ETH POL ACROS POST-SOV EURASIA

Various forms of ethnic politics have characterized politics in many states throughout Eurasia since 1991, from nationalist separatism to violent conflict to political competition among ethnic minorities and majorities. This course is designed to encourage students to think deeply about the relationship between ethnicity and politics. We will consider several questions. First, why does ethnicity become politicized? We investigate this question by examining nationalist secessionism and ethnic conflict—phenomena that mushroomed at the end of the Cold War. We will focus on East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union, devoting special attention to the cases of Yugoslavia, the USSR, Moldova, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and Chechnya. However, we will also study cases in which the dog didn’t bark, i.e. places where nationalist mobilization and ethnic violence either did not occur, or emerged and then receded as in the ethnic republics of the Russian Federation (including the “Muslim” regions of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan, etc.). In the second part of the course, we will analyze ethnic politics after independent statehood was achieved throughout the post-Soviet space. How do nationalist state-builders try to construct a nation and a state at the same time? Have they incorporated or discriminated against minorities living within “their” states? How have ethnic minorities responded? We will study Ukraine, the Baltics and Kazakhstan where ethnic Russians and Russian-speaking populations form large portions of the population, devoting particular attention to the crisis in Ukraine. We will also examine how the post-conflict regions of Bosnia and Kosovo have dealt with ethnic pluralism. These cases allow us to gain greater understanding of how multi-ethnic states use forms of federalism, consociationalism, and power-sharing as state-building strategies.

• Department: Political Science
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Elise Giuliano
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

PHYSIOLOGICAL CONTROL SYSTEM

PHYSIOLOGICAL CONTROL SYSTEMS

Prerequisites: (MEBM E4439) and (APMA E2101)
Fundamentals of time and frequency domains analyses and stability. Frequency domain controller design. Cardiovascular and respiratory systems simulation. Endogenous control systems: baroreflex, chemoreflex, thermoregulation, pupillary light reflex. Open and closed loop physiological systems. Exogenous control systems: ventilators, infusion pumps. Nonlinear actuators and delayed feedback systems. Acute disease simulation and clinical decision support in the intensive care unit. MATLAB and Simulink environments utilized.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicolas W Chbat
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• 3 points

TOPICS-NEUROBIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Examines current topics in neurobiology and behavior.

• Department: Psychology
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Svetlana Rosis
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Tina Kao
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

LATE 20TH C ETHNIC AMER LIT

This course
is a comparative survey of late twentieth and twenty-first century ethnic American literature.
The reading list reflects what I see as two dominant trends in ethnic American literature. First, many ethnic American authors have used metaphors and tropes of what we might call the incredible—the ghostly, otherworldly, or the magical— to imagine how literary and cultural formations of race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability are profoundly shaped by transnational histories, migrations, politics, and economies. Second, Ethnic American literature also reckons with events that themselves are “incredible”—unimaginable, difficult to fathom, or incomprehensible—both in extraordinary events and in everyday life. As we examine fiction, drama, a graphic novel, and a book of poetry, we’ll travel to and from places that are and aren’t familiar: a war-torn neighborhood, a nightclub in the Dominican Republic, the bustling streets of Calcutta, the boroughs of New York, the Oakland Coliseum, post-apocalyptic Baltimore, a community orchard in the Midwest. We’ll think about events on small and large scales: migrating to new places; slavery and settler colonialism; a global health care crisis; environmental disasters and food shortages; war both then and now. We’ll meet ghosts and angels, university first-years and professors, time-space travelers and poets, struggling parents and searching teenagers. Overall, the course argues that these forays into the extraordinary and the extra-ordinary are linked to how the texts contend with the troubling, disturbing, and often horrifying consequences of a transnational United States, marked by a history of expansion, domination, and violence. Yet we will also examine how these texts imagine alternative strategies for survival and community formation on large and small scales, and how they narrate unspoken stories and listen for unheard voices

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Denise Cruz
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points

WOMEN AND RESISTANCE IN RUSSIA

Cultural and political history of women and resistance in Russia, from the Putin era to medieval saints. Explores forms and specificity of female resistance in Russia across history. Addresses questions of historical narrative in light of missing sources. Material includes: prose by Svetlana Alexievich, Lydia Chukovskaya, Lidiya Ginzburg, Alexandra Kollontai, Masha Gessen, Anna Politkovskaia, and Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova; poetry by Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva and Sophia Parnok; films by Kira Muratova; visual art by Natalia Goncharova and fellow “amazons” of the Russia Avant Garde, together with memoirs, saint’s lives, letters, diaries, and urban legend. Final project: curating a museum exhibit.

Prerequisites:
Open to undergraduate and graduate students. No Russian required for the undergraduate students. Graduate students are expected to do the readings in Russian.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Valentina Izmirlieva
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED INDEPENDENT RESEARCH

SUPERVISED IND RESEARCH

All supervisors will be Columbia faculty who hold a PhD. Students are responsible for identifying their own supervisor and it is at the discretion of faculty whether they accept to supervise independent research.
Projects must be focused on Hellenic Studies and can be approached from any disciplinary background. Students are expected to develop their own reading list in consultation with their supervisor. In addition to completing assigned readings, the student must also write a Hellenic studies paper of 20 pages. Projects other than a research paper will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Hellenic Studies is an interdisciplinary field that revolves around two main axes: space and time. Its teaching and research are focused on the study of post-classical Greece in various fields: Language, Literature, History, Politics, Anthropology, Art, Archaeology, and in various periods: Late Antique, Medieval, Byzantine, Modern Greek etc. Therefore, the range of topics that are acceptable as a Hellenic Studies seminar paper is broad. It is upon each supervisor to discuss the specific topic with the student.
The work submitted for this independent study course must be different from the work a student submits in other courses, including the Hellenic Studies Senior Research Seminar.

• Department: Classics
• Instructor: Nikolas Kakkoufa
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• 3 points

PUBLIC ECONOMICS

Public Economics

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213
Types of market failures and rationales for government intervention in the economy. Benefit-cost analysis and the theory of public goods. Positive and normative aspects of taxation. The U.S. tax structure.

