PROSEM-ETHNOMUSICOLOGY II
Introduction to Ethnomusicology: the history of the discipline and the evolution of theories and methods. G6412, Proseminar in Ethnomusicology II: Contemporary Ethnography is offered Fall 2012.
- Department: Music
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ruth Opara
Info - 3 points
COMPARATV POLITICS SURVEY II
GR6412 is one of two survey courses in comparative politics offered by the Political Science Department. The two courses complement each other, but need not be taken in any particular order. The course includes a great deal of student involvement and is designed to help you educate yourselves about the major themes in comparative politics and develop the analytic skills need to conduct research at a high level.
- Department: Political Science
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Timothy M Frye
CULPA: 8
Wikipedia
h-index: 31
Info
- 4 points
The Real Picasso
Picasso’s work is the great kaleidoscope through which 20th-century art passes: from its beginnings in Cubism through which the world is given as though through cut crystal; to the commercial forms of collage; to the presage of surrealist anguish; and, finally, to an untoward neo-classicism. The result of this restless exploration is the invention of multiple formal languages, which need to be deciphered in spite of the perverse literature on the subject which insists on transposing this into the art-historical language of iconography. The literature is rich with the analytic struggles between the great Picasso scholars: William Rubin, Leo Steinberg, and Picasso’s biographer, John Russel. The skirmishes over the “iconography” of cubism extends to the interpretation of the work’s relation to “primitivism.” This controversy has given rise to yet a new vector on Picasso’s work: structuralism and semiotics.
- Department: Art History and Archaeology
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rosalind Krauss
CULPA: 10
Wikipedia
Info
- 3 points
DIG HERTITAGE DOCUMENTATI
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- W 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Instructor:
Bilge Kose
Info - 3 points
ECONOMETRICS IV
This is the second course of the second year PhD econometrics sequence with emphasis on both economic applications and computationally intense methods for analysis of large and/or complex models. Students can attend the whole sequence or only one of them. While the details of the econometric techniques will be discussed extensively, the core and focus of the course is on the applications of these techniques to the study of actual data. Students will be practiced in econometric methods through computer-based exercises. Prerequisites: Students should have a good understanding of graduate econometrics and should have taken ECON G6411 and G6412.
- Department: Economics
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Bernard Salanie
CULPA: 18 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info - 3 points
PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS
Photonic integrated circuits are important subsystem components for telecommunications, optically controlled radar, optical signal processing, and photonic local area networks. An introduction to the devices and the design of these circuits. Principle and modeling of dielectric waveguides (including silica on silicon and InP based materials), waveguide devices (simple and star couplers), and surface diffractive elements. Discussion of numerical techniques for modeling circuits, including beam propagation and finite difference codes, and design of other devices: optical isolators, demultiplexers.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michal Lipson
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 114 Info - 3 points
CREATING A PLAY II
The Spring Semester will provide the opportunity for each student to hone their play through further drafts into a finished work. Students will serve as dramaturges for each other. The semester will end with presentations of the completed plays. Each presentation is the responsibility of the author and their dramaturge.
- Department: Theatre Arts
- W 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Leslie Ayvazian
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
PROGRAM EVAL IN SOCIAL SVCS
- Department: Social Work
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- None None-None
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Instructor:
Monique Jethwani
h-index: 6 Info - 3 points
POST SUPERVISING FOR PRODUCERS
This class is an intensive introduction to Post Production, with a specific focus on the role of the producer and post-production supervisor. We will examine the different components of Post-Production (Editing, Sound Design/Mixing, Music, Picture finishing, VFX, Titles) from Pre-Production through Delivery. Throughout the course, post department heads will come in as guests, and we will attend site visits to local post facilities. Required for all second-year Creative Producing students and only open to students in that concentration.
- Department: Film
- R 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Luca Borghese
Info - 1.5 points
POST SUPERVISING FOR PRODUCERS
This class is an intensive introduction to Post Production, with a specific focus on the role of the producer and post-production supervisor. We will examine the different components of Post-Production (Editing, Sound Design/Mixing, Music, Picture finishing, VFX, Titles) from Pre-Production through Delivery. Throughout the course, post department heads will come in as guests, and we will attend site visits to local post facilities. Required for all second-year Creative Producing students and only open to students in that concentration.
