ADVANCED TOPICS IN IEOR
Agentic AI & Data Economy
Selected topics in IEOR. Content varies from year to year. May be repeated for credit.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Agostino Capponi
h-index: 19 Info - 3 points
ADVANCED TOPICS IN IEOR
Algo Predictions
Selected topics in IEOR. Content varies from year to year. May be repeated for credit.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Eric Balkanski
h-index: 13 Info - 3 points
ADVANCED TOPICS IN IEOR
Algorithmic GameTheory OR
Selected topics in IEOR. Content varies from year to year. May be repeated for credit.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Christian Kroer
h-index: 16 Info - 3 points
ADVANCED TOPICS IN IEOR
Foundations of Data Privacy
Selected topics in IEOR. Content varies from year to year. May be repeated for credit.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- T 2:40 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rachel Cummings
h-index: 16 Info - 3 points
ADVANCED TOPICS IN IEOR
Queues & Stoch Netwks
Selected topics in IEOR. Content varies from year to year. May be repeated for credit.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- W 2:40 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
David D Yao
CULPA: 5
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- 3 points
ADVANCED TOPICS IN IEOR
Agentic AI & Data Economy
Selected topics in IEOR. Content varies from year to year. May be repeated for credit.
- Department: Video Network
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Instructor:
Agostino Capponi
h-index: 19 Info - 3 points
ADVANCED APPLICATION OF THEORY TO PRACT
- Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
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Instructor:
Scott G Rushanan
Info - 3 points
Gross Anatomy
This intensive 15-week course during the first term of the DPT curriculum provides students with detailed coverage of human anatomy through lecture and cadaver dissection. The focus of the course is on structure and the integral relationship between structure and function. A comprehensive understanding of normal structure and function provides the foundation for understanding abnormal structure and function. Both the lecture and laboratory components of the course are critical to success in the program and as a competent entry-level clinician.
This course uses a regional approach to study the gross anatomical structures of the human body, with emphasis on the musculoskeletal system and its associated vascular and neural elements. The structure of synovial joints and their soft tissue support systems will be addressed. The thoracic, abdominal, and pelvic cavities will be explored. Aspects of structure and function as they relate to clinical correlates will be highlighted throughout the course.
- Department: Physical Therapy
- 7 points
Master s Thesis in International Affai
Intl Affairs Thesis Prep
Available only to Master of International Affairs students.
The Thesis program is a rigorous, two-semester sequence that enables a select group of students to produce a substantive, publishable piece of original research or policy analysis. Designed for those seeking to strengthen their analytical, methodological, and writing skills, the program culminates in a thesis of at least 35 pages that may take the form of an academic journal article, a policy essay for a broader audience, or a research report suitable for a think tank. A small cohort is admitted each year, combining structured seminars with individualized faculty mentorship to guide students from proposal development through the completion and defense of their final thesis.
During the fall preparatory workshop, students refine their research questions, explore methodologies, and draft a formal thesis proposal under the supervision of the Thesis Advisor and a designated Faculty-Resource Person. Emphasis is placed on framing analytical questions, conducting research using primary and secondary sources, and understanding the role of digital tools, including responsible AI use.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- W 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
Timothy Naftali
Info - 0-1.5 points
VISUAL ART LAB
- Department: Visual Arts
- F 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
Patient Oriented Research Career Develop
POR CAREER DEVELOPMENT CO
The main objective of this course is to provide Columbia University's Clinical & Translational Science award trainees, students, and scholars with skills and knowledge that will optimize their chances of entering into a satisfying academic career. The course will emphasize several methodological and practical issues related to the development of a science career. The course will also offer support and incentives by facilitating timely use of CTSA resources, obtaining expert reviews on writing and curriculum vitae, and providing knowledge and resources for the successful achievement of career goals.
- Department: Biostatistics
- T 3 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Marisa N Spann
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NEUROSCIENCE AND COGNITION
- Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
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Instructor:
Katherine Dimitropoulou
Info - 3 points
Probability
PROBABILITY
The course aims to present the fundamental principles behind probability theory and lay the foundations for various kinds of statistical/biostatistical courses such as statistical inference, multivariate analysis, regression analysis, clinical trials, asymptotics, and so on. Students will learn how to implement probability methods in various types of applications.
SEM-HIST MUSICOLOGY:MUSIC,MIND
SEM-HIST MUSICOLOGY:RENAISSANC
- Department: Music
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Giuseppe Gerbino
CULPA: 12
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- 3 points
Data Science I
Contemporary biostatistics and data analysis depends on the mastery of tools for computation, visualization, dissemination, and reproducibility in addition to proficiency in traditional statistical techniques. The goal of this course is to provide training in the elements of a complete pipeline for data analysis. It is targeted to MS, MPH, and PhD students with some data analysis experience.
