INTEGR OF SCI & PRACT II

• Department: Public Health
• W 10 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• 1.5 points

INTEGRATION OF SCIENCE AND PRACTICE II

INTEGRAT OF SCI & PRACT I

The different studios in the Mailman Core teach a set of foundational perspectives, knowledge, and skills. But the practice of public health requires applying this education in a context characterized by uncertainty, risk, competing interests, and conflicting values. In the fall semester, Integration of Science and Practice (ISP) involved contained cases where the stories and evidence were organized and arranged for us. Often the decision-points were relatively unambiguous. This spring we will expand our reach, taking on cases in a way that looks more like the real world. We will start with a complex case specifically selected to integrate key concepts from the Core Semester. You will write a policy memo by focusing in on an issue within the case that you find compelling. The policy memo will serve as a model for you to then construct your own cases in small groups and take responsibility for teaching an ISP session devoted to your case. This team-based approach to problem-solving will also allow you to bring the concepts you explore in Leadership and Development to bear in ISP. These student-led cases, drawing on a range of skills and tools, represent the culmination of the Core.

• Department: Public Health
• W 6:40 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 1.5 points

Power and Technoaesthetics

This advanced interdisciplinary seminar brings anthropological perspectives into conversation with those from political theory, literary criticism, and art history, to consider the ways in which political power and especially rulership is produced, mediated, concentrated and/or dispersed. It is especially concerned with the cultural/aesthetic forms in which the rule of the one is valorized, and granted legitimacy. The course is subtended by three main themes, which include: 1) monarchy, tyranny and/or the rule of one; 2) mediation, including the space of the court and practices of the media; 3) the force of massification as regression. These topics are woven together, rather than treated chronologically, and will be addressed with respect to three several sites of inquiry: Europe, the US, Latin America and Africa. The historical range of material runs from the early modern era to the present, and the rise of what some have called a “new Medievalism.”

• Department: Anthropology
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Rosalind Morris
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Introduction to Neural Networks and Deep

Neural Networks&Deep Lear

This seminar will introduce both the concepts and practical implementation in PyTorch of neural networks and deep learning, with a focus on general principles and examples from vision.

• Department: Psychology
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Nikolaus Kriegeskorte
  h-index: 56 Info
• 3 points

Personal Leadership in Public Health

PERSONAL LEADERSHIP IN P

• Department: Public Health
• W 1 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
• W 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• 1.5 points

Personal Leadership in Public Health

PERSONAL LEADERSHIP IN P

• Department: Public Health
• W 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• W 1 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
• 1.5 points

Personal Leadership in Public Health

PERSONAL LEADERSHIP IN P

• Department: Public Health
• W 1 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
• W 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• W 1 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
• 1.5 points

Personal Leadership in Public Health

PERSONAL LEADERSHIP IN P

• Department: Public Health
• W 1 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
• W 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• W 1 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
• 1.5 points

Personal Leadership in Public Health

PERSONAL LEADERSHIP IN P

• Department: Public Health
• W 1 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
• 1.5 points

Personal Leadership in Public Health

PERSONAL LEADERSHIP IN P

• Department: Public Health
• W 1 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
• W 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• 1.5 points

Personal Leadership in Public Health

PERSONAL LEADERSHIP IN P

• Department: Public Health
• W 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• W 1 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
• W 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• W 1 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
• W 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• W 1 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
• W 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• 1.5 points

Personal Leadership in Public Health

PERSONAL LEADERSHIP IN P

• Department: Public Health
• W 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• 1.5 points

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS I

Prerequisites: PHYS E6081 or the instructors permission. Semiclassical and quantum mechanical electron dynamics and conduction; dielectric properties of insulators; semiconductors; defects; magnetism; superconductivity; low-dimensional structures; soft matter.

