READING, WRITING, ETHNOGRAPHY
READING WRITING ETHNOGRAPHY
Anthropology GR6079x READING WRITING ETHNOGRAPHY. Reading, Writing, Ethnography” asks students to imagine learning to read and then to write anew. It explores a series of exemplary texts in order to explore the histories, genre conventions and experimental forms for writing ethnography. The course is especially concerned with the ways in which empirical observation is made the ground of theoretical abstraction and generalizing claims. Additionally, it examines the relationship between different theoretical and aesthetic movements as these have influenced the writings of anthropologists and those whose work can be considered to have an anthropological ambition—even when they have not been formally trained in anthropology.
- Department: Anthropology
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Instructor:
Rosalind Morris
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THING THEORY
Anthropology GR6085x THING THEORY. The ‘material turn’ is a shorthand for the vast and messy literature on things/objects/materials/ stuff/matter that crosses between and interweaves anthropology, archaeology, art history, science & technology studies (STS), political science, philosophy, and literary studies. Material cultural studies, of varying sorts, ask how things make us. This course explores the turn towards things across the humanities and social sciences over the past few decades. Engaging with the material of worlds, scholars have generated new questions, new modes of analysis, and new accounts of subjectivity, agency, and being. We will read a variety of texts from anthropology, STS, and other disciplines, in order to trace some of the ways in which material objects have become important to scholars in the humanities and social sciences.
- Department: Anthropology
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Instructor:
Hannah Chazin
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INTRO TO INTL PLANNING
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Ebru A Gencer
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Waste and Leftovers
Generations of anthropologists have seized upon waste as an object to think through issues as wide-ranging as labor divisions, religious devotion, and processes of social classification and value production. In recent years the discipline has renewed attention to this object by way of puzzling through how apparently intensifying global processes of industrialization, consumption, and extraction shape contemporary politics and ecological sensibilities. This seminar charts some of these moves within and beyond our discipline by inviting students to consider how and to what ends societies work through wasted things but also other kinds of durable leftovers (i.e. “ruins,” “byproducts,” “rubble,” “remainders” etc). Of particular concern for us will be the production and (re)appropriation of things that defy strict classification as “waste,” that is, as things imagined to be readily and permanently ejected from a social group or order. Students will read seminal texts on waste, excess, abjection, and reappropriation alongside ethnographic and historical monographs that take up these themes.
- Department: Anthropology
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Instructor:
Catherine Fennell
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Specialized Social Work Practicum
SPECIALIZED SW PRACTICUM
- Department: Social Work
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Instructor:
Sarah R Feeney
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ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY
Prerequisites: PHYS W3008 or its equivalent. Fundamentals of electromagnetism from an advanced perspective with emphasis on electromagnetic fields in vaccum with no bounding surfaces present. A thorough understanding of Maxwells equations and their application to a wide variety of phenomena. Maxwells equations (in vacuum) and the Lorentz force law - noncovariant form. Scalar and vector potentials, gauge transformations. Generalized functions (delta functions and their derivatives), point changes. Fourier transforms, longitutdinal ad transverse vector fields. Solution of Maxwells equations in unbounded space for electrostatics and magnetostatics with given charge and current sources. Special relativity, Loretnz transformations, 4-momentum, relativistic reactions. Index mechanics of Cartesian tensor notation. Covariatn formulation of Maxwells equations and the Lorentz force law, Lorentz transformation properties of E and B. Lagrangian density for the electromagnetic field, Langrangian density for the Proca field. Symmetries and conservation laws, Noethers theorem. Field conservation laws (energy, linear momentum, angular momentum, stress tensor). Monochromatic plane wave solutions of the time-dependent source-free Maxwell equations, elliptical polarization, partially-polarized electromagnetgic waves, Stokes parameters. Solution of the time-dependent Maxwell equations in unbounded space with given chare and current sources (retarded and advanced solutions). Properties of electromagnetic fields in the radiaion zone, angular distribution of radiated power, frequency distribution of radiated energy, radiation form periodic and non-periodic motions. Radiation from antennas and antenna arrays. Lienard-Wiechert fields, the relativistic form of the Larmor radiation forumla, synchrotron radiation, bremsstrahlung, undulator and wiggler radiation. Electric dipole and magnetic dipole radiation. Scattering of electromagnetic radiation, the differential scattering cross-section, low-energy and high-energy approximations, scattering from a random or periodic array of scatterers. Radiation reaction force, Feynman-Wheeler theoryy. The macroscopic Maxwell equations (spatial averaging to get P, M, D, H). Convolutions, linear materials (permittivity, permeability, and conductivity), causality, analytics continuation, Kramers-Kronig relations. Propagation of monochromatic plane waves in isotropic and non-isotropic linear materials, ordinary ad extraordinary waves. Cherenkov radiation, transition radiation.
