SCALEUP VENTURES
This course will focus on the tools required to scale a business, nonprofit or social enterprise. Scale-ups are firms that grow big and fast and transform people, industries, regions, and countries, yet they are not as popular as their close cousins, the Start-ups. Going from zero clients to one is a big challenge, yet growing from one client to a hundred or from one employee to many is much harder. In particular, the course will ask you to look at the world of scaleups from three different and unique perspectives: First, the bottom-up approach, where you will need to think like an entrepreneur. How do you achieve scale by leading the attraction and retention of talent, capital, and customers? Second, the top-down approach, where you will need to think like a policy maker. Which policies are effective to help scaleups attract top talent, capital, and more customers? Are there policies that help startups but actually hurt scaleups? And third, you need to think like a global citizen: What are the differences in managing a rapidly growing firm (in terms of risk and rewards) based in New York versus one based in Istanbul or Mexico City?
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Fernando Fabre
Info - 3 points
ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE LAW
- Department: Law
- R 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Lawrence Rosen
Info - 2 points
LEGAL METHODS II
- Department: Law
- MTWRF 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
- W 2 p.m.-6 p.m.
- F 9 a.m.-10 p.m.
- MTWRF 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
- MTWR 2 p.m.-3 p.m.
- MTWRF 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Philip Genty
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Instructor:
Jane C Ginsburg
Wikipedia Info - 1 points
Impact Investing: Essential Skills
IMPACT INVESTING: VENTURE CAP
Impact investing is young but fast growing industry. An increasing number of philanthropists, traditional investors and asset managers look into impact investment as a compelling asset class. Entrepreneurs tackling social and environmental issues are finding in impact investors a more reliable and better aligned source of capital to finance their ventures. The industry requires a committed, talented and well-prepared pool of capital to continue evolving and growing. This class aims to provide the students with some of the essential skills and tools they will require to work and thrive in the impact investing industry. This is an experiential course designed to introduce students to impact investing and provide them with the skills used by impact investors every day. Students will work on the key "products" required in an impact investment transaction including: assessing a possible impact investment; writing an investment memo with a full impact analysis; and presenting an investment proposal to a group of seasoned impact investors. The course will take place over two weekends with the first weekend focusing on an introduction to impact investing and the technical skills needed to vet an impact investing opportunity (What questions do you ask? What does your analysis focus on?). The second weekend will focus on hearing pitches from several possible impact investments / companies, performing due diligence on each one and making a recommendation to invest in one of the companies.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- S 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
- 1.5 points
LEADERSHIP IN ENGINEERING&CONSTRUCTION;
ENG & CONSTR
Prerequisites: (CIEN E4129) or equivalent.
Introduces and employs various tools, concepts, and analytical frameworks to enhance students’ ability to define and analyze leadership problems. In depth analysis of the leadership literature and practical situational immersion using industry case studies. Term project exploring leadership in the engineering and construction industry, working closely with industry leaders.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
- W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Feniosky Pena-Mora
Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info - 3 points
NUMERICAL MTHS IN GEOMECHANICS
Prerequisites: (EAEE E3112) and (CIEN E4241) or instructor's permission.
A detailed survey of numerical methods used in geomechanics, emphasizing the Finite Element Method (FEM). Review of the behavior of geological materials. Water and heat flow problems. FEM techniques for solving nonlinear problems, and simulating incremental excavation and loading on the surface and underground.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
- M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Xi Chen
CULPA: 7
Wikipedia
h-index: 64
Info
- 3 points
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
- Department: Law
- MTW 9:10 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
- MTW 2:50 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
- MW 10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Jamal K Greene
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Instructor:
Mark Barenberg
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Instructor:
Christina M Duffy Ponsa
Info - 4 points
WAR & SOCIAL THEORY
WAR AND SOCIAL THEORY
In this class, we will think about the various ways in which philosophers, social theorists, historians and anthropologists have thought about war. More specifically, the course focuses on a set of key themes and questions that have been central to such writings: the nature of violence and the question of responsibility or accountability, shifting technologies of warfare (including, technologies of representation), and the phenomenology and aftermath of warfare, for civilians and for combatants. The questions that drive this seminar are theoretical and historical, as well as ethical and political. For example, how do shifting understandings of the trauma of soldiers shape ethical questions and political conversations regarding "perpetration" and the question of responsibility? Or, when we think warfare through new technologies (cinematic, action at a distance) from whose perspective are we theorizing or trying to understand the "experience of" war? How might we analyze the very different affective responses that different forms of violence-or of "perpetration" -elicit?
