Sustainable Finance I: Foundations of ES

Sustainable Finance I: ES

This course explores how Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) objectives and data are integrated into investment decision-making. Through a combination of academic theory, real-world case studies, and hands-on exercises, students examine how ESG considerations affect risk, return, and portfolio design. Key topics include ESG portfolio theory, impact investing, fixed income and labeled bonds, engagement and proxy voting, and climate-aware investing. The course also addresses the limits and potential of ESG data, governance structures, and the role of investors in influencing corporate behavior and public outcomes. Designed for students preparing for careers in sustainable finance, the course emphasizes practical applications and critical thinking.

• Department: Climate, Energy, & Environment
• F 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• 0 points

Impact Investing I: Foundations

Impact Investing I: Foundations introduces students to the core principles, tools, and actors shaping the field of impact investing. The course provides a foundational understanding of how capital markets can be leveraged to address global challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, inequality, and poverty, while also generating financial returns.

Students learn how to evaluate impact-driven transactions, assess risk and return across impact portfolios, and measure both financial and non-financial outcomes. The course includes modules on the history and evolution of the field, stakeholder roles, project evaluation using NPV and other techniques, portfolio construction, and impact measurement. The course culminates in a final team project and expert panel presentation, with a focus on real-world applications and career exploration.

• Department: Climate, Energy, & Environment
• T 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Preeti Bhattacharji
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• 3 points

CLINICAL CLERKSHIP IN PERIODONTICS I

CLIN CLERKSHIP IN PERIODONTICS

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• 0 points

PEDIATRIC PATIENT MGNT AND CLIN PRACTICE

PEDI PAT MGNT & CLN PRACT

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• 0 points

Impact Measurement and Management

Impact Measurement & Mana

As impact investing further embeds into the mainstream, Impact Measurement and Management (IMM) is its key differentiator, helping impact investors understand a company’s intention to create positive outcomes and impacts and the evidence it uses to demonstrate whether (“if”) the impact, value, or benefit is indeed being created, and importantly, in what ways (“how”) it is improving the lives of concerned stakeholders and the environment. This course reflects decades of progress by hundreds of organizations, agencies, institutions, thought leaders, and companies in every sector across the globe leading to the convergence and harmonization of key IMM tools and frameworks. Levering SIPA’s vast network, students will hear from many of these pioneers throughout the course. Understanding how to identify what to measure and how to measure and manage impact across space and time is critical to ensuring businesses and investors achieve their goals and make decisions that address the world’s most pressing social and environmental challenges. We will approach IMM through the entrepreneur/business perspective while understanding that understanding the investor perspective is key to harness impact finance. The goal of this course is to equip students with knowledge of the most valuable and widely accepted methods, tools, and best practices in the field and through applied practice, develop these skills as IMM practitioners with a critical lens and a systems-level understanding of impact measurement for ventures seeking investment and investors seeking opportunities.

• Department: Climate, Energy, & Environment
• F 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Courtney Sara L Minard
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• 3 points

ESG and Fiduciary Duties

The social, environmental, and governance challenges of the 21st century represent both companies’ greatest risks and opportunities. While many investors, from retirement plans to mutual funds, have embraced the importance of ESG in the investment process, it is critical to understand the legal obligations of fiduciary duty, the role of the fiduciary, and the changing regulatory backdrop to assess the relevance and materiality of ESG.  For example, the politicization of ESG in the US has created divergent support and threats.  Understanding this unique and changing landscape alongside pivotal legal challenges is critical for business and investment decisions. In this course, students will learn about the legal obligations of fiduciary duty, its core principles, and whether and how ESG investing intersects with fiduciary duty. Furthermore, we will discuss the financial risks and rewards of ESG as important data points in the duty of care, as well as the role of disclosure and regulators within the US and beyond. While the course will largely be taught from the perspective of the US investment experience, we will compare trends in the global market.

