How to Study Clothing?
At a time when courses on clothing draw exceptionally large audiences in the humanities field, and when art museums depend increasingly for audiences and revenue on exhibitions of clothing, accompanying those exhibitions with increasingly ambitious catalogues, it has become pertinent for graduate students in a range of art history sub-fields, as well as in adjacent disciplines such as history, design, or anthropology, to become familiar with the newest options for the study of clothing. Among the 10 most visited exhibitions in the 150-year history of the Met, for instance, 5 have been devoted entirely or in part to clothing. The trend toward the incorporation of clothing in temporary exhibitions nominally devoted to painting, or to a period subject, as well as the installation of clothing in permanent galleries, will also be discussed. This seminar reads recent books or museum catalogues, chosen to offer a representative range of approaches, time periods and issues of rank, gender, race, geography, and politics.
- Department: Art History and Archaeology
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Anne Higonnet
CULPA: 31 Wikipedia Info - 4 points
Sustainability Reporting
Broadly speaking, the goal of this class is to provide students with both the theoretical and practical knowledge to understand the current challenges in accounting for firms’ ESG goals. In this rapidly evolving field, the course will be structured in four modules:
- Module #1 reviews the need for sustainability accounting and provide an overview of the providers of ESG metrics and the limits of current
aggregated ESG data.
- Module #2 present various market-based mechanisms to create ESG standards
- Module #3 discusses regulatory initiatives to create ESG information for listed firms
- Module #4 departs from non-financial disclosure and discuss the limits of current accounting standards and introduce new developments to
incorporate ESG characteristics into traditional financial statements.
While ESG encompasses a vast body of topics, this class will draw examples and discuss about a diverse set of issues ESG, including carbon emissions, employees pay, employees labor-safety, and the role of consumers’ NGO, based on short examples or cases spanning different firms in different industries (e.g., wholesale, aviation) and different countries (e.g., USA, France, Japan).
This half-term course is composed of a mix of lectures, cases and online or in-person interventions by high profile industry guest speakers. The lectures are motivated by (1) rigorous recent academic studies drawing from the accounting literature, but also borrowing from adjacent fields including economics, finance, law and strategy and (2) practitioners notes and examples.
Who should take this course?
Students should take this course if they are interested in ESG in general and/or if they expect to use disclosure of non-financial information in their career. This is particularly relevant for students who want to pursue careers in finance (e.g., investment banking) where firms’ ESG footprint is becoming a scrutinized factor in M&A or investment decisions in general, as well as students going to careers in consulting where corporate decisions will more and more be benchmark against their ESG implications.
Please note that this course does not require students to have pre-existing knowledge about ESG.
- Department: Accounting (ACCT)
- M 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Faculty
h-index: 37 Info - 1.5 points
Mergers & Acquisitions Transactions
M&A Transactions
The purpose of this course is to provide you with an overview of M&A strategies and an introduction to the structuring and accounting for deals. We will also learn how to model M&A transactions. This is an advanced and technical course. If reviewing arcane accounting and tax rules does not bring you joy, you are forewarned! You will see plenty of both in the course. During the course, we will focus on several themes:
1. Deal strategy
2. Deal valuations
3. Deal structuring – impact of tax and accounting rules
4. Common metrics used to evaluate deals and limitations of those metrics
5. Accounting and modeling of deals
This course is recommended for those who intend to work in the financial services area – it will be helpful for those looking for a career in banking, corporate advisory services, treasury or corporate/financial strategy.
Advising on M&A transactions requires a strong background in accounting and tax. This course will get into the minutiae of various accounting and tax aspects of M&A. I will expect you to be willing to do the deep dive, where required. It is expected that you
have already taken courses in financial accounting and corporate finance and are interested in accounting and tax. If you do not have a prior background in accounting and tax, you are strongly advised to check with the instructor before enrolling in this
course.
