STATISTICAL INFERENCE
Prerequisites: STAT W3105 Intro. to Probability or STAT W4105 Probability, or the equivalent. Calculus-based introduction to the theory of statistics. Useful distributions, law of large numbers and central limit theorem, point estimation, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, maximum likelihood, likelihood ratio tests, nonparametric procedures, theory of least squares and analysis of variance.
- MTWR 6:15 p.m.-7:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ji Meng Loh
CULPA: 19 Info - 3 points
Linear Regression Models
Prerequisites: STAT GU4204 or the equivalent, and a course in linear algebra. Theory and practice of regression analysis. Simple and multiple regression, testing, estimation, prediction, and confidence procedures, modeling, regression diagnostics and plots, polynomial regression, colinearity and confounding, model selection, geometry of least squares. Extensive use of the computer to analyse data.
- TR 7:30 p.m.-10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Haiyuan Wang
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STAT COMP & INTRO DATA SCIENCE
Prerequisites: STAT GU4204 and GU4205 or the equivalent. Introduction to programming in the R statistical package: functions, objects, data structures, flow control, input and output, debugging, logical design, and abstraction. Writing code for numerical and graphical statistical analyses. Writing maintainable code and testing, stochastic simulations, paralleizing data analyses, and working with large data sets. Examples from data science will be used for demonstration.
- MTWR 4:30 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gabriel Young
CULPA: 7 Info - 3 points
FOURTH YEAR MODERN ARABIC II
Prerequisites: MDES W4212. Through reading articles and essays by Arab thinkers and intellectuals of the Twentieth century, starting from the period called Nahda (Renaissance), such as Taha Hussein, Qasim Amin, Abdallah Laroui, Abed Al-Jabiri, Tahar Haddad, Fatima Mernissi and others, students will be able to increase their fluency and accuracy in Arabic while working on reading text and being exposed to the main
themes in Arab thought. The course works with all four skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing). Arabic is the language of instruction. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.
- MTWR 8:55 a.m.-11 a.m.
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Instructor:
Taoufik Ben-Amor
CULPA: 11
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African and North African Philosophy: An
What is African philosophy? Is a theory African simply because it is rooted in the political present of the continent? Is it African because it corresponds to an African cultural singularity or simply because his authors and inventors come from or live in Africa? This class will examine a) how religious traditions shape African theory b) how the influence of colonial anthropology on concepts of African culture and tradition can be challenged c) how African theory relates to African politics of decolonization, in North and ‘‘subsaharan’’ Africa. The major dialectical problem we will examine during the class is the ongoing contradiction between claims of authenticity and demands of liberation, traditionalism and modernity, religion and secularism, culturalism and Marxism.
- MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mohamed Ait Amer Meziane
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CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL DOCUMENTAR
Documentaries are increasingly proliferating across small and large screens around the world. They circulate as market commodities, forms of entertainment, and vehicles for social change. In this seminar we will compare different national and regional contexts of contemporary documentary production, including projects created within the media industries of Mexico, Peru, India, China, Cambodia, and Israel. We will also examine how documentaries resonate locally, but can still transcend geographic borders and engage viewers across the globe. Crucial to our course will be the close analysis of how documentaries actively address civil rights struggles, oppressive government regimes, cultural trends, environmental crises, and progressive social movements to create more inclusive, equitable communities. So, too, will we examine emerging technologies (such as VR/AR), strategies of international co-production, star-studded film festivals, as well as the global reach and impact of mega studios such as Netflix and Wanda. This course fulfills the Global Core requirement.
- TR 9:10 a.m.-11:40 a.m.
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Instructor:
Joshua L Glick
Info - 3 points
NGOS&THE HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT
The human rights movement is one of the most successful social justice movements of our time, establishing universal principles that govern how states should treat citizens and non-citizens. The movement strengthens, and is strengthened by, a complex web of institutions, laws, and norms that constitute a functioning global system that builds on itself progressively, animated by strong NGOs. The course will address the evolution of the international human rights movement and on the NGOs that drive the movement on the international, regional and domestic levels. Sessions will highlight the experiences of major human rights NGOs and will address topics including strategy development, institutional representation, research methodologies, partnerships, networks, venues of engagement, campaigning, fundraising and, perhaps most importantly, the fraught and complex debates about adaptation to changing global circumstances.
- MW 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Louis Bickford
CULPA: 1 h-index: 13 Info - 3 points
THE NEW YORK THEATRE EVENT
We will be looking at the rich legacy of the Off-Broadway theater – the groups, writers, directors, actors and other theater artists who were nurtured and sustained in its fertile soil, and who continue to shape the landscape of contemporary theater: Off-Broadway, regional theater, and Broadway itself. We will look at the two churches and two cafes where the movement in the 60’s kickstarted as well as the numerous venues, theaters, producing organizations, and producers who continue to sustain the Off Broadway innovative sensibility. We also read and view examples of seminal theater artists and their works: Maria Irene Fornes, David Greenspan, Ntozake Shange, Larry Kramer, Tony Kushner and others. This is a whirlwind journey through Off-Broadway history taught by someone who has been a part of it since the 1970s and has worked with and known many of its players!
- WF 7 p.m.-10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Morgan Jenness
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ADVANCED ARABIC GRAMMAR REVIEW
Through reading and writing, students will review Arabic Grammar concepts within the context of linguistic functions such as narration, description, comparison, etc. For example, within the function of narration, students will focus on verb tenses, word order, and adverbials. Based on error analysis in the past twelve years that the Arabic Program has been using Al-Kitaab, emphasis will be placed on common and frequent grammatical errors. Within these linguistic functions and based on error analysis, the course will review the following main concepts: Types of sentence and sentence/clause structure. The Verb system, pattern meanings and verb complementation. Quadriliteral verb patterns and derivations. Weak Verbs derivations, conjugation, tense frames and negation. Case endings. Types of noun and participle: Noun of time, place, instance, stance, instrument, active and passive participles. Types of construct phrase: al-iDafa. Types of Adverbials and verb complements: Hal, Tamyiz, Maf’ul mutlaq, Maf’ul li’ajlihi, adverbs of time, frequency, place and manner. The number system and countable nouns. Types of maa.Diptotes, al-mamnu’ min-aSSarf. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.
- MW 11:10 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Taoufik Ben-Amor
CULPA: 11
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SPOKEN ARABIC II
Prerequisites: MDES UN2202 This is an introductory course to Levantine Arabic for students who have completed two years of Standard Arabic studies, at the Intermediate level. The course is designed to further develop fluency in oral communication, through building students’ familiarity with a less formal register of Arabic, namely the Levantine dialect. The course will convert and recycle some of the previous Standard Arabic knowledge to the dialect, by comparing their prior knowledge to its dialectal counterpart; while at the same time developing students’ new communicative skills in a diverse range of contexts that are essential in any conversational interaction. The course will build students abilities to interact effectively in various areas where Levantine Arabic is spoken. In addition to varied thematic topics, the course exposes students to cultural aspects specific to the region. Additionally, the course will work on both constructing students’ knowledge of dialectal diction as well as other grammatical features of the dialects. Even though the course is designed for communication in the four skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking), the emphasis will be mostly on speaking and listening. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.
INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
This course introduces the fundamental concepts and problems of international human rights law. What are the origins of modern human rights law? What is the substance of this law, who is obligated by it, and how is it enforced? The course will cover the major international human rights treaties and mechanisms and consider some of today's most significant human rights issues and controversies. While the topics are necessarily law-related, the course will assume no prior exposure to legal studies.
- MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Belinda Cooper
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
Time Series Analysis
Prerequisites: STAT GU4205 or the equivalent. Prerequisites: STAT GU4205 or the equivalent. Least squares smoothing and prediction, linear systems, Fourier analysis, and spectral estimation. Impulse response and transfer function. Fourier series, the fast Fourier transform, autocorrelation function, and spectral density. Univariate Box-Jenkins modeling and forecasting. Emphasis on applications. Examples from the physical sciences, social sciences, and business. Computing is an integral part of the course.
PERSONALITY/SOC-19C RUSS THGHT
Prerequisites: the instructors permission. A seminar reviewing some of the major works of Russian thought, literature, and memoir literature that trace the emergence of intelligentsia ideologies in 19th- and 20th-century Russia. Focuses on discussion of specific texts and traces the adoption and influence of certain western doctrines in Russia, such as idealism, positivism, utopian socialism, Marxism, and various 20th-century currents of thought. Field(s): MEU
- T 4:20 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Richard S Wortman
CULPA: 13
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BAYESIAN STATISTICS
This course introduces the Bayesian paradigm for statistical inference. Topics covered include prior and posterior distributions: conjugate priors, informative and non-informative priors; one- and two-sample problems; models for normal data, models for binary data, Bayesian linear models; Bayesian computation: MCMC algorithms, the Gibbs sampler; hierarchical models; hypothesis testing, Bayes factors, model selection; use of statistical software. Prerequisites: A course in the theory of statistical inference, such as STAT GU4204 a course in statistical modeling and data analysis, such as STAT GU4205.
- MTWR 9 a.m.-10:35 a.m.
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Instructor:
Ronald Neath
CULPA: 13
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STATISTICAL MACHINE LEARNING
Prerequisites: STAT GU4206 The course will provide an introduction to Machine Learning and its core models and algorithms. The aim of the course is to provide students of statistics with detailed knowledge of how Machine Learning methods work and how statistical models can be brought to bear in computer systems - not only to analyze large data sets, but to let computers perform tasks that traditional methods of computer science are unable to address. Examples range from speech recognition and text analysis through bioinformatics and medical diagnosis. This course provides a first introduction to the statistical methods and mathematical concepts which make such technologies possible.
- MTWR 2:45 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Banu Baydil
CULPA: 10
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US IMMIGRATION:RGHTS,FRAMING,
This course will contribute to enabling students to engage in advocacy for immigrant and refugee rights in the present debates over American immigration policy. Students will gain an understanding of how policy developments in the last half century have contributed to our present policy dilemmas. They will be able to articulate how the political party and interest group alliances/configurations have produced such policies. They will also be able to delineate the strengths and limits of a human rights approach in framing claims for a more humane immigration policy, particularly in contexts where national laws and domestic political considerations have constrained these choices.
- TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ted Perlmutter
Info - 3 points
INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION
Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 The study of industrial behavior based on game-theoretic oligopoly models. Topics include pricing models, strategic aspects of business practice, vertical integration, and technological innovation.
- MTWR 12:30 p.m.-2:05 p.m.
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Instructor:
Utkarsh Kumar
Info - 3 points
A Transpacific Age: China-U.S. Relations
This course examines the formation of China-U.S. relations in the private sector, with an emphasis on the transpacific circulation of goods, people, and technologies in the long nineteenth century. Structured in chronological order broadly, each meeting covers varying forms of agents of encounter, ranging from merchants, missionaries, laborers, and agriculturalists to food, art, and technology. By considering the flow of these agents in the larger historical context, students will discuss how the two countries’ evolving relations have been intertwined at the most mundane level with such concepts as imperialism, racism, capitalism, and globalization
STATISTICAL METHODS FOR FINANCE
Prerequisites: STAT GU4204 and STAT GU4205 A fast-paced introduction to statistical methods used in quantitative finance. Financial applications and statistical methodologies are intertwined in all lectures. Topics include regression analysis and applications to the Capital Asset Pricing Model and multifactor pricing models, principal components and multivariate analysis, smoothing techniques and estimation of yield curves statistical methods for financial time series, value at risk, term structure models and fixed income research, and estimation and modeling of volatilities. Hands-on experience with financial data.
- MTWR 6:15 p.m.-7:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Hammou El Barmi
CULPA: 8
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COGNITIVE PROCESSES
Prerequisites: For undergraduates: one course in cognitive psychology or cognitive neuroscience, or the equivalent, and the instructors permission. Metacognition and control processes in human cognition. Basic issues include the cognitive mechanisms that enable people to monitor what they know and predict what they will know, the errors and biases involved in self-monitoring, and the implications of metacognitive ability for peoples self-determined learning, behavior, and their understanding of self.
- TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Janet Metcalfe
CULPA: 31 h-index: 70 Info - 3 points
CORPORATE FINANCE
Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and STAT UN1201 An introduction to the economic principles, theories and basic tools underlying the financial decisions of firms. The topics covered include financial statement analysis, net present value analysis, time value of money, valuation of perpetuities and annuities, opportunity cost of capital, weighted average cost of capital, valuation of bonds and stocks, capital budgeting, dividend policy, market efficiency, capital structure, Modigliani-Miller theorem, option valuation and risk management. Every effort would be made to relate the course material to real-world financial applications.
- TR 10 a.m.-1:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tri Vi Dang
CULPA: 9
h-index: 10
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- 3 points
THE GAMES PEOPLE PLAY:PSYCH OF STRAT DEC
Prerequisites: (PSYC UN2235) or equivalent course on judgment and decision-making A seminar course exploring strategic decision making (also known as behavioral game theory). This course examines the psychology underlying situations in which outcomes are determined by choices made by multiple decision makers. The prime objective will be to examine the use of experimental games to test psychological theories.
- MW 6:15 p.m.-9:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Eric J Schoenberg
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World Cinema: Latin America
An overview of the major developments in the art and industry of cinema in Latin America, ranging from its earliest days to the most recent works of the digital era. Especially since the Sixties, Latin American filmmakers have developed dynamic national cinemas that have sought to tell their own stories in their own ways—even when those accounts often reveal problems and contradictions within their societies. The impact on Latin American filmmakers of international movements such as neorealism, modernism,
cinema vérité
, postmodernism and digital cinema will be addressed. Among the filmmakers to be studied are Luis Buñuel, Glauber Rocha, Raúl Ruiz and Lucrecia Martel.
- TR 2 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Richard A Pena
CULPA: 16
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World Cinema discussion section
An overview of the major developments in the art and industry of cinema in Latin America, ranging from its earliest days to the most recent works of the digital era. Latin American filmmakers, especially since the Sixties, have developed dynamic national cinemas that have sought to tell their own stories in their own ways—even when those accounts often reveal problems and contradictions in their societies. The interaction of Latin American filmmakers with international movements such as neorealism, modernism, cinema vérité, postmodernism and digital cinema will be addressed. Among the filmmakers to be studied will be Luis Buñuel, Glauber Rocha, Raúl Ruiz and Lucrecia Martel.
