The Chinese Avant-Garde: A Political His

CHINESE AVANT-GARDE

This course examines the rise and demise of the Chinese Revolution from the unique angles provided by avant-garde writers, artists, designers, graphic novelists, filmmakers, playwrights, and theatre directors in modern China.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Lydia Liu
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• 4 points

STOCHASTIC MODELING II

Continuation of IEOR E6711, covering further topics in stochastic modeling in the context of queueing, reliability, manufacturing, insurance risk, financial engineering, and other engineering applications. Topics from among generalized semi-Markov processes; processes with a non-discrete state space; point processes; stochastic comparisons; martingales; introduction to stochastic calculus.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: David D Yao
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4.5 points

RISK & INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT

RISK & INVESTMENT MGMT

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Ryan J Severino
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• 1.5 points

EXPERIMENTAL PRESERVATION

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Jorge Otero-Pailos
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• 3 points

COMPARATIVE HERITAGE MGT

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• TR 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• 3 points

BAYESIAN MOD MACHINE LEARNING

Basic statistics and machine learning strongly recommended. Bayesian approaches to machine learning. Topics include mixed-membership models, latent factor models, Bayesian nonparametric methods, probit classification, hidden Markov models, Gaussian mixture models, model learning with mean-field variational inference, scalable inference for Big Data. Applications include image processing, topic modeling, collaborative filtering and recommendation systems.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: John W Paisley
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

RACE & REPRESENTATION IN CRIMNAL JUSTICE

• Department: Social Work
• M 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Kimberly D Westcott
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• 3 points

RE PRIVATE EQUITY

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jiho Lee
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• 1.5 points

FORENSIC SOCIAL WORK

This course introduces students to the field of social work and the law – specifically the practice of social work in legal settings.  Students will develop competency in forensic social work practice - working knowledge as a practitioner in an interdisciplinary setting representing clients entangled in legal systems including criminal, civil, family and immigration.  Students will deconstruct the complexities of the criminal legal systems and further develop awareness in addressing clients’ concerns related to their criminal justice history – pre-arrest, arrest, disposition and re-entry. Similarly, students will gain insight into the filing of Article X petitions in family court and the pathway of a child protection case.  This course complements field placements in legal/forensic settings, law minors and students interested in social work and law rooted in rights-based advocacy. This course is premised on a basic understanding of how the legacy of slavery led to mass criminalization and incarceration.  Black Lives Matter.

• Department: Social Work
• T 2 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• R 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Jenny G Crawford
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• Instructor: Rachelle Williams
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• 3 points

RESTORATIVE JUSTICE THEORY AND PRACTICE

The course will focus on understanding the theory and varied practices of restorative justice (RJ) and transformative justice (TJ), and how they are being used as alternatives to retributive and punitive responses to social problems and individual, community and institutional harm.  Students will learn – through modeling and practice – how to facilitate a restorative circle which can serve as the foundation for continued use of restorative practices in social work. The class will provide an understanding of the values and principles of RJ and R, and the most-commonly used RJ models and where they are being used. It will support students in understanding their own relationship to conflict and teach students how to facilitate restorative processes using peacemaking circles. Issues of power, privilege, oppression and identity will be substantial themes throughout the course, both in understanding the need for RJ and TJ, how RJ/TJ can address them, and the ways in which these issues arise in facilitation and the RJ/TJ movement.  In addition to understanding RJ, the course will also provide students with a critical analysis of other theories and practices of conflict resolution including mediation, truth and reconciliation, and transitional justice, and how all of these relate to addressing individual, communal and institutional harm.  Finally, the course will discuss how social workers can use restorative justice in a variety of settings.

• Department: Social Work
• T 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• T 8:30 p.m.-10:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Sethu L Nair
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• Instructor: Vivianne Guevara
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• 3 points

Health Promotion: Theory, Research, and

HLTH PRMTION: THRY, RSRCH

Understanding why people behave the way they do, what makes them change their behavior, and how these factors relate to health status and quality of life is critically important for public health professionals. The evidence for the role of individual behavior in all the major health problems throughout the world is indisputable. Equally indisputable is the complex array of factors that combine to produce behavior and deter behavior change. The purpose of this course is to build upon the material presented in the Core in order for students to be able to use individual, interpersonal, organizational and community level public health theories to explain and change health behavior.

