MPA Financial Management II Core.
This course introduces students to budgeting and financial management in the public sector, with an emphasis on real-world application and analytical skill development. Drawing on current and historical challenges—including the 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic—students will explore the political, technical, and managerial dimensions of public budgeting in the United States.
Topics include the structure and function of operating and capital budgets, principles of revenue generation, deficit spending, and debt financing. Students will work with actual federal, state, and local budgets, gaining experience in constructing, analyzing, and presenting budgets in a government context. By the end of the course, students will be able to evaluate budget proposals and make data-informed recommendations grounded in public policy goals and financial feasibility.
MPA Financial Management II Core.
This course introduces students to budgeting and financial management in the public sector, with an emphasis on real-world application and analytical skill development. Drawing on current and historical challenges—including the 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic—students will explore the political, technical, and managerial dimensions of public budgeting in the United States.
Topics include the structure and function of operating and capital budgets, principles of revenue generation, deficit spending, and debt financing. Students will work with actual federal, state, and local budgets, gaining experience in constructing, analyzing, and presenting budgets in a government context. By the end of the course, students will be able to evaluate budget proposals and make data-informed recommendations grounded in public policy goals and financial feasibility.
Prerequisites: ECON G6211 and ECON G6212 or the instructor's permission. This course provides an introduction to a number of exciting research questions in industrial organization and organizational economics. While most of the content is theoretical, great emphasis is placed on the testable implications of the models we study: related empirical work is surveyed. The course aims to bring students to the research frontier by identifying open research questions and highlighting particularly active research areas.
MPA Financial Management II Core.
This course introduces nonprofit and social enterprise finance, financial management, and budgeting. The course is practical and hands-on. The course will examine how financial management principles assist nonprofit and social enterprise leaders make operating, program, and long-term financial and strategic decisions. Students will learn underlying concepts and practical skills through readings, discussions, Case Studies, and assignments. The course is designed to give students a range of core financial and managerial skills that are especially relevant to students who want to go on to establish, manage, or work in nonprofit organizations or social enterprises.
MPA Financial Management II Core.
This course introduces nonprofit and social enterprise finance, financial management, and budgeting. The course is practical and hands-on. The course will examine how financial management principles assist nonprofit and social enterprise leaders make operating, program, and long-term financial and strategic decisions. Students will learn underlying concepts and practical skills through readings, discussions, Case Studies, and assignments. The course is designed to give students a range of core financial and managerial skills that are especially relevant to students who want to go on to establish, manage, or work in nonprofit organizations or social enterprises.
The course begins with a series of lectures that link natural extremes with disasters consequences in the development context. We explain the physical phenomenology of natural extreme events, how and why they originate, the limits to which they can be predicted and the extent to which measures can be taken to reduce their harm. The focus is on those extremes that have historically proven to have the greatest consequences - earthquakes, hurricanes, floods and droughts. We then describe the social phenomenology especially the macroeconomic consequences of disasters. Here we are in relatively new territory and we will call on analogies with well-established economic shocks such as currency slums and financial crises to explain how disaster shocks might differentially impact societies at varying development levels. We then discuss how the UN and other international agencies deal with disasters.
MPA Financial Management Core II.
This course provides students with a foundational understanding of financial accounting, with an emphasis on interpreting financial statements. Students will study the three core financial statements—the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows—and learn the accounting principles and rules that shape how financial data is recorded and presented.
Through hands-on exercises and case examples from service, manufacturing, and retail operations, students will learn to apply double-entry bookkeeping, distinguish between key accounting treatments such as capitalizing and expensing, and evaluate how management’s assumptions and estimates influence reported outcomes. The course aims to build financial fluency for policy professionals and prepare students to critically assess financial information to support evidence-based decision-making.
MPA Financial Management Core II.
This course provides students with a foundational understanding of financial accounting, with an emphasis on interpreting financial statements. Students will study the three core financial statements—the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows—and learn the accounting principles and rules that shape how financial data is recorded and presented.
