Research Training
Research training course. Recommended in preparation for laboratory related research.
- Department: Biomedical Engineering
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Andrew Laine
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Kam W Leong
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Helen Lu
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Barclay Morrison
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Elizabeth Olson
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Paul Sajda
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Kenneth Shepard
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Shunichi Homma
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Samuel Sia
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Milan N Stojanovic
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John T Vaughan
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Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
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Qi Wang
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Nandan L Nerurkar
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Stephen H Tsang
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Elham Azizi
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Jose McFaline-Figueroa
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Treena L Arinzeh
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Sanja Vickovic
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Santiago Correa
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Yvon Woappi
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Parisa Yousefpour
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TOPICS IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
- Department: Chemical Engineering
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Sanat Kumar
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Jingguang Chen
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Lauren E Marbella
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MASTERS RESEARCH OR PROJECT
Prerequisite(s): Approval by a faculty member who agrees to supervise the work. Independent work involving experiments, computer programming, analytical investigation, or engineering design.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
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Anish Agarwal
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Shipra Agrawal
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Eric Balkanski
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Daniel Bienstock
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Agostino Capponi
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Rachel Cummings
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Antonius B Dieker
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Adam N Elmachtoub
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Yuri Faenza
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Vineet Goyal
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Ali Hirsa
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Anran Hu
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Garud Iyengar
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Hardeep Johar
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Cedric Josz
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Soulaymane Kachani
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Yaren Kaya
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Christian Kroer
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Daniel Lacker
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Henry Lam
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Fabrizio Lecci
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Tianyi Lin
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Uday Menon
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Bento Natura
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Jay Sethuraman
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Karl Sigman
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Eric Stratman
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Clifford Stein
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Wenpin Tang
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Kaizheng Wang
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Lily Xu
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David D Yao
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Yi Zhang
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Xunyu Zhou
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Christine Chan
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Chris Lee
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DIRECTED READINGS
Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Topics chosen in consultation between members of the staff and students.
- Department: Classics
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Elizabeth K Irwin
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SYNTAX
Prerequisites: LING UN3101 Syntax - the combination of words - has been at the center of the Chomskyan revolution in Linguistics. This is a technical course which examines modern formal theories of syntax, focusing on later versions of generative syntax (Government and Binding) with secondary attention to alternative models (HPSG, Categorial Grammar).
- Department: Slavic Languages
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Meredith Landman
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TOPICS IN EE & CE
Stat Learning Quant Tradi
Selected topics in electrical and computer engineering. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 4900 to 4909.
Labor and Life: Critiques of Capitalism
LABOR AND LIFE
This advanced seminar examines materialist conceptions of labor and life as approached through feminist, black, anti-racist, indigenous, queer, postcolonial, and Marxist perspectives. We will trace the ways that labor and life as well as their constitutive relations have been understood in historical and contemporary radical critiques of capitalism, with a focus on gender, race and sexuality as analytical categories for understanding their shifting roles in structures and practices of social reproduction, the production and expropriation of value, the logic and exercise of violence, the organization of sociality and culture, and the practice and imagination of freedom, justice, and new forms and potentials of collective existence. Finally, we will consider the limits and possibilities of different conceptions of “material life” for understanding politics today.
- Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
- R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Neferti Tadiar
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Reading Capitalism: Economization
Since the financial crisis of 2007-8, a growing body of interdisciplinary work in the social sciences and humanities has worked to situate the timeless logics of economics within processes of governing that constitute economic space, time and subjects. This 4000-level graduate seminar, open to senior undergraduates, brings key themes and methods in this literature on processes of ‘economization’ into conversation, streamlining prominent genealogies. Informed by attention to links across British imperial and contemporary neoliberal formations, the course highlights legal-governmental imaginaries and media that convey and create market value. Working in-between the study of practices of capitalism (formal and vernacular) and theories of capital, we will consider infrastructures that frame the drive for perpetual profit. After a review of foundational literature, the syllabus will foreground processes of financialization or the bolstering of financial value as primary means for profit-making. Reading capitalism as governing project with attention to subject-formation and sign-value, the course weaves the analysis of governmentality, legal and financial fictions, finance and society, approaches from the historical anthropology of economy and media, and science and technology studies. Themes will include: “the economy” as governing imaginary; the performativity of economics; incarnations of homo economicus; risk, speculation and the commodification of futurity; uncertainty and the “spirits” of capitalism; virtual value and instruments of securitization; money, the semiotics of value, and monetization. The course assumes basic background in social and political theory, and political economy.
- Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Ritu Birla
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MICROECONOMICS SEMINAR
ECONOMICS SEMINAR REGISTRATION
Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 Selected topics in microeconomics.
- Department: Economics
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Susan M Elmes
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MICROECONOMICS SEMINAR
SEMINAR-MICROECONIMIC THEORY
Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 Selected topics in microeconomics.
- Department: Economics
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Sunil K Gulati
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MICROECONOMICS SEMINAR
SEMINAR-MICROECONOMIC THY
Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 Selected topics in microeconomics.
- Department: Economics
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Lena Edlund
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MICROECONOMICS SEMINAR
SEMINAR-MICROECONIMIC THEORY
Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 Selected topics in microeconomics.
- Department: Economics
- M 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Douglas V Almond
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MICROECONOMICS SEMINAR
SEMINAR-MICROECONOMIC THY
Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 Selected topics in microeconomics.
- Department: Economics
- R 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Murat Yilmaz
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MICROECONOMICS SEMINAR
SEMINAR-MICROECONIMIC THEORY
Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 Selected topics in microeconomics.
- Department: Economics
- M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Donald R Davis
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Pietro Tebaldi
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MICROECONOMICS SEMINAR
Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 Selected topics in microeconomics.
MICROECONOMICS SEMINAR
SEMINAR-MICROECONIMIC THEORY
Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 Selected topics in microeconomics.
- Department: Economics
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Rosanne Altshuler
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ADVANCED TURKISH II
Advanced Turkish II is designed to use authentic Turkish materials around projects that are chosen by the student in a research seminar format where students conduct their own research and share it in class in a friendly atmosphere. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Zuleyha M Fikret
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MACROECONOMICS SEMINAR
Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 Registration information is posted on the departments Seminar Sign-up webpage. Selected topics in macroeconomics. Selected topics will be posted on the departments webpage.
- Department: Economics
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Matthieu Gomez
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SEMINAR IN ECONOMETRICS
TPCS:MACROECONOMICS & FINANCE
Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 and sign-up in the departments office. Registration information is posted on the departments Seminar Sign-up webpage. Analyzing data in a more in-depth fashion than in ECON UN3412. Additional estimation techniques include limited dependent variable and simultaneous equation models. Go to the departments undergraduate Seminar Description webpage for a detailed description.
- Department: Economics
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Thomas Piskula
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PALEOCEANOGRAPHY
Prerequisites: Complements GU4937 Cenozoic Paleoceanography, intended as part of a sequence with GU4330 Terrestrial Paleoclimate. For undergrads, UN2100 Earth System: Climate or equivalent, or permission of instructor The course examines the ocean's response to external climatic forcing such as solar luminosity and changes in the Earth's orbit, and to internal influences such as atmospheric composition, using deep-sea sediments, corals, ice cores and other paleoceanographic archives. A rigorous analysis of the assumptions underlying the use of climate proxies and their interpretations will be presented. Particular emphasis will be placed on amplifiers of climate change during the alternating ice ages and interglacial intervals of the last few million years, such as natural variations in atmospheric greenhouse gases and changes in deep water formation rates, as well as mechanisms of rapid climate change during the late Pleistocene. The influence of changes in the Earth's radiation distribution and boundary conditions on the global ocean circulation, Asian monsoon system and El Nino/Southern Oscillation frequency and intensity, as well as interactions among these systems will be examined using proxy data and models. This course complements W4937 Cenozoic Paleoceanography and is intended as part of a sequence with W4330 Terrestrial Paleoclimate for students with interests in Paleoclimate.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
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Jerry F McManus
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SEMINAR IN POLITICAL ECONOMICS
Prerequisites: ECON W3211, W3213, W3412 (or POLS 4712), W4370. Registration information is posted on the departments Seminar Sign-up webpage. Required for majors in the joint program between political science and economics. Provides a forum in which students can integrate the economics and political science approach to political economy. The theoretical tools learned in political economy are applied: the analysis of a historical episode and the empirical relation between income distribution and politics on one side and growth on the other.
