Quantum Many Body Physics
Course Summary: the quantum many-body problem and its the conceptual formulation in terms of functional integrals, the basics of perturbative calculations at both zero and non-zero temperature, mean field theory and its interpretation as a saddle point of a functional integral, fluctuations including collective modes, the field theory of linear response and transport calculations and the new features associated with nonequilibrium physics.
- Department: Physics
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Andrew Millis
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Art and Artists in Society: The Subversi
The Subversive Imaginatio
This interdisciplinary graduate seminar is designed to bring together students from multiple disciplines within the School of the Arts working in different forms as well as students from other graduate programs in the university who are interested in examining the subversive nature of art and artists in society.
Readings and visual material will cover diverse ways of thinking about how art and artists are catalysts for social change from the point of view of artists and their audiences. How do artists cultivate their imaginations? How do these imaginings disrupt society? Readings will be taken from texts such as: C.J. Jung
Active Imagination,
Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi
Flow
, Mircea Eliade,
Images and Symbols: Studies in Religious Symbolism
, Jack Halberstam
Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire,
William Blake
The Book of Urizen
, James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time,
Guy Debord The
Society of the Spectacle
, Johan Huizinga
Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture
, Jacques Rancière
The Emancipated Spectator
, Augusto Boal
Theatre of the Oppressed
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These readings will help establish a common discourse with which to discuss how art and artists subvert society and also allow us to reflect on how artists prepare and sustain themselves to actualize the messages they seek to convey.
- Department: Arts, School of the
- R 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Carol Becker
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SPECIALIZED SOCIAL WORK PRACTICUM
SPECIALIZED SW PRACTICUM
- Department: Social Work
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Robert E Cortes
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Ismery Lora
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Elizabeth S Nson
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HEALTH SYSTEMS
The
Health Systems studio
contains three concentrations which, taken together, provide an overview of health systems in the United States and around the world.
In
Health Economics
, students will look at health from an economic perspective, which offers unique insights into the determinants of health and the functioning of health systems. Students will learn about such concepts as scarcity, opportunity cost, individual choice, decentralization, efficiency and quality, externalities and public goods. The concentration will prepare students to understand the varied components of health care costs, major economic theories of health insurance, models of investment in health, and issues of health behavior and choice.
In
Comparative Health Systems
, students will learn about the historical foundations of the health care systems in Germany, England, Canada, and Australia and how those health care systems function today, with a focus on financing, coverage, population-level health outcomes and health disparities. We will examine similarities and differences across these cases studies and how they compare to the United States. We will also discuss how lessons learned from these countries may be relevant to health policy debates in the United States.
In
U.S. Public Health and Health Care Systems
, students will learn about the historical foundations of the U.S health care system. How did the system evolve? How is it organized? Who pays the health care bill? What role does government play (and how do different levels of government share these tasks)? What best explains the politics of health reform? How has the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, enacted in March 2010, impacted the uninsured, the effort to contain health care costs, and the effort to improve the quality and efficiency of the American health care system? What are the pros and cons of the nation’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic? How has the nation responded to racial and other disparities in health care access and quality? What are the key issues on the nation’s long-term care policy agenda? What are the key market-driven health care trends and how are they changing the health system?
- Department: Public Health
- W 8:10 p.m.-9:10 p.m.
- 2.5 points
Quantum Optics: Atoms and Photons
Quantum optics, including: quantiziation of the electromagnetic field, open quantum systems, light-matter interaction, coherent control, collective phenomena, measurement theory and decoherence, and applications in quantum information science.
- Department: Physics
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ana Asenjo Garcia
Wikipedia h-index: 19 Info - 3 points
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT
ENVIRON IMPACT ASSESSMENT
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- F 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
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Graham L Trelstad
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LANGUAGE AND ITS LIMITS
This course examines
language and its limits
from the perspective of practice and theory, drawing on linguistic and sociocultural anthropology, semiotics, and deaf and disability studies. The first weeks focus on foundational texts and frameworks for language, semiotics, and communication, paying attention to the placement, and theorization, of boundaries that separate language from not-language and to the work such boundaries (are intended to) do. The second part of the course explores materials where the subjects and objects of study approach or even cross those boundaries, asking what kinds of ethical, intellectual, and relational demands these materials make in both social and analytic contexts. Focal topics may include linguistic relativity; semiotics; modality (signed, spoken, written languages); disability; trauma and colonialism; human-nonhuman communication; and gender. Please email for instructor permission.
