ITALIAN NEOREALISM

• Department: Italian
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Leake
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• 3 points

RELIGIOUS WORLDS OF NEW YORK

• Department: Religion
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew E Jungclaus
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• 4 points

Versailles

Along with the Eiffel tower and Notre-Dame cathedral, Versailles is one of the key iconic sites of French history and culture. This course will examine ancient régime court culture through the history of the château de Versailles from Louis XIV’s assumption of power in 1661, when he began building what twenty years later became the seat of the monarchy and center of power, through the reigns of Louis XV to 1789, the end of Versailles as Louis XIV had conceived it. We will concentrate on literature from that period, while also taking a multidisciplinary approach to cultural history through the examination of social, architectural, and artistic aspects of the château de Versailles as concept, mythology, and lived reality. Readings will include memoirs, letters, plays and other contemporary literary accounts of life at Versailles, and we will also watch film treatments from Sacha Guitry’s 1954 “Si Versailles m’était conté” to the recent television series “Versailles.” Students may choose to concentrate on any aspect of the topic for their final project. Authors read will include Sévigné, Saint-Simon, Molière, Racine, La Fontaine, Montesquieu, and Voltaire.

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

Baudelaire Painter of Modern Life

Baudelaire Painter Modern

Close reading of Baudelaire’s poetry and prose as it relates to both the painting of modernity and the resistance to modernity. The course will be taught in French.

• Department: French
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Antoine M Compagnon
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

"MPA-DP ""Getting Started"""

Prior to the SIPA orientation, MPA-DP students participate in a week-long intensive program called Getting Started. The program introduces students to the MPA-DP program, including skills and resources that lay the foundation for a successful graduate learning experience.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• Instructor: Glenn Denning
  h-index: 14 Info
• 0 points

MODAL LOGIC

• Department: Philosophy
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Tamar A Lando
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

PEOPLE OF THE OLD SOUTH

No place or period in American history has ignited more passion or brought into being a richer trove of first-rate scholarship than the South during the years before the Civil War. On the other hand, no place or period in American history has generated more misguided scholarship or more propaganda. In this course, students will sample historical literature and primary sources about the Old South, evaluating the interpretations historians have offered and scrutinizing some of the documents on which historians of the Old South have based their conclusions.

• Department: History
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Barbara J Fields
  CULPA: 22 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

NON-MNEMONIC FUNC OF MEMORY SYSTEMS

Prerequisites: (PSYC UN1010) or equivalent introductory course in neuroscience or cognitive psychology The past decade has produced an extraordinary amount of evidence that challenges the classic view of a “medial temporal lobe memory system”, namely, the idea that the medial temporal lobe plays a necessary role in long-term memory but not other cognitive functions. This course will introduce these challenges to the traditional perspective by exploring functions of the so-called memory system in domains outside of long-term memory.

• Department: Psychology
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Mariam Aly
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 15 Info
• 4 points

MODELING & ID OF DYNAMIC SYST

Generalized dynamic system modeling and simulation. Fluid, thermal, mechanical, diffusive, electrical, and hybrid systems are considered. Nonlinear and high order systems. System identification problem and Linear Least Squares method. State-space and noise representation. Kalman filter. Parameter estimation via prediction-error and subspace approaches. Iterative and bootstrap methods. Fit criteria. Wide applicability: medical, energy, others. MATLAB and Simulink environments.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• R 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicolas W Chbat
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• 3 points

MODELING & ID OF DYNAMIC SYST

Generalized dynamic system modeling and simulation. Fluid, thermal, mechanical, diffusive, electrical, and hybrid systems are considered. Nonlinear and high order systems. System identification problem and Linear Least Squares method. State-space and noise representation. Kalman filter. Parameter estimation via prediction-error and subspace approaches. Iterative and bootstrap methods. Fit criteria. Wide applicability: medical, energy, others. MATLAB and Simulink environments.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Nicolas W Chbat
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• 3 points

TOPICS-NEUROBIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Autism Research

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Examines current topics in neurobiology and behavior.

• Department: Psychology
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Helen C Brew
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• 3 points

PROGRAMMING & PROBLEM SOLVING

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134 or COMS W3136 or COMS W3137) and (CSEE W3827) Hands-on introduction to solving open-ended computational problems. Emphasis on creativity, cooperation, and collaboration. Projects spanning a variety of areas within computer science, typically requiring the development of computer programs. Generalization of solutions to broader problems, and specialization of complex problems to make them manageable. Team-oriented projects, student presentations, and in-class participation required.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Kenneth A Ross
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• 3 points

