APPLIED ANALYTICS IN ORGANIZATIONAL CONT
APP AN IN ORG CONTEXT
- Department: Applied Analytics
- F 10:10 a.m.-noon
- R 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
- T 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
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Joseph R Schlosser
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Jisang Pack
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David Kreutter
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Lori Cenci
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ESTIMATING PROJECT COSTS
- Department: Construction Administration
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jason I Levine
Info - 3 points
Managerial Statistics
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
- FS 12:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
- F 3:45 p.m.-6:45 p.m.
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Instructor:
Assaf Zeevi
h-index: 40 Info - 3 points
VALUE-BASED ENTERPRISE RISK MANAGEMENT
VALUE-BASED ERM
Foundational ERM course. Addresses all major ERM activities: risk framework; risk governance; risk identification; risk quantification; risk decision making; and risk messaging. Introduces an advanced yet practical ERM approach based on the integration of ERM and value-based management that supports integration of ERM into decision making. Provides a context to understand the differences between (a) value-based ERM; (b) traditional ERM; and (c) traditional "silo" risk management.
- Department: Enterprise Risk Management
- M 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
- T 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Duncan Campbell
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Instructor:
David A. Bartholomew
Info - 3 points
ELEMENTS OF DRAMATIC NARRATIVE
A lecture and discussion course on the basics of feature-length screenwriting. Using written texts and films screened for class, the course explores the nature of storytelling in the feature-length film and the ways in which it is an extension and an evolution of other dramatic and narrative forms. A basic part of Film’s first year program, the course guides students in developing the plot, characters, conflict and theme of a feature-length story that they will write, as a treatment, by the end of the semester.
- Department: Film
- M 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Andrew S Bienen
Info - 3 points
Diagnostic Readings in Greek Language
Diagnostic Readings Greek
This course is designed to provide incoming first-year graduate students in Classics with a small reading class that will allow a faculty instructor to assess students’ needs before they advance further into the graduate program.
- Department: Classics
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
CULPA: 20
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- 2 points
INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
- Department: Human Capital Management
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
- T 8:30 p.m.-10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Steven I Safier
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Instructor:
Aaron S Wallen
CULPA: 1 h-index: 5 Info - 3 points
PRODUCT, PRICING & DISTRIBUTION
PRODUCT, PRICING & DISTRB
The insurance business is an outward facing business built around selling products to individual and business consumers. Therefore, insurance service providers, like all sophisticated consumer-driven businesses, must carefully and constantly assess their markets and strategies to remain relevant in a highly competitive environment. From consumer data analytics, to proper risk pricing, to efficient distribution channels, to navigating social media, to managing the highly regulated nature of insurance sales and distribution, insurance providers operate in a highly competitive environment that rewards discipline as well as innovation. Successful companies identify and make tough decisions to correct underperforming parts of their portfolios and they temper their approaches to new products where loss costs and pricing requirements are uncertain. They innovate by thinking first about new and evolving loss exposures their customers face and develop insurance products and services that respond. They focus on the client experience through the entire insurance process and create specialized/differentiated products and services to either avoid commoditization or leverage it, depending on the needs of that market and the strengths of that insurer.
The focus of this core course, in MSIM’s Insurance Rotation area of study, will include the history and the evolution of the insurance industry across the three main insurance sectors, i.e. property/casualty, life and health. The course will address factors that drive company investment in and/or withdrawal from specific products and markets and the complexities around developing, pricing and selling a product for which costs are determined only after claims have been paid – something that often occurs many years after the policy was sold. The course will consider how providers are expanding beyond traditional products into related services and how technology is increasing innovation around product design and marketing.
- Department: Insurance Management
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Instructor:
Louis Weltmann
Info - 3 points
Diagnostic Readings in Latin Language
This course is designed to provide incoming first-year graduate students in Classics with a small reading class that will allow a faculty instructor to assess students’ needs before they advance further into the graduate program.
- Department: Classics
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gareth Williams
CULPA: 7
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- 2 points
SELF & OTHER IN CLIN ENCOUNTER
TBD
- Department: Narrative Medicine
- M 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michael E Davidovits
Info - 4 points
English for International and Public Aff
English for Int'l & Publi
This course is designed to strengthen the academic writing skills of SIPA students whose first language is not English. Emphasizing clarity, structure, and academic rigor, the course supports students in developing the writing competencies necessary for success in the MIA and MPA programs. Students will practice summarizing complex texts, crafting literature reviews, explanatory and argumentative essays, and revising their work based on detailed instructor feedback. The course also reinforces advanced grammar, vocabulary, and citation practices, with an emphasis on avoiding plagiarism and promoting original thought.
Assignments include short weekly exercises, midterm and final in-class essays, and three major take-home writing projects. Active participation, peer review, and group discussion of assigned readings are essential components of the course. By the end of the semester, students will gain confidence writing in English across academic and policy contexts while deepening their understanding of key public affairs topics.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- MW 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
- TR 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
- TR 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
- MW 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Brittany Ober
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Maria C McCormack
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Carolyn Dunn
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Instructor:
Christopher Collins
Info - 3 points
PAINTING I
- Department: Visual Arts
- T 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
- F 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kenny Rivero
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Instructor:
Dana J Lok
Info - 3 points
THE WEALTH MANAGEMENT LANDSCAPE
This course will provide an overview of the wealth management profession,
including various business models and the role of the advisor within each. Guest
speakers from across the wealth management profession will discuss the various
business models, key trends, including the intersection of technology and wealth
management and the unique nature of each client planner relationship. This course
will also highlight additional services that advisors are offering clients in order to
provide a full suite of solutions. In addition, students will discuss the role and
function of family offices, the scope of services they offer and best practices to
managing a family office.
- Department: Wealth Management
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Instructor:
William Woodson
Info - 3 points
FICTION WORKSHOP
- Department: Writing
- F 1:10 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
- R 1:10 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
- F 1:10 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
- T 1:10 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
- M 1:10 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
- W 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
- M 1:10 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
- T 1:10 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Hannah L Assadi
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Nicholas Christopher
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Dennard T Dayle
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Sophie M Dess
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Joanna B Hershon
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Heidi S Julavits
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Victor D Lavalle
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Hilary J Leichter
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David M Gordon
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Darcey Steinke
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Kat Tang
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Diksha Basu
Wikipedia Info - 6 points
FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING FOR THE CONSTRUCT
FIN & ACCTG CONSTRCTN INDUSTRY
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- Department: Construction Administration
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
William Fischer
Info - 3 points
Business Analytics
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
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Instructor:
Faculty
h-index: 37 Info - 1.5 points
Insurance Management Student Community C
IMGT SCC
Insurance Management Student Community Center helps facilitate remote pre-residency requirements and preparatory activities to preserve the limited in-person time we have during the residency for other activities. Given that we are a remote program, this is the most effective way to introduce, assign, inform and track new student activity prior to starting the core courses. The use of a dedicated site helps the students practice using the LMS, in addition to acclimating to Columbia, the faculty and the resources. The activities in which the students participate for the residency are critical to their success in the 16-months of remote learning in which they engage. Recordings and other materials are provided to students in continuity with completed activities and the site is also used as a general communications tool with the students outside of the dedicated Canvas courses.
- Department: Insurance Management
- 0 points
UNDERSTAND CONFLICT & COOPERATION
UNDERSTAND CONFL & COOPER
- Department: Negotiation & Conflict Resolution
- W 5:10 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Peter T Coleman
h-index: 35 Info - 3 points
PAINTING II
- Department: Visual Arts
- W 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Esteban Cabeza de Baca
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
Wealth Management Student Community Cent
WMGT Student Community Ce
The Wealth Management Student Community Center helps facilitate remote pre-residency requirements and preparatory activities to preserve the limited in-person time we have during the residency for other activities. Given that we are a remote program, this is the most effective way to introduce, assign, inform and track new student activity prior to starting the core courses. The use of a dedicated site helps them practice using the LMS, in addition to acclimating to Columbia, the faculty and the resources. The activities in which the students participate for the residency are critical to their success in the 16-months of remote learning in which they engage. Recordings and other materials are provided to students in continuity with completed activities and the site is also used as a general communications tool with the students outside of the dedicated Canvas courses.
