CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY
CONT SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY
This lecture course fulfills the theory requirement in Columbia’s sociology program. It introduces students to post-War sociology by discussing its major paradigms, from Parson’s functionalism to contemporary post-colonial theory or actor-network theory. Each class discusses how a particular theory constructs social reality by making basic assumptions about the component parts of society, how they relate to each other, and what questions emerge that empirical research needs to answer. To illustrate how paradigms conceive and perceive the empirical world differently, each lecture summarizes how intimate, romantic relationships appear when empirically analyzed from a specific theoretical angle.
- Department: Sociology
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Andreas Wimmer
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INTRO-GENOMIC INFO SCI & TECH
INTRO GENOMIC INFO SCI & TECH
Introduction to computational biology with emphasis on genomic data science tools and methodologies for analyzing data, such as genomic sequences, gene expression measurements and the presence of mutations. Applications of machine learning and exploratory data analysis for predicting drug response and disease progression. Latest technologies related to genomic information, such as single-cell sequencing and CRISPR, and the contributions of genomic data science to the drug development process.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- M 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tai-Hsien Ou Yang
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INTRO MODERN ANALYSIS I
Prerequisites: MATH UN1202 or the equivalent, and MATH UN2010. The second term of this course may not be taken without the first. Real numbers, metric spaces, elements of general topology, sequences and series, continuity, differentiation, integration, uniform convergence, Ascoli-Arzela theorem, Stone-Weierstrass theorem.
- Department: Mathematics
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sven Hirsch
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Chinese Art: Center and Periphery
Chinese Art: Center& Peri
This course introduces you to the rich and diverse tradition of Chinese art by focusing on materials and techniques. We will discuss a wide array of artistic media situated in distinct cultural contexts, examining bronzes, jade, ceramics, paintings, sculptures, and textiles in the imperial, aristocratic, literary, religious, and commercial milieus in which they were produced. In addition to developing your skills in visual-material analysis, this course will also acquaint you with the diverse cultures that developed in China’s center and periphery during its five thousand (plus) years of history. Emphasis will be placed on understanding how native artistic traditions in China interacted with those in regions such as the Mongolian steppe, Tibetan plateau, and Central Asia.
INTRO MODERN ANALYSIS II
The second term of this course may not be taken without the first. Power series, analytic functions, Implicit function theorem, Fubini theorem, change of variables formula, Lebesgue measure and integration, function spaces.
- Department: Mathematics
- TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jeanne Boursier
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Tropical Biology
Study ecology, evolution, and conservation biology in one of the world’s most biologically spectacular settings, the wildlife-rich savannas of Kenya. Although we will meet have a few meetings during the fall semester, the majority of the coursework will be completed during a 16 day field trip to Kenya during winter break. Students will spend their time immersed in an intensive field experience gaining sophisticated training in fieldwork and biological research. Note that there is a lab fee to cover all in-country expenses, and students are also responsible for the cost of airfare to and from Kenya.
- Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
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Instructor:
Dustin Rubenstein
h-index: 36 Info - 4 points
HONORS COMPLEX VARIABLES
Prerequisites: (MATH UN1207 and MATH UN1208) or MATH GU4061 A theoretical introduction to analytic functions. Holomorphic functions, harmonic functions, power series, Cauchy-Riemann equations, Cauchy's integral formula, poles, Laurent series, residue theorem. Other topics as time permits: elliptic functions, the gamma and zeta function, the Riemann mapping theorem, Riemann surfaces, Nevanlinna theory.
- Department: Mathematics
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Tang-Kai Lee
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INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Prerequisites: (CHEM UN1403 and CHEM UN1404) or (CHEM UN1604) or (CHEM UN2045 and CHEM UN2046) , or the equivalent. Principles governing the structure and reactivity of inorganic compounds surveyed from experimental and theoretical viewpoints. Topics include inorganic solids, aqueous and nonaqueous solutions, the chemistry of selected main group elements, transition metal chemistry, metal clusters, metal carbonyls, and organometallic chemistry, bonding and resonance, symmetry and molecular orbitals, and spectroscopy.
