DIGITAL LITERACY-DECISION MKRS
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
- W 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Marco A Morales Barba
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Kinesiology & Biomechanics I
This is the first of a 2-part series. This is a comprehensive lecture/laboratory/seminar course in the first semester of the DPT curriculum which establishes foundational knowledge of normal human movement. Fundamental biomechanical and kinesiological principles, including kinematics and kinetics, of human movement are integrated with knowledge of anatomical structures under normal and pathological conditions. Each joint complex of the human body is scrutinized and integrated with a regional approach to human movement.
The course begins with an introduction to the mechanical properties of connective tissue and muscle mechanics. Essential principles of biomechanics including gravity, friction, leverage, composition and resolution of internal and external forces in movement production are presented. These topics are integrated into kinesiology survey of the human body organized by anatomical region. Specific attention will be given to the relationship between anatomical structure and kinesiological function, joint classification, osteokinematics, arthrokinematics, muscle and ligament function, kinematic chains and alignment. There is an emphasis on kinematics and muscle function in normal functional movements. Pathological movement is introduced. The laboratory component highlights surface anatomy palpation with emphasis on structure identification, positioning, body mechanics and hand placement. Optional seminar classes are small group integrative discussion sessions in which students who wish to attend come with prepared questions on course material. Both lecture and laboratory incorporate observation and analysis of normal movement of the limbs and trunk, and selected examples.
- Department: Physical Therapy
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Biostatistical Methods I
BIOSTATISTICAL METHODS I
This one-semester course introduces basic applied descriptive and inferential statistics. The first part of the course includes elementary probability theory, an introduction to statistical distributions, principles of estimation and hypothesis testing, methods for comparison of discrete and continuous data including chi-squared test of independence, t-test, analysis of variance (ANOVA), and their non-parametric equivalents. The second part of the course focuses on linear models (regression) theory and their practical implementation.
Acute and Critical Care Pharmacology
ACUTE & CRIT CARE PHARMAC
The purpose of this course is to provide a comprehensive and in-depth background in acute and critical care pharmacotherapy. This course will address the pharmacology and appropriate clinical use of agents used in the treatment of selected acute disorders found in acutely/critically ill patients. Recent advances in pharmacotherapy, personalized management strategies, and controversial issues will be included and emphasized.
- Department: Nursing
- M 5 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jenny Shah
Info - 3 points
ACTING III
MFA acting students will tackle verse drama and heightened language. We will spend much of our time investigating Shakespeare’s writing, with a focus on King Lear and Much Ado about Nothing, and will weave in contemporary heightened language texts throughout the semester.
Goals
To develop students into keen interpreters of heightened theatrical language, both classical and contemporary
To enable students to express their instinctive emotional responses to the rhythms, sounds and the mysteries contained in great language texts
To bring character and the specific imaginative world of each play alive thru the language
To foster each actor’s unique voice
- Department: Theatre Arts
- WF 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Peter Fernandez
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Sports Analytics
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
- MF 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mark N Broadie
Info - 3 points
Digital Health Startups
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
- MTWRF 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Halle Tecco
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Intro to Databases for Busines
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
- W 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mattan Griffel
Info - 1.5 points
Intro to Databases for Busines
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
- W 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mattan Griffel
Info - 1.5 points
Antiquity in the Museum: Archaeology, Cu
The seminar introduces graduate students to works of ancient art and architecture held in museum collections. It explores the modern history of their study as antiquities, a category which required a detailed connoisseurship set within a framework of newly arising aesthetic and racial theories and classifications that accompanied imperial archaeological endeavour. The seminar’s focus is on Mesopotamian, Anatolian, Egyptian and Greek antiquities, as ancient works in their original context and as extracted objects that mark an imperial trail. Students will also be introduced to the development of archaeological field methods within the colonial context, and archaeology’s varied forms of visual documentation which became instrumental to imperial knowledge production: architectural and scientific illustrations, excavation images, and archaeological photography, and by the early twentieth century, the introduction of aerial photography as a way of visualizing sites and ruins. Taking ancient works and their display as a starting point, the seminar also explores the ways in which archaeology and the collecting of antiquities were inextricably linked to the technologies and economies of empire and colonialism. Reading and discussions include museum histories and theories of collecting, as well as the history and theories of archaeology and ancient art. Permission of the instructor is required before registration. Please submit a seminar application to the Department of Art History and Archaeology.
- Department: Art History and Archaeology
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Zainab Bahrani
CULPA: 11
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Introduction to Randomized Clinical Tria
INTRO TO RAND CLINICAL TR
Students in this course will learn and practice the fundamental methods and concepts of the randomized clinical trial: protocol development, randomization, blindedness, patient recruitment, informed consent, compliance, sample size determination, crossovers, collaborative trials. Each student prepares and submits the protocol for a real or hypothetical clinical trial.
