Ethical Decision-Making: how to make eth

Who gets what and why? Policy makers and stakeholders in the healthcare space must make difficult decisions involving trade-offs that are often controversial. By exploring a series of ethical frameworks and contentious healthy policy issues, students will learn to apply a systematic process of ethical analysis to justify policies in a legitimate way. Through a dynamic teaching approach involving case studies, role playing and active discussion, we will explore how acceptability and feasibility of controversial policies can be enhanced to promote health equity using tools from distributive justice, procedural justice and bioethics. Topics of discussion include migrant health/migration policy, rationing at the VA, using algorithmic fairness in policy design and nudging in the safety-net.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• T 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Thalia Porteny
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• 1.5 points

FUTURE-WORLD ECON AFT FINC CRIS

• Department: Business Economics
• MTWRF 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
• 3 points

Doing Business in Africa: the Next Front

• Department: Business Economics
• W 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Colin Coleman
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• 3 points

JUDICIAL INSTITUTIONS

This seminar is designed as an overview of the major debates in Judicial Politics, with deeper
coverage of a selection of topics. The primary goal of the course is to familiarize students with the
principal questions being asked by scholars in this subfield, the methodological approaches
employed, and the avenues available for future research. The primary focus is on law and courts as
political institutions and judges as political actors. We will examine decision making and power
relations within courts, within the judicial hierarchy, and within the constitutional system. While
we will concentrate on U.S. courts, we will also cover some material on other courts. We will aim
to clarify and probe the puzzles, theories, methods, and evidence presented in the various texts and
to assess the contributions they make to an understanding of judicial politics. We will explore
issues such as research design, causal inference, the role of theory, and the nature of political
science argument, in ways relevant throughout political science. This course will have a seminar
format, though I will occasionally lecture on material as necessary. Other than that, my role is to
moderate and guide discussion, relying on you to do your part.

• Department: Political Science
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeffrey R Lax
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• 4 points

Lessons from Transformative Advances

Lessons in Trnsfrmtv Adva

Popular media routinely tout imminent breakthroughs that often fizzle. In this course, we examine advances that indisputably changed medical practice in the last quarter of the 20th century through case histories. The case histories suggest that protracted,
multiplayer
innovations – not solitary breakthroughs – produce transformational results. Yet venturesome individuals who do not follow the crowd remain crucial. Engaging stories make the vast number of facts presented in the case histories memorable. But the course treats learning new facts mainly as a valuable byproduct. Rather, we rely on the case histories in two more subtle ways, namely: (1) developing skills and judgment and (2) sharpening goals and aspirations.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Amarnath V Bhide
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• 3 points

Seminar in Music Composition

Investigation of contemporary composition topics through invited guest lectures, student and faculty presentations, listening sessions, and professional development workshops. DMA students only also receive one-on-one weekly composition lessons during which they will develop individual projects in composition (lessons are offered for the first three years of the DMA).

• Department: Music
• W 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 3 points

Blackness and the Psy Disciplines in Nin

19th-20th Cen Blackness &

This course offers a sample of historical research on debates around African-American intelligence, mental health, family organization, and other social scientific controversies from the era of slavery to the late 20th century. The principal assignment is a lesson plan, instructions for which will be supplied on the CourseWorks site.

Please note that you may not take this course as an auditor or pass/fail without the permission of the instructor.

Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences guidelines may be found at
http://gsas.columbia.edu/
. Those for the history department may be found at
http://history.columbia.edu/graduate/index.html
.

• Department: History
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Samuel K Jr Roberts
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• 4 points

Health Technology Assessment

This class will introduce students to principles, methods, and applications of health technology assessment (HTA). Students will learn (1) definitions and components of HTA and its history in the United States; (2) approaches to measurement of health benefits and costs; (3) methods of economic evaluation in HTA, including cost-effectiveness analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and budget impact analysis; (4) HTA agencies and processes in selected countries outside of the U.S. We will discuss advantages and disadvantages of different methods and metrics in HTA, as well as challenges and controversies regarding their role in health technology adoption decisions. Students will review recent health technology adoption decisions and discuss the future of HTA and economic evaluation in the U.S.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• R 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Elena Elkin
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• 1.5 points

S. The Business of Health and the Law

S. Bus of Health and Law

• Department: Law
• 2 points

Music Beyond 12 Tone Temperament I

This class is intended for students to develop composing skills for creating music “between the keys” (or “outside the keys”) of a traditionally tuned piano or organ. We will be analyzing relevant works and techniques of the present and of the past. Students compose and perform/present their own music influenced by these works and techniques.  We will start with quartertones and with music independent from Western traditions.

