TOPICS IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BOOTCAMP

Each offering of this course is devoted to a particular sector of Operations Research and its contemporary research, practice, and approaches. If topics are different, then course can be taken more than once for credit.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• Instructor: David B Lerner
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• 1.5 points

TOPICS IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH

FINANCE & STRUCTURING FOR DS

Each offering of this course is devoted to a particular sector of Operations Research and its contemporary research, practice, and approaches. If topics are different, then course can be taken more than once for credit.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• F 1:30 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• 3 points

CHINESE DOCUMENTARY CINEMA

What defines a “documentary” film? How do documentaries inform, provoke and move us? What formal devices and aesthetic strategies do documentaries use to construct visions of reality and proclaim them as authentic, credible and authoritative? What can documentary cinema teach us about the changing Chinese society, and about cinema as a medium for social engagement? This seminar introduces students to the aesthetics, epistemology and politics of documentary cinema in China from the 1940s to the present, with an emphasis on contemporary films produced in the past two decades. We examine how documentaries contended history, registered subaltern experiences, engaged with issues of gender, ethnicity and class, and built new communities of testimony and activism to foster social change. Besides documentaries made by Chinese filmmakers, we also include a small number of films made on China by western filmmakers, including those by Joris Ivens, Michelangelo Antonioni, Frank Capra and Carma Hinton. Topics include documentary poetics and aesthetics, evidence, performance and authenticity, the porous boundaries between documentary and fiction, and documentary ethics. As cinema is, among other things, a creative practice, in this course, students will be given opportunities to respond to films analytically and creatively, through writing as well as creative visual projects.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ying Qian
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH

VISUALIZATION & STORYTELLING W

Each offering of this course is devoted to a particular sector of Operations Research and its contemporary research, practice, and approaches. If topics are different, then course can be taken more than once for credit.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• Instructor: Michelle Glaser
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• 1.5 points

TOPICS IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH

POLICY FOR PRIVACY TECHNOLOGY

Each offering of this course is devoted to a particular sector of Operations Research and its contemporary research, practice, and approaches. If topics are different, then course can be taken more than once for credit.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Rachel Cummings
  h-index: 16 Info
• 3 points

GEOGRAPHICAL INFO SYS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Leah M Meisterlin
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN OPERATION RESEARCH

STARTUP FUNDAMENTALS

Each offering of this course is devoted to a particular sector of Operations Research and its contemporary research, practice, and approaches. If topics are different, then course can be taken more than once for credit.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Owen E Davis
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• 3 points

GEOGRAPHICAL INFO SYS-LAB

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• R 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Alanna E Browdy
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• Instructor: Daniel C Froehlich
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• 0 points

FOUND OF NANOBIOSCI/NANOBIOTECH

Fundamentals of nanobioscience and nanobiotechnology, scientific foundations, engineering principles, current and envisioned applications. Includes discussion of intermolecular forces and bonding, of kinetics and thermodynamics of self-assembly, of nanoscale transport processes arising from actions of biomolecular motors, computation and control in biomolecular systems, and of mitochondrium as an example of a nanoscale factory.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Henry Hess
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 45 Info
• 3 points

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN CHEMICAL ENGI

AI IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERIN

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Venkat Venkatasubramanian
  h-index: 58 Info
• 3 points

BIOMEMS:CELL/MOLECULAR APPLIC

Topics include biomicroelectromechanical, microfluidic, and lab-on-a-chip systems in biomedical engineering, with a focus on cellular and molecular applications. Microfabrication techniques, biocompatibility, miniaturization of analytical and diagnostic devices, high-throughput cellular studies, microfabrication for tissue engineering, and in vivo devices.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Samuel Sia
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 39 Info
• 3 points

AMERICAN SOCIETY 1776-1861

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

EXTREME DESIGN

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

MSBA Quantitative Bootcamp

Primer on quantitative and mathematical concepts. Required for all incoming MSBA students.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• Instructor: Michael Miller
  CULPA: 18 h-index: 14 Info
• 0 points

FUNDAMENTALS OF DOSIMETRY

Basic radiation physics: radioactive decay, radiation producing devices, characteristics of the different types of radiation (photons, charged and uncharged particles) and mechanisms of their interactions with materials. Essentials of the determination, by measurement and calculation, of absorbed doses from ionizing radiation sources used in medical physics (clinical) situations and for health physics purposes.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• W 4 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Sean L Berry
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• 3 points

CELL SIGNALING

Prerequisites: A strong background in molecular and cellular biology. Generally students with four or more courses are accepted. Cell Signaling is a graduate course for Ph.D. students open to advanced undergraduate and masters students. The basic molecular mechanism of signal transduction pathways will be discussed related to cell growth and stress systems. There will be an emphasis on specific categories of signaling components. Students will read the literature and give presentations. Topics include the pathways by which cells respond to extracellular signals such as growth factors and the mechanisms by which extracellular signals are translated into alterations in the cell cycle, morphology, differentiation state, and motility of the responding cells. For stress pathways we will discuss how cells respond to survive the stress or induce their own death. In many cases these pathways will be related to human diseases.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ron M Prywes
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

