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When asking a Chinese citizen about a particularly puzzling aspect of China’s economy, the response will sometimes be
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这是中国特色的“ or this is the Chinese way of doing things. In this course, we will think deeply about what exactly that means in terms of how China’s macro-economy and financial system operates and what are the policy implications for those differences. This course has three distinguishing characteristics: i. It uses modern tools from macroeconomics and finance to analyze the Chinese economy; ii. It compares and contrasts the Chinese economy with the United States as a way of highlighting what makes the Chinese economy (and incidentally the US economy) special; and iii. It treats a country like a company using methods from finance, accounting and management to shed new light on macroeconomic questions. While the focus of the course is, of course China, what students will also learn is how to think more broadly about all emerging economies. Many scholars have written about the significant steps in China’s development process since 1978. Wu Jinglian (2005) or Barry Naughton (2007 – see below), for example, provides excellent step-by-step descriptions of China’s remarkable path of economic progress from both before and after that critical year. This course takes a different approach from that very worthwhile historical/institutional approach in that it asks which tools from the modern economics and finance toolbox can and cannot be used to understand the Chinese economy and financial system. There will be both quantitative and qualitative aspects involved in our pursuit of that understanding. Every lecture will have a theory component, policy discussion component and data analytic component. By the completion of this course, students will know how to work with data related to the Chinese economy and how to go about thinking analytically about China’s economy and financial system. This will allow the student to intelligently answer challenging questions related to China’s current and future economic/financial circumstance.

Department: International and Public Affairs
R 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Instructor: Ronald M Schramm
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REGN IA6845

THESIS DEVELOPMENT

Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
Instructor: Maria Uriarte
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6 points

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EEEB GR6850

International Law

Department: International and Public Affairs
F 8 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Instructor: Horst Fischer
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1.5 points

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SIPA IA6850

PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION IN HEALTHCARE

Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
0 points

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BHSC D6852

GROUP CRITIQUE III

Department: Visual Arts
W 5:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
3 points

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VIAR AV6852

MASTER CLASS

Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
MTR 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
1.5 points

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ARCH A6856

ENVIRONMENTS OF GOVERNANCE

Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Instructor: Felicity Scott
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ARCH A6861

Economic Statecraft and China

Department: International Security & Diplomacy
T 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
Instructor: Stephanie Char
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REGN IA6862

ARTIST MENTORSHIP / VISITING ARTIST LECT

ARTIST MENTORSHIP / VALS

This required Visual Arts core MFA curriculum course, comprising two parts, allows MFA students to deeply engage with and learn directly from a wide variety of working artists who visit the program each year.

Lecture Series
The lecture component, taught by an adjunct faculty member with a background in art history and/or curatorial studies, consists of lectures and individual studio visits by visiting artists and critics over the course of the academic year. The series is programmed by a panel of graduate Visual Arts students under the professor's close guidance. Invitations are extended to artists whose practice reflects the interests, mediums, and working methods of MFA students and the program. Weekly readings assigned by the professor provide context for upcoming visitors. Other course assignments include researching and preparing introductions and discussion questions for each of the visitors. Undergraduate students enrolled in Visual Arts courses are encouraged to attend and graduate students in Columbia's Department of Art History are also invited. Following each class-period the conversation continues informally at a reception for the visitor. Studio visits with Visual Arts MFA students take place on or around the week of the artist or critic's lecture and are coordinated and assigned by lottery by the professor.

Artist Mentorship
The Artist-Mentor component allows a close and focused relationship to form between a core group of ten to fifteen students and their mentor. Students are assigned two mentors who they meet with each semester in two separate one-week workshops. The content of each workshop varies according to the Mentors’ areas of expertise and the needs of the students. Mentor weeks can include individual critiques, group critiques, studio visits, visits to galleries, other artist's studios, museums, special site visits, readings, and writing workshops. Here are a few descriptions from recent mentors:
• During Mentor Week we will individually and collectively examine our assumptions and notions about art. What shapes our needs and expectations as artists and the impact of what we do?
• Our week will include visits to exhibition spaces to observe how the public engages the art. Throughout, we will consider art's ability to have real life consequences and the public's desire to personally engage with and experience art without mediation.
• The week will be conducted in two parts, f

Department: Visual Arts
T 6 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
Instructor: Miya Masaoka
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VIAR AV6862