This is not a course in excel, excel tools/techniques or about excel add‐ins provided by data providers. There are many services provided by data providers and Wall Street Prep companies for those. This course will focus on the accounting, finance and
economics of evaluating deals and building models. Also, we assume that you are already proficient in Excel, since we will use a lot of Excel models in the course.
- Department: Accounting (ACCT)
- T 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
- T 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Radha Radhakrishna
Info - 1.5 points
LBO & Bankruptcy Transactions
The purpose of this course is to provide you with an overview of LBO strategies and to introduce you to restructuring and the bankruptcy process. During the course, you will learn how to build a basic financial model and adapt it for LBO transactions. This is an advanced and technical course. If reviewing arcane accounting and legal rules does not bring you joy, you are forewarned! You will see plenty of both in the course. During the course, we will learn to:
1. Build a basic integrated financial models (IS, BS and CFS)
2. Adapt the financial model to study the effect of LBO transactions
3. Study the impact of different deal structures, accounting choices, operating assumptions and financing decisions on firm value, liquidity, profitability, returns and other financial metrics.
4. Learn about alternative exit and restructuring strategies.
5. Understand the bankruptcy process – debt restructuring and fresh start models.
- Department: Accounting (ACCT)
- T 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
- T 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Radha Radhakrishna
Info - 1.5 points
PRE-MODERN CHINESE FICTION
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Wei Shang
CULPA: 4
Wikipedia
h-index: 96
Info
- 4 points
Oratory, History, and Power: Cicero s
A close analysis of Cicero’s
Brutus
in its many contexts: as a response to Caesar’s dictatorship; as an account of oratory and rhetorical practices in Rome; and as the earliest surviving account of Roman literary history.
- Department: Classics
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
James E Zetzel
CULPA: 8
Info
- 3 points
MS Financial Accounting (Half-Term)
Financial statements are meant to enable the reader to evaluate the performance of an enterprise, analyze its cash flows, and assess its financial position. Recently, widely publicized cases of misleading statements, which were nevertheless attested as to their fairness by outside auditors, resulted in improper revenue recognition, overstatement of income, and misrepresentation of financial position. There is a growing awareness of the importance of honest reporting as the foundation for investors' confidence in the integrity and proper functioning of the financial markets.
Aesthetics
What is beautiful? What is sublime? What makes a work of art good? What are artworks for? This course will address these and other questions with a focus on Western art and its evaluation by European thinkers from antiquity to more recent times. We will begin with Plato’s discussions of art in the
Ion
and
The Republic
and we will turn next to Aristotle’s defense of art in the
Poetics
. The course will go on to discuss writings on aesthetics by thinkers such as Aquinas, Vasari, and Bellori. We will then devote considerable attention to eighteenth-century contributions to the history of aesthetics and art criticism, as it was in this period that the term “aesthetics” was first coined and that the “philosophy of art” was invented. Many of the most influential and difficult notions in modern aesthetics, such as genius and originality, developed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. We will analyze the writings of Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Edmund Burke, Hegel, and others. This course is appropriate for graduate students in art history, visual art, history, philosophy, music, English, and other humanities departments.
- Department: Art History and Archaeology
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Susanna C Berger
Info - 4 points
Dissertation Research
Full time research for doctoral students.
- Department: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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Instructor:
Richard Slusarczyk
Info - 12 points
ART OF LEADING: NEXT PRACTICES FOR SM
As a Stage Manager, collaborative leadership is a both a skill and an art. It is crucial to the success of any production. This involves understanding human behavior, developing effective communication skills, and fostering a holistic workplace environment. Contemporary stage managers need to develop “next practice” skills
in order to actively calibrate their important contribution to the art of creating theater. With practice and refinement, these skills become the foundation for stage managers to lead the people and the production.
The goal of the course is to explore a variety of forward-thinking topics that focus on the process of leading theatrical teams; by the end of the semester, students should have not only a better understanding of next practice theory, but methodologies and competencies that they can deploy in practice.
