STONE, BRICK + TERRA COTTA
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- M 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
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EXTERNSHIP: CIVIL LITIGATION - EMPLOYMEN
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- Department: Law
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EXTERNSHIP: CIVIL LITIGATION - EMPLOYMEN
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- Department: Law
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INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
This course introduces the fundamental concepts and problems of international human rights law. What are the origins of modern human rights law? What is the substance of this law, who is obligated by it, and how is it enforced? The course will cover the major international human rights treaties and mechanisms and consider some of todays most significant human rights issues and controversies. While the topics are necessarily law-related, the course will assume no prior exposure to legal studies.
- Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Jacqueline Dugard
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Ethics in Public Policy
MIA & MPA Ethics Core.
This course investigates how ethical considerations shape, complicate, and often introduce dilemmas into the work of policymaking. It asks what justice, democracy, and responsibility demand in concrete policy contexts—should political leaders prioritize stability or accountability in post-conflict settings? Should elected officials follow their moral convictions even when doing so goes against the preferences of their constituents? Should public servants uphold the law when it conflicts with their moral principles? When is it right to work within flawed systems to achieve change, and when is it better to act from the outside? Through a mix of theoretical readings and case studies, students will learn to balance political, institutional, and ethical considerations, develop arguments for their moral choices, and advocate effectively for their policy decisions. The course is designed to cultivate reflective practitioners who can identify moral dilemmas in public policy, weigh competing values, and articulate their ethical positions in ways that are both critical and constructive.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- T 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
- W 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
- R 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
- F 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
- F 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Nicole M Peisajovich
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STRUCTURAL DARING & THE SUBLIME
STRUCT DARING & THE SUBLI
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- F 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Rory O O'Neill
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THEORIES OF INT'L RELATIONS
Prerequisites: the instructors permission prior to registration. Issues and problems in theory of international politics; systems theories and the current international system; the domestic sources of foreign policy and theories of decision making; transnational forces, the balance of power, and alliances.
- Department: Political Science
- R 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Elizabeth N Saunders
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SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY
- Department: Social Work
- W 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
- W 2 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- R 11:10 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Diane D Williams
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David B Howard
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Laurie Maldonado
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Peter Maugeri
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Laurie Maldonado
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SEMINAR IN STAGE MANAGEMENT III
MUSICAL STRUCTURE
Musicals, especially those that have traditionally originated on Broadway, are complex pieces of machinery that are designed to produce a variety of energies in the theater. When taken collectively, those energies constitute the aesthetic of the experience. As with plays, stage managers are charged with coordinating all of a musical’s production elements. However, stage managers should also be able to view a musical from every angle; that is, read it intelligently and analyze it dramatically so they can accurately gauge their contribution to the overall aesthetic. This course seeks to provide stage managers with a customized template to do that: in other words, how to connect what’s on the page and the stage to their own standard methodologies, cue calling, and the CEO/COO perspective. In the contemporary professional landscape, these are important tools that will help them optimize their work on musicals.
- Department: Theatre Arts
- T 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Michael Passaro
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PUBLIC FINANCE I
- Department: Economics
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Wojciech Kopczuk
CULPA: 5 Wikipedia h-index: 34 Info - 3 points
Coding for Media Studies
The term “digital humanities” (DH) has long been used to describe scholarship at the intersection of digital technologies and humanities disciplines. Although initially characterized by quantitative analysis and number-crunching, DH today enjoys a far broader mandate encompassing new fields like software studies, data visualization, critical code studies, and more. This course proposes to ride the wave of these developments.
Specifically, it explores how coding can be harnessed to the disciplines of film and media studies. Over the past few years, developments in generative AI have placed basic coding expertise within the reach of all. But what possibilities open up from these changes? Over the course of over a dozen weeks, students in this class will learn ways in which coding can help refine and reimagine traditional scholarly agendas (e.g., film analysis, media industry studies, archival restoration, etc.). But the class also shows how coding opens up entirely new ways of working with media as objects of study.
