PRE-PROD OF A MOTION PICTURE

Pre-Production of the Motion Picture teaches Creative Producing students how to breakdown, schedule and prep all aspects of a low budget independent feature film.  Using one shooting script as a case study, the class will learn to think critically and master each step of the pre-production process. Students will prepare script breakdowns, production strip boards, call sheets and a full production binder.  Topics will include state tax incentives, payroll services, union contracts, deal memos/hiring paperwork, casting, labor laws, hiring BTL crew, legal, insurance and deliverables. Additionally, students will become proficient in Movie Magic Scheduling. Required for all second-year Creative Producing students and only open to students in that concentration.

• Department: Film
• R 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Dana Kuznetzkoff
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• 3 points

UN Development System in Action: Governa

This course will focus on the work of the UNDS, its governance and funding at the global level, and results at the country level. The course will consider the UNDS’s role in tackling current development challenges, giving students the opportunity to learn from practical UNDS responses with partners to emerging crises and ongoing challenges. The class will examine the ongoing UNDS reforms and the importance of development, humanitarian, and peace actors working together. Readings will draw from scholarly literature on the history of the UNDS, case studies, country reports, and strategic and policy documents. Students will also analyze and work with guidance documents produced for UN staff and circulated as part of the UNDS’s operations.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Gulden Turkoz-Cosslett
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• 1.5 points

COPYRIGHT 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
• MTW 10:40 a.m.-noon
• 4 points

INT'L REAL ESTATE REGIONS

INT REAL ESTATE REG-ASIA

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Johnny C Din
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• 1.5 points

INT'L REAL ESTATE REGIONS

INT'L RE REGIONS: BRAZIL

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Shawn T Amsler
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• 1.5 points

LIE GROUPS & REPRESENTATIONS

Continuation of MATH GR6343x (see Fall listing).

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrei Okounkov
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 55 Info
• 4.5 points

US Role In World Affairs II

In this second semester of the full-year International Fellows course, “The Role of the U.S. in the World, II” students will be introduced to the challenges confronting the 47th American president at the start of his/her term and will follow the first 100 days of the new U.S. administration, along with international reaction to Washington’s policies.  Each week, the class will discuss current geostrategic and global challenges and opportunities for the U.S., and wrestle with the policy choices under consideration.  This will include following U.S. relations with Russia, Russia’s war in Ukraine, competition and the potential for conflict with China, a roiling Middle East, and U.S. relations with rising and hedging states and democratic backsliders.  The class will also cover the policy challenges presented by rapid advances in technology; a global economy which is trending more towards competition than cooperation; and the interlinked issues of climate change, the energy transition, food insecurity and record-breaking levels of global migration.  The goal is to put students in the minds of U.S. policymakers as they grapple with complex international leadership problems, alliance management, congressional and budgetary challenges and the need to work with countries around the world who are skeptical of or hostile to US leadership. The class will also examine how U.S. choices look to its allies and its adversaries, and how America’s actions affect the decisions of other states.  The Washington trip, a feature of IFP since the 1960’s, will give the class the opportunity to hear directly from current policymakers, former government officials, members of Congress and leading think-tankers and non-governmental players.  Throughout the semester, the class will also be invited to special sessions with outside speakers and team meals to further enrich their experience and help build lifetime camaraderie and professional bonds among classmates – a key goal of IFP’s founders.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Victoria Nuland
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• 3 points

VLSI DESIGN LABORATORY

Design of a CMOS mixed-signal integrated circuit. The class divides up into teams to work on mixed-signal integrated circuit designs. The chips are fabricated to be tested the following term. Lectures cover use of computer-aided design tools, design issues specific to the projects, and chip integration issues. This course shares lectures with E4350, but the complexity requirements of integrated circuits are higher.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Mingoo Seok
  h-index: 31 Info
• 3 points

CAPSTONE: NETWORKING & SUSTAINABILITY

CAPSTONE: NETWORKNG & SUS

• Department: Negotiation & Conflict Resolution
• S 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark A Whitlock
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• 3 points

Introduction to Network Science

Intro to Network Science

As a methodological tool and a theoretical paradigm, network analysis has been increasingly used in public health. This course introduces fundamental concepts in network science and complex systems, applications in public health, and quantitative skills in analyzing network data. The course centers around two themes – the structure and function of networked systems. We will delve into a variety of public health applications including climate and health, transmission of infectious diseases, diffusion of health behaviors, social networks, and exposome and health. Over the course, students will have hands-on excises and group projects to perform analysis on network data. Students are expected to gain an overview of current research topics on network analysis in public health and develop practical quantitative skills to analyze network data.

