RESP COND-RES/REL PLCY ISS-DIS

• Department: Cellular, Molecular, and Biophysical Studies
• 1 points

BUSINESS CHINESE I

The Business Chinese I course is designed to prepare students to use Chinese in a present or future work situation. Students will develop skills in the practical principles of grammar, vocabulary, and cross-cultural understanding needed in today’s business world.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MTR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Zhong Qi Shi
  Info
• 4 points

STRING THEORY

• Department: Physics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: William A Zajc
  CULPA: 16 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

FOURTH YEAR CHINESE I

Prerequisites: Third Year Chinese or the equivalent The course is designed to help students master formal Chinese for professional or academic purposes. It includes reading materials and discussions of selections from Chinese media on contemporary topics, Chinese literature, and modern Chinese intellectual history. The course aims to enhance students' strategies for comprehension, as well as their written and oral communication skills in formal modern Chinese.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MWR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Ling Yan
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 4 points

ITALIAN FOOD/GLOBALIZED WORLD

This seminar examines the many meanings of food in Italian culture and tradition; how values and peculiarities are transmitted, preserved, reinvented and rethought through a lens that is internationally known as ;Made in Italy;; how the symbolic meanings and ideological interpretations are connected to creation, production, presentation, distribution, and consumption of food. Based on an anthropological perspective and framework, this interdisciplinary course will analyze ways in which we can understand the Italian taste through the intersections of many different levels: political, economic, aesthetic, symbolic, religious, etc. The course will study how food can help us understand the ways in which tradition and innovation, creativity and technology, localism and globalization, identity and diversity, power and body, are elaborated and interpreted in contemporary Italian society, in relation to the European context and a globalized world. Short videos that can be watched on the computer and alternative readings for those fluent in Italian will be assigned. In English.

• Department: Italian
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Barbara Faedda
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• 3 points

ANCIENT EMPIRES-DISC

• Department: Anthropology
• M 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• M 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• R 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• R 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• W 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• W 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• R 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• R 11:10 a.m.-noon
• W 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• M 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• 0 points

FOURTH YEAR CHINESE ADV I

Prerequisites: CHNS W4006 or the equivalent. This is a non-consecutive reading course designed for those whose proficiency is above 4th level. See Admission to Language Courses. Selections from contemporary Chinese authors in both traditional and simplified characters with attention to expository, journalistic, and literary styles.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MWF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Chen Wu
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 22 Info
• 4 points

Renaissance Historians: Bruni, Machiavel

What was History in the Renaissance? This class tries to answer this question by focusing on three great historians and political philosophers of the fifteenth and sixteenth century: Leonardo Bruni, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Francesco Guicciardini. Analyzing their local and peninsular histories, we will learn how Renaissance scholars read, learned from, and rewrote Greek and especially Roman History. We will dive into Bruni’s reading of Florence’s distant and recent past, including historical events discussed in Dante’s
Divine Comedy
. Also, we will learn how Machiavelli transformed his reading of Livy in a laboratory to understand the tragic events of Renaissance Italy, and how Guicciardini narrates and analyzes contemporary Italian history. Dialoguing with Renaissance Historians, we will learn how creative and problematic is the reading of the past for the understanding of the present. We will discuss the many functions of History and reflect upon big ideas such as fortune, virtue, tyranny, freedom, and truth.         
In English.

• Department: Italian
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Pier Mattia Tommasino
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

FOURTH YEAR JAPANESE I

Prerequisites: JPNS W4006 or the equivalent. Sections 1 & 2: Readings of advanced modern literary, historical, political, and journalistic texts, and class discussions about current issues and videos. Exercises in scanning, comprehension, and English translation. Section 3: Designed for advanced students interested in developing skills for reading and comprehending modern Japanese scholarship.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MWF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MWF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Shigeru Eguchi
  CULPA: 9 Info
• Instructor: Kyoko M Loetscher
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

HISTORY OF CHINESE LANGUAGE

This course, taught in English, offers an in-depth exploration of the Chinese language and its historical development. Key topics include historical phonology and syntax, the Chinese script, and the classification and linguistic features of major dialects. The course also explores the emergence of modern standard Chinese and early poetic traditions. The primary goal is to deepen students’ understanding of the language’s evolution while strengthening their critical thinking skills.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Zhirong Wang
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 3 points

MATHEMATICL METHODS OF PHYSICS

Prerequisites: PHYS UN3003 and PHYS UN3007 and differential and integral calculus; linear algebra; or the instructor's permission. This course will present a wide variety of mathematical ideas and techniques used in the study of physical systems. Topics will include: ordinary and partial differential equations; generalized functions; integral transforms; Green’s functions; nonlinear equations, chaos, and solitons; Hilbert space and linear operators; Feynman path integrals; Riemannian manifolds; tensor analysis; probability and statistics. There will also be a discussion of applications to classical mechanics, fluid dynamics, electromagnetism, plasma physics, quantum mechanics, and general relativity.

• Department: Physics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Sebastian Mizera
  Info
• 3 points

COMP NEURO: CIRCUITS IN BRAIN

The biophysics of computation: modeling biological neurons, the Hodgkin-Huxley neuron, modeling channel conductances and synapses as memristive systems, bursting neurons and central pattern generators, I/O equivalence and spiking neuron models. Information representation and neural encoding: stimulus representation with time encoding machines, the geometry of time encoding, encoding with neural circuits with feedback, population time encoding machines. Dendritic computation: elements of spike processing and neural computation, synaptic plasticity and learning algorithms, unsupervised learning and spike time-dependent plasticity, basic dendritic integration. Projects in MATLAB.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Aurel A Lazar
  h-index: 53 Info
• 3 points

PROTECTN OF INDUST/INTELL PROP

Exposes scientists and engineers to the development, protection, and exploitation of intellectual property rights. Legal processes for obtaining and defending intellectual property rights are detailed. Best practices for innovation and commercialization are explored. Methods for valuation and monetization of intellectual property are illustrated through application of basic accounting and financial principles to case studies.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Kenneth Spall
  Info
• 3 points

QUANTUM MECHANICS I

Prerequisites: PHYS UN3003 and PHYS UN3007 Formulation of quantum mechanics in terms of state vectors and linear operators. Three dimensional spherically symmetric potentials. The theory of angular momentum and spin. Identical particles and the exclusion principle. Methods of approximation. Multi-electron atoms.