- Department: Anthropology
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nadia Abu El-Haj
CULPA: 13
Wikipedia
Info
- 3 points
RENAISSANCE DRAMA
This course will investigate what constituted early modern tragedy, not so much by having recourse to theories of tragedy (though we will do some of that), but by looking at what theater practitioners produced under that generic rubric. Shifting focus from individual playwrights to communities of practice, we will trace how evolving conventions, memes, and theatergrams traveled from company to company, paying particular attention to the theatrical “inventions” that fueled the affective power and popularity of tragedy in its many manifestations. Shakespeare will be considered as part of, rather than separate from, the theater culture in which he was embedded. Plays will include early tragedies such as
Gorboduc
, revenge plays from
The Spanish Tragedy
to
Hamlet
and
The Revenger’s Tragedy
, domestic tragedies from
Warning for Fair Women
to
Othello
, Roman tragedies such as
Julius Caesar
and
Sejanus
, tragedies of ancient Britain such as
Bonduca
, and later sensational tragedies such as
The White Devil
and
Tis Pity She’s a Whore
. Critical reading will focus fairly heavily on recent theater history by Tiffany Stern, Natasha Korda, Holger Symes, Jeremy Lopez, and Lucy Munro, as well as by older critics such as Andy Gurr. We will scout around for early modern tragedies we can see together next semester. Red Bull is doing a full production of The White Devil; Glenda Jackson is doing Lear; TFANA is doing Julius Caesar. We will make seeing them part of our work as I get the funds to subsidize us.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jean E Howard
CULPA: 12 Info - 4 points
RENEWABLE ENERGY POL DEV/MRKTS
RENEWABLE ENERGY MARKETS & POL
Renewable energy is the fastest growing segment of the energy sector. While wildly popular in polling across the political spectrum, it is increasingly a point of political partisan divide among elected leaders. To combat global warming, many argue that renewables will need to provide most if not all of our energy, but getting there requires overcoming many technical, economic, and political challenges. This course explores not only what renewable energy is, but also what tools are available to expand access to it in the years to come. This course will introduce students to the full range of renewable energy technologies and the fault lines that make some technologies “real” renewables and others not. We will cover the status of each major family of renewable energy technology including the strengths and limitations, costs and forecasts for long-term deployment. We will focus on renewables in the context of the two largest markets — electricity generation and transportation energy with a heavier focus on the former. The course will focus heavily on the examples from the US experience, but will, occasionally, compare and contrast lessons from international and developing markets as well. Our goal will be to understand the full range of policy tools currently in use and under debate. We will follow current events at the federal and state level to frame discussions. In particular, we will look at tax credit policy, mandates, utility regulatory policies and EPA’s carbon regulations known as the Clean Power Plan.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nathanael W Greene
Info - 3 points
ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
Prerequisites: (CIEE E4252) and (CIEE E4163) or the equivalent, or the instructor's permission.
Fundamentals and applications of key physicochemical processes relevant to water quality engineering (such as water treatment, waste water treatment/reuse/recycling, desalination) and the natural environment (e.g., lakes, rivers, groundwater).
- Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Yin Yip Ngai
h-index: 26 Info - 3 points
HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE SIMLATION
HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE SIMULAT
The simulation will be designed in order to provide exposure to a range of topics including but not limited to: Refugee and cross-border migration issues; Practical implications of international humanitarian law; Ramifications of international human rights law in crises; The interagency nature of a large-scale humanitarian response, including UN, National Governments, international NGOs and national NGOs and how to coordinate across actors; Humanitarian field negotiations; Humanitarian operations issues (logistics, staff security, human resources management, etc.); Emergency response design. The scenario upon which the simulation is based will be situated in Paradoxia, reflecting elements of a relatively recent real-world situation whereby a natural disaster evolves into a large-scale civil conflict. This will give students the opportunity not only to understand the complexities of planning and implementing a humanitarian response in a challenging environment. The learning objectives for the participants, therefore, are primarily: further their understanding of the roles of individual humanitarian actors and their inter-relationships; enhance their recognition of the difficulties associated with working in an inter-cultural environment; augment their understanding of the challenges involved in achieving effective coordination and cooperation among a range of humanitarian actors; build the capacity to make decisions based on relevant and time-sensitive information; strengthen their ability to develop strategies and operational plans that will improve immediate response without impeding future recovery.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- SU 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
- 1 points
RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CULTURE
From Prince Valdimir’s Rus’ to the Post-Soviet Russia of Vladimir Putin, religion has remained a key factor in the making and remaking of Russian polity and culture. This course will explore how Orthodox Christianity—whether privileged or persecuted—came to dominate the Russian religious scene and shape Russian institutions, discourses, and lived experiences. Students will draw from a variety of primary and secondary sources—chronicles, saints’ lives, travel narratives, memoirs, letters, legal documents, icons and other ritual objects, films and fictional texts, as well as a large body of scholarly works and contemporary media materials—to examine how Russia’s Orthodox past and its rewriting into competing “histories” have been used over time as “legacies” shaping the present and the future.
- Department: Slavic Languages
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Valentina Izmirlieva
CULPA: 14 Info - 4 points
INDUSTRIAL CATALYSIS
Prerequisites: (EAEE E4550) or equivalent, or instructor's permission.
Fundamental principles of kinetics, characterization and preparation of catalysts for production of petroleum products for conventional transportation fuels, specialty chemicals, polymers, food products, hydrogen and fuel cells and the application of catalysis in biomass conversion to fuel. Update of the ever changing demands and challenges in environmental applications, focusing on advanced catalytic applications as described in modern literature and patents.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Robert Farrauto
h-index: 52 Info - 3 points
INDUSTRIAL CATALYSIS
Prerequisites: (EAEE E4550) or equivalent, or instructor's permission.
Fundamental principles of kinetics, characterization and preparation of catalysts for production of petroleum products for conventional transportation fuels, specialty chemicals, polymers, food products, hydrogen and fuel cells and the application of catalysis in biomass conversion to fuel. Update of the ever changing demands and challenges in environmental applications, focusing on advanced catalytic applications as described in modern literature and patents.
- Department: Video Network
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Robert Farrauto
h-index: 52 Info - 3 points
ANALYSIS II
Continuation of
MATH G6151x
(see Fall listing).
- Department: Mathematics
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Ovidiu Savin
CULPA: 22 Wikipedia Info - 4 points
PROBABILITY II
Prerequisites: MATH GR6151
MATH G4151
Analysis & Probability I.
Continuation of
MATH GR6152x
(see fall listing).
- Department: Mathematics
- MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ivan Corwin
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 34 Info - 4 points
TOPICS IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Topics in Software engineering arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis. Since the content of this course changes, it may be repeated for credit with advisor approval. Consult the department for section assignment.
- Department: Computer Science
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Gail E Kaiser
CULPA: 10 Info - 3 points
TOPICS IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Topics in Software engineering arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis. Since the content of this course changes, it may be repeated for credit with advisor approval. Consult the department for section assignment.
- Department: Video Network
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Gail E Kaiser
CULPA: 10 Info - 3 points
IDEA OF A BL RADICAL TRADITION
This course will seek to raise and think through the following questions: What does it mean to talk today about a black radical tradition? What has it meant in the past to speak in these (or cognate) terms? And if we take the debate in part at least to inhabit a
normative
discursive space, an argumentative space in which to make
claims
on the moral-political present, what
ought
it to mean to talk about a black radical tradition?
- Department: Anthropology
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
David Scott
CULPA: 6
h-index: 72
Info
- 3 points
UNFAIR COMP & REL TOPICS IN IP
- Department: Law
- MTW 1:20 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Clarisa Long
Info - 4 points
MATERIALS CHEMISTRY IIA
Prerequisites: CHEM UN2443 , or the equivalent.
This is an introductory course to the emerging field macromolecular materials chemistry. The general topics will be based on the chemistry, self-assembly, and performance of block copolymers and conjugated polymers. Particular emphasis will be devoted to the demands required to drive materials from scientific curiosity to commercialization. At the fundamental level, the course will cover topics on polymerization techniques, electronic structure of organic semiconductors, characterization strategies, nanostructures and self-assembly.
