RACE:TANGLED HIST-BIOL CONCEPT

From Aristotle to the 2020 US Census, this course examines the history of race as a biological concept. It explores the complex relationship between the scientific study of biological differences--real, imagined, or invented--and the historical and cultural factors involved in the development and expression of "racial ideas." Scientific background not required. Films screened till 6:30 on Wed during second half of term--attendance required.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• MW 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jill S Shapiro
  CULPA: 46 Info
• 4 points

RISE OF MODERN TIBET:1600-1913

Rise of Modern Tibet

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Gray W Tuttle
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

INTRO TO FINANCIAL ENGINEERING

Prerequisites: (IEOR E3106) or (IEOR E4106)

This course is required for undergraduate students majoring in OR:FE.
 Introduction to investment and financial instruments via portfolio theory and derivative securities, using basic operations research/engineering methodology. Portfolio theory, arbitrage; Markowitz model, market equilibrium, and the capital asset pricing model. General models for asset price fluctuations in discrete and continuous time. Elementary introduction to Brownian motion and geometric Brownian motion. Option theory; Black-Scholes equation and call option formula. Computational methods such as Monte Carlo simulation.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: David D Yao
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

INNOVATN, TECH & ARCH

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Lise Anne Couture
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134 or COMS W3136 or COMS W3137) and any course on probability. Prior knowledge of Python is recommended.
Provides a broad understanding of the basic techniques for building intelligent computer systems. Topics include state-space problem representations, problem reduction and and-or graphs, game playing and heuristic search, predicate calculus, and resolution theorem proving, AI systems and languages for knowledge representation, machine learning and concept formation and other topics such as natural language processing may be included as time permits.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Ansaf Salleb-Aouissi
  CULPA: 21 h-index: 16 Info
• 3 points

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134 or COMS W3136 or COMS W3137) and any course on probability. Prior knowledge of Python is recommended.
Provides a broad understanding of the basic techniques for building intelligent computer systems. Topics include state-space problem representations, problem reduction and and-or graphs, game playing and heuristic search, predicate calculus, and resolution theorem proving, AI systems and languages for knowledge representation, machine learning and concept formation and other topics such as natural language processing may be included as time permits.

• Department: Video Network
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Ansaf Salleb-Aouissi
  CULPA: 21 h-index: 16 Info
• 3 points

MONTE CARLO SIMULATION METHODS

Prerequisites: (IEOR E4701)

This graduate course is only for MS Program in FE students.
 Multivariate random number generation, bootstrapping, Monte Carlo simulation, efficiency improvement techniques. Simulation output analysis, Markov-chain Monte Carlo. Applications to financial engineering. Introduction to financial engineering simulation software and exposure to modeling with real financial data. Note: 
Students who have taken IEOR E4404 Simulation may not register for this course for credit.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Ali Hirsa
  h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134 or COMS W3136 or COMS W3137) or the instructor's permission.
Computational approaches to natural language generation and understanding. Recommended preparation: some previous or concurrent exposure to AI or Machine Learning. Topics include information extraction, summarization, machine translation, dialogue systems, and emotional speech. Particular attention is given to robust techniques that can handle understanding and generation for the large amounts of text on the Web or in other large corpora. Programming exercises in several of these areas.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• F 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Collins
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 63 Info
• Instructor: Yassine Benajiba
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134 or COMS W3136 or COMS W3137) or the instructor's permission.
Computational approaches to natural language generation and understanding. Recommended preparation: some previous or concurrent exposure to AI or Machine Learning. Topics include information extraction, summarization, machine translation, dialogue systems, and emotional speech. Particular attention is given to robust techniques that can handle understanding and generation for the large amounts of text on the Web or in other large corpora. Programming exercises in several of these areas.

• Department: Video Network
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Collins
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 63 Info
• 3 points

FINANCIAL ENGINEERING II

FE: CONTINUOUS TIME MODELS

Prerequisites: (IEOR E4701)

This graduate course is only for MS Program in FE students.
Modeling, analysis, and computation of derivative securities. Application of stochastic calculus and stochastic differential equations. Numerical techniques: finite-difference, binomial method, and Monte Carlo.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Xunyu Zhou
  h-index: 54 Info
• 3 points

FINANCIAL ENGINEERING II

CONTINUE TIME ASSET PRICING R

Prerequisites: (IEOR E4701)

This graduate course is only for MS Program in FE students.
Modeling, analysis, and computation of derivative securities. Application of stochastic calculus and stochastic differential equations. Numerical techniques: finite-difference, binomial method, and Monte Carlo.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• 0 points

FINANCIAL ENGINEERING II

Prerequisites: (IEOR E4701)

This graduate course is only for MS Program in FE students.
Modeling, analysis, and computation of derivative securities. Application of stochastic calculus and stochastic differential equations. Numerical techniques: finite-difference, binomial method, and Monte Carlo.

