Topics in Database Systems

AGENTIC SYSTEMS MADE REAL

• Department: Computer Science
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Junfeng Yang
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 33 Info
• 3 points

Environmental Law and Policy in New York

New York City has positioned itself as a global leader in the fight against climate change, often serving as a model for other jurisdictions to follow. This course explores the development and implementation of environmental legislation and policy in New York City during the past two decades. It includes discussions about historical context, environmental policymaking considerations, political processes, outcomes, and the role of stakeholders such as advocates, business, industry, labor, government actors, and community. Students will gain broad knowledge of key legislation and policies related to sustainability, resiliency, energy, emissions, waste and the circular economy, transportation, water and air quality, and green space. Furthermore, students will consider how environmental justice and equity play a role in the development of legislation and policy, and assess best practices for providing equitable treatment and engaging all communities. While the focus of the class will be on New York City, students will also learn about environmental policies implemented in other jurisdictions.

Introduction to Environmental Law and Policy in New York City is available to students in the Graduate Program for Sustainability Management. It is designed to provide future sustainability practitioners and others with a fundamental understanding of how legislation and policy is made, what influences this development, and how legislation and policy seek to address climate change in New York City in urban environments like New York City. Students will be able to use this knowledge to help government and public and private organizations achieve more sustainable solutions.

This is a semester-long elective class that will be taught on campus. Specific competencies or prerequisites are not required. This course will be interactive and discussion-intensive, engaging students to utilize and reflect critical and analytical thinking about how environmental legislation and policy is developed and how they can create innovative environmental legislation and policy in the future. Students will participate in class discussions, think critically about policy development and assigned readings, write a reaction essay on environmental justice and equity, and present their analysis to classroom colleagues. For the final project, students will write a research report and present their report to the class, focusing on a particular environmental policy topic, identifying areas where policymaking can be improved upon and/or expande

• Department: Sustainability Management
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Laura Popa
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• 3 points

OPERATING SYSTEMS, II

• Department: Computer Science
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jason Nieh
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia h-index: 50 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO EPID FOR NUTRITIONIST

• Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
• Instructor: Jeri W Nieves
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• 3 points

SUMA PS6120 Equity, Policy, and Sustaina

Public policy shapes how our environment, both natural and built, is managed and regulated. Policy not only creates the infrastructure and regulatory frameworks needed to support sustainability goals, but is also critical in establishing an equitable foundation that supports individual and collective change in pursuit of those goals.

This course will serve as an introduction to equity in sustainability policy: We will survey federal, state, and local policies and proposals to understand how we use policy to enhance urban resilience, mitigate environmental impacts, and also promote social and economic justice. Using an interdisciplinary approach that draws from economics, sociology, urban studies, critical theory, and more, students will develop their capacities to read and interpret policy, enhance their understanding of current policy frameworks, and strengthen their ability to engage with emerging policy developments.

Building on contemporary efforts in public policy, we will use an equity lens to focus on the human dimension of sustainability. We will explore policy frameworks and dialogues that foster more equitable outcomes, increase engagement of people most impacted, and contribute to sustainability goals. As an entry point, the course will focus on policies related to climate adaptation and urban sustainability transitions, setting the stage for students to explore equity in urban resilience efforts and to examine intersections of race, class, and other social factors with access to resources.

The course will be discussion-based and center participatory activities (e.g., student-led discussions, paired analyses, team exercises) designed to encourage students to consider policy issues from multiple perspectives—including identifying disparities and assessing opportunities for increasing equity in the sustainability policy sector. The course will also invite scholars and practitioners to share expertise and experience from the field. Students are not expected or required to have any previous experience with policy or law.

• Department: Sustainability Management
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 3 points

VOICE II

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: Corinna May
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• 2 points

VOICE II

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: Corinna May
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• 2 points

PRACTICUM: RES PLANNING

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Kate Dunham
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• 1.5 points

FASHION POLICY AND THE POLITICS OF GOVER

The fashion industry is an ideal case study on how governments, citizens and international institutions attempt to limit the environmental and social impacts of complex consumer industries with global supply chains. Historically, apparel and textiles have been at the center of some of the most consequential government actions under liberal Western democracy, including the abolition of slavery and the passage of the first workplace safety and labor laws in the United States. In recent years, fashion has returned to the center of dynamic policy debates within the sustainability and social impact space.

 

The $2.5 trillion global fashion industry’s social and environmental impacts often evade regulation. Major brands leverage long and opaque supply chains for raw materials and cheap manufacturing costs with very little accountability. Private regulation and voluntary commitments have policed fashion for the better part of four decades, an approach that arguably has ended in failures to protect human and environmental rights. The industry’s lack of accountability has cost lives, including the notorious Rana Plaza building collapse in 2013 where 1,132 garment makers died, and now contributes to a sizable percentage of annual climate change. Profits have been pushed to the top of the supply chain while garment makers consistently toil for poverty wages, and the pollution and environmental degradation of fashion is a burden almost exclusively carried by low-and-middle income nations and communities of color that manufacture clothing and produce raw materials.

