MARSEA I: CRIT APPROACHES
Prerequisites: Enrollment in the MARSEA program This seminar represents the first half of a year-long course designed for students in the MARSEA program. It offers an introduction to the social scientific study of East Asia, with special attention to China, Japan, the two Koreas, and Taiwan. With the aid of guest presentations by faculty and scholars affiliated with the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, we will explore critically some of the major conceptual and methodological concerns that inform social scientific scholarship in the region. A linked aim for the course is to support students as they choose and develop topics and research designs for their M.A. theses. To that end, the course includes sessions introducing key resources and tools for research, as well as collaborative workshops designed to help students frame and draft thesis proposals.
- Department: East Asian Regional Studies
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sau-Yi Fong
Info - 4 points
ADVANCED MACRO ANALYSIS I
- Department: Economics
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jennifer La'O
h-index: 9 Info - 3 points
INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION
Intro to Pub Health & Nut
- Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
- TR 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kim Hekimian
h-index: 7 Info - 3 points
Longitudinal Data Analysis & Causal Infe
Longitudinal Data Anal &
Panel data or longitudinal data consist of multiple measures over time on a sample of individuals. These types of data occur extensively in both observational and experimental studies in social, behavioral, and health sciences. This course will provide an introduction to the principles and methods for the analysis of panel data. Whereas some supporting statistical theory will be given, emphasis will be on data analysis and interpretation of models for longitudinal data. Problems will be motivated by applications primarily in social sciences.
EU Policymaking & New Global Challenges
EU Policymaking-Global Ch
This course explores the process of EU policy-making - how and why certain public policies are pursued by the institutions of the European Union - and analyses what the Union is doing to address a number of major policy challenges in today's interdependent world. After providing a general introduction to the overall policy process in the EU - looking at how policies are born, adopted, enacted, implemented and reviewed - this term's course will examine the specific policy agenda of the current European Commission (2019-24), led by Ursula von der Leyen, and do a 'deep dive' into EU action in three areas: the fight against climate change, the development of a 'digital Europe', and the EU response to the on-going coronavirus crisis. It will identify the key characteristics of these policies, assess how far they are succeeding or failing, and ask what they show about the evolving EU political system. The course will round off with an assessment of the growing emphasis on strategic foresight in the EU policy-making and identify new policies that are likely to be developed in coming years. Taught from a practitioner perspective by Anthony Teasdale, Director General of the European Parliament's research service, the course aims to provide a firm grounding in modern EU policy and should appeal to those interested both in EU politics and in the individual policy issues under discussion.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- FS 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
- 1.5 points
CORPORATIONS
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
- 4 points
CORPORATIONS
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
- 4 points
CORPORATIONS
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
- 4 points
FAMILY ECONOMICS
Prerequisites: ECON G6211, ECON G6212, ECON G6411, ECON G6412. The course will focus on the economic theory of matching both from a theoretical and empirical point of views. It is intended to give the attendees an overview of the fundamental theory of the optimal assignment problem, as well as its application to various fields such as labor, family and transportation economics. A particular emphasis is put on the empirical aspects and identification issues, and the main matching algorithms will also be discussed. The last part of the course tries to make a link with matching games with nontransferable (or partially transferable) utility and attempts to provide a unified treatment.
