Ex. In-House Counsel

• Department: Law
• M 4:20 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
• None None-None
• 2 points

MIDDLE EAST RESEARCH COLLOQ

This course is open to Ph.D. students and advanced M.A. students conducting research on aspects of the modern history, culture, and politics of the Middle East and adjacent regions.  The course has two aims. The first is to provide an opportunity to read and engage with some of the most recent scholarship in the field, especially work published in the last five years, organized around a number of current academic debates. The second is to provide a seminar in which those preparing a master’s paper, M.Phil. examination list, PhD. Prospectus, or a term paper intended for publication can develop and present a draft of their work. We will choose readings to accompany each presentation, focusing on recent scholarship that informs or extends the issues addressed in the research. The colloquium will enable students to clarify and test the questions that shape their work and better situate them within current scholarship. The course is intended primarily for MESAAS students. Those from other departments are welcome, but require the permission of the instructor to enroll.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Timothy Mitchell
  Wikipedia h-index: 34 Info
• 4 points

SEM-HISTORCL MUSICLGY-MID AGES

• Department: Music
• F 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Susan Boynton
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 3 points

COLL IN POLITICAL THOUGHT

FASCISM

Is fascism a threat today in the West, as it once was between the two world wars? What is distinctive about fascist movements or movement parties, when and why do they succeed in entering government and what are the tensions and dynamics of fascism in power as distinct from other authoritarian governments and regimes?  Is there a specific trajectory to fascist regimes and if so, how does it relate to empire or imperialist expansion?  The first part of this course will develop a working definition or ideal type of fascism as a movement, as a party in government, and as a distinct regime type, through a comparative analysis of the relevant cases in Italy, Germany, France and the United States.  The second part of the course will focus on 7 conceptual and analytic issues: the political structure of fascist regimes and the totalitarianism debate; the relationship of fascism to capitalism; fascist legality; fascist ideology; the mass psychology of fascism; the relationship of fascism to nationalism and empire and finally the comparison of fascism to populism.  Throughout, our interest will be the distinctiveness of Fascism as a subtype of authoritarianism, the contemporary relevance of fascism and the similarities and differences (and possible convergences) with contemporary populism.

• Department: Political Science
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Jean L Cohen
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia h-index: 63 Info
• 4 points

POR CAREER DEVELOPMENT COLLOQUIUM

• Department: Biostatistics
• T 3 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Marisa N Spann
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• 0.5 points

NEUROSCIENCE AND COGNITION

• Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
• Instructor: Katherine Dimitropoulou
  Info
• 3 points

PROBABILITY

Prerequisite: Public Health P6104 and working knowledge of calculus. Fundamentals, random variables, and distribution functions in one or more dimensions: moments, conditional probabilities, and densities; Laplace transforms and characteristic functions. Infinite sequences of random variables, weak and strong large numbers: central limit theorem

• Department: Biostatistics
• MW 10 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Xiaoyu Che
  h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

Banking and Sustainable Development

Banking & Sustainable Develop

With an orientation towards practical application and real life experience, this course examines the historical behavior, impact and potential of the local financial sector in developing countries as one of, if not, the critical factor in achieving sustainable growth. Ineffective banks and financial institutions, underdeveloped capital markets, and inadequate or incomplete regulation create major obstacles to sustainable development. Via case studies, propriety materials and guest lectures, we will examine and discuss (1) the latest enhancements in banking techniques and analytics, (2) the increasing use of modeling at both the transaction and portfolio/sectoral level, and (3) the improvements to regulatory oversight that are buttressing developing nations’ abilities to grow sustainably and constrain adverse economic shocks in the aftermath of the 2008 Global Financial crisis. We also will evaluate the proper role of the State in Financial activities and the intersect between the efforts of International Financial Institutions (Development Banks & the IMF) and local financial institutions in achieving sustainable development, alleviating extreme poverty and the broader achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

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

Data Science

• Department: Biostatistics
• TR 10 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Arthur Jeff Goldsmith
  Info
• 3 points

Introduction to Mathematical Statistics

Intro Mathematical Statis

The first portion of this course provides an introductory-level mathematical treatment of the fundamental principles of probability theory, providing the foundations for statistical inference.  Students will learn how to apply these principles to solve a range of applications.  The second portion of this course provides a mathematical treatment of (a) point estimation, including evaluation of estimators and methods of estimation; (b) interval estimation; and (c) hypothesis testing, including power calculations and likelihood ratio testing.

