Modification and Assistive Technology
Modification & Assistive
- Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
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Instructor:
Rochelle Mendonca
Info - 3 points
Health Policy and the Political System
HEALTH POLICY-POLITICAL S
Why does the government play such a central role in the health of its citizens? What factors unique to American politics have given us the healthcare system we currently have, and how much change can be accomplished within our philosophical and ethical confines? How do political changes yield policy shifts - or not? This course analyzes the role of major institutions - the central government, the federal system, the private sector, interest groups, and so on - in formulating and implementing health policy in the United States. We will discuss underlying normative issues and crossnational perspectives on healthcare to situate American healthcare policy along a broader global political spectrum, and attempt to forecast what changes are likely - or unlikely - to occur. Topics will include political history, policy formation and recommendations, market forces and economic influences, and more.
- Department: Health Policy & Management
- W 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lawrence D Brown
Info - 3 points
VISIONS FROM AFAR FROM NEARBY
- Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
- W 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alessandra Russo
CULPA: 5
Info
- 3 points
Single-Cell and Functional Genomics
Single-cell genomics and genome-wide functional screens serve as core technologies for modern systems biology. Multi-modal single-cell analysis has transformed our ability to interrogate biological processes and gene regulation, even in complex tissues. Combining these powerful observational tools with CRISPR-based functional perturbations could lead to computational models that can predict cellular behavior. This course will explore the foundational principles underlying these experimental technologies, discuss their applications in basic and translational research, and introduce computational approaches for gleaning biological insight from high-dimensional genomic data.
- Department: Biomedical Life Sciences
- T 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
- 3 points
FICTION LECTURE
SHAKESPEARE
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- Department: Writing
- W 5:15 p.m.-7:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Erroll G McDonald
Info - 3 points
Critical Issues in Hospital Management
HOSP ORGANIZATION/MANAGEM
This course is intended to give the student a broad understanding of the components of the health care system and the basic management principles of hospital organization and management. The course will employ a variety of learning formats for students including lectures by the instructors, guest lecturers with special expertise, case studies and student presentations. Emphasis will be on the historical trends of health care statistics and operating data of health care institutions; the history of hospitals and health care systems; their organization and finances; regulatory controls; management strategies; accreditation and professional standards; government; private insurance; administrative leadership and professional interactions, emergency services, healthcare trends and marketing.
- Department: Health Policy & Management
- W 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
- T 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
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Instructor:
Arthur Gianelli
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Instructor:
Eric Wei
Info - 1.5 points
S. Legal Conflict and Change During the
S.Legal Conflict Civil Wa
- Department: Law
- 3 points
S. Media, the Internet and Artificial In
S. Media, the Internet &
- Department: Law
- 2 points
SPEECH I
In this course, students will enhance and deepen their understanding of how the human voice and articulators partner together to create language. They will explore their own individual Idiolects and gain the skills to recalibrate their instruments in order to enhance the expressiveness and dynamic contrast of their speech. The phonemes of the International Alphabet (IPA) will be employed to specify the sounds of Detailed North American English (DNAE).
- Department: Theatre Arts
- TR 9 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth Hayes
Info - 2 points
Data Visualization & Storytelling with G
Data Viz & Storytelling
This hands-on course explores how data visualization, storytelling, and generative artificial intelligence can be combined to transform quantitative analysis into effective policy communication. Building on the concepts and methods introduced in Quantitative Techniques I or an equivalent graduate-level statistics course, students will learn to communicate analytical findings clearly, accurately, and persuasively to technical, managerial, and executive audiences.
The course introduces foundational principles of data visualization alongside the practical use of contemporary generative AI tools to support the full analytics-to-story workflow, from organizing and interpreting data to developing presentations, policy briefs, and executive summaries. Through applied exercises, in-class laboratories, and a collaborative project, students will learn how to communicate uncertainty, maintain analytical rigor, and translate quantitative evidence into actionable recommendations.
