SPECIAL TOPICS IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

Orthopaedic Biomat&TisEng

Current topics in biomedical engineering. Subject matter will vary by year. Instructors may impose prerequisites depending on the topic.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• W 2:30 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Treena L Arinzeh
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• 3 points

SPECIAL TOPICS IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

ImmunoEng Biomat&Nanotech

Current topics in biomedical engineering. Subject matter will vary by year. Instructors may impose prerequisites depending on the topic.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• MT 10 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
• Instructor: Santiago Correa
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• 3 points

PROF DEVELOPMENT&LEADERSHIP

The PDL course aims to enhance and expand Columbia Engineering graduate students' interpersonal, professional, and leadership skills, through five core sessions, covering (1) in-person communication skills; (2) resume; (3) business writing; (4) social media and the job search; and (5) academic and professional ethics and integrity. ENGI E4000 also requires 5 elective sessions to further students' development based on their personal interests. Students must select at least one life management elective and one interview elective. This course is offered at the Pass/D/Fail grading option.

• Department: Engineering
• 0 points

GENEALOGIES OF FEMINISM

Artists,Workers & Witches

Genealogies of Feminism:
 
Course focuses on the development of a particular topic or issue in feminist, queer, and/or WGSS scholarship. Open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates, though priority will be given to students completing the ISSG graduate certificate. Topics differ by semester offered, and are reflected in the course subtitle. For a description of the current offering, please visit the link in the Class Notes.

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Julia Bryan-Wilson
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• 4 points

ADVANCED GENETIC ANALYSIS

Prerequisites: for undergraduates: Introductory Genetics (W3031) and the instructors permission. This seminar course provides a detailed presentation of areas in classical and molecular genetics for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students. Topics include transmission genetics, gain and loss of function mutations, genetic redundancy, suppressors, enhancers, epistasis, expression patterns, using transposons, and genome analysis. The course is a mixture of lectures, student presentations, seminar discussions, and readings from the original literature.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• M 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Martin Chalfie
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• 3 points

DATA JOURNALISM

ALGORITHMS

• Department: Journalism
• F 9 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
• 3 points

DATA JOURNALISM

Data, Computation, Innovation

• Department: Journalism
• MW 9 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
• 3 points

CELLULAR TISSUE & ARCHITECTURE

• Department: Pathology
• R 10 a.m.-noon
• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO PROBABILITY AND STATISTI

INTRODUCTION TO PROB & ST

Prerequisites: Calculus through multiple integration and infinite sums. A calculus-based tour of the fundamentals of probability theory and statistical inference. Probability models, random variables, useful distributions, conditioning, expectations, law of large numbers, central limit theorem, point and confidence interval estimation, hypothesis tests, linear regression. This course replaces SIEO 4150.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Isabella T Sanders
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• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO PROBABILITY AND STATISTI

Probability and Statistics

Prerequisites: Calculus through multiple integration and infinite sums. A calculus-based tour of the fundamentals of probability theory and statistical inference. Probability models, random variables, useful distributions, conditioning, expectations, law of large numbers, central limit theorem, point and confidence interval estimation, hypothesis tests, linear regression. This course replaces SIEO 4150.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Carsten Chong
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• 3 points

CORE ARCHITECTURE STUDIO II

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• MWF 2 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Wasiuta
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• 9 points

YUGOSLAV&POST-YUGOSLAV CINEMA

• Department: Slavic Languages
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Aleksandar Boskovic
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• 3 points

Machine Learning for Healthcare

MACHN LEARNING HEALTHCARE

Prerequisites: Medical Informatics G4001, Computer Science W3139. Survey of the methods underlying the field of medical informatics. Explores techniques in mathematics, logic, decision science, computer science, engineering, cognitive science, management science and epidemiology, and demonstrates the application to health care and biomedicine.

• Department: Biomedical Informatics
• F 10:30 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
• Instructor: Amelia J Averitt
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• 3 points

QUANT PHYSIOLOGY II:ORGAN SYST

Students are introduced to a quantitative, engineering approach to cellular biology and mammalian physiology. Beginning with biological issues related to the cell, the course progresses to considerations of the major physiological systems of the human body (nervous, circulatory, respiratory, renal).