• Department: Physics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Raquel Quieroz
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• 3 points

PERSONAL LEADERSHIP IN PUBLIC HEALTH

The goal of the course is to provide students with an overview of some of the fundamental principles and practice of leadership as it applies to a career in public health, with a specific concentration on personal leadership development.  Students will focus on four critical competencies of personal leadership: 1) self-awareness, 2) power, 3) leading through others, and 4) negotiating effectively (Figure below).  Students will also critically examine traditional notions of leadership, exploring concepts of ‘who gets to lead?’, the inequities that result and the diversity of effective leadership roles and styles.  With this understanding, students will develop and improve their ability 1) to lead individuals and teams in a wide range of settings, including research centers and domestic as well as international public health organizations, 2) to perform more effectively as both team members and individual contributors to organizations and communities; 3) to promote their own leadership plan and credo.

Given its weight, it is important to stress that developing a leadership credo means more than coming up with a snappy one liner or finding just the right quote to capture your leadership style.  It is an opportunity to develop an authentic leadership stance – a set of beliefs and/or values that you stand for as a leader and that you expect from others who you will lead, whether as the head of an organization or a member of a team, to support and eventually allow them to follow you.  Your role is to move individuals towards success in meeting specific goals and overcoming certain challenges.  Developing your credo will enable you to verbalize how you will achieve this through an authentic presentation of yourself. This course aims at ensuring you are comfortable, capable and confident in the authenticity of You as a leader.

• Department: Public Health
• R 6:40 p.m.-7:40 p.m.
• 1.5 points

FOOD SYSTEMS AND THE HEALTH OF THE PUBLI

FOOD SYST & HLTH OF THE P

The course will provide an overview of the science, policy, politics, and economics of food systems as a critical element of public health. The course will have a primary focus on the food system in the United States, but will include a global perspective.  Students will learn and apply the fundamentals of public health scientific research methods and theoretical approaches to assessing the food landscape though a public health lens. In addition, the course will cover how diet – at first glance a matter of individual choice – is determined by an interconnected system of socio-economic-environmental influences, and is influenced by a multitude of stakeholders engaged in policymaking processes.

• Department: Public Health
• F 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Anne Paxton
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• 3 points

QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS

The course is designed to introduce PhD students in Sociology to the basic techniques for collecting, interpreting, analyzing, and reporting interview and observational data. The readings and practical exercises we will do together are designed to expand your technical skillset, inspire your thinking, to show you the importance of working collaboratively with intellectual peers, and to give you experiential knowledge of various kinds of fieldwork.

Mostly, though, students will learn how to conduct indictive field-based analyses. There are many versions of this model, including Florian Znaniecki’s “analytic induction,” Barney Glaser and Anselm Straus’ “grounded theory,” John Stuart Mill’s system of inductive logic, the Bayesian approach to inference in statistics, and much of what computationally-intensive researchers refer to as data mining. This course will expose students to ways of thinking about their research shared by many of these different inductive perspectives. Remember, though, that all of these formulations of analytic work are ideal types. The actual field, and actual field workers, are often far more complex.

For that reason, this course focuses not merely on theory, but also, and fundamentally, on practice. While some skills like producing a code book or formulating a hypothesis can be developed through reading and reflection, the field demands more nuanced skillsets that can only be attained by trial and error. How do you get an honest answer to a painful or embarrassing question? How do we know that the researcher interviewed enough people? Or spent enough time in the field? Or asked the right questions? Or did not distort the truth? My hope is that by the end of class you will have done enough fieldwork to have arrived at a good set of answers, and to begin developing the ability to communicate your answers to others.

A note on intellectual parentage: The particular approach to training in this course is based on a qualitative bootcamp developed by Mario Small for Harvard’s Ph.d cohorts. Other methods courses focus on particular technical skills rather than analytic frames, or merely on empirical work itself, rather than secondary literature on method. This is one way to think through analytic training. We will try it out together.

• Department: Sociology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Tey Meadow
  h-index: 8 Info
• 4 points

CLASSICAL FIELDS & WAVES

Prerequisites: PHYS G6092. This course will study the classical field theories used in electromagnetism, fluid dynamics, plasma physics, and elastic solid dynamics. General field theoretic concepts will be discussed, including the action, symmetries, conservation laws, and dissipation. In addition, classical field equations will be analyzed from the viewpoint of macroscopic averaging and small-parameter expansions of the fundamental microscopic dynamics. The course will also investigate the production and propagation of linear and nonlinear waves; with topics including linearized small-amplitude waves, ordinary and extraordinary waves, waves in a plasma, surface waves, nonlinear optics, wave-wave mixing, solitons, shock waves, and turbulence.