- Department: Biostatistics
- W 4 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alexia Iasonos
Info - 3 points
Strategic Negotiations
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
- R 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
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Instructor:
Harborne Stuart
h-index: 10 Info - 3 points
Clinical Trial Methodology
CLINICAL TRIAL METHODOLOG
Clinical trials are the pilars of clinical research. The main objective of this course is to prepare researchers to design and conduct complex clinical trials that yield valid and reliable results. The course emphasizes on several methodological and practical issues related to the design and analysis of clinical experiments. The course builds on the knowledge and skills gained in the course Randomized Clinical Trial (P8140). The objective of this course is to provide students with working knowledge of certain methodological issues that arise in designing a Clinical Trial. Topics include: Design of small studies (Phase I and II studies), Interim analyses and group sequential methods, Design of survival studies, Multiple outcome measures, Equivalency Trials, Multi-center studies, and trials with multiple outcome measures.
- Department: Biostatistics
- R 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
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Instructor:
Cheng-Shiun Leu
h-index: 28 Info - 3 points
Seminar in Primary Care Across the Lifes
Sem in Prim Care X Life I
This course is designed to enhance the clinical reasoning and decision-making skills of Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) students through case-based learning, evidence-based practice application, and faculty-guided small group discussions. Students will engage in peer collaboration, critical thinking exercises, and case presentations to refine their approach to patient evaluation, diagnosis, and management. Students will develop effective documentation and interprofessional communication skills.
- Department: Nursing
- W 1 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
- 2 points
Primary Care Across the Lifespan: Practi
PC Across Lifespan Prac I
The clinical practicum builds upon knowledge obtained in Diagnosis and Management II. This practicum is designed to expand the role of the nurse practitioner student to provide primary care to complex patients, families and communities, in an outpatient setting across the lifespan. The goal of the practicum is to prepare the students for the delivery of comprehensive primary care. The practicum focuses on chronic physical and mental illness causing various complications.
- Department: Nursing
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Instructor:
Beatriz Makhoulian
Info - 3 points
Human Population Genetics
HUMAN POPULATION GENETICS
A good grasp of the fundamentals of Population Genetics is crucial for an understanding of any field of human genetics. This is precisely the aim of this course: to provide to students the key elements of Population Genetics with a view to equip them with the right tools to understand the field of genetics in general and to pursue further studies in human genetics. The course uses various evolutionary principles to explain key population genetics concepts.
ACTING TECHNIQUES
ACTING THROUGH SONG
- Department: Theatre Arts
- R 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jenn Colella
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
Python for MBAs
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
- W 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sunny Israni
Info - 1.5 points
Analysis of Longitudinal Data
ANALYSIS OF LONGITUDINAL
The course will introduce students to statistical models and mthods for longitudinal data, i.e., repeatedly measured data over time or under different conditions. The topics will include design and sample size calculation, Hotelling's T^2, multivariate analysis of variance, multivariate linear regression (Generalized linear models), models for correlation, unbalanced repeated measurements, Mixed effects models, EM algorithm, methods for non-normally distributed data, Generalized estimating equations, Generalized linear mixed models, and Missing data.
- Department: Biostatistics
- T 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Zhonghua Liu
Info - 3 points
Vibe Coding
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
- W 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mattan Griffel
Info - 1.5 points
Management of Patients with Special Need
MGMT OF PTS WITH SPEC NDS
- Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
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Instructor:
Marc W Michalowicz
Info - 0 points
AI Solutions: From Diagnostics to Deploy
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
- MF 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
- 1.5 points
Computing for Investment Analysis
This course is a medium-level introduction to Python and its applications in fundamental analysis, especially estimating the value of companies from fundamental analysis and SEC filings. (If you need a complete introduction, please follow the online "CBS Python Level 1," a prerequisite to this course that I assume all of you have taken. To quote Warren Buffett, we want to automate the work of finding "outstanding companies at sensible prices."
In the first half of the course, we build a quantitative discounted cash flow model in Python to estimate a company's value. We start with a simple one-line formula for the net present value from free cash flow and the average cost of capital. We then add refinements, such as a continuation value, revenue growth predicted from GDP growth, and sensitivity analysis. At the end, we have a tool that takes a stock ticker like "MSFT" and automatically computes a range of intrinsic values for the share price. We apply this tool to US public companies and obtain a list of the most undervalued and overvalued companies.
In the second half of the course, we consider one possible reason for this discrepancy. If a company is under-valued or over-valued, what could the market know that we do not? Is there information that we are missing? Yes, indeed: so far, we have used a company's public disclosures to provide numbers for our quantitative model, but one important piece of information we have not considered is the text. We therefore build a qualitative model from the textual information in a company's public filings. For example, a company may be under federal investigation, and investors are therefore justifiably pessimistic about its future, which could explain a low share price. We therefore apply "text mining" to the risk disclosures in a company's 10-K filing. Our qualitative model identifies new risks within the company and issues a recommendation: "buy" or "sell."
If our quantitative model predicts that a stock is undervalued (the current share price is low relative to fundamentals) and our qualitative model finds no red flags in the risk disclosures, we can recommend the company with reasonable confidence as a "buy." Conversely, if our quantitative model predicts that a company is overvalued and has risk disclosures, we can recommend that the company is a "sell." We then form a long-short portfolio.
