LEGAL PRACTICE WORKSHOP I

• Department: Law
• F 8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• F 10:40 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• R 6:20 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• F 8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• R 1:20 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
• R 6:20 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Trisha Lynn Smith
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• 2 points

LEGAL PRACTICE WORKSHOP I

• Department: Law
• R 6:20 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Dan Berger
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• Instructor: Gerald Lebovits
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• 2 points

Infrastructure Cost-Benefit Analysis

Prerequisites: SIPA U6300 or SIPA U6400 This course aims to provide students with the analytical tools to assess and evaluate infrastructure projects in the United States and worldwide. In particular, students will explore the methodologies and techniques as they relate to cost-benefit analysis with a special focus on hands-on problems and experiences. Each lecture is structured in two parts: theory/methodology in the first half of each class and application of the learned concepts through an analysis of case studies in the second half. Case studies will cover various applications of CBA as it relates to infrastructure (not general public policy issues as those are addressed in other courses). Examples of such case studies are transit investments in the US, water and wastewater infrastructure improvements, electricity grid upgrades or airport expansions. Case studies will cover both the US and developing country contexts. Throughout the semester students will be expected to complete a cost-benefit analysis in the form of a group project. The project will consist of all important components of such an analysis such as a literature review, methodology section, description of project scenarios to be evaluated, compilation and monetization of the main costs and benefits, development of an Excel model including discounting and sensitivity analyses. The quantitative analysis and estimation of benefits and costs will be critical and require students to be familiar with spreadsheet applications and formulas in Microsoft Excel. Working with actual project and performance data will be required as much as is feasible in each case.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexander Heil
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• 3 points

TORTS

• Department: Law
• F 10 a.m.-noon
• MTW 2:50 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Benjamin L Liebman
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• Instructor: Thomas W Merrill
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• 4 points

INTRO TO EPID FOR NUTRITIONIST

• Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
• MW 2 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeri W Nieves
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• 3 points

Politics of Policymaking: Developing Cou

This course is an introduction to the politics of policymaking in developing countries. Public policymaking- the process by which political actors make decisions on a range of policy issues – affects nearly every aspect of our daily lives, including our access to safe air, water, food, education, and healthcare. This class examines how decision-makers in developing countries choose appropriate tools and strategies to address the persistent political, social, and economic problems affecting their citizens. The motivations, challenges, resources, and outcomes of public policymaking in developing countries often differ significantly from those in developed countries. In addition, policymakers are also embedded within their own knowledge environments, which determines how they bring systematic evidence and scientific knowledge to bear upon their understanding of social problems and their preferred solutions. This course examines how contextual factors condition processes and outcomes of policymaking in developing countries. Ultimately, public policy professionals need a conceptual foundation in identifying patterns of behavior and outcomes in policymaking alongside hands-on training in tools and analysis methods that facilitate deliberation and design, ultimately, the implementation of policymaking strategies in their specific political environments. This course provides the conceptual foundation and practical tools public policy professionals need to understand and operate in their political environment.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Rumela Sen
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• 4 points

Crowdsourced Storytelling for Policy Mak

We will explore the role that visual evidence produced by regular people and advocacy groups plays in local and global discussions around conflict, development and human rights. We will also learn how to find, verify and weave together video and photos sourced from people and organizations around the world into compelling multimedia packages. News organizations like The New York Times have launched “visual forensics teams” and agencies like Storyful.com have burst onto the scene to help vet, verify and license videos and photo uploaded to social media. They say an image is worth 1000 words -- well, creating and leveraging video evidence is worth ten thousand press releases. This course will help you develop the skills to find and craft the compelling content you (or your organization) can use to get your message heard. Throughout the semester, we will look at the impact and implications of specific cases, as well as rights and permissions, ethics, and strategies for verifying found footage and photos.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 3 points

Politics of Policymaking: Comparative Po

Politics of Policymaking-Discu

Corequisites: PUAF U6120 This course is the required discussion section for PUAF U6120.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• F 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• F 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Rumela Sen
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• 0 points