Through hands-on exercises and case examples from service, manufacturing, and retail operations, students will learn to apply double-entry bookkeeping, distinguish between key accounting treatments such as capitalizing and expensing, and evaluate how management’s assumptions and estimates influence reported outcomes. The course aims to build financial fluency for policy professionals and prepare students to critically assess financial information to support evidence-based decision-making.
Commutative rings; modules; localization; primary decoposition; integral extensions; Noetherian and Artinian rings; Nullstellensatz; Dedekind domains; dimension theory; regular local rings.
This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search
Formal written reports and conferences with the appropriate member of the faculty on a subject of special interest to the student but not covered in the other course offerings.
Prerequisites: G6211, G6212, G6215, G6216, G6411, G6412 or the instructor's permission. This course covers prominent topics in micro-development economics. Lectures and readings will cover theoretical frameworks; emphasize empirical research; and highlight gaps in the literature.
This course provides an opportunity for students in the Music Department’s Composition DMA program to engage in off-campus practicum or internships in music composition for academic credit that will count towards the requirements for the degree.
This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search
Selected topics in theoretical computer science (advanced level). Content and prerequisites vary between sections and semesters. May be repeated for credit. Check "topics courses" webpage on the department website for more information on each section.
Selected topics in theoretical computer science (advanced level). Content and prerequisites vary between sections and semesters. May be repeated for credit. Check "topics courses" webpage on the department website for more information on each section.
Selected topics in theoretical computer science (advanced level). Content and prerequisites vary between sections and semesters. May be repeated for credit. Check "topics courses" webpage on the department website for more information on each section.
Individualized, guided learning experiences at the graduate level in a selected area of concentration. The area of concentration selected should reflect both the role of the clinical specialist / nurse practitioner and the student’s specific interests. Proposed work must be outlined prior to registration and agreed upon by both faculty and student.
Prerequisites: degree in biological sciences. Lectures by visiting scientists, faculty, and students; specific biological research projects; with emphasis on evolution, ecology, and conservation biology.
This proseminar, which meets alternate weeks for the full academic year, is required for third-year PhD students in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. The seminar will help you prepare for orals, develop your dissertation ideas, expand your research skills, produce articles for publication, and generally extend your professional skills. While we will read some practical “how to” literature and models, the focus will be on writing, workshopping material, and discussing process (time-management, organization, etc). Both out-of-class assignments and in-class writing exercises should serve to extend your ideas—or shake them loose—and bring you closer to a dissertation that represents your vision, makes others want to read your work, and reminds you why you care. By the end of the year, you will have a polished dissertation prospectus and should have submitted at least one article for publication (or have one close-to-ready for submission). Above all, the seminar offers a supportive community, an opportunity to try out ideas (cooked or still raw), and encouragement from your fellow scholar-writer-thinkers as you progress toward your orals and dissertation.
An overview of the business side of theatrical motion pictures, from the Hollywood major studios to small independents and self-distribution. Covers all the ancillary markets (cable, home video) and their relationship both to the theatrical success of the film and to its bottom line. Required for all second-year Creative Producing students. Available as an elective for Directing/Screenwriting students.
This course brings graduate students interested in Vietnam Studies together across field lines and period focus to discuss some foundational questions of historiography and methods within the field. We have striven to combine key conceptual or theoretical work with examples drawn from the specific context of the study of Vietnam. The course is intended to provide a common vocabulary for the discussion of Vietnam Studies.
Introduction to analytic theory of PDEs of fundamental and applied science; wave (hyperbolic), Laplace and Poisson equations (elliptic), heat (parabolic) and Schroedinger (dispersive) equations; fundamental solutions, Greens functions, weak/distribution solutions, maximum principle, energy estimates, variational methods, method of characteristics; elementary functional analysis and applications to PDEs; introduction to nonlinear PDEs, shocks; selected applications.
