PARTICLE PHENOMENOLOGY
Prerequisites: PHYS G6037 or the equivalent. The elementary particles and their properties; interactions of charged particles and radiation with matter; accelerators, particle beams, detectors; conservation laws; symmetry principles; strong interactions, resonances, unitary symmetry; electromagnetic interactions; weak interactions; current topics.
- Department: Physics
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Georgia S Karagiorgi
CULPA: 3 Info - 3 points
RED ELECTIVE INTERNSHIP
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Rebecca A Andersen Polimeda
Info - 1.5 points
VALUE, OBJECTS, AND MEANING
VALUE OBJECTS AND MEANING
This course explores how anthropologists have engaged with the question of value as means of understanding and comparing human social engagement with the creation, circulation, and consumption of objects and ideas. In doing so, this course will read classical anthropological texts concerned with exchange, social meaning and action and consider a variety of topics of anthropological interest such as gifts, commodities, capitalism, inequality, and the relationships between humans and nonhumans of many kinds. The course traces how questions and arguments that emerged out of earlier debates in “economic” anthropology were taken up and altered in later conversations about the analytical importance and utility of material and semiotic approaches. In doing so, the course explores what these genealogies might say about the possibility of, and the potential usefulness or desirability of, a contemporary or future-looking anthropology of value.
- Department: Anthropology
- R 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Hannah Chazin
Info - 3 points
SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY: THE ORIGINS
Prerequisites: this course is intended for sociology Ph.D. and SMS students. No others without the instructors written permission. Foundational sources and issues in sociological theory: Adam Smith, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel, Mead, Mauss, others; division of labor, individualism, exchange, class and its vicissitudes, social control, ideas and interests, contending criteria of explanation and interpretation.
- Department: Sociology
- M 9:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Gil Eyal
CULPA: 15
h-index: 26
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Adaptation
This is a fast-paced writing, survey and workshop course that will empower writers to define the formal ideals of screenwriting by investigating film adaptations of novels and short stories. The course will culminate in the writing of a short pitch document. This course is at once a survey of the twentieth century American Film, a survey of the Twentieth Century American novel, and a course for writers. We will distill the craft of screenwriting by looking through the prism of adaption in order to understand which elements of the novel translate into film, and why. We will consider novels with the mercenary detachment of a screenwriter, scouring for scraps with value for a screenplay. As we compare the original text with the finished film, we will distill the essence of the screenplay form. What is plot, action, dialog, metaphor? How do we converge these goals? We will decipher, with the clinical eye of a detective, what the screenwriter took from the novel and what they left behind. And in doing this, we will reach an understanding of the formal tenets of an American film.
- Department: Film
- F 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Galt V Niederhoffer
Info - 3 points
ADVNCD TPCS IN IMMUNOLOGY
ADVNCD TPCS IN IMMUNOLOGY I
- Department: Microbiology
- R 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
- 3 points
MAKING ETHNOG:METHOD & WRITING
This course begins with two central and related epistemological problems in conducting ethnographic research: first, the notion that objects of scientific research are ‘made’ through adopting a particular relational stance and asking certain kinds of questions. From framing a research problem and choosing a ‘research context’ story to tell, to the kinds of methods one selects to probe such a problem, the ‘how’ and ‘what’ – or means and content – are inextricably intertwined. A second epistemological problem concerns the artifice of reality, and the nebulous distinction between truth and fiction, no less than the question of where or with whom one locates such truth.
With these issues framing the course, we will work through some key themes and debates in anthropology from the perspective of methodology, ranging from subject/object liminality to incommensurability and radical alterity to the politics of representation. Students will design an ethnographic project of their choosing and conduct research throughout the term, applying different methodological approaches popular in anthropology and the social sciences more generally, such as participant observation, semi-structured interview, diary-keeping and note-taking.
