Politics of the Caucasus

This course tracks the trajectories of politics in the Caucasus, focusing on the political development of the independent states of the South Caucasus: Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. While the focus is on contemporary political dynamics, the course considers the mechanisms through which the legacies of Imperial Russian expansion and Soviet structures interact with current mechanisms of interest articulation and power. Students in this course will examine the contours and mechanisms of the collapse of Soviet hegemony in the South Caucasus, spending some time examining the conflicts that accompanied this process and persist today. The course will address the country contexts both individually and comparatively, thereby encouraging students to delve deeply into the politics of each state, but then also enabling them to find continuities and contrasts across major thematic considerations.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Julie George
  Info
• 3 points

Applied Peacebuilding and Conflict Resol

Appl Peacebuild & Conflict Res

This course exposes students to conceptual and practical skills needed to develop a reflective practice orientation to applied professional work in international peace building and conflict resolution. The class focuses on skills for designing, implementing, and evaluating conflict resolution interventions. During the semester, students co-design projects, creating specific objectives and activities in collaboration with a Project Supervisor in a pre-selected field-based partner institution. Students are encouraged to work in teams of 2-3 in the course. Students implement the project during the summer, taking into consideration changes on the ground, through internships under the guidance of their field-based Project Supervisors. Students return in the fall to deliver a report of their activities in the field reflecting on their experiences and presenting their findings to the SIPA community. The course supports students in developing critical practical skills and experiences in managing a conflict resolution project while exploring the professional field of applied conflict resolution. This course requires instructor permission in order to register. Please add yourself to the waitlist in SSOL and submit the proper documents in order to be considered.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• F 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Zachary B Metz
  Info
• 3 points

READINGS IN HUMAN GENETICS

Prerequisites: Undergraduate course in genetics, probability and statistics The course aims to cover a range of current topics in human genetics, with two main aims: to provide students with a basic toolbox with which to analyze human genetic data and to expose them to important, open questions in the field. Topics to be covered include sources of genetic variation, functional genomics, methods of analyses of pedigree and population data, strategies for trait mapping, the geographic structure of human genetic variation and natural selection in humans.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• R 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
• 3 points

AMERICAN MUSICAL THEATRE

• Department: Theatre Arts
• W 6 p.m.-8:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Korie
  Info
• 3 points

Research II: Inquiry of Evidence

RSCH II

• Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
• Instructor: Razan Hamed
  h-index: 8 Info
• 2 points

Data Collection for Evaluation, Policy,

Pre-req: Quant I.
Research is an important part of the policy process: it can inform the development of programs and policies so they are responsive to community needs, reveal the impacts of these programs and policies, and help us better understand populations or social phenomena. This half-semester course serves as an introduction to how to ethically collect data for smaller research projects, with an in-depth look at focus groups and surveys as data collection tools. We will also learn about issues related to measurement and sampling. Students will create their own focus group protocol and short survey instrument designed to answer a research question of interest to them.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Rachel Swaner
  Info
• 1.5 points

PRIV EQUITY DEVPT-HOTELS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Rani Gharbie
  Info
• 1.5 points

S. Islamic Finance, Investment and Banki

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

S. Blockchain Technologies and the Secur

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

AMERICAN SPECTACLE II

• Department: Theatre Arts
• F 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Lynn Nottage
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

S. The Arbitration Agreement and Procedu

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

R for Public Policy

This 7-week mini-course leads the students into the R world, helps them master the basics, and establishes a platform for future self-study. The course offers students basic programming knowledge and effective data analysis skills in R in the context of public policy-making and policy evaluation. Students will learn how to install R and RStudio, understand and use R data objects, and become familiar with base R and several statistical and graphing packages. The course will also emphasize use cases for R in public policy domains, focusing on cleaning, exploring, and analyzing data.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Mike Q Zhu
  Info
• 1.5 points

Psychotherapy: Theories and Techniques

PSYCHOTHERAPY:THEORIES/T

This course is designed to present major theoretical systems of psychotherapy, with a special emphasis on how clients in therapy change and how to conceptualize clients' presenting concerns from theoretical points of view. Issues related to application of theory in practice, especially those related to individual/cultural diversity will be addressed and emphasized.

