DATA JOURNALISM

FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTING

• Department: Journalism
• MW 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Soma
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• 3 points

DATA JOURNALISM

DATA & DATABASES

• Department: Journalism
• TR 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan S Thirkield
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• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO PROBABILITY AND STATISTI

INTRODUCTION TO PROB & ST

Prerequisites: Calculus through multiple integration and infinite sums. A calculus-based tour of the fundamentals of probability theory and statistical inference. Probability models, random variables, useful distributions, conditioning, expectations, law of large numbers, central limit theorem, point and confidence interval estimation, hypothesis tests, linear regression. This course replaces SIEO 4150.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Arian Maleki
  h-index: 31 Info
• 3 points

CONTROVERSIAL TPCS-HUM EVOL I

Prerequisites: an introductory biological/physical anthropology course and the instructors permission. Controversial issues that exist in current biological/physical anthropology, and controversies surrounding the descriptions and theories about particular fossil hominid discoveries, such as the earliest australopithecines, the diversity of Homo erectus, the extinction of the Neandertals, and the evolution of culture, language, and human cognition.

• Department: Anthropology
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ralph L Holloway
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ESSENTIALS OF CHEM ENGIN B

Prerequisites: First-year chemistry and physics, vector calculus, ordinary differential equations, and the instructors permission. Part of an accelerated consideration of the essential chemical engineering principles from the undergraduate program, including topics from Reaction Kinetics and Reactor Design, Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics, I and II, and Chemical and Biochemical Separations. While required for all M.S. students with Scientist to Engineer status, the credits from this course may not be applied toward any chemical engineering degree.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• F 11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
• 3 points

Advanced Readings in Asian American Stud

Adv Read Asian Amer Studi

What constitutes an archive of Asian America, and what defines an Asian American studies archive? If Asian American history has always engaged with the politics of inclusion and exclusion, how does one reconcile the study of Asian America as one marked by both difference and alliance? Taking into account the heterogeneous, multi-layered, transnational, and transpacific nature of Asian American culture, how do we identify a nuanced and unified archive of Asian America? What, then, are the contours and limits of an Asian American studies archive? What is at stake in naming and identifying such an archive? How is an archive of Asian American studies imagined and created? What form would such an archive adopt? This advanced course assumes basic, introductory knowledge of Asian American studies. We will approach the evolving understandings and practices of Asian American studies by analyzing a wide of range of texts, including theory and criticism, film, literature, and digital archives. Together, we will examine the challenges and potentials of Asian American studies in relation to topics such as gender and sexuality, the enduring legacies of American wars in the Pacific, media technologies, and more.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Viola Lasmana
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• 4 points

CORE STUDIO SEMESTER III

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Hilary M Sample-Meredith
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• 9 points

METHODS III: SYMBOLIC METHODS

METHODS II:SYMBOLIC METHODS

• Department: Biomedical Informatics
• F 10 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
• Instructor: Chunhua Weng
  h-index: 37 Info
• 3 points

AQUATIC CHEMISTRY

INTRO TO AQUATIC CHEMISTR

Principles of physical chemistry applied to equilibria and kinetics of aqueous solutions in contact with minerals and anthropogenic residues. The scientific background for addressing problems of aqueous pollution, water treatment, and sustainable production of materials with minimum environmental impact. Hydrolysis, oxidation-reduction, complex formation, dissolution and precipitation, predominance diagrams; examples of natural water systems, processes for water treatment and for the production of inorganic materials from minerals.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Yin Yip Ngai
  h-index: 26 Info
• 3 points

CORPORATE FINANCE FOR ENGINEERS

Introduction to the economic evaluation of industrial projects. Economic equivalence and criteria. Deterministic approaches to economic analysis. Multiple projects and constraints. Analysis and choice under risk and uncertainty.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• R 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: David Derosa
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 9 Info
• 3 points

NEUROBIO I:CELLULAR & MOLECULR

Prerequisites: one year of biology; a course in physics is highly recommended. Lecture and recitation. This is an advanced course intended for majors providing an in depth survey of the cellular and molecular aspects of nerve cell function. Topics include the cell biology and biochemistry of neurons, ionic and molecular basis of electrical signals, synaptic transmission and its modulation, function of sensory receptors. Although not required, it is intended to be followed by Neurobiology II (see below). The recitation meets once per week in smaller groups and emphasizes readings from the primary literature.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Jian Yang
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 37 Info
• 4 points