• Department: Physics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Alfred H Mueller
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

FUNDAMNTLS OF URB DIGITAL DES

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Sybil Wa
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• 3 points

Travel Literature in and from the Medite

This course will study various forms of travel writing within, from, and to the Mediterranean in the long nineteenth century. Throughout the semester, you will read a number of travel accounts to develop your understanding of these particular sources and reflect on the theoretical discussions and the themes framing them, namely orientalism, postcolonial studies, imaginative geographies, literature between fiction and reality, Romantic and autobiographical writing, gender, sexuality and the body, the rise of archeology, adventurism, mass migration and tourism. We will focus on Italian travel writers visiting the Ottoman Empire and the Americas (Cristina di Belgioioso, Gaetano Osculati, Edmondo de Amicis) and others visiting the Italian peninsula (Grand Tourists, Madame De Staël), and we will study the real or imaginary travels of French, British and American writers to the Eastern Mediterranean and to antique and holy lands (Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, Count Marcellus, Austen Henry Layard, Lord Byron, Mark Twain), as well as Arabic travel writers to the West (Rifāʻah Rāfiʻ al-Ṭahṭāwī).

• Department: Italian
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Konstantia Zanou
  Info
• 3 points

THERMAL & STATISTICAL PHYSICS

Prerequisites: PHYS GU4021 or the equivalent. Thermodynamics, kinetic theory, and methods of statistical mechanics; energy and entropy; Boltzmann, Fermi, and Bose distributions; ideal and real gases; blackbody radiation; chemical equilibrium; phase transitions; ferromagnetism.

• Department: Physics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Tanya Zelevinsky
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

APPLIED QUANTUM MECHANICS

Prerequisites: (PHYS GU4021 and PHYS GU4022) In this course, we will learn how the concepts of quantum mechanics are applied to real physical systems, and how they enable novel applications in quantum optics and quantum information. We will start with microscopic, elementary quantum systems – electrons, atoms, and ions - and understand how light interacts with atoms. Equipped with these foundations, we will discuss fundamental quantum applications, such as atomic clocks, laser cooling and ultracold quantum gases - a synthetic form of matter, cooled down to just a sliver above absolute zero temperature. This leads us to manybody quantum systems. We will introduce the quantum physics of insulating and metallic behavior, superfluidity and quantum magnetism – and demonstrate how the corresponding concepts apply both to real condensed matter systems and ultracold quantum gases. The course will conclude with a discussion of the basics of quantum information science - bringing us to the forefront of today’s quantum applications.

• Department: Physics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Sebastian Will
  h-index: 18 Info
• 3 points

HARLEM AND HAITI

This graduate seminar explores the rich cultural and historical connections between the Harlem Renaissance in the United States and Haiti, the world's first independent Black Republic. Through an interdisciplinary approach, students will examine the linked literary, artistic, political, and social dimensions of the Harlem Renaissance and Haiti and how they have influenced and interacted with each other through their writers and artists. By analyzing key texts, novels, essays, travelogues, artworks, and historical documents, students will develop a comprehensive understanding of the connections between the Harlem Renaissance and Haiti and how they continue to resonate today. At the end of the course, students will have gained a deeper historical context, including the socio-political backgrounds and global influences that shaped and connected the Harlem Renaissance and Haiti, and will have honed the analytical and critical skills necessary to explore broader diasporic and transnational l connections.

• Department: African American and African Diaspora
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Edwidge Danticat
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

BIOTECHNOLOGY

Prerequisites: genetics or molecular biology. The course covers techniques currently used to explore and manipulate gene function and their applications in medicine and the environment. Part I covers key laboratory manipulations, including DNA cloning, gene characterization, association of genes with disease, and methods for studying gene regulation and activities of gene products. Part II also covers commercial applications, and includes animal cell culture, production of recombinant proteins, novel diagnostics, high throughput screening, and environmental biosensors.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• 3 points

Transformative Concepts in Systems Biolo

Systems biology approaches are rapidly transforming the technological and conceptual foundations of research across diverse areas of biomedicine. In this course we will discuss the fundamental developments in systems biology with a focus on two important dimensions: (1) the unique conceptual frameworks that have emerged to study systems-level phenomena and (2) how these approaches are revealing fundamentally new principles that govern the organization and behavior of cellular systems. Although there will be much discussion of technologies and computational approaches, the course will emphasize the conceptual contributions of the field and the big questions that lie ahead. Lectures and discussions of primary literature will enable students to scrutinize research in the field and to internalize systems biology thinking in their own research. To make this a concrete endeavor, the students will develop mini-NIH-style grant proposals that aims to study a fundamental problem/question using systems biology approaches. The students will then convene an in-class NIH-style review panel that will assess the strengths and weaknesses of these proposals. In addition, the students will have the opportunity to defend their proposals in a live presentation to the class. The course is open to graduate students in Biological Sciences. Advanced undergraduates in biological sciences, and other graduate students with background in biology from other disciplines, including physics, chemistry, computer science, and engineering may also attend after consulting with the instructor.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• W 2:40 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Saeed Tavazoie
  Info
• 3 points

Poets, Rebels, Exiles: 100 Years of Russ

POETS, REBELS, EXILES

Poets, Rebels, Exiles examines the successive generations of the most provocative and influential Russian and Russian Jewish writers and artists who brought the cataclysm of the Soviet and post-Soviet century to North America. From Joseph Brodsky—the bad boy bard of Soviet Russia and a protégé of Anna Akhmatova, who served 18 months of hard labor near the North Pole for social parasitism before being exiled—to the most recent artistic descendants, this course will interrogate diaspora, memory, and nostalgia in the cultural production of immigrants and exiles.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Anna Katsnelson
  Info
• 3 points