- Department: Film
- R 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Luca Borghese
Info - 1.5 points
RELIGION & PUBLIC LIFE
There is no shortage of spilled ink, popular media coverage, scholarly inquiry, and academic institutes—including right here at Columbia University—dedicated to examining the intersection of religion and public life. From narratives of religion’s predicted decline during the twentieth century to its much-discussed global resurgence at the turn of the twenty-first, the concept of public religion continues to occupy popular imagination. Through the lens of public religion, we are able to examine pressing issues such as the revitalization of, or disillusionment toward, institutional forms and political establishments in our questionably secular age. What happens when religion “goes public”? Correspondingly, what assumptions about the category of religion and its role in public places do discussions of public religion promote? Over the course of the semester, we will investigate the possibilities, pitfalls, and practicalities of understanding religion in terms of public life.
The coursework will draw from scholarship, policy documents, and real-world case studies on issues ranging from climate crisis to conspiracy. Focusing on examples of advocacy, considerations of democratic renewal and decline, and competing claims of power and authority, this seminar considers the ways in which our definitions of religion impact lived, embodied, and practiced forms of religion and secularism in our current moment.
- Department: Religion
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Justine E Ellis
Info - 4 points
GAMES
Theatre Games to access, release into and foster playfulness. Through games, students build a foundation for curiosity and boldness. Students learn to listen to their creative instincts as an aid to dissolving self-judgment. Games are played in a bare room and out of nothing more than our imaginations.
- Department: Theatre Arts
- M 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Danielle Skraastad
Info - 1.5 points
CONFLICT-LAWS/JURISD:NATL/INTL
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
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Instructor:
Nathaniel Berman
Info - 3 points
SECURITIES REGULATION
Prerequisites: L6231 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
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Instructor:
Joshua R Mitts
Info - 4 points
HARDWARE SECURITY
- Department: Computer Science
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Simha Sethumadhavan
CULPA: 8 Info - 3 points
INT'L SECURITIES REGULATION
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
- 2 points
Communicating in Organizations
Communicating in Organizations is a survey course that explores aspects of day-to-day managerial communication relating to presentations and other high-profile moments and more familiar elements of interpersonal communication. The course uses many teaching techniques: short lectures, individual and group exercises, video-recorded presentations, role plays, case discussions, video clips, and writing assignments. It is highly experiential, with exercises or presentations scheduled in most sessions. Initially, we’ll focus on the communication skills and strategies that help you present your ideas to others. I’ll ask you to do two benchmark assignments―a letter and a brief presentation―to assess the abilities you bring to the course. In several of our class sessions, you’ll be the one “in front of the room,” delivering either a prepared talk or brief, impromptu comments. Such assignments will allow you to develop your skills as a presenter. I’ll also discuss the link between listening and speaking, showing you how developing your listening skills will improve your effectiveness as a speaker. And we’ll explore several elements of visual communication, including how to design effective visual aids and written documents. To communicate effectively in such roles as coach, interviewer, negotiator, or facilitator, you need to be skilled at listening, questioning, observing behavior, and giving feedback. We’ll practice each of these skills in-class exercises and assignments. The Social Style instrument will provide detailed feedback about how others view your communication style. You’ll discover how style differences may lead to miscommunication, missed opportunities, or mishandled conflict.
- Department: EXECUTIVE MPA
- R 7:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
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Instructor:
Joann P Baney
Info - 3 points
CRITICAL WRITING FOR THEATRE
- Department: Theatre Arts
- T 3 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Vinson Cunningham
Info - 3 points
Climate Finance
This graduate course will develop both models and empirical methods that are necessary to assess the role of the financial system in addressing the risks of global warming. The course will take a continuous-time approach and feature financial markets that provide crucial information on expectations and plans of economic agents regarding climate change. After a primer on continuous time methods and stochastic growth models, we will cover a number of topics including: an asset pricing approach to integrated assessment models, pricing natural capital such as tropical rain forecasts, mitigation of weather disaster risks that are becoming more frequent with global warming, sustainable finance mandates in fostering the transition of the industrial sector to net-zero emissions, corporate adaptation strategies to heatwaves, and integrating climate tipping points and financial frictions into assessments.
