REHEARSAL AND PRODUCTION
R&P: ASM
The Materials, Chekhov, & 3rd Year PWF presentations provide an excellent opportunity for stage managers to apply the skills they have acquired through their classroom work and practical training. Each of these productions is attached to three separate “Rehearsal & Production” courses; as such, each requires stage managers to take the lead position as PSM (Production Stage Manager) and shepherd each of the following from pre-production and rehearsals through final presentation.
- Department: Theatre Arts
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Instructor:
Linda Marvel
Info - 1.5 points
REHEARSAL AND PRODUCTION
R&P: PSM
The Materials, Chekhov, & 3rd Year PWF presentations provide an excellent opportunity for stage managers to apply the skills they have acquired through their classroom work and practical training. Each of these productions is attached to three separate “Rehearsal & Production” courses; as such, each requires stage managers to take the lead position as PSM (Production Stage Manager) and shepherd each of the following from pre-production and rehearsals through final presentation.
- Department: Theatre Arts
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Instructor:
Linda Marvel
Info - 1.5 points
Problems in Kano Painting
The graduate seminar “Problems in Kano Painting,” is a graduate seminar offered periodically to investigate the hereditary lineage of painters that dominated the field of painting in Japan’s late medieval and early modern eras. This semester we will begin with the work of Kano Motonobu and his grandson Eitoku, but will spend most of our time focused on their descendants at the turn of the seventeenth century, particularly Kano Sanraku and Kano Sansetsu. The seminar address the question of how this clan of painters managed to secure its position as official painters to Japan’s rulers for nearly three centuries—a phenomenon unique in the history of art. We will also explore such topics as the ways in which it expanded its painting repertoire beyond its origins in monochrome ink painting, what is meant by an “academic” painting tradition in the Japanese context, its systems of training, promotion, and the economics of their enterprise, and the institutionalization of the Kano project through the writing of art historical treatises.
- Department: Art History and Archaeology
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Matthew P McKelway
CULPA: 6 Info - 4 points
Planning, Managing & Communicating For E
PLN MNG & COMMS
Evidence-based public health (M Plescia, AJPH 2019) includes making decisions based on peer-reviewed evidence, using data systematically, and disseminating what is learned. Conducting evidence-based public health that reflects the mission and values of the Department of Population & Family Health (PopFam) requires skills to: clarify gaps in knowledge and evidence to explicate how such gaps can be filled; solicit funding and community support for research projects that can inform public health practice; ensure applied public health research is feasible, and carried out efficiently and according to plan; and that the results and “lessons learned” are disseminated to guide next action steps. This course will provide students with skills to engage in culturally competent public health work from the get-go – recognizing how to be attentive to inclusion and equity in generating research and evaluation questions, project management, and communication and dissemination. This course is designed as a complement to students’ experiences with research or program-based practica and their subsequent capstone/integrated learning experience (ILE); therefore, priority will be given to second-year PopFam students.
- Department: Population and Family Health
- R 4 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
- 3 points
Child Development & Health Programs
CHILD DEVELOPMENT & HLTH
Childhood and adolescence are critical windows of opportunity in human development to influence health, learning and productivity throughout life. In the earliest years of childhood, survival, growth and development are interlinked; growth affects both chances of survival and the child's development, and all three are influenced by family care practices, resources and access to services. Adolescence is the second period of rapid growth when foundational learning associates with distinct neuro-maturational changes. Contributing to increased investment in the early years and adolescence are new demands related to changing economic, social, demographic, political and educational conditions. The course will focus on populations along the lifespan, thinking through child development and why and how programs positively affected health outcomes. Students will understand the role of early child development programs (ECD) in the achievement of improved educational success and improved long-term health. The course will also explore adolescence through a developmental lens and the complex life events and social constructs that can influence adolescent behaviors. Through interactive lectures, small-group discussions and debates, and presentations by established guest speakers, students will learn to analyze programs and services, including how we can work with parents, support young children and adolescents in time of emergencies, and work within the health care system through a variety of hospital, community, school and family-based approaches to promote health and positive development.
- Department: Population and Family Health
- T 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
- 3 points
HISTORIOGRAPHY-LAT AM-MOD PER
- Department: History
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Pablo Piccato
CULPA: 22 h-index: 20 Info - 4 points
Training of Trainers of Public Health Pr
TRAINING OF TRAINERS OF P
The purpose of the course is to teach participants the key principles and skills needed to design, deliver, and evaluate participatory training activities for public health programs in the United States and in developing countries.