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• R 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Sen Pei
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• 3 points

United Nations & Globalization

This course introduces the various ways in which the United Nations affects global governance. Over the last decade, every aspect of global governance has been subject to review and debate: peacekeeping and peacebuilding, the future of humanitarianism, a new climate change architecture, human rights, a new sustainable development agenda, and the need for a new multilateralism. Part 1 of this course introduces the different actors, entities, and platforms through which the UN affects global governance. It establishes the conceptual foundations for the role of international organizations in today’s multiplex world. It sheds light on how the UN acts at various levels, in different forms, and with a varied set of partners to foster global public goods and global public policy. This includes discussions on the role of international law, goal setting, and frameworks, as well as the interlinkages between global-level interventions and regional, national, and local activities and outcomes. Part 2 applies the conceptual insights to specific issue areas. Discussions on global governance mechanisms in the areas of peace and security, humanitarian action, sustainable development, climate change, human rights, global health, and COVID-19 deepen the understanding of the role the UN plays in broader governance regimes. In addition to critical scholarship on international organizations and global governance, the course relies on students’ analysis of relevant proceedings and debates at the UN, original policy documents, and expert testimony from a range of guest speakers who share their extensive firsthand observations as actors in global governance processes. By these means,
United Nations and Globalization
offers insights into the processes, challenges, and impacts of UN activities to make global governance regimes stronger, more effective, and more accountable.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Naujoks
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• 3 points

DRUG PRODUCT LIAB LITIGATION

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

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

Critical Cartographies

“Los cuatro puntos cardinales son tres: el norte y el sur,” the Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro
wrote with sharp humor in Altazor o el viaje en paracaídas (Altazor or the Voyage in a
Parachute): “The four cardinal points are three: North and South.” The North/South division is
not the only marker of spatial, geopolitical, economic, or ideological inequalities; several other
divides compete with it as the axis around which our global order is structured: West/the rest,
center/periphery, urban/rural, public/private, land/sea, common/enclosed, developed/developing,
colonial/postcolonial, without forgetting the old ideological divisions of First, Second, Third, and
Fourth Worlds. In response to such spatial divides, this course will explore a range of critical
attempts in art, literature, the social sciences and the theoretical humanities to map out the
unequal organization of the current world order. Studying concepts of so-called “primitive” or
“originary” accumulation, land appropriation, dispossession, uneven development, real
abstraction, and neo-extractivism with a particular focus on Latin America, we will circle back to
the question of how to imagine a cartography that might be critical of the current hegemonies
without increasing the worldwide zones of invisibility and inequality that sustain them.
This course is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of Columbia University’s
Center for Spatial Research's series of seminars on topics related to spatial inequality.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• T 4:30 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Bruno Bosteels
  Wikipedia h-index: 21 Info
• 3 points

CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT & TECHNOLOGY

CONSTRUCTN MGT & TECH

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: John W Lyons
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• 1.5 points

Analysis of Environmental Health Data

ANALYSIS OF ENVIRONMENTAL

Working with data is a fundamental skill for all EHS MPH graduates, irrespective of their area of concentration. Data is the foundation of all research and becoming comfortable describing, analyzing, interpreting, summarizing and presenting is critical for the success of all environmental health scientists. This course will teach students how to work with data at a fundamental level. We will use a large, publicly available dataset (e.g., New York City Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NYC NHANES)) data to illustrate analytic techniques and approaches. This course is required for all students in the EHS MPH department, regardless of certificate selection and should be taken prior to certificate based required courses.

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• M 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Anne E Nigra
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• 3 points

PROF RESP ISSUES/BUSI PRACT

• Department: Law
• R 4:20 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
• 2 points

EXHIBITION CULTURES

Laurel Kendall. This course is a continuation of Museum Anthropology G6352 (not a prerequisite). Through the study of museum exhibitions, this course explores a series of debates about the representation of culture in museums, the politics of identity, and the significance of objects. We will consider the museum as a contemporary and variable form, as a site for the expression of national, group, and individual identity and as a site of performance and consumption. We will consider how exhibits are developed, what they aim to convey, what makes them effective (or not), and how they sometimes become flashpoints of controversy. Because the work of museums is visual, enacted through the display of material forms, we will also consider the transformation of objects into artifacts and as part of exhibitions, addressing questions of meaning, ownership, value, and magic. We will look at this range of issues from the point of view of practitioners, critics, and audiences. G6365 works in tandem with the exhibition project that will be developed in “Exhibition Practice in Global Culture” to produce a small exhibit at AMNH.

• Department: Anthropology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Laurel Kendall
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• 3 points

Journal Club in Molecular Epidemiology a

JOURNAL CLUB-MOL EPI&TOXI

The primary objectives in this course are to learn to systematically review and summarize primary research in molecular epidemiology and toxicology, to synthesize scientific evidence from both disciplines to establish weight-of-evidence, and to understand how this evidence relates to scientific decision making for improving health outcomes. In this course, we will evaluate 6 topics in environmental health, each for a 2 week (2 session) block. During the first week of each block, we will review and critique the human and experimental literature separately. During the second week of each block, we will integrate and synthesize this literature to describe the weight of evidence. By the end of the semester, students will improve their ability to formulate the weight of scientific evidence about current topics in environmental health and will be able to evaluate how this weight of evidence can inform environmental health decision making.