OPTIMIZATION MODELS AND METHODS

A graduate course only for MS&E, IE, and OR students. This is also required for students in the Undergraduate Advanced Track. For students who have not studied linear programming. Some of the main methods used in IEOR applications involving deterministic models: linear programming, the simplex method, nonlinear, integer and dynamic programming.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• U 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• F 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Vineet Goyal
  h-index: 21 Info
• Instructor: Cedric Josz
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 13 Info
• Instructor: Shipra Agrawal
  h-index: 24 Info
• Instructor: Yuri Faenza
  h-index: 11 Info
• Instructor: Daniel Bienstock
  h-index: 38 Info
• Instructor: Vineet Goyal
  h-index: 21 Info
• Instructor: Shipra Agrawal
  h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED STUDIO V

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

Conservation Policy

Prerequisites: Students should have completed at least one course in ecology, evolution or conservation biology. The purpose of this course is to arm emerging scientists with an understanding of conservation policy at the city, state, federal and international levels. Our focus will be on understanding the science that informs conservation policy, evaluating the efficacy of conservation policies for achieving conservation goals, and learning about the role that scientists play in forming policy.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• T 2 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Sara Kross
  h-index: 11 Info
• 3 points

RAPID READ&TRANSLATION IN ITAL

For graduate students and others who need to develop their reading knowledge of Italian. Open to undergraduate students as well, who want a compact survey/review of Italian structures and an approach to translation. Grammar, syntax, and vocabulary review; practice in reading and translating Italian texts of increasing complexity from a variety of fields, depending on the needs of the students. No previous knowledge of Italian is required. Note: this course may not be used to satisfy the language requirement or to fulfill major or concentration requirements.

• Department: Italian
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria Luisa Gozzi
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 3 points

TRANSLATIONAL BIOINFORMATICS

Methods in translational bioinformatics (i.e. biomedical data sciences) for graduate students as well as juniors and seniors. Students study the statistical and computational algorithms to evaluate large biomedical data, with a special focus on the integration of molecular and clinical data for the advancement of medicine. Methods may include including sequence analysis, supervised and unsupervised machine learning, graph theoretic models and network analysis, information theory, deep neural networks, density estimation, and others. Students will study how to practically apply these methods to biomedical domains in non-human and human genetics, pharmacology, and public health. Successful completion of the course readies the student for graduate level research in translational bioinformatics.

• Department: Biomedical Informatics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicholas Tatonetti
  Wikipedia h-index: 36 Info
• 3 points

Advanced Ukrainian Through Literature, M

ADV UKRN THRU MED LIT POL

This course is organized around a number of thematic centers or modules. Each is focused on stylistic peculiarities typical of a given functional style of the Ukrainian language. Each is designed to assist the student in acquiring an active command of lexical, grammatical, discourse, and stylistic traits that distinguish one style from the others and actively using them in real-life communicative settings in contemporary Ukraine. The styles include literary fiction, scholarly prose, and journalism, both printed and broadcast.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Yuri Shevchuk
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

APPLIED LINEAR ALGEBRA

Fundamentals of Linear Algebra including vector and Matrix algebra, solution of linear systems, existence and uniqueness, gaussian elimination, gauss-jordan elimination, the matrix inverse, elementary matrices and the LU factorization, computational cost of  solutions. Vector spaces and subspaces,  linear independence, basis and dimension. The 4 fundamental subspaces of a matrix. Orthogonal projection onto a subspace and solution of Linear Least Squares problems, unitary matrices, inner products,  orthogonalization algorithms and the QR factorization, applications. Determinants and applications. Eigen problems including diagonalization, symmetric matrices, positive-definite systems, eigen factorization and applications to dynamical systems and iterative maps. Introduction to the singular value decomposition and its applications.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael K Tippett
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 43 Info
• 3 points

OPT MODELS & METHODS FOR FE

Linear, quadratic, nonlinear, dynamic, and stochastic programming. Some discrete optimization techniques will also be introduced. The theory underlying the various optimization methods is covered. The emphasis is on modeling and the choice of appropriate optimization methods. Applications from financial engineering are discussed.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Garud Iyengar
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 30 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO CLASSICAL JAPANESE I

