Tech Arts: Advanced Post Production covers advanced techniques for picture and sound editing and the post production workflow process. The goal of the course is to give you the capabilities to excel in the field of post production. We will focus extra attention to concepts and workflows related to long-form projects that can contain a team of technical artists across the post production pipeline. We will cover preparing for a long-form edit, digital script integration, color management and continuity, advanced trimming, and advanced finishing. The hands-on lessons and exercises will be conducted using the industry-standard Non-Linear Editing Systems, Avid Media Composer, and Davinci Resolve. Each week’s class will consist of hands-on demonstrations and self-paced practice using content created by the students and provided by the program.
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This course examines comparative political behavior from a political economy perspective, focusing on how incentives drive the micro-level behavior of voters and politicians. Students will rigorously examine contemporary debates, both theoretically and empirically. Student will also combine formal models and modern research designs to generate hypotheses, identify causal effects, and ultimately seek to interpret them. The course draws from evidence from across the democratic world. The goals of this course are twofold. The substantive goal is to familiarize students with theoretical arguments and frontier empirical evidence pertaining to central questions in comparative political economy. The methodological goal is to help students think critically and conduct cutting edge research. Specifically, the course aims to empower students to read and even write formal models, implement modern causal inference techniques in their research, and combine the two approaches to interpret the evidence.
For British historians, the term cultural history holds special meaning as a category of historiography originating in the Marxist school associated with the journal
Past and Present
. That legacy spread through a variety of channels created by historians of material culture, political aims, elite forms of leisure, religious activity, and popular practices and belief. This course will examine a selection of these approaches as they have evolved since the 1970s. We will also attempt to build our own definition of cultural history by following a roughly chronological framework from the early eighteenth century to the late Victorian age while asking the questions, “Where has the aim of identifying a particular British culture taken historians over time?” and “How have historians used the notion of culture to represent the values, outlooks, and behavior that characterized British life in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?”
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Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Students will make presentations of original research.
This intensive course offers an introduction to multiple disciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches to the major issues defining the emergence, persistence, and transformation of the countries that once comprised the Soviet bloc. The course explores the history, politics, economies, societies, and political cultures of Russia, the non-Russian republics of the former USSR, and East Central Europe, focusing on the conceptual, methodological, and theoretical developments employed by Soviet studies in North America and related disciplines. It also critically interrogates the enduring relevance and problems posed by the widespread use of the term “Soviet legacy” in reference to contemporary features and challenges faced by the region. The intensive nature of this course is reflected in two ways- preparation and focus. First, the course carries a substantial reading load designed to inform and prepare students for the course sessions. These assignments will mostly be academic readings, but may also include short videos, news articles, and digital archival materials. In order to use our time together productively, the lectures and discussion will build upon, not review, the assignments for the session. Each session typically will be split into 2 segments, roughly of 55-60 minutes each. Many of these segments will be taught by guest lecturers who will give 30 mins presentations on their topic and then field questions. During our limited time for Q&A students should ask single, concise questions.
Our goal is to help maximize the impact of behavioral and biobehavioral interventions for treatment and prevention. This course focuses on research study frameworks, designs and approaches to create, optimize and then evaluate these interventions. Students will learn how to apply engineering-inspired concept of optimization to the study of behavioral, biobehavioral and biomedical interventions across public health fields. The course will be grounded in the multiphase optimization strategy (MOST) framework. Under the optimization phase of the MOST framework, the course will introduce experimental designs with an emphasis on sequential, multiple assignment randomized trial (SMART) which is a way to develop high-quality adaptive interventions. Micro-randomized Trails which are referred to as MRTs, a way to develop mHealth Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions (JITAIs) also will be covered. Students will understand the fundamentals of these designs, when to apply these designs and start to critically evaluate these designs. Students will accomplish these goals by examination of recently published optimization studies and will outline their own studies using these designs.
This course provides the graduate midwifery student with theoretical knowledge of complex conditions that may arise during the antepartum period. Maintaining a person-centered approach to care is emphasized within the context of health equity.
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This diagnosis and management course identifies complex sexual and reproductive health issues within the scope of nurse midwifery practice. Emphasis will be on the nurse midwifery role in the management of complex cases which includes collaborative care and referrals. Concurrent supervised clinical experiences enhance and ground the didactic experience. Social and reproductive justice issues and health outcome measures with respect to disparities will be integrated throughout.