- Department: Theatre Arts
- R 1 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Amber White
Info - 3 points
DIR RSCH 19TH-C RUSSIAN LIT II
- Department: Slavic Languages
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Instructor:
Irina Reyfman
CULPA: 5
Info
- 4 points
GRAD SEM-PREMODERN LITERATURE
Prerequisites: JPNS W4007-W4008 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
David B Lurie
CULPA: 17
Info
- 4 points
GENERAL RELATIVITY
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- Department: Physics
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Andrei Beloborodov
Info - 3 points
VISITING ARTISTS
- Department: Theatre Arts
- T 10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Mark Russell
Info - 0-3 points
DIR RSCH IN MODERN PERIOD II
- Department: Slavic Languages
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Instructor:
Mark Lipovetsky
Wikipedia Info - 1-4 points
QUANTUM FIELD THEORY III
Advanced topics at the discretion of the instructor, including string theory, supersymmetry and other aspects of beyond-standard-model physics.
- Department: Physics
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sebastian Mizera
Info - 3 points
THEATRE PRACTICUM II
REIMAGINING AMERICAN THEATRE
TBD
- Department: Theatre Arts
- F 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
- 3 points
THEATRE PRACTICUM II
ELEVATED & CONTEMPORARY TEXTS
TBD
- Department: Theatre Arts
- TR 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Scott V Whitehurst
Info - 3 points
THEATRE PRACTICUM II
UNPAC US RESIDENT THEATRE
TBD
- Department: Theatre Arts
- M 10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Victoria Bailey
Info - 3 points
THEATRE PRACTICUM II
PLAYWRIGHT-ACTOR WORKSHOP
TBD
- Department: Theatre Arts
- W 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
James Ijames
Info - 3 points
THEATRE PRACTICUM II
CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL PLAYS
TBD
- Department: Theatre Arts
- F 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kate Loewald
Info - 3 points
CURRENT ISSUES IN COPYRIGHT
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Jane C Ginsburg
Wikipedia Info - 2 points
SEM-SOURCES IN CHINESE HISTORY
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Robert P Hymes
CULPA: 8 Info - 3 points
S. Rethinking Globalization
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Charles Sabel
Wikipedia h-index: 77 Info - 3 points
PARTICLE PHYSICS I
Prerequisites: PHYS G6037-G6038. Basic aspects of particle physics, focusing on the Standard Model.
- Department: Physics
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Robert D Mawhinney
CULPA: 6 h-index: 49 Info - 3 points
COLLABORATION STUDIO
Collaboration Studio is meant to foster and encourage creative relationships between and among the six concentration that comprise the Columbia MFA Theatre Program.
The goal of the class is to celebrate the process and presentation of new work.
Success is defined by a desire by all participants for working relationships to extend beyond the class and into the world-at-large.
- Department: Theatre Arts
- W 2:30 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Timothy A Hess
Info - 0-3 points
Public Health Practice Seminar II
PH Practice Seminar II
The internship course provides a substantive opportunity for students to practice applying their expertise and skills in a real world setting. The course allows students to work with practitioners and public health/healthcare experts to explore their interests in more depth and to expand their knowledge of current environments in their fields. Students will reflect on their interests, values, and skills and how their internship, past experiences, and studies align with their goals. The course will provide the opportunity for reflection on work advancement, progress of skill development, connection to current coursework, and exposure to areas within their field. The course includes self-reflection and career interests assessment exercises, and builds on communication skills to train students to respond to challenging questions that they may encounter in the job search process. The seminar provides a supportive framework designed to enhance students’ applied, field-based learning experience by exploring common themes encountered in the fieldwork setting. The seminar will address the public health core competencies of leadership, communication, professionalism, systems thinking, interprofessional education. Learning objectives include: • Describe the Theory of Vocational Choice by John Holland and explain how it can help you choose a career in alignment with your interests. • Prioritize your career interests, values, and mission areas of interest and describe how they relate to your current internship. • Identify three current job descriptions that match your interests, values, and mission areas of interest. • Write at least three effective bullet points for your resume based on your current internship and based on your job market research. • List 3 sources of salary and job market research and information. • Negotiate your salary. • Communicate your short term and long term goals and three steps you plan to take to achieve them. • Describe how your internship has contributed towards your achievement of these goals.
