S CONTEMP CRITICAL THOUGHT

This seminar will focus, each year, on a different topic central to contemporary critical thought. During the 2015-2016 academic year, for instance, the seminar focused on Michel Foucault's Coll├Ęge de France lectures and produced the 
Foucault 13/13 series.
 During the 2016-2017 academic year, the seminar focused on critical readings of Friedrich Nietzsche and produced the 
Nietzsche 13/13 series.
 During the 2017-2018 academic year, the seminar focused on modalities of uprisings and produced the 
Uprising 13/13
 series. Similar topics will be broached in future years. Please see the
CCCCT website
for more details on future topics.
The graduate student seminar will be structured to frame a series of 13 formal seminars at which two or three guests, from different disciplines, will be invited to discuss the readings and present on the themes of the seminar. Each formal seminar will host specialists from across the disciplines from Columbia University and from outside campus. It will also frame and interrelate with a Paris Reading Group that will run alongside the seminar. The graduate student seminar thus will serve as the vehicle to enrich the formal 13/13 seminars and support the intellectual apparatus that will accompany those formal seminars. It will prepare entries for the blog, host the scholars invited to participate, and prepare questions and comments for the formal seminars. This seminar will function as an advanced graduate research seminar.
This is a year-long course (Y course). Columbia GSAS students will be required to take both Fall and Spring semesters of this course. No grade will be issued for the Fall semester, the credits are broken up across both semesters, 4 credits total, 1 in Fall and 3 in Spring. This course co-convenes with LAW L8866 001.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Bernard Harcourt
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• 3 points

S LAW AND PHILOSOPHY

• Department: Law
• R 4:20 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
• Instructor: R. K Greenawalt
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• 3 points

CIVIL WARS & PEACE SETTLEMENTS

CIVIL WARS &PEACE; SETTLEMENTS

In recent years, civil wars have been five times more frequent, and more than five times deadlier, than international wars. How can we understand violence in civil wars? Why do nearly half of the countries that emerge from war lapse back into violence after five years? Why do most international interventions fail to bring peace to affected populations? This seminar focuses on recent conflict and post-conflict situations as background against which to understand the distinct dynamics of violence and peace settlements in civil wars.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Severine Autesserre
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia h-index: 14 Info
• 3 points

US RELATIONS WITH EAST ASIA

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
To be announced

• Department: Political Science
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Takako K Hikotani
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• 4 points

S INTL CIMINAL INVERSTIGATION

S INTL CIMINAL INVESTIGAT

• Department: Law
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Frederick Davis
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• 2 points

DECISION MAKING AND DIPLOMACY

DECISION MAKING & DIPLOMACY

This course represents a hands-on approach to decision-making and diplomacy. It is designed to allow students to take part in diplomatic and decision-making exercises in the context of international political issues and problems. Important historical decisions will be evaluated and re-enacted. In addition, more current international problems that face nations today will be analyzed and decisions will be made on prospective solutions. Finally, various modern day diplomatic initiatives will be scrutinized and renegotiated. The class will essentially function as a working committee, considering a different problem or issue each week. Preparations for decisions and diplomatic bargaining will rely both on assigned readings as well as additional outside materials collected by the students. A significant part of the preparations and class activities will involve team work.

• Department: Political Science
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Giulio M Gallarotti
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• 4 points

GLOBAL PREPRACTICUM SEMINAR

GBL HLTH PRE-PRACTICUM SEMINAR

• Department: Epidemiology
• R 11:30 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Anne Paxton
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• 0.5 points

PRAC-ED IN EMERG,CRISES,RECON

This seven-week practicum is designed to give students from a variety of disciplines a background in education in emergency contexts, from preparedness to response and recovery. Class sessions will explore the multiple roles of education, including critical linkages to sectors like health and protection, in each of these phases; introduce students to the major education actors within the international humanitarian architecture; and prepare students to utilize best practices and minimum standards for education programming and policy-making.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Allison Anderson
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• 1.5 points

