VOICE II

• Department: Theatre Arts
• M 11 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Corinna May
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• 2 points

PRACTICUM: RES PLANNING

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Kate Dunham
  Info
• 1.5 points

FASHION POLICY AND THE POLITICS OF GOVER

The fashion industry is an ideal case study on how governments, citizens and international institutions attempt to limit the environmental and social impacts of complex consumer industries with global supply chains. Historically, apparel and textiles have been at the center of some of the most consequential government actions under liberal Western democracy, including the abolition of slavery and the passage of the first workplace safety and labor laws in the United States. In recent years, fashion has returned to the center of dynamic policy debates within the sustainability and social impact space.

 

The $2.5 trillion global fashion industry’s social and environmental impacts often evade regulation. Major brands leverage long and opaque supply chains for raw materials and cheap manufacturing costs with very little accountability. Private regulation and voluntary commitments have policed fashion for the better part of four decades, an approach that arguably has ended in failures to protect human and environmental rights. The industry’s lack of accountability has cost lives, including the notorious Rana Plaza building collapse in 2013 where 1,132 garment makers died, and now contributes to a sizable percentage of annual climate change. Profits have been pushed to the top of the supply chain while garment makers consistently toil for poverty wages, and the pollution and environmental degradation of fashion is a burden almost exclusively carried by low-and-middle income nations and communities of color that manufacture clothing and produce raw materials.

 

But the tide is turning. Governments are being asked to step in and regulate the fashion industry. Can effective fashion policies police international supply chains and achieve their intended aims? Might they unleash unintended consequences and in what ways? This course is an introduction to the fast-evolving space of modern environmental and labor policy as it intersects with fashion, and which seeks to incentivize more responsible business behavior in the realm of social, environmental and governance impacts. The class will use recently passed and proposed fashion social and sustainability policies as our case studies, including the New York State Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act; mandatory human rights due diligence in Europe; California’s Garment Worker Protection Act and Congress’s FABRIC Act; the FTC Green Guides and the UK CMA’s Green Claims Code; and Europe&rsquo

• Department: Sustainability Management
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Michelle Gabriel
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• 3 points

Navigating Global Sustainability: Corpor

Global Sustainability Dis

This course takes a dual-pronged approach to the importance of sustainability reporting: examining both the corporate perspective on preparing sustainability disclosures and the investor perspective on how these disclosures are used to inform capital allocation, risk assessment, and stewardship decisions. At a time when the sustainability reporting landscape—both voluntary and mandatory—is rapidly evolving, focusing on the investor perspective provides clarity. This approach helps students anchor their learning in what matters most for capital markets, enabling them to organize and lead sustainability reporting processes within their own organizations. The goal of this two-sided lens is to equip students with the skills to deliver decision-useful, transparent, and consistent sustainability information that aligns with the demands of today’s regulatory and investment environments.

In the first half of the course, students will explore the evolving landscape of sustainability frameworks and regulations. Key regulatory regimes—such as California’s SB 253 and SB 261, the EU’s CSRD, and the CSDDD and GRI, Sustainability Reports, ISSB —will serve as anchors for case discussions. These discussions will play a crucial role in helping students understand how to administer sustainability reporting as a strategic organizational function, and in emphasizing the organizational capacity and management practices needed to comply with these frameworks. By the end of the course, students will be able to design, manage, and implement the internal processes required to respond to mandatory and evolving ESG disclosure expectations.

The second half of the course will adopt the lens of the investor, exploring how ESG disclosures are integrated into decision-making across three asset classes: public equity, private equity/alternatives, and fixed income. Students will engage in structured modules for each asset class, assuming the role of institutional investors tasked with interpreting disclosures, engaging with companies, and making recommendations. Each module will feature live engagements with real-world investors, offering students direct insight into market practices and expectations.