• Department: Sociomedical Sciences
• R 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• T 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Jane Bogart
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• Instructor: Christian Gloria
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• 3 points

Quantum Sensing Theory

QUANTUM SENSING THEORY

Introduction to quantum detection and estimation theory and its applications to quantum communications, quantum radar, quantum metrology, and quantum tomography. Background on quantum mechanics, quantum detection, composite quantum systems, Gaussian states, and quantum estimation.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• F 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Xiaodong Wang
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

COMPUTATIONAL IMAGING

Computational imaging uses a combination of novel imaging optics and a computational module to  produce new forms of visual information. Survey of the state-of-the-art in computational imaging.  Review of recent papers on omnidirectional and panoramic imaging, catadioptric imaging, high  dynamic range imaging, mosaicing and superresolution. Classes are seminars with the instructor,  guest speakers, and students presenting papers and discussing them.

• Department: Computer Science
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Shree K Nayar
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• 3 points

ADV CASE STUDIES IN RE ANALYS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher W Munsell
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• 3 points

ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN BUYING REAL ESTATE A

BUYING RE ASSETS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 3:15 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Masood A Bhatti
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• 1.5 points

Shock and Change: Strategic Surprises in

Strat Surprises: ME War P

A strategic surprise can be defined as a seemingly abrupt change during warfare or bilateral relations that is unexpected in timing, location, and scope. Traditionally, this term has been applied within the framework of decision-making and policy formulation during conflicts. However, a broader perspective sees strategic surprises not only as sudden attacks that fundamentally alter the conflict landscape but also as political developments that lead to dramatic paradigm shifts – such as the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 or the end of the apartheid regime in South Africa.

This course addresses pivotal moments that have dramatically disrupted conventional paradigms in the Middle East conflict, a conflict marked by surprising events yet persistently resistant to long-lasting transformative progress. By examining occurrences of strategic surprise, including the wars of 1948, 1967, and 1973; Sadat’s peace initiative; the Oslo Accords; and the October 7 attack by Hamas, we will investigate the tension between a seeming stagnation and the potential for sudden shifts – for Peace or War. Through case studies and theoretical frameworks, students will analyze how these dynamics shape policy, conflict, and peace processes, gaining tools to critically address historical patterns and behaviors that continue to shape the region.

• Department: International Security & Diplomacy
• T 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Nadav Eyal
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• 1.5 points

HISTORIC PRESERVATION STUDIO II

HP STUDIO II

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• MR 2 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 6 points

Confronting Obesity: Society, Structures

CONFRONT OBESITY:SOC,STRC

Obesity is a serious condition that increases risk for type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, certain types of cancer, and several other deleterious health outcomes. The US and NYCare facing an Obesity epidemic that threatens not only to cause increasingly severe health consequences but also billions of dollars in annual medical costs. Moreover, for the first time in decades, it threatens to reduce the life expectancies of today's youth by overwhelming public health improvements brought about in the 20th century. Numerous secular trends have precipitated the dramatic increases in obesity that have occurred over the past several decades. This course will provide a broad overview of the socio-cultural factors associated with the obesity epidemic; identify promising strategies for intervention; and enable students to craft and assess multi-pronged solutions to this multi-factorial problem.

• Department: Sociomedical Sciences
• W 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Gretchen Van Wye
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• 3 points

RE MEDIA + MARKETING

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Amir Korangy
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• 1.5 points

THESIS II

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Jorge Otero-Pailos
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• 4 points