• Department: Music
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Georg Friedrich Haas
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• 3 points

PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF NURSE ANESTHE

PRIN & PRAC NURS ANES III

This is the third of four didactic courses that discuss the various methods and techniques of anesthesia administration with an emphasis on the physiological basis for practice. Alterations in homeostatic mechanisms and advanced anesthetic management throughout the perioperative continuum of obstetric and pediatric care, and patients undergoing cardiac surgery are emphasized. Cultural humility will be incorporated into care plans to develop anesthetic management individualized to patient identities and cultures while including an emphasis on social and cultural health disparities.

• Department: Nursing
• M 9 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• 3 points

Macroeconomic Policy

Macroeconomics is in the news every day. Anyone who pays attention to the news knows that the crash in the US housing market in 2008 caused dramatic perturbations to financial markets all around the world. This, in turn, triggered very strong responses by governments in the US (in particular the Federal Reserve and the Treasury), as well as in other countries. This meltdown in financial markets and the interventions from policymakers raise a number of key questions about the health and the future of the economy in the US and abroad, which we will address in the Global Economic Environment II course.This course is a sequel to the core course Global Economic Environment. Building on the fundamentals introduced in that course, we develop a conceptual framework to explain the complex interactions between macroeconomic policy, asset prices, and business cycle fluctuations. In particular, we examine macroeconomic forecasting, determinants, and implications of budget deficits, the conduct and implementation of monetary policy, and the determinants of inflation in the U.S. and other market economies around the world. Special attention is given to the interactions between macroeconomic forces and asset prices.Since an important goal of this course is for students to become informed and sophisticated consumers of economic news, the issues discussed in this course draw heavily from current events and real-world examples.
Note I: The core course GEE while recommended is not a pre-requisite for taking GEEII. Students who expect to exempt from the core course GEE are recommended to take GEEII instead.

• Department: Business Economics
• TR 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Shang-Jin Wei
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• 1.5 points

Taxes and Business Strategy

• Department: Business Economics
• MWF 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Lawrence Skor
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• 3 points

Trade and Industrial Policies (TIPs)

• Department: Business Economics
• TR 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Shang-Jin Wei
  Wikipedia h-index: 96 Info
• 1.5 points

Business Experiments: Analytics for Caus

Data analysis in economics, or "econometrics" as it is called by practitioners, has moved away from mathematical complexity and towards simpler tools that are accessible to businesses and can be applied easily to big data. This course will provide students with an understanding of three widely used techniques in modern econometrics: randomized control trials, regression discontinuity, and differences-in-differences. After learning how these tools provide superior analytic results than traditional regression techniques in making inferences about the real world, students will gain the practical knowledge to wield them successfully and make better decisions with data.

• Department: Business Economics
• T 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
• R 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• 3 points

Cold War Globalization: China and Easter

This course follows a paradigm developed by the historians Artemy Kalinovsky, James Mark, and Steffi Marung, termed alternative globalization, or socialist globalization, which focuses on the interconnections and global policy of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe during the Cold War. This course will study the interactions between China and Eastern Europe during the Cold War, and their independent interactions with the rest of the world, with attention paid to intellectual exchanges, economic aid, geopolitical competition, and diverging developmental pathways. In broad terms: 1) It will begin with the intertwined histories of the origins and development of the CCP and the establishment of communist states in Eastern Europe, 2) then study the process of economic aid to China from the Soviet Union, 3) the Sino-Soviet Split and China’s role in the Non-Aligned Movement, 4) the competition between Eastern Europe states and China for global influence after the Sino-Soviet Split, 5) the actions of Eastern European states and China in Africa, 6) the process of economic reform in China under Deng Xiaoping, 7) and the divergence in reform between China and Eastern Europe in the 1980s and 1990s. Throughout this course we will be wrestling with a series of questions – What was global socialism? Why was China able to successfully reform and the Eastern Bloc not? What role did global socialism play in creating the world we live in today? How should we historicize global socialism, Eastern Europe, and China’s fall and rise?

• Department: History
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Mathias J Fuelling
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• 4 points

Trade-Barrier Mitigation Strategies

• Department: Business Economics
• MT 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
• 1.5 points

S. Sovereignty, Rule of Law and Human Ri

S SOVER, RULE OF HUMAN RI

N/A

• Department: Law
• 2 points

S. Academic Scholars

• Department: Law
• 1 points

S. Advanced Seminar in Jewish Law

• Department: Law
• 1 points

Atmospheric and Climate Science for Publ

ATMOSPHERIC & CLIMATE SCI

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• TR 10 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Robbie Parks
  Info
• 3 points

Examination & Evaluation

This is the first 15-week course during the first term of the DPT curriculum and the first clinical courses designed to overview basic patient/client examination and evaluation skills in accordance with the International Classification of Functioning (ICF) and the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) Guide to Physical Therapy Practice.