- Department: Physics
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Instructor:
Brian Metzger
CULPA: 5 h-index: 77 Info - 4.5 points
DESIGNS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH
Required of all incoming sociology doctoral students. Prepares students who have already completed an undergraduate major or its equivalent in some social science to evaluate and undertake both systematic descriptions and sound explanations of social structures and processes.
- Department: Sociology
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Instructor:
Peter Bearman
CULPA: 19
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Independent Study
INDEPENDENT STUDY
Individualized, guided learning experiences at the graduate level in a selected area of concentration. The area of concentration selected should reflect both the role of the clinical specialist/nurse practitioner and the student's specific interests. Proposed work must be outlined prior to registration and agreed upon by both faculty and student.
- Department: Nursing
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AF-AM: PRO SEMINAR
This course introduces students to central questions and debates in the fields of African American Studies, and it explores the various interdisciplinary efforts to address them. The seminar is designed to provide an interdisciplinary foundation and familiarize students with a number of methodological approaches. Toward this end we will have a number of class visitors/guest lecturers drawn from members of IRAAS's Core and Affiliated Faculty.
- Department: African American and African Diaspora
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Instructor:
Brandi Summers
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RESEARCH SEMINAR
An M.S. degree requirement. Students attend at least three Applied Mathematics research seminars within the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and submit reports on each.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
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Instructor:
Qiang Du
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RESEARCH SEMINAR
An M.S. degree requirement. Students attend at least three Applied Mathematics research seminars within the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and submit reports on each.
- Department: Video Network
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Instructor:
Qiang Du
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MA SEMINAR IN GLOBAL THOUGHT
This course explores the challenges of understanding the global world in which we live, a world that demands new conceptual approaches and ways of thinking. The objectives are:
To examine multidisciplinary approaches to key global issues through readings, class discussions, and conversations with select CGT faculty members as guest speakers. This will take place through multi-week modules that center on a critical issue, asking students to familiarize themselves with key questions and context, engage with an expert on the topic, and apply their insights to a specific case or question.
To develop a focused and feasible research project and hone the practices of scholarly data collection, analysis, and communication through workshops and assignments. This work begins in the fall and continues to completion in the spring semester of the seminar. The perspectives and skills developed in M.A. Seminar will support students in the development and completion of their thirty-five page M.A. essays, which they will present to each other and to CGT faculty at the Spring Symposium.
- Department: Committee on Global Thought
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Instructor:
Kevin Funk
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Instructor:
Vishakha Desai
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Managerial Statistics
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
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Instructor:
Boaz Galinson
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Managerial Statistics
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
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Instructor:
Boaz Galinson
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Daniel J Russo
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Boaz Galinson
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Mark Rodgers
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Managerial Statistics
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
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Instructor:
Mark Rodgers
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Daniel J Russo
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Boaz Galinson
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Mark Rodgers
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Daniel J Russo
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EUROPEAN STUDIES COLL I
- Department: Modern European Studies
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Instructor:
Tsveta A Petrova
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ADVANCED MECHANICS OF FLUIDS
Eulerian and Lagrangian descriptions of motion. Stress and strain rate tensors, vorticity, integral and differential equations of mass, momentum, and energy conservation. Potential flow.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
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Instructor:
Gerard A Ateshian
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INTRODUCTION TO SLAVIC LITERARY THEORY
INTRO TO SLAVIC LITERARY
This course introduces graduate students to the major 20th-century literary theories that emerged in Russia and Eastern Europe. The course's main purpose is to familiarize students with these approaches and teach them how to use theoretical models as tools for analyzing literary texts.
By the end of the course, students will be required to write a paper investigating the theoretical aspects of one or more literary texts discussed in class. This paper will test not only students' mastery of literary analysis through the prism of multiple theoretical models, but also their ability to challenge a literary text through theory and vice versa.
Writing the paper will include a workshop-style class in which students design their thesis and outline. The course will also introduce students to the Bahmeteff Archive and Columbia's library holdings.
This course counts as Proseminar for Slavic graduate students but is also open to students in other disciplines, which is why all readings are in English.
