MASTERS PROJECT I
The master’s project will be your most sustained effort during your time at the journalism school, encompassing both fall and spring semesters. It’s not a thesis in the traditional academic sense; think of it instead as an in-depth exploration of a topic as a journalist would pursue it. Master’s projects can take a variety of forms, some of them incorporating elements from more than one medium: print, photo, audio, video, data. Regardless of format, you’ll work on your project under the guidance of an experienced advisor, who will help you to hone your topic, figure out your reporting strategy and serve as your editor for the duration of the project.
- Department: Journalism
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Aida Alami
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Helen Benedict
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Juan M Benitez-Fernel
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Kat Chow
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Alexis B Clark
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Howard French
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William Grueskin
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Azmat Khan
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18TH CENTURY RUSSIAN LIT
A survey of eighteenth century Russian poetry, prose, and drama in the original. The reading list includes Feofan Prokopovich, Vasily Trediakovsky, Mikhailo Lomonosov, Aleksandr Sumarokov, Aleksandr Radishchev, Gavrila Derzhavin, and Nikolai Karamzin
- Department: Slavic Languages
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Irina Reyfman
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Dual SEAS Master's Project I
- Department: Journalism
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Dhrumil Mehta
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Historical Approaches in the Social Scie
Historical Aprchs Scl Scn
This course introduces students to historical approaches in sociology and political science (and some economics). In the first part, the course surveys the major theoretical approaches and methodological traditions. Examples of the former are classic comparativist work (e.g. Skocpol’s study of revolutions), historist approaches (such as Sewell’s), or the historical institutionalist tradition (Mahoney, Thelen, Wimmer, etc.). In terms of methodological approaches, we will discuss classical Millean small-N comparisons, Qualitative Comparative Analysis, process tracing, actor-centered modeling, quantitative, large-N works, and causal inference type of research designs. In the second part, major topics in macro-comparative social sciences are examined, from world systems and empire to the origins of democracy.
- Department: Sociology
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Andreas Wimmer
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INVENTING THE ANCIENTS
- Department: Italian
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Konstantia Zanou
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CAPSTONE: Conflict Analysis Models
Conflict analysis is central to understanding the context and content of any conflict. It is also critical for the person doing the conflict analysis to have a good understanding of who they are as a conflict resolution practitioner, including the frames with which they view the conflict analysis. Our worldviews, assumptions, values, and beliefs shape how we frame and create meaning from conflicts that we choose to examine, and how we understand the dynamics of those conflicts. Therefore, to conduct an impartial analysis of any conflict, and add value for the stakeholders involved, self-awareness is crucial.
This course is the foundation for developing the necessary mindset for conflict analysis. We want you to be able to enter any situation and ask the question, “What is really going on here?” and to use that inquiry to uncover underlying needs, issues, and assumptions. In this course, in addition to increasing your self-awareness as a conflict resolution practitioner, you will explore and become familiar with diverse conflict analysis approaches and tools, beginning with creating a conflict map to identify the actors, dynamics, and structures that are creating, escalating, and perpetuating the conflict. You will work with a variety of conflict analysis tools to examine the stakeholder perspectives and will be asked to identify issues that surfaced as a result of this analysis. You will define goals for your inquiry that correspond to the conflict issues you have identified and coalesce thematically around a specific purpose of appropriate scope for your capstone study. You will utilize the Coordinated Management of Meaning and Case Study frameworks to engage in desk-based qualitative inquiry using secondary sources. You will put theory into practice by interpreting the secondary data through the lens of applicable theory. The data will be further analyzed using CMM models and conflict analysis tools as a means of surfacing several needs to be addressed in your intervention design (in the next capstone course).
This course is the first of three (3) required courses of the capstone sequence.
In 6050, students will complete conflict analysis for their capstone case study.
In 6250, students will design an intervention that addresses the needs identified in their earlier analysis. In 6350, students will consider sustainability, as well as monitoring and evaluation strategies for their proposed intervention.
- Department: Negotiation & Conflict Resolution
- SS 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
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Amy E Sereday
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Methods and Problems: Theoretical Philos
Methds/Probs:Theoretical
This class covers classic readings in contemporary philosophy, selections from historical authors that bear on today’s debates, and influential recent contributions in a range of subfields such as metaphysics, philosophy of mind, epistemology, logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of cognitive science.
- Department: Philosophy
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Melissa S Fusco
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
PARTICLE PHENOMENOLOGY
Prerequisites: PHYS G6037 or the equivalent. The elementary particles and their properties; interactions of charged particles and radiation with matter; accelerators, particle beams, detectors; conservation laws; symmetry principles; strong interactions, resonances, unitary symmetry; electromagnetic interactions; weak interactions; current topics.