Global Cities

While globalization has in certain respects “flattened” the world, there is simultaneously a distinct geographic logic to what Manuel Castells refers to as the “space of flows” that defines our current age. Specifically, by serving as central nodes in the worldwide circulation of everything from capital, goods, people, and viruses to ideas, cultural products, and aesthetic preferences, urban areas—and especially those often labeled as “global cities”—are constitutive of modern life. Accordingly, city spaces provide an ideal vantage point from which to contemplate diverse global processes. Accordingly, this course will focus on cities as globally

embedded units and agents. While this will naturally entail paying particular attention to “superstar cities”—such as New York, London, Shanghai, Dubai, and São Paulo—we will also explore how smaller urban areas, including in the Global South, simultaneously participate in globalizing processes and are subjected to globalizing forces. Additionally, we will drill deeper by analyzing how micro-level spaces
within
cities—including neighborhoods, and even particular streets and buildings—are implicated in, and generative of, these same global flows. Throughout, we will highlight the dialectical nature of (global) cities and the imaginaries that exist about them, as places defined by both egalitarianism and stratification, freedom and danger, cosmopolitanism and localism, sustainability and ecocide, and utopian dreams and dystopian nightmares. Our broader aims, then, are to understand how the mutual imbrication of
the local
and
the global
within cities generates tendencies that simultaneously
flatten
space while also
accentuating
disparate socio-spatial dynamics and inequalities. And, second, to consider how cities are on the frontlines of many of the most pressing problems facing humanity, as well as efforts to address them.

• Department: Committee on Global Thought
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Kevin Funk
  h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points

Multilingual America: Translation, Migra

This course introduces students to the rich tradition of literature about and by Greeks in America over the past two centuries exploring questions of multilingualism, translation, migration and gender with particular attention to the look and sound of different alphabets and foreign accents – “It’s all Greek to me!” To what extent can migration be understood as translation and vice versa? How might debates in Diaspora and Translation Studies inform each other and how might both, in turn, elucidate the writing of and about Greeks and other ethnic minorities, especially women? Authors include Olga Broumas, Elia Kazan, Alexandros Papadiamantis, Irini Spanidou, Ellery Queen, Eleni Sikelianos and Thanasis Valtinos as well as performance artists such as Diamanda Galas. Theoretical and comparative texts include works by Walter Benjamin, Rey Chow, Jacques Derrida, Xiaolu Guo, Eva Hoffman, Franz Kafka, Toni Morrison, Vicente Rafael, and Lawrence Venuti, as well as films such as
The Immigrant
and
The Wizard of Oz
. No knowledge of Greek is necessary, although an extra-credit directed reading is open to those wishing to read texts in Greek.

• Department: Classics
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Karen R Van Dyck
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Multilingual America: Translation, Migra

This course introduces students to the rich tradition of literature about and by Greeks in America over the past two centuries exploring questions of multilingualism, translation, migration and gender with particular attention to the look and sound of different alphabets and foreign accents – “It’s all Greek to me!” To what extent can migration be understood as translation and vice versa? How might debates in Diaspora and Translation Studies inform each other and how might both, in turn, elucidate the writing of and about Greeks and other ethnic minorities, especially women? Authors include Olga Broumas, Elia Kazan, Alexandros Papadiamantis, Irini Spanidou, Ellery Queen, Eleni Sikelianos and Thanasis Valtinos as well as performance artists such as Diamanda Galas. Theoretical and comparative texts include works by Walter Benjamin, Rey Chow, Jacques Derrida, Xiaolu Guo, Eva Hoffman, Franz Kafka, Toni Morrison, Vicente Rafael, and Lawrence Venuti, as well as films such as
The Immigrant
and
The Wizard of Oz
. No knowledge of Greek is necessary, although an extra-credit directed reading is open to those wishing to read texts in Greek.

• Department: Auditing
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Karen R Van Dyck
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 0 points

EARTH RESOURCES & SUSTAIN DEV

Prerequisites: none; high school chemistry recommended. This course is open to graduate students, and juniors and seniors within DEES, Sus Dev, Engineering, Chemistry, Physics, and APAM - or with the instructors permission. Survey of the origin and extent of mineral resources, fossil fuels, and industrial materials, that are non renewable, finite resources, and the environmental consequences of their extraction and use, using the textbook Earth Resources and the Environment, by James Craig, David Vaughan and Brian Skinner. This course will provide an overview, but will include focus on topics of current societal relevance, including estimated reserves and extraction costs for fossil fuels, geological storage of CO2, sources and disposal methods for nuclear energy fuels, sources and future for luxury goods such as gold and diamonds, and special, rare materials used in consumer electronics (e.g. ;Coltan; mostly from Congo) and in newly emerging technologies such as superconducting magnets and rechargeable batteries (e.g. heavy rare earth elements, mostly from China). Guest lectures from economists, commodity traders and resource geologists will provide ;real world; input.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter Kelemen
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 84 Info
• 3 points