PREREQUISITES AND PERMISSION: Students must submit a letter from their employer following the guidelines at https://isso.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/sampleletters/CPTemploymentsample.pdf to
hk2778@cumc.columbia.edu
in order to obtain permission to enroll in this course. If you are continuing an internship with the same organization where you completed your required APEx or internship,
- Department: Public Health
- F 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Heather Krasna
h-index: 5 Info - 0.5 points
ATHENIAN DRAMA: GENRE, PERFORMANCE, POLI
This course examines the three dramatic genres of fifth-century BCE Athens – tragedy, comedy, and satyr play – alongside one another. Even though these genres were often performed on the same stage and sometimes at the same festival, modern scholars have tended to treat them separately. Each week we will instead allow these distinct forms of drama to intersect by close reading substantial selections from a tragedy, a comedy, and a satyr play under a particular theme or topic. This will allow us to explore the insights and resonances that emerge at the intersection between these genres, as we consider commonalities and differences between dramatic genres, as well as how Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Cratinus, Eupolis, Euripides, Sophocles and others handled dramatic structures, myth, politics, religion, and staging. Our aim is to gain insight into the intricacies of ancient Greek theater and the boundaries that modern scholars have drawn between these sibling genres. Because most satyr play – as well as the comedies of Cratinus and Eupolis – survives in fragments we will additionally explore the challenges and opportunities of working with fragmentary drama. While our focus will be on the primary texts, the assigned secondary reading will also introduce students to a range of key areas of focus such as the city, the chorus, and gods as well as to various recent approaches related to theories of embodiment, materiality, and cognition. This broad-ranging approach is designed not only to familiarize students with the theoretical landscape of Greek drama of the last twenty-five years but also to encourage advanced exploration of ancient Greek theater through a range of critical approaches and methodologies.
- Department: Classics @Barnard
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rosa M Andujar
Info - 3 points
Communicating Health Risks to the Public
This course explores health risk communication approaches and strategies, focusing on their practical application in real-world scenarios. Students learn how to use the power of effective communication to advance informed decision-making about public health issues. With a keen eye on the dynamics of interpersonal, organizational, and mediated channels, students delve into the nuances of crafting impactful messages that evoke predictable effects and facilitate positive outcomes. Students gain insights into how communication shapes the public’s experience of health risks, as well as how to manage emotions and conflicts and address contemporary communication issues, including infodemics and misinformation.
Additionally, a trauma-informed approach is utilized to gain insights into the prevalence and consequences of trauma, how it influences behaviors and decision-making, and the intersection with crisis communication. One of the highlights of this course is its focus on cultivating public speaking skills. Students learn to navigate complex public health topics with confidence, empathy, and a commitment to clear, authentic, and trustworthy communication.
This course is highly experiential, offering ample opportunities to put theory into practice. A diverse range of communication materials will be produced, encompassing written documents and multimedia presentations. Students will gain the skills necessary to create compelling, evidence-based, and accessible content tailored to diverse stakeholders.
- Department: General Public Health
- R 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
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Instructor:
Carina Schmid
Info - 1.5 points
ADV MPH Online Integrative Learning Expe
Integrative Learning Exp.
The Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH), the institution that accredits public health schools and programs in the United States, requires that all students complete an Integrated Learning Experience (ILE) to earn an MPH degree. The ILE, submitted as students near completion of their degree, is considered the culminating experience providing students the opportunity to highlight proficiencies and to make connections between significant elements of the MPH education. As students progress towards fulfilling degree requirements, they, in consultation with their advisors, identify foundational and program specific competencies to support their education and career goals. The ILE requirement stipulates students demonstrate the acquisition and synthesis of competencies they have identified with their faculty advisors through the submission of a high-quality written document.