- Department: Anthropology
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nicholas Glastonbury
Info - 3 points
Intellectual and Institutional Framework
- Department: Journalism
- T 10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Michael Schudson
Wikipedia h-index: 65 Info - 3 points
STUDIES IN DANTE
Prerequisites: In-depth knowledge of the Commedia. A variable-content research seminar that rotates through various areas of Dante studies. Areas covered in the past include: the history of the ideas of hell, purgatory, paradise; Dante’s relation to the classics; Dante's so-called minor works, such as Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia; Dante's lyric poetry. The Fall 2019 seminar will be devoted to Dante's prose treatises.
- Department: Italian
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Teodolinda Barolini
CULPA: 7
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SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING
- Department: Physics
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Robert D Mawhinney
CULPA: 6 h-index: 49 Info - 3 points
Introduction to Neural Networks and Deep
Neural Networks&Deep Lear
This seminar will introduce both the concepts and practical implementation in PyTorch of neural networks and deep learning, with a focus on general principles and examples from vision.
- Department: Psychology
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nikolaus Kriegeskorte
h-index: 56 Info - 3 points
INTRO TO INTL PLANNING
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- M 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ebru A Gencer
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ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY
Prerequisites: PHYS W3008 or its equivalent. Fundamentals of electromagnetism from an advanced perspective with emphasis on electromagnetic fields in vaccum with no bounding surfaces present. A thorough understanding of Maxwells equations and their application to a wide variety of phenomena. Maxwells equations (in vacuum) and the Lorentz force law - noncovariant form. Scalar and vector potentials, gauge transformations. Generalized functions (delta functions and their derivatives), point changes. Fourier transforms, longitutdinal ad transverse vector fields. Solution of Maxwells equations in unbounded space for electrostatics and magnetostatics with given charge and current sources. Special relativity, Loretnz transformations, 4-momentum, relativistic reactions. Index mechanics of Cartesian tensor notation. Covariatn formulation of Maxwells equations and the Lorentz force law, Lorentz transformation properties of E and B. Lagrangian density for the electromagnetic field, Langrangian density for the Proca field. Symmetries and conservation laws, Noethers theorem. Field conservation laws (energy, linear momentum, angular momentum, stress tensor). Monochromatic plane wave solutions of the time-dependent source-free Maxwell equations, elliptical polarization, partially-polarized electromagnetgic waves, Stokes parameters. Solution of the time-dependent Maxwell equations in unbounded space with given chare and current sources (retarded and advanced solutions). Properties of electromagnetic fields in the radiaion zone, angular distribution of radiated power, frequency distribution of radiated energy, radiation form periodic and non-periodic motions. Radiation from antennas and antenna arrays. Lienard-Wiechert fields, the relativistic form of the Larmor radiation forumla, synchrotron radiation, bremsstrahlung, undulator and wiggler radiation. Electric dipole and magnetic dipole radiation. Scattering of electromagnetic radiation, the differential scattering cross-section, low-energy and high-energy approximations, scattering from a random or periodic array of scatterers. Radiation reaction force, Feynman-Wheeler theoryy. The macroscopic Maxwell equations (spatial averaging to get P, M, D, H). Convolutions, linear materials (permittivity, permeability, and conductivity), causality, analytics continuation, Kramers-Kronig relations. Propagation of monochromatic plane waves in isotropic and non-isotropic linear materials, ordinary ad extraordinary waves. Cherenkov radiation, transition radiation.
- Department: Physics
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Brian Metzger
CULPA: 5 h-index: 77 Info - 4.5 points
DESIGNS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH
Required of all incoming sociology doctoral students. Prepares students who have already completed an undergraduate major or its equivalent in some social science to evaluate and undertake both systematic descriptions and sound explanations of social structures and processes.
- Department: Sociology
- W 2:10 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mario Small
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AF-AM: PRO SEMINAR
This course introduces students to central questions and debates in the fields of African American Studies, and it explores the various interdisciplinary efforts to address them. The seminar is designed to provide an interdisciplinary foundation and familiarize students with a number of methodological approaches. Toward this end we will have a number of class visitors/guest lecturers drawn from members of IRAAS's Core and Affiliated Faculty.