• Department: Climate, Energy, & Environment
• M 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• 1.5 points

Business Law

This course is not a traditional business law survey class. This course is an application oriented class that provides the business professional with an understanding of certain critical legal concepts that are an integral part of the decision-making process for a business enterprise to operate effectively in the United States. The purpose of this course is to provide the student with a framework that will enable the student to identify legal issues that arise in a variety circumstances during the life cycle" of the business enterprise beginning with the formation of the business enterprise through the dissolution of the business enterprise through sale or bankruptcy. This course will focus primarily on the legal regime in the United States, although the laws of other jurisdictions will be noted where appropriate. The course is highly interactive - legal principles will be imparted as students seek to identify legal issues arising in actual business situations. Daily student class participation is a significant element of the course and will account for 30% of the student grade. "

• Department: Business
• MTWRF 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Donna M Hitscherich
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• 3 points

Sustainability Reporting

The Sustainability Reporting course explores the ever-evolving global Sustainability and ESG reporting environment and the standards and frameworks that are being used by companies to report on their sustainability related performance. Environmental, Social, and Governance Reporting (“ESG”) also referred to in parts as Corporate Responsibility /Accountability Reporting. The course explores the market drivers that generate the demand for sustainability reporting by companies, key areas of focus for investors and other capital providers, regulatory activities and the intersection of sustainability reporting with traditional corporate financial reporting.

• Department: Climate, Energy, & Environment
• T 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Avner Bukspan
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• 3 points

International Seminar: Munich

Branding has become a hot topic. Many companies realize that they need to understand the financial value of their corporate brand and its products; manage brands strategically; and deliver implementations to customers that are relevant, differentiated and powerful to build an emotional bond and loyalty.This course shows you how this can be done. It familiarizes you with best practices in branding, from iPod and the launch of the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty to successful branding initiatives in financial, pharmaceutical, consumer goods, entertainment and a wide range of other companies.We will focus on three topics: brand strategy and valuation; visual identity and experiential branding; and organizational branding issues. You will be asked to complete a couple of individual exercises and homeworks during the course and be part of a final group project. No midterm. No final.The course is unique in many ways. First, it will be fun. Second, just like the topic itself, you will learn how to combine analytical and strategic thinking with creative development of ideas and implementations. You will be exposed to lots of cases of successful and some unsuccessful branding campaigns so that you learn what to do and what not to do in your own job. You will learn about frameworks and concepts and be equipped with methodologies and tools to manage a branding project. You will meet people from the branding industry, both from within companies and from external service suppliers, such as corporate identity firms, packaging designers, advertising firms and brand agencies. Finally, you will be participating in a group project that will bring it all together, focusing on a specific company of your choice.Hope to see you in the fall. If you would like additional information on my own brand, check out www.MeetSchmitt.com."

• Department: Business
• TWRFS 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Bernd H Schmitt
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• 3 points

International Seminar: South A

The objectives of this course are to learn some key lessons about starting and running an entrepreneurial company, and to learn about the state of entrepreneurship in South Africa. The essence of the course will be our guest speakers, through whom we will learn not only about their personal experiences and lessons, but about entrepreneurship in general. Our guest speakers will be South African entrepreneurs from a wide variety of business sizes and backgrounds. In addition, we will have guest speakers from the local government and the leading business school. There will be a hands on project to be done with local South African entrepreneurs that will require preparation before leaving for Cape Town and a report to follow afterward.

• Department: Business
• TWRFS 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Stephan Meier
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• 3 points

International Seminar Chile

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• Department: Business
• TWRFS 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Carlos Singer
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• 3 points

Investor & Corporate Stewardship: Influe

The course explores the relationship between policymakers and key actors in capital markets. Specifically, it examines the ways in which corporates and investors influence policymaking around climate and natural capital and identifies untapped opportunities for positive intervention by investors and corporates.

• Department: Climate, Energy, & Environment
• W 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Tanya Khotin
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• 3 points

Economic and Financial Statecraft

Economic &Financial State

A seminar on the contemporary history and practice of economic statecraft. The course focuses on how the United States and other countries weaponize economic, financial, and technological interdependence to advance strategic objectives. Topics include economic sanctions and restrictions on trade and investment. Case studies include efforts to use economic statecraft to curb Iran’s nuclear program, counter Russia’s aggression in Ukraine, and check China’s drive for technological supremacy. The course also explores how the rise of digital currencies, the rapid advance of artificial intelligence, and a fragmenting global economy are reshaping the landscape of geoeconomic competition.