POLITICS IN RUSSIA

This course begins by studying the late Soviet era—the 1970s through the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991--in order to understand what kind of political system and political culture Russia inherited. We spend some time analyzing why and how the Soviet Union—a superpower for 75 years—disintegrated suddenly and for the most part, peacefully. Then, the bulk of the course focuses on state-building in the Russian Federation. Russia’s effort to construct new political institutions, a functioning economy, and a healthy society represents one of the greatest political dramas of our time. Beginning with Yeltsin’s presidency in 1991 and continuing through the current eras of Putin, Medvedev, and Putin again, we consider phenomena such as economic reform, nationalism, separatism, federalism, war, legal reform, civil society, and democratization. The third part of the course addresses Russia’s foreign relations. Like its predecessor states, the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, Russia is concerned with what kind of state it is (or should be) and where it stands in the international order. We will study how Russian elites make sense of Russia’s identity, as well as Russia’s policies toward the US, Europe, its “near abroad,” the Middle East, and China.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Elise Giuliano
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

POLITICL SYSTEMS OF SOUTH ASIA

This course first compares the post-independence political histories of South Asian countries, particularly India and Pakistan. It then explores selected topics across countries: social and cultural dimensions of politics; structures of power; and political behavior. The underlying theme is to explain the development and durability of the particular political regimes - democratic or authoritarian - in each country.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Philip K Oldenburg
  CULPA: 13 Info
• 4 points

PRIN-INNOVATN/ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134 or COMS W3136 or COMS W3137) or the instructor's permission. Team project centered course focused on principles of planning, creating, and growing a technology venture. Topics include: identifying and analyzing opportunities created by technology paradigm shifts, designing innovative products, protecting intellectual property, engineering innovative business models.

• Department: Computer Science
• F 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: William Reinisch
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED INDEPENDENT RESEARCH

All supervisors will be Columbia faculty who hold a PhD. Students are responsible for identifying their own supervisor and it is at the discretion of faculty whether they accept to supervise independent research. Projects must be focused on Hellenic Studies and can be approached from any disciplinary background. Students are expected to develop their own reading list in consultation with their supervisor. In addition to completing assigned readings, the student must also write a Hellenic studies paper of 20 pages. Projects other than a research paper will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Hellenic Studies is an interdisciplinary field that revolves around two main axes: space and time. Its teaching and research are focused on the study of post-classical Greece in various fields: Language, Literature, History, Politics, Anthropology, Art, Archaeology, and in various periods: Late Antique, Medieval, Byzantine, Modern Greek etc. Therefore, the range of topics that are acceptable as a Hellenic Studies seminar paper is broad. It is upon each supervisor to discuss the specific topic with the student. The work submitted for this independent study course must be different from the work a student submits in other courses, including the Hellenic Studies Senior Research Seminar.

• Department: Classics
• Instructor: Nikolas Kakkoufa
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• Instructor: Dimitris Antoniou
  h-index: 5 Info
• Instructor: Karen R Van Dyck
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Stathis Gourgouris
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Paraskevi Martzavou
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

IMMIGRANT NEW YORK

• Department: History
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Rebecca Kobrin
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

PUBLIC ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 Types of market failures and rationales for government intervention in the economy. Benefit-cost analysis and the theory of public goods. Positive and normative aspects of taxation. The U.S. tax structure.

• Department: Economics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Wojciech Kopczuk
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia h-index: 34 Info
• 3 points

Race and Decolonial Dialogues in the Ame

Race & Decolonial Dialogu

Our bodies navigate the multiple layers of power concealed in modern ideas of neutrality and universality. “Race”, the social construct that dehumanizes people of color, is one of them. Despite their specificities, both in Latin America and the US, whiteness remains the standard of power while people of color are forced to "whiten" their body, culture, knowledge, history, and experiences to be "integrated". Nevertheless, people of color in the Americas elaborate different strategies to nurture their humanity. This class will shed light on the work of Black and Brown intellectuals, artists, and activists who create counter-hegemonic analysis, political action, and transformative narratives that we name as decolonial. "Decolonial" is understood as embodied processes of knowledge, art, politics, and self-awareness that descentre whiteness. It understands knowledge as situated, and rational thinking arising from embodied practices. Black, and Brown lived experiences will be the core of our classes. We will address decoloniality as disruptive processes of thinking, acting, feeling, and existing, as embodied epistemologies. We will explore the possible dialogues among Black feminisms, Chicana studies, Latin American studies, Performance Studies, Dance, and Africana studies, as well as narratives produced in multiple social fields such as academia, art and activism. Concepts as “activist research”, "escrevivência”, "amefricanity" among others will encourage students to unveil reality, acknowledge Brown and Black creations, and reflect on their position in power structures. The course is based upon different kinds of materials (academic, literary, popular) in mediums, such as academic papers, novels, videodance, and documentaries. Interfaces between theory, practice, emotion, politics, the subjective, the collective, the local, and the global will be scrutinized. Topics discussed are constantly intertwined with our beliefs, knowledge and experience. Vulnerability may arise in the classes. We encourage you to embrace it as part of the learning process, engaging with our potential as producers of knowledge, while strengthening our roles as agents for social change in the classroom and in larger communities.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Camila Daniel
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• 3 points