Prerequisites: JPNS C1202 or the equivalent. Introduction to the fundamentals of classical Japanese grammar. Trains students to read Japanese historical and literary texts from the early period up to the 20th century.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Haruo Shirane
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Special Topics in Biomedical Informatics

SPECL TOPC BIOMED INFORMA

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• Department: Biomedical Informatics
• W 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Olena Mamykina
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• 3 points

INTRO TO ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE

Prerequisites: advanced calculus and general physics, or the instructors permission. Basic physical processes controlling atmospheric structure: thermodynamics; radiation physics and radiative transfer; principles of atmospheric dynamics; cloud processes; applications to Earths atmospheric general circulation, climatic variations, and the atmospheres of the other planets.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Lorenzo M Polvani
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 69 Info
• 3 points

HISTORY & THEORY OF PLANNING

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Ryan T Devlin
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• 3 points

SELECTNS FROM GREEK LIT

Prerequisites: GREK V1201 and V1202, or their equivalent. Since the content of the course changes from year to year, it may be taken in consecutive years.

• Department: Classics @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Helene P Foley
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

LATIN LIT PROSE SELECTIONS

SELECTIONS FR LATIN LIT-PROSE

Prerequisites: LATN V3012 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.

• Department: Classics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph A Howley
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

INTRODUCTN TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE

Introductory course is for individuals with an interest in medical physics and other branches of radiation science. Topics include basic concepts, nuclear models, semi-empirical mass formula, interaction of radiation with matter, nuclear detectors, nuclear structure and instability, radioactive decay process and radiation, particle accelerators, and fission and fusion processes and technologies.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• T 6:30 p.m.-9 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Stephen L Ostrow
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• 3 points

MATH METHODS IN CHEMICAL ENGIN

Prerequisites: CHEN E4230 or equivalent, or instructors permission. Mathematical description of chemical engineering problems and the application of selected methods for their solution. General modeling principles, including model hierarchies. Linear and nonlinear ordinary differential equations and their systems, including those with variable coefficients. Partial differential equations in Cartesian and curvilinear coordinates for the solution of chemical engineering problems.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:45 a.m.
• Instructor: Robert G Bozic
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• 3 points

MATH METHODS IN CHEMICAL ENGIN

Prerequisites: CHEN E4230 or equivalent, or instructors permission. Mathematical description of chemical engineering problems and the application of selected methods for their solution. General modeling principles, including model hierarchies. Linear and nonlinear ordinary differential equations and their systems, including those with variable coefficients. Partial differential equations in Cartesian and curvilinear coordinates for the solution of chemical engineering problems.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Robert G Bozic
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• 3 points

RESP COND OF RES/REL PLCY ISSU

ETHICS & POLICY IN SCIEN RSCH

Explores a variety of ethical and political issues that arise during the conduct of basic and clinical scientific research. Course sessions include lectures, discussion periods, and analyses of case studies.

• Department: Cellular, Molecular, and Biophysical Studies
• Instructor: Patrice Spitalnik
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• 1 points

MGMT OF HEALTH INFORMATION TECH

• Department: Biomedical Informatics
• F 1 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Virginia G Lorenzi
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• 3 points

ORAL HISTORY WORKSHOP

This year-long course introduces students to important conversations within and about oral history through a series of curated public lectures. We will meet for six events a semester, plus one session to orient you to the class. From 5:00 – 6:00, students will meet with the speaker for an informal conversation about their career path and research process. The public portion of the event will be from 6:10 to 7:30 PM. You should plan to be in class until 8 in case an event runs slightly over, and so that you can stick around after the event to chat with the speaker or have a glass of wine.

• Department: Oral History
• R 5:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Carlin L Zia
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• 2 points

Excel Fundamentals

This introductory course surveys fundamental Microsoft Excel concepts and functionality applicable to SIPA courses and in professional settings. Topics include understanding references and functions, writing formulas, interacting with spreadsheets, building basic models, controlling formatting and presentation and creating basic charts. The course is targeted at students with limited or no prior Excel experience. The course is open to SIPA students only. Note: A laptop is required for this course

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• SU 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Kenyon S Saverance
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• 0 points

Excel Fundamentals

This introductory course surveys fundamental Microsoft Excel concepts and functionality applicable to SIPA courses and in professional settings. Topics include understanding references and functions, writing formulas, interacting with spreadsheets, building basic models, controlling formatting and presentation and creating basic charts. The course is targeted at students with limited or no prior Excel experience. The course is open to SIPA students only. Note: A laptop is required for this course

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• SU 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Kenyon S Saverance
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• 0 points

ACCULTURATN TO MED & CLIN INFO

Overview of the field of medicine for informaticians. Medical language and terminology, introduction to pathology and pathophysiology, the process of medical decision making, and an understanding of how information flows in the practice of medicine.

