China's Foreign Relations

This course examines the foreign policy of the People’s Republic of China from 1949 to the present, analyzing the political, strategic, and economic drivers of Beijing’s engagement with the world. Topics include China’s relations with the United States, Russia, Asia, and the Global South; key historical turning points such as the Cold War, reform era, and post-Tiananmen period; and contemporary challenges including cross-Strait relations, great power competition, and global governance. Emphasis is placed on the causes and consequences of China’s external behavior and how domestic politics, nationalism, and leadership shape policy. Graduate students participate in additional precepts and complete analytic memos designed to build policy-relevant skills.

• Department: International Security & Diplomacy
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Thomas J Christensen
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• 3 points

China's Foreign Relations

This course examines the foreign policy of the People’s Republic of China from 1949 to the present, analyzing the political, strategic, and economic drivers of Beijing’s engagement with the world. Topics include China’s relations with the United States, Russia, Asia, and the Global South; key historical turning points such as the Cold War, reform era, and post-Tiananmen period; and contemporary challenges including cross-Strait relations, great power competition, and global governance. Emphasis is placed on the causes and consequences of China’s external behavior and how domestic politics, nationalism, and leadership shape policy. Graduate students participate in additional precepts and complete analytic memos designed to build policy-relevant skills.

• Department: International Security & Diplomacy
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Thomas J Christensen
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

The U.S. Role in World Affairs, II

This course is the second half of the year-long International Fellows Program (IFP) seminar examining the United States’ evolving role in global affairs. Building on themes from the fall, the spring semester focuses on the challenges confronting a new U.S. presidential administration and the strategic decisions that will shape American leadership in a contested international environment. Through a combination of seminar discussions, case studies, guest speakers, and two regional crisis simulations, students will examine U.S. policy responses to geopolitical competition, regional instability, and transnational threats. Enrollment is limited to students in the International Fellows Program (IFP).

• Department: International Security & Diplomacy
• R 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Victoria Nuland
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• 3 points

DOCTORAL FIELD WORK

Fieldwork is integral to the academic preparation and professional development of doctoral students. This course provides the academic framework for fieldwork experience required for the student’s program of study. Fieldwork documentation and faculty adviser approval is  required prior to registration. A final written report must be submitted. This course will count toward  the degree program and cannot be taken for pass/fail credit or audited. With approval from the department chair or the doctoral program director, doctoral students can register for this course at most twice. In rare situations, exceptions may be granted by the Dean's Office to register  for the course more than twice (e.g., doctoral students funded by industrial grants who wish to  perform doctoral fieldwork for their corporate sponsor). The doctoral student must be registered for  this course during the same term as the fieldwork experience.

• Department: Engineering
• 1 points

READY 4 RESIDENCY

• Department: Medicine
• 0 points

READY 4 RESIDENCY

• Department: Medicine
• 0 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY MD/MS

• Department: Medicine
• 3 points

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

• Department: Visual Arts
• T 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew Deleget
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• 3 points

Special Topics in Climate: Climate and P

Climate & Perception

From Aristotle to TikTok: How Biology, Culture, and Technology Shape How We See

Odds are there are microplastics in your blood right now. You’ve read that. Have you ever felt it? Today’s biggest threats, from the slow vanishing of old-growth forests to the CO₂ in the room you’re sitting in, unfold at scales of time and space no human body was built for, which is why they are so hard to see. We know about them. We don’t perceive them. And what we don’t perceive, we can’t value, let alone protect. Perception sits upstream of every law ever written to protect anything. Attention is the part of perception we choose. That makes attention a moral act, and most of us give ours away for free. In this class we trace our perceptual blind spots through biology, culture, and technology. We ask why it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, why we keep placing ourselves at the center of everything, and how the same satellites that track carbon from orbit turn a living forest into data we can know but never feel. We look at how language decides whether the living world is an object or a subject, and why a corporation can sue you while a river, almost everywhere, cannot. The course is taught by an artist, built as a collision between the humanities and the sciences, and fed by film clips, readings, and guests: scientists, philosophers, and writers whose work bears on how we see. Robin Wall Kimmerer sits next to David Foster Wallace and NASA data. Arguments rarely change minds. Stories do. Once you’ve come to know a forest through story, you can no longer see it as timber.

• Department: Climate School
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• 1.5 points

R4R ONLINE

• Department: Medicine
• 0 points

R4R ONLINE

• Department: Medicine
• 0 points

TICKETING

An in-depth, seminar-style course on the management of ticketing with a focus on practical strategies to maximize grosses efficiently while providing a seamless audience experience. The course includes a semester-long group project intended to demonstrate the various decisions that theater managers must make to ensure the financial stability of their productions and institutions.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• M 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Justin L Karr
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• 3 points

Disaster Recovery in Practice: Field-Bas

This is a condensed, field-based travel course on disaster risk reduction, response, and long-term recovery, taught in Türkiye during Spring Break. Students work in teams with faculty and students from a partner university in Türkiye to produce a case study grounded in the recovery from the February 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquakes, which caused catastrophic losses across the Hatay region.

