MASTER'S THESIS
This course fulfills the Masters Thesis requirement of the QMSS MA Program. It is designed to help you make consistent progress on your master’s thesis throughout the semester, as well as to provide structure during the writing process. The master’s thesis, upon completion, should answer a fundamental research question in the subject matter of your choice. It should be an academic paper based on data that you can acquire, clean, and analyze within a single semester, with an emphasis on clarity and policy relevance.
- Department: Quantitative Methods/Social Sciences
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Hadi Katesari
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Instructor:
Maiko Yomogida
Info - 3-4 points
GRADUATE SPECIAL TOPIC
Health as a System
Current topics in biomedical engineering. Subject matter will vary by year.
- Department: Biomedical Engineering
- W 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Henry Hess
CULPA: 1 h-index: 45 Info - 3 points
GRADUATE SPECIAL TOPIC
SciStory:Grants,Papers,En
Current topics in biomedical engineering. Subject matter will vary by year.
- Department: Biomedical Engineering
- M 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Santiago Correa
Info - 3 points
GRADUATE SPECIAL TOPIC
Signal Proc Med Devices
Current topics in biomedical engineering. Subject matter will vary by year.
- Department: Biomedical Engineering
- M 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Megan Heenan
Info - 3 points
APPLIED RESEARCH
- Department: Insurance Management
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Instructor:
Teresa W Chan
Info - 3 points
Intro Social Data Analysis I
Basic techniques for analyzing quantitative social science data. Emphasis on conceptual understanding as well as practical mastery of probability and probability distributions, inference, hypotheses testing, analysis of variance, simple regression, and multiple regression.
- Department: Sociology
- R 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Yao Lu
h-index: 25 Info - 4 points
EARTH SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM
Current topics in the Earth sciences.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
- F 3:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kaleigh B Matthews
Info - 1 points
BIOMEDICAL DESIGN II
Second semester of project-based design experience for graduate students. Elements of design process, with focus on skills development, prototype development and testing, and business planning. Real-world training in biomedical design, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
- Department: Biomedical Engineering
- MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Megan Heenan
Info - 3 points
The Central Dogma: Mechanisms and Regula
THE CENTRAL DOGMA
- Department: Biological Sciences
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- 3 points
MESAAS RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM
This course provides a structured setting for stand-alone M.A. students in their final year and Ph.D. students in their second and third years to develop their research trajectories in a way that complements normal coursework. The seminar meets approximately biweekly and focuses on topics such as research methodology; project design; literature review, including bibliographies and citation practices; grant writing. Required for MESAAS graduate students in their second and third year.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
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Instructor:
Alison Vacca
Info - 2 points
ENVIRONMENTAL DATA ANALYSIS
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- M 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
- 3 points
OLD RUSSIAN LITERATURE
- Department: Slavic Languages
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Valentina Izmirlieva
CULPA: 14 Info - 4 points
INTRO TO HUMAN RIGHTS
This course provides a wide-ranging survey of conceptual foundations and issues in contemporary human rights. The course examines the philosophical origins of human rights, their explication in the evolving series of international documents, questions of enforcement, and current debates. It also explores topics such as womens rights, development and human rights, the use of torture, humanitarian intervention, and the horrors of genocide. The broad range of subjects covered in the course is intended to assist students in honing their interests and making future course selections in the human rights field.
- Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Glenn Mitoma
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Instructor:
Daniela R Ikawa
Info - 3 points
MEDIEVAL/RENAISSANCE PHILOLOGY
MEDIEVAL/RENAISSANCE PHILOLGY
- Department: Medieval and Renaissance Studies
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Instructor:
Susan Boynton
CULPA: 18 Info - 3 points
MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE PHILOLOGY
Medieval and Renaissance Philology for MA students.
- Department: Medieval and Renaissance Studies
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Instructor:
Susan Boynton
CULPA: 18 Info - 4 points
In/disciplines of the Quotidian: Spanish
In/disciplines of Quotidi
“In/disciplines of the Quotidian: Spanish Still Lives and the Politics of the Overlooked” is an interdisciplinary cultural studies course that investigates how the ordinary becomes a site of tension, meaning, and critique across Spanish artistic traditions. Taking as its point of departure two productive contradictions—the paradox of still life/
Naturaleza muerta
(simultaneously immobile and vital) and the
bodegón
as both a lively social space and an emptied, object-filled scene—the course examines how the materiality of objects and backgrounds administer absence, presence and attention, reshape cultural narratives but also structure the political.