- Department: Physics
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Georgia S Karagiorgi
CULPA: 3 Info - 3 points
RED ELECTIVE INTERNSHIP
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Rebecca A Andersen Polimeda
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VALUE, OBJECTS, AND MEANING
VALUE OBJECTS AND MEANING
This course explores how anthropologists have engaged with the question of value as means of understanding and comparing human social engagement with the creation, circulation, and consumption of objects and ideas. In doing so, this course will read classical anthropological texts concerned with exchange, social meaning and action and consider a variety of topics of anthropological interest such as gifts, commodities, capitalism, inequality, and the relationships between humans and nonhumans of many kinds. The course traces how questions and arguments that emerged out of earlier debates in “economic” anthropology were taken up and altered in later conversations about the analytical importance and utility of material and semiotic approaches. In doing so, the course explores what these genealogies might say about the possibility of, and the potential usefulness or desirability of, a contemporary or future-looking anthropology of value.
- Department: Anthropology
- R 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Hannah Chazin
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Proseminar in Religion I
The Proseminar in Religion is designed to support PhD students within the department as they work on various aspects of professional development. Meeting three times per semester, the sessions will focus on both academic and non-academic career paths, coordinated by a member of the faculty and with guest speakers from both within and beyond the department. The emphasis will be on concrete outputs and skills training. The proseminar will require preparation and active participation from enrolled students, including background reading and writing assignments connected to the monthly topic. After each session focused on a piece of writing (fellowship applications; CVs and cover letters; publishing), students should come away from the proseminar with strong drafts of the relevant texts.
The proseminar is required for all ABD students in year 5 or 6 and can be taken sequentially or not. ABD students are encouraged to speak about the timing of enrollment with the DGS and their dissertation sponsor.
- Department: Religion
- W 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
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Instructor:
Matthew Engelke
CULPA: 3 Wikipedia h-index: 25 Info - 1 points
SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY: THE ORIGINS
Prerequisites: this course is intended for sociology Ph.D. and SMS students. No others without the instructors written permission. Foundational sources and issues in sociological theory: Adam Smith, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel, Mead, Mauss, others; division of labor, individualism, exchange, class and its vicissitudes, social control, ideas and interests, contending criteria of explanation and interpretation.
- Department: Sociology
- M 9:10 a.m.-noon
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Gil Eyal
CULPA: 15
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Adaptation
This is a fast-paced writing, survey and workshop course that will empower writers to define the formal ideals of screenwriting by investigating film adaptations of novels and short stories. The course will culminate in the writing of a short pitch document. This course is at once a survey of the twentieth century American Film, a survey of the Twentieth Century American novel, and a course for writers. We will distill the craft of screenwriting by looking through the prism of adaption in order to understand which elements of the novel translate into film, and why. We will consider novels with the mercenary detachment of a screenwriter, scouring for scraps with value for a screenplay. As we compare the original text with the finished film, we will distill the essence of the screenplay form. What is plot, action, dialog, metaphor? How do we converge these goals? We will decipher, with the clinical eye of a detective, what the screenwriter took from the novel and what they left behind. And in doing this, we will reach an understanding of the formal tenets of an American film.
- Department: Film
- F 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Galt V Niederhoffer
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ADVNCD TPCS IN IMMUNOLOGY
ADVNCD TPCS IN IMMUNOLOGY I
- Department: Microbiology
- R 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
- 3 points
SPECIALIZED SOCIAL WORK PRACTICUM
SPECIALIZED SW PRACTICUM
- Department: Social Work
- 6 points
SPECIALIZED SOCIAL WORK PRACTICUM
SPECIALIZED SW PRACTICUM
- Department: Social Work
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Robert E Cortes
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Ismery Lora
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Elizabeth S Nson
CULPA: 9 Info - 6 points
MAKING ETHNOG:METHOD & WRITING
This course begins with two central and related epistemological problems in conducting ethnographic research: first, the notion that objects of scientific research are ‘made’ through adopting a particular relational stance and asking certain kinds of questions. From framing a research problem and choosing a ‘research context’ story to tell, to the kinds of methods one selects to probe such a problem, the ‘how’ and ‘what’ – or means and content – are inextricably intertwined. A second epistemological problem concerns the artifice of reality, and the nebulous distinction between truth and fiction, no less than the question of where or with whom one locates such truth.