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• R 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• 0 points

TURBULENCE THEORY & MODELING

Ordinary and partial differential equations. Turbulence phenomenology; spatial and temporal scales in turbulent flows; statistical description, filtering and Reynolds decomposition, equations governing the resolved flow, fluctuations and their energetics; turbulence closure problem for RANS and LES; two equation turbulence models and second moment closures.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Marco Giometto
  h-index: 9 Info
• 3 points

Women and Leadership: Designing Policy f

This course explores

how public policy can support the development of women leaders. In recent years, efforts to increase the number of women in senior leadership positions on corporate boards, in C-suites and in government, have reflected a call for gender equity in the spaces controlling levers of power.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Jeri E Powell
  Info
• 1.5 points

Mainstreaming Gender in Global Affairs

Mainstream Gender- Global Affr

This course introduces students to gender mainstreaming, gender analysis and intersectionality as theory and method, as well as the associated set of strategies, tools and skills applicable to international and public policy contexts. Through a combination of empirical research, structural theorizing, social critique, and case studies, students will become acquainted with the global dimensions of feminist organizing and policy-making necessary for working in a variety of specialty policy fields such as education, public health, international finance, sustainable development, peace and security, organizational management and economic development.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Kristy Kelly
  h-index: 3 Info
• 3 points

Transnational LGBTI Rights

LGBT Rights Internationally

In May 2016, a highly contested resolution passed the UN Human Rights Council condemning discrimination and violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity and establishing the system’s first ever Independent Expert on the same themes.  The protracted fight for the resolution demonstrated how lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) rights were, and remain, among the most controversial issues in international human rights, law, and public policy. Contestations around LGBTI rights are frequently framed in terms of ‘human rights’ versus ‘traditional values’ which underscores a central challenge to LGBTI rights claims – how to make universalizing claims based on identities that are historically contingent and culturally produced. This course will explore how LGBTI rights impact mainstream debates, such as bilateral relations and good governance, while also teaching students to understand the challenges of fulfilling LGBTI rights, such as access to legal recognition for same-sex partnerships and transgender people. The course will also explore the ways in which anti-LGBTI animus is deployed for political effect and seek to understand the processes whereby LGBTI rights become lightning rods for broader social and political cleavages. This course offers students an opportunity to reflect, in-depth, on the challenges and opportunities of working on LGBTI rights transnationally, surveys debates within the field, and equips students to competently address LGBTI rights as they manifest across a range of academic and professional interests. Breaking news and contemporary debates will be integrated into the course work.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jessica Stern
  Wikipedia h-index: 24 Info
• 1.5 points

Commercial Payments

• Department: Law
• 1 points

Foundations of Cyber Conflict

Found. of Cyber Conflict

This class examines the dynamics of cyber conflict. We will focus less on the technology of cyberspace than the national security threats, challenges, and policy responses including lessons from history and other kinds of conflict. After taking this course, you will understand about the Internet and Internet-based attacks; how cyber conflicts unfold at the tactical and strategic levels; how cyber conflicts and cyber power are different or similar to conflict and power in other domains; the evolution of US cyber policies and organizations; as well as legal issues and the policies and organizations of other nations. The centerpiece of the course is an exercise to reinforce the fundamentals of national security response to a major cyber incident. Accordingly, you will demonstrate the ability to formulate policy recommendations in the face of the uncertainties of an unfolding cyber conflict.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jason Healey
  Wikipedia h-index: 15 Info
• 3 points

TAX ISSUES IN ACQ + DEV

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Crowley
  Info
• 1.5 points

Principles of Genetics & the Environment

PRIN-GENETICS & ENVIRONME

Our fundamental understanding of genetics is constantly being challenged with new discoveries. This course will provide students with a deep knowledge of the principles of genetics, while exploring how new discoveries are changing our understanding of some basic principles. In addition, students will learn to appreciate how our underlying genetic makeup influences the effects of environmental exposures on human health. The course follows a logical progression: We will start with molecular genetics, describing the structure and function of genes and how gene expression is regulated. Next we will cover classical genetics, focused on modes of inheritance, both Mendelian and non-Mendelian. This will be followed by an overview of human genetics. We will end the course by learning about gene environment interactions, with a focus on some of the most common complex genetic diseases. For the most part students will learn basic principles through an understanding of the experiments that lead to their discovery. The format of the course is meant to be interactive. It will include didactic lectures, group work and critical evaluation of primary papers.