• Department: Video Network
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Xunyu Zhou
  h-index: 54 Info
• 3 points

DATA ANALYSIS FOR FIN ENGIN

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS & TIME SE

Prerequisites: Probability.
Corequisites: IEOR E4706,IEOR E4702

This graduate course is only for MS Program in FE students.
 Empirical analysis of asset prices: heavy tails, test of the predictability of stock returns. Financial time series: ARMA, stochastic volatility, and GARCH models. Regression models: linear regression and test of CAPM, nonlinear regression and fitting of term structures.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Agostino Capponi
  h-index: 19 Info
• 3 points

DATA ANALYSIS FOR FIN ENGIN

DATA ANALYSIS FOR FIN ENGIN RE

Prerequisites: Probability.
Corequisites: IEOR E4706,IEOR E4702

This graduate course is only for MS Program in FE students.
 Empirical analysis of asset prices: heavy tails, test of the predictability of stock returns. Financial time series: ARMA, stochastic volatility, and GARCH models. Regression models: linear regression and test of CAPM, nonlinear regression and fitting of term structures.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• 0 points

FINANCE AND THE REAL ECONONMY

Prerequisites: (Econ UN3211) and (ECON UN3213) and (STAT UN1201)
 This course uses economic theory and empirical evidence to study the links between financial markets and the real economy. We will consider questions such as: What is the welfare role of finance? How do financial markets affect consumers and firms? How do shocks to the financial system transmit to the real economy? How do financial markets impact inequality?

• Department: Economics
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Matthieu Gomez
  h-index: 4 Info
• 3 points

LOCAL HISTORY IN TIBET

Tibetan culture covers an area roughly the size of Western Europe, yet most regions have not been the subject of sustained historical study. This course is designed for students interested in studying approaches to local history that attempt to ask large questions of relatively small places. Historiographic works from Tibetan studies (where they exist) will be examined in comparison with approaches drawn mainly from European and Chinese studies, as well as theories drawn from North/South American and Southeast Asian contexts. Given the centrality of Buddhist monasteries to Tibetan history (as “urban” centers, banks, governments, educational institutions, etc.) much of the course will deal with these.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Gray W Tuttle
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

ANALYSIS OF POLITICAL DATA

Prerequisites:
POLS W4710
or the equivalent.
Multivariate and time-series analysis of political data. Topics include time-series regression, structural equation models, factor analysis, and other special topics. Computer applications are emphasized.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Abdullah Aydogan
  h-index: 4 Info
• 4 points

ORIENTALISM/HIST OF OTHER

This course will examine some of the problems inherent in Western historical writing on non-European cultures, as well as broad questions of what itmeans to write history across cultures. The course will touch on therelationship between knowledge and power, given that much of the knowledge we will be considering was produced at a time of the expansion of Western power over the rest of the world. By comparing some of the "others" which European historians constructed in the different non-western societies they depicted, and the ways other societies dealt with alterity and self, we may be able to derive a better sense of how the Western sense of self was constructed.
Group(s): C Field(s): ME

• Department: History
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Rashid I Khalidi
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

ANALYSIS OF POLITICL DATA-DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

ANALYSIS OF POLITICL DATA-DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

RE-THINKING BIM

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Jared Friedman
  Info
• 3 points

GAP I:DESIGN + TYPOGRAPHY

GAPI:DESIGN + TYPOGRAPHY

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 9 a.m.-noon
• 3 points

HISTORY OF FEMINISM IN MEXICO

HIST FEMINISM IN MEXICO

Prerequisites: Ability to read historical work and sources in Spanish.
The course presents a history of feminism in Mexico. It addresses the connections of feminism with mainstream Mexican history and with similar process in other Latin American during the twentieth century. Unlike many approaches to the history of feminism, this course explores both feminist and antifeminist interventions and analyzes how advocates and opponents of feminism have exerted influence on state and institution formation, on revolutions and social movements, on policies and legislative reforms and on nationalism. The readings include historical works as well as  sources such as archival materials, newspapers, photographs and pamphlets. An effort has been made to include materials in English, however some of the readings are in Spanish language, therefore it is required that the students are able to understand historical accounts and sources.

• Department: History
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Gabriela Cano
  Info
• 4 points

INTRO-IMPLIED VOLATILITY SMILE

BLACK-SCHOLES:IMPLIED VOLATILI

Prerequisites: (IEOR E4706) and knowledge of derivatives valuation models.
During the past fifteen years the behavior of market options prices have shown systematic deviations from the classic Black-Scholes model. The course examines the empirical behavior of implied volatilities, in particular the volatility smile that now characterizes most markets, the mathematics and intuition behind new models that can account for the smile, and their consequences of these models for hedging and valuation.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Emanuel Derman
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 30 Info
• 3 points

INTRO-IMPLIED VOLATILITY SMILE

Prerequisites: (IEOR E4706) and knowledge of derivatives valuation models.
During the past fifteen years the behavior of market options prices have shown systematic deviations from the classic Black-Scholes model. The course examines the empirical behavior of implied volatilities, in particular the volatility smile that now characterizes most markets, the mathematics and intuition behind new models that can account for the smile, and their consequences of these models for hedging and valuation.