- Department: Biostatistics
- TR 10 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
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Instructor:
Arthur Jeff Goldsmith
Info - 3 points
Theory of Democracy Revisited
This colloquium will study democracy in its most representative contemporary interpretations and its challenges in comparative theoretical perspective. Starting with democracy’s procedures and institutions (the “rules of the game”) the colloquium will examine their main interpretations and most recent variations; it will end with a discussion of plebiscitary leadership, populism and lottocracy. The aim of the colloquium is to give students of political theory and political science some basic theoretical tools for analyzing, understanding and evaluating contemporary mutations in democratic visions and practices in several western countries.
- Department: Political Science
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nadia Urbinati
CULPA: 29 Wikipedia Info - 4 points
Introduction to Mathematical Statistics
Intro Mathematical Statis
The first portion of this course provides an introductory-level mathematical treatment of the fundamental principles of probability theory, providing the foundations for statistical inference. Students will learn how to apply these principles to solve a range of applications. The second portion of this course provides a mathematical treatment of (a) point estimation, including evaluation of estimators and methods of estimation; (b) interval estimation; and (c) hypothesis testing, including power calculations and likelihood ratio testing.
- Department: Biostatistics
- W 10 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
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Instructor:
Todd Ogden
Info - 3 points
Capstone One Portfolio
- Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
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Instructor:
Amanda M Lange
Info - 3 points
Survival Analysis
SURVIVAL ANALYSIS
This course focuses on methods for the analysis of survival data, or time-to-event data. Survival analysis is a method for analyzing survival data or failure (death) time data, that is time-to-event data, which arises in a number of applied fields, such as medicine, biology, public health, epidemiology, engineering, economics, and demography. A special course of difficulty in the analysis of survival data is the possibility that some individual may not be observed for the full time to failure. Instead of knowing the failure time t, all we know about these individuals is that their time-to-failure exceeds some value y where y is the follow-up time of these individuals in the study. Students in this class will learn how to make inference for the event times with censored. Topics to be covered include survivor functions and hazard rates, parametric inference, life-table analysis, the Kaplan-Meier estimator, k-sample nonparametric test for the equality of survivor distributions, the proportional hazards regression model, analysis of competing risks and bivariate failure-time data.
Applied Regression II
APPLIED REGRESSION II
This course will introduce the statistical methods for analyzing censored data, non-normally distributed response data, and repeated measurements data that are commonly encountered in medical and public health research. Topics include estimation and comparison of survival curves, regression models for survival data, logit models, log-linear models, and generalized estimating equations. Examples are drawn from the health sciences.
- Department: Biostatistics
- R 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Qixuan Chen
h-index: 27 Info - 3 points
TV PILOT: COMEDY & DRAMA
With the pilot as a focal point, this course explores the opportunities and challenges of telling and sustaining a serialized story over a protracted period of time with an emphasis on the creation, borne out of character, of the quintessential premise and the ongoing conflict, be it thematic or literal, behind a successful series.
Early in the semester, students may be required to present/pitch their series idea. During the subsequent weeks, students will learn the process of pitching, outlining, and writing a television pilot, that may include story breaking, beat-sheets or story outline, full outlines, and the execution of either a thirty-minute or hour-long teleplay. This seminar may include reading pages and giving notes based on the instructor but may also solely focus on the individual process of the writer.
Students may only enroll in one TV Writing workshop per semester.
- Department: Film
- M 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
- R 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
- M 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
- W 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
- M 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
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David Klass
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Blair Singer
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Carter Bays
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Ed Decter
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Instructor:
Alice O'Neill
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SCENE STUDY
SCENE STUDY: DIRECTORS
- Department: Theatre Arts
- F 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Saheem Ali
Info - 3 points
INTRO PARENT-INFANT PSYCHOTHERAPY
INTRO PARENT-INFANT THERA
- Department: Psychoanalytic Center
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Instructor:
Madrid Poultney
Info - 0 points
Pharmacology for Anesthesia and Critical
PHARM FOR ANES & CRITICAL
This course provides an overview of anesthetics, adjuvants and critical care medications commonly used in anesthesia practice with an emphasis on the application of theoretical foundations as it applies to the patient. Cultural humility will be incorporated when developing medication management individualized to patient identities and cultures while including an emphasis on social and cultural health disparities. The course will also provide a systems approach to pathophysiology and the pharmacotherapeutic agents used to treat specific disease states with an emphasis on their impact in anesthesia practice.