- Department: Economics
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- 3 points
NATURAL RESOURCE & ENVIR ECON
- Department: Economics
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Graciela Chichilnisky
CULPA: 9 Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info - 3 points
RECOMBINANT RENAISSANCE
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- W 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mark Rakatansky
Info - 3 points
THE ECONOMICS OF LABOR II
- Department: Economics
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tatiana Mocanu
Info - 3 points
Social Justice Movements in the Age of S
Social Justice & Social M
This course is an introduction to how emerging hybrid models of traditional and digital organizing and advocacy are building unprecedented social justice movements in the United States. During the first half of the course, students will examine the theory and practice of successful traditional offline organizing and advocacy campaigns as well as principles and characteristics of successful digital activism. In the second half of the course, students w2ill analyze contemporary social movements that have fused offline and online organizing and advocacy tactics, including ongoing activism for racial equity, drug policy reform, LGBTQ rights, criminal justice reform, gender equity, and immigration reform. Using a blend of book and journal readings, case studies, videos, and hands-on group project, and guest speaker practitioners, this course will paint a vivid picture of how social change happens in our age of social media coexisting within the practical realities of longstanding power dynamics.
- Department: EXECUTIVE MPA
- W 7:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
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Instructor:
Richard F Greenberg
Info - 3 points
THE ARAB CITY
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Amale Andraos
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
MILITARY URBANISM
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- F 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Victoria Sanger
Info - 3 points
Rethinking Policing in the 21st Century
Rethinking Policing Today
This course examines modern policing in the United States through historical, legal, racial, and political lenses. Students will explore the evolution of policing practices and their implications for civil rights, public trust, and public safety. Key topics include police recruitment and training, disciplinary procedures, technology in law enforcement, use-of-force guidelines, and the impact of police unions. The course will evaluate the role of social movements, such as Black Lives Matter, in advancing reform and will analyze policy recommendations implemented in cities across the U.S. and abroad. Students will engage with current scholarship, government reports, and case studies to assess efforts to reimagine public safety, address systemic racism, and improve police-community relations. The course culminates in a policy-oriented final paper proposing actionable reform strategies.
- Department: EXECUTIVE MPA
- M 7:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
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Instructor:
Basil A Jr Smikle
Info - 3 points
LAW OF THE POLITICAL PROCESS
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
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Instructor:
Jamal K Greene
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS
See Law School Curriculum Guide for details.
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Richard Sobelsohn
Info - 2 points
TOPICS IN THEATRE HISTORY & THEORY
DRAMATURGIES OF THE REAL
A course description will be forthcoming.
- Department: Theatre Arts
- W 9:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Maria Jose Contreras
Info - 3 points
Global Fault Lines
Our world is interconnected thanks to the worldwide web, social media, academic institutions, news outlets, ease of international travel, fashion trends, diasporic communities, music...the threads that are woven into the global textile are boundless. However, this textile is torn and frayed. People are – as they have been for centuries - fragmented by war, religion, disasters and crises, poverty, and disparate concentrations of wealth. In this class, we will examine these various fault lines, by addressing issues such as cultural difference, nationalism, populism, and identity politics. By understanding the fissures in our collective humanity, we will have a better understanding of what binds us together.
- Department: Committee on Global Thought
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ramona H Bajema
Info - 3 points
SUPERVISED TEACHING ASSISTANCE
Prerequisites: permission of the faculty member who will direct the teaching. Participation in ongoing teaching.
- Department: Psychology
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Instructor:
Katherine T Fox-Glassman
CULPA: 6
h-index: 4
Info
- 3 points
Quantitative Analysis I for Internationa
MIA & MPA Quantitative Core I.
This course introduces the fundamentals of statistical analysis, with applications in public policy, management, and the social sciences. Students will begin with basic techniques for describing and summarizing data and progress toward more advanced methods for inference and prediction. The course emphasizes practical tools for interpreting quantitative data and drawing evidence-based conclusions about the social world.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- M 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
- M 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
- M 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
- T 8 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Doru Cojoc
Info - 3 points
Quantitative Analysis I for Internationa
Recitation
MIA & MPA Quantitative Core I.