THE HISTORY OF ARCH THEORY

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Wigley
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• 3 points

Deep Learning for Biomedical Signal Proc

Introduction to methods in deep learning, focus on applications to biomedical signals and sequences. Review of traditional methods for analysis of signals and sequences. Temporal convolutional neural networks and recurrent neural networks. Long-short term memory (LSTM) models and deep state-space models. Theory and methods lectures accompanied with examples from biomedical signal and sequence analysis, including analysis of electroencephalogram (EEG), electrocardiogram (ECG/EKG), and genomics. Programming assignments use tensorflow/keras. Exams and final project required.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul Sajda
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 47 Info
• 3 points

PSYCH & NEUROPSYCH OF LANGUAGE

• Department: Psychology
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Michele Miozzo
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• 4 points

CHINESE POLITICS

This course offers a historical and thematic survey of Chinese politics and of salient issues in China’s public policy and governance. The first half of the course reviews the patterns and dynamics of political development in China, focusing mainly on the last two hundred years, during which the country has been on a rugged yet fascinating path toward modernity. We will examine major political events including the collapse of the Imperial China, the rise of the Communist Party, the Cultural Revolution, and the post-Mao shift toward reform and opening. The second half of the course will look various special topics, including the structure of the party and the state, the relationship between state and society, the modes of economic development, and the governance of the media and the Internet. Throughout the course, special attention will be paid to how China’s domestic political and economic processes intersected with major world events and transnational forces, such as imperialism, world wars, and economic globalization.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Junyan Jiang
  h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

JAPANESE POLITICS

Surveys key features of the Japanese political system, with focus on political institutions and processes. Themes include party politics, bureaucratic power, the role of the Diet, voting behavior, the role of the state in the economy, and the domestic politics of foreign policy.

• Department: Political Science
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Smith
  h-index: 17 Info
• 4 points

GENDER & APPLIED ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 This course studies gender gaps, their extent, determinants and consequences. The focus will be on the allocation of rights in different cultures and over time, why women's rights have typically been more limited and why most societies have traditionally favored males in the allocation of resources.

• Department: Economics
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Lena Edlund
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

CULTURE, MEMORY, CRISIS IN US

This course examines how Americans have used culture as a means to respond to, interpret, and remember acute social crises over the last century. Why do some periods of social upheaval create breaks in cultural forms and practices while others encourage an impetus to defend cultural practices, thereby facilitating the “invention of tradition”?  How are the feelings released in such moments—whether trauma, outrage, rage, insecurity, or fear—turned into cultural artifacts?  What is at stake in how they get memorialized?  To answer these questions, this course examines responses to the lynching of black Americans, the Great Depression, World War II and the black freedom struggle during the postwar period.   We will examine a wide range of individually and collectively produced artifacts about these events, including photography, plays, songs, movies, comic books, novels, government sponsored programs, and world fairs.

• Department: History
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Hilary-Anne Hallett
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

OPTICAL SYSTEMS

OPTICAL SYSTEMS & NETWORKS

Introduction to optical systems based on physical design and engineering principles. Fundamental geometrical and wave optics with specific emphasis on developing analytical and numerical tools used in optical engineering design. Focus on applications that employ optical systems and networks, including examples in holographic imaging, tomography, Fourier imaging, confocal microscopy, optical signal processing, fiber optic communication systems, optical interconnects and networks.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• R 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Christine P Hendon
  Wikipedia h-index: 21 Info
• 3 points

OPTICAL SYSTEMS

Introduction to optical systems based on physical design and engineering principles. Fundamental geometrical and wave optics with specific emphasis on developing analytical and numerical tools used in optical engineering design. Focus on applications that employ optical systems and networks, including examples in holographic imaging, tomography, Fourier imaging, confocal microscopy, optical signal processing, fiber optic communication systems, optical interconnects and networks.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Christine P Hendon
  Wikipedia h-index: 21 Info
• 3 points

Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: A Windo

Introduction to use of magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) with focus on brain. Covers all aspects of in vivo MRS from theory to experiment, from data acquisition to the derivation of metabolic signatures, from study design to clinical interpretation. Includes theoretical concepts, hands-on training in MRS data literacy and direct experimental experience using a 3T MR scanner.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Christoph Juchem
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 23 Info
• 3 points

CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN POLITICS

This course aims to teach students what, if any, answers social scientists have to the questions that concern anyone with an interest in African politics: 1) Why have democratic governments flourished in some countries and not others? 2) What institutions may enable Africans to hold their leaders accountable? 3) How do people participate in politics? 4) In what ways do aspiring African political leaders build public support? 5) To what extent does persistent poverty on the continent have political causes? and 6) Why is violence used to resolve some political disputes and not others?