Enrollment in this course is restricted to students who have officially declared the IFEP concentration, as reflected in their Stellic profile. If space allows, enrollment may be extended to additional students at a later date.

• Department: International Finance & Economic Policy
• M 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Edward B Fishman
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• 1.5 points

SIRI Practicum

The Sustainable Investing Research Consulting Project provides an action-based learning experience to students interested in sustainable investing, covering both sustainable investing in the financial sector (impact investing and sustainable finance) and the real economy (for-profit and non-profit organizations). For example, students will learn about the opportunities, challenges, and limitations faced by sustainable and impact investors to finance a more sustainable world. Moreover, they will learn how (for-profit and non-profit) organizations develop innovative products and services that help mitigate grand challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, social inequality, poverty, etc., and enable them to grow their business and sustain their competitive advantage over time.

Throughout the semester, students will work on an actual sustainable investing research consulting project for a client from across the world. They will (e-)meet with the client on a regular basis, discuss their progress, obtain feedback, and present their recommendation to the client. Furthermore, students will conduct research and interviews to learn about the broader business environment and institutional context (including cultural, political, economic, and social factors) to better understand the opportunities and challenges the clients face.

This course is ideal for students interested in pursuing careers in sustainable finance, impact investing, ESG, corporate sustainability, social entrepreneurship, and sustainable development. 

The Sustainable Investing Research Consulting course offers consulting projects from around the world, covering a broad range of topics in sustainable investing. Clients include start-ups and established firms, non-profit and for-profit organizations, and clients from the finance and investing world. For more information on client projects and the student experiences, please see the SIRI website:
https://siri.sipa.columbia.edu/news

Registration in this course is instructor-managed. Students must join the course waitlist in Vergil during their registration appointment and submit the following application to be considered for enrollment:
https://forms.gle/XQNhfryMhGUszkZB6
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• Department: Climate, Energy, & Environment
• R 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• 3 points

Independent Studies - 3 credit

• Department: Business
• Instructor: Xuelin Li
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• 3 points

Time Series Analysis

This course will cover practical time series forecasting techniques and consists of two parts. The first part focuses on the Box-Jenkins approach (ARIMA), including identification (selection) of the appropriate model, estimation of its parameters, and diagnostic checking of model adequacy. The second part of the course is on nonlinear models for time series, with emphasis on conditional volatility and ARCH models. By the end of the course, you will be able to apply these techniques to actual data, primarily financial and economic time series. 

Enrollment in this course is restricted to students who have officially declared the IFEP concentration, as reflected in their Stellic profile. If space allows, enrollment may be extended to additional students at a later date.

• Department: International Finance & Economic Policy
• R 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• F 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Martsella Davitaia
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• 3 points

Negotiation & Conflict Resolution

This highly participatory course equips students with the tools and frameworks to negotiate effectively, resolve conflict, and build consensus in public and international affairs contexts. Through simulations, students learn to navigate a range of scenarios, including environmental disputes, diplomatic negotiations, and organizational conflicts, using both distributive and interest-based strategies. Core topics include preparation and strategy, cross-cultural communication, power dynamics, consensus building, and coalition management. Students will also explore measures of negotiation success and practice applying concepts to real-world challenges. The course emphasizes experiential learning, reflective writing, and practical skill-building to prepare students for high-stakes negotiations in diverse professional settings.

• Department: Tech Policy and Innovation
• W 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Seth Freeman
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• 3 points

Independent Studies - 1.5 cred

• Department: Business
• Instructor: Aamir Rehman
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• Instructor: Dongil Keum
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• Instructor: Malek A Ben Sliman
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• Instructor: Steven Winshel
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• Instructor: Xuelin Li
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• 1.5 points

MENTAL HEALTH POLICY

• Department: Social Work
• T 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Kathleen M O'Hara
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• 3 points

Contemporary Russian Security Policy

This seminar critically examines the evolution and current trajectory of Russian security policy, with particular attention to the ongoing war in Ukraine and its broad strategic implications. The course explores the political, historical, and structural factors that shape Russia’s national security outlook, as well as its use of military force, energy policy, diplomacy, and information operations to advance its interests. The course discusses Russia’s relations with the United States, Europe, China, and the Global South; the role of nuclear strategy and arms control; and lessons from recent military interventions. Readings and case studies are regularly updated to reflect the rapidly changing geopolitical landscape.

