PRE-PROD OF A MOTION PICTURE

Pre-Production of the Motion Picture teaches Creative Producing students how to breakdown, schedule and prep all aspects of a low budget independent feature film.  Using one shooting script as a case study, the class will learn to think critically and master each step of the pre-production process. Students will prepare script breakdowns, production strip boards, call sheets and a full production binder.  Topics will include state tax incentives, payroll services, union contracts, deal memos/hiring paperwork, casting, labor laws, hiring BTL crew, legal, insurance and deliverables. Additionally, students will become proficient in Movie Magic Scheduling. Required for all second-year Creative Producing students and only open to students in that concentration.

• Department: Film
• R 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Dana Kuznetzkoff
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• 3 points

LIE GROUPS & REPRESENTATIONS

Topics include basic notions of groups with algebraic and geometric examples; symmetry; Lie algebras and groups; representations of finite and compact Lie groups; finite groups and counting principles; maximal tori of a compact Lie group.

• Department: Mathematics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: John W Morgan
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• 4.5 points

Exposure Assessment

EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT

This course provides an overview of environmental exposure assessment in public health. The course addresses chemical, noise, and radiation exposures through air, soil, water and food contact. Exposure routes considered include inhalation, ingestion and absorption. Methods for environmental and personal exposure monitoring will be covered, including biomarkers of internal exposure. Moreover, methods for quantifying environmental injustice or racism will be covered. In a hands-on class project, smartphones will be used to conduct environmental exposure assessment in a local community, and data bio-shared for spatio-temporal analyses by the students. Finally evolving concepts in exposure science such as the exposome will be introduced.

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• T 4 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
• 1.5 points

CAPSTONE: NETWORKING & SUSTAINABILITY

CAPSTONE: NETWORKNG & SUS

• Department: Negotiation & Conflict Resolution
• SUSUS 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark A Whitlock
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• 3 points

MUSEUM ANTHROP:HIST & THEORY

This course will consider museums as reflectors of social priorities which store important objects and display them in ways that present significant cultural messages. Students visit several New York museums to learn how a museum functions.

• Department: Anthropology
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Brian Boyd
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• 3 points

NUCLEAR MEDICINE PRACTICUM

Practical applications of nuclear medicine theory and application for processing and analysis of clinical images and radiation safety and quality assurance programs. Topics may include tomography, instrumentation, and functional imaging. Reports.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Klaus A Hamacher
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• 3 points

FUNDS MANAGEMENT + CAP RAISING

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• 1.5 points

MUSIC SINCE 1900

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. Investigation and analysis of styles and techniques of music since 1900, carried out in part through individual projects. (Prior to Spring 2008, the course was titled 20-Century Styles and Techniques.)

• Department: Music
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: George Lewis
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• 3 points

HEALTH PHYSICS PRACTICUM

Radiation protection practices and procedures for clinical and biomedical research environments. Includes design, radiation safety surveys of diagnostic and therapeutic machine source facilities, the design and radiation protection protocols for facilities using unsealed sources of radioactivity – nuclear medicine suites and sealed sources – brachytherapy suites. Also includes radiation protection procedures for biomedical research facilities and the administration of programs for compliance to professional health physics standards and federal and state regulatory requirements for the possession and use of radioactive materials and machine sources of ionizing and non ionizing radiations in clinical situations. Individual topics are decided by the student and the collaborating Clinical Radiation Safety Officer.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Peter Caracappa
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• 3 points

THE BLUES EPISTEMOLOGY

Music invents socialities and ways of being in the world through its creation and play by communities who respond to various systems of dispossession as well as unique experiences of love and joy. It forms and is formed by new thought and new practices, in the process building alternative stories, archives, and possibilities that remain dynamic, even if rooted. This class will focus on the histories and present of the “Blues epistemology,” which geographer Clyde Woods theorized as a method of reading and analysis that brings race, culture, geography, and political economy together. We will track the epistemology’s origins, performance, and impact throughout various literatures and pay particular attention to its relation to the Blues sounds and Blues people who conceived of it and to whom it continues to call.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Shana Redmond
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• 4 points

Principles of Epidemiology I

PRINCIPLES OF EPIDEMIOLOG

Epidemiology is one of the pillars of public health. Epidemiologists study the distribution and determinants of disease in human populations; they also develop and test ways to prevent and control disease. The discipline covers the full range of disease occurrence, including genetic and environmental causes for both infectious and noninfectious diseases. Increasingly, epidemiologists view causation in the broadest sense, as extending from molecular factors at the one extreme, to social and cultural determinants at the other. This course introduces students to the theory, methods, and body of knowledge of epidemiology. Principles of Epidemiology is designed for students in all fields of public health. The primary objective of the course is to teach the basic principles and applications of epidemiology.

