EXTERNAL STAKEHOLDER REQUIREMENTS

Provides a global review of ERM requirements of regulators, rating agencies, and shareholders. Addresses three industry sectors: (1) insurance; (2) banking; and (3) corporate.

• Department: Enterprise Risk Management
• R 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• W 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Anthony Wong
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• Instructor: Eric Goetz
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• Instructor: R S Forston
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• 3 points

DATA ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION IN SUSTA

DATA ANALYSIS & VIS SUST

Data science is an exciting new field of applied research that takes advantage of the ever-growing volume of data being collected to support of decision-making in both the public and private sectors. Similar to traditional statistical analysis, these new approaches have limits and issues that are important to understand before application to problem solving. This is a full semester course taught in person.  It aims to introduce the common methods used in data science, best practices in data management, and the basic scripting skills required to start analyzing data in R and Python. After introducing foundational scripting and data analysis methods, a case study approach will be used to highlight both what can be accomplished with data analysis and the limits of the data and methods used. Lab exercises will teach basic skills in scripting in Python and R and then move to a common approach for data analysis: adapting existing scripts and software libraries to solve applied data problems.

 

The requirement to understand the interaction of social and natural systems requires data-driven policy decisions, and the ongoing assessment of policies requires rigorous, reproducible assessments of effectiveness for promoting sustainability. Both requirements can be met in part by data science approaches that are applicable to the natural and social sciences and reproducible in academic and applied settings. Data science techniques have been developed to derive insight from large volumes of available data that are often collected for purposes other than the interests of the data scientist. This flexibility in approach means that the techniques used in data science are well adapted to support gaining insights from data relevant for sustainability science. This course has been designed to introduce these techniques in anticipation of increased use in promoting sustainability.

• Department: Sustainability Management
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Gregory G Yetman
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• 3 points

ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY AND LEARNING

ORG STRAT AND LEARNING

• Department: Human Capital Management
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Sara Daly-Padron
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• 3 points

PROG FOR QUANT & COMP FINANCE

This course covers programming with applications to finance. The applications may include such topics as yield curve building and calibration, short rate models, Libor market models, Monte Carlo simulation, valuation of financial instruments such as options, swaptions and variance swaps, and risk measurement and management, among others. Students will learn about the underlying theory, learn coding techniques, and get hands-on experience in implementing financial models and systems.

• Department: Mathematics
• F 6:10 p.m.-7:50 p.m.
• 3 points

STATISTICAL METHODS IN FINANCE

Prerequisites: STAT GR5204 or the equivalent. STAT GR5205 is recommended. A fast-paced introduction to statistical methods used in quantitative finance. Financial applications and statistical methodologies are intertwined in all lectures. Topics include regression analysis and applications to the Capital Asset Pricing Model and multifactor pricing models, principal components and multivariate analysis, smoothing techniques and estimation of yield curves statistical methods for financial time series, value at risk, term structure models and fixed income research, and estimation and modeling of volatilities. Hands-on experience with financial data.

• Department: Statistics
• F 2:10 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Hammou El Barmi
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

STAT INF/TIME-SERIES MODELLING

Available to SSP, SMP Modeling and inference for random processes, from natural sciences to finance and economics. ARMA, ARCH, GARCH and nonlinear models, parameter estimation, prediction and filtering.

• Department: Statistics
• S 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Franz Rembart
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• 3 points

STOCHASTC PROCSSES-APPLICTNS I

Prerequisites: STAT GR5203 or the equivalent. Basics of continuous-time stochastic processes. Wiener processes. Stochastic integrals. Ito's formula, stochastic calculus. Stochastic exponentials and Girsanov's theorem. Gaussian processes. Stochastic differential equations. Additional topics as time permits.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jaehyuk Choi
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• 3 points

VISUAL COMMUNICATION & DESIGN

STRATEGIC VISUAL COMM

This course provides strategic communication students with the foundational notions and methods of design needed to collaborate with designers and amplify their work. It examines the impact technology and social transformations are having on design: the application of digital and generative technology, the redirection toward human-centric approaches, and the discipline’s standing in embracing social and ethical concerns related to ensuring inclusivity and preventing cultural bias. The course begins with a historical overview of design’s evolution and contemporary methods, setting the stage for an in-depth exploration of visual perception principles and key design elements like shape, form, color, typography, imagery, and layout. Students will apply the knowledge gained by experimenting with design practices and developing design strategies and applications through serial hands-on, collaborative assignments and workshops.

