FIN STATEMNT ANALYSIS & INTERP
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- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Norman Bartczak
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
SW PRACTICE WITH CHILDREN
- Department: Social Work
- W 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- W 8:30 p.m.-10:20 p.m.
- T 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
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Alexza Gutierrez
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Jessica Godwin
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Leny Bolivar
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Morgan Ritacco
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MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS II-DISC
- Department: Economics
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Instructor:
Cole A Wittbrodt
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MACROECONOMIC ANALYSIS II-DISC
- Department: Economics
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Instructor:
Sahil Lalwani
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ISSUES & DEBATES-AMER POLITICS
Prerequisites: the instructors permission prior to registration. Please contact the instructors for more information. This graduate student field survey provides an overview of the scholarly study of American politics. The course has been designed for students who intend to specialize in American politics, as well as for those students whose primary interests are comparative politics, international relations, or political theory, but who desire an intensive introduction to the ;American; style of political science.
- Department: Political Science
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michael Ting
CULPA: 4 Info - 4 points
Globalization and Diffusion
This course introduces students to the literature on globalization and the diffusion of culture and institutions. It covers literatures in sociology and political science as well as some anthropology and history. This course will not discuss economic, financial, or migratory globalization in depth. In the first part, we will survey the major theories of the global diffusion of culture and institutions: world polity theory, global field theory, the policy diffusion literature, etc. In the second part, we discuss select topics, such as the role of local power relations in diffusion processes or the consequences of diffusion for patterns of cultural similarity and difference across the world.
- Department: Sociology
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Andreas Wimmer
Wikipedia h-index: 41 Info - 4 points
NONFICTION SEMINAR
PHYSICALITY OF LANGUAGE
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- Department: Writing
- W 10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Matty Davis
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NONFICTION SEMINAR
SPECULATIVE NONFICTION
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- Department: Writing
- T 10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Jaquira Diaz
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
NONFICTION SEMINAR
THE CRITIC'S VOICE
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- Department: Writing
- W 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Margo L Jefferson
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
NONFICTION SEMINAR
THE VULNERABLE SUBJECT
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- Department: Writing
- F 10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Adrian N Leblanc
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NONFICTION SEMINAR
THE QUEST FOR PERFECTION
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- Department: Writing
- R 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Benjamin Taylor
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NONFICTION SEMINAR
FIELD: OBSV. PRACTICE
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- Department: Writing
- W 10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Wendy Walters
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NONFICTION SEMINAR
IMAGINATION AND DISCOVERY
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- Department: Writing
- M 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Brenda Wineapple
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GENETIC APPROACHES TO BIOL PROBLEMS II
Required for first-year Genetics and Development students. Continuation of Genetics G6210. Basic principles and current areas of interest in mouse and human genetics. An introduction to mouse genetics; X-chromosome inactivation and genomic imprinting; genetic manipulation of the mouse; genetics of mouse coat color; genetics of sex determination; the mouse T-complex; human linkage analysis; somatic cell genetics; physical mapping of the human genome; cytogenetics; Huntington’s disease; muscular dystrophy and Alzheimer’s disease; and gene therapy.
- Department: Genetics and Development
- T 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
- 3 points
MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS II
Prerequisites: the director of graduate studies permission. Corequisites: ECON G6410. Consumer and producer behavior; general competitive equilibrium, welfare and efficiency, behavior under uncertainty, intertemporal allocation and capital theory, imperfect competition, elements of game theory, problems of information, economies with price rigidities.
- Department: Economics
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- 4 points
INT'L BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS
This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Alejandro M Garro
Info - 3 points
SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE WITH VETERANS
SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE VETE
The purpose of this course is to introduce social work students to the culture, history, policies, programs, and issues that face different generations of the United States military veterans and their families. This course will provide the essential background and knowledge base necessary to assist military veterans and their families through appropriate referrals for social and medical services. The military veteran community will be examined using both micro and macro lenses in order to provide an overarching understanding of the complex matters faced by today’s military veterans, their families, and communities.
- Department: Social Work
- W 2 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gina Griffin
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SW PRACTICE WITH FAMILIES
- 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.
