Prerequisites: Equivalent of four years of Modern Japanese, or three years of Modern Japanese with Classical Japanese.
In this course, students will have the opportunity to apply and improve their Japanese language skills through translating works of modern Japanese literature in a variety of genres, including narrative fiction, personal essay, and criticism, while considering the various interpretive, aesthetic, and linguistic challenges posed by literary translation generally, and the translation of Japanese into English, specifically. Students are required to have either completed the equivalent of four years of Modern Japanese or three years of Modern Japanese in conjunction with Classical Japanese.
This course examines displacement and ethnic cleansing in the modern Middle East and Eastern Europe. Students will explore various ideologies that underpinned mass violence, starting with forced migrations of Jews and Muslims out of Imperial Russia, through the Armenian Genocide, to interwar refugee crises in the Middle East and Stalin’s deportations. The course focuses on the Ottoman and Russian empires and their post-World War I successor nation-states. It examines the evolution of contemporary ideas about ethnic cleansing, refugees, humanitarianism, and population transfers.
An exploration of Russian and Soviet history through criminal trials from the early 19
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Century through the end of the Soviet Union focusing on continuities throughout radically different time periods. Highlights major themes of gender, nationality, revolutionary movements, violence, ideology, and memory as they were reflected in the administration of justice.
Throughout the history of the United States, African Americans have offered alternative visions of the nation's future and alternative definitions of national progress. Not limited to reforming the worst social ills, these discourses have called for a fundamental restructuring of our political, economic, and social relations. This class examines the continuities of that radical tradition.
This seminar examines the global contest between the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and his opponents in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, culminating in the toppling of the Pahlavi monarchy in the Iranian Revolution of 1978-79. The seminar is primarily concerned with the competition between the Shah and his opponents to embody Iranian nationalism in a global era characterized by decolonization and the Cold War. One particular focus of the seminar will be the place of America and Americans in the Iranian Revolution. As such, the seminar offers a political, intellectual, and international history of the origins of the Iranian Revolution.
Prerequisites: PHYS UN3003 and PHYS UN3007 or the equivalent.
Tensor algebra, tensor analysis, introduction to Riemann geometry. Motion of particles, fluid, and fields in curved spacetime. Einstein equation. Schwarzschild solution; test-particle orbits and light bending. Introduction to black holes, gravitational waves, and cosmological models.
This course introduces students to some of the major themes of postwar reconstruction in Europe, between the end of World War II to the advent of the Cold War. This is a crucial turning-point in contemporary European history, yet its nature varies dramatically in different parts of Europe, while it also leads to a fundamental restructuring of the political, social and economic, and cultural relations in Europe as a whole. This period is therefore studied from a comparative as well as a transnational perspective. Students will acquire insight in the main historical events and processes, the historiographical debates on this period, relevant primary sources, and methods for studying contemporary history.
Prerequisites: MATH UN1102 and MATH UN1202 and MATH UN2010 or the equivalent
The second term of this course may not be taken without the first. Groups, homomorphisms, rings, ideals, fields, polynomials, field extensions, Galois theory.
This seminar brings anthropological perspectives to bear on the practices and ideologies of "cultural heritage" in the Republic of Georgia today, whee culture has proven a key political and economic pawn in a context of ongoing postsocialist struggle.......
Prerequisites: MATH UN1102 and MATH UN1202 and MATH UN2010 or the equivalent.
The second term of this course may not be taken without the first. Groups, homomorphisms, rings, ideals, fields, polynomials, field extensions, Galois theory.
This Workshop is linked to the Workshop on Wealth & Inequality Meetings. This is meant for graduate students, however, if you are an advanced undergraduate student you can email the professor for permission to enroll.
Prerequisites: MATH UN2010 and MATH GU4041 or the equivalent.
Finite groups acting on finite sets and finite dimensional vector spaces. Group characters. Relations with subgroups and factor groups. Arithmetic properties of character values. Applications to the theory of finite groups: Frobenius groups, Hall subgroups and solvable groups. Characters of the symmetric groups. Spherical functions on finite groups.
