ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS I

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134 or COMS W3136COMS W3137) and (COMS W3203)
Introduction to the design and analysis of efficient algorithms. Topics include models of computation, efficient sorting and searching, algorithms for algebraic problems, graph algorithms, dynamic programming, probabilistic methods, approximation algorithms, and NP-completeness.

• Department: Computer Science
• Instructor: Eleni Drinea
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS I

ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS, I

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134 or COMS W3136COMS W3137) and (COMS W3203)
Introduction to the design and analysis of efficient algorithms. Topics include models of computation, efficient sorting and searching, algorithms for algebraic problems, graph algorithms, dynamic programming, probabilistic methods, approximation algorithms, and NP-completeness.

• Department: Video Network
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Eleni Drinea
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

EASTERN EUROPE'S COLD WAR

This seminar explores the Cold War's impact on Eastern Europe (1940s-1980s) and Eastern Europe's Cold War-era engagements with the wider world. We will address the methodologies used by historians to answer questions like these: What was the Cold War? What did it mean, and for whom? We will also look at the Cold War as something more than a series of events; we will consider its value, uses, and limits as a device for framing the second half of the twentieth century.

• Department: History
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Elidor Mehilli
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• 4 points

DESIGN OF LARGE SCALE BUILDINGS

DESIGN OF LARGE SCALE BUILDNGS

Prerequisites: (CIEN E3121) and (CIEN E3127)
Modern challenges in the design of large-scale building structures will be studied. Tall buildings, large convention centers and major sports stadiums present major opportunities for creative solutions and leadership on the part of engineers. This course is designed to expose the students to this environment by having them undertake the complete design of a large structure from initial design concepts on through all the major design decisions. The students work as members of a design team to overcome the challenges inherent in major projects. Topics include overview of major projects, project criteria and interface with architecture, design of foundations and structural systems, design challenges in the post 9/11 environment and roles, responsibilities and legal issues.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• 3 points

SEA LEVEL CHANGE

Prerequisites: At least a year of calculus and physics; any 1000-level or 2000-level EESC course; basic,programming experience (e.g. EESC3400 - Introduction to Computational Earth Science).,Recommended: EESC2100 (Climate System), EESC2200 (Solid Earth), EESC3201 (Solid Earth,Dynamics).
The course aims to explore sea level changes that take place over a wide variety of timescales and are the result of multiple solid Earth and climatic processes. The course will link a series of solid Earth processes such as mantle convection, viscoelastic deformation, and plate tectonics to the paleoclimate record and investigate how these processes contribute to our understanding of past and present changes in sea level and climate. The course will step chronologically through time starting with long term sea level changes over the Phanerozoic, followed by Plio-Pleistocene ice age sea level variations and lastly modern and future sea level change. This is a cross-disciplinary course, which is aimed at students with interests in geophysics, cryosphere evolution, ocean dynamics, sedimentology, paleogeography, and past and present climate.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jacqueline Austermann
  h-index: 18 Info
• 3 points

DESIGN-PRESTRESS CONCRET STRUC

DESIGNS-PRESTRESS CONCRETE STR

Prerequisites: (CIEN E4232) or instructor's permission.
Properties of materials used in prestressed concrete; pre-tensioning versus post-tensioning; loss of prestress due to elastic shortening, friction, anchorage slip, shrinkage, creep and relaxation; full versus partial prestressing; design of beams for flexure, shear and torsion; method of load balancing; anchorage zone design; calculation of deflection by the lump-sum and incremental time-step methods; continuous beams; composite construction; prestressed slabs and columns.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• F 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Tom T Panayotidi
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

CHINESE INTERNET CULTURE

This course introduces Chinese internet culture by examining interactive literary communities, multimedia platforms, cyber-nationalism, web-based activism, and the possibility of the internet commons in mainland China.  We will pay close attention to the figure of netizen, online piracy, cyberbullying, censorship, and growing addiction to virtual reality among the Chinese youth.  Topics of discussion include, for example, the tension between connectivity and control, between imitation and innovation, and between the real and the virtual.  We will explore these new developments in media technology primarily from social, political, and international perspectives.  The goal is to understand how the rapid proliferation of digital technologies has helped create a new landscape of popular culture across mass media and transformed contemporary Chinese society.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Yan Wang
  h-index: 28 Info
• 4 points

LANGUAGE AND MIND

Prerequisites: PSYC UN1001 and Preferably, an additional course in psychology, focusing on cognition, development, or research methods. Instructor permission required.
This seminar explores the relationship between language and thought by investigating how language is mentally represented and processed; how various aspects of language interact with each other; and how language interacts with other aspects of cognition including perception, concepts, world knowledge, and memory. Students will examine how empirical data at the linguistic, psychological, and neuroscientific levels can bear on some of the biggest questions in the philosophy of mind and language and in psychology.

• Department: Psychology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 4 points

DES OF LARGE-SCALE FOUND SYST

Prerequisites: (CIEN E3141)
Focus on deep foundations in difficult conditions and constraints of designing foundations. Design process from the start of field investigations through construction and the application of deep foundations.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• 3 points

AESTHETICS & PHIL OF HIST(ENG)

This course offers an introduction to German intellectual history by focusing on the key texts from the 18th and 19th century concerned with the philosophy of art and the philosophy of history. Instead of providing a general survey, this thematic focus that isolates the relatively new philosophical subspecialties allows for a careful tracing of a number of key problematics. The texts chosen for discussion in many cases are engaged in lively exchanges and controversies. For instance, Winckelmann provides an entry into the debate on the ancients versus the moderns by making a claim for both the historical, cultural specificity of a particular kind of art, and by advertising the art of Greek antiquity as a model to be imitated by the modern artist. Lessing's Laocoon counters Winckelmann's idealizing approach to Greek art with a media specific reflection. According to Lessing, the fact that the Laocoon priest from the classical sculpture doesn't scream has nothing to do with the nobility of the Greek soul but all with the fact that a screaming mouth hewn in stone would be ugly. Herder's piece on sculpture offers yet another take on this debate, one that refines and radicalizes an aesthetics based on the careful examination of the different senses, especially touch and feeling versus sight.—The second set of texts in this class deals with key enlightenment concepts of a philosophical anthropology informing the then emerging philosophy of history. Two literary texts will serve to mark key epochal units: Goethe's Prometheus, which will be used in the introductory meeting, will be examined in view of its basic humanist program, Kleist's "Earthquake in Chili" will serve as a base for the discussion of what would be considered the "end" of the Enlightenment: be that the collapse of a belief in progress or the critique of the beautiful and the sublime. The last unit of the class focuses on Hegel's sweeping supra-individualist approach to the philosophy of history and Nietzsche's fierce critique of Hegel. Readings are apportioned such that students can be expected to fully familiarize themselves with the arguments of these texts and inhabit them.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Dorothea von Muecke
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• 3 points