• Department: Physics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Andrei Beloborodov
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• 4.5 points

INTRO TO COMP LIT & SOC-GRAD

Please note: This course is required for ICLS graduate students, and priority will be given to these students. Generally the course fills with ICLS students each semester. Students MAY NOT register themselves for this course. Contact the ICLS office for more information at icls.columbia@gmail.com. This course was formerly numbered as G4900. This course introduces beginning graduate students to the changing conceptions in the comparative study of literatures and societies, paying special attention to the range of interdisciplinary methods in comparative scholarship. Students are expected to have preliminary familiarity with the discipline in which they wish to do their doctoral work. Our objective is to broaden the theoretical foundation of comparative studies to negotiate a conversation between literary studies and social sciences. Weekly readings are devoted to intellectual inquiries that demonstrate strategies of research, analysis, and argumentation from a multiplicity of disciplines and fields, such as anthropology, history, literary criticism, architecture, political theory, philosophy, art history, and media studies. Whenever possible, we will invite faculty from the above disciplines and fields to visit our class and share their perspectives on assigned readings. Students are encouraged to take advantage of these opportunities and explore fields and disciplines outside their primary focus of study and specific discipline.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Stathis Gourgouris
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Managerial Statistics

• Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
• R 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• TR 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• TR 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Alessandro Arlotto
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• 1.5 points

RULING INNER ASIA FROM BEIJING

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Gray W Tuttle
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

TRANSMISSION ELEC MICROSCOPY

Theory and practice of transmission electron microscopy (TEM): principles of electron scattering, diffraction, and microscopy; analytical techniques used to determine local chemistry; introduction to sample preparation; laboratory and in-class remote access demonstrations, several hours of hands-on laboratory operation of the microscope; the use of simulation and analysis software; guest lectures on cryomicroscopy for life sciences and high resolution transmission electron microscopy for physical sciences; and, time permitting, a visit to the electron microscopy facility in the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) at the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Katayun Barmak
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 49 Info
• 3 points

MA RESEARCH SEMINAR

The MA Research Seminar supports the research projects of MA students in Philosophy.
Participants practice key methods in philosophy and deepen their knowledge of classic and
contemporary contributions to the field. The seminar is suitable for everyone who is aiming to
write a research paper. Seminar participants receive detailed input throughout the semester.
Students can take the class at any stage during their studies for the MA. The class is graded Pass/
Fail.

• Department: Philosophy
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Melissa S Fusco
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

MA SEMINAR IN GLOBAL THOUGHT II

Building upon M.A. Seminar I’s global approach to core issues and conversations with CGT Faculty, M.A. Seminar II tackles new topics and supports the completion of student research and writing. Multi-week modules will continue building discussions around key questions, engaging with guest speakers, and applying new perspectives to hard problems. Research workshops will address common challenges in turning research into writing, engaging sources and citation, and communicating your findings beyond the scope of this class.

• Department: Committee on Global Thought
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Laura L Neitzel
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Sarah A Miller-Davenport
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• 4 points

Business Analytics

• Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
• TR 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• TR 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• TR 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
• Instructor: David Holtz
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• 1.5 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.
• 4 points

PLASMA PHYSICS II

Magnetic coordinates. Equilibrium, stability, and transport of torodial plasmas. Ballooning and tearing instabilities. Kinetic theory, including Vlasov equation, Fokker-Planck equation, Landau damping, kinetic transport theory. Drift instabilities.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Carlos Paz Soldan
  h-index: 28 Info
• 3 points

OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

• Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
• MW 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• MW 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• MW 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
• MW 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• MW 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• MW 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
• MW 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• MW 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicole Dehoratius
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• 1.5 points

Global Leadership Seminar II

Global Leadership Sem II

The Global Leadership Seminar II is one of the core classes of the MPA in Global Leadership. It provides students with concrete lessons on the practice of leadership, enables students the opportunity to interface with established leaders across the spheres of government and civil society. The course culminates with each student submitting and presenting a plan to address a global policy challenge.