• Department: Video Network
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Emanuel Derman
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 30 Info
• 3 points

THE GOTHIC:SUBLIME TO UNCANNY

This team-taught course explores parallel literary, architectural, and theoretical explorations of the “Gothic” from the mid-18th century to the present, focusing on the “darker” psychological undercurrents of the Gothic and their relationship to modern conceptions of the self.  Among the writers, architects, and theorists that the class will examine are:  Edmund Burke, Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe,and Etienne-Louis Boullée in the eighteenth century; Jane Austen, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Victor Hugo, and John Ruskin in the nineteenth century; and Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka, Wilhelm Worringer, Hans Poelzig, Julia Kristeva, Daniel Libeskind, Peter Eisenman, and W.G. Sebald in the twentieth century.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 4 points

TOPICS IN QUANT FINANCE

DEEP LEARNING

Prerequisites: (IEOR E4700) and additional prerequisites will be announced depending on offering.
Selected topics of interest in the area of quantitative finance. Offerings vary each year; some topics include energy derivatives, experimental finance, foreign exchange and related derivative instruments, inflation derivatives, hedge fund management, modeling equity derivatives in Java, mortgage-backed securities, numerical solutions of partial differential equations, quantitative portfolio management, risk management, trade and technology in financial markets.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ali Hirsa
  h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

MACHINE LEARNING FOR DATA SCI

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 7:40 p.m.-8:55 p.m.
• Instructor: John W Paisley
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

MACHINE LEARNING FOR DATA SCI

• Department: Video Network
• TR 7:40 p.m.-8:55 p.m.
• Instructor: John W Paisley
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

PIRANDELLO & MOD ITALIAN DRAMA

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

GAP III: DESIGN SEMINAR

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 9 a.m.-noon
• 3 points

COMPARATIVE MODERNISMS

Modernism, the most significant aesthetic movement of the twentieth century, found expression across a range of forms.  While participants and critics associated the movement with innovation and the disruption of traditional aesthetic conventions, there is considerable dispute today about what modernism was. For example, did it focus on internal formal qualities or did it explore and disrupt the boundaries of disciplines, calling for the dissolution of art itself?  Was it involved with fragmentation or pastiche (qualities now often associated with postmodernism), or did it seek to attain a new form of aesthetic unity or order, which in turned imposed new compositional constraints?  Was it concerned with “truth” and “essence” or rather with multiple realities and appearances?  Was it elitist in its formal abstraction and experimentation, or was it democratic and populist in its engagement with everyday life and mass culture?

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Victoria P Rosner
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 4 points

SOSEKI & WORLD LITERATURE

This seminar will focus on the writings, especially the novels, of Natsume Soseki (1868-1915), the pivotal author of early twentieth century Japan. His work inherited, and further spawned, a complex legacy: the prose and poetry of pre-modern Japan; a long tradition of translating of "writing" Chinese literary texts into Japanese; and, by the mid-nineteenth century, other waves of translation from several European languages (for Soseki, the most significant one being English). Soseki came of age and began to write in the period between the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese wars, during which he received modest government support to be as scholar in residence in London. In his criticism, and even more deeply in his fiction, he grappled with issues of unsettlement, displacement, and betrayal, as Japan was moving from a secure sense of itself within an East Asian frame of cultural reference, toward one dominated by Western standards of taste and value. Later Japanese writers, as different as Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Abe Kobo, Oe Kenzaburo, and Murakami Haruki, all acknowledge their debt to Soseki, for the power of his writing about characters without a "country" home or a stable sense of their own selves, amid a global clash of civilizations, and of empire-building strife.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul J Anderer
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 4 points

GAME THEORY & POLIT THEORY

Prerequisites: POLS GU4700 or equivalent level of calculus.
Introduction to noncooperative game theory and its application to strategic situations in politics. Topics include solution concepts, asymmetric information, and incomplete information. Students should have taken POLS GU4700 or have equivalent background in calculus. Permission of instructor required.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: John Huber
  CULPA: 15 h-index: 31 Info
• 4 points

GAME THEORY & POL THEORY-DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

COMPUTATNL ASPECTS OF ROBOTICS

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134 or COMS W3136COMS W3137)
Introduction to robotics from a computer science perspective. Topics include coordinate frames and kinematics, computer architectures for robotics, integration and use of sensors, world modeling systems, design and use of robotic programming languages, and applications of artificial intelligence for planning, assembly, and manipulation.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Tony B Dear
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 3 points

COMPUTATNL ASPECTS OF ROBOTICS

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134 or COMS W3136COMS W3137)
Introduction to robotics from a computer science perspective. Topics include coordinate frames and kinematics, computer architectures for robotics, integration and use of sensors, world modeling systems, design and use of robotic programming languages, and applications of artificial intelligence for planning, assembly, and manipulation.

• Department: Video Network
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Tony B Dear
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 3 points

THEATERS OF THE REAL

Theater, like other arts, often seeks to imitate reality, to present life as it is, to be—for lack of a better word—real. For many reasons, however, reality in the theater is a particularly troubling ideal. First and foremost, what counts as a good representation of reality changes over time. Secondly, realism, the particular style that most contemporary media claim when they are “realistic,” was born in the nineteenth century and was and is a highly contested category. Third, and perhaps most importantly, theater is always in some sense real in ways that most other art forms are not: theater really presents real bodies in real space and real time.
This course considers theater and its relationship to what we might call “the real.” Our focus is on how theater has represented reality, particularly since the rise of realism in the 1880s and 1890s. We will insist, first and foremost, that realism is a style with a specific history and a set of evolving, but essential practices that produce its effects. But we will also struggle with the distance between realism and reality, with theater’s phenomenological reality, and with the many non-realist theaters that nonetheless purport to present real life. In short, we aim to understand why and how—in production practices, acting techniques, narrative forms, and more—people attempt to stage the real.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Derek K Miller
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• 3 points