 

But the tide is turning. Governments are being asked to step in and regulate the fashion industry. Can effective fashion policies police international supply chains and achieve their intended aims? Might they unleash unintended consequences and in what ways? This course is an introduction to the fast-evolving space of modern environmental and labor policy as it intersects with fashion, and which seeks to incentivize more responsible business behavior in the realm of social, environmental and governance impacts. The class will use recently passed and proposed fashion social and sustainability policies as our case studies, including the New York State Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act; mandatory human rights due diligence in Europe; California’s Garment Worker Protection Act and Congress’s FABRIC Act; the FTC Green Guides and the UK CMA’s Green Claims Code; and Europe&rsquo

• Department: Sustainability Management
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 3 points

Management of SEC Climate Disclosure Com

This course takes a dual-pronged approach to the importance of sustainability reporting: examining both the corporate perspective on preparing sustainability disclosures and the investor perspective on how these disclosures are used to inform capital allocation, risk assessment, and stewardship decisions. At a time when the sustainability reporting landscape—both voluntary and mandatory—is rapidly evolving, focusing on the investor perspective provides clarity. This approach helps students anchor their learning in what matters most for capital markets, enabling them to organize and lead sustainability reporting processes within their own organizations. The goal of this two-sided lens is to equip students with the skills to deliver decision-useful, transparent, and consistent sustainability information that aligns with the demands of today’s regulatory and investment environments.

In the first half of the course, students will explore the evolving landscape of sustainability frameworks and regulations. Key regulatory regimes—such as California’s SB 253 and SB 261, the EU’s CSRD, and the CSDDD and GRI, Sustainability Reports, ISSB —will serve as anchors for case discussions. These discussions will play a crucial role in helping students understand how to administer sustainability reporting as a strategic organizational function, and in emphasizing the organizational capacity and management practices needed to comply with these frameworks. By the end of the course, students will be able to design, manage, and implement the internal processes required to respond to mandatory and evolving ESG disclosure expectations.

The second half of the course will adopt the lens of the investor, exploring how ESG disclosures are integrated into decision-making across three asset classes: public equity, private equity/alternatives, and fixed income. Students will engage in structured modules for each asset class, assuming the role of institutional investors tasked with interpreting disclosures, engaging with companies, and making recommendations. Each module will feature live engagements with real-world investors, offering students direct insight into market practices and expectations.

• Department: Sustainability Management
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Carolyn Allwin
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• 3 points

Global Health at the Human-Wildlife Inte

Global Hlth/Human-Wildlif

The course will review and discuss current topics focusing on the patterns and underlying processes leading to zoonotic emergence as well as the methodologies utilized to explain and forecast emergence of specific pathogen groups.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria Diuk-Wasser
  h-index: 36 Info
• 3 points

SUMA PS6135 Art & Sustainability

Since the first Earth Day in 1970, artists have increasingly addressed ecological issues in their work. This trend has magnified greatly in the past two decades. Around the globe, artists are creating artwork that addresses the impact of loss of biodiversity, rising sea levels, extreme weather events, plastic pollution, and the fragility of our shared ecosystems. Their art raises awareness of the need to act collectively, suggesting frameworks for replacing anthropocentric and colonial approaches to nature, and amplifying the urgent need for environmental justice. In this pivotal moment of climate change, artists inspire by cultivating new narratives and giving form to the invisible or unimaginable, demonstrating how art can help awaken resolve and shape our next steps. They invite viewer participation and action, and suggest ways to make a difference. In the process, they expand our potential for empathy and agency.

The cultural sector has an important role to play in shifting attitudes that would lead to developing more sustainable and equitable global futures. Artists focus on both local and global environmental issues, expanding the field of climate change communication and at times offering out-of-the-box solutions. The artists covered in the course are cognizant of the need for systemic social change in order to achieve policy change. Blurring the boundaries between art and activism, many are working collaboratively across disciplines and with various communities to address both the physical and ethical dimensions of sustainability. Others work independently to provide new visions for the future. The course is designed for people who are interested in the contribution that art can play in creating fresh paradigms.