• Department: Biomedical Informatics
• M 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Sivan Kinberg
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• 3 points

DOSTOEVSKY,TOLSTOY & ENG NOVEL

A close reading of works by Dostoevsky (Netochka Nezvanova; The Idiot; A Gentle Creature) and Tolstoy (Childhood, Boyhood, Youth; Family Happiness; Anna Karenina; The Kreutzer Sonata) in conjunction with related English novels (Bronte's Jane Eyre, Eliot's Middlemarch, Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway). No knowledge of Russian is required.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Liza Knapp
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 3 points

RESP COND-RES/REL PLCY ISS-DIS

• Department: Cellular, Molecular, and Biophysical Studies
• 1 points

LOTUS SUTRA/E ASIAN BUDDHISM

• Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: David L Moerman
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 4 points

Advanced Techniques in Excel

Prerequisites: SIPA U4010 or equivalent experience This course explores skills needed for sophisticated spreadsheet development and problem solving in Microsoft Excel. Topics include implementing advanced logic using complex formulas, managing complexity with Excel's auditing features, leveraging lookup functions leveraging and calculated references, parsing and cleaning raw data, refining data structure, and constructing and leveraging PivotTables. The course does not focus on specific models or applications, but instead explores general concepts and techniques that can be flexibly applied to different solutions in Excel. The course is open to SIPA students only. Instructor approval is required: students will be waitlisted in SSOL and contacted by the instructor. Part of the Excel at SIPA course series. Deadline to drop this course is one week prior to the start date of the course. A notation of "W" will be assigned if requests to drop are not made by this deadline.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Kenyon S Saverance
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• 0 points

BUSINESS CHINESE I

The Business Chinese I course is designed to prepare students to use Chinese in a present or future work situation. Students will develop skills in the practical principles of grammar, vocabulary, and cross-cultural understanding needed in today’s business world.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MTW 10:10 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
• Instructor: Zhong Qi Shi
  Info
• 4 points

Financial Modeling in Excel

This intensive one-day workshop develops financial modeling skills through the hands-on construction of an interactive financial model. Using a real company as a case study, the lectures will 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.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• S 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Kenyon S Saverance
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• 0 points

Justice and Punishment: Dostoevsky, Chek

We will read works on justice and on punishment (death penalty, prison, exile, corporal punishment) by Russian writers of the nineteenth-century and by some of French, American, and English contemporaries (or precursors).  Included are: Dostoevsky’s
Notes from the Dead House,
a fictionalized memoir born from his time in Siberian prison camp, Chekhov’s
Sakhalin,
an account of his pilgrimage to the Russian penal colony of Sakhalin, and Tolstoy’s
Resurrection
; Victor Hugo’s
Last Day of a Condemned Man
; Austin Reed’s
Life and Adventures of a Haunted Convict. 
We will also read short works by Ivan Turgenev, Charles Dickens, and others.  We will end with a selection of recent prison writing. We will attempt to read each work on its own terms, in its own context, and for what is unique to it, but, as the semester continues, we will look for possible common ground in the poetics, ethics, and politics of the works and in the questions they pose.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Liza Knapp
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 3 points

MEDIA CHINESE

MEDIA CHINESE I

Prerequisites: at least 3 years of intensive Chinese language training at college level and the instructor's permission. This advanced course is designed to specifically train students' listening and speaking skills in both formal and colloquial language through various Chinese media sources. Students view and discuss excerpts of Chinese TV news broadcasts, soap operas, and movie segments on a regular basis. Close reading of newspaper and internet articles and blogs supplements the training of verbal skills.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MTWR 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Yuan-Yuan Meng
  CULPA: 33 Info
• 4 points

Sociology of Classification: Race, Gende

Sociology of Clasificatio

In this seminar we explore the sociology of classification, a subfield that critiques the ways society measures differences like race, gender, ability, and other classifications that communicate social worth. Over the course of the semester, students will explore four questions:

How does society construct and understand categories of difference;

How do people experience and resist categories of social difference in themselves;

How do members of society experience and perceive difference in others; and

How does social difference shape institutions like the family, education, employment, and government?

