LEGAL METHODS II

• Department: Law
• 1 points

LEGAL METHODS II

• Department: Law
• 1 points

LEGAL METHODS II

• Department: Law
• 1 points

LEGAL METHODS II

• Department: Law
• 1 points

LEGAL METHODS II

• Department: Law
• 1 points

LEGAL METHODS II

• Department: Law
• 1 points

Climate Risk & Scenario Analysis

The course provides an overview of the scenario analysis and climate risk modeling process for corporate issuers and government entities. There is a brief introduction to the climate models utilized by the IPCC, both global and regional. There is a description of the scenario generation and analysis process, with linkages to benchmark scenarios outlined by international bodies. This is followed by a review of the linkages between climate models and socio-economic variables in the form of integrated assessment models, Ricardian models and economic input-output analysis. There is one module on the information systems needed to ensure good adaptation and a review of best practices and guidelines for climate risk management strategies. Integrated examples of climate risk and opportunities for specific issuers are discussed in the last 2 classes. The problem sets and exercises are designed to provide practice in applying high-level guidelines and climate damage relationships to the strategies and operations of specific countries, industries and companies.

• Department: Sustainability Management
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 3 points

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

• Department: Law
• Instructor: Christina M Duffy Ponsa
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• Instructor: Jessica J Bulman
  h-index: 14 Info
• 4 points

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

• Department: Law
• 4 points

SW PRACTICE WITH WOMEN

• Department: Social Work
• T 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Lauren Taylor
  Info
• 3 points

NANOSCALE ACTUATION & SENSING

NANOSCALE ACTUATION/SENSI

Interaction of light with nanoscale materials and structures for purpose of inducing movement and detecting small changes in strain, temperature, and chemistry within local environments. Methods for concentrating and manipulating light at length scales below the diffraction limit. Plasmonics and metamaterials, as well as excitons, phonos, and polaritons and their advantages for mechanical and chemical sensing, and controlling displacement at nanometer length scales. Applications to nanophotonic devices and recently published progress in nanomechanics and related fields.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: P J Schuck
  Info
• 3 points

Energy, Corporate Responsibility, and Hu

Energy, Corp Resp, & Righ

This interdisciplinary seminar examines the role of multinational energy companies in the context of international human rights, corporate responsibility, and global governance. Drawing on case studies and legal frameworks, the course explores how extractive industries intersect with political, environmental, and social systems, particularly in transitional and emerging economies.

Key themes include the development of international human rights law, the evolving definition of corporate responsibility, environmental and minority rights, corruption and transparency, and the geopolitics of natural resource extraction. Students will investigate how transnational corporations operate in weak governance zones, how investment treaties shape state-corporate relations, and how disputes over pipelines and land use affect communities and nations alike.

The course emphasizes real-world case analysis, including the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, Canadian mining projects in Latin America, and recent developments in sovereign debt, investor-state arbitration, and standards for corporate conduct. Students will also evaluate the effectiveness of voluntary standards, multilateral codes, and legal instruments in shaping corporate behavior.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• TR 5:10 p.m.-6:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jenik Radon
  Info
• 3 points

Maternal-Fetal-Newborn Physiology

MAT-FETAL-NEWBORN PHYSIOL

The fundamental purpose of this course is to facilitate an understanding of the physiological mechanisms relevant to the maternal experience, fetal life, and the neonatal period. This course will focus primarily on the physiology of normal maternal/fetal/newborn issues and cover some common complications and pathology.

• Department: Nursing
• W 3 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Sally W Aboelela
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 2 points

CLOWN

CLOWN II

In this class, we will build up the actor’s physical and mental muscles via exercises, games, and assignments that rediscover uncensored child-like wonder. We will attempt to relax our brains, open up our hearts and move our bodies with great pleasure together, which will cultivate an intrinsic appetite for an open, vulnerable, generous, ferocious, playful, rigorous, surprising and impulsive presence. This state of flow, hopefully, will be able to find its rightful place in any role and in any medium you pursue.

Most of this semester will be spent on exercises in pursuit of your unique individual clowns as we necessarily soften and shed physical and emotional holds by inviting a sense of play and imagination. These exercises will gradually allow your latent clown-within (i.e. your talent / humanity) to show up in the room. Towards the end of this introductory class, we will encounter the smallest mask on earth – the Red Nose! – which not only doesn't mask, but instead draws attention to and magnifies YOU.