Community Engagement Practice

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PRAC

The need for more effective and equitable engagement with communities has become increasingly evident to public health professionals in recent years. Now, more than ever, the importance of developing deeper and more engaged academic/institutional-community partnerships is necessary to address systems of structural inequity. However, developing these relationships requires not only knowledge of equity-based partnering formats, but the cultivation of complex skill sets that allow public health practitioners to most fully develop relationships across all phases of community collaboration. Two valuable forms of community engagement that public health practitioners and students can make use of are community-based participatory research and service learning, which are the focus of this course. Additionally, this course acknowledges that community engagement is a diverse space where people from a variety of professional and personal backgrounds come together. For many years, people working in the technology space have recognized the benefits of “matrixed teams,” similarly over the past few years the notion of interprofessionalism has become an important and required aspect of allied health and public health professional training. Research has shown that bringing together students from two or more professions to learn about, from, and with each other is extremely effective in all forms of collaboration (within research and intervention teams and with communities) and ultimately lead to improved health outcomes. According to the World Health Organization, “Once students understand how to work interprofessionally, they are ready to enter the workplace as a member of the collaborative practice team. This is a key step in moving health systems from fragmentation to a position of strength.” Pinsert course number – insert studio name 2 of 24 The overall goal of this course is for students to learn about and begin to practice the tenets of three frameworks: Interprofessional Education (IPE), Service-Learning (SL), and Community?Based Participatory Research (CBPR). With regard to interprofessional engagement, the course will provide students with a solid understanding of four key IPE competencies: roles/responsibilities, teams/teamwork, ethics/values, and communication. Complementing this, the course will introduce and integrate SL pedagogy to prepare students to engage in community service projects. The SL model prioritizes three aspects of project implementation: student learning, direct attenti

• Department: Sociomedical Sciences
• R 4 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Carole L Hutchinson
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• 3 points

DESIGNING NEEDS AND ASSETS ASSESSMENT

DESIGN NEED & ASSET ASSES

The first essential step in the process of designing successful public health programs is to understand the needs that motivate these programs and the assets that can be brought to bear on developing them. The purpose of this course is to enable students to perform specific steps in a needs and assets assessment and to plan how to facilitate participation by those who will be affected by a resulting program. The assessment process encompasses two main components: an epidemiologic, behavioral, and social analysis of a community and population at risk for a health-related problem; and an effort to understand the character of the community, its members, and its strengths.

 

At the start of the course, we will discuss pre-assessment work which includes planning to put together a work group for planning the needs and assets assessment. We will touch on essential elements of encouraging participation, work-group management, and culturally sensitive practice. Simultaneously, we will create a logic model of a selected health problem using Step 1 of Intervention Mapping which employs an adapted version of the PRECEDE part of the PRECEDE-PROCEED model. Using this model, students will fully define their population and context for their assessments, posing questions, and choosing methods and data sources for completing each part of the logic model of the problem selected (heretofore referred to as the Logic of Risk). At the same time, we will cover various approaches and data sources for assessing a community’s strengths/assets. Finally, we will discuss post-assessment tasks including setting priorities and setting program goals for health and quality of life outcomes.

• Department: General Public Health
• R 6:40 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Carole L Hutchinson
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• 1.5 points

TOPICS IN NETWORKING

MachineLearn for Networks

Further study of areas such as communication protocols and architectures, flow and congestion control in data networks, performance evaluation in integrated networks. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6770 to 6779.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Anwar I Walid
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

CLIMATE ADAPTATION IN CITIES

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Adam Freed
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• 3 points

Indo-Pacific Security Dynamics

This intensive two-day workshop examines North Korea’s nuclear program within the broader security dynamics of the Indo-Pacific region. Students will explore how North Korea’s ambitions intersect with U.S.-China strategic competition and the evolving roles of Japan, South Korea, India, and other regional actors. Topics include extended deterrence, crisis escalation, alliance management, economic statecraft, and the linkage between Korean Peninsula security and Taiwan Strait tensions.
To register for this course, you must join the waitlist in Vergil and submit an application: 
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• Department: International Security & Diplomacy
• 1.5 points

Digital Storytelling: Why Public Health

DIG STORYTELL: WHY PUBLIC

This six-week interactive online workshop will teach students the fundamental concepts and skills of digital storytelling. Digital stories are multimedia movies that combine photographs, video, animation, sound, music, and text with a narrative voice. Digital storytelling can be a powerful, multi-dimensional tool for community-based public health program enhancement, strategic communication, and advocacy (Hinyard & Kreuter, 2007). Students will share first-person narratives about public health passions and/or experiences and turn them into videos that can be used for training, community mobilization, advocacy, and more. SOSCP6776 – Digital Storytelling 2 of 10 The workshop will be led by facilitators from, and with a curriculum designed by, StoryCenter. StoryCenter is an international non-profit organization that assists people with the use of digital media tools to craft and share stories that lead to learning, action, and positive change. For the past 20 years, StoryCenter has been supporting researchers, educators, social justice organizers, and advocates in understanding how first-person narrative and participatory digital media production can advance a broad range of social justice and public health goals.