• Department: Political Science
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Kimuli Kasara
  CULPA: 26 h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

BEHAVIORAL EPIGENETICS

Prerequisites: basic background in neurobiology (for instance PSYC UN1010, UN2450, UN2460, UN2480, and GU4499) and the instructors permission. This course will provide an overview of the field of epigenetics, with an emphasis on epigenetic phenomena related to neurodevelopment, behavior and mental disorders. We will explore how epigenetic mechanisms can be mediators of environmental exposures and, as such, contribute to psychopathology throughout the life course. We will also discuss the implications of behavioral epigenetic research for the development of substantially novel pharmacotherapeutic approaches and preventive measures in psychiatry.

• Department: Psychology
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer Blaze
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• 4 points

PROCESS & PRODUCT DESIGN I

Prerequisites: (CHEN E2100) and (CHEN E4140) CHEN E2100, CHEN E4140. The practical application of chemical engineering principles for the design and economic evaluation of chemical processes and plants. Use of ASPEN Plus for complex material and energy balances of real processes. Students are expected to build on previous coursework to identify creative solutions to two design projects of increasing complexity. Each design project culminates in an oral presentation, and in the case of the second project, a written report.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• W 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Aaron Moment
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• 4 points

PROCESS & PRODUCT DESIGN I

Recitation

Prerequisites: (CHEN E2100) and (CHEN E4140) CHEN E2100, CHEN E4140. The practical application of chemical engineering principles for the design and economic evaluation of chemical processes and plants. Use of ASPEN Plus for complex material and energy balances of real processes. Students are expected to build on previous coursework to identify creative solutions to two design projects of increasing complexity. Each design project culminates in an oral presentation, and in the case of the second project, a written report.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• M 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Aaron Moment
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• 0 points

Mediterranean Humanities

Med Hum

What is the Mediterranean and how was it constructed and canonized as a space of civilization? A highly multicultural, multilingual area whose people represent a broad array of religious, ethnic, social and political difference, the Mediterranean has been seen as the cradle of western civilization, but also as a dividing border and a unifying confluence zone, as a sea of pleasure and a sea of death. The course aims to enhance students’ understanding of the multiple ways this body of water has been imagined by the people who lived or traveled across its shores. By exploring major works of theory, literature and cinema since 1800, it encourages students to engage critically with a number of questions (nationalism vs cosmopolitanism, South/North and East/West divides, tourism, exile and migration, colonialism and orientalism, borders and divided societies) and to ‘read’ the sea through different viewpoints: through the eyes of a German Romantic thinker, a Sephardic Ottoman family, an Algerian feminist, a French historian, a Syrian refugee, an Italian anti-fascist, a Moroccan writer, an Egyptian exile, a Bosnian-Croat scholar, a Lebanese-French author, a Cypriot filmmaker, an Algerian-Italian journalist, and others. In the final analysis,
Med Hum
is meant to arouse the question of what it means to stand on watery grounds and to view the world through a constantly shifting lens.

• Department: Italian
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Konstantia Zanou
  Info
• 3 points

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 The theory of international trade, comparative advantage and the factor endowments explanation of trade, analysis of the theory and practice of commercial policy, economic integration. International mobility of capital and labor; the North-South debate.

• Department: Economics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Waseem Noor
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

APPLICATIONS PROGRAMMNG FOR FE

We will take a hands-on approach to developing computer applications for Financial Engineering. Special focus will be placed on high-performance numerical applications that interact with a graphical interface. In the course of developing such applications we will learn how to create DLLs, how to integrate VBA with C/C++ programs, and how to write multithreaded programs. Examples of problems settings that we consider include simulation of stock price evolution, tracking, evaluation and optimization of a stock portfolio; optimal trade execution. In the course of developing these applications, we review topics of interest to OR:FE in a holistic fashion.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Bienstock
  h-index: 38 Info
• 3 points

COLUMBIA COMMONS SEMINAR

RELATIONSHIPS OF CARE

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• 0 points

JAZZ TRANSCRIPTION & ANALYSIS

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. A progressive course in transcribing, proceeding from single lines to full scale sections and ensembles. Stylistic analysis based on new and previously published transcriptions.

• Department: Music
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ole Mathisen
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• 3 points

FOUNDATIONS OF DATA SCIENCE

Designed to provide an introduction to data science for sophomore SEAS majors. Combines three perspectives: inferential thinking, computational thinking, and real-world applications. Given data arising from some real-world phenomenon, how does one analyze that data so as to understand that phenomenon? Teaches critical concepts and skills in computer programming, statistical inference, and machine learning, in conjunction with hands-on analysis of real-world datasets such as economic data, document collections, geographical data, and social networks.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Manuel Balsera
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• 3 points

CANCER BIOLOGY I

• Department: Pathology
• 3 points

BIOCHEM I-STRUCTURE/METABOLISM

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Brent R Stockwell
  CULPA: 14 Wikipedia h-index: 79 Info
• 4 points

PROCESS SAFETY

Aimed at seniors and graduate students. Provides classroom experience on chemical engineering process safety as well as Safety in Chemical Engineering certification. Process safety and process control emphasized. Application of basic chemical engineering concepts to chemical reactivity hazards, industrial hygiene, risk assessment, inherently safer design, hazard operability analysis, and engineering ethics. Application of safety to full spectrum of chemical engineering operations.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert G Bozic
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• 3 points

METHDS IN GENETICS & DEVELPMNT

Open only to students in the department. A survey of laboratory methods used in research. Students rotate through the major laboratories of the department.

