BASIC PHYSICS

Prerequisites: high school mathematics, but not calculus. Basic Physics serves as preparation for General Physics 1201-1202 and is intended for those students who do not have a solid foundation in high school physics or who have been away from school for several years. The course will provide an introduction to the basic concepts and fundamental laws of physics, focusing on mechanics, together with a review of the mathematical techniques needed for problem-solving.

• TR 4:30 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeremy R Dodd
  CULPA: 25 Info
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INTRO TO AFRICAN-AMER STUDIES

Prerequisites: Students need to register for a section of AFAS UN1010, the required discussion section for this course. From the arrival of enslaved Africans to the recent election of President Barack Obama, black people have been central to the story of the United States, and the Americas, more broadly. African Americans have been both contributors to, and victims of, this “New World” democratic experiment. To capture the complexities of this ongoing saga, this course offers an inter-disciplinary exploration of the development of African-American cultural and political life in the U.S. but also in relationship to the different African diasporic outposts of the Atlantic world. The course will be organized both chronologically and thematically, moving from the “middle passage” to the present so-called “post-racial” moment—drawing on a range of classical texts, primary sources, and more recent secondary literature—to grapple with key questions, concerns, and problems (i.e. agency, resistance, culture, etc.) that have preoccupied scholars of African-American history, culture, and politics. Students will be introduced to a range of disciplinary methods and theoretical approaches (spanning the humanities and social sciences), while also attending to the critical tension between intellectual work and everyday life, which are central to the formation of African-American Studies as an academic field. This course will engage specific social formations (i.e. migration, urbanization, globalization, etc.), significant cultural/political developments (i.e. uplift ideologies, nationalism, feminism, Pan-Africanism, religion/spirituality, etc.), and hallmark moments/movements (i.e. Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights movement, etc.). By the end of the semester, students will be expected to possess a working knowledge of major themes/figures/traditions, alongside a range of cultural/political practices and institutional arrangements, in African-American Studies.

• MW 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Josef Sorett
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
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THE INTERPRETATION OF CULTURE

The anthropological approach to the study of culture and human society. Using ethnographic case studies, the course explores the universality of cultural categories (social organization, economy, law, belief systems, arts, etc.) and the range of variation among human societies.

• MW 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Maxine Weisgrau
  CULPA: 24 Info
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COLLEGE ALGEBRA-ANLYTC GEOMTRY

COLLEGE ALGEBRA/ANLYTC GEOMTRY

Prerequisites: Mathematics score of 550 on the SAT exam, taken within the past year. Recommended: MATH S0065. Algebra review, graphs and functions, polynomial functions, rational functions, conic sections, systems of equations in two variables, exponential and logarithmic functions, trigonometric functions and trigonometric identities, applications of trigonometry, sequences, series, and limits.

• MTWR 10 a.m.-12:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Penka Marinova
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Dinosaurs and the History of Life

Dinos and the History of

Dinosaurs  
explores how science works and provide practical knowledge about the history of life and how we have come to understand it. We learn how to analyze the evolutionary relationships of organisms and examine how dinosaurs came to be exemplars of a very successful group of organisms dominant on land for 140 million years. We will delve deeply into how direct descendants of small carnivorous theropod dinosaurs evolved into birds, still more diverse than mammals, dominating the air. The Mesozoic, a “hot-house world”, with no ice caps and was the kind of world we are hurtling towards because of our input of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and we will look at how their time is a natural experiment for our future. The non-avian dinosaur met their end in a remarkable cataclysm discovered by detective work that we will delve deeply into as a paradigm of the scientific method  Finally, they are fun and spectacular - monsters more fantastic than any person has invented in legend or religion - and they are still with us!

• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul E Olsen
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia h-index: 71 Info
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Understanding Society

The purpose of this course is to introduce you to what sociologists study and how they study it. We will discuss the major institutions of society, discussing how they influence our lives and how our own actions help make those institutions. We will talk about class, race, education, religion, the family, gender, sexuality, culture, politics, spatial dynamics, health, social networks, and much more. The aim of this course is to provide with a broad empirical understanding of our social world, and to introduce you to a wide range of theories used to make sense of it. The approach prioritizes breadth over depth. The aim is to change how you look at and understand the world around you.

• MTWR 9 a.m.-10:35 a.m.
• Instructor: Shamus Khan
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia Info
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ORIGINS AND MEANING

This course is a one-semester journey across cosmological history, from the beginning of time to something akin to its end. We will explore the origin of inanimate physical structures (the cosmos as a whole, as well as that of galaxies, stars, planets, particles, atoms and complex molecules), the origin of life (replicating molecules, the first cells, as well as more complex life forms), the origin of mind (self-reflective conscious awareness) and the origin of culture (language, myth, religion, art, and science). We will then consider what science in particular tells us about the very far future, where we will encounter the likely demise of all complex matter, all life and all consciousness. In the face of such disintegration we will examine the nature of value and purpose. We will recognize that the deepest understanding of reality emerges from blending all of the accounts we discuss—from the reductionist to the humanist to the cosmological—and only through such amalgamation can we fully grasp the long-standing human search for meaning.