Both of these models, quantitative and qualitative, fit into the general 3-part chain below:
- Data (What?): Data gathering,
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
- TR 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Miguel Morin
Info - 3 points
COLLOQ IN ATLANTIC HISTORY
This colloquium provides an intensive exploration of the Atlantic World during the early modern era. Readings will attend to the sequence of contact, conquest, and dispossession that enabled the several European empires to gain political and economic power. In this regard, particular attention will be given to the role of commerce and merchant capitalism in the formation of the Atlantic World. The course will focus also, however, on the dynamics of cultural exchange, on the two-way influences that pushed the varied peoples living along the Atlantic to develop new practices, new customs, and new tastes. Creative adaptations in the face of rapid social and cultural change will figure prominently in the readings. Students may expect to give sustained attention the worlds Africans, Amerindians, and Europeans both made together and made apart.
- Department: History
- F 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Christopher L Brown
CULPA: 5
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- 4 points
Relational Databases and SQL Programming
RELATIONAL DATABASES AND
In this course, you will learn to design and build relational databases in MySQL and to write and optimize queries using the SQL programming language. Application of skills learned in this course will be geared toward research and data science settings in the healthcare field; however, these skills are transferable to many industries and application areas. You will begin the course examining the pitfalls of using Excel spreadsheets as a data storage tool and then learn how to build properly-designed relational databases to eliminate the issues related to spreadsheets and maintain data integrity when storing and modifying data. You will then learn two aspects of the SQL programming language: 1) the data manipulation language (DML), which allows you to retrieve data from and populate data into database tables (e.g., SELECT, INSERT INTO, DELETE, UPDATE, etc.), and 2) the data definition language (DDL), which allows you to create and modify tables in a database (e.g., CREATE, ALTER, DROP, etc.). You will additionally learn how to optimize SQL queries for best performance, use advanced SQL functions, and utilize SQL within common statistical software programs: R and SAS.
- Department: Biostatistics
- W 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
- R 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Zoe Verzani
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Instructor:
Michael Korvink
Info - 3 points
Diagnosis and Management of Acute & Crit
DX & MGMT ACUTE CRIT ILLN
This is the second of three Diagnosis and Management courses designed to educate students on the assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of common acute and critical illnesses via a systems-based approach. Pathophysiologic alterations, assessment, diagnostic findings, and multimodal management will be discussed. The course will examine social determinants of health and health disparities that may impact patients and family outcomes. Focus will be on the differential diagnosis and comprehensive healthcare management of commonly encountered acute and chronic physical illnesses using didactic lectures, case studies and simulation.
Effective Management in the Public Servi
Management in Public Serv
This course equips mid-career professionals with actionable frameworks, tools, and insights to lead organizational change, drive performance, and manage complex challenges in the public and nonprofit sectors. Across 12 highly interactive sessions, students examine case-based scenarios that explore how managers conceive and implement value-driven strategies, navigate organizational dynamics, and deliver measurable results.
Key themes include strategic planning, performance management, people development, operational platforms, and using power and persuasion to implement change. Through analysis of real-world cases, structured reflection, and applied learning, students will strengthen their ability to frame policy decisions, mobilize resources, and lead through uncertainty.
This course builds leadership capacity for professionals seeking to lift performance, transform services, and create public value. Students will leave with a set of durable management tools and lessons applicable across roles, organizations, and stages of their careers.
- Department: EXECUTIVE MPA
- S 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Robert Z Tumin
Info - 3 points
S. Intellectual Property Transactions Wo
S. IP Transactions Worksh
- Department: Law
- 2 points
Phys & Nutrition Through the Lifecycle
General aspects of normal human growth and development from viewpoints of physical growth, cellular growth and maturation, and adjustments made at birth; the impact of altered nutrition on these processes. Prenatal and postnatal malnutrition, the role of hormones in growth; relationships between nutrition and disease in such areas as anemia, obesity, infection, and carbohydrate absorption.
- Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
- TR 1:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Moneek Madra
Info - 3 points
Graduate Seminar in Photo & Related Medi
Grad Sem Photo & Related
Camera Geographica: Climate Change & Gaze Politics.
Graduate Seminar in Photo & Related Media
How can environmental damage be documented? How to incorporate research into art that responds to climate catastrophe? How to provide respect for local communities affected by the unstoppable effects of ecological damage?
This course explores the intersection of photography, environmental crisis, and the ethics of media. Drawing on historical approaches in photography and environmental studies, students learn to incorporate scientific data (satellite imagery, spatial data) into studio practices and data visualization. Field trips will include Rutherfurd Observatory, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, and Climate School, as well as conversations with artists working at the intersection of the arts and sciences. Students will develop an environmental - related research project.
- Department: Visual Arts
- F 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Julia Pontes
Info - 3 points
NONFICTION THESIS WORKSHOP
- Department: Writing
- W 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
- T 1:10 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
- M 1:10 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
- M 4:15 p.m.-7:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Chloe Jones
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Instructor:
Jaquira Diaz
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Leslie S Jamison
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Instructor:
Wendy Walters
Info - 9 points
SAS Insights for CEOR
Data is most useful when it can tell a story. Health analytics merges technologies and skills used to deliver business, clinical and programmatic insights into the complex components that drive medical outcomes, costs and oversight. By focusing on business intelligence and developing tools to evaluate clinical procedures, devices, and programs, organizations can use comparative and outcomes data to strengthen financial performance. This information can improve the way healthcare is evaluatedand delivered for better outcomes across the spectrum of health industries.