• Department: Strategic Communication
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Diego Kolsky
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• 3 points

STOCHASTIC METHODS IN FINANCE

Prerequisites: STAT GR5264 Available to SSP, SMP. Mathematical theory and probabilistic tools for modeling and analyzing security markets are developed. Pricing options in complete and incomplete markets, equivalent martingale measures, utility maximization, term structure of interest rates.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Graeme Baker
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• 3 points

STOCHASTIC CONTROL & APPL-FINC

• Department: Statistics
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Hammou El Barmi
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

GLOBAL COMMUNICATION FOR PROFESSIONALS

GLOBAL COMM FOR PROFESSIONALS

The global knowledge economy, cross-border market permeability, and worldwide talent mobility have accelerated the rise of multinational and domestic organizations comprised of individuals from many different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. As these trends strengthen, so, too, does the likelihood that the 21st-century worker will spend a significant part of her/his professional career in a multicultural workplace. While such diversity affords great benefits to organizations, their employees and clients, it is often accompanied by a rise in communication misfires and misunderstandings that can undermine individual, team, and organizational performance.

• Department: Strategic Communication
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Ciara Ungar
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• 3 points

DIGITAL HR AND THE DIGITAL WORKPLACE

DIGITAL HR & DIGITAL WORK

• Department: Human Capital Management
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• R 8:30 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Nabeel Ahmad
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• Instructor: Joshua Bellis
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• 3 points

DEMENTIA NARRATIVES

This course takes a short, intensive dive into the narratives that story our experience of and with dementia. “Dementia Narratives” will use the literary genres of film, fiction, memoir, and graphic novels to excavate dementia stories using three framing tools. First, we will consider the relationship between the storyteller and the person with dementia, and the positioning of the person with dementia in the context of the story. Second, we will attend to these stories as they are framed by metaphors. And third, as we attend to these narratives we will also connect them to implications for practice and policy. In Narrative Medicine we focus on story and its importance in understanding the experience of illness for the individual, for the family or community, and for society. In this course we explore the elephant in that room: the importance of the illness experiences that cannot be narrated. Can we use the skills we gain in close reading and reflective writing to better understand the relationship between memory and self, when memory is inconsistent, free-floating, and riddled with holes? The purpose of this exploration is to better serve the needs of those whose stories do not fit the expected arcs of coherence, to understand the world of the caregivers for those with dementia, and to consider how narrative and policy inform each other in this growing arena of societal need. These questions and topics hover at the edges of current courses such as “Illness/Disability Narratives,” but are generally not directly addressed.

• Department: Narrative Medicine
• 1 points

COMMUNICATION RESEARCH & INSIGHTS

COMM RESEARCH & INSIGHTS

To make informed decisions about communication, we need a clear understanding of our audience and its motivations. We begin by asking the right questions and interpreting the results. This course covers essential market research methods, including quantitative and qualitative techniques. Students gain direct experience in collecting and analyzing data, developing insights and choosing research-driven communication strategies that meet client objectives.

• Department: Strategic Communication
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Laura Milewczik
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• Instructor: Myrlene Laroche
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• 3 points

COMMUNICATION RESEARCH & INSIGHTS

COMM RESEARCH & INSIGHTS

To make informed decisions about communication, we need a clear understanding of our audience and its motivations. We begin by asking the right questions and interpreting the results. This course covers essential market research methods, including quantitative and qualitative techniques. Students gain direct experience in collecting and analyzing data, developing insights and choosing research-driven communication strategies that meet client objectives.

• Department: Strategic Communication
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• 3 points

ADVANCED DATA ANALYSIS

Course Description

STAT GR5291 Advanced Data Analysis serves as one of the required capstone experiences for MA students in statistics. This course is project-based and covers advanced topics in traditional data analysis. Students are presented with a mix of theory and application in homework assignments.  The final project  is a major contribution to the final grade and is arguably considered the capstone project for the MA in Statistics Program.

Students will learn a myriad of topics related to data analysis and hypothesis testing, and are responsible for application through statistical packages or manual programming. Topics include, exploratory data analysis & descriptive statistics, review of sampling distribution, point estimation, review of hypothesis testing & confidence interval procedures, non-parametric tests, computational methods (Monte Carlo, bootstrap, permutation tests), categorical data analysis, linear regression, diagnostics & residual analysis, robust regression, model selection, non-linear regression & smoothers, aspects of experimental design (ANOVA, two-way ANOVA, blocking, multiple comparisons, ANCOVA, semi-parametric procedures, random effects models, mixed effects models, nested models, repeated measures), and general linear models (logistic regression, penalized logistic, multinomial regression, link functions).

Also, time permitting the class covers:
survival analysis (hazard function, survival curve), time series analysis (stationarity, ACF/PACF, MA, AR, ARMA, ARIMA, order selection, forecasting).