The course runs in three parts. Before departure, one to two sessions and a working workshop establish the hazard and governance context, set each team's research question, and cover field methods, research ethics, and travel logistics. The travel week takes students from lectures and a comparative virtual workshop in Istanbul, to briefings, organizational meetings, and site visits in Hatay, and back to Istanbul for a public presentation with Turkish partners. A post-travel session closes the course with revised presentations and the final written case study.

Students see the systems in practice that are responsible for managing housing, debris, displacement, livelihoods, cultural heritage, and local government capacity as one connected problem rather than as separate sectors. They also have the opportunity to interact with those who are doing the work: national agencies, municipalities, humanitarian organizations, local civil society, and residents themselves.

• Department: Climate School
• Instructor: Jeffrey Schlegelmilch
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• 1.5 points

Financial Planning & Analysis

This course explores the use of financial information for internal planning, analysis, and decision-making. The main objective of the course is to equip you with the knowledge to understand, evaluate, and act upon the many financial and non-financial reports used in managing modern firms.
Managing any modern firm requires information about the firm’s products, processes, assets, and customers. This information is a key input into a wide range of decisions: analyzing profitability of various products, managing product-line portfolios, setting prices, measuring and managing profitability of customers, making operational and strategic decisions, evaluating investments, guiding improvement efforts, and so on.
The focus of this course is on modern internal-reporting systems. We will discover that many firms do not provide their managers with useful information; we will see numerous examples of value destruction and bankruptcies caused by this. We will also investigate some modern ideas in how an organization’s internal information system should be designed to enhance value creation; and we will see how world-class firms take advantage of their competitors’ internal-reporting mistakes.
To attain the right level of understanding, we will briefly explore the mechanics of the many techniques used to prepare internal reports. But the emphasis in this course is very much on interpretation, evaluation, and decision-making.
We will examine the following key topics:
Designing managerial information systems to support an organization’s strategy.
Determining which financial and non-financial metrics are necessary for success in various competitive environments.
Evaluating profitability of products, services, assets, and customers.
The capabilities and the limitations of various reporting systems in guiding value-maximization, cost-control, and improvement efforts.
The limitations of traditional cost-estimation systems.
Activity-based costing and activity-based management.
Estimating and managing the costs of capacity resources.
Relevant costs and relevant revenues in business decisions.
The information necessary to evaluate long-term business decisions.
The incentives created by various performance-evaluation techniques.

• Department: Accounting (ACCT)
• MW 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• MW 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Tim Baldenius
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• 1.5 points

Earnings Quality & Fundamental

Financial reporting provides a window into the operational and financial workings of a company. However, translating this information into actionable insights is anything but straightforward. It requires an understanding of: Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), the quality of financial information, and the adjustments and analyses used to assess profitability, risk, growth, and value.

The course starts with a short review of financial reporting and then focuses on various modules of fundamental analysis, including earnings quality analysis, performance evaluation, risk assessment, forecasting, and valuation. The remaining class meetings (approximately 14 out of 24) are devoted to a deeper dive into the reporting and analysis of key transactions (e.g., business combinations, leasing) and financial statement line items (e.g., revenue, income taxes).

To allow for dynamic progress, the class schedule is flexible:
Topic Approximate # of class meetings
1. Review of financial reporting 2
2. Financial statement analysis 4
3. Forecasting and valuation 4
4. Revenue and related items 2
5. Operating capacity 3
6. Estimated items 3.5
7. Financial instruments 2
8. Investments in businesses 2.5
9. Equity and related items 1
Total 24

While the course covers the theoretical underpinning of the various analyses, it focuses on implementation and practical uses. We will study many actual financial disclosures and cases of accounting abuses, and we will conduct fundamental-based valuation and other financial analyses, including using Excel tools that will be provided to the students. Studying financial disclosures will help you better understand the underlying assumptions and accounting choices the firm made in arriving at its accounting numbers. This information can be used to make earnings quality adjustments to the accounting numbers to make them more consistent across time or more comparable across companies. Studying cases of accounting abuses will help you improve your ability to “read between the lines” and develop a set of red flags to look for in analyzing financial statements. The class also incorporates insights from practitioner and academic research.