- Department: Population and Family Health
- T 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ryan M Mateo Sharnbroich
Info - 1.5 points
SCENE STUDY II
SCENE STUDY II: CHEKHOV
- Department: Theatre Arts
- F 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Brian Kulick
Info - 3 points
TOPICS IN NUMBER THEORY
The course will cover various topics in number theory located at the interface of p-adic Hodge theory, p-adic geometry, and the p-adic Langlands program.
- Department: Mathematics
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- 4.5 points
CURRENT ISSUES IN STAGE MANAGEMENT
PEOPLE AND PRACTICE
The function of a stage manager in the process of a musical – through the use of technological advances. This class will be an in-depth examination of how modern stage management contributes to this process through the implementation of seminal methodologies. Focus will be placed on how digital platforms can be used to support this process from beginning to end.
- Department: Theatre Arts
- W 9:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michael Passaro
Info - 3 points
Epidemiological Methods for Measuring Hu
EPID MTHDS-MEAS HUM RTS A
The occurrence of murder, disappearances, and rape are common during complex emergencies and yet the rate of these events is rarely measured while the conflict is ongoing. In some cases, groups are denied life-sustaining services because of race, politics, or HIV status. Public health practitioners are uniquely situated and qualified to advocate for populations whose human rights and survival are threatened by the intentional actions of organized groups. This class will teach students techniques for detecting and estimating the rates of these major abuses of human rights in order to better advocate for the abused, and to permit the evaluation of programs designed to prevent such events. At the end of the course, students will be expected to be able to evaluate the sensitivity of surveillance systems, and undertake surveys, designed to measure the rates of violent deaths and rape. Classes will involve a combination of lectures, case studies, and a research project ending with a debate. Students will be evaluated based on class participation and a paper.
- Department: Population and Family Health
- W 4 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Justin Feldman
Info - 1.5 points
Public Health and Humanitarian Action
PUB HLTH & HUMANITARIAN A
Humanitarian action has come to occupy a central place in world politics and a theory of rights rather than charity is now driving international assistance and protection in wars and disasters. Global events over the past two decades indeed suggest that the world needs a humanitarian system capable of responding reliably, effectively and efficiently across a full range of emergencies. Whether people are suffering as a result of an earthquake in China or organized violence in Darfur, the humanitarian response system is expected to reach them in a timely and informed manner. Global wealth suggests that it can; and, global morality says that it should. Success of humanitarian action depends upon political, technical and organizational factors. The practice of public health focuses on improving the technical and organizational capacities, but this course will display that political forces are equally essential for alleviating human suffering. Deep problems of political distortion and perennial problems of agency performance and practice continue to compromise global, impartial and effective humanitarian action. This course examines efforts to provide humanitarian assistance and protection in war and disaster crises. It combines the theoretical with the possible, highlighting constraints to action from the perspective of the humanitarian agency and professional worker in the field. Key public health priorities—including the major causes of disease and death and how best to detect, prevent and treat them--are examined. Particular attention is paid to human rights and humanitarian protection, including their nature, content, and linkages with public health assistance. Students will be exposed to current trends and debates, sides will be taken and defended, and the class will be enriched by the participation, contributions and challenges of the students.
- Department: Population and Family Health
- R 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sabrina C Hermosilla
Info - 3 points
Forced Migration Practicum Seminar
FORCED MIGRATION PRACTICU
This course offers a forum for students to reflect upon and discuss their experiences in the practicum environment. Through discussion and presentation, students have the opportunity to integrate their practicum experience into the public health curriculum, as well as to incorporate input and perspectives from other students' experiences. Students who have previously completed their required practicum will deliver a professional presentation of findings from the research conducted or programmatic input provided during the internship. Through this mode of presentation and analysis, students hone their analytic skills, develop leadership capacity, and apply strategic communication techniques. This course forms a fundamental building block in the master's degree curriculum as students synthesize field-based learning with their classroom instruction and gain training for future leadership in public health.
- Department: Population and Family Health
- W 11:30 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sara E Casey
h-index: 16 Info - 0-1 points
Capstone Paper-Heilbrunn Department of P
CAPSTONE
No syllabus.
- Department: Population and Family Health
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Instructor:
Stephen P Kachur
Info - 0 points
Key Issues in Adolescent Sexual and Repr
ISS IN ADOLESC SXL/REPRO
This seminar will focus on key issues in adolescent sexual and reproductive health research both domestically and internationally. Using a Journal Club structure, students will discuss, dissect and debate recent and classic research papers – primarily through student-led discussions. Students will gain a greater understanding of the role of research in contributing to adolescent sexual and reproductive health advocacy, policy and programming in the U.S. and internationally. Students will also be able to effectively evaluate research designs and formulate initiatives promoting adolescent sexual and reproductive health. Through a combination of journal article reviews, occasional lectures, and group discussions, students will use science and research to inform their future career goals. Specific topics will include: abstinence-only until marriage policies, programs and funding; school-based health centers;LGBTQ youth; replicating successful interventions; and coital and non-coital sex.