• Department: Sustainability Management
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Julie Reiss
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• 3 points

STAGE COMBAT

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: Jacqueline Holloway
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• 1 points

STAGE COMBAT

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: Jacqueline Holloway
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• 1 points

Adorno

One of the avatars of the Frankfurt School and a key architect of modern critical theory, Theodor Adorno (1903-1969) cast a long intellectual shadow over the twentieth century and left a prolific body of work whose influence has only grown in recent decades. In this seminar, our aim will to be read some of the central works of this German thinker carefully and collaboratively in order to become conversant in some of his chief concerns, methodological interventions, and theoretical contributions. We will pay special attention to his concepts of history, politics, negativity, dialectics, literature, and aesthetic form, while also developing the habits required to engage with complex theoretical work. Given Adorno’s wide span interests and immense influence, any sustained inquiry into his work will necessarily open vistas onto contemporary critical debates. To that end, we will also be examining interventions and dialogues with Adorno by later thinkers such as Edward Said, Gillian Rose, Fred Moten, and Fumi Okiji.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph Albernaz
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

ANALYSIS & PROBABILITY I

Prerequisites: the instructor's written permission. This is a course for Ph.D. students, and for majors in Mathematics. Measure theory; elements of probability; elements of Fourier analysis; Brownian motion.

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ivan Corwin
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 34 Info
• 4.5 points

IDEA OF A BL RADICAL TRADITION

This course will seek to raise and think through the following questions: What does it mean to talk today about a black radical tradition? What has it meant in the past to speak in these (or cognate) terms? And if we take the debate in part at least to inhabit a normative discursive space, an argumentative space in which to make claims on the moral-political present, what ought it to mean to talk about a black radical tradition?

• Department: Anthropology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: David Scott
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 72 Info
• 3 points

MATERIALS CHEMISTRY IIA

Prerequisites: CHEM UN2443 , or the equivalent. This is an introductory course to the emerging field macromolecular materials chemistry. The general topics will be based on the chemistry, self-assembly, and performance of block copolymers and conjugated polymers. Particular emphasis will be devoted to the demands required to drive materials from scientific curiosity to commercialization. At the fundamental level, the course will cover topics on polymerization techniques, electronic structure of organic semiconductors, characterization strategies, nanostructures and self-assembly.

• Department: Chemistry
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Luis M Campos
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia h-index: 45 Info
• 2.5 points

PRE-ATLANTIC SLAVERY AFRICA AND SOUT

This seminar on pre-Atlantic Slavery in Africa and Asia will focus on the history of captivity and bondage in modern and the premodern Africa. Conceptually, what is the difference between a captive and a slave? How has captivity been central to the history of social difference and state formation in premodern Africa? By introducing the student to the history of trade in captives within Africa and across the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, the student will be encouraged to rethink premodern Africa as central to premodern world history rather than marginal to it.

• Department: Anthropology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Mahmood Mamdani
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia h-index: 57 Info
• 4 points

Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality

Virtual and Augmented Rea

This course will cover selected topics in virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). There are two main components, with everyone participating in both: papers and projects.

• Department: Computer Science
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Steven K Feiner
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

MODELING & PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

Introduction to queuing analysis and simulation techniques. Evaluation of time-sharing and multiprocessor systems. Topics include priority queuing, buffer storage, and disk access, interference and bus contention problems, and modeling of program behaviors.

• Department: Computer Science
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Vishal Misra
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia h-index: 53 Info
• 3 points

PRACTICUM IN TEACHING OF PSYCH

Practical and theoretical issues relating to the teaching of psychology and the psychology of teaching.

• Department: Psychology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Katherine T Fox-Glassman
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 4 Info
• 1-3 points

THEORETICAL STATISTICS I

Prerequisites: students in a masters program must seek the director of the M.A. program in statistics' permission; students in an undergraduate program must seek the director of undergraduate studies in statistics' permission. A general introduction to mathematical statistics and statistical decision theory. Elementary decision theory, Bayes inference, Neyman-Pearson theory, hypothesis testing, most powerful unbiased tests, confidence sets. Estimation: methods, theory, and asymptotic properties. Likelihood ratio tests, multivariate distribution. Elements of general linear hypothesis, invariance, nonparametric methods, sequential analysis.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Bodhisattva Sen
  h-index: 24 Info
• 4 points

THEORETICAL STATISTICS III

Prerequisites: STAT G6201 and STAT G6201 This course will mainly focus on nonparametric methods in statistics. A tentavie list of topics to be covered include nonparametric density and regression function estimation -- upper bounds on the risk of kernel estimators and matching lower bounds on the minimax risk, reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces, bootstrap and resampling methods, multiple hypothesis testing, and high dimensional stastistical analysis.

• Department: Statistics
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Samory Kpotufe
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS I-DIS

• Department: Economics
• 0 points

DIRECTING III

Students explore more deeply the range of skills and techniques necessary to direct both short and feature films including script breakdown of sequences, scenes, turning points and beats as well as advanced study of actor and camera staging. Students will hone their directing skills by preparing, shooting, and editing, in video, a minimum of three significant scenes from published or original work, depending on priority of the instructor. When taken concurrently, at least one of these scenes will be presented in Directing the Actor workshops. Students should also be working on a first draft of a short screenplay for their second-year project if they intend to take Directing 4.