This course introduces the fundamentals of statistical analysis, with applications in public policy, management, and the social sciences. Students will begin with basic techniques for describing and summarizing data and progress toward more advanced methods for inference and prediction. The course emphasizes practical tools for interpreting quantitative data and drawing evidence-based conclusions about the social world.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- W 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
- W 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
- W 7:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
- TR 8 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
- 0 points
Quantitative Analysis II for Internation
MPA Quantitative II Core.
This course introduces regression analysis as a key tool for policy analysis and program evaluation. Emphasizing causal inference, students will learn to assess the impacts of programs and policies using both experimental and non-experimental methods. The first half of the course reviews foundational concepts from Quant I and builds toward multiple regression techniques; the second half applies those tools to real-world policy settings. Designed for future practitioners, the course focuses on applying and communicating statistical concepts in accessible, non-technical language, and prepares students for advanced coursework in data analysis and program evaluation.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- T 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
- T 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
- W 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
- W 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
- W 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
- W 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
- M 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alan S Yang
CULPA: 5
Info
- 3 points
Quantitative Analysis II for Internation
Recitation
MPA Quantitative II Core.
This course introduces regression analysis as a key tool for policy analysis and program evaluation. Emphasizing causal inference, students will learn to assess the impacts of programs and policies using both experimental and non-experimental methods. The first half of the course reviews foundational concepts from Quant I and builds toward multiple regression techniques; the second half applies those tools to real-world policy settings. Designed for future practitioners, the course focuses on applying and communicating statistical concepts in accessible, non-technical language, and prepares students for advanced coursework in data analysis and program evaluation.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- R 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
- R 7:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
- F noon-1:50 p.m.
- M 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
- M 7:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
- T 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
- F 2 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
- 0 points
SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH
- Department: Social Work
- W 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
- R 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- None None-None
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Instructor:
Charles Lea
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Instructor:
Nkemka Anyiwo
Info - 3 points
SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH
- Department: Social Work
- R 8:30 p.m.-10:20 p.m.
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- R 11:10 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Victoria A Frye
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Instructor:
Sara Bartlett
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Instructor:
Natasha Johnson
Info - 3 points
Introduction to Health Economics
INTRODUCTN TO HEALTH ECON
Health economics provides theories and tools for understanding, predicting, and changing human behavior. Understanding and changing the behavior of firms and individuals, designing health policies, and managing firms and organizations concerned with delivering health care and improving health, requires a solid foundation in health economics. In this course, students will learn the concepts in health economics most relevant and important to public health professionals and how these economic concepts can be applied to improving health care and the public health systems. Students will identify the basic concepts of health economics for the purposes of solving problems using these concepts, and apply these concepts in new contexts within public health.
- Department: Health Policy & Management
- W 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
- 3 points
INTRO TO STATISTICS
- Department: Social Work
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Instructor:
Melissa D Begg
h-index: 32 Info - 0 points
INTRO TO STATISTICS
- Department: Social Work
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Instructor:
Melissa D Begg
h-index: 32 Info - 0 points
INTRO TO STATISTICS
- Department: Social Work
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Instructor:
Melissa D Begg
h-index: 32 Info - 0 points
SUZUKI
- Department: Theatre Arts
- R 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Shanga Parker
Info - 0-1 points
STEM CELL, GENOME ENG & REGEN MED
General lectures on stem cell biology followed by student presentations and discussion of the primary literature. Themes presented include: basic stem cell concepts; basic cell and molecular biological characterization of endogenous stem cell populations; concepts related to reprogramming; directed differentiation of stem cell populations; use of stem cells in disease modeling or tissue replacement/repair; clinical translation of stem cell research.
- Department: Biomedical Engineering
- T 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
- 3 points
PLAYWRITING II
- Department: Theatre Arts
- R 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rogelio Martinez
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
FICTION LECTURE
STORY PLOT NARR. IN TIME
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- Department: Writing
- M 10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Joshua A Cohen
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
FICTION LECTURE
BIBLE, NEW TEST., QURAN
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- Department: Writing
- W 5:15 p.m.-7:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Erroll G McDonald
Info - 3 points
Critical Issues in Hospital Management
HOSP ORGANIZATION/MANAGEM
This course is intended to give the student a broad understanding of the components of the health care system and the basic management principles of hospital organization and management. The course will employ a variety of learning formats for students including lectures by the instructors, guest lecturers with special expertise, case studies and student presentations. Emphasis will be on the historical trends of health care statistics and operating data of health care institutions; the history of hospitals and health care systems; their organization and finances; regulatory controls; management strategies; accreditation and professional standards; government; private insurance; administrative leadership and professional interactions, emergency services, healthcare trends and marketing.