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Instructor:
Alirio Guerrero
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Intro to TV Pilot Writing
This new class will provide Writing for Film & Television students with a foundational experience in TV Writing in the second semester of their first year at Columbia. They will have studied feature writing in their first semester, and this class will explore how TV is different from the feature form, the unique structure of TV when compared to features, plays, and novels, the key elements of a good TV show and pilot, the different worlds of network and streaming and the current marketplace, how to structure a TV pilot, and how to write and begin revising the pilot episode for an original TV show.
- Department: Film
- F 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
David Klass
Info - 3 points
MACROECONOMIC ANALYSIS II
Prerequisites: the director of graduate studies permission. Concept of full employment. Models of underemployment and theory applicability, determinants of consumption and of investment, multiplier and accelerator analysis, an introduction to monetary macroeconomics, the supply side and inflation. Integration of macroeconomics with microeconomic and monetary analysis.
- Department: Economics
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
- 4 points
STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING
Principles of traditional and emerging sensors, data acquisition and signal processing techniques, experimental modal analysis (input-output), operational modal analysis (output-only), model-based diagnostics of structural integrity, data-based diagnostics of structural integrity, long-term monitoring and intelligent maintenance. Lectures and demonstrations, hands-on laboratory experiments.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
- M 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Raimondo Betti
CULPA: 4
h-index: 31
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- 3 points
Dostoevsky's Afterlives
Few modern writers have been as adored, reviled, translated, or adapted as Fyodor Dostoevsky. In this seminar, we explore the “afterlife/survival” (
Überleben
) of Dostoevsky’s writings, with a particular emphasis on his reception and transformations during the decades of global modernism. We will ask: when and how was the dominant 20th-century image of Dostoevsky made? How is this image reflected, and refracted, in the later theory and practice of the novel? What resonances has it found across the political spectrum, from the pre-revolutionary Russian Empire through interwar Europe, the mid-century United States, and our present era of resurgent technocracy, imperialism, and nationalism? The first half of the course focuses on the Silver Age writers who did most to frame Dostoevsky’s legacy and artistic persona for an international readership. In the second half, we turn to a range of historical, literary, and theoretical contexts where this legacy comes into play. Students will take an active role in researching and shaping the story about Dostoevsky’s uncanny “survival” that our course tells, engaging with a range of readings in modernist literature, criticism, and novel theory. Midway through the course, each student will be responsible for a reception case study, researching either a place and time where Dostoevsky was widely influential or (by permission) a single author whose work comes into close dialogue with his.
Note: Russian-language readings will be provided in the original; many are also available in translation. Other readings will be provided and discussed in English translation, though reading in the original is always encouraged. The course is open to all graduate students by permission.
- Department: Slavic Languages
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Chloe Kitzinger
Info - 4 points
ADV MICRO ANALYSIS II
ADVANCED MICRO ANALYSIS II
Prerequisites: the instructors permission. This course develops theory of designing markets--namely, ;mechanisms; of allocating resources--that are efficient, fair and non-manipulable. Understanding the incentives participants face under alternative mechanisms will be a central theme of the course. Specifically, the course will consist of two parts. The first part deals with environments where monetary transfers can be used, and focuses on topics such as optimal nonlinear pricing, optimal auction design, property rights assignment, dynamic mechanisms and assignment games/sponsored search auctions in Internet advertising. The second part concerns market design without monetary transfers and discusses matching theory as a primarily tool for analyzing the topic. Specifically, we shall discuss matching of agents on one side with agents on the other and matching of agents to indivisible resources/positions, and apply the theories to problems of house allocation, centralized labor market matching, and school choice.
- Department: Economics
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alessandro Pavan
Info - 3 points
STOCHASTIC ENGINEERING MECHANICS
STOCHASTIC ENG MECHANICS
Review of random variables. Random process theory: stationary and ergodic processes, correlation functions and power spectra, non-stationary, non-white and non-Gaussian processes. Uncertainty quantification and simulation of environmental excitations and material/media properties, even when subject to limited/incomplete data: joint time-frequency analysis, sparse representations and compressive sampling concepts and tools. Stochastic dynamics and reliability assessment of diverse engineering systems: complex nonlinear/hysteretic behaviors and/or fractional derivative modeling. Emphasis on solution methodologies based on Monte Carlo simulation, statistical linearization, and Wiener path integral. Examples from civil, marine, mechanical and aerospace engineering.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
- M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou
h-index: 26 Info - 3 points
DIRECTING IV
- Department: Film
- W 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
- R 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
- R 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Bette Gordon
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
MARSEA WORKSHOP II
This is the second half of a yearlong seminar for students in the MARSEA (MA in Regional Studies: East Asia) Program. It is designed to help students develop key skills in social science research, and to support the thesis-writing process.