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

POL TRANSITIONS-SOUTHEAST ASIA

What political direction is Southeast Asia taking? Over the past two decades, Indonesia has been transformed from a military-dominated semi-authoritarian state to the region’s most vigorous and open political order. Meanwhile Thailand has experienced two military coups since 2006, and early patterns of political liberalization seem to be unraveling. And Burma has gone from international pariah to prospective new democracy. , Is it possible to see any overall regional trends? Are teleological assumptions of the inexorable rise of democracy being vindicated – or does much of the evident point in just the opposite direction? The module will examine the nature of transitions (and attempted transitions) to more open political systems in Southeast Asia, with a primary focus on Burma, Indonesia, and Thailand. After a brief review of the three cases, the course will adopt a thematic approach, first reviewing the character of the state, including national mythologies, the military and the relations between capital city and provinces. It will then explore aspects of transition, including the changing political economy, the rise of electoral politics, the role of religion and media, and the phenomenon of rally politics. Challenges to national elites from the regions will also be closely scrutinised. These themes and issues have a broader relevance to wider debates in comparative politics, which students will be encouraged to explore in their papers.

• Department: Political Science
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Duncan McCargo
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• 4 points

PSYCHOBIOLOGY OF INFANT DEVPT

Prerequisites: (PSYC UN1001 or PSYC UN1010) and a course in developmental psychology, and the instructor's permission.
The focus of the seminar is on human development during the fetal period and early infancy. We will examine the effects of environmental factors on perinatal perceptual, cognitive, sensory-­motor, and neurobehavioral capacities, with emphasis on critical conditions involved in both normal and abnormal brain development. Other topics include acute and long term effects of toxic exposures (stress, smoking, and alcohol) during pregnancy, and interaction of genes and the environment in shaping the developing brain of "high-risk" infants, including premature infants and those at risk for neurodevelopmental disorders such as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

• Department: Psychology
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: William P Fifer
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 40 Info
• 4 points

SCI&ART; IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL ILLUSTRATION

SCI&ART; IN ARCH ILLUSTRATION

Archaeology has provided a rich imaginative resource for many artists, who have found inspiration in the discipline’s material engagement with the past, its evocation of absent presences, and its strange juxtaposition of practical activity and textual narrative. In this course we continue the exploration of art’s intersections with archaeology, but we take an alternate starting point. Scientific illustration has been a key part of archaeological work since the discipline’s origins in the antiquarian investigations of the 16th and 17th centuries. These antiquarian records drew upon techniques that were elaborated during the Renaissance and many of these illustrative forms remain relevant today.

• Department: Anthropology
• W 12:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Zoe Crossland
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info
• 4 points

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES:MOVEMNT/RTS

• Department: Auditing
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Elsa Stamatopoulou
  Info
• 0 points

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES:MOVEMNT/RTS

Indigenous Peoples, numbering more that 370 million in some 90 countries and about 5000 groups and representing a great part of the world’s human diversity and cultural heritage, continue to raise major controversies and to face threats to their physical and cultural existence. The main task of this course is to explore the complex historic circumstances and political actions that gave rise to the international Indigenous movement through the human rights agenda and thus also produced a global Indigenous identity on all continents, two intertwined and deeply significant phenomena over the past fifty years.  We will analyze the achievements, challenges and potential of the dynamic interface between the Indigenous Peoples’ movement-one of the strongest social movements of our times- and the international community, especially the United Nations system. Centered on the themes laid out in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007), the course will examine how Indigenous Peoples have been contesting and reshaping norms, institutions and global debates in the past 50 years, re-shaping and gradually decolonizing international institutions and how they have contributed to some of the most important contemporary debates, including human rights, development,  law, and specifically the concepts of self-determination, governance, group rights, inter-culturality and pluriculturality, gender, land, territories and natural resources, cultural rights, intellectual property, health, education, the environment and climate justice. The syllabus will draw on a variety of academic literature, case studies and documentation of Indigenous organizations, the UN and other intergovernmental organizations as well as States from different parts of the world. Students will also have the opportunity to meet with Indigenous leaders and representatives of international organizations and States and will be encouraged to attend the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Select short films will be shown and discussed in class.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Elsa Stamatopoulou
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• 4 points

SUBCITIZENSHIP

The class will survey the status of groups with compromised citizenship status internationally, including indigenous Bolivians, Indian immigrants to Dubai, and Arabs in France. Then we will look at several different kinds of subcitizenship in the United States, focusing on African Americans, Native Americans, “white trash,” and Chicanos. In the course of the term we will shift between looking at the administrative practices that render people subcitizens, experiences of marginalization, and how contestations such as the DREAM Act movement, the idea of “cultural citizenship” and newly powerful indigenous movements in South America are removing control of citizenship from states, and transforming citizenship for everyone.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Stuart Rockefeller
  Info
• 4 points

PERCEPTION

This course addresses the fabulously rich range of issues about the nature of perception, including: perceptual mental representation and its content; computational explanation; justifying beliefs; knowledge and thought about perception; and perception of music. Perception is an interdisciplinary subject par excellence. Readings will be drawn from philosophy and psychology, aesthetics, and artificial intelligence.

• Department: Philosophy
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher Peacocke
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED RESEARCH

Students conduct research related to biotechnology under the sponsorship of a mentor
within
the University. The student and the mentor determine the nature and extent of this independent study. In some laboratories, the student may be assigned to work with a postdoctoral fellow, graduate student or a senior member of the laboratory, who is in turn supervised by the mentor. The mentor is responsible for mentoring and evaluating the student's progress and performance. Credits received from this course may be used to fulfill the laboratory requirement for the degree.  Instructor permission required.  Web site:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/g4500-g4503/index.html

• Department: Biological Sciences
• Instructor: Lili Yamasaki
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3-6 points

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213
The theory of international trade, comparative advantage and the factor endowments explanation of trade, analysis of the theory and practice of commercial policy, economic integration. International mobility of capital and labor; the North-South debate.

• Department: Economics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Reka Juhasz
  h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS

SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS:SELECTED

Socio-economic rights have emerged from the margins into the mainstream of human rights. We will explore conceptual issues through the lens of specific rights which will help us ground these principles and ideas in concrete cases. We will discuss developments on socio-economic rights and examine their relevance in the United States as well as selected other countries, particularly those with progressive legislation, policies and jurisprudence.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• T 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Inga T Winkler
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

APPLICATIONS PROGRAMMNG FOR FE

Prerequisites: Computer programming or instructor's approval.