- Department: Anthropology
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth M Green
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
ON SPATIAL EXCLUSN & PLAN
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- R 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Hiba Bou Akar
h-index: 5 Info - 3 points
TPC NEUROSCI & DEEP LEARN
Comp. w. Brain Cir of MO
Selected advanced topics in neuroscience and deep learning. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6070 to 6079.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- M 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
- None None-None
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Instructor:
Aurel A Lazar
h-index: 53 Info - 3 points
INTEGR OF SCI & PRACT II
- Department: Public Health
- W 10 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
- W 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
- W 4 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
- W 10 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
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Sumeet Banker
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Greg A Freyer
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Christian Gloria
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Miriam J Laugesen
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Todd Ogden
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Urmi A Desai
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Andrew S Geneslaw
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Thelma Mielenz
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Stephen S Morse
h-index: 41 Info - 1.5 points
INTEGRATION OF SCIENCE AND PRACTICE II
INTEGRAT OF SCI & PRACT I
The different studios in the Mailman Core teach a set of foundational perspectives, knowledge, and skills. But the practice of public health requires applying this education in a context characterized by uncertainty, risk, competing interests, and conflicting values. In the fall semester, Integration of Science and Practice (ISP) involved contained cases where the stories and evidence were organized and arranged for us. Often the decision-points were relatively unambiguous. This spring we will expand our reach, taking on cases in a way that looks more like the real world. We will start with a complex case specifically selected to integrate key concepts from the Core Semester. You will write a policy memo by focusing in on an issue within the case that you find compelling. The policy memo will serve as a model for you to then construct your own cases in small groups and take responsibility for teaching an ISP session devoted to your case. This team-based approach to problem-solving will also allow you to bring the concepts you explore in Leadership and Development to bear in ISP. These student-led cases, drawing on a range of skills and tools, represent the culmination of the Core.
- Department: Public Health
- W 6:40 p.m.-8 p.m.
- 1.5 points
Power and Technoaesthetics
This advanced interdisciplinary seminar brings anthropological perspectives into conversation with those from political theory, literary criticism, and art history, to consider the ways in which political power and especially rulership is produced, mediated, concentrated and/or dispersed. It is especially concerned with the cultural/aesthetic forms in which the rule of the one is valorized, and granted legitimacy. The course is subtended by three main themes, which include: 1) monarchy, tyranny and/or the rule of one; 2) mediation, including the space of the court and practices of the media; 3) the force of massification as regression. These topics are woven together, rather than treated chronologically, and will be addressed with respect to three several sites of inquiry: Europe, the US, Latin America and Africa. The historical range of material runs from the early modern era to the present, and the rise of what some have called a “new Medievalism.”
- Department: Anthropology
- F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rosalind Morris
CULPA: 20 Wikipedia Info - 4 points
Introduction to Neural Networks and Deep
Neural Networks&Deep Lear
This seminar will introduce both the concepts and practical implementation in PyTorch of neural networks and deep learning, with a focus on general principles and examples from vision.
- Department: Psychology
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nikolaus Kriegeskorte
h-index: 56 Info - 3 points
Personal Leadership in Public Health
PERSONAL LEADERSHIP IN P
- Department: Public Health
- W 1 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
- W 4 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
- W 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
- W 1 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
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Lee J Hirsch
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Heather M Butts
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Manuela A Orjuela
h-index: 22 Info - 1.5 points
CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS I
Prerequisites: PHYS E6081 or the instructors permission. Semiclassical and quantum mechanical electron dynamics and conduction; dielectric properties of insulators; semiconductors; defects; magnetism; superconductivity; low-dimensional structures; soft matter.
- Department: Physics
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Raquel Quieroz
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PERSONAL LEADERSHIP IN PUBLIC HEALTH
The goal of the course is to provide students with an overview of some of the fundamental principles and practice of leadership as it applies to a career in public health, with a specific concentration on personal leadership development. Students will focus on four critical competencies of personal leadership: 1) self-awareness, 2) power, 3) leading through others, and 4) negotiating effectively (Figure below). Students will also critically examine traditional notions of leadership, exploring concepts of ‘who gets to lead?’, the inequities that result and the diversity of effective leadership roles and styles. With this understanding, students will develop and improve their ability 1) to lead individuals and teams in a wide range of settings, including research centers and domestic as well as international public health organizations, 2) to perform more effectively as both team members and individual contributors to organizations and communities; 3) to promote their own leadership plan and credo.
Given its weight, it is important to stress that developing a leadership credo means more than coming up with a snappy one liner or finding just the right quote to capture your leadership style. It is an opportunity to develop an authentic leadership stance – a set of beliefs and/or values that you stand for as a leader and that you expect from others who you will lead, whether as the head of an organization or a member of a team, to support and eventually allow them to follow you. Your role is to move individuals towards success in meeting specific goals and overcoming certain challenges. Developing your credo will enable you to verbalize how you will achieve this through an authentic presentation of yourself. This course aims at ensuring you are comfortable, capable and confident in the authenticity of You as a leader.