- Department: Chemistry
- TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Jonathan S Owen
CULPA: 7 h-index: 40 Info - 4.5 points
CELLULAR/MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY
Prerequisites: Two semesters of a rigorous, molecularly-oriented, introductory biology course, such as UN2005 (
Inc.,
Biochemistry of DNA & Proteins, basic Genetics, Metabolism & Cell Physiology
) and UN2006 (
Cell biology, inc. intra-cellular transport, phagocytosis, protein regulation, as well as Inter-cellular communication, inc., cell-cell contact, receptors/ligands & transporters
). This course will cover the integration of innate and adaptive immune systems, as well as how immune response contributes to health and disease (
e.g., Infectious disease, allergies, autoimmunity, immune deficiencies, the microbiome and cancer immunotherapy
). Students will also become familiar with important immunological methods, which will provide an opportunity to explore some of the current literature. Sophomores will require permission from their advisor to enroll, and graduate student will require the instructor’s permission to enroll. SPS, Barnard, and TC students may register for this course with the instructor’s approval on a Registration Adjustment Form (Add/Drop form), which can be downloaded (
http://registrar.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/reg-adjustment.pdf
) and then returned to the office of the registrar.
- Department: Biological Sciences
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Christian W Schindler
CULPA: 3 Info - 3 points
POST COLONIAL/POST SOV CINEMA
The course will discuss how filmmaking has been used as an instrument of power and imperial domination in the Soviet Union as well as on post-Soviet space since 1991. A body of selected films by Soviet and post-Soviet directors which exemplify the function of filmmaking as a tool of appropriation of the colonized, their cultural and political subordination by the Soviet center will be examined in terms of postcolonial theories. The course will focus both on Russian cinema and often overlooked work of Ukrainian, Georgian, Belarusian, Armenian, etc. national film schools and how they participated in the communist project of fostering a «new historic community of the Soviet people» as well as resisted it by generating, in hidden and, since 1991, overt and increasingly assertive ways their own counter-narratives. Close attention will be paid to the new Russian film as it re-invents itself within the post-Soviet imperial momentum projected on the former Soviet colonies.
- Department: Slavic Languages
- T 6:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Yuri Shevchuk
CULPA: 4 Info - 3 points
TOPICS IN THE BLACK EXPERIENCE
Please refer to Institute for African American and African Diaspora Studies Department for section-by-section course descriptions.
- Department: African American and African Diaspora
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Rachel Grace Newman
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Jafari S Allen
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Guthrie Ramsey
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HP ELECT INTERNSHIP
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Sarahgrace Godwin
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BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACES LAB
Hands-on experience with basic neural interface technologies. Recording EEG (electroencephalogram) signals using data acquisition systems (non-invasive, scalp recordings). Real-time analysis and monitoring of brain responses. Analysis of intention and perception of external visual and audio signals.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- T 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nima Mesgarani
h-index: 35 Info - 3 points
THE MEDIEVAL MEDITERRANEAN
This seminar explores the history of the medieval Mediterranean world, where the Latin Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic spheres overlapped. Through reading of recent scholarship and select primary sources, the course asks how the integrated study of the various societies in this region—divided to various degrees by geography, religion, and language—is a productive approach in our attempt to understand the medieval past. The course focuses on three thematic clusters: structures (geography, disease, climate and environment), economies, and encounters (religious, political, cultural). The course is designed for and open to advanced undergraduates and MA students. Common readings are all in English.
