SW PRACTICE WITH CHILDREN

• Department: Social Work
• M 8:30 p.m.-10:20 p.m.
• T 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Leny Bolivar
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• Instructor: Morgan Ritacco
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• 3 points

MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS II-DISC

• Department: Economics
• R 5 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Zhiming Feng
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• 0 points

MACROECONOMIC ANALYSIS II-DISC

• Department: Economics
• M 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Patricio M Goldstein
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• 0 points

ISSUES & DEBATES-AMER POLITICS

Prerequisites: the instructors permission prior to registration. Please contact the instructors for more information. This graduate student field survey provides an overview of the scholarly study of American politics. The course has been designed for students who intend to specialize in American politics, as well as for those students whose primary interests are comparative politics, international relations, or political theory, but who desire an intensive introduction to the ;American; style of political science.

• Department: Political Science
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 4 points

Women s Economic Security in the Unite

Womens Econ Security in t

Women in the United States face economic insecurity – too many families do not have access to high-quality, affordable care, including child care and long-term care; the United States is the only OECD country and one of only six nations worldwide without nationally guaranteed paid leave; and the gender wage gap persists across nearly every occupation and education level. Improving women’s economic security and boosting women’s labor force participation are critical for advancing gender equality in the United States and imperative for overall growth and stability of the U.S. economy. This policy lab will introduce students to the main causes contributing to women’s economic insecurity in the United States and the growing body of federal and state law and legislative proposals to address these causes.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• F 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Lauren T Hoffman
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• 0.5 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

PHYSICALITY OF LANGUAGE

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• Department: Writing
• W 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Matty Davis
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• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

LITERARY JOURNALISM

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• Department: Writing
• T 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Jaquira Diaz
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• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

PROFILES

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• Department: Writing
• T 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Lis Harris
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• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

POST-TRAUMATIC

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• Department: Writing
• M 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Nadia Owusu
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• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

FINDING A USABLE PAST

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• Department: Writing
• R 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Benjamin Taylor
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• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

THE QUEST

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• Department: Writing
• T 2:10 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Brenda Wineapple
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• 3 points

GENETIC APPROACHES TO BIOL PROBLEMS II

Required for first-year Genetics and Development students. Continuation of Genetics G6210. Basic principles and current areas of interest in mouse and human genetics. An introduction to mouse genetics; X-chromosome inactivation and genomic imprinting; genetic manipulation of the mouse; genetics of mouse coat color; genetics of sex determination; the mouse T-complex; human linkage analysis; somatic cell genetics; physical mapping of the human genome; cytogenetics; Huntington’s disease; muscular dystrophy and Alzheimer’s disease; and gene therapy.

• Department: Genetics and Development
• T 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

PRIN/APPL-SOC & CULTRL ANTHROP

Prerequisites: ANTH G4201 Principles and Applications of Social and Cultural Anthropology and the instructors permission. Focus on research and writing for the Masters level thesis, including research design, bibliography and background literature development, and writing. Prerequisites: ANTH G4201 Principles and Applications of Social and Cultural Anthropology

• Department: Anthropology
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Ellen Marakowitz
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• 3 points

MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS II

Prerequisites: the director of graduate studies permission. Corequisites: ECON G6410. Consumer and producer behavior; general competitive equilibrium, welfare and efficiency, behavior under uncertainty, intertemporal allocation and capital theory, imperfect competition, elements of game theory, problems of information, economies with price rigidities.