- Department: Public Health
- R 6:40 p.m.-7:40 p.m.
- 1.5 points
QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS
The course is designed to introduce PhD students in Sociology to the basic techniques for collecting, interpreting, analyzing, and reporting interview and observational data. The readings and practical exercises we will do together are designed to expand your technical skillset, inspire your thinking, to show you the importance of working collaboratively with intellectual peers, and to give you experiential knowledge of various kinds of fieldwork.
Mostly, though, students will learn how to conduct indictive field-based analyses. There are many versions of this model, including Florian Znaniecki’s “analytic induction,” Barney Glaser and Anselm Straus’ “grounded theory,” John Stuart Mill’s system of inductive logic, the Bayesian approach to inference in statistics, and much of what computationally-intensive researchers refer to as data mining. This course will expose students to ways of thinking about their research shared by many of these different inductive perspectives. Remember, though, that all of these formulations of analytic work are ideal types. The actual field, and actual field workers, are often far more complex.
For that reason, this course focuses not merely on theory, but also, and fundamentally, on practice. While some skills like producing a code book or formulating a hypothesis can be developed through reading and reflection, the field demands more nuanced skillsets that can only be attained by trial and error. How do you get an honest answer to a painful or embarrassing question? How do we know that the researcher interviewed enough people? Or spent enough time in the field? Or asked the right questions? Or did not distort the truth? My hope is that by the end of class you will have done enough fieldwork to have arrived at a good set of answers, and to begin developing the ability to communicate your answers to others.
A note on intellectual parentage: The particular approach to training in this course is based on a qualitative bootcamp developed by Mario Small for Harvard’s Ph.d cohorts. Other methods courses focus on particular technical skills rather than analytic frames, or merely on empirical work itself, rather than secondary literature on method. This is one way to think through analytic training. We will try it out together.
- Department: Sociology
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Tey Meadow
h-index: 8 Info - 4 points
Specialized Social Work Practicum
SPECIALIZED SW PRACTICUM
- Department: Social Work
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Instructor:
Sarah R Feeney
Info - 9 points
CLASSICAL FIELDS & WAVES
Prerequisites: PHYS G6092. This course will study the classical field theories used in electromagnetism, fluid dynamics, plasma physics, and elastic solid dynamics. General field theoretic concepts will be discussed, including the action, symmetries, conservation laws, and dissipation. In addition, classical field equations will be analyzed from the viewpoint of macroscopic averaging and small-parameter expansions of the fundamental microscopic dynamics. The course will also investigate the production and propagation of linear and nonlinear waves; with topics including linearized small-amplitude waves, ordinary and extraordinary waves, waves in a plasma, surface waves, nonlinear optics, wave-wave mixing, solitons, shock waves, and turbulence.
- Department: Physics
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Andrei Beloborodov
Info - 4.5 points
RESEARCH SEMINAR
An M.S. degree requirement. Students attend at least three Applied Mathematics research seminars within the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and submit reports on each.
INTRO TO COMP LIT & SOC-GRAD
Please note: This course is required for ICLS graduate students, and priority will be given to these students. Generally the course fills with ICLS students each semester. Students MAY NOT register themselves for this course. Contact the ICLS office for more information at icls.columbia@gmail.com. This course was formerly numbered as G4900. This course introduces beginning graduate students to the changing conceptions in the comparative study of literatures and societies, paying special attention to the range of interdisciplinary methods in comparative scholarship. Students are expected to have preliminary familiarity with the discipline in which they wish to do their doctoral work. Our objective is to broaden the theoretical foundation of comparative studies to negotiate a conversation between literary studies and social sciences. Weekly readings are devoted to intellectual inquiries that demonstrate strategies of research, analysis, and argumentation from a multiplicity of disciplines and fields, such as anthropology, history, literary criticism, architecture, political theory, philosophy, art history, and media studies. Whenever possible, we will invite faculty from the above disciplines and fields to visit our class and share their perspectives on assigned readings. Students are encouraged to take advantage of these opportunities and explore fields and disciplines outside their primary focus of study and specific discipline.
- Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Stathis Gourgouris
CULPA: 4
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Managerial Statistics
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
- R 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
- TR 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
- TR 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alessandro Arlotto
Info - 1.5 points
RULING INNER ASIA FROM BEIJING
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- M 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Gray W Tuttle
CULPA: 3
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MA RESEARCH SEMINAR
The MA Research Seminar supports the research projects of MA students in Philosophy.
Participants practice key methods in philosophy and deepen their knowledge of classic and
contemporary contributions to the field. The seminar is suitable for everyone who is aiming to
write a research paper. Seminar participants receive detailed input throughout the semester.