- Department: General Public Health
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Instructor:
Stephanie A Grilo
Info - 0 points
INDIV PROJECTS IN MUSICOLOGY
Sec. 1: Ethnomusicology; Sec. 2: Historical Musicology; Sec. 3: Music Theory; Sec. 4: Music Cognition; Sec. 5: Music Philosophy.
- Department: Music
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Instructor:
Alessandra M Ciucci
CULPA: 1 Info -
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Julia Doe
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Aaron A Fox
CULPA: 7
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Giuseppe Gerbino
CULPA: 12
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Knar Abrahamyan
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Mariusz Kozak
CULPA: 4 h-index: 5 Info -
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Georg Friedrich Haas
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Instructor:
Elaine Sisman
CULPA: 13
Wikipedia
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Benjamin A Steege
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Ruth Opara
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Instructor:
Marcos Balter
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
Applied Regression I
APPLIED REGRESSION I
This course will provide an introduction to the basics of regression analysis. The class will proceed systematically from the examination of the distributional qualities of the measures of interest, to assessing the appropriateness of the assumption of linearity, to issues related to variable inclusion, model fit, interpretation, and regression diagnostics. We will primarily use scalar notation (i.e. we will use limited matrix notation, and will only briefly present the use of matrix algebra).
- Department: Biostatistics
- R 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Martina Pavlicova
h-index: 30 Info - 3 points
ADVANCED EDITING WORKSHOP
- Department: Film
- M 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
- T 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth Kling
Info - 3 points
ADVANCED TOPICS IN IEOR
AI & Algo for Soc Good
Selected topics in IEOR. Content varies from year to year. May be repeated for credit.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lily Xu
Info - 3 points
ADVANCED TOPICS IN IEOR
Log-concave probability
Selected topics in IEOR. Content varies from year to year. May be repeated for credit.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Daniel Lacker
CULPA: 4
h-index: 13
Info
- 3 points
ADVANCED TOPICS IN IEOR
High-dimensional Prob w/Applic
Selected topics in IEOR. Content varies from year to year. May be repeated for credit.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kaizheng Wang
CULPA: 1 h-index: 8 Info - 3 points
ADVANCED TOPICS IN IEOR
Dynamic Learning & Opt
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:
Vineet Goyal
h-index: 21 Info - 3 points
ADVANCED TOPICS IN IEOR
Exploring Diffusion Model
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:
Wenpin Tang
h-index: 6 Info - 3 points
FICTION THESIS WORKSHOP
- Department: Writing
- W 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
- F 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
- T 1:10 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
- M 1:10 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Paul Beatty
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Anelise I Chen
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Rivka R Galchen
CULPA: 6
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Victor D Lavalle
CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info -
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Samuel Lipsyte
CULPA: 5
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Instructor:
Gary Shteyngart
Wikipedia Info - 9 points
Introduction to Health Data Science
Intro to Health Data Scie
This course will introduce students to core data science skills and concepts through the exploration of applied biostatistics. The course will begin with an introduction to the R programming language and the RStudio IDE, focusing on contemporary tidyverse functions and reproducible programming methods. Then, the course will instruct students in contemporary data manipulation and visualization tools while systematically covering core applied biostatistics topics, including confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, permutation tests, and logistic and linear regression. Finally, the semester will end with an introduction to machine learning concepts, including terminology, best practices in test/training sets, cross-validation, and a survey of contemporary classification and regression algorithms.
- Department: Biostatistics
- MW 4 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Cale N Basaraba
Info - 3 points
TOPICS IN APPLIED STATISTICS
Applied Causality
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- Department: Statistics
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
David Blei
Wikipedia h-index: 98 Info - 3 points
Process Improvement and Growth
This class brings business operations and management science classes to the field with real-world experience. Through experiential learning, we will bridge the gap between theory and practice with international case discussions, conversations with guest speakers and hands-on company sponsored projects. Different to most classes in the school, in this class students will be exposed to a series of international cases and examples based on medium-sized, fast-growing entrepreneurial ventures. Each session will also include a guest speaker, often times the protagonist of the case studied, giving the students the opportunity to learn directly from successful entrepreneurs and senior executives.