- Department: East Asian Regional Studies
- R 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sau-Yi Fong
Info - 4 points
ADV MACROECONOMIC ANALYSIS II
Prerequisites: ECON G6216 and G6412, or the instructor's permission. This course deals with business cycle theories and methods for evaluating such theories. The course extends the canonical real business cycle model to analyze models with cyclical variation in markups, models of endogenous fluctuations, and models of news-driven short-run fluctuations. Attention is given to numerical methods to approximate the dynamics implied by stochastic general equilibrium models, with particular emphasis given to perturbation methods. The course will also include an operational introduction to full and limited-information approaches to the estimation of DSGE models.
- Department: Economics
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- 3 points
Chorus and Collectivity
For whom does the dramatic chorus speak? In this graduate seminar, we track the figure of the chorus in drama, theater, and performance from antiquity to modernity, investigating how the chorus represents collectivity and enacts new social forms onstage. The chorus, as we’ll find, can be an instrument of tyranny or of transformation, depending on the members who comprise it – whether they are an assembly of elders (Sophocles’s Antigone), a gathering of survivors (Euripides’s The Trojan Women), a cadre of revolutionaries (Bertolt Brecht’s The Mother), a crowd of athletes 2 (Elfriede Jelinek’s Sports Play), or a digital network of chattering AI machines (Annie Dorsen’s Prometheus Firebringer). Our seminar attends to how the chorus shifts across historical, geographic, and cultural contexts: from ancient Athens to postwar Germany, and from American mass culture to decolonizing movements in the Caribbean, the chorus has proven to be a remarkably flexible and resilient element of live art. The course offers graduate students a broad introduction to canonical works of dramatic literature both ancient and modern, while also featuring lesser-known plays and productions by emerging artists. For the first two-thirds of the term, our sessions will juxtapose a dramatic text with a work of social theory (by thinkers including Nietzsche, Simmel, and Goffman), as well as at least one scholarly essay. Our broader goal in the course is to develop fluency in critical methods at the intersection of drama, philosophy, and social theory. In this course, that is, we approach theater as not only responsive to traditions of social thought, but also generative of new social practices and collective habits of body and mind. In addition to regular weekly assignments, students will complete one short essay and one seminar-length paper at the end of the term.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- M 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Rebecca Kastleman
Info - 4 points
Lifestyle Medicine
Lifestyle medicine is an area of medicine focusing on lifestyle modification for prevention and treatment of chronic illness. The course aims to describe the practice of lifestyle medicine and evidence-based understanding of 6 key principles of lifestyle medicine, including nutrition, physical activity, stress management, sleep, social connection and risk avoidance. Through the course students will learn the evidence behind the 6 principles and how to apply them in a clinical encounter. Each module will begin with asynchronous pre-class work, followed by a synchronous didactic lecture and interactive workshop, and then concluded with post-class homework on the topic.
- Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
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Instructor:
Moneek Madra
Info - 2 points
Ethnographies at the End of the World
What can we learn from anthropological and ethnographic research in and about a damaged world, a world confronted by the violence and effects of war, climate change, transnational migration, post-industrial abandonment, and the lives and afterlives of colonialism and slavery? What are the ethnographic debates that address the catastrophes produced by capitalism and the lifeforms that emerge out of its ruins? What types of anthropological critique emerge in times enunciated as ‘the end of the world’? And what comes after this end? Ethnographies at the End of the World addresses these questions by paying close attention to some of the most relevant debates in contemporary anthropological theory and anthropological critique. These debates include, among others, discussions on violence and trauma, the politics of life and death, the work of memory and oblivion, and the material entanglements between human and non-human forms of existence. The aim of this seminar is to generate a discussion around the multiple implications of these theoretical arrangements and how anthropologists deploy them in their ethnographic understandings of the world we live in. In doing so, this course provides students with a fundamental understanding and conceptual knowledge about how anthropologists use and produce theory, and how this theoretical production is mobilized as a social critique. This course is reading intensive and operates in the form of a seminar. It is intended, primarily, for MA students in the department of anthropology and graduate students in other departments.