- Department: Film
- W 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
- 3 points
VISUAL ARTS LECTURE SERIES III
The component includes scheduled studio critiques with some of New York’s most distinguished art practitioners, and is meant to offer multiple perspectives relevant to the training of contemporary artists. The Visual Arts program invites 20-25 artists and critics a semester, and each student sees at least two Visiting Critics per semester.
- Department: Visual Arts
- T 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
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Miya Masaoka
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VISUAL ARTS LECTURE SERIES III
Visiting artists and critics are invited over the course of the academic year to give a one-hour lecture followed by discussion, and conduct three 40-minute studio visits. These lecturers will join the previously listed Visiting Critics and will be available as one of your allotted studio visits each semester.
- Department: Visual Arts
- T 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
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Naeem Mohaiemen
Wikipedia h-index: 8 Info - 0 points
PUBLIC SPACE: RHETORICS & PRACTICES
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
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David J Smiley
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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO II
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- MR 1:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
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Emanuel Admassu
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DIFFERENCE AND DESIGN
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
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Justin G Moore
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TOWARD RESILIENT CITIES + LANDSCAPES
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Kate Orff
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CRIT ISSUES IN ART III
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- Department: Visual Arts
- T 10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Miles J Scharff
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RE ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND DEVELOPMENT
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 4 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Haig G Nazarian
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RE VALUATION + INVESTMENT ANALYSIS
RE VAL+INVESTMENT ANALYSI
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
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Jake Pesci
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GRADUATE STUDIO III
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- Department: Visual Arts
- R noon-4 p.m.
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Miya Masaoka
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GRADUATE STUDIO III
- Department: Visual Arts
- MR 4 p.m.-10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Naeem Mohaiemen
Wikipedia h-index: 8 Info - 3 points
The Chinese Economy
When asking a Chinese citizen about a particularly puzzling aspect of China’s economy, the response will sometimes be
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这是中国特色的“ or this is the Chinese way of doing things. In this course, we will think deeply about what exactly that means in terms of how China’s macro-economy and financial system operates and what are the policy implications for those differences. This course has three distinguishing characteristics: i. It uses modern tools from macroeconomics and finance to analyze the Chinese economy; ii. It compares and contrasts the Chinese economy with the United States as a way of highlighting what makes the Chinese economy (and incidentally the US economy) special; and iii. It treats a country like a company using methods from finance, accounting and management to shed new light on macroeconomic questions. While the focus of the course is, of course China, what students will also learn is how to think more broadly about all emerging economies. Many scholars have written about the significant steps in China’s development process since 1978. Wu Jinglian (2005) or Barry Naughton (2007 – see below), for example, provides excellent step-by-step descriptions of China’s remarkable path of economic progress from both before and after that critical year. This course takes a different approach from that very worthwhile historical/institutional approach in that it asks which tools from the modern economics and finance toolbox can and cannot be used to understand the Chinese economy and financial system. There will be both quantitative and qualitative aspects involved in our pursuit of that understanding. Every lecture will have a theory component, policy discussion component and data analytic component. By the completion of this course, students will know how to work with data related to the Chinese economy and how to go about thinking analytically about China’s economy and financial system. This will allow the student to intelligently answer challenging questions related to China’s current and future economic/financial circumstance.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- R 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
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Ronald M Schramm
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THESIS DEVELOPMENT
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. This course will help guide E3B Ph.D. students towards candidacy by teaching them the skills necessary to be effective and independent scientists. Students will conduct an extensive literature review, write a preliminary dissertation proposal, and present their research ideas to the group on multiple occasions. Students will learn how to give and receive constructive written and oral feedback on their work.
- Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
- R 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Maria Uriarte
Wikipedia h-index: 56 Info - 6 points
International Law
MIA International Law Core.
This course introduces students to the foundational concepts and contemporary practice of public international law through real-world scenarios and current global developments. Each session blends structured legal instruction with scenario-based simulations, helping students connect abstract legal norms to strategic thinking, negotiation, and policy analysis. Designed for students without a legal background, the course emphasizes the practical relevance of international law to global governance, diplomacy, and transnational challenges.