The primary objective of the course is to acquire a deep understanding of accounting information and how to intelligently use it in making investment, credit, and similar resource allocation decisions. Such knowledge is required of investors, consultants, analysts, banke

• Department: Accounting (ACCT)
• MW 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
• R 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
• Instructor: Doron Nissim
  h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

Financial Statement Analysis a

This course will provide students with hands-on experience analyzing financial statements. Students will learn about the general tools, theoretical concepts, and practical valuation issues of financial analysis. By the end of the course, students should be comfortable using firms' financial statements (along with other information) to assess firm performance and make reasonable valuation estimates.
Course content and organization In the first half of the course, we will develop a valuation framework that integrates a firm’s strategy, its financial performance, and the credibility of its accounting. The framework consists of the following steps:
1. Understand the firm’s strategy. We will assess the firm’s value proposition and identify its key value drivers and risks.
2. Accounting Analysis. We will assess earnings quality and evaluate whether the firm's accounting policies capture the underlying business reality. If not, we will adjust the accounting to eliminate GAAP issues and management biases.
3. Financial Analysis. We will evaluate current performance with accounting data and financial ratios.
4. Prospective Analysis: Forecasting. We will assess whether current firm performance is sustainable, and we will forecast future performance. In our forecasts, we will consider growth, profitability, and future competitive advantage.
5. Prospective Analysis: Valuation. We will convert our forecasts of future earnings and book values into an estimate of the firm’s current value.
In the second half of the course, we will apply the above framework to a variety of business valuation contexts, including IPOs, mergers, and equity-investment analyses.

• Department: Accounting (ACCT)
• T 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• T 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
• 3 points

Paris: A Living Climate Lab

Across the international climate landscape, Paris occupies a distinctive position. As a city whose municipal government pursued an aggressive—and, at times, contested—program of urban greening and mobility transformation, Paris is an international leader in the green energy transition. As the namesake of the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement, the city has established itself as a major player in international climate diplomacy. And after a deadly 2003 heat wave, which killed over 15,000 people across France, the city refashioned itself a leader in urban climate adaptation through its efforts to prepare for future extreme heat events.

Over the course of a 5-day intensive in Paris, students will engage directly with the policymakers, practitioners, and academics who are actively shaping the city’s climate response. Through a combination of guest lectures, site visits, and self-organized expert meetings, students will gain a broad overview of the climate and energy political landscape in Western Europe, along with firsthand insights into how climate commitments are developed, implemented, and revised on the ground. Rather than treat the city as a fixed success story, the course approaches Paris as a “living laboratory,” in which ambitious policy commitments confront the practical constraints of urban governance, finance, and politics.

• Department: Climate School
• Instructor: Leah V Aronowsky
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• 1.5 points

ASTROPHYSICS II

Prerequisites: Prerequisites; GR6011, another introductory astrophysics course or the instructor's permission; basic General Relativity or familiarity with tensors in flat space. A continuation of G6011. Likely topics include shocks and their application to supernovae; pulsar wind nebulae; atomic physics of astrophysical plasmas; accretion onto magnetized neutron stars and white dwarfs; thick accretion disks, non-thermal X-ray generation processes; particle acceleration and propagation; gravitational wave radiation; magnetars.

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

Energy Solutions and Critical Minerals i

Energy and Minerals in Gr

Western Macedonia is Greece’s historic lignite-mining and coal-power heartland, and is now undergoing one of Europe’s most consequential regional energy transitions — from coal-fired electricity generation toward renewable energy, storage, and a diversified regional economy. This field-based travel course immerses students directly in that transition through introductory lectures, site visits and stakeholder engagement in the city of Kozani, in academic partnership with the University of Western Macedonia (UoWM). Students explore the diversification of energy resources, renewable energy deployment, critical mineral recovery, and advanced manufacturing and the associated labor and community impacts in the region. The course is deliberately interdisciplinary, pairing technical and engineering analysis with policy, governance, and regional-development perspectives.

• Department: Climate School
• Instructor: Greeshma Gadikota
  Info
• 1.5 points

MASTERS THESIS

Research in an area of mechanical engineering culminating in a verbal presentation and a written thesis document approved by the thesis adviser. Must obtain permission from a thesis adviser to enroll. Recommended enrollment for two terms, one of which can be the summer. A maximum of 6 points of master’s thesis may count toward an M.S. degree, and additional research points cannot be counted. On completion of all master’s thesis credits, the thesis adviser will assign a single grade. Students must use a department-recommended format for thesis writing.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• Instructor: Gerard A Ateshian
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• Instructor: Arvind Narayanaswamy
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 26 Info
• Instructor: Vijay Vedula
  h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: James Hone
  CULPA: 11 h-index: 124 Info
• Instructor: Kristin Myers
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 25 Info
• Instructor: Jeffrey W Kysar
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 37 Info
• Instructor: Vijay Modi
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 40 Info
• Instructor: P J Schuck
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• Instructor: Qiao Lin
  h-index: 41 Info
• Instructor: Matei T Ciocarlie
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• Instructor: Michael J Massimino
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• Instructor: Michael Burke
  h-index: 22 Info
• Instructor: Sunil Agrawal
  Wikipedia h-index: 65 Info
• Instructor: Sinisa Vukelic
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 11 Info
• Instructor: Bianca N Howard
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• Instructor: Harry West
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 1 Info
• Instructor: Yevgeniy Yesilevskiy
  h-index: 7 Info
• Instructor: Hod Lipson
  Wikipedia h-index: 79 Info
• Instructor: Karen Kasza
  h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Mary Boyce
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• Instructor: Homayoon Beigi
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• 1-3 points

