Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Individual research and tutorial in archaeology for advanced graduate students.
Guided reading and research on a topic or in a field chosen by the student in consultation with a member of the faculty. Required for Ph.D candidates, ideally during the semester when they prepare the dissertation proposal (prospectus) under the supervision of a potential sponsor.
Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students
An internship arranged through the Museum Anthropology program of 10 hrs/week (for 3 credits) or 20 hrs/week (for 6). Involves meaningful work, requires keeping a journal and writing a paper at the completion of the semester. Not to be taken without permission of the program directors, usually after completing the Museum Anthropology core courses.
This course provides a general introduction to mathematical statistics and statistical decision theory for doctoral students in biostatistics. It covers elementary decision theory, Bayes rules, Neyman-Pearson theory, uniformly most power tests, similar tests, uniformly most powerful unbiased tests, confidence sets; basic asymptotic criteria, estimation methods and their asymptotic properties, M-estimators, U-statistics, statistical functionals; likelihood ratio tests, Wald tests, Rao's score tests, and their asymptotic properties, Pitman efficiency. This course will prepare students to their theory qualifying exam.
An internship arranged through the Museum Anthropology program of 10 hrs/week (for 3 credits) or 20 hrs/week (for 6). Involves meaningful work, requires keeping a journal and writing a paper at the completion of the semester. Not to be taken without permission of the program directors, usually after completing the Museum Anthropology core courses.
This seven-week course is designed to assist Screen/TV Writing and Directing concentrates approaching graduation to take a cool critical eye on their material and
revise it with an eye to concerns that are both creative and pragmatic. Is the screenplay in the strongest possible shape in terms of core story aims,
fundamental structure, a compelling path in? How do you attract financiers to a script? How about actors? Is there a scene, or scenes, that an actor with some visibility who can boost funding chances would just die to play? If not, why not? How about questions of producibility – screenplay length, number of locations,
complexity of scenes to be shot, probable budget? How can writer-directors and creative producers (without whom no movie could be made) forge stronger collaborative relationships, ones respectful of the unique offerings all parties bring to the table?
These are just some of the points of focus in First Features Lab, a course modeled somewhat on the famed Sundance Institute Labs, which so many Columbia Film
Program faculty have attended and been shaped by, including the instructor and creator of this class. First Features Lab allows for an intensive focus on one project per week. Everyone in class will read that screenplay, deliver 2 pages of written notes on the script, and come to each session ready to discuss the material in depth. Ideally screenplay material has already gone through at least one Script Revision class and also been workshopped in a student’s thesis workshop, to gain individual advisors’ input. Creative Producers attached to the project under discussion are a key part of these sessions and can benefit from hearing both the instructor’s notes and those from classmates.
The goal is to create a rigorous space for examining the first feature screenplay with an eye toward production, collaboration, and leaving Columbia with the strongest
piece of material possible upon graduation. For the final class, each creative team must present a 1-2 page document outlining next steps for a revision of the screenplay, with clear, actionable ideas about how to push the material closer to being competitive in the marketplace. A class plan follows.
All students must commit to attending every session of this class and show up for everyone in the lab with passion and dedication to thematerial under discussion. Another goal is to form a strong collective that can continue to provide support and feedback beyond the duration of the
This course covers basic concepts and methods in applied probability and stochastic modeling. The intended audience is master's and doctoral students in programs such as EE, CS, IEOR, Statistics, Mathematics, and those in the DRO division in the Business School. In terms of prerequisites, basic familiarity with probability theory and stochastic processes will be assumed (an ideal preliminary course is IEOR 6711: Stochastic Modeling I, but a more basic substitute will do as well). The topics and material covered in this course complement those covered in IEOR 6712: Stochastic Modeling II, hence the two courses can be taken simultaneously. The exposition will be (mostly) rigorous, yet intentionally skirting some measure-theoretic details; for those interested in such details they can be found in measure theoretic textbooks and other courses (e.g., Probability Theory I/II given in the statistics/math department).
FILM AF 9120 TV Revision
The goal of TV Revision is to bring in a completed pilot and then completely revise it in one semester. Students will initially present their full scripts for feedback in class discussion, then map a plan for rewriting with their instructor. Deadlines throughout the semester will focus on delivery of revised pages.