ADV ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Advanced topics in radiogenic isotope and trace-element geochemistry. Origin and composition of the Earth, evolution of the continents and mantle, and applications to igneous and surficial processes.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• W 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Albrecht Hofmann
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• 3 points

GLOBAL HLTH POST-PRACTICUM SEM

GLB HLT POST-PRACTICUM SEMINAR

• Department: Epidemiology
• R 11:30 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Adria N Armbrister
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• 0.5 points

BUSINESS & HUMAN RIGHTS CLINIC II

The Business and Human Rights Clinic provides a space for students to deepen their knowledge and experience of business and human rights. Through student education, skills training, and collaborative, rigorous and self-reflective project work, students will learn to be strategic and creative advocates in partnership with NGOs and communities, while advancing business and human rights methodologies and scholarship. The Clinic is also a laboratory for testing and modeling new and innovative modes of business and human rights work, with a focus on enhancing human rights methods through interdisciplinary partnerships. Our subject for 2015-2016, investment chain mapping, is a cutting edge, highly technical skill taught nowhere else and with strong career potential. Through direct contact with the Client, Inclusive Development International, and its international and local partners, and through possible site visits, the Clinic will provide a unique opportunity for students to acquire the skills to put into practice an innovative and timely advocacy approach to holding transnational corporations and development finance institutions accountable for human rights harms. This expertise will position them strongly to become leaders in the field. In future years, the Clinic will continue to engage in projects at the cutting edge of the evolving business and human rights field, as it aims to establish successful long-term relationships with clients.
Instructor permission required for registration. Please join the waitlist is SSOL and follow instructions on the waitlist to be considered.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• F 11 a.m.-1:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Joanne R Bauer
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

S CONGRESS FOREIGN&DEFENSEPOL;

S CONGRESS FOREIGN&DEFENS;

• Department: Law
• M 4:20 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Vance Serchuk
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• 2 points

S PRACTICING INTERNATIONAL LAW

• Department: Law
• TWR 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m.
• 1 points

DIRECTED READING & RESEARCH I

Prerequisites: the department's permission.
Topics chosen in consultation between members of the staff and students.

• Department: Classics
• Instructor: Helene P Foley
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Kristina Milnor
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia h-index: 10 Info
• Instructor: Ellen Morris
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Nancy Worman
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

PHD SEMINAR

TBD

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 4 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Mary C McLeod
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• 3 points

HARM REDUCT IN TRANSATL HIST PERSPECTIVE

HARM REDUC TRANSATL HIST

• Department: Sociomedical Sciences
• W 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Samuel K Jr Roberts
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• 1.5 points

STRUGGLES FOR SUSTAINABILITY

U.S. agricultural practice has been presented as a paradigm for the rest of the world to emulate, yet is a result of over a century of unique development. Contemporary agriculture has its historical roots in the widely varied farming practices, social and political organizations, and attitudes toward the land of generations of farmers and visionaries. We will explore major forces shaping the practice of U.S. agriculture, particularly geographical and social perspectives and the development and adoption of agricultural science and technology. We will consider how technological changes and political developments (government policies, rationing, subsidies) shape visions of and transmission of agriculture and the agrarian ideal.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sara Tjossem
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• 3 points

HISTORIES OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE

This colloquium will examine the historical literature on the public sphere, particularly in Europe, Latin America and the United States.  We will examine uses of the category in studies that deal with intellectual debates, cultural processes, elite and popular politics, and the shifting boundaries of public and private life.  Thus, discussions will stress criticisms of Jurgen Habermas' model from the perspective of gender, non-European societies, popular cultures, and class analysis.