• Department: Epidemiology
• WR 5:30 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
• 0-3 points

PRINCIPLES OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

• Department: ONLINE MS IN EPIDEMIOLOGY
• Instructor: Melissa Dupont
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• 3 points

TRANSLATION WORKSHOP

LIT TRANSLATION WRKSHP

• Department: Writing
• R 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• W 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Susan Bernofsky
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• 3 points

MODERN GEOMETRY

Manifold theory; differential forms, tensors and curvature; homology and cohomology; Lie groups and Lie algebras; fiber bundles; homotopy theory and defects in quantum field theory; geometry and string theory.

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Chiu-Chu Liu
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• 4.5 points

Technology Management Capstone

The TMGT Capstone serves as the culmination of the M.S. in Technology Management program journey. In this course, students will apply the learnings from the entire program to solve a real-world challenge that an organization is facing with a technology solution.

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

Technology Management Capstone

The TMGT Capstone serves as the culmination of the M.S. in Technology Management program journey. In this course, students will apply the learnings from the entire program to solve a real-world challenge that an organization is facing with a technology solution.

• Department: Technology Management
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexis Wichowski
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• Instructor: Katja Schroeder
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• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMETRICS I-DIS

• Department: Economics
• 0 points

MATH METHODS FOR ECONOMISTS

Prerequisites: multi-variable differential calculus, linear algebra and basic real analysis. Introduction to the mathematical techniques needed for the study of economics and econometric methods. Topics include the vector spaces, Hilbert spaces, Banach spaces, linear transformations; optimization theory, and linear differential and difference equations.

• Department: Economics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer La'O
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• 4 points

Settlers and Natives

This course is designed to introduce the student to key debates in the study of societies marked by the centrality of settler-native relations: We shall focus on four key debates: (a) how to conceptualize extreme violence, as criminal or political; (b) the relationship of perpetrators to beneficiaries; (c) the significance of human rights institutions, from the Nuremberg Court to the International Criminal Court to the question of decolonization: and (d) the making of a political community of survivors after catastrophe. The class will be organized around several case studies: (a) Ireland; (b) the Americas; (c) Haiti; (d) Australia; (e) the Nuremberg Court; (f) South Africa; and (g) Israel / Palestine.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Mahmood Mamdani
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• 4 points

TRANSLATION SEMINAR

JAPANESE NOVELLA

TRANSLATION SEMINAR

• Department: Writing
• W 5:15 p.m.-7:15 p.m.
• 3 points

TRANSLATION SEMINAR

QUEER WORLD / QUEER WORDS

TRANSLATION SEMINAR

• Department: Writing
• R 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Moore
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• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMETRICS I

Corequisites: ECON G6410 and the director of graduate studies' permission. Introduction to probability theory and statistical inference.

• Department: Economics
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• 4 points

PROSEMINAR-ETHNOMUSICOLOGY I

Introduction to Ethnomusicology: the history of the discipline and the evolution of theories and methods. G6412, Proseminar in Ethnomusicology II: Contemporary Ethnography is offered Fall 2012.

• Department: Music
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Kevin Fellezs
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• 3 points

COMPARATIVE POLITICS SURVEY I

This is the first course in the two-semester sequence surveying covering foundational research in comparative politics across the developed and developing world. The course is designed for Ph.D. students preparing for comprehensive exams and who intend to conduct research relating to comparative politics, and has two core objectives. The first objective is to expose students to a range of arguments organized around questions motivating major research agendas in comparative politics. The second objective is to expose students to processes of theorizing, hypothesis formation, and testing and to strengthen students’ analytical skills in evaluating and critiquing political science research. It should go without saying that these two classes cannot exhaustively cover the many important works, topics, and methodologies in the field.