- Department: Chemistry
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Luis M Campos
CULPA: 6
Wikipedia
h-index: 45
Info
- 2.5 points
LEGISLATION AND REGULATION
- Department: Law
- MTW 1:20 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
- TWR 1:20 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
- W 1:20 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Peter L Strauss
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Instructor:
Jessica J Bulman
h-index: 14 Info -
Instructor:
Thomas W Merrill
Wikipedia Info - 4 points
NEW DRUG DEV:REGULAT OVERVIEW
NEW DRUG DEV: REGULAT OVERVIEW
- Department: Biostatistics
- F 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
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Instructor:
Robert Mac Arthur
Info - 3 points
EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF LAW
- Department: Law
- MW 1:20 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jeffrey A Fagan
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
MODELING & PERFORMANCE EVALUATION
MODELING&PERFORMANCE; EVAL
Prerequisites: (COMS W4118) and (STAT GU4001)
Introduction to queuing analysis and simulation techniques. Evaluation of time-sharing and multiprocessor systems. Topics include priority queuing, buffer storage, and disk access, interference and bus contention problems, and modeling of program behaviors.
- Department: Computer Science
- R 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Vishal Misra
CULPA: 5 Wikipedia h-index: 53 Info - 3 points
DEMOCRACY&DEMOCRATIZATION;:DEVELOPING COU
DEMOCRACY & DEMOCRATIZATION
This course focuses on one of the central aspects of the idea of “political development”: the development of “free” regimes in which voters participate in fair, meaningful and competitive elections that allow them to select, and if need be, to sanction their leaders. In this course, we first ask how such regimes come to be – that is, we study democratization processes. Next, the largest section of the course highlights a number of salient challenges faced by young and emerging democracies and in each case discusses how these challenges may be best addressed. As such, we discuss ways to improve and deepen democracy and to improve “governance” in places in which competitive elections nominally exist.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Simon Chauchard
Info - 3 points
US & INTL LEGAL SYSTEM
- Department: Law
- MW 1:20 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Matthew Waxman
Wikipedia h-index: 24 Info - 3 points
DEVELOPMENT AS FREEDOM
The course aims to immerse you as a student into the advisory and executive roles you might one day play in national and international professional life, with the objective of empowering people across the world to choose their future. You will share in the reading of critical theoretical, analytical and political texts that actually have impacted national and international choices. You will hear stories of real-life experience, including of failures, blind spots, and lessons. I will draw from my experience as Swedish state secretary, as World Bank Vice President, as well as being in the leadership of a number of innovative international policy initiatives from global governance to post-conflict to energy. Most of the authors of the texts you will read, I have had the privilege to work with, and know their influence first hand. Why is it so hard for polities to decide to do the right thing, when we know that it is possible to eradicate poverty, protect rights, and share in managing the planet? This course will draw primarily on accounts of real-world experience, purposefully drawing on recent history, with the aim of giving you inside knowledge: how was change achieved and how can it be accelerated? It will systematically draw on key texts which have influenced decision-makers and development actors. It will invite you to participate in a reflection on how different actors, such as those responsible in government, in international institutions and in civil society might act or should act. The course aims to empower you as a student to assess real-time events in order to equip you to search for effective means to use development practice as a liberating tool in a time of great uncertainty.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- T 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Mats Karlsson
Info - 3 points
EXHIBITION PRAC-GLOBAL CONTEXT
Prerequisites: ANTH G6352 Museum Anthropology: history and theory / ANTH G6353 Politics and Practice of Museum Exhibitions; G9110, G9111 and the instructor's permission.
Corequisites:
ANTH G6353
.
This course addresses the practical challenges entailed in the process of creating a successful exhibition. Developing an actual curatorial project, students will get an opportunity to apply the museum anthropology theory they are exposed to throughout the program. They will be given a hands-on approach to the different stages involved in the curation of a show, from the in-depth researching of a topic to the writing, editing and design of an exhibition that will be effective for specific audiences.