With these issues framing the course, we will work through some key themes and debates in anthropology from the perspective of methodology, ranging from subject/object liminality to incommensurability and radical alterity to the politics of representation. Students will design an ethnographic project of their choosing and conduct research throughout the term, applying different methodological approaches popular in anthropology and the social sciences more generally, such as participant observation, semi-structured interview, diary-keeping and note-taking.
- Department: Anthropology
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Nicholas Glastonbury
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STUDIES IN DANTE
Prerequisites: In-depth knowledge of the Commedia. A variable-content research seminar that rotates through various areas of Dante studies. Areas covered in the past include: the history of the ideas of hell, purgatory, paradise; Dante’s relation to the classics; Dante's so-called minor works, such as Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia; Dante's lyric poetry. The Fall 2019 seminar will be devoted to Dante's prose treatises.
- Department: Italian
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Teodolinda Barolini
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SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING
- Department: Physics
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Robert D Mawhinney
CULPA: 6 h-index: 49 Info - 3 points
Personal Leadership in Public Health
PERSONAL LEADERSHIP IN P
- Department: Public Health
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Personal Leadership in Public Health
PERSONAL LEADERSHIP IN P
- Department: Public Health
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Personal Leadership in Public Health
PERSONAL LEADERSHIP IN P
- Department: Public Health
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Elizabeth C Schroeder
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INTRO TO INTL PLANNING
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- M 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Ebru A Gencer
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ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY
Prerequisites: PHYS W3008 or its equivalent. Fundamentals of electromagnetism from an advanced perspective with emphasis on electromagnetic fields in vaccum with no bounding surfaces present. A thorough understanding of Maxwells equations and their application to a wide variety of phenomena. Maxwells equations (in vacuum) and the Lorentz force law - noncovariant form. Scalar and vector potentials, gauge transformations. Generalized functions (delta functions and their derivatives), point changes. Fourier transforms, longitutdinal ad transverse vector fields. Solution of Maxwells equations in unbounded space for electrostatics and magnetostatics with given charge and current sources. Special relativity, Loretnz transformations, 4-momentum, relativistic reactions. Index mechanics of Cartesian tensor notation. Covariatn formulation of Maxwells equations and the Lorentz force law, Lorentz transformation properties of E and B. Lagrangian density for the electromagnetic field, Langrangian density for the Proca field. Symmetries and conservation laws, Noethers theorem. Field conservation laws (energy, linear momentum, angular momentum, stress tensor). Monochromatic plane wave solutions of the time-dependent source-free Maxwell equations, elliptical polarization, partially-polarized electromagnetgic waves, Stokes parameters. Solution of the time-dependent Maxwell equations in unbounded space with given chare and current sources (retarded and advanced solutions). Properties of electromagnetic fields in the radiaion zone, angular distribution of radiated power, frequency distribution of radiated energy, radiation form periodic and non-periodic motions. Radiation from antennas and antenna arrays. Lienard-Wiechert fields, the relativistic form of the Larmor radiation forumla, synchrotron radiation, bremsstrahlung, undulator and wiggler radiation. Electric dipole and magnetic dipole radiation. Scattering of electromagnetic radiation, the differential scattering cross-section, low-energy and high-energy approximations, scattering from a random or periodic array of scatterers. Radiation reaction force, Feynman-Wheeler theoryy. The macroscopic Maxwell equations (spatial averaging to get P, M, D, H). Convolutions, linear materials (permittivity, permeability, and conductivity), causality, analytics continuation, Kramers-Kronig relations. Propagation of monochromatic plane waves in isotropic and non-isotropic linear materials, ordinary ad extraordinary waves. Cherenkov radiation, transition radiation.
- Department: Physics
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Brian Metzger
CULPA: 5 h-index: 77 Info - 4.5 points
DESIGNS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH
Required of all incoming sociology doctoral students. Prepares students who have already completed an undergraduate major or its equivalent in some social science to evaluate and undertake both systematic descriptions and sound explanations of social structures and processes.
- Department: Sociology
- W 2:10 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mario Small
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AF-AM: PRO SEMINAR
This course introduces students to central questions and debates in the fields of African American Studies, and it explores the various interdisciplinary efforts to address them. The seminar is designed to provide an interdisciplinary foundation and familiarize students with a number of methodological approaches. Toward this end we will have a number of class visitors/guest lecturers drawn from members of IRAAS's Core and Affiliated Faculty.
- Department: African American and African Diaspora
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Brandi Summers
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RESEARCH SEMINAR
An M.S. degree requirement. Students attend at least three Applied Mathematics research seminars within the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and submit reports on each.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- T 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kui Ren
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RESEARCH SEMINAR
An M.S. degree requirement. Students attend at least three Applied Mathematics research seminars within the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and submit reports on each.