• Department: Economics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• 4 points

Introduction to the Biology of Aging

In all developed countries, the dominant demographic feature of our time is a steady and significant increase in life expectancy.  This increase seems to continue unabated. This objective fact that is seen in most developed countries has a major public health implication: How to achieve healthy aging of the general population?  This will be one of the main public health challenges facing our health care system in the 21st century.  To effectively address this challenge requires that the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, like every leading institution in the country, expand its research effort in the biology of aging.  The long-term goals of this research effort should be to achieve a better understanding of age-related degenerative diseases of all kind, of cancers and as a result to propose novel and adapted therapies for these diseases.  As part of this broad-based effort aiming at strengthening the study of the cellular, molecular and genetic bases of aging, we need to train the next generation of researchers interested in the biology of aging.  The purpose of the graduate course we propose is therefore to expose graduate students to the largely uncharted territory that the biology of aging still is in order to increase the numbers of talented scientists working on the biology of aging. The graduate course we propose will introduce students to invertebrates and vertebrate’s animal models, the cellular and molecular events that occur during aging in various organs, the consequences of the aging process on homeostasis of the entire organism and last but not least, the possible intervention strategies to fight the aging process.

• Department: Genetics and Development
• R 10 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
• 1.5 points

INT'L BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS

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

• Department: Law
• TR 9:10 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• 3 points

AFFORDABLE HOUSING, DEVELOPMENT & POLICY

AFFORD HOUSING, DEV & POL

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

SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE WITH VETERANS

SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE VETE

The purpose of this course is to introduce social work students to the culture, history, policies, programs, and issues that face different generations of the United States military veterans and their families. This course will provide the essential background and knowledge base necessary to assist military veterans and their families through appropriate referrals for social and medical services. The military veteran community will be examined using both micro and macro lenses in order to provide an overarching understanding of the complex matters faced by today’s military veterans, their families, and communities.

• Department: Social Work
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Gina Griffin
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• 3 points

SW PRACTICE WITH FAMILIES

• Department: Social Work
• T 2 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• T 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Alirio Guerrero
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• 3 points

Intro to TV Pilot Writing

This new class will provide Writing for Film & Television students with a foundational experience in TV Writing in the second semester of their first year at Columbia.  They will have studied feature writing in their first semester, and this class will explore how TV is different from the feature form, the unique structure of TV when compared to features, plays, and novels, the key elements of a good TV show and pilot, the different worlds of network and streaming and the current marketplace, how to structure a TV pilot, and how to write and begin revising the pilot episode for an original TV show.

• Department: Film
• M 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: David Klass
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• 3 points

Not Your Grandparents Kinship

While kinship as an institutional category of training has had a rocky route over the past several decades, the roles that received and transformed terms of relatedness shape the way people make and brake social relations and political projects enjoy periodical waves of interest. After introductory critical engagement with foundational texts, we will examine current theoretical and methodological issues in the analysis of kinship, relations, and relatedness. We will focus the social processes through which (and projects in which) people define, create, extend, limit, sever or transform their relatedness with others within and over generations. We will ask what is the relationship between the reach of relatedness and the bounds communities and associations; how people distinguish who is or is not their kin, kith, friend, relative, family member, and so forth; when and how they propose to replace one term of relatedness for another, to act “as if” those unrelated are related, or vice versa; what roles substances (blood, water, milk, &c.) play in conveying, expressing, and forging relations. We will focus on the vicissitudes of relatedness through settlement and migration, as well as on the intersections of kinship and political economy.

• Department: Anthropology
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Naor H Ben-Yehoyada
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• 4 points

MACROECONOMIC ANALYSIS II

Prerequisites: the director of graduate studies permission. Concept of full employment. Models of underemployment and theory applicability, determinants of consumption and of investment, multiplier and accelerator analysis, an introduction to monetary macroeconomics, the supply side and inflation. Integration of macroeconomics with microeconomic and monetary analysis.

• Department: Economics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• 4 points

STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING

Principles of traditional and emerging sensors, data acquisition and signal processing techniques, experimental modal analysis (input-output), operational modal analysis (output-only), model-based diagnostics of structural integrity, data-based diagnostics of structural integrity, long-term monitoring and intelligent maintenance. Lectures and demonstrations, hands-on laboratory experiments.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• M 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Raimondo Betti
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• 3 points

Policy Through Partnerships for the Liva

Much has changed for cities in the United States and around the world. In the last five years alone, cities have faced unprecedented challenges, from the global COVID-19 pandemic to increased climate crises, affordability issues, and social and political unrest. At the same time, cities have never had more opportunities to innovate, drawing on the creative minds of visionaries from all sectors. They are exploring the future of smart cities, improved service delivery, and more precise data-driven policymaking and incident response.