PRAGUE-SPRING 1968-FILM & LIT

The course explores the unique period in Czech film and literature during the 1960s that emerged as a reaction to the imposed socialist realism. The new generation of writers (Kundera, Skvorecky, Havel, Hrabal) in turn had an influence on young emerging film makers, all of whom were part of the Czech new wave.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher W Harwood
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

NEURAL NETWRKS & DEEP LEARNING

Developing features - internal representations of the world, artificial neural networks, classifying handwritten digits with logistics regression, feedforward deep networks, back propagation in multilayer perceptrons, regularization of deep or distributed models, optimization for training deep models, convolutional neural networks, recurrent and recursive neural networks, deep learning in speech and object recognition.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Zoran Kostic
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

WORKSHP ON WEALTH & INEQUALITY

Participants may elect to enroll in the 1-credit CWI independent study offered through the Sociology Department. CWI takes place Thursdays from 2-4pm in Knox Hall, room 509. The course ID for Fall 2025 is SOCI4043GU.

The Center for Wealth and Inequality (CWI), in this course, is a forum for students interested in social science topics broadly related to inequality. In particular, it will provide an opportunity for students to read and discuss the works presented in the weekly CWI seminar series, while also sharing and refining their own works in progress.  The CWI seminar series is sponsored by Columbia University’s Institute for Social and Economic Research Policy (ISERP) and is devoted to the investigation of social and economic inequality.  The seminar invites speakers from both within and outside of Columbia to present recent papers covering a wide range of topics pertaining to inequality, such as poverty, labor market behavior, education, and the family.  The research topics and methodologies are at the cutting edge of the interdisciplinary study of wealth and inequality, as the CWI seminar invites speakers from multiple social science disciplines and fields. Past speakers include Annette Lareau, Adam Gamoran, Timothy Smeeding, Lisa Kahn, Mario Small, Rob Warren and Florencia Torche, among numerous others.

The primary preparation for these gatherings is to read the papers slated for presentation, whether written by an outside speaker or a student within the course. Students will meet to constructively critique these papers collectively, raising key questions and concepts for discussion and debate.  One student will serve as the discussion leader each week by kicking off the dialogue.  This student also will have the opportunity to prepare a review of the paper, if desired.  When discussing CWI seminar papers, the product of each meeting will be a shortlist of pertinent questions for the visiting speaker, which participants will be encouraged to ask during the Q&A following each seminar. When focusing on student papers, participants will provide detailed comments geared towards supporting further development of our peers’ work. We regularly will be joined by the CWI presenters.

The spirit behind the student independent study is one of collective student growth and learning through semi-structured discussion.  While the course will pose a relatively

• Department: Sociology
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 1 points

Workshop on Gender & Sexuality I

Work on Gender & Sexualit

The Gender/Sexuality Workshop is a forum for students interested in social science topics broadly related to gender and sexuality. In particular, it will provide an opportunity for students to read and discuss the works presented in the weekly gender/sexuality workshop, while also sharing and refining their own works in progress. The workshop takes an expansive view of gender and sexuality as a mode of classifying people and as a structure that organizes social life, including work that uses gender/sexuality as a lens to interrogate other social structures such as empire, capitalism, science and knowledge, states and governance, and more. The G/S Workshop will meet every other week over the course of Fall 2024.

• Department: Sociology
• Instructor: Tara Gonsalves
  Info
• 2 points

GLOBAL ASSMT-REMOTE SENSING

Prerequisites: Course Cap 20 students. Priority given to graduate students in the natural sciences and engineering. Advanced level undergraduates may be admitted with the instructors permission. Calculus I and Physics I & II are required for undergraduates who wish to take this course. General introduction to fundamentals of remote sensing; electromagnetic radiation, sensors, interpretation, quantitative image analysis and modeling. Example applications in the Earth and environmental sciences are explored through the analysis of remote sensing imagery in a state-or-the-art visualization laboratory.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• F 9 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
• Instructor: Christopher Small
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 47 Info
• 3 points

ADV EUKARYOTC MOLECULR GENETCS

Required for second year Genetics and Development students. Open to all students. Prerequisite: at least one graduate-level biochemistry or molecular biology course, and instructor’s permission. Advanced treatment of the principles and methods of the molecular biology of eukaryotes, emphasizing the organization, expression, and evolution of eukaryotic genes. Topics include reassociation and hybridization kinetics, gene numbers, genomic organization at the DNA level, mechanisms of recombination, transposable elements, DNA rearrangements, gene amplification, oncogenes, recombinant DNA techniques, transcription and RNA splicing. Students participate in discussions of problem sets on the current literature.

• Department: Genetics and Development
• W 3 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Alberto Ciccia
  Info
• 4 points

MEDIEVAL LYRIC

This course maps the origins of the Italian lyric, starting in Sicily and following its development in Tuscany, in the poets of the dolce stil nuovo and ultimately, Dante. Lectures in English; text in Italian, although comparative literature students who can follow with the help of translations are welcome.

• Department: Italian
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Teodolinda Barolini
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

MORAL PSYCHOLOGY

Intensive study of a philosophical issue or topic, or of a philosopher, group of philosophers, or philosophical school or movement. Open only to Barnard senior philosophy majors.

• Department: Philosophy @Barnard
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Francey Russell
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

UP ELECT INTERNSHIP

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Douglas Woodward
  Info
• 1.5 points

Christianity and Culture

This course provides an introduction to Christianity through the lens of culture and culture theory. Which aspects of Christian faith and practice can we understand as universal or shared, and which are conditioned by the specificities of time and place? Does Christianity itself have a culture, or shape particular understandings of the self and society? Readings are drawn from a range of sources, including primary texts, anthropology, history, philosophy, theology, and fiction. The majority of our focus will be on the modern period, with particular attention to Catholicism and Pentecostalism in the global South (including Africa and Melanesia). Topics covered will include the comparative study of virtues and values (salvation, grace, sincerity), as well as Christianity’s many and varied relationships to the realms of politics, economics, and society. 