• Department: International Security & Diplomacy
• R 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter Clement
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• 3 points

MICROECON & POLICY ANALYSIS I

MICROECON & POLICY I

• Department: Social Work
• T 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• T 11:10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Rob Hartley
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• 3 points

MICROECON & POLICY ANALYSIS I-LAB

MICROECON & POLICY I LAB

• Department: Social Work
• W 4:10 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
• W 2 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Rob Hartley
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• 0 points

DENTAL IMPLANTOLOGY

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• 0 points

Global Political and Legal Thought

The seminar explores how political and legal philosophers, as well as leaders of political movements and established states, envision international order.  It asks and critically assesses how they imagine international politics
is
governed and how it
should be
governed. 

It begins with a reexamination of major Northern/Western traditions in international jurisprudence and political theory as seen through the eyes of classical and modern political leaders and philosophers.  It covers Realism, Liberalism, Socialism, and Fascism.  It then broadens the lens to include thinkers from the global South, including Nehru, Senghor, and Biko, and explores how they have addressed the challenges of post-colonialism. In considering their international orders, we will discuss their insights into the connections among issues of order and justice, identity and legitimacy, peace and war, cooperation and conflict, intervention and independence and international equality and inequality.   We conclude with a discussion of Cosmopolitanism and Rawls’
Law of Peoples
.

• Department: Development and Governance
• W 1:20 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Doyle
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• 3 points

PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION IN HEALTHCARE

PROFESSIONAL COMM IN HLTH

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• Instructor: Lynn M Tepper
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• 0 points

Global Economic Governance

This course aims at familiarizing students with major issues surrounding global economic governance, exploring both the issues that have been or are now subject to current debates, as well as the institutional questions involved. “Global economic governance” is understood in a broad sense, and thus includes not only global but also regional frameworks, and both formal institutions as well as informal groupings of countries (such as the G7/8 and the G20) and rules of international transactions that have been left to bilateral agreements or are under the domain of national sovereignty but do have global implications. “Economics” is also understood in a broad sense, to include social and environmental issues.

The course will start with three general lectures that will place the debates on global governance in relation to those on globalization, and will give a first look at the objectives of international cooperation, the historical evolution of the current governance, and typologies of the different rules, organization,s and governance structures that have been created at varied times. It will then deal in detail with major issues that involve international cooperation: the role of the UN system, development cooperation, global monetary and financial management, trade and investment, international tax cooperation, and climate change. It will end with discussion of the governance of the system, and a recapitulation of governance issues and reform proposals in light of global economic developments in the 2008-2019 period, during COVID-19, and during the current crisis that mixes geopolitical issues with an economic crisis.

• Department: Development and Governance
• T 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Jose A Ocampo
  Wikipedia h-index: 77 Info
• 3 points

The U.S. Role in World Affairs, I

This course serves as the foundation of the International Fellows Program (IFP), a year-long, interdisciplinary seminar examining the evolving role of the United States in global affairs. Drawing on history, policy, and current debates, the course explores how U.S. leadership has been shaped by ideology, military power, economic interests, and domestic politics—and how that role is being redefined amid global shifts and great power competition. Students will analyze key moments in American foreign policy, engage critically with foundational documents, and assess competing national security strategies in an election year context. Structured around weekly readings and team-led discussions, the course emphasizes active participation, policy application, and peer debate. The fall semester focuses on three core dimensions of U.S. foreign policy: human rights and values, the use of force, and transnational economic interests. IFP Fellows are expected to contribute meaningfully to class dialogue and leadership throughout the semester.