Introduction to the patient management model with emphasis on examination is presented in a lecture-lab format. The examination process is detailed including systems review and tests and measures of peripheral nerve integrity, flexibility, motor function, muscle performance, posture, and range of motion. Emphasis is placed on, manual muscle testing and goniometry. Students are introduced to clinical decision-making.

• Department: Physical Therapy
• 3 points

CRITICAL ISSUES METHODOLOGIES

A LASSOA LOOPTRAVELS IN TIME

• Department: Visual Arts
• M 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Tyler S Coburn
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• 3 points

DIGITAL STORY TELLING I: History and The

HISTORY&THEORY OF INTERACTIVIT

What does interaction have to do to storytelling? How do we tell stories within media that are non-linear, including games, virtual reality, and immersive theater? How can we craft narratives that emerge from the dynamics of interaction, narratives experienced through exploration and choice? What design strategies exist regarding an understanding of character, plot, drama, time, space, and event within interactive fictions? This course will take a close look at the mechanics of storytelling within dynamic media, exploring connections between interactivity and narrative experience. The course will examine examples ranging from the design of Live Action Role Playing games to massively multi-player experiences, from hypertext to tarot cards, from Oculus to Punchdrunk. Content will be delivered through lectures, reading, discussion, case studies, and small studio-based exercises. Elective open to all SOA students.

• Department: Film
• W 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Nick Braccia III
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• 3 points

Capital Markets & Investments

This course provides students with a rigorous foundation in capital markets and investments, emphasizing asset valuation from an applied perspective. It covers valuation techniques for financial securities, essential to portfolio management and risk management applications. Key topics include arbitrage, the term structure of interest rates, portfolio theory, diversification, equilibrium asset pricing models such as the CAPM, market efficiency and inefficiencies, performance evaluation, analysis of common pooled investment vehicles, behavioral finance, and tax-aware investment strategies. Through interactive activities, case studies, and simulations utilizing real-world market data, students will acquire analytical skills and foundational knowledge required for advanced finance courses and practical roles within the investment industry.

Note for MBA students: B5300 is a full term course offered only to EMBA students and is not available to MBA students. MBA students must complete B6301, Foundations of Valuation, to satisfy this prerequisite. If you sat the Corporate Finance exemption exam, please note this exam corresponds to B6302, the half term version, which does not fulfill the B5300 or B6301 requirement for this course.

• Department: Finance
• MWF 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
• TR 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• TR 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
• MWF 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeffrey Saret
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• Instructor: Paulo Costa
  Info
• Instructor: Kevin Yuan
  Info
• Instructor: Jeffrey Saret
  Info
• 3 points

Molecular Epidemiology

MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• W 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• 3 points

Corporate Financial Management

Advanced Corporate Finance develops the art and science of optimal strategic decision-making by applying corporate financial theory to cases of financial policy, financial instruments and valuation. In particular, the following topics are studied: cost of capital and capital budgeting, discounted cash flow valuation and financial multiples, payout policy, equity and debt financing, option pricing theory and applications, corporate control and recapitalizations. The classes are structured to maximize the synergy between theory and practice, providing students portable, durable and marketable tools for their internships and careers.

• Department: Finance
• MF 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
• Instructor: John Moon
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• 3 points

Molecular Toxicology

MOLECULAR TOXICOLOGY

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• M 4:30 p.m.-7:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Greg A Freyer
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• 3 points

DEBT MARKETS

• Department: Finance
• MF 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Steven W Abrahams
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• 3 points

ECONOMETRICS COLLOQUIUM

Prerequisites: ECON G6411 and G6412. Students will make presentations of original research.

• Department: Economics
• W noon-1 p.m.
• 2 points

ADV CONTINUUM MECHANICS

Review of continuum mechanics in Cartesian coordinates; tensor calculus and the calculus of variation; large deformations in curvilinear coordinates; electricity problems and applications.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• MF 9 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Gautam Dasgupta
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 19 Info
• 4 points

Financial Stability Monitoring

This course focuses on financial stability monitoring and evaluation as an essential discipline for macroeconomic, financial and prudential policymakers.  We begin by defining financial stability, examining the dynamic behavior of macroeconomic models with developed models of the financial sector, and considering conceptual frameworks for assessment of threats to financial stability.  From there, we identify key signatures of financial instability, how they can be measured and combined in a monitoring system, and how such measurement systems signal changes in the level of systemic risk.  Through case studies, class participation and two assignments, you will interpret these measures, develop questions for further investigation and assess the nature and extent of systemic risk. You will be asked to write two policy memoranda:  the first proposing and justifying a small set of financial stability indicators for monitoring; and the second assessing the risk of financial instability in indicators for that (or another) country, in indicators of vulnerabilities with strong network effects, and in unconventional risks such as cyber or widespread trade tensions.  Both assignments emphasize developing timely and persuasive analysis that prompts policymakers to consider the need for action to preserve financial stability.