Collecting is among the most universal of human social phenomena. The course begins by studying the universality of collecting, exploring its range and hierarchies. Following a study of social, psychological, and anthropological theories of collecting, the course traces the history of collecting at its highest levels, from Renaissance princely collections to modern public art museums. The course is mostly about European and American collecting, but includes discussion of how art from all over the world has been collected. Special attention will be paid to preserved collections and art about collecting.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
The laboratory has 13 available individual experiments, of which two are required per 2 points. Each experiment requires two (four-hour) laboratory sessions. Registration is limited by the laboratory capacity. May be repeated for credit with different experiment selection. Experiments (classical and modern) cover topics in electricity, magnetism, optics, atomic physics, and nuclear physics.
Prerequisites: MATH W4051 Topology and / or MATH W4061 Introduction To Modern Analysis I (or equivalents)
\nRecommended (can be taken concurrently): MATH V2010 linear algebra, or equivalent
The study of algebraic and geometric properties of knots in R^3, including but not limited to knot projections and Reidemeister's theorm, Seifert surfaces, braids, tangles, knot polynomials, fundamental group of knot complements. Depending on time and student interest, we will discuss more advanced topics like knot concordance, relationship to 3-manifold topology, other algebraic knot invariants.
A substantial paper, developing from an Autumn workshop and continuing into the Spring under the direction of an individual adviser. Open only to Barnard senior philosophy majors.
Prerequisites: MATH UN2010 and MATH GU4041 and MATH GU4051
The study of topological spaces from algebraic properties, including the essentials of homology and the fundamental group. The Brouwer fixed point theorem. The homology of surfaces. Covering spaces.
Genome sequencing, the technology used to translate DNA into data, is now a fundamental tool in biological and biomedical research, and is expected to revolutionize many related fields and industries in coming years as the technology becomes faster, smaller, and less expensive. Learning to use and interpret genomic information, however, remains challenging for many students, as it requires synthesizing knowledge from a range of disciplines, including genetics, molecular biology, and bioinformatics. Although genomics is of broad interest to many fields—such as ecology, evolutionary biology, genetics, medicine, and computer science—students in these areas often lack sufficient background training to take a genomics course. This course bridges this gap, by teaching skills in modern genomic technologies that will allow students to innovate and effectively apply these tools in novel applications across disciplines. To achieve this, we implement an active learning approach to emphasize genomics as a data science, and use this organizing principle to structure the course around computational exercises, lab-based activities using state-of-the-art sequencing instruments, case studies, and field work. Together, this approach will introduce students to the principles of genomics by allowing them to generate, analyze, and interpret data hands-on while using the most cutting-edge genomic technologies of today in a stimulating and engaging learning experience.
Prerequisites: MATH UN1202 or the equivalent, and MATH UN2010. The second term of this course may not be taken without the first.
Real numbers, metric spaces, elements of general topology. Continuous and differential functions. Implicit functions. Integration; change of variables. Function spaces.
Prerequisites: MATH UN1202 or the equivalent, and MATH UN2010. The second term of this course may not be taken without the first.
Real numbers, metric spaces, elements of general topology. Continuous and differential functions. Implicit functions. Integration; change of variables. Function spaces.
Prerequisites: MATH UN1202 or the equivalent, and MATH UN2010. The second term of this course may not be taken without the first.
Real numbers, metric spaces, elements of general topology. Continuous and differential functions. Implicit functions. Integration; change of variables. Function spaces.
Please refer to Institute for Research in African American Studies for section-by-section course descriptions.
Please refer to Institute for Research in African American Studies for section-by-section course descriptions.
Please refer to Institute for Research in African American Studies for section-by-section course descriptions.
Please refer to Institute for Research in African American Studies for section-by-section course descriptions.
Prerequisites: BIOC UN3512
RNA has recently taken center stage with the discovery that RNA molecules sculpt the landscape and information contained within our genomes. Furthermore, some ancient RNA molecules combine the roles of both genotype and phenotype into a single molecule. These multi-tasking RNAs offering a possible solution to the paradox of which came first: DNA or proteins. This seminar explores the link between modern RNA, metabolism, and insights into a prebiotic RNA world that existed some 3.8 billion years ago. Topics include the origin of life, replication, and the origin of the genetic code; conventional, new, and bizarre forms of RNA processing; and structure, function and evolution of key RNA molecules, including the ribosome. The format will be weekly seminar discussions with presentations. Readings will be taken from the primary literature, emphasizing seminal and recent literature. Requirements will be student presentations, class participation, and a final paper.
Prerequisites: (MATH GU4051 or MATH GU4061) and MATH UN2010
Concept of a differentiable manifold. Tangent spaces and vector fields. The inverse function theorem. Transversality and Sard's theorem. Intersection theory. Orientations. Poincare-Hopf theorem. Differential forms and Stoke's theorem.
The impetus of this course is to rethink the trajectory, conditions, and prospects of humanism, with a consideration of how such rethinking contributes to the reconfiguration of the Humanities in the present time. The impact of anti-humanist thinking in contemporary theory is taken as a point of departure, as a challenge that must be overcome. Hence, certain classic writings of Marx and Heidegger (and responses by Althusser, Derrida, and Said) are examined in detail in the initial 4 weeks of the course.
However, in order to field this challenge in its full epistemological range, we will also engage with various discourses that respond to the question “what is human?” including recent discussions of animality (Derrida, Agamben, Haraway) and the exceptional challenge of feminist epistemology to traditionally gendered humanist assumptions (Irigaray, Haraway). The last third of the course examines what affirmations the question “what is human?” – though not answerable as such – mobilizes in three specific epistemological domains: psyche, pedagogy, politics. In this respect, the focus falls upon Castoriadis’ monumental response to Aristotle and Freud, as well as Derrida’s classic treatise on friendship. The course ends with a preliminary discussion of theories of the “post-human” in cognitive science, which will resonate against the discussions in the beginning of the course.
This is a graduate course, open to exceptional senior undergraduates. A kind of basic background in Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud is assumed. The course addresses concerns of students throughout the humanities, but also certain theoretical tracks in the arts and humanistic tracks in the social sciences. It will also be of interest to students in the biological sciences, neuroscience, or cognitive science, who seek an opportunity to reflect on their disciplines from a philosophical standpoint.
This short course will explore the concept of accountability within humanitarian intervention. In particular it will look at the contemporary significance of accountability for humanitarian response – when and why it has become an important concept for humanitarian intervention, and specific events that have led to a shift from donors to recipients of aid as the agents of accountability and how it is being implemented in the field. Key questions that will be explored include: To whom are humanitarian agencies accountable? What are the competing accountabilities and how do these influence program decisions and agency performance? Why is accountability to affected people important during a humanitarian response? Aside from ideological views, why should the humanitarian sector be concerned with accountability to affected people? What are its end goals? What does an effective accountability mechanism look like? How do agencies implement it? Do these work? In what contexts? How is their effectiveness being measured? By whom? Through an exploration of case studies from the field (including 2005 South East Asian tsunami, Pakistan earthquake and flood response, Haiti earthquake, European Migration of 2015/2016), a mix of lecture, group exercise, video presentation, the course will address the above questions. Guest speakers will be brought in to discuss the issues with those who are grappling with the accountability debates in the field.
Prerequisites: (APPH E3100) and (MSAE E3111) or their equivalents with instructor’s permission.
The science and engineering of creating materials, functional structures and devices on the nanometer scale. Carbon nanotubes, nanocrystals, quantum dots, size dependent properties, self-assembly, nanostructured materials. Devices and applications, nanofabrication. Molecular engineering, bionanotechnology. Imaging and manipulating at the atomic scale. Nanotechnology in society and industry. Offered in alternate years.
Prerequisites: (APPH E3100) and (MSAE E3111) or their equivalents with instructor’s permission.
The science and engineering of creating materials, functional structures and devices on the nanometer scale. Carbon nanotubes, nanocrystals, quantum dots, size dependent properties, self-assembly, nanostructured materials. Devices and applications, nanofabrication. Molecular engineering, bionanotechnology. Imaging and manipulating at the atomic scale. Nanotechnology in society and industry. Offered in alternate years.
Prerequisite:
open to public. Presentations by medical informatics faculty and invited international speakers in medical informatics, computer science, nursing informatics, library science, and related fields.
Prerequisites: (ENME E3106) or equivalent.
Basic concepts of seismology. Earthquake characteristics, magnitude, response spectrum, dynamic response of structures to ground motion. Base isolation and earthquake-resistant design. Wind loads and aeroelastic instabilities. Extreme winds. Wind effects on structures and gust factors.
Decision analytic framework for operating, managing, and planning water systems, considering changing climate, values and needs. Public and private sector models explored through US-international case studies on topics ranging from integrated watershed management to the analysis of specific projects for flood mitigation, water and wastewater treatment, or distribution system evaluation and improvement.
This seminar for graduate and advanced undergraduate students has two main objectives. First, it is to critically assess competing and conflicting conceptions of the Balkans, Balkanism, and Balkanization. Second, it engages with border studies, a vast and thriving field that makes sense of widely different and constantly changing definitions of the border. The course’s case studies focus on the region of the former Yugoslavia across the disciplines currently recognized as the humanities and social sciences. We will examine what those disciplinary borders do to the different types of borders we have chosen to analyze. We will discuss the concepts of copy and imitation in relation to Balkan arts and politics in the contemporary globalized world. We will explore documentary film and performance art representations of how refugees, migrant minorities, and borderline populations counter marginalizations and trauma.
Prerequisites: IEOR E4101
Introduction to stochastic processes and model, with emphasis on applications to engineering and management; random walks, gambler's ruin problem, Markov chains in both discrete and continuous time, Poisson processes, renewal processes, stopping times, Wald's equation, binomial lattice model for pricing risky assets, simple option pricing; simulation of simple stochastic processes, Brownian motion, and geometric Brownian motion. This course is a specialized version of IEOR E4106 for MSE students.
Prerequisites: at least two terms of Greek at the 3000-level or higher.
Greek literature of the 4th century B.C. and of the Hellenistic and Imperial Ages.
Prerequisites: (STAT GU4001)
This graduate course is only for MS&E, IE and OR students. This is also required for students in the Undergraduate Advanced Track.
Some of the main stochastic models used in engineering and operations research applications: discrete-time Markov chains, Poisson processes, birth-and-death processes, and other continuous Markov chains, renewal reward processes. Applications: queueing, reliability, inventory, and finance.
Prerequisites:
KORN W4006
or the equivalent.
Selections from advanced modern Korean writings in social sciences, literature, culture, history, journalistic texts, and intensive conversation exercises.
Prerequisites: at least two terms of Latin at the 3000-level or higher.
Latin literature from Augustus to 600 C.E.
Prerequisites: (APPH E3300)
Ray optics, matrix formulation, wave effects, interference, Gaussian beams, Fourier optics, diffraction, image formation, electromagnetic theory of light, polarization and crystal optics, coherence, guided wave and fiber optics, optical elements, photons, selected topics in nonlinear optics.
Prerequisites: (APPH E3300)
Ray optics, matrix formulation, wave effects, interference, Gaussian beams, Fourier optics, diffraction, image formation, electromagnetic theory of light, polarization and crystal optics, coherence, guided wave and fiber optics, optical elements, photons, selected topics in nonlinear optics.
Prerequisites: sophomore standing or the instructor's permission.
Examination of the ways in which gender and sexuality are constructed in ancient Greek society and represented in literature and art, with attention to scientific theory, ritual practice, and philosophical speculation. Topics include conceptions of the body, erotic and homoerotic literature and practice, legal constraints, pornography, rape, and prostitution.