- Department: Population and Family Health
- T 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lauren S Chernick
Info - 1.5 points
Health Advocacy
HEALTH ADVOCACY
For anybody who’s spent even a little time in public health circles, it doesn’t take much effort to list the many societal ills that desperately call for action. What’s equally important, though, is answering the classic question that’s bedeviled advocates for centuries: “What is to be done?” This course will help us sharpen our answers to that question through study of recent advocacy efforts around COVID-19; HIV/AIDS; climate change; reproductive rights; environmental justice/racism; mass incarceration and criminal justice reform (particularly in the context of the Black Lives Matter movement), and others. Along the way, we’ll also learn about enduring dilemmas scholars have identified that confront all health advocates. These include: the costs and benefits of working within (versus outside of) formal politics; framing rhetoric to reach wider audiences; the virtues and drawbacks of confrontational direct action; public apathy towards “health” issues; oppositional movements at complete odds with theirs; and more recently, the potential of social media.
This course also contains a skills component, where students will learn basic legislative, legal, and media research that can aid advocacy efforts.
- Department: Sociomedical Sciences
- R 4 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Merlin Chowkwanyun
Info - 3 points
Evaluation Of Health Programs
EVALUATION OF HEALTH PROG
Program evaluation is an essential competence in public health. Across all areas of public health, stakeholders pose questions about effectiveness and impact of programs and interventions. This course will examine principles, methods and practices of evaluating health programs. A range of evaluation research designs and methods will be introduced and strategies to address challenges in real world program settings will be emphasized. The course will incorporate examples of evaluations of actual health programs and opportunities to learn through professional program evaluation experiences of the instructor. The combination of lectures, textbook readings, examples, discussions, in-class exercises, and an extensive applied group assignment to design an evaluation for a real program will help students gain evaluation skills and an appreciation for the art and science of program evaluation. The goal is for students to learn competencies required of an entry-level program evaluator, including design and implementation of evaluation studies and interpretation and communication of evaluation findings.
- Department: Sociomedical Sciences
- T 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
- M 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Robert E Fullilove
Info -
Instructor:
Michael P McNeil
h-index: 3 Info - 3 points
SMS Thesis Proposal
SMS THESIS PROPOSAL
The Master's Thesis is the capstone requirement of all students in all tracks of the MPH program of the Department of Sociomedical Sciences (SMS). The thesis is intended to reflect the training you have received in the MPH program and demonstrate your ability to design, implement, and present professional work relevant to your major field of interest. Writing the thesis is an essential experience that could further your career development. Employers seek in potential employees with a MPH degree the ability to write articles and reports, and want to see evidence that you can design studies, analyze data, write a needs assessment, and/or design a health program. If you plan to continue your academic studies, developing expertise and demonstrating your ability as a writer are two important skills required of doctoral candidates. A well-written paper is a great asset that you can bring with you to a job interview or include in an application for further study. The thesis ought to demonstrate your ability to think clearly and convey your thoughts effectively and thereby provide an example of your understanding and insight into a substantive area in which you have developed expertise.
- Department: Sociomedical Sciences
- F 10 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
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Instructor:
Christian Gloria
Info - 1 points
MICROECONOMIC THEORY COLLOQ
Prerequisites: G6215, G6216, G6211, G6212, G6411, G6412. Students will make presentation of original research in Microeconomics.
- Department: Economics
- W 1 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Prajit K Dutta
CULPA: 20 Info - 2 points
Labor & Public Finance colloquium
Labor & Public Finance Co
Prerequisites: G6215, G6216, G6211, G6212, G6411, G6412. Students will make presentations of original research in Microeconomics.
- Department: Economics
- W 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m.
- 2 points
Sociomedical Sciences Master s Capston
SMS Master's Capstone
The SMS Master’s Capstone course is required for all students in the Master of Science (MS), Accelerated Master of Public Health (MPH), and 4+1 MPH programs of the Department of Sociomedical Sciences (SMS). For MS students, the culminating high-quality written manuscript of this course involves original research or program evaluation based either on primary data collected by the student or secondary analysis of available data. For Accelerated and 4+1 MPH students, the culminating high-quality written manuscript of this course involves comprehensive review of the literature. The student’s work must focus within the field of sociomedical sciences and demonstrate integration of the coursework and training from the master’s program. Based on each student’s methods and areas of study, they will be matched with a faculty sponsor who will provide supervision and mentoring throughout the course.