- M 9 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
- M 3 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
- M 6 p.m.-7:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Adelaide A Pallincourt
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Juan Paulo Laserna
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Instructor:
Soumya Vats
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Black Film and Media
African American Film & M
This course examines the historical and theoretical issues concerning the representation of African Americans in film and media. The course will provide a historical overview while focusing on key themes, concepts, and texts.
- TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Aimee Dixon
Info - 3 points
Digital Storytelling I
What does interaction have to do to storytelling? How do we tell stories within media that are non-linear, including games, virtual reality, and immersive theater? How can we craft narratives that emerge from the dynamics of interaction, narratives experienced through exploration and choice? What design strategies exist regarding an understanding of character, plot, drama, time, space, and event within interactive fictions? This course will take a close look at the mechanics of storytelling within dynamic media, exploring connections between interactivity and narrative experience. The course will examine examples ranging from the design of Live Action Role Playing games to massively multi-player experiences, from hypertext to tarot cards, from Oculus to Punchdrunk. Given the necessity of a digital class environment, the course will be conducted on Zoom for class time. Students will be expected to have cameras active and be in environments in which they can speak during class. The class will also use an online whiteboard system called Miro, and students will be expected to be on Miro during class time. Links for these online tools are permanent and can be found here:
https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/s/98002299299
https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_klidXhc=/
Each class after the introduction week will be divided into three parts: a discussion section led by the instructor, an in-class exercise or peer review on Miro, and a reading circle discussion in breakout rooms. Students are expected to take part in all three aspects of each class.
- MW 6:15 p.m.-9:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nicholas Fortugno
Info - 3 points
VIROLOGY
The basic thesis of the course is that all viruses adopt a common strategy. The strategy is simple: 1. Viral genomes are contained in metastable particles. 2. Genomes encode gene products that promote an infectious cycle (mechanisms for genomes to enter cells, replicate, and exit in particles). 3. Infection patterns range from benign to lethal; infections can overcome or co-exist with host defenses. Despite the apparent simplicity, the tactics evolved by particular virus families to survive and prosper are remarkable. This rich set of solutions to common problems in host/parasite interactions provides significant insight and powerful research tools. Virology has enabled a more detailed understanding of the structure and function of molecules, cells and organisms and has provided fundamental understanding of disease and virus evolution. The course will emphasize the common reactions that must be completed by all viruses for successful reproduction within a host cell and survival and spread within a host population. The molecular basis of alternative reproductive cycles, the interactions of viruses with host organisms, and how these lead to disease are presented with examples drawn from a set of representative animal and human viruses, although selected bacterial viruses will be discussed.
- MTWR 10:45 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Vincent R Racaniello
CULPA: 11
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MAKING WITHOUT OBJECTS
Prerequisites: VIAR UN2300 (Formerly R3302) Laboratory in Relational Art; Sculpture without Objects The purpose of this class will be to explore the function of Relational Aesthetics in contemporary art practice and to develop ideas about the role of context in art, as the students develop their own site-specific works and research historical precedents for art designed to be exhibited in non-traditional venues. This course will also prepare students for professional work preparing art for venues of that type. This class will be structured around studio work, with an emphasis on the development and production of a final site-specific project. In order to foster students’ growth and ongoing investigation into the nature of contemporary sculpture, the class will also be comprised of slide lectures, visits to local artists’ studios, and galleries, as well as various public art projects throughout the city. As the semester progresses, the emphasis will gradually be shifted from research to intensive studio work on a final project, often a proposal for a site-specific work in a non-traditional venue. Generally, the first half of each class session will be dedicated to lecture and discussion, while the second half will be dedicated to individual studio work and critique.
- M 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rirkrit Tiravanija
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WRITING CHILDREN'S BOOKS
There are many misconceptions as to what makes an appealing story for children and how to get a story published. Many novice writers are simply relating an incident as opposed to creating a story. This course will show beginner and experienced writers how to mine their lives and imaginations for ideas and how to develop those ideas into children's stories-a step by step process from inspiration to finished manuscript for picture books, early readers, emerging readers and chapter books. Students will also learn the importance of reading their writing out loud-a process that helps both reader and listener develop a better ear for the story's pace, cadence and structure. Writing for children has become incredibly popular in the past fifteen years and publishing houses have been inundated with manuscripts. Many houses have ceased accepting unsolicited manuscripts all together. This course will disclose other avenues to getting your manuscript into the hands of agents and editors.
- TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Peter Catalanotto
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ADVANCED TOPICS
Bodily Disruptions
In this course, our point of departure will be the precariousness of embodied existence, in which precarity is understood as both an existential condition and as the socially uneven culmination of neoliberal political and economic trends. We will draw upon a variety of interdisciplinary literatures—including feminist, critical race, and queer studies; science and technology studies; disability studies; and medical sociology and anthropology—to consider some of the ways in which our bodies have served as both the repository and substratum of recent social transformations. Within the context of current pandemic crises relating to both public health and to myriad forms of social inequality, we will also consider appeals to the beneficence of science, technology, medicine, and the rational governance of dis-ease. What can critical histories of plagues, epidemics, and quarantines teach us about emergent forms of biopolitics? We will conclude by considering the interventions of contemporary disability and social justice activists, and the alternative possibilities that they have posited for self-care and mutual aid.
- TR 4 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth Bernstein
CULPA: 27 Info - 4 points
TRAVEL WRITING
How does the traveler become the travel writer? What makes good travel writing? Why does it matter today? This course examines and breaks down the very specific craft of travel writing. Simply because we like to travel, does it qualify us to write about it? Everywhere has been written about, so how do we find something fresh to say about… Paris, or even Patagonia? In this course, we both dispel, and prove, some of the myths of travel writing. Students learn to find an angle in order to uncover destinations anew and make them personal— it’s in the personal that the universal is revealed. From crafting a compelling lede and understanding the need for a strong “nut graph,” to knowing the value of dialogue in propelling the story forward, and then finding the ideal kicker to send the reader away satisfied, students dissect published stories and are sent out into “the field” (of New York City) to craft their own. Travel writing is more than, “I went here, I did this, I ate that.” From front-of-book and service pieces, to destination features, we discuss magazine and newspaper travel writing in depth, as well as touch on longer form travel writing. Finally, through exercises and assignments, students learn to craft a compelling pitch in order to approach editors.
- MW 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Porter T Fox
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The Maghreb in Transition: Society & Cul
This course explores the production of culture in the contemporary Maghreb. We consider how important dimensions of social and political life are explored in literature and film and, correspondingly, the role that these and other media play in shaping social and political dynamics. The focus is on Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco, but these nations are also situated in broader regional and global contexts. Former French colonies, these three nations have in common a multilingual cultural environment in which French coexists with Arabic and Amazigh languages. The course begins in roughly 1990, a time of disenchantment when the political regimes established at Independence were challenged and in some cases replaced. We explore the dynamics of Algeria’s ‘Black Decade’ and Morocco’s emergence from the ‘Years of lead,’ then turn to more recent social and political dynamics, notably the ‘Arab spring’ of 2011-2012 and the ongoing Algerian
hirak
. Throughout the course we consider how the arts have responded to and contributed to change while also revisiting the past and reframing national narratives. The course is interdisciplinary, combining historical, sociological and anthropological approaches with close reading of texts and films. The syllabus is organized both historically and thematically. We explore questions including the representation and memory of violence, the geographies and sociology of migration and globalization, and the changing landscape of media and publication. Several sessions explore the meaning of ‘modernity’ in conjunction with explorations of subjectivity and spirituality, gender and sexuality.
- MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Madeleine Dobie
CULPA: 14
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WRITING THE YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
Young adult fiction is a relatively new category in book publishing, but it is growing fast. The readers of YA books are between 12 and 18 years of age. However, its popularity can sometimes extend well beyond the intended age range; Harry Potter being the best-known example. The YA category spans a number of subgenres, including paranormal romance, dystopian sci-fi, and coming-of-age realism. The best YA novels feature fully realized characters and a level of emotional complexity that appeal to teens. And yet, YA books can include frightful displays of violence and can be unabashed about sex. They also feature swiftly moving plots combined with a young person's unique world view-pairings that are unlike anything found in traditional literary fiction. In this workshop, we will embark on writing our own YA novels. With our work always at the center of discussion we will explore the essence of what makes it YA in terms of narrative point of view and subject matter while also challenging the conventions of genre fiction. By way of example, we will look at the work of Sherman Alexie, Lois Lowry and Megan McCafferty. For examples of 'new adult' or 'crossover' fiction we will read excerpts from books such as those by Curtis Sittenfeld, J.D. Salinger, and others. Course work will include selected readings, but the emphasis of the workshop will be on writing and critiquing our own work. Students will write up to three chapters of an original YA or crossover novel along with a partial chapter outline for their book in progress. The class will also include visits from published YA authors who will speak about craft, audience, and getting published.
- TR 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rachel E Carter
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CONSUMER CULTURE IN MOD EUROPE
The development of the modern culture of consumption, with particular attention to the formation of the woman consumer. Topics include commerce and the urban landscape, changing attitudes toward shopping and spending, feminine fashion and conspicuous consumption, and the birth of advertising. Examination of novels, fashion magazines, and advertising images.
- TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lisa Tiersten
CULPA: 45
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Pre-1900 Japanese Literature: Through th
This course is an introductory course to Japanese literature up until the 19th century. It provides students with a broad overview of the fundamental literary works produced in pre-1900 Japan. Through the lens of adaptation, we will examine these major literary works as parts of a literary network and investigates how literary works engage with existing literary works and forms across time and space. It is mainly designed for students who intend to study Japanese literature and history or major in East Asian studies. Those in other disciplines who are interested in Japanese studies or comparative studies are also welcome. No background of the Japanese language is required.
- TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ye Yuan
h-index: 13 Info - 4 points
CINEMA OF SUBVERSION
Russian filmmaker Andre Tarkovsky said that “the artist has no right to an idea in which he is not socially committed.” Argentine filmmaker Fernando Solanas and Spanish-born Octavio Getino postulated an alternative cinema that would spur spectators to political action. In this course we will ask the question: How do authoritarian governments influence the arts, and how do artists respond? We will study how socially committed filmmakers have subverted and redefined cinema aesthetics to challenge authoritarianism and repression. In addition, we will look at how some filmmakers respond to institutional oppression, such as poverty and corruption, even within so-called “free” societies. The focus is on contemporary filmmakers but will also include earlier classics of world cinema to provide historical perspective. The course will discuss these topics, among others: What is authoritarianism, what is totalitarianism, and what are the tools of repression within authoritarian/totalitarian societies? What is Third Cinema, and how does it represent and challenge authoritarianism? How does film navigate the opposition of censorship, propaganda and truth? How do filmmakers respond to repressive laws concerning gender and sexual orientation? How do they deal with violence and trauma? How are memories of repressive regimes reflected in the psyche of modern cinema? And finally, what do we learn about authority, artistic vision, and about ourselves when we watch these films?
- TR 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Eric Gamalinda
CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info - 4 points
THEMES IN INTELLECTUAL HIST
“Themes in Intellectual History” offers an intensive examination of one major intellectual concept or problem in European history. Over the past few years I have been offering seminars on the history of the modern self that focus on Montaigne. This year’s seminar is devoted to Pascal, who was Montaigne’s most significant critic, and Kierkegaard, who developed Pascal’s ideas in a Protestant key.
These two courses together provide an introduction to two opposed streams of modern European thinking about what it means to be a particular self in relation to nature, God, and mortality.
- TR 10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Mark Lilla
CULPA: 57
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Literature of the Great War in the Middl
Lit. Great War in Middle
Some of the best-known literary texts of the previous century harken back to the Great War. And while works of fiction and non-fiction such as Remarque’s
All Quiet on the Western Front
, Hemingway’s
A Farewell to Arms
,
and Woolf’s
Mrs Dalloway
have become twentieth-century classics; and the poetry of Brooke, Graves, Gurney, Owen, and Sassoon widely celebrated; the Middle East’s contribution to the literature of the Great War is little explored. This course takes us on a literary journey from the trenches of Gallipoli and Mesopotamia, to famine-struck towns of Mount Lebanon, to orphanages in Syria. We will examine poetry (including
zajal—
colloquial poetry), and memoirs and diaries by the women and men who withstood the ravages of war and helped shape the modern Middle East. Through close reading and content analysis of a diverse constellation of published and unpublished texts, and using secondary sources as guideposts, we will explore “post-Ottoman memoirs” and verse, including translations from the Arabic and Armenian by the instructor.
- MW 5:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Khatchig Mouradian
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Living Together: North American (Religio
The purpose of this seminar is to study historical communal religious experiments in the United States. It will engage with the questions of religious counter-cultures, and in particular the ways that communal religious groups challenge mainstream economic, political, gender, racial, and sexual norms through fashioning alternative modes of living together. The seminar will concentrate on study and analysis of texts, practices, and materials from two religious groups, the Shakers and Father Divine’s International Peace Mission. The questions raised in considering these two historical groups will be refocused in a final unit that compares these communities to the comparatively short lived and “secular” Occupy movement, and brings the issues and challenges of alternative forms of living into the present moment.
- TR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Courtney Bender
CULPA: 10
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GAME THEORY
Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213. Equivalent to ECON UN4415. Introduction to the systematic treatment of game theory and its applications in economic analysis.
- TR noon-3:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Bozidar Plavsic
Info - 3 points
Writing the Self Workshop
In this course, we will read works spanning the history of French literature from the Renaissance to the present in which the problem of writing the self is posed. We will also engage in various writing exercises (pastiche, translation, personal narrative) and discuss the works on the syllabus in conjunction with our own attempts to write the self. Authors will include Montaigne, Rousseau, Sand, Colette, Modiano, Ernaux, Bouraoui and NDiaye. This course will be held entirely in French and is open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates; it fulfills the pre-1800 requirement for the undergraduate French major. Pre-requisites for undergraduates: French 3333 and 3334 or equivalent competence. If you have questions about whether the course level is appropriate for you, please reach out to the instructor.
- TR 2 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Joanna R Stalnaker
CULPA: 18
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TOPICS-NEUROBIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR
Examines current topics in neurobiology and behavior.
- MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Svetlana Rosis
CULPA: 3
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PUBLIC ECONOMICS
Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213. Types of market failures and rationales for government intervention in the economy. Benefit-cost analysis and the theory of public goods. Positive and normative aspects of taxation. The U.S. tax structure.
- MW 10 a.m.-1:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Wojciech Kopczuk
CULPA: 5 Wikipedia h-index: 34 Info - 3 points
CHINESE POLITICS
This course offers a historical and thematic survey of Chinese politics and of salient issues in China’s public policy and governance. The first half of the course reviews the patterns and dynamics of political development in China, focusing mainly on the last two hundred years, during which the country has been on a rugged yet fascinating path toward modernity. We will examine major political events including the collapse of the Imperial China, the rise of the Communist Party, the Cultural Revolution, and the post-Mao shift toward reform and opening. The second half of the course will look various special topics, including the structure of the party and the state, the relationship between state and society, the modes of economic development, and the governance of the media and the Internet. Throughout the course, special attention will be paid to how China’s domestic political and economic processes intersected with major world events and transnational forces, such as imperialism, world wars, and economic globalization.
- MW 8 a.m.-10:10 a.m.
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Instructor:
Junyan Jiang
h-index: 8 Info - 3 points
SUBCITIZENSHIP
The class will survey the status of groups with compromised citizenship status internationally, including indigenous Bolivians, Indian immigrants to Dubai, and Arabs in France. Then we will look at several different kinds of subcitizenship in the United States, focusing on African Americans, Native Americans, “white trash,” and Chicanos. In the course of the term we will shift between looking at the administrative practices that render people subcitizens, experiences of marginalization, and how contestations such as the DREAM Act movement, the idea of “cultural citizenship” and newly powerful indigenous movements in South America are removing control of citizenship from states, and transforming citizenship for everyone.
- TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Stuart Rockefeller
Info - 4 points
Behavioral Neuroimmunology
In this course we will examine and discuss some of the multiple interactions among the nervous, immune, and endocrine systems, and the consequences of these interactions for health and behavior, using both the human and animal literatures. Topics include the role of the immune system in neural circuit formation and function, cognition and emotion, neuroendocrine-immune interactions during stress, and the effects of infection, stress, or toxin exposure during critical life stages on health vs. disease throughout the lifespan. We will consider current events related to COVID19 in these topics as well. The critical role of the immune system in brain development and the potential role of early-life inflammatory events in the etiology of psychopathology (autism, schizophrenia), allergies and autoimmunity, and neurodegenerative conditions (Parkinson's, Alzheimer's) will be highlighted.
- TR 6:30 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Marisa N Spann
Info - 3 points
INTERNATIONAL TRADE
Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213. Equivalent to ECON UN4500. The theory of international trade, comparative advantage and the factor endowments explanation of trade, analysis of the theory and practice of commercial policy, economic integration. International mobility of capital and labor, the North-South debate.
- MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ceyhun Elgin
Info - 3 points
BIOCHEM I-STRUCTURE/METABOLISM
How does life work on a molecular level? Why do we succumb to disease, and how can we create new cures? This course will explore the biochemistry of life and how this knowledge can be harnessed to create new medicines. You will learn how cells convert environmental resources into energy through metabolism, how cellular molecules function, and how to use this biochemical knowledge for drug discovery related to neurodegeneration, cancer,and the current SARS-CoV-2 COVID19 pandemic. At the conclusion of the course, you will be able to diagram the major metabolic pathways and compare how these pathways are dysregulated in normal tissues in and disease states, and to design your own drug discovery program to create therapeutic for diseases such as COVID-19. In addition, you will know what techniques are used to uncover biochemical knowledge and how to design and interpret relevant experiments. You will be capable of collaborating with other people in the analysis and interpretation of biochemical data, and be able to communicate, defend and refute interpretations of data. You will learn how to create an original research proposal in the form of a research grant application. Having completed one year of college-level biology and one year of organic chemistry will be helpful to maximally benefit from this course. This course satisfies the requirement of most medical schools for introductory biochemistry, and is suitable for advanced undergraduates, and beginning graduate students; this replaces the previous UN3501 course.
- TR 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Brent R Stockwell
CULPA: 14 Wikipedia h-index: 79 Info - 3 points
Biochemistry I in VR: Leveraging Virtual
Biochemistry I Virtual Re
In this course, we will use virtual reality to explore the basic biochemistry of living systems and how this knowledge can be harnessed to create new medicines. We will learn how living systems convert environmental resources into energy through metabolism, and how they use this energy and these materials to build the molecules required for the diverse functions of life. We will discuss the applications of this biochemical knowledge to mechanisms of disease and to drug discovery. We will look at examples of drug discovery related to neurodegeneration, cancer, and the SARS-CoV-2 COVID19 pandemic. This course satisfies the requirement of most medical schools for introductory biochemistry, and is suitable for advanced undergraduates, and beginning graduate students. This course is equivalent to and replaces the prior course named UN3501, and is equivalent to the course offered in the Fall semester. This course is a co-requiste to GU4501. We will meet twice each week in Zoom (Tuesday and Thursday 2:30-5:15, BCHM GU4501) to discuss the course material. We will then meet Friday 9:30-10:30 each week in virtual reality, using the Spatial.io platform and an Oculus Quest headset. In VR, we will examine the 3D spatial concepts relevant to biochemistry, where you will be able to examine molecular structures in an immersive format.
- F 9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
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Instructor:
Brent R Stockwell
CULPA: 14 Wikipedia h-index: 79 Info - 0 points
Intensive Laboratory in Biotechnology
INTENSIVE LAB BIOTECH
Prerequisites: Chem UN1403 and CHEM UN1404. Intense laboratory where students desiring an introduction to laboratory skills meet MTWR, 5 hours a day for four weeks in the summer term participating in experimental bench work, data analysis and safe laboratory practice. Grades depend on preparation, participation in the laboratory, short lab reports, critical thinking and experimental skill. There will be two sections for S4515. Section 001 begins June 7th and runs through July 1st. Section 002 begins July 6th and runs through July 29th.
- MTWR noon-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lili Yamasaki
CULPA: 5 Info - 2 points
COMICS: READING THE MEDIUM
This course will offer an immersion in both the history and the language of comics, from the newspaper strips through the early comic books to today's graphic novels. Beginning with readings that offer a theoretical framework and an analytical vocabulary, students will examine and discuss the way page layout, panel composition, color, lettering, sound effects, and more help carry and shape the narrative, as soundtracks and shot composition do in film. Readings will include wordless works by Shaun Tan, classic works by Alison Bechdel, as well as many that may be less familiar. Students will analyze the American, Asian, and European approaches to comics. Guest speakers from the comics industry will aid in developing students' analytical skills. Instructor permission is required for registration after 5/28.
- MW 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Karen L Green
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
Performance Art; Developing a Visual Lex
What happens to a body stilled in space, when it takes a shape and holds it? How does its relationship to public space change? How is its transformation attenuated when the body is in formation with other bodies, a breathing still life of people and props? This performance art course will use the question of a body’s stillness as a platform to create interdisciplinary projects that exist between dance, sculpture, collaborative movement, and performance art. Through core readings and case study presentations, we will discuss unique possibilities of representation and challenges this form enables, and the prominent role it has been taking within the visual arts in recent years. Students will engage with a variety of aesthetic strategies and formal techniques such as movement workshops, sensory exercises, video, wearable sculptures, collaboration, scores, and group meditation. Studio work will focus on concrete intersections between the body and the object, and case studies chosen to encourage students to think of movement as a form of resistance, and to consider the political implication of collaborative work that unfolds over time. Performativity in the context of this class is widely defined, and no prior experience is required.
- MWF 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tamar Ettun
Info - 3 points
READING (IN THEORY)
This reading-intensive course will engage, over time with essential texts of the current critical canon. Offered over a series of semesters, it is aimed at developing a practice of reading: close or distant, and always attentive. Let us say: slow reading. What does it mean to read? Where and when does reading start? Where does it founder? What does reading this author (Freud, for example) or that author (say, Foucault) do to the practice of reading? Can we read without misreading? Can we read for content or information without missing the essential? Is there such a thing as essential reading? Favoring a demanding and strenuous exposure to the text at hand, this course promises just that: a demanding and strenuous exposure to reading. The course can be repeated for credit.
- TR 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Gil Anidjar
CULPA: 22 Info - 4 points
PRINC OF QUANT POL RESEARCH 2
Prerequisites: POLS W4710 or the equivalent.
We will go through the second half of the book, Regression and Other Stories, by Andrew Gelman, Jennifer Hill, and Aki Vehtari (Cambridge University Press). This is a follow-up to the course, Principles of Quantitative Political Research 1 (POLS 4710), which covers the first half of the book, including measurement, data visualization, modeling and inference, transformations, and linear regression.
Topics covered in the course include: • Applied regression: logistic regression, generalized linear models, poststratification, and design of studies.
• Causal inference from experiments and observational studies using regression, matching, instrumental variables, discontinuity analysis, and other identification strategies.
• Simulation, model fitting, and programming in R.
• Key statistical problems include adjusting for differences between sample and population, adjusting for differences between treatment and control groups, extrapolating from past to future, and using observed data to learn about latent constructs of interest.
• We focus on social science applications, including but not limited to: public opinion and voting, economic and social behavior, and policy analysis.
- MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Robert Y Shapiro
CULPA: 4
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PRINC OF QUANT POL RESEARCH 2-DISC
PRINC OF QUANT POL RES 2-
This is the required discussion section for
POLS GU4712.
- F 11:10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Beatrice Montano
Info - 0 points
Facing the Violent Past: Prevention and
How do societies emerging from violence rebuild, and what mechanisms do they employ to punish past perpetrators, to come to terms with difficult pasts, to acknowledge the suffering of victims, and to try to nurture democratic processes that will prevent future violence? This course examines the ways in which societies have addressed the questions of accountability and the challenge of “dealing with the past” in the aftermath of political transition and violent conflict that have marked the last half century. In particular, we will examine the discourse around “historical wrongs,” and attempts—international, national, local—to address such wrongs. The historical context for this exploration is the development, following the defeat of Nazi Germany, of principles, norms and institutions regarding responsibility to memory, universal human rights, and the idea that genocide can and should be prevented. This course will thus begin with an exploration of the Holocaust in memory and history, and an exploration of the post-World War II period as a watershed moment in the development of a discourse around historical justice and the intersection of history, memory and trauma. The establishment of a new framework for a discourse around history and “dealing with the past” requires an investigation of what it means for a state or a community to take responsibility for its actions, and what repair and prevention look like in post-conflict societies. Much of the course will be devoted to the examination of a series of case studies that coming from the Holocaust, World War II, the fall of communism, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa, and the Civil Rights movement in the United States. The question of how societies can address historical wrongs is a question that ultimately requires us to consider the relationship between history, memory, trauma and justice. Why does the past matter? Does the pursuit of justice limit, or compromise, the work that historians are expected to do? What new ways of thinking about history have emerged in the period we are examining (we can think about testimony, museums, sites, literature to name just a few)? In exploring these questions, this course seeks to understand what is necessary for societies to deal with violent pasts, and the success and limitations that the discourse and practice of historical justice suggests when it comes to questions of prevention and repair.
- TR 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
- 3 points
Toward A Social History: Tibetan Societi
This course examines a series of case studies of the diverse Tibetan societies across the Himalayan region,
focusing on social structures and lived experiences of different Tibetan areas. The weekly readings will cover
topics of the miscellaneous Tibetan social structures, communal organizations, social norms and memories of
the past and social-political transitions from the 17th to the 20th century.
- TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Zhiqiang Yang
Info - 3 points
LANGUAGE & SOCIETY
How language structure and usage varies according to societal factors such as social history and socioeconomic factors, illustrated with study modules on language contact, language standardization and literacy, quantitative sociolinguistic theory, language allegiance, language, and power.
- MTWR 2:40 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
William Foley
h-index: 0 Info - 3 points
Contradictions of Care: From Intimacy to
CONTRADICTIONS OF CARE
Care is central to the interpersonal claim that is made by the other. It is a response that recognizes and satisfies a need. Care can be motivated by pain and sorrow, but also by desire and the desire for recognition. But while care is a fundamental aspect of healing, it can also be a demand that extracts obligations and liabilities. Care is an ambiguous concept that always already contains or is determined by its oppositions; we will begin by analyzing the concept of care itself, drawing on resources from the history and philosophy of medicine as well as literary sources. Ideals of care that many of us have for our loved ones are difficult to render at scale, and are often in tension with the for-profit motivations behind the development of medications, the administration of healthcare services, and the distribution of goods. We will consider the sorts of compromises that are made every day through readings in literature, history, political science and philosophy and also through first-person experience in the form of a practicum that that will run parallel to the course.
- TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Arden A Hegele
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
HOW TO WRITE FUNNY
In this class we will consider the various forms and functions of humor in written prose, discussing techniques and approaches to humor writing. Students will write their own humorous stories and essays which we will read and discuss in class, focusing not only on what is or isn't funny, but on how humor can be advantageously used to increase the power of an overall piece. The class will also break down stories, novels, and essays from a variety of authors-Bill Hicks' political satire; the darkly comedic fiction of Barry Hannah and Paul Beatty; the absurd humor of Tina Fey and Baratunde Thurston; Anthony Lane's charming British snarkiness; Spy Magazine's sharply parodic voice; Woody Allen's one-liners; Lena Dunham's zeitgeist comedy-in an effort to better understand what makes their humor work. Students will be asked to write stories inspired and influenced by these authors. As we critique each other's work, we will investigate strategies related to the craft of humor writing, including self-deprecation, political satire, humor and the other, going blue, dark comedy, schtick, humor as a means vs. humor as an end, crossing the line, and how to write funny without sacrificing substance.
- MW 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
- TR 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Patricia A Marx
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Nina Sharma
CULPA: 5
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Supernatural in Japanese Lit
Beings, occurrences, and experiences that defy common sense and rational understanding abound in modern
Japanese literature and film. Sometimes they are rooted in Japan’s rich body of tales about monsters and
ghosts. Sometimes they are tied to the beliefs of Buddhism and Christianity. Sometimes they emerge from the
chaos and uncertainty of the modern cityscape. In this course we will consider how, and more importantly
why, “supernatural” elements permeate modern Japanese literature and film ranging from the early 19th to
the late 20th centuries.
- MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Joshua K Rogers
Info - 3 points
STRAT INTELLIGNC/POL DEC MAKNG
The interaction of intelligence and political decision-making in the U.S. other Western democracies, Russia and China. Peculiarities of intelligence in the Middle East (Israel, Iran, Pakistan). Intelligence analyzed both as a governmental institution and as a form of activity, with an emphasis on complex relations within the triangle of intelligence communities, national security organizations, and high-level political leadership. Stages and disciplines of intelligence process. Intelligence products and political decision-making. The function of intelligence considered against the backdrop of rapid evolution of information technologies, changing meaning of homeland security, and globalization. Particular emphasis on the role of intelligence in the prevention of terrorism and WMD proliferation.