We will invite your generous openness, ferocious abandon, insistent honesty and gleeful mischief to make a larger footprint in your work, so the top layer of the iceberg that is your socially-conditioned selves can slowly melt away. You will sweat. You will make songs. You will listen deeper and harder. You will be engaged and relaxed at the same time. You will release some glorious ha-ha’s and emotional wa-wa’s into the ether. This all will be silly. You will make something disastrous and messy. You will confront fears and conjure bravery. You will make something wonderful and surprising – as you unearth the engine behind all that makes you interesting, that which makes you authentic. What makes you YOU. Your clown – the one and only.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• W 9:30 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Ralf Jean-Pierre
  Info
• 3 points

Debates in World Politics

MIA and MPA Politics II Core.  
This seven-week course introduces students to some of the central concepts, theories, and analytical tools used in contemporary social science to understand and explain world politics. The theoretical literature is drawn from different fields in the social sciences, including comparative politics, international relations, political sociology and economics. The course introduces students to debates around race and international relations, state-making and state-failing, authoritarianism and democratization, inequality and models of globalization, America primacy and the “rise of the Asia.”

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Hisham Aidi
  Wikipedia Info
• 1.5 points

ANALYSIS II

Continuation of MATH GR6151x (see Fall listing).

• Department: Mathematics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Ovidiu Savin
  CULPA: 22 Wikipedia Info
• 4.5 points

The New Death

Death is the great universal, but the practices and discourses surrounding it are profoundly particular. As such, death is an ideal subject for anthropological inquiry. Over time, older questions persist as new topics and ways of approaching the study of death emerge with the potential to illuminate how individuals and groups understand fundamental notions of the body, personhood, kinship, temporality, and the spirit within contemporary contexts. This seminar will explore death through its relationships with race, technology, humor, violence, climate, and other attendant topics. By reading texts in the anthropology of death, Black Studies, and other fields, consulting various media, and engaging memorial sites, the course will consider the ethics and aesthetics of studying and writing about death, the politics of memorialization, and more. “The new death” is a theoretical and ethnographic provocation to interrogate how the contemporary inflections of death shape the questions and intensify the stakes of social life.

• Department: Anthropology
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Lashaya Howie
  Info
• 4 points

PROBABILITY II

Prerequisites: MATH GR6151 MATH G4151 Analysis & Probability I. Continuation of MATH GR6152x (see fall listing).

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Julien Dubedat
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4.5 points

Global Politics and International Organi

Global Politics & Int'l O

MIA and MPA Politics II Core. 
Global Politics & International Organizations
introduces the actors, coalitions, institutions, and processes of global politics. It creates the conceptual foundations for understanding the role of international organizations in today’s multipolar and complex (or, ‘multiplex’) world. It sheds light on how states, non-state actors, and international bureaucracies act within international organizations and how they negotiate international agreements. The discussions will focus on formal and informal decision-making processes, working methods, and power in international relations. It will highlight processes within Bretton Woods institutions (the World Bank and the IMF), as well as at the United Nations, including bargaining processes at the UN Security Council. As a spillover from global politics, the course will also explore the role of international organizations in domestic policymaking processes. 

In addition to critical scholarship on international organizations and global governance, the course relies on students’ analysis of relevant proceedings and debates at the UN, original policy documents, as well as expert testimony from a range of guest speakers, who share their extensive first-hand observations as actors of global governance processes. By these means,
Global Politics & International Organizations
offers insights into the processes, challenges, and impacts of activities by international organizations to make global governance regimes stronger, more effective, and hold actors more accountable.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Naujoks
  Info
• 1.5 points

American Foreign Policy in Global Perspe

American Foreign Policy-G

MIA and MPA Politics II Core. 
This course examines the evolution of American foreign policy within the context of U.S. political institutions, domestic dynamics, and historical experiences. It emphasizes the interplay between foreign and domestic policy, considering how American identity, political culture, and internal debates have shaped international engagement. While grounded in key moments in U.S. history, the course also addresses recent shifts in America's global role and examines the strategic, ideological, and institutional forces that continue to influence foreign policy decisions.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Lincoln A Mitchell
  Info
• 1.5 points

RIGHTING WRONGS

This course critically examines some of the moral and historical arguments for the justification of reparations for New World slavery. We explore the state of the debate about such historical injustices -- inquiring into questions of cultural trauma, memory, and generations. Our main concern will be to connect a moral claim about repair to an understanding of the injury of slavery in the Americas.  Open to graduate students only.  Permission is required.