- Department: African American and African Diaspora
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Brandi Summers
Info - 4 points
RESEARCH SEMINAR
An M.S. degree requirement. Students attend at least three Applied Mathematics research seminars within the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and submit reports on each.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- T 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kui Ren
CULPA: 2 Info - 0 points
MA SEMINAR IN GLOBAL THOUGHT
This course explores the challenges of understanding the global world in which we live, a world that demands new conceptual approaches and ways of thinking. The objectives are:
To examine multidisciplinary approaches to key global issues through readings, class discussions, and conversations with select CGT faculty members as guest speakers. This will take place through multi-week modules that center on a critical issue, asking students to familiarize themselves with key questions and context, engage with an expert on the topic, and apply their insights to a specific case or question.
To develop a focused and feasible research project and hone the practices of scholarly data collection, analysis, and communication through workshops and assignments. This work begins in the fall and continues to completion in the spring semester of the seminar. The perspectives and skills developed in M.A. Seminar will support students in the development and completion of their thirty-five page M.A. essays, which they will present to each other and to CGT faculty at the Spring Symposium.
- Department: Committee on Global Thought
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Laura L Neitzel
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Instructor:
Vishakha Desai
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Managerial Statistics
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
- TR 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jing Dong
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Boaz Galinson
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Alex Mills
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Jing Dong
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Boaz Galinson
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EUROPEAN STUDIES COLL I
- Department: Modern European Studies
- F 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Tsveta A Petrova
Info - 4 points
THE DOCTORAL RESEARCH SEMINAR
The purpose of this R-credit seminar is to support intermediate PhD students as they embark on advanced research projects. It begins and ends with workshops for doctoral students at the earliest stages of their dissertations: its meetings in weeks 2, 3, and 4 are devoted to the dissertation prospectus, and its final ones in weeks 11, 12, and 13 are for sharing dissertation chapter drafts or research plans. In the other weeks, the seminar expands to include interested post-MPhil doctoral students at any stage, and focuses on the process of publishing in academic journals, culminating in the completion of a submittable article draft. Most important of all, the seminar provides an opportunity for community-building at a time when graduate students are not generally in coursework together, offered in a spirit of mutually affirming collaboration.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Austin Graham
CULPA: 10
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ADVANCED MECHANICS OF FLUIDS
Eulerian and Lagrangian descriptions of motion. Stress and strain rate tensors, vorticity, integral and differential equations of mass, momentum, and energy conservation. Potential flow.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
- W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gerard A Ateshian
Info - 3 points
RESEARCH & PROF DEVPT WORKSHOP
- Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
- T 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Seth R Kimmel
CULPA: 7
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- 2 points
PLASMA PHYSICS I
Debye screening. Motion of charged particles in space- and time-varying electromagnetic fields. Two-fluid description of plasmas. Linear electrostatic and electromagnetic waves in unmagnetized and magnetized plasmas. The magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model, including MHD equilibrium, stability, and MHD waves in simple geometries.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gerald A Navratil
CULPA: 2 h-index: 46 Info - 3 points
Business Analytics
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
- TR 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
- TR 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Faculty
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Gerry Tsoukalas
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Ciamac Moallemi
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Instructor:
Gerry Tsoukalas
Info - 1.5 points
ISSUES IN POLITICAL THEORY
Prerequisites: the instructors permission prior to registration. A survey of selected issues and debates in political theory. Areas of the field discussed include normative political philosophy, history of political thought, and the design of political and social institutions.