CERAMICS & COMPOSITES

CERAMICS/CERAMC COMP MATERIALS

Prerequisites: (MSAE E3142) and (MSAE E3013) or instructor's permission.
Corequisites: MSAE E3142,MSAE E3013
The course will cover some of the fundamental processes of atomic diffusion, sintering and microstructural evolution, defect chemistry, ionic transport, and electrical properties of ceramic materials. Following this, we will examine applications of ceramic materials--specifically ceramic thick and thin film materials in the areas of sensors and energy conversion/storage devices such as fuel cells, and batteries. The coursework level assumes that the student has already taken basic courses in the thermodynamics of materials, diffusion in materials, and crystal structures of materials.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Siu-Wai Chan
  h-index: 36 Info
• 3 points

INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION

Industrial Organization

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213
The study of industrial behavior based on game-theoretic oligopoly models. Topics include pricing models, strategic aspects of business practice, vertical integration, and technological innovation.

• Department: Economics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: John Asker
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• 3 points

ENVIR DATA ANALYSIS & MODELING

Prerequisites: (SIEO W3600) or (STAT GU4001) or
Statistical methods for the analysis of the space and time structure in environmental data. Application to problems of climate variation and change; hydrology; air, water and soil pollution dynamics; disease propagation; ecological change; and resource assessment. Applications are developed using the ArcView Geographical Information System (GIS), integrated with currently available statistical packages. Team projects that lead to publication-quality analyses of data in various environmental fields of interest. An interdisciplinary perspective is emphasized in this applications-oriented class.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Upmanu Lall
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 68 Info
• 3 points

ENVIR DATA ANALYSIS & MODELING

ENVIRONMENTAL DATA ANALYS

Prerequisites: (SIEO W3600) or (STAT GU4001) or
Statistical methods for the analysis of the space and time structure in environmental data. Application to problems of climate variation and change; hydrology; air, water and soil pollution dynamics; disease propagation; ecological change; and resource assessment. Applications are developed using the ArcView Geographical Information System (GIS), integrated with currently available statistical packages. Team projects that lead to publication-quality analyses of data in various environmental fields of interest. An interdisciplinary perspective is emphasized in this applications-oriented class.

• Department: Video Network
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Upmanu Lall
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 68 Info
• 3 points

MARKET DESIGN

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and STAT UN1201
This course uses modern microeconomic tools for understanding markets for indivisible resources and exploring ways to improve their design in terms of stability, efficiency and incentives. Lessons of market design will be applied to developing internet platforms for intermediating exchanges, for auctions to allocate sponsored search advertising, to allocate property rights such as public lands, radio spectrums, fishing rights, for assigning students to public schools, and for developing efficient kidney exchanges for transplantation.

• Department: Economics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Guillaume Haeringer
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

RETHINKING MIDDLE EAST POLITCS

This course examines a set of questions that have shaped the study of the politics of the modern Middle East. It looks at the main ways those questions have been answered, exploring debates both in Western academic scholarship and among scholars and intellectuals in the region itself. For each question, the course offers new ways of thinking about the issue or ways of framing it in different terms. The topics covered in the course include: the kinds of modern state that emerged in the Middle East and the ways its forms of power and authority were shaped; the birth of economic development as a way of describing the function and measuring the success of the state, and the changing metrics of this success; the influence of oil on the politics of the region; the nature and role of Islamic political movements; the transformation of the countryside and the city and the role of rural populations and of urban protest in modern politics; and the politics of armed force and political violence in the region, and the ways in which this has been understood. The focus of the course will be on the politics of the twentieth century, but many topics will be traced back into developments that occurred in earlier periods, and several will be explored up to the present. The course is divided into four parts, each ending with a paper or exam in which participants are asked to analyze the material covered. Each part of the course has a geographical focus on a country or group of countries and a thematic focus on a particular set of questions of historical and political analysis. Discussion Section Required.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Timothy Mitchell
  Wikipedia h-index: 34 Info
• 4 points

COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS

This course focuses on issues related to colonial encounters over time, space and geographies. The course is organized around issues that emerge from thinking about the past and present of colonialism and how those encounters affect and frame epistemological as well as ontological questions. We will explore the themes and lines of thought that are helpful in thinking about our contemporary conditions in terms of colonial history. As such, this course examines different types of colonialisms in their various forms and iterations over time and space and their attendant narrations and stories regarding the relationship to the past and present. This course is also about the various ways, means and methods that colonized people(s) confront(ed) colonial violence, domination, and other forms of power. Throughout the semester we ask questions related to histories of colonialisms, comparative colonial settings, settler colonial trajectories, and indigenous responses to settler power. The course will travel in theory and space, in terms of geography and temporality, while prioritizing a focus on the Middle East.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Rena Barakat
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• 4 points

AUDITORY PERCEPTION

Prerequisites: PSYC UN1010 PSYC UN1010 or equivalent; background in statistics/research methods recommended
How does the human brain make sense of the acoustic world? What aspects of auditory perception do humans share with other animals? How does the brain perform the computations necessary for skills such as sound
localization? How do we focus our auditory attention on one voice in a crowd? What acoustic cues are important for speech perception? How is music perceived? These are the types of questions we will address by studying
the basics of auditory perception from textbook readings and reviews, and reading classic and current literature
to understand scientific progress in the field today.