- TR 9 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Albert Bininachvili
CULPA: 6
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Israeli National Security Strategy
Israeli Nat'l Security St
Recent decades have been witness to a widening circle of regional actors at peace with Israel, starting with Egypt and Jordan and more recently the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan. New and previously unimagined opportunities for regional cooperation now exist. Due to the great importance of the Middle East, from the Cold War to the present, as well as its own unique circumstances, Israel has also become an important player in the international arena, far beyond its size. This one credit summer course is open to all undergraduate students and is designed to provide an overview of some of the primary national security issues facing Israel today. Classes will be held twice a week for three weeks. Each 2.5 hour class will address one major subject area. The course will include 2-3 guest speakers and 1-2 structured policy debates or simulation games. In order to gain a deeper appreciation of the real world challenges facing Israeli decision-makers, students will draft policy papers on two of the primary subjects discussed.
- TWR noon-1:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Charles D Freilich
CULPA: 2 Info - 1 points
Subaltern Urbanism
This seminar asks how spatial politics intersect with economic inequality and social difference (race, gender, caste, and ethnicity) to produce marginalized and stigmatized spaces such as “favelas,” “slum,” and “ghettos.” The seminar draws on the convergent yet distinct urban trajectories of Bombay/Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro as a place from which to explore questions of comparative and global urbanism from an explicitly South-South perspective. That is, we ask how Bombay and Rio’s distinct yet connected urbanity might force us to alter our approaches to the city; approaches that are largely drawn from modular Euro-American paradigms for understanding urbanization as coeval with modernity, as well as industrialization. We do so in this seminar by focusing on people and practices—subaltern urbanity (and on those whose labor produced the modern city), as well as on spatial orders—the informal or unintended city—to ask the question: “what makes and unmakes a city?” How might questions about built form, industrialization, capital flows, and social life and inhabitation that takes the perspective of “city theory from the Global South” shed new understanding on the history of the city, the extranational frames of colonial modernity, and the ongoing impact of neoliberalism? How can we rethink critical concepts in urban studies (precarity, spatial segregation, subalternity, economies of eviction, urban dispossession) through embedded studies of locality and lifemaking?
- MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Anupama Rao
CULPA: 28
Info
- 4 points
LITERARY TRANSLATION
Prerequisites: four years of college Russian or the equivalent. Workshop in literary translation from Russian into English focusing on the practical problems of the craft. Each student submits a translation of a literary text for group study and criticism. The aim is to produce translations of publishable quality.
- TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ronald Meyer
Info - 3 points
MICROECONOMICS SEMINAR
Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 Selected topics in microeconomics.
- MW 12:10 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
- 4 points
MACROECONOMICS SEMINAR
Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 Registration information is posted on the departments Seminar Sign-up webpage. Selected topics in macroeconomics. Selected topics will be posted on the departments webpage.
- MW 10 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
- 4 points
MADE IN AMER: MAFIA IN CINEMA
COPPOLA, SCORSESE & SOPRANOS
In this course (whose title is taken from the name of the final episode of The Sopranos) we focus on America’s three greatest practitioners of the so-called “Mafia Movie.” In the first half of the course we examine representations of Mafia in the films of Coppola and Scorsese; in the second half, we perform a comprehensive reading of The Sopranos, a serial that redefined not only the gangster genre, but the aesthetic possibilities of television itself. In addition to our close-readings of the primary cinematic texts, we will pay attention to literary, historical, and anthropological sources on Mafia, both in America and in Italy. In the unit on The Sopranos, we will also consider connections to other contemporary representations of American gangsterism, particularly in the medium of television. Critical avenues privileged will include gender, sexuality, criminal and political economy, poetics of place, internationalism, dialect, plurilingualism and the politics of language, ethnicity and race, diaspora, philosophies of violence, philosophies of power.
- MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Stefan Pedatella
CULPA: 36
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- 3 points
MODERN BALKAN HISTORIES
The Balkans, Winston Churchill famously said, “produce more history than they can consume.” In this course, we will consume recent scholarship on Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Albania in the twentieth century. The course will not provide a comprehensive coverage of these countries. Rather, we will address select historical key episodes and discuss how historians have addressed specific historiographical challenges: Is there such an entity as the “Balkan”? How does its history relate to European history? How do we understand nations, ethnicity, and identity? What historical perspectives in addition to political history are available to understand processes of state-building?
- MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Carolin Roeder
Info - 3 points
SPORT & SOCIETY IN EASTERN EUROPE
This seminar examines the history of sport in twentieth century Eastern Europe including the Soviet Union. We will explore the rise of athleticism and mass sports in the context of state-building in East Central Europe; the intimate link between politics, globalization, and spectator sports; and debate how sport promised to help the revolutionary cause. Moving into the postwar era, we will question whether sport is truly war without the shooting and explore new ways in which historians conceptualize sport in the Cold War. We will also read two national histories written through the lens of football and think about how cultural ideas of sex and gender determine the course of sport history and vice versa. The course is structured around readings and discussion sections and will culminate in a final research paper. The course offers participants the opportunity to refine their professional skills as historians through in-built peer-review processes and a class-internal conference. Although there are no formal prerequisites, familiarity with the broad outlines of twentieth century Central and Eastern European history is of significant advantage.
- TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Carolin Roeder
Info - 3 points
NEW MEDIA ART
The rapid democratization of technology has led to a new wave of immersive storytelling that spills off screens into the real world and back again. These works defy traditional constraints as they shift away from a one-to-many to a many-to-many paradigm, transforming those formerly known as the audience from passive viewers into storytellers in their own right. New opportunities and limitations offered by emergent technologies are augmenting the grammar of storytelling, as creators wrestle with an ever-shifting digital landscape. New Media Art pulls back the curtain on transmedial works of fiction, non-fiction, and emergent forms that defy definition. Throughout the semester well explore projects that utilize Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and the Internet of Things, alongside a heavy-hitting selection of new media thinkers, theorists, and critics. The course will be co-taught as a dialogue between artistic practice and new media theory. Lance Weiler, a new media artist and founder of Columbia’s Digital Storytelling Lab, selected the media artworks; Rob King, a film and media historian, selected the scholarly readings. It is in the interaction between these two perspectives that the course will explore the parameters of emerging frontiers in media art and the challenges these pose for existing critical vocabularies.
- TR 9 a.m.-noon
- 3 points
Making and Knowing in Early Modern Europ
Making&Knowing: Hands-On
This course introduces undergraduate and graduate students to the materials, techniques, contexts, and meanings of skilled craft and artistic practices in early modern Europe (1350-1750), in order to reflect upon a series of topics, including craft knowledge and artisanal epistemology; the intersections between craft and science; and questions of historical methodology in reconstructing the material world of the past. The course will be run as a “Laboratory Seminar,” with discussions of primary and secondary materials, as well as hands-on work in a laboratory. The first semester long course to use the published Edition of Fr. 640 as its focus, it will test the use of the Edition in a higher education classroom to inform the development of the Companion. This course is associated with the Making and Knowing Project of the Center for Science and Society at Columbia University.The first semester-long course to use the published Edition of Fr. 640 as its focus, it will test the use of the Edition in a higher education classroom to inform the development of Phase II of the Making and Knowing Project - a Research and Teaching Companion. Students’ final projects (exploratory and experimental work in the form of digital/textual analysis of Ms. Fr. 640, reconstruction insight reports, videos for the Companion, or a combination) will be published as part of the Companion or the Sandbox depending on content and long-term maintenance considerations.
- TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Pamela Smith
CULPA: 4 Info - 3 points
REVOL/RAD POLITICS-MARX-MAY'68
This seminar will expose students to classical texts in political theory relating to revolutionary action, political ethics and social militancy from the Communist Manifesto to 1968. The course will explore the idea of revolutionary ethics as conceived by Western and non-Western political philosophers and militants. The discussion will stress the connection between philosophers and revolutionary leaders and the transformation of the idea of radical politics through the dialogue between these two discourses (the philosophical and the militant) and the public reception of revolutionary events in the media and commemorative writings. Authors will be examined according to their historical context and their role in the tradition of political thought and the history of radical politics from 1848 to the mid-sixties. Students will be exposed to different discourses of political militancy and radical politics and to reflect on the ethical implications of the history of radical thought and action in comparative perspective.
- TR 2 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alheli Alvarado-Diaz
CULPA: 9
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INDEPENDENT STUDY
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Instructor:
Neni K Panourgia
CULPA: 27
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Instructor:
Kaiama L Glover
CULPA: 18
Info
- 1-3 points
SUPERVISED INDEPENDENT STUDY
Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies permission.
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Instructor:
Seyhan Erden
CULPA: 7
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ORIENTATION
This course is a no-credit class designed to start providing critical material to incoming QMSS students overthe summer to help prepare them for the coding demands of the program. We will post links, exercises andresources for students to work on before they start their classes in the Fall of 2018.
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Instructor:
Gregory M Eirich
CULPA: 1 Info - 0 points
ORIENTATION
This course is a no-credit class designed to start providing critical material to incoming QMSS students overthe summer to help prepare them for the coding demands of the program. We will post links, exercises andresources for students to work on before they start their classes in the Fall of 2018.
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Instructor:
Gregory M Eirich
CULPA: 1 Info - 0 points
ORAL HISTORY THESIS
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- T 10:10 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Amy A Starecheski
h-index: 5 Info - 4 points
DATA ANALYSIS WITH PYTHON
This course is meant to provide an introduction to regression and applied statistics for the social sciences, with a strong emphasis on utilizing the Python software language to perform the key tasks in the data analysis workflow. Topics to be covered include various data structures, basic descriptive statistics, regression models, multiple regression analysis, interactions, polynomials, Gauss-Markov assumptions and asymptotics, heteroskedasticity and diagnostics, data visualization, models for binary outcomes, models for ordered data, first difference analysis, factor analysis, and cluster analysis. Through a variety of lab assignments, students will be able to generate and interpret quantitative data in helpful and provocative ways. Only relatively basic mathematics skills are assumed, but some more advanced math will be introduced as needed. A previous introductory statistics course that includes linear regression is helpful, but not required.
- RF 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Gregory M Eirich
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
NATURAL LANG PROCESSING SOCIAL SCIENCES
Social scientists need to engage with natural language processing (NLP) approaches that are found in computer science, engineering, AI, tech and in industry. This course will provide an overview of natural language processing as it is applied in a number of domains. The goal is to gain familiarity with a number of critical topics and techniques that use text as data, and then to see how those NLP techniques can be used to produce social science research and insights. This course will be hands-on, with several large-scale exercises. The course will start with an introduction to Python and associated key NLP packages and github. The course will then cover topics like language modeling; part of speech tagging; parsing; information extraction; tokenizing; topic modeling; machine translation; sentiment analysis; summarization; supervised machine learning; and hidden Markov models. Prerequisites are basic probability and statistics, basic linear algebra and calculus. The course will use Python, and so if students have programmed in at least one software language, that will make it easier to keep up with the course.
- MW 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Patrick Houlihan
Info - 3 points
MACHINE LEARNING SOC SCI
Prerequisites: basic probability and statistics, basic linear algebra, and calculus This course will provide a comprehensive overview of machine learning as it is applied in a number of domains. Comparisons and contrasts will be drawn between this machine learning approach and more traditional regression-based approaches used in the social sciences. Emphasis will also be placed on opportunities to synthesize these two approaches. The course will start with an introduction to Python, the scikit-learn package and GitHub. After that, there will be some discussion of data exploration, visualization in matplotlib, preprocessing, feature engineering, variable imputation, and feature selection. Supervised learning methods will be considered, including OLS models, linear models for classification, support vector machines, decision trees and random forests, and gradient boosting. Calibration, model evaluation and strategies for dealing with imbalanced datasets, n on-negative matrix factorization, and outlier detection will be considered next. This will be followed by unsupervised techniques: PCA, discriminant analysis, manifold learning, clustering, mixture models, cluster evaluation. Lastly, we will consider neural networks, convolutional neural networks for image classification and recurrent neural networks. This course will primarily us Python. Previous programming experience will be helpful but not requisite. Prerequisites: basic probability and statistics, basic linear algebra, and calculus.
- MW 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michael Parrott
Info - 3 points
Listening After the Interview: Oral Hist
Oral history practitioners understand the critical importance of attentive and active listening during the interview. Even after the recording has ended, listening to the interview is equally vital: in transcribing, archiving, interpreting, curating, and presenting. Thus, this course takes listening to be central to modes of inquiry and amplification, and the oral history interview as both an object to be queried and subject that queries. We will reflect upon how oral histories serve as both primary and secondary sources, and challenge historical inquiry even while uniquely enabling new insights into the past. To do so, the distinguishing features of oral histories--as document, text, medium, dialogue, and publication--will serve as the thematic framework for our reading of key practitioner theorists alongside applied listening to sample oral histories. Drawing on the instructor’s experiences in directing oral history-based public history initiatives, throughout the course we will consider the public life of oral histories beyond the interview--as archive, publication, podcast, and exhibition. In so doing, we will look to understand the role of oral historians as both documentarians and co-creators with their narrators of historical knowledge about the past and present.
- W 4 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Zaheer Ali
Info - 2 points
Serious Play: Oral History and the Art o
OH and the Art of Story
In this workshop, OHMA students will deepen their exploration of core tensions in the practice of oral history through the creation of narrative art in a range of genres and forms, including writing and performance. We ask of each form: What lines are marked by conventions of genre, and how do those compare to lines drawn by the ethics of oral history? How can we draw on narrative and performance in our own creative and scholarly contributions to oral history? This class will be a space for experimentation and serious play, where students will discuss questions raised by the work of others, and grapple with those questions by making their own creative work. Pedagogically, we will simultaneously explore two areas of creation: oral history on the page, and oral history in performance. Students will make new work and engage in discussion about existing work. Class time will be spent discussing texts, workshopping students’ creative projects, and participating in activities designed to prompt collaboration and engineered to inspire new work. Over the course of the semester students will write, perform, and create prompts inspired by oral history.
- MR 10 a.m.-1:20 p.m.
- 4 points
PROBABILITY
Prerequisites: At least one semester of calculus. A calculus-based introduction to probability theory. Topics covered include random variables, conditional probability, expectation, independence, Bayes rule, important distributions, joint distributions, moment generating functions, central limit theorem, laws of large numbers and Markovs inequality.
- MTWR 4:30 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
- MW 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Young S Kim
CULPA: 5
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Instructor:
Michael Sobel
CULPA: 5 Wikipedia h-index: 35 Info - 3 points