• Department: MPA in Global Leadership
• W 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Lincoln A Mitchell
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• 3 points

MPHIL THESIS WRITING SEMINAR

MPHIL THESIS WRITING SMR

• Department: Sociology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Mario Small
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

APPLIED STATISTICS II

Prerequisites: STAT GR6101 Continuation of STAT GR6101.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Yuqi Gu
  h-index: 6 Info
• 4 points

COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS

• Department: Statistics
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher Harshaw
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• 4 points

Strategic Management in the Age of AI

Strategic Management of Information and Communication Technologies for the Public Good” addresses the spectrum of policy issues, options, and critical decisions confronting senior managers in the public sphere. Classes will be taught by a combination of lecture, readings, and case. Each class will address policy, technical, and managerial challenges for a particular domain of practice from the introduction or use of established and leading-edge information and communication technologies (ICTs), among them cloud, mobile and social. Arenas may include, for example, health, education, energy, economic development, transportation, civic engagement, law enforcement, human resources, social services, transportation, or compliance and regulatory affairs. The cases will involve a variety of managerial dilemmas and decisions, from governance to transparency, performance management to project management, and be generalizable across multiple domains, arenas, and technologies. Our goal is to expose students to the broadest range of policy challenges, and technologies comprising ICTs in use in the principal domains of practice, giving students a comprehensive exposure to the issues and opportunities as managers encounter them today - and will in the very near future. The course is intended for general, non-technical managers and assumes no engineering capability greater than plugging in a USB stick.

• Department: EXECUTIVE MPA
• M 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Z Tumin
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• 3 points

CONTRACTS

• Department: Law
• Instructor: Elizabeth F Emens
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

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
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Ashley Datta
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• 3 points

AMERICAN CONTRACT LAW

• Department: Law
• Instructor: Jody Kraus
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Readings in Chinese Scholarship

READINGS IN CHNS SCHOLARS

This course studies representative scholarly works in Chinese from the early twentieth century till the present. Emphasizing scholarship as a sophisticated rhetorical artifice produced within specific historical contexts, this course explores the rhetoric of academic writing and examines Chinese scholarship as a site of linguistic, epistomological, and cultural contestation. This course is taught in Mandarin Chinese.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Lu Kou
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• 4 points

DEALS

• Department: Law
• Instructor: David M Schizer
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

CRIMINAL LAW

• Department: Law
• Instructor: Bernard E Harcourt
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• Instructor: James Liebman
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• Instructor: Jed S Rakoff
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

CRIMINAL LAW

• Department: Law
• 3 points

LAND USE PLANNING

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Martin
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• 3 points

CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS

• Department: Law
• Instructor: Debra A Livingston
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Statistical Computing with SAS

STATISTICAL COMPUTING WIT

This is a Public Health Course. Public Health classes are offered on the Health Services Campus at 168th Street. For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses

• Department: Biostatistics
• R 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• 3 points

FUNDAMENTALS OF EVOLUTION

Lectures cover principal topics in evolutionary biology including genetics, genome organization, population and quantitative genetics, the history of evolutionary theory, systematics, speciation and species concepts, co-evolution, and biogeography.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• TR 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Kira Delmore
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• 3 points

Contending Theories of International Rel

Theories of Int'l Relatio

MIA Politics I Core. 
This course introduces MIA students to foundational theories and analytical frameworks used to understand international affairs and the global political economy. Drawing on literature from international relations, comparative politics, political sociology, and economics, the course examines the evolution of international relations scholarship and key debates shaping the field. Through weekly discussions, case-based readings, and structured debates, students will critically engage with competing perspectives on power, institutions, regimes, markets, and global order. Special attention is given to American scholarly traditions and real-world applications, including contemporary issues such as war, climate change, and global inequality.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• T 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Lincoln A Mitchell
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• Instructor: Hisham Aidi
  Wikipedia Info
• 1.5 points

VOICE I

• Department: Theatre Arts
• W 9:30 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Corinna May
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• 2 points

EXPLORING URBAN DATA WITH MACHINE LEARNI

URBAN DATA - MACHINE LEAR

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

CONDO/SINGLE FAMILY INVESTMENT ANALYSIS

CONDO/SINGLE FAM INVSTMT

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Eric B Andersen
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• 1.5 points