MA SEMINAR IN GLOBAL THOUGHT
This course explores the challenges of understanding the global world in which we live, a world that demands new conceptual approaches and ways of thinking. The objectives are:
To examine multidisciplinary approaches to key global issues through readings, class discussions, and conversations with select CGT faculty members as guest speakers. This will take place through multi-week modules that center on a critical issue, asking students to familiarize themselves with key questions and context, engage with an expert on the topic, and apply their insights to a specific case or question.
To develop a focused and feasible research project and hone the practices of scholarly data collection, analysis, and communication through workshops and assignments. This work begins in the fall and continues to completion in the spring semester of the seminar. The perspectives and skills developed in M.A. Seminar will support students in the development and completion of their thirty-five page M.A. essays, which they will present to each other and to CGT faculty at the Spring Symposium.
- Department: Committee on Global Thought
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Laura L Neitzel
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Vishakha Desai
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Managerial Statistics
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
- TR 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Jing Dong
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Boaz Galinson
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Alex Mills
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Jing Dong
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Boaz Galinson
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EUROPEAN STUDIES COLL I
- Department: Modern European Studies
- F 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Tsveta A Petrova
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THE DOCTORAL RESEARCH SEMINAR
The purpose of this R-credit seminar is to support intermediate PhD students as they embark on advanced research projects. It begins and ends with workshops for doctoral students at the earliest stages of their dissertations: its meetings in weeks 2, 3, and 4 are devoted to the dissertation prospectus, and its final ones in weeks 11, 12, and 13 are for sharing dissertation chapter drafts or research plans. In the other weeks, the seminar expands to include interested post-MPhil doctoral students at any stage, and focuses on the process of publishing in academic journals, culminating in the completion of a submittable article draft. Most important of all, the seminar provides an opportunity for community-building at a time when graduate students are not generally in coursework together, offered in a spirit of mutually affirming collaboration.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Austin Graham
CULPA: 10
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ADVANCED MECHANICS OF FLUIDS
Eulerian and Lagrangian descriptions of motion. Stress and strain rate tensors, vorticity, integral and differential equations of mass, momentum, and energy conservation. Potential flow.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
- W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gerard A Ateshian
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RESEARCH & PROF DEVPT WORKSHOP
- Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
- T 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Seth R Kimmel
CULPA: 7
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HISTORY OF PERFORMANCE
This class will look at selected eras of theater with an emphasis on performance.
- Department: Theatre Arts
- M 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Bertha Ferdman
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PLASMA PHYSICS I
Debye screening. Motion of charged particles in space- and time-varying electromagnetic fields. Two-fluid description of plasmas. Linear electrostatic and electromagnetic waves in unmagnetized and magnetized plasmas. The magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model, including MHD equilibrium, stability, and MHD waves in simple geometries.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Gerald A Navratil
CULPA: 2 h-index: 46 Info - 3 points
Business Analytics
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
- TR 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
- TR 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Gerry Tsoukalas
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Ciamac Moallemi
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Gerry Tsoukalas
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HUMAN ANATOMY
- Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
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Colleen M Maher
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ISSUES IN POLITICAL THEORY
Prerequisites: the instructors permission prior to registration. A survey of selected issues and debates in political theory. Areas of the field discussed include normative political philosophy, history of political thought, and the design of political and social institutions.
- Department: Political Science
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Turkuler Isiksel
CULPA: 3
h-index: 9
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THEORY & METHOD-STUDY OF RELIG
“Theories and Methods” courses in any field are commonly unwieldy beasts. They cannot but be a compromise-formation between contemporary questions and texts, ideas, and definitions (alongside a whole lot of problems) that we have inherited as “canonical” in a field. In the best case, such a course is a passageway into deeper engagement with a field, its histories, its complexities, and its possibilities from which we might wrest and build viable futures. Disciplinary fields are structures where power and knowledge are produced and reproduced. The study of religion is no exception. The questions of “how is ‘religion’ constructed as a category here?” and “what work does the designation of something or someone as ‘religious’ do?” will, therefore, accompany us throughout our work over the course of this semester. We will also examine how different methodological commitments shape what objects of study and which questions come to the fore for the study of religion. This course will explore how the study of religion is not reducible to the study of traditions and communities that are readily recognized as “religious.” However, the vexed histories of the construction of “religion” as a category of knowledge production does also not negate that there are large, varied, and flourishing communities of practice beyond the university for whom whether or not “religion” exists is not at all a question. Holding these layers of complexity in play, this course seeks to introduce students exemplarily to key texts and concepts that have shaped the study of religion as we encounter it today as an academic discipline.