• Department: Film
• M 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• W 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• F 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• M 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Tom Kalin
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• Instructor: Eric Mendelsohn
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• 3 points

GENETIC APPRCH TO BIOLGCL PBLM

Required for first year Genetics and Development students. Open to all students. Designed to illustrate how genetic systems have played a fundamental role in our understanding of basic biological problems: mitosis and meiosis, chromosomal linkage and mapping, consequences of chromosomal rearrangements, mechanisms of recombination and gene conversion, the use of mutants to study gene structure, regulation and the cell cycle, uses of recombinant DNA in genetic analysis, and the genetic analysis of development in Drosophila.

• Department: Genetics and Development
• TF 1:30 p.m.-3 p.m.
• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

LITERARY JOURNALISM

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• Department: Writing
• T 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Jaquira Diaz
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• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

FAMILY MATTERS

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• Department: Writing
• T 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Lis Harris
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• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

VISUAL ARTS AS A POETICS

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• Department: Writing
• T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Lars Horn
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• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

WRITING THE BODY

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• Department: Writing
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Leslie S Jamison
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• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

MEMOIR AND IMAGINATION

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• Department: Writing
• W 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Margo L Jefferson
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

REPORTING NON-NEWS

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• Department: Writing
• M 1:10 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Gideon Lewis-Kraus
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• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

INNER LIFE

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• Department: Writing
• R 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Benjamin Taylor
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• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

THE BRILLIANT VOICE

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• Department: Writing
• R 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Wendy Walters
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• 3 points

MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS I

Prerequisites: the director of graduate studies' permission. Corequisites: ECON G6410. Consumer and producer behavior; general competitive equilibrium, welfare and efficiency, behavior under uncertainty, intertemporal allocation and capital theory, imperfect competition, elements of game theory, problems of information, economies with price rigidities.

• Department: Economics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• 4 points

THEORIES & DEBATES-AMER POL II

This is the second of two semester-long courses that provide graduate students with an overview of the scholarly study of American politics. G6210 and G6211 constitute the American politics field survey. The field survey is designed for political science doctoral students who intend to specialize in American politics, as well as for those students whose primary interests are comparative politics, international relations, or political theory, but who desire an intensive introduction to the American style of political science. In this course we will cover a range of topics related to American politics that, for the most part, are not covered in G6210. Our focus will be on public opinion and political behavior. The reading assignments are a mix of foundational contributions (i.e. the canons of American politics literature) and recent research. The first part of each seminar session will aim to clarify and probe enduring puzzles, theories, and debates highlighted in the foundational texts. The latter portion of the seminar session will focus on how recent studies contribute to ongoing debates and define the research agenda going forward.

• Department: Political Science
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Donald P Green
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 87 Info
• 4 points

CARBON SEQUESTRATION

Carbon Sequestration

New technologies for capturing carbon dioxide and disposing of it away from the atmosphere. Detailed discussion of the extent of the human modifications to the natural carbon cycle, the motivation and  scope of future carbon management strategies and the role of carbon sequestration. Introduction of several carbon sequestration technologies that allow for the capture and permanent disposal of carbon dioxide. Engineering issues in their implementation, economic  impacts, and the environmental issues raised by the various methods.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• 3 points

MACROECONOMIC ANALYSIS I-DIS

• Department: Economics
• 0 points

Topics in Modern South Asia: Penn-Columb

TOPICS MODERN SOUTH ASIA

• Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
• F 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Rachel McDermott
  CULPA: 37 Info
• 4 points

Topics in Modern South Asia: Penn-Columb

TOPICS MODERN SOUTH ASIA

• Department: Religion
• F 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Rachel McDermott
  CULPA: 37 Info
• 4 points

FRONTIERS OF MACROECONOMICS

• Department: Economics
• R 11:10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• 3 points

MACROECONOMIC ANALYSIS I

Prerequisites: the director of graduate studies' permission. Concept of full employment. Models of underemployment and theory applicability, determinants of consumption and of investment, multiplier and accelerator analysis, an introduction to monetary macroeconomics, the supply side and inflation. Integration of macroeconomics with microeconomic and monetary analysis.

• Department: Economics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• 4 points

Analytical Perspectives in New Music

Analytical Persp in New M

This course will explore plausible analytical responses to a selection of diverse sonic works from the past five decades, with emphasis on works that expand or challenge existing analytical methodologies and assumptions. The goal of this course is not to offer strict analytical models or standard procedures, but to foster analytical conversations that are pertinent to their subjects while broadening the understanding of what music analysis as it relates to new music can offer.