As city governments confront many of these challenges, they often find themselves lacking the resources, skills, and time to tackle them independently. This has contributed to the modern-day rise of public-private partnerships (PPPs) with city governments. For more than half a century, PPPs were most commonly found in developing nations or primarily utilized for infrastructure expansion. Today, however, PPPs can be seen across virtually all major public policy areas, with the lines between the public and private sectors often blurred.

Within this context, we will examine the roles of these intersectional partnerships across three key urban policy areas: housing, education, and economic development. What are the limitations and strengths of each sector? What opportunities do multisector collaborations provide? What concerns arise regarding equitable service delivery? And what does the expansion of these partnerships mean for the future of urban policy and the development of a 21st-century livable city?

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Ashley R Macquarrie-Tomey
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• 3 points

STOCHASTIC ENGINEERING MECHANICS

STOCHASTIC ENG MECHANICS

Review of random variables. Random process theory: stationary and ergodic processes, correlation functions and power spectra, non-stationary, non-white and non-Gaussian processes. Uncertainty quantification and simulation of environmental excitations and material/media properties, even when subject to limited/incomplete data: joint time-frequency analysis, sparse representations and compressive sampling concepts and tools. Stochastic dynamics and reliability assessment of diverse engineering systems: complex nonlinear/hysteretic behaviors and/or fractional derivative modeling. Emphasis on solution methodologies based on Monte Carlo simulation, statistical linearization, and Wiener path integral. Examples from civil, marine, mechanical and aerospace engineering.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• M 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou
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• 3 points

DIRECTING IV

• Department: Film
• W 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• R 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• R 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• M 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Ramin Bahrani
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• Instructor: Stephen Lee
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• Instructor: Melina C Leon
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• Instructor: Laura Moss
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• 3 points

MARSEA WORKSHOP II

This is the second half of a yearlong seminar for students in the MARSEA (MA in Regional Studies: East Asia) Program. It is designed to help students develop key skills in social science research, and to support the thesis-writing process.

• Department: East Asian Regional Studies
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisbeth K Brandt
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• 4 points

QUANTUM CHEMISTRY II

Prerequisites: CHEM GU4221 Atomic and molecular quantum mechanics: fundamentals of electronic structure, many-body wave functions and operators, Hartree-Fock and density functional theory, the Dirac equation.

• Department: Chemistry
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard A Friesner
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• 2.5 points

COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

• Department: Law
• TR 1:20 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
• 3 points

Lifestyle Medicine

Lifestyle medicine is an area of medicine focusing on lifestyle modification for prevention and treatment of chronic illness.  The course aims to describe the practice of lifestyle medicine and evidence-based understanding of 6 key principles of lifestyle medicine, including nutrition, physical activity, stress management, sleep, social connection and risk avoidance. Through the course students will learn the evidence behind the 6 principles and how to apply them in a clinical encounter. Each module will begin with asynchronous pre-class work, followed by a synchronous didactic lecture and interactive workshop, and then concluded with post-class homework on the topic.

• Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
• Instructor: Moneek Madra
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• 1-2 points

History for Future Policymakers

Leaders often invoke the lessons of history, but rarely talk about anything but a few familiar episodes. Even if we can all agree that we should avoid another attack on Pearl Harbor or war in Vietnam, does this actually help us make decisions about the future? In this course, students will explore both the problems and the opportunities with using historical analysis to grapple with present and future challenges. They will develop a deeper understanding of the most often cited historical episodes, but also learn how to avoid using analogies in the place of more original thinking. That means thinking like a historian, and the course will introduce key concepts that can be used to analyze a range of complex challenges, including continuity and change, contingency and inevitability, human agency and structural constraints. But they will also learn how NOT to think like a historian, such as using history as a weapon, and extrapolating into the future.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Sarah C Kovner
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• 3 points