• Department: Statistics
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Gabriel Young
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN MODERN STATISTICS

Statistical Aspects of Fi

Topics in Modern Statistics will provide MA Statistics students with an opportunity to study a specialized area of statistics in more depth and to meet the educational needs of a rapidly growing field.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Parijat Dube
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• 3 points

TOPICS IN MODERN STATISTICS

APP MACH LEARN COMP VIS

Topics in Modern Statistics will provide MA Statistics students with an opportunity to study a specialized area of statistics in more depth and to meet the educational needs of a rapidly growing field.

• Department: Statistics
• M 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Xiaofu He
  h-index: 21 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN MODERN STATISTICS

Generative AI using Large

Topics in Modern Statistics will provide MA Statistics students with an opportunity to study a specialized area of statistics in more depth and to meet the educational needs of a rapidly growing field.

• Department: Statistics
• F 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Chen Wang
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• 3 points

TOPICS IN MODERN STATISTICS

Statistical Aspects of Fi

Topics in Modern Statistics will provide MA Statistics students with an opportunity to study a specialized area of statistics in more depth and to meet the educational needs of a rapidly growing field.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 7:40 p.m.-8:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Parijat Dube
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• 3 points

TOPICS IN MACHINE LEARNING AND AI

THEORY OF DIFFUSION MODEL

TOPICS IN MACHINE LEARNING AND AI will provide MA Statistics students with an opportunity to study specialized areas of statistics in more depth and to meet the educational needs of a rapidly growing field.

• Department: Statistics
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Ori Shental
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• 0 points

RESEARCH DESIGN

• Department: Applied Analytics
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: David Shilane
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• 3 points

STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS FOR RISK PROFES

STRATEGIC COMM FOR RISK P

Communication skills are critical to the career trajectory of a risk professional. This workshop-style course develops the practical skills needed to communicate effectively with a diverse set of internal associates ranging from board members and executive officers to subject matter experts, as well as external stakeholders such as rating agencies and regulators. In this course, students learn techniques for effective listening and reading body language; creating and delivering professional presentations; leadership communication and persuasion; negotiation and conflict resolution; professional interactions and presence; and adapting to different communication styles. Through exercises, presentations, and case-based applications, students develop the ability to influence outcomes, achieve objectives, and build stronger professional relationships.

(Students must take this course in the first semester.)

• Department: Enterprise Risk Management
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 3 points

SCULPTURE I

• Department: Visual Arts
• F 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

INVESTMENT PLANNING

The Investment Planning course explores the essential principles of investing and how to apply them wisely as
wealth advisors. Students will examine how investment wisdom and theory has evolved – from the insights of
Benjamin Graham to Modern Portfolio Theory, the Capital Asset Pricing Model, factor-based investing and more --
and identify how these theories can be utilized as a framework for understanding and using investments of the present and future. Students will calculate and apply mathematical formulas to learn how to manage risk and return in investment portfolios. This course will compare and contrast each of the major asset classes, ranging from cash and near-cash investments to public and private equity, debt and alternative investments. Students will learn how to apply investment skills to deliver and demonstrate value to clients, net of fees and adjusted risk. In addition, this course will emphasize the parallel development of investment knowledge and communication and counseling skills to conduct investment relationships with clients effectively.

• Department: Wealth Management
• Instructor: Stephen Bodurtha
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• 3 points

INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

INTL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

International Environmental Law is a fascinating field that allows students to consider some of the most important questions of the 21st century – questions that have profound ramifications for the quality of life for our generation as well as future generations. Global environmental problems are real and urgent. Their resolution requires creative and responsible thought and action from many different disciplines. 

 

Sustainability practitioners must understand global environmental issues and their effects on what they are charged to do. At one level, this course will consider the massive challenge of the 21st century:  how to alleviate poverty on a global scale and maintain a high quality of life while staying within the bounds of an ecologically limited and fragile biosphere -- the essence of sustainable development.  From a more practical perspective, the course will provide students with an understanding of international environmental policy design and the resulting body of law in order to strengthen their ability to understand, interpret and react to future developments in the sustainability management arena.

 

After grounding in the history and foundational concepts of international environmental law and governance, students will explore competing policy shapers and the relevant law in the areas of stratospheric ozone protection, climate change, chemicals and waste management, and biodiversity. The course satisfies the public policy course requirement for the M.S. in Sustainability Management program.

• Department: Sustainability Management
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Eran Sthoeger
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• 3 points

SCULPTURE II

• Department: Visual Arts
• T 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sable Smith
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• 3 points

SCULPTURE III

• Department: Visual Arts
• T 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sable Smith
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

DIGITAL WORKPLACE AND DIGITAL TRANSFORMA

DIGITAL WRKPLC & DGTL TRA

How do organizational leaders invest in digital technologies and capabilities to catalyze digital transformation? Moreover, how do corporations and institutions create an effective portfolio of digital investments that are aligned — continuously over time — with the organization’s mission and strategy? This course provides an introduction to digital transformation, and the modern (digital) “place” of work, such as intranets, search appliances, analytic dashboards, enterprise social media, mixed reality, and content management. Feeding the digital workplace are “sources of record,” including Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), HR systems, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), IoT sensors, and digital marketing. Finally, we look at likely future scenarios for work and how organizations can prepare for digital transformation and beyond.