• Department: Music
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Marcos Balter
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• 3 points

ADV MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS I

• Department: Economics
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Navin Kartik
  Wikipedia h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED MACRO ANALYSIS I

• Department: Economics
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Emilien Gouin-Bonenfant
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• 3 points

Science Education Theory to Practice

This course explores the multidimensional nature of teaching and learning science education. It does so through a deep dive into pedagogical theory and practice, the nature of science, and the social-cultural aspects of education. The class is intended for students who may enter fields requiring elements of public education and who want to learn how to teach others.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• Instructor: Lisa M Kozlowski
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• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION

Intro to Pub Health & Nut

• Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
• TR 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 3 points

LANDSCAPE:LIFE AND NON-LIFE IN THE MAKIN

This class takes the creation and inhabitation of place as its focus, drawing on diverse conceptual frameworks from anthropology and beyond to think critically about landscape and the forms of life and non-life through which it is constituted. Well look at the history of approaches to landscape and then address a range of case studies that attempt to decenter the human and to imagine a non-anthropocentric form of inquiry to place-making. How might such modes of approach reconfigure what is understood by landscape and the coming into being of place?

• Department: Anthropology
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Zoe Crossland
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

APPL MACROECONOMICS & FINANCE

• Department: Economics
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Noemie Pinardon-Touati
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• 3 points

Dostoevsky s Bros Karamazov & Others

A close examination of Dostoevsky’s 
Brothers Karamazov
, supplemented by a reading of related texts: works by Dostoevsky and others, notebooks for the novel; essays, theoretical and critical works, and works that illuminate the (folk-)religious, aesthetic, philosophical, scientific, and political dimensions of the novel.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Liza Knapp
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 4 points

Population Ecology

Population Ecology is a quantitative field that through theoretical and empirical tools attempts to describe intrinsic and extrinsic processes that determine how populations change over time.  Intrinsic factors include population structure, rate of change, and life histories; extrinsic factors include environmental variation, interspecific interactions, and anthropogenic perturbations that affect population change.  A comprehensive understanding of populations and how they respond to changing environments forms the basics of conservation biology and wildlife management. This class will explore how concepts of population ecology can be used to inform the conservation and management of natural populations and ecosystems. We will emphasize practical approaches to problem-solving in ecology, conservation, and wildlife management using simulation models and inferential statistics. Topics will include Population Viability Analysis (PVA), metapopulations, species interactions, threats to wild populations, wildlife management and more. Laboratory exercises will provide hands-on experience with wildlife population models and their practical applications in wildlife ecology and management.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Viorel Popescu
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• 3 points

Readings in Sufi Texts

This seminar is based entirely on the primary sources of Ṣūfism, including the writings of Qushayrī, Nūrī, Muḥāsibī, Sarrāj, Ghazālī, Hujwīrī, Ibn ʿArabī, Suhrawardī, Shaʿrānī, and al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī. We will explore how the leading Ṣūfīs saw themselves and the ways in which they articulated their identity. This is also articulated in the ways they organized their works and constructed the biographies of their ethical exemplars. We will study their major concepts and descriptions of their own experiences, and then theorize their subjective formations as “hermeneutics of the subject.” Inasmuch as this seminar is about how we study and view Ṣūfism, it is also as much about the various ways this conception of the world can inform a basis of a set of critiques of modernity and its epistemologies and practices.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Wael Hallaq
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

DIRECTING ACTORS III

More sophisticated principles are applied and more challenging scenes are presented. Collaboration with a writer is a requirement.  Required for Screenwriting and Directing concentrates.

• Department: Film
• R 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• M 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• T 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Jon Shear
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• Instructor: Lisa Milinazzo
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• Instructor: Shira-Lee Shalit
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• 3 points

PERSONHOOD

This seminar seeks to engage with materials that question personhood. Drawing on both fictional and non-fictional accounts, we will be involved with textual and visual documents as well institutional contexts in order to revisit such notion under contemporary capitalism. We will cover topics like rites of passage and life cycle, the role of the nation state and local communities in defining a person, the relation between self and non-self, between the living and the dead. We will likewise address vicarious forms of personhood through the prosthetic, the avatar or the heteronomous. But we will also look into forms of dissipation and/or enhancement of personhood through bodybuilding, guinea-piging and pharmo-toxicities. As a whole, the course will bring to light how the question of personhood cross-culturally relates to language, performativity, religion, technology, law, gender, race, class, care, life and death.