- Department: Slavic Languages
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Instructor:
Mark Lipovetsky
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HISTORY OF PERFORMANCE
This class will look at selected eras of theater with an emphasis on performance.
- Department: Theatre Arts
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Instructor:
Adrian A Guo-Silver
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PLASMA PHYSICS I
Debye screening. Motion of charged particles in space- and time-varying electromagnetic fields. Two-fluid description of plasmas. Linear electrostatic and electromagnetic waves in unmagnetized and magnetized plasmas. The magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model, including MHD equilibrium, stability, and MHD waves in simple geometries.
Business Analytics
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
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Instructor:
Ciamac Moallemi
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Instructor:
Omar Besbes
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Business Analytics
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
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Instructor:
Omar Besbes
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Instructor:
Ciamac Moallemi
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Omar Besbes
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Ciamac Moallemi
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Omar Besbes
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Vineel Chakradhar
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Business Analytics
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
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Instructor:
Vineel Chakradhar
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Global Leadership Applied Seminar I
Open to MPA in Global Leadership Students Only.
This applied seminar in global leadership helps students strengthen their capacity to lead with impact, inclusivity, and strategic judgment in complex policy and organizational environments. Blending executive self-reflection with policy analysis, the course examines how leaders navigate negotiation, representation, coalition-building, conflict, institutional barriers, and competing stakeholder interests across the public, nonprofit, and international sectors. Through interactive sessions, simulations, case discussions, reflective exercises, and policy-oriented leadership challenges, students will hone their skills in communication, collaboration, adaptive leadership, and decision-making while critically analyzing how power structures, inequality, and institutional dynamics shape both access to positional leadership and leadership outcomes. The seminar emphasizes translating leadership concepts into each student’s professional and civic spheres, encouraging participants to cultivate an authentic leadership approach that advances collaboration, resilience, and inclusive change in rapidly evolving global contexts.
- Department: MPA in Global Leadership
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HUMAN ANATOMY
- Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
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Instructor:
Colleen M Maher
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Proseminar for PhD and MA Students
Offered in both semesters, the weekly seminar is for incoming PhD students (required) and for MA students of the first year (required) and second year (optional). MA students can take the class at any stage during their studies for the MA. The class is graded Pass/Fail. Every two weeks, the seminar will be co-led by the instructor and an invited member of the department who will select a reading for discussion, historical or contemporary, from their area of expertise. Students will submit responses to the readings. The alternate weeks will be divided into an hour for the PhD cohort and an hour for the MA students. Here, research skills in reading, writing, and conversing will be developed through a range of intellectual exercises.
- Department: Philosophy
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Instructor:
Lydia Goehr
CULPA: 26
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ISSUES IN POLITICAL THEORY
Prerequisites: the instructors permission prior to registration. A survey of selected issues and debates in political theory. Areas of the field discussed include normative political philosophy, history of political thought, and the design of political and social institutions.
- Department: Political Science
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Instructor:
Turkuler Isiksel
CULPA: 3
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THEORY & METHOD-STUDY OF RELIG
“Theories and Methods” courses in any field are commonly unwieldy beasts. They cannot but be a compromise-formation between contemporary questions and texts, ideas, and definitions (alongside a whole lot of problems) that we have inherited as “canonical” in a field. In the best case, such a course is a passageway into deeper engagement with a field, its histories, its complexities, and its possibilities from which we might wrest and build viable futures. Disciplinary fields are structures where power and knowledge are produced and reproduced. The study of religion is no exception. The questions of “how is ‘religion’ constructed as a category here?” and “what work does the designation of something or someone as ‘religious’ do?” will, therefore, accompany us throughout our work over the course of this semester. We will also examine how different methodological commitments shape what objects of study and which questions come to the fore for the study of religion. This course will explore how the study of religion is not reducible to the study of traditions and communities that are readily recognized as “religious.” However, the vexed histories of the construction of “religion” as a category of knowledge production does also not negate that there are large, varied, and flourishing communities of practice beyond the university for whom whether or not “religion” exists is not at all a question. Holding these layers of complexity in play, this course seeks to introduce students exemplarily to key texts and concepts that have shaped the study of religion as we encounter it today as an academic discipline.
- Department: Religion
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Instructor:
Yannik Thiem
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APPLIED STATISTICS I
First semester of the doctoral program sequence in applied statistics.