The Fall semester of this sequence will primarily focus on citizen-level and politician-level behaviors, while the Spring semester will focus on more macro-level institutions and applications of the building blocks covered in this course. However, it is not necessary to take the classes in a particular order.

• Department: Political Science
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: John Marshall
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• 4 points

LIGHTWAVE DEVICES

Electro-optics: principles; electro-optics of liquid crystals and photo-refractive materials. Nonlinear optics: second-order nonlinear optics; third-order nonlinear optics; pulse propagation and solitons. Acousto-optics: interaction of light and sound; acousto-optic devices. Photonic switching and computing: photonic switches; all-optical switches; bistable optical devices. Introduction to fiber-optic communications: components of the fiber-optic link; modulation, multiplexing and coupling; system performance; receiver sensitivity; coherent optical communications.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Xiang Meng
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• 3 points

The Real Picasso

Picasso’s work is the great kaleidoscope through which 20th-century art passes: from its beginnings in Cubism through which the world is given as though through cut crystal; to the commercial forms of collage; to the presage of surrealist anguish; and, finally, to an untoward neo-classicism. The result of this restless exploration is the invention of multiple formal languages, which need to be deciphered in spite of the perverse literature on the subject which insists on transposing this into the art-historical language of iconography. The literature is rich with the analytic struggles between the great Picasso scholars: William Rubin, Leo Steinberg, and Picasso’s biographer, John Russel. The skirmishes over the “iconography” of cubism extends to the interpretation of the work’s relation to “primitivism.” This controversy has given rise to yet a new vector on Picasso’s work: structuralism and semiotics.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Rosalind Krauss
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• 3 points

Econometrics III

This is the first course of the second year PhD econometrics sequence with emphasis on both economic applications and computationally intense methods for analysis of large and/or complex models. Students can attend the whole sequence or only one of them. While the details of the econometric techniques will be discussed extensively, the core and focus of the course is on the applications of these techniques to the study of actual data. Students will be practiced in econometric methods through computer-based exercises.

Prerequisites: Students should have a good understanding of graduate econometrics and should have taken ECON G6411 and G6412.

• Department: Economics
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Jushan Bai
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia h-index: 52 Info
• 3 points

INTRO-THEORY OF ELASTICITY I

Analysis of stress and strain. Formulation of the problem of elastic equilibrium. Torsion and flexure of prismatic bars. Problems in stress concentration, rotating disks, shrink fits, and curved beams; pressure vessels, contact and impact of elastic bodies, thermal stresses, propagation of elastic waves.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• M 9:10 a.m.-11:40 a.m.
• Instructor: Adrian Buganza Tepole
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• 3 points

APPLIED QUANTUM OPTICS

An introduction to fundamental concepts of quantum optics and quantum electrodynamics with an emphasis on applications in nanophotonic devices. The quantization of the electromagnetic field; coherent and squeezed states of light; interaction between light and electrons in the language of quantum electrodynamics (QED); optical resonators and cavity QED; low-threshold lasers; and entangled states of light.

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

INTRO TO TRANSPORTATION PLAN

Prerequisites: A4404: or the instructor's permission Discussion of major issues in transportation at several levels, from national to local, and covering the economic, political, and social implications of decision-making in transportation. Current topics and case studies are investigated.\n \n

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Rachel Weinberger
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• 3 points

CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN PLAYS

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• Department: Theatre Arts
• F 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Kate Loewald
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• 3 points

The Art of Lying: Deception in Modern &

Plato banished poets from his
Republic
on the account of their being thrice removed from the truth. Accused of artfully and seductively lying, poets were deemed dangerous, confusing, and unfit to guarantee the stability of the polis and were consequently extricated from it. Since then, the relationship between art and truth has been a contentious one. Art is fiction and fiction, at least in common parlance, is opposed to fact, to things as they
really are
. This historical kinship with lying has often justified accusations of art as being a frivolous, lighthearted discipline, detached from the real. It has also, however, equipped artists with a ‘license to lie’—a prerogative that they have used frequently to reclaim art’s position in the realm of the real, to reinstate the poet’s place in the polis.