Field(s): LA

• Department: History
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Pablo Piccato
  CULPA: 22 h-index: 20 Info
• 4 points

RESEARCH SEMINAR FOR PHD STUDENTS

This course will provide a structured environment in which graduate students will write a research paper.  It will be offered in the spring and will not be field-specific.  It will be recommended for first-year students in particular, who will be expected to enter from GR8910 (the required first-year course) and with a topic and/or prospectus for the paper they plan to complete in the course.  The aim of the course is to ensure that all PhD students complete one of their two research papers within the first year.
This seminar is recommended for, and restricted to, PhD students in the History Department. The aim of the seminar is to guide and assist students in the completion of a 10,000-12,000 word research paper appropriate for publication in a scholarly journal.  The seminar is not field-specific, and students may work on any subject of their choosing.  The paper must however be based on primary source research and represents a substantial departure from earlier work.  The assignments for the course are designed to help students complete a polished piece of work by the end of term.

• Department: History
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Mae M Ngai
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

RESEARCH SEMINAR FOR PHD STUDENTS

Research Seminar for PhD Stude

This course will provide a structured environment in which graduate students will write a research paper.  It will be offered in the spring and will not be field-specific.  It will be recommended for first-year students in particular, who will be expected to enter from GR8910 (the required first-year course) and with a topic and/or prospectus for the paper they plan to complete in the course.  The aim of the course is to ensure that all PhD students complete one of their two research papers within the first year.
This seminar is recommended for, and restricted to, PhD students in the History Department. The aim of the seminar is to guide and assist students in the completion of a 10,000-12,000 word research paper appropriate for publication in a scholarly journal.  The seminar is not field-specific, and students may work on any subject of their choosing.  The paper must however be based on primary source research and represents a substantial departure from earlier work.  The assignments for the course are designed to help students complete a polished piece of work by the end of term.

• Department: History
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Marwa Elshakry
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

SOURCES IN MEDIEVAL RELIGIOUS HISTORY

SRCS MEDIEVAL RELIG HIST

Prerequisites: KNOWLEDGE OF LATIN REQUIRED
Students in this course will study a variety of Latin sources for medieval religious history. These will include religious rules, saint’s lives, papal bulls, episcopal legislation, liturgical texts, confraternity statutes, sermons, papal council decrees, theological texts, and penitential handbooks. All selected texts will be in Latin. The main aim of the course is to create an affinity for the different types of sources, and to learn how to read them by paying attention to their authors, specific rhetorical elements, formatting, the kind of Latin abbreviations that are used etc. The course will also incorporate beginning level Latin paleography, with some of the sources being examined by way images of medieval manuscripts. Overall, the course intends “to get the students’ hands dirty” by teaching them how to transcribe, translate and interpret a medieval text.

• Department: History
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Neslihan Senocak
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

C INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW

• Department: Law
• F noon-1:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Lori F Damrosch
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• 2 points

DISSERTATION PERSP WRITING WKS

This year-long workshop will meet every two weeks for two hours to discuss the structure of a dissertation prospectus, strategies of grant-writing, and, most importantly, successive drafts of individual dissertation prospectuses. Consistent attendance and participation are mandatory.

• Department: History
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Martha C Howell
  CULPA: 8 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• Instructor: Branka Arsic
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Richard Sacks
  CULPA: 26 Info
• 3 points

M.A. THESIS

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• Instructor: Alexander Alberro
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Zainab Bahrani
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Frederique Baumgartner
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Barry G Bergdoll
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Diane Bodart
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Gregory Bryda
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 1 Info
• Instructor: Zeynep Celik
  Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Michael Cole
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Jonathan K Crary
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Francesco de Angelis
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Vidya Dehejia
  CULPA: 16 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Dawn H Delbanco
  CULPA: 12 Info
• Instructor: Rosalyn Deutsche
  CULPA: 11 Info
• Instructor: Noam M Elcott
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 7 Info
• Instructor: David A Freedberg
  Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Meredith Gamer
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Robert Harrist
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Anne Higonnet
  CULPA: 31 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth Hutchinson
  CULPA: 9 Info
• Instructor: Kellie Jones
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Branden W Joseph
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Holger A Klein
  CULPA: 13 Info
• Instructor: Janet L Kraynak
  Info
• Instructor: Matthew P McKelway
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Ioannis Mylonopoulos
  CULPA: 13 Info
• Instructor: Eleonora Pistis
  Info
• Instructor: John Rajchman
  Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Jonathan Reynolds
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Simon Schama
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Avinoam Shalem
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Zoe S Strother
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Lisa Trever
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Michael J Waters
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 3 Info
• 4 points