Students will explore key elements such as treaty law, statehood, legal responsibilities of states and international organizations, and the creation of international norms. These core topics are examined in relation to major policy areas, including human rights, climate and the environment, global health, peace and conflict, and digital governance. Through interactive simulations, collaborative analysis, and case-based exercises, the course equips students with the knowledge and tools to engage with legal frameworks critically and apply legal reasoning to complex global issues.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- F 8 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
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Horst Fischer
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Grad Sem III in Sound Art & Related Medi
Grad Seminar III in Sound
The Graduate Seminar in Sound Art and Related Media is designed to create a space that is inclusive yet focused on sound as an art form and a medium. Class time is structured to support, reflect, and challenge students as individual artists and as a community. The course examines the medium and subject of sound in an expanded field, investigating its constitutive materials, exhibition and installation practices, and its ethics in the 21st century. The seminar will focus on the specific relations between tools, ideas, and meanings and the specific histories and theories that have arisen when artists engage with sound as a medium and subject in art. The seminar combines discussions of readings and artworks with presentations of students' work and research, as well as site visits and guest lectures.
While the Columbia Visual Arts Program is dedicated to maintaining an interdisciplinary learning environment where students are free to use and explore different mediums while also learning to look at, and critically discuss, artwork in any medium, we are equally committed to providing in-depth knowledge concerning the theories, histories, practices, tools and materials underlying these different disciplines. We offer Graduate Seminars in different disciplines, or combinations of disciplines, including moving image, new genres, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, as well as in Sound Art in collaboration with the Columbia Music Department through their Computer Music Center. These Discipline Seminars are taught by full-time and adjunct faculty, eminent critics, historians, curators, theorists, writers, and artists.
- Department: Visual Arts
- R 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Miya Masaoka
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GROUP CRITIQUE III
- Department: Visual Arts
- W 5:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
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Naeem Mohaiemen
Wikipedia h-index: 8 Info - 3 points
ARTIST MENTORSHIP III
This required Visual Arts core MFA curriculum course, comprising two parts, allows MFA students to deeply engage with and learn directly from a wide variety of working artists who visit the program each year.
Lecture Series
The lecture component, taught by an adjunct faculty member with a background in art history and/or curatorial studies, consists of lectures and individual studio visits by visiting artists and critics over the course of the academic year. The series is programmed by a panel of graduate Visual Arts students under the professor's close guidance. Invitations are extended to artists whose practice reflects the interests, mediums, and working methods of MFA students and the program. Weekly readings assigned by the professor provide context for upcoming visitors. Other course assignments include researching and preparing introductions and discussion questions for each of the visitors. Undergraduate students enrolled in Visual Arts courses are encouraged to attend and graduate students in Columbia's Department of Art History are also invited. Following each class-period the conversation continues informally at a reception for the visitor. Studio visits with Visual Arts MFA students take place on or around the week of the artist or critic's lecture and are coordinated and assigned by lottery by the professor.
Artist Mentorship
The Artist-Mentor component allows a close and focused relationship to form between a core group of ten to fifteen students and their mentor. Students are assigned two mentors who they meet with each semester in two separate one-week workshops. The content of each workshop varies according to the Mentors’ areas of expertise and the needs of the students. Mentor weeks can include individual critiques, group critiques, studio visits, visits to galleries, other artist's studios, museums, special site visits, readings, and writing workshops. Here are a few descriptions from recent mentors:
• During Mentor Week we will individually and collectively examine our assumptions and notions about art. What shapes our needs and expectations as artists and the impact of what we do?
• Our week will include visits to exhibition spaces to observe how the public engages the art. Throughout, we will consider art's ability to have real life consequences and the public's desire to personally engage with and experience art without mediation.
• The week will be conducted in two parts, f
- Department: Visual Arts
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Naeem Mohaiemen
Wikipedia h-index: 8 Info - 3 points
FORMAL VERIF HW SW SYSTEMS
Introduction to the theory and practice of formal methods for the design and analysis of correct (i.e. bug-free) concurrent and embedded hardware/software systems. Topics include temporal logics; model checking; deadlock and liveness issues; fairness; satisfiability (SAT) checkers; binary decision diagrams (BDDs); abstraction techniques; introduction to commercial formal verification tools. Industrial state-of-art, case studies and experiences: software analysis (C/C++/Java), hardware verification (RTL).