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• R 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Greg A Freyer
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• 3 points

Terrorism & Counterterrorism

This course examines the origins and evolution of modern terrorism, challenges posed by terrorist groups to states and to the international system, and strategies employed to confront and combat terrorism. We assess a wide variety of terrorist organizations, and explore the psychological, socioeconomic, political, and religious causes of terrorist violence past and present. We also analyze the strengths and weaknesses of various counterterrorism strategies, from the point of view of efficacy as well as ethics, and look into ways in which the new threat of global terrorism might impact the healthy functioning of democratic states. The course is divided into two parts. Part I focuses on the terrorist threat, including the nature, roots, objectives, tactics, and organization of terrorism and terrorist groups. Part II addresses the issue of counterterrorism, including recent American efforts to combat terrorism, the strengths and weaknesses of counterterrorist tools and instruments, the issue of civil liberties and democratic values in confronting terrorism, and international strategies and tactics.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Stuart M Gottlieb
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 3 points

The Scientist and the Storyteller

Scientist and Storyteller

A Columbia Cross-Disciplinary Course

Designed for students in science and public health programs, this course bridges the gap between scientific research and the distribution of important health information to the public. Students are given an in-depth look at how science journalists work:  their reporting techniques, writing and producing methods, and, ultimately, how they contextualize and distribute scientific information to their audiences.  Students will be taught best practices for collaborating with journalists to ensure that their research reaches the public in the most intelligible and factual ways.  For students training in science journalism, this course will provide perspective into how scientists think and the way they are trained to report research findings to scientific and lay audiences.  Providing an opportunity for cross-talk between these two adjacent disciplines, this class will train scientists to be better communicators and journalists to be better translators of scientific information.   Co-taught by leaders in the fields of public health and journalism, this course is a practical guide for researchers hoping to extend the reach and impact of their work.

Grades will be based on class participation and successful completion of a final project. For the final project, students will be assigned in groups to interview a public health scientist about a recent publication.  Students will independently prepare a story (any format is acceptable) to communicate the study findings as a work of journalism.

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• T 1:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• 3 points

Conflict Resolution

This course introduces the study and practice of international conflict resolution, providing students with a broad understanding of the subject and a framework for approaching more specific strands of study offered by CICR. Can a war be stopped before it starts? Is it realistic to talk about ‘managing’ a war and mitigating its consequences? What eventually brings adversaries to the negotiating table? How do mediation efforts unfold and how are the key issues resolved? Why do peace processes and peace agreements so often fail to bring durable peace? Students will address these and other fundamental questions in order to develop an understanding of international conflict resolution.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• 3 points

REGULATION OF FINANCIAL INST

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.
• 4 points

Commercial Real Estate Transactions

Commercial Estate Transac

• Department: Law
• R 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• 2 points

CRYO-ELECTRON MICROSCOPY

Electron microscopy in combination with image analysis is increasingly powerful in producing 3D structures of individual molecules and large macromolecular complexes that are unapproachable by other methods. Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), is a form of transmission electron microscopy where the sample is studied at cryogenic temperatures (generally below -180 °C). This course is focused on the concepts and theories behind cryo-electron microscopy and its application in structural biology.

• Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
• MW 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Joachim Frank
  Wikipedia h-index: 111 Info
• 4 points

Global Political Economy

According to a recent article in
The Economist
, 2020 marks “the year when everything changed” and a “turning-point” in human history and the global economy. Indeed, the current era of economic globalization, which until recently appeared inevitable to many observers, now faces numerous challenges—including the disruption of supply chains, the closing of borders, and sharp falls in economic output. However, the global economy was already encountering strong headwinds prior to the emergence of COVID-19 due to factors such as ballooning inequality, the climate crisis, rising nationalist and xenophobic sentiment, and increasing support for protectionism and skepticism of both “free trade” and (global) capitalism itself.  

This course centers around analyzing the structure of the contemporary global economy, its political origins and inherently political nature, and how power is exercised therein by actors including states, corporations, and international institutions. As we will highlight throughout the semester, the global economy shapes the lives of people all over the world, including our own. 

Specifically, we will discuss the rise and consolidation of today’s neoliberal global order, its “governance,” and the various forms of backlash against it that are currently proliferating. We will also carefully analyze the role of race, class, and gender in the global economy, as well as the persistence of colonial legacies, and the ongoing relevance of North-South and other inequalities. Additionally, we will discuss how issues such as climate change, U.S.-China relations, and the pandemic itself may shape the future trajectory of the global economy.