Prerequisites: A thorough knowledge of elementary real analysis and some previous knowledge of probability. Overview of measure and integration theory. Probability spaces and measures, random variables and distribution functions. Independence, Borel-Cantelli lemma, zero-one laws. Expectation, uniform integrability, sums of independent random variables, stopping times, Wald's equations, elementary renewal theorems. Laws of large numbers. Characteristic functions. Central limit problem; Lindeberg-Feller theorem, infinitely divisible and stable distributions. Cramer's theorem, introduction to large deviations. Law of the iterated logarithm, Brownian motion, heat equation.
This course expands upon foundational knowledge of biophysical health problems to provide a comprehensive understanding of nursing care of the person experiencing acute and chronic mental health disorders. The course integrates biopsychosocial sciences, epidemiology, and nursing sciences to deliver patient-centered, evidence-based care across the mental health-mental illness continuum and across the lifespan. Students will develop critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and interprofessional collaboration skills to ensure safe, high-quality, and equitable care within the context of the person, family, and community.
This course expands upon foundational knowledge of biophysical health problems to provide a comprehensive understanding of nursing care of the person experiencing acute and chronic mental health disorders. The course integrates biopsychosocial sciences, epidemiology, and nursing sciences to deliver patient-centered, evidence-based care across the mental health-mental illness continuum and across the lifespan. Students will develop critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and interprofessional collaboration skills to ensure safe, high-quality, and equitable care within the context of the person, family, and community.
This course expands upon foundational knowledge of biophysical health problems to provide a comprehensive understanding of nursing care of the person experiencing acute and chronic mental health disorders. The course integrates biopsychosocial sciences, epidemiology, and nursing sciences to deliver patient-centered, evidence-based care across the mental health-mental illness continuum and across the lifespan. Students will develop critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and interprofessional collaboration skills to ensure safe, high-quality, and equitable care within the context of the person, family, and community.
The work of Sylvia Wynter presents readers with a multi-disciplinary corpus, spanning plays, critical essays, interviews, a novel, poetry, and dance. In addition to her overarching critique of the idea of “Man”, Wynter’s work invites us to rethink disciplinarity, genre, and how critical practice is defined. If we take seriously the creative component of Wynter’s work, the generative capacity and urgency of poesis, how then might we envision the contours and stakes of a “literary method” in the context of her work? By what means might we read her work, the kind of knowledge it produces by means of the literary, and the alternatives it offers us for thinking through the question of literary method? What, in short, does reading literature do? Does it reproduce complicity with or challenge the kinds of structures Wynter critiques?
Beginning with her essay “Rethinking ‘Aesthetics’” this seminar takes seriously the question of normative forces at work under the rubric of aesthetics to better understand elements at work (poetics, performatives, epistemologies, concepts) and the philosophic, anthropo-centric, ecologic, and racialized topographies that appear. The seminar is divided into three parts: the aesthetic, the performative, and the poetic.
Above all, this course aims to generate
readings
of Wynter’s work and its complex attentions to multiple threads and tensions that constitute and animate modern knowledge.
This course provides students with clinical experience to demonstrate skills and patient-centered care. Students will integrate biopsychosocial, epidemiological, behavioral, and nursing sciences with critical thinking and clinical reasoning to plan, implement, and evaluate evidence-based, quality care of people experiencing a mental health problem.
This course provides students with clinical experience to demonstrate skills and patient-centered care. Students will integrate biopsychosocial, epidemiological, behavioral, and nursing sciences with critical thinking and clinical reasoning to plan, implement, and evaluate evidence-based, quality care of people experiencing a mental health problem.
This course provides students with clinical experience to demonstrate skills and patient-centered care. Students will integrate biopsychosocial, epidemiological, behavioral, and nursing sciences with critical thinking and clinical reasoning to plan, implement, and evaluate evidence-based, quality care of people experiencing a mental health problem.
This course expands upon foundational knowledge of biophysical health problems to provide a comprehensive understanding of nursing practice in sexual and reproductive health care. The course integrates biopsychosocial sciences, epidemiology, and nursing sciences to deliver patient-centered evidence-based care during family planning, the processes of pregnancy and birth, and in the care of the newborn. Students will develop critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and interprofessional collaboration skills to ensure safe, high-quality, and equitable care within the context of the person, family, and community.