PROPERTY (FOUNDATION)

• Department: Law
• Instructor: Thomas W Merrill
  Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Shyamkrishna Balganesh
  h-index: 20 Info
• Instructor: Maeve H Glass
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• 4 points

MANAGING FAMILY REAL ESTATE BUSINESSES

MANAGING FAM RE BUSINESSE

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• 1.5 points

TORTS

• Department: Law
• Instructor: Ashraf Ahmed
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• Instructor: Bert Huang
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

LEVERAGING DATA AND AI FOR REAL ESTATE D

DATA AND AI FOR RE DEV

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

Theory and Practice of American Politics

MPA Politics I Core. 
This course provides an introduction to American political institutions and their role in shaping public policy. Students will examine how policy decisions, and inaction, affect critical aspects of daily life, including health care, education, public safety, and environmental protection. The course explores the structure and function of U.S. political institutions such as Congress, the presidency, courts, and federalism, and how these compare to other democracies. It also analyzes the influence of actors including interest groups, social movements, the media, and bureaucrats. Through case studies, group work, and applied analysis, students will gain a foundational understanding of the policymaking process, key trends in American politics, and the skills needed to engage with public policy in practice.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• T 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• T 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Lincoln A Mitchell
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• 1.5 points

SUMA PS6120 Equity, Policy, and Sustaina

Public policy shapes how our environment, both natural and built, is managed and regulated. Policy not only creates the infrastructure and regulatory frameworks needed to support sustainability goals, but is also critical in establishing an equitable foundation that supports individual and collective change in pursuit of those goals.

This course will serve as an introduction to equity in sustainability policy: We will survey federal, state, and local policies and proposals to understand how we use policy to enhance urban resilience, mitigate environmental impacts, and also promote social and economic justice. Using an interdisciplinary approach that draws from economics, sociology, urban studies, critical theory, and more, students will develop their capacities to read and interpret policy, enhance their understanding of current policy frameworks, and strengthen their ability to engage with emerging policy developments.

Building on contemporary efforts in public policy, we will use an equity lens to focus on the human dimension of sustainability. We will explore policy frameworks and dialogues that foster more equitable outcomes, increase engagement of people most impacted, and contribute to sustainability goals. As an entry point, the course will focus on policies related to climate adaptation and urban sustainability transitions, setting the stage for students to explore equity in urban resilience efforts and to examine intersections of race, class, and other social factors with access to resources.

The course will be discussion-based and center participatory activities (e.g., student-led discussions, paired analyses, team exercises) designed to encourage students to consider policy issues from multiple perspectives—including identifying disparities and assessing opportunities for increasing equity in the sustainability policy sector. The course will also invite scholars and practitioners to share expertise and experience from the field. Students are not expected or required to have any previous experience with policy or law.

• Department: Sustainability Management
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Dan Mathis
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• 3 points

Pathophysiology of the Child

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF THE CH

This course is required for students in Pediatric Primary Care and the Pediatric Specialty Care programs. The pathogenesis of common conditions affecting children is presented and serves as a basis for clinical management. Relevant pharmacology is presented for each of the disease entities.

• Department: Nursing
• T 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Deanna M Schneider
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• 3 points

Climate Risk & Scenario Analysis

The course provides an overview of the scenario analysis and climate risk modeling process for corporate issuers and government entities. There is a brief introduction to the climate models utilized by the IPCC, both global and regional. There is a description of the scenario generation and analysis process, with linkages to benchmark scenarios outlined by international bodies. This is followed by a review of the linkages between climate models and socio-economic variables in the form of integrated assessment models, Ricardian models and economic input-output analysis. There is one module on the information systems needed to ensure good adaptation and a review of best practices and guidelines for climate risk management strategies. Integrated examples of climate risk and opportunities for specific issuers are discussed in the last 2 classes. The problem sets and exercises are designed to provide practice in applying high-level guidelines and climate damage relationships to the strategies and operations of specific countries, industries and companies.