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Barclay Morrison
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• 3 points

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY RESOURCES

An engineering and economic analysis of past, present and future energy resources. Technological options and their role in the world energy markets. Understanding limits of energy and power density and its impact of resource adoption and feasibility. Comparison of  renewable and non-renewable energy resources and analysis of the consequences of various technological choices and constraints. Economic considerations, energy availability, and the environmental consequences of large-scale, widespread use of each particular technology. Critical analysis of carbon dioxide capture and carbon dioxide disposal as a means of sustaining the fossil fuel options in comparison to dramatic increase of electrified resources.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Dan Steingart
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 36 Info
• 3 points

AQUATIC CHEMISTRY

INTRO TO AQUATIC CHEMISTR

Principles of physical chemistry applied to equilibria and kinetics of aqueous solutions in contact with minerals and anthropogenic residues. The scientific background for addressing problems of aqueous pollution, water treatment, and sustainable production of materials with minimum environmental impact. Hydrolysis, oxidation-reduction, complex formation, dissolution and precipitation, predominance diagrams; examples of natural water systems, processes for water treatment and for the production of inorganic materials from minerals.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Yin Yip Ngai
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• 3 points

AQUATIC CHEMISTRY

Principles of physical chemistry applied to equilibria and kinetics of aqueous solutions in contact with minerals and anthropogenic residues. The scientific background for addressing problems of aqueous pollution, water treatment, and sustainable production of materials with minimum environmental impact. Hydrolysis, oxidation-reduction, complex formation, dissolution and precipitation, predominance diagrams; examples of natural water systems, processes for water treatment and for the production of inorganic materials from minerals.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Yin Yip Ngai
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• 3 points

ADVANCED MECHANICS

Prerequisites: differential and integral calculus, differential equations, and PHYS UN3003 or the equivalent. Lagranges formulation of mechanics, calculus of variations and the Action Principle, Hamiltons formulation of mechanics, rigid body motion, Euler angles, continuum mechanics, introduction to chaotic dynamics.

• Department: Physics
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrei Beloborodov
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• 3 points

ADVANCED STUDIO SEMESTER IV

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Ziad Jamaleddine
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• 9 points

Data, Race, Power and Justice

Data, Race, Ethics and Ju

For more than a century, scientists, policy makers, law enforcement, and government agencies

have collected, curated and analyzed data about people in order to make impactful decisions.

This practice has exploded along with the computational power available to these agents. Those

who design and deploy data collection, predictive analytics, and autonomous and intelligent

decision-making systems claim that these technologies will remove problematic biases from

consequential decisions. They aim to put a rational and objective foundation based on numbers

and observations made by non-human sensors in the management of public life and to equip

experts with insights that, they believe, will translate into better outcomes (health, economic,

educational, judicial) for all.

But these dreams and their pursuit through technology are as problematic as they are enticing.

Throughout American history, data has often been used to oppress minoritized communities,

manage populations, and institutionalize, rationalize, and naturalize systems of racial violence.

The impersonality of data, the same quality that makes it useful, can silence voices and

displace entire ways of knowing the world.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Brian Luna Lucero
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• 4 points

OPTIMIZATION MODELS AND METHODS

A graduate course only for MS&E, IE, and OR students. This is also required for students in the Undergraduate Advanced Track. For students who have not studied linear programming. Some of the main methods used in IEOR applications involving deterministic models: linear programming, the simplex method, nonlinear, integer and dynamic programming.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Mingliu Chen
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• Instructor: Cedric Josz
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 13 Info
• 3 points

Ukrainian Activism & Protest Since 1990

Ukrainian Activism/Protes

Ukrainians’ response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of the country in February 2022 has attracted global attention. Ukraine is also known to many for mass protests in Kyiv 2004 and 2013-14. However, fewer people know that Ukraine has a rich history of activism and protest throughout the country, going back decades. This course is designed to help students cultivate a deeper understanding of Ukraine’s nationwide history of activism, from the late Soviet period to present-day. This knowledge will also help us better contextualize and analyze key episodes of resistance, protest and revolution in Ukraine, including the current war. Moreover, via the lens of activism and protest, this course intends to provide students with a more nuanced understanding of regional variation in Ukraine, empowering them to question simplistic narratives about Ukraine as a divided county. The multidisciplinary nature of this course also aims to encourage students to engage with Ukrainian art and cultural objects that relate to social and political themes.

• Department: Sociology
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Emma Mateo
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• 4 points

Abolition: Theory and Practice

This course will follow the idea of abolition as expressed first through the eighteenthand

nineteenth-century struggle to end chattel slavery in the Americas, and then as it has come

to define the struggle against over-policing and mass-incarceration in the late twentieth and

early twenty-first centuries.