- Department: Political Science
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Turkuler Isiksel
CULPA: 3
h-index: 9
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THEORY & METHOD-STUDY OF RELIG
“Theories and Methods” courses in any field are commonly unwieldy beasts. They cannot but be a compromise-formation between contemporary questions and texts, ideas, and definitions (alongside a whole lot of problems) that we have inherited as “canonical” in a field. In the best case, such a course is a passageway into deeper engagement with a field, its histories, its complexities, and its possibilities from which we might wrest and build viable futures. Disciplinary fields are structures where power and knowledge are produced and reproduced. The study of religion is no exception. The questions of “how is ‘religion’ constructed as a category here?” and “what work does the designation of something or someone as ‘religious’ do?” will, therefore, accompany us throughout our work over the course of this semester. We will also examine how different methodological commitments shape what objects of study and which questions come to the fore for the study of religion. This course will explore how the study of religion is not reducible to the study of traditions and communities that are readily recognized as “religious.” However, the vexed histories of the construction of “religion” as a category of knowledge production does also not negate that there are large, varied, and flourishing communities of practice beyond the university for whom whether or not “religion” exists is not at all a question. Holding these layers of complexity in play, this course seeks to introduce students exemplarily to key texts and concepts that have shaped the study of religion as we encounter it today as an academic discipline.
- Department: Religion
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dominique Townsend
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
APPLIED STATISTICS I
First semester of the doctoral program sequence in applied statistics.
- Department: Statistics
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Andrew Gelman
CULPA: 6 Wikipedia h-index: 112 Info - 4 points
OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
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Instructor:
Faculty
h-index: 37 Info - 0 points
Statistics & Business Analytics
Stats & Business Analytic
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
- R 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
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Instructor:
Charles R Guetta
Info - 3 points
MPHIL THESIS WRITING SEMINAR II
MPHIL THS WRTNG SMNR II
This seminar is PART 2 for second and third year students who are writing their MPhil thesis. It will assume the form of a yearlong seminar during which students design, research, and write up their MPhil projects. These projects can be based on any kind of sociological method, quantitative or qualitative. The thesis will assume the form of an article that can be submitted to a social science journal. The seminar will help you to find an interesting question, a way to answer it, and a mode of communicating this to fellow sociologists in a way that they might find worth paying attention to. The summer break between the two semesters will allow students who don’t come to the first semester with ready-to-analyze data to gather such data (through ethnographic work, archival research, scraping the internet, combining existing survey data, etc.).
- Department: Sociology
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Barbara J Kiviat
Info - 4 points
APPLIED STATISTICS III
Prerequisites: STAT GR6102 Modern Bayesian methods offer an amazing toolbox for solving science and engineering problems. We will go through the book Bayesian Data Analysis and do applied statistical modeling using Stan, using R (or Python or Julia if you prefer) to preprocess the data and postprocess the analysis. We will also discuss the relevant theory and get to open questions in model building, computing, evaluation, and expansion. The course is intended for students who want to do applied statistics and also those who are interested in working on statistics research problems.
- Department: Statistics
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Yuqi Gu
h-index: 6 Info - 4 points
Introduction to Biostatistical Methods
INTRO-BIOSTATISTICAL METH
Like many fields of learning, biostatistics has its own vocabulary often seen in medical and public health literature. Phrases like statistical significance", "p-value less than 0.05", "95% confident", and "margin of error" can have enormous impact in a world that relies on statistics to make decisions: Should Drug A be recommended over Drug B? Should a national policy on X be implemented? Does Vitamin C truly prevent colds? However, do we really know what these terms and phrases mean? Understanding the theory and methodology behind study design, estimation and hypothesis testing is crucial to ensuring that findings and practices in public health and biomedicine are supported by reliable evidence.
- Department: Biostatistics
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Instructor:
Sarah G Ayton
h-index: 1 Info - 3 points
PROSEMINAR-HISTORICL MUSICOLGY
Introduction to Historical Musicology: the history of the discipline, major areas of research, source materials, and methodological problems.
Statistical Consulting
Prerequisites: STAT GR6102 or instructor permission. The Deparatments doctoral student consulting practicum. Students undertake pro bono consulting activities for Columbia community researchers under the tutelage of a faculty mentor.
