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The course will provide an overview of managing global companies from CEO and/or senior manager's perspective. The focus will be on the key decisions and trade-offs that the CEO must make. The course is built around two main themes: developing a framework for integrated decision-making and managing change in a global corporation.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Students will make presentations of original research.
The idea that culture influences politics has been a core theme of the modern social sciences. But scholars have debated what culture is, what it influences, and how. The course looks at some of the foundational works in this literature. It then focuses on the stream of research that uses survey research methods and in so doing, focuses on the understanding of political culture as a distribution within a society of values, norms, and attitudes toward political objects. Within this literature, we look at how social scientists using survey research have assessed the impact of political culture on one type of behavior, political participation, and one type of attitude, regime legitimacy. This in turn involves a discussion of the distinction in the literature between democratic and authoritarian regime types, and how they differ with respect to drivers of participation and causes of legitimacy.
The course deals with culture, regime type, participation, and legitimacy at both the conceptual and methodological levels. By critiquing prominent works in the field, we will learn more about problems of measurement, question formulation, response category design, and questionnaire design, and about practical problems of gaining access and conducting interviews in various social and political environments. We will develop an appreciation of how sampling techniques affect the reliability of findings, and discuss the possibilities and limits of using non-random and flawed samples. Students who can use statistical software will have an opportunity to work with the Asian Barometer Survey Wave 4 dataset.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
This course examines recent research and classic texts on the role of ethnic groups in political analysis. The class addresses three broad questions: what are ethnic groups, when do they become politically salient, and how does ethnic competition affect the distribution of resources in a society. Many of the readings utilize econometric methods. A statistical background at the level of W4710 is assumed, with familiarity through
W4712
strongly recommended.
Prerequisites:
MATH G8428
.
Analytic and geometric methods in the study of partial differential equations, in particular maximum principles, Harnack inequalities, isoperimetric inequalities, formation and singularities. Emphasis on non-linear heat equations and geometric evolution equations.
From the late 16th to the early 20th centuries, the British Empire grew to become the largest in world history. Its territories spanned the globe, from the Americas to Africa to South Asia and the Pacific. Until relatively recently, the visual and material culture of Britain’s colonies was considered marginal, at best, to the history of British art. Over the last two decades, the situation has altered dramatically. In this time, a large and dynamic body of scholarship has emerged that places the fact and concept of empire at the very center of its approach to the question of what “British art” is, and what it means to study it.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Students will make presentations of original research.
This hybrid lecture/seminar course will consider major developments and figures in French architectural theory and practice from the eve of the Revolution to the eve of the First World War. Lectures alternately by Bergdoll and Garric will be interespsed with discussion sessions devoted to major theoretic statements including Rondelet, Quatremere de Quincy, the Saint-Simonians, Viollet-le-Duc, Charles Garnier and Julien Guadet.
This seminar is organized around the study of pottery, baskets, weavings and other tailored
textiles on display in the exhibition “Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker
Collection,” and is a collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This landmark
long-term display is the first to present Indigenous North American art in the Museum’s
American Wing and the display invites the close analysis of more than 100 objects, over half
of which were created by women. Unlike in other areas, Native women’s artistic
accomplishments have long been recognized. Yet there is more to be said about the
significance of the expert design and craftspersonship of Indigenous women’s art.
Meeting weekly in the galleries and joined several times during the semester by an
Indigenous artist, curator, or scholar, we will investigate how to see and understand
women’s work in the sourcing and preparation of materials, in the conceptualization of
design and decoration, in the crafting of finished pieces, and in their use. Discussion will
center on a single object, with related pieces brought in to deepen our investigation.
Readings will range from texts that focus on individual artistic traditions to those which
explore gender in relationship to Indigenous culture and history. Each student will offer
two presentations to the class: the first will focus on one of the works on display and the
second will pair an object from “Art of Native America” with a related work created by a
living Indigenous woman artist.