• Department: MPA IN ECON POLICY MANAGEMENT
• M 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Christine Cumming
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• 1.5 points

TFP PRINCIPLES AND TECHNIQUES

• Department: Psychoanalytic Center
• 0 points

TFP PRINCIPLES AND TECHNIQUES

• Department: Psychoanalytic Center
• 0 points

Principles of Toxicology

PRINCIPLES OF TOXICOLOGY

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• M 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Allison Kupsco
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• 3 points

Macroprudential Policy

This short course will start with a brief overview of the post-crisis reforms and focus on the gap that macroprudential policy was meant to fill: the lack of a system-wide perspective on financial stability. It will explore the conceptual and practical difficulties in defining financial stability and setting an operational target for policy; provide a high-level overview of the tools for monitoring systemic risk, including stress tests, as well as of the various macroprudential policy instruments available to mitigate it; and discuss the governance challenges in setting up an institutional framework for macroprudential policy. The course will review how the major advanced economies (US, UK, Euro area) have tackled these issues, as well as discuss aspects of macroprudential policy specific to emerging market (EM) and developing countries. Lastly, the course will examine recent and emerging challenges to financial stability, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, cyber risk, and the transition to a low-carbon economy; discuss the experience so far with macroprudential policy responses to these challenges; and assess the adequacy of the existing tools to address them.

This course will have a practical focus, emphasizing the perspective and actual experience of policymakers. By the end of this course, students should have a good understanding of the concepts of financial stability and systemic risk and their measurement, as well as how they are applied in the real world; the difference between the micro- and macro-prudential approach to financial regulation; the architecture and working of macroprudential policy in a variety of country circumstances; the role of central banks and the associated political economy challenges; and emerging risks to financial stability. Students will be encouraged, including through class discussions and assignments, to approach these issues from the standpoint of policymakers.

• Department: MPA IN ECON POLICY MANAGEMENT
• T 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Dimitrios Demekas
  Info
• 1.5 points

ECONOMIC FLUCTUATIONS COLLOQ

Prerequisites: G6215 and G6216. Open-economy macroeconomics, computational methods for dynamic equilibrium analysis, and sources of business cycles.

• Department: Economics
• M 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
• 2 points

Digital Storytelling III: Immersive Prod

DS III: Immersive Product

Digital Storytelling III: Immersive Production is a mix of theory and practice. Teams of students work to design, build and deploy a digital storytelling experience that is staged for an audience at the end of the semester. The course combines project work, mentors, emerging technologies and collaborative methods to create a dynamic hands-on immersive environment that mixes story and code.

• Department: Film
• M 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Lance Weiler
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Frameworks for Environmental Health Poli

FRAMEWORKS FOR ENVIR HLTH

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• W 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Darby W Jack
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• 3 points

Science Basic to Public Health Practice

SCI BASIC TO PUB HEALTH P

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• W 4 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Norman Kleiman
  h-index: 26 Info
• 3 points

DOCUMENTARY PRODUCING

Through the process of developing, pitching, researching, and writing a treatment for a documentary short, students will develop an overview of the documentary process from development through distribution. The course will touch on research, story, production and post production logistics, legal, financing, budgeting, distribution, and ethical issues in the creation of documentary films.

• Department: Film
• M 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Chloe Gbai
  Info
• 3 points

SHAKESPEARE IN PERFORMANCE

This class, will primarily focus on the challenges of interpreting and performing Shakespeare.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• TR 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Scott V Whitehurst
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• 3 points

CRITICAL ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY ART

CRIT ISSUES:IDIOMS

• Department: Visual Arts
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Shirly Bahar
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• 3 points

The Analyst's Edge

What should you expect to learn from this class?
1. Develop and refine a high-quality investment process
2. Build background and primary research skills
3. Attain greater awareness and insight into metacognition and psychology in investing
4. Understand the different ways of managing risk in investing
5. Develop and cultivate relationships with industry experts
6. Build relationships with fantastic alumni

There are many ways to make money in the markets and our goal is to provide you
with an investment process/approach that can be applied not just to public investing,
which is the focus of this class, but also to other asset classes.
Speakers: Each class will be supplemented with a guest speaker who is an expert in
their field and in the key topic of each class to further bridge theory and practice.
Speakers will include hedge fund managers, experienced investment analysts, CEOs,
industry experts, and investigative researchers.
Mentors: Each student will be provided a mentor from the industry. We encourage
you to connect with them regularly, utilize their feedback in your work, and build a longterm relationship.