• Department: International Security & Diplomacy
• R 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Victoria Nuland
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• 3 points

LEGAL FOUNDATIONS I

• Department: Social Work
• W 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Rebecca M Hanus
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• 3 points

CLINICAL CLERKSHIP IN PERIODONTICS I

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• 0 points

PEDIATRIC PATIENT MGNT AND CLIN PRACTICE

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• 0 points

FACIAL PAIN

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• Instructor: Jennifer P Bassiur
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• 0 points

CLINICAL ORAL PATHOLOGY & MEDICINE II

CLIN ORAL PATHOLOGY & MEDIC II

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• Instructor: Elizabeth Philipone
  h-index: 11 Info
• 0 points

RADIOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION SERIES

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• 0 points

CLINL PRAC OF RADI/TRIAGE&EMERGENCY

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• 0 points

Introduction to Intellectual Property La

INTRO TO INTELLECTUAL PRO

• Department: Law
• Instructor: Shyamkrishna Balganesh
  h-index: 20 Info
• 3 points

INTEGRATED DISCIPLINES AND CASE BASED RE

INTEGRATED DISC CASE BASE

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• 0 points

PROSEM-INTRO-STUDY OF ART HIST

Required course for first-year PhD Students in the Art History Department.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Lisa Trever
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

Senior Ethics

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• 0 points

Senior Ethics

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• Instructor: Julie A Connolly
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• 0 points

OPTIMIZATION & SIMULATION BOOTCAMP

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• Instructor: Michael Miller
  CULPA: 18 h-index: 14 Info
• 0 points

Methods for Sustainable Development Prac

This is the first of a two-course sequence for second-year students concentrating in Development and Governance (D&G), formerly Economic and Political Development (EPD). The second course is the Workshop in Sustainable Development Practice. These courses are integrated into a year-long encounter with the applied practice of sustainable development, guided by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

In this course, students will learn how to design, plan, implement, monitor, and evaluate development interventions by mastering the fundamental aspects of program management for development. The course is designed to help students develop a critical understanding of some of the key frameworks, tools, and approaches used by organizations in the field of development practice, and to encourage students to use these methods in an ethical and discerning manner, by recognizing their limitations and implicit assumptions while identifying areas for innovation. Students will also come to appreciate the influence that methodology can have on the prioritization of sustainable development goals and the application of development strategies. Development practice, after all, is inherently political. Over the last few decades, the field of sustainable development has changed dramatically as development practitioners increasingly perceive themselves less as knowledge experts – delivering top-down transfers of technical expertise and resources to beneficiaries – and more as knowledge facilitators, recognizing the importance of evidence-based decision-making, local ownership and accountability, and participation of poor and marginalized groups as citizens and partners. However, this transition has been uneven, and externally-driven, top-down approaches and policies persist. Development practitioners, therefore, need to be continually aware of the values, assumptions, and biases that they bring to their work and that are implicit in the resources, approaches, and tools they use.

 

This course also seeks to illustrate the application of theories and concepts introduced in other D&G core courses, and to highlight some of the political, practical, and ethical issues and challenges facing development practitioners working in low- and middle-income countries, especially in the context of recent drastic cuts in official development assistance (ODA). While the course considers both quantitative and qualitative methods, the emphasis is on widely-used pro

• Department: Development and Governance
• W 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• W 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• R 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• F 8 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
• F 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• R 8 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Eugenia McGill
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• 3 points

SENIOR INTERDISCIPLINARY SERIES

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• 0 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY MD/MS

• Department: Medicine
• 3 points

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

• Department: Visual Arts
• T 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew Deleget
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• 3 points

SOCIAL-SPATIAL RESEARCH: ISSUES + METHOD

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Erica C Avrami
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• 3 points

READINGS IN BIOMED INFORMATICS

Prerequisite: approval of adviser. Readings on topics in medical informatics under the direction of a faculty adviser.