In the first half of the class, we will consider abolition in England and its colonies, Haiti,

Cuba, and the U.S. In so doing we will examine both primary sources from abolitionist print

culture (narratives by fugitives from slavery, speeches, poems, and polemical tracts), as well as

secondary sources by historians, literary critics, and political theorists. In the second half, we

will likewise read writing by activists (some incarcerated or formerly incarcerated, and some

not) alongside journalism and scholarship from the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of carceral

studies. Across both periods, Black writers will take up the bulk of our attention.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew Sandler
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• 4 points

COMPUTER GRAPHICS IN ENGIN

Prerequisites: Any programming language and linear algebra. Numerical and symbolic (algebraic) problem solving with Mathematica. Formulation for graphics application in civil, mechanical, and bioengineering. Example of two-and three-dimensional curve and surface objects in C++ and Mathematica; special projects of interest to electrical and computer science.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• F 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• 3 points

ADVANCED STUDIO SEMESTER VI

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Mario A Gooden
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• 9 points

History of Childhood in the Americas

The transition from the protected status of childhood into adulthood in the United States varies across class, age, socioeconomic, and legal status, but how does law intersect with rites of passage in coming of age experiences with youths in Latin America? How have societies in the Americas define the shifting notions of childhood and adolescence and how have youths experience coming of age? This course will familiarize students with how legal regimes in Latin America and the United States define the fluid parameters of childhood, adolescence and adulthood. Students will learn to recognize the role of law and the contradictions in how youths experience the emotional, legal, political, and cultural transition of coming of age.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Carlos G Zuniga-Nieto
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• 4 points

Latinx Environmental Justice: Research i

This course explores national case studies of environmental and racial injustice in Latinx communities and their connection to climate change. Students in the course will analyze, interpret, and evaluate cultural symbols and arguments from migrant farmworkers; Black Indigenous in cities; Afro-Latina women in rural, island contexts; and others who confront the most serious consequences of environmental degradation and climate disruption. It addresses theories and concepts of environmental racism and environmental justice, underscoring how Latinx groups have challenged, expanded, and contributed to the environmental justice discourse in struggles over public parks and beaches, clean air, clean water, pesticide exposure, lead poisoning, and high environmental risks since the 1960s. The course will examine distinct Latinx histories and geographies through the lens of essays, art and sound installations, short stories, documentaries, poetry, short films, and digital multimedia projects to understand better the environmental attitudes and issues that impact Latinx groups in the historical and increasingly urgent challenges of climate change and environmental injustice.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Carlos G Zuniga-Nieto
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• 4 points

OPT MODELS & METHODS FOR FE

Linear, quadratic, nonlinear, dynamic, and stochastic programming. Some discrete optimization techniques will also be introduced. The theory underlying the various optimization methods is covered. The emphasis is on modeling and the choice of appropriate optimization methods. Applications from financial engineering are discussed.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Garud Iyengar
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 30 Info
• 3 points

ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY

Prerequisites: MATH UN3007 A one semeser course covering the theory of modular forms, zeta functions, L -functions, and the Riemann hypothesis. Particular topics covered include the Riemann zeta function, the prime number theorem, Dirichlet characters, Dirichlet L-functions, Siegel zeros, prime number theorem for arithmetic progressions, SL (2, Z) and subgroups, quotients of the upper half-plane and cusps, modular forms, Fourier expansions of modular forms, Hecke operators, L-functions of modular forms.

• Department: Mathematics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: William Sawin
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• 3 points

Advanced Ukrainian Through Literature, M

ADVANCED UKRAINIAN

This course is organized around a number of thematic centers or modules. Each is focused on stylistic peculiarities typical of a given functional style of the Ukrainian language. Each is designed to assist the student in acquiring an active command of lexical, grammatical, discourse, and stylistic traits that distinguish one style from the others and actively using them in real-life communicative settings in contemporary Ukraine. The styles include literary fiction, scholarly prose, and journalism, both printed and broadcast

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Yuri Shevchuk
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• 3 points

Advanced and Applied Linear Algebra

Advanced Linear Algebra

Advanced topics in linear algebra with applications to data analysis, algorithms, dynamics and differential equations, and more. (1) General vector spaces, linear transformations, spaces isomorphisms; (2) spectral theory - normal matrices and their spectral properties, Rayleigh quotient, Courant-Fischer Theorem, Jordan forms, eigenvalue perturbations; (3) least squares problem and the Gauss-Markov Theorem; (4) singular value decomposition, its approximation properties, matrix norms, PCA and CCA.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Yuan He
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• 3 points

CARIBBEAN HAUNTINGS: FROM CONQUEST TO NE

This course is designed to examine the foundational pillars of modernity in the originating site of the Caribbean: indigenous extinction and the logics of the plantation. Engaging core theorists that conceptualize the notion of the Human/Man, we trace the ongoing legacies of conquest, slavery, and indentureship and the bodily and territorial practices of dispossession in its wake. From a Caribbean feminist perspective, we engage the notion of sovereignty, state formation and statecraft, the politics of recognition, indigeneity, and antiblackness. As such, students in this course will a) Demonstrate knowledge of key theoretical perspectives at the following levels: (1) its analytical and explanatory importance for understanding the Caribbean as site of ongoing hauntings produced by the project of modernity; (2) their potential contributions to current social and political dialogues and debates around political conditions and practices in the Caribbean; ;b)provide students with an understanding of the ways in which the Caribbean as a site of extraction forms the core of relations between states and citizen-subjects, and are in turn central to imperial ideas and representations of the Caribbean c)provide students with an understanding of Caribbean representation, hauntings, political and otherwise subjectivities.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Shanya Cordis
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• 4 points