In this course, students will learn SAS as a tool to manipulate and analyze healthcare data and begin to understand what clinical and public health interventions work best for improving health, for example. Students will learn how to organize and analyze data to inform the practices of healthcare providers and policymakers to make evidence-based resource allocation decisions.Comparative & Effectiveness Outcomes Research (CEOR) certificate students will take this course inpreparation for the capstone class.SAS basics (e.g., creating SAS datasets and new variables, sorting, merging, reporting) and advanced statistics (e.g., using a logistical regression to create propensity scores for matched cohort analyses) will be covered.
- Department: Health Policy & Management
- R 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
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Instructor:
Yongmei Huang
h-index: 22 Info - 1.5 points
Critical Read of Biological Clinical Lit
Crit Read of Bio Clin Lit
Fall: Review of current literature providing complementary information pertinent to other nutrition areas, with a view to developing a critical approach to the assimilation of scientific information. Spring: Obesity: Etiology, Prevention, and Treatment. Controversies involving regulation of weight and energy balance. Interaction between genetics and the environment are considered as well as clinical implications of our current knowledge.
- Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
- M 8 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
- 3 points
NEW DIRECTION IN ECON SOCIOLOGY
NEW DIRECTIONS IN ECONOMIC SOC
This is an advanced graduate seminar in Economic Sociology looking at new developments in this field. It addresses the disciplinary division of labor in which economists study value and sociologists study values; and it rejects the pact whereby economists study the economy and sociologists study social relations in which they are embedded.
- Department: Sociology
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
David Stark
CULPA: 15
Wikipedia
h-index: 48
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Theoretical Statistics
STAT ANALYSIS-NEURAL DATA
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- Department: Statistics
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Liam M Paninski
CULPA: 4 Info - 3 points
Behavioral Policy & Public Health
Applications of behavioral insights are expanding rapidly across civic, medical, social, corporate, educational, and economic professions. This class covers the underlying theories for behavioral insights, using scientific and real-world examples of applications from multiple disciplines and locations. The course will also cover methods for behavioral implementation and evaluation, focusing particularly on healthcare policy perspectives. Students will learn a broad range of strategies through a highly interactive format, taught partially in a classroom setting in addition to remote asynchronous and synchronous sessions. Students will gain experience designing and developing their own evidence- based behavioral interventions as a part of a semester-long project.
The course is taught in three phases. The first phase will introduce fundamentals of behavioral science and evidence-based policy. Students will then spend the majority of the course on examples of behavioral insights such as nudges in practice, in a healthcare context and beyond. The course will end with sessions on practical applications, where students will learn to identify appropriate situations for behavioral interventions and produce a final project in a chosen context.
- Department: Health Policy & Management
- T 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kai Ruggeri
h-index: 22 Info - 1.5 points
SEMINAR-SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
- Department: Social Work
- W 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Susan S Witte
h-index: 28 Info - 3 points
BIOCHEM-PHYSIOL BASIS-NUTR I
BIOCHEM-PHYSCL BASIS NUTRITION
Aspects of carbohydrate, lipid, protein, and energy metabolism relevant to the understanding of nutrition at cellular and organism levels. Biochemical and physiological aspects of vitamin and mineral metabolismand action during both normal conditions and deficiency toxicity states.
- Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
- MW 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Bryan Gonzalez
Info - 3 points
COLLOQ ON POLITICAL BEHAVIOR
Courses on public opinion and political behavior (including the GR8210 seminar taught by Professor Shapiro) ordinarily move briskly through a wide array of topics having to do with how American tend to think and act. This class has a narrower scope but tries to delve more deeply into the literature. We focus on four topics that are arguably crucial understanding contemporary American politics (and perhaps the politics of other times and places).
The first topic addresses what might be thought of as the legacies of slavery: prejudice, resentment, racial/ethnic group identification, issue preferences on topics that are directly or indirectly connected to race/ethnicity, and group differences in political behavior.
The second topic considers the literature on partisanship and polarization, as well as related topics on “macropartisan” change and party realignment. What are the causes of micro- and macropartisan change, and what are its consequences?
The third topic is support for democratic norms, civil liberties, and respect for the rights of unpopular groups. How deeply committed are Americans to democratic values and constitutional rights?
The fourth topic is the influence of media on public opinion, a vast topic that includes the effects of advertising, news, social media, narrative entertainment, and so forth.
Although we will be focusing on just four broad topics, time constraints nevertheless prevent us from covering more than a fraction of each scholarly literature. Students are encouraged to read beyond the syllabus, and I am happy to offer suggestions.
- Department: Political Science
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Robert Y Shapiro
CULPA: 4
Wikipedia
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Professional Leadership & Practice I
Prof Leadership & Prac I
This is the first in a series of 4 courses designed to educate students about the multiple dimensions of professional practice in contemporary physical therapy. These courses will explore the professional roles of the physical therapist as a clinician, educator and advocate. This will be the first in a series of courses that will address trans-curricular themes including leadership, service, health promotion, advocacy, teaching & learning, interprofessional teamwork, and self-reflection, culminating in the creation of a digital portfolio. The course series will include broad exposure to a variety of professional and personal development experiences and expect more in-depth engagement in the student’s chosen area of focus.