- Department: Wealth Management
- 0 points
SAFETY IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
SAFETY IN THE CONSTR IND
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- Department: Construction Administration
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Joseph Schwed
Info - 3 points
Operations Management
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
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Instructor:
Nicole Dehoratius
Info - 1.5 points
Molecular Mechanisms
MOLECULAR MECHANISM HLTH/DISEA
- Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
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Instructor:
Jonathan M Barasch
Info - 0 points
LEGAL ISSUES IN BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
LEGAL ISSUES-BLDG CONSTR
- Department: Construction Administration
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tim Hegarty
Info - 3 points
FRENCH AMERICA,1534-1804
FRENCH AMERICA1534-1804
- Department: French
- W 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Pierre Force
CULPA: 12 h-index: 11 Info - 3 points
INTRODUCTION TO NEGOTIATION
- Department: Negotiation & Conflict Resolution
- S 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Bodi Regan
Info - 3 points
Organizational Conflict and Mediation
Org. Conflict & Meditatio
This required NECR course will introduce the concepts and skills of mediation, a type of third-party conflict intervention. This course will provide students with theory, research, and practice to effectively use mediation skills in a wide variety of contexts. Mediation practices are frequently applied to a variety of conflicts and are employed in conflict resolution strategies. Thus it is imperative for a conflict resolution practitioner to develop knowledge and skills of this practice. In this course students will be introduced to mediation philosophies, approaches, applications, and skills through readings, scholarly reflections, role-plays, a collaborative group project, and a term paper. This course will provide a deeper understanding of problem-solving and relational styles of mediation and the goals aligned with each. Students will learn to identify when mediation is appropriate, prepare for a mediation, employ communication skills, deal with negative emotions, address ethical dilemmas, and consider the cultural influences surrounding the parties and conflict.
Prerequisite: NECR 5105 Introduction to Negotiation
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- Department: Negotiation & Conflict Resolution
- S 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michele Riley
Info - 3 points
Negotiation for Everyday Use
In this course, we will explore negotiation from several points of view and approaches. We will also look at characteristics that impact the quality of our negotiations and the outcomes, such as the role of emotions, cultural considerations, effectiveness of our communication, and opportunities to seek out negotiation to transform relationships. The course will be a blend of concepts and skills, theory and practice. On some occasions, you will be introduced to a concept and then asked to apply those concepts in an experiential activity. At other times, you will be asked to engage the activity or simulation and then the concepts will be elicited based on your experience. You will have several opportunities to practice developing your skills throughout the course, in terms of enhancing your practice and honing your analytical and conceptual understanding.
- Department: Negotiation & Conflict Resolution
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Yxa J Bazan
Info - 3 points
Fieldwork Course in Economics
This course provides an opportunity for students in the Economics Master of Arts Program to engage in off-campus internships for academic credit that will count towards their requirements for the degree. The internships will facilitate the application of economic skills that students have developed in the program and prepare them for future work in the field.
- Department: Economics
- 1 points
SCREENWRITING I
In this introductory workshop, students write several short screenplays over the course of the semester and learn the basics of the craft. Character, action, conflict, story construction, the importance of showing instead of telling, and other essential components are explored.
- Department: Film
- M 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
- T 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
- W 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
- M 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
- M 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
- T 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
- F 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
- W 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jamal Joseph
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Instructor:
Rania Attieh
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Instructor:
Jamal Joseph
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Instructor:
Minhal Baig
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Instructor:
Daniel Kleinman
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Instructor:
Keith Bunin
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Instructor:
Yared Zeleke
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Instructor:
Lucy Teitler
Info - 3 points
Campaign Finance & Fundraising Analytics
Campaign Fin & Fund Analy
Billions of dollars are raised and spent during U.S. presidential and congressional races each election cycle. Campaign expenditures play a critical role in election outcomes and political donations are used by corporations, unions, advocacy groups, and individuals to influence elected officials and public policy. Whether they are working for campaigns, advocacy groups, or consultants, political analysts need to have a sound understanding of campaign finance law and regulations, the chief strategies that contributors and recipients use to pursue their interests, and the incredibly rich data that is available to analyze and study campaign giving in the United States.