• Department: Nursing
• W 8 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Erin M Shindle
  Info
• 2 points

Orientalism and PostcolonialTheory

Orientalism, Postcolonial

This course will seek to analyze some philosophical and interpretative problems raised by recent works in a field generally described as 'postcolonial theory'. At the center of the discussion would be the themes of Eurocentrism and Orientalism. While the questions associated with this field are highly significant, there is much that is indeterminate about this area of social theory. The course will start with an historical analysis of the original debates about 'Orientalism' and the nature of its arguments. It will start with a preliminary reading of Said’s Orientalism. It will then take up for a direct critical examination textual traditions that were the objects of the Orientalism debate – representative examples of European Orientalist literature – which claimed to produce, for the first time, 'scientific' studies of Oriental societies (work of linguists like William Jones, or historians like James Mill), studies of Middle Eastern Islamic societies analyzed by Said, segments of philosophies of history which dealt with non-European societies and found a place for them in a scheme of 'universal history' ( Hegel, Marx, Mill, Weber). We shall then turn to ask if social science knowledge about non-European societies still carry the methodological features of Orientalism. As Orientalism spread across different fields of modern culture – not just academic knowledge, but also art and aesthetic representations,  the next two weeks fictional and visual representations will be taken up for critical analysis.  This will be followed by a study of texts in which intellectuals from non-European societies from Asia and Africa responded to the cognitive and cultural claims of the European Orientalist literature. In the last section the course will focus on three aspects of the postcolonial critique:


the question of 
representation
 ,

the question of the writing of history, and

the logic of basic concepts in social sciences.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sudipta Kaviraj
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

Prerequisites: permission of the departmental adviser to Graduate Studies.

• Department: Psychology
• Instructor: Niall Bolger
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 55 Info
• 1-4 points

EXT: CITY & STATE POLICY ADV

• Department: Law
• W 4:20 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
• None None-None
• 2 points

QUESTIONS IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY II:

QUESTIONS-ANTHROP THRY II:HIST

This course surveys the historical relationships between anthropological thought and its generic inscription in the form of ethnography. Readings of key ethnographic texts will be used to chart the evolving paradigms and problematics through which the disciplines practitioners have conceptualized their objects and the discipline itself. The course focuses on several key questions, including: the modernity of anthropology and the value of primitivism; the relationship between history and eventfulness in the representation of social order, and related to this, the question of anti-sociality (in crime, witchcraft, warfare, and other kinds of violence); the idea of a cultural world view; voice, language, and translation; and the relationship between the form and content of a text. Assignments include weekly readings and reviews of texts, and a substantial piece of ethnographic writing. Limited to PhD students in Anthropology only.

• Department: Anthropology
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Povinelli
  CULPA: 14 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

MODERN CONTROL THEORY

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: James Anderson
  h-index: 18 Info
• 3 points

Economic Development for International A

The course has two objectives: 1) to explore how economics can be used to understand development and 2) to provide tools and skills useful in policy work. In the course we will describe the basic facts surrounding the development process, and use economic theory to make sense of these facts and to identify gaps in our understanding. We will also learn about the toolkit of development economists that are used to fill in those gaps. These will include analyzing real world data and thinking in terms of causality and its relevance for policy.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• F 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew Simons
  Info
• 3 points

EXT: REPRESENTNG NYC

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

DEV ASPCT-ADOLESCN:THEOR/INTER

• Department: Social Work
• T 2 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Ronald A Feldman
  h-index: 18 Info
• 3 points

NORMAL-PATHLGCL ASPCT-CHLDHOOD

• Department: Social Work
• W 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Prudence W Fisher
  Info
• 3 points

Externship: Environmental Practice

Ex. Environmental Practic

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

MASTER CLASS

YOUNG AND HIGH

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• Department: Writing
• R 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Sophie M Dess
  Info
• 1.5 points

MASTER CLASS

THE ART OF THE SENTENCE

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• Department: Writing
• F 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicola M Goldberg
  Info
• 1.5 points

MASTER CLASS

THE INTIMATE

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• Department: Writing
• R 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Joanna B Hershon
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 1.5 points

MASTER CLASS

HYDROPOETICS

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• Department: Writing
• M 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Imani Elizabeth Jackson
  Info
• 1.5 points