• Department: Anthropology
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria Jose de Abreu
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• 3 points

Field Methods in Wildlife Monitoring

This course provides a strong theoretical and practical background in the use of wildlife monitoring techniques to address ecological and conservation orientated questions. The course will conduct an overview of monitoring plan design and the conceptual background needed to understand and critique monitoring plans, and have the basic skills to develop and implement a monitoring program as part of an interdisciplinary team. During this course, we will examine a variety of research and monitoring techniques used by wildlife professionals. We will evaluate the theories, strengths, and weaknesses behind the use of these wildlife techniques and apply them in the field.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Wai-Ming Wong
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• 3 points

CAPSTONE: RESOLUTION STRATEGIES

• Department: Negotiation & Conflict Resolution
• W noon-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter Dixon
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• 3 points

SOLO SHOWS

We will use the experience of writing a piece with built-in constraints – cast size with a solo show – to expand our thinking about what is a theatrical event. We will work toward becoming more in touch with our imaginations and in greater awareness and command of what we know. We will explore what is of interest to each of us now, through in-class writing and outside assignments.

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

ARCH & DEV DIALOGUES

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Raquel Ramati
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• 1.5 points

INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION I

Prerequisites: ECON G6211 and ECON G6212 or the instructor's permission. This course provides an introduction to a number of exciting research questions in industrial organization and organizational economics. While most of the content is theoretical, great emphasis is placed on the testable implications of the models we study: related empirical work is surveyed. The course aims to bring students to the research frontier by identifying open research questions and highlighting particularly active research areas.

• Department: Economics
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Pietro Tebaldi
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• 3 points

CAPITAL MARKETS: REIT ANALYSIS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: David A Kruth
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• 3 points

COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA

Commutative rings; modules; localization; primary decoposition; integral extensions; Noetherian and Artinian rings; Nullstellensatz; Dedekind domains; dimension theory; regular local rings.

• Department: Mathematics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Thaddeus
  CULPA: 24 Wikipedia Info
• 4.5 points

UNDERWRITING

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher W Munsell
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• 3 points

NEW YORK RISING: HOW RE SHAPES A CITY

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Kate J Ascher
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• 3 points

MATERIALS SCIENCE REPORTS

Formal written reports and conferences with the appropriate member of the faculty on a subject of special interest to the student but not covered in the other course offerings.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Oleg Gang
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• 0-6 points

HOTEL DEVPT/INVESTMNT ANALYSIS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Adam S Feil
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• 1.5 points

New Classicism

This graduate seminar is an investigation and interrogation of the English Renaissance. It will offer grounding in the nineteenth-century emergence of the Renaissance as a cultural and conceptual category, as well as the prevailing scholarly understanding of how sixteenth-century writers, poets, and playwrights negotiated their estrangement from the classical past. But the course will also aim, more urgently, to forge new pathways in classical reception studies. To what uses, we will ask, did English writers put their classical sources, and what imagined ideas about antiquity did they generate as a result? How did that engagement with classical sources shape emergent ideas about gender, race, and class? And though the course will center on the literary production of late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century England, it will also cast a wide geographical net, seeking out the Renaissances and classical pasts that have been neglected in the focus on the European revival of ancient Greece and Rome. Attending to a variety of critical methodologies, this seminar will bring together a range of literary forms, including drama, epic, poetry, and civic spectacle, from a range of places, including England, Italy, and the Ottoman Empire.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Lauren E Robertson
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• 4 points

TPCS IN DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: G6211, G6212, G6215, G6216, G6411, G6412 or the instructor's permission. This course covers prominent topics in micro-development economics. Lectures and readings will cover theoretical frameworks; emphasize empirical research; and highlight gaps in the literature.

• Department: Economics
• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• 3 points

Practicum in Music Composition

This course provides an opportunity for students in the Music Department’s Composition DMA program to engage in off-campus practicum or internships in music composition for academic credit that will count towards the requirements for the degree.

• Department: Music
• Instructor: Marcos Balter
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• 1 points

POLITICAL CONCEPTS IN WAKE OF GEONTONTOP

POLTICL CNCPTS:GEONTOPOWE

It’s hot and it’s getting hotter. As the machinery of capital extraction, industrialism, and consumption refuses to relinquish its grip, meteorological temperatures continue to rise and chemical hot zones spread. Tipping points threaten regime shifts in which the qualitative nature of the earth’s biosphere will alter. But until then, and even after then, hot zones occur in the aggregate only in abstraction. In reality they form like weather clouds over specific places—toxic smog over Beijing, lead poisoning in drinking water in Flint, Michigan, uranium exposure in Navajo and Hopi lands. Marx thought the social dialectic was leading to the purification of the fundamental opposition of human classes. No little evidence can be mustered to support the claim that we are nearing this moment—the world seems to be splitting into ever more extreme halves—the one percent and the ever-increasing precariate. But what many believe we are witnessing a new form of antagonism and which demands new modes of solidarity. The new swelter seems to them less fundamentally a war of class—although also a class war, although definitely not a clash of civilization—and more a clash of existents. And in this new war of the world everyone must decide with whom (or what) we are making ties of solidarity. With whom or what will we stake our claim?

