Internship
Internship, 3-credits
Note: SIPA IA9013 – Internship is available only to MIA and MPA students who entered SIPA before Fall 2025. Students who begin their studies in Fall 2025, as well as any continuing students who have opted into the new curriculum, must register for SIPA IA9015.
Internships are an integral part of the student experience at SIPA. Students in most of the MPA and MIA degree programs are required to register for and conduct an internship as part of their academic coursework. Still, all students are encouraged to explore internships as part of their education and career development. Students can register for a maximum of three internship credits toward their degree. Students who wish to earn internship credit for non-research internships will register for
SIPA U9013
in the fall or spring semesters. Note: SIPA does not permit registration for internship credit during the summer term. Students completing their internship during the summer months and wishing to earn academic credit must register in the Fall or Spring semester.
SIPA IA9013 Section 001: 1.5-points, Section 002: 3-points; Section 003: 0-points.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- 3 points
Internship
Internship, 0-credits
Note: SIPA IA9013 – Internship is available only to MIA and MPA students who entered SIPA before Fall 2025. Students who begin their studies in Fall 2025, as well as any continuing students who have opted into the new curriculum, must register for SIPA IA9015.
Internships are an integral part of the student experience at SIPA. Students in most of the MPA and MIA degree programs are required to register for and conduct an internship as part of their academic coursework. Still, all students are encouraged to explore internships as part of their education and career development. Students can register for a maximum of three internship credits toward their degree. Students who wish to earn internship credit for non-research internships will register for
SIPA U9013
in the fall or spring semesters. Note: SIPA does not permit registration for internship credit during the summer term. Students completing their internship during the summer months and wishing to earn academic credit must register in the Fall or Spring semester.
SIPA IA9013 Section 001: 1.5-points, Section 002: 3-points; Section 003: 0-points.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- 0 points
MPA-DP: Field Study
Field Study (1.5 credits)
This course supports the required field placement for MPA-DP students, providing academic credit for the application of classroom learning to professional practice in a development setting. Students must register for a total of 3 credits across one or two semesters, selecting from six registration options that accommodate varying academic schedules and visa requirements.
Registration Options:
3 credits in the Spring semester*
1.5 credits in the Spring and 1.5 credits in the Fall*
3 credits in the Fall semester
3 credits in the Spring semester
1.5 credits in the Fall and 1.5 credits in the Spring
1.5 credits in the Spring and 1.5 credits in the Spring
*International students on F-1 visas conducting their summer field placement in the U.S. and securing Curricular Practical Training (CPT) must select one of the two asterisked options to remain in compliance with immigration regulations. All six options are available to J-1 students using Academic Training (AT).
The course requires submission of a placement proposal, faculty oversight, and post-placement deliverables.
- Department: MPA-DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE
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Instructor:
Glenn Denning
h-index: 14 Info - 1.5 points
MPA-DP: Field Study
Field Study (3 credits)
This course supports the required field placement for MPA-DP students, providing academic credit for the application of classroom learning to professional practice in a development setting. Students must register for a total of 3 credits across one or two semesters, selecting from six registration options that accommodate varying academic schedules and visa requirements.
Registration Options:
3 credits in the Spring semester*
1.5 credits in the Spring and 1.5 credits in the Fall*
3 credits in the Fall semester
3 credits in the Spring semester
1.5 credits in the Fall and 1.5 credits in the Spring
1.5 credits in the Spring and 1.5 credits in the Spring
*International students on F-1 visas conducting their summer field placement in the U.S. and securing Curricular Practical Training (CPT) must select one of the two asterisked options to remain in compliance with immigration regulations. All six options are available to J-1 students using Academic Training (AT).
The course requires submission of a placement proposal, faculty oversight, and post-placement deliverables.
- Department: MPA-DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE
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Instructor:
Glenn Denning
h-index: 14 Info - 3 points
Advanced Seminar in Orthopedics
Students who want to build on the content from the required Orthopedic courses, may elect this course during the last semester of the DPT curriculum. This 15-week course in the 6th term of the DPT curriculum explores advanced topics and skills in orthopedic physical therapy that will provide the student with beyond entry- level skills and prepare them for clinical challenges ahead.