• TR 6:15 p.m.-9:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Brian Greene
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
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PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS ON LOVE, LOSS,

This course explores ancient literature, art, and philosophy with an eye to questions like: What should we seek or love? How do our goals and loves relate to those of our family, friends, and community? Why is it so hard to discover and then satisfy our real loves? Are loss and suffering requisites for finding our "real" loves? For finding virtue? By applying these questions to ancient texts, we will try to learn something about ourselves as human beings in a time of crisis. This course will count toward the philosophy major.

• F 4 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Christia Mercer
  CULPA: 56 Wikipedia Info
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CALCULUS IV

Prerequisites: MATH S1201, or the equivalent. Double and triple integrals. Change of variables. Line and surface integrals. Grad, div, and curl. Vector integral calculus: Green's theorem, divergence theorem, Stokes' theorem

• MTWR 4:30 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
• Instructor: Keaton T Naff
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INTRODUCTION TO URBAN STUDIES

This course is intended to be both an interdisciplinary introduction to the city and to the field of Urban Studies. As an introduction to the city, the course will address a variety of questions: What is a city? How did cities develop? How do cities function socially, politically, and economically? Why do people live in cities? What are some of the major issues facing cities in the early twenty-first century, and how can cities address these issues? As an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of Urban Studies, the course will present models of how scholars approach cities from a variety of disciplinary viewpoints, including architecture, planning, law, sociology, history, archaeology, anthropology, political science, public policy, and geography. Students will learn some of the major concepts in the field of Urban Studies, and will study the works of leading scholars in the field. Students in the course will approach cities from a number of disciplines, not only through the reading, but also through assignments that take place in different locations throughout New York City.

• MW 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Mary Rocco
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Religion and the History of Hip Hop

Religion and Hip Hop Hist

This is an undergraduate lecture course introducing students to the study of religion through an engagement with the history of hip hop music. More specifically, this course is organized chronologically to narrate a history of religion in the United States (circa 1970 to the present day) by mapping the ways that a variety of religious ideas and practices have animated rap music’s evolution and expansion during this time period. While there are no required prerequisites for the course, prior coursework in religious studies, African American studies, and/or popular music is helpful.

• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Josef Sorett
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
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INTRO-DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

Prerequisites: PSYC W1001 or PSYC W1010, or the instructor's permission. Introduction to the scientific study of human development, with an emphasis on psychobiological processes underlying perceptual, cognitive, and emotional development.

• TR 3 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Nim L Tottenham
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Women, Power, and Popular Music

Women Power and Popular M

From blues singers to girl groups, pop divas to hip-hop icons, women are central to the histories of popular music. The musical landscape of the past century would be unrecognizable without the contributions of women including Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Dolly Parton, Celia Cruz, Queen Latifah, Lady Gaga, Lauryn Hill, Beyoncé, Nicki Minaj, and Cardi B. Women, Power, & Popular Music develops modes of feminist listening to a range of music, including the blues, spirituals, jazz, gospel, traditional music, pop, rock, R&B, soul, salsa, country, hip-hop, and crossover music. The course’s primary focus will be attending to sounds, words and images with an ear to themes of  voice, power, presence, and representation. Students will develop a critical vocabulary and practice a variety of modes of hearing and analyzing the meanings and effects of popular music. By examining popular music in relation to intersections of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, disability, the body, class, politics, and activism, students will examine a wide repertory of music by using a variety of analytical “sieves,” refining and enriching their musical experience as critically astute listeners and writers. The course weaves together close listening with some of the central writings on women musical artists, listening, and feminist theory through seminar-style discussion and written work. Students will develop skills in hearing popular music through critically aware ears and will reflect upon popular music and the discourse about it through close listening and viewing, discussion of assigned readings, recordings, and videos, and writing projects.

• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Ellie Hisama
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US INTELLECTUAL HIST 1865-PRES

This course examines major themes in U.S. intellectual history since the Civil War. Among other topics, we will examine the public role of intellectuals; the modern liberal-progressive tradition and its radical and conservative critics; the uneasy status of religion ina secular culture; cultural radicalism and feminism; critiques of corporate capitalism and consumer culture; the response of intellectuals to hot and cold wars, the Great Depression, and the upheavals of the 1960s. Fields(s): US

• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Benjamin J Serby
  CULPA: 1 Info
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ANTHROPOLOGY OF CLIMATE CHANGE

This course focuses on some of the present, and possible future, socio-ecological conditions of life on planet
earth. In particular we will work to understand the historic, economic, political, and socio-cultural forces that
created the conditions we call climate change. With this we will take a particular interest in the question of how
race, ethnicity, Indigeneity, class, and gender articulate with the material effects of climate change. The course
also focuses on how we, as scholars, citizens, and activists can work to alter these current conditions in ways
that foster social and ecological justice for all living beings. Although we will ground our scholarship in
anthropology, to encourage interdisciplinary and even transdisciplinary thought, weekly readings will be drawn
from across scholarly and activist canons. While becoming familiar with scholarly and activist conversations
about space and place, risk and vulnerability, and ontology and epistemology, we will work through a series of
recent events as case studies to understand causes, effects, affects, and potential solutions.

• MW 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Paige West
  CULPA: 41 h-index: 23 Info
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Pandemics: A Global History

With an interdisciplinary perspective, this course seeks to expand the understanding of past pandemic crises and recent, lived pandemics such as COVID-19. This course seeks to understand and analyze pandemics as representing complex, disruptive and devastating crises that effect profound transformations in ideas, social and economic relations and challenge interdependent networks and cultures. Readings, lectures, and discussion sections will focus on global, comparative perspectives and explore how global pandemics and disease outbreaks serve both to unify and also distance and segregate societies and communities posing complex medical, moral, socioeconomic and political dilemmas and debates.

• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Kavita Sivaramakrishnan
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THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF ISLAM

ALUMNI SUMMER

This course centers on the constantly changing ambivalent everyday lived realities, experiences, interpretations as well as the multiple meanings of Islam and focuses less on the study of Islam as a discursive tradition. Furthermore, the course challenges stereotypes of Islam, and of people who one way or another can be called Muslims; most often perceived as a homogenous category through which all Muslim societies are imagined. The course is divided into six parts. The first part introduces the idea of “anthropology of Islam” through different readings in anthropology and various, experiences, practices, dimensions of Islam as a relationship between humans and God. In the second part, the focus is to listen to Islam and connect the different sonic bodies of Islam to power and politics. The third part interrogates preconceived ideas about Islam, gender, feminism, and agency. The fourth part studies Islam, body, sexuality and eroticism. The fifth part is concerned with Islam, youth culture, identity, belonging and rebellion. The last part critically analyzes Islam, modernity, orientalism, post-colonialism and not least today’s fear and notion of imagined enemies.

• MW 9 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Maria F Malmstrom
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ANIMAL BEHAVIOR THRU FIELDWORK

Using evolutionary principles as the unifying theme, we will survey the study of animal behavior, including the history, basic principles and research methods. Don’t shy away just because this course is being taught virtually.  For those able to explore their neighborhoods this summer you will  find a range of animal behaviors locally from ants to butterflies and birds. We will also analyze videos from the field as we explore the fascinating world of animal behavior.  Through a range of approaches, students will gain familiarity with the scientific method, behavioral observation and research design.   Although this is listed as a 3000-level course, no prior biology experience is required. Fulfills the science requirement for most Columbia and GS undergraduates

• MW 2 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Steffen Foerster
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FINANCIAL ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: STAT UN1201, ECON UN3211 Intermediate Microeconomics and ECON UN3213 Intermediate Macroeconomics. Equivalent to ECON UN3025. Institutional nature and economic function of financial markets. Emphasis on both domestic and international markets (debt, stock, foreign exchange, Eurobond, Eurocurrency, futures, options, and others). Principles of security pricing and portfolio management; the capital asset pricing model and the efficient markets hypothesis.

• MTWR 10:45 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• Instructor: A. Vivette Ancona
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ORDINARY DIFFERNTIAL EQUATIONS

Prerequisites: MATH S1201, or the equivalent. Equations of order one, linear equations, series solutions at regular and singular points. Boundary value problems. Selected applications.

• MTWR 6:30 p.m.-8:05 p.m.
• Instructor: Tat Sang Fung
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• 3 points

COMPARATIVE JURISPRUDENCE

Jurisprudence, at its core, is the study of legal theory. Fundamentally, however, what is 'law?' By studying alternative constitutional systems, what can we learn about the legal foundations of various governments and societies? What influence has legal theory had on the development of very different government structures, and how do different governments grapple with constitutional controversy? This course is designed to explore the basic foundational principles that make up the study of legal theory. It begins by studying the core schools of thought, including natural law, legal positivism, and legal realism. The course then uses these basic concepts to explore and understand the greater development of fundamental, constitutional law and theory within different legal systems in different countries. By comparing various constitution and government structures, using basic legal philosophy as a guide, students will gain a valuable base understanding of the development and execution of legal thought within different societies.