- Department: Economics
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Pierre-Andre Chiappori
Wikipedia h-index: 64 Info - 3 points
Worldmaking in the Long Poem
In this seminar we will take as our topic the long poem and the worlds, exterior and interior, that it both perceives and creates. Following some initial conceptual work to pin down the genre (if that’s the right word for it) as it developed before modernism, the heart of the course comes in the close study of three main examples in their entirety:
The Seasons
by James Thomson,
The Task
by William Cowper, and
The Prelude
by William Wordsworth. These major English poems, which date to the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, are all about growth, and they are in truth really, really long. They just keep growing and growing. They push, you might say, against their finitude. We will confront their too-much-ness and figure out how to think and feel about it, but also how to work with it, how to ride it. From week to week we will ask how the expansiveness of these authors relates on the one hand to their smaller-scale poetic techniques and on the other to their grand social, environmental, philosophical, and spiritual ambitions. The sheer energy these works demand of their readers can (this is the gamble of the long poem) make experiencing them deeply meaningful. In their own time they became tremendously influential models, radically reshaping what poetry could do and be, and they still have much to teach critical readers and creative writers today. Interspersed among the main examples on the schedule will be a few other (shorter!) poems from the same period. Along the way, although our focus will stay on primary texts, we will sample several different works of exemplary criticism. And we will end our semester with a glance ahead to the twentieth-century long poem. Active contributions (in and out of class) to discussion, a short paper, and (of course) a long paper make up the required coursework.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dustin Stewart
CULPA: 3
Info
- 4 points
Ex. Criminal Prosecution: Manhattan/Bkl
EX. CRIMINAL PROSECUTION
- Department: Law
- 2 points
Ex. Criminal Prosecution: Manhattan/Bkl
EX. CRIMINAL PROSECUTION
- Department: Law
- 3 points
Lanyer, Cavendish, and Hutchinson
Lanyer, Cavendish, Hutchi
This seminar will address the major works of Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645), Margaret Cavendish (1623-73), and Lucy Hutchinson (1620-81). There are many differences between the three writers: one was a royalist, one a republican and one something in between; one was largely indifferent to religion and the other two were devoted Protestants; two were active in print, one only in manuscript; two were skilled linguists, and one only read English (or so she claimed). Yet they also had a surprising amount in common: all three were actively involved in the central political conflicts of their time and suffered losses, imprisonment, harassment, and/or exile because of their political views; two (Cavendish and Hutchinson) wrote accounts and defenses of (their positions in) the English civil wars (and contributed to political thought and historiography more broadly); two (also Cavendish and Hutchinson) were actively engaged with and contributed to debates in natural philosophy; and all three were astonishingly original, and creative writers of literary, philosophical and polemical texts. Students will discuss many aspects of these three writers’ work, including the books they read as well as those they wrote; the genres to which they were committed (and in which they innovated); the household, local, national and international contexts in which they worked and in which their work was received; and their interlocutors and critics. While the three authors will be the explicit focus of the class, we will also discuss the idea of “the woman writer” - one which deserves our skepticism.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Julie Crawford
CULPA: 24
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- 4 points
DIRECTING ACTORS III
More sophisticated principles are applied and more challenging scenes are presented. Collaboration with a writer is a requirement. Required for Screenwriting and Directing concentrates.
- Department: Film
- M 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
- M 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
- T 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
- T 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jon Shear
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Instructor:
Emil Benjamin
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Instructor:
Keith Manning
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Instructor:
Shira-Lee Shalit
Info - 3 points
Environmental Science for Sustainable De
Enviro Science for Sust D
This course provides a rigorous survey of the key areas of natural science that are critical to understanding sustainable development. The course will provide the theories, methodological techniques and applications associated with each natural science unit presented. The teaching is designed to ensure that students have the natural science basis to properly appreciate the co-dependencies of natural and human systems, which are central to understanding sustainable development. Students will learn the complexities of the interaction between the natural and human environment. After completing the course, students should be able to incorporate scholarly scientific work into their research or policy decisions and be able to use scientific methods of data analysis. This is a modular course that will cover core thematic areas specifically, climate, natural hazards, water management, public health/epidemiology, and ecology/biodiversity. To achieve coherence across lectures this course will emphasize how each topic is critical to studies of sustainable development and place-based case studies in recitation will integrate various topics covered. In the lectures and particularly the recitation sections this course will emphasize key scientific concepts such as uncertainty, experimental versus observational approaches, prediction and predictability, the use of models and other essential methodological aspects.
- Department: PHD-SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
- M 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
- R 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Instructor:
John C Mutter
CULPA: 15 Info - 3 points
Environmental Science for Sustainable De
Enviro Sci for Sus Dev Seminar
PhD Seminar for Environmental Science for Sustainable Development (SDEV U6240)
- Department: PHD-SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
- W 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
John C Mutter
CULPA: 15 Info - 1 points
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
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
CAPSTONE: RESOLUTION STRATEGIES
- Department: Negotiation & Conflict Resolution
- M noon-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Peter Dixon
Info - 3 points
Foundations of Budgeting
MPA Financial Management I Core.