• Department: Anthropology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: David Scott
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 72 Info
• 3 points

Political Parties and Elections in the U

Political Parties & Elect

MIA and MPA Politics II Core. 
This course examines the development and dynamics of political parties in the United States, with a focus on the evolution of the two-party system and its influence on American politics and policymaking. Students will explore the historical foundations of party formation, ideological shifts over time, and the distinct roles parties play at national and subnational levels. The course also analyzes the structure and impact of party primaries, as well as recent technological and communication changes that have transformed modern electoral strategy and campaign practices.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Lincoln A Mitchell
  Info
• 1.5 points

TOPICS IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Topics in Software engineering arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis. Since the content of this course changes, it may be repeated for credit with advisor approval. Consult the department for section assignment.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Gail E Kaiser
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

Politics of Policymaking: A Comparative

Comparative Policymaking

MIA and MPA Politics II Core. 
This course examines the unique challenges and opportunities of the Global South, integrating theoretical frameworks, historical analysis, and contemporary case studies to develop a thorough understanding of how the region confronts and navigates some of the most significant issues shaping its politics and policies. By analyzing diverse political and policy dynamics in the Global South, it encourages students to think globally and recognize interconnectedness across political systems. Over seven weeks, we examine various challenges posed by institutional legacies of colonialism, the rise of populism, democratic backsliding, corruption, and political violence, while also highlighting innovative responses emerging from the Global South through contemporary case studies.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Rumela Sen
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 1.5 points

Public Policy in the Age of Uncertainty

Public Policy in Uncertai

MIA and MPA Politics Core II. Instructor: Peter Jaffe. 
This course explores how sudden disruptions—such as elections, economic shocks, natural disasters, and conflict—can challenge or derail long-term policy efforts. Using analytical tools from game theory, economics, management, and law, students will assess how policy responses are developed under pressure and how to design adaptive programs capable of withstanding unexpected change. The course combines discussion, interactive exercises, and real-world case studies to build the strategic, ethical, and communication skills needed to lead through uncertainty. Guest speakers with firsthand experience in policymaking during crises will offer practical insights into decision-making when the stakes are high. Students will learn to anticipate and manage change, balance competing demands, and identify opportunities to advance policy goals even amid disruption.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Peter Jaffe
  Info
• 1.5 points

Contemporary Archaeological Theory

CONTEMP ARCH THEORY

Archaeology is a sprawling, messy discipline and the role that theory does, should, and might play in the process of archaeological data collection, analysis, and interpretation has been highly contested. Archaeologists argue over whether there is such a thing as a stand-alone ‘archaeological theory’ and what kinds of theory from other disciplines should (or should not!) be imported. This course explores a range of recent theoretical conversations, orientations, and interventions within archaeology, with an eye to understanding what is currently at stake – and what is contested – in how archaeologists think about making archaeological knowledge in the contemporary moment. In doing so, this course encourages students to think about theory in archaeology as an important form of “practical knowledge” or “know how” for archaeologists (cf. Lucas 2018).

• Department: Anthropology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Hannah Chazin
  Info
• 3 points

Two-dimensional Materials

Introduction to two-dimensional (2D) materials. Crystal structure. Synthesis and characterization. Mechanical behavior. Waves in 2D lattices, and phonon bandstructure. Basic concepts of quantum mechanics. Electronic bandstructure of graphene. Electrical transport in graphene. Optics of 2D semiconductors. Advanced topics include quantum Hall effects; topology; and ‘twisted’ 2D heterostructures.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: James Hone
  CULPA: 11 h-index: 124 Info
• 3 points

MATERIALS CHEMISTRY IIB

Prerequisites: CHEM UN2443 , or the equivalent.

• Department: Chemistry
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Xavier Roy
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 31 Info
• 2.5 points

LEGISLATION AND REGULATION

• Department: Law
• Instructor: Kathryn E Judge
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• Instructor: Jeremy K Kessler
  Info
• 4 points

New Drug Development: A Regulatory Overv

NEW DRUG DEV:REGULAT OVER

This course will provide an introduction to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the drug development and approval process, often referred to as the “Critical Path”. The class will begin with a review of the history and organization of the FDA, and analysis of the principle steps along the critical path, including preclinical testing, clinical testing (drug development phase 0 thru IV), Good Laboratory Practices, Good Manufacturing Practices, Good Clinical Practices, and adverse event reporting. Different types of FDA submissions (IND, NDA, ANDA, SPA, eCTD), and FDA meetings will be examined, along with accelerated drug approval strategies, orphan drug development strategies, generic drug development, and post-marketing Sponsor commitments. Throughout the class we will study the related legislation and regulations that empower FDA, and the interrelated FDA guidance documents that define FDA expectations.