MASTER CLASS

EXPERIMENTS IN PROCESS NF

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• Department: Writing
• M 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Evan James
  Info
• 1.5 points

MASTER CLASS

KITCHEN TABLE TRANSLATION

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• Department: Writing
• M 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Madhu H Kaza
  Info
• 1.5 points

MASTER CLASS

(NON)FICTIONALIZATION

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• Department: Writing
• W 5:15 p.m.-7:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Catherine Lacey
  Wikipedia Info
• 1.5 points

MASTER CLASS

A READING OF DON QUIXOTE

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• Department: Writing
• W 5:15 p.m.-7:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Erroll G McDonald
  Info
• 1.5 points

MASTER CLASS

UNLIKELY LUCIE

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• Department: Writing
• TR 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth B Metzger
  Info
• 1.5 points

MASTER CLASS

AVANT-GARDE OF THE SHY

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• Department: Writing
• TR 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Salda A Paris
  Info
• 1.5 points

MASTER CLASS

LITERARY ART AND PHILOSOPHY

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• Department: Writing
• F 2:10 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Leonard W Schwartz
  Info
• 1.5 points

MASTER CLASS

BUILDING YOUR VOICEBOX

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• Department: Writing
• T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Mina Seckin
  Info
• 1.5 points

MASTER CLASS

MID-CENTURY MADNESS

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• Department: Writing
• T 2:10 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Vijay Seshadri
  Wikipedia Info
• 1.5 points

MASTER CLASS

DEFINING THE DICTIONARY

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• Department: Writing
• T 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Jesse Sheidlower
  Wikipedia Info
• 1.5 points

MASTER CLASS

ACKER, BURROUGHS, COOPER

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• Department: Writing
• W 5:15 p.m.-7:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Ira Silverberg
  Wikipedia Info
• 1.5 points

MASTER CLASS

BISHOP, CLAMPITT, GRAHAM

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• Department: Writing
• M 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Willard Spiegelman
  Info
• 1.5 points

MASTER CLASS

THE MAKING OF AN ESSAY

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• Department: Writing
• T 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Sasha Weiss
  Info
• 1.5 points

SOUND: ADVANCED TOPICS II

This class explores advanced topics relating to the production of music by computer. Although programming experience is not a prerequisite, various programming techniques are enlisted to investigate interface design, algorithmic composition, computer analysis and processing of digital audio, and the use of computer music in contexts such as VR/AR applications. Check with the instructor for the particular focus of the class in an upcoming semester. Note: this class is not necessarily a continuation of Sound: Advanced Topics I/GR6610. Some familiarity with computer music hardware/software is expected. Permission of instructor is required to enroll.

• Department: Music
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Seth Cluett
  h-index: 4 Info
• 3 points

Ex. Sanctuary for Families: Domestic Vio

EX SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES

• Department: Law
• T 4:20 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
• None None-None
• 2 points

Built Environment Disruption: Partnershi

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
• 3 points

OPTIMIZATION II

An introduction to combinatorial optimization, network flows and discrete algorithms. Shortest path problems, maximum flow problems. Matching problems, bipartite and cardinality nonbipartite. Introduction to discrete algorithms and complexity theory: NP-completeness and approximation algorithms.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Shipra Agrawal
  h-index: 24 Info
• 4.5 points

Data Analysis for Policy Research Using

Data Analysis Using R

Prerequisites: Instructor-Managed Waitlist, Course Application, and Quantitative Analysis II.
This course will develop the skills to prepare, analyze, and present data for policy analysis and program evaluation using R. In Quant I and II, students are introduced to probability and statistics, regression analysis and causal inference. In this course we focus on the practical application of these skills to explore data and policy questions on your own. The goal is to help students become effective analysts and policy researchers:  given available data, what sort of analysis would best inform our policy questions? How do we prepare data and implement statistical methods using R? How can we begin to draw conclusions about the causal effects of policies, not just correlation? We’ll learn these skills by exploring data on a range of policy topics: COVID-19 cases; racial bias in NYPD subway fare evasion enforcement; the distribution of Village Fund grants in Indonesia; US police shootings; wage gaps by gender/race; and student projects on topics of your choosing.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• R 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Harold B Stolper
  Info
• 3 points