• Department: Biomedical Informatics
• Instructor: Virginia G Lorenzi
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• 1-12 points

DIR RSCH POLISH LITERATURE I

Prerequisites: the department's permission.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• Instructor: Christopher Caes
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• 1-4 points

PROSEMINAR IN LITERARY STUDIES

The theory and practice of literary criticism. Required of all candidates for the M.A. degree in Russian, Czech, Ukrainian, South Slavic, and Polish Literature.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Chloe Kitzinger
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• 4 points

Graduate Independent Research

Independent Study with Faculty Advisor must be registered for every semester after first academic year

• Department: Statistics
• Instructor: Marco A Avella Medina
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• Instructor: David Blei
  Wikipedia h-index: 98 Info
• Instructor: John P Cunningham
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Richard Davis
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 60 Info
• Instructor: Victor H de la Pena
  h-index: 20 Info
• Instructor: Bianca Dumitrascu
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• Instructor: Andrew Gelman
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia h-index: 112 Info
• Instructor: Yuqi Gu
  h-index: 6 Info
• Instructor: Ioannis Karatzas
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 58 Info
• Instructor: Samory Kpotufe
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Jingchen Liu
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 19 Info
• Instructor: Shaw-Hwa Lo
  CULPA: 14 Info
• Instructor: Arian Maleki
  h-index: 31 Info
• Instructor: Sumit Mukherjee
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 13 Info
• Instructor: Marcel F Nutz
  CULPA: 9 Info
• Instructor: Liam M Paninski
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Philip Protter
  h-index: 50 Info
• Instructor: Daniel Rabinowitz
  CULPA: 19 h-index: 34 Info
• Instructor: Cynthia Rush
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 12 Info
• Instructor: Bodhisattva Sen
  h-index: 24 Info
• Instructor: Michael Sobel
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia h-index: 35 Info
• Instructor: Simon Tavare
  Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Anne Van Delft
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 5 Info
• Instructor: Zhiliang Ying
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 62 Info
• Instructor: Ming Yuan
  h-index: 45 Info
• Instructor: Tian Zheng
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 25 Info
• Instructor: Genevera Allen
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• Instructor: Christopher Harshaw
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• 3 points

DOCTORAL PRO SEM-SOC WORK RES

DOCTORAL PRO-SEM SW RESEARCH

0 pts. Required of all degree candidates. The proseminar introduces incoming students to the research process and a range of research studies as well as the faculty conducting them at Columbia. It also provides some ongoing group advisement and skills workshops.

• Department: Social Work
• T 11:10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Qin Gao
  h-index: 30 Info
• 0 points

FNDN EXCELLENCE DENTAL PRACTICE IV

FNDNL EXCELLENCE DENT PRA

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• 0 points

BACKGROUNDS IN PHARMACOLOGY I

Open only to Ph.D. candidates in the Department of Pharmacology. A detailed analysis of classical studies in pharmacology and related fields and the research which has led to our current understanding of the mode of drug action. Students are required to present material for oral presentation and written report.

• Department: Pharmacology
• Instructor: Nihkil Sharma
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• 2 points

ADVANCED TUTORIAL

COMM-BASED PARTICIPATORY RES

Students may take these courses provided they have completed relevant work available in the regular course program. Tutorials are offered in social gerontology, children and family services, health services, substance abuse, AIDS, family policy, and comparative social policy, among others. Social work practice and social science tutorials are offered when required by students in attendance.

• Department: Social Work
• Instructor: Susan S Witte
  h-index: 28 Info
• 3 points

Clinical Education Seminar II

Clin Ed Sem II

This 6-week course during the 4th term of the DPT curriculum is the second in a series of four clinical education seminars designed to prepare students for their full-time clinical education experiences.

This course prepares students for the Clinical Education I experience including fulfillment of all clinical site requirements. Expectations for the Clinical Education I experience are discussed and students set individualized clinical education goals. All students complete a self-guided training session required for use of the Physical Therapist Clinical Performance Instrument 3.0. Sessions also address sharing and soliciting feedback and preparing a clinical in-service or project.

• Department: Physical Therapy
• 1 points

Clinical Education Seminar IV

Clin Ed Sem IV

This 14-week course during seventh term of the DPT curriculum is the final seminar designed to prepare students for their full-time terminal clinical education experiences and for careers in physical therapy.

The course allows the student to reflect on the challenges and highlights of the 2nd clinical education experience. Expectations for the terminal experience are discussed. Students set individualized goals and fulfill clinical site prerequisites. The seminar reviews resume writing, interviewing techniques, and an overview of the National Physical Therapy Examination (NPTE).