CAPSTONE: FOUNDATIONS OF CONFLICT ANALYS

CAPSTONE: FND OF CNFLCT A

• Department: Negotiation & Conflict Resolution
• S 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Amy E Sereday
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• Instructor: Courtney A Chicvak
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• 3 points

Design for Social Innovation

Design for Social Innovation is a project-based course where students work in teams to solve real-world problems on behalf of social sector clients including nonprofits, social enterprises, and government agencies. Students work as “intrapreneurs” (entrepreneurs within organizations) on innovation projects on behalf of client organizations, looking at their client’s organizational or programmatic challenges through the lens of design thinking and human-centered design.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Adam Royalty
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• 3 points

Impact Investing and Financial Innovatio

Impact Invest & Fin Innovation

This condensed course provides a solid understanding of impact investing, at the intersection of public policy, development, entrepreneurship, finance and law. We combine a theoretical approach, practical experience in emerging markets and case studies (education in Brazil, microfinance in Mexico and India, FinTech in Kenya and Brazil). Students are expected to develop personal projects in lieu of the exam (papers or business plans). Within the larger category of Sustainable Finance, Impact Investing is attracting growing interest from investors, academia and from the third sector. Impact investing allocates resources with a financial, social and environmental return, while the impact is both intentional and measured. We analyze the latest global trends in Impact Investing, its revolutionary proposal and its limitations. Financial innovation plays a key role in the impact agenda, through innovative financial instruments and through inclusive financial services boosted by FinTech.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Frederic A de Mariz
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• 1.5 points

Storytelling and The Art of Creating Soc

Creating Soc Impact Campaigns

After countless videos of police brutality, why did the video of George Floyd’s murder dramatically accelerate the pace of cultural and policy change that had been demanded by Black Lives Matter since 2013?  How did the Covid-19 pandemic impact this and other campaigns?  After years of governmental and NGO campaigns to reduce teen pregnancy, how was it that a TV show became one of the main drivers of reducing teen pregnancy to the lowest point in recorded history?  After losing 31 state referendums, why did a new narrative approach enable the gay marriage campaign start winning nationwide?  These examples are part of broader social impact campaigns that combined the right mix of strategy and narrative to create change.  A social impact campaign is one that creates a significant, positive change that addresses a pressing social issue. Often, there is too little focus on the power of narrative to change behavior and drive action.  This class will explore all aspects of social impact campaigns that harnessed the power of “effective” stories to engage audiences and prompt action.  Additionally, we will investigate how corporations and brands develop campaigns and how they partner with the government, foundations and NGOs.  Students will have the chance to question some of the leading creators/practitioners as they create their own social impact campaign.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Stephen Friedman
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• 3 points

TEXT ANALYSIS

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

Impact Investing: Essential Skills

Impact investing is young but fast-growing industry. An increasing number of philanthropists, traditional investors, and asset managers look to impact investment as a compelling asset class. Entrepreneurs tackling social and environmental issues are finding in impact investors a more reliable and better-aligned source of capital to finance their ventures. The industry requires a committed, talented, and well-prepared pool of capital to continue evolving and growing. This class aims to provide the students with some of the essential skills and tools they will require to work and thrive in the impact investing industry. This is an experiential course designed to introduce students to impact investing and provide them with the skills used by impact investors every day. Students will work on the key "products" required in an impact investment transaction, including: assessing a possible impact investment; writing an investment memo with a full impact analysis, and presenting an investment proposal to a group of seasoned impact investors. **THIS COURSE MEETS ONLINE VIA ZOOM SAT 10/9 FROM 9-11am EST, THEN IN-PERSON FRIDAY 10/15 FROM 3-6pm EST, SATURDAY 10/16 FROM 9am-2pm EST, AND SUNDAY 10/17 FROM 12-3pm EST

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• U noon-3 p.m.
• 1.5 points

AMERICAN LITIGATION PRACTICE

• Department: Law
• M 8 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Jay G Safer
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• 3 points

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

• Department: Law
• MTW 9:10 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• TWR 10:40 a.m.-noon
• MW 8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• TWR 1:20 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
• MW 2:50 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
• TR 1:20 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
• MTW 10:40 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Jamal K Greene
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• Instructor: Christina M Duffy Ponsa
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• Instructor: Jessica J Bulman
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• Instructor: Christina M Duffy Ponsa
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• Instructor: Philip Hamburger
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• Instructor: David Pozen
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• 4 points

WAR & SOCIAL THEORY

In this class, we will think about the various ways in which philosophers, social theorists, historians and anthropologists have thought about war. More specifically, the course focuses on a set of key themes and questions that have been central to such writings: the nature of violence and the question of responsibility or accountability, shifting technologies of warfare (including, technologies of representation), and the phenomenology and aftermath of warfare, for civilians and for combatants. The questions that drive this seminar are theoretical and historical, as well as ethical and political. For example, how do shifting understandings of the trauma of soldiers shape ethical questions and political conversations regarding perpetration and the question of responsibility? Or, when we think warfare through new technologies (cinematic, action at a distance) from whose perspective are we theorizing or trying to understand the experience of war? How might we analyze the very different affective responses that different forms of violence-or of perpetration -elicit?

• Department: Anthropology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Nadia Abu El-Haj
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• 4 points

Social Value Investing: a Framework for

Social Value Investing provides a new methodology to more effectively address some of society’s most difficult and intractable challenges. Although many of our world’s problems may seem too great and too complex to solve—inequality, climate change, affordable housing, food insecurity—solutions to these challenges do exist, and will be found through new partnerships bringing together leaders from the public, private, and philanthropic sectors. This course presents a five-point management framework for developing and measuring the success of such partnerships. Inspired by value investing—one of history’s most successful investment paradigms—the framework provides tools to maximize collaborative efficiency and positive social impact, so that major public programs can deliver innovative, inclusive, and long-lasting solutions. The course also provides students with practical insights on the ways that public, private, and nonprofit managers and policy advisors are trying to build successful cross-sector collaborations. This course is founded on a mix of management theory, tools for effective public management, and exposure to real-world situations that have challenged conventional management styles. In addition to readings from the textbook, students will prepare for weekly lectures and discussion through reading relevant articles, case studies in PDF format, and links to short video content provided on Canvas. Lectures will combine presentations, case method teaching, discussion, content provided on Canvas, group exercises, and guest speakers. You should come to each lecture prepared to engage in a lively dialogue with prepared questions.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• 3 points

GRANT WRITING

• Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
• 1-2 points

STAGE COMBAT

• Department: Theatre Arts
• F 9 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
• F 11 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jacqueline Holloway
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• 1 points

Gender, Globalization, and Human Rights

Gender,Globalizatn & Hum Right

Prerequisites: Students who have not taken either International Human Rights Law or International Law must obtain instructor permission to enroll From the ‘feminization of migration' to labor market effects of trade agreements, from the recognition of rape as a war crime to the emergence of transnational advocacy movements focused on women's and LGBTQ rights, globalization is being shaped by and reshaping gender relations. Human rights norms are directly implicated in these processes. The development of global and regional institutions increases the likelihood that national policies affecting gender relations will be subject to international scrutiny. At the same time, local activists redefine international norms in terms of their own cultural and political frameworks with effects that impact general understandings. What ‘human rights' can women claim, where, how and from whom? What human rights can LGBT people claim? How can we craft effective and fair policies on the basis of the existing human rights framework?

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Yasmine Ergas
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 10 Info
• 3 points

Advances in Ecology, Evolution, and Envi

Advances in E3B

This one-credit seminar is designed for PhD students from any department in any school at Columbia University. We will read contemporary literature and examine case studies on designing, conducting, and communicating research projects that contribute to solutions to climate change and related problems of the Anthropocene. PhD students will have the opportunity to share their research and reflect on how it might contribute to solutions.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• R 4:30 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Ruth Defries
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 114 Info
• 1-3 points

CAPSTONE: APPLYING CONFLICT ANALYSIS

CAPST: APPLYING CNFLCT AN

• Department: Negotiation & Conflict Resolution
• SS 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Betsy A Keating
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• 3 points