- Department: Sociomedical Sciences
- F 10 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
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Instructor:
Christian Gloria
Info - 3 points
THEATRE MANAGEMENT SEMINAR: PRODUCING PA
Over the last twenty years, as both funding and new work development models in the not-for-profit theater have changed, various partnerships among theater-makers have sprung up to support the creation of new work. In the current post-pandemic climate, partnerships are more urgent and necessary for most productions and producers. Over the course of seven conversations, we will explore what makes a successful collaboration, as well as current models for collaboration/partnership (both “traditional” and “non traditional”) within the industry. We’ll explore the best practices for seeking, structuring, and maintaining healthy partnerships so that you can get a project from inception to production, with the “right people on the bus.” This topic will be explored through discussion of current practices, case studies, and interviews/discussions with producers who have recently partnered with others.
Theories and Perspectives on Sexuality a
THEOR & PERSP ON SEXUALTY
This course will provide an overview of theoretical perspectives and concepts relevant to the study of sexuality, particularly as they relate to public health. This entails exploring perspectives from across the social sciences, with an emphasis on sociology, anthropology, and histroy, and somewhat more limited reference to work in psychology and political science. Drawing upon assigned readings, lectures, discussions and individual assignments, students will develop the capacity to identify the strengths and limitations of perspectives used to frame research and interventions related to sexuality. Although the substantive focus of this course is the theorization of sexuality, over the course of the semester we will address a more fundamental question in public health – namely, what shapes ‘health behaviors’? Developing a sophisticated conceptualization of why people engage in behaviors that have detrimental health consequences, or conversely why they fail to take health-enhancing actions, lays the foundation for effective health promotion policies and programs. Because a great deal of sexual health promotion programming draws implicitly on behavioral science and interpersonal-level determinants of health practices, a goal of this course is to counter-balance that through an emphasis on the broader structural and institutional determinants of sexual practices.
- Department: Sociomedical Sciences
- R 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Martez Smith
Info - 3 points
Social and Economic Determinants of Heal
SOCL & ECON DETERMNTS OF
Disparities in health and illness related to social and economic inequality in the U.S. Theoretical and empirical research on factors linked to class, gender, racial and ethnic differences that have been hypothesized to explain the generally poorer health and higher rates of mortality among members of socioeconomically disadvantaged groups. Concepts, theories and empirical evidence will be examined to expand our understanding of the impact of structural factors on health behavior, lifestyles and outcomes.
- Department: Sociomedical Sciences
- T 8:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
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Instructor:
Kim J Hopper
Info - 3 points
Race and Health
RACE AND HEALTH
Over the 17 years that I have taught this course, I have tried to present students with articles that would provide an exposure to the growing body of research, commentaries, and critiques that discuss the relationships between race, ethnicity, and health. The premise upon which our work is based is rather simple: race is highly correlated with health status, but after many years of investigating this association, researchers are not entirely clear what this association means, nor are they clear how to use their research to improve the lot of people of color who are at risk for a wide variety of health conditions. Put more precisely, we don’t know what it is about someone’s race that causes the excess morbidity and mortality that is observed among members of so many ethnic minority groups. Typically, in the first class of the semester, students find this to be a puzzling way of defining the key issues in race and health. Given the dynamics of last year’s presidential elections where race played a huge role, it seems all the more bizarre to suggest that race is a concept of limited value to the science of public health. To students born in this country or who have lived here for an extended period of time, nothing could be more obvious than the fact that race matters. Racism is a fact of American life, and that its victims should suffer poorer health status than mainstream Americans seems almost self-evident. As the semester progresses and as the critique of current health research about race becomes more pronounced in the readings, students of all races, I hasten to add often feel compelled to say: “I don’t care what the articles say, race MATTERS!!!!!” Agreed. Race does matter, and it often matters in ways that are intensely personal, painful, and gut-wrenching. But the point of this course is not to deny the student’s personal experience of race, but rather to ask you to look beyond such experiences to develop a science of public health that specifies how and in what way race “acts” to cause the excess morbidity and mortality we observe in so many communities of color.
- Department: Sociomedical Sciences
- W 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Robert E Fullilove
Info - 3 points
Propaganda, Russia, & The World Informat
Propaganda, Russia & Info
Prerequisite: Instructor-Managed Waitlist.
Propaganda, Russia and the World Information War is a highly current guide to propaganda and disinformation, the geopolitical impact of information, and how false, weaponized narratives threaten the world's news and information environment.
