TOPICS-INFORMATION PROCESSING

Reinforcement Learning

Advanced topics spanning electrical engineering and computer science such as speech processing and recognition, image and multimedia content analysis, and other areas drawing on signal processing, information theory, machine learning, pattern recognition, and related topics. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6890 to 6899.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Javad Ghaderi
  h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

Literature & Independent Publishing in L

Lit & Indp Publishing Lat

This course, focused on the phenomenon of independent publishing in Latin America, begins with a review of the history of these publishing houses on the continent, their relationship with the popular press, and the avant-garde movements (César Vallejo, Vicente Huidobro). It will also explore the experiments of the second half of the 20th century (Ulises Carrión, Mirtha Dermisache). With this background, we will study the phenomenon in the 21st century, from "cartonera" publishing houses to self-published publications and self-managed projects. Based on the concept of bibliodiversity, we will problematize writing practices and their circulation in unequal societies, with differential access to literacy, but in which literature remains a culturally relevant practice. We will study books by César Aira, Verónica Gerber-Bicecci, Giselle Beiguelman, Mario Bellatin, among others. We will also study the extensive reflection on the independent phenomenon through authors such as E. Schierloh, M. Rabasa, Ana Gallego, Hernán López-Winne, and many others.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• T 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Graciela Montaldo
  Info
• 4 points

TOPICS-INFORMATION PROCESSING

TPC: Adv Big Data & AI

Advanced topics spanning Electrical Engineering and Computer Science such as speech processing and recognition, image and multimedia content analysis, and other areas drawing on signal processing, information theory, machine learning, pattern recognition, and related topics. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6890 to 6899.  Topic: Advanced Big Data Analytics.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Ching-Yung Lin
  h-index: None Info
• 3 points

Topics-Information Processing

Computer Storage Systems

Advanced topics spanning electrical engineering and computer science such as speech processing and recognition, image and multimedia content analysis, and other areas drawing on signal processing, information theory, machine learning, pattern recognition, and related topics. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6890 to 6899.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jack L Kouloheris
  Info
• 3 points

RESEARCH

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Danielle S Smoller
  Info
• 2-3 points

QUODLIBETAL STUDIES II

• Department: Philosophy
• Instructor: Allison Aitken
  Info
• Instructor: David Albert
  CULPA: 32 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info
• Instructor: Akeel Bilgrami
  CULPA: 28 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Justin Clarke-Doane
  h-index: 10 Info
• Instructor: Jessica Collins
  Info
• Instructor: Melissa S Fusco
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Haim Gaifman
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 30 Info
• Instructor: Lydia Goehr
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Axel Honneth
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Timothy Williamson
  Info
• Instructor: Tamar A Lando
  CULPA: 8 Info
• Instructor: Wolfgang R Mann
  CULPA: 36 Info
• Instructor: Christia Mercer
  CULPA: 56 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Michele Moody-Adams
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Christopher Peacocke
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Carol Rovane
  CULPA: 13 Info
• Instructor: Achille Varzi
  CULPA: 30 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info
• Instructor: Katja Vogt
  CULPA: 36 Info
• 3-6 points

QUODLIBETAL STUDIES IV

• Department: Philosophy
• Instructor: Allison Aitken
  Info
• Instructor: David Albert
  CULPA: 32 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info
• Instructor: Akeel Bilgrami
  CULPA: 28 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Justin Clarke-Doane
  h-index: 10 Info
• Instructor: Jessica Collins
  Info
• Instructor: Melissa S Fusco
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Haim Gaifman
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 30 Info
• Instructor: Lydia Goehr
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Axel Honneth
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Timothy Williamson
  Info
• Instructor: Tamar A Lando
  CULPA: 8 Info
• Instructor: Wolfgang R Mann
  CULPA: 36 Info
• Instructor: Christia Mercer
  CULPA: 56 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Michele Moody-Adams
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Christopher Peacocke
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Carol Rovane
  CULPA: 13 Info
• Instructor: Achille Varzi
  CULPA: 30 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info
• Instructor: Katja Vogt
  CULPA: 36 Info
• 3-6 points

CLINICAL ORAL PATHOLOGY

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• 0 points

GRAD SEM IN CONSERVATION BIOL

Prerequisites: biology, ecology, genetics, and evolution. Introduction to the applied science of maintaining the earths biological diversity, its landscapes, and wilderness. Focus on the biological principles relevant to the conservation of biodiversity at the genetic, population, and community and landscape levels.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Bekka Brodie
  Info
• 3 points

BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY

Buddhist philosophers generally agree about what doesn’t exist: an enduring, unitary, and
independent self. But there is surprisingly little consensus across Buddhist traditions about what
does exist and what it’s like. In this course, we will examine several Buddhist theories about the
nature and structure of reality and consider the epistemological and ethical implications of these
radically different pictures of the world. We will analyze and evaluate arguments from some of
the most influential Indian Buddhist philosophers from the second to the eleventh centuries,
including Nāgārjuna, Vasubandhu, Dignāga, Candrakīrti, Śāntarakṣita, Śāntideva, and
Ratnakīrti. Topics will include the existence and nature of the external world, the mind, and the
self; practical and epistemological implications of the Buddhist no-self principle; personal
identity; the problem of other minds; and causal determinism and moral responsibility.