CLOWN

CLOWN II

In this class, we will build up the actor’s physical and mental muscles via exercises, games, and assignments that rediscover uncensored child-like wonder. We will attempt to relax our brains, open up our hearts and move our bodies with great pleasure together, which will cultivate an intrinsic appetite for an open, vulnerable, generous, ferocious, playful, rigorous, surprising and impulsive presence. This state of flow, hopefully, will be able to find its rightful place in any role and in any medium you pursue. Most of this semester will be spent on exercises in pursuit of your unique individual clowns as we necessarily soften and shed physical and emotional holds by inviting a sense of play and imagination. These exercises will gradually allow your latent clown-within (i.e. your talent / humanity) to show up in the room. Towards the end of this introductory class, we will encounter the smallest mask on earth – the Red Nose! – which not only doesn't mask, but instead draws attention to and magnifies YOU. We will invite your generous openness, ferocious abandon, insistent honesty and gleeful mischief to make a larger footprint in your work, so the top layer of the iceberg that is your socially-conditioned selves can slowly melt away. You will sweat. You will make songs. You will listen deeper and harder. You will be engaged and relaxed at the same time. You will release some glorious ha-ha’s and emotional wa-wa’s into the ether. This all will be silly. You will make something disastrous and messy. You will confront fears and conjure bravery. You will make something wonderful and surprising – as you unearth the engine behind all that makes you interesting, that which makes you authentic. What makes you YOU. Your clown – the one and only.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• T 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Ralf Jean-Pierre
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• 0-3 points

ANALYSIS & PROBABILITY I

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

• Department: Mathematics
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ioannis Karatzas
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• 4.5 points

RIGHTING WRONGS

• Department: Anthropology
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: David Scott
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 72 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

CLOUD COMPUTING

Topics in Software engineering arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis. Since the content of this course changes, it may be repeated for credit with advisor approval. Consult the department for section assignment.

• Department: Computer Science
• F 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Donald F Ferguson
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• 3 points

LAW & INTERNET SOCIETY

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

• Department: Law
• W 2:20 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Eben Moglen
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• 2 points

ACTING I

• Department: Theatre Arts
• M 2:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ronald Van Lieu
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• 3 points

UNFAIR COMP & REL TOPICS IN IP

• Department: Law
• MW 2:50 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Clarisa Long
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• 4 points

LEGISLATION AND REGULATION

• Department: Law
• TWR 9:10 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• MW 2:50 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard Briffault
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• Instructor: Jeremy K Kessler
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• 4 points

Migration and Human Development

Migration & Human Development

International migration's substantial economic and social effects are at the forefront of today's academic discussion, international debate as well as national policy strategies. This course introduces students to the key notions, norms, and narratives of international migration from economic, legal, sociological, international relations, and normative perspectives. Students will learn about transnational livelihood strategies and channels through which migration and migrants can enhance human development especially in their countries of origin, while creating better opportunities for themselves and contributing to their communities of destination. This includes in-depth discussions of the determinants, flows and effects of emigration, immigration, return, financial and social remittances, and diaspora investment. Highlighting migration phenomena in different scenarios in the global North, as well as in the global South, the course emphasizes the agency of migrants and gender differences in the experiences and effects, as well as the role their legal status plays. It will address the root causes of migration and the protection of migrants' human, social and labor rights. The course also furthers participants' understanding of the policy responses in both, the international and the domestic spheres. To this end, it introduces students to key policies and governance schemes, including temporary labor migration programs, bilateral labor migration agreements, and diaspora engagement institutions.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Naujoks
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• 3 points

COMPLEX ANALYSIS/RIEMANN SURF

Topics include holomorphic functions; analytic continuation; Riemann surfaces; theta functions and modular forms.