• Department: Biostatistics
• MW 10 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Robert T Ogden
  Info
• 3 points

Service Operations Management

• Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
• T 8:30 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
• T 2 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
• M 1 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
• W 8:30 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
• Instructor: Medini Singh
  Info
• 3 points

Capstone One Portfolio

• Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
• Instructor: Lenin Grajo
  h-index: 10 Info
• 1-3 points

SURVIVAL ANALYSIS

Prerequisite: Public Health P8104 and P8109 or the equivalent. Clinical trials concerning chronic disease, comparison of survivorship functions, parametric models for patterns of mortality and other kinds of failures, and competing risks.

• Department: Biostatistics
• W 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Wei-Yann Tsai
  h-index: 68 Info
• 3 points

APPLIED REGRESSION II

Prerequisite: Public Health P6104, P8100 and a working knowledge of calculus. An introduction to the application of statistical methods in survival analysis, generalized linear models, and design of experiments. Estimation and comparison of survival curves, regression models for survival data, log-linear models, logit models, analysis of repeated measurements, and the analysis of data from blocked and split-plot experiments. Examples drawn from the health sciences.

• Department: Biostatistics
• F 10 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Sharifa Z Williams
  h-index: 4 Info
• 3 points

Game-Theoretic Business Strategy

BUSINESS ANALYTICS STRATE

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• M 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Harborne Stuart
  h-index: 10 Info
• 3 points

TV PILOT: COMEDY & DRAMA

With the pilot as a focal point, this course explores the opportunities and challenges of telling and sustaining a serialized story over a protracted period of time with an emphasis on the creation, borne out of character, of the quintessential premise and the ongoing conflict, be it thematic or literal, behind a successful series.

Early in the semester, students may be required to present/pitch their series idea. During the subsequent weeks, students will learn the process of pitching, outlining, and writing a television pilot, that may include story breaking, beat-sheets or story outline, full outlines, and the execution of either a thirty-minute or hour-long teleplay. This seminar may include reading pages and giving notes based on the instructor but may also solely focus on the individual process of the writer.  


Students may only enroll in one TV Writing workshop per semester.

• Department: Film
• M 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• M 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter Ackerman
  Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: David Klass
  Info
• Instructor: Allison Silverman
  Info
• 3 points

SCENE STUDY

SCENE STUDY: ACTORS

• Department: Theatre Arts
• F 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter Fernandez
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SCENE STUDY

SCENE STUDY: DIRECTORS

• Department: Theatre Arts
• R 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Brian Kulick
  Info
• 3 points

Pharmacology for Anesthesia and Critical

PHARM ANESTHESIA & CRIT C

This course provides an overview of anesthetics, adjuvants, and critical care medications commonly used in anesthesia practice with emphasis on application of theoretical foundations.

• Department: Nursing
• 4 points

SYSTEMATIC REV & META-ANALYSIS

• Department: Biostatistics
• Instructor: Ivy S Chen
  Info
• 1.5 points

Capstone 3

• Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
• Instructor: Lenin Grajo
  h-index: 10 Info
• 3 points

Applied Regression Analysis

• Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
• M 2 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
• M 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
• Instructor: David Juran
  Info
• 1.5 points

SEM-NEGOTIATION WORKSHOP

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
• F 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• 3 points

APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY

This 16 week course during the first semester of the DPT curriculum provides students with a theoretical basis for understanding the body's physiological responses to exercise.  Emphasis will be placed upon the practical application of exercise physiology principles in physical therapy practice.    This course is designed to provide an integrative view of human exercise physiology. This class will cover the acute and chronic adaptations to exercise including the cardiovascular, respiratory, neuromuscular and metabolic systems in relation to acute and chronic exercise.