This course is firmly rooted in the evidence-base and encourages questioning of clinical and research assumptions in the exploration of advanced topics and skills in the area of orthopedic physical therapy combined with experience in the orthopedic clinics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Students will take part in interactive discussion of current research related to the application of advanced skills including osteopathic techniques learned and practiced in class. Students will also have the opportunity to customize the content of the course by selecting an area of particular interest to present and teach. Previous course work emphasizing kinesiology, biomechanics, therapeutic exercise, and orthopedics will be integrated with emerging evidence and advanced techniques in the examination, evaluation, intervention, and prognosis of a variety of orthopedic conditions.
- Department: Physical Therapy
- 4 points
Internship
Note: Beginning with the entering class of Fall 2025, all MIA and MPA SIPA students are required to register for SIPA IA9015 to fulfill the School’s internship requirement. This course carries no academic credit and is intended to formally record completion of the internship component of the degree program.
the internship experience is a vital component of a SIPA education, providing students with opportunities to apply their classroom learning to real-world challenges, develop professional skills, and expand their networks. The Career Advancement Center supports students throughout this process with dedicated advising, access to a wide range of internship opportunities, and professional development resources to ensure each internship contributes meaningfully to their career goals.
Visit SIPA Career Advancement Center for more information.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- 0 points
Labor and Public Economics Workshop
Labor & Public Econ Works
Columbia faculty and guest speakers present research related to Labor and Public Economics.
- Department: Economics
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- 0 points
Political Economy Workshop
- Department: Economics
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Carlo Prato
h-index: 11 Info - 0 points
Internship for Elective Credit
Internship, 1.5-credits
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- 1.5 points
Internship for Elective Credit
Internship, 3-credits
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- 3 points
Research On Regulation And Accounting In
- Department: Accounting (ACCT)
- FM 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Shivaram Rajgopal
Wikipedia h-index: 50 Info - 3 points
Advanced Seminar in Adult Neurorehabilit
Adv Sem Adult Neurorehab
Students who want to build on the content from the required Adult Neurorehabilitation courses may elect this course during the last semester of the DPT curriculum. Students are exposed to a variety of clients in different settings and allowed to further develop their clinical reasoning skills, hone their evidence-based examination and therapeutic interventions and verify the psychosocial & socioeconomic impact of disability.
This is a problem-solving case-based course that promotes synthesis of evidence from the neurological and movement science literature in order to critically evaluate current trends in the examination, evaluation, diagnosis, intervention and prognosis of a variety of neurological conditions. Clinical reasoning is promoted through three pathways: 1) observation and participation in a variety of health care practice settings (e.g. hospitals, outpatient & clinic departments); 2) understanding societal needs; and 3) appreciating the prevailing legislative environment. Students develop an evidence-based paper formulated to serve as a resource for all course participants.
- Department: Physical Therapy
- 4 points
S. Breakthrough in Abolition Through Tra
Seminar BATTLE
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Alejo Rodriguez
Info - 2 points
S. Breakthrough in Abolition Through Tra
Seminar BATTLE
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Alejo Rodriguez
Info - 1 points
Advanced Seminar in Pediatrics
Students who want to build on the content from the required pediatric course may elect this course during the last semester of the DPT curriculum. The course provides students with the opportunity to expand the breadth and depth of pediatric knowledge and apply the information to children with a disability.
The course expands and strengthens the knowledge, clinical reasoning, and skill in managing pediatric clients with various disabilities. This course emphasizes examination, evaluation, prognosis and intervention within the context of the child’s culture, family, personality, and age. The impact of legislation, practice setting, team collaboration, and service delivery models are considered in developing the intervention plan. Evidence based practice is promoted through guided literature review. Students are exposed to various interventions, approaches to intervention, age ranges, populations, and practice settings (acute care, outpatient, home-based, school-based, and rehabilitation).
- Department: Physical Therapy
- 4 points
INTERNSHIP
HRSMA students may receive one academic credit for the completion of a relevant internship. The credit would count towards the elective requirement for the degree. In order to receive one credit, students will be required to complete a total of 100 internship hours. The internship must be professional in nature and substantively focused on human rights or social justice. For more information, students should refer to the HRSMA Digital Handbook.
- Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
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Instructor:
Shourideh Molavi
Info - 1 points
RESEARCH IN NEUROBIOLOGY
- Department: Neurobiology and Behavior
- M 8 a.m.-9 a.m.
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Instructor:
Rozanna Yakub
Info - 1-15 points
INDIVIDL STUDY IN SOCIOLOGY I
Prerequisites: the director of graduate studies permission if taking more than 3 points of study with any one faculty member. Individual writing on a topic agreed upon by the supervising faculty member.
- Department: Sociology
- TR 9 a.m.-noon
- None None-None
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Instructor:
Tara Gonsalves
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Instructor:
Yinon Cohen
CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 33 Info -
Instructor:
Yao Lu
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Instructor:
Amy Zhou
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Instructor:
Gil Eyal
CULPA: 15
h-index: 26
Info
- 1-6 points
Complex Medical Conditions
This 14-week course during the seventh term of the DPT curriculum is designed to enhance students’ clinical reasoning in managing patients with complex conditions and students’ ability to reflect on their development of clinical reasoning.
This course offers students in their final didactic semester of the DPT program opportunities to think on their feet as well as reflect on their thoughts and decisions after they encounter with simulated patients with complex conditions or watch the unfolding of the simulated cases. The simulated patients are in different clinical domains and various clinical settings. They present with challenging clinical, personal and/or contextual factors, including situations of an ambiguous or unpredictable nature. Students are required to be in the role of a physical therapist, an engaged observer, or a peer evaluator. They are also expected to review relevant case materials before each simulation class, apply what they have learned to each simulation case, and participate actively in the debriefing session of each class using the think aloud method.
- Department: Physical Therapy
- 1 points
Individual Research Course
- Department: MPA-ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE POL
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Instructor:
Sara Tjossem
Info - 3 points
INDEPENDENT STUDY
- Department: Journalism
- W 10 a.m.-noon
- W noon-2 p.m.
- None None-None
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Instructor:
Camilla Sturm
CULPA: 2 Info -
Instructor:
Shayoni Mitra
CULPA: 5
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Instructor:
Claudio Lomnitz
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Instructor:
Michael Schudson
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Instructor:
Andie Tucher
Info - 1-12 points
S. Legal Financial Arbitrage: Merger Arb
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Eric Talley
Wikipedia Info - 2 points
RESP COND OF RES/5TH YEAR FOLLOWUP
- Department: Neurobiology and Behavior
- W 4 p.m.-6 p.m.
- 1 points
RESEARCH IN PATHOLOGY I
Open only to graduate students in the Department of Pathology. Prerequisite: instructor’s permission.
- Department: Pathology
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Instructor:
Ronald Liem
Info - 3.5-12 points
RESEARCH IN PHARMACOLOGY
Open only to graduate students in the Department of Pharmacology doing dissertation research.
- Department: Pharmacology
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Instructor:
Nihkil Sharma
Info - 8-12 points
ADVANCED PATHOLOGY I
Open only to graduate students in the basic medical science departments. Prerequisite: instructor’s permission.
- Department: Pathology
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Instructor:
Ronald Liem
Info - 4 points
P. INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Robert H Smit
CULPA: 13 Info - 2 points
S LAW & ECONOMICS WORKSHOP
This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search
- Department: Law
- 2 points
Case Studies in Public Health Practice a
Case Stud in PH Pract & L
- Department: Public Health
- R 4 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Instructor:
Helen de Pinho
Info - 1.5 points
Case Studies in Public Health Practice a
Case Stud PH Pract & Lead
- Department: Public Health
- R 4 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Instructor:
Helen de Pinho
Info - 1.5 points
Medical Screening III
This course during the final semester of the DPT III curriculum provides students with the continued development of medical screening concepts with a focus on the evaluation and assessment of patient cases/scenarios. Using a patient case-based approach, this course will emphasize utilizing clinical decision making/differential diagnosis skills effectively and efficiently related to the concept of threshold detection to identify impairments or “red flags” in medical screening that warrant referral to other professionals. Using previously established examination schemes, students will evaluate patient data in order to select the next-best history question to ask or the next-best physical examination procedure to help rule out potential pathological processes. Existing medical screening guidelines will be reviewed and applied to the various cases-illustrating appropriate use of the guidelines and also potential limitations. Professional communication skills and strategies with patients/clients and physicians will be applied and practiced throughout the course.