- Department: Statistics
- M 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
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Instructor:
Ashley Datta
Info - 3 points
Finite Element Method for Fluid Flow and
FEM for Fluid Flow and FS
Solving convection-dominated phenomena using finite element method (FEM), including convection-diffusion equation, Navier-Stokes, equation for incompressible viscous flows, and nonlinear fluid-structure interactions (FSI). Foundational concepts of FEM include function spaces, strong and weak forms, Galerkin FEM, isoparametric discretization, stability analysis, and error estimates. Mixed FEM for Stokes flow, incompressibility and inf-sup conditions. Stabilization approaches, including residue-based variational multiscale methods. Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) formulation for nonlinear FSI, and selected advanced topics of research interest.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
- T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Vijay Vedula
h-index: 17 Info - 3 points
THE BODY IN HLTH & DISEASE II
- Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
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Instructor:
John T Grbic
h-index: 36 Info - 0 points
MEDIEVAL IBERIAN SAINTS
- Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Patricia E Grieve
CULPA: 15 Info - 3 points
Statistical Computing with SAS
STATISTICAL COMPUTING WIT
This is a Public Health Course. Public Health classes are offered on the Health Services Campus at 168th Street. For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses
- Department: Biostatistics
- W 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Brady Rippon
Info - 3 points
SCREENWRITING THREE
A two-semester intensive screenwriting workshop with one instructor. The Screenwriting 3 and Screenwriting 4 class sequence allows for the careful and more sustained development of a feature-length script. In the fall semester, students further develop an idea for a screenplay and write the first act (approximately 30 pages). In the spring semester, students finish writing the script and, time permitting, begin a first revision.
- Department: Film
- W 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
- W 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
- T 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
- T 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Minhal Baig
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Christina Lazaridi
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Andrew S Bienen
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Trey Ellis
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FICTION SEMINAR
WRITING POWERFUL DIALOGUE
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- Department: Writing
- W 10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
James Canon
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FICTION SEMINAR
ANIMAL TALES
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- Department: Writing
- F 10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Anelise I Chen
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FICTION SEMINAR
Narrative Design
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- Department: Writing
- T 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Joshua Furst
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
FICTION SEMINAR
BUILDING A BETTER NOVEL
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- Department: Writing
- T 1:10 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Victor D Lavalle
CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info - 3 points
FICTION SEMINAR
THE METAPHOR LAB
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- Department: Writing
- W 10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Hilary J Leichter
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FICTION SEMINAR
SPECULATIVE FICTION
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- Department: Writing
- M 10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Lincoln M Michel
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FICTION SEMINAR
AUTHORITY
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- Department: Writing
- M 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mina Seckin
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FICTION SEMINAR
THE RUMBLING
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- Department: Writing
- W 10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Lynn S Strong
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FICTION SEMINAR
BUILDING A SCENE
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- Department: Writing
- W 10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Lara Vapnyar
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The Hybrid Voice: Comparative Diasporas
COMP DIASPORAS & TRANSLATION
A seminar on the theory and practice of translation from the perspective of comparative diaspora studies, drawing on the key scholarship on diaspora that has emerged over the past two decades focusing on the central issue of language in relation to migration, uprooting, and imagined community. Rather than foregrounding a single case study, the syllabus is organized around the proposition that any consideration of diaspora requires a consideration of comparative and overlapping diasporas, and as a consequence a confrontation with multilingualism, creolization and the problem of translation. The final weeks of the course will be devoted to a practicum, in which we will conduct an intensive workshop around the translation projects of the student participants.
- Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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FUNDAMENTALS OF ECOLOGY
Prerequisites: Required course for first year Ph.D. students and second year M.A. students on academic track. Covers foundational topics and developments in many branches of ecology, including population, community, and ecosystems ecology.
- Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Topics in Database Systems
AGENTIC SYSTEMS MADE REAL
- Department: Computer Science
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Junfeng Yang
CULPA: 4 h-index: 33 Info - 3 points
LEGAL METHODS
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Jane C Ginsburg
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Richard Briffault
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Philip Bobbitt
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Shyamkrishna Balganesh
h-index: 20 Info - 1 points