• Department: Information & Knowledge Strat
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Kate G Bruce
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• Instructor: Blake Dicosola
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• 3 points

BUSINESS ANALYTICS

OVERVIEW: Business analytics (BA), in essence, is the discipline of using data analysis - ranging from simple descriptive statistics to advanced, AI-based predictions - to illuminate all quantitative aspects relevant to a specific organization, from its own performance, to the behavior of its customers, and challenges from competitors. This course covers the entire value chain of a BA process, including formulating the question, collecting and managing the relevant data, analyzing said data to answer the question, and finally effectively communicating the results (e.g., data visualization) to stakeholders. While the course teaches some hands-on data analysis/statistics (e.g., database structures, conditional averages, correlations, confidence intervals), the emphasis of the course is on educating users and managers of BA, and as such includes stakeholder engagement and implementation planning.

CONTENT: Following an introduction to the history of BA, weekly lectures and associated assignments (some spreadsheet-based, others in essay format) teach all above elements of the BA value chain one by one. Accompanying readings cover academic foundations and practitioner commentary, from Alan Turing's work (1912-1952) to latest advances in quantum computing. A short individual presentation and a group white paper allow students to combine and hone the various acquired skills in an end-end application. As an overarching objective, upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to devise and "pitch" an innovate BA process to an organization, including strategic recommendations on its business value and implementation.

LOGISTICS: Required course for IKNS students, open to all Columbia University graduate students; no prerequisites other than beginner's familiarity with spreadsheet software and simple statistics (e.g., average, error margin). Online course meets once a week (live via zoom) for the duration of the semester.

• Department: Information & Knowledge Strat
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Christoph J Meinrenken
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• Instructor: Kathy Koontz
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• 3 points

NARRATIVE ETHICS (CERT)

• Department: Narrative Medicine
• 3 points

SQL

SQL & RELATIONAL DB

• Department: Applied Analytics
• T 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Day Yi
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• Instructor: Michael J Coakley
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• 3 points

SQL

SQL & RELATIONAL DB ONLINE

• Department: Applied Analytics
• S 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Nikolaos Machairas
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• 3 points

ETHICAL DECISION MAKING FOR COMMUNICATOR

• Department: Strategic Communication
• W 7:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Skye Cleary
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• Instructor: Roberto Lara Aranda
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• 3 points

STRATEGIC RISK MANAGEMENT

Review of the types of strategic risks, such as a flawed strategy, inability to execute the strategy, competitor risk, supply chain risk, governance risk, regulatory risk, M&A risk, international risk, etc. Includes case studies, research, and common mitigation techniques, such as strategic planning practices, management techniques, governance practices, supply-chain management, etc.

• Department: Enterprise Risk Management
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Violet Diamant
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• Instructor: Raj Mittal
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• Instructor: H.S. Bob Kostakopoulos
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• 3 points

FINANCIAL RISK MGMT & REGULATION

FINANCIAL RISK MGMT & REGULATN

Prerequisites: student expected to be mathematically mature and familiar with probability and statistics, arbitrage pricing theory, and stochastic processes. The course will introduce the notions of financial risk management, review the structure of the markets and the contracts traded, introduce risk measures such as VaR, PFE and EE, overview regulation of financial markets, and study a number of risk management failures. After successfully completing the course, the student will understand the basics of computing parametric VaR, historical VaR, Monte Carlo VaR, cedit exposures and CVA and the issues and computations associated with managing market risk and credit risk. The student will be familiar with the different categories of financial risk, current regulatory practices, and the events of financial crises, especially the most recent one.

• Department: Mathematics
• W 7:40 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• 3 points

NONPROFIT FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

NONPROFIT FINANCIAL MGMT

This course provides a comprehensive set of financial management tools for nonprofit professionals, including managers and staff, whether they oversee financial statements and reporting or need to translate financial statements and reporting across stakeholders. This course emphasizes the requirements for nonprofits in recording and budgeting the financials to support the organization’s mission. Additionally, the course will provide students with the ability to analyze financial statements and answer financial questions typically asked by stakeholders such as the governing board, donors, the public, beneficiaries, media, and regulators. Finally, the course will identify the risks and opportunities found in an organization's financial information to increase the public's confidence in and understanding of the organization's mission and operations.