- Department: Statistics
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Instructor:
Ming Yuan
h-index: 45 Info - 4 points
World s End: 20th and 21St Century Dys
World's End: 20th and 21s
In this class, we will read a range of ambiguous utopias and dystopias (to use a term from Ursula LeGuin) and explore various models of temporality, a range of fantasies of apocalypse and a few visions of futurity. While some critics, like Frederick Jameson, propose that utopia is a “meditation on the impossible,” others like José Muñoz insist that “we must dream and enact new and better pleasures, other ways of being in the world, and ultimately new worlds.” Utopian and dystopian fictions tend to lead us back to the present and force confrontations with the horrors of war, the ravages of capitalist exploitation, the violence of social hierarchies and the ruinous peril of environmental decline. In the films and novels and essays we engage here, we will not be looking for answers to questions about what to do and nor should we expect to find maps to better futures. We will no doubt be confronted with dead ends, blasted landscapes and empty gestures. But we will also find elegant aesthetic expressions of ruination, inspirational confrontations with obliteration, brilliant visions of endings, breaches, bureaucratic domination, human limitation and necro-political chaos. We will search in the narratives of uprisings, zombification, cloning, nuclear disaster, refusal, solidarity, for opportunities to reimagine world, ends, futures, time, place, person, possibility, art, desire, bodies, life and death.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
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Instructor:
Jack Halberstam
Wikipedia Info - 4 points
Microeconomics & Public Policy
To design and manage successful economic policy, professionals need a sophisticated command of modern microeconomics. This course strengthens and extends understanding of microeconomic theory, and gives practice applying it. We study the relationship between market structure and market performance, exploring conditions under which policy intervention can improve market performance, and when it can be counter-productive. Both distributional and efficiency aspects of intervention are stressed. An introduction to formal strategic analysis is included, along with its application in the modern theory of auctions.
- Department: MPA IN ECON POLICY MANAGEMENT
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Instructor:
Jan Svejnar
Wikipedia h-index: 49 Info - 4 points
Microeconomics & Public Policy
To design and manage successful economic policy, professionals need a sophisticated command of modern microeconomics. This course strengthens and extends understanding of microeconomic theory, and gives practice applying it. We study the relationship between market structure and market performance, exploring conditions under which policy intervention can improve market performance, and when it can be counter-productive. Both distributional and efficiency aspects of intervention are stressed. An introduction to formal strategic analysis is included, along with its application in the modern theory of auctions.
- Department: MPA IN ECON POLICY MANAGEMENT
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URBAN SENSING AND DATA
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Anthony P Vanky
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Statistics & Business Analytics
Stats & Business Analytic
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
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Instructor:
Charles R Guetta
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COMPRESSIBLE FLOW
Fundamental analysis of compressible flows and its applications for various sonic/supersonic elements including supersonic airfoils/projectiles, nozzles, and shock tubes. Steady and unsteady shock/expansion waves, oblique shock waves. Shock reflections, methods of characteristic.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
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Instructor:
Leonard Imas
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MPHIL THESIS WRITING SEMINAR II
MPHIL THS WRTNG SMNR II
This seminar is PART 2 for second and third year students who are writing their MPhil thesis. It will assume the form of a yearlong seminar during which students design, research, and write up their MPhil projects. These projects can be based on any kind of sociological method, quantitative or qualitative. The thesis will assume the form of an article that can be submitted to a social science journal. The seminar will help you to find an interesting question, a way to answer it, and a mode of communicating this to fellow sociologists in a way that they might find worth paying attention to. The summer break between the two semesters will allow students who don’t come to the first semester with ready-to-analyze data to gather such data (through ethnographic work, archival research, scraping the internet, combining existing survey data, etc.).
- Department: Sociology
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Instructor:
Barbara J Kiviat
Info - 4 points
APPLIED STATISTICS III
Prerequisites: STAT GR6102 Modern Bayesian methods offer an amazing toolbox for solving science and engineering problems. We will go through the book Bayesian Data Analysis and do applied statistical modeling using Stan, using R (or Python or Julia if you prefer) to preprocess the data and postprocess the analysis. We will also discuss the relevant theory and get to open questions in model building, computing, evaluation, and expansion. The course is intended for students who want to do applied statistics and also those who are interested in working on statistics research problems.