• Department: Sustainability Management
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Carolyn Allwin
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• 3 points

AMER CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

• Department: Law
• 3 points

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

• Department: Law
• 4 points

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

• Department: Law
• 4 points

WAR & SOCIAL THEORY

WAR AND SOCIAL THEORY

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

• Department: Anthropology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Nadia Abu El-Haj
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SUMA PS6135 Art & Sustainability

Since the first Earth Day in 1970, artists have increasingly addressed ecological issues in their work. This trend has magnified greatly in the past two decades. Around the globe, artists are creating artwork that addresses the impact of loss of biodiversity, rising sea levels, extreme weather events, plastic pollution, and the fragility of our shared ecosystems. Their art raises awareness of the need to act collectively, suggesting frameworks for replacing anthropocentric and colonial approaches to nature, and amplifying the urgent need for environmental justice. In this pivotal moment of climate change, artists inspire by cultivating new narratives and giving form to the invisible or unimaginable, demonstrating how art can help awaken resolve and shape our next steps. They invite viewer participation and action, and suggest ways to make a difference. In the process, they expand our potential for empathy and agency.

The cultural sector has an important role to play in shifting attitudes that would lead to developing more sustainable and equitable global futures. Artists focus on both local and global environmental issues, expanding the field of climate change communication and at times offering out-of-the-box solutions. The artists covered in the course are cognizant of the need for systemic social change in order to achieve policy change. Blurring the boundaries between art and activism, many are working collaboratively across disciplines and with various communities to address both the physical and ethical dimensions of sustainability. Others work independently to provide new visions for the future. The course is designed for people who are interested in the contribution that art can play in creating fresh paradigms.

• Department: Sustainability Management
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Julie Reiss
  Info
• 3 points

SUMA PS6135 Art & Sustainability

Since the first Earth Day in 1970, artists have increasingly addressed ecological issues in their work. This trend has magnified greatly in the past two decades. Around the globe, artists are creating artwork that addresses the impact of loss of biodiversity, rising sea levels, extreme weather events, plastic pollution, and the fragility of our shared ecosystems. Their art raises awareness of the need to act collectively, suggesting frameworks for replacing anthropocentric and colonial approaches to nature, and amplifying the urgent need for environmental justice. In this pivotal moment of climate change, artists inspire by cultivating new narratives and giving form to the invisible or unimaginable, demonstrating how art can help awaken resolve and shape our next steps. They invite viewer participation and action, and suggest ways to make a difference. In the process, they expand our potential for empathy and agency.

The cultural sector has an important role to play in shifting attitudes that would lead to developing more sustainable and equitable global futures. Artists focus on both local and global environmental issues, expanding the field of climate change communication and at times offering out-of-the-box solutions. The artists covered in the course are cognizant of the need for systemic social change in order to achieve policy change. Blurring the boundaries between art and activism, many are working collaboratively across disciplines and with various communities to address both the physical and ethical dimensions of sustainability. Others work independently to provide new visions for the future. The course is designed for people who are interested in the contribution that art can play in creating fresh paradigms.

• Department: Auditing
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Julie Reiss
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• 0 points

Community Based Program Development & Gr

CBPD Grantwriting

• Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
• Instructor: Danielle J Mahoney
  Info
• 1 points

STAGE COMBAT

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

Modernism, Dance, and Diaspora

How do dancers, poets, and novelists use the resources of their genres to imagine new forms of embodiment and belonging? This graduate seminar brings together recent work in the fields of modernism, dance, and diaspora studies to explore the relationship between theories of movement, space, and dwelling in the literature and drama of global modernity. We will study representations of modern dance in literary works, as well as performances by modern dancers and choreographers, to consider the reciprocity and continuity of forms long associated with expressivity and social change. At the same time, we will chart how such texts become invested in strategic withholding and inexpression, or what performance scholar Tina Post has called “deadpan” aesthetics. Can there be a kind of revelation in concealment—or, conversely, a concealment in the guise of outward projection? At the level of form, how might we understand phenomena that seem to cross disciplinary lines, such as choreographic narration, kinaesthetic empathy, self-talk as social dress rehearsal, or theatrically-populated interior monologue? And how might these insights be brought to bear on the embodied and psychic experience of diaspora, that conundrum of enforced movement that can so often feel like stuckness-in-place?