Applied Fundamental Analysis with Altern

Applied Fund Analysis Alt

Finding the ground truth regarding the positioning, operations, and prospects of a company, country, resource pool, or investment opportunity is challenging. It is imperative to go beyond the numbers in financial statements with alternative data and information. In this course, we will learn to accept that no predefined formula exists to identify, quantify, and project a complex organization operating in a constantly evolving global environment.
We will highlight the importance of sufficiently framing questions for intelligence gathering and analysis. The act of questioning serves as the very foundation of any investigation, project, or research endeavor. It sharpens our focus, guides our inquiry, and lays the groundwork for meaningful and actionable answers. The power to shape our understanding of the world, businesses, consumers, and individual actors lies in the answers and data we gather and the quality and direction of the questions we pose.
The confidence to ask the right questions and break down the subject of the analysis and associated materials will be a vital component of the learning. The student will work with real datasets and benefit from direct advice, experience, and practical insights from portfolio managers, research analysts, consulting data analysts, and others to derive value from the world of information within their reach.
The combination of traditional and alternative data with the right real-world questions serves to forecast future outcomes. The overarching framework for applied learning will be:
• Collection: Framing the appropriate questions and sourcing information and data in context of the subject being evaluated.
• Evaluation: Understating the reliability of the data and validity of the information value as presented.
• Analysis: Applying methodologies and frameworks, including financial frameworks to transform the data for concise decisions.
• Reporting: Frameworks for pushing the data to subject models, including financial models, presenting the derived intelligence in a useable format.
• Distribution: Informing user, including oneself and integrating feedback on the outcomes.
This course guides the student in acquiring alternative data, extracting insight from it, using it for projections, contextual business model evaluation, and determining “unknown unknowns”. The learning journey is intended to be insightful, engaging, empowering, and supplement traditional data, such as financial statements for st

• Department: Accounting (ACCT)
• M 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew M Dell Orfano
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• 1.5 points

Accounting for the Long Term: Key Themes

Sustainability Reporting

Broadly speaking, the goal of this class is to provide students with both the theoretical and practical knowledge to understand the current challenges in accounting for firms’ ESG goals. In this rapidly evolving field, the course will be structured in four modules:

- Module #1 reviews the need for sustainability accounting and provide an overview of the providers of ESG metrics and the limits of current
aggregated ESG data.
- Module #2 present various market-based mechanisms to create ESG standards
- Module #3 discusses regulatory initiatives to create ESG information for listed firms
- Module #4 departs from non-financial disclosure and discuss the limits of current accounting standards and introduce new developments to
incorporate ESG characteristics into traditional financial statements.

While ESG encompasses a vast body of topics, this class will draw examples and discuss about a diverse set of issues ESG, including carbon emissions, employees pay, employees labor-safety, and the role of consumers’ NGO, based on short examples or cases spanning different firms in different industries (e.g., wholesale, aviation) and different countries (e.g., USA, France, Japan).
This half-term course is composed of a mix of lectures, cases and online or in-person interventions by high profile industry guest speakers. The lectures are motivated by (1) rigorous recent academic studies drawing from the accounting literature, but also borrowing from adjacent fields including economics, finance, law and strategy and (2) practitioners notes and examples.

Who should take this course?

Students should take this course if they are interested in ESG in general and/or if they expect to use disclosure of non-financial information in their career. This is particularly relevant for students who want to pursue careers in finance (e.g., investment banking) where firms’ ESG footprint is becoming a scrutinized factor in M&A or investment decisions in general, as well as students going to careers in consulting where corporate decisions will more and more be benchmark against their ESG implications.

Please note that this course does not require students to have pre-existing knowledge about ESG.