• Department: Biostatistics
• R 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Mac Arthur
  Info
• 3 points

Materials Chemistry IIC

This class will describe the electronic and physical structure of inorganic materials with an emphasis on colloidal quantum dots and surface science.

• Department: Chemistry
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan S Owen
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 40 Info
• 2.5 points

ACTING II

The scenes selected for study and practice will come from dramatic works by playwrights of the 20th and 21st centuries. For the most part these writers will be American dramatists, but exceptions may sometimes be made. The scenes being used are assigned by the instructor, sometimes by way of suggestions by the student, if the student has a particular interest in a specific writer or character. Three scenes are presented each class. Each scene will be able to work with the teacher for approximately 50 minutes. The emphasis of the working session is on process, methods of rehearsal, engagement of body and voice, employment of principles of craft, and self-analysis.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• F 2 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ronald Van Lieu
  Info
• 3 points

COMPLEX ANALYSIS/RIEMANN SURF

Continuation of MATH GR6175x (see Fall listing).

• Department: Mathematics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Duong H Phong
  Wikipedia Info
• 4.5 points

Human-Computer Interaction

Human–computer interaction (HCI) studies (1) what computers are used for, (2) how people interact with computers, and (3) how either of those should change in the future. Topics include ubiquitous computing, mobile health, interaction techniques, social computing, mixed reality, accessibility, and ethics. Activities include readings, presentations, and discussions of research papers. Substantial HCI research project required.

• Department: Computer Science
• W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Brian A Smith
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

US & INTL LEGAL SYSTEM

• Department: Law
• Instructor: Matthew Waxman
  Wikipedia h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

ANONYMITY & PRIVACY

• Department: Computer Science
• F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Sebastian Zimmeck
  Info
• 3 points

CREATIVE CODING

In the production of immersive experiences, technology is used in creative ways to promote interactivity with an audience. Imagine creating performances where effects are magically triggered by participants, bespoke props can be controlled through theatrical cueing systems and online experiences are connected to the physical world. The Internet of Things (IoT) can be much more than smart toaster ovens - connected devices open up the possibility for unique storytelling opportunities beyond the screen.

This course provides a hands-on introduction to programming and the development of physical computing devices. We will explore various sensors, outputs, communication protocols and methods for connecting internet services together to create interactive prototypes for your immersive concepts.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• R 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Josh Corn
  Info
• 3 points

EXHIBITION PRAC-GLOBAL CONTEXT

Prerequisites: ANTH G6352 Museum Anthropology: history and theory / ANTH G6353 Politics and Practice of Museum Exhibitions; G9110, G9111 and the instructors permission. Corequisites: ANTH G6353. This course addresses the practical challenges entailed in the process of creating a successful exhibition. Developing an actual curatorial project, students will get an opportunity to apply the museum anthropology theory they are exposed to throughout the program. They will be given a hands-on approach to the different stages involved in the curation of a show, from the in-depth researching of a topic to the writing, editing and design of an exhibition that will be effective for specific audiences.

• Department: Anthropology
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Cine Ostrow
  Info
• 3 points

Managerial Economics

• Department: Business Economics
• MW 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• MW 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
• MW 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Viola Corradini
  Info
• 1.5 points

MA WORKSHOP/E ASIAN HISTORY

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert P Hymes
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

International Human Rights Law

This course introduces the legal frameworks, institutions, and advocacy strategies that underpin the international human rights system. With a practitioner’s lens, students will explore civil, political, economic, social, cultural, and environmental rights through treaties, customary law, and jurisprudence. Emphasis is placed on understanding where and how the law offers avenues for redress, and the evolving role of human rights advocacy in confronting modern challenges, including corporate accountability, gender discrimination, and climate justice.

Students will examine the structure and operation of key international and regional human rights mechanisms, the limits and opportunities of legal enforcement, and the relationship between international human rights law and international humanitarian law. The course integrates doctrinal learning with applied analysis through case studies, reflections, and simulations. 
Attendance in the first class session is mandatory.