In this course, students will learn about the history and current state of campaign finance regulation, what motivates donors to give and what they may (or may not) receive in return, and how campaigns themselves fundraise and spend their billions. Students will become familiar with the ways data analytics have influenced how modern campaigns approach fundraising and the strategies used by candidates to finance a run for office. Finally, students will engage with the potential benefits and pitfalls of campaign finance reforms which, along with technological change, promise to keep political fundraising in a state of flux.
- Department: Political Analytics
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sara Yeganeh
Info - 3 points
Practices in Design and Innovation
Pract in Design and Innov
Design is at the core of every innovation. It’s the visual, experiential, and strategic medium through which ideas transform into tangible and digital products, service platforms, experiences, and consequences. This course is a comprehensive exploration of the methods, vocabulary, challenges, and opportunities of design-led innovation. It demystifies how business and design intersect through the lens of innovation, and is foundational for anyone seeking to generate positive social and economic outcomes.
Students experience the course through interconnected paths—interrogating contemporary issues in design and business while simultaneously moving a chosen project through a sequence of hands-on design sprints. These sprints cover everything from ideation and visualization to journey mapping, prototyping, user testing, and branding of their own unique ideas. Participants will emerge with a critical and reusable toolkit for both understanding the innovation process and effectively leading creative teams.
Topics include: Design Thinking; User-Centered Design; Business Value of Design; Problem Framing; Systems Mapping; User Journey Mapping; Ambiguity and Complexity; Liberatory Design Practices; The Impact of AI; Design Ethics; Sustainability, Wicked Problems; Design Futuring and speculative design.
- Department: Technology Management
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Allan Chochinov
Info - 3 points
Political Human-Animal Studies
In a number of academic disciplines the concern with relationships between humans and non-humans has recently resulted in a radical revision of the ways in which we think people and animals construct their social worlds. This course addresses how humans and animals enter into, and interact within, each other's worlds. It draws upon perspectives from anthropology, geography, (political) philosophy, ethics, literary theory, and the sciences, placing current debates within the context of the deep history of human-animal relations. Topics to be discussed include "wildness", domestication, classification, animal rights, biotechnology, "nature/culture", food/cooking, fabulous/mythical animals, the portrayal of animals in popular culture, and human-animal sexualities.
- Department: Anthropology
- R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Brian Boyd
CULPA: 6
Info
- 3 points
Finance for Technology Leaders
An exploration of the central concepts of corporate finance for those who already have some basic knowledge of finance and accounting. This case-based course considers project valuation; cost of capital; capital structure; firm valuation; the interplay between financial decisions, strategic consideration, and economic analyses; and the provision and acquisition of funds. These concepts are analyzed in relation to agency problems: market domination, risk profile, and risk resolution; and market efficiency or the lack thereof. The validity of analytic tools is tested on issues such as highly leveraged transactions, hybrid securities, volatility in initial public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, acquisition and control premiums, corporate restructurings, and sustainable and unsustainable market inefficiencies.
- Department: Technology Management
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Hsing-Hsing Li
Info - 3 points
Full-Stack Products and Practices
Full-Stack Products & Pra
This course provides a comprehensive examination of modern software product development, focusing on creating solutions that address clear user needs and challenges. A “product” in this context refers to a software program that instructs computer hardware to operate, solve problems, and manage tasks effectively.
Modern product development benefits from systematic practices that enhance efficiency, sustainability, and continuity. These practices, including flexibility, iterative development, customer feedback, and efficient project management, are essential for adapting quickly to rapidly evolving market and technology landscapes.
