | 
Listening
 | 
Reading
(see the section of “INTERMEDIATE MID”)

This class will cover most of the chapters in 
Tobira
 (Kuroshio). The coverage and materials will be contingent on the levels of students.

The goal of this course is to achieve Intermediate-High or above of the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines. Upon successful completion of the course, the students will:


have a command of intermediate-level grammar and vocabulary (equivalent to JLPT N3-N2);

understand both spoken and written Japanese correctly about a variety of topics;

be able to express his/her opinions at the paragraph level in socially appropriate manner.


To enroll in this course, you must apply to the

Vergil

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Chihiro Yamaoka
  Info
• Instructor: Itsuko Nakamura
  Info
• 8 points

STAT COMP & INTRO DATA SCIENCE

Prerequisites: STAT GU4204 and GU4205 or the equivalent. Introduction to programming in the R statistical package: functions, objects, data structures, flow control, input and output, debugging, logical design, and abstraction. Writing code for numerical and graphical statistical analyses. Writing maintainable code and testing, stochastic simulations, paralleizing data analyses, and working with large data sets. Examples from data science will be used for demonstration.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Yongchan Kwon
  Info
• 3 points

ELEMENTARY STOCHASTIC PROCESS

Elementary Stochastic Processe

Prerequisites: STAT GU4203 and two, preferably three, semesters of calculus. Review of elements of probability theory. Poisson processes. Renewal theory. Walds equation. Introduction to discrete and continuous time Markov chains. Applications to queueing theory, inventory models, branching processes.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Anne Van Delft
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

ELEMENTARY STOCHASTIC PROCESS

Prerequisites: STAT GU4203 and two, preferably three, semesters of calculus. Review of elements of probability theory. Poisson processes. Renewal theory. Walds equation. Introduction to discrete and continuous time Markov chains. Applications to queueing theory, inventory models, branching processes.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Brown
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SEM IN HUMAN FACTORS DESIGN

An elective for undergraduate students majoring in IE. An in-depth exploration of the application potential of human factor principles for the design of products and processes. Applications to industrial products, tools, layouts, workplaces, and computer displays. Consideration to environmental factors, training and documentation. Term project.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Leon S Gold
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS

Fundamental concepts in the dynamics of rotating, stratified flows. Geostrophic and hydrostatic balances, potential vorticity, f and beta plane approximations, gravity and Rossby waves, geostrophic adjustment and quasigeostrophy, baroclinic and barotropic instabilities, Sverdrup balance, boundary currents, Ekman layers.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Lorenzo M Polvani
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 69 Info
• 3 points