• Department: Mathematics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Duong H Phong
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• 4.5 points

Politics of Sustainable Development

Political Development

This course is designed to provide an introduction to the process of political development. It introduces a set of analytic tools based on the strategic perspective of political science and political economy to evaluate the current debates in political development and to draw policy-relevant conclusions. Throughout the course, we will discuss the political dimensions and challenges of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, along with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and their transformations as modular building blocks. First, we explore the politics of economic development: the role of leadership, political systems, and institutions in promoting growth. We study the mechanisms that underlie the persistence of poverty. Utilizing numerous country case studies, we will answer: What is political development? What explains why some countries have prospered while others remain poor, violent, or unequal? Why do we observe growth, stability and freedoms in some and not in others? Second, we will explore the causes and consequences of the state, political institutions, and democracy. What is at the root of state capacity, political participation, and other aspects of political development? What is the role of property rights and rule of law in development? How do we promote gender equality and empowerment? How do we detect and mitigate the effects of corruption? How do we foster political stability? In the third part of the course, we will focus on policies that foster stability and development. We will critically examine the effects of Western intervention in the developing world, historical legacies of slavery and colonialism, and the various tools of foreign policy: aid, democracy promotion and military interventions. We will further explore the extent to which outside interventions alleviated poverty and whether it improved public goods provision or promoted political stability. Finally, the course will consider the role of emerging powers in the context of global governance and their influence on the future course of development in the Global South.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• R 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Gizem Acikgoz
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• 3 points

Extractive Industries and Sustainable De

Extractive Indust & Sust Devp

The guiding questions behind the course are: How can extractive industry investments be leveraged for sustainable and equitable development, particularly in low-income resource-rich countries? What is the international, national and regional regulatory framework under which such investments are made? Who are the stakeholders, and what are their respective interests, roles, responsibilities and opportunities? How can the challenges of poverty alleviation, environmental sustainability and governance be addressed in an integrated, multi-stakeholder framework for extractive industry investments that promotes sustainable development, respects the profitability of private-sector investments, and builds the mutual trust needed for long-term investments? The course covers the inter-related challenges of governance (fair and efficient negotiations, contracts, policy and planning framework, sound resource management, effective institutions), infrastructure (concession arrangements for shared platforms, corridor development), economic diversification (industrial policy, training, local procurement), environmental management (climate change resilience and adaptation, avoidance and management of catastrophic environmental events), and economic development (budgetary processes and tools, community engagement, integrated approaches to poverty alleviation at the local and national levels). Students who are interested in registering for this course should e-mail the instructor for permission.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa E Sachs
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• 3 points

Selected Issues on the Federal Reserve &

Sel Issues Fed Reserve & Finan

The seminar will offer an insider perspective on current issues facing the Federal Reserve and detail the various interconnections between the Fed and financial markets.  The course will cover the extraordinary policy actions of the Fed in response to the global pandemic, and compare this crisis to the global financial crisis of 2007-2009.  The seminar will include studying the evolution of the Fed’s monetary policy framework, including specifics on the Fed’s market transactions, and will also explore key financial market concepts that are relevant to the central bank and fundamental to financial stability.  There will also be a focus on other topical issues relevant for the Federal Reserve.  For the Fall 2021 semester, current issues include the shifting outlook for the Fed’s monetary policy and asset purchases, the question of whether central banks should target income inequality, the escalating focus on the potential for central bank to issue digital currencies, and other emerging topics.​

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Patrick O Dwyer
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• 1.5 points

Managerial Economics

• Department: Business Economics
• MWF 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• MWF 8:30 a.m.-10 a.m.
• MWF 10:20 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• MWF 8:30 a.m.-10 a.m.
• MWF 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• MWF 10:20 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• MWF 3:50 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonas K Hjort
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• Instructor: Cailin Slattery
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• Instructor: Jonas K Hjort
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• 1.5 points

Accounting for International and Public

The purpose of this course is to enable you to become an informed user of financial information. To be properly informed you need to understand financial statements, the note disclosures and the language of accounting and financial reporting. We will focus on the three major financial statements – the balance sheet, the income statement and the statement of cash flows - that companies prepare for use by management and external parties. We will examine the underlying concepts that go into the preparation of these financial statements as well as specific accounting rules that apply when preparing financial statements. As we gain an understanding of the financial information, we will look at approaches to analyze the financial strength and operations of an entity. We will use actual financial statements to understand how financial information is presented.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• R 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• F 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• F 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Norman Bartczak
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• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO DRAMATURGY

This course provides an introduction to major schools of thought about play structure and the practice of dramaturgy in the western theatre. Through directed readings and an ongoing practical project centered around one play, students will develop a deeper understanding of how dramatic writing functions as a blueprint for a life on the stage, and a refined vocabulary to describe story structures and dramatic writing techniques. By learning to view and question a play from a kaleidoscopic range of angles, students will enhance their abilities to take a printed text onto the live stage.