• Department: Non Profit Management
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• T 6:30 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Anna Glass
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• 3 points

LAW & BIOETHICS

This course introduces students to selected legal and policy texts that have addressed issues in bioethics and shaped their development. Students will explore and contrast legal reasoning and bioethical analysis, often of the same issues. By the end of the course, students will understand the legal or regulatory status of selected issues and have begun to independently navigate major legal, regulatory, and policy texts. Individual sessions will be focused around particular issues or questions that have been addressed by (usually) American courts and/or in legislation, regulation or policy, and that have been the subject of scholarship and debate within bioethics.

The course begins with a theoretical look at the relationship between law and ethics, and includes a brief introduction to legal decision-making and policy development. We then survey a range of bioethics issues that have been addressed by the courts and/or in legislation, regulation, or significant policy documents, contrasting and comparing legal argument and reasoning with arguments utilized in the bioethics literature.

• Department: Bioethics
• T 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
• Instructor: David N Hoffman
  h-index: 2 Info
• 3 points

DIGITAL COMMUNICATION STRATEGY

As digital media increasingly drives the field of strategic communication, leading successful communication efforts also require a platform specific, evidence-based strategic approach. Leaders must know how to use a broad and rapidly changing mix of digital media platforms and tools to connect their message with the right audience. To that end, this course covers major topics in digital media and communication, such as content strategy, digital experience, channel planning, online reputation management, programmatic marketing, audience targeting, artificial intelligence and more. Through in-class lectures, discussion, case studies, guest speakers, group projects and individual writing assignments, students in this course will be introduced to strategic decision-making and communications planning for social media, mobile, digital advertising, search, email, digital out-of-home and interactive media (video, radio, podcasts). Students will also gain an in-depth understanding of how to integrate digital strategies and tactics with traditional communication efforts.

• Department: Strategic Communication
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Lilian Ore
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• 3 points

Environmental Investigation and Sustaina

ENV INVESTIGATION &REMEDI

Environmental Investigation and Sustainable Remediation covers the major steps in the investigation, assessment and remediation of contaminated sites. The course will introduce the student to the multidisciplinary aspects of environmental remediation including sustainability considerations, an important background for any environmental career, such as an environmental consultant, a corporate remediation manager or a government regulator. Management and remediation of contaminated sites is an important consideration in sustainable regional development, since failure to control contamination usually yields an ever-increasing area of impact, with greater environmental and societal costs. Using US EPA Superfund guidance as a framework, the course will explore the major steps in identifying a site, establishing the degree of contamination, identifying the likely ecological and human receptors, and selecting and implementing a remedial action. Sustainable remediation in particular has received increased emphasis by the EPA and is now a required component of remedy selection. The Superfund process has been extensively developed through more than 30 years of legislature and agency guidance, and now provides a robust approach for pollution assessment and remediation. Contaminated sites typically involve a broad spectrum of contaminants across at least two media, including soils, sediments, groundwater, surface water, and air. This course examines the main steps involved in environmental investigation and remediation primarily from a technical perspective, although legal aspects will be incorporated at the major decision points in the process. In particular, the course will focus on the main environmental sampling and analytical techniques needed to conduct a remedial investigation, and cover some of the main remedial engineering considerations for the successful selection and implementation of a sustainable and resilient remedy. Students will be assigned one of several completed Superfund sites to track the application of the Superfund process to a real-world example as the class proceeds, providing a regular link between theory and application.

• Department: Sustainability Science
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 3 points

SPORTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP

• Department: Sports Management
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Grant J Son
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• 3 points

DEI in Nonprofits: Leading Inclusive Org

Apart from its justice and equity imperative, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) has become an operational imperative as organizations become increasingly diverse. This course aims to equip students with critical faculties and practical tools to be informed and ethical practitioners of DEI in the charitable sector. This course prepares students to manage and lead the practice of DEI in core operational functions, as directors of DEI offices/initiatives or as DEI champions within their organizations. It will equip students with an understanding of the advantages and challenges of leading diverse teams and will provide the knowledge, critical analysis, and practical tools required to lead inclusive organizations. It provides a framework and strategic foundation for driving an organization through the stages of gaining awareness about DEI, practicing DEI, and amplifying the work of equity and inclusion beyond the workplace.

• Department: Non Profit Management
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Erwin Vincent S de Leon
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• 3 points

DIGITAL PRODUCT INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEU

DGTL PROD INNOV & ENTRPRN

Digital Product Innovation and Entrepreneurship aims to provide students with the knowledge and expertise in innovation and new product development required to create, test, and launch a new digital product. In this course, students will undertake the following: perform a competitive analysis, investigate novel knowledge-based digital products, gather user requirements, validate the feasibility of proposed products, devise a go-to-market strategy, construct a financial plan, develop a high-fidelity digital product prototype, and pitch their business idea to a panel of venture capitalists. Students can expect to engage in a fast-paced, rigorously hands-on curriculum focused on developing a pre-revenue business.