• Department: Psychology
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Sarah Woolley
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 31 Info
• 4 points

SOCIAL MEDIA AND HUMAN RIGHTS

This course examines how changes in information and communications technology have, over the past two decades, fundamentally transformed the practices of civil society actors engaged with human rights issues. New communications tools such as Twitter, blogs, and Facebook have changed the ways that organizations communicate with their followers and seek to influence public debate. The increasing accessibility of analytic tools for researching and visualizing changing patterns of human rights abuse has empowered groups to better understand and respond more forcefully to these issues. Indeed, the use of social media as a communications tool has made it a data source for those monitoring and analyzing patterns of activity, in ways that draw increasingly on the techniques of big data analysis.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Ted Perlmutter
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• 3 points

WANDERLUST:READINGS IN ARABIC WRITING

READINGS IN ARABIC TRAVEL WRIT

Travel is a prominent feature of Arab-Islamic literature. As Individuals have consistently sought to understand and extend their physical, spiritual, and imaginative worlds, we will, in this course, join them in exploring the literary trope of travel through the physical and non-physical, real and imagined geographies. In this seminar, we will read fictional and non-fictional writing about travel, space, and place from Sindbad’s 
Voyages
 to Mahmoud Darwish’s exile poetry.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Sarah Bin Tyeer
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 1 Info
• 4 points

21ST-CENTURY TRANSNATIONAL CINEMA

The so-called refugee crisis has drawn worldwide attention to Europe’s heated debates about immigration and identity, but questions of national and transnational belonging have shaped the continent throughout the last few decades, against the backdrops of sociopolitical Europeanization and socioeconomic globalization. While political discourse has become increasingly polarized with the ascent of anti-immigrant populist forces, contemporary European cinema has developed a range of rich imaginations. In different genres along with more experimental formats, fiction films (as well as documentaries) probe diverging perspectives, unexpected complications, fresh angles or bold responses in tracing experiences of migration and the possibilities of living together in in the twenty-first century.
The course explores these rich scenarios by facilitating close looks at individual films in institutional and socio-political context. The guiding notion of transnationalism is developed descriptively as acknowledging contemporary production and distribution conditions, and probed conceptually in dialogue with part competing, part overlapping paradigms such as postcolonialism and cosmopolitanism, intercultural or diasporic and world cinema. We also read some film theory to sharpen our (multisensorial) reading skills. The selection of films reflects the course’s institutional location in the German department while crossing borders in different directions (that is, roughly half of the films are German-language or otherwise significantly associated with Germany).
This course is taught in English.
All
readings
will be available on Courseworks in pdf-Format. I will aim to make the films available for streaming on the course website also.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Claudia Breger
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

CORPORATE FINANCE

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and STAT UN1201
An introduction to the economics principles underlying the financial decisions of firms. The topics covered include bond and stock valuations, capital budgeting, dividend policy, market efficiency, risk valuation, and risk management. For information regarding REGISTRATION for this course, go to: 
http://econ.columbia.edu/registration-information
.

• Department: Economics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Yiming Ma
  h-index: 4 Info
• Instructor: Tri Vi Dang
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 10 Info
• 3 points

CORE KNOWLEDGE

Prerequisites: For undergraduates: courses in introductory psychology, cognitive or developmental psychology, and the instructor's permission.
Core Knowledge explores the origins and development of knowledge in infants and children, with an additional emphasis on evolutionary cognition. In this course, we will examine evidence from cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, comparative psychology, neuroscience, and linguistics to look at the child's conception of objects, number, space, language, agency, morality and the social world. We will look at which aspects of knowledge are uniquely human, which are shared with other animals, and how this knowledge changes as children develop.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Koleen McCrink
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 17 Info
• 4 points

DECISION ARCHITECTURE

Prerequisites: (PSYC UN2235) or an equivalent course on judgment and decision making ,AND the instructor's permission
This course reviews current research in the domain of decision architecture: the application of research in cognitive and social psychology to real-world situations with the aim of influencing behavior. This seminar will discuss recent and classic studies, both of decision theory and of applied decision research, to explore the effectiveness—as well as the limitations—of a selection of these behavioral “nudges.”

• Department: Psychology
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Katherine T Fox-Glassman
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 4 Info
• 4 points

THE GAMES PEOPLE PLAY:PSYCH OF STRAT & D

THE GAMES PEOPLE PLAY:PSYC OF

Prerequisites: (PSYC UN2235) or equivalent course on judgment and decision-making
A seminar course exploring strategic decision making (also known as behavioral game theory). This course examines the psychology underlying situations in which outcomes are determined by choices made by multiple decision makers. The prime objective will be to examine the use of experimental games to test psychological theories.

• Department: Psychology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Eric J Schoenberg
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• 3 points

BIOLOGICAL MICROSCOPY

Prerequisites: (biol un2005 or biol un2401) or BIOL UN2005 or BIOL UN2401 or equivalent
This is an advanced microscopy course aimed at graduates and advanced undergraduate students, who are interested in learning about the foundational principles of microscopy approaches and their applications in life sciences. The course will introduce the fundamentals of optics, light-matter interaction and in-depth view of most commonly used advanced microscopy methods, explore important practical imaging parameters, and also introduce digital images and their analysis.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Raju Tomer
  h-index: 23 Info
• 3 points

COMPUT MATH:INTRO-NUMERCL METH

Prerequisites: (MATH UN1201) and (MATH UN2030) and (APMA E3101) and (ENGI E1006) or their equivalents. Programming experience in Python extremely useful.
Introduction to fundamental algorithms and analysis of numerical methods commonly used by scientists, mathematicians and engineers. Designed to give a fundamental understanding of the building blocks of scientific computing that will be used in more advanced courses in scientific computing and numerical methods for PDEs (e.g. APMA E4301, E4302). Topics include numerical solutions of algebraic systems, linear least-squares, eigenvalue problems, solution of non-linear systems, optimization, interpolation, numerical integration and differentiation, initial value problems and boundary value problems for systems of ODE's. All programming exercises will be in Python.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Yuan He
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

THE CLASSICAL TRADITION

Overview of Greek and Roman literature. Close analysis of selected texts from the major genres accompanied by lectures on literary history. Topics include the context out of which the genres arose, the suitability of various modern critical approaches to the ancient texts, the problem of translation, and the transmission of the classical authors and their influence on modern literature.

• Department: Classics
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 3 points

NUMERICAL METHODS/PDE'S

NUMERICAL METHODS/PDEs

Prerequisites: (APMA E4300) and (APMA E3102) or (APMA E4200) or or equivalents.
Numerical solution of differential equations, in particular partial differential equations arising in various fields of application. Presentation emphasizes finite difference approaches to present theory on stability, accuracy, and convergence with minimal coverage of alternate approaches (left for other courses). Method coverage includes explicit and implicit time-stepping methods, direct and iterative solvers for boundary-value problems.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Kyle Mandli
  h-index: 14 Info
• 3 points

NUMERICAL METHODS/PDE'S

NUMERICAL METHODS FOR PAR

Prerequisites: (APMA E4300) and (APMA E3102) or (APMA E4200) or or equivalents.
Numerical solution of differential equations, in particular partial differential equations arising in various fields of application. Presentation emphasizes finite difference approaches to present theory on stability, accuracy, and convergence with minimal coverage of alternate approaches (left for other courses). Method coverage includes explicit and implicit time-stepping methods, direct and iterative solvers for boundary-value problems.