The course is grounded in a theoretical framework that treats materiality as inherently political, asking how objects participate in the organization of social life and regimes of value. Drawing on Thomas Lemke’s notion of the “government of things,” it considers how power operates not only through subjects but through arrangements of objects, infrastructures, and environments that shape conduct and perception. At the same time, it stages a dialogue between new materialist approaches—which emphasize the agency and vitality of matter—and Marxist materialisms, with their focus on labor, commodity relations, and historical conditions. Rather than opposing these traditions, the course explores their productive dialogue, showing how attention to lively matter can coexist with a critical social and political analysis ultimately reframing the overlooked object as both an active force, tool and sediment of social relations.
We will focus on very different contexts and objects of study from a comparative diachronic perspective, starting with seventeenth and eighteenth-century Spanish still life painting (Sánchez Cotán, Zurbarán, Meléndez, Goya) where everyday objects—food, vessels, tools—appear suspended in time yet charged with latent energy. These compositions negotiate life and stillness, abundance and austerity, the quotidian and the mystical, while also reflecting class structures, domestic labor, and consumption. The
bodegón
emerges here as a conceptual hinge: a trace of human interaction or monastic solitude, but also a script of its outside, and a religious and political pedagogy.
The course then turns to avant-garde literature and film of the 1920s, where writers and film-makers fragme
- Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
- R 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alberto Medina
Info - 4 points
HLTH PROM/DISEASE PREVNT CLRKSHIP II
HPDP CLERKSHIPS II
- Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
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Instructor:
Folarin Odusola
h-index: 5 Info - 0 points
Historical Approaches in the Social Scie
Historical Aprchs Scl Scn
This course introduces students to historical approaches in sociology and political science (and some economics). In the first part, the course surveys the major theoretical approaches and methodological traditions. Examples of the former are classic comparativist work (e.g. Skocpol’s study of revolutions), historist approaches (such as Sewell’s), or the historical institutionalist tradition (Mahoney, Thelen, Wimmer, etc.). In terms of methodological approaches, we will discuss classical Millean small-N comparisons, Qualitative Comparative Analysis, process tracing, actor-centered modeling, quantitative, large-N works, and causal inference type of research designs. In the second part, major topics in macro-comparative social sciences are examined, from world systems and empire to the origins of democracy.
- Department: Sociology
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Andreas Wimmer
Wikipedia h-index: 41 Info - 4 points
PSYCHOPHYSIOLGCL METH/ANALYSIS
- Department: Psychology
- MW 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Niall Bolger
CULPA: 4 h-index: 55 Info - 4 points
Proseminar in Religion I
The Proseminar in Religion is designed to support PhD students within the department as they work on various aspects of professional development. Meeting three times per semester, the sessions will focus on both academic and non-academic career paths, coordinated by a member of the faculty and with guest speakers from both within and beyond the department. The emphasis will be on concrete outputs and skills training. The proseminar will require preparation and active participation from enrolled students, including background reading and writing assignments connected to the monthly topic. After each session focused on a piece of writing (fellowship applications; CVs and cover letters; publishing), students should come away from the proseminar with strong drafts of the relevant texts.
The proseminar is required for all ABD students in year 5 or 6 and can be taken sequentially or not. ABD students are encouraged to speak about the timing of enrollment with the DGS and their dissertation sponsor.
- Department: Religion
- W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Matthew Engelke
CULPA: 3 Wikipedia h-index: 25 Info - 1 points
SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY: THE ORIGINS
Prerequisites: this course is intended for sociology Ph.D. and SMS students. No others without the instructors written permission. Foundational sources and issues in sociological theory: Adam Smith, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel, Mead, Mauss, others; division of labor, individualism, exchange, class and its vicissitudes, social control, ideas and interests, contending criteria of explanation and interpretation.
- Department: Sociology
- T 9 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Gil Eyal
CULPA: 15
h-index: 26
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- 3 points
Human Brain Imaging for Cognitive Neuros
Human Brain Imaging: Cog
This course provides an introduction to the most widely used methods for measuring and analyzing human brain activity and their application in cognitive neuroscience, complemented by weekly hands-on interactive labs to deepen understanding, experience measurements, and explore analyses.
