by distinguished faculty members working closely with
our skilled instructional technology staff. Three to five hours in length,
these in-depth multimedia e-seminars are free to Columbia students, faculty,
and staff.
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| | Arnold Aronson | | Hosted by Arnold Aronson, Professor of Theater at Columbia University's School of the Arts in New York City, this seminar has gathered prestigious artists/theorists from Columbia and asked them to weigh on the question "what is art?" Basing their answers specifically on their own personal work, these individuals engage questions of art and the artist. There is a course-long exercise that will help you measure your engagement with the material. Finally, there are various media elements—from paintings to video work, from music to photographs—to enhance your learning experience.
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| | Randall Balmer | | Since the 1960s, the religious landscape of the United States has undergone striking changes. In recent decades, we have become the most religiously diverse nation on earth. Despite the American ideal of protecting religious diversity, these developments have challenged and disturbed many Americans. In this e-seminar Randall Balmer provides a larger historical context in which to consider the tension between religious conformity and religious diversity in our nation.
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| | Ronald Bayer and Gerald Oppenheimer | | In the early years of the AIDS epidemic, the doctors at the front lines witnessed a sudden massacre and struggled to treat against an agent they didn't understand. What impact did this experience have on these doctors, and how did this first group of caregivers shape the evolution of the epidemic? To construct a collective biography of the early AIDS doctors, Ronald Bayer, Columbia University professor of public health, and Gerald Oppenheimer, associate professor of clinical public health, turned to oral history. In these two e-seminars, Professors Bayer and Oppenheimer discuss the development of the oral history project from inspiration to publication.
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| | Ronald Bayer and Gerald Oppenheimer | | In the first of two e-seminars on their oral history of the AIDS epidemic, Professors Bayer and Oppenheimer take the student on a tour through the planning of their oral-history project. Through anecdotes, constructive advice and tips, collected readings and resources, and sample planning documents, you will learn to conduct interviews for an oral-history project and to address sensitive issues that may arise during and after the interviews. You will also learn to use oral-history materials to construct a nonarchival project, and to present and evaluate your project.
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| | Ronald Bayer and Gerald Oppenheimer | | In this second of two e-seminars on their oral-history of the AIDS epidemic, Professors Bayer and Oppenheimer take the student on a tour through the execution of their own oral-history project. Through anecdotes, constructive advice and tips, collected readings and resources, and sample documents, you will become well versed in the issues that need to be addressed before beginning an oral history project, and become equipped to complete the steps needed to plan your oral-history project to the point of conducting interviews.
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| | Ian Bent | | In Schoenberg and Modernism Professor Ian Bent explores the life and work of Arnold Schoenberg in two modules. The first delineates the various schools of Modernism that emerged in Europe and America at the turn of the twentieth century and places Schoenberg's early career in the context of German Expressionist painting and the "Second Viennese School" of composers. The second module provides an in-depth examination of a seminal work of twentieth-century music, Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire.
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| | Volker R. Berghahn | | In this e-seminar Volker R. Berghahn, Seth Low Professor of History at Columbia University, explores the international developments and pressures, and the decisions made by German leaders that inexorably led to the First World War. Photographs, maps, and primary documents complement Professor Berghahn's dramatic and lucid account.
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| | Casey Nelson Blake | | Between the end of the Civil War and 1900, educated Americans reacted against Victorian values. In the first in a series of e-seminars, Casey Blake describes the new attitudes about the future, the separation of the sexes, masculinity, and the role of women. He concludes by reflecting on the beginnings of modernism at the end of the nineteenth century.
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| | Casey Nelson Blake | | By the end of the nineteenth century, science and technology were exerting a tremendous influence on life in the United States. In this second e-seminar of the series, Casey Nelson Blake explores why Darwin's ideas seemed so revolutionary and how Darwinism helped to move the United States toward a more secular and scientific modern culture.
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| | Casey Nelson Blake | | In this third e-seminar of the series Intellectual and Cultural History of the United States, 1890-1945, Casey Nelson Blake explores the philosophy of pragmatism, details the lives and contributions of James and Dewey, and describes the critiques of pragmatist thought.
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| | Casey Nelson Blake | | In this fourth e-seminar of the series Intellectual and Cultural History of the United States, 1890-1945, Casey Nelson Blake presents the range of early-twentieth-century responses to immigration, including arguments for diversity and the contribution of W.E.B. Du Bois.