The course teaches how propaganda and disinformation work, the most effective ways to counter them, and the effects of artificial intelligence. The course draws many of its examples from information operations by Russia, but also considers operations by state and private actors worldwide. This includes overt and covert activities by Western governments, including in the Ukraine war.
The course also discusses information at a more philosophical and sociological level. How do we receive and process information? Can there actually be more than one truth? What is the future of the world’s information climate given all the political, social, and technological stresses on it?
The course is aimed at students with interests in geopolitical analysis involving Russia or any region; the techniques of public persuasion, in any context; or in countering propaganda and disinformation.
Interested students are encouraged to contact the instructor at
tjk17@columbia.edu
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- Department: International and Public Affairs
- M 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Thomas Kent
Info - 3 points
Introduction to Medical Anthropology
INTRO TO MEDICAL ANTHROPO
Overview of medical anthropology, the examination of health, disease, and medicine in the context of human culture. Examine the relationship between culture, structural factors, and health gain ways to utilize ethnographic, anthropological, and qualitative data in health interventions, policy, and evaluation gain critical skills in evaluating the adequacy and validity of formulations about 'culture' and 'tradition' in health programs and research become familiar with range of work on culture and health, domestically and internationally acquire skill in utilizing data about culture and health at macro and micro levels.
- Department: Sociomedical Sciences
- R 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
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Instructor:
Kim J Hopper
Info - 3 points
METHODS IN MIDDLE EAST HISTORY
This graduate seminar will examine key themes and methods in Middle East History. It is intended to provide graduate training for advanced students who plan to pursue a dissertation topic on or related to Middle East history. Please contact the professor first if you wish to apply for this course.
- Department: History
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Marwa Elshakry
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
ADVANCED SEMINAR IN THEATRE MANAGEMENT
ADV SEMINAR IN THEATRE MG
Aspects of the commercial theatre with perspectives from Executives of The Shubert Organization.
The Shubert Organization owns 17 Broadway, 6 Off-Broadway and 2 “road” theatres. It is a multi-million dollar company with significant real estate holdings, a substantial investment portfolio, a major ticketing operation and over 1,500 employees. But whether you are dealing with a 1,750-seat theatre or a converted garage, the issues are the same: What shows should be produced/booked? How to find an audience for them? How to make the most of ever-advancing modes of technology? How to contend with artistic, financial, organizational and legal challenges? The fundamental question: How to present the finest work in the best possible circumstances for the largest number of people in order to achieve the greatest artistic and financial return possible?
- Department: Theatre Arts
- R 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
Charles Flateman
Info - 3 points
Community-Based Participatory Research
Comm-Based Participatory
Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) has received growing attention over the past several decades as international, domestic, funding agencies and researchers have renewed a focus on an approach to health that recognizes the importance of social, political, and economic systems to health behaviors and outcomes. The long-standing importance of this approach is already reflected in the 1988 Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) landmark report The Future of Public Health and many other publications. The report indicates that communities and community-based organizations are one of six potential partners in the public health system and that building community-based partnerships is a priority area for improving public health. CBPR is not a method but an approach to research and practice that involves the active collaboration of the potential beneficiaries and recognizes and values the contributions that communities and their leaders can make to new knowledge and to the translation of research findings into public health practice and policy. CBPR is a collaborative approach to research that recognizes the value of equitably involving the intended beneficiaries throughout all phases of research and/or intervention design, implementation, and evaluation. CBPR is also an important approach to advance health and social equity and is essentially a way to promote and operationalize health and social equity in research settings.
- Department: General Public Health
- R 5:30 p.m.-7:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Renata Schiavo
h-index: 10 Info - 3 points
Designing Public Health Interventions
DESIGNING PUBLIC HEALTH I
Behavioral and environmental factors are major determinants of today's most pressing health issues. Community-level behavior change and health promotion interventions are promising strategies to address these issues on a large scale. This course will provide an overview of program planning, implementation, and evaluation – essential public health services and fundamental competencies for professionals working in the field of public health. Although the PRECEDE-PROCEED model will be used as the framework for the course structure and individual assignments, other planning models will also be presented and discussed. By the end of the course, students will develop a deep understanding of the complex processes involved in organizing public health programs, and learn the skills necessary to create a program and evaluation plan in a local community.