The exponential increase in data and information, coupled with the combination of increasingly potent analytics and natural language processing platforms, AI, and LLMs, provides entrepreneurs with tremendous opportunities to bring innovative, customer-focused digital products to market. While there are no direct paths to bring a new product idea to market successfully, the application of the lean startup methodology provides a well-tested path from idea to profit.

• Department: Information & Knowledge Strat
• W 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Ralph Poole
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• 3 points

REPRODUCTIVE ETHICS

• Department: Bioethics
• R 7:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Arthur Kuflik
  Info
• 3 points

OPERATIONAL RISK MANAGEMENT

Review of the types of operational risks, such as technology risk (e.g., cyber-security), human resources risk, disasters, etc. Includes case studies, risk analysis frameworks and metrics, and common mitigation techniques, such as insurance, IT mitigation, business continuing planning, etc.

• Department: Enterprise Risk Management
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• T 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Penny Cagan
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• Instructor: Rossano Rossi
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• Instructor: Lisa Broomer
  Info
• 3 points

FIXED INCOME PORTFOLIO MGMT

Prerequisites: comfortable with algebra, calculus, probability, statistics, and stochastic calculus. The course covers the fundamentals of fixed income portfolio management. Its goal is to help the students develop concepts and tools for valuation and hedging of fixed income securities within a fixed set of parameters. There will be an emphasis on understanding how an investment professional manages a portfolio given a budget and a set of limits.

• Department: Mathematics
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Rosanna Pezzo-Brizio
  Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO QUANTITATIVE RISK MANAGEMENT

INTRO TO QUANT RISK MGMT

Students without a strong math background and experience with Excel will require significant additional time and effort to achieve the learning objectives and work through the course assignments.

This course builds a foundation in the mathematics and statistics of risk management. Students are empowered to understand the output of quantitative analysts and to do their own analytics. Concepts are presented in Excel and students will have the opportunity to practice those concepts in Excel, R or Python.

This course is a required prerequisite for registering for the following courses: Coding for Risk Management, Financial Risk Management, Quantitative Risk Management, Credit Risk Management, Market Risk Management, Credit Risk Analytics, Applied Coding for Risk Management, Derivatives Risk Management, Model Risk Management, ERM Modeling, and Machine Learning for Risk Management.

• Department: Enterprise Risk Management
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• R 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Eric Tam
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• Instructor: Roman Halfin
  Info
• 3 points

FUNDAMENTALS OF SPORTS ANALYTICS

• Department: Sports Management
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Joanna Levy
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• 3 points

CODING FOR RISK MANAGEMENT

Equips students with the ability to adopt the programming culture typically present in the ERM/risk areas of most financial organizations. By studying Python, SQL, R, git, and AWS, students gain exposure to different syntaxes. Students apply these skills by coding up market risk and credit risk models. Students also gain familiarity with working in the cloud.

• Department: Enterprise Risk Management
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• M 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: David Weltz
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• Instructor: David J Romoff
  Info
• 3 points

FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT

A survey of market, credit, liquidity, and systemic risk. Includes case studies, risk quantification methods, and common mitigation techniques using portfolio management, hedging, and derivatives. Also addresses traditional risk management practices at banking institutions.

• Department: Enterprise Risk Management
• W 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• R 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: David J Romoff
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• 3 points

MATH MTHDS-FIN PRICE ANALYSIS

Course covers modern statistical and physical methods of analysis and prediction of financial price data. Methods from statistics, physics and econometrics will be presented with the goal to create and analyze different quantitative investment models.

• Department: Mathematics
• S 7 p.m.-9:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexei Chekhlov
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 10 Info
• 3 points

SPORT ACCOUNTING & FINANCE

• Department: Sports Management
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Parker
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• 3 points

SPORT ACCOUNTING & FINANCE

SPORT ACCTG & FINANCE

• Department: Sports Management
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Lauren Logiudice
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• 3 points

Disability and Illness Narratives (CERT)

Disability Illness Narrat

This course examines questions such as: What does the telling and reading of narratives do for the ill or disabled individual? How can clinicians effectively elicit, interpret, and act upon such narratives? Who owns a story, and what is the role of co-authorship, power and witnessing in story-telling and story-listening? Whose voice do we hear? What are the roles of power and hierarchy in story-telling and listening? What is the impact of familial, cultural, social, institutional, political contexts on the individual story? And finally, how can personal stories be translated to political advocacy and action? Texts assigned weekly will be broadly interdisciplinary – drawing from memoir, poetry, essays, fiction, feature and documentary films, narrative theory, and disability studies, exploring the relationship between disability/illness experience and narrative. This elective course is open to all students in the Narrative Medicine CPA program. Students should be prepared to engage with each other and with the instructor and to offer their questions, comments, insights, and analysis.