- Department: Technology Management
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mark Wunsch
Info - 3 points
SCHEDULNG FOR MODERN CONSTRUCTION
A comprehensive introduction to the principles, methods and tools required for the development and implementation of scheduling in the construction industry. Topics covered include: the crucial role of the scheduling development plans, budgeting and its impact on project timelines, identification and analysis of critical paths (CPM), resource and cost loading, schedule updating, and schedule management. Coursework is integrated with hands‐on utilization of Oracle Primavera P3 and P6 scheduling and Microsoft Project 2007 software. Students may need to bring their own laptops/notebooks for some class sessions. Guest lecturers may be featured for certain topics.
OBJECTIVE:
This course should prepare the student to prepare a CPM schedule, calculate the schedule manually or by use of computer software, evaluate the output of such software, and present such analysis both to field personnel for implementation and to upper management for overview.
- Department: Construction Administration
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sadia I Janjua
Info - 3 points
Research in Economics
This is a required course that facilitates the capstone research paper writing process for second-year students enrolled in the M.A. Program in Economics. The research paper provides an opportunity to write a substantial piece of academic work in which the student is expected to demonstrate mastery of a field, along with the ability to think originally and to convey results clearly in writing.
- Department: Economics
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Seyhan Erden
CULPA: 7
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- 1 points
METHODS: CLOSE READING & CREATIVE WRITIN
METHODS: CLOSE RDNG & CRT
TBA
- Department: Narrative Medicine
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Instructor:
Evelyn J Lai
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Instructor:
Katelyn T Connor
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THE TECHNOLOGY OF RENEWABLE ENERGY
Students are expected to have completed a year of high school physics and chemistry. It would be best to have also taken college level physics and chemistry.
Renewable energy is generated from natural processes that are continuously replenished. Aside from geothermal and tidal power, solar radiation is the ultimate source of renewable energy. In order to have a sustainable environment and economy, CO2 emissions must be reduced (and eventually stopped). This requires that the fossil fuel based technologies underlying our present electricity generation and transportation systems be replaced by renewable energy. In addition, the transition to renewable technologies will move nations closer to energy independence and thereby reduce geopolitical tensions associated with energy trading. This course begins with a review of the basics of electricity generation and the heat engines that are the foundation of our current energy systems. This course will emphasize the inherent inefficiency associated with the conversion of thermal energy to electrical and mechanical energy. The course then covers the most important technologies employed to generate renewable energy. These are hydroelectric, wind, solar thermal, solar photovoltaic, geothermal, biomass/biofuel, tidal and wave power. The course ends with a description of energy storage technologies, energy markets and possible pathways to a renewable energy future.
- Department: Sustainability Science
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jonathan Hollander
Info - 3 points
Technology for Good and Civic Technology
Tech for Good and Civic T
This course equips the next generation of technologists with the skills, strategies, and savvy needed to secure systemic and lasting change for social good. These topics are examined in three units: 1. Intrapreneurship: how to guide responsible technology within and by multinationals and other large-scale, risk-averse institutions; 2. Entrepreneurship & Nonprofits: how to balance market pressures with values-based missions within startups, nonprofits, and other social-good tech enterprises; and 3. Civic Tech: how to navigate policy, politics, and bureaucracies in delivering citizen-facing technologies within local, regional, and national government bodies.
- Department: Technology Management
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alexis Wichowski
CULPA: 1 h-index: 6 Info - 3 points
Technology for Good and Civic Technology
Tech for Good and Civic T
This course equips the next generation of technologists with the skills, strategies, and savvy needed to secure systemic and lasting change for social good. These topics are examined in three units: 1. Intrapreneurship: how to guide responsible technology within and by multinationals and other large-scale, risk-averse institutions; 2. Entrepreneurship & Nonprofits: how to balance market pressures with values-based missions within startups, nonprofits, and other social-good tech enterprises; and 3. Civic Tech: how to navigate policy, politics, and bureaucracies in delivering citizen-facing technologies within local, regional, and national government bodies.