• Department: Video Network
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Kyle Mandli
  h-index: 14 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO CLASSICAL CHINESE II

INTRO CLASSICAL CHINESE II

Prerequisites:
CHNS W3301
: Classical Chinese I; completion of three years of modern Chinese at least, or four years of Japanese or Korean.
Please see department.  Prerequisites: 
CHNS W3301
: Classical Chinese I; completion of three years of modern Chinese at least, or four years of Japanese or Korean.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• F 11:10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Lening Liu
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 3 points

SEMINAR IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Prerequisites:
BIOL W4300
or the instructor's permission.
A weekly seminar and discussion course focusing on the most recent development in biotechnology. Professionals of the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and related industries will be invited to present and lead discussions.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Lili Yamasaki
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

CO2 UTILIZATION AND CONVERSION

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ah-Hyung Alissa Park
  Info
• 3 points

CO2 UTILIZATION AND CONVERSION

• Department: Video Network
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ah-Hyung Alissa Park
  Info
• 3 points

STATISTICS AND DATA ANALYSIS

Prerequisites: Probability, linear algebra.
Descriptive statistics, central limit theorem, parameter estimation, sufficient statistics, hypothesis testing, regression, logistic regression, goodness-of-fit tests, applications to operations research models.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Antonius B Dieker
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 19 Info
• 3 points

EXPLAINING THE SUPERNATRL

This is a course about the early English novel’s traffic in the supernatural and the fantastic. It tests the hypothesis that the most pressing challenge facing that emergent literary form across the eighteenth century was how to explain the supernatural. This claim makes the concerns of Gothic fiction more central than historians of the novel typically suppose. The phrase
explained supernatural
itself comes from the Gothic, specifically from the work of Ann Radcliffe, whose influential novels of the 1790s find natural causes for seemingly otherworldly incidents. Matthew Lewis represents a different alternative from the same period. His sensationalistic work
The Monk
(1796) keeps the supernatural obscure, inexplicable, and perverse. Since the Romantic era, readers have frequently distinguished between Radcliffe’s approach and Lewis’s, with significant consequences for the gendering of the Gothic. But we won’t take this distinction for granted, and we will trace novelistic efforts to explain the supernatural back through earlier novels. While these narratives appeared before Horace Walpole’s
Castle of Otranto
(1764)—almost universally called the first Gothic novel in English—they already ask recognizably Gothic questions about how to account for the unaccountable. Of special interest to us will be moments when these early novels can’t quite decide what they want to do with the fantastic or the marvelous: enjoy it, seal it off elsewhere (in a Catholic past or an exoticized East, for instance), rationalize it, or redeem it.
Instead of sticking to strict chronology, we’ll start with some concepts and theoretical problems from the period and read an early Radcliffe novel together. Then we’ll circle back and briefly acquaint ourselves with some different channels through which the supernatural fed into English prose fiction of the eighteenth century. Working our way forward to the late-century Gothic craze and Jane Austen’s reaction to it in
Northanger Abbey
, we’ll study two long, influential novels that expose deep insecurities about the modernizing process of excluding spirits and devils, or even knights and damsels, from the realm of imaginative possibility.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Dustin Stewart
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

VIROLOGY

Intense laboratory exercise where students meet 4 days a week for eight weeks in the summer term participating in experimental design, bench work, and data analysis. Grades depend on participation in the laboratory, reports, and practical exams. Class starts immediately following Spring final exams. Open to MA and Postbac Biotechnology students. This course is offered in the summer. Students from other schools or programs may enroll if space is available.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Vincent R Racaniello
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SOLID BIOMECHANICS

Prerequisites: (ENME E3105) and (ENME E3113) and
Applications of continuum mechanics to the understanding of various biological tissues properties. The structure, function, and mechanical properties of various tissues in biolgical systems, such as blood vessels, muscle, skin, brain tissue, bone, tendon, cartilage, ligaments, etc. are examined. The establishment of basic governing mechanical principles and constitutive relations for each tissue. Experimental determination of various tissue properties. Medical and clinical implications of tissue mechanical behavior.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: X. Edward Guo
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 70 Info
• 3 points

SOLID BIOMECHANICS

Prerequisites: (ENME E3105) and (ENME E3113) and
Applications of continuum mechanics to the understanding of various biological tissues properties. The structure, function, and mechanical properties of various tissues in biolgical systems, such as blood vessels, muscle, skin, brain tissue, bone, tendon, cartilage, ligaments, etc. are examined. The establishment of basic governing mechanical principles and constitutive relations for each tissue. Experimental determination of various tissue properties. Medical and clinical implications of tissue mechanical behavior.

• Department: Video Network
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: X. Edward Guo
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 70 Info
• 3 points

FEMINISM & SCIENCE STUDIES

FEMINISM AND SCIENCE STUDIES

Prerequisites: Feminist Theory or permission of instructor.
Investigates socially and historically informed critiques of theoretical methods and practices of the sciences. It asks if/how feminist theoretical and political concerns make a critical contribution to science studies.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Rebecca M Young
  CULPA: 22 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

COMMUNICATION CIRCUITS

Prerequisites: (ELEN E4312)
Principles of electronic circuits used in the generation, transmission, and reception of signal waveforms, as used in analog and digital communication systems. Nonlinearity and distortion; power amplifiers; tuned amplifiers; oscillators; multipliers and mixers; modulators and demodulators; phase-locked loops. An extensive design project is an integral part of the course.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Yannis P Tsividis
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

FLUID BIOMECHANICS

Prerequisites: (APMA E2101) and (ENME E3105) and (MECE E4100) APMA E2101, ENME E3105, and MECE E4100.
The principles of continuum mechanics as applied to biological fluid flows and transport. Continuum formulations of basic conservation laws, Navier-Stokes equations, mechanics of arterial and venous blood flow, blood rheology and non-Newtonian properties, flow and transport in the microcirculation, oxygen diffusion, capillary filtration.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: David Elad
  Info
• 3 points