- Department: Nursing
- 4 points
WRITING FOR PUBLICATION
- Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
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Instructor:
Daniel L Geller
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Instructor:
Rochelle Mendonca
Info - 1 points
SEM-NEGOTIATION WORKSHOP
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:
Mavis K Fowler
Info - 3 points
SEM-NEGOTIATION WORKSHOP
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
- 3 points
SEM-NEGOTIATION WORKSHOP
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:
Michelle A Greenberg-Kobrin
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Steven M Rabinowitz
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Instructor:
Stephanie S Chow
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Applied Physiology
This 13-week course during the first term of the DPT curriculum provides students with a theoretical basis for understanding the body's physiological responses to exercise. Emphasis will be placed upon the practical application of exercise physiology principles in physical therapy practice.
This course is designed to provide an integrative view of human exercise physiology. This class will cover the acute and chronic adaptations to exercise including the cardiovascular, respiratory, neuromuscular and metabolic systems in relation to acute and chronic exercise.
- Department: Physical Therapy
- 2 points
Design of Medical Experiments
DESIGN OF MEDICAL EXPERIM
This course covers the fundamental principles and techniques of experimental designs in clinical studies. This is a required course for MS, DrPH and Ph.D. in Biostatistics. Topics include reliability of measurement, linear regression analysis, parallel groups design, analysis of variance (ANOVA), multiple comparison, blocking, stratification, analysis of covariance (ANCOVA), repeated measures studies; Latin squares design, crossover study, randomized incomplete block design, and factorial design.
Analysis of Categorical Data
ANALYSIS OF CATEGORICAL D
A comprehensive overview of methods of analysis for binary and other discrete response data, with applications to epidemiological and clinical studies. It is a second level course that presumes some knowledge of applied statistics and epidemiology. Topics discussed include 2 × 2 tables, m × 2 tables, tests of independence, measures of association, power and sample size determination, stratification and matching in design and analysis, interrater agreement, logistic regression analysis.
- Department: Biostatistics
- TR 6 p.m.-7:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dacheng Liu
Info - 3 points
ANALYSIS OF CATEGORICAL DATA
- Department: ONLINE MS IN EPIDEMIOLOGY
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Instructor:
Tonguc Yaman
Info - 3 points
DIALECTS & ACCENTS
This course continues the actor’s work of experiencing voice and text in a free body as a means to develop versatile and transformative speech. Students will deepen and refine their knowledge of the phonemes of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), as well as the ability to categorize and utilize Lexical Sets in pursuit of a dialect/accent. Students will demonstrate their ability to notate texts and transcribe dialects and accents into both IPA and practically apply the framework of the Four Pillars and the Voice Recipe.
The student will use these tools, supplemented by handouts, video & audio resources and independent research, to study several accents/dialects in class as well as at least one additional independently researched accent/dialect. The goal of the class is to expand upon the actor’s choices of speech and vocal expression and to acquaint her/him with the resources necessary to truthfully portray an individual utilizing a dialect/accent on stage or screen.
Students will develop their own unique process for learning accents and dialects
, as well as efficiently and effectively applying their progression to texts via a combination of practice sentences, scene work, conversation, improvisation, cold readings, and a prepared monologue. Students will complete the course having created a personal, in-depth method for researching and performing a role in which an accent or dialect is required.
Students will do self-directed and supported research as part of their study. They will consciously and intelligently assimilate this contextual research into their embodiment choices. The final project is a presentation of their research and the sharing of a monologue that is ideally
written in the student’s selected dialect or accent
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- Department: Theatre Arts
- W 9 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth Hayes
Info - 2 points
PROSEMINAR-GERMAN LITERATURE
PROSEMINAR: ROMANTICISM
Proseminar for Graduate Students only.
- Department: Germanic Languages
- M 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Stefan Andriopoulos
CULPA: 6 Wikipedia h-index: 12 Info - 4 points
Analysis of Health Surveys
ANALYSIS OF HLTH SURVEYS
This is an applied statistical methods course. The course will introduce main techniques used in sampling practice, including simple random sampling, stratification, systematic sampling, cluster sampling, probability proportional to size sampling, and multistage sampling. Using national health surveys as examples, the course will introduce and demonstrate the application of statistical methods in analysing across-sectional surveys and repeated and longitudinal surveys, and conducting multiple imputation for missing data in large surveys. Other topics will include methods for variance estimation, weighting, post-stratification, and non-sampling errors. If time allows, new developments in small area estimation and in the era of data science will also be discussed.