• Department: Anthropology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Povinelli
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• 4 points

RESEARCH SEMINAR

Prerequisites: degree in biological sciences. Lectures by visiting scientists, faculty, and students; specific biological research projects; with emphasis on evolution, ecology, and conservation biology.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• R 2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• 1 points

Environmental Health Sciences

ENVIRONMENTAL HLTH SCIENC

Environmental factors have a profound impact on the public's health. Essential to understanding and addressing this impact is a focused study in basic and applied environmental health sciences. Environmental health problems intersect with health disparities, government policy, reproductive health, population shifts, and economic forces. Recognizing the need for a solid grounding in both environmental health sciences and the interconnections with other societal issues significantly improves the way we conduct public health research and professional practice. In this course, students will engage in scientific inquiry into environmental health issues and develop problem-solving skills for improving health at the local, regional and global levels. This course is part of the core-course requirement for the MPH.

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• W 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Greg A Freyer
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• 3 points

THE BUSINESS OF FILM

An overview of the business side of theatrical motion pictures, from the Hollywood major studios to small independents and self-distribution. Covers all the ancillary markets (cable, home video) and their relationship both to the theatrical success of the film and to its bottom line.  Required for all second-year Creative Producing students. Available as an elective for Directing/Screenwriting students.

• Department: Film
• R 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Ira Deutchman
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• 3 points

TOPICS IN THE HISTORY OF MUSIC THEORY

Explores varying themes in the history of music theory from antiquity to the present. Topics include the development of genres of musical analysis and description, problems in the historiography of music theory, musical discourse in relation to the human sciences, and other special issues.

• Department: Music
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Benjamin A Steege
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• 3 points

PROBABILITY THEORY I

Prerequisites: A thorough knowledge of elementary real analysis and some previous knowledge of probability. Overview of measure and integration theory. Probability spaces and measures, random variables and distribution functions. Independence, Borel-Cantelli lemma, zero-one laws. Expectation, uniform integrability, sums of independent random variables, stopping times, Wald's equations, elementary renewal theorems. Laws of large numbers. Characteristic functions. Central limit problem; Lindeberg-Feller theorem, infinitely divisible and stable distributions. Cramer's theorem, introduction to large deviations. Law of the iterated logarithm, Brownian motion, heat equation.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Anne Van Delft
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• 4 points

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF PDE'S

Numerical analysis of initial and boundary value problems for partial differential equations. Convergence and stability of the finite difference method, the spectral method, the finite element method and applications to elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic equations.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Qiang Du
  Wikipedia h-index: 67 Info
• 3 points

MOS TRANSISTORS

Operation and modeling of MOS transistors. MOS two- and three-terminal structures. The MOS transistor as a four-terminal device; general charge-sheet modeling; strong, moderate, and weak inversion models; short-and-narrow-channel effects; ion-implanted devices; scaling considerations in VLSI; charge modeling; large-signal transient and small-signal modeling for quasistatic and nonquasistatic operation.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Yannis P Tsividis
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

PROBABILITY THEORY III

• Department: Statistics
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Cynthia Rush
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 12 Info
• 4 points

ADV STUDIO III- JT HP/ARCH

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 1:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• 6 points

ALGEBRAIC TOPOLOGY I

Topics include homology and homotopy theory; covering spaces; homology with local coefficients; cohomology; Chech cohomology.

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Lucy Yang
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• 4.5 points

FEATURE FILM DEVELOPMENT

An overview of film financing, sales, and distribution, including private equity, tax incentives, international co-productions, soft money, pre-sales, studio financing, and grants. Students will learn how to set up a legal production entity, create a financing plan and recoupment waterfall, navigate the distribution landscape, and approach prospective financiers, sales agents, and distributors. Students will workshop the same feature project from Feature Film Development and complete the pitch deck they had started. Weekly assignments will be entered into a collective class database of industry players.

• Department: Film
• F 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Mynette Louie
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• Instructor: Diane Houslin
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• 3 points

POETRY SEMINAR

THE END OF SOLITUDE

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• Department: Writing
• T 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Joshua Edwards
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• 3 points

POETRY SEMINAR

SURREALISM & PROSE POETRY

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• Department: Writing
• M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Jared D Fagen
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• 3 points

POETRY SEMINAR

AVANT-GARDE POETRY & LIT

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• Department: Writing
• T 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Alan Gilbert
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• 3 points

POETRY SEMINAR

UNLEASHING THE POETIC DEMON

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• Department: Writing
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Dorothea S Lasky
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• 3 points

POETRY SEMINAR

Read & Write (Meter)

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• Department: Writing
• T 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Shane McCrae
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• 3 points

Art in Protest-Protest in Art

ART IN PROTEST-PROTEST IN

All art is political, but some art is made as a form of protest or to incite an audience to protest. Most often it is both. This course – though far from exhaustive in its coverage – will present a sample of genres (music, plastic arts, theater, dance, installation, photography) in a variety of locations and times to understand how art and artists have engaged in protest. Much of modern art is conceptual, using installations and performance, to communicate. Therefore, we will start the class by turning to T. J. Clark, the preeminent art historian, for his answer to the question, when did modern art begin? This question will lead us to explore the debate on the purpose of art. We will then move to how artists responded to moments of crisis in the early 20th century - world wars, economic depression, and the rise of fascism – because the art that emerged informs much of what we see today. Based on these foundational questions, the class will turn to case studies from around the globe.