- Department: Auditing
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alexis Wichowski
CULPA: 1 h-index: 6 Info - 0 points
POPULAR & HISTORICAL GESTURES: FIGURE DR
POP. & HIST. GESTURES: FI
Popular and Historical Gestures explores the fundamental properties of figure drawing and portraiture through the lens of pop culture and historical gestures and poses. Students examine the figure in painting, documentary photography, art history, and literature, and then use these examples as sources for live model sessions, studio practice, and discussions. Students will work on self-directed projects and from live models. There are one-on-one and group discussions, as well as individual critiques with the instructor. Class time will include image presentations, discussions, museum trips, individual and group critiques, and in-class independent work time. Each class will begin with a homework critique and a discussion, lecture, or demonstration structured around a specific goal. Students will then work individually. Each class will end with brief individual and group critiques to allow students to see and discuss each other's work.
- Department: Visual Arts
- T 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
David A Cruz
Info - 3 points
INTRAPERSONAL DYNAMICS & CONFLICT
- Department: Negotiation & Conflict Resolution
- SSUU 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
- USSU 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Barry Sommer
Info - 3 points
STRATEGIC ADVOCACY
Strategic advocacy is defined as establishing personal and functional influence by means of cultivating alliances and defining opportunities adding value to the revenues and profits of any organization. This course focuses on the processes and competencies necessary for initiating strategically focused technology-related business conversations. Particular attention is given to the transitions in focus and mindsets necessary for moving from a technical/functional to a business model orientation. Conceptual frameworks, research, and practical applications are part of the design. Topics include: the political economy of exercising executive influence; expert and strategic mindsets; strategic learning and planning; and mapping the political territory. Students will apply theory to their own career related challenges.
STRATEGIC ADVOCACY
Strategic advocacy is defined as establishing personal and functional influence by means of cultivating alliances and defining opportunities adding value to the revenues and profits of any organization. This course focuses on the processes and competencies necessary for initiating strategically focused technology-related business conversations. Particular attention is given to the transitions in focus and mindsets necessary for moving from a technical/functional to a business model orientation. Conceptual frameworks, research, and practical applications are part of the design. Topics include: the political economy of exercising executive influence; expert and strategic mindsets; strategic learning and planning; and mapping the political territory. Students will apply theory to their own career related challenges.
RAISING CAPITAL
An in-depth understanding of how to market a business plan and raise capital to launch new ventures. Topics include capital alternatives, confidentiality, meeting analysis, finalizing agreements, and shareholder alternatives. The course requires the design of a venture that contains multiple approaches for investment. Workshop exercises cover methods of negotiating initial investment, management control, and forecasted return-on-investment.
- Department: Technology Management
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Joy Marcus
Info - 3 points
Essentials for Technology Management and
Essentials for Tech Mgmt.
This 3-credit core course in the M.S. in Technology Management program provides an overview of the strategic role of the technology function to improve business processes, drive transformations, and fuel innovation. Through lectures and applied case study work, students will learn how to develop and keep technology strategies aligned with business goals, navigate governance, regulatory, and budgetary frameworks, and evaluate risks to protect the organization’s IT investments.
- Department: Technology Management
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Trace Wax
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Maryam Daryabegi
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Shahryar Shaghaghi
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Trace Wax
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Instructor:
Christy Fernandez-Cull
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Technology Marketing
This class provides students with a deep dive into marketing and communication strategies and channels for tech company, product, and services launches. Students will work on customer personas for B2B and B2C technologies and reflect upon sustainability guidelines to shape their marketing strategy. They will analyze the different elements that make a soft and hard launch successful, such customer testimonials and industry analyst relations. The course will also discuss how AI is changing the marketing of companies, products and services.
- Department: Technology Management
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Katja Schroeder
Info - 3 points
American Film: Cult & Exploitation
Amer Film: Cult & Exploit
Once associated with images of fishnet-costumed fans of
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
, the concept of the “cult film” has gone increasingly mainstream in recent years. This course seeks to assess the popularization of the phenomenon, asking: what exactly
is
a cult film? And what does the mainstreaming of the concept suggest about our changing relation to today’s media environment?