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

• Department: Committee on Global Thought
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Kevin Funk
  h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points

CRIT APPRO TO E ASIAN STUDIES

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Allison E Bernard
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

COMMUNICATING EARTH & ENVIR SCI

Communicating science well in the context of the earth and environmental sciences is critical. This science communication course will transect specific earth and environmental science disciplines to provide a foundational understanding of what it means to communicate science and how to do so effectively. Within this overarching theme of science communication, students will gain a comprehensive and holistic understanding of how to communicate earth and environmental science across a variety of formats and to a diversity of audiences. Practical outcomes include but are not limited to students learning 1) how to rationalize a research topic, 2) write a hypothesis driven proposal, 3) evaluate proposals, 4) produce clear and compelling graphics, 5) adopt the latest pedagogical approaches, and 6) present science findings to a diversity of audiences.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• MW 3 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sonya Dyhrman
  Wikipedia h-index: 47 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED MACHINE DYNAMICS

Advanced Machine Dynamics

Review of classical dynamics, including Lagrange’s equations. Analysis of dynamic response of high-speed machine elements and systems, including mass-spring systems, cam-follower systems, and gearing; shock isolation; introduction to gyrodynamics.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• R 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicolas W Chbat
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• 3 points

Integration of Nursing Practice

INTEGRATION OF NURSE PRAC

Nursing integration is the capstone immersion experience designed to provide the student with an opportunity to synthesize the knowledge and skills acquired during previous coursework. The student will build clinical reasoning and develop beginning proficiency in patient management and evaluation through assignments in increasingly complex patient care settings. Working closely with staff and faculty, the student will gain the confidence and skill needed to function as a novice nurse who is a designer, manager and coordinator of care.

• Department: Nursing
• Instructor: Candice Smith
  Info
• 3 points

Integration of Nursing Practice

INTEGRATION OF NURSE PRAC

Nursing integration is the capstone immersion experience designed to provide the student with an opportunity to synthesize the knowledge and skills acquired during previous coursework. The student will build clinical reasoning and develop beginning proficiency in patient management and evaluation through assignments in increasingly complex patient care settings. Working closely with staff and faculty, the student will gain the confidence and skill needed to function as a novice nurse who is a designer, manager and coordinator of care.

• Department: Nursing
• 3 points

TRANSLATION WORKSHOP

Word-for-Word Workshop

• Department: Writing
• R 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Alyson Waters
  Info
• 3 points

TRANSLATION WORKSHOP

LITERARY TRANSLATION WORKSHOP

• Department: Writing
• M 4:15 p.m.-6:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeremy Tiang
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Art History Against the Grain

The master discipline for organizing the history of Western art can be said to be  Renaissance art, and within that art, the two master tropes are perspective and workshop. The status of perspective has come into serious dispute both as a historical and a philosophical question. Michael Baxandahl has searched  for the historically grounded  patronage of Renaissance artistic production, only to explain why he has searched in vain. Heidegger has excavated for grounds of the subject onto which technology opens.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Rosalind Krauss
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

LIT/RES-LAT AMER/CARIB STUD II

• Department: Latin-American & Carib RS
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Gustavo S Azenha
  h-index: 6 Info
• 4 points

LOCAL ANESTHESIA

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• 0 points

Macroeconomic Analysis for International

Open to MIA, MIA, and MPA-DP Only. Prerequisite Course: SIPAU6400 - Macroeconomic Analysis. Required for IFEP and DAQA.
 This course continues the one-year sequence initiated with SIPA U6400 and focuses on macroeconomics. The goal of this course is to provide students with the analytical framework to examine and interpret observed economic events in the global economy. The causal relationships between macroeconomic aggregates is based upon microeconomic principles. The subject matter always refers to concrete situations with a particular focus on the causes and effects of the current global financial crisis. The controversial nature of macroeconomic policies is central.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• MW 9:15 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
• MW 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• TR 9:15 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
• TR 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• TR 2:15 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
• R 12:40 p.m.-2:10 p.m.
• R 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
• F 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• F 10:40 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• R 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
• R 6:10 p.m.-7:40 p.m.
• F 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• F 10:40 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• F 12:20 p.m.-1:50 p.m.
• R 2:15 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Fernando Cirelli
  Info
• 3 points

The Law, Regulation, Policy, and Politic

Law, Reg, Plcy & Pol of C

• Department: Law
• 1 points

MODERN GEOMETRY

Continuation of Mathematics GR6402x (see Fall listing).

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Elena Giorgi
  h-index: 5 Info
• 4.5 points

INTRO ORAL/MAXILLOFACIAL SURGY

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• 0 points

Human Rights and the Politics of Inequal

Human Rights & Devpt Policy

This course investigates the relationship between human rights and key policies affecting economic and social equality and equity issues. In particular, the course will focus on how human rights criteria have been integrated into economic governance in various arenas, including trade, labor, development, and environmental policy. The course will introduce students to both theory and practical points of leverage for advancing human rights in the public and the private sector. Students will learn about the strengths, weaknesses and impacts of grievance mechanisms that are tied to economic policies, such as free trade agreements or World Bank complaint mechanisms. They will analyze the impacts of development and investment policies on human rights and strategies for incorporating human rights criteria into governmental and non-governmental decision-making processes.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