This course provides a practical introduction to budgeting as a critical tool for planning, decision-making, and leadership across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Students will develop hands-on skills in budget creation, financial analysis, and cash flow management while exploring how budgets shape organizational strategy and operations.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- R 8 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
- R 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
John Liu
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Instructor:
Mimi Corcoran
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Instructor:
Sarah M Holloway
CULPA: 1 Info - 1.5 points
Foundations of Budgeting
MPA Financial Management I Core.
This course provides a practical introduction to budgeting as a critical tool for planning, decision-making, and leadership across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Students will develop hands-on skills in budget creation, financial analysis, and cash flow management while exploring how budgets shape organizational strategy and operations.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- 0 points
Foundations of Budgeting
MPA Financial Management I Core.
This course provides a practical introduction to budgeting as a critical tool for planning, decision-making, and leadership across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Students will develop hands-on skills in budget creation, financial analysis, and cash flow management while exploring how budgets shape organizational strategy and operations.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- 0 points
SOLO SHOWS
We will use the experience of writing a piece with built-in constraints – cast size with a solo show – to expand our thinking about what is a theatrical event. We will work toward becoming more in touch with our imaginations and in greater awareness and command of what we know. We will explore what is of interest to each of us now, through in-class writing and outside assignments.
- Department: Theatre Arts
- T 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Leslie Ayvazian
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
TOPICS-INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION
- Department: Economics
- F 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Maria Doval
Info - 3 points
ARCH & DEV DIALOGUES
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- M 2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Raquel Ramati
Info - 1.5 points
Budgeting & Financial Management for Gov
Gov't Budgeting & Finance
MPA Financial Management II Core.
This course introduces students to budgeting and financial management in the public sector, with an emphasis on real-world application and analytical skill development. Drawing on current and historical challenges—including the 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic—students will explore the political, technical, and managerial dimensions of public budgeting in the United States.
Topics include the structure and function of operating and capital budgets, principles of revenue generation, deficit spending, and debt financing. Students will work with actual federal, state, and local budgets, gaining experience in constructing, analyzing, and presenting budgets in a government context. By the end of the course, students will be able to evaluate budget proposals and make data-informed recommendations grounded in public policy goals and financial feasibility.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- R 8 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
- None None-None
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Instructor:
John Liu
Info - 1.5 points
INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION I
Prerequisites: ECON G6211 and ECON G6212 or the instructor's permission. This course provides an introduction to a number of exciting research questions in industrial organization and organizational economics. While most of the content is theoretical, great emphasis is placed on the testable implications of the models we study: related empirical work is surveyed. The course aims to bring students to the research frontier by identifying open research questions and highlighting particularly active research areas.
- Department: Economics
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Pietro Tebaldi
Info - 3 points
Financial Management for Nonprofits & So
Fin Mgmt for Nonprofits &
MPA Financial Management II Core.
This course introduces nonprofit and social enterprise finance, financial management, and budgeting. The course is practical and hands-on. The course will examine how financial management principles assist nonprofit and social enterprise leaders make operating, program, and long-term financial and strategic decisions. Students will learn underlying concepts and practical skills through readings, discussions, Case Studies, and assignments. The course is designed to give students a range of core financial and managerial skills that are especially relevant to students who want to go on to establish, manage, or work in nonprofit organizations or social enterprises.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- R 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
- None None-None
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Instructor:
Sarah M Holloway
CULPA: 1 Info - 1.5 points
US REIT ANALYSIS & INVESTMENT
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- W 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
David A Kruth
Info - 3 points
Disasters and Development
The course begins with a series of lectures that link natural extremes with disasters consequences in the development context. We explain the physical phenomenology of natural extreme events, how and why they originate, the limits to which they can be predicted and the extent to which measures can be taken to reduce their harm. The focus is on those extremes that have historically proven to have the greatest consequences - earthquakes, hurricanes, floods and droughts. We then describe the social phenomenology especially the macroeconomic consequences of disasters. Here we are in relatively new territory and we will call on analogies with well-established economic shocks such as currency slums and financial crises to explain how disaster shocks might differentially impact societies at varying development levels. We then discuss how the UN and other international agencies deal with disasters.