- Department: Statistics
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Instructor:
Andrew Gelman
CULPA: 6 Wikipedia h-index: 112 Info - 4 points
Introduction to Biostatistical Methods
INTRO-BIOSTATISTICAL METH
Like many fields of learning, biostatistics has its own vocabulary often seen in medical and public health literature. Phrases like statistical significance", "p-value less than 0.05", "95% confident", and "margin of error" can have enormous impact in a world that relies on statistics to make decisions: Should Drug A be recommended over Drug B? Should a national policy on X be implemented? Does Vitamin C truly prevent colds? However, do we really know what these terms and phrases mean? Understanding the theory and methodology behind study design, estimation and hypothesis testing is crucial to ensuring that findings and practices in public health and biomedicine are supported by reliable evidence.
- Department: Biostatistics
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Instructor:
Sarah G Ayton
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Macroeconomic Policy Management
Macroeconomic Policy Mgmt
This course provides students with a structured framework for analyzing major macroeconomic policy challenges in advanced and emerging economies. It covers long-run growth dynamics, income distribution, general equilibrium adjustment to shocks, and the design and limits of monetary and fiscal policy. Emphasis is placed on modern macroeconomic thinking rooted in expectations, dynamic behavior, and solid micro-foundations. Students will study models such as Solow growth, Real Business Cycle, and New Keynesian frameworks to understand issues like secular stagnation, inflation, sovereign debt, and financial sector crises. The course integrates theory with current policy debates, drawing on recent global events and empirical evidence. It is designed to build intuitive understanding and disciplined policy analysis, with technical content supported by pre-recorded videos and recitations. Students will complete short analytical assignments, a midterm, and a final exam, gaining tools to think critically and constructively about macroeconomic policy in both national and international contexts.
- Department: MPA IN ECON POLICY MANAGEMENT
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Instructor:
Guillermo Mondino
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Macroeconomic Policy Management
Macroeconomic Policy Mgmt
This course provides students with a structured framework for analyzing major macroeconomic policy challenges in advanced and emerging economies. It covers long-run growth dynamics, income distribution, general equilibrium adjustment to shocks, and the design and limits of monetary and fiscal policy. Emphasis is placed on modern macroeconomic thinking rooted in expectations, dynamic behavior, and solid micro-foundations. Students will study models such as Solow growth, Real Business Cycle, and New Keynesian frameworks to understand issues like secular stagnation, inflation, sovereign debt, and financial sector crises. The course integrates theory with current policy debates, drawing on recent global events and empirical evidence. It is designed to build intuitive understanding and disciplined policy analysis, with technical content supported by pre-recorded videos and recitations. Students will complete short analytical assignments, a midterm, and a final exam, gaining tools to think critically and constructively about macroeconomic policy in both national and international contexts.
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Statistical Consulting
Prerequisites: STAT GR6102 or instructor permission. The Deparatments doctoral student consulting practicum. Students undertake pro bono consulting activities for Columbia community researchers under the tutelage of a faculty mentor.
- Department: Statistics
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Instructor:
Tian Zheng
CULPA: 13
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Finite Element Method for Fluid Flow and
FEM for Fluid Flow and FS
Solving convection-dominated phenomena using finite element method (FEM), including convection-diffusion equation, Navier-Stokes, equation for incompressible viscous flows, and nonlinear fluid-structure interactions (FSI). Foundational concepts of FEM include function spaces, strong and weak forms, Galerkin FEM, isoparametric discretization, stability analysis, and error estimates. Mixed FEM for Stokes flow, incompressibility and inf-sup conditions. Stabilization approaches, including residue-based variational multiscale methods. Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) formulation for nonlinear FSI, and selected advanced topics of research interest.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
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Instructor:
Vijay Vedula
h-index: 17 Info - 3 points
THE BODY IN HLTH & DISEASE II
- Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
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Instructor:
John T Grbic
h-index: 36 Info - 0 points
KINESIOLOGY
- Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
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Instructor:
Todd M Bryson
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Statistical Computing with SAS
STATISTICAL COMPUTING WIT
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
- Department: Biostatistics
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Instructor:
Brady Rippon
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FUNDAMENTALS OF EVOLUTION
Lectures cover principal topics in evolutionary biology including genetics, genome organization, population and quantitative genetics, the history of evolutionary theory, systematics, speciation and species concepts, co-evolution, and biogeography.
- Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
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Instructor:
Kira Delmore
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SCREENWRITING THREE
A two-semester intensive screenwriting workshop with one instructor. The Screenwriting 3 and Screenwriting 4 class sequence allows for the careful and more sustained development of a feature-length script. In the fall semester, students further develop an idea for a screenplay and write the first act (approximately 30 pages). In the spring semester, students finish writing the script and, time permitting, begin a first revision.