By the end of the course, students will be able to design effective visualizations, critically evaluate AI-generated outputs, tailor communications to different stakeholder audiences, and convert complex quantitative findings into compelling policy narratives that support decision-making.
- Department: EXECUTIVE MPA
- SU 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Stuart E Ward
Info - 3 points
VOICE & ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE I
In the 1890s, Frederick Mathias (F.M.) Alexander, a Shakespearian actor and spoken recitalist from Australia, began experiencing severe voice loss after he performed. The medical profession of his day prescribed vocal rest which worked well enough until Alexander’s next performance when he would leave the stage as hoarse as before. Frustrated that his vocal issues were not resolving, Alexander intuited that it must be something that he was doing to himself while he performed that was contributing to the loss of his voice. Doctors agreed with Alexander but they were at a loss to say what he was doing that was causing his problems.Thus began F. M.’s journey. The discoveries he made are what we now know as the Alexander Technique, and in the past 100 plus years, AT has become a valuable part of the curriculum in music conservatories and drama schools throughout the world. Many extraordinary actors have been lifelong students of the Alexander Technique for the many ways it helps their body, voice and breath in performance.
Our work together is experiential and sensory, and it involves a way of thinking which is highly creative and improvisational. It is an art, and it takes time to evolve in us. At the beginning things are bound to be confusing. You are learning a new language—a language of body and breath—and you cannot understand it through your old ways of feeling or visualizing. Confusion is absolutely normal, but it shifts as you develop a new awareness of yourself. Our work is a process of discovery and the only requirement for you as a student is to stay open and to try not to worry about getting something “right.” This is easier said than done, but I will be reminding you of it all the time. It helps if you can keep a “beginner’s mind” so that every lesson becomes a source of wonder.
For an actor, your body is your instrument and how you use your body determines how well you move on stage, produce your voice, and perform. The Alexander Technique is a mind-body discipline that helps students improve their psycho-physical coordination while helping them become aware of physical habits that may be inhibiting their breathing and the expressiveness, energy and strength of their voice and body. In our work together, you will begin to gain an awareness of improved physical coordination and ease leading to a freer and more expressive voice and body.
Vocal production relies on psychological and physical coordination—an alignmen
- Department: Theatre Arts
- M 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jean McClelland
Info - 1 points
Instructive Biomaterials
Covers biomaterials that are instructive or have been designed or engineered to be instructive; structure-function-property relationships in natural and synthetic biomaterials. Advances in understanding of material properties emphasized; including electroactivity, chemical, mechanical, geometry/architecture, and the modification of material surfaces and context of their effect on biological function. Evolving field of smart biomaterials discussed. Exercises/demonstrations using materials characterization equipment conducted.
- Department: Biomedical Engineering
- W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Treena L Arinzeh
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
Healthcare in the Arts
HEALTHCARE IN THE ARTS &
This course examines the integration of arts and cultural experiences within healthcare systems to advance patient care, staff resilience, and community trust. Students will explore historical, social, and policy foundations of arts in health—from WPA-era murals to contemporary interventions addressing chronic disease, social isolation, and structural inequities—while engaging with evidence-informed programming and evaluation methods. The curriculum highlights organizational strategies for embedding the arts systemwide, fostering positive institutional culture, and enhancing operational and economic outcomes in complex healthcare organizations. Experiential exercises, case studies, and field observations illuminate arts-based interventions across hospitals, correctional facilities, and community settings, including partnerships with leading cultural institutions. The course emphasizes how arts programming functions as a social determinant–informed intervention, integrating innovative referral pathways and social screenings to address social isolation, loneliness, and psychosocial needs in communities.