- Department: Sociomedical Sciences
- T 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
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Instructor:
Christian Gloria
Info - 3 points
Advancing Health Literacy
In an age of both information saturation and stark inequities in information capital, how can public health professionals empower communities to make informed health decisions? How can healthcare providers partner with patients and communities to advance health self-efficacy, reduce barriers to equity, and repair legacies of health disparities? This course examines the concept of health literacy and its relationship to both information comprehension and health outcomes. With liberatory pedagogy as both the course teaching modality and our guiding framework, we will interrogate how disrupt power inequities and differentials in access to information through the co-creation of knowledge between health sciences professionals and the communities they serve. We will explore validated instruments to measure health literacy; its implications for empowering and communicating with the public; policies for promoting health literacy; and frameworks for developing materials for multimedia contexts. Emphasizing the necessity of advancing health literacy to create equity, we will discuss adult learning theory, trauma-informed methods for empowered health behavior and decision-making, guidance for healthcare providers, and the promotion of health-literate policies to advance a truly just and health world.
- Department: General Public Health
- R 7:25 p.m.-8:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Leah Hooper
Info - 1.5 points
Advancing Health Literacy
ADVANCING HEALTH LITERACY
Health Literacy is defined in Health People 2010 as “the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process and understand basic health information and services for appropriate health decisions” In this course we will explore the multi-layered interactions between health and literacy. We will begin by examining the issues related to literacy in the US and transition to the concept of health literacy. We will discuss issues related to reading comprehension, and usability of health related materials. The class will evaluate the major health literacy assessment instruments, learning how to administer these for different populations. We will focus on the role of language and culture as confounders to health literacy. Time will be spent assessing and then developing appropriate health materials for print, visual, auditory and internet venues. The course will shift towards examination of different health situations utilizing a health literacy approach including the research participants and informed consent, health literacy and medication/adherence, patient-physician communication models, and risk comprehension. Finally we will examine special topics including emergency preparedness. The classes are designed to include a mixture of didactic lectures, analysis of reading materials, group discussion and exercises.
- Department: Sociomedical Sciences
- W 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Leah Hooper
Info - 1.5 points
DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
- Department: Theatre Arts
- W 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
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Instructor:
Whitney Estrin
Info - 3 points
COMPANY MANAGEMENT
- Department: Theatre Arts
- T 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kimberly M Shaw
Info - 3 points
Seminar in Research and Professional Dev
SEM IN RESEARCH & PROF DE
This seminar is designed for pre-doctoral students from the Departments of Sociomedical Sciences, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Population and Family Health who have been accepted to the T32, on Social Determinants of HIV, a training grant sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health of the National Institutes of Health. Students in this T32 program are required to take this 2-year seminar (1 credit per semester). The seminar will highlight structural interventions designed to reduce the impact of HIV among underrepresented populations, professional development issues; funding mechanisms such as diversity supplements, diverse research careers for doctoral students in public health, and guest speakers who are experts in HIV structural interventions and social determinants of health. Students will lead many of the seminar discussions and they are given the opportunity to present their work in progress. Graded on a pass/fail basis.
- Department: Sociomedical Sciences
- W 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gina M Wingood
Info - 1 points
INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
Prerequisites: the instructors permission prior to registration. This is a survey course in international political economy. This course examines how domestic and international politics influence the economic relations between states. It will address the major theoretical debates in the field and introduce the chief methodological approaches used in contemporary analyses. We will focus attention on different types of cross-border flows and the policies and international institutions that regulate them: the flow of goods (trade policy), the flow of people (immigration policy), the flow and location of production (foreign investment policy), the flow of capital (financial and exchange rate policy), and the flow of pollution (environment policy). The goal of this course is to cover, in some depth, many of the main topics and readings in international political economy. The readings each week are designed to tackle some of the essential points of a substantive topic, as well as raise deeper methodological questions that have application to other issues and themes in the sub-field. Not coincidentally, a related goal is to partially prepare students for the IR Field Exam. To help with that, a number of recommended readings accompany each weeks topic.
- Department: Political Science
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nikhar Gaikwad
h-index: 7 Info - 4 points
INTERNATIONAL PRODUCING & PRESENTING
INTL PRODUCING & PRESENTI
Theatrical experiences are more frequently crossing borders to not only share art around the world, but also to remain financially and culturally sustainable. This is the first course offered by the Theatre Program that looks at the vision and logistics of bringing theatre to places all over the world.
“The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.” -- Peter Brook,
On Directing
As theatre producers and managers, we’ll ask “Why and How” in a preliminary investigation into the missions and mechanics of producing international festivals and tours. We will consider our roles as members of the international performing arts community and our relationships to our artists, our audiences, and our international partners and colleagues.