INTRO TO ECONOMETRICS II-DISC

• Department: Economics
• F noon-1:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Oksana Kuznetsova
  Info
• 0 points

MINIMALISM & POSTMINIMALISM

Minimalism, which developed in the 1960s, has been widely recognized as one of the most important aesthetic movements, styles, or tendencies of the later half of the twentieth century.  More than simply of interest for itself, minimalism has served as a pivotal reference or turning point for nearly all the developments in the visual arts that have come after it (including postminimal sculpture, conceptual art, performance art, process art, and institutional critique) and remains a major touchstone for contemporary artistic practices.  This course considers minimalism within a historical and interdisciplinary perspective (including related developments in music, dance, and film) and follows its development into postminimalism.  In addition to providing important historical information, the course and topic allow for important investigations into questions of artistic formalism and its challengers and notions of art’s critical and political role within the pivotal moment of the 1960s.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Branden W Joseph
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• 3 points

CONSTITUTION & FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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 1:20 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
• 3 points

Social Movements & Citizenship in Africa

Social Movemt & Citizen-Africa

This course focuses on social movements and citizenship in sub-Saharan Africa to examine how people form political and social movements and deploy citizenship strategies within social, historical, and economic structures that are both local and global. It draws on readings and lectures from scholars in history, political science, anthropology, sociology, and African studies to explore the following topics and themes: histories and theories of social movements and citizenship; cities and social movements and citizenship; citizenship outside the nation-state; social movements and democracy; citizenship as a creative enterprise that emphasizes claim-making and improvisation; citizenship within imperial, international, and national contexts; infrastructures, claim-making, and coalition building; opposition, leadership and democracy; and social movements of African youth and women. This course features guest lectures by and discussions with French and American scholars from Sciences-Po, Universite Paris 1, NYU, and Columbia, and is part of the Joint African Studies Program (JASP) at the Institute of African Studies that is supported by the Partnership University Fund (PUF) and the French Alliance Program at Columbia. It includes foundational readings on concepts, theories, and histories of social movements and citizenship in Africa as well as in-depth case studies on selective themes by various experts working on sub-Saharan Africa. It is unique insofar as it offers a strong foundation in social movements and citizenship while exposing students to in-depth case studies by leading experts working in a variety of disciplines and geographical contexts. All lectures and discussions are conducted in English.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Jinny K Prais
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• 3 points

TRANSLATION SEMINAR

QUEER LITERATURES

TRANSLATION SEMINAR

• Department: Writing
• W 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Soje Lee
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• 3 points

TRANSLATION SEMINAR

WE CONTAIN MULTITUDES

TRANSLATION SEMINAR

• Department: Writing
• R 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Julia Sanches
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• 3 points

Universal Food Security

This course addresses the challenges and opportunities for achieving a productive, profitable, inclusive, healthy, sustainable, resilient, and ethical global food system. Our first class will provide a brief historical perspective of the global food system, highlighting relevant developments over the past 10,000 years and will explain key concepts, critical challenges, and opportunities ahead. For the ensuing few weeks, we will cover the core biophysical requirements for food production: soil and land, water and climate, and genetic resources. We include an introduction to human nutrition – 
Nutrition Week
 – that focuses on dietary change and food-based solutions to malnutrition. Building on this, the course will survey a selection of important food systems and trends across Asia, Africa, and Latin America that provide food security and livelihoods for more than half of the world’s population. Case studies and classroom debates throughout the course will explore the roles of science, technology, policies, politics, institutions, business, finance, aid, trade, and human behavior in advancing sustainable agriculture, and achieving food and nutritional security. We will probe the interactions of food systems with global issues including poverty and inequality, the persistence of chronic hunger and malnutrition, climate change, environmental degradation, international food business and value chains, biotechnology (GMOs), post-harvest losses, and food waste. With a sharp eye for credible evidence, we will confront controversies, reflect on historical trends, identify common myths, and surface little-known but important truths about agriculture and food systems. In our final sessions, we address the ultimate question: can we feed and nourish the world without wrecking it for future generations?

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• TR 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Glenn Denning
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• 3 points

INTRODUCTN TO ECONOMETRICS II

Corequisites: ECON G6410 and the director of graduate studies permission. Introduction to the general linear model and its use in econometrics, including the consequences of departures from the standard assumptions.

• Department: Economics
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• 4 points

COMPARATV POLITICS SURVEY II

GR6412 is one of two survey courses in comparative politics offered by the Political Science Department. The two courses complement each other, but need not be taken in any particular order. The course includes a great deal of student involvement and is designed to help you educate yourselves about the major themes in comparative politics and develop the analytic skills need to conduct research at a high level.