- Department: Computer Science
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Rising, Rejuvenating, or Revisionism: Ch
China and the Int'l Order
China’s ascendency or rejuvenation is one of the defining political events in the 21st century. Chinese imprints expand widely on the present Liberal International Order (LIO), ranging from traditional security issues—such as military modernization, maritime disputes, nuclear nonproliferation, and cybersecurity— to non-traditional security areas, such as humanitarian intervention, climate change governance, and human rights. Will China be destined for a “New Cold War” with the US, given its national power, regime type, ideological features, and/or racial and ethnic identities? Could Beijing be accommodated by Washington to escape the tragedy of the “Thucydides’ Trap”? In this seminar, students will examine the core concepts and theories in International Relations (IR), security studies, and International Political Economy (IPE), and learn to critically apply them to current events. Importantly, students are expected to reflectively juxtapose these theoretical frameworks derived from Western historical contexts with theoretical analysis and empirical cases from Asian epistemic communities, and understand the applicability and validity of conventional IR canons, such as power transitions and security dilemmas. In essence, this course equips students with historical analogies, theoretical tools, and empirical cases to directly get China right, rather than understanding this country as an analogy to European historical experience.
- Department: International Security & Diplomacy
- T 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Zikun Yang
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Japanese Foreign Policy
This graduate seminar course provides an overview of modern and contemporary Japanese foreign policy and the strategy behind its engagement with the world. It examines the following questions: What are the key determinants of Japanese foreign policy, and how have they evolved over time? How should Japan approach, navigate, and shape the increasingly uncertain strategic environment in the Indo-Pacific in the years ahead, including China’s growing power, the shifting role of the U.S.-Japan alliance, and the intensifying great power rivalry? In the first few weeks of the course, we will cover the making of modern Japan and the enduring themes that have long animated Japan’s strategic thinking. In the following weeks, we will survey Japan’s foreign policies toward key countries and regions while discussing topics relevant to the respective relationships, such as security, trade, identity, historical memory, and values and norms. Each week, we will identify Japan’s ends, ways, and means in its approach to a particular region or issue and end our class by discussing current policy questions Japan faces.
FINANCIAL MODELING CASE STUDIES
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- R 4:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
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Chok S Lei
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UNSETTLING SOUTH ASIA MODERN
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- W 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Ateya A Khorakiwala
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FEASTING + FASTING
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Ateya A Khorakiwala
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TOPICS IN SIGNAL PROCESSING
TPC:REINFORCEMENT LEARNING
Advanced topics in signal processing, such as multidimensional signal processing, image feature extraction, image/video editing and indexing, advanced digital filter design, multirate signal processing, adaptive signal processing, and wave-form coding of signals. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6880 to 6889.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- F 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
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U.S.-China Relations: Past, Present, and
U.S.-China relations are among the most consequential and complex challenges in the world today. The world’s two most powerful countries and largest economies are at once bitter rivals and deeply interdependent, and their actions have ripple effects felt globally. This IGP short course will examine the evolution of U.S.-China relations from the height of the Cold War to the present moment, drawing on primary and secondary sources to give students a solid grounding in both scholarly and policy approaches to the topic. It will then discuss potential future scenarios for U.S.-China relations between 2026 and 2035 and conclude with a crisis simulation for students to apply what they have learned. This IGP short course will meet over four sessions and consist of readings, lectures, conversations with guest speakers, and active student participation in discussions.
- Department: International Security & Diplomacy
- F 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Julian Gewirtz
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TOPICS-INFORMATION PROCESSING
TPC:BIG DATA ANALYTICS
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: Big Data Analytics.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- F 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
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Ching-Yung Lin
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TOPICS-INFORMATION PROCESSING
DATA CENTER PROCESSING
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 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Tanvir Ahmed Khan
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TOPICS-INFORMATION PROCESSING
TPC:QUANTUM COMPUT & COMM
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: Quantum Computing and Communication.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
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Alexei Ashikhmin
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RESEARCH
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Danielle S Smoller
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TUTORIAL IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
A reading course in an advanced topic for a small number of students, under faculty supervision.