- Department: Biostatistics
- W 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Qixuan Chen
h-index: 27 Info - 3 points
S. Advising Complex Corporations
S ADVISING COMPLEX CORP
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
David Marriott
Info - 2 points
Graphical Models for Complex Health Data
GRAPHICAL MODELS COMPLEX
This is a course at the intersection of statistics and machine learning, focusing on graphical models. In complex systems with many (perhaps hundreds or thousands) of variables, the formalism of graphical models can make representation more compact, inference more tractable, and intelligent data-driven decision-making more feasible. We will focus on representational schemes based on directed and undirected graphical models and discuss statistical inference, prediction, and structure learning. We will emphasize applications of graph-based methods in areas relevant to health: genetics, neuroscience, epidemiology, image analysis, clinical support systems, and more. We will draw connections in lecture between theory and these application areas. The final project will be entirely “hands on,” where students will apply techniques discussed in class to real data and write up the results.
- Department: Biostatistics
- TR 4 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Daniel S Malinsky
Info - 3 points
Kinesiology & Biomechanics I
This 16-week course during the first term of the DPT curriculum is the first of a 2-part series. This is a comprehensive lecture/laboratory course in the first semester of the DPT curriculum, which establishes foundational knowledge of normal human movement and an introduction to aberrant human movement. Fundamental biomechanical and kinesiological principles, including kinematics and kinetics, of human movement are integrated with knowledge of anatomical structures under normal and pathological conditions. Each joint complex of the human body is scrutinized and integrated with a regional interdependence approach to human movement.
This course begins with an introduction to the biomechanical properties of connective tissue and muscle mechanics, followed by a discussion of the integral principles of biomechanics (i.e., gravity, friction, leverage, composition, and resolution of internal and external forces in producing movement). These topics are integrated throughout the kinesiology analyses of the human body, organized by anatomical region. Specific attention will be given to the relationship between anatomical structure and kinesiological function, joint classification, osteokinematics, arthrokinematics, muscle and ligament function, kinematic chains, and alignment. There is an emphasis on kinematics and muscle function in normal functional movements, while pathological movement is introduced. The laboratory component highlights surface anatomy palpation with emphasis on structure identification, positioning, body mechanics and hand placement. Additionally, the laboratory component will emphasize the identification of osteokinematics, arthrokinematics, and muscle actions during simple and multiple-joint movement assessments. Both lecture and laboratory incorporate observation and analysis of normal movement of the limbs and trunk, utilizing patient-specific case studies and selected examples. Optional open lab and lecture review sessions are small group review sessions and/or case discussions, organized by 3rd year DPT teaching practicum students. First year DPT students, who wish to attend, may utilize this time to review their lab/lecture material with their peers and 3rd year DPT students, while asking questions pertaining to the course material.
- Department: Physical Therapy
- 4 points
Introduction to Psychedelics in Clinical
INTRO TO PSYCHEDELICS IN
Though psychedelic plants and compounds have been used in a wide-spectrum of healing practices throughout human history, they have quickly been gaining recognition and acceptance in conventional western healthcare in recent years, along with a growing interest in underground, international, and ceremonial plant medicine work. This course is designed to provide foundational knowledge of contemporary psychedelic healing and integration practices, as is relevant to medical management of patients seeking psychedelic treatment, in order to prepare students for prescription of legal medications into their practices.
- Department: Nursing
- M 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ronica Mukerjee
Info - 3 points
S. International Commercial Arbitration
S INTL COMML ARBITR PRACT
- Department: Law
- 2 points
Biostatistical Methods I
BIOSTATISTICAL METHODS I
This one-semester course introduces basic applied descriptive and inferential statistics. The first part of the course includes elementary probability theory, an introduction to statistical distributions, principles of estimation and hypothesis testing, methods for comparison of discrete and continuous data including chi-squared test of independence, t-test, analysis of variance (ANOVA), and their non-parametric equivalents. The second part of the course focuses on linear models (regression) theory and their practical implementation.
- Department: Biostatistics
- F 1 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Todd Ogden
Info - 3 points
Acute and Critical Care Pharmacology
ACUTE & CRIT CARE PHARMAC
The purpose of this course is to provide a comprehensive and in-depth background in acute and critical care pharmacotherapy. This course will address the pharmacology and appropriate clinical use of agents used in the treatment of selected acute disorders found in acutely/critically ill patients. Recent advances in pharmacotherapy, personalized management strategies, and controversial issues will be included and emphasized.
- Department: Nursing
- M 5 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jenny Shah
Info - 3 points
ACTING III
MFA acting students will tackle verse drama and heightened language. We will spend much of our time investigating Shakespeare’s writing, with a focus on King Lear and Much Ado about Nothing, and will weave in contemporary heightened language texts throughout the semester.