Students can take the class at any stage during their studies for the MA. The class is graded Pass/
Fail.
- Department: Philosophy
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Melissa S Fusco
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
COMMUNICATING SCIENCE
Prerequisites: the instructors permission. How to write about and present scientific information in a clear and interesting way. We will use: 1) individualized writing projects; 2) oral presentations; and 3) concise books on good writing to develop skills for communicating scientific ideas, design, results and theory.
- Department: Psychology
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sarah Woolley
CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 31 Info - 3 points
MA SEMINAR IN GLOBAL THOUGHT II
Building upon M.A. Seminar I’s global approach to core issues and conversations with CGT Faculty, M.A. Seminar II tackles new topics and supports the completion of student research and writing. Multi-week modules will continue building discussions around key questions, engaging with guest speakers, and applying new perspectives to hard problems. Research workshops will address common challenges in turning research into writing, engaging sources and citation, and communicating your findings beyond the scope of this class.
- Department: Committee on Global Thought
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Laura L Neitzel
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Sarah A Miller-Davenport
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Business Analytics
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
- TR 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
- TR 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
- TR 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
David Holtz
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EUROPEAN STUDIES COLL II
- Department: Modern European Studies
- F 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tsveta A Petrova
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PLASMA PHYSICS II
Magnetic coordinates. Equilibrium, stability, and transport of torodial plasmas. Ballooning and tearing instabilities. Kinetic theory, including Vlasov equation, Fokker-Planck equation, Landau damping, kinetic transport theory. Drift instabilities.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- None None-None
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Carlos Paz Soldan
h-index: 28 Info - 3 points
OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
- MW 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
- MW 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
- MW 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
- MW 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
- MW 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
- MW 2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
- MW 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
- MW 10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
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Nicole Dehoratius
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Global Leadership Seminar II
Global Leadership Sem II
The Global Leadership Seminar II is one of the core classes of the MPA in Global Leadership. It provides students with concrete lessons on the practice of leadership, enables students the opportunity to interface with established leaders across the spheres of government and civil society. The course culminates with each student submitting and presenting a plan to address a global policy challenge.
- Department: MPA in Global Leadership
- W 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lincoln A Mitchell
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MPHIL THESIS WRITING SEMINAR
MPHIL THESIS WRITING SMR
- Department: Sociology
- W 2:10 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mario Small
Wikipedia Info - 4 points
APPLIED STATISTICS II
Prerequisites: STAT GR6101 Continuation of STAT GR6101.
- Department: Statistics
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Yuqi Gu
h-index: 6 Info - 4 points
NEUROSCIENCE
- Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
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Instructor:
Lauren B Winterbottom
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COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS
- Department: Statistics
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Christopher Harshaw
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Strategic Management in the Age of AI
Strategic Management of Information and Communication Technologies for the Public Good” addresses the spectrum of policy issues, options, and critical decisions confronting senior managers in the public sphere. Classes will be taught by a combination of lecture, readings, and case. Each class will address policy, technical, and managerial challenges for a particular domain of practice from the introduction or use of established and leading-edge information and communication technologies (ICTs), among them cloud, mobile and social. Arenas may include, for example, health, education, energy, economic development, transportation, civic engagement, law enforcement, human resources, social services, transportation, or compliance and regulatory affairs. The cases will involve a variety of managerial dilemmas and decisions, from governance to transparency, performance management to project management, and be generalizable across multiple domains, arenas, and technologies. Our goal is to expose students to the broadest range of policy challenges, and technologies comprising ICTs in use in the principal domains of practice, giving students a comprehensive exposure to the issues and opportunities as managers encounter them today - and will in the very near future. The course is intended for general, non-technical managers and assumes no engineering capability greater than plugging in a USB stick.
- Department: EXECUTIVE MPA
- M 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Robert Z Tumin
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Statistical Consulting
Prerequisites: STAT GR6102 or instructor permission. The Deparatments doctoral student consulting practicum. Students undertake pro bono consulting activities for Columbia community researchers under the tutelage of a faculty mentor.
- Department: Statistics
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Ashley Datta
Info - 3 points
Readings in Chinese Scholarship
READINGS IN CHNS SCHOLARS
This course studies representative scholarly works in Chinese from the early twentieth century till the present. Emphasizing scholarship as a sophisticated rhetorical artifice produced within specific historical contexts, this course explores the rhetoric of academic writing and examines Chinese scholarship as a site of linguistic, epistomological, and cultural contestation. This course is taught in Mandarin Chinese.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Lu Kou
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CRIMINAL LAW
- Department: Law
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Bernard E Harcourt
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James Liebman
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Jed S Rakoff
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