- Department: History
- W 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
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Adam Kosto
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Sacred Space in South Asia
“Sacred” space in the Indian subcontinent was at the epicenter of human experience. This course presents Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic, and Jain spaces and the variety of ways in which people experienced them. Moving from the monumental stone pillars of the early centuries BCE to nineteenth century colonial India, we learn how the organization and imagery of these spaces supported devotional activity and piety. We discuss too how temples, monasteries, tombs, and shrines supported the pursuit of pleasure, amusement, sociability, and other worldly interests. We also explore the symbiotic relationship between Indic religions and kingship, and the complex ways in which politics and court culture shaped sacred environments. The course concludes with European representations of South Asia’s religions and religious places.
- Department: Art History and Archaeology
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Subhashini Kaligotla
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RES SEM IN BIOMED INFORMATICS
Prerequisite: open to public. Presentations by medical informatics faculty and invited international speakers in medical informatics, computer science, nursing informatics, library science, and related fields.
- Department: Biomedical Informatics
- M 1 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sarah A Rossetti
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Independent Study in Nursing
INDEPENDENT STUDY IN NURS
Provides an opportunity for students to engage in independent study in an area of interest. A mentor is assigned.
- Department: Nursing
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Instructor:
Heidi Hahn-Schroeder
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Applied Analysis
Elementary introduction to fundamental concepts and techniques in classical analysis; applications of such techniques in different topics in applied mathematics. Brief review of essential concepts and techniques in elementary analysis; elementary properties of metric and normed spaces; completeness, compactness, and their consequences; continuous functions and their properties; Contracting Mapping Theorem and its applications; elementary properties of Hilbert and Banach spaces; bounded linear operators in Hilbert spaces; Fourier series and their applications.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Liliana Borcea
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QUANTUM PHYSICS OF MATTER
Basic theory of quantum mechanics, well and barrier problems, the harmonic oscillator, angular momentum identical particles, quantum statistics, perturbation theory and applications to the quantum physics of atoms, molecules, and solids.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Alexander Gaeta
Wikipedia h-index: 89 Info - 3 points
A Better Planet by Design (MS)
Foundational for the Master of Science in Earth and Environmental Engineering degree. Provides broader understanding of engineering tools critical/ essential to success in large-scale, engineering projects. Divided into two parts: Module on global/regional flows, and systems approach, and Module on Engineering Principles in Earth & Environmental Engineering. Guest lectures on several topics will be provided.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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STATISTICS & SIMULATION
Probability and simulation. Statistics building on knowledge in probability and simulation. Point and interval estimation, hypothesis testing, and regression. A specialized version of IEOR E4150 for MSE and MSBA students who are exempt from the first half of IEOR E4101. Must obtain waiver for E4101.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Henry Lam
h-index: 17 Info - 1.5 points
CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
A first course on crystallography. Crystal symmetry, Bravais lattices, point groups, space groups. Diffraction and diffracted intensities. Exposition of typical crystal structures in engineering materials, including metals, ceramics, and semiconductors. Crystalline anisotropy.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Katayun Barmak
CULPA: 1 h-index: 49 Info - 3 points
SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT
This course will begin by clearly defining what sustainability management is and determining if a sustainable economy is actually feasible. Students will learn to connect environmental protection to organizational management by exploring the technical, financial, managerial, and political challenges of effectively managing a sustainable environment and economy. This course is taught in a case-based format and will seek to help students learn the basics of management, environmental policy and sustainability economics. Sustainability management matters because we only have one planet, and we must learn how to manage our organizations in a way that ensures that the health of our planet can be maintained and bettered. This course is designed to introduce students to the field of sustainability management. It is not an academic course that reviews the literature of the field and discusses how scholars thing about the management of organizations that are environmentally sound. It is a practical course organized around the core concepts of sustainability.
- Department: Sustainability Management
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Steven Cohen
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 21 Info - 3 points
URBAN REVOLUTION: THE CITY IN POLITICS
URB REVOLUTION:CITY IN PO
Contemporary politics are fundamentally urban. The concentration of people, experiences, and resources in space creates a potentially explosive friction between competing aims and interests. At times, these tensions are expressed through consensual deliberation, at others through radical confrontation. As the conventional politics of representative democracy encounter new crises of legitimacy worldwide, the embodied politics of the city become even more important. This course explores the crucial role that cities play in challenging the uneven distribution of power and making claims on the redistribution of resources.