ALGORITHMIC TRADING

Prerequisites: IEOR E4700
Large and amorphous collection of subjects ranging from the study of market microstructure, to the analysis of optimal trading strategies, to the development of computerized, high frequency trading strategies. Analysis of these subjects, the scientific and practical issues they involve, and the extensive body of academic literature they have spawned. Attempt to understand and uncover the economic and financial mechanisms that drive and ultimately relate them.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• W 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Kenneth Gleason
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• 3 points

FOR EXCH/RELATD DERIVATVS INST

Prerequisites: (IEOR E4700)
Foreign exchange market and its related derivative instruments - the latter being forward contracts, futures, options, and exotic options. What is unusual about foreign exchange is that although it can rightfully claim to be the largest of all financial markets it remains an area where very few have any meaningful experience. Virtually everyone has traded stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. Comparatively few individuals have ever traded foreign exchange. In part that is because foreign exchange is an interbank market. Yet ironically the foreign exchange markets may be the best place to trade derivatives and invent new derivatives - given the massive two-way flow of trading that goes though bank dealing rooms virtually twenty-four hours a day. And most of that is transacted at razor-thin margins, at least comparatively speaking, a fact that makes the foreign exchange market an ideal platform for derivatives. The emphasis is on familiarizing the student with the nature of the foreign exchange market and those factors that make it special among financial markets, enabling the student to gain a deeper understanding of the related market for derivatives on foreign exchange.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• W 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: David Derosa
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 9 Info
• 1.5 points

THEORY AND PRACTICE OF PROSE (IN GERMAN)

THRY/PRACTICE PROSE (GER)

Since the late 18
th
 century, prose, as opposed to verse forms, has steadily garnered increasingly greater influence in the world of ‘belles-lettres.’ With the aid of theoretical texts and poetological debates from antiquity to the present, the seminar will pursue questions associated with this change in the field of literature: What is the function of prose? How does it generate its form? How does it connect itself to external reality? Can literature still be considered an ‘art’ in the wake of this prosaic turn? And if so, then to what extent? Moreover, we will reflect on the development of a uniquely modern prosaic practice, which will be tested against certain exemplary texts. But the singularity of this prosaic practice cannot be adequately captured by either narratological or style-historical means. Therefore, the fundamental question of the seminar will be: How can prose, as a fundamental category of literariness, be defined and analyzed?  Note:  Readings and discussions in German.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Gamper
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• 3 points

BIOINSTRUMENTATION

Prerequisites: (ELEN E1201) and (COMS W1005)
Hands-on experience designing, building, and testing the various components of a benchtop cardiac pacemaker. Design instrumentation to measure biomedical signals as well as to actuate living tissues. Transducers, signal conditioning electronics, data acquisition boards, the Arduino microprocessor, and data acquisition and processing using MATLAB will be covered. Various devices will be discussed throughout the course, with laboratory work focusing on building an emulated version of a cardiac pacemaker.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• F 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Aaron M Kyle
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• 3 points

CULTURAL APPROPRIATION AND WORLD LITERAT

APPROPRIATION & WORLD LIT

What does it mean to treat culture, literature, and identity as forms of property? This course will look at the current debates around cultural appropriation in relation to the expanding field of world literature. In many ways, the two discourses seem at odds: the ethno-proprietary claims that underpin most arguments against cultural appropriation seem to conflict with the more cosmopolitan pretenses of world literature. Nonetheless, both discourses rely on some basic premises that treat culture and cultural productions as forms of property and expressions of identity (itself often treated as a form of property). “Appropriation” is a particularly rich lens for looking at processes and conceptions of worlding and globalization, because some version of the idea is central to historical theories of labor, economic production, land claims, colonialism, authorship, literary translation, and language acquisition. This is not a course in “world literature” as such; we will examine a half dozen case studies of literary/cultural texts that have been chosen for the ways in which they open up different aspects of the problematics of reducing culture to an econometric logic of property relations in the world today.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph R Slaughter
  CULPA: 13 h-index: 13 Info
• 4 points

WORLD FICTION SINCE 1965

In the period since 1965, fiction has become global in a new sense and with a new intensity. Writers from different national traditions have been avidly reading each other, wherever they happen to come from, and they often resist "national" and regional labels altogether. If you ask the Somali writer Nuruddin Farah whether the precocious child of 
Maps
 was inspired by Salman Rushdie´s 
Midnight´s Children
, he will answer (at least he did when I asked him) that he and Rushdie both were inspired by Sterne´s 
Tristram Shandy
 and Grass´s 
The Tin Drum
. At the same time, the human experiences around which novelists organize their fiction are often themselves global, explicitly and powerfully but also mysteriously. Our critical language is in some ways just trying to catch up with innovative modes of storytelling that attempt to be responsible to the global scale of interconnectedness on which, as we only rarely manage to realize, we all live. Authors will include some of the following: Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Jamaica Kincaid, W.G. Sebald, Elena Ferrante, and Zadie Smith.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Bruce Robbins
  CULPA: 35 Wikipedia h-index: 39 Info
• 3 points

GLOBALIZATION & ITS RISKS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213
The world is being transformed by dramatic increases in flows of people, goods and services across nations. Globalization has the potential for enormous gains but is also associated to serious risks. The gains are related to international commerce where the industrial countries dominate, while the risks involve the global environment, poverty and the satisfaction of basic needs that affect in great measure the developing nations. Both are linked to a historical division of the world into the North and the South-the industrial and the developing nations. Key to future evolution are (1) the creation of new markets that trade privately produced public goods, such as knowledge and greenhouse gas emissions, as in the Kyoto Protocol; (2) the updating of the Breton Woods Institutions, including the creation of a Knowledge Bank and an International Bank for Environmental Settlements.