- Department: Climate, Energy, & Environment
- MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
- 3 points
Accounting Fundamentals
MPA Financial Management Core II.
This course provides students with a foundational understanding of financial accounting, with an emphasis on interpreting financial statements. Students will study the three core financial statements—the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows—and learn the accounting principles and rules that shape how financial data is recorded and presented.
Through hands-on exercises and case examples from service, manufacturing, and retail operations, students will learn to apply double-entry bookkeeping, distinguish between key accounting treatments such as capitalizing and expensing, and evaluate how management’s assumptions and estimates influence reported outcomes. The course aims to build financial fluency for policy professionals and prepare students to critically assess financial information to support evidence-based decision-making.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- R 12:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
- F 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
Norman Bartczak
CULPA: 1 Info - 1.5 points
COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA
Commutative rings; modules; localization; primary decoposition; integral extensions; Noetherian and Artinian rings; Nullstellensatz; Dedekind domains; dimension theory; regular local rings.
- Department: Mathematics
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michael Thaddeus
CULPA: 24
Wikipedia
Info
- 4.5 points
UNDERWRITING
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- W 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Christopher W Munsell
Info - 3 points
INTERNATIONAL LAW
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
- 4 points
NEW YORK RISING: HOW RE SHAPES A CITY
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- F 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kate J Ascher
Info - 3 points
MATERIALS SCIENCE REPORTS
Formal written reports and conferences with the appropriate member of the faculty on a subject of special interest to the student but not covered in the other course offerings.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
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Instructor:
James Im
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Instructor:
Michele Simoncelli
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Instructor:
Yuan Yang
h-index: 49 Info - 0-6 points
TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMT
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- M 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kate J Ascher
Info - 3 points
HOTEL DEVPT/INVESTMNT ANALYSIS
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- F 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
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Instructor:
Adam S Feil
Info - 1.5 points
TPCS IN DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
Prerequisites: G6211, G6212, G6215, G6216, G6411, G6412 or the instructor's permission. This course covers prominent topics in micro-development economics. Lectures and readings will cover theoretical frameworks; emphasize empirical research; and highlight gaps in the literature.
Practicum in Music Composition
This course provides an opportunity for students in the Music Department’s Composition DMA program to engage in off-campus practicum or internships in music composition for academic credit that will count towards the requirements for the degree.
- Department: Music
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Instructor:
Zosha Di Castri
Info - 1 points
ANTITRUST AND TRADE REGULATION
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
Advanced Topics in Theoretical Computer
INTRO PROPERTY TESTING
Selected topics in theoretical computer science (advanced level). Content and prerequisites vary between sections and semesters. May be repeated for credit. Check "topics courses" webpage on the department website for more information on each section.
- Department: Computer Science
- F 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Xi Chen
CULPA: 7
Wikipedia
h-index: 64
Info
- 3 points
Advanced Topics in Theoretical Computer
BOOLEAN FUNCTION ANALYSIS
Selected topics in theoretical computer science (advanced level). Content and prerequisites vary between sections and semesters. May be repeated for credit. Check "topics courses" webpage on the department website for more information on each section.
- Department: Computer Science
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rocco Servedio
CULPA: 15
h-index: 48
Info
- 3 points
Advanced Topics in Theoretical Computer
INTRO PROPERTY TESTING
Selected topics in theoretical computer science (advanced level). Content and prerequisites vary between sections and semesters. May be repeated for credit. Check "topics courses" webpage on the department website for more information on each section.
- Department: Video Network
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Instructor:
Xi Chen
CULPA: 7
Wikipedia
h-index: 64
Info
- 3-4 points
Independent Study in Family Primary Care
INDEP STUDY IN FAMILY NUR
Individualized, guided learning experiences at the graduate level in a selected area of concentration. The area of concentration selected should reflect both the role of the clinical specialist / nurse practitioner and the student’s specific interests. Proposed work must be outlined prior to registration and agreed upon by both faculty and student.