- Department: Psychology
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nikolaus Kriegeskorte
h-index: 56 Info - 4 points
MAKING ETHNOG:METHOD & WRITING
This course begins with two central and related epistemological problems in conducting ethnographic research: first, the notion that objects of scientific research are ‘made’ through adopting a particular relational stance and asking certain kinds of questions. From framing a research problem and choosing a ‘research context’ story to tell, to the kinds of methods one selects to probe such a problem, the ‘how’ and ‘what’ – or means and content – are inextricably intertwined. A second epistemological problem concerns the artifice of reality, and the nebulous distinction between truth and fiction, no less than the question of where or with whom one locates such truth.
With these issues framing the course, we will work through some key themes and debates in anthropology from the perspective of methodology, ranging from subject/object liminality to incommensurability and radical alterity to the politics of representation. Students will design an ethnographic project of their choosing and conduct research throughout the term, applying different methodological approaches popular in anthropology and the social sciences more generally, such as participant observation, semi-structured interview, diary-keeping and note-taking.
- Department: Anthropology
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nicholas Glastonbury
Info - 3 points
STUDIES IN DANTE
Inferno
A variable-content course that rotates through various texts of Dante's and various areas of Dante studies. The fall 2026 course will be an in-depth reading of
Inferno
.
- Department: Italian
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Teodolinda Barolini
CULPA: 7
Wikipedia
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- 3 points
READING, WRITING, ETHNOGRAPHY
READING WRITING ETHNOGRAPHY
Anthropology GR6079x READING WRITING ETHNOGRAPHY. Reading, Writing, Ethnography” asks students to imagine learning to read and then to write anew. It explores a series of exemplary texts in order to explore the histories, genre conventions and experimental forms for writing ethnography. The course is especially concerned with the ways in which empirical observation is made the ground of theoretical abstraction and generalizing claims. Additionally, it examines the relationship between different theoretical and aesthetic movements as these have influenced the writings of anthropologists and those whose work can be considered to have an anthropological ambition—even when they have not been formally trained in anthropology.
- Department: Anthropology
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Rosalind Morris
CULPA: 20 Wikipedia Info - 3 points
THING THEORY
Anthropology GR6085x THING THEORY. The ‘material turn’ is a shorthand for the vast and messy literature on things/objects/materials/ stuff/matter that crosses between and interweaves anthropology, archaeology, art history, science & technology studies (STS), political science, philosophy, and literary studies. Material cultural studies, of varying sorts, ask how things make us. This course explores the turn towards things across the humanities and social sciences over the past few decades. Engaging with the material of worlds, scholars have generated new questions, new modes of analysis, and new accounts of subjectivity, agency, and being. We will read a variety of texts from anthropology, STS, and other disciplines, in order to trace some of the ways in which material objects have become important to scholars in the humanities and social sciences.
- Department: Anthropology
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Hannah Chazin
Info - 3 points
INTRO TO INTL PLANNING
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- M 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ebru A Gencer
Info - 3 points
Waste and Leftovers
Generations of anthropologists have seized upon waste as an object to think through issues as wide-ranging as labor divisions, religious devotion, and processes of social classification and value production. In recent years the discipline has renewed attention to this object by way of puzzling through how apparently intensifying global processes of industrialization, consumption, and extraction shape contemporary politics and ecological sensibilities. This seminar charts some of these moves within and beyond our discipline by inviting students to consider how and to what ends societies work through wasted things but also other kinds of durable leftovers (i.e. “ruins,” “byproducts,” “rubble,” “remainders” etc). Of particular concern for us will be the production and (re)appropriation of things that defy strict classification as “waste,” that is, as things imagined to be readily and permanently ejected from a social group or order. Students will read seminal texts on waste, excess, abjection, and reappropriation alongside ethnographic and historical monographs that take up these themes.
- Department: Anthropology
- F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Catherine Fennell
Info - 3 points
DESIGNS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH
Required of all incoming sociology doctoral students. Prepares students who have already completed an undergraduate major or its equivalent in some social science to evaluate and undertake both systematic descriptions and sound explanations of social structures and processes.