Ethnographies at the End of the World

What can we learn from anthropological and ethnographic research in and about a damaged world, a world confronted by the violence and effects of war, climate change, transnational migration, post-industrial abandonment, and the lives and afterlives of colonialism and slavery? What are the ethnographic debates that address the catastrophes produced by capitalism and the lifeforms that emerge out of its ruins? What types of anthropological critique emerge in times enunciated as ‘the end of the world’? And what comes after this end? Ethnographies at the End of the World addresses these questions by paying close attention to some of the most relevant debates in contemporary anthropological theory and anthropological critique. These debates include, among others, discussions on violence and trauma, the politics of life and death, the work of memory and oblivion, and the material entanglements between human and non-human forms of existence. The aim of this seminar is to generate a discussion around the multiple implications of these theoretical arrangements and how anthropologists deploy them in their ethnographic understandings of the world we live in. In doing so, this course provides students with a fundamental understanding and conceptual knowledge about how anthropologists use and produce theory, and how this theoretical production is mobilized as a social critique. This course is reading intensive and operates in the form of a seminar. It is intended, primarily, for MA students in the department of anthropology and graduate students in other departments.

• Department: Anthropology
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sheng Long
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• 3 points

TUTORIAL IN CLINICAL PRACTICE:STRUCTURED

• Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
• 1 points

Comparative Social Welfare Policy

This course explores welfare systems from a comparative perspective and analyzes the political, economic, socio-cultural, and historical factors that shape and sustain them in various parts of the world.  It pays particular attention to the development of critical national social welfare policies, such as social security, health care, unemployment insurance, social assistance, public employment and training, and emerging best practices and challenges in these areas.  The course also analyzes pressing global/regional trends (e.g., the greying of societies, labor market stratification, social innovation, and affordable housing).

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Yumiko T Shimabukuro
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• 3 points

CORPORATE TAXATION

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

• Department: Law
• TR 2:50 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• 3 points

CORPORATIONS

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

• Department: Law
• MW 2:50 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
• MTW 1:20 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
• 4 points

CAPITAL PARTNERSHIP STRUCTURING WITH ADV

STRUCTURING W ADV EXCEL

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 4 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jose I Lievano Gomez
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• 1.5 points

CORPORATE FINANCE

• Department: Law
• TR 10:40 a.m.-noon
• 3 points

ADVANCED SPATIAL ANALYSIS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Stiles
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• 3 points

International Relations Theory for Globa

IR Theory for Glob Policy

This course is designed to upgrade the students’ skills to design global policies by providing an in-depth understanding of essential International Relations theories and instructing how to apply them to solve real-world issues through exercises. As global cooperation is difficult to build yet critical for solving global issues, this course focuses on theories that are helpful to achieve such cooperation and employs issues related to the U.S.-China competition, a key obstacle to global cooperation, as case studies. At the end of the course, students will be able to define a fundamental structure in each complex and dynamic global issue and tailor policy recommendations that reflect this structure.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Fumiko Sasaki
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• 3 points

ASSET MANAGEMENT

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Sara B Queen
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• 1.5 points

Sharia Texts

This seminar aims to introduce graduate students to the major subfields making up the Sharīʿa system, both in its theoretical as well as practical and institutional manifestations. We will be dissecting representative texts from each genre, all in the Arabic original, ranging from works on the psychoepistemic foundations of the law, to legal theory, the judiciary and juridico-political practice, legal education, biographical constructions of authority, and economic and political management by the Sharīʿa. Theoretically, we will be drawing on historical and cultural anthropology, political theory, Critical Theory, the theories of the subject, and constitutional studies, among others. A reasonable success in this course will permit the student to comfortably specialize in any Sharīʿa subfield.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Wael Hallaq
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• 4 points

CRIMINAL ADJUDICATION

• Department: Law
• MW 2:50 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• 3 points