Migration and Empire
This seminar explores key topics in the historiography of migration and empire. This includes slavery, abolition and indenture, quarantine and public health restrictions on migration, diaspora and displacements of the twentieth century, revolutionaries on the move, borders and border policing, the politics of guestworker programs, globalization, migration and development, among others. The course adopts a capacious understanding of Asia and Asian migrations, to facilitate thinking, reading, and writing across disciplinary boundaries. How did empires regulate migration? How were social and political identities shaped by imperial forces, and vice versa? What are the afterlives of the imperial regulation of migration? The final paper will be a literature review on a topic of your choosing.
- Department: History
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kalyani Ramnath
Info - 4 points
S CONTEMP CRITICAL THOUGHT
- Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
- W 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
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Instructor:
Bernard E Harcourt
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TPC-MIDDLE PERIOD-CHINESE HIST
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Robert P Hymes
CULPA: 8 Info - 4 points
SCI/TECH-LATE IMPER/MOD CHINA
The aim of this graduate course is to provide a broad introduction to science, medicine and technology in late imperial and modern China, and their relationship to the world. The course examines how the understanding and politics of technology, body, the natural world, and medicine undergo drastic reconfiguration from the late imperial period to the modern period. To understand this shift, we will consider questions of technology and imperialism, global circuits and knowledge transfer, the formulation of the modern episteme of “science,” the popularization and wonder of science, as well as commerce, politics and changing regimes of corporeality, in both the imperial and modern periods while placing close attention to the global context and transnational connections. In addition to getting a sense of the existing historiography on Chinese science, we will also be closely examining primary documents, pertinent theoretical writings, and comparative historiography. A central goal of the course is to explore different methodological approaches including history of science, translation studies, material culture, and global history. Reading ability in Classical Chinese and modern Chinese and facility in critical theory are all required.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Eugenia Lean
CULPA: 17 Info - 4 points
DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM I
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tom Slater
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DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM III
The colloquium, brings together all students at the same level within the Ph.D. program and enriches the work of defining the dissertation topic and subsequent research and writing.
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tom Slater
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DOCTORAL RES COLLOQ I: ARCH
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Reinhold Martin
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ADVANCED CLINICAL PRACTICE OF DENTISTRY
ADV CLINC PRAC OF DENTIST
- Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
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ADVANCED CLINICAL PRACTICE OF ORTHODONTI
ADV CLINCL PRACTICE OF OR
- Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
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ADVAN CLINCL PRACT OF OPERATIVE DENTSTRY
- Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
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Instructor:
Holly Shaw
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Historical Method and Craft
This course is designed to introduce all first-year graduate students in History to major books and problems of the discipline. It aims to familiarize them with historical writings on periods and places outside their own prospective specialties. This course is open to Ph.D. students in the department of History ONLY.
- Department: History
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gregory Mann
CULPA: 15 h-index: 13 Info - 4 points
Advanced Clinical Practice of Oral Surge
Adv Clin Prac of Oral Sur
- Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
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Sociomedical Sciences Applied Quantitati
SMS Applied Quant Rsrch M
This course is designed to teach quantitative analysis to social and behavioral sciences students. It integrates an introduction to quantitative analysis with social science applications in public health, with instruction in use of the R statistical package. This course builds on the Quantitative Foundations concentration of the ReMA Studio of the Core and Intro to Sociomedical Science Research Methods (P8774). Weekly lectures will cover quantitative analysis with a focus on linear regression. Course lectures will begin with graphic and tabular methods for exploring and summarizing distribution of a single variable and the relationships between two and three variables. The course will then proceed with a nontechnical instruction in the application of the single equation regression model. It will introduce students to the standard linear additive model and interpretation of key model parameters. It will cover assumptions of the linear model and discuss some alternatives to the linear model when assumptions are violated. Weekly computer labs will instruct students in R programming. The lab content will parallel lecture material on quantitative analysis including writing basic R programming language. Students will learn to select and use online public use “sociomedical” data sets (e.g., NYC Community Health, NHIS, NHANES, GSS, BRFSS, YRBSS surveys, etc.) for use in the course and in their final project. The course will further emphasize the art of tabular, graphic, and written presentation of the results of quantitative analysis. This is an applied course, emphasizing hands-on work using statistical programming and skill building appropriate for research positions or further graduate study.
- Department: Sociomedical Sciences
- M 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
- T 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Yuan Zhang
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Justin R Knox
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Sociomedical Sciences Applied Qualitativ
SMS Applied Qual Rsrch Me
This class will provide an overview of qualitative research methods to help you develop an applied and advanced understanding of the possibilities that qualitative research offers. In this course you will practice designing a qualitative research study, and collecting, coding and analyzing data. Further, you will read methods literature and qualitative studies as well as critique qualitative work.