• Department: Sociomedical Sciences
• F 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Gina M Wingood
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• 1 points

CONSERVATION OF CONCRETE, CAST STONE, MO

CONSERV CONCRETE, CAST, M

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• 1.5 points

EXTERNSHP:BRONX DEFENDERS

• Department: Law
• 2 points

EXTERNSHP:BRONX DEFENDERS

• Department: Law
• 2 points

EXT:UNDOCUMENT IMMIGRANT YOUTH

• Department: Law
• Instructor: Cristina Romero
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• 2 points

EXT:UNDOCUMENT IMMIGRANT YOUTH

• Department: Law
• Instructor: Cristina Romero
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• 3 points

EX. PRO BONO SCHOLARS

• Department: Law
• Instructor: Riti Singh
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• 4 points

EX. PRO BONO SCHOLARS

• Department: Law
• Instructor: Riti Singh
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• 8 points

EXTERNSHIP: CIVIL LITIGATION - EMPLOYMEN

EXT: CIVIL LITIGAT EMPLOY

• Department: Law
• 2 points

EXTERNSHIP: CIVIL LITIGATION - EMPLOYMEN

EXT: CIVIL LITIGAT EMPLOY

• Department: Law
• 3 points

Global Political Economy and Governance

Global Political Econ and

The “liberal international order,” which until recently appeared inevitable to many observers, faces numerous challenges that have erupted in the past few years—including war, heightened superpower rivalry, the imposition of sanctions and tariffs, and economic stagnation. To this list, we must add a series of preexisting conditions, such as ballooning inequality and persistent North-South divides, the climate crisis, rising nationalist and xenophobic sentiment, and increasing support—on both the left and right—for protectionism and skepticism of “free trade” and (global) capitalism itself. In turn, the very utility (and desirability) of global-governance mechanisms and institutions is increasingly being called into question. 

This course centers around analyzing the political economy and structure of the contemporary world order, its underlying logics, origins and inherently political nature, how it is (and is not) governed, and how power is exercised therein by actors including states, corporations, international institutions, and even individuals. As we will highlight throughout the semester, issues related to global political economy and governance shape the lives of people all over the world, including our own. 

Specifically, we will discuss the origins and consolidation of today’s “liberal international order,” especially vis-à-vis its economic dimensions and the rise of global neoliberalisms, along with its trials, tribulations, and challengers, its “governance” and spatial logics, and the various forms of backlash against it that are currently proliferating. We will also carefully analyze the role of race, class, and gender in global economics and politics, as well as the persistence of colonial legacies, and the ongoing relevance of North-South and other inequalities. Additionally, we will discuss how issues such as the climate crisis, U.S.-China relations, and technological change are shaping the future trajectory of the global political-economic order (or orders). 

To shed light on these and related matters, we will critically engage with the contributions of a diverse and interdisciplinary array of classic and contemporary thinkers who have sought to
theorize
the global economy, global governance, and world order, as well as the dynamic interplay between global politics and economics, in different ways. 

This is a required core course for the MA in Global Thought

• Department: Committee on Global Thought
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Kevin Funk
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• 3 points

INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW

This course introduces the fundamental concepts and problems of international human rights law. What are the origins of modern human rights law? What is the substance of this law, who is obligated by it, and how is it enforced? The course will cover the major international human rights treaties and mechanisms and consider some of todays most significant human rights issues and controversies. While the topics are necessarily law-related, the course will assume no prior exposure to legal studies.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Jacqueline Dugard
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• 3 points