Politics & Policy of Urban Sustainabilit

Politics & Policy-Urban Sustai

This is a course for thoughtful people who wish to influence actual policy outcomes related to sustainability challenges in major cities. Its objective is not to provide a primer on urban sustainability solutions; this is readily available from textbooks and will change by the time you are in a position to act. Rather, the course’s objective is to prepare you for the kind of challenges that will face you as a policy practitioner in the field of urban sustainability. Cities are increasingly recognized as a key level of government for environmental and sustainability policy. As at all levels, politics and policy are intensely intertwined, and perhaps more so at the local level because the decisions involved often affect constituents directly and intimately --in their neighborhoods, in their homes, in their commutes. This reading-heavy colloquium explores the politics and the policy of urban sustainability from the perspective of someone who wishes to effect change. It culminates in a team project in which students act as a sustainability policy team in a mayoral (or equivalent) office in one of the world’s major cities. The course considers key components of the city itself, with the objective of understanding what shapes the city and its impact on the environment. It mainly uses case studies from the twentieth-century United States, paired with international readings to allow a comparison with other experiences. The focus on deep case studies allows the consideration of the situations, constraints, and political dynamics of specific situations. It is intended to provide students with the ability to recognize patterns in urban political and policy dynamics related to sustainability. These are paired with an overview of leading solutions and how the professor believes practitioners should evaluate them for their own cities. The course also prominently features in-class presentations and discussions of the students’ main project: a team-based memo making a specific recommendation to solve a problem in a specific major world city, which is presented twice, once for a diagnosis of the problem in a given city and a second time with a policy recommendation. This project is the major portion of the overall grade for the class, and is used to allow the students to wrestle with the challenge of turning ideas from past and present into successful urban sustainability policies that can get implemented in a political and institutional world. In order to cover issues in depth, this course is not exhaustive;

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Rohit T Aggarwala
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• 3 points

Ex. Criminal Prosecution: Manhattan/Bkl

EX. CRIMINAL PROSECUTION

• Department: Law
• W 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• None None-None
• 2 points

ESSENTIALS OF NUTR COUNSELING

• Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
• 3 points

EVIDENCE

• Department: Law
• TR 10:40 a.m.-noon
• TR 2:50 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
• 3 points

Networks in Economic Theory

Networks help us describe the complex interactions that occur among large populations of distinct
entities. Some have argued that their incorporation into economic models represents a paradigm
change for the ?eld. This course will introduce you to the central questions in current networks
research as well as the tools and methods used to study networks in economic theory. Topics we
will cover include network games and interventions, di?usion processes, network formation, social
learning and opinion dynamics, and networked markets. The course is divided into two halves. The
rst half will consist of lectures on these topics. In the second half, we will read and discuss recent
research papers.

• Department: Economics
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Evan D Sadler
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• 3 points

Instrument, Interface, Installation: Bui

This course will address hands-on making through creative projects reinforced with critical and historical readings to contextualize work.  Coursework will explore fabrication, gears and motors, homemade instruments, 3d printing, amplifiers and transducers, circuit bending, and getting comfortable soldering and reading circuits. The course engages creative uses of audio technology within and beyond the concert hall, instrumental acoustics and organology, and movement, gesture, and space as elements of structuring sound work. Fluency, troubleshooting,
and self-reliance regarding basic audio hardware, signal flow, and technical requirements for supporting the addition of amplification, fixed media, or interactive electronics to sound work will be a focus throughout. We’ll explore instrument building and modification, installation
design and construction, and physical interfaces to software instruments through hands-on projects supported by readings and repertoire and will culminate in a creative project of your own design.

• Department: Music
• M 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Seth Cluett
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• 3 points

DIRECTING ACTORS IV

• Department: Film
• R 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Jon Shear
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• 3 points

CAPSTONE: RESOLUTION STRATEGIES

• Department: Negotiation & Conflict Resolution
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter Dixon
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• 3 points

SOLO SHOWS

We will use the experience of writing a piece with built-in constraints – cast size with a solo show – to expand our thinking about what is a theatrical event. We will work toward becoming more in touch with our imaginations and in greater awareness and command of what we know. We will explore what is of interest to each of us now, through in-class writing and outside assignments.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• T 9:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Leslie Ayvazian
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• 3 points