Whereas most types of film can be defined through widely recognized elements of story and setting (tumbleweed, deserts, gunfights: it’s a western), this is far from being the case with cult. Some have defined the cult film as “created” by audiences (again,
Rocky Horror
); others in terms of nonclassical or aberrant modes of textuality (e.g., various forms of “bad taste” cinema). This course, however, seeks to go beyond audience- and text-based definitions, instead placing cult within a series of historical contexts:
as an outgrowth of film industry practices that sustained the
low cultural status
of certain movie types during the classical Hollywood cinema (e.g., B movies, exploitation, etc.);
as the product of
audience reception
practices, shaped by the politics of cultural taste and “camp” viewing practices that first coalesced during the “midnight movie” phenomenon of the late 1960s/1970s;
as sustained by the
transnational flow
of media content, offering new frameworks for understanding “national” cinemas.
In offering such an approach, this course seeks to isolate the different uses to which “cult” has been put, in order to indicate how pervasive and adaptable the idea has recently become. As we will see, the cult phenomenon implies both a perspective on the past, hence inseparable from the experience of nostalgia, as well as an engagement with our media-driven present.
- Department: Film
- R 10:10 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Robert King
CULPA: 7
Info
- 3 points
DEVELOPMENT & CONSTRUCTION: PROCESS & PR
DEV & CONSTR: PROC & PRAC
- Department: Construction Administration
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
John B Parkinson
Info - 3 points
ANALYSIS FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY
Energy Management is the cornerstone of any sustainability initiative. The generation, distribution, and use of energy has a profound, continuous, and global impact on natural resources, societal structure, and geopolitics. How energy is used has significant repercussions on an organizations cash flow and profitability. For these reasons, energy issues tend to be the fulcrum upon which sustainability programs hinge.
The ability to identify and articulate organizational benefits from energy savings tied to efficiency improvements and renewable energy projects is a requisite skill set for all sustainability managers.
This course will provide real-world information on energy management issues from a practitioner's perspective. Through lectures, problem sets, and readings students will learn how to manage energy audits, analyze building energy performance, and evaluate the energy use and financial impacts of potential capital and operations improvements to building systems. The class will focus on understanding energy issues from a building owner’s perspective, with discussions also examining energy issues from the perspective of utility companies, energy generators, and policy makers.
Best practice in energy management will always involve some level of complex engineering to survey existing conditions and predict energy savings from various improvement options. Sustainability managers need to understand how to manage and quality control these analyses and to translate to decision makers the opportunity they reveal. This course seeks to empower students to do that by providing an understanding of building systems and methods for quantitatively analyzing the potential benefit of various energy improvements.
- Department: Sustainability Management
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Thomas Sahagian
Info - 3 points
ANALYSIS FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY
Energy Management is the cornerstone of any sustainability initiative. The generation, distribution, and use of energy has a profound, continuous, and global impact on natural resources, societal structure, and geopolitics. How energy is used has significant repercussions on an organizations cash flow and profitability. For these reasons, energy issues tend to be the fulcrum upon which sustainability programs hinge.
The ability to identify and articulate organizational benefits from energy savings tied to efficiency improvements and renewable energy projects is a requisite skill set for all sustainability managers.
This course will provide real-world information on energy management issues from a practitioner's perspective. Through lectures, problem sets, and readings students will learn how to manage energy audits, analyze building energy performance, and evaluate the energy use and financial impacts of potential capital and operations improvements to building systems. The class will focus on understanding energy issues from a building owner’s perspective, with discussions also examining energy issues from the perspective of utility companies, energy generators, and policy makers.
Best practice in energy management will always involve some level of complex engineering to survey existing conditions and predict energy savings from various improvement options. Sustainability managers need to understand how to manage and quality control these analyses and to translate to decision makers the opportunity they reveal. This course seeks to empower students to do that by providing an understanding of building systems and methods for quantitatively analyzing the potential benefit of various energy improvements.