Students should come away from this course with a solid grounding in major features of Christianity, especially its Catholic and Protestant forms. The course will also provide students with an introduction to culture theory. Critical writing and reading skills will also be a focus, along with class participation. The course will also encourage students to think of ways in which the issues and authors surveyed might provide models for their own interests and research. This course is geared toward graduate students and upper-level undergraduates. Some background in religious studies and/or anthropology or literary criticism is helpful but not required.

• Department: Religion
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew Engelke
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia h-index: 25 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR ESSAY

A substantial paper, developing from an Autumn workshop and continuing in the Spring under the direction of an individual advisor. Open only to Barnard senior philosophy majors.

• Department: Philosophy @Barnard
• Instructor: Francey Russell
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY

CONT SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY

This lecture course fulfills the theory requirement in Columbia’s sociology program. It introduces students to post-War sociology by discussing its major paradigms, from Parson’s functionalism to contemporary post-colonial theory or actor-network theory. Each class discusses how a particular theory constructs social reality by making basic assumptions about the component parts of society, how they relate to each other, and what questions emerge that empirical research needs to answer. To illustrate how paradigms conceive and perceive the empirical world differently, each lecture summarizes how intimate, romantic relationships appear when empirically analyzed from a specific theoretical angle.

• Department: Sociology
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Andreas Wimmer
  Wikipedia h-index: 41 Info
• 3 points

INTRO-GENOMIC INFO SCI & TECH

INTRO GENOMIC INFO SCI & TECH

Introduction to computational biology with emphasis on genomic data science tools and methodologies for analyzing data, such as genomic sequences, gene expression measurements and the presence of mutations. Applications of machine learning and exploratory data analysis for predicting drug response and disease progression. Latest technologies related to genomic information, such as single-cell sequencing and CRISPR, and the contributions of genomic data science to the drug development process.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• M 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Tai-Hsien Ou Yang
  Info
• 3 points

Tropical Biology

Study ecology, evolution, and conservation biology in one of the world’s most biologically spectacular settings, the wildlife-rich savannas of Kenya. Although we will meet have a few meetings during the fall semester, the majority of the coursework will be completed during a 16 day field trip to Kenya during winter break. Students will spend their time immersed in an intensive field experience gaining sophisticated training in fieldwork and biological research. Note that there is a lab fee to cover all in-country expenses, and students are also responsible for the cost of airfare to and from Kenya.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• Instructor: Dustin Rubenstein
  h-index: 36 Info
• 4 points

INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: (CHEM UN1403 and CHEM UN1404) or (CHEM UN1604) or (CHEM UN2045 and CHEM UN2046) , or the equivalent. Principles governing the structure and reactivity of inorganic compounds surveyed from experimental and theoretical viewpoints. Topics include inorganic solids, aqueous and nonaqueous solutions, the chemistry of selected main group elements, transition metal chemistry, metal clusters, metal carbonyls, and organometallic chemistry, bonding and resonance, symmetry and molecular orbitals, and spectroscopy.

• Department: Chemistry
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan S Owen
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 40 Info
• 4.5 points

CELLULAR/MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY

Prerequisites: Two semesters of a rigorous, molecularly-oriented, introductory biology course, such as UN2005 (
Inc.,
 
Biochemistry of DNA & Proteins, basic Genetics, Metabolism & Cell Physiology
) and UN2006 (
Cell biology, inc. intra-cellular transport, phagocytosis, protein regulation, as well as Inter-cellular communication, inc., cell-cell contact, receptors/ligands & transporters
).  This course will cover the integration of innate and adaptive immune systems, as well as how immune response contributes to health and disease (
e.g., Infectious disease, allergies, autoimmunity, immune deficiencies, the microbiome and cancer immunotherapy
).   Students will also become familiar with important immunological methods, which will provide an opportunity to explore some of the current literature.   Sophomores will require permission from their advisor to enroll, and graduate student will require the instructor’s permission to enroll.  SPS, Barnard, and TC students may register for this course with the instructor’s approval on a Registration Adjustment Form (Add/Drop form), which can be downloaded ( 
http://registrar.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/reg-adjustment.pdf
) and then returned to the office of the registrar.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Christian W Schindler
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

POST COLONIAL/POST SOV CINEMA

The course will discuss how filmmaking has been used as an instrument of power and imperial domination in the Soviet Union as well as on post-Soviet space since 1991. A body of selected films by Soviet and post-Soviet directors which exemplify the function of filmmaking as a tool of appropriation of the colonized, their cultural and political subordination by the Soviet center will be examined in terms of postcolonial theories. The course will focus both on Russian cinema and often overlooked work of Ukrainian, Georgian, Belarusian, Armenian, etc. national film schools and how they participated in the communist project of fostering a «new historic community of the Soviet people» as well as resisted it by generating, in hidden and, since 1991, overt and increasingly assertive ways their own counter-narratives. Close attention will be paid to the new Russian film as it re-invents itself within the post-Soviet imperial momentum projected on the former Soviet colonies.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• T 6:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Yuri Shevchuk
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN THE BLACK EXPERIENCE

Please refer to Institute for African American and African Diaspora Studies Department for section-by-section course descriptions.

• Department: African American and African Diaspora
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Rachel Grace Newman
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• Instructor: Jafari S Allen
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• Instructor: Guthrie Ramsey
  Info
• 4 points

BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACES LAB

Hands-on experience with basic neural interface technologies. Recording EEG (electroencephalogram) signals using data acquisition systems (non-invasive, scalp recordings). Real-time analysis and monitoring of brain responses. Analysis of intention and perception of external visual and audio signals.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• T 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Nima Mesgarani
  h-index: 35 Info
• 3 points

RES SEM IN BIOMED INFORMATICS

Prerequisite: open to public. Presentations by medical informatics faculty and invited international speakers in medical informatics, computer science, nursing informatics, library science, and related fields.

• Department: Biomedical Informatics
• M 1 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Sarah A Rossetti
  Info
• 1 points

Independent Study in Nursing

INDEPENDENT STUDY IN NURS

Provides an opportunity for students to engage in independent study in an area of interest. A mentor is assigned.