This first course in the professional leadership and practice series will explore health and wellness and promote strategies for well being. Students will broaden their understanding of physical therapy practice, structure and governance of the American Physical Therapy Association, APTA vision and core values, and legislative action at the national, state and local levels. Students will have the opportunity to reflect on personal strengths and develop a personal development and professional leadership plan. An overview of the Digital Professional Portfolio will also be included.
- Department: Physical Therapy
- 2 points
INTRO ADULT DYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
INTRO ADULT THERAPY
- Department: Psychoanalytic Center
- 0 points
Global Macroeconomic Investing
- Department: Business Economics
- T 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Brett House
Info - 1.5 points
Microeconomics and Policy Analysis
Microecon & Policy Analys
Microeconomics and Policy Analysis
introduces mid-career professionals to the core analytical tools of microeconomics and their application to real-world policy and management decisions. The course emphasizes how individuals, firms, and governments make decisions under constraints, and how markets function and sometimes fail. Topics include supply and demand, consumer and producer behavior, market structure, welfare analysis, externalities, public goods, and government interventions.
Students will develop a working understanding of microeconomic principles and apply them to evaluate policies and regulations. The course combines lectures, recitations, and problem sets to build both conceptual understanding and practical problem-solving skills. No prior background in economics is required, though comfort with basic mathematics and algebra is expected.
Designed specifically for Executive MPA students, the course prepares professionals to critically analyze economic arguments, collaborate across diverse teams, and make informed, data-driven decisions in public service contexts.
- Department: EXECUTIVE MPA
- S noon-1:50 p.m.
- S 3 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Andrea Bubula
Info - 3 points
Microeconomics and Policy Analysis I
Microecon & Policy Analys
The objective of Microeconomics and Policy Analysis I is to ensure that students can use an economic framework to analyze policy choices, including those related to the environment. Students will be expected to understand, apply, and critique microeconomic models that inform economic and environmental policy. By the end of the semester, students will be expected to use economic concepts fluently to advocate various public policy positions.
We will begin with the big picture: how did economics evolve, what a capitalist economy is, and how do we think about it? We will then focus on tools for understanding core institutions such as markets, individual workers and consumers, and firms. We describe simple supply-demand relationships and apply these to economic problems. We introduce the concepts of opportunity cost and choice, which are fundamental to an economic framework for public policy. We then examine basic tools used by economists. We examine in detail the underlying theory of consumers and producers necessary to derive supply and demand relationships. This detailed analysis facilitates an intelligent application and critique of these basic economic tools.
We will incorporate environmental examples throughout the class, but this is not a class on environmental economics. It will introduce you to microeconomics more generally, and give you a view of the economy interacting with lots of other political, social, and environmental factors.
- Department: MPA-ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE POL
- W 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dong Guo
Info - 3 points
Law & Policy: Mass Incarceration in the
LAW & POLICY: MASS INCAR
From 1970 until today, America’s prison and jail population has increased sevenfold, from some 300,000 to around 2.2 million adults and children behind bars. Accounting for less than 5 percent of the world’s inhabitants, but about 25 percent of the world’s incarcerated inhabitants, the United States is the most incarcerating society in human history. The U.S. federal and state governments imprison more people and at higher rates than do any other governments on the planet, and they do so today more than they did at any other period in American history.
This astounding amount of human confinement (commonly called “mass incarceration”) disproportionately impacts the polity’s poorest communities of color—especially young Black males—which suffer from chronic conditions and infectious disease; face higher mortality rates; and experience, because of criminal records, less opportunity to secure gainful employment, stable housing, access to safety net programs, and education. Female incarceration over the past few decades has grown at twice the rate of male incarceration, and black women, specifically, are twice as likely as white women to serve time. Imprisonment exposes people to a wide range of circumstances proving detrimental to long-term physical and mental health, like inadequate sanitation, poor ventilation, and solitary confinement. And most formerly incarcerated people return to their communities with deep wounds and new traumas resulting from incarcerated life and from isolation through long separations from families and social supports.
This course sits at the intersection of public health, policy, and law. The course will explore the full spectrum of causes and costs of mass incarceration as a public health crisis. This course will examine how exposures to different structures of the American criminal punishment apparatus (e.g., law enforcement, jail, prison, or detention centers, community supervision) shape the health of people, families, and society. Observing mass incarceration as an epidemic, this course will adopt a useful public-health model of prevention to contemplate a concerted approach consisting of primary, secondary, and tertiary strategies for unwinding mass human imprisonment while advancing enhanced public health for the nation’s most disempowered members. This course will pay special attention to acutely at-risk populations, including detained youth and youth of incarcerated adults, pregnant incarcerated people, and the elderly. And the role that
- Department: Health Policy & Management
- R 5:20 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Hernandez Stroud
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Case Competition Fundamentals
CASE COMPETITION FUNDAMEN
The Course introduces students to the fundamentals of case competitions and prepares them to compete in select case competitions over the course of the year. Case competitions afford students the opportunity to apply classroom learning to dynamic health care organizational and industry problems. The Course covers topics ranging from the framework for breaking down cases to common analytical techniques and presentation skills. We will build the foundational skills for students to prepare and deliver comprehensive, professional analyses in competitive settings.