This is an essential, practically applied element of narrative medicine study and it is exemplary as a way to illustrate the impact of narrative study in shaping experience, opening awareness, and highlighting the need for change and new stories. A narrative medicine course focused on disability and illness narratives is an important aspect of narrative medicine study. Exploring narratives presented in a variety of formats by using narrative medicine methods can encourage deeper perspective-taking and promote activism for underrepresented voices.

Disability and Illness Narratives: Storytelling For Awareness and Activism
is an elective course in the Narrative Medicine CPA program. In addition, this course is open to cross-registrants in other programs who demonstrate some understanding of narrative medicine and/or participate in the online asynchronous narrative medicine orientation course before the semester begins. Narrative Medicine CPA students are required to have completed, or be simultaneously enrolled in the course,
Narrative Medicine Methods: Close Reading and Writing
, course number K5120, and have completed the required program online asynchronous orientation course. CPA courses are all 10 weeks/modules long, and they are online and asynchronous, which means there are no meeting times. Each module represents one week of the course. All modules begin on a Tuesday and end on Monday of th

• Department: Narrative Medicine
• 3 points

INSURANCE RISK MANAGEMENT

Review of types of insurance risk, such as pricing risk, underwriting risk, reserving risk, etc. Includes case studies, risk quantification methods (e.g., market-consistent economic capital models, dynamic financial analysis (DFA) models, catastrophe models, etc.), and common mitigation techniques, such as asset-liability management (ALM), reinsurance, etc. Also addresses traditional risk management at insurance companies and ERM actuarial standards of practice (ASOPs).

• Department: Enterprise Risk Management
• M 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• W 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Ding Dai
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• Instructor: Juan D Espinosa
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• 3 points

MULTI-ASSET PORTFOLIO MGMT

The course will cover practical issues such as: how to select an investment universe and instruments, derive long term risk/return forecasts, create tactical models, construct and implement an efficient portfolio,to take into account constraints and transaction costs, measure and manage portfolio risk, and analyze the performance of the total portfolio.

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• 3 points

CREDIT RISK MANAGEMENT

Credit Risk Management requires business acumen, the monitoring of internal and external data, disciplined execution, and organizational intelligence. A solid understanding of this enables a credit risk manager to help organizations achieve their objectives. Through readings, case studies, and modeling projects, students learn how risk managers decide on credit risk management strategy applied throughout the client lifecycle.

• Department: Enterprise Risk Management
• T 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Christakis Droussiotis
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• Instructor: Weijun Weng
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• 3 points

CAPSTONE

Capstone projects afford a group of students the opportunity to undertake complex, real-world, client-based projects for nonprofit organizations, supervised by a Nonprofit Management program faculty member. Through the semester-long capstone project, students will experience the process of organizational assimilation and integration as they tackle a discrete management project of long or short-term benefit to the client organization. The larger theoretical issues that affect nonprofit managers and their relationships with other stakeholders, both internal and external, will also be discussed within the context of this project-based course.

• Department: Non Profit Management
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Erwin Vincent S de Leon
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• 3 points

SPORTS REVENUES STRATEGIES & ANALYSIS

Digital, social, and mobile media continue to heavily impact every aspect of sports business, often in profound and unanticipated ways, particularly in managing and optimizing revenue streams. All revenue line items are fully intertwined and integrated with each other, media, sponsorship, ticketing, hospitality, concessions and licensing, etc. Students of this course will learn to analyze and optimize the ecosystem of sports business including content rights, ticketing, sponsorship, merchandising, marketing, etc., as well as make business analytics decisions by leveraging business analytics software to run scenario analysis.

• Department: Sports Management
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Ishwara Glassman Chrein
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• 3 points

Practitioners Seminar

This upcoming fall, we are going to kick off the “Practitioners Seminar” course, where successful practitioners from various industry fields (tech, finance, insurance, pharmaceutical, etc..) will have a chance to meet our students and present the projects they work on, technologies they utilize to achieve their goals, solutions they came up with etc. In addition, guest speakers will share their career development path (what kind of obstacles they faced, what pitfalls to avoid, and in general give advice on career development in their fields). We will finish up the meeting with a Q&A session with students.

• Department: Statistics
• F 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• 0 points

MA Mentored Research

MA MENTORED RESEARCH

This course is intended to provide a mechanism to MA students in Statistics who undertake on-campus project work or research. The course may be signed up with a faculty member from the Department of Statistics for academic credit. Students seeking to enroll in the course should identify an on-campus project and a congenial faculty member whose research is appealing to them, and who are able to serve as their mentor. Students should then submit an application to enroll in this course, which will be reviewed and approved by the Faculty Director of the MA in Statistics program.