- Department: Anthropology
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nicholas Glastonbury
Info - 3 points
TUTORIAL IN CLINICAL PRACTICE:STRUCTURED
- Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
- 1 points
Political Economy Seminar
This seminar surveys the defining political economy issues of our time. It explores the interplay between politics and economics in the substantive issue areas of economic growth, industrial capitalist development, social welfare and inequality, financial crisis, and global migration. The seminar surveys the most provocative and influential contributions across multiple fields of study, drawing on a wide range of research methods. The course equips students with the conceptual and empirical tools to better understand current developments, provides exposure to multiple perspectives, and builds confidence in developing one’s own point of view. The course wraps up with a shared exploration of how political economy shapes the lives of marginalized communities.
- Department: EXECUTIVE MPA
- W 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
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Instructor:
Yumiko T Shimabukuro
Info - 3 points
CORPORATE TAXATION
This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Rick D'Avino
Info - 3 points
INTERMEDIATE STATISTICAL MECH
- Department: Chemistry
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
David Reichman
CULPA: 7 h-index: 68 Info - 2.5 points
CORPORATIONS
This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
John C Jr Coffee
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Instructor:
Katharina Pistor
Info - 4 points
CORPORATIONS
This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search
- Department: Law
- 4 points
CAPITAL STRUCTURING FOR REAL ESTATE OPER
CAP STRUCTURING FOR RE FI
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- F 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jose I Lievano Gomez
Info - 1.5 points
ADVANCED SPATIAL ANALYSIS
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- W 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jonathan Stiles
Info - 3 points
International Relations Theory for Globa
IR Theory & Global Policy
This course provides an advanced introduction to core theories of international relations and their application to real-world policymaking in a global context. Students will examine foundational and contemporary analytical frameworks, including realism, liberalism, constructivism, game theory, selectorate theory, decision-making models, two-level game theory, and complex interdependence. Through a structured combination of lectures, discussions, and collaborative group analysis, students will apply these theories to contemporary global issues, with a focus on the U.S.–China relationship. The course culminates in a two-session policy forum, in which students present theory-based policy analyses they have developed over the semester. Emphasis is placed on practical application, clarity of analysis, and professional presentation.
- Department: EXECUTIVE MPA
- T 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Instructor:
Fumiko Sasaki
Info - 3 points
ASSET MANAGEMENT
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- W 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sara B Queen
Info - 1.5 points
Politics & Policy of Urban Sustainabilit
Politics & Policy-Urban S
Instructor permission required. Join the waitlist in Vergil to request registration.