- Department: Health Policy & Management
- M 10 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
- 1.5 points
ECONOMICS OF STRATEGIC BEHAVIOR
This course examines the underlying economics of successful business strategy: the strategic imperatives of competitive markets, the sources and dynamics of competitive advantage, managing competitive interactions, and the organizational implementation of business strategy.
The course combines case discussion and analysis (approximately two thirds) with lectures (one third). The emphasis is on the ability to apply a small number of principles effectively and creatively, not the mastery of detailed aspects of the theory. The course offers excellent background for all consultants, managers and corporate finance generalists.
- Department: Business Economics
- W 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
- W 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jacopo Perego
Info - 3 points
Professional Leadership IV
This course, during the third year of the DPT curriculum, is the final in a series of 4 courses designed to educate students about the multiple dimensions of professional practice in contemporary physical therapy. These courses will explore the professional roles of the PT as a clinician, educator and advocate and address trans-curricular themes including leadership, service, health promotion, advocacy, teaching & learning, interprofessional teamwork and self-reflection, culminating in the creation of a digital portfolio. The course series will include broad exposure to a variety of professional and personal development experiences and expect more in-depth engagement in the student’s chosen area of focus.
- Department: Physical Therapy
- 2 points
Ethical Decision-Making: how to make eth
Who gets what and why? Policy makers and stakeholders in the healthcare space must make difficult decisions involving trade-offs that are often controversial. By exploring a series of ethical frameworks and contentious healthy policy issues, students will learn to apply a systematic process of ethical analysis to justify policies in a legitimate way. Through a dynamic teaching approach involving case studies, role playing and active discussion, we will explore how acceptability and feasibility of controversial policies can be enhanced to promote health equity using tools from distributive justice, procedural justice and bioethics. Topics of discussion include migrant health/migration policy, rationing at the VA, using algorithmic fairness in policy design and nudging in the safety-net.
- Department: Health Policy & Management
- T 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Thalia Porteny
Info - 1.5 points
FUTURE-WORLD ECON AFT FINC CRIS
- Department: Business Economics
- MTWRF 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
- 3 points
Doing Business in Africa: the Next Front
- Department: Business Economics
- W 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Colin Coleman
Info - 3 points
JUDICIAL INSTITUTIONS
This seminar is designed as an overview of the major debates in Judicial Politics, with deeper
coverage of a selection of topics. The primary goal of the course is to familiarize students with the
principal questions being asked by scholars in this subfield, the methodological approaches
employed, and the avenues available for future research. The primary focus is on law and courts as
political institutions and judges as political actors. We will examine decision making and power
relations within courts, within the judicial hierarchy, and within the constitutional system. While
we will concentrate on U.S. courts, we will also cover some material on other courts. We will aim
to clarify and probe the puzzles, theories, methods, and evidence presented in the various texts and
to assess the contributions they make to an understanding of judicial politics. We will explore
issues such as research design, causal inference, the role of theory, and the nature of political
science argument, in ways relevant throughout political science. This course will have a seminar
format, though I will occasionally lecture on material as necessary. Other than that, my role is to
moderate and guide discussion, relying on you to do your part.
- Department: Political Science
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jeffrey R Lax
CULPA: 32 h-index: 22 Info - 4 points
Lessons from Transformative Advances
Lessons in Trnsfrmtv Adva
Popular media routinely tout imminent breakthroughs that often fizzle. In this course, we examine advances that indisputably changed medical practice in the last quarter of the 20th century through case histories. The case histories suggest that protracted,
multiplayer
innovations – not solitary breakthroughs – produce transformational results. Yet venturesome individuals who do not follow the crowd remain crucial. Engaging stories make the vast number of facts presented in the case histories memorable. But the course treats learning new facts mainly as a valuable byproduct. Rather, we rely on the case histories in two more subtle ways, namely: (1) developing skills and judgment and (2) sharpening goals and aspirations.
- Department: Health Policy & Management
- W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Amarnath V Bhide
Info - 3 points
Seminar in Music Composition
Investigation of contemporary composition topics through invited guest lectures, student and faculty presentations, listening sessions, and professional development workshops. DMA students only also receive one-on-one weekly composition lessons during which they will develop individual projects in composition (lessons are offered for the first three years of the DMA).
- Department: Music
- W 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
- 3 points
Blackness and the Psy Disciplines in Nin
19th-20th Cen Blackness &
This course offers a sample of historical research on debates around African-American intelligence, mental health, family organization, and other social scientific controversies from the era of slavery to the late 20th century. The principal assignment is a lesson plan, instructions for which will be supplied on the CourseWorks site.
Please note that you may not take this course as an auditor or pass/fail without the permission of the instructor.
Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences guidelines may be found at
http://gsas.columbia.edu/
. Those for the history department may be found at
http://history.columbia.edu/graduate/index.html
.
- Department: History
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Samuel K Jr Roberts
Info - 4 points
Health Technology Assessment
This class will introduce students to principles, methods, and applications of health technology assessment (HTA). Students will learn (1) definitions and components of HTA and its history in the United States; (2) approaches to measurement of health benefits and costs; (3) methods of economic evaluation in HTA, including cost-effectiveness analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and budget impact analysis; (4) HTA agencies and processes in selected countries outside of the U.S. We will discuss advantages and disadvantages of different methods and metrics in HTA, as well as challenges and controversies regarding their role in health technology adoption decisions. Students will review recent health technology adoption decisions and discuss the future of HTA and economic evaluation in the U.S.