• Department: Finance
• W 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
• 3 points

TFP PRACTICE AND PROCESS

• Department: Psychoanalytic Center
• 0 points

TFP PRACTICE AND PROCESS

• Department: Psychoanalytic Center
• 0 points

Private Equity Field Study

The “Private Equity Lab” offers a distinctive experiential learning opportunity for students to engage directly with private equity firms on real-world projects. This course is a blend of academic instruction and hands-on experience, tailored for those looking to deepen their understanding of private equity (PE) through practical application. Partnering with PE firms identified through the Columbia Business School's (CBS) alumni network in the New York City area, this program supports students who work on specific research projects integral to the firms' current deals, portfolio management, or investment strategy. These projects are screened to be mission-crucial but not mission-critical for the firms. This ensures students will work on meaningful projects while protecting the partner firm’s performance.  The course thus facilitates a connection between a student and a PE firm with a self-contained research project that could benefit from the student’s skills.  
The course aims to coordinate a collection of such projects that would otherwise be organized as “Field Study Projects” in independent studies and seeks to overcome the challenge of students sourcing these opportunities and identifying faculty advisors to mentor the project. Importantly, this is not an internship arrangement, and students are not paid (thus, the hours worked are capped at the usual amount of total expected class time).

• Department: Finance
• T 2:20 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Ewens
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• 1.5 points

Diagnosis and Management in Primary Care

DIAG & MGT ACROSS LIFESPA

This second course of three consecutive courses focuses on using a systems and developmental approach to expand the knowledge of the advanced practice student. This course will focus on the differential diagnosis and comprehensive multi-modal management of commonly encountered acute and chronic physical and mental health illnesses as they affect individuals across the lifespan. Emphasis will be placed on the age­ specific biopsychosocial variables influencing those health problems and behaviors which are most likely to present, and are most amenable to management in a community setting.

• Department: Nursing
• W 9 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Ariana Komaroff
  Info
• 3 points

Risk Assessment, Communication, and Mana

RISK, ASSESSMENT, COMM/MG

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• T 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Markus Hilpert
  Info
• 1.5 points

Mergers & Acquisitions

• Department: Finance
• T 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• T 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
• Instructor: Donna M Hitscherich
  Info
• 3 points

Biology of Health and Aging

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• T 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Alan Cohen
  Info
• 1.5 points

DIRECTING III

• Department: Theatre Arts
• W 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Anne Bogart
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Real Estate Finance

The course focuses on the set of concepts and techniques used to analyze and finance income-producing real property. It starts with the characteristics that make real property different, including cash flow uncertainties, debt sources and tax features. It then considers the available strategies and structures of real estate finance, including capital structure choices for construction and permanent financing. Extensive use is then made of cases to illustrate the range of choices and outcomes.

• Department: Finance
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
• TR 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Tomasz Piskorski
  h-index: 21 Info
• 3 points

Real Estate Transactions

Real Estate Transactions is to provide you with an understanding of the institutional framework of commercial real estate transactions. It is the complement to the analytics of finance and investment. Real estate transactions draw upon a vast array of laws and regulations - property law, contract law, land-use law, environment law, securities law, constitutional law, corporate law, bankruptcy law, insurance law, and riparian law. Tax considerations similarly play a significant role in shaping transactions as real estate is highly sensitive to taxation at all levels of government and across all stages of property ownership. You should finish the course knowing how the terms and conditions spelled out in a term sheet find their way into particular sections and provisions of a deals legal documentation. To succeed in this business, you will need to be savvy consumers of legal expertise, notwithstanding the knowledge and expertise of your attorney.

• Department: Finance
• MWF 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
• 3 points

Quantitative Methods in Biomarkers Resea

Quant Methods in Biomarke

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• R 1 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Julie B Herbstman
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• 1.5 points

Private Equity Allocation

• Department: Finance
• M 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
• 1.5 points

Experimental Methods in Biomarkers Resea

Exper Methods in Biomarke

Careful consideration is needed in the design and implementation of molecular epidemiologic studies that leverage biomarkers of exposure, disease susceptibility, disease etiology, prediction, and prognosis. This course aims to provide insight into major methodologies and logistic considerations when incorporating the use of biological specimens in epidemiologic research from concept to publication.  For this purpose, we will utilize simulated laboratory experiences and a mock molecular epidemiology study for hands-on insight into the application of biomarkers in epidemiologic settings in conjunction with class discussions on published findings. Class activities include small group assignments where each group takes responsibility of designated tasks as part of a mock molecular epidemiology study and report back their activities for in-class discussion throughout the semester.  This work will culminate in a final report at the end of the semester.  In addition, 1-2 students in each session will be assigned to lead an in-class discussion that critically exams a published molecular epidemiology study.   Students will also complete a virtual lab notebook that assesses material covered in the assigned virtual laboratory.