Additionally, students will put into practice the concept of process improvement by working on a company-sponsored applied project. Teams of 4-5 people, 3-4 MBA/EMBA students and 1-2 engineering (SEAS) students, will work hand in hand with the instructors and company representatives to achieve company goals. For example, teams may be tasked with re-designing the logistical strategy of distribution of the company to get rid of inefficiencies, or identify and find strategies to eliminate areas of waste within the companies’ processes, or analyze customer feedback and design operational solutions to increase customer satisfaction, etc.
Enrollment in this course is by application only. To apply, please follow this link: https://forms.gle/EG6buNZqQYEgN2EH9
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
- T 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
- 3 points
VISUAL ART LAB, SPRING
VISUAL ART LAB SPRING
Students meet with the professor and pave the transition from graduate students to seeing themselves as artists with a long term working creative perspective beyond academia. The professor will work to contextualize the students body of work in the arena of an international art conversation. VISUAL ART LAB will be led by Sarah Sze in the Spring.
Schedule:
Priority will be given to all second-year students who submit a short presentation of their work. Should there be remaining room for first year students they will be admitted upon review. To apply please submit a brief description of work, current research and interest in taking the seminar, along with 5 - 10 images. There will be one half hour meeting for each student with professor Sze throughout the Spring Semester.
Requirements:
Rigorous development of students' own body of work.
- Department: Visual Arts
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Instructor:
Sarah M Sze
CULPA: 1 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
Info - 0.5 points
Business Analytics II: Foundations of AI
Business Analytics II: AI
Business analytics refers to the ways in which enterprises such as businesses, non-profits, and governments use data to gain insights and make better decisions. Business analytics is applied in operations, marketing, finance, and strategic planning among other functions. Modern data collection methods – arising in bioinformatics, mobile platforms, and previously unanalyzable data like text and images – are leading an explosive growth in the volume of data available for decision making. The ability to use data effectively to drive rapid, precise, and profitable decisions has been a critical strategic advantage for companies as diverse as Walmart, Google, Capital One, and Disney. Many startups are based on the application of AI & analytics to large databases. With the increasing availability of broad and deep sources of information – so-called “Big Data” – business analytics are becoming an even more critical capability for enterprises of all types and all sizes. AI is beginning to impact every dimension of business and society. In many industries, you will need to be literate in AI to be a successful business leader. The Business Analytics sequence is designed to prepare you to play an active role in shaping the future of AI and business. You will develop a critical understanding of modern analytics methodology, studying its foundations, potential applications, and – perhaps most importantly – limitations.
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
- T 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
- W 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
- W 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
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Instructor:
Hongseok Namkoong
h-index: 11 Info - 1.5 points
Neuroscience
This intensive 16-week course during the second term of the DPT curriculum provides students with detailed coverage of neuroscience. The focus of the course is on the integral relationship between structure and function, as it relates to the neural basis for perception, movement, behavior, and cognition. A comprehensive understanding of normal structure and function provides the foundation for understanding abnormal structure and function.
This course uses a primarily systems approach to study neuroscience. The first part of the course covers essential concepts, such as neurobiology, neurohistology, neurophysiology, neurodevelopment, and neuroanatomy. The second part of the course covers perception. The third part of the course covers movement. The fourth part of the course covers homeostasis, behavior, cognition, and alterations (i.e. healing and aging). Functional consequences of lesions to various parts of the nervous system will be discussed.
- Department: Physical Therapy
- 4 points
Data Science II
DATA SCIENCE II
With the explosion of “Big Data” problems, statistical learning has become a very hot field in many scientific areas. The goal of this course is to provide the training in practical statistical learning. It is targeted to MS students with some data analysis experience.