Readings of division-period Korean literary texts
This clinical course covers the broad scope of sexual, reproductive health and prenatal care including: the history and physical examination techniques aimed at understanding the physiologic parameters of sexual health and pregnancy and recognizing complex conditions, illness or risk for complication. This course focuses on the physical, emotional and educational needs of the person seeking midwifery care and covers a variety of clinical areas including health maintenance, screening, sexual health, family planning, preconception, pregnancy and late postpartum care.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. A graduate seminar designed to explore the content, process, and problems of China's political and economic reforms in comparative perspective. Please see the Courseworks site for details
Mental, neurological, and substance use (MNS) disorders are substantial drivers of the global burden of disease. The burden is particularly high in low-and-middle-income countries (LMIC) where over 80% of persons in need of MNS services go untreated. Yet for decades, attention to MNS epidemiologic research in LMIC was scarce relative to both psychiatric epidemiology studies conducted in high-income countries as well as infectious disease epidemiology studies in LMIC. Recently, however, the emerging field of global mental health has been recognized by international agencies, including the United Nations (via the Sustainable Development Goals) and the World Health Organization (via the Mental Health Action Plan) as major funding agencies, including NIH, CDC, and the UK MRC have followed suit in prioritizing global mental health research. As the field has emerged, challenges in how to appropriately conduct public mental health research in LMIC contexts have surfaced. Such challenges require the appropriate application of epidemiologic methods in order to accurately measure and describe MNS problems in LMIC and evaluate and implement intervention approaches. Epidemiologic methods to be discussed in this course include: complex survey designs to measure MNS prevalence in humanitarian and emergency settings; validation of mental health screening tools in the absence of a gold standard criterion among culturally diverse populations; evaluation of MNS intervention effectiveness using experimental and non-experimental designs; novel methods for assessing clinical competency and intervention fidelity of lay mental health providers in LMIC; and implementation science tools, designs, and analysis approaches for translating evidence-based interventions into practice in LMIC. The course is designed to complement Priorities in Global Mental Health (P6813), which provides a broad overview of priority issues in global mental health, and epidemiologic methods series courses (e.g., Quant Core Module / P6400, and Epidemiology II). The course is also designed to be practical in the sense that the intent is for students to learn the ‘how to’ of conducting global mental health epidemiologic studies in the field. Each lecture will apply a core epidemiologic method or concept (e.g., information and selection bias; survey, cohort, case-control, and RCT study designs; effect modification; and causal inference) to the field of global mental health. Through lectures, interactive Rise modules, accompan
This course is designed to offer a general introduction to early American history from the colonial era to the early national era in North America. The goal of the course is to introduce students to the early American field broadly defined. Through weekly discussions of selected monographs and essays we will explore the key themes of early American history, examine methodological innovations and changes, and explore shifting historiographic trends in this broadly defined chronological field. Accordingly, we will approach our study by examining a few important historical constructs – the representation of the western hemisphere as a New World; the fact that European colonists, their African slaves, and the imperial governments that ruled North America’s settler colonies were part of a larger Atlantic World --connecting people and political regimes in Europe, Africa and the America. And finally, we will wrestle with the fact that as late as the end of the eighteenth century the majority of the North American was controlled by autonomous indigenous peoples making colonial history a story of encounter between an emergent indigenous New World and the peoples and institutions of Europe Empire.
Comparative media is an emergent approach intended to draw upon and interrupt canonical ideas in film and media theory. It adopts a comparative approach to media as machines and aesthetic practices by examining contemporary media in relation to the introduction of earlier technologies. The class also extends our focus beyond the U.S. and Europe by examining other cultural locations of media innovation and appropriation. In doing so, it decenters normative assumptions about media and media theory while introducing students to a range of media practices past and present.
Clinical skills preparation is essential before a student enters clinical practicum. A variety of skills relevant to antepartum, well woman gynecology, and intrapartum care are taught and then practiced in simulation settings and peer practice.
The idea that technology––in particular information technologies––is democratizing is a truism whose origins go back to the postwar era. With the rise of digitization––i.e. the Internet, social media––this utopianism has accelerated, promising user autonomy, decentralization, and new forms of engagement and participation that will inevitably shape community and make the world a better place. This course seeks to problematize these claims by examining theories of digitization, democracy, and technical society. It questions the universalism that underlies such utopianism––in particular with regards to matters of race, gender, and ethnicity––approaching technologies as socially symbolic meanings that both build upon and produce new forms of knowledge, potentially engendering political inequality and anti-democracy. Welcoming students from departments across the university, the course aims to generate a cross-disciplinary dialogue about these issues in relation to art, culture, and society.