• Department: Physical Therapy
• 2 points

Transforming the Delivery of Healthcare

Transforming the del of H

• Department: Business Economics
• TR 10:20 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• 1.5 points

ADV STAT/COMPUT MTHD-GEN/GENMC

• Department: Biostatistics
• F 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Iuliana Ionita-Laza
  h-index: 31 Info
• 3 points

ANALYSIS OF CATEGORICAL DATA

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
• TR 6 p.m.-7:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Sheila M Nemeth
  Info
• 3 points

Statistical Methods for Causal Inference

Stat Mthds for Causal Inf

Substantive questions in empirical scientific and policy research are often causal. This class will introduce students to both statistical theory and practice of causal inference. As theoretical frameworks, we will discuss potential outcomes, causal graphs, randomization and model-based inference, causal mediation, and sufficient component causes. We will cover various methodological tools including randomized experiments, matching, inverse probability weighting, instrumental variable approaches, dynamic causal models, sensitivity analysis, statistical methods for mediation and interaction. We will analyze the strengths and weaknesses of these methods. The course will draw upon examples from social sciences, public health, and other disciplines. The instructor will illustrate application of the approaches using R/SAS/STATA software. Students will be evaluated and will deepen the understanding of the statistical principles underlying the approaches as well as their application in homework assignments, a take home midterm, and final take home practicum.

• Department: Biostatistics
• TR 10 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Linda Valeri
  h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

ANALYSIS OF HLTH SURVEYS

• Department: Biostatistics
• TR 8:30 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Qixuan Chen
  h-index: 27 Info
• 3 points

Demand Analytics

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• M 8:30 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
• Instructor: Awi Federgruen
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

GRAPHICAL MODELS FOR COMPLEX HEALTH DATA

GRAPHICAL MODELS COMPLEX

This is a course at the intersection of statistics and machine learning, focusing on graphical models. In complex systems with many (perhaps hundreds or thousands) of variables, the formalism of graphical models can make representation more compact, inference more tractable, and intelligent data-driven decision-making more feasible. We will focus on representational schemes based on directed and undirected graphical models and discuss statistical inference, prediction, and structure learning. We will emphasize applications of graph-based methods in areas relevant to health: genetics, neuroscience, epidemiology, image analysis, clinical support systems, and more. We will draw connections in lecture between theory and these application areas. The final project will be entirely “hands on,” where students will apply techniques discussed in class to real data and write up the results.

• Department: Biostatistics
• TR 4 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel S Malinsky
  Info
• 3 points

DIGITAL LITERACY-DECISION MKRS

• Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
• R 2 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher Castiglione
  Info
• 1.5 points

KINESIOLOGY & BIOMECHANICS I

This is the first of a 2-part series.  This is a comprehensive lecture/laboratory/seminar course in the first semester of the DPT curriculum which establishes foundational knowledge of normal human movement. Fundamental biomechanical and kinesiological principles, including kinematics and kinetics, of human movement are integrated with knowledge of anatomical structures under normal and pathological conditions.  Each joint complex of the human body is scrutinized and integrated with a regional approach to human movement.   The course begins with an introduction to the mechanical properties of connective tissue and muscle mechanics. Essential principles of biomechanics including gravity, friction, leverage, composition and resolution of internal and external forces in movement production are presented. These topics are integrated into kinesiology survey of the human body organized by anatomical region.  Specific attention will be given to the relationship between anatomical structure and kinesiological function, joint classification, osteokinematics, arthrokinematics, muscle and ligament function, kinematic chains and alignment. There is an emphasis on kinematics and muscle function in normal functional movements. Pathological movement is introduced. The laboratory component highlights surface anatomy palpation with emphasis on structure identification, positioning, body mechanics and hand placement.  Optional seminar classes are small group integrative discussion sessions in which students who wish to attend come with prepared questions on course material.  Both lecture and laboratory incorporate observation and analysis of normal movement of the limbs and trunk, and selected examples.