Students will leave the course with the ability to identify areas of social difference and critique the ways measurement creates inequality in the social world.

• Department: Sociology
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Adrianna M Munson
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

FOURTH YEAR CHINESE I

Prerequisites: CHNS W4004 or the equivalent. Implements a wide range of reading materials to enhance the students speaking and writing as well as reading skills. Supplemented by television broadcast news, also provides students with strategies to increase their comprehension of formal style of modern Chinese. CC GS EN CE

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MTWR 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Ling Yan
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 4 points

ORAL HIST: METHOD & THEORY

• Department: Oral History
• W 10:10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Nyssa Chow
  Info
• 4 points

SKILLS/MGMT OF HLTH INFO TECHNOLOGY

• Department: Biomedical Informatics
• F 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Virginia G Lorenzi
  Info
• 3 points

DEEP SEQUENCING

• Department: Biomedical Informatics
• R 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

FOURTH YEAR CHINESE ADV I

Prerequisites: CHNS W4006 or the equivalent. This is a non-consecutive reading course designed for those whose proficiency is above 4th level. See Admission to Language Courses. Selections from contemporary Chinese authors in both traditional and simplified characters with attention to expository, journalistic, and literary styles.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MWF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Chen Wu
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 22 Info
• 4 points

FOURTH YEAR JAPANESE I

Prerequisites: JPNS W4006 or the equivalent. Sections 1 & 2: Readings of advanced modern literary, historical, political, and journalistic texts, and class discussions about current issues and videos. Exercises in scanning, comprehension, and English translation. Section 3: Designed for advanced students interested in developing skills for reading and comprehending modern Japanese scholarship.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MWF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MWF 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Shigeru Eguchi
  CULPA: 9 Info
• Instructor: Kyoko M Loetscher
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

HISTORY OF CHINESE LANGUAGE

The evolution of the Chinese language. Topics include historical phonology, the Chinese script, the classical and literary languages, the standard language and major dialects, language and society, etc.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Zhirong Wang
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 3 points

MATHEMATICL METHODS OF PHYSICS

Prerequisites: PHYS UN3003 and PHYS UN3007 and differential and integral calculus; linear algebra; or the instructor's permission. This course will present a wide variety of mathematical ideas and techniques used in the study of physical systems. Topics will include: ordinary and partial differential equations; generalized functions; integral transforms; Green’s functions; nonlinear equations, chaos, and solitons; Hilbert space and linear operators; Feynman path integrals; Riemannian manifolds; tensor analysis; probability and statistics. There will also be a discussion of applications to classical mechanics, fluid dynamics, electromagnetism, plasma physics, quantum mechanics, and general relativity.

• Department: Physics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Yury Levin
  h-index: 91 Info
• 3 points

COMP NEURO: CIRCUITS IN BRAIN

The biophysics of computation: modeling biological neurons, the Hodgkin-Huxley neuron, modeling channel conductances and synapses as memristive systems, bursting neurons and central pattern generators, I/O equivalence and spiking neuron models. Information representation and neural encoding: stimulus representation with time encoding machines, the geometry of time encoding, encoding with neural circuits with feedback, population time encoding machines. Dendritic computation: elements of spike processing and neural computation, synaptic plasticity and learning algorithms, unsupervised learning and spike time-dependent plasticity, basic dendritic integration. Projects in MATLAB.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Aurel A Lazar
  h-index: 53 Info
• 3 points

PROTECTN OF INDUST/INTELL PROP

SAFGUARDNG INTLCTL-BUS PROPRTY

To expose engineers, scientists and technology managers to areas of the law they are most likely to be in contact with during their career. Principles are illustrated with various case studies together with active student participation.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• M 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Kenneth Spall
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• 3 points

PROTECTN OF INDUST/INTELL PROP

To expose engineers, scientists and technology managers to areas of the law they are most likely to be in contact with during their career. Principles are illustrated with various case studies together with active student participation.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Kenneth Spall
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• 3 points

ECON OF UNCERTAINTY & INFORMTN

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and STAT UN1201 Topics include behavior uncertainty, expected utility hypothesis, insurance, portfolio choice, principle agent problems, screening and signaling, and information theories of financial intermediation.