Course lectures will begin with foundations in the principles and practice of social science research in public health using qualitative research methodologies. The course will then proceed with a focus on the main types of qualitative data collection: ethnographic methods, interviewing focus groups, and mixed methods. It will introduce you to the idea of emergent themes, including a grounded theory approach. It will explore the importance of triangulation and other strategies for improving validity and reliability in qualitative research. Several classes will be dedicated using Atlas.ti programming. You will collect and analyze qualitative data in this course and participate in live classroom-based exercises (e.g. interviewing, focus group, coding) in smaller groups that allow time for discussion and re-doing.
The course will further emphasize the art of coding, thematic analysis, and written presentation of the results of qualitative analysis. This is an applied course, emphasizing hand-on work gathering and analyzing qualitative data and skill building appropriate for research positions, further graduate study, or applied public health settings where learning from observation or speaking with people is important. This course builds on the Qualitative Foundations of the Core and Intro to Sociomedical Science Research Methods (P8774).
- Department: Sociomedical Sciences
- M 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
- R 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Martez Smith
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Instructor:
Ohemaa B Poku
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APPROACHES TO INTL/GLOBAL HIST
How do international and global perspectives shape and conceptualization, research, and writing of history? Topics include approaches to comparative history and transnational processes, the relationship of local, regional, national, and global scales of analysis, and the problem of periodization when considered on a world scale.
- Department: History
- M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mark Mazower
CULPA: 10
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Rebecca Kobrin
CULPA: 7 Info - 4 points
Dissertation Prospectus Writing Workshop
DISSERTATION PROSPECTUS W
The workshop provides a forum for advanced PhD students (usually in the 3rd or 4th year) to draft and refine the dissertation prospectus in preparation for the defense, as well as to discuss grant proposals. Emphasis on clear formulation of a research project, sources and historiography, the mechanics of research, and strategies of grant-writing. The class meets weekly and is usually offered in both fall and spring semesters.
Consistent attendance and participation are mandatory.
- Department: History
- F 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Kimberly K Phillips-Fein
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CHINESE MEDIA CULTURES
What is media and mediation? How do aesthetics, techniques and technologies of media shape perception, experience, and politics in our societies? And how have various forms of media and mediation been conceptualized and practiced in the Chinese-language environment? This graduate seminar examines critical issues in historical and contemporary Chinese media cultures, and guides students in a broad survey of primary texts, theoretical readings, and research methods that place Chinese media cultures in historical, comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives. We discuss a variety of media forms, including paintings and graphic arts, photography and cinema, soundscapes and the built environment, and television and digital media. The class covers a time span from mid-19 th century to the present, and makes use of the rich holdings at the Starr East Asian Library for historical research and media archaeology.
Open to MA and PhD students. Advanced undergraduates need to have instructor's approval.
Language prerequisites: intermediate or advanced Chinese; rare exceptions upon instructor’s approval.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ying Qian
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
Supervised Independent Research
Supervised Reserach for Classical Studies Graduate Students.
- Department: Classical Studies
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Instructor:
Seth R Schwartz
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info - 4 points
M.A. THESIS
- Department: Art History and Archaeology
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Instructor:
Alexander Alberro
CULPA: 12
h-index: 17
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Zainab Bahrani
CULPA: 11
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Frederique Baumgartner
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Barry G Bergdoll
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Diane Bodart
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Julia Bryan-Wilson
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Gregory Bryda
CULPA: 7
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Zeynep Celik Alexander
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Michael Cole
CULPA: 4
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Jonathan K Crary
CULPA: 11
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Francesco de Angelis
CULPA: 10
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Susanna C Berger
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Noam M Elcott
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Meredith Gamer
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Anne Higonnet
CULPA: 31 Wikipedia Info -
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Elizabeth Hutchinson
CULPA: 9 Info -
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Kellie Jones
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Branden W Joseph
CULPA: 9
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Subhashini Kaligotla
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Holger A Klein
CULPA: 13
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Rosalind Krauss
CULPA: 10
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Janet L Kraynak
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Matthew P McKelway
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Ioannis Mylonopoulos
CULPA: 13
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Eleonora Pistis
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John Rajchman
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Avinoam Shalem
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Zoe S Strother
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Lisa Trever
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Michael J Waters
CULPA: 5
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Jin Xu
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CHEMICL ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM
All graduate students are required to attend the department colloquium as long as they are in residence. No degree credit is granted.
- Department: Chemical Engineering
- T 3 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mijo Simunovic
CULPA: 1 h-index: 17 Info - 0 points