- Department: Auditing
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Thomas Sahagian
Info - 0 points
AIR POLLUTION & MEASURING THE ENVIRONMEN
AIR POLL & MSR THE ENV BU
In this course, students will first be provided with a global perspective on the current status of environmental problems and the leading environmental contributors to the burden of diseases. Students will then introduce how air pollutants are produced, transported, and what are their environmental fates. This course will cover how air pollutants are measured and monitored, including government monitoring networks, NASA remote sensing techniques, and research tools for fixed site monitoring (indoor and outdoor) and personal level monitoring. Students will be able to learn basic concepts about the toxicity and target organs of different pollutants, both of which are important to understand dose-response and health outcomes. Building on knowledge of exposure and toxicity, Students will then introduce risk assessment and the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) associated with air pollution. Their usage in evaluating sustainability as well as their limitations will be introduced.
The course will provide students with the methods and tools to understand, monitor, and analyze current environmental health threats in air, and explore strategies for policy interventions for solving these at times complex challenges. Students will leave the course with a stronger sense of the power, and limitations, of environmental data and better equipped to evaluate and communicate the effectiveness of new interventions. After completing the course, students will more confidently be able to apply core scientific concepts to evaluating and addressing public health challenges posed by, for instance, fine particulate (PM2.5) contamination.
- Department: Sustainability Science
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Steven N Chillrud
h-index: 48 Info - 3 points
AIR POLLUTION & MEASURING THE ENVIRONMEN
AIR POLL & MSR THE ENV BU
In this course, students will first be provided with a global perspective on the current status of environmental problems and the leading environmental contributors to the burden of diseases. Students will then introduce how air pollutants are produced, transported, and what are their environmental fates. This course will cover how air pollutants are measured and monitored, including government monitoring networks, NASA remote sensing techniques, and research tools for fixed site monitoring (indoor and outdoor) and personal level monitoring. Students will be able to learn basic concepts about the toxicity and target organs of different pollutants, both of which are important to understand dose-response and health outcomes. Building on knowledge of exposure and toxicity, Students will then introduce risk assessment and the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) associated with air pollution. Their usage in evaluating sustainability as well as their limitations will be introduced.
The course will provide students with the methods and tools to understand, monitor, and analyze current environmental health threats in air, and explore strategies for policy interventions for solving these at times complex challenges. Students will leave the course with a stronger sense of the power, and limitations, of environmental data and better equipped to evaluate and communicate the effectiveness of new interventions. After completing the course, students will more confidently be able to apply core scientific concepts to evaluating and addressing public health challenges posed by, for instance, fine particulate (PM2.5) contamination.
- Department: Auditing
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Steven N Chillrud
h-index: 48 Info - 0 points
Medieval to Contemporary Painting Techni
Medieval to Contemporary Painting Techniques explores the fundamental properties of paint materials by studying the paint-making techniques used by old masters of the late Medieval and Renaissance periods up through the contemporary era. Through hands-on work and experimentation, including preparing paint materials themselves, students will gain experience making and working with egg tempera, oil paint, and synthetic materials such as acrylics. They will develop a stronger understanding of how these materials function and how their uses fit into historical traditions and cultural contexts.
Students will participate in weekly material and technique-building workshops. They will be given select open-ended assignments for which they can choose a particular approach to explore. Students will learn how to handle traditional and contemporary materials in compliance with high material safety standards.
- Department: Visual Arts
- R 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Naomi Safran-Hon
Info - 3 points
IT ADVANTAGES IN CONSTRUCTION
This course provides students with a solid hands-on foundation in BIM (Building Information Modeling) and other technologies that are revolutionizing the way 21st century construction projects are delivered. Starting from the Owner’s perspective, the class sessions will explore the benefits of BIM tools/methods as used by design teams, construction managers and sub-contractors. Students work with actual industry tools to create BIM Models that extract quantities for estimation purposes, link models to construction schedules (4D simulations), generate clash reports, and effectively communicate 3D site logistics plans. Once a BIM backbone is established, discussions will lead into and highlight: advanced applications, integration opportunities, responsibilities/contractual theories and the introduction of other 3rd Party Software. This course is a recommended companion course to CNAD PS5500, the Capstone Project. Students enrolling in the course are required to have their own notebook PC meeting the noted specifications.
- Department: Construction Administration
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
James Ward
Info - 3 points