• Department: Economics
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Pierre-Andre Chiappori
  Wikipedia h-index: 64 Info
• 3 points

HUMANS & THE CARBON CYCLE

Prerequisites: One semester of college-level calculus and chemistry; Plus one semester of college-level physics or geoscience. Or instructor's permission. The accelerating climate change of the current day is driven by humanity’s modifications to the global carbon cycle. This course offers an introduction basic science of the carbon cycle, with a focus on large-scale processes occurring on annual to centennial timescales. Students will leave this course with an understanding of the degree to which the global carbon cycle is understood and quantified, as well as the key uncertainties that are the focus of current research. We will build understanding of the potential pathways, and the significant challenges, to limiting global warming to 2o C as intended by the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The course will begin with a brief review of climate science basics and the role of CO2 in climate and climate change (weeks 1-2). In weeks 3-4, the natural reservoirs and fluxes that make up the global carbon cycle will be introduced. In week 5-6, anthropogenic emissions and the observed changes in climate associated with increasing atmospheric CO2 will be discussed. In weeks 7-11, we will learn about how the land biosphere and ocean are mitigating the increase in atmospheric CO2 and the feedbacks that may substantially modify these natural sinks. In weeks 12-13, the international policy process and the potential for carbon cycle management will be the focus. In weeks 14, students will present their final projects

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Galen A McKinley
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 32 Info
• 3 points

Brazilian Cinema: Cinema Novo and Beyond

The first international celebrated and influential Latin American film movement, Brazil’s Cinema Novo—“new cinema”—emerged in the late Fifties dedicated to making the cinema an important part of contemporary cultural production, as well as to create an intervention on the increasingly polarized discussions about that country’s future. Known for its use of dynamic, hand-held camera, aggressive sound tracks and hybrid narratives that combined myth, documentary and fiction, Cinema Novo offered a politically and aesthetically approach to cinematic modernism. Works by Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Glauber Rocha and Eduardo Coutinho will be included, as well as discussions of then-contemporary Brazilian theater, visual arts, music and architecture.

• Department: Film
• T 6 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard A Pena
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 3 points

ORAL HIST:FIELDWORK/DOCUMENTN

• Department: Oral History
• T 10:10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Amy A Starecheski
  h-index: 5 Info
• 4 points

Brazilian Cinema Discussion section

Brazilian Cinema Disc sec

Discussion section registration required for undergraduates enrolled in the GU4020 Brazilian Cinema class.  The first international celebrated and influential Latin American film movement, Brazil’s Cinema Novo—“new cinema”—emerged in the late Fifties dedicated to making the cinema an important part of contemporary cultural production, as well as to create an intervention on the increasingly polarized discussions about that country’s future. Known for its use of dynamic, hand-held camera, aggressive sound tracks and hybrid narratives that combined myth, documentary and fiction, Cinema Novo offered a politically and aesthetically approach to cinematic modernism. Works by Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Glauber Rocha and Eduardo Coutinho will be included, as well as discussions of then-contemporary Brazilian theater, visual arts, music and architecture.

• Department: Film
• F 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• F 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Javier Cibils Madero
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• Instructor: Anika E Benkov
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• 0 points

QUANTUM MECHANICS I

Prerequisites: PHYS UN3003 and PHYS UN3007 Formulation of quantum mechanics in terms of state vectors and linear operators. Three dimensional spherically symmetric potentials. The theory of angular momentum and spin. Identical particles and the exclusion principle. Methods of approximation. Multi-electron atoms.

• Department: Physics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: William A Zajc
  CULPA: 16 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

VISUAL STUD I:ARCH DRWG REP I

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Joshua D Uhl
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• 3 points

THERMAL & STATISTICAL PHYSICS

Prerequisites: PHYS GU4021 or the equivalent. Thermodynamics, kinetic theory, and methods of statistical mechanics; energy and entropy; Boltzmann, Fermi, and Bose distributions; ideal and real gases; blackbody radiation; chemical equilibrium; phase transitions; ferromagnetism.