- Department: Biostatistics
- TR 4 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Yifei Sun
h-index: 7 Info - 3 points
Operations Strategy
A firm's operations encompass all the activities that are performed in order to produce and deliver a product or a service. An operations strategy refers to a set of operational decisions that a firm makes to achieve a long-term competitive advantage. These decisions may be about the firms facilities, its technology/process choices, its relationships with both upstream and downstream business partners etc. The goal of this course is to provide students with an understanding of how and why operational decisions are integral to a firms success. The course builds on concepts from the core Operations Management course and the core Strategy Formulation course. It is highly relevant to anyone whose work requires the strategic analysis of a firms operations, including those interested in consulting, entrepreneurship, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, investment analysis, and general management. The course consists of four modules. The first module, Strategic Alignment," explores the question of how a firms operations should be structured so as to be consistent with the firms chosen way to compete. The second module, "Firm Boundaries," considers the question of what operational activities should remain in house and what should be done by a business partner and the long-term implications of these decisions on competitive advantage. This module also addresses the issue of managing the business relationships with supply chain partners. The third module, "Internal Operations," considers key decision categories in operations, e.g., capacity decisions, process choices, IT implementation, and managing networks, and shows how these decisions can lead to distinctive capabilities. The final module, "New Challenges," is set aside to address new topics that reflect the current trends in the business environment."
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
- M 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
- T 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
- T 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
- W 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
- W 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
- R 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
- R 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
- F 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Medini Singh
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Case Based Application
- Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
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Patricia Precin
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Razan Hamed
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Instructor:
Katherine Dimitropoulou
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Dawn Nilsen
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Julia Guzman
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Daniel L Geller
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Instructor:
Cristin Holland
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Statistical Inference
STATISTICAL INFERENCE
This course covers a review of mathematical statistics and probability theory at the Masters level. Students will be exposed to theory of estimation and hypothesis testing, confidence intervals and Bayesian inference. Topics include population parameters, sufficient statistics, basic distribution theory, point and interval estimation, introduction to the theory of hypothesis testing, and nonparametric procedures.
- Department: Biostatistics
- F 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Bin Cheng
h-index: 32 Info - 3 points
CONCISE ORGANOMETALLIC CHEM
Main group and transition metal organometallic chemistry: bonding, structure, reactions, kinetics, and mechanisms.
The only prerequisites needed include General Chemistry II Lectures (specifically, kinetics, and at the level of UN1404 or UN1604) and Organic Chemistry II Lectures (at the level of UN2046 or UN2444). Advanced knowledge from classes, including but not limited to physical chemistry, inorganic chemistry, advanced organic chemistry, and synthetic methods, is NOT required.
- Department: Chemistry
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Jack R Norton
CULPA: 6
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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
- M 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
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Instructor:
Zhezhen Jin
h-index: 51 Info - 3 points
Game-Theoretic Business Strategy
GAME-THEORETIC BUSINESS S
This course is an introductory business-strategy course designed for analytically-oriented graduate students, particularly students in the joint Business School-IEOR programs. The course has three objectives.:
1 - Provide you with the economic theory to understand why a given company is (or is not) profitable. (For potential entrepreneurs, this theory becomes a tool to assess whether your proposed venture will be profitable in a competitive environment.)
2 - Provide you with perspectives for assessing the sustainability of a given company’s profitability. We will place special emphasis on understanding and evaluating the key assumptions and judgments underpinning your assessments. The course includes historical cases of managing a changing business environment.
3 - Enable you to identify the substantive issues behind the trends and frameworks in the strategy field.
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
- R 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
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Instructor:
Harborne Stuart
h-index: 10 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 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
David Klass
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Blair Singer
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SCENE STUDY
SELF TO PERFORMANCE
- Department: Theatre Arts
- F 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Peter Fernandez
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