• Department: Human Rights, Gender, and Equity
• R 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Betsy Apple
  Info
• 3 points

International Human Rights Law

Recitation

This course introduces the legal frameworks, institutions, and advocacy strategies that underpin the international human rights system. With a practitioner’s lens, students will explore civil, political, economic, social, cultural, and environmental rights through treaties, customary law, and jurisprudence. Emphasis is placed on understanding where and how the law offers avenues for redress, and the evolving role of human rights advocacy in confronting modern challenges, including corporate accountability, gender discrimination, and climate justice.

Students will examine the structure and operation of key international and regional human rights mechanisms, the limits and opportunities of legal enforcement, and the relationship between international human rights law and international humanitarian law. The course integrates doctrinal learning with applied analysis through case studies, reflections, and simulations. 
Attendance in the first class session is mandatory.

• Department: Human Rights, Gender, and Equity
• TW noon-1 p.m.
• 0 points

Financial Accounting & Analysis

MPA Financial Management Core I and II. 
This course introduces the principles and practices of financial reporting, with the goal of enabling students to become informed users of financial information in both public and private sector contexts. Emphasis is placed on understanding the three primary financial statements: the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows; and the accounting concepts and rules that shape them. Students will examine how financial information is prepared, disclosed, and interpreted, and will develop analytical tools to assess an organization’s financial health and operational effectiveness. Real-world financial statements will be used throughout the course to build fluency in the language and application of accounting.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 5:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Norman Bartczak
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

Financial Accounting & Analysis

Recitation

MPA Financial Management Core I and II. 
This course introduces the principles and practices of financial reporting, with the goal of enabling students to become informed users of financial information in both public and private sector contexts. Emphasis is placed on understanding the three primary financial statements: the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows; and the accounting concepts and rules that shape them. Students will examine how financial information is prepared, disclosed, and interpreted, and will develop analytical tools to assess an organization’s financial health and operational effectiveness. Real-world financial statements will be used throughout the course to build fluency in the language and application of accounting.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• F 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• 0 points

WORKSHOP ON SCHOLARLY WRITING

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• T 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Carlos Alonso
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 17 Info
• 4 points

Global Economic Environment

• Department: Business Economics
• MW 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• MW 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
• MW 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Kristina Manysheva
  Info
• 1.5 points

ADV CORP LAW: MERG & ACQUISTNS

• Department: Law
• 4 points

STATISTICL INFERENCE THEORY II

Prerequisites: STAT GR6201 Continuation of STAT G6201

• Department: Statistics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Zhiliang Ying
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 62 Info
• 4 points

FOUNDATIONS IN GRIEF THERAPY

This course is designed to prepare social workers for clinical work with bereaved families.  We emphasize the idea that grief therapy focuses importantly on active listening linked to interventions that provide validation, support or guidance. We provide a way of understanding grief using an attachment theory model that explains a big-picture framework for understanding grief and adaptation to loss.  The centerpiece of the course is a presentation of an approach to grief therapy derived from our efficacy-tested treatment for complicated grief and incorporating attention to self-care, racism, ethical obligations and dilemmas and using peer or experienced supervision in doing grief therapy.

• Department: Social Work
• M 8:30 p.m.-10:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Sonya Lott
  Info
• 3 points

FIN STATEMNT ANALYSIS & INTERP

This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search

• Department: Law
• Instructor: Norman Bartczak
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

SW PRACTICE WITH CHILDREN

• Department: Social Work
• W 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• T 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexza Gutierrez
  Info
• Instructor: Jessica Godwin
  Info
• Instructor: Morgan Ritacco
  Info
• 3 points

MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS II-DISC

• Department: Economics
• Instructor: Cole A Wittbrodt
  Info
• 0 points

MACROECONOMIC ANALYSIS II-DISC

• Department: Economics
• Instructor: Sahil Lalwani
  Info
• 0 points

ISSUES & DEBATES-AMER POLITICS

Prerequisites: the instructors permission prior to registration. Please contact the instructors for more information. This graduate student field survey provides an overview of the scholarly study of American politics. The course has been designed for students who intend to specialize in American politics, as well as for those students whose primary interests are comparative politics, international relations, or political theory, but who desire an intensive introduction to the ;American; style of political science.