The course is organized into three units: spaces, practices, and institutions. Using urban theory and historical examples, each week critically examines a distinct way in which the city matters to politics. Each unit ends by asking students to deploy this material in analyzing a contemporary case study. At the end of the semester, students synthesize what they have learned into a manifesto that outlines a sustainable, responsible, and realistic program of urban social change.
- Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nick R Smith
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Modes of Living: Feminist and Critical
Feminist & Critical Appro
Connecting cultural and social issues to ethical questions, this course in feminist and critical interdisciplinary studies offers students the opportunity to consider the relationship between values and value in different modes of living. All too often in public discourse ethical values are invoked but not clearly articulated in terms of their meaning, parameters, and relation to each other. This research seminar investigates values through a semester-long consideration of a single overarching question. This version of the course focuses on the environmental humanities, but other instantiations may use this method to consider different issues. Here, the values commonly invoked in public discussions of the environment are considered in relation to each other, placed in larger analytic contexts, and applied. The final section of the course brings the study of values together with a study of major environmental issues, with a focus on inter-relations amongst those issues. The course uses these interdisciplinary and critical approaches that have become central to feminist ethics as the basis for students developing a major semester-long research project on a question of their own choosing.
- Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Janet Jakobsen
CULPA: 6
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CORE STUDIO I - TUTORIAL
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Virginia A Black
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Kevin H Pham
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Emma F Sumrow
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Galen J Pardee
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Mireia Luzarraga
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Carlos Medellin Sanchez
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PROBABILITY STAT & SIMULATION
Basic probability theory, including independence and conditioning, discrete and continuous random variable, law of large numbers, central limit theorem, and stochastic simulation, basic statistics, including point and interval estimation, hypothesis testing, and regression; examples from business applications such as inventory management, medical treatments, and finance. A specialized version of IEOR E4150 for MSE and MSBA students.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
- MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Henry Lam
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Yi Zhang
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
MIXED ADVANCED VIETNAMESE I
This course is designed for students who have completed six semesters of Vietnamese language class or have equivalent background of advance Vietnamese. It is aimed at developing more advance interpersonal communication skills in interpretive reading and listening as well as presentational speaking and writing at a superior level. Students are also prepared for academic, professional and literary proficiency suitable for post-secondary studies in the humanities and social sciences.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Chung Nguyen
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
CORE STUDIO III - TUTORIAL
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Hilary M Sample-Meredith
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Mara Oliveira Eskinazi
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Wonne Ickx
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Lindy Roy
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Jelisa Blumberg
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Nina Cook John
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Galia Solomonoff
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Eric Bunge
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Introduction to Human Nutrition
INTRO HUMAN NUTRITION
This undergraduate-level introductory course provides an overview of the science of nutrition and nutrition's relationship to health promotion and disease prevention. The primary focus is on the essential macronutrients and micronutrients, including their chemical structures, food sources, digestion and absorption, metabolism, storage, and excretion. Students develop the skills to evaluate dietary patterns and to estimate caloric requirements and nutrient needs using tools such as Dietary Guidelines for Americans, My Plate, Nutrition Facts Labels, and Dietary Reference Intakes.