This course is required for undergraduate students majoring in OR:FE.
In this course we will take a hands-on approach to developing computer applications for Financial Engineering. Special focus will be placed on high-performance numerical applications that interact with a graphical interface. In the course of developing such applications we will learn how to create DLLs, how to integrate VBA with C/C++ programs, and how to write multithreaded programs. Examples of problems settings that we will consider include: simulation of stock price evolution, tracking, evaluation and optimization of a stock portfolio; optimal trade execution. In the course of developing these applications we will review topics of interest to OR/FE in a holistic fashion.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Bienstock
  h-index: 38 Info
• 3 points

COLUMBIA COMMONS SEMINAR

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• 0-2 points

COLUMBIA COMMONS SEMINAR

• Department: Medicine
• Instructor: Cindy K Smalletz
  Info
• 0-2 points

COLUMBIA COMMONS SEMINAR

• Department: Medicine
• Instructor: Cindy K Smalletz
  Info
• 0-2 points

COLUMBIA COMMONS SEMINAR

• Department: Public Health
• 0-2 points

SUPERVISED RESEARCH

Students conduct research related to biotechnology under the sponsorship of a mentor
outside
the University within the New York City Metropolitan Area unless otherwise approved by the Program. The student and the mentor determine the nature and extent of this independent study. In some laboratories, the student may be assigned to work with a postdoctoral fellow, graduate student or a senior member of the laboratory, who is in turn supervised by the mentor. The mentor is responsible for mentoring and evaluating the student's progress and performance. Credits received from this course may be used to fulfill the laboratory requirement for the degree. Instructor permission required. Web site:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/g4500-g4503/index.html

• Department: Biological Sciences
• Instructor: Lili Yamasaki
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3-6 points

PROCESS SAFETY

Aimed at seniors and graduate students. Provides classroom experience on chemical engineering process safety as well as Safety in Chemical Engineering certification. Process safety and process control emphasized. Application of basic chemical engineering concepts to chemical reactivity hazards, industrial hygiene, risk assessment, inherently safer design, hazard operability analysis, and engineering ethics. Application of safety to full spectrum of chemical engineering operations.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert G Bozic
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• 3 points

TOOLS FOR ANALYTICS

The goal of this course is to provide students with the computing tools that are necessary for data and business analytics. Students will be introduced to the basics of the Python programming language with special emphasis on the data analysis and visualization libraries available in the language (pandas, numpy, scikit-learn, bokeh). They will learn the basics skills for gathering and processing data for analytical exercises using APIs, SQL, and by deconstructing JSON data objects, and will also gain basic familiarity with data manipulation using the Unix shell.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• W 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul Bulkley-Logston
  Info
• 3 points

METHDS IN GENETICS & DEVELPMNT

Open only to students in the department.  A survey of  laboratory methods used in research. Students rotate through the  major laboratories of the department.

• Department: Genetics and Development
• 4 points

READINGS IN HEBREW TEXTS II

Prerequisites:
MDES W4501
or the instructor's permission. Students must have a good familiarity with the Hebrew verb system, and the ability to read a text without vowels.
This course focuses on central identities shaping Israeli society and is designed to give students extensive experience in reading Hebrew. Through selected readings of contemporary literary works and media texts, students will increase their proficiency in Hebrew and enhance their understanding of Israeli culture and society. All readings, written assignments, and class discussions are in Hebrew. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Naama Harel
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL MACROECONOMICS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213
Introduction to monetary problems in international trade. Topics include macroeconomics of the open economy under fixed and flexible exchange rates, international adjustment under the gold standard, monetary problems of the interwar period, the Breton Woods agreement, transition to flexible exchange rates, planned reforms of the international monetary system and the Eurocurrency markets.

• Department: Economics
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe
  CULPA: 8 Wikipedia h-index: 41 Info
• 3 points

OPERATION RES IN PUBLIC POLICY

Prerequisites: (IEOR E3608) or (IEOR E4004) and (IEOR E3106) or (IEOR E4106)
This course aims to give the student a broad overview of the role of Operations Research in public policy. The specific areas covered include voting theory; apportionment; deployment of emergency units; location of hazardous facilities; health care; organ allocation; management of natural resources; energy policy; and aviation security. The course will draw on a variety techniques such as linear and integer programming, statistical and probabilistic methods, decision analysis, risk analysis, and analysis & control of dynamic systems.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Jay Sethuraman
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

READINGS IN CLASSICAL CHINESE

Prerequisites:
CHNS W4007
or the equivalent.
Admission after placement exam. Focusing on Tang and Song prose and poetry, introduces a broad variety of genres through close readings of chosen texts as well as the specific methods, skills, and tools to approach them. Strong emphasis on the grammatical and stylistic analysis of representative works. CC GS EN CE

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Harrison Huang
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• 4 points

PROBLEMS IN INT'L HISTORY

The general object of this course is to illuminate how histories of the realm we think of as "international" are structured by means of key concepts, foundational concepts that form semantic fields of politics and policy. The seminar will chiefly be devoted empirically to some ways of think of this in the context of what is now being called the subfield of ‘the U.S. in the World,’ with a particular emphasis on the issue of ‘empire’ and its connotations.There will also be a conceptual/theoretical interlude: the work of two figures outside the conventional parameters in this regard, Carl Schmitt and Michel Foucault.

• Department: History
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Anders G Stephanson
  CULPA: 37 Info
• 4 points

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Prerequisites: (IEOR E4004) or (IEOR E3608)
Management of complex project and the tools that are available to assist managers with such projects. Topics include project selection, project teams and organizational issues, project monitoring and control, project risk management, project resource management, and managing multiple projects.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• M 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Moshe Rosenwein
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• 3 points

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Prerequisites: (IEOR E4004) or (IEOR E3608)
Management of complex project and the tools that are available to assist managers with such projects. Topics include project selection, project teams and organizational issues, project monitoring and control, project risk management, project resource management, and managing multiple projects.

• Department: Video Network
• M 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Moshe Rosenwein
  Info
• 3 points

POWER SYSTEMS ANALYSIS

Prerequisites: (ELEN E3201) and (ELEN E3401) or equivalent, or instructor's permission.
Modeling of power networks, steady-state and transient behaviors, control and optimization, electricity market, and smart grid.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Damian Sciano
  Info
• 3 points

POWER SYSTEMS ANALYSIS

Power Systems Analysis

Prerequisites: (ELEN E3201) and (ELEN E3401) or equivalent, or instructor's permission.
Modeling of power networks, steady-state and transient behaviors, control and optimization, electricity market, and smart grid.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Damian Sciano
  Info
• 3 points

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Prerequisites: one year of biology. Recommended but not required: BIOC UN3501
This is a lecture course designed for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. The focus is on understanding at the molecular level how genetic information is stored within the cell and how it is regulated. Topics covered include genome organization, DNA replication, transcription, RNA processing, and translation. This course will also emphasize the critical analysis of the scientific literature and help students understand how to identify important biological problems and how to address them experimentally. SCE and TC students may register for this course, but they must first obtain the written permission of the instructor, by filling out a paper Registration Adjustment Form (Add/Drop form). The form can be downloaded at the URL below, but must be signed by the instructor and returned to the office of the registrar. 
http://registrar.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/reg-adjustment.pdf

• Department: Biological Sciences
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• 3 points

FIFTH YEAR KOREAN II

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Joowon Suh
  Info
• 4 points

BUDDHISM AND NEUROSCIENCE

With the Dalai Lama's marked interest in recent advances in neuroscience, the question of the compatibility between Buddhist psychology and neuroscience has been raised in a number of conferences and studies. This course will examine the state of the question, look at claims made on both sides, and discuss whether or not there is a convergence between Buddhist discourse about the mind and scientific discourse about the brain.