Ethics in Public Policy

MIA & MPA Ethics Core. 
This course investigates how ethical considerations shape, complicate, and often introduce dilemmas into the work of policymaking. It asks what justice, democracy, and responsibility demand in concrete policy contexts—should political leaders prioritize stability or accountability in post-conflict settings? Should elected officials follow their moral convictions even when doing so goes against the preferences of their constituents? Should public servants uphold the law when it conflicts with their moral principles? When is it right to work within flawed systems to achieve change, and when is it better to act from the outside? Through a mix of theoretical readings and case studies, students will learn to balance political, institutional, and ethical considerations, develop arguments for their moral choices, and advocate effectively for their policy decisions. The course is designed to cultivate reflective practitioners who can identify moral dilemmas in public policy, weigh competing values, and articulate their ethical positions in ways that are both critical and constructive.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• T 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• W 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• R 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• R 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicole M Peisajovich
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• 1.5 points

STRUCTURAL DARING & THE SUBLIME

STRUCT DARING & THE SUBLI

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Rory O O'Neill
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• 3 points

SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY

• Department: Social Work
• R 2 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• W 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• R 11:10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• W 8:30 p.m.-10:20 p.m.
• R 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Tiffany Younger
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• Instructor: Raysa Segura-Rodriguez
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• Instructor: Ash Cole
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• Instructor: Jason Harley
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• Instructor: Laurie Maldonado
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• 3 points

SEMINAR IN STAGE MANAGEMENT III

MUSICAL STRUCTURE

Musicals, especially those that have traditionally originated on Broadway, are complex pieces of machinery that are designed to produce a variety of energies in the theater. When taken collectively, those energies constitute the aesthetic of the experience. As with plays, stage managers are charged with coordinating all of a musical’s production elements. However, stage managers should also be able to view a musical from every angle; that is, read it intelligently and analyze it dramatically so they can accurately gauge their contribution to the overall aesthetic. This course seeks to provide stage managers with a customized template to do that: in other words, how to connect what’s on the page and the stage to their own standard methodologies, cue calling, and the CEO/COO perspective. In the contemporary professional landscape, these are important tools that will help them optimize their work on musicals.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• M 9 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Bonnie Panson
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• 3 points

Priorities in Global Public Health

PRIORITIES IN GLOBAL PUB

Many of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity disproportionately affect the populations of low-income countries. This course uses a multidisciplinary approach to analyse the emergence, justificiation and success of current global health priorities including reproductive health, child health water, infectious diseases, noncommunicable disease, mental health, and public health in complex emergencies (man made and Environmental). Students will learn to examine the social, economic, and political factors contributing to the rise of these global health priorities, learn about the different suggested approaches and tools for managing them as well be involved in the development of strategies for their solution. This course builds on Introduction to Global Health" (P6811) by demonstrating the application of major concepts and principles that govern the practice of global health in resource-poor countries."

• Department: Epidemiology
• R 4 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
• 3 points

VISITING ARTIST LECT. IV

N/A

• Department: Visual Arts
• Instructor: Miya Masaoka
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• 0 points

ADVANCED AFFORDABLE HOUSING FINANCIAL AN

ADV AFFORD HOUS FIN ANALY

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: C Marisa Rodriguez
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• 1.5 points

PUBLIC SPACE: RHETORICS & PRACTICES

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: David J Smiley
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

Engaging on the Ground: Contemporary Tib

Contemporary Tibetan Cine

This 7-sess­­ion master class examines the craft of thematic expression and social engagement by filmmakers who are successfully bringing non-dominant voices to the screen and working in regions with people whose stories are rarely heard. Through film screenings, lectures, critical analysis, and Q&A with guest filmmakers, the class aims to raise awareness, foster discussion, and instruct on visual storytelling techniques that integrate themes of social change, cultural heritage, and environmental transformations in Asia today, with a special focus on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau in China.

The class opens by surveying the emergence and development of the Tibetan New Wave Cinema movement, represented by filmmakers such as Pema Tseden, Sonthar Gyal, Lhapal Gyal, Dukar Tserang, Khyentse Norbu, Tenzin Seldon, Khashem Gyal, and others. Together, we will examine how Tibetan filmmakers bring lived realities, identity, spiritual traditions, and social tensions to the screen. We will analyze narrative strategies, visual poetics, and the ethical responsibilities of representing communities "on the ground."