POLITICS IN INDIA

This course will combine study of long-term historical sociology with more short term understanding of policies and their possible effects. Though its main purpose will be to provide students with an understanding of politics after independence, it will argue, methodologically, that this understanding should be based on a study of historical sociology – plotting long-terms shifts in the structure of social power. The course will start with analyses of the structures of power and ideas about political legitimacy in pre-modern India, and the transformations brought by colonialism into that order. After a brief study of the nature of political order under the colonial state, the courses will focus primarily on the history of the democratic state after independence.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Sudipta Kaviraj
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• 4 points

QUANTITATIVE RISK MANAGEMENT

Risk management models and tools; measure risk using statistical and stochastic methods, hedging and diversification. Examples include insurance risk, financial risk, and operational risk. Topics covered include VaR, estimating rare events, extreme value analysis, time series estimation of extremal events; axioms of risk measures, hedging using financial options, credit risk modeling, and various insurance risk models.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Agostino Capponi
  h-index: 19 Info
• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO ROBOTICS

Overview of robot applications and capabilities. Linear algebra, kinematics, statics, and dynamics of robot manipulators. Survey of sensor technology: force, proximity, vision, compliant manipulators. Motion planning and artificial intelligence; manipulator programming requirements and languages.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Sunil Agrawal
  Wikipedia h-index: 65 Info
• 3 points

PHILOSOPHICAL TEXTS IN GREEK

Careful reading and translation of a major philosophical text in ancient Greek
to be chosen by the course participants in consultation with the instructor. Special attention is to
be paid to the linguistic and conceptual problems of translating ancient Greek philosophical
texts. Prerequisite: equivalent of at least two years of study of ancient Greek at university level.

• Department: Philosophy
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Dhananjay Jagannathan
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• 3 points

PRODUCT DESIGN FOR MFG

General review of product development process; market analysis and product system design; principles of design for manufacturing; strategy for material selection and manufacturing process choice; component design for machining; casting; molding; sheet metal working and inspection; general assembly processes; product design for manual assembly; design for robotic and automatic assembly; case studies of product design and improvement.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Graham Walker
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• 3 points

ADV MANUFACTURING PROCESSES

Principles of nontraditional manufacturing, nontraditional transport and media. Emphasis on laser assisted materials processing, laser material interactions with applications to laser material removal, forming, and surface modification. Introduction to electrochemical machining, electrical discharge machining and abrasive water jet machining.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Y. Lawrence Yao
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 95 Info
• 3 points

ADV MANUFACTURING PROCESSES

Principles of nontraditional manufacturing, nontraditional transport and media. Emphasis on laser assisted materials processing, laser material interactions with applications to laser material removal, forming, and surface modification. Introduction to electrochemical machining, electrical discharge machining and abrasive water jet machining.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Y. Lawrence Yao
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 95 Info
• 3 points

ROBOTICS STUDIO

Hands-on studio class exposing students to practical aspects of the design, fabrication, and programming of physical robotic systems. Students experience entire robot creation process, covering conceptual design, detailed design, simulation and modeling, digital manufacturing, electronics and sensor design, and software programming.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• W 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• W 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Hod Lipson
  Wikipedia h-index: 79 Info
• 3 points

JAZZ AND AMERICAN CULTURE

(Lecture). An overview of jazz and its cultural history, with consideration of the influence of jazz on the visual arts, literature, and film. The course will also provide an introduction to the scholarship and methods of jazz studies. We will begin with Ralph Ellisons suggestive proposition that many aspects of American life are jazz-shaped. How then might we define this music called jazz? What are its aesthetic ingredients and forms? What have been its characteristic sounds? How can we move toward a definition that sufficiently complicates the usual formulas of call-response, improvisation, and swing to encompass musical styles that are very different but which nonetheless are typically classified as jazz? With this ongoing problem of musical definition in mind, we will examine works in literature, painting, photography, and film, which may be defined as jazz works or ones that are jazz-shaped.” What is jazz-like about these works? Whats jazz-like about the ways they were produced? And how, to get to the other problem in the courses title, is jazz American? What is the relationship of art to nation? What is the logic of American exceptionalism? What do we make of the many international dimensions of jazz music such as its many non-American practitioners? And what do representations of jazz artists in literature and film tell us about what people have thought about the music?