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• R 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Maya A Kappil
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• 1.5 points

Real Estate Development

• Department: Finance
• R 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Ben Atkins
  Info
• 3 points

Applied Credit Investing

In this twelve-person seminar, we will review the structure of the high yield bond and private lending markets and develop a practical approach to assess credit risk. The class will be divided into four groups of three students each. Homework assignments and presentations are to be completed collaboratively within each group. We will discuss market trends and analyze recent debt offerings. The emphasis will be placed on developing analytic skills for reviewing corporate credit (i.e., understanding the economics/cash generation capacity of a business, one’s position in a balance sheet and rights as a creditor) and assessing how the market measures and prices credit risk.

• Department: Finance
• W 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• 1.5 points

Digital Trade and the World Trading Syst

Digital Trade & World Tra

IFEP Concentration Registration Priority.
This seminar focuses on a specific trade issue, and has a different substantive content each year. The purpose of the seminar is to provide a comprehensive discussion of a particular topic that comes under the aegis of the WTO (World Trade Organization) mandate. Following an introduction by Profs. Janow and Mavroidis, well-known experts in the field of international trade (economists, lawyers and political scientists from both academia and international organizations) will present papers that will be discussed in class. In past editions, we have dealt with preferential agreements and the problems they raise for WTO, concerns of developing countries, the challenges posed by Chinese state owned enterprises etc. The seminar is open to students of both CLS, and SIPA. Students are required to write a comprehensive paper by the end of the semester on a topic that has been discussed during the semester, and has been agreed with the two professors.

• Department: International Finance & Economic Policy
• M 4:20 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Merit E Janow
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• 3 points

S. National Security, International Trad

S NTL SECURITY INTL TRADE

N/A

• Department: Law
• 2 points

DIRECTOR-DESIGNER WORKSHOP

To begin to develop an understanding and vocabulary in relation to theatrical design with a central emphasis on the roles of scenery and costumes in telling a dramatic story.

The class will begin with a general introduction into the issues and goals of the course, after which there will be three sessions devoted to issues of scene design and three sessions devoted to issues of costume design. Shakespeare’s Hamlet will be the focus for these discussions. Over the course of these sessions, directors will be asked to gather visual research and, in the end, arrive at a concept for their production of the play.

Directors will also be asked to visit one set and one costume class so that they can see how designers are grappling with the same principles and developing different approaches to interpreting and realizing a theatrical text for the stage.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• T 6:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• 3 points

Beyond the Boardroom: the Power of Smart

• Department: Finance
• MF 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
• 1.5 points

Personal Finance

The purpose of this course is to give students an in-depth discussion of academic and policy/practitioner research to be able to address and evaluate the following questions. What are the challenges in measuring poverty? How pervasive is poverty and what are the underlying drivers of poverty? Has economic growth in developing countries (such as Brazil, China and India) helped to alleviate poverty? How pervasive is poverty in the United States? What are informal credit markets? Who participates in them? What are the interest rates and default rates in these markets? What are the challenges to the flow of credit to the poor borrowers? How can they be surmounted? What is the role of microfinance in delivering financial services to the Poor? How successful has been this effort? What are the challenges? What are some of the recent capital market innovations in the markets for the Poor? Can they help to scale up and bring down interest rates? - What are some of the innovations introduced by corporations and governments in this field? With a view to addressing the questions above, the course will begin by examining how poverty is measured, and characterize (using different measures) how pervasive poverty is. In this context, we will pay special attention to simple (exogenous) measures of poverty rates, and multi-dimensional measures of poverty, which link poverty to some underlying deprivations (such as lack of access to education, healthcare, living standards, etc.). We will also examine how the poor organize their lives, budget their consumption expenditures, and survey their access to certain services. After this the course will present evidence on the extent to which poverty has been alleviated in different parts of the world, and how the results compare with the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) set by the United Nations in 2000. Newly established Sustainable Development Goals will be briefly presented. We will also explore the extent to which economic growth in countries has influenced poverty rates. In this context, we will examine the poverty alleviation process and major indicators of poverty in Brazil, China and India before and after these economies began to experience significant economic expansion: this discussion will shed some light on the relationship between economic growth and poverty rates. After characterizing poverty, the course will turn to the role of markets (broadly defined to include private markets, corporate social initiatives, and government initiatives) that address the needs of the poor