• Department: Nursing
• Instructor: Heidi Hahn-Schroeder
  Info
• 0-8 points

Applied Analysis

Elementary introduction to fundamental concepts and techniques in classical analysis; applications of such techniques in different topics in applied mathematics. Brief review of essential concepts and techniques in elementary analysis; elementary properties of metric and normed spaces; completeness, compactness, and their consequences; continuous functions and their properties; Contracting Mapping Theorem and its applications; elementary properties of Hilbert and Banach spaces; bounded linear operators in Hilbert spaces; Fourier series and their applications.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Liliana Borcea
  Info
• 3 points

QUANTUM PHYSICS OF MATTER

Basic theory of quantum mechanics, well and barrier problems, the harmonic oscillator, angular momentum identical particles, quantum statistics, perturbation theory and applications to the quantum physics of atoms, molecules, and solids.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Alexander Gaeta
  Wikipedia h-index: 89 Info
• 3 points

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY

A first course on crystallography. Crystal symmetry, Bravais lattices, point groups, space groups. Diffraction and diffracted intensities. Exposition of typical crystal structures in engineering materials, including metals, ceramics, and semiconductors. Crystalline anisotropy.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Katayun Barmak
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 49 Info
• 3 points

SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT

This course will begin by clearly defining what sustainability management is and determining if a sustainable economy is actually feasible. Students will learn to connect environmental protection to organizational management by exploring the technical, financial, managerial, and political challenges of effectively managing a sustainable environment and economy. This course is taught in a case-based format and will seek to help students learn the basics of management, environmental policy and sustainability economics. Sustainability management matters because we only have one planet, and we must learn how to manage our organizations in a way that ensures that the health of our planet can be maintained and bettered. This course is designed to introduce students to the field of sustainability management. It is not an academic course that reviews the literature of the field and discusses how scholars thing about the management of organizations that are environmentally sound. It is a practical course organized around the core concepts of sustainability.

• Department: Sustainability Management
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Steven Cohen
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 21 Info
• 3 points

URBAN REVOLUTION: THE CITY IN POLITICS

URB REVOLUTION:CITY IN PO

Contemporary politics are fundamentally urban. The concentration of people, experiences, and resources in space creates a potentially explosive friction between competing aims and interests. At times, these tensions are expressed through consensual deliberation, at others through radical confrontation. As the conventional politics of representative democracy encounter new crises of legitimacy worldwide, the embodied politics of the city become even more important. This course explores the crucial role that cities play in challenging the uneven distribution of power and making claims on the redistribution of resources.

The course is organized into three units: spaces, practices, and institutions. Using urban theory and historical examples, each week critically examines a distinct way in which the city matters to politics. Each unit ends by asking students to deploy this material in analyzing a contemporary case study. At the end of the semester, students synthesize what they have learned into a manifesto that outlines a sustainable, responsible, and realistic program of urban social change.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Nick R Smith
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• 4 points

Modes of Living: Feminist and Critical

Feminist & Critical Appro

Connecting cultural and social issues to ethical questions, this course in feminist and critical interdisciplinary studies offers students the opportunity to consider the relationship between values and value in different modes of living. All too often in public discourse ethical values are invoked but not clearly articulated in terms of their meaning, parameters, and relation to each other. This research seminar investigates values through a semester-long consideration of a single overarching question. This version of the course focuses on the environmental humanities, but other instantiations may use this method to consider different issues. Here, the values commonly invoked in public discussions of the environment are considered in relation to each other, placed in larger analytic contexts, and applied. The final section of the course brings the study of values together with a study of major environmental issues, with a focus on inter-relations amongst those issues. The course uses these interdisciplinary and critical approaches that have become central to feminist ethics as the basis for students developing a major semester-long research project on a question of their own choosing.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Janet Jakobsen
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

MIXED ADVANCED VIETNAMESE I

This course is designed for  students who have completed six semesters of Vietnamese language class or have equivalent background of advance Vietnamese. It is aimed at developing more advance interpersonal communication skills in interpretive reading and listening as well as presentational speaking and writing  at a superior level. Students are also prepared for academic, professional and literary proficiency suitable for post-secondary studies in the humanities and social sciences.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Chung Nguyen
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

Introduction to Human Nutrition

INTRO HUMAN NUTRITION

This undergraduate-level introductory course provides an overview of the science of nutrition and nutrition's relationship to health promotion and disease prevention. The primary focus is on the essential macronutrients and micronutrients, including their chemical structures, food sources, digestion and absorption, metabolism, storage, and excretion. Students develop the skills to evaluate dietary patterns and to estimate caloric requirements and nutrient needs using tools such as Dietary Guidelines for Americans, My Plate, Nutrition Facts Labels, and Dietary Reference Intakes.

• Department: Nursing
• Instructor: Lora Sporny
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• 3 points

FOURTH YEAR KOREAN I

Prerequisites: KORN W4006 or the equivalent. Selections from advanced modern Korean writings in social sciences, literature, culture, history, journalistic texts, and intensive conversation exercises.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MWR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Ji-Young Jung
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• 4 points

Human Anatomy & Physiology I with Lab

HUMAN ANAT & PHYS I W/LAB

This undergraduate-level introductory course is the first of a two-course-series on human anatomy and physiology. Using a body systems approach, we will study the anatomical structure and physiological function of the human body. Foundational concepts from chemistry, cell biology, and histology are reviewed and built upon through the progression of topics. Each of the body systems will be studied for their structure, function, and mechanisms of regulation. The core concepts of levels of organization, interdependence of systems, and homeostasis will be emphasized throughout the course. This beginner level course will lay the foundation for further advanced study of physiology and pathophysiology within a nursing curriculum.