Goals
To develop students into keen interpreters of heightened theatrical language, both classical and contemporary
To enable students to express their instinctive emotional responses to the rhythms, sounds and the mysteries contained in great language texts
To bring character and the specific imaginative world of each play alive thru the language
To foster each actor’s unique voice
- Department: Theatre Arts
- F 9:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Peter Fernandez
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
Clinical Trial Methodology
CLINICAL TRIAL METHODOLOG
Clinical trials are the pilars of clinical research. The main objective of this course is to prepare researchers to design and conduct complex clinical trials that yield valid and reliable results. The course emphasizes on several methodological and practical issues related to the design and analysis of clinical experiments. The course builds on the knowledge and skills gained in the course Randomized Clinical Trial (P8140). The objective of this course is to provide students with working knowledge of certain methodological issues that arise in designing a Clinical Trial. Topics include: Design of small studies (Phase I and II studies), Interim analyses and group sequential methods, Design of survival studies, Multiple outcome measures, Equivalency Trials, Multi-center studies, and trials with multiple outcome measures.
- Department: Biostatistics
- R 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
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Instructor:
Cheng-Shiun Leu
h-index: 28 Info - 3 points
Seminar in Primary Care Across the Lifes
Sem in Prim Care X Life I
This course is designed to enhance the clinical reasoning and decision-making skills of Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) students through case-based learning, evidence-based practice application, and faculty-guided small group discussions. Students will engage in peer collaboration, critical thinking exercises, and case presentations to refine their approach to patient evaluation, diagnosis, and management. Students will develop effective documentation and interprofessional communication skills.
- Department: Nursing
- W 6 p.m.-7:50 p.m.
- W 3 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
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Primary Care Across the Lifespan: Practi
PC Across Lifespan Prac I
The clinical practicum builds upon knowledge obtained in Diagnosis and Management II. This practicum is designed to expand the role of the nurse practitioner student to provide primary care to complex patients, families and communities, in an outpatient setting across the lifespan. The goal of the practicum is to prepare the students for the delivery of comprehensive primary care. The practicum focuses on chronic physical and mental illness causing various complications.
- Department: Nursing
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Instructor:
Ellen M Fahey
Info - 3 points
Human Population Genetics
HUMAN POPULATION GENETICS
A good grasp of the fundamentals of Population Genetics is crucial for an understanding of any field of human genetics. This is precisely the aim of this course: to provide to students the key elements of Population Genetics with a view to equip them with the right tools to understand the field of genetics in general and to pursue further studies in human genetics. The course uses various evolutionary principles to explain key population genetics concepts.
- Department: Biostatistics
- M 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Prakash Gorroochurn
Info - 3 points
ACTING TECHNIQUES
ACTING THROUGH SONG
- Department: Theatre Arts
- F 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jenn Colella
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
Analysis of Longitudinal Data
ANALYSIS OF LONGITUDINAL
The course will introduce students to statistical models and mthods for longitudinal data, i.e., repeatedly measured data over time or under different conditions. The topics will include design and sample size calculation, Hotelling's T^2, multivariate analysis of variance, multivariate linear regression (Generalized linear models), models for correlation, unbalanced repeated measurements, Mixed effects models, EM algorithm, methods for non-normally distributed data, Generalized estimating equations, Generalized linear mixed models, and Missing data.
- Department: Biostatistics
- R 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Zhonghua Liu
Info - 3 points
Management of Patients with Special Need
MGMT OF PTS WITH SPEC NDS
- Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
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Instructor:
Marc W Michalowicz
Info - 0 points
Relational Databases and SQL Programming
RELATIONAL DATABASES AND
In this course, you will learn to design and build relational databases in MySQL and to write and optimize queries using the SQL programming language. Application of skills learned in this course will be geared toward research and data science settings in the healthcare field; however, these skills are transferable to many industries and application areas. You will begin the course examining the pitfalls of using Excel spreadsheets as a data storage tool and then learn how to build properly-designed relational databases to eliminate the issues related to spreadsheets and maintain data integrity when storing and modifying data. You will then learn two aspects of the SQL programming language: 1) the data manipulation language (DML), which allows you to retrieve data from and populate data into database tables (e.g., SELECT, INSERT INTO, DELETE, UPDATE, etc.), and 2) the data definition language (DDL), which allows you to create and modify tables in a database (e.g., CREATE, ALTER, DROP, etc.). You will additionally learn how to optimize SQL queries for best performance, use advanced SQL functions, and utilize SQL within common statistical software programs: R and SAS.