- Department: Nursing
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Instructor:
Lora Sporny
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ADV STUDIO V - TUTORIAL
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Phu D Hoang
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Amale Andraos
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Michael Bell
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Ziad Jamaleddine
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Joseph Zeal-Henry
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ADV STUDIO V - TUTORIAL
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Mario A Gooden
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David E Benjamin
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ADV STUDIO V - TUTORIAL
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Gordon Kipping
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Michael Wang
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- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Gary Bates
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FOURTH YEAR KOREAN I
Prerequisites: KORN W4006 or the equivalent. Selections from advanced modern Korean writings in social sciences, literature, culture, history, journalistic texts, and intensive conversation exercises.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- MWR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Ji-Young Jung
Info - 4 points
Human Anatomy & Physiology I with Lab
HUMAN ANAT & PHYS I W/LAB
This undergraduate-level introductory course is the first of a two-course-series on human anatomy and physiology. Using a body systems approach, we will study the anatomical structure and physiological function of the human body. Foundational concepts from chemistry, cell biology, and histology are reviewed and built upon through the progression of topics. Each of the body systems will be studied for their structure, function, and mechanisms of regulation. The core concepts of levels of organization, interdependence of systems, and homeostasis will be emphasized throughout the course. This beginner level course will lay the foundation for further advanced study of physiology and pathophysiology within a nursing curriculum.
- Department: Nursing
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Instructor:
Sally W Aboelela
CULPA: 5 Info - 4 points
RELIGION LAB
In their research, scholars of religion employ a variety of methods to analyze texts ranging from historical documents to objects of visual culture. This course acquaints students with both the methods and the materials utilized in the field of religious studies. Through guided exercises, they acquire research skills for utilizing sources and become familiarized with dominant modes of scholarly discourse. The class is organized around a series of research scavenger hunts that are due at the start of each week's class and assigned during the discussion section (to be scheduled on the first day of class). Additional class meeting on Thursdays.
- Department: Religion @Barnard
- R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth Castelli
CULPA: 17 Wikipedia Info - 4 points
Religions of the Roman World
RELIGIONS OF ROMAN WORLD
The goal of this course is to convey an important amount of knowledge on the religious history of the Roman empire focusing both on paganism, Christianity and Judaism and their interaction. We will study the religious space, the agents of cults and religions, rituals and networks and dynamics of power. The course will also face the challenge to reconsider the points of view from which to think the religious history of the Roman Empire and therefore it will be an invitation to revise our intellectual tools and questions towards an awareness to what is at stake when an object of religious debate emerges.
- Department: Classics
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Paraskevi Martzavou
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
Advanced Solid State Devices and Materia
Adv Solid State Device &
Crystal structure and energy band theory of solids. Carrier concentration and transport in semiconductors. P-n junction and junction transistors. Semiconductor surface and MOS transistors. Optical effects and optoelectronic devices. Fabrication of devices and the effect of process variation and distribution statistics on device and circuit performance. Course shares lectures with ELEN E3106, but the work requirements differ. Undergraduate students are not eligible to register.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Savannah Eisner
Info - 3 points
STOCHASTIC MODELS
Some of the main stochastic models used in engineering and operations research applications: discrete-time Markov chains, Poisson processes, birth and death processes and other continuous Markov chains, renewal reward processes. Applications: queueing, reliability, inventory, and finance.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
David D Yao
CULPA: 5
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Human Anatomy & Physiology II with Lab
HUMAN ANAT & PHYS II W/LA
This undergraduate-level introductory course is the second of a two-course series on human anatomy and physiology. Using a body systems approach, we will study the anatomical structure and physiological function of the human body. Foundational concepts from chemistry, cell biology, and histology are reviewed and built upon through the progression of topics. Each of the body systems will be studied for their structure, function, and mechanisms of regulation. The core concepts of levels of organization, interdependence of systems, and homeostasis will be emphasized throughout the course. This beginner level course will lay the foundation for further advanced study of physiology and pathophysiology within a nursing curriculum.