This is a course for thoughtful people who wish to influence actual policy outcomes related to sustainability challenges in major cities. Its objective is not to provide a primer on urban sustainability solutions; this is readily available from textbooks and will change by the time you are in a position to act. Rather, the course’s objective is to prepare you for the kind of challenges that will face you as a policy practitioner in the field of urban sustainability. Cities are increasingly recognized as a key level of government for environmental and sustainability policy. As at all levels, politics and policy are intensely intertwined, and perhaps more so at the local level because the decisions involved often affect constituents directly and intimately --in their neighborhoods, in their homes, in their commutes. This reading-heavy colloquium explores the politics and the policy of urban sustainability from the perspective of someone who wishes to effect change. It culminates in a team project in which students act as a sustainability policy team in a mayoral (or equivalent) office in one of the world’s major cities. The course considers key components of the city itself, with the objective of understanding what shapes the city and its impact on the environment. It mainly uses case studies from the twentieth-century United States, paired with international readings to allow a comparison with other experiences. The focus on deep case studies allows the consideration of the situations, constraints, and political dynamics of specific situations. It is intended to provide students with the ability to recognize patterns in urban political and policy dynamics related to sustainability. These are paired with an overview of leading solutions and how the professor believes practitioners should evaluate them for their own cities. The course also prominently features in-class presentations and discussions of the students’ main project: a team-based memo making a specific recommendation to solve a problem in a specific major world city, which is presented twice, once for a diagnosis of the problem in a given city and a second time with a policy recommendation. This project is the major portion of the overall grade for the class, and is used to allow the students to wrestle with the challenge of turning ideas from past and present into successful urban sustainability policies that can get implemented in a
- Department: MPA-ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE POL
- M 7:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rohit T Aggarwala
Wikipedia h-index: 5 Info - 3 points
Ex. Criminal Prosecution: Manhattan/Bkl
EX. CRIMINAL PROSECUTION
- Department: Law
- 2 points
Ex. Criminal Prosecution: Manhattan/Bkl
EX. CRIMINAL PROSECUTION
- Department: Law
- 3 points
STORYTELLING & DRAMA
Non-traditional Structure
This course is designed to explore nontraditional structures for the theater and beyond. We will read plays, stories, theories and watch movies that all utilize and explore nontraditional narrative structures. We will then write our own plays. Through small writing in the beginning of the semester, we will be looking at how story and structure work together to make drama. You will also find structure that excite you and you will write a final play using a structure of your choice. The course will also explore kinds of story, genre, and geometry of story.
- Department: Theatre Arts
- W 9:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
James Ijames
Info - 3 points
Networks in Economic Theory
Networks help us describe the complex interactions that occur among large populations of distinct
entities. Some have argued that their incorporation into economic models represents a paradigm
change for the ?eld. This course will introduce you to the central questions in current networks
research as well as the tools and methods used to study networks in economic theory. Topics we
will cover include network games and interventions, di?usion processes, network formation, social
learning and opinion dynamics, and networked markets. The course is divided into two halves. The
rst half will consist of lectures on these topics. In the second half, we will read and discuss recent
research papers.
- Department: Economics
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Evan D Sadler
Info - 3 points
EUR UNION LAW & INSTITUTIONS
This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Anu Bradford
Wikipedia h-index: 15 Info - 3 points
IMMIGRATION 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
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Instructor:
Ajun Gupta
Info - 3 points
CAPSTONE: RESOLUTION STRATEGIES
- Department: Negotiation & Conflict Resolution
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Peter Dixon
Info - 3 points
Foundations of Budgeting
MPA Financial Management I Core.
This course provides a practical introduction to budgeting as a critical tool for planning, decision-making, and leadership across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Students will develop hands-on skills in budget creation, financial analysis, and cash flow management while exploring how budgets shape organizational strategy and operations.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- R 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
- R 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
- R 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
- R 7:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
- F noon-1 p.m.
- F 8 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Sarah M Holloway
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Instructor:
Mimi Corcoran
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Instructor:
John Liu
Info - 1.5 points
Foundations of Budgeting
MPA Financial Management I Core.
This course provides a practical introduction to budgeting as a critical tool for planning, decision-making, and leadership across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Students will develop hands-on skills in budget creation, financial analysis, and cash flow management while exploring how budgets shape organizational strategy and operations.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- 0 points
Sociology of Literature
This graduate seminar approaches literature as a social practice—a network of relations among writers, editors, institutions, technologies, and readers. Drawing from literary studies, sociology, and anthropology, we trace the life cycle of the literary work: from the writer’s workshop and the archive, through the institutions that publish, circulate, and preserve it, to the interpretive communities and fan cultures that sustain it.
Core readings pair theoretical frameworks (Bourdieu, Becker, Williams) with empirical ethnographies and case studies (Childress, Radway, Jenkins). The course concludes by examining co-authorship and conspiracy as collective forms of storytelling that test the limits of individual authorship and belief.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dennis Tenen
CULPA: 8
h-index: 3
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- 4 points
Budgeting & Financial Management for Gov
Gov't Budgeting & Finance
MPA Financial Management II Core.
This course introduces students to budgeting and financial management in the public sector, with an emphasis on real-world application and analytical skill development. Drawing on current and historical challenges—including the 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic—students will explore the political, technical, and managerial dimensions of public budgeting in the United States.