• Department: Philosophy
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Allison Aitken
  Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINE

Embedded AI

Selected topics in electrical and computer engineering. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6900 to 6909.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• M 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Xiaofan Jiang
  h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

DISTRESSED REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT AND AS

DISTRESSED RE INVESTMENT

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 4:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• 1.5 points

TOPICS IN ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY

Topics in Economic Geography

• Department: Economics
• W 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Donald R Davis
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia h-index: 31 Info
• 3 points

METABOLIC MATERIALS: BETWEEN THE ANIMATE

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Wang
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

URBAN PLANNING STUDIO

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 3 p.m.-7 p.m.
• F 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 6 points

URBAN PLANNING STUDIO

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• F noon-4 p.m.
• 6 points

EMERGING OPTIMISM: RESOURCES + THE FOURT

RESOURCES + 4TH IND REVOL

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Sean A Gallagher
  Info
• 3 points

Topics in Control

Model Predictive Control

This proposed course allows for a variety of potential advanced courses to be taught as part of the proposed concentration on control.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Navid Asr
  Info
• 3 points

TRANSNATIONAL LITIGATION

• Department: Law
• Instructor: Robert H Smit
  CULPA: 13 Info
• 3 points

TEACHING WRITING:THEORY & PRAC

Prerequisites: 
the instructor’s permission. (Seminar). This course aims to contribute to your professional development as a teacher of writing. While we will focus on how to help undergraduates write argument-driven essays, the materials we will read and the teaching practices we will explore are designed to support your development as a teacher of writing across disciplines and genres. By the end of this seminar, you will learn the goals and structure of writing courses, the principles that inform their design, and the kinds of materials used in such courses. Your successful completion of this course would reflect a baseline interest in, and understanding of
, 
Writing Studies and its pedagogies, necessary preparation for any instructor in a writing program. You may take the course either for full seminar credit, which would require an extended final seminar paper, for an R credit (for doctoral candidates and MAO candidates, only), or for Pass/Fail (for MFA candidates, only). To apply: Please contact Dr. Nicole B. Wallack (
nw2108@columbia.edu
) with a short email in which you describe your previous experiences in teaching writing and/or studying writing pedagogy, your field study at Columbia, and what questions are of interest to you when you think about what it means to teach and learn writing at the college level.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicole Wallack
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

TECH WRITING FOR CS AND ENGINRS

Topics to help CS/CE and EE graduate students’ communication skills. Emphasis on writing, presenting clear, concise proposals, journal articles, conference papers, theses, and technical presentations.  Credit may not be used to satisfy degree requirements.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• F 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Janet Kayfetz
  Info
• 3 points

PERSPECTIVES ON ECON STUDIES-DISC

• Department: Economics
• W 5 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Manuel A Taboada
  Info
• 0 points

Queer Theory

Recent scholarship in queer theory speaks of “bad education” and “ugly feelings,” “beautiful experiments” and “poor queer studies.” In this survey of mostly recent queer theoretical work we will read a range of texts that debate the use, the abuse and the uselessness of queer theory in an era of anti-intellectual policies aimed at both critical race theory and gender and sexuality studies. While Lee Edelman, in
Bad Education
, insists that queer theory has nothing to teach us, Paul Preciado in
Dysphoria Mundi
proposes that the whole world is ailing from a shared dysphoria. Meanwhile, at the intersections of Afro-Pessimism and queer theory, Calvin Warren proposes that to speak of Black trans identities is impossible given the negative ontologies that pertain to Black personhood. Working through oppositions between optimism and pessimism, utopia and dystopia, good and bad feelings, beauty and ugliness, we will ask: What constitutes the ethical in queer theory and how does queer theory approach the good, the bad and the beautiful? At stake here are questions about aesthetic experimentation and politics and unpredictable links between beauty and power, alternative subjects and domination, and bodies and language.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jack Halberstam
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

THESIS II/CAPSTONE II

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Tom Slater
  Info
• 3 points