• Department: Physical Therapy
• 1 points

DISSERTATION COLLOQUIUM

The dissertation colloquium is a non-credit course open to MESAAS doctoral students who have completed the M.Phil. degree. It provides a forum in which the entire community of dissertation writers meets, bridging the departments different fields and regions of research. It complements workshops outside the department focused on one area or theme. Through an encounter with the diversity of research underway in MESAAS, participants learn to engage with work anchored in different regions and disciplines and discover or develop what is common in the departments post-disciplinary methods of inquiry. Since the community is relatively small, it is expected that all post-M.Phil. students in residence will join the colloquium. Post M.Phil. students from other departments may request permission to join the colloquium, but places for non-MESAAS students will be limited. The colloquium convenes every semester, meeting once every two weeks. Each meeting is devoted to the discussion of one or two pre-circulated pieces of work (a draft prospectus or dissertation chapter). Every participant contributes at least one piece of work each year.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Gil Hochberg
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 14 Info
• 0 points

Financial Statement Analysis a

This course will provide students with hands-on experience analyzing financial statements. Students will learn about the general tools, theoretical concepts, and practical valuation issues of financial analysis. By the end of the course, students should be comfortable using firms' financial statements (along with other information) to assess firm performance and make reasonable valuation estimates.
Course content and organization In the first half of the course, we will develop a valuation framework that integrates a firm’s strategy, its financial performance, and the credibility of its accounting. The framework consists of the following steps:
1. Understand the firm’s strategy. We will assess the firm’s value proposition and identify its key value drivers and risks.
2. Accounting Analysis. We will assess earnings quality and evaluate whether the firm's accounting policies capture the underlying business reality. If not, we will adjust the accounting to eliminate GAAP issues and management biases.
3. Financial Analysis. We will evaluate current performance with accounting data and financial ratios.
4. Prospective Analysis: Forecasting. We will assess whether current firm performance is sustainable, and we will forecast future performance. In our forecasts, we will consider growth, profitability, and future competitive advantage.
5. Prospective Analysis: Valuation. We will convert our forecasts of future earnings and book values into an estimate of the firm’s current value.
In the second half of the course, we will apply the above framework to a variety of business valuation contexts, including IPOs, mergers, and equity-investment analyses.

• Department: Accounting (ACCT)
• T 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
• R 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Valentin Dimitrov
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• 3 points

PHARMACOLOGY TECHNIQUES I

Open only to Ph.D. candidates in the pharmacological sciences training program. Students are assigned to selected research laboratories to learn current fundamental laboratory techniques.

• Department: Pharmacology
• Instructor: Nihkil Sharma
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• 4-6 points

Fundamental Analysis for Inves

Most of the decisions of analysts, consultants, entrepreneurs, investors and managers require us to look ahead and assess an uncertain future. In this class, you will learn a unique approach to decision making that will help you consider the fundamentals of enterprises and how to link these fundamentals to underlying measures, which in turn will help you make better investment or management decisions. Students who have taken this course often comment on how it has transformed their thinking and understanding of companies. It also serves as a useful “capstone” to the MBA program as we draw on what was taught in most core courses.
In developing this line of reasoning and performing the analysis, we consider how to think about a new business as well as a publicly traded company. Having considered the basic building blocks, we next examine how the business resources and activities are translated into financial statements (whether for an early stage or public company) and consider what we learn from financial statements. We consider the extensive information increasingly available from outside sources, including various websites as well as Bloomberg and CapIQ. We also consider how certain accounting measures and practices impact the measures of the key elements of the business.
Focusing on the future, we take a different approach to many topics/concepts that are covered in various ways in other financial statement analysis, earnings quality, and security analysis and valuation classes. Many students take this course as well as other seemingly similar courses, and we have never received any feedback that the coverage in this course is redundant, irrespective of the other courses taken by students.
We will focus on understanding how entities create or destroy value for various stakeholders and what it would take to change this, how to consider uncertainty more explicitly in plans, and whether this fundamental value is reflected in the price or not (for entities that it applies to).
We will also take some time each week to address any topics that are in the financial press that bear on the subjects and the approach.

• Department: Accounting (ACCT)
• FM 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
• T 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Shivaram Rajgopal
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• 3 points