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert G O'Meally
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 3 points

CHINA 1368-1912: SHIFTING STRUCTURES OF

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Amy Lelyveld
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• 3 points

Pricing Models for Financial Engineering

PRICING MODELS FOR FIN EN

In this course, you will be introduced to pricing models for some of the most widely traded securities in today�s financial markets. These securities include futures, forwards, bonds, options, credit default swaps, and mortgage-backed securities. We will examine not only how pricing models work under normal market conditions, but also in extreme market environments. In other words, we examine not only how these financial instruments are supposed to work in theory, but how they actually work in the real world. Along the way, we will discuss the history of various financial products, and how financial markets are likely to evolve in the future.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• T 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Miller
  CULPA: 18 h-index: 14 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED HINDI I

Advanced Hindi I and II are third year courses in the Hindi-Urdu program that aim to continue building upon the existing four language skills (speaking, listening, reading and writing) along with grammar and vocabulary in a communicative approach. The objective of these courses is to strengthen students’ language skills and to go beyond them to understand and describe situations and the speech community, understand and discuss Hindi literature and films, news items, T.V. shows and current events. Students will also be given opportunities to work on their areas of interest such as popular culture, professional and research goals in the target language. Students will be expected to expand their vocabulary, enhance grammatical accuracy and develop cultural appropriateness through an enthusiastic participation in classroom activities and immersing themselves in the speech community outside. This course will be taught in the target language. All kinds of conversations such as daily life, on social/public interests’ topics as well as on academic interests, will occur in the target language. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Rakesh Ranjan
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 5 points

TENSILE/COMPRESSION SURFACES

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert E Marino
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• 3 points

BLACK PARIS

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Brent H Edwards
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Love and Longing in Early-Modern South A

Love & Longing in S. Asia

How were love and longing imagined and articulated in early-modern South Asia? How do romantic themes and literary genres cross perceived divides between religions, realities, and geographical regions? This class explores themes of romance and love in South Asia and introduces students to a corpus of early-modern Indian literature including the 
Premakhyan
 (love story) genre, 
Bhakti 
and 
Sufi 
devotional poetry, courtly 
Kavya 
poetry, and the 
Ghazal 
literary tradition, among others.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Christine H Marrewa Karwoski
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• 4 points

RECORDED SOUND

Prerequisites: The instructors permission. As music moves into the 21st century, we find ourselves surrounded by an ever-evolving landscape of technological capability. The world of music, and the music industry itself, is changing rapidly, and with that change comes the opening – and closing – of doorways of possibility. What does this shift mean for today’s practicing artist or composer? With big label recording studios signing and nurturing fewer and fewer artists, it seems certain that, today, musicians who want to record and distribute their music need to be able to do much of the recording and production work on their own. But where does one go to learn how to do this – to learn not only the “how to” part of music production, but the historical underpinnings and the development of the music production industry as well? How does one develop a comprehensive framework within which they can place their own artistic efforts? How does one learn to understand what they hear, re-create what they like and develop their own style? This class, “Recorded Sound,” aims to be the answer. It’s goal is to teach artists how to listen critically to music from across history and genres in order to identify the production techniques that they hear, and reproduce those elements using modern technology so they can be incorporated into the artist’s own musical works.

• Department: Music
• M 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: David Adamcyk
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

Jews in the Ancient City: Politics and M

This course will examine the experience of Jews in the cities of the eastern Roman Empire, offering a challenge to modern hypotheses of Jewish corporate stability in that setting and contributing to modern discussions of the relations between the Roman state, Greek cities, and Jewish and Christian subjects.

• Department: History
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Seth R Schwartz
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED CURTAIN WALLS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• 3 points

Advanced Urdu

ADVANCED URDU

Prerequisites: Two years of prior study in Urdu or one year of Urdu for Heritage Speakers I&II courses at Columbia University, or approval of the professor. This is a one-semester course in advanced Urdu language. It will be taught in the fall semester. The goal of the course is to develop students’ linguistic skills i.e. listening, speaking, reading, writing and cultural skills in Urdu, and give students in-depth exposure to some of the finest works of classical and modern Urdu prose. Special emphasis will be given to developing a high-register vocabulary. Necessary grammar points will also be explained for developing an accurate and nuanced understanding of the Urdu language. After completing this course, students will be able to read and enjoy Urdu classics and critical academic texts related to various disciplines i.e. old tales, short stories, essays, history, satire, criticism, politics, current issues etc. along with effective speaking skills suited to active interaction in the speech community and a more advanced academic discussion for undergraduate and graduate students. Students will develop an in-depth understanding of South Asian society and culture as well. This course will prepare students to take MDES GU4635 Readings in Urdu Literature I.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Aftab Ahmad
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 4 points

HOLOCAUST GENOCIDE-AMER CULTRE

When the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. opened in 1993, some people asked why a "European" catastrophe was being memorialized alongside shrines to Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln while there was still no museum documenting the experience of African slaves in the United States or the effort to exterminate the Native Americans on this continent. How American intellectuals have thought about the Nazi regime and the Holocaust in Europe since before the Second World War and in the latter half of the twentieth century is te focus on this course.  The course will also compare the ways the United States narrates, conceptualizes and deals with the Holocaust as oppsed to other genocidal events. This course is comparative at its core as it examines how intellectuals and institutions spanning from Hannah Arendt to the United Nations to the US Holocaust Museum have woven this event into American culture.