• Department: Religion
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Bernard Faure
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

THE POLITICS OF FREUD IN THE POSTCOLONY

This seminar examines the legacies of psychoanalysis through a critical exploration of how its concepts, practices and institutes have operated in colonial and postcolonial contexts. Weekly discussions will look at how practicing therapists, activists, anthropologists and others have extended, subverted and displaced psychoanalytic thought within non-European histories and imaginaries. Topics include challenges to the universality of the Oedipus emerging from early 20
th
century anthropologist’s studies of kinship in Papua New Guinea, legacies of a self-made South Asian psychoanalyst’s challenges to Freudian orthodoxies, and the study of a psychoanalysis of racism forged out of a Martinican psychiatrist’s encounters with colonial neuroses in Algeria. We will also explore how psychoanalytic concepts have been deployed in debates about repression and sexuality in daily life during the Cultural Revolution and the psychic legacies of Maoism in contemporary China. In addition to reading the work of Freud and his critics, we will encounter primary materials—religious texts, movies, novels—that have been subjected to psychoanalytically-inflected interpretations. While attending to the cultural, racial and political assumptions suffusing psychoanalysis, our seminar will also show how variously situated authors have given this tradition new applications and meanings.

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

FIFTH YEAR CHINESE II

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Lening Liu
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 4 points

THINKING MOTHERS-PHILOSOPHICAL, PSYCHOAN

Is it reassuring that no philosophical treatise ‘On the Mother’ seems to have been written in the history of occidental thought? Should we be relieved that nothing this violently direct, obscene, on the mother, seems to have been produced? Or should we rather be disturbed that ‘thinking mothers’ has not been a declared task for the mostly male-bonding and father-bound trans-generational band called ‘thinkers’? Would thinking, as philosophical thinking which in one of its traditional senses calls for thinking the
essence
of ‘a thing’, not require to think motherhood, maternity, or the Mother as the essence of mothers? Would thinking mothers in their supposed essence as giving birth, bringing to life, as a singular (mother) in relation to a singular (progeny), kill the mothers, each and every single one, by thinking that essence which they all would be supposed to share? Does the mother not allow us to think? Is thinking matricidal? Does the essence of mothers lie in not thinking the essence of mothers? Are mothers and thinkers engaged in a struggle for life and death, like two rivaling twins outside of themselves in a womb we have to invent in order to imagine it? Where can we find room to speculate a little differently facing the mirror of thinking mothers? Do we have to resort to psychoanalysis and literature in order to un-think these questions?

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Marcus Coelen
  Info
• 4 points

SYSTEM ENGI TOOLS/METHODS

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Ebad Jahangir
  Info
• 3 points

SYSTEM ENGI TOOLS/METHODS

• Department: Video Network
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Ebad Jahangir
  Info
• 3 points

DATA ANALYTICS

Corequisites: IEOR E4501
Co-requisite: IEOR E4501 Tools for Analytics. Survey tools available in Python for getting, cleaning, and analyzing data. Obtain data from files (csv, html, json, xml) and databases (Mysql, PostgreSQL, NoSQL), cover the rudiments of data cleaning, and examine data analysis, machine learning and data visualization packages (numpy, Pandas, ScikitĀ­learn, bokeh) available in Python. Brief overview of natural language processing, network analysis, and big data tools available in Python.  Contains a group project component that will require students to gather, store, and analyze a data set of their choosing.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Uday Menon
  Info
• 3 points

ANALYTICS IN PRACTICE

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• W 8:40 a.m.-11:10 a.m.
• Instructor: Hardeep Johar
  Info
• 3 points

MACHINE LEARNING FE & OPR

MACHINE LEARNING OR & FE

Prerequisites: optimization, applied probability, statistics or simulation.
Introduction to Machine Learning, practical implementation ML algorithms and applications to financial engineering and operations. Probabilistic Tools of Machine Learning, Learning theory, Classification, Resampling Methods and Regularization, Support Vector Machines (SVMs), Unsupervised Learning, Dimensionality Reduction and Clustering algorithms, EM Algorithm, and Neural Networks and Deep Learning

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Manuel Balsera
  Info
• 3 points

ANALYTICS ON THE CLOUD

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• M 8:40 a.m.-11:10 a.m.
• Instructor: Hardeep Johar
  Info
• 3 points

ANALYTICS ON THE CLOUD

• Department: Video Network
• M 8:40 a.m.-11:10 a.m.
• Instructor: Hardeep Johar
  Info
• 3 points

TECHNIQUES OF THE ULTRAREAL

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

MODERNISM, NATIONALISM,REVIVAL

MODRN HEBREW LIT READINGS

Exploring a rich variety of literary prose fiction, this course focuses on the emergence of modernism in Hebrew literature at the turn of the 20th century. Ever since the 19th century Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah), Hebrew literature has played a major role in the processes of permutation and transition within Jewish society, articulating new modes of thinking on matters such as body, identity, sexuality and language. In both its themes and aesthetics, Hebrew literature not only reflected these processes, but in fact created and shaped the public sphere within which these new ideas emerged. Identifying literature as an institution of the modern, intertwined with the rise of nationalism, this course examines the coincidence, as well as the discrepancy, between modernist poetics and the nationalist imagination. It asks how literature constructs national consciousness and whether, and in what ways, it ever exceeds it.
Our weekly sessions will be dedicated to reading diverse texts (short stories, essays, novels and literary theory) and tackling some of the recurring issues they raise, including gender and sexuality, ideology, psychological narratives, secularization and immigration. We will acquire methodologies of literary analysis, pay attention to rhetoric and style and practice close reading. The course will use digital media and interactive online platforms including films, photos, recordings and other audiovisuals, as well as an interactive discussion board. No prior knowledge of Hebrew is required. All texts are available in English translation.