This course expands upon foundational knowledge of biophysical health problems to provide a comprehensive understanding of nursing practice in sexual and reproductive health care. The course integrates biopsychosocial sciences, epidemiology, and nursing sciences to deliver patient-centered evidence-based care during family planning, the processes of pregnancy and birth, and in the care of the newborn. Students will develop critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and interprofessional collaboration skills to ensure safe, high-quality, and equitable care within the context of the person, family, and community.
This course expands upon foundational knowledge of biophysical health problems to provide a comprehensive understanding of nursing practice in sexual and reproductive health care. The course integrates biopsychosocial sciences, epidemiology, and nursing sciences to deliver patient-centered evidence-based care during family planning, the processes of pregnancy and birth, and in the care of the newborn. Students will develop critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and interprofessional collaboration skills to ensure safe, high-quality, and equitable care within the context of the person, family, and community.
This course expands upon foundational knowledge of biophysical health problems to provide a comprehensive understanding of nursing practice in sexual and reproductive health care. The course integrates biopsychosocial sciences, epidemiology, and nursing sciences to deliver patient-centered evidence-based care during family planning, the processes of pregnancy and birth, and in the care of the newborn. Students will develop critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and interprofessional collaboration skills to ensure safe, high-quality, and equitable care within the context of the person, family, and community.
This course expands upon foundational knowledge of biophysical health problems to provide a comprehensive understanding of nursing practice in sexual and reproductive health care. The course integrates biopsychosocial sciences, epidemiology, and nursing sciences to deliver patient-centered evidence-based care during family planning, the processes of pregnancy and birth, and in the care of the newborn. Students will develop critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and interprofessional collaboration skills to ensure safe, high-quality, and equitable care within the context of the person, family, and community.
This course expands upon foundational knowledge of biophysical health problems to provide a comprehensive understanding of nursing practice in sexual and reproductive health care. The course integrates biopsychosocial sciences, epidemiology, and nursing sciences to deliver patient-centered evidence-based care during family planning, the processes of pregnancy and birth, and in the care of the newborn. Students will develop critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and interprofessional collaboration skills to ensure safe, high-quality, and equitable care within the context of the person, family, and community.
Topics include homology and homotopy theory; covering spaces; homology with local coefficients; cohomology; Chech cohomology.
This course provides students with clinical experience to demonstrate skills and patient-centered care. Students will integrate biopsychosocial, epidemiological, behavioral, and nursing sciences with critical thinking and clinical reasoning to plan, implement, and evaluate evidence-based, quality care of the family during the antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, and newborn periods.
This course provides students with clinical experience to demonstrate skills and patient-centered care. Students will integrate biopsychosocial, epidemiological, behavioral, and nursing sciences with critical thinking and clinical reasoning to plan, implement, and evaluate evidence-based, quality care of the family during the antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, and newborn periods.
This course provides students with clinical experience to demonstrate skills and patient-centered care. Students will integrate biopsychosocial, epidemiological, behavioral, and nursing sciences with critical thinking and clinical reasoning to plan, implement, and evaluate evidence-based, quality care of the family during the antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, and newborn periods.
This course is a PhD-level introduction to political economy. The first part of the course is mostly theoretical and covers the most widely used models in topics such as social choice, direct and indirect democracy, accountability, lobbying, and redistributive politics. The second part of the course is a mix of abstract theory, applied theory and empirical work, and it covers some of the most research-active areas in political economy, such as media, corruption, and institutions.
This course expands upon foundational knowledge of biophysical health problems to provide a comprehensive understanding of nursing care of the child. The course integrates biopsychosocial sciences, epidemiology, and nursing sciences to deliver patient-centered, evidence-based care across the health-illness continuum, with particular attention to growth and development of the well child and family. Students will develop critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and interprofessional collaboration skills to ensure safe, high-quality, and equitable care within the context of the child, family, and community.