- Department: Nursing
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Instructor:
Sofia L Rosenberg-Klainberg
Info - 4 points
Business Korean I
This course is designed for students with a Korean proficiency equivalent to three years of study who aim to develop practical and professional communication skills for business settings. The course has three primary objectives: (1) to develop students’ proficiency in formal and business Korean communication, (2) to deepen their understanding of Korean corporate culture and business history, and (3) to enhance their ability to analyze and discuss business-related topics in Korean.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- MWR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Beom Lee
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
Auteur Study: Lubitsch and Wilder
Auteur Stu: Lubitsch & Wi
This seminar analyzes the tension in Hollywood between industry self-censorship of film (roughly 1929-1965) and the European émigrés who brought a more cosmopolitan, sexually modern perspective to the genre of comedy. Students will be introduced to the history of Hollywood’s Production Code (popularly known as the Hays Code), which institutionalized self-administered censorship. In addition, students will study the genre of comedy, where we often discover implicit subversion of the censorship code.
The course will teach students about the change in the industry brought about by new talent from Europe during the classical Hollywood period. In particular, students will study the biographies and work of two directors, the Austrian/German émigrés Ernst Lubitsch and Billy Wilder, whose separate careers bracket the beginning and end of the censorship code. In the 1920s, as Hollywood moved towards a codified censorship code, Ernst Lubitsch developed his infamous “Lubitsch touch,” which subverted the Hays Code by hinting at possible sexual indiscretions through verbal and visual double entendres and other aesthetic strategies. Many producers and directors learned how to subvert the code from Lubitsch’s films; like Lubitsch, while emphatically publicizing their belief in and rigid practice of self-censorship, these producers and directors used Lubitsch-like techniques to hint at salacious attitudes and behaviors, which they had claimed to have censored.
Billy Wilder was one of these directors. Wilder learned from Lubitsch directly, working as screenwriter on Lubitsch’s films
Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife
(1938) and
Ninotchka
(1939). With a handful of other Hollywood personnel, Billy Wilder is credited with directly challenging and bringing the Hays Code to an end, particularly with his film
Some Like It Hot
(1959). Wilder moved sexual indiscretions and illicit desire into the open in this film and others such as
The Apartment
(1960).
- Department: Film
- M 9:10 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ronald Gregg
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
BIOSTATISTICS FOR ENGINEERS
Fundamental concepts of probability and statistics applied to biology and medicine. Probability distributions, hypothesis testing and inference, summarizing data and testing for trends. Signal detection theory and the receiver operator characteristic. Lectures accompanied by data analysis assignments using MATLAB as well as discussion of case studies in biomedicine.
- Department: Biomedical Engineering
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana
Info - 4 points
MECHANISMS OF TRANSPORT
Continuum frame-work for modeling non-equilibrium phenomena in fluids with clear connections to the molecular/microscopic mechanisms for conductive transport. Continuum balances of mass and momentum; continuum-level development of conductive momentum flux (stress tensor) for simple fluids; applications of continuum framework for simple fluids (lubrication flows, creeping flows). Microscopic developments of the stress for simple and/or complex fluids; kinetic theory and/or liquid state models for transport coefficients in simple fluids; Langevin/Fokker- Plank/Smoluchowski framework for the stress in complex fluids; stress in active matter; applications for complex fluids.
- Department: Chemical Engineering
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Kyle Bishop
h-index: 42 Info - 3 points
Microbiology with Lab
MICROBIOLOGY W/LAB
This online undergraduate-level introductory course focuses on the core concepts and principles of microbiology. We will explore how microorganisms co-exist and interact with humans creating both beneficial and pathological results. We will survey the diversity of microorganisms, their classification, and the essential processes needed for survival; which will dictate the environments in which they can thrive. This exploration of microorganism diversity will include topics such as microbial nutrition and metabolism, genetics, and antimicrobial mechanisms employed by and against microorganisms. Special attention will be given to understanding the human immune system, mechanisms of infection by pathogenic microorganisms, and the role non-harmful microbiota serve in supporting immune function. The weekly lab component of this course will support and complement each learning module and familiarize students with basic microbiologic lab techniques.