- Department: Health Policy & Management
- R 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elena Elkin
Info - 1.5 points
Music Beyond 12 Tone Temperament I
This class is intended for students to develop composing skills for creating music “between the keys” (or “outside the keys”) of a traditionally tuned piano or organ. We will be analyzing relevant works and techniques of the present and of the past. Students compose and perform/present their own music influenced by these works and techniques. We will start with quartertones and with music independent from Western traditions.
- Department: Music
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Georg Friedrich Haas
Info - 3 points
PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF NURSE ANESTHE
PRIN & PRAC NURS ANES III
This is the third of four didactic courses that discuss the various methods and techniques of anesthesia administration with an emphasis on the physiological basis for practice. Alterations in homeostatic mechanisms and advanced anesthetic management throughout the perioperative continuum of obstetric and pediatric care, and patients undergoing cardiac surgery are emphasized. Cultural humility will be incorporated into care plans to develop anesthetic management individualized to patient identities and cultures while including an emphasis on social and cultural health disparities.
- Department: Nursing
- M 9 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
- 3 points
Macroeconomic Policy
Macroeconomics is in the news every day. Anyone who pays attention to the news knows that the crash in the US housing market in 2008 caused dramatic perturbations to financial markets all around the world. This, in turn, triggered very strong responses by governments in the US (in particular the Federal Reserve and the Treasury), as well as in other countries. This meltdown in financial markets and the interventions from policymakers raise a number of key questions about the health and the future of the economy in the US and abroad, which we will address in the Global Economic Environment II course.This course is a sequel to the core course Global Economic Environment. Building on the fundamentals introduced in that course, we develop a conceptual framework to explain the complex interactions between macroeconomic policy, asset prices, and business cycle fluctuations. In particular, we examine macroeconomic forecasting, determinants, and implications of budget deficits, the conduct and implementation of monetary policy, and the determinants of inflation in the U.S. and other market economies around the world. Special attention is given to the interactions between macroeconomic forces and asset prices.Since an important goal of this course is for students to become informed and sophisticated consumers of economic news, the issues discussed in this course draw heavily from current events and real-world examples.
Note I: The core course GEE while recommended is not a pre-requisite for taking GEEII. Students who expect to exempt from the core course GEE are recommended to take GEEII instead.
- Department: Business Economics
- TR 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
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Instructor:
Shang-Jin Wei
Wikipedia h-index: 96 Info - 1.5 points
Taxes and Business Strategy
- Department: Business Economics
- MWF 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lawrence Skor
Info - 3 points
Trade and Industrial Policies (TIPs)
- Department: Business Economics
- TR 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
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Instructor:
Shang-Jin Wei
Wikipedia h-index: 96 Info - 1.5 points
Business Experiments: Analytics for Caus
Data analysis in economics, or "econometrics" as it is called by practitioners, has moved away from mathematical complexity and towards simpler tools that are accessible to businesses and can be applied easily to big data. This course will provide students with an understanding of three widely used techniques in modern econometrics: randomized control trials, regression discontinuity, and differences-in-differences. After learning how these tools provide superior analytic results than traditional regression techniques in making inferences about the real world, students will gain the practical knowledge to wield them successfully and make better decisions with data.
- Department: Business Economics
- T 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
- R 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
- 3 points
Cold War Globalization: China and Easter
This course follows a paradigm developed by the historians Artemy Kalinovsky, James Mark, and Steffi Marung, termed alternative globalization, or socialist globalization, which focuses on the interconnections and global policy of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe during the Cold War. This course will study the interactions between China and Eastern Europe during the Cold War, and their independent interactions with the rest of the world, with attention paid to intellectual exchanges, economic aid, geopolitical competition, and diverging developmental pathways. In broad terms: 1) It will begin with the intertwined histories of the origins and development of the CCP and the establishment of communist states in Eastern Europe, 2) then study the process of economic aid to China from the Soviet Union, 3) the Sino-Soviet Split and China’s role in the Non-Aligned Movement, 4) the competition between Eastern Europe states and China for global influence after the Sino-Soviet Split, 5) the actions of Eastern European states and China in Africa, 6) the process of economic reform in China under Deng Xiaoping, 7) and the divergence in reform between China and Eastern Europe in the 1980s and 1990s. Throughout this course we will be wrestling with a series of questions – What was global socialism? Why was China able to successfully reform and the Eastern Bloc not? What role did global socialism play in creating the world we live in today? How should we historicize global socialism, Eastern Europe, and China’s fall and rise?
- Department: History
- M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mathias J Fuelling
Info - 4 points
Trade-Barrier Mitigation Strategies
- Department: Business Economics
- MT 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Brett House
Info - 1.5 points
S. Sovereignty, Rule of Law and Human Ri
S SOVER, RULE OF HUMAN RI
N/A
- Department: Law
- 2 points
Atmospheric and Climate Science for Publ
ATMOSPHERIC & CLIMATE SCI
- Department: Environmental Health Sciences
- TR 10 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
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Instructor:
Robbie Parks
Info - 3 points
Examination & Evaluation
This is the first 15-week course during the first term of the DPT curriculum and the first clinical courses designed to overview basic patient/client examination and evaluation skills in accordance with the International Classification of Functioning (ICF) and the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) Guide to Physical Therapy Practice.