Weekly readings will include a work of literature and/or dance, critical social theory, and recent literary criticism. In addition to offering students a broad introduction to critical approaches in modernism, performance and Black studies, the course has the larger aim of demonstrating innovative methods at the
intersection
of these disciplines. Primary authors will include Jessie Redmon Fauset, Nella Larsen, Zelda Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, Mina Loy, Zadie Smith, and James Joyce alongside the performances of Serge Diaghilev, Josephine Baker, Pearl Primus, Ruth Page, Katherine Dunham and Bill T. Jones. Secondary criticism will include works by Toni Morrison, Martin Heidegger, Michel de Certeau, Gaston Bachelard, Anne Anlin Cheng, Katherine McKittrick and Sianne Ngai.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Zoe L Henry
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• 4 points

ANALYSIS & PROBABILITY I

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

• Department: Mathematics
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ioannis Karatzas
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 58 Info
• 4.5 points

Debates in World Politics

MIA and MPA Politics II Core.  
This seven-week course introduces students to some of the central concepts, theories, and analytical tools used in contemporary social science to understand and explain world politics. The theoretical literature is drawn from different fields in the social sciences, including comparative politics, international relations, political sociology and economics. The course introduces students to debates around race and international relations, state-making and state-failing, authoritarianism and democratization, inequality and models of globalization, America primacy and the “rise of the Asia.”

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• M 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• T 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Hisham Aidi
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• 1.5 points

Democracy and Democratic Erosion in the

Democracy & Erosion in AI

MIA and MPA Politics II Core. 
This course examines the causes of democratic erosion and the emerging challenges posed by artificial intelligence and digital technologies. Students will explore foundational theories of democracy, analyze factors such as polarization and corruption, and assess how AI, misinformation, and digital surveillance shape democratic decline. Through case studies and group projects, the course also considers strategies to strengthen democratic institutions in an age of technological disruption.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• R 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Tamar Mitts
  h-index: 5 Info
• 1.5 points

Global Politics and International Organi

Global Politics & Int'l O

MIA and MPA Politics II Core. 
Global Politics & International Organizations
introduces the actors, coalitions, institutions, and processes of global politics. It creates the conceptual foundations for understanding the role of international organizations in today’s multipolar and complex (or, ‘multiplex’) world. It sheds light on how states, non-state actors, and international bureaucracies act within international organizations and how they negotiate international agreements. The discussions will focus on formal and informal decision-making processes, working methods, and power in international relations. It will highlight processes within Bretton Woods institutions (the World Bank and the IMF), as well as at the United Nations, including bargaining processes at the UN Security Council. As a spillover from global politics, the course will also explore the role of international organizations in domestic policymaking processes. 

In addition to critical scholarship on international organizations and global governance, the course relies on students’ analysis of relevant proceedings and debates at the UN, original policy documents, as well as expert testimony from a range of guest speakers, who share their extensive first-hand observations as actors of global governance processes. By these means,
Global Politics & International Organizations
offers insights into the processes, challenges, and impacts of activities by international organizations to make global governance regimes stronger, more effective, and hold actors more accountable.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Naujoks
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• 1.5 points

American Foreign Policy in Global Perspe

American Foreign Policy-G

MIA and MPA Politics II Core. 
This course examines the evolution of American foreign policy within the context of U.S. political institutions, domestic dynamics, and historical experiences. It emphasizes the interplay between foreign and domestic policy, considering how American identity, political culture, and internal debates have shaped international engagement. While grounded in key moments in U.S. history, the course also addresses recent shifts in America's global role and examines the strategic, ideological, and institutional forces that continue to influence foreign policy decisions.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Lincoln A Mitchell
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• 1.5 points

Mass Spectrometry

This course offers a comprehensive introduction to mass spectrometry (MS), a state-of-the-art technique widely used in modern chemical and biological research. Students will learn the theoretical principles, practical applications, and data interpretation across various MS techniques. Key topics include ionization methods, mass analyzers, and applications in organic and bio-organic compound analysis.

By the end of the course, students will develop both the theoretical understanding and practical skills needed to design and interpret MS experiments effectively.