• Department: Economics
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Graciela Chichilnisky
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info
• 3 points

COMPUTATIONAL GENOMICS

Prerequisites: Working knowledge of at least one programming language, and some background in probability and statistics.
Computational techniques for analyzing genomic data including DNA, RNA, protein and gene expression data. Basic concepts in molecular biology relevant to these analyses. Emphasis on techniques from artificial intelligence and machine learning. String-matching algorithms, dynamic programming, hidden Markov models, expectation-maximization, neural networks, clustering algorithms, support vector machines. Students with life sciences backgrounds who satisfy the prerequisites are encouraged to enroll.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Itshack Pe'er
  CULPA: 14 h-index: 49 Info
• 3 points

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH

Prerequisites: one or two semesters of statistics; basic understanding of probability, hypothesis testing, and regression are assumed. Basic familiarity with statistical software (Stata and R) is helpful but not required.
In this course, we will discuss the logic of experimentation, its strengths and weaknesses compared to other methodologies, and the ways in which experimentation has been -- and could be -- used to investigate social phenomena. Students will learn how to interpret, design, and execute experiments.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 7:40 p.m.-8:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Donald P Green
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 87 Info
• 4 points

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH DISC

EXPERIEMNTAL RESEARCH DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

MACHINE LEARNING

Prerequisites: Any introductory course in linear algebra and any introductory course in statistics are both required. Highly recommended: COMS W4701 or knowledge of Artificial Intelligence.
Topics from generative and discriminative machine learning including least squares methods, support vector machines, kernel methods, neural networks, Gaussian distributions, linear classification, linear regression, maximum likelihood, exponential family distributions, Bayesian networks, Bayesian inference, mixture models, the EM algorithm, graphical models and hidden Markov models. Algorithms implemented in MATLAB.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Nakul Verma
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 16 Info
• 3 points

ADV TOPICS IN QUANTITATIVE RES

Instruction in methods for models that have dependent variables that are not continuous, including dichotomous and polychotomous response models, models for censored and truncated data, sample selection models and duration models.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Gregory Wawro
  CULPA: 32 h-index: 13 Info
• 4 points

ADV TPCS QUANTITATIVE DISCUSSION

ADV TOPICS IN QUANTITATIVE RES

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

ADV TPCS QUANTITATIVE DISCUSSION

ADV TPCS IN QUANT RES-DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

MATERIAL THINGS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Joshua C Jordan
  Info
• 3 points

DATA SCIENCE CAPSTONE&ETHICS;

• Department: Engineering
• Instructor: Sining Chen
  Info
• 3 points

MATH LOGIC I

Syntax and semantics; deductive systems; completeness and compactness theorems; first order calculi; Godel's completeness theorem; basic model theory, Skolem functions; Skolem-Lowenheim theorems.

• Department: Philosophy
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Tamar A Lando
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

GENDER AND WOMEN IN ISLAM: SOUTH ASIA AN

This course will examine various roles that a religion can play in shaping its believers’ socio-political and religious identities on the basis of their natural/social differences i.e. sex and gender. Further, an attempt will be made to search for historical explanations through the lens of class, rural/urban economies and geo-ethnic diversities which have shaped gender relations and women’s status in various Muslim countries. The main focus of the course will be on Islam and its role in the articulation of gendered identities, the construction of their socio-religious images, and historical explanation of their roles, rights and status in the regions of South Asia and Middle East since 1900. The central argument of the course is that, for historical understanding of a set of beliefs and practices regarding gender relations and women’s status in any religious group, one needs to examine the historical context and socio-economic basis of that particular religion. By using the notion of gender and historical feminist discourses as tools of analysis, this course intends to understand and explain existing perceptions, misperceptions, myths and realities regarding gender relations and Muslim women’s situations in the distant and immediate past. This course begins with a historical materialist explanation of the religion of Islam and examines men & women’s roles, rights and responsibilities as described in the religious texts, interpretations, traditions and historical sources such as the Quran, Hadith, Sunnah and Sharia.  It will further attempt to study these issues by situating them in histories of local and regional diversities (i.e. South Asia, Middle East). A historical perspective will facilitate students’ understanding of male and female Muslim scholars’ ventures to re/read and re/explain the Islamic texts in modern contexts of South Asia and the Middle East.