REAL ESTATE FINANCE

• Department: Law
• 3 points

ADVANCED RESEARCH II

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Weiping Wu
  Wikipedia h-index: 27 Info
• 2-3 points

UCL Exchange FT Reg

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Danielle S Smoller
  Info
• 15 points

PERSPECTVS ON ECONOMIC STUDIES

Prerequisites: ECON G6412, ECON G6411, ECON G6215, ECON G6211. Corequisites: ECON G6212, ECON G6216, ECON G6412. This course will critically examine mainstream approaches to economic theory and practice, particularly in the areas of macroeconomic stabilization policy, poverty reduction, economic development, environmental sustainability, and racial and gender inequality. Topics will vary from year to year, but may include responses to the credit crisis and Great Recession, global warming and international negotiations, globalization, the measurement of poverty and inequality, different approaches to poverty reduction, AIDS and malaria, mass imprisonment, childrens wellbeing, the IMF and the World Bank, intellectual property in an international context, racial disparities in life expectancy, public pension systems in developed countries, health care, and homelessness. The course will also examine biases in economic discourse, both among policy makers and scholars.

• Department: Economics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• 4 points

QUANTITATIVE METHODS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Abdullah A Khawarzad
  Info
• 3 points

ARCHITECTURES OF DISPLAY

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Ibrahim M Kombarji
  Info
• 3 points

S INT'L INVESTMENT LAW

• Department: Law
• 2 points

RADIOLOGY II

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• 0 points

OLD BUILDINGS, NEW ENERGY: HISTORY AND C

OLD BLDGS, NEW ENERGY

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Francoise A Bollack
  Wikipedia Info
• 1.5 points

DOCUMENTARY ACTIVISM:THEORY

This is a course in how to think about documentary but not about “how to” make documentary work. Its premise is that documentary as an approach is still undergoing revision as a definitional problem. Relevant to our times, cameras and sound recorders are called upon to “witness” events. Basic readings on the history and theory of documentary are the heart of the course and practical exercises test theoretical questions. Students conduct low end exercises with their own smart phone cameras. Topics and issues center on the history of the radical documentary—from the Workers Film and Photo League of the 1930s to the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings, comparing then new 16 and 35mm film camera capabilities with contemporary internet distribution. Other topics include climate change and documentary work; motion picture film and photography in labor struggles; uses of anti-war and nuclear bomb footage; sexualities and video camera activism.

• Department: Film
• T 2:10 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
• Instructor: James L Hoberman
  Info
• 3 points

CITIES AT RISK: CLIMATE ADAPTATION IN A

CLIM ADAPTN IN GLOBAL CON

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Hugo Sarmiento
  Info
• 3 points

DEVICE NANOFABRICATION

Device Nanofabrication

This course provides an understanding of the methods used for structuring matter on the nanometer length: thin-film technology; lithographic patterning and technologies including photon, electron, ion and atom, scanning probe, soft lithography, and nanoimprinting; pattern transfer; self-assembly; process integration; and applications.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Jose A Bahamonde
  Info
• 3 points

DESIGNING SPACES FOR CHILDREN

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Anna Knoell
  Info
• 3 points

RAW MATERIAL LIBRARIES AND CATALOGUING T

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Lola Ben-Alon
  h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

GRADUATE SEMINAR IN MAJOR

ARTS & CULTURE

• Department: Journalism
• TR 9 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: David Hajdu
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

GRADUATE SEMINAR IN MAJOR

BUSINESS & ECON JOURNALIS

• Department: Journalism
• T 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 3 points

GRADUATE SEMINAR IN MAJOR

POLITICS & GOV JOURNALISM SEM

• Department: Journalism
• TR 9 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Jacob F Kushner
  Info
• 3 points

GRADUATE SEMINAR IN MAJOR

SCIENCE JOURNALISM SEMINA

• Department: Journalism
• TR 9 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Jonathan Weiner
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

AGROECOLOGICAL URBANISMS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Ana Duran Calisto
  Info
• 3 points

SPATIAL AI

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: William Martin
  Info
• 3 points

ADV V STUDIO CLINIC

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• 3 points

Waves on Different Shores: France, Japan

In the early 1960s, a number of new film movements in national cinemas around the world. Inevitably called “new waves” or “new cinemas,” these movements, usually made up of young filmmakers, would challenge both the cinematic industrial structures in each of their respective nations, as well propose often radically different approaches to filmmaking and to cinematic storytelling. This course will explore three important examples of this development—the French New Wave, the Japanese New Wave and the Brazilian Cinema Novo—and detail both the commonalities among these movements (aesthetic, social, political) as well those factors which made each unique. A special concern will be the relationship of the “new waves” to simultaneous radical experiments in visual arts, theater, literature and music. The course will begin with a consideration of Roberto Rossellini’s VOYAGE TO ITALY, a watershed work between Neorealism and subsequent cinematic modernism, and will conclude with Andrei Tarkovsky’s MIRROR, described by Andras Balint Kóvacs as “the last modernist film.”