READINGS IN CLASSICAL JAPANESE

Close readings of specific texts, as well as methods, skills, and tools.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Charles E Woolley
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• 4 points

GIS-RES,ENVIR,INFRASTRUCTR MGT

GIS-RESENVIRINFRASTRUCTR MGT

Basic concepts of spatial data representation and organization, and analytical tools are introduced and applied in a form of case studies from hydrology, environmental conservation, and emergency response to natural or man-made hazards, among others. Technical content includes geographic topics (map projections, cartography, etc.), spatial statistics, database design and use, interpolation and visualization of spatial surfaces and volumes, and multi-criteria decision analysis. Students will learn the basics of ArcGIS Pro, Model Builder and Python. Elective term projects or final exams emphasize spatial information synthesis towards the solution of a specific problem.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• W 7:10 p.m.-8:25 p.m.
• WR 8:40 p.m.-9:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Yuri Gorokhovich
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• 3 points

DESIGN STUDIO

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Thomas de Monchaux
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• 3 points

MATH METHODS IN CHEMICAL ENGIN

Mathematical description of chemical engineering problems and the application of selected methods for their solution. General modeling principles, including model hierarchies. Linear and nonlinear ordinary differential equations and their systems, including those with variable coefficients. Partial differential equations in Cartesian and curvilinear coordinates for the solution of chemical engineering problems.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Venkat Venkatasubramanian
  h-index: 58 Info
• 3 points

MATH METHODS IN CHEMICAL ENGIN

Mathematical description of chemical engineering problems and the application of selected methods for their solution. General modeling principles, including model hierarchies. Linear and nonlinear ordinary differential equations and their systems, including those with variable coefficients. Partial differential equations in Cartesian and curvilinear coordinates for the solution of chemical engineering problems.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Robert G Bozic
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• 3 points

MATH METHODS IN CHEMICAL ENGIN

Mathematical description of chemical engineering problems and the application of selected methods for their solution. General modeling principles, including model hierarchies. Linear and nonlinear ordinary differential equations and their systems, including those with variable coefficients. Partial differential equations in Cartesian and curvilinear coordinates for the solution of chemical engineering problems.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• TR 7:40 p.m.-8:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Venkat Venkatasubramanian
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• 3 points

Responsible Conduct of Research and Related Policy Issues

RESP COND OF RES/REL PLCY

This course explores a variety of ethical and policy issues that arise during the conduct of basic, translational, epidemiological, computational and clinical biomedical research. The course's philosophy is to facilitate and encourage students to engage with Columbia faculty members who can speak from their own experience on ethical questions that can arise during the conduct of scientific research. Course sessions include lectures, discussion periods, and analyses of case studies. Full details on course curriculum, syllabus, schedule, speakers, policies, etc.: https://www.gsas.cuimc.columbia.edu/responsi ble-conduct-research-and-related-policy- issues

• Department: Cellular, Molecular, and Biophysical Studies
• F 1 p.m.-2 p.m.
• 1 points

SELECTIONS FROM GREEK LIT

Prerequisites: GREK UN2101 - GREK UN2102 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes each year, it may be repeated for credit.

• Department: Classics
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Paraskevi Martzavou
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

SELECTIONS FROM LATIN LITERATURE

SELECTNS FROM LATIN LIT-POETRY

Prerequisites: LATN UN3012 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.

• Department: Classics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Gareth Williams
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

SELECTIONS FROM LATIN LITERATURE

Prerequisites: LATN UN3012 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.

• Department: Auditing
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Gareth Williams
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 0 points

PLANNING FOR URBAN ENERGY SYSTEMS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Peter J Marcotullio
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• 3 points

ACCULTURATN TO MED & CLIN INFO

Overview of the field of medicine for informaticians. Medical language and terminology, introduction to pathology and pathophysiology, the process of medical decision making, and an understanding of how information flows in the practice of medicine.