• Department: History
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Tahira S Khan
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• 4 points

RELIGION AND HUMAN RIGHTS

The resurgence of religion over the past three decades has had a transformative influence globally and within nations. Religious nationalism, fundamentalism, and communalism have arisen to forcefully compete with secular democracy. With the fall of the Soviet bloc and the bilateralism of the Cold War, ethnic particularism, often of a religious character, has emerged as the locus of identity for people on all continents. These rapid changes engendered by a new, often commanding, role for religion challenge the very concept of individual and universal human rights. They raise difficult theoretical and painfully practical questions as to the preservation of individual human rights, and the relationship of democracy to religion. At the same time, recent currents such as economic globalization, the triumph of the free market, and the communications revolution promote individual autonomy, a cornerstone of human rights. There can be no doubt that religion will occupy an increasingly salient role in the social and political life of nations during the course of the 21st century. The relevance of religion to human rights in our time cannot be undervalued. The course examines the relationship of religion to human rights from several standpoints, including religion's role in abetting intolerance, religious minorities as victims of human rights violations, and religion as a framer of human rights ideals which inspire action.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph N Chuman
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• 3 points

LATTICES AND BOOLEAN ALGEBRA

Prerequisites: PHIL UN3411 or 4801
This course is designed as an introduction to lattices and Boolean algebras. In the first part of the course, we study partial orders and view lattices both as partial orders and as algebraic structures. We study some basic constructions involving sublattices, products of lattices, and homomorphic images of lattices. In the second part of the course, we study Boolean algebras, with an aim to proving several representation theorems: first, a representation theorem for finite Boolean algebras, and toward the end of the course, the famous Stone Representation Theorem. We end the course with a look at the connection between classical mereology (or the theory of parthood) and complete Boolean algebras.

• Department: Philosophy
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Tamar A Lando
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

HIST ENV. & HEALTH S. ASIA & BEYOND

This course offers an understanding of the interdisciplinary field of environmental, health and population history and will discuss historical and policy debates with a cross cutting, comparative relevance: such as the making and subjugation of colonized peoples and natural and disease landscapes under British colonial rule; modernizing states and their interest in development and knowledge and technology building, the movement and migration of populations, and changing place of public health and healing in south Asia. The key aim of the course will be to introduce students to reading and analyzing a range of historical scholarship, and interdisciplinary research on environment, health, medicine and populations in South Asia and to introduce them to an exploration of primary sources for research; and also to probe the challenges posed by archives and sources in these fields. Some of the overarching questions that shape this course are as follows: How have environmental pasts and medical histories been interpreted, debated and what is their contemporary resonance? What have been the encounters (political, intellectual, legal, social and cultural) between the environment, its changing landscapes and state? How have citizens, indigenous communities, and vernacular healers mediated and shaped these encounters and inserted their claims for sustainability, subsistence or survival? How have these changing landscapes shaped norms about bodies, care and beliefs? The course focuses on South Asia but also urges students to think and make linkages beyond regional geographies in examining interconnected ideas and practices in histories of the environment, medicine and health. Topics will therefore include (and students are invited to add to these perspectives and suggest additional discussion themes): colonial and globalized circuits of medical knowledge, with comparative case studies from Africa and East Asia; and the travel and translation of environmental ideas and of medical practices through growing global networks.

• Department: History
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Kavita Sivaramakrishnan
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• 4 points

TIBET RELATIONS WITH CHINA

This course is an introduction to the early period of Tibetan history, with an emphasis on its relations with China, using scholarly studies based on Tibetan and Chinese primary sources.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Eveline Washul
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

RANDOM SIGNALS & NOISE

Prerequisites: (IEOR E3658) or equivalent.
Characterization of stochastic processes as models of signals and noise; stationarity, ergodicity, correlation functions, and power spectra. Gaussian processes as models of noise in linear and nonlinear systems; linear and nonlinear transformations of random processes; orthogonal series representations. Applications to circuits and devices, to communication, control, filtering, and prediction.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Irving Kalet
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

RANDOM SIGNALS & NOISE

RANDOM SIGNALS AND NOISE

Prerequisites: (IEOR E3658) or equivalent.
Characterization of stochastic processes as models of signals and noise; stationarity, ergodicity, correlation functions, and power spectra. Gaussian processes as models of noise in linear and nonlinear systems; linear and nonlinear transformations of random processes; orthogonal series representations. Applications to circuits and devices, to communication, control, filtering, and prediction.

• Department: Video Network
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Irving Kalet
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

IMAGES OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

IMAGES OF FR. REVOLUTION

Along with the American Revolution which immediately preceded it, the French Revolution was the most important political event in modern history.  The bloody end of the 18
th
century ushered in modernity, retrospectively marking a definitive break between “early modern” and “modern” eras.  The French Revolution has been endlessly and variously mythologized and analyzed, as well as depicted in polemical writings, novels, poetry, theater, film, and opera.  This course is designed as an overview of responses to the ten-year event, concentrating on popular depictions in Francophone and Anglophone works.  We will start with contemporary responses and move on through 19
th-
and 20
th
-century literary representations of the Revolution, including plays and films, both adaptations of literary responses and original treatments.  Readings will include works by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Burke, Wollestonecraft, Sade, and Dickens, along with more recent responses.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 3 points