- Department: Economics
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Helene Huber Yahi
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Claudia Halbac
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INTRO TO ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY
Prerequisites: Physics W1201, Chemistry W1403, Calculus III, or equivalent or the instructors permission. EESC W2100 preferred. Physical and chemical processes determining atmospheric composition and the implications for climate and regional air pollution. Basics of physical chemistry relevant to the atmosphere: spectroscopy, photolysis, and reaction kinetics. Atmospheric transport of trace gas species. Atmosphere-surface-biosphere interactions. Stratospheric ozone chemistry. Tropospheric hydrocarbon chemistry and oxidizing power. Legacy effects of photochemical smog and acid rain. Current impacts of aerosol pollution and climate impacts of pollution reduction.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
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Instructor:
Roisin Commane
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READINGS IN OTTOMAN TEXTS II
Prerequisites: Elementary Ottoman Turkish. This course deals with authentic Ottoman texts from the early 18th and 19th centuries. The class uses Turkish as the primary language for instruction, and students are expected to translate assigned texts into Turkish or English. A reading packet will include various authentic archival materials in rika, talik and divani styles. Whenever possible, students will be given texts that are related to their areas of interest. Various writing styles will be dealt with on Ottoman literature, history, and archival documents. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
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Dilek Oztoprak
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INT'L HUMANITARIAN LAW/HUM RGTS
This seminar will cover various issues, debates, and concepts in the international law of armed conflict (known as international humanitarian law), particularly as it relates to the protection of non-combatants (civilians and prisoners of war). In doing so, we will examine how international humanitarian law and human rights law intersect. Both sets of legal norms are designed to protect the lives, well-being, and dignity of individuals.However, the condition of armed conflict provides a much wider set of options for governments and individuals to engage in violent, deadly action against others, including killing, forcibly detaining, and destroying the property of those designated as combatants. At the same time, the means of waging war are not unlimited, but rather are tightly regulated by both treaty and customary law. This course will examine how these regulations operate in theory and practice, focusing on the principles of distinction, proportionality, and military necessity.
- Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Bruce L Cronin
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American Radicalism in the Archives
US Radicalism in the Arch
“American Radicalism in the Archives” is a research seminar examining the multiple ways that radicals and their social movements have left traces in the historical record. Straddling the disciplines of social movement history, public humanities, and critical information studies, the seminar will use the archival collections at Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library to trace the history of social movements and to consider the intersections of radical theory and practice with the creation and preservation of archives.
- Department: History
- R 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Thai S Jones
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Human Rights and Education
In this course, we will consider human rights as an educational enterprise, and education as a human rights practice. In addition to codifying the human right to education in Article 26, the Universal Declaration gives priority to “teaching and education” as a primary mechanism for ensuring respect, recognition, and observance of human rights. While human rights are more typically understood through legal and political discourse, this course focuses on education as both the site of and a strategy in struggles for just, equitable, and dignified communities. This course examines both the right to education and the emergent field of human rights education, and provides students the opportunity to analyze human rights as a form of public pedagogy aimed at fostering particular kinds of subjects and communities. Using historical and contemporary examples, the course explores various educational strategies designed to promote human rights in different contexts and among different learners, and evaluates educational institutions as potential sites of human rights promotion and violation.
- Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Glenn Mitoma
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Qualitative Research: Participatory Inqu
Qualitative Research in P
We have to remember that what we observe is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
- Werner Heisenberg, Physicist
As Heisenberg reminds us, science does not grant unmediated access to reality, but rather, to reality as shaped by our methods of questioning. In psychology, quantitative experiments powerfully allow us to ask particular kinds of questions with precision and control, but they can sometimes bracket out the complexities of lived worlds, reducing what is messy and ambiguous into variables that may miss or even mischaracterize the very phenomena we wish to understand. Qualitative methods open up different vantage points, enabling us to explore meaning, context, and experience in ways numbers alone cannot capture.
This class takes seriously the idea that all methods both reveal and conceal, and that our task as researchers is to choose, and sometimes combine, approaches that best illuminate the questions we seek to answer. We will begin by considering the ontological and epistemological assumptions underlying different research methodologies—that is, assumptions about the nature of reality and how it can be studied. Next, we will learn and practice a range of qualitative approaches used by psychologists including thematic analysis, grounded theory, phenomenological analysis, portraiture, discourse analysis, narrative psychological methods, case studies, and non-linguistic methods. Attention will be given to evaluating what counts as “good” qualitative research, including the benefits of using mixed methods and pluralistic approaches (i.e., combining multiple methods). Throughout the semester, we will look at published examples of qualitative research in a variety of subdisciplines of psychology as well as in how these methods can be used in action research (i.e., in application to real-world problems).