• Department: Accounting (ACCT)
• M 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
• Instructor: Aniket A Shah
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• 1.5 points

Mergers & Acquisitions Transactions

M&A Transactions

The purpose of this course is to provide you with an overview of M&A strategies and an introduction to the structuring and accounting for deals. We will also learn how to model M&A transactions. This is an advanced and technical course. If reviewing arcane accounting and tax rules does not bring you joy, you are forewarned! You will see plenty of both in the course. During the course, we will focus on several themes:
1. Deal strategy
2. Deal valuations
3. Deal structuring – impact of tax and accounting rules
4. Common metrics used to evaluate deals and limitations of those metrics
5. Accounting and modeling of deals

This course is recommended for those who intend to work in the financial services area – it will be helpful for those looking for a career in banking, corporate advisory services, treasury or corporate/financial strategy.

Advising on M&A transactions requires a strong background in accounting and tax. This course will get into the minutiae of various accounting and tax aspects of M&A. I will expect you to be willing to do the deep dive, where required. It is expected that you
have already taken courses in financial accounting and corporate finance and are interested in accounting and tax. If you do not have a prior background in accounting and tax, you are strongly advised to check with the instructor before enrolling in this
course.

This is not a course in excel, excel tools/techniques or about excel add‐ins provided by data providers. There are many services provided by data providers and Wall Street Prep companies for those. This course will focus on the accounting, finance and
economics of evaluating deals and building models. Also, we assume that you are already proficient in Excel, since we will use a lot of Excel models in the course.

• Department: Accounting (ACCT)
• M 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• T 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Radha Radhakrishna
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• 1.5 points

LBO & Bankruptcy Transactions

The purpose of this course is to provide you with an overview of LBO strategies and to introduce you to restructuring and the bankruptcy process. During the course, you will learn how to build a basic financial model and adapt it for LBO transactions. This is an advanced and technical course. If reviewing arcane accounting and legal rules does not bring you joy, you are forewarned! You will see plenty of both in the course. During the course, we will learn to:
1. Build a basic integrated financial models (IS, BS and CFS)
2. Adapt the financial model to study the effect of LBO transactions
3. Study the impact of different deal structures, accounting choices, operating assumptions and financing decisions on firm value, liquidity, profitability, returns and other financial metrics.
4. Learn about alternative exit and restructuring strategies.
5. Understand the bankruptcy process – debt restructuring and fresh start models.

• Department: Accounting (ACCT)
• M 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• T 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Radha Radhakrishna
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• 1.5 points

MS Financial Accounting (Half-Term)

Financial statements are meant to enable the reader to evaluate the performance of an enterprise, analyze its cash flows, and assess its financial position. Recently, widely publicized cases of misleading statements, which were nevertheless attested as to their fairness by outside auditors, resulted in improper revenue recognition, overstatement of income, and misrepresentation of financial position. There is a growing awareness of the importance of honest reporting as the foundation for investors' confidence in the integrity and proper functioning of the financial markets.

• Department: Accounting (ACCT)
• TRS 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Amir Ziv
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• 1.5 points

Dissertation Research

Full time research for doctoral students.

• Department: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
• Instructor: Richard Slusarczyk
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• 12 points

CRITICAL ISSUES IN STAGE MANAGEMENT

CRIT ISSUES: CONFLICT RES

Conflict Resilience. Developing the comfort and skills necessary to respond to disagreements and mis-alignments is essential for leaders and stage managers. Through a series of discussions, experienced guests, reading, role-playing, and in-class exercises, this workshop style class will present an overview of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and Restorative Process theory and techniques with a practical focus on building our skills and comfort level to be able to reframe conflict as a chance for learning, understanding, and change.

Exceeding EDI. The impact of incorporating Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Accessibility and Belonging into the commercial theater industry in a post George Floyd era. As stage managers, it is crucial that there is a framework for supporting the evolving identities and needs of the many populations present in a theater setting. Through a series of articles, in-class discussions, written reflections and conversations with working professionals, we will develop an understanding of a variety of social issues that currently exist in the industry while building a toolkit on how to navigate them.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: Fredric Hanson
  Info
• 1.5 points

CRITICAL ISSUES IN STAGE MANAGEMENT

INTIMACY DIRECTION FOR SM

Conflict Resilience. Developing the comfort and skills necessary to respond to disagreements and mis-alignments is essential for leaders and stage managers. Through a series of discussions, experienced guests, reading, role-playing, and in-class exercises, this workshop style class will present an overview of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and Restorative Process theory and techniques with a practical focus on building our skills and comfort level to be able to reframe conflict as a chance for learning, understanding, and change.

Exceeding EDI. The impact of incorporating Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Accessibility and Belonging into the commercial theater industry in a post George Floyd era. As stage managers, it is crucial that there is a framework for supporting the evolving identities and needs of the many populations present in a theater setting. Through a series of articles, in-class discussions, written reflections and conversations with working professionals, we will develop an understanding of a variety of social issues that currently exist in the industry while building a toolkit on how to navigate them.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: Katherine A Mahoney
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• 1.5 points

Research on Investing with Fundamental A

This seminar covers research on trading with fundamental information. It covers such topics as fundamental-based trading strategies, accounting anomalies in returns, accounting arbitrage, limits to arbitrage, factor investing, fundamental analysis and smart beta, research on accounting quality, and developing the appropriate accounting information on which to trade.