- Department: Sociology
- W 9 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Peter Bearman
CULPA: 19
Wikipedia
h-index: 54
Info
- 4 points
AF-AM: PRO SEMINAR
This course introduces students to central questions and debates in the fields of African American Studies, and it explores the various interdisciplinary efforts to address them. The seminar is designed to provide an interdisciplinary foundation and familiarize students with a number of methodological approaches. Toward this end we will have a number of class visitors/guest lecturers drawn from members of IRAAS's Core and Affiliated Faculty.
- Department: African American and African Diaspora
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Brandi Summers
Info - 4 points
ADVANCED MECHANICS OF FLUIDS
Eulerian and Lagrangian descriptions of motion. Stress and strain rate tensors, vorticity, integral and differential equations of mass, momentum, and energy conservation. Potential flow.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
- W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gerard A Ateshian
Info - 3 points
INTRODUCTION TO SLAVIC LITERARY THEORY
INTRO TO SLAVIC LITERARY
This course introduces graduate students to the major 20th-century literary theories that emerged in Russia and Eastern Europe. The course's main purpose is to familiarize students with these approaches and teach them how to use theoretical models as tools for analyzing literary texts.
By the end of the course, students will be required to write a paper investigating the theoretical aspects of one or more literary texts discussed in class. This paper will test not only students' mastery of literary analysis through the prism of multiple theoretical models, but also their ability to challenge a literary text through theory and vice versa.
Writing the paper will include a workshop-style class in which students design their thesis and outline. The course will also introduce students to the Bahmeteff Archive and Columbia's library holdings.
This course counts as Proseminar for Slavic graduate students but is also open to students in other disciplines, which is why all readings are in English.
- Department: Slavic Languages
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Mark Lipovetsky
Wikipedia Info - 4 points
THEORY & METHOD-STUDY OF RELIG
“Theories and Methods” courses in any field are commonly unwieldy beasts. They cannot but be a compromise-formation between contemporary questions and texts, ideas, and definitions (alongside a whole lot of problems) that we have inherited as “canonical” in a field. In the best case, such a course is a passageway into deeper engagement with a field, its histories, its complexities, and its possibilities from which we might wrest and build viable futures. Disciplinary fields are structures where power and knowledge are produced and reproduced. The study of religion is no exception. The questions of “how is ‘religion’ constructed as a category here?” and “what work does the designation of something or someone as ‘religious’ do?” will, therefore, accompany us throughout our work over the course of this semester. We will also examine how different methodological commitments shape what objects of study and which questions come to the fore for the study of religion. This course will explore how the study of religion is not reducible to the study of traditions and communities that are readily recognized as “religious.” However, the vexed histories of the construction of “religion” as a category of knowledge production does also not negate that there are large, varied, and flourishing communities of practice beyond the university for whom whether or not “religion” exists is not at all a question. Holding these layers of complexity in play, this course seeks to introduce students exemplarily to key texts and concepts that have shaped the study of religion as we encounter it today as an academic discipline.
- Department: Religion
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Yannik Thiem
h-index: 1 Info - 3 points
World s End: 20th and 21St Century Dys
World's End: 20th and 21s
In this class, we will read a range of ambiguous utopias and dystopias (to use a term from Ursula LeGuin) and explore various models of temporality, a range of fantasies of apocalypse and a few visions of futurity. While some critics, like Frederick Jameson, propose that utopia is a “meditation on the impossible,” others like José Muñoz insist that “we must dream and enact new and better pleasures, other ways of being in the world, and ultimately new worlds.” Utopian and dystopian fictions tend to lead us back to the present and force confrontations with the horrors of war, the ravages of capitalist exploitation, the violence of social hierarchies and the ruinous peril of environmental decline. In the films and novels and essays we engage here, we will not be looking for answers to questions about what to do and nor should we expect to find maps to better futures. We will no doubt be confronted with dead ends, blasted landscapes and empty gestures. But we will also find elegant aesthetic expressions of ruination, inspirational confrontations with obliteration, brilliant visions of endings, breaches, bureaucratic domination, human limitation and necro-political chaos. We will search in the narratives of uprisings, zombification, cloning, nuclear disaster, refusal, solidarity, for opportunities to reimagine world, ends, futures, time, place, person, possibility, art, desire, bodies, life and death.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jack Halberstam
Wikipedia Info - 4 points
URBAN SENSING AND DATA
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Anthony P Vanky
Info - 3 points
METHOD & THEORY IN ARCHAEOLOGY
METHOD & THEROY IN ARCHAEOLOGY
This course is a seminar on research design in anthropological archaeology. It examines the links among theory, method, and data analysis in project design and interpretation.