This class also explores the intersection of cinema and mindfulness. Through selected films, readings, and reflective practices, students will engage with film not only as a medium of storytelling but also as a space for introspection, contemplation, emotional awareness, and shared experience.
 Mindfulness here is not confined to meditation but understood as a broader, integrative approach to being attentive, ethical, and present at every stage of filmmaking. It is a way of honoring the people, places, and processes that make cinema meaningful.

• Department: Film
• 1.5 points

Altered States: Cultures of Intoxication

Altered States Intoxic Ad

Altered States: Cultures of Intoxication and Addiction 

This seminar investigates the literary and philosophical treatment of intoxication and addiction from Romanticism to critical theory to contemporary recovery literature with an eye toward the  Germanophone context. Examining intoxication not merely as a pathological or medical  phenomenon but as a site of existential inquiry and aesthetic experimentation, the course explores  how thinkers and writers have grappled with states of excess, compulsion, altered consciousness, enlightenment, and the dissolution of the self. We will situate these discussions within three important historical developments: 1) the colonial drug trade, 2) drug production in Germany,  which was the site of the synthesis and manufacture of morphine, heroin, and codeine in the  nineteenth century as well as in Switzerland, which was the site of the discovery of LSD and psilocybin in the twentieth century, and 3) the medicalization of the discourse around addiction  and drug treatment programs.  

Points of emphasis include the metaphysics of intoxication, the aesthetics of fragmentation, the  tension between autonomy and compulsion, and the role of intoxication in critiques of bourgeois  rationality, modernity, and capitalism. We will engage with a range of genres—poetry, fiction,  philosophy, psychoanalysis, memoir, and recovery literature—as well as relevant secondary  scholarship and critical theory. Discussions and materials will be in English.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Annie Pfeifer
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• 3 points

GENTRIFICATION AND DISPLACEMENT: POWER,

GENTRIFICATION & DISPLACE

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Tom Slater
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• 3 points

THE MASSIVE MIDDLE: STRATEGIES FOR HOUSI

STRAT FOR HOUSING DEVELOP

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• 1.5 points

JOINT MSRED/MSUP STUDIO

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Adam F Lubinsky
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• 3 points

TOWARD RESILIENT CITIES + LANDSCAPES

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
• 3 points

ADVANCED DESIGN FOR DEVELOPMENT

ADV DESIGN FOR DEVELOPMEN

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• 1.5 points

CRIT ISSUES IN ART IV

N/A

• Department: Visual Arts
• T 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Luba Drozd
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• 3 points

INSIDE DEVELOPMENT: LESSONS FROM THE FIE

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• 1.5 points

GRADUATE STUDIO IV

N/A

• Department: Visual Arts
• Instructor: Miya Masaoka
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• 3 points

GRADUATE STUDIO IV

• Department: Visual Arts
• M 4 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Miya Masaoka
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• 3 points

URBAN DESIGN STUDIO III

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 9 points

MIGRANT POLICY AND THE CITY

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• 3 points

Grad Sem IV in Sound Art & Related Media

The Graduate Seminar in Sound Art and Related Media is designed to create a space that is inclusive yet focused on sound as an art form and a medium. Class time is structured to support, reflect, and challenge students as individual artists and as a community. The course examines the medium and subject of sound in an expanded field, investigating its constitutive materials, exhibition and installation practices, and its ethics in the 21st century. The seminar will focus on the specific relations between tools, ideas, and meanings and the specific histories and theories that have arisen when artists engage with sound as a medium and subject in art. The seminar combines discussions of readings and artworks with presentations of students' work and research, as well as site visits and guest lectures.

 

While the Columbia Visual Arts Program is dedicated to maintaining an interdisciplinary learning environment where students are free to use and explore different mediums while also learning to look at, and critically discuss, artwork in any medium, we are equally committed to providing in-depth knowledge concerning the theories, histories, practices, tools and materials underlying these different disciplines. We offer Graduate Seminars in different disciplines, or combinations of disciplines, including moving image, new genres, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, as well as in Sound Art in collaboration with the Columbia Music Department through their Computer Music Center. These Discipline Seminars are taught by full-time and adjunct faculty, eminent critics, historians, curators, theorists, writers, and artists.