MARGNLIZTION IN MEDICINE

There is a significant correlation between race and health in the United States.  People of color and those from underserved populations have higher mortality rates and a greater burden of chronic disease than their white counterparts.  Differences in health outcomes have been attributed to biological factors as race has been naturalized.  In this class we will explore the history of the idea of “race” in the context of changing biomedical knowledge formations.  We will then focus on the impact that social determinants like poverty, structural violence, racism and geography have on health.  Ultimately, this course will address the social implications of race on health both within the classroom and beyond. In addition to the seminar, there will also be a significant service component. Students will be expected to volunteer at a community organization for a minimum of 3 hours a week. This volunteer work will open an avenue for students to go beyond the walls of their classrooms while learning from and positively impacting their community.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Samuel K Jr Roberts
  Info
• 4 points

BUDDHISM AND KOREAN CULTURE

Since Buddhism was introduced to Korea 1,600 years ago, the religion has had great impact on almost all aspects of the Korean society, making significant contributions to the distinct development of Korean culture. In this course, we will explore how Buddhism has influenced and interacted with various fields of Korean culture such as art, architecture, literature, philosophy, politics, religions, and popular culture. Buddhist scriptures, written in classical Chinese, with their colorful imaginations, have stimulated the development of Korean literature. Buddhist art, sculpture, and architecture have also catalyzed the Korean counterparts to bloom. The sophisticated philosophy and worldview of Buddhism, along with its diverse religious practices and rituals have added richness to the spiritual life of Korean people. Buddhism also attracted a significant number of followers, often playing important roles in politics. Throughout the course, we will not only investigate the influence of Buddhism on diverse aspects of Korean culture on their forms and at their depths, but also examine the interactions between Buddhism and other religions, as well as politics. Students will learn how Korean people have formed and reformed Korean culture through the medium of Buddhism

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Seong-Uk Kim
  Info
• 4 points

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213
Historical comparative examination of the economic development problems of the less developed countries; the roles of social institutions and human resource development; the functions of urbanization, rural development, and international trade.

• Department: Economics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jack J Willis
  h-index: 3 Info
• 3 points

HUM NATURE:DNA,RACE & IDENTITY

The course focuses on human identity, beginning with the individual and progressing to communal and global viewpoints using a framework of perspectives from biology, genetics, medicine, psychiatry, religion and the law.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 4 points

BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY II

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TF 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• 4 points

BIOSEPARATIONS

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Haro Hartounian
  Info
• 3 points

SUFISM

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
This is a seminar for advanced undergraduate and graduate students who wish to gain an understanding of the richness of Sufism (Islamic mysticism). We will examine the historical origins, development and institutionalization of Sufism, including long-standing debates over its place within the wider Islamic tradition. By way of a close reading of a wide range of primary and secondary sources, we will examine Sufi attitudes toward the body, Sufi understandings of lineage, power and religious authority, as well as the continued importance of Sufism in the modern world

• Department: Religion
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Katherine Pratt Ewing
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 22 Info
• 4 points

ARCH VISUALIZATION SINCE 1900

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

RADIOBIOLOGY FOR MED PHYS

Prerequisites: (APPH E4010) or equivalent or
Corequisites: APPH E4010
Interface between clinical practice and quantitative radiation biology.  Microdosimetry, dose-rate effects and biological effectiveness thereof; radiation biology data, radiation action at the cellular and tissue level; radiation effects on human populations, carcinogenesis, genetic effects; radiation protection; tumor control, normal-tissue complication probabilities; treatment plan optimization.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• M 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Marco Zaider
  Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED CHEMICAL KINETICS

Prerequisites: (CHEN E4230) or instructor's permission.
Complex reactive systems. Catalysis. Heterogeneous systems, with an emphasis on coupled chemical kinetics and transport phenomena. Reactions at interfaces (surfaces, aerosols, bubbles). Reactions in solution.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Esposito
  h-index: 22 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED CHEMICAL KINETICS

Prerequisites: (CHEN E4230) or instructor's permission.
Complex reactive systems. Catalysis. Heterogeneous systems, with an emphasis on coupled chemical kinetics and transport phenomena. Reactions at interfaces (surfaces, aerosols, bubbles). Reactions in solution.

• Department: Video Network
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Esposito
  h-index: 22 Info
• 3 points

CLASSICAL AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY

• Department: Philosophy
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Philip Kitcher
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

EUR URB CARTOGRAPHY

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Victoria Sanger
  Info
• 3 points

ADV BOSNIAN/CROATIAN/SERBIAN

Prerequisites: BCRS UN2102
Further develops skills in speaking, reading, and writing, using essays, short stories, films, and fragments of larger works. Reinforces basic grammar and introduces more complete structures.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Aleksandar Boskovic
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

CHTENIIA PO RUSSKOI LITERATURE

Prerequisites: Three years of college Russian and the instructor's permission.
The course is devoted to reading shorter works by Nikolai Gogol. The syllabus includes a selection of stories from
Evenings at a Farm near Dikanka
and
Mirgorod
, “Nevsky Prospect,” “The Overcoat,” “Nose,” and “Petersburg Tales,” and
The Inspector General
.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Irina Reyfman
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

READINGS IN CZECH LITERATURE II

READNGS IN CZECH LITERATURE II

Prerequisites: two years of college Czech or the equivalent.
A close study in the original of representative works of Czech literature. Discussion and writing assignments in Czech aimed at developing advanced language proficiency.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher W Harwood
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

THE SOCIOLOGY OF PUNISHMENT

This graduate seminar mixes sociological and historical accounts in order to explore the
social determinants and consequences of the U.S. criminal justice system. The class casts a
wide net – exploring classical texts as well as contemporary scholarship from a range of
sociological traditions.
We begin by discussing classical texts in order to understand the theoretical traditions that
underlie the most interesting contemporary work on the sociology of punishment. Building
on the work of Marxist criminologists like Rusche and Kirchheimer, we explore the
relationship between the U.S. criminal justice system and the market. To what extent can we
understand the penal field as autonomous from economic relationships? To what extent do
economic forces or logics determine criminological thinking and practice? Building on
Durkheim, we explore how punishment is both reflective of social values and constitutive of
social solidarity, and investigate the symbolic consequences (intended and unintended) of
contemporary punishment regimes. Building on readings from Foucault, we explore
punishment and its relationship to the emergence of new forms of bureaucratic and
disciplinary power. Finally, with Goffman, we explore the interactive context of the prison
as relatively autonomous from the external forces that bring it into being.
With the classical theorists behind us, we turn to a history of the present. What is the age at
which we are living today? What are the economic, political, and symbolic causes and
consequences of mass incarceration? To what extent can we understand mass incarceration,
and more recent reform efforts, as reflective or constitutive of new forms of power in
contemporary society?
Finally, we conclude by asking what the future might hold. After four decades of explosive
growth, the U.S. incarceration rate has been declining slowly for the last several years. Crime
rates have declined steadily for the last quarter century. At the same time, Black Lives
Matter has put renewed focus on the ways in which the state continues to exert violence in
poor communities of color. How should we understand the current period of reform?
What are its social and political possibilities and limitations? What would a just justice system
even entail?