This seminar will interrogate modern and contemporary artistic practices that have an act of deception at their core—
pieces
that, for some people and for some time, succeed in obscuring their fictional origins and acquired truth status. We will couple case study analysis with discussion of theoretical works to explore questions such as: How do these practices structure and produce their lies? In what ways do their acts of deception posit a different understanding of the real?  How do these practices dialogue with and intervene in the philosophical debates that have explored the tensions between art and truth? What does it mean to lie after the ‘postmodern turn’? How do different definitions of the real affect the interpretation and effects of these works? What is the role of belief in understanding and assessing these practices?

Since we will mostly study Latin American works, we will also speculate about the possibilities of identifying the peculiarities of the region’s relation to deception, both inside and outside the boundaries of the art world.

The course will culminate with a symposium, open to the public, at which students will present their research. Presentations will be followed by discussion, and the symposium will include the participation of an artist and a scholar whose works explore some of the issues studied over the semester.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• M 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeronimo Duarte Riascos
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• 4 points

Economic Theory of Climate Change

Econ Theory of Climate Ch

The dramatic rise of the world's population in the last two centuries, coupled with an even more dramatic acceleration of economic development in many parts of the world, has led to an unprecedented transformation of the natural environment by humans. In particular, on account of the greenhouse effect, global climate change has emerged as an existential problem, unrivaled in its potential for harm to life as we know it. The aim of this course is to examine the economics of climate change in a systematic fashion, with an emphasis on economic theory. Topics of coverage can include welfare economics, the theory of dynamic games, dynamic commons problems, club theory, hold up, and endogenous treaty emergence.

• Department: Economics
• M 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Prajit K Dutta
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 3 points

THE ECONOMICS OF LABOR I

Prerequisites: completion of 1st year graduate program in Economics, or the instructor's permission plus passage of the math qualifying exam. Introduction to labor economics, theory and practice.

• Department: Economics
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Suresh Naidu
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• 3 points

MILITARY URBANISM

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Victoria Sanger
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• 3 points

ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION

Prerequisites: (ECON GR6211 and ECON GR6212 and ECON GR6215 and ECON GR6216 and ECON GR6412 and ECON GR6411 and This course will provide an overview of current research on the economics of education. The course will pay special attention to: i) the use of credible research designs, and ii) the use of theory in evaluating the mechanisms that underlie the identied eects

• Department: Economics
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Sebastian Otero
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• 3 points

ARTISTIC RESEARCH

This graduate course is designed to explore the ways in which research can be approached through artistic practices. Through interdisciplinary approaches, students will explore and develop the use of artistic methodologies in their research practices, culminating in a final multidisciplinary art project that demonstrates the integration of these practices into their research.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• F 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria Jose Contreras
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• 3 points

OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS

Introduction to optical interconnects and interconnection networks for digital systems. Fundamental optical interconnects technologies, optical interconnection network design, characterization, and performance evaluation. Enabling photonic technologies including free-space structures, hybrid and monolithic integration platforms for photonic on-chip, chip-to-chip, backplane, and node-to-node interconnects, as well as photonic networks on-chip.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Keren Bergman
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• 3 points

BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: Completion of 1st year graduate program in Economics, or the instructor's permission. The standard model of economic behavior describes a perfectly rational, self interested utility maximizer with unlimited cognitive resources. In many cases, this provides a good approximation to the types of behavior that economists are interested in. However, over the past 30 years, experimental and behavioral economists have documented ways in which the standard model is not just wrong, but is wrong in ways that are important for economic outcomes. Understanding these behaviors, and their implications, is one of the most exciting areas of current economic inquiry. This course will study three important topics within behavioral economics: Bounded rationality, temptation and self control and reference dependent preferences. It will draw on research from behavioral economics, experimental economics, decision theory, psychology and neuroscience in order to describe the models that have been developed to explain failures of the standard approach, the evidence in support of these models, and their economic implications.

• Department: Economics
• F 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Dean
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• 3 points

SUPERVISED TEACHING ASSISTANCE

Prerequisites: permission of the faculty member who will direct the teaching. Participation in ongoing teaching.