- Department: Health Policy & Management
- R 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
- 1.5 points
NONFICTION LECTURE
MORE NARRATIVE STRUCTURE
NONFICTION LECTURE
- Department: Writing
- W 10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Chloe Jones
Info - 3 points
Writing on Eurasia
This course is designed to help MA-level students improve their researching and writing skills, and become adept at distilling acquired knowledge into straightforward prose. The aim is to assist students in being more effective communicators regardless of whether they pursue careers in academia, journalism, government service, private enterprise or the non-governmental sector. The course will also promote better understanding of how to get work published by mass media outlets. The course places particular emphasis on practical work, including the preparation of commentaries and book reviews concerning current affairs in Eurasia. Lectures examine the basic elements of editing, interviewing and concise writing. Other lectures focus on how to maintain personal and digital security while living and researching/working in Eurasia, and discuss best practices on harnessing social media for career advancement. Guest speakers will provide additional perspectives on ways to make writing on academic topics more accessible to the general reading public, and how to leverage expertise in Eurasian-area affairs in ways that can jump-start careers.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- R 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Justin Burke
Info - 1.5 points
Advanced Appellate Litigation Clinic
AdvAppellate Litigation C
- Department: Law
- 1-4 points
Healthcare Accounting and Budgeting
HLTH CARE ACCOUNTING&BUDG
The current market places increasing demands on healthcare managers so it is essential that individuals possess basic skills related to financial management and financial reporting. Current events make these demands more dynamic than ever. This course is intended for students who are interested in expanding their knowledge of healthcare financial issues and/or pursuing careers that involve financial management in the healthcare sector. The focus will be on non-profit healthcare delivery organizations.
- Department: Health Policy & Management
- R 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
- T 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Francine M Caracappa
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Instructor:
Jonathan Engel
Info - 3 points
ISSUES/APPROC-HLTH POLICY/MGMT
- Department: Executive Classes in HPM
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Instructor:
Michael S Sparer
Info - 3 points
Issues and Approaches in Health Policy a
ISSUES-APPROACHES-HLTH PO
How is the health care system organized? Who pays the bill? Why have efforts to enact national health insurance failed? What role does government now play in the US health care system, and how do different levels of government share these tasks? Contrary to many perceptions, the fervent debate of these questions is not a recent phenomenon; these are issues that have been argued vigorously throughout American political history. Exploring these debates is critical both to the development of public health policy and the management of delivery systems.
This course focuses on policy and management issues that affect all health care practitioners. We will examine, among other topics, the historical foundations of the American health care system, the rise of managed care, the make-up of the healthcare workforce, the key issues on the nation’s long-term care policy agenda, and ways in which government can encourage good quality care. This introductory course is intended for MHA students and serves to fulfill a core course requirement in Health Policy and Management.
- Department: Health Policy & Management
- T 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
- M 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sorcha Brophy
Info - 3 points
POETRY LECTURE
POETS ON POETS
POETRY LECTURE
- Department: Writing
- M 2:10 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alice Quinn
Info - 3 points
Systemic Corruption in Eurasia: Competit
In Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, and other countries of the Eurasia region, corruption is systemic. Corruption, defined as the abuse of public trust and power for private gain, is institutionalized in government at the national, regional, and local levels. Formal government decision-making processes have been captured by informal networks of political and business elites who exert significant control over the allocation of public resources. They utilize this control to make illegal financial gains with the support of government authorities and protection of the law.
When President Putin began Russia’s expanded military invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the imprisoned Russian anticorruption activist and political opposition leader Alexey Navalny was on trial once again over fabricated charges of embezzlement. Though Mr. Navalny faced another 15 years in a penal colony, he seized the opportunity during his February 24 hearing to publicly state his opposition to Russia’s war on Ukraine. “This war between Russia and Ukraine was unleashed to cover up the theft from Russian citizens and divert their attention from problems that exist inside the country,” he said.
This seminar examines the role that Russia’s systemic corruption played as a cause of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Is the war an extension, and drastic escalation, of the Putin regime’s campaign against both his own citizens and the citizens of post-Maidan Ukraine? We will consider how the Kremlin’s strategic use of corruption is threatening the sovereignty of other nations in Eurasia.