- Department: Anthropology
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Terence N D'Altroy
CULPA: 37 Info - 3 points
MPHIL THESIS WRITING SEMINAR II
MPHIL THS WRTNG SMNR II
This seminar is PART 2 for second and third year students who are writing their MPhil thesis. It will assume the form of a yearlong seminar during which students design, research, and write up their MPhil projects. These projects can be based on any kind of sociological method, quantitative or qualitative. The thesis will assume the form of an article that can be submitted to a social science journal. The seminar will help you to find an interesting question, a way to answer it, and a mode of communicating this to fellow sociologists in a way that they might find worth paying attention to. The summer break between the two semesters will allow students who don’t come to the first semester with ready-to-analyze data to gather such data (through ethnographic work, archival research, scraping the internet, combining existing survey data, etc.).
- Department: Sociology
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Barbara J Kiviat
Info - 4 points
THE BODY IN HLTH & DISEASE II
- Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
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Instructor:
John T Grbic
h-index: 36 Info - 0 points
ORAL HISTOLOGY GROWTH & DVLPMT
- Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
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Instructor:
Letty Moss-Salentijn
h-index: 20 Info - 0 points
Russian Formalism
Twenty-first century literary studies has seen a steadily growing interest in formalist literary theory. This trend has manifested in new movements, such as New Formalism, Historical Poetics, and Quantitative Formalism. This interest in formalism has been accompanied by a widely expressed desire for a better understanding of literary form, and to find ways to connect its study with cultural and political history. The archive of Russian Formalism, a protean movement which was active in the 1910s and 1920s, is a rich source for those interested in rethinking the concept of form today. Beginning in the 1960s and ‘70s, Russian Formalism was interpreted as the precursor to French Structuralism and Post-Structuralism. In this class we seek to recontextualize Russian Formalism—not in terms of the ideas of the Cold War period—but rather in light of the cultural and political milieu of revolutionary and Civil War era Russia. By connecting theories of form with the cultural and political contexts from which they emerged, our goal is to develop an understanding of form as a concept defined not only in aesthetic or linguistic terms, but also as a construct with sociopolitical import.
- Department: Slavic Languages
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jessica E Merrill
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
PRACTICUM: RES PLANNING
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- F 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kate Dunham
Info - 1.5 points
Modernism, Dance, and Diaspora
How do dancers, poets, and novelists use the resources of their genres to imagine new forms of embodiment and belonging? This graduate seminar brings together recent work in the fields of modernism, dance, and diaspora studies to explore the relationship between theories of movement, space, and dwelling in the literature and drama of global modernity. We will study representations of modern dance in literary works, as well as performances by modern dancers and choreographers, to consider the reciprocity and continuity of forms long associated with expressivity and social change. At the same time, we will chart how such texts become invested in strategic withholding and inexpression, or what performance scholar Tina Post has called “deadpan” aesthetics. Can there be a kind of revelation in concealment—or, conversely, a concealment in the guise of outward projection? At the level of form, how might we understand phenomena that seem to cross disciplinary lines, such as choreographic narration, kinaesthetic empathy, self-talk as social dress rehearsal, or theatrically-populated interior monologue? And how might these insights be brought to bear on the embodied and psychic experience of diaspora, that conundrum of enforced movement that can so often feel like stuckness-in-place?
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- R 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Zoe L Henry
Info - 4 points
IDEA OF A BL RADICAL TRADITION
This course will seek to raise and think through the following questions: What does it mean to talk today about a black radical tradition? What has it meant in the past to speak in these (or cognate) terms? And if we take the debate in part at least to inhabit a normative discursive space, an argumentative space in which to make claims on the moral-political present, what ought it to mean to talk about a black radical tradition?
- Department: Anthropology
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
David Scott
CULPA: 6
h-index: 72
Info
- 3 points
Dynamics of the Israeli-Palestinian Conf
The seminar will explore the Israeli-Palestinian (and Israeli-Arab) conflict from the beginning of the 20th century until today. The first part of the seminar will focus on the historical background informing the conflict and leading to the Palestinian refugee problem and the establishment of a Jewish, but not Palestinian, state in 1948. The second part of the seminar focuses on Palestinian-Arab citizens in Israel, Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, the settlement project, and possible political solutions, as well as the USA's role and its impact on the conflict, the occupation, and the current Gaza war.