• Department: Political Science
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Ting
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

Globalization and Diffusion

This course introduces students to the literature on globalization and the diffusion of culture and institutions. It covers literatures in sociology and political science as well as some anthropology and history. This course will not discuss economic, financial, or migratory globalization in depth. In the first part, we will survey the major theories of the global diffusion of culture and institutions: world polity theory, global field theory, the policy diffusion literature, etc. In the second part, we discuss select topics, such as the role of local power relations in diffusion processes or the consequences of diffusion for patterns of cultural similarity and difference across the world.

• Department: Sociology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Andreas Wimmer
  Wikipedia h-index: 41 Info
• 4 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

PHYSICALITY OF LANGUAGE

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• Department: Writing
• W 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Matty Davis
  Info
• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

SPECULATIVE NONFICTION

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• Department: Writing
• T 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Jaquira Diaz
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

THE CRITIC'S VOICE

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• Department: Writing
• W 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Margo L Jefferson
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

THE VULNERABLE SUBJECT

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• Department: Writing
• F 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Adrian N Leblanc
  Info
• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

THE QUEST FOR PERFECTION

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• Department: Writing
• R 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Benjamin Taylor
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

FIELD: OBSV. PRACTICE

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• Department: Writing
• W 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Wendy Walters
  Info
• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

IMAGINATION AND DISCOVERY

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• Department: Writing
• M 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Brenda Wineapple
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

GENETIC APPROACHES TO BIOL PROBLEMS II

Required for first-year Genetics and Development students. Continuation of Genetics G6210. Basic principles and current areas of interest in mouse and human genetics. An introduction to mouse genetics; X-chromosome inactivation and genomic imprinting; genetic manipulation of the mouse; genetics of mouse coat color; genetics of sex determination; the mouse T-complex; human linkage analysis; somatic cell genetics; physical mapping of the human genome; cytogenetics; Huntington’s disease; muscular dystrophy and Alzheimer’s disease; and gene therapy.

• Department: Genetics and Development
• T 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

PRIN/APPL-SOC & CULTRL ANTHROP

Prerequisites: ANTH G4201 Principles and Applications of Social and Cultural Anthropology and the instructors permission. Focus on research and writing for the Masters level thesis, including research design, bibliography and background literature development, and writing. Prerequisites: ANTH G4201 Principles and Applications of Social and Cultural Anthropology

• Department: Anthropology
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicholas Glastonbury
  Info
• 3 points

MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS II

Prerequisites: the director of graduate studies permission. Corequisites: ECON G6410. Consumer and producer behavior; general competitive equilibrium, welfare and efficiency, behavior under uncertainty, intertemporal allocation and capital theory, imperfect competition, elements of game theory, problems of information, economies with price rigidities.

• Department: Economics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• 4 points

INT'L BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS

This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search

• Department: Law
• Instructor: Alejandro M Garro
  Info
• 3 points

SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE WITH VETERANS

SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE VETE

The purpose of this course is to introduce social work students to the culture, history, policies, programs, and issues that face different generations of the United States military veterans and their families. This course will provide the essential background and knowledge base necessary to assist military veterans and their families through appropriate referrals for social and medical services. The military veteran community will be examined using both micro and macro lenses in order to provide an overarching understanding of the complex matters faced by today’s military veterans, their families, and communities.

• Department: Social Work
• W 2 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Gina Griffin
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• 3 points

SW PRACTICE WITH FAMILIES

• Department: Social Work
• T 2 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• T 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Alirio Guerrero
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• 3 points

Intro to TV Pilot Writing

This new class will provide Writing for Film & Television students with a foundational experience in TV Writing in the second semester of their first year at Columbia.  They will have studied feature writing in their first semester, and this class will explore how TV is different from the feature form, the unique structure of TV when compared to features, plays, and novels, the key elements of a good TV show and pilot, the different worlds of network and streaming and the current marketplace, how to structure a TV pilot, and how to write and begin revising the pilot episode for an original TV show.

• Department: Film
• F 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: David Klass
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• 3 points

MACROECONOMIC ANALYSIS II

Prerequisites: the director of graduate studies permission. Concept of full employment. Models of underemployment and theory applicability, determinants of consumption and of investment, multiplier and accelerator analysis, an introduction to monetary macroeconomics, the supply side and inflation. Integration of macroeconomics with microeconomic and monetary analysis.