Artists, filmmakers, theorists, critics, and vast publics have engaged the screen since its nineteenth century proliferation. Recently, the screen has become the focus of ample scholarship. This seminar will track the long history and theory of screens through media archaeology, art and film theory, and close study of artworks, buildings, films, technological devices, and current exhibitions/performances/screenings in the NY-area. Topics include: screen typologies, practices, dispositifs, architectures; scale, im/materiality, orientation; theaters, galleries, urban environments, exhibition/expos; spectators, viewers, users, publics.
How did land—a primary source of economic value—become separated from landscape—an object of aesthetic enjoyment—in the West? This course examines the moment between the early eighteenth and the late nineteenth centuries when the physical and conceptual demarcations of land from landscape coincided with the emergence of political economic discourses, on the one hand, and the formulation of aesthetics as a separate branch of philosophical inquiry, on the other. Re-examining well-known moments in landscape history, the course aims to ask: What does a global modernity fueled as much by agriculturalization as by industrialization look like? How can this theoretical recalibration help construct new historical ontologies of such key concepts as nature, culture, and environment? What might this examination reveal about the vexed relationship between politics and aesthetics?
Selected themes in the analysis of Chinese society during late imperial and modern times.
This course offers a graduate level introduction to the literature of nineteenth century U.S. history. It uses a reading list of recently published and classic texts to help students map the critical questions and debates that have shaped the field. The list is designed to represent key methodological developments, including in gender and transnational histories. Taken as a whole, the course seeks to situate the United States within the nineteenth century world and to identify the broad set of historical forces that worked to define it.
The course is designed to serve as an introduction to graduate study in American history, as preparation for Ph.D. field exams, and as a place to explore potential dissertation topics.
This is a Public Health Course. Public Health classes are offered on the Health Services Campus at 168th Street. For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses
The purpose of this course is to prepare students to conduct research both in New York and in a peacekeeping operation and to make a contribution to the field of peacekeeping, building on the body of existing research. Through a combination of desk and field research, students will produce a policy-oriented paper on a subject of interest to both the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) and the mission itself. Through a Summer field placement, the course will expose students to the realities of the field, give them a first hand insight into the structure and functioning of a peace keeping operation, a unique understanding of the challenges it faces, and allow them to bridge the gap between theory and practice. Through intensive desk research the course will help students to build their research and analytical skills and familiarize themselves with the range of tools they will need to undertake rigorous, practical and action oriented research in a peace operation. The course aims to provide students with an informed and nuanced understanding of the instrument of peacekeeping. It will examine some of the tools used by PKOs in the Implementation of their mandates and critically assess the usefulness of these tools in achieving their goals, with particular attention to the complex and difficult tasks of peace building and the achievement of sustainable peace. The summer placements (four to six weeks) will be confirmed through the spring semester.It is proposed that they include two UN missions: The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) and the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). The choice of the missions may however change, subject to security conditions on the ground.
Prerequisites: P6530 or equivalent
For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses
This is a Public Health Course. Public Health classes are offered on the Health Services Campus at 168th Street. For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses
This is a Public Health Course. Public Health classes are offered on the Health Services Campus at 168th Street. For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses
Climate change is the most challenging international policy problem that exists today. The course will primarily focus on two questions. First, what should be done about climate change? Second, what can be done about it? The first question requires an understanding of the science, impacts, technological options, economics, and ethics of climate change policy. The second question requires an understanding of the politics, international law, and international relations aspects of climate change policy. The course will not provide firm answers to these questions. It aims instead to provide a framework and the knowledge required for students to come to their own conclusions. Indeed, every student taking this course is required to answer these questions, and to defend their conclusions rigorously.
This is a Public Health Course. Public Health classes are offered on the Health Services Campus at 168th Street. For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses
This is a Public Health Course. Public Health classes are offered on the Health Services Campus at 168th Street. For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses
This is a Public Health Course. Public Health classes are offered on the Health Services Campus at 168th Street. For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses