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
For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses
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
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
A detailed examination based on careful analysis (as far as possible in the original languages) of Josephus, intertestamental literature and Dead Sea Scrolls, New Testament, Rabbinic literature, in addition to archaeological, epigraphical and papyrological remains, of one of the most tumultuous and best attested periods of Jewish history before modernity.
Chinese painters learn their craft by copying earlier masters. Some copies were good enough to pass as originals; some were made with intent to deceive. This seminar will consider some of the famous authenticity controversies such as the Metropolitan Museum’s
Riverbank
, and the National Palace Museum two versions of Huang Gongwang’s “Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains”. We will also consider attitudes toward authenticity in dynastic China. What role do seals, inscriptions, mounting, and “antiquing” play in authenticating a painting? How did "for-the-market" forgeries come to be in the collection of the twentieth-century painter C. C. Wang, who prided himself on his connoisseurship? The class will study nine Chinese scrolls that C. C. Wang gave to Columbia University in 1973; we will visit The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Princeton University Art Museum, and make an overnight trip to the Freer|Sackler Gallery in Washington, DC. During each visit, curators will present instances of questionable attributions, deceptions, and how they are understood. The class will be conducted in English, but Chinese language is useful.
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
Genji-e
(Genji pictures), although associated with a single text, constitute an extraordinary corpus of images – in their magnitude of numbers from the 12
th
century to the present within varied historical and social contexts, complexity as an object (handscrolls, hanging scrolls, screens, albums, etc.), and in their relationship with calligraphy. This seminar will explore the richness and diversity of paintings inspired by
The
Tale of Genji
and will coincide with the exhibition,
The Tale of Genji: A Japanese Classic Illuminated
at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The seminar will address the various approaches to this corpus of works, to assign meaning on different scales while critically examining previous research and then reflect on the relevance of this category.
This course is designed to give students the practical opportunity to develop their cross-cultural teamwork and negotiating skills while learning about key contemporary issues in U.S.-China relations. It is centered around a series of exercises in which teams of students take "sides" to negotiate win-win, win-lose, or lose-lose outcomes to a number of business, economic, and geopolitical disputes between the United States and China that regularly dominate today's headlines. Classroom case studies and guest speakers augment these practical exercises by offering wisdom and lessons learned from past U.S.-China interactions. Assigned readings are designed to provide conceptual frameworks to help students integrate these lessons and apply them in practice. Specific issues covered in case studies and negotiating exercises include: Business joint ventures; WTO and intellectual property protections; Internet and media censorship; CFIUS and Chinese outbound investment; SEC-CSRS dispute over audit inspections; Proposed Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT); Currency "manipulation"; Cybersecurity; Maritime territorial disputes; North Korea.
This course requires instructor permission in order to register. Please add youself to the waitlist in SSOL and submit any required documents in order to be considered.
Prerequisites: SIPA U6401
The goal of this course is to teach students about the historical relationships between financial risk, capital structure and legal and policy issues in emerging markets. Our strategy will be to develop a model of how and why international capital flows to emerging market countries and to use the model to examine various topics in the history of international financing from the 1820's to the present. Students will identify patterns in investor and borrower behavior, evaluate sovereign capital structures, and analyze sovereign defaults, including the debt negotiation process during the various debt crises of the past 175 years. We will focus primarily on Latin America, emerging Asia, and Russia, although the lessons will be generalized to cover all emerging market countries.
Prerequisites: SIPA U6400 or SIPA U6401 or PEPM U6101 or PEPM U6104 or EMPA U8216
This course gives students the tools they need to identify which emerging market countries (EMs) have potential for rapid growth and determining what investments are best positioned to benefit from this growth. The course also investigates how to assess the risks inherent in EM investing and fitting this exposure into a broader portfolio. Section One assumes knowledge of basic economics and uses macro theory to identify key sources of expansion and why some countries grow faster than others. The roll of fiscal, monetary and exchange rate policies are investigated, as well as, how national institutions can support - or deter - development. This section focuses on countries that have not yet "emerged" but appear to be on the verge of doing so - "frontier" economies. Section Two takes a micro approach to investing and identifies the specific avenues of investments and their relative attractiveness. This section also investigates managing exchange rate exposure and how emerging market investments fit into a global portfolio. Section Three looks at methods of assessing sovereign risk and the potential for other external crises. It also looks at how to determine which domestic markets are most vulnerable to financial shock. The third section includes case studies in which all three components of the course will be incorporated.
The transition to a low-carbon economy is of particular relevance to Emerging markets, which have become the largest emitters of greenhouse gases. Such transition is creating considerable challenges but also opening significant opportunities: by 2030, close to $100 trillion of investments will be needed in order to ensure that global temperatures don’t rise by over 2° above pre-industrial levels, with most to be invested in the infrastructure sector in Emerging markets. The class will explore the challenges faced by emerging markets, and particularly by China, in moving towards more sustainable growth. It will also examine the new institutions and instruments that are being put in place to channel investments towards the greening of emerging market economies. Students will gain a good understanding of the issues faced by EM in the transition to a low-carbon economy. They will acquire a practical knowledge of institutions and instruments which have been developed to finance sustainable growth. They will be able to apply their knowledge to study specific cases and transactions. The transition to green is opening many job opportunities in the private as well as in the private sector. The experience gained in this class should prove invaluable for students seeking to work in related fields.
Prerequisites: SIPA U6401
This course will give an overview of history, function, and future prospects of the financial markets in Asian countries (mainly ASEAN-10, Japan, Korea, China, and India). How financial supervision and regulation should be formed will be examined too. The financial crisis, as well as financial development, will be covered as an instrumental event for reforms. The stages of financial and economic development will be explained and Asian countries will be placed on the development stages. Economic and financial policies will be examined from efficiency point of view.
Prerequisites: SIPA U6401
The objective of this course provides students with deep knowledge on developments of financial policy in Japan and interactions between financial markets and economic development. Financial policy extends from regulation and supervision of the banking sector, to capital markets and international capital flows as well as monetary policy and exchange rate policy. Policy lessons are derived from analyses of the past banking problems and crises. An impact of switching from the fixed exchange rate regime to floating exchange rate regime and subsequent attempts to manage the exchange rate movements will be reviewed with event analyses and case studies. Economic growth rate of Japan was high in the 1950s and 1960s and later declined; how financial market developments contributed to economic growth; how quickly its markets were opened to international trade and finance; why the Japanese economy has suffered stagnation and deflation due to a burst of a financial bubble in the 1990s and 2000s; and what kinds of policy reforms, known as Abenomics, have been implemented since 2013. The description and explanation are based on intermediate microeconomic and macroeconomic analyses and empirical evidences. The role of economic policies—monetary policy, fiscal policy, financial supervision and regulation, industrial policy—will be carefully examined.
This course will provide a framework with which students can evaluate and understand the global financial services industry of both today and tomorrow. Specifically, the course will present an industry insider's perspectives on the (i) current and future role of the major financial service participants, (ii) key drivers influencing an industry that has always been characterized by significant change (e.g., regulatory, technology, risk, globalization, client needs and product development), and (iii) strategic challenges and opportunities facing today's financial services' CEOs post the 2008/09 financial crisis. Furthermore, this course is designed not only for students with a general interest in the financial system, but for those students thinking about a career in the private sector of financial services or the public sector of regulatory overseers.
This course focuses on the actual management problems of humanitarian interventions and helps students obtain the professional skills and insight needed to work in complex humanitarian emergencies, and to provide oversight and guidance to humanitarian operations from a policy perspective. It is a follow-up to the fall course that studied the broader context, root causes, actors, policy issues, and debates in humanitarian emergencies.
Prerequisites:
G6211
,
G6212
,
G6215
,
G6216
,
G6411
,
G6412
.
Students will present their research on topics in Microeconomics.
This course will examine various answers to these questions, as well as the continuities and disjunctures between these different periods. Specifically, we will look at great power policies in the Middle East until 1917, and attempt to see which constants carried over to the Soviet period and the Cold War. We will also examine the degree to which the United States simply stepped into the shoes of Britain in the Middle East, beginning in 1947. Much of the course will concentrate on the strategic weight attached to the Middle East by great power rivals, and the nature of their interaction with each other and with internal regional dynamics -- nationalism, religion, reform and revolution -- in the pre-Soviet and Soviet periods. We will conclude by examining how the collapse of the Soviet Union has changed the situation in the Middle East.
Prerequisites:
G6215
,
G6216
,
G6211
,
G6212
,
G6411
,
G6412
.
Students will make presentation of original research in Microeconomics.
Prerequisites:
G6215
,
G6216
,
G6211
,
G6212
,
G6411
,
G6412
.
Students will make presentations of original research in Microeconomics.
Prerequisites:
G6215
and
G6216
.
The topic of the colloquium is to be understood broadly, including in particular international monetary economics, stabilization policies, and the role of expectations in economic dynamics.
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 graduate seminar will examine key themes and methods in Middle East History. It is intended to provide graduate training for advanced students who plan to pursue a dissertation topic on or related to Middle East history. Please contact the professor first if you wish to apply for this course.
"Making African History
is a seminar about process, tailored to the needs of individual Ph.D. and M.A. students. It is focused on discussions and practical applications of research methodologies, including ethnography, oral history, survey analysis and archival research. We will also explore how to translate different kinds of sources into historical narrative. The final product of the seminar will be a paper based on a specific data set or set of sources."
Gender equality, and women’s and girls’ empowerment, are now widely accepted as development goals in their own right, and essential to inclusive and sustainable development. But despite progress in many areas, gender gaps and discrimination persist. How did gender equality move from the periphery to the center of development discourse, and what difference has this made? Is gender equality a human right, an essential aspect of human development, or “smart economics”? What are the implications of a gender equality agenda for men and boys, and for broader understandings of gender identities and sexualities? What policies, strategies and practices have been effective – or ineffective – in narrowing gender gaps and improving outcomes for both women and men in particular development settings? In this course, we approach gender, politics and development in terms of theory, policy and practice. We apply a critical gender lens to a wide range of development sectors and issue areas, including economic development, political participation, education and health, environment and climate change, and conflict and displacement. We also consider current debates and approaches related to gender mainstreaming and gender metrics in development practice. Students engage with the course material through class discussion, exercises and case studies, and the development of a gender-related project proposal.