This seminar analyzes the political economy, power relationships, historical and cultural factors that have engendered systemic corruption in Eurasian countries. We identify different types of corrupt systems that have emerged in the regions. We will also examine how systemic corruption causes conflict and war, and poses a threat to the global economy and democracy. Finally, we analyze various anti-corruption reforms to understand why some failed while others succeeded.
The seminar will benefit SIPA and Harriman Institute students who specialize in regional studies of countries of the Eurasia. It will also benefit SIPA and other graduate students who specialize in international security, economics, finance, energy, law, development, conflict resolution, and journalism. To achieve a deep understanding of Eurasia corruption, we will examine
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- M 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Matthew H Murray
Info - 3 points
International Investment Law and Arbitra
INTER INVEST LAW & ARBITR
- Department: Law
- 3 points
CHEMICAL ENGIN RES METHODOLOGY
- Department: Chemical Engineering
- T 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Scott Banta
CULPA: 1 h-index: 36 Info - 1 points
Analytics and Managerial Decision-Making
ANALYTCS/MANAGR DECISION
Analytics and Managerial Decision-Making I is the first of two required quantitative methods courses taken in sequence by all MHA students. These courses are foundational to the MHA curriculum. The two courses are fully integrated with respect to materials, exercises and cases, and by a two-term, team-based application project.
Managers are continually confronted with the need to make significant decisions concerning the organizational and financial performance of a health organization, based on a combination of strategic intention, practical experience, and interpretation and application of complex data and information. Data analysis is one tool that supports such decision-making. This course is designed to provide management students with the tools to generate and present data-driven and model-based management recommendations that are meaningful and implementable.
The course focuses on learning basic tools for the collection, analysis, and presentation of data in support of managerial/executive decision-making. Topics will include introductory data and statistical exploration from basic descriptive statistics to population and market estimation, comparison testing and decision-making, sampling design and analysis, and predicting/forecasting using linear regression. Using Excel as an additional tool, the course develops analytical skills to prepare managers to make and to present informed decisions in the overall healthcare sector.
Motor Drive Systems
Principles of electromechanical energy conversion. Overview of electric motor types: DC, induction, and permanent magnet synchronous motors. Power electronic converters and modulation techniques. Torque-speed characteristics, dynamic response, efficiency analysis. Scalar and vector control methods. Motor modeling and simulation. Drive system components and integration. Applications in industrial automation, robotics, and electric vehicles.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- M 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Matthias Preindl
h-index: 26 Info - 3 points
TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIP
- Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
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Instructor:
Colleen M Maher
Info - 0 points
Occupation: Science and Practice
Occupation: Science & Pra
- Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
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Instructor:
Tyra M Banks
Info - 3 points
Counterfactuals
Counterfactuals play a key role in philosophy, linguistics, psychology, decision theory, game theory, artificial
intelligence, and many other related fields. Our goal for this course is to cover foundational work on
counterfactuals (with some attention paid to indicative conditionals as well). Though our reading list has
a historical component, its primary purpose is to familiarize students with contemporary state of play. We
will focus on distinctions and applications that have become an essential part of the working philosopher’s
toolkit.
- Department: Philosophy
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Melissa S Fusco
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
Understanding, Epistemology, and Metaphy
This seminar is an investigation into the network of relations between three things: (I) the nature of a domain of entities, including their properties and relations; (II) the capacity to have mental states about them; and (III) the capacity to know and to make reasonable judgements about them. As a subpart of this investigation, as a special case at one level up: we are sometimes concerned with the network of relations between: (I’) the nature of a domain of entities consisting of, or involving, intentional contents themselves, their properties and relations; (II’) the capacity of have mental states about them; and (III’) the capacity to know and make reasonable judgements about them.