• Department: Sociology
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Adam Reich
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

VSNRY MED:RCL,JSTC,HLTH&SCIFIC;

In Fall 2014, medical students across the U.S. staged die-ins as part of the nationwide #blacklivesmatter protests. The intention was to create a shocking visual spectacle, laying on the line “white coats for black lives.” The images were all over social media: students of all colors, dressed in lab coats, lying prone against eerily clean tile floors, stethoscopes in pockets, hands and around necks. One prone student held a sign reading, “Racism is Real.” These medical students’ collective protests not only created visual spectacle, but produced a dynamic speculative fiction. What would it mean if instead of Michael Brown or Eric Garner or Freddie Gray, these other, more seemingly elite bodies were subjected to police violence? In another viral image, a group of African American male medical students from Harvard posed wearing hoodies beneath their white coats, making clear that the bodies of
some
future doctors could perhaps be more easily targeted for state-sanctioned brutality. “They tried to bury us,” read a sign held by one of the students, “they didn’t realize we were seeds.” Both medicine and racial justice are acts of speculation; their practices are inextricable from the practice of imagining. By imagining new cures, new discoveries and new futures for human beings in the face of illness, medicine is necessarily always committing acts of speculation. By imagining ourselves into a more racially just future, by simply imagining ourselves any sort of future in the face of racist erasure, social justice activists are similarly involved in creating speculative fictions. This course begins with the premise that racial justice is the bioethical imperative of our time. It will explore the space of science fiction as a methodology of imagining such just futures, embracing the work of Asian- and Afroturism, Cosmos Latinos and Indigenous Imaginaries. We will explore issues including Biocolonialism, Alien/nation, Transnational Labor and Reproduction, the Borderlands and Other Diasporic Spaces. This course will be seminar-style and will make central learner participation and presentation. The seminar will be inter-disciplinary, drawing from science and speculative fictions, cultural studies, gender studies, narrative medicine, disability studies, and bioethics. Ultimately, the course aims to connect the work of science and speculative fiction with on the ground action and organizing.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Sayantani T Dasgupta
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

HUMAN RIGHTS ACCOUNTABILITY & REMEDIES

HUM RTS ACCOUNT&REMEDIES;

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Beatrice Lindstrom
  Info
• 3 points

TRAD AM ARCHITECTURE

AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE

Guiding ideals in American architecture from the centennial to around 1960.  The evolution of modernism in America is contrasted with European developments and related to local variants.

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Jorge Otero-Pailos
  Wikipedia h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

FOURTH-YEAR RUSSIAN II

• Department: Slavic Languages @Barnard
• R 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Vasily Lvov
  Info
• 4 points

NEANDERTHAL ALTERITIES

Using "The Neanderthals" partly as a metaphorical device, this course considers the anthropological, philosophical and ethical implications of sharing the world with another human species. Beginning from a solid grounding in the archaeological, biological and genetic evidence, we will reflect critically on why Neanderthals are rarely afforded the same reflexive capacities, qualities and attributes - agency- as anatomically modern humans, and why they are often regarded as "lesser" or nonhuman animals despite clear evidence for both sophisticated material and social engagement with the world and its resources. Readings/materials are drawn from anthropology, philosophy, ethics, gender studies, race and genetics studies, literature and film.

• Department: Anthropology
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Brian Boyd
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

ADV RUSSIAN THROUGH HISTORY

Prerequisites: three years of Russian.
This is a language course designed to meet the needs of those foreign learners of Russian as well as heritage speakers who want to further develop their reading, listening, speaking, and writing skills and be introduced to the history of Russia.

• Department: Slavic Languages @Barnard
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Vasily Lvov
  Info
• 3 points

QUES IN ARCH HISTORY II

Developments in architectural history during the modern period. Emphasis on moments of significant change in architecture (theoretical, economic, technological, and institutional). Themes include positive versus arbitrary beauty, enlightenment urban planning, historicism, structural rationalism, the housing reform movement, iron and glass technology, changes generated by developments external or internal to architecture itself and transformations in Western architecture.

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Kenneth Frampton
  Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Felicity Scott
  Info
• Instructor: Nader Vossoughian
  Info
• 3 points

CINEMA OF SUBVERSION

Russian filmmaker Andre Tarkovsky said that “the artist has no right to an idea in which he is not socially committed.” Argentine filmmaker Fernando Solanas and Spanish-born Octavio Getino postulated an alternative cinema that would spur spectators to political action. In this course we will ask the question: How do authoritarian governments influence the arts, and how do artists respond? We will study how socially committed filmmakers have subverted and redefined cinema aesthetics to challenge authoritarianism and repression. In addition, we will look at how some filmmakers respond to institutional oppression, such as poverty and corruption, even within so-called “free” societies. The focus is on contemporary filmmakers but will also include earlier classics of world cinema to provide historical perspective. The course will discuss these topics, among others: What is authoritarianism, what is totalitarianism, and what are the tools of repression within authoritarian/totalitarian societies? What is Third Cinema, and how does it represent and challenge authoritarianism? How does film navigate the opposition of censorship, propaganda and truth? How do filmmakers respond to repressive laws concerning gender and sexual orientation? How do they deal with violence and trauma? How are memories of repressive regimes reflected in the psyche of modern cinema? And finally, what do we learn about authority, artistic vision, and about ourselves when we watch these films?

