Guided Study in Research
GUIDED STUDY IN RESEARCH
Using the format of a research seminar highlighting research “challenges” of the DNSc faculty , this course is designed to strengthen the student’s ability to integrate and synthesize knowledge in statistics and nursing research methodologies, and to apply this integrated knowledge to common problems in study design and data analysis.
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Ruth M Masterson
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Phoenix Matthews
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Mary Mundinger
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Allison A Norful
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Monica O'Reilly-Jacob
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Lusine Poghosyan
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Meghan Reading
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Rebecca B Schnall
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Jingjing Shang
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Arlene M Smaldone
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Patricia Stone
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Jacquelyn Taylor
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Maxim Topaz
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Yihong Zhao
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Maryam Zolnoori
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Ex. Economic Justice and Empowerment Ext
Econ. Justice & Empowerme
- Department: Law
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Ex. Economic Justice and Empowerment Ext
Econ. Justice & Empowerme
- Department: Law
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SEMINAR IN BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY
METHODS & LOGIC IN BIO OC
This course will provide students with an advanced understanding of the latest research in biological oceanography, with a particular focus on developing the skills needed to critically review the methods and logic of this literature. Students will learn through practice how to synthesis papers, provide appropriate background, and facilitate discussion in a group context, building communication skills. For those taking the 3 credit version of the course, this will culminate in a final paper that builds on these literature discussions with a forward thinking paper that takes a publication and outlines a future research effort that builds on this prior work and rationalizes it in the context of the literature. This paper will be discussed individually with the Professor as part of the assessment process. The intent is to provide graduate students with a strong background in the methods and logic behind key papers in the biological oceanography literature but other members of the Lamont community are welcome to participate in a regular or drop-in basis.
Prerequisites: This course assumes a background in biological or chemical oceanography like EESC W4923 Biological Oceanography, W4926 Chemical Oceanography, or EESC G6823 Microbial Oceanography (or equivalent).
- Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
- W 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
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Sonya Dyhrman
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DIRECTED READINGS
Supervised directed readings and literature review in areas relevant to a students research program.
- Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
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Jill S Shapiro
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Viorel Popescu
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Bekka Brodie
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TOPICS IN METAPHYSICS
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- Department: Philosophy
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Justin Clarke-Doane
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BIOGEOSCIENCE SEMINAR
GEOENGINEERING
The course will focus on reading and discussing recent papers from the primary literature. Students will gain exposure to the primary literature, gain skills in evaluating published research, and acquire presentation experience. In spring 2026, we will explore modern topics in geoengineering, including carbon capture and storage (CCS) and solar radiation management (SRM). For CCS, strategies to capture CO2 and store it in geologic reservoirs, in the terrestrial biosphere, and in the oceans will be covered. For SRM, recent global modeling studies will be discussed. Some course meetings will include guest lectures from members of the LDEO community and from outside experts.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
- M 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Galen A McKinley
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ADVANCED PSYCHOANALYTIC PROCESS B
ADV PSYCHOANALYTIC PROCES
- Department: Psychoanalytic Center
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ISSUES IN PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
- Department: Psychoanalytic Center
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Jay Crosby
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THE PHILOSOPHY OF SPACE & TIME
- Department: Philosophy
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Instructor:
David Albert
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RESEARCH IN CMBS II
Open only to students in the Integrated Program.
- Department: Cellular, Molecular, and Biophysical Studies
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Ronald Liem
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Applications of Implementation Science i
IMPLEMENTATION SCI-LOW-IN
The objective of the course is to provide students with a practical framework to address the implementation bottleneck" that exists in global health. Despite increasing resources invested into health care delivery in low- and middle-income settings, and despite significant knowledge and evidence around effective interventions, successful implementation and scaling of these programs often remains elusive. As a result, many known solutions to health care and health systems problems are not applied, leading to a persistent gap between what is known and what is done in practice, referred to as the “know-do gap” by the World Health Organization. Implementation research, implementation science, or delivery science – all relatively equivalent terms – has potential to redress this gap through the identification of problems or inefficiencies in program implementation, improvement, and scale-up, and the rigorous and systematic application of research methods and practice-based evaluation to these identified problems.
- Department: Population and Family Health
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Stephen P Kachur
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COUPLES TREATMENT
- Department: Psychoanalytic Center
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Barry L Stern
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ADV TPCS IN PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
ADV TPCS PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
Prerequisite: A course in the philosophy of language covering the theory of sense and reference, and contemporary developments thereof.
This course introduces and elaborates a new notion, that of an identifier. An identifier is a way of thinking of a mental state that conveys what it is like to be in the state. A positive theory of identifiers can be applied to address central philosophical issues in (1) the proper characterization of thought about conscious mental states; (2) the structure of attribution of conscious states to ourselves and to others; (3) conscious states crucial to our ability to attribute such states interpersonally; (4) our understanding of the content of music; (5) the range of psychopathologies that are best explained by lack of, or impaired grasp of, identifiers; (6) the role of identifiers in aesthetic appreciation more generally. This Seminar aims to give an overview of these applications.