Topics include the structure and function of operating and capital budgets, principles of revenue generation, deficit spending, and debt financing. Students will work with actual federal, state, and local budgets, gaining experience in constructing, analyzing, and presenting budgets in a government context. By the end of the course, students will be able to evaluate budget proposals and make data-informed recommendations grounded in public policy goals and financial feasibility.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- R 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
- R 7:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
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Instructor:
John Liu
Info - 1.5 points
INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION II
Prerequisites: ECON G6211 and ECON G6212. This course provides an overview of topics in industrial organization (IO) economics. Its goals are to survey the main outlines of modern IO, to develop key theoretical ideas, to demonstrate important techniques, to link theory to empirical work, and to relate theoretical and empirical results to policy issues. Empirical two-period models. Empirical single-agent and multiple-agent dynamic models.
- Department: Economics
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gautam Gowrisankaran
h-index: 27 Info - 3 points
Financial Management for Nonprofits & So
Fin Mgmt for Nonprofits &
MPA Financial Management II Core.
This course introduces nonprofit and social enterprise finance, financial management, and budgeting. The course is practical and hands-on. The course will examine how financial management principles assist nonprofit and social enterprise leaders make operating, program, and long-term financial and strategic decisions. Students will learn underlying concepts and practical skills through readings, discussions, Case Studies, and assignments. The course is designed to give students a range of core financial and managerial skills that are especially relevant to students who want to go on to establish, manage, or work in nonprofit organizations or social enterprises.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- R 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Sarah M Holloway
CULPA: 1 Info - 1.5 points
Topics in Organizational Economics
This course introduces the students to the field of Organizational Economics. We combine theoretical and empirical methods to study the nature, design, and performance of organizations. Organizations, such as firms, bureaucracies, and political parties, live in a second-best world, where inefficiencies are inevitable. Our goal is to understand and measure these inefficiencies, study their causes and how to minimize them. This course is divided in two parts of equal length. The first part introduces a few of the main theoretical models and findings from the organizational-economics literature. The second part focuses on how to bring the models to the data. By design, the course is intended for a broad set of students: those who are theoretically inclined, those who are empirically inclined, and those who are both. Many of the tools and skills that are developed in this course will be useful not only within organizational economics but, more broadly, to other fields such as industrial organization, political economy, development economics. Our ultimate goal is to accelerate the students' transition toward conducting their own independent research.
- Department: Economics
- F 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
- 3 points
Accounting Fundamentals
MPA Financial Management Core II.
This course provides students with a foundational understanding of financial accounting, with an emphasis on interpreting financial statements. Students will study the three core financial statements—the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows—and learn the accounting principles and rules that shape how financial data is recorded and presented.
Through hands-on exercises and case examples from service, manufacturing, and retail operations, students will learn to apply double-entry bookkeeping, distinguish between key accounting treatments such as capitalizing and expensing, and evaluate how management’s assumptions and estimates influence reported outcomes. The course aims to build financial fluency for policy professionals and prepare students to critically assess financial information to support evidence-based decision-making.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- W 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- F 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
Norman Bartczak
CULPA: 1 Info - 1.5 points
ADVANCED CRYPTOGRAPHY
A study of advanced cryptographic research topics such as: secure computation, zero knowledge, privacy, anonymity, cryptographic protocols. Concentration on theoretical foundations, rigorous approach, and provable security. Contents varies between offerings. May be repeated for credit.
- Department: Computer Science
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tal Malkin
CULPA: 18
Wikipedia
h-index: 45
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ARITH & ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
Affine and projective varieties; schemes; morphisms; sheaves; divisors; cohomology theory; curves; Riemann-Roch theorem.
- Department: Mathematics
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michael Thaddeus
CULPA: 24
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INTERNATIONAL LAW
This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Lori F Damrosch
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NMR SPECTROSCPY/MACROMOLECULES
Prerequisites: instructor's permission or Biophysical Chemistry G4170. Theoretical principles and applications of NMR spectroscopy for the study of biological macromolecules, including proteins, nucleic acids and carbohydrates, in solution.
- Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
- W 2:30 p.m.-4 p.m.