• Department: Genetics and Development
• 4 points

TOOLS FOR ANALYTICS

MS IEOR students only. Introduction programming in Python, tools with the programmer's ecosystem. Python, Data Analysis tools in Python (NumPy, pandas, bokeh), GIT, Bash, SQL, VIM, Linux/Debia, SSH.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• M 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• T 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Julian H Berman
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• 3 points

TOOLS FOR ANALYTICS

EXEMPTION:TOOLS ANALYTICS

MS IEOR students only. Introduction programming in Python, tools with the programmer's ecosystem. Python, Data Analysis tools in Python (NumPy, pandas, bokeh), GIT, Bash, SQL, VIM, Linux/Debia, SSH.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• 0 points

READINGS IN HEBREW TEXTS I

Prerequisites: (MDES GU4510) and (MDES GU4511) 3RD Year Modern Hebrew or the instructor's permission. This course focuses on central identities shaping Israeli society and is designed to give students extensive experience in reading Hebrew. Through selected readings of contemporary literary works and media texts, students will increase their proficiency in Hebrew and enhance their understanding of Israeli culture and society. All readings, written assignments, and class discussions are in Hebrew. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Naama Harel
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

Python for Analytics

Zero-credit course. Primer on Python for analytics concepts. Required for MSBA students.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• 0 points

ITALIAN CULTURAL STUDIES I

An interdisciplinary investigation into Italian culture and society in the years between Unification in 1860 and the outbreak of World War I. Drawing on novels, historical analyses, and other sources including film and political cartoons, the course examines some of the key problems and trends in the cultural and political history of the period. Lectures, discussion and required readings will be in English. Students with a knowledge of Italian are encouraged to read the primary literature in Italian.

• Department: Italian @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Nelson Moe
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points

Planning and Programming An Exhibition,

Exhib. Planning & Program

This bridge seminar studies the history of childhood, through a 2022 Boston Institute of Contemporary Art exhibition. 
To Begin Again
was planned to consider how we imagine childhood in our present moment.  How do 20 of today’s major artists, many of whom are parents, and belong to an inclusive range of backgrounds, represent the beginnings of human life?  Now, the socially stratified consequences of Covid-19 on families and education are also at stake. Due to Covid-19, the timing of the ICA exhibition has allowed an interval in which to re-think what exhibition programming might consist of, in light of the exhibition’s subject, and recent history.  Thanks to a Harvard Radcliffe Institute grant, a virtual seminar will convene museum, childhood and education experts to discuss best practices and new possibilities.  Students will attend the workshop as well as an artist’s talk, and meet with the exhibition curator, as well as several museum education professionals, to understand how a museum exhibition comes into being.  Assignments will include practicing aspects of research and writing necessary to a successful exhibition. A crucial resource and practicum for the seminar will be a website of the museum programming seminar, funded and managed by the Harvard, Radcliffe Institute, to which seminar graduate students will contribute. This seminar requires long reading assignments at the start of the semester, professional interactions with eminent scholars, and independent work in the second half of the semester.  It is therefore suitable only for the most advanced undergraduates.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Anne Higonnet
  CULPA: 31 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Biochemistry I in VR: Leveraging Virtual

Biochemistry I Virtual Re

In this course, we will use virtual reality to explore the basic biochemistry of living systems and how this knowledge can be harnessed to create new medicines. We will learn how living systems convert environmental resources into energy through metabolism, and how they use this energy and these materials to build the molecules required for the diverse functions of life. We will discuss the applications of this biochemical knowledge to mechanisms of disease and to drug discovery. We will look at examples of drug discovery related to neurodegeneration, cancer, and the SARS-CoV-2 COVID19 pandemic. This course satisfies the requirement of most medical schools for introductory biochemistry, and is suitable for advanced undergraduates, and beginning graduate students. This course is equivalent to and replaces the prior course named UN3501, and is equivalent to the course offered in the Fall semester. This course is a co-requiste to GU4501. We will meet twice each week in Zoom (Tuesday and Thursday 2:30-5:15, BCHM GU4501) to discuss the course material. We will then meet Friday 9:30-10:30 each week in virtual reality, using the Spatial.io platform and an Oculus Quest headset. In VR, we will examine the 3D spatial concepts relevant to biochemistry, where you will be able to examine molecular structures in an immersive format.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• F 9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• M 6 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Taruna V Neelakantan
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• Instructor: Arya S Rao
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• 0 points