CHEMICL ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM

All graduate students are required to attend the department colloquium as long as they are in residence. No degree credit is granted.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• T 4 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Allie Obermeyer
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• 0 points

CLASSICAL STUDIES RESEARCH SEM

The Classical Studies Research Seminar offers students of the Classical Studies Graduate Program the opportunity to present their research and receive feedback on it. It is mandatory for CLST students who are in their dissertation phase to present their work once every academic year in the CLST Research Seminar or CLST Research Group.

• Department: Philosophy
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Katja Vogt
  CULPA: 36 Info
• 3 points

INDEPENDENT STUDIES

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• M 4 p.m.-6 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Gray W Tuttle
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Naofumi Tatsumi
  CULPA: 9 Info
• Instructor: Haruo Shirane
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 1 points

INDEPENDENT STUDIES

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• Instructor: Haruo Shirane
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Gregory Pflugfelder
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 4 points

RESEARCH ARTS FILM

• Department: Arts, School of the
• 0 points

SCHOLARLY PROJECT

• Department: Medicine
• 0 points

SCHOLARLY PROJECT

• Department: Medicine
• 0 points

RESEARCH-JOURNALISM

• Department: Journalism
• 1-12 points

TUTORIAL IN NUTRITION

TUTORIAL IN CLINICAL PRACTICE:

• Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
• Instructor: Sharon R Akabas
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• 0-3 points

CAPSTONE WORKSHOP

Capstone workshops apply the practical skills and analytical knowledge learned at SIPA to a real-world issue. Students are organized into small consulting teams (typically 6 students per team) and assigned a substantive, policy-oriented project with an external client. Student teams, working under the supervision of a faculty expert, answer a carefully defined problem posed by the client. Each team produces an actionable report and an oral briefing of their findings at the close of the workshop that is designed to translate into real change on the ground. The Capstone is a graduation requirement for all Masters of Public Administration and Masters of International Affairs students; it is typically taken in the final semester at SIPA.
Registration in this course requires an application, please visit: 
sipa.columbia.edu/academics/workshops/workshop-students
 
for more information

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Karen Levin
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• 3 points

RESEARCH FOR ADVANCED STUDENTS

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• Instructor: Alexander Alberro
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

RESEARCH FOR ADVANCED STUDENTS

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• Instructor: Zainab Bahrani
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Frederique Baumgartner
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Barry G Bergdoll
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Diane Bodart
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Gregory Bryda
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 1 Info
• Instructor: Zeynep Celik
  Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Michael Cole
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Jonathan K Crary
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Francesco de Angelis
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

RESEARCH FOR ADVANCED STUDENTS

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• Instructor: Vidya Dehejia
  CULPA: 16 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

RESEARCH FOR ADVANCED STUDENTS

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• Instructor: Dawn H Delbanco
  CULPA: 12 Info
• Instructor: Rosalyn Deutsche
  CULPA: 11 Info
• Instructor: Noam M Elcott
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 7 Info
• 3 points

RESEARCH FOR ADVANCED STUDENTS

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• Instructor: David A Freedberg
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• Instructor: Meredith Gamer
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

RESEARCH FOR ADVANCED STUDENTS

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• Instructor: Robert Harrist
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Anne Higonnet
  CULPA: 31 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth Hutchinson
  CULPA: 9 Info
• Instructor: Kellie Jones
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Branden W Joseph
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Holger A Klein
  CULPA: 13 Info
• 3 points

RESEARCH FOR ADVANCED STUDENTS

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• Instructor: Rosalind Krauss
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

RESEARCH FOR ADVANCED STUDENTS

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• Instructor: Janet L Kraynak
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• Instructor: Matthew P McKelway
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Ioannis Mylonopoulos
  CULPA: 13 Info
• 3 points