- Department: Anthropology
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
David Harvey
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
TECH FOR INT'L CRISIS RESPONSE & GOOD GO
The advent of new technologies has fundamentally changed the capacity for processing and exchanging information. NGOs, governments, and companies alike are just beginning to understand the potential that these tools and systems can have in analyzing and addressing a range of social problems. This course will explore how technology is being used to respond to international crises, create early warning mechanisms, monitor elections, provide banking services, ensure effective governance, and much more. It will also take a critical approach and consider key challenges related to access, privacy, implementation, scale, and evaluation based on evidence that working with technology presents. The course is designed for graduate students to assist them in developing strategies and technological skills to work amid this rapidly evolving landscape. Students can expect a hands-on and interactive learning environment with a variety of examples from organizations working in the field.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- FSFS 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nicholas Martin
Info - 1.5 points
Managerial Economics
- Department: Business Economics
- TR 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
- TR 2:15 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
- TR 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nachum Sicherman
h-index: 18 Info - 1.5 points
Managerial Economics
Exemption: Managerial Economic
- Department: Business Economics
- 0 points
MA WORKSHOP/E ASIAN HISTORY
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ulug Kuzuoglu
CULPA: 4
Info
- 4 points
INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION
- Department: Sociology
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Yinon Cohen
CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 33 Info - 3 points
Global Economic Environment
- Department: Business Economics
- MW 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
- MW 2:15 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
- MW 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Pierre Yared
h-index: 20 Info - 1.5 points
Global Economic Environment
Exemption: Global Economic Env
- Department: Business Economics
- 0 points
COMMUNICATIONS POLICY IN THE DIGITAL AGE
COMMUNICATIONS POLICY-DIGITAL
In this course, we study the internet through the perspectives of vastly different stakeholders, including telecom companies, regulators, marginalized groups, ordinary users, governments, and social media companies. Governments have reached consensus that human rights apply online, but need to interrogate how laws, regulations, and norms should be updated for the digital age. Companies have a responsibility to respect human rights, but vary widely in their approaches, policies, and processes that mediate user experience online. The Sustainable Development Goals identify internet access as essential to development, and require smart internet and communications policy environments to extend connectivity to the “last mile,” speed economic development, and empower all users. Students will devise principled and effective internet policy by studying: the basic workings of the internet & mobile technology; the forums most active in internet governance, at national and international levels; and how internet policy can impact rights, cultures, and economies, positively and otherwise. Hot-button issues like network neutrality, encryption, cross-border data flows, countering violent extremism, and universal connectivity will feature prominently. We’ll consider questions like, what should be the respective roles for corporations, governments, and civil society in governing the technical protocols, infrastructure, and operations of the internet? Is it possible to retain personal privacy online? And whose responsibility is it to police content? We will focus on process as much as substance. Internet governance grew out of organic, horizontal institutions that prized the rough consensus of engineers and visionaries. How will institutions grow and mature while retaining that bottom-up, inclusive style that created the internet as we know it? Will governments allow internet governance decisions to be made without their intervention? This focus on process will be reflected in the classroom, as we nimbly role-play, break into small groups, and hone tech policy skills under time pressure. Expect to participate frequently, and learn to navigate the most pressing issues facing companies, governments, and technologists today.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Peter Micek
Info - 3 points
ADV CORP LAW: MERG & ACQUISTNS
- Department: Law
- TWR 2:50 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jeffrey Gordon
Info - 4 points
STATISTICL INFERENCE THEORY II
Prerequisites: STAT GR6201
Continuation of
STAT G6201
- Department: Statistics
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Arian Maleki
h-index: 31 Info - 4 points
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
- Department: Law
- TR 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Gillian E Metzger
Wikipedia Info - 4 points
FIN STATEMNT ANALYSIS & INTERP
This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the
Law School Curriculum Guide
at:
http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search
- Department: Law
- R 3:20 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Norman Bartczak
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS II-DISC
MICROECNMC ANALYSIS II-DISC
- Department: Economics
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Goncalves Dias da Silva Duarte
Info - 0 points
MACROECONOMIC ANALYSIS II-DISC
MACROECNMC ANALYSIS II-DISC
- Department: Economics
- F 3:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Seungki Hong
Info - 0 points
THE FUTRUE OF ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
FUTURE ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
- Department: Law
- M 4:20 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Charles Sabel
Wikipedia h-index: 77 Info - 3 points
GENETIC APPROACHES TO BIOL PROBLEMS II
GENETIC APPROACHES II
Required for first-year Genetics and Development students. Continuation of Genetics G6210. Basic principles and current areas of interest in mouse and human genetics. An introduction to mouse genetics; X-chromosome inactivation and genomic imprinting; genetic manipulation of the mouse; genetics of mouse coat color; genetics of sex determination; the mouse T-complex; human linkage analysis; somatic cell genetics; physical mapping of the human genome; cytogenetics; Huntington’s disease; muscular dystrophy and Alzheimer’s disease; and gene therapy.