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

CULTR,MOTIVATN,PROSOCIAL BEHAV

Prerequisites: Some knowledge of Research Methods, Statistics, and Social Psychology, plus Instructors Permission. Reviews and integrates current research on three important topics of social psychology: culture, motivation, and prosocial behavior. Discussions and readings will cover theoretical principles, methodological approaches, and the intersection of these three topics. Students will write a personal research proposal based on the theories presented during the seminar.

• Department: Psychology
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Svetlana Komissarouk
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 3 Info
• 4 points

ANATOMY FOR PHYSICISTS & ENGR

Systemic approach to the study of the human body from a medical imaging point of view: skeletal, respiratory, cardiovascular, digestive, and urinary systems, breast and womens issues, head and neck, and central nervous system. Lectures are reinforced by examples from clinical two- and three-dimensional and functional imaging (CT, MRI, PET, SPECT, U/S, etc.).

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 4 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• 3 points

CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ADVOCACY

This course is designed to introduce contemporary children’s rights issues and help students develop practical advocacy skills to protect and promote the rights of children. Students will explore case studies of advocacy campaigns addressing issues including juvenile justice, child labor, child marriage, the use of child soldiers, corporal punishment, migration and child refugees, female genital mutilation, and LBGT issues affecting children. Over the course of the semester, students will become familiar with international children’s rights standards, as well as a variety of advocacy strategies and avenues, including use of the media, litigation, and advocacy with UN, legislative bodies, and the private sector. Written assignments will focus on practical advocacy tools, including advocacy letters, op-eds, submissions to UN mechanisms or treaty bodies, and the development of an overarching advocacy strategy, including the identification of goals and objectives, and appropriate advocacy targets and tactics.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

BUSINESS ANALYTICS

Prepares students to gather, describe, and analyze data, using advanced statistical tools to support operations, risk management, and response to disruptions. Analysis is done by targeting economic and financial decisions in complex systems that involve multiple partners. Topics include probability, statistics, hypothesis testing, experimentation, and forecasting.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Yi Zhang
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

Art beyond Aesthetics: Decolonizing appr

This course is a combination of lectures, seminar participation, and group practicums which probes the possibility of a decolonial art research practice. This course introduces students to western approaches to politics and art through a sustained engagement with critical Indigenous and anticolonial theories of human relations to the more-than-human world. It is a mixture of lectures, class discussion, and individual practicums which lead to final projects that combine image and text.

• Department: Anthropology
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Povinelli
  CULPA: 14 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

GENDER,POWER,CULTURE: INDIA

GENDERPOWERCULTURE: INDIA

Explores gender, culture, power in India, c. 1500-1800 by reading theoretical works on gender and sexuality, historical scholarship relevant to early modern India, and a variety of primary sources. Topics include morality, mysticism, devotion, desire, kingship, heroism, homosocial relations, and homoerotic practices. The focus is largely on Persianate contexts, in conversation with broader South Asian and Islamic studies. This discussion seminar is designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate students, with some previous background in South Asian, Islamic, or gender studies.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Mana Kia
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 11 Info
• 4 points

BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Prerequisites: (CHEN E4320) or CHEN E4320 or instructor's permission. Engineering of biochemical and microbiological reaction systems. Kinetics, reactor analysis, and design of batch and continuous fermentation and enzyme processes. Recovery and separations in biochemical engineering systems.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Allie Obermeyer
  h-index: 16 Info
• 3 points

Indigenous Worlds in Early Latin America

This seminar deals with the presence of indigenous peoples in Latin American colonial societies and aims to analyze indigenous responses to conquest and colonization. How did indigenous people see themselves and interact with other groups? What roles did they play in shaping Latin American societies? What spaces were they able to create for themselves? These and similar questions will guide our discussion through the semester. Every week, we will read documents written by the indigenous people themselves, as well as academic studies of their cultures and societies. The course will offer a survey of the main indigenous groups; however, the case studies are by necessity just a selection. The seminar is conceived for students interested in race and ethnic relations and in the mechanisms of colonization and responses to it, as seen through the lenses of Latin America, between the 16th and the 18th centuries.

• Department: History
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Caterina Pizzigoni
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 4 points

INSECT DIVERSITY

Introduction to phylogenetic relationships, evolution, and ecology of the major groups of arthropods, with emphasis on insects. Lab: indentification of common families of spiders and insects of the northeastern United States.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• W 5 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Steven Davis
  Info
• 4 points