- Department: Health Policy & Management
- R 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
- 1.5 points
ARCHITECTURE AND SOCIALISM
ARCHITECTURE & SOCIALISM
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Reinhold Martin
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
SPEECH II
In this course, students will continue an exploration of their Idiolects in relationship to both extemporaneous and heightened texts through class and small group work that focuses on audibility, clarity, resonance, vocal dynamics by way of imaginative activation, articulation and ownership. The objective of this course is for students to activate their speech in such a way that it ignites and expands both their imaginations and their capacity to communicate language with honesty. They will experience a full and balanced sound that is neither pushed nor half-baked, neither rushed nor indulgent, and fill space onstage and in the world with their voice and their presence. Students will also hone their skills of self-observation, offer useful feedback and take ownership of and interpret a variety of texts to be expressed on vibration.
- Department: Theatre Arts
- T 9 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth Hayes
Info - 2 points
SPEECH III
In this course, students will continue their individual development of
greater ownership
, expression and embodiment of heightened (mostly Shakespeare’s) text. The objective of this course is for students to practice landing heightened text with honesty and clarity, uniting the Givens and the Imaginatives. “It’s not about making it right, it’s about making it ALIVE.”
Students will:
(Continue to) refine their articulation skills via a strong working knowledge of the IPA and corresponding Lexical Sets
Dance along the fine line between control and freedom of their muscles of articulation in order to share complicated thoughts and speak heightened language with invisible technique
Unpack and investigate texts in order to marry structure with meaning
Interpret texts with Musiclarity – the musicality of the language supporting the clarity of the thought
Play with passion, curiosity, specificity and
humanity.
- Department: Theatre Arts
- F 9 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth Hayes
Info - 2 points
VOICE & ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE II
Voice and Alexander Technique II deepens and expands the work we did in Voice and Alexander Technique I. This continuing course presupposes that you have continued our work in your daily practice and in your other classes and have begun to develop clarity around the inner structure of the body which is your physical and vocal support. Our work this term will help you develop a solid vocal technique, a body that is strong, open and free, and a mind which is clear and focused.
- Department: Theatre Arts
- M 9 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jean McClelland
Info - 1 points
Clinical Conditions II: Physical Health
CLINICAL CONDITIONS II
- Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
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Instructor:
Michael Urban
Info - 3 points
FUNDAMENTALS OF SCREENWRITING
- Department: Theatre Arts
- M 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
David Auburn
Info - 3 points
NONFICTION LECTURE
The Self
NONFICTION LECTURE
- Department: Writing
- M 1:10 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Leslie S Jamison
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
S. State Constitutional Law
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Jessica J Bulman
h-index: 14 Info - 2 points
ACCOUNTING & BUDGETING
- Department: Executive Classes in HPM
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Instructor:
Francine M Caracappa
Info - 3 points
Healthcare Accounting and Budgeting
HLTH CARE ACCOUNTING&BUDG
The current market places increasing demands on healthcare managers so it is essential that individuals possess basic skills related to financial management and financial reporting. Current events make these demands more dynamic than ever. This course is intended for students who are interested in expanding their knowledge of healthcare financial issues and/or pursuing careers that involve financial management in the healthcare sector. The focus will be on non-profit healthcare delivery organizations.
- Department: Health Policy & Management
- M 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
- R 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
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Instructor:
Larry Joo
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Instructor:
Jonathan Engel
Info - 3 points
Advanced Reinforcement Learning
Adv Reinforcement Learnin
Theory of Markov Decision Processes (MDP) and Dynamic Programming. Design and convergence properties of Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms including Q-learning and Policy iteration methods. Function approximation and deep RL algorithms: DQN, policy gradient, actor-critic methods. Exporation-Exploitation and regret bounds in RL. Multi-agent RL. RL with Human Feedback (RLHF). RL and Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) for Agentic Systems.