• Department: Chemistry
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Fereshteh Zandkarimi
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• 3 points

Political Parties and Elections in the U

Political Parties & Elect

MIA and MPA Politics II Core. 
This course examines the development and dynamics of political parties in the United States, with a focus on the evolution of the two-party system and its influence on American politics and policymaking. Students will explore the historical foundations of party formation, ideological shifts over time, and the distinct roles parties play at national and subnational levels. The course also analyzes the structure and impact of party primaries, as well as recent technological and communication changes that have transformed modern electoral strategy and campaign practices.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Lincoln A Mitchell
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• 1.5 points

Politics of Policymaking: A Comparative

Comparative Policymaking

MIA and MPA Politics II Core. 
This course examines the unique challenges and opportunities of the Global South, integrating theoretical frameworks, historical analysis, and contemporary case studies to develop a thorough understanding of how the region confronts and navigates some of the most significant issues shaping its politics and policies. By analyzing diverse political and policy dynamics in the Global South, it encourages students to think globally and recognize interconnectedness across political systems. Over seven weeks, we examine various challenges posed by institutional legacies of colonialism, the rise of populism, democratic backsliding, corruption, and political violence, while also highlighting innovative responses emerging from the Global South through contemporary case studies.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• W 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Rumela Sen
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 1.5 points

IDEA OF A BL RADICAL TRADITION

This course will seek to raise and think through the following questions: What does it mean to talk today about a black radical tradition? What has it meant in the past to speak in these (or cognate) terms? And if we take the debate in part at least to inhabit a normative discursive space, an argumentative space in which to make claims on the moral-political present, what ought it to mean to talk about a black radical tradition?

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

Cyberspace for Policymakers

MIA and MPA Politics II Core. 
This course offers an introduction to foundational policy topics related to cyberspace, with a focus on how and why cyberspace matters for policymaking more broadly, especially in an international relations context. Over the past several decades, cyberspace has emerged as a critical, crosscutting policy arena, offering challenges and opportunities for practitioners beyond those solely focused on policymaking for cyberspace itself. Therefore, it is important for students preparing for a diverse set of policy careers to develop a basic understanding of core cyber policy issues and how they relate to longstanding policy concerns. In this course, we will examine the implications of cyberspace across a wide range of policy topics, largely through the lens of international politics, covering areas such as the role of cyberspace in diplomacy and global governance, cyber conflict and strategy, the implications of cyberspace for human security, state and local policymaking for cyberspace, and the role of the private sector in cyber policy. In exploring these topics, the course will also illuminate how cyber policy issues relate to a number of SIPA’s global policy challenges—not only technology and innovation. This course also aims to bridge academic and practical understandings of cyberspace. For each topic, we will study the relevant academic literature and debates, while also leveraging real-world case studies to unpack and understand how these issues materialized in policymaking contexts.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• W 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Erica D Lonergan
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• 1.5 points

Popular Sovereignty and Balance of Power

MIA and MPA Politics II Core. 
This course explores the foundational principles of constitutional democracy in the United States, with a focus on the separation of powers and the evolving balance among the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches. Through close readings of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, students will examine the revolutionary premise that sovereign power is delegated by the people and limited by design. The course analyzes the structure of checks and balances, the expansion of executive authority, particularly during emergencies, and the role of legislative and judicial oversight. Comparative perspectives on democratic governance in other countries will also be considered.

Classroom simulations will test the limits of authority among the branches, encouraging students to engage in legal and policy reasoning under constitutional constraints. A final policy memo will require students to analyze a contemporary issue, assess institutional powers, and develop grounded recommendations despite imperfect conditions for resolution.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Jacob J Lew
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• 1.5 points

LAW & INTERNET SOCIETY

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

• Department: Law
• 2 points

ACTING I

• Department: Theatre Arts
• F 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Ronald Van Lieu
  Info
• 3 points

Dynamics of the Israeli-Palestinian Conf

The seminar will explore the Israeli-Palestinian (and Israeli-Arab) conflict from the beginning of the 20th century  until today. The first part of the seminar will focus on the historical background informing the conflict and leading  to the Palestinian refugee problem and the establishment of a Jewish, but not Palestinian, state in 1948. The  second part of the seminar focuses on Palestinian-Arab citizens in Israel, Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and  Gaza, the settlement project, and possible political solutions, as well as the USA's role and its impact on the  conflict, the occupation, and the current Gaza war.