• Department: Physical Therapy
• 5 points

EDO PERIOD PAINTING

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew P McKelway
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

BIOSTATISTICAL METHODS I

• Department: Biostatistics
• MW 5:30 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Vahe Khachadourian
  Info
• 3 points

Acute and Critical Care Pharmacology

ACUTE & CRIT CARE PHARMAC

The purpose of this course is to provide a comprehensive and in-depth background in acute and critical care pharmacotherapy. This course will address the pharmacology and appropriate clinical use of agents used in the treatment of selected acute disorders found in acutely/critically ill patients. Recent advances in pharmacotherapy, personalized management strategies, and controversial issues will be included and emphasized.

• Department: Nursing
• T 5 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Amy Dzierba
  Info
• 3 points

Sports Analytics

• Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
• T 5:40 p.m.-8:55 p.m.
• T 2 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark N Broadie
  Info
• 3 points

TV PILOT - COMEDY

FILM AF 8131 Intro to Pilot: Comedy
  With the comedy pilot as a focal point, (and by comedy, that could also include dramedies like
Transparent
and
Insecure
) this course explores the opportunities and challenges of telling and sustaining a serialized half-hour story over a protracted period of time with an emphasis on the creation, borne out of character, of the quintessential premise and the ongoing conflict, be it thematic or literal, behind a successful series.

Early in the semester, students may be required to present/pitch their series idea. During the subsequent weeks, students will learn the process of pitching, outlining, and writing a television pilot, that may include story breaking, beat-sheets or story outline, full outlines, and the execution of a thirty-minute teleplay. This seminar may include reading pages and giving notes based on the instructor but may also solely focus on the individual process of the writer.  
Students may only enroll in one TV Writing workshop per semester.

• Department: Film
• M 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Williams
  Info
• 3 points

COMM,KNOW & POWER SINCE ENLIGHTENMENT

• Department: History
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard John
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

Introduction to Programming Us

• Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
• T 5:40 p.m.-8:55 p.m.
• R 5:40 p.m.-7:10 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Jason Prestinario
  Info
• Instructor: Mattan Griffel
  Info
• 1.5 points

INTRO TO RAND CLINICAL TRIALS

Prerequisite: Public Health P6104 or the equivalent. Fundamental methods and concepts of the randomized clinical trial; protocol development, randomization, blindedness, patient recruitment, informed consent, compliance, sample size determination, cross-overs, collaborative trials. Each student prepares and submits the protocol for a real or hypothetical clinical trial.

• Department: Biostatistics
• W 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: John L Thompson
  h-index: 61 Info
• 3 points

CLINICAL TRIAL METHODOLOGY

• Department: Biostatistics
• M 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Cheng-Shiun Leu
  h-index: 28 Info
• 3 points

Introduction to Programming in

• Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
• MF 2 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Jared P Lander
  Info
• 1.5 points

Analytics in Action (Master Cl

• Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
• W 5:40 p.m.-8:55 p.m.
• 3 points

Navigating China

China is an interesting enigma for global investors and firms. Its economy presents both ignore-at-your-peril opportunities given its high growth and large market, and enormous challenges at the same time in terms of risk management given its domestic complexities and geopolitics. We will develop a series of frameworks to understand the roles of the society, the government, globalization, digitalization, and geopolitics in China’s growth story. China has been the largest single-country contributor to global GDP growth since 2001, and is on course to catch up with and perhaps surpass the United States by GDP around 2030. China is also already bigger than the sum of the next three largest emerging market economies (India, Russia, and Brazil). While its FinTech penetration leads the world in several ways, a digital central bank currency could alter the economy yet again by creating new winners and losers. A key feature of the course is that it will be data-driven and fact-driven. It will also feature guest speakers from the financial, business, and policy worlds. By the end of the course, you will gain a new perspective on the Chinese economy, and recognizes many flaws in conventional wisdoms, media labels, and official pronouncements. The new perspective will give you a new understanding of the opportunities and risks in the world economy. As the course is jointly listed in CBS and SIPA, it will strike a balance at exploring business and policy implications of the Chinese growth. REGISTRATION NOTE: IFEP Students receive registration priority in this course.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 8:30 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
• Instructor: Shang-Jin Wei
  Wikipedia h-index: 96 Info
• 3 points