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Eric Gamalinda
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

WAR,GENOCIDE,& AFTERMATH COMP PERSPECTIV

WAR, GENOCIDE, AND AFTERMATH

This 4000-level course examines how societies grapple with the legacy of mass violence, through an exploration of historical texts, memoirs, textbooks, litigation, and media reports and debates on confronting the past. Focusing on case studies of the Herero Genocide, the Armenian genocide during WWI, and the Holocaust and the Comfort Women during WWII, students investigate the crime and its sequelae, looking at how societies deal with skeletons in their closets ( engaging in silence, trivialization, rationalization, and denial to acknowledgment, apology, and repair); surveying responses of survivors and their descendants (with particular attention to intergeneration transmission of trauma, forgiveness, resentment, and the pursuit of redress); and dissecting public debates on modern day issues that harken back to past atrocities.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Khatchig Mouradian
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

MULTISCALE COMP SCI & ENGIN

Prerequisites: (ENME E4332) and elementary computer programming, linear algebra.
Introduction to multiscale analysis. Information-passing bridging techniques: among them, generalized mathematical homogenization theory, the heterogeneous multiscale method, variational multiscale method, the discontinuous Galerkin method and the kinetic Monte Carlo–based methods. Concurrent multiscale techniques: domain bridging, local enrichment, and multigrid-based concurrent multiscale methods. Analysis of multiscale systems.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Jacob Fish
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 54 Info
• 3 points

PHONETICS & PHONOLOGY

PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Meredith Landman
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

ART & SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE

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

ARAB MODERNISM(S)

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Yasser Elsheshtawy
  h-index: 18 Info
• 3 points

PLASTIC MODERNITY

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

GREATS: CHINA'S BIG PROJECTS

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

SPECULATIVE CITY, CRISIS,

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

GLOBL LANG JUSTICE & DIGITAL SPHERE

This seminar course takes concerns around rapidly diminishing language diversity as the starting point for an interdisciplinary, trans-regional, and trans-lingual investigation of the role of digital communication technologies in these global shifts.  Digital technologies appear to be contributing to language extinction, with a potential for 50-90% loss of language diversity this century.  While an increasing number of languages are digitally supported, this process is largely market-driven, excluding smaller or poorer language communities.  This course investigates the role of digital design and governance in including or excluding languages from the digital sphere.
Digital exclusion and language shift affect minority language communities in ways that cut to the core of their identities, relationships, and epistemologies.  Furthermore, it is estimated that there are 800+ endangered languages represented in the NY area, a higher concentration than any other city in the world.  As such, this course gives students the opportunity to understand global language justice through the work of leading scholars and practitioners (guest speakers to be announced at beginning of semester), as well to understand it on a personal and practical level through hands-on activities such as interviews with minority language speakers and assessments of digital supports for minority languages. 
Students will leave this course with new skills in qualitative and quantitative research methods, media production skills, and a rich understanding of how the social sciences, humanities, and big data contribute an interdisciplinary and multi-faceted perspective on the loss of language diversity.  Furthermore, students will be challenged to identify and develop evidence-based strategies to advance global language justice in the digital sphere.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Isabelle Zaugg
  h-index: 3 Info
• 4 points

HOLOCAUST & RESISTNCE IN ITALY

The political, social, and cultural issues affecting Italy in the crucial, dramatic years between 1943 and 1945. More specifically, the canonical literary and cinematic representations of the war, the "Resistenza" and the Holocaust and the aesthetic issues related to the encounter between history and fiction, reality and imagination. Further examination of how the war has affected women: such an inquiry will require the evaluation of lesser-known women's texts.Topics to be addressed include: war and gender, women as subjects of history, the intersection of the political and the private. Authors to be examined include: Calvino, Fenoglio,Pavese, Levi, Rossellini, Wertmuller, Rosi, Vigano', Milli, Zangrandi, D'Eramo.

• Department: Italian
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Leake
  Info
• 3 points

VICTORIAN POETRY

(Lecture). This course examines the works of the major English poets of the period 1830-1900. We will pay special attention to Alfred Tennyson and Robert Browning, and their great poetic innovation, the dramatic monologue. We will also be concentrating on poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Christina Rossetti, Matthew Arnold, A. E. Housman, and Thomas Hardy.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Erik Gray
  CULPA: 35 Info
• 3 points

SIMULATION

Prerequisites: (IEOR E3658) and (IEOR E4307) or (STAT GU4001) and computer programming.
Corequisites: IEOR E3106,IEOR E4106

This course is required for MSIE and MSOR. Graduate students must register for 3 points. Undergraduate students must register for 4 points.
Generation of random numbers from given distributions; variance reduction; statistical output analysis; introduction to simulation languages; application to financial, telecommunications, computer, and production systems.
Students who have taken IEOR E4703 Monte Carlo simulation may not register for this course for credit. 
Recitation section required.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Yi Zhang
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Karl Sigman
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

SIMULATION

Prerequisites: (IEOR E3658) and (IEOR E4307) or (STAT GU4001) and computer programming.
Corequisites: IEOR E3106,IEOR E4106

This course is required for MSIE and MSOR. Graduate students must register for 3 points. Undergraduate students must register for 4 points.
Generation of random numbers from given distributions; variance reduction; statistical output analysis; introduction to simulation languages; application to financial, telecommunications, computer, and production systems.
Students who have taken IEOR E4703 Monte Carlo simulation may not register for this course for credit. 
Recitation section required.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• 0 points

PRODUCTION SCHEDULING

Prerequisites: (IEOR E3608) and (IEOR E3658) and computer programming.

This course is required for undergraduate students majoring in IE and OR.
 Job shop scheduling: parallel machines, machines in series; arbitrary job shops. Algorithms, complexity, and worst-case analysis. Effects of randomness: machine breakdowns, random processing time. Term project.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Clifford Stein
  CULPA: 31 Wikipedia h-index: 53 Info
• 3 points

POLITICS IN CONTEMP CHINA

This course focuses on the evolution of Chinese politics since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) took power in 1949. It introduces and discusses the relationship between the two “three decades” (the three decades under Mao and the three decades of “reform and opening up”). More specifically, the course aims to (1) clarify some important historical facts, (2) analyze the ideological consideration of the “official” history sanctioned by the CCP and its epistemological impact, (3) make a comparison between official view and that of independent scholars about the history; (4) try to respond to some urgent problems faced by contemporary China, and (5) provide suggestions and principles for the reconstruction of the historiography of contemporary China. Students will learn how to understand the recent development Chinese politics, how to analyze the complex contemporary history and reality of China, and how to approach issues about China from a systematic perspective.