• Department: Accounting (ACCT)
• M 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Shivaram Rajgopal
  Wikipedia h-index: 50 Info
• 3 points

ART OF LEADING: NEXT PRACTICES FOR SM

As a Stage Manager, collaborative leadership is a both a skill and an art. It is crucial to the success of any production. This involves understanding human behavior, developing effective communication skills, and fostering a holistic workplace environment. Contemporary stage managers need to develop “next practice” skills
in order to actively calibrate their important contribution to the art of creating theater. With practice and refinement, these skills become the foundation for stage managers to lead the people and the production.

The goal of the course is to explore a variety of forward-thinking topics that focus on the process of leading theatrical teams; by the end of the semester, students should have not only a better understanding of next practice theory, but methodologies and competencies that they can deploy in practice.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: Amber White
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• 3 points

GRAD SEM-PREMODERN LITERATURE

Prerequisites: JPNS W4007-W4008 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: David B Lurie
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 4 points

GENERAL RELATIVITY

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• Department: Physics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrei Beloborodov
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• 3 points

VISITING ARTISTS

• Department: Theatre Arts
• T 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Russell
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• 0-3 points

QUANTUM FIELD THEORY III

Advanced topics at the discretion of the instructor, including string theory, supersymmetry and other aspects of beyond-standard-model physics.

• Department: Physics
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Frederik Denef
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 36 Info
• 3 points

THEATRE PRACTICUM II

REIMAGINING AMERICAN THEATRE

TBD

• Department: Theatre Arts
• F 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 3 points

THEATRE PRACTICUM II

ELEVATED & CONTEMPORARY TEXTS

TBD

• Department: Theatre Arts
• TR 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Scott V Whitehurst
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• 3 points

THEATRE PRACTICUM II

UNPAC US RESIDENT THEATRE

TBD

• Department: Theatre Arts
• M 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Victoria Bailey
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• 3 points

THEATRE PRACTICUM II

PLAYWRIGHT-ACTOR WORKSHOP

TBD

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: James Ijames
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• 3 points

THEATRE PRACTICUM II

CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL PLAYS

TBD

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: Kate Loewald
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• 3 points

SEM-SOURCES IN CHINESE HISTORY

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert P Hymes
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

PARTICLE PHYSICS I

Prerequisites: PHYS G6037-G6038. Basic aspects of particle physics, focusing on the Standard Model.

• Department: Physics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert D Mawhinney
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 49 Info
• 3 points

Graduate Seminar in Japanese Cinema and

Grad Seminar Japanese Cin

In this course, we will examine a series of key writings on cinema and visual culture in Japan from the 1910s to the late 1960s.  Major topics will include:

1. Cinema and its technology/technics (sound, color, and film form)

2. Cinema and its intersection with politics and aesthetics (Marxism and the Proletarian Film Movement, cinematic realism, colonialism, Third Worldism, and Japanese New Wave)

3. The articulations of cinema in broader intellectual, technological, socio-cultural, and institutional discourse (film education, documentary, and 
bunka eiga
)

In an attempt to explore the transitional position of cinema and media culture in Japanese cultural history, the course also critically approaches contact points between cinema, theatre (especially
shingeki
), literature, photography, and television.  All mandatory readings each week will be primary sources in Japanese, and additional scholarly and/or theoretical writings in English will also be assigned or provided for reference.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Takuya Tsunoda
  Info
• 4 points

Gender, Sexualities and Love in the Hell

Gender in the Hellenic Wo

In this seminar, we will examine the elements of a history of gender and sexuality in the
Hellenistic period. The topic of gender and history has been extensively studied for Archaic
and Classical Greece, but not for the Hellenistic: symptomatic (and influential) is the way M.
Foucault moves from Plato to Plutarch, erasing the intervening four centuries. We will
examine the consolidation and evolution of a particular “normal” form of sexuality (centred
on the structural opposition between marriage and “queer spaces”), then examine a particular
region (Ptolemaic Egypt) to try to reconceive in terms of gender familiar themes such as
monarchy, colonization, and Hellenization.

• Department: Classics
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: John T Ma
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

COLLABORATION STUDIO

Collaboration Studio is meant to foster and encourage creative relationships between and among the six concentration that comprise the Columbia MFA Theatre Program.