- 4.5 points
LAW & LEGAL INST IN CHINA
This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Benjamin L Liebman
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JAPANSE LAW-LEGAL INSTITUTIONS
This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Nobuhisa Ishizuka
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Affordable Housing Finance: Policy and A
This course explores the institutional frameworks and financial mechanisms that shape affordable housing policy in the United States. Designed for students seeking a practical understanding of housing finance, the course examines how public and private sectors collaborate to address the needs of low- and moderate-income households. Students will analyze the effectiveness of programs that promote access to affordable rental and owned housing, develop familiarity with key institutions and policies such as CRA, HMDA, and LIHTC, and evaluate project finance strategies. The course begins with approaches to homeownership as a path to intergenerational wealth, followed by a focus on rental housing that promotes stability, economic mobility, and equity. Students will engage with real-world data tools to assess lending patterns and housing market dynamics, culminating in a group project simulating a public financing request for an affordable housing development.
- Department: EXECUTIVE MPA
- M 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Instructor:
Richard Koss
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HUMAN RIGHTS
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Martin S Flaherty
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info - 3 points
BALANCING PRODUCTION AND PROTECTION THRO
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
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Instructor:
Richard Leland
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Practicum in Music Composition
This course provides an opportunity for students in the Music Department’s Composition DMA program to engage in off-campus practicum or internships in music composition for academic credit that will count towards the requirements for the degree.
- Department: Music
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Instructor:
Zosha Di Castri
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SPECTERS OF ORGANIZED SUBVERSION
Ruling powers of various shapes and sizes tend to prosecute those people whom they fear because of their identity, class, craft, or convictions. Often, the object of accusation, inquiry, prosecution, and persecution includes not just one (or more) individual persons, but a set of relationships that these ruling powers see as anathema to the social order they seek to establish or maintain, and on which their power depends. Specters can personify residuals of antediluvian political or cosmological order (heretics and witches, officers of toppled regime, Catholics after the reformation, idolatry trials in the new world, mafiosi after their criminalization, Bundists in Soviet Russia) or emergent forms (emancipated Jews, dissidents, or anarchists). All share that role in social dramas that cast them as enemies of The State, The Church, The People, or Humanity. In this seminar we will begin to explore the array of social rituals, routinized practices (like rumors and media-oriented lynching) and institutions that have been developed specifically in order to name such specters and summon them publicly. We will examine, among others: trials, conspiracy theories (as a mode of recounting a presence that is constantly putting the specter back in), investigative committees, inquisitorial tribunals. We will examine how such social rituals and routinized practices and institutions give us unique opportunities to examine what conceptions of society, of relationships good and evil, and of justice underlie political orders, how they codify and pursue them, and what historical processes these enactments trigger or shape. We’ll focus on cases from early modern and modern societies, with an eye towards the emergence and stabilization of republican order.
- Department: Anthropology
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Naor H Ben-Yehoyada
CULPA: 5 Info - 3 points
ANTITRUST AND TRADE REGULATION
This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Timothy S Wu
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Independent Study in Family Primary Care
INDEP STUDY IN FAMILY NUR
Individualized, guided learning experiences at the graduate level in a selected area of concentration. The area of concentration selected should reflect both the role of the clinical specialist / nurse practitioner and the student’s specific interests. Proposed work must be outlined prior to registration and agreed upon by both faculty and student.
- Department: Nursing
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Instructor:
Ellen M Fahey
Info - 1-8 points
WRITING FOR THE BIOLOGICAL SCI
This is a required science writing course for the PhD in Biological Sciences, open only to second year PhD. candidates in Biological Sciences. In this course, we will read examples of science writing from the recent literature, consider the strategies used by successful writers, and workshop student writing. The course will emphasize techniques for achieving clarity of thought and clear prose style while communicating science to other scientists. Students will write three short papers and two longer papers culminating in a Proposed Research Plan.
- Department: Biological Sciences
- W 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Meehan J Crist
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RESEARCH SEMINAR
Prerequisites: degree in biological sciences. Lectures by visiting scientists, faculty, and students; specific biological research projects; with emphasis on evolution, ecology, and conservation biology.
- Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
- R 2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Maria Diuk-Wasser
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