• Department: Sociology
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Yinon Cohen
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 33 Info
• 4 points

History of Archaeology Theory

This seminar examines the history of archaeological thought from its antiquarian beginnings in the 19th century, through archaeology’s professionalization and redefinition as an anthropological science during the mid-20th century, to the emergence of archaeology as a critically self-reflexive discipline during the late-20th century, defined by complicated intellectual ties across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Our driving questions are epistemological. How have archaeologists understood the project of interpretation? How have they articulated their relationship to data? What has come to count as evidence and what has not? How have archaeologists organized material remains in the present to make claims about the past? What questions have been posed about past cultures, and how were these “cultures” constructed as objects of study in the first place? Is archaeology best understood as a generalizing science, a historically oriented humanity, or both—and how and why has the discipline’s answer to this question evolved over time? How do the situated positions of archaeologists within contemporary society impact the claims they make about the past?

• Department: Anthropology
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Zoe Crossland
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info
• 4 points

LEGISLATION AND REGULATION

• Department: Law
• 4 points

LEGISLATION AND REGULATION

• Department: Law
• 4 points

LEGISLATION AND REGULATION

• Department: Law
• 4 points

PRE-ATLANTIC SLAVERY AFRICA AND SOUT

PRE-ATLANTIC SLAVERY - AF

This seminar on pre-Atlantic Slavery in Africa and Asia will focus on the history of captivity and bondage in modern and the premodern Africa. Conceptually, what is the difference between a captive and a slave? How has captivity been central to the history of social difference and state formation in premodern Africa? By introducing the student to the history of trade in captives within Africa and across the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, the student will be encouraged to rethink premodern Africa as central to premodern world history rather than marginal to it.

• Department: Anthropology
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Mahmood Mamdani
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia h-index: 57 Info
• 4 points

Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality

Virtual and Augmented Rea

This course will cover selected topics in virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). There are two main components, with everyone participating in both: papers and projects.

• Department: Computer Science
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Steven K Feiner
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

COMPLEX ANALYSIS/RIEMANN SURF

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

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

MODELING & PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

Introduction to queuing analysis and simulation techniques. Evaluation of time-sharing and multiprocessor systems. Topics include priority queuing, buffer storage, and disk access, interference and bus contention problems, and modeling of program behaviors.

• Department: Computer Science
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Vishal Misra
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia h-index: 53 Info
• 3 points

BLACK GEOGRAPHIES: A PLACE FOR BLACK STU

BLK GEOGR A PLACE FOR BLK

This Ph.D. seminar explores the inextricable connection between blackness and geographic inquiry by exploring the intersections of Black Studies and Geography. Considering Katherine McKittrick’s claim that Black geographies are ‘
the terrain
of political struggle itself’ or
where
the imperative of a perspective of struggle takes place,” we will situate the spatial relations of blackness by placing Black people at the core of spatial production and examine the mechanisms by which this takes place. In this course we ask: what are the limitations
and
possibilities of traditional geographies and how does Black study attend to these boundaries? How does Black geographic thought produce wider material and conceptual space for geographic knowledge? How does Black Studies account for and understand Black spatial condition, experience, and imaginaries?

• Department: African American and African Diaspora
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Brandi Summers
  Info
• 4 points

Managerial Economics

• Department: Business Economics
• MWF 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• MWF 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
• MWF 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• MWF 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Paola M Valenti
  Info
• Instructor: Thomas J Prusa
  Info
• Instructor: Nachum Sicherman
  h-index: 18 Info
• Instructor: Paola M Valenti
  Info
• Instructor: Thomas J Prusa
  Info
• Instructor: Nachum Sicherman
  h-index: 18 Info
• Instructor: Maria Doval
  Info
• Instructor: Paola M Valenti
  Info
• Instructor: Maria Doval
  Info
• 1.5 points

International Human Rights Law

HRGE Concentration Registration Priority.
This course introduces the legal frameworks, institutions, and advocacy strategies that underpin the international human rights system. With a practitioner’s lens, students will explore civil, political, economic, social, cultural, and environmental rights through treaties, customary law, and jurisprudence. Emphasis is placed on understanding where and how the law offers avenues for redress, and the evolving role of human rights advocacy in confronting modern challenges, including corporate accountability, gender discrimination, and climate justice.