This course expands upon foundational knowledge of biophysical health problems to provide a comprehensive understanding of nursing care of the child. The course integrates biopsychosocial sciences, epidemiology, and nursing sciences to deliver patient-centered, evidence-based care across the health-illness continuum, with particular attention to growth and development of the well child and family. Students will develop critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and interprofessional collaboration skills to ensure safe, high-quality, and equitable care within the context of the child, family, and community.
This course expands upon foundational knowledge of biophysical health problems to provide a comprehensive understanding of nursing care of the child. The course integrates biopsychosocial sciences, epidemiology, and nursing sciences to deliver patient-centered, evidence-based care across the health-illness continuum, with particular attention to growth and development of the well child and family. Students will develop critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and interprofessional collaboration skills to ensure safe, high-quality, and equitable care within the context of the child, family, and community.
This course provides students with clinical experience to demonstrate skills and patient-centered care. Students will integrate biopsychosocial, epidemiological, behavioral, and nursing sciences with critical thinking and clinical reasoning to plan, implement, and evaluate evidence-based, quality care of the well child, and children, families, and populations experiencing health problems.
This course provides students with clinical experience to demonstrate skills and patient-centered care. Students will integrate biopsychosocial, epidemiological, behavioral, and nursing sciences with critical thinking and clinical reasoning to plan, implement, and evaluate evidence-based, quality care of the well child, and children, families, and populations experiencing health problems.
This course provides students with clinical experience to demonstrate skills and patient-centered care. Students will integrate biopsychosocial, epidemiological, behavioral, and nursing sciences with critical thinking and clinical reasoning to plan, implement, and evaluate evidence-based, quality care of the well child, and children, families, and populations experiencing health problems.
This course is about social science research methods, with a heavy focus on quantitative techniques. Students in this course will learn to formulate research and policy questions amenable to empirical inquiry and to identify and apply appropriate methods of measurement and analysis to answer these questions.
This course begins with a discussion on the formulation of research questions derived from policy and management objectives, followed by the collection and organization of data, and finally the presentation and analysis of facts.
This course emphasizes the conceptual understanding of statistics that can be readily applied in the practice of public management and policy. In terms of statistical methods, the course covers descriptive statistics for univariate and bivariate analysis, including concepts and measures of central tendency, dispersion, and contingency tables. It also covers inferential statistical techniques, such as the chi-square, difference in means, and simple and multiple regression analysis.
To complement the lecture, students are introduced to the use of STATA, a computer- based data analysis tool. Later in the semester, the class is divided into groups to work on problems relating to environmental policy and research. The groups formulate research questions and model, collect, code, clean, and analyze data. Towards the end of the class, students are required to present their finding, and produce an analytical report.
This course is about social science research methods, with a heavy focus on quantitative techniques. Students in this course will learn to formulate research and policy questions amenable to empirical inquiry and to identify and apply appropriate methods of measurement and analysis to answer these questions.
This course begins with a discussion on the formulation of research questions derived from policy and management objectives, followed by the collection and organization of data, and finally the presentation and analysis of facts.
This course emphasizes the conceptual understanding of statistics that can be readily applied in the practice of public management and policy. In terms of statistical methods, the course covers descriptive statistics for univariate and bivariate analysis, including concepts and measures of central tendency, dispersion, and contingency tables. It also covers inferential statistical techniques, such as the chi-square, difference in means, and simple and multiple regression analysis.
To complement the lecture, students are introduced to the use of STATA, a computer- based data analysis tool. Later in the semester, the class is divided into groups to work on problems relating to environmental policy and research. The groups formulate research questions and model, collect, code, clean, and analyze data. Towards the end of the class, students are required to present their finding, and produce an analytical report.
An overview of film financing, sales, and distribution, including private equity, tax incentives, international co-productions, soft money, pre-sales, studio financing, and grants. Students will learn how to set up a legal production entity, create a financing plan and recoupment waterfall, navigate the distribution landscape, and approach prospective financiers, sales agents, and distributors. Students will workshop the same feature project from Feature Film Development and complete the pitch deck they had started. Weekly assignments will be entered into a collective class database of industry players.