RITES IN CRISIS: CONTEMPORARY THEATER A

Can making theater be a means of repair? Contemporary dramatists and performance artists have looked out at a planet burdened by multiplying existential threats—ecological catastrophe, militarism, violence against racialized and minoritized groups, and other forms of systemic harm and precarity—and enacted responses to these crises within the theater’s walls. Some artists have staged rites of renewal, hoping to fortify audiences with the resolve necessary to survive a hostile society; others use the stage to rehearse revolutions and overturn the existing order of things; still others turn to comedy in order to interrupt and destabilize oppressive discourses. Responding to crises of this scale requires theater to rethink its own forms and mechanisms. How might established dramatic genres and theatrical conventions give way to new, reparative repertoires of relation? In this course, we explore how theater has represented, and sought to rectify, existential threat since 1945. We take a particular interest in the embodied processes through which theater comes into being, including rehearsals, collaborations, and other improvised engagements and consensual acts. How is repair attempted through these processes, and to what extent can it be attained? We also consider what forms of reparation may be owed by theatrical institutions to the artists, audiences, and communities that support them. We approach these topics by examining a wide range of performance works from artists across the English-speaking world—from Wole Soyinka to Anna Deavere Smith, and from Jane Taylor to Taylor Mac—and by engaging with the theoretical links that connect catastrophe, crisis, critique, and discernment, asking how these related processes unfold in the theater. Our conversations will continually attend to aspects of live performance, including dramaturgy, design, movement, and direction. Participants in the class will hone their ability to analyze theatrical form and to evaluate the cultural, historical, and political contexts of performance.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Rebecca Kastleman
  Info
• 3 points

MORAL PSYCHOLOGY

Prerequisites: Two courses in psychology, including at least one course with a focus on social and/or developmental psychology, and permission of the instructor. Review of theories and current research on moral cognition and behavior. Topics include definitions of morality, the development of moral cognition, the role that other aspects of human experience (e.g. emotion, intentions) play in moral judgments, and the relationship between moral psychology and other areas of study (e.g. religious cognition, prejudice and stereotyping, the criminal justice system).

• Department: Psychology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Larisa A Heiphetz
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

THE DIRECTION OF TIME

A survey of the various attempts to reconcile the macroscopic directionality of time with the time-reversibility of the fundamental laws of physics. The second law of thermodynamics and the concept of entropy, statistical mechanics, cosmological problems, the problems of memory, the possibility of multiple time direction.

• Department: Philosophy
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: David Albert
  CULPA: 32 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info
• 3 points

Yiddish Autobiography I

This course will explore the borderlands between memoir, autobiography and fiction in life writing in Yiddish literature through the lens of the Eastern European Jewish experience. Employing gender and comparative approach as analytical lenses, we will read several autobiographical works and address the following questions: how to deal with the concept of memory in personal narratives? How to distinguish between truth, self-fashioning, and fiction in autobiographical writing? What role does the immigrant experience play in Jewish autobiographical narratives? The texts and class discussion will be in English.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Agnieszka Legutko
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

Yiddish Autobiography I

LIFE WRITING YIDDISH LITE

This course will explore the borderlands between memoir, autobiography and fiction in life writing in Yiddish literature through the lens of the Eastern European Jewish experience. Employing gender and comparative approach as analytical lenses, we will read several autobiographical works and address the following questions: how to deal with the concept of memory in personal narratives? How to distinguish between truth, self-fashioning, and fiction in autobiographical writing? What role does the immigrant experience play in Jewish autobiographical narratives? The texts and class discussion will be in English.

• Department: Auditing
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Agnieszka Legutko
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 0 points

FAQS ABOUT LIFE:APPL OF PSYC RSCH TO EVE

Prerequisites: Two courses in psychology, with at least one focusing on statistics and/or research methods in psychology, and permission of the instructor. Review of basic psychological research that is relevant to questions people frequently encounter during the course of everyday life. Potential topics for this seminar include research on decision-making, emotion, and/or interpersonal relationships.

• Department: Psychology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Larisa A Heiphetz
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

PRINCIPLES OF GENOMIC TECHNOL

Prerequisites: Undergraduate-level biology, organic chemistry and instructors permission. Chemical and physical aspects of genome structure and organization, genetic information flow from DNA to RNA to Protein. Nucleic acid hybridization and sequence complexity of DNA and RNA. Genome mapping and sequencing methods. The engineering of DNA polymerase for DNA sequencing and polymerase chain reaction. Fluorescent DNA sequencing and high-throughput DNA sequencer development. Construction of gene chip and micro array for gene expression analysis. Technology and biochemical approach for functional genomics analysis. Gene discovery and genetics database search method. The application of genetic database for new therapeutics discovery.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• M 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Jingyue Ju
  h-index: 77 Info
• 3 points

FINANCIAL CRISES

• Department: Economics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jose A Scheinkman
  Wikipedia h-index: 63 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO FINANCIAL ENGINEERING

Prerequisite(s): IEOR E4106 or E3106. Required for undergraduate students majoring in OR:FE. Introduction to investment and financial instruments via portfolio theory and derivative securities, using basic operations research/engineering methodology. Portfolio theory, arbitrage; Markowitz model, market equilibrium, and the capital asset pricing model. General models for asset price fluctuations in discrete and continuous time. Elementary introduction to Brownian motion and geometric Brownian motion. Option theory; Black-Scholes equation and call option formula. Computational methods such as Monte Carlo simulation.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Emanuel Derman
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 30 Info
• 3 points