• Department: Finance
• W 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
• Instructor: Paulo Costa
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• 1.5 points

Impact Investing

• Department: Finance
• W 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Berryman
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• 1.5 points

Activist Value Investing for Small Cap C

Activist VI for Small Cap

• Department: Finance
• T 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
• 1.5 points

Strategic Equity Finance

• Department: Finance
• TR 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• Instructor: David Erickson
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• 1.5 points

International Value Investing

• Department: Finance
• W 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicholas D Samra
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• 1.5 points

ADVANCED PLAY DIRECTING SEMINAR

ADV. PLAY DIRECTING SEMIN

This class will focus in on how to direct opera and will cover the process of making an opera from analysing the score until the opening night. The aims are to: 1) Introduce theatre directing students to the practical differences between theatre and opera directing; 2) Equip them with practical skills and knowledge so that they could walk into any opera rehearsal room (either as an assistant or a director) and know exactly what to expect and how to manage the process; 3) Offer them techniques to strengthen their skill of interpretation or concept by guiding them to focus in on one specific opera case study; and 4) Introduce them to specialist professional practitioners, like conductors, singers and set designers, to allow them to understand the art form through the lens of the collaborators the opera director works with.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• W 9:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Anne Bogart
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• 3 points

Managing Large Pools of Assets for Famil

This course will teach students how to construct investment portfolios for various asset allocation purposes (family offices, endowments, foundations, etc.).  The course will teach the history and evolution of the asset allocation industry and its varying schools of thought. The professors will draw on their own insights and frameworks developed at East Rock Capital and several industry practitioner guest speakers. Students will learn how to identify high-conviction investment opportunities in established and emerging managers and direct investment opportunities and how to construct diversified portfolios focused on long-term wealth creation rather than short-term performance.  By the end of the class the students will have a strong foundation to start their careers in asset allocation.

The course will focus on identifying specialized managers. Students will analyze case studies of both direct and indirect investments and learn strategies for conducting thorough due diligence. A significant component of the course will involve portfolio construction techniques. Students will learn how to categorize holdings into appropriate buckets (e.g., "Generational Assets," "Liquid Assets," and "Family-Directed Assets") to balance risk, return, and investment goals.

The objective is to equip students with practical frameworks for sophisticated wealth management tailored to multi-generational family investors.

The course will meet weekly, and preparation for each class is critical.  We will have several outside speakers to research each week and weekly reading assignments based on that week’s module.   The final exam will be a semester-long project to put everything we have learned all semester to work. 

This course is most relevant for students interested in asset allocation, wealth management, running a family office, and investing. It is an application-based course that is not open to the bidding process.

• Department: Finance
• T 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
• 3 points

Climate Finance

• Department: Finance
• T 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
• Instructor: Bruce M Usher
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• 1.5 points

Navigating China

• Department: Business Economics
• W 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Shang-Jin Wei
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• 3 points

Security Analysis

• Department: Finance
• W 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher Begg
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• 3 points

Advanced Global Macroeconomic Investing

• Department: Business Economics
• T 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
• 1.5 points

Public Health GIS

PUBLIC HEALTH GIS

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• W 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• W 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Joel Capellan
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• 3 points

Applied Value Investing

• Department: Finance
• MF 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
• R 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
• T 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
• MF 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
• R 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
• Instructor: Kevin Oro-Hahn
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• 3 points

S TAX DEALS WORKSHOP

This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search

• Department: Law
• 2 points

Advanced Investment Research

This will be a demanding class meant for the student intent on entering the investment management industry post-graduation. As such, only students who demonstrate a compelling interest in professional investment management will be admitted, and admission will be limited to 10 students to ensure quality of experience for all involved. This seminar is not open to the bidding process and no auditors will be allowed. The purpose of this section of Advanced Investment Research is to help students learn how to rip apart" a company and draw thoughtful conclusions about whether it might make for a good investment opportunity. Topics will include stock selection, identifying the key investment factors, developing a variant view, and networking with industry contacts to help confirm or refute one's thesis. The class will culminate with students delivering a detailed research recommendation on a single investment idea to a panel of judges. The goal is for students to leave class with an actionable investment idea and a framework for how to develop and research ideas in the future.

This class will be demanding and potentially overwhelming if you are not prepared to dedicate significant time and energy to it. Students should expect 20-25 hours of work per week outside of class, and the work load may be higher if you have not previously done detailed fundamental investment research. We recommend that you do not take this class if you are unable to put in this amount of time because you will not be able to keep up, and you will not be happy with your final grade.