• Department: Psychology
• Instructor: Katherine T Fox-Glassman
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 4 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO HEALTH ECONOMICS

• Department: Executive Classes in HPM
• Instructor: Matthew J Neidell
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• 3 points

Introduction to Health Economics

INTRODUCTN TO HEALTH ECON

Health economics provides theories and tools for understanding, predicting, and changing human behavior. Understanding and changing the behavior of firms and individuals, designing health policies, and managing firms and organizations concerned with delivering health care and improving health, requires a solid foundation in health economics. In this course, students will learn the concepts in health economics most relevant and important to public health professionals and how these economic concepts can be applied to improving health care and the public health systems. Students will identify the basic concepts of health economics for the purposes of solving problems using these concepts, and apply these concepts in new contexts within public health.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• T 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• W 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• 3 points

CLOWN II - RESEARCH ARTS

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: Ralf Jean-Pierre
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• 0 points

Health Policy and the Political System

HEALTH POLICY-POLITICAL S

Why does the government play such a central role in the health of its citizens? What factors unique to American politics have given us the healthcare system we currently have, and how much change can be accomplished within our philosophical and ethical confines? How do political changes yield policy shifts - or not? This course analyzes the role of major institutions - the central government, the federal system, the private sector, interest groups, and so on - in formulating and implementing health policy in the United States. We will discuss underlying normative issues and crossnational perspectives on healthcare to situate American healthcare policy along a broader global political spectrum, and attempt to forecast what changes are likely - or unlikely - to occur. Topics will include political history, policy formation and recommendations, market forces and economic influences, and more.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• W 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Lawrence D Brown
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• 3 points

NEIGHBORHOOD PRES + ZONING

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Carol A Clark
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• 1.5 points

FICTION LECTURE

HOMER JOYCE CERV FLAUBERT

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• Department: Writing
• W 5:15 p.m.-7:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Erroll G McDonald
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• 3 points

Critical Issues in Hospital Management

HOSP ORGANIZATION/MANAGEM

This course is intended to give the student a broad understanding of the components of the health care system and the basic management principles of hospital organization and management. The course will employ a variety of learning formats for students including lectures by the instructors, guest lecturers with special expertise, case studies and student presentations. Emphasis will be on the historical trends of health care statistics and operating data of health care institutions; the history of hospitals and health care systems; their organization and finances; regulatory controls; management strategies; accreditation and professional standards; government; private insurance; administrative leadership and professional interactions, emergency services, healthcare trends and marketing.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• M 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Arthur Gianelli
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• 1.5 points

Instructive Biomaterials

Covers biomaterials that are instructive or have been designed or engineered to be instructive; structure-function-property relationships in natural and synthetic biomaterials. Advances in understanding of material properties emphasized; including electroactivity, chemical, mechanical, geometry/architecture, and the modification of material surfaces and context of their effect on biological function. Evolving field of smart biomaterials discussed. Exercises/demonstrations using materials characterization equipment conducted.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Treena L Arinzeh
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• 3 points

ENVIRONMENTL CHAL IN HLTH CARE

• Department: Executive Classes in HPM
• Instructor: Sasha R Berns
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• 1.5 points

NONFICTION LECTURE

NARRATIVE STRUCTURE

NONFICTION LECTURE

• Department: Writing
• W 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Chloe Jones
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• 3 points

Healthcare Accounting and Budgeting

HLTH CARE ACCOUNTING&BUDG

The current market places increasing demands on healthcare managers so it is essential that individuals possess basic skills related to financial management and financial reporting. Current events make these demands more dynamic than ever. This course is intended for students who are interested in expanding their knowledge of healthcare financial issues and/or pursuing careers that involve financial management in the healthcare sector. The focus will be on non-profit healthcare delivery organizations.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• R 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• T 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Francine M Caracappa
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• Instructor: Jonathan Engel
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• 3 points

ISSUES/APPROC-HLTH POLICY/MGMT

• Department: Executive Classes in HPM
• Instructor: Michael S Sparer
  Info
• 3 points

Issues and Approaches in Health Policy a

ISSUES-APPROACHES-HLTH PO

How is the health care system organized? Who pays the bill? Why have efforts to enact national health insurance failed? What role does government now play in the US health care system, and how do different levels of government share these tasks? Contrary to many perceptions, the fervent debate of these questions is not a recent phenomenon; these are issues that have been argued vigorously throughout American political history. Exploring these debates is critical both to the development of public health policy and the management of delivery systems.
This course focuses on policy and management issues that affect all health care practitioners. We will examine, among other topics, the historical foundations of the American health care system, the rise of managed care, the make-up of the healthcare workforce, the key issues on the nation’s long-term care policy agenda, and ways in which government can encourage good quality care. This introductory course is intended for MHA students and serves to fulfill a core course requirement in Health Policy and Management.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• M 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• T 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Sorcha Brophy
  Info
• Instructor: Jonathan Engel
  Info
• 3 points