Ex. Veterans' Rights

This externship introduces students to the challenges faced by military veterans in accessing federal
benefits. New York is home to more than 800,000 veterans and recent studies have found that New York
veterans have a lower income than the national average despite numerous financial benefit programs
specific to this population. Less than 17% of New York veterans and only 15.5% of New York City
veterans receive VA disability benefits, significantly lower than the national average of 23-24%. The
New York Legal Assistance Group’s Veterans Practice has focused its efforts on addressing two
potential causes of this disparity, eligibility issues related to discharge status and lack of representation
in the disability claims process. Course content and fieldwork will train students to effectively and
compassionately advocate for veteran clients as they navigate the discharge upgrade and VA disability
benefit processes.

• Department: Law
• R 4:20 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
• None None-None
• 2 points

ADV TPC:ROBOTICS/MECH SYNTHES

Recommended: MECE E3401 or instructor’s permission. Kinematic modeling methods for serial, parallel, redundant, wire-actuated robots and multifingered hands with discussion of open research problems. Introduction to screw theory and line geometry tools for kinematics. Applications of homotopy continuation methods and symbolic-numerical methods for direct kinematics of parallel robots and synthesis of mechanisms. Course uses textbook materials as well as a collection of recent research papers.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Sunil Agrawal
  Wikipedia h-index: 65 Info
• 3 points

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Clinical Pr

PNP CLINICAL PRACTICUM

This is the first clinical experience with pediatric patients for the PNP student. The student will be responsible for developing objectives and sharing them with the preceptor. The skills needed to obtain a good history and physical will be honed and further developed. When possible, the student will proactively seek opportunities to practice clinical skills of vision screening, hearing screening and venous access. The student will develop their skills in developmental and mental health screening.

• Department: Nursing
• Instructor: Sabrina Opiola McCauley
  Info
• 1 points

CONVEX OPTIMIZATION

Convex sets and functions, and operations preserving convexity. Convex optimization problems. Convex duality. Applications of convex optimization problems ranging from signal processing and information theory to revenue management. Convex optimization in Banach spaces. Algorithms for solving constrained convex optimization problems.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• 3 points

ROBOT LEARNING

Robots using machine learning to achieve high performance in unscripted situations. Dimensionality reduction, classification, and regression problems in robotics. Deep Learning: Convolutional Neural Networks for robot vision, Recurrent Neural Networks, and sensorimotor robot control using neural networks. Model Predictive Control using learned dynamics models for legged robots and manipulators. Reinforcement Learning in robotics: model-based and model-free methods, deep reinforcement learning, sensorimotor control using reinforcement learning.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Matei T Ciocarlie
  Info
• 3 points

CLIMATE JUSTICE IN OUR OWN BACKYARD

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Thaddeus Pawlowski
  Info
• 3 points

Religion & Space

Emplacement is often taken as the unspoken background of the study of religious phenomena. This seminar considers how problematizations of space, place, locality, and geography may cast religious phenomena in a new light. Approaches to theorizing space and place from various disciplines such as geography, cultural anthropology, philosophy, literature, art history, and history of cartography will be brought into conversation with questions emerging within the study of specific religion traditions. 

While this seminar is open to interested students from all disciplines, our work in this course specifically falls into the “zone of inquiry” of “space and place” of the Religion Department’s graduate programs. “Zones of inquiry” seek to introduce students to a particular cluster of key concepts and various theoretical elaborations of those concepts, in order to aid students in honing their ability to reflect critically on and develop further the central concepts that they derive from and bring to the specific traditions and phenomena that they study in their own research. A main goal of this course will therefore be to deepen our conceptual and analytical acumen and expand our theoretical resources at the intersection of religious studies and theories of space, place, and geography.

• Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: David L Moerman
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 4 points

Pediatric Primary Care Nursing I: Didact

PED PRIMARY CARE NURSING

Pediatric Primary Care Nursing I is designed to prepare the student to provide primary care to infants, toddlers, and preschoolers so that children may meet their optimal physical, intellectual, and emotional growth and development. The content focuses on health promotion, illness prevention, and the treatment of episodic problems from infancy through preschool.