DESIGN DIGITAL OPERATING MODELS

IEOR students only. Understand digital businesses, apply scientific, engineering thinking to digital economy. Data-driven digital strategies and operating models. Sectors: ecommerce, advertising technology, and marketing technology. Automation of the marketing, sales, and advertising functions. Algorithms, patents, and business models. Business side of the digital ecosytem and the digital economy.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• M 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Anthony Effik
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• 3 points

UNORTHODOX ARCH PRACTICES

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Juan Herreros
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• 3 points

READINGS IN CLASSICAL CHINESE

Prerequisites: CHNS W3302 or the equivalent. Admission after placement exam. Focusing on Tang and Song prose and poetry, introduces a broad variety of genres through close readings of chosen texts as well as the specific methods, skills, and tools to approach them. Strong emphasis on the grammatical and stylistic analysis of representative works. CC GS EN CE

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Wei Shang
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 96 Info
• 3 points

STUDIO I- HISTORIC PRESERV

STUDIO I- HIST PRESERV

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
• 6 points

TISSUE ENGINEERING

An introduction to the strategies and fundamental bioengineering design criteria behind the development of cell-based tissue substitutes. Topics include biocompatibility, biological grafts, gene therapy-transfer, and bioreactors.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Clark T Hung
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 65 Info
• 3 points

3RD YR MODERN HEBREW I

Prerequisites: 2nd Year Modern Hebrew II, Hebrew for Heritage Speakers II, or the instructor's permission. This course is designed to take students from the intermediate to advanced level. Students will further develop their reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills in Hebrew through an examination of a wide range of sources, including short stories, poems, visual arts, popular music, television shows and films. All readings, written assignments, and class discussions are in Hebrew. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Naama Harel
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION&DESIGN AUTOMATI

Fundamental and advanced topics in evolutionary algorithms and their application to open-ended optimization and computational design. Covers genetic algorithms, genetic programming, and evolutionary strategies, as well as governing dynamic of coevolution and symbiosis. Includes discussions of problem representations and applications to design problems in a variety of domains including software, electronics, and mechanics.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Hod Lipson
  Wikipedia h-index: 79 Info
• 3 points

POWER SYSTEMS ANALYSIS

Modeling of power networks, steady-state and transient behaviors, control and optimization, electricity market, and smart grid.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Damian Sciano
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• 3 points

Industry Projects in Analytics & Operati

Industry Projs in Analyti

Teams of students work on real-world projects in analytics. Focus on three aspects of analytics: identifying client analytical requirements; assembling, cleaning and organizing data; identifying and implementing analytical techniques (e.g., statistics and/or machine learning); and delivering results in a client-friendly format. Each project has a defined goal and pre-identified data to analyze in one semester. Client facing class. Class requires 10 hours of time per week and possible client visits on Fridays.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• M 9 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Michael Robbins
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• 3 points

FIFTH YEAR KOREAN

Please see department for details.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Joowon Suh
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• 4 points

Property and Power in 20th Century U.S.

Property & Power 20th C.

This seminar examines debates over meanings, value, and enforcement of property rights in the US over the twentieth century. The course begins with a focus on landed property and its management as real estate and natural resources, raising questions about ownership, tenancy, zoning, eminent domain, public trust doctrines, and contests in Indian Country. It then takes up corporate property and debates over shareholder and managers’ rights and responsibilities, changing structures of investment, and countervailing claims of workers to the property and value of labor and the means of production. With a brief examination of neo-classical economists’ theories and policies of transactional property rights, the course ends with the history of intellectual property rights.  Readings include classic theoretical/ideological texts (e.g. MacPherson, Ely, Berle and Means, Coase, Sax, Epstein); social histories, and major legal opinions. Students will write a 20 page research paper using primary sources on a topic of their own interest in this broad field of inquiry.

• Department: History
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Elizabeth Blackmar
  CULPA: 22 Info
• 4 points

BUDDHISM AND NEUROSCIENCE

With the Dalai Lamas marked interest in recent advances in neuroscience, the question of the compatibility between Buddhist psychology and neuroscience has been raised in a number of conferences and studies. This course will examine the state of the question, look at claims made on both sides, and discuss whether or not there is a convergence between Buddhist discourse about the mind and scientific discourse about the brain.

• Department: Religion
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Bernard Faure
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

FIFTH YEAR CHINESE I

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• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Lening Liu
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 4 points

COLUMBIA UNI & SLAVERY

In this course, students will write original, independent papers of around 25 pages, based on research in both primary and secondary sources, on an aspect of the relationship between Columbia College and its colonial predecessor King's College, with the institution of slavery.