The goal of the class is to celebrate the process and presentation of new work.​
 Success is defined by a desire by all participants for working relationships to extend beyond the class and into the world-at-large.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: Timothy A Hess
  Info
• 0-3 points

Internship Class - Spring Session

The internship course provides a substantive opportunity for students to practice applying their expertise and skills in a real world setting. The course allows students to work with practitioners and public health/healthcare experts to explore their interests in more depth and to expand their knowledge of current environments in their fields. Students will reflect on their interests, values, and skills and how their internship, past experiences, and studies align with their goals. The course will provide the opportunity for reflection on work advancement, progress of skill development, connection to current coursework, and exposure to areas within their field. The course includes self-reflection and career interests assessment exercises, and builds on communication skills to train students to respond to challenging questions that they may encounter in the job search process. The seminar provides a supportive framework designed to enhance students’ applied, field-based learning experience by exploring common themes encountered in the fieldwork setting. The seminar will address the public health core competencies of leadership, communication, professionalism, systems thinking, interprofessional education. Learning objectives include: • Describe the Theory of Vocational Choice by John Holland and explain how it can help you choose a career in alignment with your interests. • Prioritize your career interests, values, and mission areas of interest and describe how they relate to your current internship. • Identify three current job descriptions that match your interests, values, and mission areas of interest. • Write at least three effective bullet points for your resume based on your current internship and based on your job market research. • List 3 sources of salary and job market research and information. • Negotiate your salary. • Communicate your short term and long term goals and three steps you plan to take to achieve them. • Describe how your internship has contributed towards your achievement of these goals.

PREREQUISITES AND PERMISSION: Students must submit a letter from their employer following the guidelines at https://isso.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/sampleletters/CPTemploymentsample.pdf  to
hk2778@cumc.columbia.edu
in order to obtain permission to enroll in this course. If you are continuing an internship with the same organization where you completed your required APEx or internship,

• Department: Public Health
• Instructor: Heather Krasna
  h-index: 5 Info
• 0.5 points

INDIV PROJECTS IN MUSICOLOGY

Sec. 1: Ethnomusicology; Sec. 2: Historical Musicology; Sec. 3: Music Theory; Sec. 4: Music Cognition; Sec. 5: Music Philosophy.

• Department: Music
• Instructor: Susan Boynton
  CULPA: 18 Info
• Instructor: Alessandra M Ciucci
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Joseph P Dubiel
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Kevin Fellezs
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Aaron A Fox
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Giuseppe Gerbino
  CULPA: 12 Info
• Instructor: Christopher J Washburne
  CULPA: 31 Info
• 3 points

EIDOLON:THE IMAGE IN ANTIQUITY

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Zainab Bahrani
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Applied Regression I

APPLIED REGRESSION I

This course will provide an introduction to the basics of regression analysis. The class will proceed systematically from the examination of the distributional qualities of the measures of interest, to assessing the appropriateness of the assumption of linearity, to issues related to variable inclusion, model fit, interpretation, and regression diagnostics. We will primarily use scalar notation (i.e. we will use limited matrix notation, and will only briefly present the use of matrix algebra).

• Department: Biostatistics
• R 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Martina Pavlicova
  h-index: 30 Info
• 3 points

Academic Careers Workshop

This course is open to all graduate students in English and Comparative Literature in year 5 and beyond. The course, which students may take for R-credit, has several aims. It will help you: sharpen the focus of your dissertation and clarify the nature of its contribution; expand your scholarly profile, illuminating the breadth of what you have to offer academic life; and launch activities that can make your potential contributions visible and legible. We will look closely at the kinds of materials you will circulate on the job market: cover letters, 
CVs
, teaching statements, research statements, portfolios showing “evidence of teaching effectiveness,” and more. We will workshop these in the seminar, while also practicing the oral forms you will encounter in the job market: interviews, presentations, job talks. At the same time, one of the central aims of the seminar is to help you develop your sense of who you are as a scholar, teacher, and member of the profession more broadly, expand the universe of professional possibilities, and highlight the richness of your potential contributions.
        Preparing yourself for the academic job market can be emotionally wrenching, but it can also be exciting. The seminar will serve not only as a workshop but as a supportive community of scholars, teachers, readers, and writers helping one another envision the work they might do and, at the same time, remember why it matters.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Julie S Peters
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED TOPICS IN IEOR

Advanced topics in RL

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Shipra Agrawal
  h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED TOPICS IN IEOR

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Tianyi Li
  Info
• Instructor: Yuchen Hu
  Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED TOPICS IN IEOR

Dynamic Learning & Opt

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Anran Hu
  Info
• 3 points

SEM-HISTORCL MUSICLGY-MID AGES

• Department: Music
• F 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Susan Boynton
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 3 points