Students will examine the structure and operation of key international and regional human rights mechanisms, the limits and opportunities of legal enforcement, and the relationship between international human rights law and international humanitarian law. The course integrates doctrinal learning with applied analysis through case studies, reflections, and simulations. 
Attendance in the first class session is mandatory.

• Department: Human Rights, Gender, and Equity
• R 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• T 1:10 p.m.-2:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Betsy Apple
  Info
• 3 points

Financial Accounting & Analysis

MPA Financial Management Core I and II. 
This course introduces the principles and practices of financial reporting, with the goal of enabling students to become informed users of financial information in both public and private sector contexts. Emphasis is placed on understanding the three primary financial statements: the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows; and the accounting concepts and rules that shape them. Students will examine how financial information is prepared, disclosed, and interpreted, and will develop analytical tools to assess an organization’s financial health and operational effectiveness. Real-world financial statements will be used throughout the course to build fluency in the language and application of accounting.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 5:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Norman Bartczak
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

Financial Accounting & Analysis

MPA Financial Management Core I and II. 
This course introduces the principles and practices of financial reporting, with the goal of enabling students to become informed users of financial information in both public and private sector contexts. Emphasis is placed on understanding the three primary financial statements: the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows; and the accounting concepts and rules that shape them. Students will examine how financial information is prepared, disclosed, and interpreted, and will develop analytical tools to assess an organization’s financial health and operational effectiveness. Real-world financial statements will be used throughout the course to build fluency in the language and application of accounting.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• F 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• F 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 0 points

INTRODUCTION TO DRAMATURGY

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

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

Global Economic Environment

• Department: Business Economics
• MW 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
• MW 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• MW 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Tommaso Porzio
  h-index: 6 Info
• 1.5 points

THEORETICAL STATISTICS I

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

• Department: Statistics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Sumit Mukherjee
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 13 Info
• 4 points

THEORETICAL STATISTICS III

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

• Department: Statistics
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Marco A Avella Medina
  Info
• 4 points

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW

• Department: Law
• 3 points

FOUNDATIONS IN GRIEF THERAPY

This course is designed to prepare social workers for clinical work with bereaved families.  We emphasize the idea that grief therapy focuses importantly on active listening linked to interventions that provide validation, support or guidance. We provide a way of understanding grief using an attachment theory model that explains a big-picture framework for understanding grief and adaptation to loss.  The centerpiece of the course is a presentation of an approach to grief therapy derived from our efficacy-tested treatment for complicated grief and incorporating attention to self-care, racism, ethical obligations and dilemmas and using peer or experienced supervision in doing grief therapy.

• Department: Social Work
• T 2 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Katherine Shear
  h-index: 102 Info
• 3 points

FIN STATEMNT ANALYSIS & INTERP

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

• Department: Law
• 3 points

Political Economy of Finance

This course provides an introduction to the political economy of finance, trade, and international monetary policy, presenting both theoretical perspectives and more policy-oriented concerns.  The course requires no knowledge of formal economic models, but it does presume familiarity with basic concepts in open economy macroeconomics and finance. Students without this background may find several sections of the course very difficult. The course has three main sections.  The first examines the political economy of the global monetary system.  We begin by surveying the evolution of international monetary arrangements from the gold standard period to the present day.  Then we analyze the difficulties posed by floating rates and capital mobility as well as the global imbalances that have been frequent features of contemporary times.  In addition, we examine the Euro crisis and trace its origins to the establishment of the monetary union. The second section examines the political economy of trade policy, focusing on its links to international monetary affairs. In addition, it explores commercial policy and the recent turn to protectionism led by the United States. The final section considers financial crises, with a special focus on the Asian financial crisis of 1997/98 and 2007/08 global crisis that had its origins in the United States.