• Department: History
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Thai S Jones
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

Gender, Islam and Society in North Afric

This course provides a range of perspectives for the study of gender and Islam in North Africa, foregrounding the entangled genealogies of religious, political and feminist thought across the region. Through lectures, readings, documentaries, and class discussions, students will be introduced to important conceptual and empirical frameworks related to the construction of religion and gender in the region. A significant part of this course will explore gendered experiences within sacred texts, rituals, political praxis and social expression.  The course will also explore the different women’s rights movements, with particular focus on the emergence of female Muslim activism. We will examine how feminism is shaped and/or challenged by the encounter with Islam, and look at the strategies and activism(s) of Muslim feminists and how they contribute to the development of civil society, social justice and feminist re-interpretation of religious texts. Students will be encouraged to think broadly across social, political and embodied ideas of gender and Islam, and therefore develop new avenues for capturing and interpreting the complexities of gender and religious subjectivity.

• Department: Religion
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Meriem El Haitami
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• 4 points

SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY:PRIN GENETIC CIRCUITS

Basic principles of synthetic biology and survey of the field. Fundamentals of biological circuits, including circuit design, modern techniques for DNA assembly, quantitative characterization of genetic circuits, and ODE modeling of biological circuits with MATLAB. Knowledge of biology, ordinary differential equations, and MATLAB will be assumed. Intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• W 1:10 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Tal Danino
  Wikipedia h-index: 18 Info
• 3 points

APPLIED SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

Applied Systems Engineering

Introduction to fundamental methods used in systems engineering. Rigorous process that translates customer needs into a structured set of specific requirements; synthesizes a system architecture that satisfies those requirements and allocates them in a physical system, meeting cost, schedule, and performance objectives throughout the product life-cycle. Sophisticated modeling of requirements optimization and dependencies, risk management, probabilistic scenario scheduling, verification matrices, and systems-of-systems constructs are synthesized to define the meta-workflow at the top of every major engineering project.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Ebad Jahangir
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• 3 points

NAPLES: PORTRAIT OF A CITY

• Department: Italian @Barnard
• W 6:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Nelson Moe
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points

DATA SCIENCE FOR MECHANICAL SYSTEMS

Prerequisites: Knowledge of basic computer programming (e.g. Java, MATLAB, Python), or Instructor’s permission Introduction to the practical application of data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence and their application in Mechanical Engineering. A review of relevant programming tools necessary for applying data science is provided, as well as a detailed review of data infrastructure and database construction for data science. A series of industry case studies from experts in the field of data science will be presented.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Changyao Chen
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• 3 points

SYSTEM ENGI TOOLS/METHODS

Applications of SE tools and methods in various settings. Encompasses modern complex system development environments, including aerospace and defense, transportation, energy, communications, and modern software-intensive systems.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Ebad Jahangir
  Info
• 3 points

DATA ANALYTICS

IEOR students only; priority to MSBA students. Survey tools available in Python for getting, cleaning, and analyzing data. Obtain data from files (csv, html, json, xml) and databases (Mysql, PostgreSQL, NoSQL), cover the rudiments of data cleaning, and examine data analysis, machine learning, and data visualization packages (NumPy, pandas, Scikit-lern, bokeh) available in Python. Brief overview of natural language processing, network analysis, and big data tools available in Python. Contains a group project component that will require students to gather, store, and analyze a data set of their choosing.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• R 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Uday Menon
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• 3 points

DATA ANALYTICS

IEOR students only; priority to MSBA students. Survey tools available in Python for getting, cleaning, and analyzing data. Obtain data from files (csv, html, json, xml) and databases (Mysql, PostgreSQL, NoSQL), cover the rudiments of data cleaning, and examine data analysis, machine learning, and data visualization packages (NumPy, pandas, Scikit-lern, bokeh) available in Python. Brief overview of natural language processing, network analysis, and big data tools available in Python. Contains a group project component that will require students to gather, store, and analyze a data set of their choosing.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Uday Menon
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• 3 points

ANALYTICS IN PRACTICE

MSOR students only. Groups of students will work on real world projects in analytics, focusing on three aspects: identifying client analytical requirements; assembling, cleaning, and organizing data; identifying and implementing analytical techniques (statistics, OR, machine learning); and delivering results in a client-friendly format. Each project has a well-defined goal, comes with sources of data preidentified, and has been structured so that it can be completed in one semester. Client-facing class with numerous on-site client visits; students should keep Fridays clear for this purpose.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• W 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Uday Menon
  Info
• 3 points

MACHINE LEARNING FE & OPR

MS IEOR students only. Introduction to machine learning, practical use of ML algorithms and applications to financial engineering and operations. Supervised learning: regression, classification, resampling methods, regularization, support vector machines (SVMs), and deep learning. Unsupervised learning: dimensionality reduction, matrix decomposition, and clustering algorithms.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Christian Kroer
  h-index: 16 Info
• 3 points

INSTRUMENTATION

Prerequisites: extensive musical background. Analysis of instrumentation, with directional emphasis on usage, ranges, playing techniques, tone colors, characteristics, interactions and tendencies, all derived from the classic orchestral repertoire. Topics will include theoretical writings on the classical repertory as well as 20th century instrumentation and its advancement. Additional sessions with live orchestral demonstrations are included as part of the course.