- Department: Physical Therapy
- 2 points
S BLK LTR LAW/WHITE COLLR CRIM
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
John C Jr Coffee
Wikipedia Info - 2 points
MS Accounting Thesis
- Department: Accounting (ACCT)
- S 9 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
- None None-None
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Instructor:
Liav Abraham
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Instructor:
Doron Nissim
h-index: 24 Info - 3 points
MS Accounting Thesis
- Department: Accounting (ACCT)
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Instructor:
Doron Nissim
h-index: 24 Info - 3 points
MASTERS RESEARCH
Candidates for the M.S. degree may conduct an investigation of some problem in biomedical engineering. No more than 6 points in this course may be counted for graduate credit.
- Department: Biomedical Engineering
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Instructor:
Gerard A Ateshian
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Instructor:
Elizabeth Olson
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X. Edward Guo
CULPA: 2 h-index: 70 Info -
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Henry Hess
CULPA: 1 h-index: 45 Info -
Instructor:
Elizabeth Hillman
Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info -
Instructor:
Clark T Hung
CULPA: 5 h-index: 65 Info -
Instructor:
Shunichi Homma
h-index: 88 Info -
Instructor:
Joshua Jacobs
Wikipedia h-index: 31 Info -
Instructor:
Lance Kam
CULPA: 7
h-index: 38
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Instructor:
Elisa Konofagou
Wikipedia h-index: 71 Info -
Instructor:
Christoph Juchem
CULPA: 1 h-index: 23 Info -
Instructor:
Andrew Laine
Wikipedia h-index: 43 Info -
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Edward F Leonard
CULPA: 9 Info -
Instructor:
Kam W Leong
h-index: 126 Info -
Instructor:
Helen Lu
CULPA: 1 h-index: 54 Info -
Instructor:
Barclay Morrison
CULPA: 9 h-index: 42 Info -
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Nandan L Nerurkar
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Elizabeth Olson
h-index: 28 Info -
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Paul Sajda
CULPA: 3 h-index: 47 Info -
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Milan N Stojanovic
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Kenneth Shepard
CULPA: 2 Wikipedia h-index: 64 Info -
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Samuel Sia
CULPA: 1 h-index: 39 Info -
Instructor:
Stavros Thomopoulos
h-index: 63 Info -
Instructor:
John T Vaughan
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Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
Wikipedia h-index: 132 Info -
Instructor:
Qi Wang
h-index: 24 Info -
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Stephen H Tsang
Wikipedia h-index: 58 Info -
Instructor:
Elham Azizi
h-index: 10 Info -
Instructor:
Jose McFaline-Figueroa
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Tal Danino
Wikipedia h-index: 18 Info -
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Alice H Huang
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Treena L Arinzeh
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Ke Cheng
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Santiago Correa
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Nadeen O Chahine
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Yvon Woappi
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Grace McIlvain
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Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana
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Kaveri A Thakoor
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Parisa Yousefpour
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Megan Heenan
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Instructor:
Christine Chio
Info - 1-6 points
SCREENWRITING THESIS WORKSHOP
SCREENWRITING THESIS ADVSMNT
Screenwriting concentrates who are focusing on Screenwriting MUST take Screenwriting Thesis Workshop with their advisor at least once during Research Arts matriculation in order to graduate. Students may take this class with their advisor whenever it is offered. They should consult with their advisor if they are considering taking Thesis Workshop at the same time as Script Revision or TV Revision.
- Department: Film
- T 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
- W 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
- T 5:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Christina Lazaridi
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Jamal Joseph
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Instructor:
Trey Ellis
Wikipedia Info - 0 points
BASIC PSYCHOANALYTIC CONCEPTS
- Department: Psychoanalytic Center
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Instructor:
Natasha H Chriss
Info - 0 points
PROOF OF CONCEPT
This class is specifically designed to give the 3rd year student an opportunity to learn how to create their own work in a safe and structured environment. The work will be broken into 7 parts and 10 classes.
- Department: Theatre Arts
- M 9:20 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rafi Silver
Info - 0 points
RSCH IN SOCIAL/CULTURAL ANTHRO
RSRCH SOCIAL & CULTURAL ANTHRO
Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.
- Department: Anthropology
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Instructor:
Nadia Abu El-Haj
CULPA: 13
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Lila Abu-Lughod
CULPA: 17 Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info -
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Vanessa L Agard-Jones
CULPA: 3 Info -
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Brian Boyd
CULPA: 6
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Hannah Chazin
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Zoe Crossland
CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info -
Instructor:
Terence N D'Altroy
CULPA: 37 Info - 3-9 points