HUMAN POPULATION GENETICS

Prerequisites: At least one course each in probability and genetics and the instructor's permission. Fundamental principles of population genetics, with emphasis on human populations. Genetic drift; natural selection; nonrandom mating; quantitave genetics; linkage analysis; and applications of current technology (e.g. SNPs). Students will master basic principles of population genetics and will be able to model these principles mathematically/statistically.

• Department: Biostatistics
• M 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Prakash Gorroochurn
  Info
• 3 points

Swahili Coast: Issues, Methods, Historio

This course is designed to introduce graduate students to some of the key issues and terrains of scholarship in Swahili Coastal historiographies. Students will become familiar with some of the central intellectual debates and cornerstone texts, although the reading list is far from exhaustive. We will examine how some of the key issues and locations of research have shifted over time and discuss how and why national politics have shaped regional historiographies in the ways that they have. Of equal, or likely greater, importance is attention to how changes in intellectual theory and methods have impacted the form that scholarship has taken.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Laura Fair
  h-index: 15 Info
• 4 points

ACTING TECHNIQUES

ACTING THROUGH SONG

• Department: Theatre Arts
• T 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: T. O Reid
  Info
• 2 points

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• Instructor: Joseph M Mc Manus Jr
  Info
• 0 points

ANALYSIS OF LONGITUDINAL DATA

Prerequisite: Public Health P8111. Features of repeated measurements studies; balance in time, time-varying covariates, and correlation structure. Examination of the models for continuous repeated measures based on normal theory; random effects models, mixed models, multivariate analysis of variance, growth curve models, and autoregressive models. Non-parametric approaches and models for repeated binary data. Applications of generalized linear models to repeated data. Empirical Bayes approaches are discussed as time allows.

• Department: Biostatistics
• T 5 p.m.-7:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Srikesh G Arunajadai
  Info
• 3 points

Management of Patients with Special Need

MGMT OF PTS WITH SPEC NDS

• Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
• Instructor: Gregory N Bunza
  Info
• 0 points

Rethinking Human Rights & Humanitarianis

Rethink Hum Rgts/Humantariansm

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Elazar Barkan
  Info
• 3 points

S MEDIA LW FR PRINT TO DIGITAL

• Department: Law
• M 4:20 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
• 2 points

RELATIONAL DATABASES AND SQL PROGRAMMING

Prerequisites: Public Health P6104. Introduction to the principles of research data management and other aspects of data coordination using structured, computer-based exercises. Targeted to students with varying backgrounds and interests: (1) established and prospective investigators, scientists, and project leaders who want to gain a better understanding of the principles of data management to improve the organization of their own research, make informed decisions in assembling a data management team, and improve their ability to communicate with programmers and data analysts; and (2) students considering a career in data management, data analysis, or the administration of a data coordinating center.

• Department: Biostatistics
• T 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• W 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Debra D'Angelo
  Info
• 3 points

Tools for Advocacy

Tools for Advocacy: Understanding How the Media Works and How to Use it to Promote a Cause or Institution provides students of international affairs and public policy with a set of practical communications skills for use in their everyday work. Students will learn how to function effectively in our fast-changing contemporary media environment. Students will learn how to craft powerful messages, create compelling material for the media and refine their presentations techniques for interviews. They learn how to use the media to deliver messages to key audiences and how to conceive and execute an advocacy campaign as part of an organizational mission. Communications professionals from a variety of fields visit the class during the course of the semester. Students produce advocacy materials including an a press release, an op-ed and some form Internet content