• Department: Film
• T 6 p.m.-9:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard A Pena
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 3 points

PLANS AND SOVIETS: ARCHITECTURE'S HISTOR

ARCH HISTORIES IN EURASIA

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Irina Chernyakova
  Info
• 3 points

BUSINESS OF PRESERVATION

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Katherine J Allen-Lezak
  Info
• 1.5 points

CLASSICISMS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Reinhold Martin
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SPECTACULAR PEDAGOGIES: AUDIOVISUAL ARCH

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Wasiuta
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

Design, Power, and Imaginaries: Critical

Design, Power, & Imaginar

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Zarith I Pineda
  Info
• 3 points

Advanced Topics in Natural Language Proc

LLM INTERP AND ALIGNMENT

Selected topics in Natural Language Processing (advanced level). Content and prerequisites vary between sections and semesters. May be repeated for credit. Check the "topics courses" webpage on the department website for more information on each section.

• Department: Computer Science
• F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: John Hewitt
  Info
• 3 points

MATERIAL DIETS AND THERMAL PERFORMANCE

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Olga Carcassi
  Info
• 3 points

MONUMENT, TESTIMONY, PROTEST

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• TR 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Krzysztof Wodiczko
  Info
• 3 points

CLIMATE AND THE EXISTING BUILT ENVIRONME

CLIMATE & BUILT ENVIRONME

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Erica C Avrami
  Info
• 3 points

DESIGN, PUBLIC, GARDENS: NYC

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Hilary M Sample-Meredith
  Info
• 3 points

Industry, Practice & Research - Intersec

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

Gilles Deleuze: Thinking for Our Time

This course is organized as an intensive reading into works of Gilles Deleuze. Deleuze’s work seems to becoming ever more present and influential. Scholars from various disciplines rely on his thoughts to rethink contemporary world. Deleuze’s thought is a big presence in literary theory, aesthetics, ethics, political theory, race and gender studies, affect studies, film studies, architecture, design, music and even animal studies. This influence is not easy to understand since Deleuze’s work is famously difficult and occasionally obscure; that’s because, as he himself often explained, one can’t simultaneously think and explain why he is thinking what he is thinking. High velocities of thought do not agree with a slow speed of expository writing. Thus, the task of the course will be to unpack some of the most difficult texts of Deleuze and to bring them in relation with the concepts he and Guattari proposed in
Thousand Plateaus
, perhaps their most famous and influential book. We will start with several works related to history of philosophy (to Hume, Spinoza and Nietzsche) to unearth from them Deleuze’s theory of affect. We will then move to his most difficult texts, such as
Difference and Repetion
and
The Logic of Sense
, with a focus on his novel theory of subjectivity, passive synthesis, contemplation, and incorporeal events. This background will enable us to better access
Anti-Oedipus
and
Thousand Plateaus
, two texts with which we will spend significant amount of time, focused on concepts such as becoming, intensive and disjunctive syntheses, haptic space, etc. Additionally, we will pay special attention to Deleuze’s theory of baroque and concepts such as point of view and fold. After that we will move to his work in cinema, painting and literature and we will finish with
What is Philosophy
?, trying to elucidate such concepts as earth, brain and vitalism.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Branka Arsic
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

M.A. THESIS RESEARCH

Provides students the opportunity to present work in progress or final drafts to other students and relevant faculty to receive guidance and feedback.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• Instructor: Allison E Bernard
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 2 points

HUMAN RIGHTS RESEARCH SEM

HUMAN RIGHTS GRAD RES SEMINAR

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Shourideh Molavi
  Info
• 3 points

DIRECTED INDIVIDUAL READINGS

MRST Directed Readings, Independent study. Students should meet with the Program Director and Program Manager before registering for this course.

• Department: Medieval and Renaissance Studies
• Instructor: Susan Boynton
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 4 points

M.A. THESIS WRITING

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• Instructor: Allison E Bernard
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 2 points

TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

TPCS GEOMETRY PROCESSING

Selected topics in computer science (advanced level). Content and prerequisites vary between sections and semesters. May be repeated for credit. Check “topics course” webpage on the department website for more information on each section.

• Department: Computer Science
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Silvia Sellan
  Info
• 3 points