• Department: Nursing
• Instructor: Sally W Aboelela
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

RELIGION LAB

In their research, scholars of religion employ a variety of methods to analyze texts ranging from historical documents to objects of visual culture. This course acquaints students with both the methods and the materials utilized in the field of religious studies. Through guided exercises, they acquire research skills for utilizing sources and become familiarized with dominant modes of scholarly discourse. The class is organized around a series of research scavenger hunts that are due at the start of each week's class and assigned during the discussion section (to be scheduled on the first day of class). Additional class meeting on Thursdays.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Castelli
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Religions of the Roman World

RELIGIONS OF ROMAN WORLD

The goal of this course is to convey an important amount of knowledge on the religious history of the Roman empire focusing both on paganism, Christianity and Judaism and their interaction. We will study the religious space, the agents of cults and religions, rituals and networks and dynamics of power. The course will also face the challenge to reconsider the points of view from which to think the religious history of the Roman Empire and therefore it will be an invitation to revise our intellectual tools and questions towards an awareness to what is at stake when an object of religious debate emerges.

• Department: Classics
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Paraskevi Martzavou
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

Advanced Solid State Devices and Materia

Adv Solid State Device &

Crystal structure and energy band theory of solids. Carrier concentration and transport in semiconductors. P-n junction and junction transistors. Semiconductor surface and MOS transistors. Optical effects and optoelectronic devices. Fabrication of devices and the effect of process variation and distribution statistics on device and circuit performance. Course shares lectures with ELEN E3106, but the work requirements differ. Undergraduate students are not eligible to register.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Savannah Eisner
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• 3 points

STOCHASTIC MODELS

Some of the main stochastic models used in engineering and operations research applications: discrete-time Markov chains, Poisson processes, birth and death processes and other continuous Markov chains, renewal reward processes. Applications: queueing, reliability, inventory, and finance.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: David D Yao
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

Human Anatomy & Physiology II with Lab

HUMAN ANAT & PHYS II W/LA

This undergraduate-level introductory course is the second of a two-course series on human anatomy and physiology. Using a body systems approach, we will study the anatomical structure and physiological function of the human body. Foundational concepts from chemistry, cell biology, and histology are reviewed and built upon through the progression of topics. Each of the body systems will be studied for their structure, function, and mechanisms of regulation. The core concepts of levels of organization, interdependence of systems, and homeostasis will be emphasized throughout the course. This beginner level course will lay the foundation for further advanced study of physiology and pathophysiology within a nursing curriculum.

• Department: Nursing
• Instructor: Sofia L Rosenberg-Klainberg
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• 4 points

Business Korean I

This course is designed for students with a Korean proficiency equivalent to three years of study who aim to develop practical and professional communication skills for business settings. The course has three primary objectives: (1) to develop students’ proficiency in formal and business Korean communication, (2) to deepen their understanding of Korean corporate culture and business history, and (3) to enhance their ability to analyze and discuss business-related topics in Korean.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MWR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Beom Lee
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

Auteur Study: Lubitsch and Wilder

Auteur Stu: Lubitsch & Wi

This seminar analyzes the tension in Hollywood between industry self-censorship of film (roughly 1929-1965) and the European émigrés who brought a more cosmopolitan, sexually modern perspective to the genre of comedy.  Students will be introduced to the history of Hollywood’s Production Code (popularly known as the Hays Code), which institutionalized self-administered censorship.  In addition, students will study the genre of comedy, where we often discover implicit subversion of the censorship code. 

The course will teach students about the change in the industry brought about by new talent from Europe during the classical Hollywood period.  In particular, students will study the biographies and work of two directors, the Austrian/German émigrés Ernst Lubitsch and Billy Wilder, whose separate careers bracket the beginning and end of the censorship code.  In the 1920s, as Hollywood moved towards a codified censorship code, Ernst Lubitsch developed his infamous “Lubitsch touch,” which subverted the Hays Code by hinting at possible sexual indiscretions through verbal and visual double entendres and other aesthetic strategies. Many producers and directors learned how to subvert the code from Lubitsch’s films; like Lubitsch, while emphatically publicizing their belief in and rigid practice of self-censorship, these producers and directors used Lubitsch-like techniques to hint at salacious attitudes and behaviors, which they had claimed to have censored.

Billy Wilder was one of these directors.  Wilder learned from Lubitsch directly, working as screenwriter on Lubitsch’s films
Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife
(1938) and
Ninotchka
(1939).  With a handful of other Hollywood personnel, Billy Wilder is credited with directly challenging and bringing the Hays Code to an end, particularly with his film
Some Like It Hot
(1959).  Wilder moved sexual indiscretions and illicit desire into the open in this film and others such as
The Apartment
(1960).

• Department: Film
• M 9:10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Ronald Gregg
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

MECHANISMS OF TRANSPORT

Continuum frame-work for modeling non-equilibrium phenomena in fluids with clear connections to the molecular/microscopic mechanisms for conductive transport. Continuum balances of mass and momentum; continuum-level development of conductive momentum flux (stress tensor) for simple fluids; applications of continuum framework for simple fluids (lubrication flows, creeping flows). Microscopic developments of the stress for simple and/or complex fluids; kinetic theory and/or liquid state models for transport coefficients in simple fluids; Langevin/Fokker- Plank/Smoluchowski framework for the stress in complex fluids; stress in active matter; applications for complex fluids.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Kyle Bishop
  h-index: 42 Info
• 3 points

Microbiology with Lab

MICROBIOLOGY W/LAB

This online undergraduate-level introductory course focuses on the core concepts and principles of microbiology. We will explore how microorganisms co-exist and interact with humans creating both beneficial and pathological results. We will survey the diversity of microorganisms, their classification, and the essential processes needed for survival; which will dictate the environments in which they can thrive. This exploration of microorganism diversity will include topics such as microbial nutrition and metabolism, genetics, and antimicrobial mechanisms employed by and against microorganisms. Special attention will be given to understanding the human immune system, mechanisms of infection by pathogenic microorganisms, and the role non-harmful microbiota serve in supporting immune function. The weekly lab component of this course will support and complement each learning module and familiarize students with basic microbiologic lab techniques.