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Birchall
  Info
• 3 points

SEMINAR DEALS LITIGATION

• Department: Law
• M 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• 2 points

CAPSTONE CONSULTING SEMINAR

• Department: Biostatistics
• Instructor: Shing M Lee
  Info
• 1 points

Politics of History and Reconciliation

Politics of History & Reconcil

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Elazar Barkan
  Info
• 3 points

TUTORIALS IN BIOSTATISTICS

• Department: Biostatistics
• Instructor: Seonjoo Lee
  h-index: 23 Info
• 0-6 points

Effective Management in the Public Servi

Effective Mgmt in the Pub Serv

The course is designed to introduce you to the field of public management. It is a practical course organized around the tools managers may use to influence the behavior of their organizations. The course also discusses the political environment in which public managers must interact.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• S 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Robert Z Tumin
  Info
• 3 points

Phys & Nutrition Through the Lifecycle

Phys & Nut Though Lifecyl

General aspects of normal human growth and development from viewpoints of physical growth, cellular growth and maturation, and adjustments made at birth; the impact of altered nutrition on these processes. Prenatal and postnatal malnutrition, the role of hormones in growth; relationships between nutrition and disease in such areas as anemia, obesity, infection, and carbohydrate absorption.

• Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
• F 11:30 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Moneek Madra
  Info
• 3 points

NONFICTION THESIS WORKSHOP

• Department: Writing
• T 3:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• M 1:15 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
• M 2:15 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
• T 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• F 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Lis Harris
  Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Leslie S Jamison
  Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Phillip Lopate
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Wendy Walters
  Info
• Instructor: Brenda Wineapple
  Wikipedia Info
• 9 points

Climate Change and the Energy Transition

Climate Change & Energy

• Department: Business Economics
• TR 7:30 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Geoffrey M Heal
  Wikipedia h-index: 69 Info
• 1.5 points

SAS Insights for CEOR

Data is most useful when it can tell a story. Health analytics merges technologies and skills used to deliver business, clinical and programmatic insights into the complex components that drive medical outcomes, costs and oversight. By focusing on business intelligence and developing tools to evaluate clinical procedures, devices, and programs, organizations can use comparative and outcomes data to strengthen financial performance. This information can improve the way healthcare is evaluatedand delivered for better outcomes across the spectrum of health industries.   In this course, students will learn SAS as a tool to manipulate and analyze healthcare data and begin to understand what clinical and public health interventions work best for improving health, for example. Students will learn how to organize and analyze data to inform the practices of healthcare providers and policymakers to make evidence-based resource allocation decisions.Comparative & Effectiveness Outcomes Research (CEOR) certificate students will take this course inpreparation for the capstone class.SAS basics (e.g., creating SAS datasets and new variables, sorting, merging, reporting) and advanced statistics (e.g., using a logistical regression to create propensity scores for matched cohort analyses) will be covered.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• W 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Yongmei Huang
  h-index: 22 Info
• 1.5 points

Critical Read of Biological Clinical Lit

Crit Read of Bio Clin Lit

Fall: Review of current literature providing complementary information pertinent to other nutrition areas, with a view to developing a critical approach to the assimilation of scientific information. Spring: Obesity: Etiology, Prevention, and Treatment. Controversies involving regulation of weight and energy balance. Interaction between genetics and the environment are considered as well as clinical implications of our current knowledge.

• Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
• M 8 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Rajasekhar Ramakrishnan
  Info
• 3 points

NEW DIRECTION IN ECON SOCIOLOGY

This is an advanced graduate seminar in Economic Sociology looking at new developments in this field. It addresses the disciplinary division of labor in which economists study value and sociologists study values; and it rejects the pact whereby economists study the economy and sociologists study social relations in which they are embedded.