- Department: Religion
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dominique Townsend
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
APPLIED STATISTICS I
First semester of the doctoral program sequence in applied statistics.
- Department: Statistics
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Andrew Gelman
CULPA: 6 Wikipedia h-index: 112 Info - 4 points
OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
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Faculty
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Microeconomics & Public Policy
To design and manage successful economic policy, professionals need a sophisticated command of modern microeconomics. This course strengthens and extends understanding of microeconomic theory, and gives practice applying it. We study the relationship between market structure and market performance, exploring conditions under which policy intervention can improve market performance, and when it can be counter-productive. Both distributional and efficiency aspects of intervention are stressed. An introduction to formal strategic analysis is included, along with its application in the modern theory of auctions.
- Department: MPA IN ECON POLICY MANAGEMENT
- R 1:45 p.m.-3 p.m.
- T 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jan Svejnar
Wikipedia h-index: 49 Info - 4 points
Statistics & Business Analytics
Stats & Business Analytic
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
- R 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
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Instructor:
Charles R Guetta
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MPHIL THESIS WRITING SEMINAR II
MPHIL THS WRTNG SMNR II
This seminar is PART 2 for second and third year students who are writing their MPhil thesis. It will assume the form of a yearlong seminar during which students design, research, and write up their MPhil projects. These projects can be based on any kind of sociological method, quantitative or qualitative. The thesis will assume the form of an article that can be submitted to a social science journal. The seminar will help you to find an interesting question, a way to answer it, and a mode of communicating this to fellow sociologists in a way that they might find worth paying attention to. The summer break between the two semesters will allow students who don’t come to the first semester with ready-to-analyze data to gather such data (through ethnographic work, archival research, scraping the internet, combining existing survey data, etc.).
- Department: Sociology
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Barbara J Kiviat
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APPLIED STATISTICS III
Prerequisites: STAT GR6102 Modern Bayesian methods offer an amazing toolbox for solving science and engineering problems. We will go through the book Bayesian Data Analysis and do applied statistical modeling using Stan, using R (or Python or Julia if you prefer) to preprocess the data and postprocess the analysis. We will also discuss the relevant theory and get to open questions in model building, computing, evaluation, and expansion. The course is intended for students who want to do applied statistics and also those who are interested in working on statistics research problems.
- Department: Statistics
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Yuqi Gu
h-index: 6 Info - 4 points
Introduction to Biostatistical Methods
INTRO-BIOSTATISTICAL METH
Like many fields of learning, biostatistics has its own vocabulary often seen in medical and public health literature. Phrases like statistical significance", "p-value less than 0.05", "95% confident", and "margin of error" can have enormous impact in a world that relies on statistics to make decisions: Should Drug A be recommended over Drug B? Should a national policy on X be implemented? Does Vitamin C truly prevent colds? However, do we really know what these terms and phrases mean? Understanding the theory and methodology behind study design, estimation and hypothesis testing is crucial to ensuring that findings and practices in public health and biomedicine are supported by reliable evidence.
- Department: Biostatistics
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Instructor:
Sarah G Ayton
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PROSEMINAR-HISTORICL MUSICOLGY
Introduction to Historical Musicology: the history of the discipline, major areas of research, source materials, and methodological problems.
Macroeconomic Policy Management
Macroeconomic Policy Mgmt
This course provides students with a structured framework for analyzing major macroeconomic policy challenges in advanced and emerging economies. It covers long-run growth dynamics, income distribution, general equilibrium adjustment to shocks, and the design and limits of monetary and fiscal policy. Emphasis is placed on modern macroeconomic thinking rooted in expectations, dynamic behavior, and solid micro-foundations. Students will study models such as Solow growth, Real Business Cycle, and New Keynesian frameworks to understand issues like secular stagnation, inflation, sovereign debt, and financial sector crises. The course integrates theory with current policy debates, drawing on recent global events and empirical evidence. It is designed to build intuitive understanding and disciplined policy analysis, with technical content supported by pre-recorded videos and recitations. Students will complete short analytical assignments, a midterm, and a final exam, gaining tools to think critically and constructively about macroeconomic policy in both national and international contexts.
- Department: MPA IN ECON POLICY MANAGEMENT
- TW 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
- R 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Instructor:
Guillermo Mondino
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Statistical Consulting
Prerequisites: STAT GR6102 or instructor permission. The Deparatments doctoral student consulting practicum. Students undertake pro bono consulting activities for Columbia community researchers under the tutelage of a faculty mentor.
- Department: Statistics
- M 8 a.m.-10 a.m.
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Ashley Datta
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