• Department: Biomedical Informatics
• T 2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Sivan Kinberg
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• 3 points

BIG DATA IN TRANSPORTATION

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Xuan Di
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• 3 points

INDUS ECOLOGY OF MANUFACTURING

Application of industrial ecology to Design for Environment (DFE) of processes and products using environmental indices of resources consumption and pollution loads. Introduction of methodology for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of manufactured products. Analysis of several DFE and LCA case studies. Term project required on use of DFE/LCA on a specific product/process: (a) product design complete with materials and process selection, energy consumption, and waste loadings; (b) LCA of an existing industrial or consumer product using a commercially established method.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Athanasios Bourtsalas
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• 3 points

MTHDS IN HLTH INFORMATION TECH

• Department: Biomedical Informatics
• F 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Virginia G Lorenzi
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• 3 points

PARTICLE ASTROPHYS & COSMOLOGY

Prerequisites: (PHYS UN1403 or PHYS UN2601 or PHYS UN2802) and (MATH UN1202 or MATH UN1208) students are recommended but not required to have taken PHYS UN3003 and PHYS UN3007. An introduction to the basics of particle astrophysics and cosmology. Particle physics - introduction to the Standard Model and supersymmetry/higher dimension theories; Cosmology – Friedmann-Robertson-Walker line element and equation for expansion of universe; time evolution of energy/matter density from the Big Bang; inflationary cosmology; microwave background theory and observation; structure formation; dark energy; observational tests of geometry of universe and expansion; observational evidence for dark matter; motivation for existence of dark matter from particle physics; experimental searches of dark matter; evaporating and primordial black holes; ultra-high energy phenomena (gamma-rays and cosmic-rays).

• Department: Physics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Charles J Hailey
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• 3 points

Holocaust Literature: Critical Thinking

Holocaust Lit: Critical T

How do you write literature in the midst of catastrophe? To whom do you write if you don’t know whether your readership will survive? Or that you yourself will survive? How do you theorize society when the social fabric is tearing apart? How do you develop a concept of human rights at a time when mass extermination is deemed legal? How do you write Jewish history when Jewish future seems uncertain?

This course offers a survey of the literature and intellectual history written during World War II (1939-1945) both in Nazi occupied Europe and in the free world, written primarily, but not exclusively, by Jews. We will read novels, poems, science fiction, historical fiction, legal theory and social theory and explore how intellectuals around the world responded to the extermination of European Jewry as it happened and how they changed their understanding of what it means to be a public intellectual, what it means to be Jewish, and what it means to be human.

The aim of the course is threefold. First, it offers a survey of the Jewish experience during WWII, in France, Russia, Poland, Latvia, Romania, Greece, Palestine, Morocco, Iraq, the USSR, Argentina, and the United States. Second, it introduces some of the major contemporary debates in holocaust studies. Finally, it provides a space for a methodological reflection on how literary analysis, cultural studies, and historical research intersect.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Offer Dynes
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• 3 points

BIOLOGICAL SEQUENCE ANALYSIS

• Department: Biomedical Informatics
• W 9 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Richard A Friedman
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• 3 points

BUSINESS CHINESE II

Prerequisites: two years of Chinese study at college level. This course is designed for students who have studied Chinese for two years at college level and are interested in business studies concerning China. It offers systematic descriptions of Chinese language used in business discourse. CC GS EN CE

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MTW 1:10 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Yike Li
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• 4 points

FRENCH SEMINAR

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Danielle S Smoller
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• 1.5 points

MEDIA CHINESE II

This Level 4 Chinese language class engages students in reading and discussion of current events. Course materials consist of news stories, commentaries and documentary films. Topics covered for the summer term include US-China relations, China’s economic development, China's rise, Chinese dissidents, and public health.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MTR 9:10 a.m.-10:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Yuan-Yuan Meng
  CULPA: 33 Info
• 4 points

VERNACULAR PALEOGRAPHY

VERNACULAR PALEO

This class is designed to introduce graduate students (and some advanced undergraduates) to the paleography of English vernacular manuscripts written during the period ca. 700 -1500, with brief excursions into Latin and into French as it was written on the Continent. The purpose of the course is fourfold: (1) to teach students how to make informed judgments with regard to the date (and sometimes place) of origin, (2) to provide instruction and practice in the accurate reading and transcription of medieval scripts, (3) to learn and use the basic vocabulary of the description of scripts, and (4) to examine the manuscript book as a product of the changing society that produced it and, thus, as a primary source for the study of that society and its culture. In order to localize manuscripts in time and place, we also examine aspects of the written page besides the script, such as the material on which it is written, its layout and ruling, the decoration and illustration of the text, the provenance, and binding. We also examine the process of manuscript production itself, whether institutional, commercial, or personal. The history of book production and of decoration and illumination are thus considered part of the study of paleography, as is the history of patronage and that of libraries. Manuscripts are among the most numerous and most reliable surviving witnesses to medieval social and intellectual change, and they will be examined as such. To become proficient in the study of manuscripts it is necessary to look at manuscripts, as well as to read about them. The more time you are able to spend looking at manuscripts critically, in the manuals and in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the greater will be your first-hand experience and hence your reliable knowledge.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher C Baswell
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

FOURTH YEAR CHINESE II

This Level 4 Chinese language course emphasizes systematic development of lexical knowledge and the enhancement of reading and writing skills. Through an in-depth exploration of video clips, expository essays and short stories, students will expand their vocabulary, learn to analyze syntactically and semantically complicated texts, and develop their narrative and summary writing skills.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MTWR 10:10 a.m.-11:05 a.m.
• Instructor: Ling Yan
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 4 points