POETRY LECTURE

POETS ON POETS

POETRY LECTURE

• Department: Writing
• M 2:10 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Alice Quinn
  Info
• 3 points

Analytics and Managerial Decision-Making

ANALYTCS/MANAGR DECISION

Analytics and Managerial Decision-Making I is the first of two required quantitative methods courses taken in sequence by all MHA students. These courses are foundational to the MHA curriculum. The two courses are fully integrated with respect to materials, exercises and cases, and by a two-term, team-based application project.
Managers are continually confronted with the need to make significant decisions concerning the organizational and financial performance of a health organization, based on a combination of strategic intention, practical experience, and interpretation and application of complex data and information. Data analysis is one tool that supports such decision-making. This course is designed to provide management students with the tools to generate and present data-driven and model-based management recommendations that are meaningful and implementable.
The course focuses on learning basic tools for the collection, analysis, and presentation of data in support of managerial/executive decision-making. Topics will include introductory data and statistical exploration from basic descriptive statistics to population and market estimation, comparison testing and decision-making, sampling design and analysis, and predicting/forecasting using linear regression. Using Excel as an additional tool, the course develops analytical skills to prepare managers to make and to present informed decisions in the overall healthcare sector.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• T 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• R 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• 3 points

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

• Department: Philosophy
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: David Albert
  CULPA: 32 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info
• 3 points

THE ACTOR'S BODY III

This course deepens the actor’s working understanding of their body as “instrument” and teaches practical application of learned skill sets for professional practice and complex use.The course achieves this objective by examining current practice and providing solutions for real time obstacles and challenges actors are encountering in their daily practice in classes and rehearsals. Challenges faced are explored specifically in context of class vocabulary as well as by providing increasingly complex tasks that require use of multiple skills sets at once.The course continues the work of developing physical ease and awareness and expands each actor also to prepare body and being for work in ensemble.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: Sita Mani
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• 1 points

PUB-PRIV PARTSHP-REAL EST DEV

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Mehul J Patel
  Info
• 1.5 points

Topics in Smart Electric Energy

Selected advanced topics in smart electric energy. Content varies from year to year.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Navid Asr
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• 3 points

Topics in Smart Electric Energy

Selected advanced topics in smart electric energy. Content varies from year to year.

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

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

Prerequisites: permission of the departmental adviser to Graduate Studies.

• Department: Psychology
• Instructor: Niall Bolger
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 55 Info
• 1-4 points

QUESTIONS-ANTHROP THRY I:TEXTS

Presents students with critical theories of society, paying particular attention to classic continental social theory of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We will trace a trajectory through important French and German writings essential for any understanding of the modern discipline of anthropology: from Saussure through Durkheim and Mauss, Marx, Weber, and on to the structuralist elaboration of these theoretical perspectives in Claude Lévi-Strauss, always bearing in mind the relationship of these theories to contemporary anthropology. We come last to Foucault and affiliated theorists as successors both to French structuralism and to German social theory and its concerns with modernity, rationality, and power. Throughout the readings, we will give special care to questions of signification as they inform anthropological inquiry, and we will be alert to the historical contexts that situate the discipline of anthropology today.

• Department: Anthropology
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Rosalind Morris
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

LEASE ANALYSIS & FIN METRICS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Sara B Queen
  Info
• 1.5 points

Nonlinear and Adaptive Control

Nonlinear dynamics: Euler-Lagrange equations, Hamilton’s principle, variational calculus; nonlinear systems: fundamentals, examples, stability Notions, linear systems and linearization, frequency domain analysis, discrete time systems, absolute stability, input-to-state stabililty, control design: control Lyapunov functions, sliding mode control, control barrier functions; adaptive control: self-tuning regular, model reference adaptive control, feedback linearization, extremum seeking control, model predictive control, observer design: extended, unscented, and mixture model Kalman filters, moving horizon estimation, high-gain observers; repetitive processes: iterative learning control, learning-adaptive control, repetitive control; optimal control: continuous setting, discrete time setting, constrained optimal control, linear matrix inequality (LMI) constraints, dynamic programming and backward recursion.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Homayoon Beigi
  Info
• 3 points

SOUND: ADVANCED TOPICS I

This class explores advanced topics relating to the production of music by computer. Although programming experience is not a prerequisite, various programming techniques are enlisted to investigate interface design, algorithmic composition, computer analysis and processing of digital audio, and the use of computer music in contexts such as VR/AR applications. Check with the instructor for the particular focus of the class in an upcoming semester. Some familiarity with computer music hardware/software is expected. Permission of instructor is required to enroll.