• Department: Physics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew Millis
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 99 Info
• 3 points

SOCIAL SCIENCE CONTRIBUTIONS

• Department: Oral History
• R 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: William McAllister
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• 4 points

NEURAL CONTROL ENGINEERING

Topics include basic cell biophysics, active conductance and the Hodgkin-Huxley model, simple neuron models, ion channel models and synaptic models, statistical models of spike generation, Wilson-Cowan model of cortex, large-scale electrohysiological recording methods, sensorimotor integration and optimal state estimation, operant conditioning of neural activity, nonlinear modelling of neural systems, sensory systems: visual pathway and somatosensory pathway, neural encoding model; spike triggered average (STA) and spike triggered covariance (STC) analysis, neuronal response to electrical micro-stimulation, DBS for Parkinson's disease treatment, motor neural prostheses, and sensory neural prostheses.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Qi Wang
  h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

CCCP ARCH COLLOQUIUM I

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Wasiuta
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

FOURIER ANALYSIS

Prerequisites: three terms of calculus and linear algebra or four terms of calculus. Prerequisite: three terms of calculus and linear algebra or four terms of calculus. Fourier series and integrals, discrete analogues, inversion and Poisson summation formulae, convolution. Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Stress on the application of Fourier analysis to a wide range of disciplines.

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Simon Brendle
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Language & Queer Brazil (ENG)

This course investigates representations of gender and sexuality in the Portuguese-speaking world in a variety of media, such as cinema, comics, and music through a queer perspective aligned with understandings of language and representation. Taking the term “Lusofonia”—a concept coined to designate a sense of cultural coherence shared among Portuguese-speaking countries worldwide—as point of departure, we will investigate how one deals with questions of gender identity and sexual orientation in the Lusophone world. This course aims at understanding how language shapes our perceptions of gender   identities and sexual orientations. Also, this course intends to develop the idea of Mapping Queerness using technology for mapping language in regards to sexual identities representations. The idea of inclusive language permeates the discussions proposed in this course. However, it is intended to observe points of exclusion in our daily communications as well. Therefore, this course aims at discussing these complex issues in regards to gender and sexual identity in Brazil and in other Lusophone countries taking into consideration cultural productions such as cinema and music.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Joao Nemi Neto
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

BIOTECHNOLOGY

Prerequisites: genetics or molecular biology. The course covers techniques currently used to explore and manipulate gene function and their applications in medicine and the environment. Part I covers key laboratory manipulations, including DNA cloning, gene characterization, association of genes with disease, and methods for studying gene regulation and activities of gene products. Part II also covers commercial applications, and includes animal cell culture, production of recombinant proteins, novel diagnostics, high throughput screening, and environmental biosensors.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• 3 points

BIOTECHNOLOGY

Prerequisites: genetics or molecular biology. The course covers techniques currently used to explore and manipulate gene function and their applications in medicine and the environment. Part I covers key laboratory manipulations, including DNA cloning, gene characterization, association of genes with disease, and methods for studying gene regulation and activities of gene products. Part II also covers commercial applications, and includes animal cell culture, production of recombinant proteins, novel diagnostics, high throughput screening, and environmental biosensors.

• Department: Auditing
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• 0 points

Transformative Concepts in Systems Biolo

Systems biology approaches are rapidly transforming the technological and conceptual foundations of research across diverse areas of biomedicine. In this course we will discuss the fundamental developments in systems biology with a focus on two important dimensions: (1) the unique conceptual frameworks that have emerged to study systems-level phenomena and (2) how these approaches are revealing fundamentally new principles that govern the organization and behavior of cellular systems. Although there will be much discussion of technologies and computational approaches, the course will emphasize the conceptual contributions of the field and the big questions that lie ahead. Lectures and discussions of primary literature will enable students to scrutinize research in the field and to internalize systems biology thinking in their own research. To make this a concrete endeavor, the students will develop mini-NIH-style grant proposals that aims to study a fundamental problem/question using systems biology approaches. The students will then convene an in-class NIH-style review panel that will assess the strengths and weaknesses of these proposals. In addition, the students will have the opportunity to defend their proposals in a live presentation to the class. The course is open to graduate students in Biological Sciences. Advanced undergraduates in biological sciences, and other graduate students with background in biology from other disciplines, including physics, chemistry, computer science, and engineering may also attend after consulting with the instructor.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Saeed Tavazoie
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• 3 points