• Department: Visual Arts
• 3 points

GROUP CRITIQUE IV

• Department: Visual Arts
• W 5:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• 3 points

Business Bankruptcy: Financial Restructu

• Department: Law
• 3 points

INTERNATIONAL DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT

INTL DESIGN + DEVELOPMENT

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• 1.5 points

ARTIST MENTORSHIP / VALS IV

This required Visual Arts core MFA curriculum course, comprising two parts, allows MFA students to deeply engage with and learn directly from a wide variety of working artists who visit the program each year.

Lecture Series
The lecture component, taught by an adjunct faculty member with a background in art history and/or curatorial studies, consists of lectures and individual studio visits by visiting artists and critics over the course of the academic year. The series is programmed by a panel of graduate Visual Arts students under the professor's close guidance. Invitations are extended to artists whose practice reflects the interests, mediums, and working methods of MFA students and the program. Weekly readings assigned by the professor provide context for upcoming visitors. Other course assignments include researching and preparing introductions and discussion questions for each of the visitors. Undergraduate students enrolled in Visual Arts courses are encouraged to attend and graduate students in Columbia's Department of Art History are also invited. Following each class-period the conversation continues informally at a reception for the visitor. Studio visits with Visual Arts MFA students take place on or around the week of the artist or critic's lecture and are coordinated and assigned by lottery by the professor.

Artist Mentorship
The Artist-Mentor component allows a close and focused relationship to form between a core group of ten to fifteen students and their mentor. Students are assigned two mentors who they meet with each semester in two separate one-week workshops. The content of each workshop varies according to the Mentors’ areas of expertise and the needs of the students. Mentor weeks can include individual critiques, group critiques, studio visits, visits to galleries, other artist's studios, museums, special site visits, readings, and writing workshops. Here are a few descriptions from recent mentors:
• During Mentor Week we will individually and collectively examine our assumptions and notions about art. What shapes our needs and expectations as artists and the impact of what we do?
• Our week will include visits to exhibition spaces to observe how the public engages the art. Throughout, we will consider art's ability to have real life consequences and the public's desire to personally engage with and experience art without mediation.
• The week will be conducted in two parts, f

• Department: Visual Arts
• T 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Miya Masaoka
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• 3 points

EMBEDDED SCALABLE PLATFORMS

Inter-disciplinary graduate-level seminar on design and programming of embedded scalable platforms. Content varies between offerings to cover timely relevant issues and latest advances in system-on-chip design, embedded software programming, and electronic design automation. Requires substantial reading of research papers, class participation, and semester-long project.

• Department: Computer Science
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Luca Carloni
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia h-index: 45 Info
• 3 points

China's Impact on Global Governance

China & Global Governance

This seminar explores China’s rise and its implications for global governance. The course introduces core international relations concepts and theoretical debates, then examines China’s behavior in areas such as trade, development finance, human protection, maritime disputes, nuclear policy, and technology. The final weeks focus on national strategy debates in the United States and China. Students will engage in critical reading, policy writing, and seminar discussion.

• Department: International Security & Diplomacy
• T 8 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Raymond Wang
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• 3 points

EQUITABLE DEVELOPMENT

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Cecily C King
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• 3 points

Statistical signal processing and learni

STATISTICAL SIGNAL PROCES

Introduction to the fundamental principles of statistical signal processing related to detection and estimation. Hypothesis testing, signal detection, parameter estimation, signal estimation, and selected advanced topics. Suitable for students doing research in communications, control, signal processing, and related areas.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• M 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Guido H Jajamovich
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• 3 points

Sparse and Low-Dimensional Models for Hi

SPARSE MODELS FOR HI-D DA

Overview of theory, computation and applications for sparse and low-dimensional data modeling. Recoverability of sparse and low-rank models. Optimization methods for low-dim data modeling. Applications to imaging, neuroscience, communications, web data.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: John Wright
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 44 Info
• 3 points

Towards a Trans-Species Architecture

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Wigley
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• 3 points