TOPICS-INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION

• Department: Economics
• F 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 3 points

FAMILY LAW

• Department: Law
• MW 2:50 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
• 4 points

Development Practice Lab I

Development Practioner's Lab I

DP-Labs I & II are two full-semester, 3-credit courses with a first-year spring course focused on skills and tools around program design and a second-year fall course focused on skills around program management and leadership. The DP-Labs will bookend MPA-DP students’ 3-month professional summer placements, allowing for DP-Lab I skills to be applied over the summer and for DP Lab II to process those experiences as real case studies and examples. These skills will be applied to final semester capstone projects and allow students to synthesize lessons learned for their eventual job search and career development. DP-Lab I is designed to introduce students to key tools, techniques, and approaches used by development practitioners when diagnosing problems and designing programs.  Throughout the semester, students will receive hands-on training by experienced practitioners in high priority skill areas, while looking at communications and ethics and power as cross-cutting themes that can be applied to all skills.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Barbara M Magnoni
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• 3 points

INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION III

Prerequisites: ECON G6211 and ECON G6212. This is an empirical course comprised of two parts. The first part examines single agent dynamics, and multi-agent dynamics (dynamic games). Both methodological advances and empirical applications will be discussed. Some of the topics that will be covered include: investment and replacement problems, durable goods, consumer learning, price dispersion and search costs, learning by doing, and networks and switching costs. There will be a strong focus on estimation details of dynamic oligopoly models. The second part of the course will review empirical models of imperfect information including auctions, moral hazard, and adverse selection.

• Department: Economics
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrey Simonov
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• 3 points

Topics in Organizational Economics

This course introduces the students to the field of Organizational Economics. We combine theoretical and empirical methods to study the nature, design, and performance of organizations. Organizations, such as firms, bureaucracies, and political parties, live in a second-best world, where inefficiencies are inevitable. Our goal is to understand and measure these inefficiencies, study their causes and how to minimize them. This course is divided in two parts of equal length. The first part introduces a few of the main theoretical models and findings from the organizational-economics literature. The second part focuses on how to bring the models to the data. By design, the course is intended for a broad set of students: those who are theoretically inclined, those who are empirically inclined, and those who are both. Many of the tools and skills that are developed in this course will be useful not only within organizational economics but, more broadly, to other fields such as industrial organization, political economy, development economics. Our ultimate goal is to accelerate the students' transition toward conducting their own independent research.

• Department: Economics
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

FEDERAL INCOME TAXATION

• Department: Law
• MTW 1:20 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
• TR 2:50 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
• 4 points

Cities in U.S. Federalism: Policy Innova

Cities can and do develop innovative policies to address problems and respond to residents. Examples include ordinances involving workers rights, LGBTQ rights, and environmental regulation. However, local policies are regularly overturned by state legislatures and courts. Cities are constrained by state and federal policies and laws as well as local voters and taxpayers. This course explores the ways in which the dynamics of American federalism influence public policy and policymaking in U.S. cities. We will review how cities fit into the U.S. federal system and examine both city-state and city-federal relations. To better understand the real-world impact of federalism, we will focus on specific policy domains, including fiscal policy and budgeting, zoning and land use, employment, and the environment.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Patricia A Kirkland
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• 3 points

ARITH & ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY

Affine and projective varieties; schemes; morphisms; sheaves; divisors; cohomology theory; curves; Riemann-Roch theorem.