- Department: Philosophy
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Christopher Peacocke
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TOPICS IN EARLY MOD PHILOSOPHY
- Department: Philosophy
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Christia Mercer
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Systems Thinking for Maternal Health
SYSTMS THINK FOR MATERNAL
It is widely acknowledged that reducing maternal mortality is one of the major challenges to health systems globally. The increased diversity in the magnitude and causes of maternal mortality and morbidity between and within populations, as well as the highly inequitable distribution of poor maternal health between and within populations globally and locally, result in “wicked” problems and present a major challenge as we seek to address these varying needs.
The complex web of factors that interact to drive high levels of maternal mortality makes a systems approach particularly useful for gaining insight into, and addressing these issues. Increasingly, health planners and researchers are using systems thinking to make sense of health system functioning to reveal the dynamic relationships and synergies that drive maternal health and affect the delivery of priority health services
This course aims to provide you with the competencies to work in this complex post- MDG/ SDG implementation environment. It is designed to focus on reducing maternal mortality, and employs a systems approach to explore maternal health issues and analyze programs focused on maternal mortality reduction.
Through this course you will:
-Gain substantive knowledge of issues related to:
o Maternal health - in particular the reduction of maternal morbidity
and mortality - including epidemiological and programmatic
aspects as well as current discussions of related policies and
politics.
o Aspects of health systems strengthening– particular focus on
issues of implementation, human resources for health, governance
and accountability, quality of care, and health care financing as it
relates to delivery of maternal health care.
-Develop skills in:
o Analyzing complex health systems, including the application of
systems thinking tools
o Developing an integrated health systems plan to address maternal
mortality.
The assignments are structured to allow you to pursue an area of maternal mortality of morbidity that is of direct interest to you, be it locally or globally, as well as apply the skills and content covered in the course to develop an integrated approach to addressing maternal mortality in a given country.
While this course is intended for MPH students, students from other schools are encoura
- Department: Population and Family Health
- M 4 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
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Helen de Pinho
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BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR
All matriculated graduate students are required to attend the seminar as long as they are in residence. No degree credit is granted. The seminar is the principal medium of communication among those with biomedical engineering interests within the University. Guest speakers from other institutions, Columbia faculty, and students within the Department who are advanced in their studies frequently offer sessions.
- Department: Biomedical Engineering
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INFO & COMMUNICATION THEORIES
Wireless, Edge & Quan Net
- Department: Electrical Engineering
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Gil Zussman
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Advanced Environmental and Climate Justi
Adv. Enviro and Climate C
- Department: Law
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DNP Intensive Practicum
DNP INTENSIVE PRACTICUM
The DNP intensive practicum focuses on the delivery of fully accountable, evidenced based care for patients across clinical sites. The DNP student will demonstrate an integration of comprehensive assessment, advanced differential diagnosis, therapeutic intervention, evaluation of care for patients and synthesis of evidence-based practice with patients with a variety of conditions. In this context, the DNP student will organize and develop a professional portfolio.
- Department: Nursing
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DNP Intensive Practicum
DNP INTENSIVE PRACTICUM
The DNP intensive practicum focuses on the delivery of fully accountable, evidenced based care for patients across clinical sites. The DNP student will demonstrate an integration of comprehensive assessment, advanced differential diagnosis, therapeutic intervention, evaluation of care for patients and synthesis of evidence-based practice with patients with a variety of conditions. In this context, the DNP student will organize and develop a professional portfolio.
- Department: Nursing
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Ellen M Fahey
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DNP Intensive Practicum
DNP INTENSIVE PRACTICUM
The DNP intensive practicum focuses on the delivery of fully accountable, evidenced based care for patients across clinical sites. The DNP student will demonstrate an integration of comprehensive assessment, advanced differential diagnosis, therapeutic intervention, evaluation of care for patients and synthesis of evidence-based practice with patients with a variety of conditions. In this context, the DNP student will organize and develop a professional portfolio.
- Department: Nursing
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Nature: History & Politics of Environmen
Encounters with Nature
This course offers an understanding of an interdisciplinary field of environmental, health and population history and will discuss historical and health, environmental and disease policy debates with a cross cutting, comparative relevance. This course uses global South Asia as a microcosm, and views it as a connected space with mobile human networks and migrations, and as an analytic lens to discuss critical, global debates on the politics of public health, the uses of science and power of experts and expertise in the South; and to analyze continuing structures of colonization, marginalization and the connected implications of globalization for environment and health in society. This course will help students analyze debates on the historical structures and transnational relations underlying colonization, decolonization and globalization in the domain of environment and health
They will be able to describe and explain how public health and environmental knowledge has been focused on prejudices and misconceptions relating to race, ethnicity, gender and poverty, that are also justified by narrow teleological, biological, ecological and social ideas and justifications. It focuses on several historical conjunctures and scales of historical analysis set in Asia and more widely in the global South, and aims to demonstrate and critique current social actors and multinational and local private, corporate interests that have limited equitable access to health, safe environments for communities and societies, and to see the pathways that have led to 'endemic risks' and crises to our global health and climate.