• Department: Institute for Israel & Jewish Studies
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Roni Henig
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• 4 points

DATA MINING

DATA MINING FOR ENGINEERS

The course will cover major statistical learning methods for data mining under both supervised and unsupervised settings. Topics covered include linear regression and classi
fication, model selection and regularization, tree-based methods, support vector machines, and unsupervised learning. Students will learn about the principles underlying each method, how to determine which methods are most suited to applied settings, concepts behind model fi
tting and parameter tuning, and how to apply methods in practice and assess their performance. We will emphasize roles of statistical modeling and optimization in data mining.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• T 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Krzysztof M Choromanski
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• 3 points

CONTEMPORARY DIPLOMACY

This course examines the process of diplomacy; the patterns, purposes, and people that shape the contemporary interactions of states. In the first, entitled "Making War and Peace"- we look at a series of the most important episodes in twentieth-century diplomacy. In the second section under the heading "Professional Norms and Pathologies"-we consider some of the problems faced by diplomats in any period. The concluding section of the course called "The Newest 'New Diplomacy'"- takes up distinctive aspects of diplomacy in the current period: how the United States and other governments have dealt with the proliferation of multilateral organizations (and of weapons of mass destruction), with ethnic warfare and genocide, with the pressures and opportunities of globalization, and with the war on terrorism that began after September 11, 2001.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Stephen R Sestanovich
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• 3 points

MEDICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR

Required for all graduate students in the medical physics program. Practicing professionals and faculty in the field present selected topics in medical physics.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• R 4:15 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Cheng S Wuu
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 0 points

NARRATIVE AND HUMAN RIGHTS

(Lecture). We can't talk about human rights without talking about the forms in which we talk about human rights. This course will study the convergences of the thematics, philosophies, politics, practices, and formal properties of literature and human rights. In particular, it will examine how literary questions of narrative shape (and are shaped by) human rights concerns; how do the
forms
of stories enable and respond to forms of thought, forms of commitment, forms of being, forms of justice, and forms of violation? How does narrative help us to imagine an international order based on human dignity, rights, and equality? We will read classic literary texts and contemporary writing (both literary and non-literary) and view a number of films and other multimedia projects to think about the relationships between story forms and human rights problematics and practices. Likely literary authors: Roberto Bolaño, Miguel de Cervantes, Assia Djebar, Ariel Dorfman, Slavenka Drakulic, Nuruddin Farah, Janette Turner Hospital, Franz Kafka, Sahar Kalifeh, Sindiwe Magona, Maniza Naqvi, Michael Ondaatje, Alicia Partnoy, Ousmane Sembène, Mark Twain . . . . We will also read theoretical and historical pieces by authors such as Agamben, An-Na'im, Appiah, Arendt, Balibar, Bloch, Chakrabarty, Derrida, Douzinas, Habermas, Harlow, Ignatieff, Laclau and Mouffe, Levinas, Lyotard, Marx, Mutua, Nussbaum, Rorty, Said, Scarry, Soyinka, Spivak, Williams.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph R Slaughter
  CULPA: 13 h-index: 13 Info
• 3 points

DARK SPACE

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Mario A Gooden
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

WRITING ABOUT DISABILITY

Disability Studies today takes on an ever-expanding role in public awareness, in social policy, and in the academy across a number of disciplines: sociology, political science, law, psychology, medicine, and the arts and literatures.  This course offers a survey of literary texts and related media, the bulk of them in English, in which eccentric bodies and minds play a major role.  Along with these, we read a number of major statements in Disability Studies, linked to the primary texts.  At the same time, the course’s study of ancient and medieval texts aims to expand the range of categories under which most work in Disability Studies operates, to include (in addition) the place of bodily difference in the operations of the sacred, the heroic, the ideal, and the monstrous.
While the course will focus on motor disability and bodily variety, I will encourage you (and require you, in the Bibliographical Exercise, see below) to seek out texts that address other issues such as blindness, deafness, or mental difference.  Issues we will address include, in addition, the great historical shift from notions of the “ideal” or heroic, to the “normal” body; the social construction of disability; the cripple as icon or agent; the prison of metaphor; disabled identity and the return of the memoire.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher C Baswell
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

PARTICLE TECHNOLOGY

Prerequisites: ENME E3161 and MSAE E3111 or the equivalent
Introduction to engineering processes involving particulates and powders.  The fundamentals of particle characterization, multiphase flow behavior, particle formation, processing and utilization of particles in various engineering applications with examples in energy and environment related technologies.  Engineering of functionalized particles and design of multiphase reactors and processing units with emphasis on fluidization technology. Particle technology is an interdisciplinary field.  Due to the complexity of particulate systems, particle technology is often treated as art than science.  in this course, the fundamental principles governing the key aspects of particle science and technology will be introduced along with various industrial examples.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ah-Hyung Alissa Park
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• 3 points

THE LEAN LAUNCH PAD

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• Instructor: Nathaniel Kelner
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• 3 points

LAUNCHING NEW VENTURES

LAUNCH YOUR STARTUP:TECH

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• R 2:15 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Owen E Davis
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• 3 points

TOPICS IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BOOTCAMP

This course is designed as an introductory exposure to entrepreneurial concepts and practical skills for engineering students who wish to explore entrepreneurship conceptually or as a future endeavor in their careers. The class will be a mix of lecture, guest speakers from the entrepreneurship community, and work-shopping concepts we cover. Grades will be based on class participation and engagement as well as final pitch in which students describe their key takeaways & insights gleaned from the process.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• Instructor: Nathaniel Kelner
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• 1.5 points

TOPICS IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BOOTCAMP

This course is designed as an introductory exposure to entrepreneurial concepts and practical skills for engineering students who wish to explore entrepreneurship conceptually or as a future endeavor in their careers. The class will be a mix of lecture, guest speakers from the entrepreneurship community, and work-shopping concepts we cover. Grades will be based on class participation and engagement as well as final pitch in which students describe their key takeaways & insights gleaned from the process.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• Instructor: Nathaniel Kelner
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• 1.5 points

TOPICS IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH

VISUALIZATION & STORYTELLING W

For Spring 2019 term:  Visualization and Story Telling with Data , This course will cover principles of data visualization and how to build a story with data. It is too easy to get distracted by complex statistics or massive datasets. This class will teach you to take complex data or statistics and allow you to communicate the results effectively. The final step of any analysis is presenting the result concisely and effectively.  Points: 1.5 , For Fall 2018 term: Data Analytics and Python for OR (BS Only) , Prerequisites: Mathematical and scientific programming. Data visualization. Introduction to analysis of social networks using computational techniques in network analysis and natural language processing. BS IEOR Program students only.  Points: 3

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• T 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Michelle Glaser
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• 1.5 points