HELL IN EAST ASIAN CULTURE

Whereas many in the modern West may commonly associate heavens and hells with the traditions of Christianity and Islam, Buddhist Asia shares an equally extensive concern with the paradises and punishments of the afterlife. Indian Buddhist scriptures, and their translations and elaborations across Asia, celebrate an infernal cosmology that makes Dante’s opus seem like a Hallmark card by comparison. This seminar focuses particularly on hells in the East Asian imaginary with the occasional detour to Southeast Asia, India, or Tibet for purposes of comparison. Our analysis of the practices, discourses, and representations of hells in East Asia is designed to coincide with a major exhibition on Asian Hells at Asia Society NY (Sept-Dec 2020). In this seminar we will view the exhibition together and each student will discuss an object on view, which they will have selected and prepared for in advance. Each student will work on a seminar project (usually, but not necessarily, an academic research paper) throughout the second half of the seminar. Proposal, bibliography, preliminary draft(s), and presentation will be due in stages during the process and students will receive feedback at each stage before the final draft is due at the beginning of final exam period. This course is designed for graduate students and advanced undergraduates who are expected to have completed coursework in relevant areas of East Asian Studies, Religion, or Art History.

• Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: David L Moerman
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 4 points

HEALTH INFO TECHNOLOGY

SKILLS & MTHDS IN HIT

• Department: Biomedical Informatics
• F 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Virginia G Lorenzi
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• 3 points

APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY

Typical experiments are in the areas of plasma physics, microwaves, laser applications, optical spectroscopy physics, and superconductivity.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Nanfang Yu
  h-index: 48 Info
• 2 points

FOURTH YEAR CHINESE ADV II

Prerequisites: CHNS W4017 or the equivalent. This is a non-consecutive reading course designed for those whose proficiency is above 4th level. See Admission to Language Courses. Selections from contemporary Chinese authors in both traditional and simplified characters with attention to expository, journalistic, and literary styles.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MWF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Tao Peng
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• 4 points

FOURTH YEAR JAPANESE II

Prerequisites: JPNS W4017 or the equivalent. Sections 1 - 2: Readings of advanced modern literary, historical, political, and journalistic texts, and class discussions about current issues and videos. Exercises in scanning, comprehension, and English translation. Section 3: Designed for advanced students interested in developing skills for reading and comprehending modern Japanese scholarship.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MWF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MWF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Shigeru Eguchi
  CULPA: 9 Info
• Instructor: Kyoko M Loetscher
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

SOLID STATE PHYSICS

Prerequisites: PHYS GU4021 and PHYS GU4023 or the equivalent. Introduction to solid-state physics: crystal structures, properties of periodic lattices, electrons in metals, band structure, transport properties, semiconductors, magnetism, and superconductivity.

• Department: Physics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: James W McIver
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• 3 points

HISTORY OF CHINESE LANGUAGE

The evolution of the Chinese language. Topics include historical phonology, the Chinese script, the classical and literary languages, the standard language and major dialects, language and society, etc.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Zhirong Wang
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 3 points

BIOLOGICAL SEQUENCE ANALYSIS

• Department: Cellular, Molecular, and Biophysical Studies
• W 9 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Richard A Friedman
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• 3 points

GRADUATE IMMUNOLOGY

Survey of the major topics in basic immunology with an emphasis on the molecular basis for immune recognition and regulation.

• Department: Microbiology
• TR 1:30 p.m.-3:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Steven Reiner
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• 4 points

MOLECULR/CELL BIO OF NUTRIENTS

Second Term. Explores molecular and cellular mechanisms of nutrient action. Six major foci of modern nutritional science. These include the actions of nutrients in transcriptional regulation, in signaling pathways, on intra- and extracellular trafficking, in assuring normal development, in the maintance of antioxidant defences and nutrient/gene interations.

• Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
• T 9 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Lori M Zeltser
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• 3 points

ELAS/PLAS ANALYSIS-STRUCTURES

Prerequisites: (CIEN E3121) or equivalent. Overview of classical indeterminate structural analysis methods (force and displacement methods), approximate methods of analysis, plastic analysis methods, collapse analysis, shakedown theorem, structural optimization.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Shiho Kawashima
  h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

BRIDGE DESIGN & MANAGEMENT

Prerequisites: (CIEN E3125) or equivalent. Bridge design history, methods of analysis, loads: static, live, dynamic. Design: allowable stress, ultimate strength, load resistance factor, supply/demand. Steel and concrete superstructures: suspension, cable stayed, prestressed, arches. Management of the assets, life-cycle cost, expected useful life, inspection, maintenance, repair, reconstruction. Bridge inventories, condition assessments, data acquisition and analysis, forecasts. Selected case histories and field visits.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Bojidar S Yanev
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• 3 points

JAPANESE BUDDHIST VISUAL CULTR

This course explors the principal modes, media, and contexts of visual culture in Japanese Buddhist history. Through the analysis of selected case studies, the course examines of the modalities of perception, materiality, and reception that distinguish the form and function of visual media in Japanese Buddhist contexts. Students are expected to have completed preliminary coursework in relevant areas of East Asian history, religion, or art history.

• Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: David L Moerman
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 3 points

Word and Grammar

Many modern theories of grammar are almost entirely based on English, having been developed mainly to describe the structure of English and, to a much lesser extent, other familiar languages of Europe.  But the languages of the world are highly diverse, many of them, in contrast to English, with highly complex word and inflectional structures and relatively simple phrasal structures.  Theories of grammar built on English serve such languages poorly.  This course seeks to address this imbalance by focusing on languages with complex morphological and morphosyntactic structures.  Because the grammars of such languages are built around word structures, we will be exploring current lexicalist theories of grammar such as Lexical Functional Grammar and Construction Grammar to develop formal explicit analyses of these languages.  One learns morphological and morphosyntactic analysis by doing it across languages of various types, so we will regularly be working through problems to analyze in class.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: William Foley
  h-index: 0 Info
• 3 points

QUANTUM MECHANICS II

Prerequisites: PHYS GU4021. Formulation of quantum mechanics in terms of state vectors and linear operators, three-dimensional spherically symmetric potentials, the theory of angular momentum and spin, time-independent and time-dependent perturbation theory, scattering theory, and identical particles. Selected phenomena from atomic physics, nuclear physics, and elementary particle physics are described and then interpreted using quantum mechanical models.

• Department: Physics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Ana Asenjo Garcia
  Wikipedia h-index: 19 Info
• 3 points

ARCHITECTURAL DRWG & REP II

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
• 3 points

ISSUES IN EARLY CHINESE CIV

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Feng Li
  CULPA: 12 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

ARCH-PLANNING-PRESERVATN-PARIS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Danielle S Smoller
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• 3 points

DEVELOPMENT OF PARIS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Danielle S Smoller
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• 3 points

POPULAR MUSIC/PROTEST MOVEMNTS

• Department: African American and African Diaspora
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Kevin Fellezs
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

HISTORY OF EUROPEAN CITIES

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Danielle S Smoller
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• 3 points

CCCP COLLOQUIUM

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Wasiuta
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

SOV UKRAINIAN MODERNISM: REV, REB, EXPER

SOVIET UKRAINIAN MODERNIS

This course studies the renaissance in Ukrainian culture of the 1920s - a period of revolution, experimentation, vibrant expression and polemics. Focusing on the most important developments in literature, as well as on the intellectual debates they inspired, the course will also examine the major achievements in Ukrainian theater, visual art and film as integral components of the cultural spirit that defined the era. Additionally, the course also looks at the subsequent implementation of the socialist realism and its impact on Ukrainian culture and on the cultural leaders of the renaissance. The course treats one of the most important periods of Ukrainian culture and examines it lasting impact on today's Ukraine. This period produced several world-renowned cultural figures, whose connections with the 1920s Ukraine have only recently begun to be discussed. The course will be complemented by film screenings, presentations of visual art and rare publications from this period. Entirely in English with a parallel reading list for those who read Ukrainian.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Andryczyk
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• 3 points

CLIM THERMODYN/ENERGY TRANSFER

Thermodynamics of atmospheric and oceanic processes fundamental to the climate system. Physical mechanisms of vertical energy transfer: surface fluxes, boundary layers and convection.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Adam H Sobel
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

CCCP THESIS II

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Joanna R Joseph
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• 9 points

INTRO MODERN ALGEBRA I

Prerequisites: MATH UN1102 and MATH UN1202 and MATH UN2010 or the equivalent. The second term of this course may not be taken without the first. Groups, homomorphisms, normal subgroups, the isomorphism theorems, symmetric groups, group actions, the Sylow theorems, finitely generated abelian groups.

• Department: Mathematics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Nathan H Chen
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• 3 points

CLT HERITAGE: A GEOR CASE STUDY

This seminar brings anthropological perspectives to bear on the practices and ideologies of cultural heritage in the Republic of Georgia today, whee culture has proven a key political and economic pawn in a context of ongoing postsocialist struggle.......

• Department: Slavic Languages
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Lauren E Ninoshvili
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

INTRO MODERN ALGEBRA II

Prerequisites: MATH UN1102 and MATH UN1202 and MATH UN2010 or the equivalent. The second term of this course may not be taken without the first. Rings, homomorphisms, ideals, integral and Euclidean domains, the division algorithm, principal ideal and unique factorization domains, fields, algebraic and transcendental extensions, splitting fields, finite fields, Galois theory.