• TR 6:15 p.m.-9:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher R Riano
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SCARCITY: ECONOMY AND NATURE

SCARCITY: ECONOMY & NATUR

Current patterns of economic growth are no longer environmentally sustainable. Global industrialization and the associated transference of carbon from the ground to the air are leading to a rapid exhaustion of resources and a warming of the planet. These changes have triggered a set of dangerous climactic transformations that are likely to cause massive ecological disruptions and disturbances of food production systems. These changes, in turn, might have a profound impact on poverty, migration, and geopolitics. To better understand how we have arrived at the present predicament, this seminar explores the history of how social and economic theorists have conceptualized the interaction between the economy and nature. The focus will be on the concept of scarcity as a way of understanding the relationship between economic growth and environmental sustainability. The course begins in the Renaissance and traces the evolution of the nature/economy nexus to the present.

• MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Carl Wennerlind
  CULPA: 30 Info
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CONS LAW THRU LENS OF HIGHR ED

The intricacies of the most controversial aspects of the American Constitution play out daily on college campuses across the country. Who gets admitted to elite institutions, and what factors should they consider? Faculties have tenure to protect their right to challenge conventional wisdom, but what exactly does Academic Freedom protect? Students have the right to free speech, or do they? Can a college censor a student newspaper? If a student is disciplined on campus, do they have a right to an attorney? Do students have a property interest in their education that can cost over $100,000? How does the law treat private and public institutions differently? This course is designed to explore the most controversial of constitutional topics including the First Amendment right to free speech, the Fifth Amendment's takings clause, the Sixth Amendment right to counsel, and the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of equal protection, procedural due process and substantive due process in regards to life, liberty, and property.

• TR 6:15 p.m.-9:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher R Riano
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CULTURE,SOCIETY & CATASTROPHE

CULTURESOCIETY & CATASTR

Catastrophes and disasters are often seen as inherently natural crises when in reality they are both caused and
affected by anthropogenic forces and their impacts are conditioned by existing social, economic, and political
factors. To truly understand catastrophes, such as the incipient climate crisis, extreme weather events, and even
the current coronavirus pandemic, we will examine the complex interplay between environmental and social
factors through both anthropological and human rights lenses. Specifically, the course will address the social
and cultural aspects of catastrophe by focusing on the climate crisis, its causes, and its impacts. First, the
course will consider the phenomena of anthropogenic climate change. Second, the course will examine the
theoretical and empirical literatures that have elucidated the nature of climate change as a social, as well as a
biophysical, process. Finally, the course will consider how human rights and other legal regimes do or do not
address the social justice and humanitarian issues created by anthropogenic climate change.

• MW 5 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: J.C. Salyer
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• 3 points

SHAKESPEARE

This course provides an introduction to Shakespeare through a combination of reading his plays and viewing them in performance. On the one hand, we approach each play as a written, published text: our in-class conversation consist primarily in close analysis of key passages, and, in one class period, we visit Rare Books to examine the earliest printed versions of the plays in light of English Renaissance print technology. On the other hand, we view performances of each assigned play, including the attendance as a group of at least one Shakespeare production on an NYC stage. Our semester’s through line is to trace, from his earliest plays to Hamlet, Shakespeare’s remarkable development of the techniques of characterization that have made generations of both playgoers and readers feel that his dramatis personae are so modern, real, human. We will also devote attention to exploring the value of each play in our present moment and on our local stages. We read 8 plays in all, including Titus Andronicus, Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Merchant of Venice, and Hamlet.

• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Douglas S Pfeiffer
  CULPA: 7 Info
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LATINO POLITICAL EXPERIENCE

This course focuses on the political incorporation of Latinos into the American polity. Among the topics to be discussed are patterns of historical exclusion, the impact of the Voting Rights Act, organizational and electoral behavior, and the effects of immigration on the Latino national political agenda.

• MW 6:15 p.m.-9:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Carlos Vargas-Ramos
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

ENGLISH LITERATURE TO 1500

The earliest readers of Geoffrey Chaucer revered him as the “flower of eloquence” and a “noble rhetorician” for transforming the English vernacular into a language suitable for poetry. This praise became the basis for Chaucer’s contemporary fame as the “Father of English Poetry.” However, during Chaucer’s lifetime, his reputation was probably more political and social than poetic, given his posts as a London civil servant and diplomat, which reminds us to consider how history shaped his poetry. This course will examine Chaucer’s poems, including the 
Canterbury Tales
, in a biographical and local context, exploring how the changing class structure, social rebellions, and religious upheavals of fourteenth-century London might have shaped his thinking. Situating Chaucer’s poems alongside other historical, literary, and religious writings produced in England, such as 
Piers Plowman
, we will also see how his ideas reflect, rather than stand apart from, many of the preoccupations in late medieval literary culture: authority through authorship, dreams and the imagination, sexuality and the tradition of antifeminism, as well as hierarchies of power and religious identity. Our interdisciplinary approach will thus highlight the inventive ways in which not only Chaucer, but also his contemporaries, represented the controversial conversations of the time.

• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Gillian R Adler
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MONEY AND BANKING

ECONOMICS OF MONEY AND BANKING

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 or the equivalent. Introduction to the principles of money and banking. The intermediary institutions of the American economy and their historical developments, current issues in monetary and financial reform.

• TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Tri Vi Dang
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 10 Info
• 3 points

EXISTENTIALISM

A survey of major themes of Existentialist philosophy in Europe from the mid 19th century to the mid 20th century, this class will focus on Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Sartre and their influences on philosophical conceptions of the human being and the form of its freedom, and the consequences of anxiety, nihilism, and despair in the face of death.

• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Conor M Cullen
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JACKSON POLLOCK & THE NY SCHOOL

ALUMNI SUMMER

Coming on the heels of the MoMA's blockbuster exhibit, this seminar will trace the rise and fall of Abstract Expressionism, from its pre-World War II precipitates in Europe (Surrealism) and in America (Regionalism), to the crucial moment when, as scholar Serge Guilbaut has argued, New York 'stole' the idea of modern art, and finally, through the decade when Pop Art rendered Abstract Expressionism obsolete. Although special emphasis will be given to Jackson Pollock, whose persona and work reside at the literal and figurative center of the movement, we will also look closely at works by Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Willem DeKooning, Lee Krasner, Louise Bourgeois, Helen Frankenthaler, Eva Hesse, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Cy Twombly. Class lectures and presentations will be supplemented with trips to New York's world-renowned museums.

• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Kent M Minturn
  CULPA: 2 Info
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US PRESIDENCY WASHINGTON TO TRUMP

This lecture examines how the American presidency evolved into the most important job on earth. It examines how major events in US and world history shaped the presidency. How changes in technology and media augmented the power of the president and how the individuals who served in the office left their marks on the presidency. Each class will make connections between past presidents and the current events involving today's Commander-in-Chief. Some topics to be discussed: Presidency in the Age of Jackson; Teddy Roosevelt and Presidential Image Making; Presidency in the Roaring ‘20s; FDR and the New Deal; Kennedy and the Television Age; The Great Society and the Rise of the New Right; 1968: Apocalyptic Election; The Strange Career of Richard Nixon; Reagan's Post Modern Presidency; From Monica to The War on Terror.

• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: David Eisenbach
  CULPA: 24 Wikipedia Info
• 0 points

NYC AND THE HISTORY OF MUSEUM

ALUMNI SUMMER

This course will introduce students to the history of museums and display practices through New York collections. The birth of the museum as a constitutive element of modernity coincides with the establishment of European nation states. Throughout the course of the nineteenth century, museums were founded in major European and American cities to classify objects, natural and manmade, from plants and fossils to sculpture and clothing. This course presents the alternate art history that can be charted through an examination of the foundation and development of museums from cabinets of curiosity to the collection-less new museums currently being built in the Middle East and beyond. We will consider broad thematic issues such as nationalism, colonialism, canon formation, the overlapping methods of anthropology and art history, and the notion of 'framing' from the architectural superstructure to exhibition design. We will visit a wide variety of museums from the American Museum of Natural History to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the National September 11 Memorial and Museum as in-depth case studies of more general concepts. Students will have the opportunity to meet museum educators, conservators and curators through on site teaching in a variety of institutions.

• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Risham Majeed
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GLOBAL HIST OF THE US MILITARY

America's wars in context, from King Philip's War in 1675 to present conflicts in Afghanistan and the Middle East. This course charts the expansion of U.S. military power from a band of colonists to a globe-girdling colossus with over two million personnel, some 800 bases around the world, and an annual budget of approximately $686 billion - about 57 percent of federal discretionary spending, and more than the next 14 nations combined. It introduces students to the history of American military power; the economic, political, and technological rise of the military-industrial complex and national security state; the role of the armed services in international humanitarian work; and the changing role of the military in domestic and international politics. A three-point semester-long course compressed into six weeks. Syllabus is located here: http://www.bobneer.com/empireofliberty/.

• TR 2 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert M Jr Neer
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• 3 points

ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF THE BIBLE

A survey on English translations of the Bible from Tyndale to the present.

• MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: David M Yerkes
  CULPA: 41 Info
• 3 points

METAPHYSICS

This course will survey topics in contemporary metaphysics. We will focus on material objects, time, modality, causation, properties, and natural kinds. We will begin by considering what objects there are in general (ontology) and what to say about certain puzzling entities (such as holes). Then we will turn to debates about material objects and puzzles about composite objects and the notion of parthood. Next is the issue of how material objects persist over time and survive change in their parts. We shall consider two important views on persistence. We then turn to two issues related to persistence: personal identity over time, and puzzles about time travel. This will lead us into the next part of the course on modality and causation, which concerns the notions of possibility, necessity, laws of nature, and causation. We will consider different views about 'possible worlds'. We will then consider the nature of laws and causation and then turn to the problem of free will. We will look at debates in the metaphysics of properties between realists and nominalists about properties. Then we'll consider causal powers, dispositions, and natural kinds. The section will conclude with problems about the metaphysics of socially constructed kinds such as race or gender.

• MTWR 1 p.m.-2:35 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew T Richmond
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THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF VIOLENCE

ALUMNI SUMMER

This course will explore contemporary anthropological approaches to the issue of violence with an exploration of three particular themes. Our main focus will be on the idea of representation, ethnographically and theoretically, of the concept of violence. First, we will look at how violence has been situated as an object of study within anthropology, as a theoretical concept as well as in practice. We will then look at the issue of terrorism and how anthropology as a discipline contributes to understanding this particular form of violence. Finally, we will consider gender-based violence with close attention to the colonial/post-colonial settings where Islam is a salient factor. Gender based violence is one of the main forces producing and reproducing gender inequality. We will pay particular attention to the concept of the 'Muslim woman' in both the colonial and colonized imagination.

• MW 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Ellen Marakowitz
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• 0 points

POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

Six major concepts of political philosophy including authority, rights, equality, justice, liberty and democracy are examined in three different ways. First the conceptual issues are analyzed through contemporary essays on these topics by authors like Peters, Hart, Williams, Berlin, Rawls and Schumpeter. Second the classical sources on these topics are discussed through readings from Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Marx, Plato, Mill and Rousseau. Third some attention is paid to relevant contexts of application of these concepts in political society, including such political movements as anarchism, international human rights, conservative, liberal, and Marxist economic policies as well as competing models of democracy.

• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Adam M Blazej
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GEORGE ELIOT: ETHICS AND FICTION

GEORGE ELIOT: ETHICS & FI

Author of Middlemarch, widely regarded as “the best English novel,” George Eliot was hailed by her successor Henry James as “one of the noblest, most beautiful minds of our time.” This course will engage Eliot not only as a consummate author of nineteenth-century realist fiction but also as an ethical philosopher. Her novels explore the questions, “How should one live?” “What is the right thing to do?” “What is one’s obligation to the other?” while rejecting moral didacticism. We will read four of Eliot’s masterpieces along with brief excerpts from her essays and from philosophers Spinoza, Feuerbach, J.S. Mill, Spencer, and G.H. Lewes, all of whom critically influenced Eliot’s thinking. For Eliot, the novel serves as a vehicle for ethical inquiry; without “lapsing from the picture to the diagram,” her rich narrative portrayal of character and social intercourse gives “flesh and blood” to philosophical dilemmas, bringing home to readers the real consequences of moral choice and action. The major issues of Victorian debate, including utilitarianism, sympathy, early sociology, faith, and feminism, will inform our study.

• MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Aileen G Forbes
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 0 points

CINEMA & SOC IN ASIA & AFRICA

CINEMA & SOCIETY AFTER 9/11

• TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Hamid Dabashi
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WATER RESOURCES AND CLIMATE

• TR 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Laia Andreu
  h-index: 28 Info
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WOMEN & GENDER IN SOUTH ASIA

This course is an ethnographic and historical introduction to the construction of gender and feminist theory in the South Asian context. We will focus on textual and visual material, primarily ethnographies and films, to provide a critique of normative representations of the 'South Asian woman'. These readings will be used to reveal the complex social and historical configurations that institute and obscure gendered experiences and representations within the colonial imagination and their colonized others. A significant motif of this course will be to develop alternative ways of knowing and understanding gender construction, sexual relations, and community formation in South Asia.

• TR 5:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Sonia Ahsan
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ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT

ECON OF SUSTAINABILITY MG

This course builds on core economics courses and addresses issues of environmental, resource and sustainable economics. It focuses on the interaction between markets and the environment; policy issues related to optimal extraction and pricing; property rights in industrial and developing countries and how they affect international trade in goods such as timber, wood pulp, and oil. An important goal of the class is to have students work in groups to apply economic concepts to current public policy issues having to do with urban environmental and earth systems. The use of the worlds water bodies and the atmosphere as economic inputs to production are also examined. The economics of renewable resources is described and sustainable economic development models are discussed and analyzed. Some time will also be devoted to international trade and regulation, and industrial organization issues. Students not only learn economic concepts, but they will also learn how to explain them to decision-makers. The instructor will tailor this course to the skill level of the students in order to most effectively suit the needs of the class.