• Department: Nursing
• M 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Clare C McKegney
  Info
• 3 points

Walter Benjamin: Thinking In a Damaged W

Thinking In a Damaged Wor

In this seminar we will examine the thought of the early 20th-century German-Jewish thinker Walter Benjamin in light of his commitment to the task of philosophy (broadly understood) as a form of
Erkenntniskritik,
epistemological critique, that takes up questions of experience, history, culture, and politics in a damaged world. Paying special attention to Benjamin’s deployment and reshaping of theological tropes and figures, our considerations will be shaped around the following thematics: (1) the transformations of theorizing experience in relation to philosophies of history;

(2) the critique of culture and modernity; and (3) the aesthetics of rhetoric and affect in relation to social criticism.

• Department: Religion
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Yannik Thiem
  h-index: 1 Info
• 4 points

Techniques of Live Sound

This course explores both analogue and digital tools for the sound reinforcement of concerts in all formats. Through hands-on experience, the course addresses the impact and potential of contemporary tools on the aesthetic choices of musical projects. The course supports artists (performers, composers, improvisers, sounds artists, etc.) by providing a solid foundation and a working knowledge of live sound concepts in order to improve the realization of their creative audio work. A significant feature of the course is direct experience producing live concerts in order to fully understand the implications of the transition between the pre-concert studio preparation and live concert execution. Under the supervision of the instructor, students are expected to oversee the audio-related technical aspects of two to three music department events, including the doctoral composition work of the Columbia Composers concert series. Topics include the practice and theory behind analog and digital mixing, live sound processing, concert diffusion, spatial audio, sound reinforcement, mixed music techniques, concert recording, and efficient equipment set-up and tear-down. Please note that students must be available for two whole-day Saturday events whose dates will be determined and distributed by the instructor at the start of the semester.

• Department: Music
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: David Adamcyk
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

Emerging Financial Systems: Brazil, Indi

Emerging Financial Systms

This course examines the workings of a select group of emerging financial systems, providing students with the tools to assess the efficacy of the financial system as a key pillar for a country’s sustained economic development and growth. Characteristics analyzed include the roles of domestic private, public sector and foreign banks; market volatility and credit supply; systemic resilience and regulation; fintech developments and implications; access to foreign capital; breadth and depth of domestic capital markets; and climate change developments and implications. The course methodology is to select an important emerging financial system as anchor (Brazil) for comparisons with those of three other major G-20 emerging economies: India, Indonesia, and Mexico.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Fernando Sotelino
  Info
• 3 points

Macroeconometrics

The course aims to analyze dynamic, multivariate interactions in evolutionary and non-stationary processes. The course first considers stationary univariate time-series processes and then extend the analysis to non-stationary processes and multivariate processes. The course covers a review of linear dynamic time-series models and focus on the concept of cointegration, as many applications lend themselves to dynamic systems of equilibrium-correction relations. In the final analysis, the course is aimed at presenting a certain number of econometric techniques the mastery of which is becoming increasingly inevitable in professional circles.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Noha Emara
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

ISLE OF INTELLECTUALS

• Department: Anthropology
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Vanessa L Agard-Jones
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

PROTOTYPING IN URBAN TECH

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: James S Piacentini
  Info
• 3 points

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Charles C Stewart
  Info
• 1.5 points

RESEARCH PROJECT

May be repeated for credit. A special investigation of a problem in nuclear engineering, medical physics, applied mathematics, applied physics, and/or plasma physics consisting of independent work on the part of the student and embodied in a formal report.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Aravind Devarakonda
  Info
• Instructor: Alexander Gaeta
  Wikipedia h-index: 89 Info
• Instructor: Sherry Zhang
  Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth Paul
  Info
• Instructor: Carlos Paz Soldan
  h-index: 28 Info
• Instructor: Lorenzo M Polvani
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 69 Info
• Instructor: Kui Ren
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Adam H Sobel
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 1-6 points

Empirical Econometric Project

This course aims to provide students with further instruction on how (1) to motivate detailed empirical analysis on a research question of their choice, (2) to justify and to design appropriate econometric tests using relevant time-series, cross-sectional, or panel data, etc., and (3) to draw accurate inferences—as well as direct policy implications—from their results for a wide audience. To meet this objective, the key course requirement is to write an empirical policy paper that details (1)–(3) in no more than 5000 words total (including exhibits, references, etc.), geared not for academics but for economic policymakers or other practitioners. Also, students will be required to report their findings to their instructor, advisors, and fellow students during 10- to 15-minute slide presentations toward the end of the semester.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: John Benson Durham
  Info
• 1.5 points

Teaching Beyond the Gates: A Practicum o

Art Admin & Pedagogy Prac

The Writing Program has in place several programs that involve more than 70 students a term going beyond the Columbia gates to teach writing in community groups and schools. These programs include Columbia Artist/Teachers (CA/T), Our Word, The Incarcerated Artists Project (IAP), The Incarcerated Writers Initiative (IWI), as well as public programs on and off campus (including Lenfest) that are produced collaboratively.