Transformative Concepts in Systems Biolo

Systems biology approaches are rapidly transforming the technological and conceptual foundations of research across diverse areas of biomedicine. In this course we will discuss the fundamental developments in systems biology with a focus on two important dimensions: (1) the unique conceptual frameworks that have emerged to study systems-level phenomena and (2) how these approaches are revealing fundamentally new principles that govern the organization and behavior of cellular systems. Although there will be much discussion of technologies and computational approaches, the course will emphasize the conceptual contributions of the field and the big questions that lie ahead. Lectures and discussions of primary literature will enable students to scrutinize research in the field and to internalize systems biology thinking in their own research. To make this a concrete endeavor, the students will develop mini-NIH-style grant proposals that aims to study a fundamental problem/question using systems biology approaches. The students will then convene an in-class NIH-style review panel that will assess the strengths and weaknesses of these proposals. In addition, the students will have the opportunity to defend their proposals in a live presentation to the class. The course is open to graduate students in Biological Sciences. Advanced undergraduates in biological sciences, and other graduate students with background in biology from other disciplines, including physics, chemistry, computer science, and engineering may also attend after consulting with the instructor.

• Department: Auditing
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Saeed Tavazoie
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• 0 points

Poets, Rebels, Exiles: 100 Years of Russ

POETS, REBELS, EXILES

Poets, Rebels, Exiles examines the successive generations of the most provocative and influential Russian and Russian Jewish writers and artists who brought the cataclysm of the Soviet and post-Soviet century to North America. From Joseph Brodsky—the bad boy bard of Soviet Russia and a protégé of Anna Akhmatova, who served 18 months of hard labor near the North Pole for social parasitism before being exiled—to the most recent artistic descendants, this course will interrogate diaspora, memory, and nostalgia in the cultural production of immigrants and exiles.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Anna Katsnelson
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• 3 points

PRAGUE-SPRING 1968-FILM & LIT

The course explores the unique period in Czech film and literature during the 1960s that emerged as a reaction to the imposed socialist realism. The new generation of writers (Kundera, Skvorecky, Havel, Hrabal) in turn had an influence on young emerging film makers, all of whom were part of the Czech new wave.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher W Harwood
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

CCCP ARCH THESIS I

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Joanna R Kloppenburg
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• 9 points

NEURAL NETWRKS & DEEP LEARNING

Developing features - internal representations of the world, artificial neural networks, classifying handwritten digits with logistics regression, feedforward deep networks, back propagation in multilayer perceptrons, regularization of deep or distributed models, optimization for training deep models, convolutional neural networks, recurrent and recursive neural networks, deep learning in speech and object recognition.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Zoran Kostic
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

NEURAL NETWRKS & DEEP LEARNING

Developing features - internal representations of the world, artificial neural networks, classifying handwritten digits with logistics regression, feedforward deep networks, back propagation in multilayer perceptrons, regularization of deep or distributed models, optimization for training deep models, convolutional neural networks, recurrent and recursive neural networks, deep learning in speech and object recognition.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Zoran Kostic
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO GENERAL RELATIVITY

Prerequisites: PHYS UN3003 and PHYS UN3007 or the equivalent. Tensor algebra, tensor analysis, introduction to Riemann geometry. Motion of particles, fluid, and fields in curved spacetime. Einstein equation. Schwarzschild solution; test-particle orbits and light bending. Introduction to black holes, gravitational waves, and cosmological models.

• Department: Physics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Rachel A Rosen
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Professional Development

Building Professional Profile

Whether you’re in the early stages of your career or an experienced professional navigating a career change, pursuing your next position requires a compelling, marketable professional profile. This course will cover the essential strategies and tools you will need to present yourself effectively to prospective employers. Topics include career assessment and its value to your self-marketing tools; your “pitch” and why it’s critical to your candidacy; constructing a resume that’s right for your industry and experience; and the value of LinkedIn as a professional network. Like all Professional Development courses in 2020-2021, Building Your Professional Profile is a single-class course. Students may attend only the section for which they are registered. This course is a required component of the two-course (0.5 point, total) SIPA Professional Development requirement; the other component may be chosen from among a menu of four electives (see SIPA U4041 through SIPA U4044). Students should complete both components of the PD sequence in their first semester.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• M 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• T 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• W 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• M 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• T 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• 0.2 points