TOPICS IN OR

PEFORMANCE, OBJECTIVES & RESUL

Spring 2019 term:  Performance, Objectives & Results Using Data Analytics.   This course will cover how to analyze any business. At the core, we are inundated by data today. But not all of it matters. This class will help you formulate Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and organize them into Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) so that you’ll be equipped with the strategic and business acumen to help support a product or business in virtually any situation.  Points: 1.5. , Fall 2018 term:  Financial Decision Models for Engineers is aimed at IEOR students with an interest in financially-oriented applications of foundational IEOR subjects.  The course builds on students’ knowledge of probability, statistics, simulation, optimization, and large data analytics, as well as the financial material covered Accounting and Finance and IEOR E4003/4403.  The course focuses on rigorous analysis and modeling of real-world problems, with an emphasis on understanding modeling assumptions and limitations.  The class cycles through a variety of finance-oriented topics and solution methodologies, such as (for example): real options solved with simulation models; optimal project costing and scheduling with random variable (RV) task durations and costs; DCF entity valuations with RV costs, revenues and free cash flows; decision tree evaluation with time value and RV cash flows; and single and multi-period portfolio optimization.  Points: 3.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicolas Chikhani
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• 1.5 points

OPERATIONS RES METHODS MARKETING

OR METHODS IN MARKETING

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• W 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Khosrow Dehnad
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 1.5 points

TOPICS IN OPERATION RESEARCH

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY FOR ENTR

Prerequisites: Must be registered in one of the MS IEOR Programs
Fall 2018 term: This course, “Introduction to Corporate Finance, Accounting and Investment Banking”, previously called “Quantitative Corporate Finance”, is designed for students considering working in Investment Banking or in the Finance department of a Corporation, and who have limited knowledge of Corporate Finance or Accounting.  This course will review the primary financial theories and alternative theories underlying Corporate Finance, such as CAPM, Miller Modigliani, Fama French factors, Smart Beta, etc. By completing this course, you will gain the core skills to interpret financial statements, build cash flow models, value projects, value companies, and make Corporate Finance decisions.  Among the topics covered: the cost of capital, dividend policy, debt policy, the impact of taxes, Shareholder / Debtholder agency costs, dual-class shares, and how option pricing theory can be used to analyze management behavior. We will study the application of theory in real-world situations by analyzing the financial activities of companies such as General Electric, Google, Snapchat, Spotify and Tesla.  In addition, you will learn about a variety of investment banking activities, including equity underwriting, syndicated lending, venture capital, private equity investing and private equity secondaries.  Points: 3. , Spring 2019 term: Intellectual Property for Entrepreneurs.  Points: 0.  Course Description: Zero-credit course. Intellectual property (patents, copyrights, trademarks) are an increasingly critical part of almost any business, at almost any stage of growth. This course will provide the aspiring business executive, tech entrepreneur, or engineer an overview of commercial opportunities and risks associated with intellectual property, with a particular focus on technology patents. While legal principles will be addressed, the primary focus of the class will be on leveraging intellectual property to create financial returns.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• F 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Orin Herskowitz
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• 0 points

FOUND OF NANOBIOSCI/NANOBIOTECH

Prerequisites: (BIOL UN2005) and (BIOL UN2006) and (BMEN E4001) or (BMEN E4002) instructor permission
Fundamentals of nanobioscience and nanobiotechnology, scientific foundations, engineering principles, current and envisioned applications. This includes the discussion of intermolecular forces and bonding, of the kinetics and thermodynamics of self-assembly, of nanoscale transport processes arising from the actions of biomolecular motors, computation and control in biomolecular systems, and of the mitochondrium as an example of a nanoscale factory.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Henry Hess
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 45 Info
• 3 points

FOUND OF NANOBIOSCI/NANOBIOTECH

FUNDAMENTALS OF NANOBIOSC

Prerequisites: (BIOL UN2005) and (BIOL UN2006) and (BMEN E4001) or (BMEN E4002) instructor permission
Fundamentals of nanobioscience and nanobiotechnology, scientific foundations, engineering principles, current and envisioned applications. This includes the discussion of intermolecular forces and bonding, of the kinetics and thermodynamics of self-assembly, of nanoscale transport processes arising from the actions of biomolecular motors, computation and control in biomolecular systems, and of the mitochondrium as an example of a nanoscale factory.

• Department: Video Network
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Henry Hess
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 45 Info
• 3 points

CRITICAL APPROACHES TO PERSIANATE PAINTI

PERSIANATE PAINTING

This course charts the origins, development, and proliferation of the arts of depiction in the Persianate cultural sphere after the advent of Islam ca. 650 CE. Illustrated manuscripts, single-sheet paintings and drawings, and pictures in other two- and three-dimensional media will be examined both historiographically and through new critical frameworks. Topics to be considered include cross-cultural interactions, relations of text and image, the status of "the image" in Perso-Islamic thought and practice, and the haptic in Persianate painting.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Chagnon
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• 4 points

RACE, DRUGS, AND INEQUALITY

RACE, TECH & HEALTH/US HI

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Through a series of secondary- and primary-source readings and research writing assignments, students in this seminar course will explore one of the most politically controversial aspects in the history of public health in the United States as it has affected peoples of color: intoxicating substances. Course readings are primarily historical, but sociologists, anthropologists, and political scientists are also represented on the syllabus. The course's temporal focus - the twentieth century - allows us to explore the historical political and social configurations of opium, alcohol, heroin, cocaine, medical maintenance (methadone), the War on Drugs, the carceral state and hyperpolicing, harm reduction and needle/syringe exchange. This semester's principal focus will be on the origins and evolution of the set of theories, philosophies, and practices which constitute harm reduction. The International Harm Reduction Association/Harm Reduction International offers a basic, though not entirely comprehensive, definition of harm reduction in its statement, "What is Harm Reduction?" (http://www.ihra.net/what-is-harm-reduction): "Harm reduction refers to policies, programmes and practices that aim to reduce the harms associated with the use of psychoactive drugs in people unable or unwilling to stop. The defining features are the focus on the prevention of harm, rather than on the prevention of drug use itself, and the focus on people who continue to use drugs."[1] Harm reduction in many U.S. communities of color, however, has come to connote a much wider range of activity and challenges to the status quo. In this course we will explore the development of harm reduction in the United States and trace its evolution in the political and economic context race, urban neoliberalism, and no-tolerance drug war. The course will feature site visits to harm reduction organizations in New York City, guest lectures, and research/oral history analysis. This course has been approved for inclusion in both the African-American Studies and History undergraduate curricula (majors and concentrators). HIST W4588 will be open to both undergraduate and masters students. To apply, please complete the Google form at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1xaPFhQOzkl1NHnIjQIen9h41iel2hXAdhV59D5wH8AQ/viewform?usp=send_form. Questions may be directed to skroberts@columbia.edu.