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Tudor Padurariu
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• 3 points

ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY

Prerequisites: MATH GU4041 and MATH GU4042 or the equivalent Algebraic number fields, unique factorization of ideals in the ring of algebraic integers in the field into prime ideals. Dirichlet unit theorem, finiteness of the class number, ramification. If time permits, p-adic numbers and Dedekind zeta function.

• Department: Mathematics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Aise Johan de Jong
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

WORKSHP ON WEALTH & INEQUALITY

This Workshop is linked to the Workshop on Wealth - Inequality Meetings. This is meant for graduate students, however, if you are an advanced undergraduate student you can email the professor for permission to enroll.

• Department: Sociology
• T 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Yao Lu
  h-index: 25 Info
• 1 points

ALGEBRAIC CURVES

Prerequisites: (MATH GU4041 and MATH GU4042) and MATH UN3007 Plane curves, affine and projective varieties, singularities, normalization, Riemann surfaces, divisors, linear systems, Riemann-Roch theorem.

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Akash Sengupta
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 4 Info
• 3 points

IMMEASURABLE SITES

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Emanuel Admassu
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• 3 points

ARCH ELECTIVE INTERNSHIP

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Karen Cover
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• 1.5 points

ELECTROPHYS OF HUM MEMORY * NAVIGATION

ELECTROPHYS OF HUM MEM&NV

Human memory, including working, episodic, and procedural memory. Electrophysiology of cognition, noninvasive and invasive recordings. Neural basis of spatial navigation, with links to spatial and episodic memory. Computational models of memory, brain stimulation, lesion studies.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• M 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Joshua Jacobs
  Wikipedia h-index: 31 Info
• 3 points

Legal Chinese

Legal Chinese is designed for students who have studied at least three years of Chinese (or the equivalent) and are interested in legal studies concerning China. This course offers systematic descriptions of Chinese language used in legal discourse, its vocabulary, syntactic structures and pragmatic functions.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MWR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Tianqi Jiang
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

UP ELECT INTERNSHIP

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Douglas Woodward
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• 1.5 points

US WATER & ENERGY POLICY

Course Summary: Water, one of humankind’s first power sources, remains critically important to the task of maintaining a sustainable energy supply, in the United States and elsewhere. Conversely, the need to provide safe drinking water and keep America’s rivers clean cannot be met without access to reliable energy supplies. As the impact of climate disruption and other resource constraints begins to mount, the water/energy nexus is growing increasingly complex and conflict-prone. Essential Connections begins by examining the development of America’s water and energy policies over the past century and how such policies helped to shape present-day environmental law and regulation. Our focus then turns to the current state of US water and energy resources and policy, covering issues such as oil and gas exploration, nuclear energy, hydroelectric power and renewables. We also examine questions of inclusion and equity in connection with the ways in which communities allocate their water and energy resources and burdens along racial, ethnic and socioeconomic lines. The third and final section of the course addresses the prospects for establishing water and energy policies that can withstand climate disruption, scarcity and, perhaps most importantly, America’s seemingly endless appetite for political dysfunction. By semester’s end, students will better understand the state of America’s energy and water supply systems and current efforts to cope with depletion, climate change and related threats affecting these critical, highly-interdependent systems. As a final project, students will utilize the knowledge gained during the semester to create specific proposals for preserving and enhancing the sustainability of US water and energy resources.

• Department: Earth Institute
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul A Gallay
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• 3 points

Effective Global Leadership for Economic

Effective Global Leadership II

These two-part mid-career global leadership development courses (1.5 credit course in the summer and spring) provide intensive, collaborative, and highly interactive hands-on instruction, constructive evaluation, and ample opportunities to transform theory into practice.  It utilizes cutting-edge, research-based methodologies and customized case studies to build the next generation of leaders that turn differences into opportunities, ideas into solutions, and knowledge into action.  Students will acquire a variety of leadership skills in global contexts, including cross-cultural negotiation strategies, consensus building, collaborative facilitation, persuasion, inclusionary leadership, design-thinking-based problem-solving techniques, and public speaking in knowledge-intensive industries.  They will gain a competitive edge in their professional careers by participating in a variety of simulation games, role-playing exercises, and mock public policy panels to apply the skills they have learned and receive valuable feedback.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• F 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 1.5 points

DRAWING

DRAWING ATMOSPHERES

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Danielle S Smoller
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• 1.5 points

SENIOR ESSAY

A substantial paper, developing from an Autumn workshop and continuing into the Spring under the direction of an individual adviser. Open only to Barnard senior philosophy majors.

• Department: Philosophy @Barnard
• Instructor: Karen Lewis
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 7 Info
• 3 points