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

Global Economic Environment

• Department: Business Economics
• MW 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Tommaso Porzio
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• Instructor: Jesse Schreger
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• 1.5 points

THEORETICAL STATISTICS I

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

• Department: Statistics
• F 1:30 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Zhiliang Ying
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• 4 points

THEORETICAL STATISTICS III

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

• Department: Statistics
• MW 7 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Bodhisattva Sen
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• 4 points

Development Economics

This course describes the history and current situation of the level and distribution of global income, analyses the theory of economic growth and the empirical evidence on the factors influencing growth, including physical and human capital accumulation, technical change and population growth, explores the effects of trade, foreign direct investment, natural resources, geography, and public sector institutions on economic growth and distribution of income, and examines how financial development and exchange rate regimes affect the prospects for economic growth.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Francisco L Rivera-Batiz
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• 3 points

Technopolitics, Democracy, and Developme

Technopol, Democracy & Develop

Development is a field of expertise that has often been vulnerable to political challenge and intellectual uncertainty. Forms of technical and economic knowledge that claim to master the present and provide a path to the future repeatedly turn out to be speculative, misguided, or damaging. Today, however, the situation seems more serious. The planetary problems of human-induced climate change, depletion of fossil energy reserves, and instability of financial systems have placed in question many of the foundations on which modern development knowledge was based. in the past, the practice of development was thought by some to constitute a kind of anti-politics. By transforming struggles over resources and livelihoods into technical questions to be solved by the expertise of outsiders, it was argued, development narrowed the possibilities for democratic contestation. Do the new uncertainties open up new kinds of political possibility? Can conflicts over the techniques and ends of development create new arenas and methods for democratic engagement? To answer this question requires new ways of thinking about technology and democracy. The modern theory and practice of democracy developed, from around the 1930s, with a particular view of technology and expertise, and with a particular view of nature as the object of technological transformation. Although technological transformations made possible the emergence of modern mass politics, theories of democracy tend to treat technology as merely as an object of policy-making. However, socio-technical change introduces not just new objects of policy. It alters the boundaries and nature of collective life, generating new forces, agents, and possible futures. The task is to recognize and attempt to describe these sites of uncertainty and contestation. this course begins by considering alternative ways to think about technology and politics, then explores a series of cases of technological uncertainty to examine their potential for generating new ways of thinking about and practicing democracy. A particular focus of this year's course will be financial technologies and the politics of debt. In the context of a continuing global financial disorder, we will look back at the history of development as, among other things, the evolution of mechanisms for the creation of debt and the government of populations through credit arrangements. The politics of debt is often related, today, to the wider processes of "financialization." We will address it differently, by relating debt to the h

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Timothy Mitchell
  Wikipedia h-index: 34 Info
• 3 points

FIN STATEMNT ANALYSIS & INTERP

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

• Department: Law
• R 4:30 p.m.-7:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Norman Bartczak
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

SW PRACTICE WITH CHILDREN

• Department: Social Work
• T 2 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• W 8:30 p.m.-10:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Heidi Horsley
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• Instructor: Alexza Gutierrez
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• 3 points

FOUNDATION OF CLINICAL MED III: TUTORIAL

• Department: Medicine
• 0 points

MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS I-DIS

• Department: Economics
• F 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Yu Fu Wong
  h-index: 1 Info
• 0 points

Tech & Tactics for Innovative Policymaki

Tech & Tactics-Innov Policymak

This course will equip the next generation of policymakers with the skills, strategies, and savvy they’ll need to secure lasting change in their governments. Building on a foundation that extracts practical guidance from political philosophers and public servants, the course will draw from behind-the-scenes experiences of how policy is developed using technology and tools. It will also provide students with a suite of resources for their own careers with communication, persuasion, and political tactics that will empower them to navigate the complex and frustrating bureaucracies in any government agency or risk-averse institutions.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexis Wichowski
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points