• Department: History
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Samuel K Jr Roberts
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• 4 points

LITERATURE OF COLONIAL AMERICA

This is a survey of American literatures and cultures ranging from the colonial era to the early Republic. Although most of the texts on the syllabus were written in colonies that would eventually become part of the U.S., the course itself is not designed to be a literary history of the United States. Instead, we will consider these texts in their local, regional, and Atlantic contexts, and inquire into the theological, political, and literary issues that framed the colonial experiences they describe. We will examine major concepts and themes that include Exploration and Captivity, Puritan theology, Antinomianism, the rise of the Enlightenment, Slavery and Emancipation, and the Age of Revolutions. Our investigations will push us to test the conceptual limits of these categories as we trace their place in emerging discourses of nationhood.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Cristobal J Silva
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS

Prerequisites: (CHEN E3120) or CHEN E3120 or instructor's permission.
       Atmospheric aerosols and their effects on atmospheric composition and climate.  Major topics are aerosol sources and properties, field and laboratory techniques for characterization, gas-aerosol interactions, secondary organic aerosols, aerosol direct and indirect effects on climate.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Vivian F McNeill
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• 3 points

HUMAN RIGHTS IN ANTHROPOCENE

In August 2016, a working group of the International Geological Congress voted to acknowledge a new geological epoch, following 11,700 years of the Holocene, and that it would be called The Anthropocene. The announcement indicated a new era in the earth’s chronology marked by the consequences of human activity on the planet’s ecosystems. Closely related to discussions of sustainability, investigations into the Anthropocene tend to focus on environmental and ecological issues while ignoring its social justice dimensions. This course will investigate how Human Rights has and will be impacted by the Anthropocene, with special attention paid to the human dimensions and consequences of anthropogenic change. Do new and troubling revelations about anthropogenic mistreatment of the earth and its resources modify or amplify the kinds of responsibilities that govern activity between individuals and communities? How do we scale the human response from the urban, to the periurban, to the rural? How must the study of Human Rights evolve to address violence and mistreatment associated not just among humans but also amid human habitats? What sorts of juridical changes must occur to recognize and respond to new manifestations of social injustice that relate directly to consequences of anthropogenic changes to the Earth system? Topics will include discussions of the Environmental Justice movement, agribusiness, access to (and allocation of) natural resources, population growth; its global impact, advocacy for stronger and more accountability through environmental legal change, biodiversity in urban environments, and the growing category of environmental refugees.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Noah B Chasin
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• 3 points

DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS

Prerequisites: (EEME E3601) or (ELEN E3201)
Real-time control using digital computers. Solving scalar and state-space difference equations. Discrete equivalents of continuous systems fed by holds. Z-transer functions. Creating closed-loop difference equation models by Z-transform and state variable approaches. The Nyquist frequency and sample rate selection. Classical and modern based digital control laws. Digital system identification.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Homayoon S Beigi
  Info
• Instructor: Richard W Longman
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 45 Info
• 3 points

DYNAMIC PRICING/REVENUE MGMT

Prerequisites: (STAT GU4001) and (IEOR E4004)
Focus on capacity allocation, dynamic pricing and revenue management. Perishable and/or limited product and pricing implications. Applications to various industries including service, airlines, hotel, resource rentals, etc.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Van Anh Truong
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

DYNAMIC PRICING/REVENUE MGMT

DYNAMIC PRICING/REVENUE MGMNT

Prerequisites: (STAT GU4001) and (IEOR E4004)
Focus on capacity allocation, dynamic pricing and revenue management. Perishable and/or limited product and pricing implications. Applications to various industries including service, airlines, hotel, resource rentals, etc.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• 0 points

QUANTITATIVE RISK MANAGEMENT

Prerequisites: (STAT GU4001) and (IEOR E4106)
Risk management models and tools; measure risk using statistical and stochastic methods, hedging and diversification. Examples of this include insurance risk, financial risk, and operational risk. Topics covered include VaR, estimating rare events, extreme value analysis, time series estimation of extremal events; axioms of risk measures, hedging using financial options, credit risk modeling, and various insurance risk models.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• T 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Roza Galeeva
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• 3 points

COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING

Prerequisites: An introductory course on Manufacturing Processes, and knowledge of Computer Aided Design, and Mechanical Design or the Instructor's permission.
Computer aided design, free-form surface modeling, tooling and fixturing, computer numeric control, rapid prototyping, process engineering, fixed and programmable automation, industrial robotics.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Graham Walker
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• 3 points

JAZZ STUDIES

JAZZ & AMERICAN CULTURE

(Lecture). An overview of jazz and its cultural history, with consideration of the influence of jazz on the visual arts, literature, and film.  The course will also provide an introduction to the scholarship and methods of jazz studies.  We will begin with Ralph Ellison's suggestive proposition that many aspects of American life are "jazz-shaped." How then might we define this music called jazz? What are its aesthetic ingredients and forms? What have been its characteristic sounds? How can we move toward a definition that sufficiently complicates the usual formulas of call-response, improvisation, and swing to encompass musical styles that are very different but which nonetheless are typically classified as jazz? With this ongoing problem of musical definition in mind, we will examine works in literature, painting, photography, and film, which may be defined as "jazz works" or ones that are "jazz-shaped.”  What is jazz-like about these works? What's jazz-like about the ways they were produced? And how, to get to the other problem in the course's title, is jazz American? What is the relationship of art to nation? What is the logic of American exceptionalism? What do we make of the many international dimensions of jazz music such as its many non-American practitioners?  And what do representations of jazz artists in literature and film tell us about what people have thought about the music?

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Krin Gabbard
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• 3 points

TECHNOLOGY,RELIGION,FUTURE

This seminar will examine the history of the impact of technology and media on religion and vice versa before bringing into focus the main event: religion today and in the future. We'll read the classics as well as review current writing, video and other media, bringing thinkers such as Eliade, McLuhan, Mumford and Weber into dialogue with the current writing of Kurzweil, Lanier and Taylor, and look at, among other things: ethics in a Virtual World; the relationship between Burning Man, a potential new religion, and technology; the relevance of God and The Rapture in Kurzweil's Singularity; and what will become of karma when carbon-based persons merge with silicon-based entities and other advanced technologies.