• TR 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexander Heil
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VIROLOGY

The basic thesis of the course is that all viruses adopt a common strategy. The strategy is simple: 1. Viral genomes are contained in metastable particles. 2. Genomes encode gene products that promote an infectious cycle (mechanisms for genomes to enter cells, replicate, and exit in particles). 3. Infection patterns range from benign to lethal; infections can overcome or co-exist with host defenses. Despite the apparent simplicity, the tactics evolved by particular virus families to survive and prosper are remarkable. This rich set of solutions to common problems in host/parasite interactions provides significant insight and powerful research tools. Virology has enabled a more detailed understanding of the structure and function of molecules, cells and organisms and has provided fundamental understanding of disease and virus evolution. The course will emphasize the common reactions that must be completed by all viruses for successful reproduction within a host cell and survival and spread within a host population. The molecular basis of alternative reproductive cycles, the interactions of viruses with host organisms, and how these lead to disease are presented with examples drawn from a set of representative animal and human viruses, although selected bacterial viruses will be discussed.

• MTWR 10:45 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Vincent R Racaniello
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EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH: EXPLORING POLITIC

Survey, lab, and field experiments have become increasingly prominent ways of studying politics and political behavior.  In this course, we will discuss the logic of experimentation, its strengths and weaknesses compared to other methodologies, and the ways in which experimentation has been -- and could be -- used to investigate political phenomena.  We will discuss a wide array of applications; examples include ethnic discrimination, gender-based violence, voter turnout, uncivil discourse, media effects, and money-driven access to legislators.  Students will learn how to interpret and design experiments.

• MTWR 1 p.m.-2:35 p.m.
• Instructor: Donald P Green
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STRAT INTELLIGNC/POL DEC MAKNG

The interaction of intelligence and political decision-making in the U.S. other Western democracies, Russia and China. Peculiarities of intelligence in the Middle East (Israel, Iran, Pakistan). Intelligence analyzed both as a governmental institution and as a form of activity, with an emphasis on complex relations within the triangle of intelligence communities, national security organizations, and high-level political leadership. Stages and disciplines of intelligence process. Intelligence products and political decision-making. The function of intelligence considered against the backdrop of rapid evolution of information technologies, changing meaning of homeland security, and globalization. Particular emphasis on the role of intelligence in the prevention of terrorism and WMD proliferation.

• TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Albert Bininachvili
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INTRODUCTION TO FINANCE

Students will be introduced to the fundamental financial issues of the modern corporation. By the end of this course, students will understand the basic concepts of financial planning, managing growth; debt and equity sources of financing and valuation; capital budgeting methods; and risk analysis, cost of capital, and the process of securities issuance.

• W 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Stephen Hurley
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INTRO TO FINANCE

• M 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Justin So
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CORPORATE FINANCE

Prerequisites: BUSI PS5001 Introduction to Finance/or Professor Approval is required Students will learn the critical corporate finance concepts including financial statement analysis; performance metrics; valuation of stocks and bonds; project and firm valuation; cost of capital; capital investment strategies and sources of capital, and firm growth strategies. At the end of this course students will understand how to apply these concepts to current business problems.

• T 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Kevin Sweeney
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MANAGING HUMAN BEHAVIOR IN THE ORGANIZAT

Students will gain an overview of major concepts of management and organization theory, concentrating on understanding human behavior in organizational contexts, with heavy emphasis on the application of concepts to solve managerial problems. By the end of this course students will have developed the skills to motivate employees, establish professional interpersonal relationships, take a leadership role, and conduct performance appraisal.

• TR 6:10 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• Instructor: John Bockstoce
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MANAGING HUMAN BEHAVIOR IN THE ORGANIZAT

MNG HUMAN BEHAVIOR IN THE

• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Maryanne Spatola
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INTRODUCTION TO MARKETING

Students will learn fundamental marketing concepts and their application. By the end of this class you will know: the elements of a market, company strategy, how to identify customers and competition, the fundamental elements of the marketing mix (product, price, placement and promotion) how to research consumer behavior, and pricing strategies. Students will have extensive use of case study projects. Please note that tuition is the same for online and on-campus courses, there is an additional $85 course fee for online courses.

• T 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Lauri Harrison
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STRATEGIC STORYTELLER

• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Don Waisanen
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MARKETING STRATEGY

Prerequisites: BUSI PS5020 Introduction to Marketing/or Professor Approval is required Students will develop analytical skills used to formulate and implement marketing driven strategies for an organization. Students will develop a deeper understanding of marketing strategies and how to implement tactics to achieve desired goals. Students will work on case study projects in both individual and a team based projects. By the end of this course you will be able to develop a marketing strategy based market assessments and company needs.