• Department: MPA IN ECON POLICY MANAGEMENT
• W 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Arvid J Lukauskas
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• 3 points

SW PRACTICE WITH CHILDREN

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

FOUNDATION OF CLINICAL MED III: TUTORIAL

• Department: Medicine
• Instructor: Marguerite Costich
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• 0 points

MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS I-DIS

• Department: Economics
• R 8 a.m.-9:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Hao Jiang
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• 0 points

DIRECTING III

Students explore more deeply the range of skills and techniques necessary to direct both short and feature films including script breakdown of sequences, scenes, turning points and beats as well as advanced study of actor and camera staging. Students will hone their directing skills by preparing, shooting, and editing, in video, a minimum of three significant scenes from published or original work, depending on priority of the instructor. When taken concurrently, at least one of these scenes will be presented in Directing the Actor workshops. Students should also be working on a first draft of a short screenplay for their second-year project if they intend to take Directing 4.

• Department: Film
• M 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• W 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• F 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• M 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Tom Kalin
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• Instructor: Eric Mendelsohn
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• 3 points

ISSUES & DEBATES-AMER POLITICS

Prerequisites: the instructors permission prior to registration. Please contact the instructors for more information. This graduate student field survey provides an overview of the scholarly study of American politics. The course has been designed for students who intend to specialize in American politics, as well as for those students whose primary interests are comparative politics, international relations, or political theory, but who desire an intensive introduction to the ;American; style of political science.

• Department: Political Science
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Ting
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

WRITING THE GULF SOUTH

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• Department: Writing
• M 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Emmeline L Clein
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• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

SPECULATIVE FUTURES

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• Department: Writing
• T 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Jaquira Diaz
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• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

ARCHIVE FEVER

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• Department: Writing
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Leslie S Jamison
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• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

MEMOIR AND IMAGINATION

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• Department: Writing
• W 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Margo L Jefferson
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

REPORTING NON-NEWS

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• Department: Writing
• M 1:10 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Gideon Lewis-Kraus
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• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

JANET MALCOLM

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• Department: Writing
• M 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Michelle Orange
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• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

NONFICTION NARRATOR

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• Department: Writing
• T 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Justin Taylor
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• 3 points

MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS I

Prerequisites: the director of graduate studies' permission. Corequisites: ECON G6410. Consumer and producer behavior; general competitive equilibrium, welfare and efficiency, behavior under uncertainty, intertemporal allocation and capital theory, imperfect competition, elements of game theory, problems of information, economies with price rigidities.

• Department: Economics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• 4 points

CARBON SEQUESTRATION

Carbon Sequestration

New technologies for capturing carbon dioxide and disposing of it away from the atmosphere. Detailed discussion of the extent of the human modifications to the natural carbon cycle, the motivation and  scope of future carbon management strategies and the role of carbon sequestration. Introduction of several carbon sequestration technologies that allow for the capture and permanent disposal of carbon dioxide. Engineering issues in their implementation, economic  impacts, and the environmental issues raised by the various methods.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• 3 points

AFFORDABLE HOUSING, DEVELOPMENT & POLICY

AFFORD HOUSING, DEV & POL

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Edward Poteat
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• 1.5 points

MACROECONOMIC ANALYSIS I-DIS

• Department: Economics
• W 8 a.m.-9:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Patricio M Goldstein
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• 0 points

FRONTIERS OF MACROECONOMICS

• Department: Economics
• R 11:10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• 3 points

CIVIL RIGHTS

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
• 3 points

SW PRACTICE WITH FAMILIES

• Department: Social Work
• T 2 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Alirio Guerrero
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• 3 points

MACROECONOMIC ANALYSIS I

Prerequisites: the director of graduate studies' permission. Concept of full employment. Models of underemployment and theory applicability, determinants of consumption and of investment, multiplier and accelerator analysis, an introduction to monetary macroeconomics, the supply side and inflation. Integration of macroeconomics with microeconomic and monetary analysis.

• Department: Economics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• 4 points

PRIN/APP SENSORS STRC HLTH MON

Concepts, principles, and applications of various sensors for sensing structural parameters and nondestructive evaluation techniques for subsurface inspection, data acquisition, and signal processing techniques. Lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on laboratory experiments.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• W 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria Q Feng
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 46 Info
• 3 points