• Department: Music
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Bradford G Garton
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 3 points

PLANNING FOR JUSTICE IN A LOW CARBON FUT

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Javier Lopez
  Info
• 3 points

OPTIMIZATION I

Theory and geometry of linear programming. The simplex method. Duality theory, sensitivity analysis, column generation and decomposition. Interior point methods. Introduction to nonlinear optimization: convexity, optimality conditions, steepest descent, and Newton’s method, active set, and barrier methods.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Vineet Goyal
  h-index: 21 Info
• 4.5 points

Machine Learning and High-Dimensional Da

Mchn lrning&Hgh-dmntnl da

Discusses recent advances in fields of machine learning: kernel methods, neural networks (various generative adversarial net architectures), and reinforcement learning (with applications in robotics). Quasi Monte Carlo methods in the context of approximating RBF kernels via orthogonal transforms (instances of the structured technique). Will discuss techniques such as TD(0), TD(λ), LSTDQ, LSPI, DQN.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• M 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Krzysztof M Choromanski
  Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO URBAN DATA AND INFORMATICS

INTRO URB DATA + INFORMAT

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
• 3 points

From NIMBY to YIMBY to Mayor Quimby

NIMBY TO YIMBY

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Howard H Slatkin
  Info
• 3 points

Camera in the Tropics

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This graduate seminar situates the history of photography within the history of colonial productions of tropicality, and the concomitant occupation of tropical places. Specific regimes of vision accompanied the European conquest of peoples and lands, undergirded the racialization of bodies, and colluded in epistemic binaries of centers and peripheries. At the same time, modern visual media did not possess an intrinsically “colonial gaze.” Rather, many of the same apparatuses of seeing and representation proved to be powerful tools in the assertion of minoritized selves, be it in fugitive , playful, or explicitly confrontational forms. Our focus will be on 19th -20th century lens-based image production, particularly photography. Each week we will acquaint ourselves with concepts and methods that will help us read images, situate current decolonial debates in visual studies within older foundational debates on vision and visuality, and read key texts in historiography. Weekly readings are curated as per a spatial logic, retracing the itineraries of colonial adventurism and control: from the ship to the island, the plantation, the prison, and the laboratory. This seminar is designed mainly for doctoral students; Masters students can join with instructor permission.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Familiarity with foundational debates in photography studies.

• Ability to articulate the relationship between a history of vision, the production of space, and the epistemic techniques of colonialism.

• A comparative history of colonized islands and archipelagoes construed as “tropical.”

• Methods in postcolonial, anti-colonial, and decolonial reading of texts and images.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Debashree Mukherjee
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 5 Info
• 4 points

METROPOLITAN PLANNING

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Thomas K Wright
  Info
• 1.5 points

AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT IN NYC

AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEV NY

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
• 3 points

OTHER FRONTIERS IN STAGE MANAGEMENT

OTHER FRONTIERS: DANCE

TBD

• Department: Theatre Arts
• M 2 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Jacqueline Reid
  Info
• 1.5 points

OTHER FRONTIERS IN STAGE MANAGEMENT

OTHER FRONTIERS: OPERA

TBD

• Department: Theatre Arts
• W 2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
• 1.5 points

SUBJECT_OBJECT

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Suchi Reddy
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

THE OUTSIDE IN PROJECT II

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• 3 points

TOPICS DATA-DRIVEN ANAL & COMP

MACH LEARNING IN BIO&INF

Selected advanced topics in data-driven analysis and computation. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6690 to 6699.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Predrag R Jelenkovic
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 35 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS DATA-DRIVEN ANAL & COMP

Adv VLSI DA & Methodology

Selected advanced topics in data-driven analysis and computation. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6690 to 6699.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• M 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew M Ziegler
  Info
• 3 points