The diverse array of partner organizations (see attached)—curated to provide a multiplicity of teaching experiences as well as service to the community—require various modalities of pedagogy and administration. About  14 students (see attached) are in leadership positions, with dual responsibilities of working with the partner programs in structuring and troubleshooting programs while also supervising the MFA participants and providing pedagogical guidance. In effect, these leaders are acting as arts administrators, an experience that may be useful for them in pursuing post-MFA employment.

The Writing Program’s Director of Community Outreach oversees these programs and student leaders on an ad hoc basis. The purpose of this no-credit, no-tuition course is to formalize faculty supervision and support for the Writing Program’s outreach component.

The shape of this course will be mutable, tailored to the ongoing needs of the students, their partner organizations, and the Writing Program. Contact hours will comprise in-person meetings as well as emails and phone calls, focusing on: setting up and running programs and events, working collaboratively, implementing pedagogy, and troubleshooting.

Student leaders will meet as a group with the instructor three times a term.

Individuals leaders will meet with the instructor an additional minimum of twice a term.

The CA/T Director and the instructor will meet about eight times a term.

• Department: Writing
• W 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Alan Ziegler
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 0 points

EXT. FEDERAL COURT CLERK EDNY

• Department: Law
• R 5:50 p.m.-7:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• 1 points

LEVEL II FIELDWORK A

LEVEL II FIELDWRK A

• Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
• Instructor: Phyllis R Simon
  Info
• 0 points

North Korea: State, Society, Diplomacy,

N. Korea- State & Securit

After completing the course, students will be able to intelligently discuss and critically analyze issues related to North Korea’s state, society, diplomacy, and security. This includes a nuanced understanding of critical areas such as: the Korean Peninsula’s division and war, North Korea’s economic management, strategy, military, human rights abuses, gender roles, social changes, propaganda and outside information, denuclearization diplomacy, and alternate approaches to nuclear North Korea. To present a variety of perspectives and viewpoints, the reading list includes works of history, analyses by political scientists, primary documents including diplomatic cables, memoirs by North Korean refugees, documentary videos, and news articles. Students engage analytically with the material, steered by weekly guided questions to comprehend the different sides of issues and develop an informed perspective.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Corrado
  Info
• 3 points

EXTERNSHIP: COMMUNITY DEFENSE

• Department: Law
• W 4:20 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
• None None-None
• 2 points

ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY

Local and global fields, group cohomology, local class field theory, global class field theory and applications.

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Gyujin Oh
  Info
• 4.5 points

Advanced Computing for Policy

Pre-req: INAF U6006 - Computing in Context,
or see option for testing out
. 
 In Computing in Context, students “explored computing concepts and coding in the context of solving policy problems.” Building off that foundation of Python fundamentals and data analysis, Advanced Computing for Policy goes both deeper and broader. The course covers computer science concepts like data structures and algorithms, as well as supporting systems like databases, cloud services, and collaboration tools. Over the semester, students will build a complex end-to-end data system. This course prepares students for more advanced data science coursework at SIPA, and equips them to do sophisticated data ingestion, analysis, and presentation in research/industry.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• F 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Aidan Feldman
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• 3 points

EXT:FED CT CLERK SOUTHERN DNY

• Department: Law
• R 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• None None-None
• 1 points

EXTERNSHIP: CRIMINAL APPEALS

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

EXTERNSHIP:FED APPELLATE COURT

• Department: Law
• W 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
• None None-None
• 1 points

FREDERICK DOUGLASS MOOT COURT

• Department: Law
• 0 points

Assessment and Evaluation

• Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
• Instructor: Cristin Holland
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• 1 points