• Department: Sustainability Management
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 3 points

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

• Department: Law
• Instructor: Christina M Duffy Ponsa
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• Instructor: Jessica J Bulman
  h-index: 14 Info
• 4 points

SW PRACTICE WITH WOMEN

• Department: Social Work
• T 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Lauren Taylor
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• 3 points

NANOSCALE ACTUATION & SENSING

NANOSCALE ACTUATION/SENSI

Interaction of light with nanoscale materials and structures for purpose of inducing movement and detecting small changes in strain, temperature, and chemistry within local environments. Methods for concentrating and manipulating light at length scales below the diffraction limit. Plasmonics and metamaterials, as well as excitons, phonos, and polaritons and their advantages for mechanical and chemical sensing, and controlling displacement at nanometer length scales. Applications to nanophotonic devices and recently published progress in nanomechanics and related fields.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: P J Schuck
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• 3 points

Energy, Corporate Responsibility, and Hu

Energy, Corp Resp, & Righ

This interdisciplinary seminar examines the role of multinational energy companies in the context of international human rights, corporate responsibility, and global governance. Drawing on case studies and legal frameworks, the course explores how extractive industries intersect with political, environmental, and social systems, particularly in transitional and emerging economies.

Key themes include the development of international human rights law, the evolving definition of corporate responsibility, environmental and minority rights, corruption and transparency, and the geopolitics of natural resource extraction. Students will investigate how transnational corporations operate in weak governance zones, how investment treaties shape state-corporate relations, and how disputes over pipelines and land use affect communities and nations alike.

The course emphasizes real-world case analysis, including the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, Canadian mining projects in Latin America, and recent developments in sovereign debt, investor-state arbitration, and standards for corporate conduct. Students will also evaluate the effectiveness of voluntary standards, multilateral codes, and legal instruments in shaping corporate behavior.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• TR 5:10 p.m.-6:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jenik Radon
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• 3 points

Maternal-Fetal-Newborn Physiology

MAT-FETAL-NEWBORN PHYSIOL

The fundamental purpose of this course is to facilitate an understanding of the physiological mechanisms relevant to the maternal experience, fetal life, and the neonatal period. This course will focus primarily on the physiology of normal maternal/fetal/newborn issues and cover some common complications and pathology.

• Department: Nursing
• W 3 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Sally W Aboelela
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 2 points

CLOWN

CLOWN II

In this class, we will build up the actor’s physical and mental muscles via exercises, games, and assignments that rediscover uncensored child-like wonder. We will attempt to relax our brains, open up our hearts and move our bodies with great pleasure together, which will cultivate an intrinsic appetite for an open, vulnerable, generous, ferocious, playful, rigorous, surprising and impulsive presence. This state of flow, hopefully, will be able to find its rightful place in any role and in any medium you pursue.

Most of this semester will be spent on exercises in pursuit of your unique individual clowns as we necessarily soften and shed physical and emotional holds by inviting a sense of play and imagination. These exercises will gradually allow your latent clown-within (i.e. your talent / humanity) to show up in the room. Towards the end of this introductory class, we will encounter the smallest mask on earth – the Red Nose! – which not only doesn't mask, but instead draws attention to and magnifies YOU.

We will invite your generous openness, ferocious abandon, insistent honesty and gleeful mischief to make a larger footprint in your work, so the top layer of the iceberg that is your socially-conditioned selves can slowly melt away. You will sweat. You will make songs. You will listen deeper and harder. You will be engaged and relaxed at the same time. You will release some glorious ha-ha’s and emotional wa-wa’s into the ether. This all will be silly. You will make something disastrous and messy. You will confront fears and conjure bravery. You will make something wonderful and surprising – as you unearth the engine behind all that makes you interesting, that which makes you authentic. What makes you YOU. Your clown – the one and only.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• W 9:30 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Ralf Jean-Pierre
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• 3 points

Debates in World Politics

MIA and MPA Politics II Core.  
This seven-week course introduces students to some of the central concepts, theories, and analytical tools used in contemporary social science to understand and explain world politics. The theoretical literature is drawn from different fields in the social sciences, including comparative politics, international relations, political sociology and economics. The course introduces students to debates around race and international relations, state-making and state-failing, authoritarianism and democratization, inequality and models of globalization, America primacy and the “rise of the Asia.”

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Hisham Aidi
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• 1.5 points