- Department: Nursing
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Instructor:
Michelle I Evans
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TECH I: ENVMTS IN ARCH
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 9 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Lola Ben-Alon
h-index: 5 Info - 3 points
UNCERTAIN/RISK-CIVIL INF SYST
Introduction to basic probability; hazard function; reliability function; stochastic models of natural and technological hazards; extreme value distributions; Monte Carlo simulation techniques; fundamentals of integrated risk assessment and risk management; topics in risk-based insurance; case studies involving civil infrastructure systems, environmental systems, mechanical and aerospace systems, construction management. Not open to undergraduate students.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
- T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou
h-index: 26 Info - 3 points
INTRODUCTION TO DATABASES
The fundamentals of database design and application development using databases: entity-relationship modeling, logical design of relational databases, relational data definition and manipulation languages, SQL, XML, query processing, physical database tuning, transaction processing, security. Programming projects are required.
- Department: Computer Science
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
- F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
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Kenneth A Ross
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Donald F Ferguson
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Kenneth A Ross
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ECOSYSTM ECOLOGY & GLOBAL CHNG
This course will provide an introduction to ecosystem ecology. Topics include primary production carbon storage, nutrient cycling, and ecosystem feedbacks to climate change. By the end of the course, students will be well versed in the basics of ecosystem ecology and have exposure to some current areas of research. Topics covered will include some aspects that are well established and others that are hotly debated among scientists. Throughout the course, students will be encouraged to think independently and act like research scientists.
- Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Duncan Menge
CULPA: 1 h-index: 26 Info - 3 points
OPERATIONS CONSULTING
Aims to develop and harness the modeling, analytical, and managerial skills of engineering students and apply them to improve the operations of both service and manufacturing firms. Structured as a hands-on laboratory in which students "learn by doing" on real-world consulting projects (October to May). The student teams focus on identifying, modeling, and testing (and sometimes implementing) operational improvements and innovations with high potential to enhance the profitability and/or achieve sustainable competitive advantage for their sponsor companies. The course is targeted toward students planning careers in technical consulting (including operations consulting) and management consulting, or pursuing positions as business analysts in operations, logistics, supply chain and revenue management functions, positions in general management, and future entrepreneurs.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- R 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Soulaymane Kachani
CULPA: 12 Info - 3 points
Introduction to Developmental Psychology
INTRO DEV PSYCH LIFESPAN
This introductory course covers human development across the lifespan. The course will provide an overview of development and the complexity of human growth through physical, cognitive, emotional, and social capacities. A review of historical and modern-day developmental theories as well as more complex interpersonal constructs, such as cultural variations, will be discussed. Special emphasis is placed upon examining the dynamic interplay between biology and environment with relevant application to nursing practice. The role of social and cultural stressors such as racism and socioeconomics in shaping human development will be examined. This undergraduate-level course will lay the foundation for further advanced study of human development within a nursing curriculum.
- Department: Nursing
- 3 points
LASER PHYSICS
Optical resonators, interaction of radiation and atomic systems, theory of laser oscillation, specific laser systems, rate processes, modulation, detection, harmonic generation, and applications.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- None None-None
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Instructor:
Nanfang Yu
h-index: 48 Info - 3 points
ADVANCED BUSINESS CHINESE
Advanced Business Chinese is designed to help students who have studied at least three years of Chinese (or the equivalent) to achieve greater proficiency in the oral and written use of the language and gain knowledge in depth about China’s business environment and proven strategies. Student will critically examine the successes and failures of firms within the Chinese business arena.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- MTR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Zhong Qi Shi
Info - 4 points
Biostatistics
In this introductory undergraduate course students will learn how vital the study of Biostatistics is to ensure that clinical and public health practices are supported by reliable evidence. Students will gain an appreciation for the hazards of applying human intuition to probability and statistical questions. This course is designed to explore the collection, analysis, and presentation/visualization of biologic and health data using statistical methods. Students will learn and apply fundamental concepts and techniques of descriptive statistics. Students will also learn basic fundamental concepts of inferential statistics.
- Department: Nursing
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Instructor:
Sally W Aboelela
CULPA: 5 Info - 3 points