- Department: Genetics and Development
- T 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
- 3 points
THEORIES & DEBATES-AMER POL II
This is the second of two semester-long courses that provide graduate students with an overview of the scholarly study of American politics. G6210 and G6211 constitute the American politics "field survey." The field survey is designed for political science doctoral students who intend to specialize in American politics, as well as for those students whose primary interests are comparative politics, international relations, or political theory, but who desire an intensive introduction to the "American" style of political science. In this course we will cover a range of topics related to American politics that, for the most part, are not covered in G6210. Our focus will be on public opinion and political behavior. The reading assignments are a mix of foundational contributions (i.e., the canons of American politics literature) and recent research. The first part of each seminar session will aim to clarify and probe enduring puzzles, theories, and debates highlighted in the foundational texts. The latter portion of the seminar session will focus on how recent studies contribute to ongoing debates and define the research agenda going forward.
- Department: Political Science
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Donald P Green
CULPA: 2 h-index: 87 Info - 4 points
PRIN/APPL-SOC & CULTRL ANTHROP
Prerequisites:
ANTH G4201
Principles and Applications of Social and Cultural Anthropology and the instructor's permission.
Focus on research and writing for the Master's level thesis, including research design, bibliography and background literature development, and writing. , Prerequisites:
ANTH G4201
Principles and Applications of Social and Cultural Anthropology
- Department: Anthropology
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ellen Marakowitz
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS II
Prerequisites: the director of graduate studies' permission.
Corequisites:
ECON G6410
.
Consumer and producer behavior; general competitive equilibrium, welfare and efficiency, behavior under uncertainty, intertemporal allocation and capital theory, imperfect competition, elements of game theory, problems of information, economies with price rigidities.
- Department: Economics
- MW 8:25 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- 4 points
MACROECONOMIC ANALYSIS II
Prerequisites: the director of graduate studies' permission.
Concept of full employment. Models of underemployment and theory applicability, determinants of consumption and of investment, multiplier and accelerator analysis, an introduction to monetary macroeconomics, the supply side and inflation. Integration of macroeconomics with microeconomic and monetary analysis.
- Department: Economics
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
- 4 points
STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING
Prerequisites: (ENME E4215) and (ENME E4332) ENME E4215 and ENME E4332
Principles of traditional and emerging sensors, data acquisition and signal processing techniques, experimental modal analysis (input-output), operational modal analysis (output-only), model-based diagnostics of structural integrity, data-based diagnostics of structural integrity, long-term monitoring and intelligent maintenance. Lectures and demonstrations, hands-on laboratory experiments.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
- M 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Raimondo Betti
CULPA: 4
h-index: 31
Info
- 3 points
ADV MICRO ANALYSIS II
ADVANCED MICRO ANALYSIS II
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
This course develops theory of designing markets—namely, “mechanisms” of allocating resources—that are efficient, fair and non-manipulable. Understanding the incentives participants face under alternative mechanisms will be a central theme of the course. Specifically, the course will consist of two parts. The first part deals with environments where monetary transfers can be used, and focuses on topics such as optimal nonlinear pricing, optimal auction design, property rights assignment, dynamic mechanisms and assignment games/sponsored search auctions in Internet advertising. The second part concerns market design without monetary transfers and discusses matching theory as a primarily tool for analyzing the topic. Specifically, we shall discuss matching of agents on one side with agents on the other and matching of agents to indivisible resources/positions, and apply the theories to problems of house allocation, centralized labor market matching, and school choice.
- Department: Economics
- R 3 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Navin Kartik
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LAW IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL PLATFORM
LAW-DIGITAL PLATFORM AGE
- Department: Law
- M 3 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
- 2 points
RANDOM PROCESSES IN MECHANICS
Prerequisites: (CIEN E4111) and (ENME E4215) or CIEN E4111 and ENME E4215 or equivalent.