- Department: Sociology
- R 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Yinon Cohen
CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 33 Info - 4 points
History of Archaeology Theory
This seminar examines the history of archaeological thought from its antiquarian beginnings in the 19th century, through archaeology’s professionalization and redefinition as an anthropological science during the mid-20th century, to the emergence of archaeology as a critically self-reflexive discipline during the late-20th century, defined by complicated intellectual ties across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Our driving questions are epistemological. How have archaeologists understood the project of interpretation? How have they articulated their relationship to data? What has come to count as evidence and what has not? How have archaeologists organized material remains in the present to make claims about the past? What questions have been posed about past cultures, and how were these “cultures” constructed as objects of study in the first place? Is archaeology best understood as a generalizing science, a historically oriented humanity, or both—and how and why has the discipline’s answer to this question evolved over time? How do the situated positions of archaeologists within contemporary society impact the claims they make about the past?
- Department: Anthropology
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Zoe Crossland
CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info - 4 points
BLACK GEOGRAPHIES: A PLACE FOR BLACK STU
BLK GEOGR A PLACE FOR BLK
This Ph.D. seminar explores the inextricable connection between blackness and geographic inquiry by exploring the intersections of Black Studies and Geography. Considering Katherine McKittrick’s claim that Black geographies are ‘
the terrain
of political struggle itself’ or
where
the imperative of a perspective of struggle takes place,” we will situate the spatial relations of blackness by placing Black people at the core of spatial production and examine the mechanisms by which this takes place. In this course we ask: what are the limitations
and
possibilities of traditional geographies and how does Black study attend to these boundaries? How does Black geographic thought produce wider material and conceptual space for geographic knowledge? How does Black Studies account for and understand Black spatial condition, experience, and imaginaries?
- Department: African American and African Diaspora
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Brandi Summers
Info - 4 points
PRACTICUM IN TEACHING OF PSYCH
Practical and theoretical issues relating to the teaching of psychology and the psychology of teaching.
- Department: Psychology
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Katherine T Fox-Glassman
CULPA: 6
h-index: 4
Info
- 1-3 points
MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS I
Prerequisites: the director of graduate studies' permission. Corequisites: ECON G6410. Consumer and producer behavior; general competitive equilibrium, welfare and efficiency, behavior under uncertainty, intertemporal allocation and capital theory, imperfect competition, elements of game theory, problems of information, economies with price rigidities.
- Department: Economics
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- 4 points
MACROECONOMIC ANALYSIS I
Prerequisites: the director of graduate studies' permission. Concept of full employment. Models of underemployment and theory applicability, determinants of consumption and of investment, multiplier and accelerator analysis, an introduction to monetary macroeconomics, the supply side and inflation. Integration of macroeconomics with microeconomic and monetary analysis.
- Department: Economics
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- 4 points
ADVANCED MACRO ANALYSIS I
- Department: Economics
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jennifer La'O
h-index: 9 Info - 3 points
Longitudinal Data Analysis & Causal Infe
Longitudinal Data Anal &
Panel data or longitudinal data consist of multiple measures over time on a sample of individuals. These types of data occur extensively in both observational and experimental studies in social, behavioral, and health sciences. This course will provide an introduction to the principles and methods for the analysis of panel data. Whereas some supporting statistical theory will be given, emphasis will be on data analysis and interpretation of models for longitudinal data. Problems will be motivated by applications primarily in social sciences.
FAMILY ECONOMICS
Prerequisites: ECON G6211, ECON G6212, ECON G6411, ECON G6412. The course will focus on the economic theory of matching both from a theoretical and empirical point of views. It is intended to give the attendees an overview of the fundamental theory of the optimal assignment problem, as well as its application to various fields such as labor, family and transportation economics. A particular emphasis is put on the empirical aspects and identification issues, and the main matching algorithms will also be discussed. The last part of the course tries to make a link with matching games with nontransferable (or partially transferable) utility and attempts to provide a unified treatment.