- Department: Biostatistics
- T 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
- W 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Zoe Verzani
Info - 3 points
Political Theory of Democratization, De-
Democ, De-Democ, Regime C
Concern about the retreat of democracy, democratic recession and/or democratic backsliding are proliferating in the political theoretical and comparative politics literature. While domestic and external threats to democracy and reverse waves are not new, there is widespread agreement that today even long-consolidated, wealthy democracies are now at risk and that new dynamics of de-democratization are at play. This course will involve an in-depth study of the political theory and comparative politics literature on the relevant concepts and dynamics: transition, democratization, de-democratization, democratic backsliding, hybridization, “post-democracy” and the assumptions undergirding them. We will discuss the various concepts of democracy and regime used or presupposed in the relevant literature and assess how these have evolved. The purpose of the first part of the course is to rethink the basic concepts and theories regarding democracy breakdown, transitions to democracy, democratic consolidation, backsliding and hybridization of democratic regimes and to clarify the conceptual and political issues regarding thresholds, cycles, and the like. The last third of the course will focus on cycles of democratization, de-democratization and re-democratization in the case of the U.S.: the oldest representative constitutional democracy and the one most typically taken as the exemplar of a consolidated democratic regime.
- Department: Political Science
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jean L Cohen
CULPA: 7 Wikipedia h-index: 63 Info - 4 points
Diagnosis and Management of Acute & Crit
DX & MGMT ACUTE CRIT ILLN
This is the second of three Diagnosis and Management courses designed to educate students on the assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of common acute and critical illnesses via a systems-based approach. Pathophysiologic alterations, assessment, diagnostic findings, and multimodal management will be discussed. The course will examine social determinants of health and health disparities that may impact patients and family outcomes. Focus will be on the differential diagnosis and comprehensive healthcare management of commonly encountered acute and chronic physical illnesses using didactic lectures, case studies and simulation.
Effective Management in the Public Servi
Management in Public Serv
This course equips mid-career professionals with actionable frameworks, tools, and insights to lead organizational change, drive performance, and manage complex challenges in the public and nonprofit sectors. Across 12 highly interactive sessions, students examine case-based scenarios that explore how managers conceive and implement value-driven strategies, navigate organizational dynamics, and deliver measurable results.
Key themes include strategic planning, performance management, people development, operational platforms, and using power and persuasion to implement change. Through analysis of real-world cases, structured reflection, and applied learning, students will strengthen their ability to frame policy decisions, mobilize resources, and lead through uncertainty.
This course builds leadership capacity for professionals seeking to lift performance, transform services, and create public value. Students will leave with a set of durable management tools and lessons applicable across roles, organizations, and stages of their careers.
- Department: EXECUTIVE MPA
- S 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Robert Z Tumin
Info - 3 points
S. Intellectual Property Transactions Wo
S. IP Transactions Worksh
- Department: Law
- 2 points
Phys & Nutrition Through the Lifecycle
General aspects of normal human growth and development from viewpoints of physical growth, cellular growth and maturation, and adjustments made at birth; the impact of altered nutrition on these processes. Prenatal and postnatal malnutrition, the role of hormones in growth; relationships between nutrition and disease in such areas as anemia, obesity, infection, and carbohydrate absorption.
- Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
- TR 1:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Moneek Madra
Info - 3 points
NONFICTION THESIS WORKSHOP
- Department: Writing
- W 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
- T 1:10 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
- M 1:10 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
- W 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
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Chloe Jones
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Jaquira Diaz
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Leslie S Jamison
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Wendy Walters
Info - 9 points
SAS Insights for CEOR
Data is most useful when it can tell a story. Health analytics merges technologies and skills used to deliver business, clinical and programmatic insights into the complex components that drive medical outcomes, costs and oversight. By focusing on business intelligence and developing tools to evaluate clinical procedures, devices, and programs, organizations can use comparative and outcomes data to strengthen financial performance. This information can improve the way healthcare is evaluatedand delivered for better outcomes across the spectrum of health industries.
In this course, students will learn SAS as a tool to manipulate and analyze healthcare data and begin to understand what clinical and public health interventions work best for improving health, for example. Students will learn how to organize and analyze data to inform the practices of healthcare providers and policymakers to make evidence-based resource allocation decisions.Comparative & Effectiveness Outcomes Research (CEOR) certificate students will take this course inpreparation for the capstone class.SAS basics (e.g., creating SAS datasets and new variables, sorting, merging, reporting) and advanced statistics (e.g., using a logistical regression to create propensity scores for matched cohort analyses) will be covered.
- Department: Health Policy & Management
- M 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Yongmei Huang
h-index: 22 Info - 1.5 points
Critical Read of Biological Clinical Lit
Crit Read of Bio Clin Lit
Fall: Review of current literature providing complementary information pertinent to other nutrition areas, with a view to developing a critical approach to the assimilation of scientific information. Spring: Obesity: Etiology, Prevention, and Treatment. Controversies involving regulation of weight and energy balance. Interaction between genetics and the environment are considered as well as clinical implications of our current knowledge.
- Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
- M 8 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Rajasekhar Ramakrishnan
Info - 3 points
Theoretical Statistics
STAT ANALYSIS-NEURAL DATA
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- Department: Statistics
- F 10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Liam M Paninski
CULPA: 4 Info - 3 points
Theoretical Statistics
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- Department: Statistics
- T 10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Samory Kpotufe
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
Behavioral Policy & Public Health
Applications of behavioral insights are expanding rapidly across civic, medical, social, corporate, educational, and economic professions. This class covers the underlying theories for behavioral insights, using scientific and real-world examples of applications from multiple disciplines and locations. The course will also cover methods for behavioral implementation and evaluation, focusing particularly on healthcare policy perspectives. Students will learn a broad range of strategies through a highly interactive format, taught partially in a classroom setting in addition to remote asynchronous and synchronous sessions. Students will gain experience designing and developing their own evidence- based behavioral interventions as a part of a semester-long project.
The course is taught in three phases. The first phase will introduce fundamentals of behavioral science and evidence-based policy. Students will then spend the majority of the course on examples of behavioral insights such as nudges in practice, in a healthcare context and beyond. The course will end with sessions on practical applications, where students will learn to identify appropriate situations for behavioral interventions and produce a final project in a chosen context.
- Department: Health Policy & Management
- R 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kai Ruggeri
h-index: 22 Info - 1.5 points
ECOSYSTEMS PERSPECTVE-PRACTICE
THEORY FOR SW RESEARCH
This is the third required course in the advanced practice sequence. Focuses on exploration of the knowledge bases and research issues for the understanding and supply of (1) the transactions between people and their environment and (2) related practice.
- Department: Social Work
- W 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Elwin Wu
h-index: 37 Info - 3 points
Sports and the Law
SPORTS AND THE LAW
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Martin Edel
Info - 2 points
BIOCHEM-PHYSIOL BASIS-NUTR I
Aspects of carbohydrate, lipid, protein, and energy metabolism relevant to the understanding of nutrition at cellular and organism levels. Biochemical and physiological aspects of vitamin and mineral metabolismand action during both normal conditions and deficiency toxicity states.
- Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
- MW 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Bryan Gonzalez
Info - 3 points
The Digital Economy: Regulatory Conflict
This course covers a subject that is crucial for management success in the future: how government policy and regulation affect the online-based industry and its users, and how the industry in turn can affect government action. The skills needed to navigate this interaction are critical for managers in the emerging digital economy, as well as to forward-looking policy making. This course takes an innovative approach, bringing together several strands of the MBA program, together with public policy and technology management, and applies them to the online media and information sector. It aims to give students the MBA tools to run or use digital and online businesses in an environment full of government initiatives and restrictions. The course is valuable for future entrepreneurs, investors, creators, marketers, advertisers, users, and public officials.
- Department: Business Economics
- W 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
- 3 points
Professional Leadership & Practice I
Prof Leadership & Prac I
This is the first in a series of 4 courses designed to educate students about the multiple dimensions of professional practice in contemporary physical therapy. These courses will explore the professional roles of the physical therapist as a clinician, educator, and advocate. This will be the first in a series of courses that will address trans-curricular themes including leadership, service, health promotion, advocacy, teaching & learning, interprofessional collaboration and teamwork, cultural humility, and self-reflection, culminating in the creation of a digital portfolio. The course series will include broad exposure to a variety of professional and personal development experiences and expect more in-depth engagement in the student’s chosen area of focus.
This first course in the professional leadership and practice series will explore the process of professional identity formation, including exploration of attitudes and biases, personality, self-awareness, emotional intelligence, authentic leadership, health & well-being practices, and inclusive excellence. The course will also explore structural and racial barriers to health and healthcare. Students will broaden their understanding of physical therapy practice, structure, and governance of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA), the APTA vision and core values, and legislative action at the national, state, and local levels. Students will be introduced to the core competencies for interprofessional education and collaborative practice. Students will have the opportunity to reflect on personal strengths and goals and develop a personal development and professional leadership plan. An overview of the Digital Professional Portfolio project will be included.
- Department: Physical Therapy
- 2 points
Global Macroeconomic Investing
This course builds on the core Global Economic Environment curriculum to equip students with toolkits for applying open-economy macro frameworks to the analysis of the fundamental forces shaping economic turning points and the development of public-market trading strategies around them.
Key concepts in global macro investing are delivered through a mix of interactive lectures, case-study discussions, and directed conversations with practitioners. The course is structured in three sections: (1) a review and extension of core macroeconomic principles, an annotated discussion of key macroeconomic indicators, a structured look at the principal features of major risk assets (i.e., equities, currencies, fixed income, and commodities), and the development of templates for global macro trading strategies and risk management; (2) case studies around recent, disruptive major global macro inflection points; and (3) the application of the course’s key learning objectives to the development of broad global macro trading strategies around prevailing macroeconomic conditions, special cases, and instances of asset mispricing.