Introduction to the patient management model with emphasis on examination is presented in a lecture-lab format. The examination process is detailed including systems review and tests and measures of peripheral nerve integrity, flexibility, motor function, muscle performance, posture, and range of motion. Emphasis is placed on, manual muscle testing and goniometry. Students are introduced to clinical decision-making.
- Department: Physical Therapy
- 3 points
CRITICAL ISSUES METHODOLOGIES
A LASSOA LOOPTRAVELS IN TIME
- Department: Visual Arts
- M 10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Tyler S Coburn
Info - 3 points
DIGITAL STORY TELLING I: History and The
HISTORY&THEORY OF INTERACTIVIT
What does interaction have to do to storytelling? How do we tell stories within media that are non-linear, including games, virtual reality, and immersive theater? How can we craft narratives that emerge from the dynamics of interaction, narratives experienced through exploration and choice? What design strategies exist regarding an understanding of character, plot, drama, time, space, and event within interactive fictions? This course will take a close look at the mechanics of storytelling within dynamic media, exploring connections between interactivity and narrative experience. The course will examine examples ranging from the design of Live Action Role Playing games to massively multi-player experiences, from hypertext to tarot cards, from Oculus to Punchdrunk. Content will be delivered through lectures, reading, discussion, case studies, and small studio-based exercises. Elective open to all SOA students.
- Department: Film
- W 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nick Braccia III
Info - 3 points
Capital Markets & Investments
This course provides students with a rigorous foundation in capital markets and investments, emphasizing asset valuation from an applied perspective. It covers valuation techniques for financial securities, essential to portfolio management and risk management applications. Key topics include arbitrage, the term structure of interest rates, portfolio theory, diversification, equilibrium asset pricing models such as the CAPM, market efficiency and inefficiencies, performance evaluation, analysis of common pooled investment vehicles, behavioral finance, and tax-aware investment strategies. Through interactive activities, case studies, and simulations utilizing real-world market data, students will acquire analytical skills and foundational knowledge required for advanced finance courses and practical roles within the investment industry.
Note for MBA students: B5300 is a full term course offered only to EMBA students and is not available to MBA students. MBA students must complete B6301, Foundations of Valuation, to satisfy this prerequisite. If you sat the Corporate Finance exemption exam, please note this exam corresponds to B6302, the half term version, which does not fulfill the B5300 or B6301 requirement for this course.
- Department: Finance
- MWF 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
- TR 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
- TR 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
- MWF 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jeffrey Saret
Info -
Instructor:
Paulo Costa
Info -
Instructor:
Kevin Yuan
Info -
Instructor:
Jeffrey Saret
Info - 3 points
Molecular Epidemiology
MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY
- Department: Environmental Health Sciences
- W 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
- 3 points
Corporate Financial Management
Advanced Corporate Finance develops the art and science of optimal strategic decision-making by applying corporate financial theory to cases of financial policy, financial instruments and valuation. In particular, the following topics are studied: cost of capital and capital budgeting, discounted cash flow valuation and financial multiples, payout policy, equity and debt financing, option pricing theory and applications, corporate control and recapitalizations. The classes are structured to maximize the synergy between theory and practice, providing students portable, durable and marketable tools for their internships and careers.
Molecular Toxicology
MOLECULAR TOXICOLOGY
- Department: Environmental Health Sciences
- M 4:30 p.m.-7:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Greg A Freyer
Info - 3 points
DEBT MARKETS
- Department: Finance
- MF 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Steven W Abrahams
Info - 3 points
ECONOMETRICS COLLOQUIUM
Prerequisites: ECON G6411 and G6412. Students will make presentations of original research.
- Department: Economics
- W noon-1 p.m.
- 2 points
ADV CONTINUUM MECHANICS
Review of continuum mechanics in Cartesian coordinates; tensor calculus and the calculus of variation; large deformations in curvilinear coordinates; electricity problems and applications.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
- MF 9 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
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Instructor:
Gautam Dasgupta
CULPA: 3 h-index: 19 Info - 4 points
Financial Stability Monitoring
This course focuses on financial stability monitoring and evaluation as an essential discipline for macroeconomic, financial and prudential policymakers. We begin by defining financial stability, examining the dynamic behavior of macroeconomic models with developed models of the financial sector, and considering conceptual frameworks for assessment of threats to financial stability. From there, we identify key signatures of financial instability, how they can be measured and combined in a monitoring system, and how such measurement systems signal changes in the level of systemic risk. Through case studies, class participation and two assignments, you will interpret these measures, develop questions for further investigation and assess the nature and extent of systemic risk. You will be asked to write two policy memoranda: the first proposing and justifying a small set of financial stability indicators for monitoring; and the second assessing the risk of financial instability in indicators for that (or another) country, in indicators of vulnerabilities with strong network effects, and in unconventional risks such as cyber or widespread trade tensions. Both assignments emphasize developing timely and persuasive analysis that prompts policymakers to consider the need for action to preserve financial stability.
- Department: MPA IN ECON POLICY MANAGEMENT
- M 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Christine Cumming
Info - 1.5 points