• Department: Political Science
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Boshu Zhang
  Info
• 4 points

COUNTRY AND CITY IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTU

This survey of touchstone nineteenth-century European novels explores the relationship of the realist novel to urban experience and rural identity.  If most novels are, in Raymond Williams’s phrase, “knowable communities,” how do fictions of the city and fictions of the country represent individual identity as it shapes and is shaped by physical context?  In this light, we consider questions of youth and experience, time and space, work and leisure, men and women, landscape and portraiture, privacy and public life, national culture and cosmopolitanism, realism and romanticism.  In class, we juxtapose close readings of novels with analyses of other cultural forms (paintings, operas, popular entertainment, maps) so that we come away with a broader sense of nineteenth-century European culture as well as a working knowledge of one of its most meaningful manifestations, the novel.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Monica F Cohen
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

POL, SOC & ECON DEVP-BRAZIL II

This course is set-up in a form of a practicum where major activists concerned with Brazilian political, social and economic development will be asked to address a policy problem and discuss their proposals for effective changes. Other speakers will analyze the government's policies but will also discuss major new reports or studies, and bring to our attention key issues that are not yet on the policy agenda.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Sidney N Nakahodo
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 1.5 points

QUALITY CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT

Prerequisites: (IEOR E3658) and (STAT GU4001) Additional pre-requisite: working knowledge of statistics

This course is required for undergraduate students majoring in IE.
Statistical methods for quality control and improvement: graphical methods, introduction to experimental design and reliability engineering and the relationships between quality and productivity. Contemporary methods used by manufacturing and service organizations in product and process design, production and delivery of products and service.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Sufian Ikhmeis
  Info
• 3 points

ECONOMETRICS OF TIME SERIES

Prerequisites:
W3211, W3213, W3412
.
Corequisites:
MATH V2010
.
This course focuses on the application of econometric methods to time series data; such data is common in the testing of macro and financial economics models. It will focus on the application of these methods to data problems in macro and finance.

• Department: Economics
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jose L Montiel Olea
  h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

GAME THEORY

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213
Introduction to the systematic treatment of game theory and its applications in economic analysis.

• Department: Economics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Wouter R Vergote
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

TRANSPORTATION ANALYTICS & LOGISTICS

Prerequisites: (IEOR E3608 or IEOR E4404 or IEOR E4007 or CSOR W4231 or CSOR W4246) and (IEOR E3106 or IEOR E4307 or SIEO W3600 or IEOR E4100 or IEOR E4101 or IEOR E4150 or STAT GR5701 or STAT GR5703) or permission of instructor.
Transportation, primarily focused on the movement of people, and logistics, primarily focused on the movement of goods, are two of the most fundamental challenges to modern society. To address many problems in these areas, a wide array of mathematical models and analytics tools have been developed. This class will introduce many of the foundational tools used in transportation and logistics problems, relying on ideas from linear optimization, integer optimization, stochastic processes, statistics, and simulation. We will address problems such as optimizing the routes of cars and delivery trucks, positioning emergency vehicles, and controlling traffic behavior. Moreover, we will discuss modern issues such as bicycle sharing, on-demand car and delivery services, and humanitarian logistics. Concepts will be reinforced with technical content as well as real-world data and examples. Prerequisites: A course in probability/statistics (e.g., IEOR 3106, IEOR 4307, SIEO 3600, IEOR 4100, IEOR 4101, IEOR 4150, STAT 5701, STAT 5703). A course in optimization (e.g., IEOR 3608, IEOR 4004, IEOR 4007, CSOR 4231, CSOR 4246).

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Adam N Elmachtoub
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 13 Info
• 3 points

INTERNET TECHNOLOGY,ECONOMICS,AND POLICY

TECHNOLOGY, ECONOMICS & POLICY

• Department: Computer Science
• F 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Henning G Schulzrinne
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 3 points

INTERNET TECHNOLOGY,ECONOMICS,AND POLICY

TECHNOLOGY, ECONOMICS & P

• Department: Video Network
• F 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Henning G Schulzrinne
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 3 points

OIL, RIGHTS & DEVELOPMENT

OIL, RIGHTS & DEVELOPEMNT

This multi-layered role-playing simulation, based on a fictitious country, allows exploration of the challenges associated with initiation of a major industrial venture in a developing country as regards any or all of the following: macro-economic and political factors; identification of priorities; environmental management; complications arising from ethnic and religious conflicts; health management (including HIV/AIDS); community development aspects; reconciliation of the interests of a wide variety of stakeholders; media management; achievement of the largest possible Circle of Consensus. The simulation is conducted over two consecutive days and some 50 to 80 participants role-play up to twenty separate entities, including an international industrial company and its competitor, government factions, opposition groups, a local community and wide varieties of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and of media. As in real life, some more general knowledge of the situation is available to all entities, but each one has sole access to information (which may overlap with that of others) which is unique to its own perspective. The emphasis is therefore on sharing and on cooperation to make progress against tight deadlines, on managing information of various degrees of reliability and of balancing conflicting demands. There is no "single right answer" but through the process participants have an opportunity to explore the interplay of a very wide range of factors and develop strategies which are based on a holistic appreciation of the problems involved and on creation of alliances which are by no means obvious at the beginning of the simulation.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• FS 8 a.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Jenik Radon
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• 1 points

ARCH APROPOS ART

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

EUROPEAN POLITICL DEVELOPMENT

Prerequisites: Course in European history or political science or relevant comparative politics courses.
This is an upper-level course in European political development. It is designed for undergraduates who already have some exposure to European history and politics and graduate students. The course will analyze important theoretical works, and debates about, the evolution of European political systems and institutions since the early modern period and place the European experience in comparative perspective

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sheri Berman
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia h-index: None Info
• 4 points

PRIN OF MAG RESONANCE IMAGING

Principles of Magnetic Resonan

Prerequisites: (PHYS UN1403) and (APMA E2101) or PHYS C1403 and APAM E2101 or instructors' permission.
Fundamental principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), including the underlying spin physics and mathematics of image formation with an emphasis on the application of MRI to neuroimaging, both anatomical and functional. The course will examine both theory and experimental design techniques.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Christoph Juchem
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 23 Info
• 3 points

LEARNING AND THE BRAIN

Prerequisites: courses in introductory psychology and/or neuroscience, and the instructor's permission.
What are the neural mechanisms that support learning, memory, and choices? We will review current theories in the cognitive neuroscience of human learning, discuss how learning and decision making interact, and consider the strengths and weaknesses of two influential methods in the study of human brain and behavior--functional imaging and patient studies.

• Department: Psychology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Daphna Shohamy
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 47 Info
• 4 points

BUILDING SENSE

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Lindy Roy
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• 3 points