The centerpoint of the course will be an independent project, devised around student research interests, through which students will gain hands-on experience in participatory inquiry, developing not only methodological skill but also a critical perspective on how knowledge is produced. The course is designed both for students who wish to conduct basic or applied qualitative research
- Department: Psychology
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nora Isacoff
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PLATE TECTONICS AND CLIMATE
What produced the change from the hothouse to the ice house Earth in the last ~60 million years? What caused earlier ice ages and huge swinges in sea level that covered so much of the continents with marine sediments? The possible answers, from weathering of rocks during periods of enhanced mountain building to changes in the rate of CO2 release at mid-ocean ridges, all involve plate tectonics. We review the development of the plate tectonic theory, including role Columbia researchers played in making the break-throughs that first confirmed the theory. We will discuss ideas about what might control plate motions on Earth as well as what we know about different kinds of tectonics on other planets. Researchers working on cutting-edge observations and models relating tectonics and climate will be invited to air their views to the class.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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W R Buck
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Chemical Engineering of Wine Making
Chem Eng Wine Making
Course aimed at seniors and graduate students. Provides classroom experience on wine making. Wine making chemistry, design, safety, and process control are emphasized in classroom instruction. Applies basic chemical engineering concepts to chemical reactivity in wine making. Written and oral reports required.
Wine making can be used anywhere in the world and the principles of the fermentation extend into other industries. Academic and industry contributions to the content of chemical engineering concepts in wine making include chemical reactivity hazards, industrial hygiene, risk assessment, inherently safer design, and hazard operability analysis. With the ultimate aim of leaning a skill set and safer operations in the chemical engineering profession, the applications of wine making will be emphasized.
- Department: Chemical Engineering
- R 2:40 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Robert G Bozic
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ECONOMICS & PHILOSOPHY
Prerequisites: ECON W3211, ECON W3213, ECON W3412. Students will be contacted by the Economics department for pre-enrollment. Explores topics in the philosophy of economics such as welfare, social choice, and the history of political economy. Sometimes the emphasis is primarily historical and someimes on analysis of contemporary economic concepts and theories.
- Department: Philosophy
- M 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Daniel Hausman
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Beginner Medical Spanish
BEGINNER MEDICAL SPANISH
This class is designed for the beginner student to gain working level knowledge of basic Spanish vocabulary, verb conjugation, and medical terminology for use in a clinical setting. In addition to short lectures to facilitate grammar and usage patterns, class time will be used for intensive speaking practice to improve pronunciation, enhance comprehension, and build confidence in using Spanish through the use of hypothetical scenarios, student presentations, and small group discussions to improve Spanish language and Spanish language proficiency.
- Department: Nursing
- T 6:30 p.m.-7:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ana I Esteban Gonzalez
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Reality Television
This course focuses on the origins, form, and social relevance of reality television. Specifically, the course will examine the industrial, economic, and ideological underpinnings of reality television to gesture toward larger themes about the evolution of television from the 1950s through the present, and the relationship between television and American culture and society. To this end, the class lectures, screenings, and discussions will emphasize (but are not limited to) topic of race, gender, sexuality, and class.
- Department: Film
- R 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Racquel Gates
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Reality Television Discussion
Disucssion section for Film GU4953 Reality Television: This course focuses on the origins, form, and social relevance of reality television. Specifically, the course will examine the industrial, economic, and ideological underpinnings of reality television to gesture toward larger themes about the evolution of television from the 1950s through the present, and the relationship between television and American culture and society. To this end, the class lectures, screenings, and discussions will emphasize (but are not limited to) topic of race, gender, sexuality, and class.
- Department: Film
- F 11:10 a.m.-noon
- F 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
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Global Medical Spanish
GLOBAL MEDICAL SPANISH
This course is designed for the nursing student interested in Spanish-language speaking communities who has an intermediate or advanced Spanish language proficiency to help improve their proficiency as an intercultural speaker. In addition to short lectures to facilitate grammar and usage patterns, class time will be used for intensive speaking practice to evaluate health challenges in Latinx- communities and Spanish-speaking countries.
- Department: Nursing
- T 5 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ana I Esteban Gonzalez
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