• Department: Religion
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: David R Kittay
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

ARCH: THE CONTEMPORARY

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Bernard Tschumi
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• 3 points

AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE II

(Lecture). This survey of African American literature focuses on language, history, and culture. What are the contours of African American literary history? How do race, gender, class, and sexuality intersect within the politics of African American culture? What can we expect to learn from these literary works? Why does our literature matter to student of social change? This lecture course will attempt to provide answers to these questions, as we begin with Zora Neale Hurston's
Their Eyes Were Watching God
(1937) and Richard Wright's
Native Son
(1940) and end with Melvin Dixon's
Love's Instruments
(1995) with many stops along the way. We will discuss poetry, fiction, drama, and non-fictional prose. Ohter authors include Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Malcom X, Ntzozake Shange, Audre Lorde, and Toni Morrison. There are no prerequisites for this course. The formal assignments are two five-page essays and a final examination. Class participation will be graded.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Farah Griffin
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN SOFT MATERIALS

Prerequisites: Physical chemistry or instructor's permission.
Self-contained treatments of selected topics in soft materials (e.g., polymers, colloids, amphiphiles, liquid crystals, glasses, powders). Topics and instructor may change from year to year. Intended for junior/senior level undergraduates and graduate students in engineering and the physical sciences.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Christopher J Durning
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN SOFT MATERIALS

Prerequisites: Physical chemistry or instructor's permission.
Self-contained treatments of selected topics in soft materials (e.g., polymers, colloids, amphiphiles, liquid crystals, glasses, powders). Topics and instructor may change from year to year. Intended for junior/senior level undergraduates and graduate students in engineering and the physical sciences.

• Department: Video Network
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Christopher J Durning
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

AIR-SEA INTERACTION

Prerequisites: solid background in mathematics, physics, and chemistry. Some background in fluid mechanics (as in
EESC W4925
/
APPH E4200
) or the instructor's permission.
An overview of oceanic and atmospheric boundary layers including fluxes of momentum, heat, mass, (eg., moisture salt) and gases between the ocean and atmosphere; vertical distribution of energy sources and sinks at the interface including the importance of surface currents; forced upper ocean dynamics, the role of surface waves on the air-sea exchange processes and ocean mixed layer processes.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher J Zappa
  h-index: 31 Info
• 3 points

ASSET ALLOCATION

Prerequisites: (IEOR E4700)
Models for pricing and hedging equity, fixed-income, credit-derivative securities, standard tools for hedging and risk management, models and theoretical foundations for pricing equity options (standard European, American equity options, Asian options), standard Black-Scholes model (with multiasset extension), asset allocation, portfolio optimization, investments over longtime horizons, and pricing of fixed-income derivatives (Ho-Lee, Black-Derman-Toy, Heath-Jarrow-Morton interest rate model).

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• R 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Alireza Javaheri
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• 3 points

ADVANCED CURTAIN WALLS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• 3 points

ARCHITECTURAL DAYLIGHTING

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Davidson Norris
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

READINGS IN URDU LIT II

Prerequisites: two years of prior coursework in Hindi-Urdu (
MDES W1612
&
MDES W1613
), one year of Urdu for Heritage Speakers (
MDES W1614 & MDES W1615
), or the instructor's permission.
This course is a literary course, with in-depth exposure to some of the finest works of classical and modern Urdu prose and poetry. In the fall semester, our focus will be on some of the most famous Urdu short stories while, in the spring semester, we will focus on various genres of Urdu poetry. The content may change each semester. This course is open to both undergraduates and graduates. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Aftab Ahmad
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 4 points

CULTR,MOTIVATN,PROSOCIAL BEHAV

Prerequisites: Some knowledge of Research Methods, Statistics, and Social Psychology, plus Instructor's Permission.
Reviews and integrates current research on three important topics of social psychology: culture, motivation, and prosocial behavior. Discussions and readings will cover theoretical principles, methodological approaches, and the intersection of these three topics. Students will write a personal research proposal based on the theories presented during the seminar.

• Department: Psychology
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Svetlana Komissarouk
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 3 Info
• 4 points

CONVEX OPTIMIZATION FOR ENG

CONVEX OPTIMIZATION ELCT ENG

Prerequisites: (ELEN E3801) or instructor permission.
Theory of convex optimization; numerical algorithms; applications in circuits, communications, control, signal processing and power systems.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• M 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Mehdi Ashraphijuo
  Wikipedia h-index: 7 Info
• 3 points

BUSINESS ANALYTICS

Prerequisites: (STAT GU4001) or (IEOR E4150)
In this course, you will learn how to identify, evaluate, and capture business analytic opportunities that create value. Toward this end, you will learn basic analytical methods and analyze case studies on organizations that successfully deployed these techniques. In the first part of the course, we focus on how to use data to develop insights and predictive capabilities using machine learning and data mining techniques. In the second part, we focus on the use of optimization and simulation to support prescriptive decision-making in the presence of a large number of alternatives and business constraints. Finally, throughout the course, we explore the challenges that can arise in implementing analytical approaches within an organization.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Adam N Elmachtoub
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 13 Info
• 3 points

BUSINESS ANALYTICS

BUSINESS ANALYTICS FOR OR REC

Prerequisites: (STAT GU4001) or (IEOR E4150)
In this course, you will learn how to identify, evaluate, and capture business analytic opportunities that create value. Toward this end, you will learn basic analytical methods and analyze case studies on organizations that successfully deployed these techniques. In the first part of the course, we focus on how to use data to develop insights and predictive capabilities using machine learning and data mining techniques. In the second part, we focus on the use of optimization and simulation to support prescriptive decision-making in the presence of a large number of alternatives and business constraints. Finally, throughout the course, we explore the challenges that can arise in implementing analytical approaches within an organization.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• 0 points

GENDER,POWER,CULTURE: INDIA

Explores gender, culture, power in India, c. 1500-1800 by reading theoretical works on gender and sexuality, historical scholarship relevant to early modern India, and a variety of primary sources. Topics include morality, mysticism, devotion, desire, kingship, heroism, homosocial relations, and homoerotic practices. The focus is largely on Persianate contexts, in conversation with broader South Asian and Islamic studies. This discussion seminar is designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate students, with some previous background in South Asian, Islamic, or gender studies.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Mana Kia
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 11 Info
• 4 points

DESIGNING FOR ZERO

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Bell
  Wikipedia h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

SOCIAL FACTORS & PSYCHOPATHLGY

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Reviews and integrates current research on the role of social factors in psychopathology. The immediate and long-term effects of chronic and traumatic stressors originating outside the family (e.g., natural disasters, chronic poverty) and inside the family (e.g., family violence, divorce, parental psychopathology) on psychopathology.

• Department: Psychology
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Geraldine Downey
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points