Note: Only one of ORCS E4529 or 6529 may be taken for credit.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Shipra Agrawal
h-index: 24 Info - 3 points
Impact Measurement and Program Evaluatio
Impact & Program Evaluati
In this intensive course, Executive MPA students will learn how to manage an impact measurement and program evaluation lifecycle through lectures, discussions, case studies, readings, and a team project. Students will learn and apply core concepts, methodologies, and frameworks used in the field, as well as be introduced to the use of technologies such as lean data, AI, geospatial tools, mobile, and NLP. Students will consider how to account for diverse stakeholders, risks, counterfactuals, attribution, and the ethical issues involved in data collection, analysis, and reporting. They will also examine critical questions, including: What is the impact, and who is to define it? How do we account for unintended consequences? How should long-term outcomes be measured meaningfully while satisfying short-term investment horizons? Finally, students will consider how the practice of impact measurement and program evaluation can be leveraged to inform program design and strategy, strengthen mission alignment, deepen accountability, and foster a culture of continuous learning in government, nonprofit, and private sector actors.
- Department: EXECUTIVE MPA
- U 9 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Brian Gurski
Info - 3 points
POETRY LECTURE
LYRIC POETRY
POETRY LECTURE
- Department: Writing
- W 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jared D Fagen
Info - 3 points
Global Reliance on Russian Energy
Global Reliance-Russian E
This course examines the global reliance on Russian energy exports in the aftermath of the 2022 invasion of Ukraine and the realignment of geopolitical and energy markets. Students will assess whether Russia can operate without Western customers and whether the West can isolate Russia while securing its own energy needs. The course explores disrupted energy ties between Russia and Europe, shifting alliances with China, India, the Middle East, and the Arctic, and how sanctions have reshaped oil and gas flows worldwide. Through regional case studies and up-to-date policy analysis, students will investigate Russia's role in OPEC+, the Black and Caspian Seas, and the future of European energy diversification, including hydrogen initiatives.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- W 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Natasha Udensiva
Info - 3 points
ANALYTCS/MANAGR DECISION MAKNG
- Department: Executive Classes in HPM
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Instructor:
Stephen Schwab
Info - 3 points
Analytics and Managerial Decision-Making
ANALYTCS/MANAGR DECISION
Analytics and Managerial Decision-Making I is the first of two required quantitative methods courses taken in sequence by all MHA students. These courses are foundational to the MHA curriculum. The two courses are fully integrated with respect to materials, exercises and cases, and by a two-term, team-based application project.
Managers are continually confronted with the need to make significant decisions concerning the organizational and financial performance of a health organization, based on a combination of strategic intention, practical experience, and interpretation and application of complex data and information. Data analysis is one tool that supports such decision-making. This course is designed to provide management students with the tools to generate and present data-driven and model-based management recommendations that are meaningful and implementable.
The course focuses on learning basic tools for the collection, analysis, and presentation of data in support of managerial/executive decision-making. Topics will include introductory data and statistical exploration from basic descriptive statistics to population and market estimation, comparison testing and decision-making, sampling design and analysis, and predicting/forecasting using linear regression. Using Excel as an additional tool, the course develops analytical skills to prepare managers to make and to present informed decisions in the overall healthcare sector.
- Department: Health Policy & Management
- M 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Paul W Thurman
h-index: 11 Info - 3 points
GLOBAL CONSTITUTIONALISM
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
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Instructor:
Michael Doyle
Info - 2 points
Putin and Global Anti-Americanism
Putin & Global AntiAmeric
This course explores the development of relations between Russia and the United States from the end of the Cold War to the present day. It also reveals a broader trend: in the early 1990s, it seemed that Western liberal values were triumphant worldwide. However, as Russia failed to transition into a democratic state, anti-Americanism and revanchism began to flourish. After becoming president, Vladimir Putin exploited these sentiments, ultimately making anti-Americanism a central aspect of his international political agenda. Russian propaganda has not only influenced the Russian population but also seeks to spread these ideas and conspiracy theories beyond Russia’s borders. As an inherently unstable political system, Russia aims to destabilize the West. The course concludes with an analysis of present-day dynamics.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- W 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mikhail Zygar
Info - 1.5 points