• Department: Music
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeffrey Milarsky
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

RELIGION, GENDER & VIOLENCE

Investigates relations among religion, gender, and violence in the world today. Focuses on specific traditions with emphasis on historical change, variation, and differences in geopolitical location within each tradition, as well as among them at given historical moments.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Janet Jakobsen
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

GERMAN CINEMA:WEIMAR (ENG)

The class, which is open to advanced undergraduate and graduate students, will explore silent and early sound films from the period of the Weimar Republic. Close analysis of films such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu, Metropolis, M, Dr. Mabuse, The Blue Angel and others will be combined with a historicist exploration of the cinematic medium in the 1910s and 1920s. Specific topics of discussion include anxieties about the hypnotic power of the moving image, shell shock, spirit photography, the "New Woman," the mass ornament. All readings and class discussions are in English and all films have English sub- or intertitles.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Stefan Andriopoulos
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

TECHNIQUES OF THE ULTRAREAL

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• 3 points

RE ENTREPRENEURIALISM FOR ARCH

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Sean C Cohane
  Info
• 3 points

DATA MINING

Course covers major statistical learning methods for data mining under both supervised and unsupervised settings. Topics covered include linear regression and classification, model selection and regularization, tree-based methods, support vector machines, and unsupervised learning. Students learn about principles underlying each method, how to determine which methods are most suited to applied settings, concepts behind model fitting and parameter tuning, and how to apply methods in practice and assess their performance. Emphasizes roles of statistical modeling and optimization in data mining.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• W 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Krzysztof M Choromanski
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• 3 points

GILLES DELEUZE:THINKING IN ART

The philosophy of Gilles Deleuze has emerged as one of the richest, most singular adventures in post-war European thought; Foucault considered it the most important in France, and more generally, in the 20th century. In all of Deleuze's work there is a search for a new 'image of thought.' But how did art figure in this search, and how did the search in turn appeal to artists, writers, filmmakers, architects, as well as curators or critics? In this seminar, we explore the complex theme of 'thinkin in art' in Deleuze, and its implications for art in the 21st century or for the global contemporary art of today.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: John Rajchman
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• 4 points

CATALYSIS OF EMISSIONS CONTROL

Fundamentals of heterogeneous catalysis including modern catalytic preparation techniques. Analysis and design of catalytic emissions control systems. Introduction to current industrial catalytic solutions for controlling gaseous emissions. Introduction to future catalytically enabled control technologies.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Farrauto
  h-index: 52 Info
• 3 points

CATALYSIS OF EMISSIONS CONTROL

Fundamentals of heterogeneous catalysis including modern catalytic preparation techniques. Analysis and design of catalytic emissions control systems. Introduction to current industrial catalytic solutions for controlling gaseous emissions. Introduction to future catalytically enabled control technologies.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Robert Farrauto
  h-index: 52 Info
• 3 points

PLANT ECOPHYSIOLOGY

Prerequisites: General biology or the instructors permission. Given in alternate years. Plant organismal responses to external environmental conditions and the physiological mechanisms of plants that enable these responses. An evolutionary approach is taken to analyze the potential fitness of plants and plant survival based on adaptation to external environmental factors. One weekend field trip will be required.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Kevin L Griffin
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 59 Info
• 3 points

SURVEY OF TIBETAN LITERATURE

Designed for both undergraduate and graduate students, this course introduces Tibetan belles-lettres and vernacular works (all in English translation) spanning from the imperial period to the present day. We will engage in close readings, together with discussion of the genre each text represents and its salience in current Tibetan intellectual discourse. In the final four weeks, we will read landmark works from the post-Mao period, with a view to the negotiation of traditional forms amidst the advent of new literary genres and the economics of cultural production.   Questions to address include: 
How have Tibetan literary forms and content developed throughout history? How has the very concept of "Tibetan literature" been conceived?  How have Tibetan writers and scholars—past and present—negotiated literary innovation?
Each session will consist of a brief lecture followed by discussion. Lectures will incrementally provide students with a general timeline of Tibetan literary and related historical developments, as well as biographical material regarding the authors assigned for that week. Tibetan language students and heritage learners will be offered three optional sessions to read excerpts of selected texts in Tibetan.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Lauran Hartley
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• 4 points

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• T 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul Segal
  Info
• 3 points

EVOL IN THE AGE OF GENOMICS

• Department: Biological Sciences
• W 9 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
• 4 points

PROBABILITY & DECISION THEORY

Examines interpretations and applications of the calculus of probability including applications as a measure of degree of belief, degree of confirmation, relative frequency, a theoretical property of systems, and other notions of objective probability or chance. Attention to epistimological questions such as Hume's problem of induction, Goodman's problem of projectibility, and the paradox of confirmation.

• Department: Philosophy
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Jenann Ismael
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• 3 points