• Department: Sociology
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: David Stark
  CULPA: 15 Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN THEORETICAL STATISTI

STAT ANALYSIS OF NEURAL DATA

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• Department: Statistics
• F 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Liam M Paninski
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

SEMINAR IN SCULPTURE AND RELATED MEDIA

The Seminar in Sculpture and Related Media will focus on the specific relationships between tools, ideas and meanings in contemporary sculptural practices. Each semester Visual Arts offers one Graduate Seminar in a different discipline, or combination of disciplines, including moving image, new genres, painting, photography, printmaking, or sculpture. These Discipline Seminars are taught by full-time and adjunct faculty, eminent critics, historians, curators, theorists, writers, and artists. Each seminar focuses on the specific relations between tools, ideas and meanings that arise when artists engage with a particular medium. The seminars combine discussions of readings and artworks with presentations of students' work and research.

• Department: Visual Arts
• R 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Aria Dean
  Info
• 3 points

ECOSYSTEMS PERSPECTVE-PRACTICE

This is the third required course in the advanced practice sequence. Focuses on exploration of the knowledge bases and research issues for the understanding and supply of (1) the transactions between people and their environment and (2) related practice.

• Department: Social Work
• T 11:10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Elwin Wu
  h-index: 37 Info
• 3 points

Sports and the Law

SPORTS AND THE LAW

• Department: Law
• M 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Martin Edel
  Info
• 2 points

BIOCHEM-PHYSIOL BASIS-NUTR I

BIOCHEM-PHYSIOL BASIS-NUTRTION

Aspects of carbohydrate, lipid, protein, and energy metabolism relevant to the understanding of nutrition at cellular and organism levels. Biochemical and physiological aspects of vitamin and mineral metabolismand action during both normal conditions and deficiency toxicity states.

• Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
• MW 4 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Ruben A Igal
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• 3 points

COLLOQ ON POLITICAL BEHAVIOR

Courses on public opinion and political behavior (including the GR8210 seminar taught by Professor Shapiro) ordinarily move briskly through a wide array of topics having to do with how American tend to think and act. This class has a narrower scope but tries to delve more deeply into the literature.  We focus on four topics that are arguably crucial understanding contemporary American politics (and perhaps the politics of other times and places). 

The first topic addresses what might be thought of as the legacies of slavery: prejudice, resentment, racial/ethnic group identification, issue preferences on topics that are directly or indirectly connected to race/ethnicity, and group differences in political behavior. 

The second topic considers the literature on partisanship and polarization, as well as related topics on “macropartisan” change and party realignment.  What are the causes of micro- and macropartisan change, and what are its consequences? 

The third topic is support for democratic norms, civil liberties, and respect for the rights of unpopular groups.  How deeply committed are Americans to democratic values and constitutional rights?  

The fourth topic is the influence of media on public opinion, a vast topic that includes the effects of advertising, news, social media, narrative entertainment, and so forth. 

Although we will be focusing on just four broad topics, time constraints nevertheless prevent us from covering more than a fraction of each scholarly literature.  Students are encouraged to read beyond the syllabus, and I am happy to offer suggestions.

• Department: Political Science
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Donald P Green
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• 4 points

PROF LEADERSHIP & PRACTICE I

This is the first in a series of 4 courses designed to educate students about the multiple dimensions of professional practice in contemporary physical therapy.  These courses will explore the professional roles of the physical therapist as a clinician, educator and advocate. This will be the first in a series of courses that will address trans-curricular themes including leadership, service, health promotion, advocacy, teaching & learning, interprofessional teamwork, and self-reflection, culminating in the creation of a digital portfolio. The course series will include broad exposure to a variety of professional and personal development experiences and expect more in-depth engagement in the student’s chosen area of focus. This first course in the professional leadership and practice series will explore health and wellness and promote strategies for well being. Students will broaden their understanding of physical therapy practice, structure and governance of the American Physical Therapy Association, APTA vision and core values, and legislative action at the national, state and local levels. Students will have the opportunity to reflect on personal strengths and develop a personal development and professional leadership plan. An overview of the Digital Professional Portfolio will also be included.