It is in a seminar format and expectations are to critically analyze, present readings build class participation and training in research paper writing, and strengthen conceptual methods and analysis of primary sources.
- Department: Sociomedical Sciences
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Kavita Sivaramakrishnan
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THESIS RESEARCH
Independent nutrition research arranged in conjunction with one of the faculty. This forms the basis for the M.S. thesis.
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ACUTE CARE PORTFOLIO ADVISEMENT II
The DNP portfolio is designed to assist students in meeting CUSON DNP competencies as demonstrated in written case narrative and competency based clinical encounters. Students will be assigned a faculty member who will provide guidance in identifying appropriate patient encounters, reviewing and editing all written work associated with demonstrating competency-based learning. This course repeats sequentially for 3 semesters.
- Department: Nursing
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DOCTORAL RESEARCH INSTRUCTION
A candidate for the Eng.Sc.D. degree in biomedical engineering must register for 12 points of doctoral research instruction. Registration may not be used to satisfy the minimum residence requirement for the degree.
- Department: Biomedical Engineering
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Gerard A Ateshian
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Tal Danino
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X. Edward Guo
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Henry Hess
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Clark T Hung
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Lance Kam
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Andrew Laine
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Helen Lu
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Paul Sajda
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Kenneth Shepard
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Milan N Stojanovic
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Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
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Qi Wang
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Nandan L Nerurkar
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Stephen H Tsang
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Elham Azizi
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Jose McFaline-Figueroa
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Treena L Arinzeh
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Sanja Vickovic
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Santiago Correa
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Kaveri A Thakoor
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Ke Cheng
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Grace McIlvain
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Despina Kontos
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Nadeen O Chahine
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Parisa Yousefpour
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DOCTORAL RESEARCH INSTRUCTION
- Department: Chemical Engineering
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Instructor:
Allie Obermeyer
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DOCTORAL RESEARCH INSTRUCTION
A candidate for the Eng.Sc.D. degree in mineral engineering must register for 12 points of doctoral research instruction. Registration in EAEE E9800 may not be used to satisfy the minimum residence requirement for the degree.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
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Upmanu Lall
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Kartik Chandran
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DOCTORAL RESEARCH INSTRUCTION
A candidate for the Eng.Sc.D. degree in electrical engineering must register for 12 points of doctoral research instruction. Registration in ELEN E9800 may not be used to satisfy the minimum residence requirement for the degree.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
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Christine P Hendon
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FILM RESEARCH ARTS INTERNSHIP
Internship for Film Research Arts Students Only
- Department: Film
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Hanna Seifu
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Jack Lechner
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Maureen A Ryan
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Mynette Louie
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DOCTORAL RESEARCH INSTRUCTION
A candidate for the Eng.Sc.D. degree in mechanical engineering must register for 12 points of doctoral research instruction. Registration in MECE E9800 may not be used to satisfy the minimum residence requirement for the degree.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
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Nicolas W Chbat
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DOCTORAL RESEARCH INSTRUCTION
In the term following the passing of comprehensive examinations, doctoral candidates must register for a total of 6 points of instruction. Supervision and consultation are provided by the faculty to doctoral candidates in the courses of their selection of the dissertation topic, carrying out the prescribed research, and writing the dissertation. Library privileges are included.
- Department: Social Work
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Faculty
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WRIT RESEARCH ARTS INTERNSHIP
Interenship for MFA Writing Research Arts Students
- Department: Arts, School of the
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(PHD) Independent Study
- Department: Business
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Hongseok Namkoong
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TOPICS IN AESTHETICS
- Department: Philosophy
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Lydia Goehr
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SCIENCE UNDERGROUND
RACE, CLIMATE, ENV JUSTIC
This seminar will be focused on close readings and discussion of social science approaches to the sciences and the making of knowledge with a special focus on the geosciences and other sciences of the earth. Beginning with readings by historians of science, then moving to anthropologies of science and STS studies, and culminating with anti-colonial approaches, students will be encouraged to think through their own disciplines and research. How do we study a place – and by extension – what is “place” and how do we relate to / know it? We will discuss the methods and ethics of ethnography and other forms of “community engagement” while exploring at least one community-based project for practical application. The community-based project will include optional hands-on workshops on the materiality of place, or, more specifically, on the potential role(s) of clay in addressing ecocide and military contamination through a case study in Puerto Rico.
Students will be expected to lead at least one discussion during the semester (can be in pairs), to submit weekly reflections between 1-2 paragraphs, and to respond to at least two other weekly reflections. Those taking the seminar for 3 credits will present a final paper, to be developed in consultation with the instructor.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Hadeel K Assali
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Dissertation Research
DISSERTATION RESEARCH
This course is intended for PhD students who are engaged in relevant scholarly activities that are associated with dissertation research.
- Department: Nursing
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Gregory Alexander
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