Intro to Biology Course (T3ST)
Test Course for Vergil Launch Demonstration
- Department: OFFC OF THE REGISTRAR
- 3 points
S ADV INTER COMM ARBITRATION
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Robert H Smit
CULPA: 13 Info - 2 points
S CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Zohar Goshen
h-index: 12 Info - 3 points
Financial Management
The course introduces students to budgeting and financial control as a means of influencing the behavior of organizations. Concepts include the budget process and taxation, intergovernmental revenues, municipal finance, bonds, control of expenditures, purchasing, debt management, productivity enhancement, and nonprofit finance. Students learn about the fiscal problems that managers typically face, and how they seek to address them. Students also gain experience in conducting financial analysis and facility with spreadsheet programs. Case materials utilize earth systems issues and other policy issues. A computer lab section is an essential aspect of the course, as it teaches students to use spreadsheet software to perform practical exercises in budgeting and financial management.
- Department: MPA-ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE POL
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Instructor:
Rebecca E Koike
Info - 3 points
Non-Profit Law, Taxation and Policy
NON-PROFIT LAW TAXATION P
See CLS Curriculum Guide
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
David M Schizer
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
Microeconomics and Policy Analysis II
Microecon & Policy Analys
This two-semester course demonstrates that it is both possible and useful to think about public policy rigorously: to examine underlying assumptions; to understand how formal models operate; to question vagueness and clichés; and to make sophisticated ethical arguments. An important goal of the class is to have students work in groups as they apply microeconomic concepts to current public policy issues having to do with urban environmental and earth systems. The course includes problem sets designed to teach core concepts and their application. In the spring semester, the emphasis is on the application of concepts to analyze contemporary policy problems. Some time is also devoted to international trade and regulation, and industrial organization issues. Students not only learn microeconomic concepts, but also how to explain them to decision-makers. Student groups take on specific earth system policy issues, analyze options through the use of microeconomic concepts, and then make oral presentations to the class.
- Department: MPA-ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE POL
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Instructor:
Eren Selcuk
h-index: 4 Info - 3 points
Financial Development
Open to all SIPA with pre-req or concurrent-req: Macroeconomics.
This course aims to provide a well-rounded understanding of financial development over time and across countries, with an emphasis on public policy. Topics include a review of the foundations and processes of financial development; the roles of markets, instruments, and institutions; issues related to systemic financial stability; links to financial repression and globalization; and the developmental and oversight roles of the state. Financial activities arise in response to the interplay of a few easily identifiable frictions and related market failures, operating within an evolving institutional environment and uncertain macroeconomic context. Finance has both a bright side (welfare-enhancing financial development) and a dark side (financial instability and potential excess finance).
This conceptualization of financial development is supported by a review of the fundamental foundations of finance through simple modeling exercises, statistical illustrations of financial trends, and references to specific country experiences, many drawn from the work of IMF or World Bank financial sector-related missions.
Recitation slots will be used for guest lectures on frontier issues or for instructor-led discussions. These sessions may cover some of the analytical underpinnings for subsequent lectures, explore the policy implications of recent topics, or actively debate themes of special interest to students.
- Department: MPA IN ECON POLICY MANAGEMENT
- 3 points
S. Academic Scholars
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Charles Sabel
Wikipedia h-index: 77 Info - 1 points
S. Law & Finance of the Art Market
S LAW & FIN OF THE ART MA
See CLS curriculum guide for description
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Cathy M Kaplan
Info - 2 points
Foundations of VC (3 Credits)
Please note that this section of Foundations of VC is application-based only and only open to students enrolled in the Venture Fellows Program. Students interested in taking this course should consider B8439 Foundations of Venture Capital: https://courses.business.columbia.edu/B8439
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Foundations of Venture Capital is very experiential. Learnings will be applied to companies that are currently fundraising and you will assess each company as if you were considering investing. There will be 2-3 guest lecturers (in addition to the startup pitches) from experts in the ecosystem so students get a varied perspective. Real company info will be shared in this class. As a result, class slides will be handed out in class but not shared electronically and class sessions will not be recorded.
- Department: Finance
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Instructor:
Angela W Lee
Info - 3 points
S ADVANCED CLIMATE CHANGE LAW
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Michael Gerrard
CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info - 2 points
S NONPROFIT LAW AND POLICY
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
David Pozen
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
Ukraine: Power Politics and Diplomacy
Ukraine: Politics & Diplo
This seminar examines the political development, foreign policy, and historical trajectory of modern Ukraine, with particular attention to its evolving relationship with Russia and the West. The course is divided into three sections: (1) historical foundations of Ukrainian statehood; (2) thematic issues such as nationalism, governance, and Euroatlantic integration; and (3) the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war. Students will explore the origins, progression, and implications of the war, while considering potential paths toward resolution.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Alexander J Motyl
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info - 3 points
S POLICING THE POLICE
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Jeffrey A Fagan
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
S SOC & LEGAL REG OF FIREARMS
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Jeffrey A Fagan
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
Regulation of the Digital Economy
Regulation Digital Econom
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Anu Bradford
Wikipedia h-index: 15 Info - 2 points
S CONTEMP CRITICAL THOUGHT:CRITIQUE AFTE
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Bernard E Harcourt
Info - 2 points
Nuclear Theory, Politics, and Strategies
Nuclear weapons are often considered to pose humanity’s gravest danger. Yet despite nuclear threats and crises, states have managed to avoid the deliberate or inadvertent use of nuclear weapons since the end of World War II. Eighty years after Hiroshima, how has nuclear war been avoided? Did the advent of nuclear weapons create a revolution in military affairs that stalemated major powers and dramatically reduced the prospects of great power war by the emergence of mutual vulnerability and mutual assured destruction (MAD) postures? Or are nuclear weapons central to great power competition and valuable instruments of force, including for deterrence and coercion? Is there a taboo against nuclear use? Do the major theories about the nuclear era match actual practice and how has nuclear theory evolved? Are the strategies and approaches that were employed in the past still appropriate for the new multipolar nuclear age? Why do some states acquire nuclear weapons while others that have considered going nuclear (e.g., South Korea and Germany) so far forego the option, while still others (e.g., South Africa and Ukraine) have given up their nuclear weapons? What are the prospects for continued nuclear proliferation and hedging (e.g., Iran)?
This class will explore past and current patterns of behavior among existing, potential, and former nuclear weapons states. Other questions that animate this course include: What do nuclear weapons actually deter? Can they be used for coercion? How do operational plans and force postures serve military and political objectives? What are the incentives, disincentives and risks of strategies premised on deliberate escalation to nuclear use? Do they increase the probability of inadvertent use of nuclear weapons? What role do nuclear weapons play in U.S. strategy and security policies? How does the U.S. experience compare to those of other nuclear weapon states, such as USSR/Russia, China, India, Pakistan, and North Korea? This seminar will examine such questions to gain a better understanding of the importance of nuclear weapons for international relations.
- Department: International Security & Diplomacy
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Instructor:
Cynthia A Roberts
Wikipedia h-index: 11 Info - 3 points
S DOMESTIC & INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM: A
S DOMESTIC & INT'L TERROR
This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search
- Department: Law
- 2 points