The work can range from an intensive page 1 rewrite to focus on selected areas in a script. Reading of all scripts in the workshop and participation in class discussion is required.
There is an application process to select students for the class.
The purpose of the course is to broadly cover topics in Operations Management and Operations Research, as well as areas of interest to the Decision, Risk, and Operations division at CBS. It will consist of 3-hour sessions, each on a different topic, with the intent to introduce you to the topic, pique your interest, expose you to the methodologies and research areas people are working on, and help you think about what types of courses to take in the future in order to prepare yourself for this course. We will ask students to submit a one-page summary of each session or a particular paper discussed in the session. PhD students are invited to take the course and/or select certain sessions to attend. Spring 2022 Faculty instructors (each teaching one session) will be Mark Broadie, Paul Glasserman, Fanyin Zheng, Jing Dong, Will Ma, Hongyao Ma.
Students get together to discuss the paper which will be presented at the IEOR-DRO seminar. One group of students (~2 students) presents. A faculty member is present to guide and facilitate the discussion. Students are evaluated on their effort in leading one of the discussions and participating in the other discussions
This online, self-directed course is the first of two designed to introduce students to scholarly writing and dissemination for clinicians. The course provides students with practical information, exercises, and resources for successful clinical manuscript preparation and clinical conference poster and oral presentation. The course introduces students to fundamental skills for scholarly writing including strategies for identifying topics and constructing clinical questions and understanding how different kinds of clinical questions are best answered by different approaches to scholarly writing. Students learn to differentiate among quality improvement projects, research projects, types of literature reviews, case studies and clinical practice manuscripts. Students utilize electronic resources for literature searches and citation management and develop familiarity with professional journals and conferences in their specialty areas. This course content allows for the synthesis and application of the skills and resources developed over the semester and will serve as the basis for a draft of a scholarly product (manuscript, poster, podium presentation) prepared in Scholarly Writing II. As a result, students are prepared for a lifelong approach to integrating scholarship into clinical practice.
This course serves as the cumulative experience for those in the Clinical Research Methods (CRM) Track in the Department of Biostatistics. By the end of the semester, students are expected to produce a submission ready manuscript to a journal appropriate to their field of study.
This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search
This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search
The Statistical Practices and Research for Interdisciplinary Sciences (SPRIS, P9185) is a required course for the PhD and DrPH students in the Department of Biostatistics. The goal is to prepare doctoral students to be effective statisticians to collaborate in an interdisciplinary team and to identify novel statistical research problems with important public health and medical applications. The course aims to provide guidelines and insights of the arts and sciences of consulting, collaboration, and translation of statistical methods to medical studies. Practically useful technical skills acquired from previous coursework will be enhanced and illustrated through applications to real world problems in class projects. Important statistical issues currently undergoing extensive debate will be introduced. Examples of conducting original statistical research to develop new methods addressing real world challenges will be discussed. Career-development related topics will be covered to prepare students to become effective independent and interdisciplinary researchers. Class projects will showcase examples of how to analyze real world data.
For appropriately qualified students wishing to enrich their programs by undertaking literature reviews, special studies, or small group instruction in topics not covered in formal courses.
This is a Pass/Fail zero credit course, “BME Master's Thesis” for MS students who are in the process of doing a thesis (BMEN E9100). It would be registered for before/during the final semester, the semester when the student will be defending the thesis. It must be approved by the faculty mentor.
This is the third and final full-time clinical education experience.
Students in good academic standing who have satisfactorily completed all prerequisite professional courses for a total of 18 weeks of full-time clinical education. Students may be placed in 1 or 2 different clinical practice areas depending on interests related to projected practice post-graduation. This final clinical education experience provides students with an opportunity to further develop skills used in Clinical Education I and II as well as practice new skills in conjunction with the advanced seminar course and electives taken in preparation for entry- level practice. Students are required to give an in-service or project presentation in partial fulfillment of the requirements of this experience.
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This course is restricted to PhD in Sustainable Development
Departmental colloquium in statistics.
Presentation of doctoral student research and guest speakers.