COMPARATIVE ROMANTICISMS

The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries witnessed the explosion of Romanticism: a sweeping cultural movement that developed alongside—and deeply impacted—revolutions in politics, philosophy, industry, and the arts. Romanticism not only spanned multiple media (literature, visual art, music), but also was in essential ways a trans-national phenomenon, with rich cultural cross-pollinations among a number of countries and languages.
This course will introduce literary Romanticism as what William Hazlitt called “the spirit of the age,” primarily in the comparative contexts of Great Britain, Germany, and France. We will explore similar themes and concerns in some of the major writers in these traditions, and also ask what makes each “Romanticism” singular to its time and place. One particular thread for our inquiry will concern how writers confronted crisis and creativity in the religious sphere during a time of political upheaval. From the German Romantic Friedrich Schlegel’s call for a “new mythology,” to William Blake’s “Bible of Hell,” to Mary Shelley’s “modern Prometheus” and Victor Hugo’s wrestling with God and Satan, what new gods come to the fore in Romanticism, and what is their legacy today?
While our main focus will remain on Britain, Germany, and France, we will also glance at contemporaneous Romantic currents in Italy, India, and the United States. All readings will be provided in English translation, but students with reading knowledge of French and/or German are encouraged to read texts in the original languages.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph Albernaz
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING

Introduction to the mathematical tools and algorithmic implementation for representation and processing of digital pictures, videos, and visual sensory data. Image representation, filtering, transform, quality enhancement, restoration, feature extraction, object segmentation, motion analysis, classification, and coding for data compression. A series of programming assignments reinforces material from the lectures.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• M 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Christine P Hendon
  Wikipedia h-index: 21 Info
• 3 points

FUNCTIONAL IMAGING BRAIN

Prerequisites: (APMA E2101) and (APMA E4200) and (ELEN E3801) or instructor's permission.
Fundamentals of modern medical functional imaging. In depth exploration of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), arterial spin labeling (ASL), and positron emission tomography (PET). Human brain anatomy, physiology, and neurophysiological bases underlying each functional imaging. Statistical and digital signal processing methods specific for functional image analysis. Final cumulative project requiring coding in MATLAB, Python, R, or C.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Qolamreza Razlighi
  Info
• 3 points

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

Prerequisites: (CSEE W4823)
Embedded system design and implementation combining hardware and software. I/O, interfacing, and peripherals. Weekly laboratory sessions and term project on design of a microprocessor-based embedded system including at least one custom peripheral. Knowledge of C programming and digital logic required.

• Department: Computer Science
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Stephen A Edwards
  CULPA: 21 h-index: 35 Info
• 3 points

URBANISMS & ALGORITHMS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Luc B Wilson
  Info
• 3 points

GENERATIVE DESIGN

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Danil Nagy
  Info
• 3 points

NAT SECURITY STRAT OF MID EAST

NAT SECURITY STRAT OF MD EAST

At the crossroads of three continents, the Middle East is home to many diverse peoples, with ancient and proud cultures, in varying stages of political and socio-economic development, often in conflict. Following the Arab Spring and subsequent upheaval in Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Libya and more, the region is in a state of historic flux. The Sunni-Shia rivalry, especially between Saudi Arabia and Iran, growing Iranian-Israeli conflict, population explosion, poverty and authoritarian control, Russian ascendance and US retrenchment, are the primary regional drivers today. Together, these factors have transformed the Middle Eastern landscape, with great consequence for the national security of the countries of the region and their foreign relations. The primary source of the world's energy resources, the Middle East remains the locus of the terror-WMD-fundamentalist nexus, which continues to pose a significant threat to both regional and international security.,The course surveys the national security challenges facing the region's primary players (Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, the Palestinians and Turkey,) and how the convolutions of recent years have affected them. Unlike many Middle East courses, which focus on US policy in the region, the course concentrates on the regional players' perceptions of the threats and opportunities they face and the strategies they have adopted to deal with them. It thus provides an essential vantage point for those interested in gaining a deeper understanding of a region, which stands at the center of many of the foreign policy issues of our era. The course is designed for those with a general interest in the Middle East, especially those interested in national security issues, students of comparative politics and future practitioners, with an interest in "real world" international relations and national security.

• Department: Political Science
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Charles D Freilich
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

SUPER TALL

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicole Dosso
  Info
• 3 points

MODERN JAPAN

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul Kreitman
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

INSURGENCIES AND CIVIL WARS

Civil wars have become the predominant type of conflict in recent years and decades, as exemplified by the civil wars in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, or Yemen, among others. Invariably, these civil wars feature insurgencies, i.e., organized, protracted politico-military struggles designed to weaken control and legitimacy of an established government, occupying power, or other political authority, while increasing insurgent control.
The purpose of this course is to examine the causes, nature, and termination of civil wars and the insurgencies that characterize them. Special emphasis is placed on the conduct of civil wars—the nature of insurgency and counterinsurgency (COIN). The course offers different theoretical perspectives and provides historical and contemporary case studies.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Assaf Moghadam
  Info
• 3 points

PRE FAB + MODULAR ARCH

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Laurie A Hawkinson
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

BEHAVIORAL FINANCE

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412
Neoclassical finance theory seeks to explain financial market valuations and fluctuations in terms of investors having rational expectations and being able to trade without costs. Under these assumptions, markets are efficient in that stocks and other assets are always priced just right. The efficient markets hypothesis (EMH) has had an enormous influence over the past 50 years on the financial industry, from pricing to financial innovations, and on policy makers, from how markets are regulated to how monetary policy is set. But there was very little in prevailing EMH models to suggest the instabilities associated with the Financial Crisis of 2008 and indeed with earlier crises in financial market history. This course seeks to develop a set of tools to build a more robust model of financial markets that can account for a wider range of outcomes. It is based on an ongoing research agenda loosely dubbed “Behavioral Finance”, which seeks to incorporate more realistic assumptions concerning human rationality and market imperfections into finance models. Broadly, we show in this course that limitations of human rationality can lead to bubbles and busts such as the Internet Bubble of the mid-1990s and the Housing Bubble of the mid-2000s; that imperfections of markets — such as the difficulty of short-selling assets — can cause financial markets to undergo sudden and unpredictable crashes; and that agency problems or the problems of institutions can create instabilities in the financial system as recently occurred during the 2008 Financial Crisis. These instabilities in turn can have feedback effects to the performance of the real economy in the form of corporate investments.