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Aise Johan de Jong
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• 4.5 points

Financing and Investing in Sustainable D

Financing Sustainable Developm

This is a course about how the global financial system operates and how resources are mobilized to support sustainable development. Over fourteen weeks, the course investigates most of the key institutions, organizations and structures that constitute the global financial system. Students will understand how they function, what incentives drive their management, how decisions are made, and what would be required to move them to support the goals of sustainable development.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• F 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Aniket A Shah
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• 3 points

INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW

• Department: Law
• TR 10:40 a.m.-noon
• 3 points

Climate Tech and Regenerative Entreprene

Regenerative Enterprise

The course will focus on the knowledge and skills required to research, ideate, thoughtfully plan, and pitch a new business aimed at mitigating climate-related challenges. The course will serve as a laboratory for students to sharpen their entrepreneurial abilities and deepen their understanding of climate change and related challenges, and how to meaningfully address them. Teams will work on challenges addressing vital systems (food, water, energy), built systems (buildings, mobility, cities), care systems (health, mental health/climate grief, etc) and aimed at sharpening their entrepreneurial abilities and deepening their understanding of climate change and related challenges, and how to meaningfully address them to support a just transition to a regenerative future. Class process will include: 1) identifying and defining a climate challenge they want to solve; 2) engaging in research, need finding, customer discovery and development; 3) ideation for mitigation and adaptation solutions; 4) Prototyping for customer/expert feedback; 5) Creations viable implementation plans & budgets; and 6) practiing pitching to potential partners and investors.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Rajiv Joshi
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• 3 points

INTERNATIONAL LAW

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

• Department: Law
• MW 9:10 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• 3 points

LAW & LEGAL INST IN CHINA

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

• Department: Law
• TR 1:20 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
• 3 points

Introduction to Data Analytics for Publi

Data Analytics-Public Pol

This course aims to establish a first-principles understanding of qualitative and quantitative techniques, tools, and processes used to wield data for effective decision-making. Its approach focuses on pragmatic, interactive learning using logical methods, basic tools, and publicly available data to practice extracting insights and building recommendations. It is designed for students with little prior statistical or mathematical training and no prior pre-exposure to statistical software.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Poranee Kingpetcharat
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• 1.5 points

LAND USE

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

• Department: Law
• T 4:20 p.m.-7:20 p.m.
• 3 points

JAPANSE LAW-LEGAL INSTITUTIONS

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

• Department: Law
• TR 10:40 a.m.-noon
• 3 points

MATERIALS SCIENCE REPORTS

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.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: James Im
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• Instructor: Yuan Yang
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• 0-6 points

Introduction to Database Design, Managem

Database Design Mgmt & Se

The goal of this course is to train advanced students on the principles, practices, and technologies required for good database design, management, and security. An introduction to the concepts and issues relating to data warehousing, governance, administration, security, privacy, and alternative database structures will be provided. The course concentrates on building a firm foundation in information organization, storage, management, and security. Students planning to enroll in this course should be comfortable with the fundamentals of programming and basic data structures. This course prepares students to build and administer a database and covers representing information with the relational database model, manipulating data with Structured Query Language (SQL), database design, and database security, integrity, and privacy issues.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Poranee Kingpetcharat
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• 1.5 points

PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY

• Department: Law
• MW 10:40 a.m.-noon
• None None-None
• 3 points

Affordable Housing Finance: Policy and A

Affordable Housing Finance is an introduction to the public policy concepts and technical skills necessary for development of both rental and owned housing for individuals and families earning less than 80% of the area median income (AMI). This immensely challenging field requires familiarity with the capital markets, knowledge of zoning, general real estate transactional concepts, contract and tax law and architecture, just to name a few trades. Affordable housing is often developed with public sector support (PPP’s) and with non-profit community development corporations (CDCs) and other development organizations with a mission to create affordable housing. The course will introduce the application of new digital tools to the assessment of investment opportunities and risks in these markets. Instruction in the use of these tools will be provided. Students should have a working knowledge of excel, real estate finance and securitization concepts.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard Koss
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• 3 points

HUMAN RIGHTS

• Department: Law
• TR 1:20 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
• 3 points