Note: this class will also include a substantial pre-class assignment which will be a material part of the final grade.

• Department: Finance
• T 6:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Kian Ghazi
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• 3 points

Mental Models, Investment Fram

Please note that this course was open to Value Investing applicants only, and is not biddable. The roster has been set, and the course is now closed. This course will help students learn the process of performing investment case studies. Investors use case studies to build a library of mental models and real-world analogies to facilitate pattern recognition in order to make superior investment decisions, refine search filters, identify key investment factors, assess how investments are likely to play out, develop and monetize their circle of competence, and to understand the life cycle of investments and where we stand today in that cycle. This class is complementary to the Value Investing Program.

• Department: Finance
• W 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
• 3 points

Derivatives (Full-Term)

Successful investing in equities markets requires more than just picking stocks given the wide array of equity products at a portfolio managers disposal. This course is intended to explain how derivative products like options, futures, ETFs, structured notes, portfolio trades, credit default swaps and convertible bonds are structured, valued and used by all types of investors globally.The course is designed from both the perspective of the trader who has to account for the real-world costs of hedging derivatives and the investor who cares primarily how the derivative can improve the return or reduce the risk of his/her portfolio. It should complement other classes you have had on derivatives.My course notes have been, developed from the experiences I have had working with institutional and private clients for 18 years at Goldman Sachs.The course is broken into three sections:Indices, Exchange Traded Funds, Futures, Swaps and Portfolio Trading The course starts with a discussion of "Delta 1" equity derivatives, or products that move one for one with the underlying security.Equity Options, Credit Derivatives and Convertibles and Structured Notes Drawing on what youve already learned in other options classes, we explore options based equity and credit products, like equity options, structured notes, credit default swaps and convertible bonds. The goal of this portion of the course is to focus on what real-world factors influence trading in these products and show how they are linked to one another.Strategies A large component of this course involves exploring how investors use these products. Some investors, like pension, mutual and hedge funds, are driven by economic and risk management needs solely in their use of equity derivatives. Corporations, individuals and insurance companies worry about accounting, legal and tax considerations, so any discussion of how they use derivatives requires we cover those issues.Investors outside the United States have unique strategies because of the way the markets developed in Europe and Asia. We discuss these strategies in the last few classes.The material will be delivered through a combination of lectures, guest speakers, case studies and readings. Guest speakers include trading and research business leaders at investment banks and pension funds, as well as investment management institutions."

• Department: Finance
• T 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Zurack
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• 3 points

Hedge Funds

• Department: Finance
• T 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Fa Savoldelli
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• 3 points

Legal Financial Arbitrage: Merger Arbitr

• Department: Finance
• R 4:20 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Kent Daniel
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• 2 points

Foundations of Business Law

• Department: Finance
• T 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Donna M Hitscherich
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• 1.5 points

Principles of Epidemiology III: Applied

PRINS/EPID III:DATA ANALY

The purpose of this course is to provide practical experience in analyzing epidemiologic data. The goal is to familiarize you with various analytic methods and their uses to answer specific epidemiologic research questions. Brief reviews of relevant statistical methods, their applications in epidemiologic research and interpretation of results will be covered step by step in this course. You will be provided with several data sets from epidemiologic (case-control and cohort) studies and will be asked to conduct analyses of these data.

• Department: Epidemiology
• T 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Teresa Janevic
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• 3 points

EPIDEMIOLOGY III

• Department: ONLINE MS IN EPIDEMIOLOGY
• Instructor: Amelia Boehme
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• 3 points

DRAMATURGY PRACTICUM

TBD

• Department: Theatre Arts
• F 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: E. C Parker
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• 3 points

Short Selling

• Department: Finance
• T 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• 1.5 points

Readings in Twentieth Century U.S. Histo

Readings in 20th C. U.S.

This course, intended for graduate students, exposes students to some “classics” in 20th century U.S. historiography with newer scholarship that reconceptualizes the American past. Readings cover topics including labor, class and capitalism; political divides and comparative civil rights movements; race and migration; gender, sexuality, and reform; urbanization and suburbanization; health and environment; and relationships between human and non-human historical agents. Discussions of texts will build necessary skills in critical reading and understanding authors’ arguments, sources and methods, scope and style, and historiographical intervention. This course will require one oral presentation on a supplementary book; a historiographical essay on a 20th c. topic of the student’s choosing; and a professional assignment of writing either a lesson plan or lecture.

• Department: History
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Lori Flores
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• 4 points

S NEW YORK PRACTICE

• Department: Law
• 2 points