Expository Writing Intensive: How to Wri
- Department: Pre-College Programs (SHSP)
- U 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
- 0 points
Game Theory: A Course in Mathematical Ec
Mathematical Economics
- Department: Pre-College Programs (SHSP)
- S 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Entrepreneurship & Innovation: Changing
Entrepreneur: Venture Cre
- Department: Pre-College Programs (SHSP)
- U 10 a.m.-noon
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Exploring Careers in Law
- Department: Pre-College Programs (SHSP)
- U 10 a.m.-noon
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Persuasive and Effective Communication f
- Department: Pre-College Programs (SHSP)
- F 8 p.m.-10 p.m.
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Essentials of Business, Finance, and Eco
Essentials of Bus, Fin, E
- Department: Pre-College Programs (SHSP)
- S 10 a.m.-noon
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3D Medical Printing and Backward Design
3D Med Print/Backward Des
- Department: Medicine
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Excel Fundamentals
This short course surveys fundamental Microsoft Excel concepts and functionality applicable to SIPA courses and in professional settings. Topics include interacting with spreadsheets, understanding references and functions, writing formulas, building basic models, controlling formatting and presentation, and creating basic charts. The course is targeted at students with limited or no prior Excel experience.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Kenyon S Saverance
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Advanced Techniques in Excel
Prerequisites: Instructor-Managed Waitlist & Course Application.
This short course explores techniques that enable sophisticated problem solving and data analysis in Microsoft Excel. Topics include implementing advanced logic using complex formulas and intermediate calculations; managing complexity with Excel's auditing features; importing, parsing and cleaning raw data; pulling data together using lookup functions; and summarizing and analyzing data with conditional aggregate functions and PivotTables. This course does not focus on specific policy or financial applications, but instead explores general concepts and techniques that can be flexibly applied to different solutions in Excel.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Kenyon S Saverance
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Financial Modeling in Excel
This one-day seminar, conducted by Training The Street, explores best practices and efficient techniques for building finance-related spreadsheets.
The lectures will use a real company as a case study and direct participants to blend accounting, corporate finance, and Excel skills to create a dynamic, three-statement financial model. The completed product has five years of projections, three years of historical data, and supporting schedules, including working capital, debt, equity, depreciation, and amortization. Other advanced topics include understanding and controlling circularity errors, troubleshooting, sensitivity analysis, and discounted cash flow valuations.
The course is best suited for students with exposure to basic accounting and corporate finance concepts. It stresses efficiency in using Excel and awareness of common pitfalls when developing financial models.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Kenyon S Saverance
Info - 0 points
PRONUNCIATION WORKSHOP
- Department: American Language Program
- TR 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
- 0 points
INTRO TO FILM & MEDIA STUDIES
This course serves as an introduction to the study of film and related visual media, examining fundamental issues of aesthetics (mise-en-scene, editing, sound), history (interaction of industrial, economic, and technological factors), theory (spectatorship, realism, and indexicality), and criticism (auteurist, feminist, and genre-based approaches). The course also investigates how digital media change has been productive of new frameworks for moving image culture in the present. Discussion section FILM UN1001 is a required corequisite.
- Department: Film
- T 10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Robert King
CULPA: 7
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- 3 points
Frontiers in Operations Research and Dat
Frontiers in OR&Data Anal
Introductory course for overview of modern approaches and ideas of operations research and data analytics. Through a series of interactive sessions, students engage in activities exploring OR topics with various faculty members from the IEOR department.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- F 1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Yi Zhang
CULPA: 2 Info - 1 points
FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE
Corequisites: SCNC CC1100 The principal objectives of Frontiers of Science are to engage students in the process of discovery by exploring topics at the forefront of science and to inculcate or reinforce the specific habits of mind that inform a scientific perspective on the world. Sample topics include the brain and behavior, global climate change, relativity, and biodiversity, among others. Taught by members of natural science departments and Columbia Science Fellows.
- Department: Core (A&S)
- M 10:30 a.m.-noon
- T 10:30 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Ivana N Hughes
CULPA: 18
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- 4 points
THE SOCIAL WORLD
Identification of the distinctive elements of sociological perspectives on society. Readings confront classical and contemporary approaches with key social issues that include power and authority, culture and communication, poverty and discrimination, social change, and popular uses of sociological concepts.
Please note you must also register for a discussion section to take this course.
- Department: Sociology
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Marissa Thompson
Info - 4 points