The Politics of Defense in the United St

The Politics of Defense is concerned with the construction and implementation of American defense policy—including strategies, budgets, modernization and acquisition programs, personnel issues, and decisions on the use of force.  But it focuses on the politics, and process, of making policy more than on overarching theories or abstract ideas.  Who are the key players, inside the Beltway and beyond?  How do members of the Congress and Executive Branch wrestle with each other—and within their own organizations—as they collectively construct U.S. defense policy?  Which parts of the process are badly flawed and which work well?  How healthy is the relationship of the armed forces to American society?  How do Republicans and Democrats, civilians and uniformed personnel, soldiers and sailors (and airmen/women, Marines, and space guardians), cooperate and compete?  The readings of the course tend to focus on issues and debates of the past several decades.  But in the interest of preparing students for the here-and-now of modern U.S. defense policymaking, the midterm and final take-home exams will consider questions of immediate salience in today’s debate.  Is either major U.S. political party becoming isolationist?  Is America truly preparing for possible great-power war against China, and how likely do different parts of the policymaking process as well as the broader polity consider such a war to be?  Do we waste huge sums on the military?  Does Congress add too many earmarks or pork-barrel projects to that budget?  While the course emphasizes the United States system, its scope necessarily considers other countries and regions as well, if for no other reason than it is in regard to today’s international environment that U.S. defense policy is made.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael O'Hanlon
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• 3 points

Practicum in Music Composition

This course provides an opportunity for students in the Music Department’s Composition DMA program to engage in off-campus practicum or internships in music composition for academic credit that will count towards the requirements for the degree.

• Department: Music
• Instructor: Zosha Di Castri
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• 1 points

ANTITRUST AND TRADE REGULATION

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

• Department: Law
• TR 10:40 a.m.-noon
• 3 points

EX. KNIGHT FIRST AMEND INSTITUTE

• Department: Law
• 2 points

EX. KNIGHT FIRST AMEND INSTITUTE

• Department: Law
• 3 points

Independent Study in Family Primary Care

INDEP STUDY IN FAMILY NUR

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.

• Department: Nursing
• Instructor: Aluem Tark
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• 1-8 points

WRITING FOR THE BIOLOGICAL SCI

This is a required science writing course for the PhD in Biological Sciences, open only to second year PhD. candidates in Biological Sciences. In this course, we will read examples of science writing from the recent literature, consider the strategies used by successful writers, and workshop student writing. The course will emphasize techniques for achieving clarity of thought and clear prose style while communicating science to other scientists. Students will write three short papers and two longer papers culminating in a Proposed Research Plan.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• W 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Meehan J Crist
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• 2 points

RESEARCH SEMINAR

Prerequisites: degree in biological sciences. Lectures by visiting scientists, faculty, and students; specific biological research projects; with emphasis on evolution, ecology, and conservation biology.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• R 2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Duncan Menge
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• 1 points

BIOCHEM,CELL/MOLECULAR BIOL II

BIOCHEMCELL/MOLECULAR BIOL II

For all first year Ph.D. students. Provides a unified curriculum that covers many of the topics that students need to know to successfully carry out research in biological sciences. Topics include basic biochemical principles, processes common to all eukaryotic cells such as transcription, translation and the cell cycle, and mechanism of cell-cell signaling.

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

BUSINESS FINANCE

Foundations of Valuation

• Department: Finance
• MW 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
• MW 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• MW 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Haran Segram
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• Instructor: Bruno Pellegrino
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• 1.5 points

Corporate Finance

Pre-requisite Course: SIPAU6200 - Accounting. 
Corporate finance is an introductory finance course and a central component for students pursuing the international finance track of the International Finance and Economic Policy (IFEP) concentration. This course covers key areas of business finance essential for all managers, regardless of their specialization in finance. Three fundamental questions are addressed: how much funding a firm requires to carry out its business plan, how the firm should acquire the necessary funds, and whether the business plan is worthwhile even if the funds are available.

To explore these questions, the course will cover topics such as analyzing historical uses of funds, formulating and projecting funding needs, analyzing working capital management, choosing among alternative sources of external funding for company operations, identifying costs of funds from various sources, valuing simple securities, evaluating investment opportunities, and valuing a company based on its projected free cash flow.

The course will combine lectures and in-class case discussions, for which students should prepare fully. The goal is to provide students with an understanding of both sound theoretical principles of finance and the practical environment in which financial decisions are made.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Deborah McLean
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• 3 points