Moscow's annexation of Crimea in March 2014, the 2015 military intervention in Syria, and the cyber/information operations against US and European elections demonstrate that Russia remains a major world actor. Russia retains the world’s largest arsenal of nuclear weapons, sits atop large reserves of oil and natural gas, and enjoys veto power in the UN Security Council—ensuring Moscow a voice on most international issues. This course revolves around two key questions: (1) What are Moscow’s foreign and security policy goals? and (2) What tools are used to advance Russian goals? To address these questions, the syllabus is divided into three sections: 1. Russia’s “immutables”—those realities that largely shape Russia’s security perspective: geography, demography, economics, history and political culture. 2. Russia’s foreign/security policy process and its “toolkit”: diplomacy, economic and trade relationships, military and intelligence capabilities, including cyber intrusions and information warfare. 3. Review of Moscow's policies toward Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the US; Russian views of arms control; and case studies that examine the use of military force and/or cyber/information operations in Afghanistan (1979), Georgia (2008), Ukraine (2014), Syria (2015) and the US presidential election (2016).
This diagnosis and management course will focus on each physiologic system and include unique characteristics relevant to midwifery care throughout the lifespan. Complex health concerns will be included in the context of consultation, collaborative management and/or referral to specialists. The course will reinforce appropriate standards and scope of midwifery practice with a critical analysis of social and political influences on health care including the effects of racism and gender bias on a person’s health.
This course will introduce the student to the epistemology and scholarship of practice and to lifelong learning. Using the DNP Competencies in Comprehensive Care as the framework, students will analyze clinical decision-making and utilization of evidence for best clinical practices in a variety of reproductive health settings. Individual plans for guided study will be mapped for each student. Clinical review and discussion of interesting, complex cases from the practice environment will facilitate the students’ development of the knowledge base and skills essential to the role of the nurse midwife.
This course examines the politics of identity in visual art of the United States from the 1990s to the present alongside the development of sensory studies. We will consider the rise and fall in multicultural initiatives and the subsequent emergence of post-identity discourse in the arts that marks this period. Our focus is on artistic practices that challenge the visual rhetoric of race, gender, class, sexuality, and ethnicity. Students will read texts that fall under the rubrics of feminism, performance studies, musicology, African American and African Diaspora studies, and critical race theory among others. At the same time, literature on the history and social construction of the senses will provide a framework for us to explore how smell, sound, taste, and touch affect our experience of works of art as well as how we engage with one another. Key developments and exhibitions—such as the significant entry of practitioners from the African diaspora into the international art world, advancements in technology, the 1993 Whitney Biennial, and “Freestyle” (2001) at the Studio Museum in Harlem-—will anchor our discussion.
Individual work with an adviser to develop a topic and proposal for the Ph.D. dissertation.
A review of research methods from the perspective of social work research concerns. Topics include problem formulation, research design, data-gathering techniques, measurement, and data analysis. Selected aspects of these areas encountered in social work research are intensively reviewed in terms of social work research.
This course, which will be taught by a practitioner, will focus on United Nations peacekeeping operations as one of the main conflict management tools of the Security Council (SC) in Africa. Through an extensive series of case studies (Somalia, Rwanda, South Sudan, Libya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali, the Central African Republic and Cote d'Ivoire), It will closely examine the tool of peace keeping, the context in which it operates, the evolution of its doctrine, the lessons learned, and the challenges ahead. Drawing on the recent report of the High-level Independent Panel on peace operations (HIPPO), and the cases studies above, it will elaborate on the many issues in peacekeeping today,in particular the limits of the use of force, the protection of civilians, the nexus peacekeeping/peacebuilding, and the increased partnership with regional and subregional organizations.
Focuses on the science of behavioral intervention research and provides students with the knowledge and skills to design and evaluate such research. Covers research design, theory and its relationship to study aims, methodology, measurement and outcomes, efficacy and effectiveness clinical trials, different types of intervention research, sampling, recruitment, the process of intervention development, the use of process measures to examine intervention implementation, assessing fidelity and adherence, conducting data analysis, and the importance of research ethics.
Prerequisites: P6530 or equivalent For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses
Prerequisites: SIPA U6500 This course will introduce students to the basic concepts of Time Series Analysis (in the Time Domain) thereby allowing them to develop an appreciation for the range of available methods, their strengths and limitations, and their use in a research context. After completing the course, students will be able to examine critically the use of these methods in the technical literature and be capable of selecting, using and interpreting appropriate statistical methods for describing and analyzing time series data sets, in the context of their own work.
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The period of Southern history between the end of Reconstruction and World War I, during which the foundation was laid for a Southern Order more durable than any of its predecessors - either the Old South of King Cotton, the Confederate South of the Civil War era, or the Republican south of the Reconstruction. Field(s): US
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