Review of random variables. Random process theory: stationary and ergodic processes, correlations functions, power spectra. Non-stationary and non-Gaussian processes. Linear random vibration theory. Crossing rates, peak distributions, and response analysis of non-linear structures to random loading. Major emphasis on simulation of various types of random processes. Monte Carlo simulation.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
- T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou
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DIRECTING IV
- Department: Film
- F 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
- M 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
- T 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
- W 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Eric Mendelsohn
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Instructor:
Ramin Bahrani
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Instructor:
Amos Gitai
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LANDSCAPE:LIFE AND NON-LIFE IN THE MAKIN
This class takes the creation and inhabitation of place as its focus, drawing on diverse conceptual frameworks from anthropology and beyond to think critically about landscape and the forms of life and non-life through which it is constituted. We'll look at the history of approaches to landscape and then address a range of case studies that attempt to decenter the human and to imagine a non-anthropocentric form of inquiry to place-making. How might such modes of approach reconfigure what is understood by landscape and the coming into being of place?
- Department: Anthropology
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Zoe Crossland
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COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
- Department: Law
- MW 10:40 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Jamal K Greene
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LEADERSHIP/INNOVATIVE POL MAKING
LEADERSHIP/INNOVATV POL MAKING
In this course the students will (a) master key themes in leadership development and policy making, (b) increase their own leadership and policy making capacities through reflection and discussion and (c) evaluate the leadership record of an "extraordinary" policy leader. The goal of the three-pronged approach is to prepare students for understanding and exercising leadership-executive ability in government, non-governmental organizations, and business. Leadership is the ability to influence people towards achieving a goal. An important part of the SIPA mission is to prepare students for leadership and innovative policy making. In this course we will examine leadership and policy making "out of the box" as well as "inside the box" by having students tackle several key themes and some specific questions. The themes include issues such as, are leaders born or made? What kind of leaders design and implement "good" versus "bad" policies? Can "nudging" and "innovative policy making" substitute for forceful policy intervention? To what extent are economic and political outcomes products of leadership as opposed to external environment?
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jan Svejnar
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TUTORIAL IN CLINICAL PRACTICE:STRUCTURED
- Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
- T 5 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
- 1 points
IDEAS OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT
- Department: Law
- TWR 1:20 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Vincent A Blasi
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CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY & ROLE OF GOV
The world is rapidly changing with each day presenting dramatic challenges to existing perspectives and practices. For business, as usual suffices no more. It is no longer sufficient to view innovation, environmental responsibility and social justice as the right things to do. These considerations are now operational imperatives. Of the myriad challenges facing corporations and society in general, environmental degradation looms large. Significant climate change effects are observable around the world and ecosystem and biodiversity loss is now so severe that scientists refer to it as the sixth great extinction. Although not the specific focus of this course, social justice, diversity and inclusion challenges also abound and must be addressed with vigor to meet peoples’ needs and aspirations and to empower the broader population to apply their capabilities toward societal ends. As well, the connection between environmental degradation and social issues grows with each successive mega-storm, forest fire and drought. For the private sector to play a substantive role in addressing these challenges, corporations must succeed in the marketplace by effectively adapting to rapidly changing operational parameters. Only then can resources be marshaled to provide goods and services that meet people’s needs while protecting the environment and benefiting society at large. In this course, with a focus on environmental dimensions, we will explore the underpinnings and elements of corporate sustainable development and frameworks for coherent strategies to advance this critical agenda. We will consider how a systems approach, grounded in an understanding of a corporation's interconnections and interdependencies with the natural world and its broad array of internal and external stakeholders, can reveal business models that are inherently resilient and regenerative. We will also address the role of government in forwarding this agenda, including: incentives and technical assistance to advance best practice and technology development; public/private partnerships for research and demonstration; facilitating environmental markets; and sustainable procurement. Broadly, we will explore the business perils and promises of our time. However, beyond improving society, the good news for business in embracing corporate sustainability is that it can also serve to strengthen competitive advantage by improving brand value, product differentiation, and the manage
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jeffrey Potent
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CORPORATE TAXATION
This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the
Law School Curriculum Guide
at:
http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search
- Department: Law
- MW 10:40 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Dana L Trier
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CORPORATIONS
This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the
Law School Curriculum Guide
at:
http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search
- Department: Law
- MW 1:50 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
- TWR 1:20 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Zohar Goshen
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Instructor:
Justin R McCrary
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