- Department: Film
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Minhal Baig
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David B Schwab
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Andrew S Bienen
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Trey Ellis
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Rania Attieh
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ORAL HISTOLOGY GROWTH & DVLPMT
- Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
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Instructor:
Letty Moss-Salentijn
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Contending Theories of International Rel
Theories of Int'l Relatio
MIA Politics I Core.
This course introduces MIA students to foundational theories and analytical frameworks used to understand international affairs and the global political economy. Drawing on literature from international relations, comparative politics, political sociology, and economics, the course examines the evolution of international relations scholarship and key debates shaping the field. Through weekly discussions, case-based readings, and structured debates, students will critically engage with competing perspectives on power, institutions, regimes, markets, and global order. Special attention is given to American scholarly traditions and real-world applications, including contemporary issues such as war, climate change, and global inequality.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Hisham Aidi
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Lincoln A Mitchell
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Hisham Aidi
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Contending Theories of International Rel
Theories of Int'l Relatio
MIA Politics I Core.
This course introduces MIA students to foundational theories and analytical frameworks used to understand international affairs and the global political economy. Drawing on literature from international relations, comparative politics, political sociology, and economics, the course examines the evolution of international relations scholarship and key debates shaping the field. Through weekly discussions, case-based readings, and structured debates, students will critically engage with competing perspectives on power, institutions, regimes, markets, and global order. Special attention is given to American scholarly traditions and real-world applications, including contemporary issues such as war, climate change, and global inequality.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Hisham Aidi
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Lincoln A Mitchell
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FICTION SEMINAR
DEATH AND DESIRE
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- Department: Writing
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Instructor:
Hannah L Assadi
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FICTION SEMINAR
SPEAK THE SPEECH
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- Department: Writing
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Instructor:
James Canon
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FICTION SEMINAR
PLANT PEOPLE
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- Department: Writing
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Instructor:
Anelise I Chen
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FICTION SEMINAR
THE GHOST STORY
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- Department: Writing
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Instructor:
Scott Cheshire
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FICTION SEMINAR
TIME IN FICTION
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- Department: Writing
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Instructor:
Joshua Furst
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FICTION SEMINAR
MYSTERIES
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- Department: Writing
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Rivka R Galchen
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FICTION SEMINAR
THE INTIMATE
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- Department: Writing
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Joanna B Hershon
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FICTION SEMINAR
SPECULATIVE FICTION
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- Department: Writing
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Instructor:
Lincoln M Michel
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FICTION SEMINAR
WET LAND/DRY LAND
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- Department: Writing
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Instructor:
Darcey Steinke
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FICTION SEMINAR
BUILDING A SCENE
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- Department: Writing
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Instructor:
Lara Vapnyar
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Russian Formalism
Twenty-first century literary studies has seen a steadily growing interest in formalist literary theory. This trend has manifested in new movements, such as New Formalism, Historical Poetics, and Quantitative Formalism. This interest in formalism has been accompanied by a widely expressed desire for a better understanding of literary form, and to find ways to connect its study with cultural and political history. The archive of Russian Formalism, a protean movement which was active in the 1910s and 1920s, is a rich source for those interested in rethinking the concept of form today. Beginning in the 1960s and ‘70s, Russian Formalism was interpreted as the precursor to French Structuralism and Post-Structuralism. In this class we seek to recontextualize Russian Formalism—not in terms of the ideas of the Cold War period—but rather in light of the cultural and political milieu of revolutionary and Civil War era Russia. By connecting theories of form with the cultural and political contexts from which they emerged, our goal is to develop an understanding of form as a concept defined not only in aesthetic or linguistic terms, but also as a construct with sociopolitical import.
- Department: Slavic Languages
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Instructor:
Jessica E Merrill
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
THESIS RESEARCH & WRITING
This course is intended for MA students in Religion who are writing and completing a thesis or other paper of similar length and scope. Enrolled students will work with the instructor to develop, research, and write a thesis. Preparation and prerequisites: Instructor’s permission is required to enroll. Students are strongly encouraged to discuss the feasibility of potential thesis topics with a faculty member in Religion (preferably their advisor or other suitable faculty member), and if relevant, also strive to identify key primary texts or sources, in advance of the semester.
- Department: Religion
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Instructor:
Gil Anidjar
CULPA: 22 Info - 4 points
Topics in Database Systems
TOPICS IN AGENTIC SYSTEMS
- Department: Computer Science
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Instructor:
Kostis Kaffes
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