• Department: Economics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• 4 points

STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING

Principles of traditional and emerging sensors, data acquisition and signal processing techniques, experimental modal analysis (input-output), operational modal analysis (output-only), model-based diagnostics of structural integrity, data-based diagnostics of structural integrity, long-term monitoring and intelligent maintenance. Lectures and demonstrations, hands-on laboratory experiments.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• M 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Raimondo Betti
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 31 Info
• 3 points

Dostoevsky's Afterlives

Few modern writers have been as adored, reviled, translated, or adapted as Fyodor Dostoevsky. In this seminar, we explore the “afterlife/survival” (
Überleben
) of Dostoevsky’s writings, with a particular emphasis on his reception and transformations during the decades of global modernism. We will ask: when and how was the dominant 20th-century image of Dostoevsky made? How is this image reflected, and refracted, in the later theory and practice of the novel? What resonances has it found across the political spectrum, from the pre-revolutionary Russian Empire through interwar Europe, the mid-century United States, and our present era of resurgent technocracy, imperialism, and nationalism? The first half of the course focuses on the Silver Age writers who did most to frame Dostoevsky’s legacy and artistic persona for an international readership. In the second half, we turn to a range of historical, literary, and theoretical contexts where this legacy comes into play. Students will take an active role in researching and shaping the story about Dostoevsky’s uncanny “survival” that our course tells, engaging with a range of readings in modernist literature, criticism, and novel theory. Midway through the course, each student will be responsible for a reception case study, researching either a place and time where Dostoevsky was widely influential or (by permission) a single author whose work comes into close dialogue with his.

Note: Russian-language readings will be provided in the original; many are also available in translation. Other readings will be provided and discussed in English translation, though reading in the original is always encouraged. The course is open to all graduate students by permission.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Chloe Kitzinger
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• 4 points

ADV MICRO ANALYSIS II

ADVANCED MICRO ANALYSIS II

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. This course develops theory of designing markets--namely, ;mechanisms; of allocating resources--that are efficient, fair and non-manipulable. Understanding the incentives participants face under alternative mechanisms will be a central theme of the course. Specifically, the course will consist of two parts. The first part deals with environments where monetary transfers can be used, and focuses on topics such as optimal nonlinear pricing, optimal auction design, property rights assignment, dynamic mechanisms and assignment games/sponsored search auctions in Internet advertising. The second part concerns market design without monetary transfers and discusses matching theory as a primarily tool for analyzing the topic. Specifically, we shall discuss matching of agents on one side with agents on the other and matching of agents to indivisible resources/positions, and apply the theories to problems of house allocation, centralized labor market matching, and school choice.

• Department: Economics
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Alessandro Pavan
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• 3 points

STOCHASTIC ENGINEERING MECHANICS

STOCHASTIC ENG MECHANICS

Review of random variables. Random process theory: stationary and ergodic processes, correlation functions and power spectra, non-stationary, non-white and non-Gaussian processes. Uncertainty quantification and simulation of environmental excitations and material/media properties, even when subject to limited/incomplete data: joint time-frequency analysis, sparse representations and compressive sampling concepts and tools. Stochastic dynamics and reliability assessment of diverse engineering systems: complex nonlinear/hysteretic behaviors and/or fractional derivative modeling. Emphasis on solution methodologies based on Monte Carlo simulation, statistical linearization, and Wiener path integral. Examples from civil, marine, mechanical and aerospace engineering.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou
  h-index: 26 Info
• 3 points

DIRECTING IV

• Department: Film
• W 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• R 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• R 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Bette Gordon
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• 3 points

MARSEA WORKSHOP II

This is the second half of a yearlong seminar for students in the MARSEA (MA in Regional Studies: East Asia) Program. It is designed to help students develop key skills in social science research, and to support the thesis-writing process.

• Department: East Asian Regional Studies
• R 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sau-Yi Fong
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• 4 points

ADV MACROECONOMIC ANALYSIS II

Prerequisites: ECON G6216 and G6412, or the instructor's permission. This course deals with business cycle theories and methods for evaluating such theories. The course extends the canonical real business cycle model to analyze models with cyclical variation in markups, models of endogenous fluctuations, and models of news-driven short-run fluctuations. Attention is given to numerical methods to approximate the dynamics implied by stochastic general equilibrium models, with particular emphasis given to perturbation methods. The course will also include an operational introduction to full and limited-information approaches to the estimation of DSGE models.

• Department: Economics
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 3 points

Chorus and Collectivity

For whom does the dramatic chorus speak? In this graduate seminar, we track the figure of the chorus in drama, theater, and performance from antiquity to modernity, investigating how the chorus represents collectivity and enacts new social forms onstage. The chorus, as we’ll find, can be an instrument of tyranny or of transformation, depending on the members who comprise it – whether they are an assembly of elders (Sophocles’s Antigone), a gathering of survivors (Euripides’s The Trojan Women), a cadre of revolutionaries (Bertolt Brecht’s The Mother), a crowd of athletes 2 (Elfriede Jelinek’s Sports Play), or a digital network of chattering AI machines (Annie Dorsen’s Prometheus Firebringer). Our seminar attends to how the chorus shifts across historical, geographic, and cultural contexts: from ancient Athens to postwar Germany, and from American mass culture to decolonizing movements in the Caribbean, the chorus has proven to be a remarkably flexible and resilient element of live art. The course offers graduate students a broad introduction to canonical works of dramatic literature both ancient and modern, while also featuring lesser-known plays and productions by emerging artists. For the first two-thirds of the term, our sessions will juxtapose a dramatic text with a work of social theory (by thinkers including Nietzsche, Simmel, and Goffman), as well as at least one scholarly essay. Our broader goal in the course is to develop fluency in critical methods at the intersection of drama, philosophy, and social theory. In this course, that is, we approach theater as not only responsive to traditions of social thought, but also generative of new social practices and collective habits of body and mind. In addition to regular weekly assignments, students will complete one short essay and one seminar-length paper at the end of the term.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Rebecca Kastleman
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• 4 points

Lifestyle Medicine

Lifestyle medicine is an area of medicine focusing on lifestyle modification for prevention and treatment of chronic illness.  The course aims to describe the practice of lifestyle medicine and evidence-based understanding of 6 key principles of lifestyle medicine, including nutrition, physical activity, stress management, sleep, social connection and risk avoidance. Through the course students will learn the evidence behind the 6 principles and how to apply them in a clinical encounter. Each module will begin with asynchronous pre-class work, followed by a synchronous didactic lecture and interactive workshop, and then concluded with post-class homework on the topic.

• Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
• Instructor: Moneek Madra
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• 2 points

Ethnographies at the End of the World

What can we learn from anthropological and ethnographic research in and about a damaged world, a world confronted by the violence and effects of war, climate change, transnational migration, post-industrial abandonment, and the lives and afterlives of colonialism and slavery? What are the ethnographic debates that address the catastrophes produced by capitalism and the lifeforms that emerge out of its ruins? What types of anthropological critique emerge in times enunciated as ‘the end of the world’? And what comes after this end? Ethnographies at the End of the World addresses these questions by paying close attention to some of the most relevant debates in contemporary anthropological theory and anthropological critique. These debates include, among others, discussions on violence and trauma, the politics of life and death, the work of memory and oblivion, and the material entanglements between human and non-human forms of existence. The aim of this seminar is to generate a discussion around the multiple implications of these theoretical arrangements and how anthropologists deploy them in their ethnographic understandings of the world we live in. In doing so, this course provides students with a fundamental understanding and conceptual knowledge about how anthropologists use and produce theory, and how this theoretical production is mobilized as a social critique. This course is reading intensive and operates in the form of a seminar. It is intended, primarily, for MA students in the department of anthropology and graduate students in other departments.

• Department: Anthropology
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicholas Glastonbury
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• 3 points

TUTORIAL IN CLINICAL PRACTICE:STRUCTURED

• Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
• 1 points

Political Economy Seminar

This seminar surveys the defining political economy issues of our time. It explores the interplay between politics and economics in the substantive issue areas of economic growth, industrial capitalist development, social welfare and inequality, financial crisis, and global migration. The seminar surveys the most provocative and influential contributions across multiple fields of study, drawing on a wide range of research methods. The course equips students with the conceptual and empirical tools to better understand current developments, provides exposure to multiple perspectives, and builds confidence in developing one’s own point of view.  The course wraps up with a shared exploration of how political economy shapes the lives of marginalized communities.

• Department: EXECUTIVE MPA
• W 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Yumiko T Shimabukuro
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• 3 points

CORPORATE TAXATION

This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search

• Department: Law
• Instructor: Rick D'Avino
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• 3 points

INTERMEDIATE STATISTICAL MECH

• Department: Chemistry
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: David Reichman
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 68 Info
• 2.5 points