• Department: Statistics
• Instructor: Gabriel Young
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 0-3 points

Statistical Fieldwork

Prerequisites: GR5203; GR5204 &GR5205 and at least 4 approved electives This course is an elective course for students in the M.A. in Statistics program that counts towards the degree requirements. To receive a grade and academic credits for this course, students are expected to engage in approved off-campus internships that can be counted as an elective. Statistical Fieldwork should provide students an opportunity to apply their statistical skills and gain practical knowledge on how statistics can be applied to solve real-world challenges.

• Department: Statistics
• Instructor: Demissie Alemayehu
  h-index: 14 Info
• 1 points

FUNDAMENTALS OF DATA ENGINEERING

FUNDAMENTALS OF DATA ENGINEERING

• Department: Applied Analytics
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Simione
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• 3 points

FUNDAMENTALS OF DATA ENGINEERING

FUND OF DATA ENG ONLINE

FUNDAMENTALS OF DATA ENGINEERING

• Department: Applied Analytics
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Darshan Desai
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• 3 points

CLINICAL ETHICS

While this course is designed to introduce students to the fundamentals of clinical ethics and the basic terminology and framework of ethical analysis in biomedical ethics, it offers a more sociological perspective, putting the contemporary clinical issues into a broader context. We will look briefly at the development of clinical ethics and its impact on hospital care and doctor-patient relationships, on the prevailing autonomy norm and its critique. The course then focuses on issues encountered in clinical practice such as informed consent, patient capacity, decision-making, end of life, advance directives, medical futility, pediatrics ethics, maternal-fetal conflicts, organ transplantation, cultural competence and diversity of beliefs and others. The course will examine the role of the clinical ethics consultant (CEC) and assignments will mimic the work that CECs may perform in the hospital setting.

Over the span of the semester, students become familiar with the ethical questions surrounding major topics in the clinic with a practical case-based approach toward ethics dilemmas and ethics consultation. During the semester, students in New York attend a meeting of the adult or pediatric ethics committees of New York Presbyterian and Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital or another area hospital, as well as ethics lectures given at the medical center.

Students are expected to complete five case write-ups using a template that will be given by the instructor. Students will be using these cases to refine and hone their ethical analysis skills and to show their knowledge of law, policy and ethical principles and how they might apply to each situation.

• Department: Bioethics
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Barbra Rothschild
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• 3 points

OPERATIONS: BACKBONE OF THE COMPANY

OPERATIONS: BACKBONE OF C

• Department: Insurance Management
• Instructor: Amanda Bill
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• 3 points

TAX PLANNING

The Tax Planning course explores the various methods of the U.S. tax system, its development, its applicability to individual (and corporate) taxpayers, and steps taxpayers of various income and wealth levels take to determine,
meet, and minimize their tax obligations, depending on their goals. Students will learn how to identify sources, nature, and taxability of taxpayers’ income and gains, to determine the deductibility of any expenses they incur to reduce income, identify credits they may have to offset taxes due, understand filing and payment obligations, and apply the methods of minimizing tax - avoidance, deferral, and use of lower brackets or realization by other taxpayers.

• Department: Wealth Management
• Instructor: Adam Ludman
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• 3 points

MARKET RISK MANAGEMENT

This course provides the tools to measure and manage market risk in the context of large financial institutions. The volume and complexity of the data itself, at large institutions, makes it a challenge to generate actionable information. We will take on this challenge to master the path from data to decisions.

We cover the essential inputs to the engines of financial risk management: VaR, Expected Exposure, Potential Exposure, Expected Shortfall, backtesting, and stress testing as they apply to asset management and trading. We explore the strengths and weaknesses of these different metrics and the tradeoffs between them. We also cover how regulatory frameworks impact both the details and the strategy of building these engines. Lastly, we cover counterparty-credit methodologies, mainly as they apply to Trading Book risk.

• Department: Enterprise Risk Management
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• R 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Zwecher
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• Instructor: Deniz Ozenbas
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• 3 points

PRACTICAL PRODUCTION II

• Department: Film
• F 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• F 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• F 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• 1.5 points

LEADERSHIP IN SPORTS MANAGEMENT

LDRSHP & PERS MGMT IN SPR

TBA

• Department: Sports Management
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 3 points

LEADERSHIP IN SPORTS MANAGEMENT

LDRSHP & PERS MGMT IN SPR

TBA

• Department: Sports Management
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeffrion L Aubry
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• 3 points

LEADERSHIP IN SPORTS MANAGEMENT

TBA

• Department: Sports Management
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 3 points

LEADERSHIP IN SPORTS MANAGEMENT

TBA

• Department: Sports Management
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Leonard Elmore
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• 3 points