• Department: Physical Therapy
• 2 points

Microeconomics and Policy Analysis I

Microecon & Policy Analysis I

This two-semester course shows students that it is both possible and useful to think about public policy rigorously to see what assumptions work; to understand how formal models operate; to question vagueness and cliches; and to make sophisticated ethical arguments. An important goal of the class is to have students work in groups to apply microeconomic concepts to current public policy issues having to do with urban environmental and earth systems. The course includes problem sets designed to teach core concepts and their application. In the spring semester, the emphasis is on the application of concepts to analyze contemporary policy problems. Some time is also devoted to international trade and regulation, and industrial organization issues. Students not only learn microeconomic concepts, but also how to explain them to decision-makers. Student groups take on specific earth system policy issues, analyze options through the use of microeconomic concepts, and then make oral presentations to the class.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• S 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• S 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• R 6:10 p.m.-7:40 p.m.
• 3 points

Microeconomics and Policy Analysis I

Microecon & Policy Analysis I

The objective of Microeconomics and Policy Analysis I is to ensure that students are able to use an economic framework to analyze environmental policy choices. Students will be expected to understand, apply and critique micro-economic models that inform environmental policy. By the end of the semester, students will be expected to use economic concepts fluently to advocate various public policy positions. We will begin with the big picture; how did economics evolve, what is a capitalist economy, and how do we think about it. We will then focus on tools for understanding core institutions such markets, individual workers and consumers, and firms. We describe simple supply-demand relationships and apply these to economic problems. We introduce the concepts of opportunity cost and choice, which are fundamental to an economic framework for environmental policy. We then examine basic tools used by economists. We examine in detail the underlying theory of consumers and producers necessary to derive supply and demand relationships. This detailed analysis facilitates an intelligent application and critique of these basic economic tools. We will incorporate environmental examples throughout the class, but this is not a class on environmental economics. It will introduce you to microeconomics more generally, and give you a view of the economy interacting with lots of other political, social, and environmental factors.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Dong Guo
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• 3 points

LAW & POLICY: MASS INCARCERATION IN THE

From 1970 until today, America’s prison and jail population has increased sevenfold, from some 300,000 to around 2.2 million adults and children behind bars.  Accounting for less than 5 percent of the world’s inhabitants, but about 25 percent of the world’s incarcerated inhabitants, the United States is the most incarcerating society in human history.  The U.S. federal and state governments imprison more people and at higher rates than do any other governments on the planet, and they do so today more than they did at any other period in American history.    This astounding amount of human confinement (commonly called “mass incarceration”) disproportionately impacts the polity’s poorest communities of color—especially young Black males—which suffer from chronic conditions and infectious disease; face higher mortality rates; and experience, because of criminal records, less opportunity to secure gainful employment, stable housing, access to safety net programs, and education.  Female incarceration over the past few decades has grown at twice the rate of male incarceration, and black women, specifically, are twice as likely as white women to serve time.  Imprisonment exposes people to a wide range of circumstances proving detrimental to long-term physical and mental health, like inadequate sanitation, poor ventilation, and solitary confinement.  And most formerly incarcerated people return to their communities with deep wounds and new traumas resulting from incarcerated life and from isolation through long separations from families and social supports.   This course sits at the intersection of public health, policy, and law.  The course will explore the full spectrum of causes and costs of mass incarceration as a public health crisis.  This course will examine how exposures to different structures of the American criminal punishment apparatus (e.g., law enforcement, jail, prison, or detention centers, community supervision) shape the health of people, families, and society.  Observing mass incarceration as an epidemic, this course will adopt a useful public-health model of prevention to contemplate a concerted approach consisting of primary, secondary, and tertiary strategies for unwinding mass human imprisonment while advancing enhanced public health for the nation’s most disempowered members.  This course will pay special attention to acutely at-risk populations, including detained youth and youth o

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• R 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Hernandez Stroud
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• 1.5 points