- Department: Computer Science
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Instructor:
Timothy A Roughgarden
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RSRCH COMPUTING EARTH SCI
Prerequisites: Graduate student status, calculus, or instructor permission Priority given to first year PhD students in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Computing has become an indispensable tool for Earth Scientists. This course will introduce incoming DEES PhD students to modern computing software, programming tools and best practices that are broadly applicable to carrying out research in the Earth Sciences. This includes an introduction to Unix, programming in three commonly used languages (Python, MATLAB and Fortran), version control and data backup, tools for visualizing geoscience data and making maps. Students will learn the basics of high performance computing and big data analysis tools available on cluster computers. Student learning will be facilitated through a combination of lectures, in-class exercises, homework assignments and class projects. All topics will be taught through example datasets or problems from Earth Sciences. The course is designed to be accessible for Earth Science graduate students in any discipline.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Yutian Wu
h-index: 15 Info - 3 points
THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE
- Department: Economics
- M 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
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David Weinstein
CULPA: 13
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TPCS-ELEC & COMPUT ENGINEERING
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
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Savannah Eisner
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What Is An Image?
How can we define the image in the digital age? Can we (still) believe our eyes? What is underneath the image? As we will see in this course, these fundamental questions are not new within the history of media. Through the ages, the image has been questioned and redefined as image, surface, visual representation, index, etc. Philosopher Vilém Flusser once remarked that the composite essence of digital technology was already embedded in photography because the photographic image is an image composed of points, which the human eye synthesizes into an image. This course revisits Flusser’s notion of the “technical image” and proposes to rethink the image beyond its visual dimensions, from the perspectival image of the Renaissance to the AI-generated image of today. Instead of following a strict chronological path, we will delve into various theoretical debates on “what is an image?” – ranging from the binary image of textile to the haptic image of video art, from the technological image of the optical toy to the operational image of surveillance and warfare. Both mainstream and experimental films will be analyzed and discussed as critical interventions in the history of image technologies.
- Department: Film
- R 2:10 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Wanda Strauven
Info - 3 points
QUANT METHODS OF DATA ANALYSIS
Prerequisites: calculus. Recommended preparation: linear algebra, statistics, computer programming. Introduction to the fundamentals of quantitative data analysis in Earth and environmental sciences. Topics: review of relevant probability, statistics and linear algebra; linear models and generalized least squares; Fourier analysis and introduction to spectral analysis; filtering time series (convolution,deconvolution,smoothing); factor analysis and empirical orthogonal functions; covariance and correlation; methods of interpolation; statistical significance and hypothesis testing; introduction to Monte Carlo methods for data analysis. Problem sets and term project require use of MATLAB or Python.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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William H Menke
CULPA: 14 Info - 4 points
INTRO TO WRITING STUDIES
Anyone who pursues a career as a college faculty member will teach writing—either formally, in a writing class, or informally, as we work with students who are new to our disciplines. However, many graduate students in the humanities have received no substantive training in the burgeoning field of writing studies. In English, career opportunities in writing studies have outpaced other field areas. The MLA’s 2016-2017 jobs list reported that 851 positions were advertised in English, 10% fewer than the previous year. Of those jobs, 217 were in writing studies, 187 were in British literature, and 172 were in American literature. Given that writing studies positions are also advertised elsewhere, the gap is likely larger. This seminar will explore key debates in writing studies research and teaching methodologies, program development, and disciplinary and institutional status. Writing studies is the newest name for “rhetoric and composition,” a field which declared its existence in the mid-1960s, and draws its praxes and theories from classical rhetoric, applied linguistics, cognitive and developmental psychology, literary criticism, civic education, creative writing, and progressive pedagogy. Scholarship in writing studies since the 1960s has sought to deepen our understanding of how transactions work among writers, readers, and texts. Writing studies prompts us to track how standards for “good” or “appropriate” academic writing change over time, and how the teaching of writing responds to social, political, institutional, and disciplinary forces. The readings in this course will help us to articulate our own philosophies of writing and shape approaches to pedagogy in our own fields. Topis will include the following: how writers develop; intellectual practices that foster community among learners; the ethics and politics of textual transactions, including assessment; students’ rights to their own language; literacy acquisition across media; working in transnational and translingual spaces; genre and rhetorical theory; fostering knowledge and skills transfer; the impact of intersectionality on pedagogy and program design; and labor justice. We will read works by foundational writing studies scholars including John Dewey, Wayne Booth, bell hooks, Victor Villaneuva, Jr. A. Suresh Canagarajah, and the current president of the Modern Language Association, Anne Ruggles Gere. Participants will have the opportunity to ask how writing studies can deepen the understanding of writing in our fields, regardless
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Nicole Wallack
CULPA: 7 Info - 4 points
EVIDENCE & INFERENCE
This fall course, taken by the entire M.A. class, teaches a disciplined “journalistic method” of testing assumptions and making sure that reporting firmly proves its points.