• Department: Political Science
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Timothy M Frye
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• 4 points

LIGHTWAVE SYSTEMS

Fiber optics. Guiding, dispersion, attenuation, and nonlinear properties of fibers. Optical modulation schemes. Photonic components, optical amplifiers. Semiconductor laser transmitters. Receiver design. Fiber optic telecommunication links. Nonregenerative transmission using erbium-doped fiber amplifier chains. Coherent detection. Local area networks. Advanced topics in light wave networks.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Xiang Meng
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• 3 points

DIG HERTITAGE DOCUMENTATI

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

ECONOMETRICS IV

This is the second course of the second year PhD econometrics sequence with emphasis on both economic applications and computationally intense methods for analysis of large and/or complex models. Students can attend the whole sequence or only one of them. While the details of the econometric techniques will be discussed extensively, the core and focus of the course is on the applications of these techniques to the study of actual data. Students will be practiced in econometric methods through computer-based exercises. Prerequisites: Students should have a good understanding of graduate econometrics and should have taken ECON G6411 and G6412.

• Department: Economics
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Simon Lee
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• 3 points

PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS

Photonic integrated circuits are important subsystem components for telecommunications, optically controlled radar, optical signal processing, and photonic local area networks. An introduction to the devices and the design of these circuits. Principle and modeling of dielectric waveguides (including silica on silicon and InP based materials), waveguide devices (simple and star couplers), and surface diffractive elements. Discussion of numerical techniques for modeling circuits, including beam propagation and finite difference codes, and design of other devices: optical isolators, demultiplexers.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Michal Lipson
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• 3 points

CREATING A PLAY II

The Spring Semester will provide the opportunity for each student to hone their play through further drafts into a finished work.  Students will serve as dramaturges for each other.  The semester will end with presentations of the completed plays.  Each presentation is the responsibility of the author and their dramaturge.

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

GAME THRY WITH ECONMC APPLICTN

• Department: Economics
• R 9:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Qingmin Liu
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 14 Info
• 3 points

PROGRAM EVAL IN SOCIAL SVCS

• Department: Social Work
• T 2 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• T 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Charles Lea
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• Instructor: David B Howard
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• Instructor: Eri Noguchi
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• 3 points

POST SUPERVISING FOR PRODUCERS

This class is an intensive introduction to Post Production, with a specific focus on the role of the producer and post-production supervisor. We will examine the different components of Post-Production (Editing, Sound Design/Mixing, Music, Picture finishing, VFX, Titles) from Pre-Production through Delivery. Throughout the course, post department heads will come in as guests, and we will attend site visits to local post facilities.  Required for all second-year Creative Producing students and only open to students in that concentration.

• Department: Film
• R 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Luca Borghese
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• 1.5 points

POST SUPERVISING FOR PRODUCERS

This class is an intensive introduction to Post Production, with a specific focus on the role of the producer and post-production supervisor. We will examine the different components of Post-Production (Editing, Sound Design/Mixing, Music, Picture finishing, VFX, Titles) from Pre-Production through Delivery. Throughout the course, post department heads will come in as guests, and we will attend site visits to local post facilities.  Required for all second-year Creative Producing students and only open to students in that concentration.

• Department: Film
• R 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Luca Borghese
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• 1.5 points

RELIGION & PUBLIC LIFE

There is no shortage of spilled ink, popular media coverage, scholarly inquiry, and academic institutes—including right here at Columbia University—dedicated to examining the intersection of religion and public life. From narratives of religion’s predicted decline during the twentieth century to its much-discussed global resurgence at the turn of the twenty-first, the concept of public religion continues to occupy popular imagination. Through the lens of public religion, we are able to examine pressing issues such as the revitalization of, or disillusionment toward, institutional forms and political establishments in our questionably secular age. What happens when religion “goes public”? Correspondingly, what assumptions about the category of religion and its role in public places do discussions of public religion promote?  Over the course of the semester, we will investigate the possibilities, pitfalls, and practicalities of understanding religion in terms of public life.  

The coursework will draw from scholarship, policy documents, and real-world case studies on issues ranging from climate crisis to conspiracy. Focusing on examples of advocacy, considerations of democratic renewal and decline, and competing claims of power and authority, this seminar considers the ways in which our definitions of religion impact lived, embodied, and practiced forms of religion and secularism in our current moment.