- Department: Economics
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Pierre-Andre Chiappori
Wikipedia h-index: 64 Info - 3 points
TOPICS-INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION
- Department: Economics
- F 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Maria Doval
Info - 3 points
ARCH & DEV DIALOGUES
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Raquel Ramati
Info - 1.5 points
INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION I
Prerequisites: ECON G6211 and ECON G6212 or the instructor's permission. This course provides an introduction to a number of exciting research questions in industrial organization and organizational economics. While most of the content is theoretical, great emphasis is placed on the testable implications of the models we study: related empirical work is surveyed. The course aims to bring students to the research frontier by identifying open research questions and highlighting particularly active research areas.
- Department: Economics
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Pietro Tebaldi
Info - 3 points
US REIT ANALYSIS & INVESTMENT
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- W 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
David A Kruth
Info - 3 points
UNDERWRITING
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- W 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Christopher W Munsell
Info - 3 points
NEW YORK RISING: HOW RE SHAPES A CITY
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- F 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kate J Ascher
Info - 3 points
HOTEL DEVPT/INVESTMNT ANALYSIS
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- F 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
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Instructor:
Adam S Feil
Info - 1.5 points
TPCS IN DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
Prerequisites: G6211, G6212, G6215, G6216, G6411, G6412 or the instructor's permission. This course covers prominent topics in micro-development economics. Lectures and readings will cover theoretical frameworks; emphasize empirical research; and highlight gaps in the literature.
Practicum in Music Composition
This course provides an opportunity for students in the Music Department’s Composition DMA program to engage in off-campus practicum or internships in music composition for academic credit that will count towards the requirements for the degree.
- Department: Music
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Instructor:
Zosha Di Castri
Info - 1 points
Third Year Proseminar
This proseminar, which meets alternate weeks for the full academic year, is required for third-year PhD students in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. The seminar will help you prepare for orals, develop your dissertation ideas, expand your research skills, produce articles for publication, and generally extend your professional skills. While we will read some practical “how to” literature and models, the focus will be on writing, workshopping material, and discussing process (time-management, organization, etc). Both out-of-class assignments and in-class writing exercises should serve to extend your ideas—or shake them loose—and bring you closer to a dissertation that represents your vision, makes others want to read your work, and reminds you why you care. By the end of the year, you will have a polished dissertation prospectus and should have submitted at least one article for publication (or have one close-to-ready for submission). Above all, the seminar offers a supportive community, an opportunity to try out ideas (cooked or still raw), and encouragement from your fellow scholar-writer-thinkers as you progress toward your orals and dissertation.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Julie S Peters
CULPA: 5
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Hitchcock / Theory
In the later 20th century, Alfred Hitchcock’s reputation underwent a significant critical revaluation. No longer viewed as merely the “Master of Suspense,” he—and his work—became central objects of poststructuralist thought, embraced not only by film theorists but by world-renowned philosophers and critical theorists. This is a course on both Hitchcock’s films and 20th- and 21st-century critical theory. In conjunction with the films, we will read key texts by Alain Badiou, Gilles Deleuze, Freud, Fredric Jameson, Jacques Lacan, Laura Mulvey, Jacques Rancière, Tzvetan Todorov, Slavoj Žižek (and others). We will develop skills in close cinematic analysis and the parsing of theoretical texts, while exploring keywords in literary, media, and performance theory (narrative, apparatus, ideology, dispositif, subject, performativity, affect, gaze, fetish, frame, screen, theatricality, etc.).
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Julie S Peters
CULPA: 5
Info
- 4 points
ADV STUDIO III- JT HP/ARCH
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- M 1:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jorge Otero-Pailos
Wikipedia h-index: 12 Info - 6 points
Political Economy I
This course is a PhD-level introduction to political economy. The first part of the course is mostly theoretical and covers the most widely used models in topics such as social choice, direct and indirect democracy, accountability, lobbying, and redistributive politics. The second part of the course is a mix of abstract theory, applied theory and empirical work, and it covers some of the most research-active areas in political economy, such as media, corruption, and institutions.