- Department: Philosophy
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Christopher Peacocke
CULPA: 4
Wikipedia
Info
- 3 points
Reverse Physics: Set Theory, Determinism
Baroque questions of set-theoretic foundations are widely assumed to be irrelevant to physics. In
this seminar, we will see that they are not. Whether a physical theory is deterministic—whether
it fixes a unique future given the present—can depend on one’s stance on axioms of set theory
about which there is intractable disagreement. This is not a quirk of exotic toy models. It reaches
into the heat equation, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and general relativity. The
seminar builds from the ground up. We begin with the philosophy of determinism: what it
means, why it matters, and how it has traditionally been formalized. We then develop enough set
theory and descriptive set theory to state the key results precisely. In the second half, we work
through the sensitivity results in detail, showing how the content of fundamental physical
theories shifts with the set-theoretic background. We conclude by asking what this means for
debates about mathematical pluralism, scientific realism, and the boundary between mathematics
and physics.
No prior knowledge of set theory or mathematical physics is assumed. The seminar is open to
graduate students in philosophy and, with permission, to advanced graduate students in
mathematics, physics, and related fields.
- Department: Philosophy
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Justin Clarke-Doane
h-index: 10 Info - 3 points
AOP Older Adults II
AOP OLDER ADULTS II
- Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
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Instructor:
Danielle J Mahoney
Info - 3 points
AOP Children II
AOP CHILDREN II
- Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
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Instructor:
Julia Guzman
Info - 4 points
THE ACTOR'S BODY I
- Department: Theatre Arts
- M 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Katherine Willis
Info - 1 points
THE ACTOR'S BODY III
This course deepens the actor’s working understanding of their body as “instrument” and teaches practical application of learned skill sets for professional practice and complex use.The course achieves this objective by examining current practice and providing solutions for real time obstacles and challenges actors are encountering in their daily practice in classes and rehearsals. Challenges faced are explored specifically in context of class vocabulary as well as by providing increasingly complex tasks that require use of multiple skills sets at once.The course continues the work of developing physical ease and awareness and expands each actor also to prepare body and being for work in ensemble.
- Department: Theatre Arts
- T 9 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
James Calder
Info - 1 points
AOP Adults III
AOP ADULTS III
- Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
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Instructor:
Daniel L Geller
Info - 4 points
PUB-PRIV PARTSHP-REAL EST DEV
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- R 4:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Shuprotim Bhaumik
Info - 1.5 points
Research I: Statistics and Methods
RSCH I: STAT AND MTHDS
- Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
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Instructor:
Razan Hamed
h-index: 8 Info - 2 points
Research III: Critical Appraisal
- Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
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Instructor:
Razan Hamed
h-index: 8 Info - 1 points
S. Transnational & Interstate Litigation
S. Transnational Litigati
- Department: Law
- 2 points
Clinical Conditions I: Behavioral Health
CLIN COND I: BHV HEALTH
- Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
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Instructor:
Patricia Precin
Info - 3 points
AMERICAN SPECTACLE
In this workshop, students will create original writing that is in conversation with American theatrical traditions beyond the proscenium. We will investigate and engage theatrical forms, such as the side show, courtroom drama, violence as spectacle and performance art. The aim is to encourage students to think more expansively and non-traditionally in their approach to writing and making theatre.
- Department: Theatre Arts
- F 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lynn Nottage
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
Topics in Smart Electric Energy
Battery Systems
Selected advanced topics in smart electric energy. Content varies from year to year.
Topics in Smart Electric Energy
Selected advanced topics in smart electric energy. Content varies from year to year.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
- 3 points
MARKET DESIGN
Prerequisites: ECON G6211, ECON G6212. Market Design is an emerging field in economics that attempts to devise a practical scheme for allocating scarce resources to individuals who value them. Its applications involve many important real life problems ranging from allocation of government resources such as public land, fishing/mineral rights, radio spectrum licenses, allocation of school choice and transplantable human organs, assignment of workers to jobs, to placement of advertising in Internet search engines. Mechanism design underpins the field as a general methodological framework, which is in turn operationalized by two branches of theories: 1) Auction Theory and 2) Matching Theory. The course will provide a guide through these theories and discusses a few applications along the way.
- Department: Economics
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Yeon-Koo Che
CULPA: 6 Wikipedia h-index: 45 Info - 3 points
SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH
Prerequisites: permission of the departmental adviser to Graduate Studies.