• Department: Religion
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Justine E Ellis
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• 4 points

GAMES

Theatre Games to access, release into and foster playfulness. Through games, students build a foundation for curiosity and boldness. Students learn to listen to their creative instincts as an aid to dissolving self-judgment. Games are played in a bare room and out of nothing more than our imaginations.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• F 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Danielle Skraastad
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• 1.5 points

CONFLICT-LAWS/JURISD:NATL/INTL

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.-4:10 p.m.
• 3 points

ENERGY, FEMINISM AND THE BUILT ENVIRONME

ENERGY, FEMINISM, BUILT E

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Alexandra L Quantrill
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• 3 points

SECURITIES REGULATION

Prerequisites: L6231 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
• MTW 10:40 a.m.-noon
• MTW 2:50 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• 4 points

HARDWARE SECURITY

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Simha Sethumadhavan
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• 3 points

INT'L SECURITIES 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
• MW 9:10 a.m.-10:05 a.m.
• 2 points

Communicating in Organizations

Priority Reg: Executive MPA. 
Communicating in Organizations is a survey course that explores aspects of day-to-day managerial communication relating to presentations and other high-profile moments and more familiar elements of interpersonal communication. The course uses many teaching techniques: short lectures, individual and group exercises, video-recorded presentations, role plays, case discussions, video clips, and writing assignments. It is highly experiential, with exercises or presentations scheduled in most sessions. Initially, we’ll focus on the communication skills and strategies that help you present your ideas to others.  I’ll ask you to do two benchmark assignments―a letter and a brief presentation―to assess the abilities you bring to the course. In several of our class sessions, you’ll be the one “in front of the room,” delivering either a prepared talk or brief, impromptu comments. Such assignments will allow you to develop your skills as a presenter.  I’ll also discuss the link between listening and speaking, showing you how developing your listening skills will improve your effectiveness as a speaker.  And we’ll explore several elements of visual communication, including how to design effective visual aids and written documents. To communicate effectively in such roles as coach, interviewer, negotiator, or facilitator, you need to be skilled at listening, questioning, observing behavior, and giving feedback.  We’ll practice each of these skills in-class exercises and assignments. The Social Style instrument will provide detailed feedback about how others view your communication style. You’ll discover how style differences may lead to miscommunication, missed opportunities, or mishandled conflict.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Joann P Baney
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• 3 points

FEDERAL COURTS

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

QUANTITATIVE GRAPHICS + THE HISTORY OF M

QUANT GRAPHICS + MACH LEA

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

CRITICAL WRITING FOR THEATRE

• Department: Theatre Arts
• M 3 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Vinson Cunningham
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• 3 points

Asian Energy Security

This course surveys the distinctive character of Asian energy security requirements, how they change over time, what political-economic forces drive their transformation, and what those requirements imply for broader economic and political-military relationships between Asia and the world. The course gives special attention to Asia’s energy dependence on the Middle East and the extent to which Russia and alternative sources, including nuclear power, provide a feasible and acceptable alternative. Cross-national comparisons among the energy security policies of China, India, Japan, Korea, and Western paradigms explore distinctive features of Asian approaches to energy security.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Zongyuan Liu
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• 3 points

Persistent Problems in the Global South:

Persistent Probs-Global South

This course, Persistent Problems in the Global South: Policies and Politics for Sustainable Development, examines the politics around some persistent policy problems in the Global South, against the background of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The term Global South, used mostly by intergovernmental organizations, refers to the economically disadvantaged countries also known as developing countries or the Third World. However, in recent years and within a variety of fields, Global South is also employed in a post-national sense to address spaces and peoples within the borders of wealthier countries negatively impacted by globalization. This course is explicitly comparative, and will draw on the histories and national experiences of developing countries around the world. Each week we will address one persistent sustainable development problem in the Global South in an empirically grounded case-based method, while also referring to solid theoretical frameworks and policy literature. Alongside recognizing national-level specificities, we will also examine how these countries face similar constraints arising from shared colonial experience, resource paucity and institutional barriers, which distinguish them from richer countries in the Global North.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Rumela Sen
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• 3 points

CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN PLAYS

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• Department: Theatre Arts
• R 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Kate Loewald
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• 3 points

Israel/Palestine Negotiations: Lessons f

Pre-req: Registration is limited to students who attended the first session
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The two-state solution has been the diplomatic consensus and the overarching framework for all peace negotiations regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including in the Oslo Accords (1993-1999) and during negotiations between Prime Minister Barak and Chairman Arafat (Camp David, 1999-2001), between Prime Minister Olmert and Chairman Abbas (2007-2009), and between Prime Minister Netanyahu and Chairman Abbas (2011-2014), as well as for the “Trump Plan” (2020).

This workshop, led by an Israeli and a Palestinian who served as negotiators, will take its participants “into the negotiation room,” specifically focusing on the Camp David negotiations of 1999-2001. The workshop
will assume a political “directive” to reach an agreement based on the principle of two nation-states for two peoples
. It will explore the various implications of such a directive for negotiators and the agreement, with significant attention to the challenge of establishing a Palestinian state.

Note that the workshop will not address the overarching dilemmas regarding “one-state” vs. “two-state” or the reasons for failing to reach an agreement on permanent status thus far. However, it will address key issues such as refugees, Jerusalem, economics, and security in so far as they affect Palestinian statehood. Reading materials will be based on the accounts of senior negotiators and relevant legal texts of agreements, UN decisions, and proclamations by both sides.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• F 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Keren Yarhi-Milo
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