TOPICS IN SIGNAL PROCESSING

INTRO TO BLOCKCHAIN TECH

Advanced topics in signal processing, such as multidimensional signal processing, image feature extraction, image/video editing and indexing, advanced digital filter design, multirate signal processing, adaptive signal processing, and wave-form coding of signals. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6880 to 6889.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• F 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• 3 points

TOPICS IN SIGNAL PROCESSING

LARGE-SCALE STREAM PROCESSING

Advanced topics in signal processing, such as multidimensional signal processing, image feature extraction, image/video editing and indexing, advanced digital filter design, multirate signal processing, adaptive signal processing, and wave-form coding of signals. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6880 to 6889.  Topic: Large Data Stream Processing.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• R 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Deepak S Turaga
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• 3 points

TOPICS-INFORMATION PROCESSING

The class will give you a richer understanding of networking, focusing on principles and systems that have shaped the Internet. Via classic and contemporary literature, topics covered include routing, content delivery, congestion control, data centers, SDN, and the cloud.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• 3 points

Principles and Practice of Oncology II:

PRIN & PRACTICE OF ONCOLO

This course presents a systematic overview of the most common cancer diagnoses across the lifespan and associated prevention, screening, and early detection. The course presents genetic predispositions and mutations as well as familial syndromes that increase risk for a diagnosis of cancer.  The course examines cancer diagnoses that appear in all age groups as well as cancers mostly specific to set age groups. It incorporates the pathophysiology of pediatric, adolescent, young adult, and adult cancers, current evidence-based treatment modalities and regimens for each cancer, and data from ongoing clinical trials about cutting-edge therapies being developed. The course provides a framework for the oncology nurse practitioner (NP) for synthesis, integration, and application of this knowledge for diagnosing, assessing, and managing patients with a cancer diagnosis in clinical practice.

• Department: Nursing
• M 6:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Shanelly Singh
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• 2 points

1:1 CRAFTING AND FABRICATION OF DETAILS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Zachary E Mulitauaopele
  Info
• 3 points

TOPICS-INFORMATION PROCESSING

Reinforcement Learning

Advanced topics spanning electrical engineering and computer science such as speech processing and recognition, image and multimedia content analysis, and other areas drawing on signal processing, information theory, machine learning, pattern recognition, and related topics. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6890 to 6899.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• R 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Javad Ghaderi
  h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS-INFORMATION PROCESSING

TPC: Adv Big Data & AI

Advanced topics spanning Electrical Engineering and Computer Science such as speech processing and recognition, image and multimedia content analysis, and other areas drawing on signal processing, information theory, machine learning, pattern recognition, and related topics. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6890 to 6899.  Topic: Advanced Big Data Analytics.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Ching-Yung Lin
  h-index: None Info
• 3 points

RESEARCH

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Danielle S Smoller
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• 2-3 points

TUTORIAL IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

A reading course in an advanced topic for a small number of students, under faculty supervision.

• Department: Computer Science
• Instructor: Timothy A Roughgarden
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• 1-3 points

PROJECTS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

Software or hardware projects in computer science. Before registering, the student must submit a written proposal to the instructor for review. The proposal should give a brief outline of the project, estimated schedule of completion, and computer resources needed. Oral and written reports are required. May be taken over more than one semester, in which case the grade will be deferred until all 12 points have been completed. No more than 12 points of COMS E6901 may be taken. Consult the department for section assignment.

• Department: Computer Science
• Instructor: Alexandr Andoni
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 34 Info
• Instructor: Daniel Bauer
  CULPA: 17 h-index: 13 Info
• Instructor: Peter Belhumeur
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 59 Info
• Instructor: Noemie Elhadad
  Wikipedia h-index: 46 Info
• Instructor: Paul S Blaer
  CULPA: 46 h-index: 8 Info
• Instructor: David Blei
  Wikipedia h-index: 98 Info
• Instructor: Luca Carloni
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia h-index: 45 Info
• Instructor: Eleni Drinea
  CULPA: 8 Info
• Instructor: Stephen A Edwards
  CULPA: 21 h-index: 35 Info
• Instructor: Roxana Geambasu
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia h-index: 20 Info
• 1-12 points