Students develop useful skills for working with statistics, using academic research and conducting in-depth interviews. They are also taught to carefully combine anecdote and narrative with the big picture in their writing.
- Department: Journalism
- R 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Nicholas B Lemann
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THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
This course takes a problem-identification and problem-solving approach to the delivery of social work services in health, mental health, and disabilities, with content about the social policies and organizational structures that characterize our current healthcare system.
- Department: Social Work
- W 2 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
- T 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
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- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- M 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
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Katrina Balovlenkov
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Christie Hunnicut
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Antonette Mentor
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Venus Vacharakitja
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Topics in 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
- F 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ilija Hadzic
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PRINCIPLES OF ART HUMANITIES
- Department: Core (A&S)
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Instructor:
Ioannis Mylonopoulos
CULPA: 13
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Academic Writing and Great Presentations
ACADEMIC WRITING AND PRES
Principles of writing clear and rigorous science texts and giving great presentations. The Writing component focuses on the construction of logical arguments, reporting and interpretation of data, composing process, and strategies for redrafting and editing. Genres include Introductions, Data Commentaries, Results/Discussion, Conclusions, Abstracts, Requests for funding, Research statements, Professional emails, Blogs. The Presentation component looks at development of the presentation story, use of visuals, fluent delivery, asking and responding to questions. Speaking contexts include research talks, lab talks, conference presentations, poster talks, job talks, interviews, industry pitches. Pass/No Pass only, based on completion of assignments and participation in class exercises.
Credit may not be used to satisfy degree requirements.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- F 10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Janet Kayfetz
Info - 3 points
Conspiracy Theory in American Film and C
Conspiracy Theory in US F
This class will look at the history of conspiracy theories in American culture from the 50s and 60s (UFOs, the red scare, JFK’s assassination) to the 21st century (from 9/11 truthers to Covid conspiracies and QAnon) with particular attention to cinematic representation. What is the lure of conspiracy theories? Are there particular reasons that conspiracy theories thrive in American culture? Do different media forms and platforms encourage the spread, and even transform the content, of conspiracies? What is the difference between theory in the social sciences and humanities and conspiracy theory? We will read a range of theoretical material including writings by Richard Hofstadter, Fredric Jameson, Jean Baudrillard, Eve Sedgwick, Sianne Ngai, and many others. Films will include:
Invasion of the Body Snatchers,
The Parallax View
,
Videodrome
,
The Matrix
,
Get Out
, and others.
- Department: Film
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nico Baumbach
Info - 3 points
THESIS I/CAPSTONE I WORKSHOP
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- W 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
- 3 points
THESIS II/CAPSTONE II
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Weiping Wu
Wikipedia h-index: 27 Info - 3 points
M.A. ESSENTIALS
INVESTIGATIVE TECHNIQUES
- Department: Journalism
- M 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
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Instructor:
Charles Ornstein
Wikipedia Info - 3 points