Process Improvement and Growth

This class brings business operations and management science classes to the field with real-world experience. Through experiential learning, we will bridge the gap between theory and practice with international case discussions, conversations with guest speakers and hands-on company sponsored projects. Different to most classes in the school, in this class students will be exposed to a series of international cases and examples based on medium-sized, fast-growing entrepreneurial ventures. Each session will also include a guest speaker, often times the protagonist of the case studied, giving the students the opportunity to learn directly from successful entrepreneurs and senior executives.
Additionally, students will put into practice the concept of process improvement by working on a company-sponsored applied project. Teams of 4-5 people, 3-4 MBA/EMBA students and 1-2 engineering (SEAS) students, will work hand in hand with the instructors and company representatives to achieve company goals. For example, teams may be tasked with re-designing the logistical strategy of distribution of the company to get rid of inefficiencies, or identify and find strategies to eliminate areas of waste within the companies’ processes, or analyze customer feedback and design operational solutions to increase customer satisfaction, etc.
Enrollment in this course is by application only. To apply, please follow this link: https://forms.gle/EG6buNZqQYEgN2EH9

• Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
• MW 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Angela Quintero
  Info
• 3 points

ANTICOLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL POLITICAL

ANTICOL & POSTCOL POL THO

This seminar explores key texts of twentieth-century anticolonial political thought and its postcolonial interpretation. It is an advanced course in political theory for graduate students. Over the last twenty years, postcolonial approaches to political theory have challenged many of the traditional categories and assumptions of western political thought. Some contend that theories inherited from Western social and political thought cannot adequately speak to the political experiences of the non-Western world. Others have been sharply critical of the complicity of Western political thought and modern practices of imperialism, slavery, and global inequality. This seminar aims to investigate the various challenges that postcolonial theorists pose to political theory and to offer critical assessments of the possibilities and limitations of this perspective. We will do so by reading key anticolonial texts alongside major postcolonial interpretations of these texts. We will compare how anticolonial texts and their postcolonial interpreters engage with questions of political theory – such as the relationship between universality and freedom, revolution and history, violence and power, progress and emancipation – in light of the legacy of colonialism and the promise of decolonization.

• Department: Political Science
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Karuna Mantena
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

VISUAL ART LAB, SPRING

Students meet with the professor and pave the transition from graduate students to seeing themselves as artists with a long term working creative perspective beyond academia. The professor will work to contextualize the students body of work in the arena of an international art conversation. VISUAL ART LAB will be led by Sarah Sze in the Spring.

Schedule:
Priority will be given to all second-year students who submit a short presentation of their work. Should there be remaining room for first year students they will be admitted upon review. To apply please submit a brief description of work, current research and interest in taking the seminar, along with 5 - 10 images. There will be one half hour meeting for each student with professor Sze throughout the Spring Semester.

Requirements:
Rigorous development of students' own body of work.

• Department: Visual Arts
• F 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sarah M Sze
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Patient Oriented Research Career Develop

POR CAREER DEVELOPMENT CO

The main objective of this course is to provide Columbia University's Clinical & Translational Science award trainees, students, and scholars with skills and knowledge that will optimize their chances of entering into a satisfying academic career. The course will emphasize several methodological and practical issues related to the development of a science career. The course will also offer support and incentives by facilitating timely use of CTSA resources, obtaining expert reviews on writing and curriculum vitae, and providing knowledge and resources for the successful achievement of career goals.

• Department: Biostatistics
• T 3 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Marisa N Spann
  Info
• 0.5 points

Business Analytics II: Foundations of AI

Business Analytics II: AI

This course extends and deepens the material you learned in business analytics. We will apply these methods in more unstructured and diverse situations, introduce new analytics tools and methods (including Tableau Visualization, text mining, and random forests), and study a modern framework for overfitting reduction called regularization that underlies much of modern machine learning. This course does not require coding or knowledge beyond Business Analytics, but the mathematical sophistication level will be somewhat more advanced.

• Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
• TR 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Vineel Chakradhar
  Info
• 1.5 points

Data Science II

DATA SCIENCE II

With the explosion of “Big Data” problems, statistical learning has become a very hot field in many scientific areas. The goal of this course is to provide the training in practical statistical learning. It is targeted to MS students with some data analysis experience.

• Department: Biostatistics
• TR 4 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Yifei Sun
  h-index: 7 Info
• 3 points

Operations Strategy

• Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
• M 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• M 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
• T 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• W 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• R 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• T 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
• R 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
• Instructor: Medini Singh
  Info
• 3 points

Statistical Inference

STATISTICAL INFERENCE

This course covers a review of mathematical statistics and probability theory at the Masters level. Students will be exposed to theory of estimation and hypothesis testing, confidence intervals and Bayesian inference. Topics include population parameters, sufficient statistics, basic distribution theory, point and interval estimation, introduction to the theory of hypothesis testing, and nonparametric procedures.

• Department: Biostatistics
• F 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Prakash Gorroochurn
  Info
• 3 points