- Department: Psychology
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Instructor:
Natalie Brito
Info - 1-4 points
Policy Communication and Advocacy
Policy Comms and Advocacy
MIA and MPA Policy Skills I Core.
This course provides students with practical skills to communicate clearly and persuasively on issues they care about. Whether writing to influence policy, shape public opinion, or present ideas within an organization, the ability to craft sharp, purposeful messages is essential. Students will learn to distill their key arguments, adapt their writing for different audiences, and develop strong foundational pieces such as op-eds, press releases, and policy memos. The course also introduces generative AI tools as part of the writing process—teaching students how to use AI to brainstorm, draft, and revise more efficiently, while critically assessing its outputs. As AI transforms how we write and communicate, this course equips students to harness its benefits while maintaining their own voice, judgment, and clarity of thought.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- R 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
- M 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
- T 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
- T 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
- M 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
- M 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
- R 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
Liza Featherstone
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George W III Miller
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Jonathan Birchall
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Liz B Wright
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Tusharika Deka
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Gina Ryder
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Instructor:
Liza Featherstone
Wikipedia Info - 1.5 points
LEASE ANALYSIS & FIN METRICS
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sara B Queen
Info - 1.5 points
Architecture of the Japanese Temple
Arch. of Japanese Temple
An introduction to timber-frame architecture, the primary method of construction prior to the 19th century, focusing on its use in Japanese Buddhist temples. While the course should serve as an introduction, it assumes a basic knowledge of the broad outlines of the history of Japan and its art. Weekly lectures will cover major monuments, beginning with Ise Shrine and the introduction of continental timber-frame architecture at Hōryūji, and extending to the early 19th century. Special attention will be devoted to defining the three major rubrics of the
wayō
(“Japanese” style), “Zen-style,” and “Great Buddha Hall” modes that were refined and standardized by the 13th century, along with their infinite variations and recombinations. Topics to be explored throughout the course will include: wood joinery techniques and bracket technology; the development of indigenous
shoin
architecture and its impact on residential architecture; the role of varied Buddhist doctrines in developments of liturgical space; builders’ responses to local environmental and seismic conditions; and the impact of sumptuary laws in the early modern period.
The course will be taught as a series of weekly lectures, and students will be expected to complete and respond to weekly reading assignments. The syllabus focuses primarily on readings available in English, but supplemental reading assignments will also be included for students with a reading knowledge of Japanese.
- Department: Art History and Archaeology
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Matthew P McKelway
CULPA: 6 Info - 3 points
Transforming the Urban Economy
This course focuses on developing cities and transformative initiatives, especially in New York City. This course will examine a wide array of economic development projects and strategies. It will look at the core economic goals set forth nearly two decades ago to diversify the economy and make it less dependent on financial services, while examining the challenges faced by cities today in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Land use policy, incentives, new developments, placemaking initiatives, and approaches to district management will also be studied. Students will gain a broad understanding of how economic development tools and tactics have been leveraged to revitalize central business districts, neighborhoods, the waterfront, and public spaces.
This course will review the effectiveness of public-private partnerships, including business improvement districts (BIDs), local development corporations, and park conservancies. New York City is the home of the largest network of BIDs in the world. During the course, we will also examine how anchor institutions (
universities, hospitals, cultural organizations
) play an increased role in community revitalization.
- Department: EXECUTIVE MPA
- M 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Instructor:
Robert Walsh
Info - 3 points
Theories of Secularity
This course will try to study the development of various aspects of theorization of the secular and the transformations of religion under modernity. It will be mainly based on close textual reading of important theoretical arguments representing important stages in the development of these arguments from the time of the Enlightenment to present day academic debates.