- Department: Nursing
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Instructor:
Beatriz Makhoulian
Info - 1-8 points
RESEARCH SEMINAR
Prerequisites: degree in biological sciences. Lectures by visiting scientists, faculty, and students; specific biological research projects; with emphasis on evolution, ecology, and conservation biology.
- Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
- T 4 p.m.-5 p.m.
- 1 points
Environmental Health Sciences
ENVIRONMENTAL HLTH SCIENC
- Department: Environmental Health Sciences
- R 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Marcela Tamayo Y Ortiz
Info - 3 points
Third Year Proseminar
This proseminar, which meets alternate weeks for the full academic year, is required for third-year PhD students in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. The seminar will help you prepare for orals, develop your dissertation ideas, expand your research skills, produce articles for publication, and generally extend your professional skills. While we will read some practical “how to” literature and models, the focus will be on writing, workshopping material, and discussing process (time-management, organization, etc). Both out-of-class assignments and in-class writing exercises should serve to extend your ideas—or shake them loose—and bring you closer to a dissertation that represents your vision, makes others want to read your work, and reminds you why you care. By the end of the year, you will have a polished dissertation prospectus and should have submitted at least one article for publication (or have one close-to-ready for submission). Above all, the seminar offers a supportive community, an opportunity to try out ideas (cooked or still raw), and encouragement from your fellow scholar-writer-thinkers as you progress toward your orals and dissertation.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Julie S Peters
CULPA: 5
Info
- 1 points
THE BUSINESS OF FILM
An overview of the business side of theatrical motion pictures, from the Hollywood major studios to small independents and self-distribution. Covers all the ancillary markets (cable, home video) and their relationship both to the theatrical success of the film and to its bottom line. Required for all second-year Creative Producing students. Available as an elective for Directing/Screenwriting students.
- Department: Film
- T 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
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Instructor:
Scott Shooman
Info - 3 points
Vietnam Studies Historiography and Metho
VIET Historiography & Met
This course brings graduate students interested in Vietnam Studies together across field lines and period focus to discuss some foundational questions of historiography and methods within the field. We have striven to combine key conceptual or theoretical work with examples drawn from the specific context of the study of Vietnam. The course is intended to provide a common vocabulary for the discussion of Vietnam Studies.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
- 4 points
DIRECTING I
- Department: Theatre Arts
- M 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Anne Bogart
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
ANALYTIC METHODS FOR PDE'S
Introduction to analytic theory of PDEs of fundamental and applied science; wave (hyperbolic), Laplace and Poisson equations (elliptic), heat (parabolic) and Schroedinger (dispersive) equations; fundamental solutions, Greens functions, weak/distribution solutions, maximum principle, energy estimates, variational methods, method of characteristics; elementary functional analysis and applications to PDEs; introduction to nonlinear PDEs, shocks; selected applications.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michael I Weinstein
CULPA: 2 h-index: 47 Info - 3 points
Foundations of Valuation
- Department: Finance
- MWF 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
- MWF 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Milena Wittwer
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Instructor:
Bruno Pellegrino
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Instructor:
Laura Veldkamp
Wikipedia h-index: 32 Info -
Instructor:
Milena Wittwer
Info - 1.5 points
PROBABILITY THEORY I
Prerequisites: A thorough knowledge of elementary real analysis and some previous knowledge of probability. Overview of measure and integration theory. Probability spaces and measures, random variables and distribution functions. Independence, Borel-Cantelli lemma, zero-one laws. Expectation, uniform integrability, sums of independent random variables, stopping times, Wald's equations, elementary renewal theorems. Laws of large numbers. Characteristic functions. Central limit problem; Lindeberg-Feller theorem, infinitely divisible and stable distributions. Cramer's theorem, introduction to large deviations. Law of the iterated logarithm, Brownian motion, heat equation.
- Department: Statistics
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ioannis Karatzas
CULPA: 7 h-index: 58 Info - 4 points
Corporate Finance (Half-Term)
- Department: Finance
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
- MW 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sorin Maruster
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Instructor:
Xuelin Li
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Instructor:
Sorin Maruster
Info - 1.5 points