• Department: Economics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Harrison Hong
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 43 Info
• 3 points

CROSS-SPECIES TESTSITES

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher Woebken
  Info
• 3 points

HISTORY IN THE MAKING

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• 3 points

CHINESE FOREIGN POLICY

• Department: Auditing
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Thomas J Christensen
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 0 points

CHINESE FOREIGN POLICY

The course describes the major elements of Chinese foreign policy today, in the context of their development since 1949. We seek to understand the security-based rationale of policy as well as other factors - organizational, cultural, perceptual, and so on - that influence Chinese foreign policy. We analyze decision-making processes that affect Chinese foreign policy, China's relations with various countries and regions, Chinese policy toward key functional issues in international affairs, how the rise of China is affecting global power relations, and how other actors are responding. The course pays attention to the application of international relations theories to the problems we study, and also takes an interest in policy issues facing decision-makers in China as well as those facing decision-makers in other countries who deal with China.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Thomas J Christensen
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

CHINESE FOREIGN POLICY-DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

CHINESE FOREIGN POLICY-DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

CHINESE FOREIGN POLICY-DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

CHINESE FOREIGN POLICY-DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

CHINESE FOREIGN POLICY-DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

CHINESE FOREIGN POLICY-DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

CHINESE FOREIGN POLICY-DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

CHINESE FOREIGN POLICY-DISC

• Department: Political Science
• 0 points

RUSSIA AND THE WEST

• Department: Political Science
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Kimberly Marten
  CULPA: 71 Wikipedia h-index: 19 Info
• 3 points

ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS FOR SCIENCE AND EN

Prerequisites: Pre-requisites: ,A course in statistical mechanics or thermodynamics or instructor's permission
Many materials properties and chemical processes are governed by atomic-scale phenomena such as phase transformations, atomic/ionic transport, and chemical reactions. Thanks to progress in computer technology and methodological development, now there exist atomistic simulation approaches for the realistic modeling and quantitative prediction of such properties. Atomistic simulations are therefore becoming increasingly important as a complement for experimental characterization, to provide parameters for meso- and macroscale models, and for the in-silico discovery of entirely new materials. This course aims at providing a comprehensive overview of cutting-edge atomistic modeling techniques that are frequently used both in academic and industrial research and engineering. Participants will develop the ability to interpret results from atomistic simulations and to judge whether a problem can be reliably addressed with simulations. The students will also obtain basic working knowledge in standard simulation software.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexander Urban
  h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE UNITED STATES

The United States sees itself as a country founded on the norms of equality under the law and inalienable rights but the modern reality is quite different. Police brutality in Ferguson, Executive Orders banning Muslims, protests at the Dakota Pipeline, the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, high levels of domestic violence, wage stagnation, and the lack of a right to health care, all point to a human rights crisis at home. Some scholars have even argued that, for the majority of its citizens, the United States has the standards of a “third world” country.
In which areas are the most violations of human rights occurring and why? How have long term trends, including historical legacies, contributed to the current state of affairs? This survey course will provide an overview of contemporary human rights issues in the United States and will analyze them through the theoretical lenses of scholarship in the fields of comparative politics (including social movements) and law and society. It will outline the different actors in the human rights landscape, and focus on the various forms and strategies of mobilization around human rights issues with an eye to what has helped increase the enjoyment of rights.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Lara J Nettelfield
  h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

HISTORY OF MODERN CHINA II

China's transformation under its last imperial rulers, with special emphasis on economic, legal, political, and cultural change.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Eugenia Lean
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 3 points

WOMEN & GENDER IN KOREAN HIST

WOMEN AND GENDER IN KOREAN HIS

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 4 points

STABLE ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: introductory chemistry and earth science coursework.
Prerequisites: Introductory Chemistry and Earth Science coursework. Given in alternate years. This class will be an introduction to the field of stable isotope geochemistry and its application to understanding current and past environmental processes. The utility of stable isotopes as tracers will be examined with respect to the disciplines of hydrology, oceanography,paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, landscape evolution, carbon cycle and nitrogen cycle dynamics. We will focus on the stable isotopes of hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen in water, ice, carbonates and organic compounds and why they fractionate in the environment. The theoretical background for isotope fractionation will be discussed in class. Radiocarbon as a tracer and dating tool will also be reviewed. In addition, the mechanics of how mass spectrometers analyze different isotope ratios will be explored in class and during experiments in the laboratory. Additional key parts of the class will be a review of paper or laboratory report and student-lead reviews of published papers on relevant topics.,

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Braddock Linsley
  h-index: 42 Info
• 3 points