MATH & STATS FOR POLI SCI

This course presents basic mathematical and statistical concepts that are essential for formal and quantitative analysis in political science research. It prepares students for the graduate-level sequence on formal models and quantitative political methodology offered in the department. The first half of the course will cover basic mathematics, such as calculus and linear algebra. The second half of the course will focus on probability theory and statistics. We will rigorously cover the topics that are directly relevant to formal and quantitative analysis in political science such that students can build both intuitions and technical skills. There is no prerequisite. The course is aimed for both students with little exposure to mathematics and those who have taken some courses but wish to gain a more solid foundation.
NOTE: This course does not satisfy the Political Science Major/Concentration research methods requirement.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Naoki Egami
  h-index: 8 Info
• 4 points

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134 or COMS W3136 or COMS W3137) and any course on probability. Prior knowledge of Python is recommended. Provides a broad understanding of the basic techniques for building intelligent computer systems. Topics include state-space problem representations, problem reduction and and-or graphs, game playing and heuristic search, predicate calculus, and resolution theorem proving, AI systems and languages for knowledge representation, machine learning and concept formation and other topics such as natural language processing may be included as time permits.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Ansaf Salleb-Aouissi
  CULPA: 21 h-index: 16 Info
• 3 points

STOCHASTIC MODELS FOR FIN ENG

This graduate course is only for M.S. Program in Financial Engineering students, offered during the summer session. Review of elements of probability theory, Poisson processes, exponential distribution, renewal theory, Wald’s equation. Introduction to discrete-time Markov chains and applications to queueing theory, inventory models, branching processes.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: David D Yao
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

MATH & STATS FOR POLI SCI-DISC

This is the required discussion section for 
POLS GU4700.

• Department: Political Science
• F 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Arnaud A Maurel
  Info
• 0 points

TUDOR-STUART DRAMA

This course investigates the boldly experimental world of early modern drama beyond Shakespeare. The opening of London’s commercial playhouses in the last quarter of the sixteenth century fundamentally changed the nature of popular entertainment in England, offering eager spectators an array of secular drama for the first time. The playwrights who wrote for these theaters collaborated and competed with each other to produce moving tragedies, eviscerating social satires, and fantastic romances, upending ideas about how theater worked as regularly as they invented them. We will read a range of playwrights and kinds of plays, asking how this drama intervened in the issues of class, race, gender, sexuality, and politics that defined early modern England and shaped its future. We will also spend time discussing the plays in performance, attending to how the conditions of staging influence literary meaning. Finally, we will give attention to the performance styles and techniques of those actors who, in inspiring admiration and adoration as they realized these plays onstage, became London’s very first celebrities.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Lauren E Robertson
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134 or COMS W3136 or COMS W3137) or the instructors permission. Computational approaches to natural language generation and understanding. Recommended preparation: some previous or concurrent exposure to AI or Machine Learning. Topics include information extraction, summarization, machine translation, dialogue systems, and emotional speech. Particular attention is given to robust techniques that can handle understanding and generation for the large amounts of text on the Web or in other large corpora. Programming exercises in several of these areas.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• F 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Kathleen McKeown
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 71 Info
• Instructor: Yassine Benajiba
  CULPA: 8 Info
• Instructor: Kathleen McKeown
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 71 Info
• Instructor: Yassine Benajiba
  CULPA: 8 Info
• Instructor: Kathleen McKeown
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 71 Info
• 3 points

FOUNDATIONS FR FINANCIAL ENGIN

This graduate course is only for M.S. Program in Financial Engineering students, offered during the summer session. Discrete-time models of equity, bond, credit, and foreign-exchange markets. Introduction to derivative markets. Pricing and hedging of derivative securities. Complete and incomplete markets. Introduction to portfolio optimization and the capital asset pricing model.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Wenpin Tang
  h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points

FE CONTINUOUS TIME MODELS

This graduate course is only for MS program in FE students. Modeling, analysis, and computation of derivative securities. Applications of stochastic calculus and stochastic differential equations. Numerical techniques: finite-difference, binomial method, and Monte Carlo.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Xunyu Zhou
  h-index: 54 Info
• 3 points

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS AND TIME SERIES

STAT ANALYSIS & TIME SERI

This graduate course is only for M.S. Program in Financial Engineering students. Empirical analysis of asset prices: heavy tails, test of the predictability of stock returns. Financial time series: ARMA, stochastic volatility, and GARCH models. Regression models: linear regression and test of CAPM, non-linear regression and fitting of term structures.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Agostino Capponi
  h-index: 19 Info
• 3 points

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS AND TIME SERIES

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS & TIME SE

This graduate course is only for M.S. Program in Financial Engineering students. Empirical analysis of asset prices: heavy tails, test of the predictability of stock returns. Financial time series: ARMA, stochastic volatility, and GARCH models. Regression models: linear regression and test of CAPM, non-linear regression and fitting of term structures.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Agostino Capponi
  h-index: 19 Info
• 3 points

RAD INSTRUMENT/MEASUREMENT LAB

Lab fee: $50. Theory and use of alpha, beta, gamma, and X-ray detectors and associated electronics for counting, energy spectroscopy, and dosimetry; radiation safety; counting statistics and error propagation; mechanisms of radiation emission and interaction. (Topic coverage may be revised.)