TOPICS DATA-DRIVEN ANAL & COMP

GenAI & Modern Deep Learn

Selected advanced topics in data-driven analysis and computation. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6690 to 6699.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Micah Goldblum
  Info
• 3 points

Probabilistic Models and Machine Learnin

Stat ML: Theory to Practi

Probabilistic Models and Machine Learning is a PhD-level course about how to design and use probability models. We study their mathematical properties, algorithms for computing with them, and applications to real problems. We study both the foundations and modern methods in this field. Our goals are to understand probabilistic modeling, to begin research that makes contributions to this field, and to develop good practices for building and applying probabilistic models.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: David Blei
  Wikipedia h-index: 98 Info
• 3 points

Advanced Spoken Language Processing

ADV SPOKEN LANG PROC

Applications of spoken language processing, including text-to-speech and dialogue systems. Analysis of speech and text, including entrainment, empathy, personality, emotion, humor, sarcasm, deception, trust, radicalization, and charisma.

• Department: Computer Science
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Julia Hirschberg
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 77 Info
• 3 points

STOCHASTIC MODELING I

Advanced treatment of stochastic modeling in the context of queueing, reliability, manufacturing, insurance risk, financial engineering and other engineering applications. Review of elements of probability theory; exponential distribution; renewal theory; Wald’s equation; Poisson processes. Introduction to both discrete and continuous-time Markov chains; introduction to Brownian motion.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Karl Sigman
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 4.5 points

BLDG ADAPT & REUSE

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• 1.5 points

DESIGN BY DEVELOPMENT

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Eran Chen
  Info
• 1.5 points

Vital Records and Vital Statistics: The

Vital Records & Vital Sta

Deaths due to COVID-19 have focused public awareness on death registration in a way that has not been seen since the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic. Death registration is an affirmation of the conclusion of a person’s life and offers the opportunity and obligation to enumerate each death and document the final disposition of human remains. Though often considered “just administrative” birth registration can be seen as a public health intervention designed to protect basic human rights, connect people with upstream social determinants of health like education, housing, and income, and ensure that their existential drive to exist is acknowledged.
Vital records are the documents that catalog birth and death experiences millions of times each year in the U.S. Vital statistics are the subset of the information on these records that public health students and professionals appreciate in general, and turn to for meaning in times of devastatingly high levels of deaths. This course focuses on the history, policy, management, and protection of vital records and vital statistics in the United States and will open students’ eyes to the surprisingly fascinating world of vital events.

• Department: Sociomedical Sciences
• W 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Gretchen Van Wye
  Info
• 1.5 points

HIST PRESV THEORY & PRACTICE

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 3 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jorge Otero-Pailos
  Wikipedia h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

MAKE

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

COMPUTER COMMUNICATNS NETWORKS

COMPUTER COMMUNCATION NETWORKS

Analytical approach to the design of (data) communication networks. Necessary tools for performance analysis and design of network protocols and algorithms. Practical engineering applications in layered Internet protocols in Data link layer, Network layer, and Transport layer. Review of relevant aspects of stochastic processes, control, and optimization.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• R 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Javad Ghaderi
  h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

PRESERVATION PLANNING

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Erica C Avrami
  Info
• 3 points

INTERNET ECON, ENG & SOCIETY

Mathematical models, analyses of economics and networking interdependencies in the internet. Topics include microeconomics of pricing and regulations in communications industry, game theory in revenue allocations, ISP settlements, network externalities, two-sided markets. Economic principles in networking and network design, decentralized vs. centralized resource allocation, “price of anarchy,” congestion control. Case studies of topical internet issues. Societal and industry implications of internet evolution.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Debasis Mitra
  Wikipedia h-index: 61 Info
• 3 points

ARCH METALS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard Peiper
  Info
• 1.5 points

TOPICS IN NETWORKING

TPC:NET VIRTUAL & CLOUD COMPUT

Further study of areas such as communication protocols and architectures, flow and congestion control in data networks, performance evaluation in integrated networks. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6770 to 6779.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• F 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Thomas Woo
  Info
• 3 points

ACCOUNTING FOR THEATRE

• Department: Theatre Arts
• R 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Robert Fried
  Info
• 3 points