• Department: Nursing
• Instructor: Michelle I Evans
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• 4 points

UNCERTAIN/RISK-CIVIL INF SYST

Introduction to basic probability; hazard function; reliability function; stochastic models of natural and technological hazards; extreme value distributions; Monte Carlo simulation techniques; fundamentals of integrated risk assessment and risk management; topics in risk-based insurance; case studies involving civil infrastructure systems, environmental systems, mechanical and aerospace systems, construction management. Not open to undergraduate students.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou
  h-index: 26 Info
• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO DATABASES

The fundamentals of database design and application development using databases: entity-relationship modeling, logical design of relational databases, relational data definition and manipulation languages, SQL, XML, query processing, physical database tuning, transaction processing, security. Programming projects are required.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Kenneth A Ross
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• 3 points

ECOSYSTM ECOLOGY & GLOBAL CHNG

This course will provide an introduction to ecosystem ecology. Topics include primary production carbon storage, nutrient cycling, and ecosystem feedbacks to climate change. By the end of the course, students will be well versed in the basics of ecosystem ecology and have exposure to some current areas of research. Topics covered will include some aspects that are well established and others that are hotly debated among scientists. Throughout the course, students will be encouraged to think independently and act like research scientists.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Duncan Menge
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 26 Info
• 3 points

Introduction to Developmental Psychology

INTRO DEV PSYCH LIFESPAN

This introductory course covers human development across the lifespan. The course will provide an overview of development and the complexity of human growth through physical, cognitive, emotional, and social capacities. A review of historical and modern-day developmental theories as well as more complex interpersonal constructs, such as cultural variations, will be discussed. Special emphasis is placed upon examining the dynamic interplay between biology and environment with relevant application to nursing practice. The role of social and cultural stressors such as racism and socioeconomics in shaping human development will be examined. This undergraduate-level course will lay the foundation for further advanced study of human development within a nursing curriculum.

• Department: Nursing
• 3 points

LASER PHYSICS

Optical resonators, interaction of radiation and atomic systems, theory of laser oscillation, specific laser systems, rate processes, modulation, detection, harmonic generation, and applications.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Nanfang Yu
  h-index: 48 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED BUSINESS CHINESE

Advanced Business Chinese is designed to help students who have studied at least three years of Chinese (or the equivalent) to achieve greater proficiency in the oral and written use of the language and gain knowledge in depth about China’s business environment and proven strategies. Student will critically examine the successes and failures of firms within the Chinese business arena.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MTR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Zhong Qi Shi
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• 4 points

Biostatistics

In this introductory undergraduate course students will learn how vital the study of Biostatistics is to ensure that clinical and public health practices are supported by reliable evidence. Students will gain an appreciation for the hazards of applying human intuition to probability and statistical questions. This course is designed to explore the collection, analysis, and presentation/visualization of biologic and health data using statistical methods. Students will learn and apply fundamental concepts and techniques of descriptive statistics. Students will also learn basic fundamental concepts of inferential statistics.

• Department: Nursing
• Instructor: Sally W Aboelela
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

FUND-LARGE-SCALE DIST SYSTEMS

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134 or COMS W3136 or COMS W3137) and (COMS W3157 or COMS W4118 or CSEE W4119) Design and implementation of large-scale distributed and cloud systems. Teaches abstractions, design and implementation techniques that enable the building of fast, scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems. Topics include distributed communication models (e.g. sockets, remote procedure calls, distributed shared memory), distributed synchronization (clock synchronization, logical clocks, distributed mutex), distributed file systems, replication, consistency models, fault tolerance, distributed transactions, agreement and commitment, Paxos-based consensus, MapReduce infrastructures, scalable distributed databases. Combines concepts and algorithms with descriptions of real-world implementations at Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft, LinkedIn, etc.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Roxana Geambasu
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia h-index: 20 Info
• 3 points

Mineralogy and Mineral Resources

Mineralogy & Mineral Reso

Prerequisites: introductory geology or the equivalent, elementary college physics and chemistry, or the instructors permission. Minerals come in dazzling colors, amazing shapes and with interesting optical effects. But mineralogy is also an essential tool for the understanding of Earth evolution. Minerals represent fundamental building blocks of the Earth system and planetary bodies. Minerals form through geological and biological processes such as igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary from high to low temperatures, from the deep interior to the Earth’s surface and related to volcanism, tectonics, weathering, climate and life. Minerals are one of our most important sources of information on such processes through Earth’s history. Minerals also represent important natural resources and are fundamental to the global economy and modern technology as we know it. In this course, we will approach mineralogy from the standpoint of earth and environmental sciences, the study of mineralogy however is of interest to many other sciences including Material Sciences, Planetology, Archeology, Biology, Chemistry and Physics with most of the 20 Nobel Prizes awarded for research involving crystals being in these last fields. The goal of this class is to (1) understand the physical and chemical properties of minerals, (2) learn techniques of mineral identification with an emphasis on optical mineralogy, (3) understand the relationship between minerals and the broader geological context.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• T 4:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Yves Moussallam
  h-index: 18 Info
• 4 points

PROGRAMMING LANG & TRANSLATORS

PROGRAMMING LANG-TRANSLATORS

Modern programming languages and compiler design. Imperative, object-oriented, declarative, functional, and scripting languages. Language syntax, control structures, data types, procedures and parameters, binding, scope, run-time organization, and exception handling. Implementation of language translation tools including compilers and interpreters. Lexical, syntactic and semantic analysis; code generation; introduction to code optimization. Teams implement a language and its compiler.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Hubertus Franke
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• 3 points

Innovative Sustainability Leadership

This course will prepare students to be leaders in developing innovative sustainable frameworks and solutions. We will analyze the characteristics of innovative sustainability leaders, including common themes (if any), how they have grappled with success and failure, and how these individuals become effective leaders who inspire their teams and organizations to act as catalysts for change. Through guest speakers, in-depth discussion, and by using a variety of examples and case studies from the non-profit, profit, and public sectors, we will examine the impacts that innovative sustainability leaders have on organizational success and failure. 