• Department: Committee on Global Thought
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ramona H Bajema
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• 3 points

Fundamentals of Toxicology for Health-re

FUNDAMENTALS OF TOXICOLOG

This course is designed to introduce the basic concepts of toxicology to students from multiple fields and disciplines related to health. Nowadays excellence in health research and in its translation to the public can only be reached through multidisciplinary team effort, and teamwork is always more efficient when its different contributors have an appropriate understanding of each other’s expertise. The objectives of the first part of the course are to detail the routes of exposure to xenobiotics (chemicals and drugs) and to trace the biochemical and biological pathways through which xenobiotics are absorbed, metabolized, distributed, excreted, and biomonitored. In the second section of the course, we examine the effects of molecular/cellular changes on the function of representative organ systems including the respiratory, cardiovascular, endocrine/reproductive, immune, liver, kidney, and nervous systems. Students are also introduced to applications of toxicology such as occupational and food toxicology. At the completion of the course students are expected to have an extensive toxicology vocabulary which will aid in their future collaborations in related disciplines. Students will also have a working knowledge of: 1) general toxicological principles, 2) inter-species and inter-individual differences in responses to toxicants, 3) the effects of several key toxicants on the normal function of several organ systems, and 4) the basic approach to applications of toxicology. The overall objective of this course is to provide the student with an introduction to the language and principles of toxicology such that these principles may be applied to public health and other health-related disciplines and communicated to the general public.

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• M 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Diane Re
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• 3 points

MILLIMETER-WAVE IC DESIGN

Millimeter-Wave IC Design

Principles behind the implementation of millimeter-wave (30GHz-300GHz) wireless circuits and systems in silicon-based technologies. Silicon-based active and passive devices for millimeter-wave operation, millimeter-wave low-noise amplifiers, power amplifiers, oscillators and VCOs, oscillator phase noise theory, mixers and frequency dividers for PLLs. A design project is an integral part of the course.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Harish Krishnaswamy
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• 3 points

WRIT/SCRIPT ANALYSIS-PRODUCERS

This is a specialized course designed to provide prospective producers with a nuanced framework for understanding the screenwriting process.  The course will explore all the ways a producer might interact with screenwriters and screenplays, including coverage, script analysis, notes, treatments, and rewrites.  Each student will complete a series of writing and rewriting assignments over the course of the semester. Required for all second-year Creative Producing students and only open to students in that concentration.

• Department: Film
• T 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Jack Lechner
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• 3 points

SITE PLAN-SUPPRT SYSTM-DVLPMNT

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Graham L Trelstad
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• 3 points

RADIATION THERAPY PHYS PRACT

Students spend two to four days per week studying the clinical aspects of radiation therapy physics. Projects on the application of medical physics in cancer therapy within a hospital environment are assigned; each entails one or two weeks of work and requires a laboratory report. Two areas are emphasized: 1. computer-assisted treatment planning (design of typical treatment plans for various treatment sites including prostate, breast, head and neck, lung, brain, esophagus, and cervix) and 2. clinical dosimetry and calibrations (radiation measurements for both photon and electron beams, as well as daily, monthly, and part of annual QA).

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Cheng S Wuu
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• 3 points

ADV TPCS IN RADIATION THERAPY

Advanced technology applications in radiation therapy physics, including intensity modulated, image guided, stereotactic, and hypofractionated radiation therapy. Emphasis on advanced technological, engineering, clinical, and quality assurance issues associated with high technology radiation therapy and the special role of the medical physicist in the safe clinical application of these tools.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• R 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Cheng S Wuu
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• 3 points

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOL PRACTICUM

Practical applications of diagnostic radiology for various measurements and equipment assessments. Instruction and supervised practice in radiation safety procedures, image quality assessments, regulatory compliance, radiation dose evaluations and calibration of equipment. Students participate in clinical QC of the following imaging equipment: radiologic units (mobile and fixed), fluoroscopy units (mobile and fixed), angiography units, mammography units, CT scanners, MRI units and ultrasound units. The objective is familiarization in routine operation of test instrumentation and QC measurements utilized in diagnostic medical physics. Students are required to submit QC forms with data on three different types of radiology imaging equipment.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Boyu Peng
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• 3 points