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• M 5 p.m.-10 p.m.
• 3 points

FINANCE AND THE REAL ECONOMY

Prerequisites: (Econ UN3211) and (ECON UN3213) and (STAT UN1201) This course uses economic theory and empirical evidence to study the links between financial markets and the real economy. We will consider questions such as: What is the welfare role of finance? How do financial markets affect consumers and firms? How do shocks to the financial system transmit to the real economy? How do financial markets impact inequality?

• Department: Economics
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Matthieu Gomez
  h-index: 4 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED PERSIAN I

While helping students advance their levels of oral and written expression, this course focuses on literature of the modern and medieval periods, with particular emphasis on the development of the modern novella and traditional and new forms of poetry. In addition to literature, students are introduced to a wide variety of genres from political and cultural essays and blogs to newspaper translations of the early 20th century. They will be further exposed to ta´rof in reference to a wide variety of socio-cultural contexts and be expected to use ta´rof in class conversations. Students will be exposed to popular artists and their works and satirical websites for insight into contemporary Iranian culture and politics. 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: Saeed Honarmand
  Info
• 3 points

PRINC OF QUANT POL RESEARCH 1

We will go through the first half of the book, Regression and Other Stories, by Andrew Gelman, Jennifer Hill, and Aki Vehtari (Cambridge University Press).  There is a follow-up course, Principles of Quantitative Political Research 2 (POLS 4712), which covers the second half of the book, including logistic regression, generalized linear models, poststratification, design of studies, and causal inference. 
Topics covered in the course include:  •    Applied regression:  measurement, data visualization, modeling and inference, transformations, and linear regression.
•    Simulation, model fitting, and programming in R.
•    Key statistical problems include adjusting for differences between sample and population, adjusting for differences between treatment and control groups, extrapolating from past to future, and using observed data to learn about latent constructs of interest.
•    We focus on social science applications, including but not limited to:  public opinion and voting, economic and social behavior, and policy analysis.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Andrew Gelman
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia h-index: 112 Info
• 4 points

GLOBAL CAPITAL MARKETS

An introduction to capital markets and investments providing an overview of financial markets and tools for asset valuation. Topics covered include the pricing of fixed-income securities (treasury markets, interest rate swaps futures, etc.), discussions on topics in credit, foreign exchange, sovereign ad securitized markets—private equity and hedge funds, etc.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• M 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Siddhartha Ghosh Dastidar
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

PRINC OF QUANT POL RESEARCH 1-DISC

PRINC OF QUANT POL RES 1-

This is the required discussion section for 
POLS GU4710.

• Department: Political Science
• M 11:10 a.m.-noon
• T 7:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Manu Singh
  h-index: 2 Info
• Instructor: Samuel J Houskeeper
  Info
• 0 points

RE-THINKING BIM

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark T Green
  Info
• 3 points

Machine Learning for Signals, Informatio

ML FOR SIG, INF

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: John W Paisley
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

Machine Learning for Signals, Informatio

ML FOR SIG, INF

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: John W Paisley
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN QUANTATIVE FINANCE

FINANCIAL ENG. FOR ESG FINANCE

Selected topics of interest in the area of quantitative finance. Offerings vary each year; some topics include energy derivatives, experimental finance, foreign exchange and related derivative instruments, inflation derivatives, hedge fund management, modeling equity derivatives in Java, mortgage-backed securities, numerical solutions of partial differential equations, quantitative portfolio management, risk management, trade and technology in financial markets.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• T 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Cyril Shmatov
  Info
• 1.5 points

TOPICS IN QUANTATIVE FINANCE

TERM STRUCTURES& CREDIT MODELS

Selected topics of interest in the area of quantitative finance. Offerings vary each year; some topics include energy derivatives, experimental finance, foreign exchange and related derivative instruments, inflation derivatives, hedge fund management, modeling equity derivatives in Java, mortgage-backed securities, numerical solutions of partial differential equations, quantitative portfolio management, risk management, trade
and technology in financial markets.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• R 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Luca Capriotti
  Info
• 3 points

QUANT METH 3 EXPERIMENTAL METH

In this course, we will discuss the logic of experimentation, its strengths and weaknesses compared to other methodologies, and the ways in which experimentation has been — and could be — used to investigate social phenomena. Students will learn how to interpret, design, and execute experiments. Special attention will be devoted to field experiments, or randomized trials conducted in real-world settings.
  Prerequisites: Students should have taken at least one or two semesters of statistics. Some understanding of probability, hypothesis testing, and regression are assumed. Familiarity with statistical software such as R is helpful. We will be working with data in class throughout the term. The examples used in the textbook and lectures are written in R, and R tutorials will be taught in special sessions early in the term.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Donald P Green
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 87 Info
• 4 points