• W 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew Blum
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DEVELOP/IMPLEMENTING NEW IDEAS

Interested in starting your own company? Do you have an idea for a new product or service? Have you come up with a way to improve something that already exists? This course tackles the central business concept of how one creates, builds and leads companies. It looks at aspects of entrepreneurship and leadership for both individuals and teams in the face of complex situations. Using the case study method as taught in business school, also known as participant-centered learning, this course puts students in the role of an entrepreneur facing critical business decisions. A selection of guest speakers will offer firsthand experience on innovation and entrepreneurship.

• MW 6:10 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael E Jr McGuire
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DECISION MODELS & MANAGEMENT

• MW 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Lucius J Riccio
  CULPA: 4 Info
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SECURITY ANALYSIS

Prerequisites: BUSI PS5001 Intro to Finance and BUSI PS5003 Corporate Finance or Professor Approval required. If you have not taken PS5001 or PS5003 at Columbia University, please contact phb2120@columbia.edu for professor approval. Students will learn about the valuation of publicly traded equity securities. By the end of the semester students will be able to perform fundamental analysis (bottoms-up, firm-level, business and financial analysis), prepare pro forma financial statements, estimate free cash flows and apply valuation models.

• TR 6:10 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Perry Beaumont
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INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH CARE NEGOTIATION

TBA

• Instructor: Rodney K Jr. Erb
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ESTIMATING PROJECT COSTS

• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Ian M Taylor
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VALUE-BASED ENTERPRISE RISK MGMT

• M 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Rich Lauria
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INTRODUCTION TO NEGOTIATION

• TWRF 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Bodi Regan
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INTRODUCTION TO MEDIATION

• MTRF 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Michele Riley
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INTRO TO BUILDING SYSTEMS: MEPs

• TR 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher P Hagen
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POLITICAL COMMUNICATIONS

• MTWRFUM 9 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Andrew Whitehouse
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WRITING ABOUT GLOBAL SCIENCE FOR INTERNA

WRITING-GLOBAL SCI-INTL M

• TR 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Claudia Dreifus
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
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LEGAL LANDSCAPE OF NONPROFIT LAW

• W 6:30 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Sharon Nokes
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ACCOUNTING, FINANCE, AND MODELING OF SUS

ACCTG FINANCE & MODL OF S

• MW 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Brad Schwartz
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LEADERSHIP IN THE CHARITABLE SECTOR

• T 6:30 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Gloria P Johnson-Cusack
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ADVANCED CONFLICT RESOLUTION

• Instructor: Christine D Straw
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ADVANCED NEGOTIATION

• TWRF 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Beth Fisher-Yoshida
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ADVANCED MEDIATION FOR BIOETHICS

ADV MEDIATION FOR BIOETHI

• WRFMT 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Jenny Besch
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COMMUNICATIONS & GLOBAL BRANDS

• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Cheryl Fenelle-Dixon
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CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND DYNAMICAL SYSTEM

CONF RESOLUTION/DYNAMIC S

• Instructor: Camilo Azcarate
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SUSTAINABLE ENTREPRENEURSHIP

• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Hollander
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PURPOSE-DRIVEN COMMUNICATION

CONNECTING PURPOSE & PROF

• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Hayley Berlent
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EXTERNAL STAKEHOLDER REQUIREMENTS

• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: R S Forston
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CONTENT STRATEGY

• T 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher W Collette
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HISTORY OF BIOETHICS

• TR 1:30 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Meghan L Crnic
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EFFECTIVE KNOWLEDGE STRATEGY AND SERVICE

EFFECTIVE KNWLDGE STRAT &

• T 8 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Edward J Hoffman
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NETWORKED WORK

• R 7 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Katrina Pugh
  h-index: 4 Info
• 0 points

EMPIRICAL METHODS IN BIOETHICS

• TR 5:30 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Nora Jacobson
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• 0 points

INTRO TO QUANTITATIVE RISK MANAGEMENT

• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Ding
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ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS

• TR noon-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Arthur Kuflik
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FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT

• W 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: David J Romoff
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INTRODUCTION TO PLANNED GIVING

• R 6:30 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Neal Myerberg
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E-HEALTH, ETHICS, AND POLICY

• MW 7:30 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Jared H Silberman
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ETHICS & PHARMACEUTICAL INDU

• MW noon-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Llew Keltner
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IMPACT FINANCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY PRACTI

IMPACT FINANCE FOR STNBLT

Impact Finance for Sustainability Practitioners

• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Bhakti Mirchandani
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ACCESS INNOV & URBAN TRANSPOR TRANSITION

• MW 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Eric L Goldwyn
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• 0 points

COMPANY FAILURES

• R 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Steve Lindo
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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY RISK MANAGEMENT

• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Kiran Bhujle
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THE BUSINESS OF SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY

• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Ralph C Schmidt
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LEADING LARGE COMPLEX PROJECTS

• R 7 p.m.-10 p.m.
• 0 points