- Department: Economics
- R 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Andrea Prat
Wikipedia h-index: 39 Info - 3 points
MILLIMETER-WAVE IC DESIGN
Millimeter-Wave IC Design
Principles behind the implementation of millimeter-wave (30GHz-300GHz) wireless circuits and systems in silicon-based technologies. Silicon-based active and passive devices for millimeter-wave operation, millimeter-wave low-noise amplifiers, power amplifiers, oscillators and VCOs, oscillator phase noise theory, mixers and frequency dividers for PLLs. A design project is an integral part of the course.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Harish Krishnaswamy
Info - 3 points
SITE PLANNING & SUPPORT SYSTEMS
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- M 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Instructor:
Graham L Trelstad
Info - 3 points
RADIATION THERAPY PHYS PRACT
Students spend two to four days per week studying the clinical aspects of radiation therapy physics. Projects on the application of medical physics in cancer therapy within a hospital environment are assigned; each entails one or two weeks of work and requires a laboratory report. Two areas are emphasized: 1. computer-assisted treatment planning (design of typical treatment plans for various treatment sites including prostate, breast, head and neck, lung, brain, esophagus, and cervix) and 2. clinical dosimetry and calibrations (radiation measurements for both photon and electron beams, as well as daily, monthly, and part of annual QA).
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
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Instructor:
Cheng S Wuu
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
PROSEMINAR IN MUSIC THEORY
Overview of current work in Music Theory, an analysis, perception, and philosophy. Major areas of research and methodological challenges.
- Department: Music
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Joseph P Dubiel
CULPA: 3 Info - 3 points
ADV TPCS IN RADIATION THERAPY
Advanced technology applications in radiation therapy physics, including intensity modulated, image guided, stereotactic, and hypofractionated radiation therapy. Emphasis on advanced technological, engineering, clinical, and quality assurance issues associated with high technology radiation therapy and the special role of the medical physicist in the safe clinical application of these tools.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- R 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Cheng S Wuu
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
DIAGNOSTIC RADIOL PRACTICUM
Practical applications of diagnostic radiology for various measurements and equipment assessments. Instruction and supervised practice in radiation safety procedures, image quality assessments, regulatory compliance, radiation dose evaluations and calibration of equipment. Students participate in clinical QC of the following imaging equipment: radiologic units (mobile and fixed), fluoroscopy units (mobile and fixed), angiography units, mammography units, CT scanners, MRI units and ultrasound units. The objective is familiarization in routine operation of test instrumentation and QC measurements utilized in diagnostic medical physics. Students are required to submit QC forms with data on three different types of radiology imaging equipment.
Power Management Integrated Circuits
Power Mgmt Integrated Cir
Modern power management integrated circuits (PMIC) design introduced comperhensively. Advanced topics in power management introduced, including linear regulators, digital linear regulators, switch-mode power converters, control schemes for DC-DC converters, compensation methods of DC-DC converters, power losses in DC-DC converters, switched capacitor converters, power converter modeling and simulation, design examples.
MUSEUM ANTHROP:HIST & THEORY
This course will consider museums as reflectors of social priorities which store important objects and display them in ways that present significant cultural messages. Students visit several New York museums to learn how a museum functions.
- Department: Anthropology
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Brian Boyd
CULPA: 6
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- 3 points
NUCLEAR MEDICINE PRACTICUM
Practical applications of nuclear medicine theory and application for processing and analysis of clinical images and radiation safety and quality assurance programs. Topics may include tomography, instrumentation, and functional imaging. Reports.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
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Instructor:
Klaus A Hamacher
Info - 3 points
ORAL PATHOLOGY
- Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
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Instructor:
Elizabeth Philipone
h-index: 11 Info - 0 points
INVESTMENT DECISION AND CAPITAL FORMATIO
INVESTMENT DECISION & CAP
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- R 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mark Weidner
Info - 1.5 points
HEALTH PHYSICS PRACTICUM
Radiation protection practices and procedures for clinical and biomedical research environments. Includes design, radiation safety surveys of diagnostic and therapeutic machine source facilities, the design and radiation protection protocols for facilities using unsealed sources of radioactivity – nuclear medicine suites and sealed sources – brachytherapy suites. Also includes radiation protection procedures for biomedical research facilities and the administration of programs for compliance to professional health physics standards and federal and state regulatory requirements for the possession and use of radioactive materials and machine sources of ionizing and non ionizing radiations in clinical situations. Individual topics are decided by the student and the collaborating Clinical Radiation Safety Officer.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
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Instructor:
Peter Caracappa
h-index: 12 Info - 3 points