This course will provide introductory knowledge and skills for students wishing to pursue activities in markets-focused macroeconomic research and strategy, global tactical asset allocation, the application of macroeconomic overlays on a wide range of investment platforms, strategic planning, and policy development.
- Department: Business Economics
- W 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Brett House
Info - 1.5 points
Microeconomics and Policy Analysis
Microecon & Policy Analys
Microeconomics and Policy Analysis
introduces mid-career professionals to the core analytical tools of microeconomics and their application to real-world policy and management decisions. The course emphasizes how individuals, firms, and governments make decisions under constraints, and how markets function and sometimes fail. Topics include supply and demand, consumer and producer behavior, market structure, welfare analysis, externalities, public goods, and government interventions.
Students will develop a working understanding of microeconomic principles and apply them to evaluate policies and regulations. The course combines lectures, recitations, and problem sets to build both conceptual understanding and practical problem-solving skills. No prior background in economics is required, though comfort with basic mathematics and algebra is expected.
Designed specifically for Executive MPA students, the course prepares professionals to critically analyze economic arguments, collaborate across diverse teams, and make informed, data-driven decisions in public service contexts.
- Department: EXECUTIVE MPA
- S 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
- S 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
Andrea Bubula
Info - 3 points
Microeconomics and Policy Analysis I
Microecon & Policy Analys
The objective of Microeconomics and Policy Analysis I is to ensure that students can use an economic framework to analyze policy choices, including those related to the environment. Students will be expected to understand, apply, and critique microeconomic models that inform economic and environmental policy. By the end of the semester, students will be expected to use economic concepts fluently to advocate various public policy positions.
We will begin with the big picture: how did economics evolve, what a capitalist economy is, and how do we think about it? We will then focus on tools for understanding core institutions such as markets, individual workers and consumers, and firms. We describe simple supply-demand relationships and apply these to economic problems. We introduce the concepts of opportunity cost and choice, which are fundamental to an economic framework for public policy. We then examine basic tools used by economists. We examine in detail the underlying theory of consumers and producers necessary to derive supply and demand relationships. This detailed analysis facilitates an intelligent application and critique of these basic economic tools.
We will incorporate environmental examples throughout the class, but this is not a class on environmental economics. It will introduce you to microeconomics more generally, and give you a view of the economy interacting with lots of other political, social, and environmental factors.
- Department: MPA-ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE POL
- W 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
- R 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dong Guo
Info - 3 points
Law & Policy: Mass Incarceration in the
LAW & POLICY: MASS INCAR
From 1970 until today, America’s prison and jail population has increased sevenfold, from some 300,000 to around 2.2 million adults and children behind bars. Accounting for less than 5 percent of the world’s inhabitants, but about 25 percent of the world’s incarcerated inhabitants, the United States is the most incarcerating society in human history. The U.S. federal and state governments imprison more people and at higher rates than do any other governments on the planet, and they do so today more than they did at any other period in American history.
This astounding amount of human confinement (commonly called “mass incarceration”) disproportionately impacts the polity’s poorest communities of color—especially young Black males—which suffer from chronic conditions and infectious disease; face higher mortality rates; and experience, because of criminal records, less opportunity to secure gainful employment, stable housing, access to safety net programs, and education. Female incarceration over the past few decades has grown at twice the rate of male incarceration, and black women, specifically, are twice as likely as white women to serve time. Imprisonment exposes people to a wide range of circumstances proving detrimental to long-term physical and mental health, like inadequate sanitation, poor ventilation, and solitary confinement. And most formerly incarcerated people return to their communities with deep wounds and new traumas resulting from incarcerated life and from isolation through long separations from families and social supports.
This course sits at the intersection of public health, policy, and law. The course will explore the full spectrum of causes and costs of mass incarceration as a public health crisis. This course will examine how exposures to different structures of the American criminal punishment apparatus (e.g., law enforcement, jail, prison, or detention centers, community supervision) shape the health of people, families, and society. Observing mass incarceration as an epidemic, this course will adopt a useful public-health model of prevention to contemplate a concerted approach consisting of primary, secondary, and tertiary strategies for unwinding mass human imprisonment while advancing enhanced public health for the nation’s most disempowered members. This course will pay special attention to acutely at-risk populations, including detained youth and youth of incarcerated adults, pregnant incarcerated people, and the elderly. And the role that
- Department: Health Policy & Management
- R 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Hernandez Stroud
Wikipedia Info - 1.5 points