The first section will focus on the emergence of theories of a secular state in European philosophy starting with texts from Spinoza, Hobbes, and Hume. We shall also range over some ancillary texts that illustrate the nature of secularist arguments against religious beliefs and practices. The second section will concentrate on the development of the sociological tradition with focus on the works of Fustel de Coulanges, Max Weber and Ernst Troletsch. A short third section will focus on the establishment of religious studies as an academic discipline by looking at the works of a pioneer of this discipline: Wilfred Cantwell Smith. The fourth section will take up for reading and critical examination four different academic discussions in recent years: stemming from the work of Indian debates on secularism, from academic debates about the anthropology of religion, and especially studies of Islam started by the work of Talal Asad and responses it attracted. Finally, we shall take up critical works which revisit arguments from Weber by Charles Taylor and Hans Joas. The final weeks of the course will be devoted to conclusions drawn from these intersecting readings across historical time and space.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sudipta Kaviraj
Wikipedia Info - 4 points
Nonlinear and Adaptive Control
Nonlinear dynamics: Euler-Lagrange equations, Hamilton’s principle, variational calculus; nonlinear systems: fundamentals, examples, stability Notions, linear systems and linearization, frequency domain analysis, discrete time systems, absolute stability, input-to-state stabililty, control design: control Lyapunov functions, sliding mode control, control barrier functions; adaptive control: self-tuning regular, model reference adaptive control, feedback linearization, extremum seeking control, model predictive control, observer design: extended, unscented, and mixture model Kalman filters, moving horizon estimation, high-gain observers; repetitive processes: iterative learning control, learning-adaptive control, repetitive control; optimal control: continuous setting, discrete time setting, constrained optimal control, linear matrix inequality (LMI) constraints, dynamic programming and backward recursion.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
- M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Homayoon Beigi
Info - 3 points
SOUND: ADVANCED TOPICS I
This class explores advanced topics relating to the production of music by computer. Although programming experience is not a prerequisite, various programming techniques are enlisted to investigate interface design, algorithmic composition, computer analysis and processing of digital audio, and the use of computer music in contexts such as VR/AR applications. Check with the instructor for the particular focus of the class in an upcoming semester. Some familiarity with computer music hardware/software is expected. Permission of instructor is required to enroll.
- Department: Music
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mark Santolucito
CULPA: 1 h-index: 8 Info - 3 points
CONTEMP SOC ISSUES: ISMS LAB
This course fosters students to challenge bias, prejudice, and forms of discrimination that operate in the lives of social workers and our clients. As a “laboratory,” learning begins with hands-on participation in a series of interactive exercises designed to elicit and deconstruct dynamics of racism, sexism, ageism, ableism, heterocentrism, classism, etc. Each activity is followed by a facilitated exploration and critical analysis of the experiential process. An emphasis is placed on professional and personal insight and skill with regards to culturally/contextually competent practice, processing of charged issues, and use of self. This course is well-suited for students who are authentic, willing to take risks, and committed to becoming effective agents of change towards social justice.
This course is conceived to assist social work practitioners identify and examine the ways various populations experience oppression and discrimination, with an eye towards the various dimensions that shape how “-isms” occur in our lives and society, including but not limited to:
Societal levels: personal, institutional, cultural
Visibility: overt, covert
Temporal: historical, periodic/occasional, everyday/ongoing
Actor: me, us, them
Dynamics of invalidation/forms of denial
- Department: Social Work
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elwin Wu
h-index: 37 Info - 3 points
LEADERSHIP FOR STAGE MANAGERS I
LEADERSHIP - STAGE MANAGE
Position, people, procedures, and productivity: this class will introduce first year students to the concept of the stage manager as the CE/OO (Chief Executive/Operating Officer) for a production. The primary focus will be on human resources management; organizational charts for both the commercial and not- for-profit arenas will be introduced and “best leadership practices” will be discussed. Texts and reading materials from non-theatrical sources will provide the basis for discussion. An individualized reading- writing project and presentation will spotlight the role of the stage manager within the larger context of theatrical production.
- Department: Theatre Arts
- T 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michael Passaro
Info - 3 points
MASTER CLASS
FIRST PERSON
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- Department: Writing
- R 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ann E Dewitt
Info - 1.5 points