Against the backdrop of a world transformed by climate change, we will then expand our view to assess the significance of collaboration both within and beyond the conceptual boundaries of organizations, considering the pivotal roles that diverse stakeholders play in driving advancements in sustainable innovations. Ultimately, we will evaluate the role and responsibility of innovative sustainability leaders to effect transformational change on a societal level. By the end of the course, students will have developed actionable tools, strategies, and critical thinking skills for leading transformational change in their organizations and beyond.

• Department: Sustainability Management
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Sara Goddard
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• 3 points

Energy Harvesting

Criterion of energy harvesting, identification of energy sources. Theory of vibrations of discrete and continuous system, measurement and analysis. Selection of materials for energy conversion, piezoelectric, electromagnetic, thermoelectric, photovoltaic, etc. Design and characterization, modeling and fabrication of vibration, motion, wind, wave, thermal gradient, and light energy harvesters; resonance phenomenon, power electronics and energy storage and management. Applications to buildings, geothermal systems, and transportation. To alternate with ENME E4115.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Huiming Yin
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 25 Info
• 3 points

OPERATING SYSTEMS I

Design and implementation of operating systems. Topics include process management, process synchronization and interprocess communication, memory management, virtual memory, interrupt handling, processor scheduling, device management, I/O, and file systems. Case study of the UNIX operating system. A programming project is required.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Jason Nieh
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia h-index: 50 Info
• 3 points

COMPUTER NETWORKS

Introduction to computer networks and the technical foundations of the Internet, including applications, protocols, local area networks, algorithms for routing and congestion control, security, elementary performance evaluation. Several written and programming assignments required.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Henning G Schulzrinne
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 3 points

LANG DOCUMENTATION/FIELD MTHDS

Prerequisites: LING 3101: Introduction to Linguistics and LING 4376: Phonetics & Phonology

This course provides training in linguistic fieldwork for language
documentation and description. We will work with a speaker of an understudied language
to investigate the structure of the language (its sounds, word and sentence formation,
ways of expressing meaning, and usage) and learn about its speakers and their
communities, both in NYC and abroad. Through this process, students will learn
collaborative linguistic fieldwork techniques as well as the art of writing linguistic
descriptions. This course will draw on all aspects of students’ linguistic training to date,
and the success of the course will depend on our ability as a class to work together
cooperatively with the language consultant and language community more broadly to
document and describe the language.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Meredith Landman
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

Music in Time and Time in Music

Music in Time & Time in M

If you have a passion for music, like listening to music, or simply want to explore the realm of Russian melodies, this course is made for you. In the class, we'll focus on the development and strengthening of “four language skills”: speaking, listening, reading, and writing in Russian. You will learn to analyze and interpret lyrics, compare and contrast music across generations, discuss the values of a certain generation of people, and argue the popularity of music genres in specific time periods. Beyond linguistic proficiency, the course will immerse you in a comprehensive exploration of common knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, cultural traditions, and behavioral patterns unique to the people of Russia.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Marina Tsylina
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• 3 points

MANAGING ENG & CONST PROCESSES

Introduction to the principles, methods and tools necessary to manage design and construction processes. Elements of planning, estimating, scheduling, bidding and contractual relationships. Valuation of project cash flows. Critical path method. Survey of construction procedures. Cost control and effectiveness. Field supervision.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Ibrahim Odeh
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• 3 points

SOLAR ENERGY & STORAGE

SOLAR ENERGY & STORAGE

Lecture series by Julian Chen

Nature of solar radiation as electromagnetic waves and photons. Availability of solar radiation at different times and at various places in the world. Thermodynamics of solar energy. Elements of quantum mechanics for the understanding of solar cells, photosynthesis, and electrochemistry. Theory, design, manufacturing, and installation of solar cells. Lithium-ion rechargeable batteries and other energy-storage devices. Architecture of buildings to utilize solar energy.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Julian Chen
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• 3 points

ADV CHEM ENGI THERMODYNAMICS

The course provides a rigorous and advanced foundation in chemical engineering thermodynamics suitable for chemical engineering PhD students expected to undertake diverse research projects. Topics include Intermolecular interactions, non-ideal systems, mixtures, phase equilibria and phase transitions and interfacial thermodynamics.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Sanat Kumar
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 79 Info
• 3 points

DESIGN OF CONSTRUCTION SYSTEMS

Introduction to the design of systems that support construction activities and operations. Determination of design loads during construction. Design of excavation support systems, earth retaining systems, temporary supports and underpinning, concrete formwork and shoring systems. Cranes and erection systems. Tunneling systems. Instrumentation and monitoring. Students prepare and present term projects.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Vincent Tirolo
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• 3 points

PRIN OF CONSTRUCTN TECHNIQUES

Current methods of construction, cost-effective designs, maintenance, safe work environment. Design functions, constructability, site and environmental issues.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Ibrahim Odeh
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• 3 points

PRIN OF CONSTRUCTN TECHNIQUES

Current methods of construction, cost-effective designs, maintenance, safe work environment. Design functions, constructability, site and environmental issues.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Ibrahim Odeh
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• 3 points

POLIT THOUGHT-CLASSICL AND MEDIEVAL

Prerequisites: Contemporary Civilization or a comparable introduction to political theory course. This course examines ancient political thought from its origins in the archaic Greek poleis through the development of classical Greek political philosophy and the transmission and adaptation of Greek political ideas in the Hellenistic, Roman, and early Christian traditions. Our texts will include major ancient works of political theory by Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero as well as works of poetry, drama, history, and ethical and natural philosophy that offer insight into ancient thought on politics. We will approach these texts not only as reflections on the ancient democratic, oligarchic, monarchical, and republican political systems they address, but also as foundations for modern political discourse that still prompt us to consider the questions they raise—questions about the ideal form of government in theory, and the best form in practice; about the nature of law and justice, and the relationship between law and custom, science, or religion; about the rule of law, and the rights and obligations of an individual citizen living in a participatory state; and about the reach of empire, and the implications when a self-governing people attempts to direct the affairs of non-citizens or of other states.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Diana J Moser
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• 3 points