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| | Casey Nelson Blake | | In this fifth seminar in the series Intellectual and Cultural History of the United States, 1890–1945, Casey Blake explores the prewar intellectual scene and the repercussions of President Wilson's decision to join the conflict in Europe.
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| | Casey Nelson Blake | | In this seminar, the sixth of the series Intellectual and Cultural History of the United States, 1890–1945, Professor Casey Nelson Blake describes the consumer culture of the 1920s and Middle America's ambivalent embrace of it.
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| | Casey Nelson Blake | | In this seminar, the seventh of the series Intellectual and Cultural History of the United States, 1890–1945, Professor Casey Nelson Blake elucidates the impact of the Great Depression, the radical critiques that arose in response, and the legacy of a new form of culture celebrating "the people."
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| | Alan Brinkley | | In a series of ten e-seminars, America Since 1945, Alan Brinkley, Alan Nevins Professor of History, discusses the political, cultural, and social developments that occurred from the earliest years of the postwar era through the 1980s—a period in which the United States changed more rapidly and profoundly than at any other time in its history.
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| | Alan Brinkley | | What was once routinely known as "the postwar era" is now a period of more than half a century, during which the United States has probably changed more rapidly and profoundly than during any other period of its history. Historian Alan Brinkley offers an introduction to and a framework for understanding the United States since 1945.
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| | Alan Brinkley | | In this e-seminar, the second in a series of ten, Professor Brinkley examines the Cold War, a key event during the "the postwar era," a period of more than half a century, during which the United States has probably changed more rapidly and profoundly than during any other period of its history. He analyzes the Cold War as a force in American domestic life, one that had an important impact on the relationships among and the distribution of power within many of the central institutions of American life.
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| | Alan Brinkley | | In The Stable Fifties, the third e-seminar in the series America Since 1945, Professor Alan Brinkley examines the shift in American economics and culture that occurred after World War II. While many other combatant countries faced a slow rebuilding period after the war's end, the United States celebrated a vast and steady economic boom that began during the war and continued for the next twenty years. Professor Brinkley examines aspects of American middle-class culture during the Eisenhower years, including the rise of television and the expansion of the suburbs. He also offers a perspective on the Eisenhower presidency.
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| | Alan Brinkley | | In The Subversive Fifties, the fourth e-seminar in the series America Since 1945, the eminent historian Alan Brinkley discusses a variety of early counterculture movements—literary, social, and environmental—whose origins date back to the 1950s and early 1960s. He also covers the roots of the civil-rights movement, discussing the Montgomery bus boycott, in which Martin Luther King Jr. first gained national attention.
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| | Alan Brinkley | | In Kennedy, Johnson, and the Great Society, the fifth e-seminar in the series America Since 1945, the eminent historian Alan Brinkley focuses on the administrations of Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Professor Brinkley compares and contrasts these two great figures of the 1960s and analyzes the social programs, such as the Great Society and the war on poverty, that became landmarks of the period.
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| | Alan Brinkley | | In The Civil-Rights Movement, the sixth of ten e-seminars in the series America Since 1945, historian Alan Brinkley discusses one of the most important social movements in twentieth-century American history. He analyzes the events that propelled and shaped the civil-rights movement, the growing national awareness of racial inequalities in America, and the social policies that were created in response to those inequalities.
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| | Alan Brinkley | | In The Vietnam War, the seventh of ten e-seminars in the series America Since 1945, historian Alan Brinkley discusses the policies and decisions that led to the expansion of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
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| | Alan Brinkley | | In Cultural Revolutions, the eighth of ten e-seminars in the series America Since 1945, historian Alan Brinkley discusses the turbulent years of the 1960s and the broad social changes that altered cultural and individual expression in American society.
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| | Alan Brinkley | | In The Age of Limits, the penultimate e-seminar in the series America Since 1945, Professor Alan Brinkley examines the shift in the prevailing outlook and worldview of Americans during the 1970s, as assumptions about economic abundance and American power gave way to a new awareness of scarcity and constraints.
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| | Alan Brinkley | | In The Rise of the Right, the final e-seminar in the ten-part series America Since 1945, historian Alan Brinkley discusses the emergence of conservatism as a powerful political and cultural force in the United States during the past quarter-century.
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| | Richard W. Bulliet | | Over the course of this five-part series, America and the Muslim World, Richard Bulliet, a leading scholar of modern Islam, examines the legacy of misunderstanding between the two cultures. Bulliet chronicles Americans' gradual exposure to the Muslim world in a variety of contexts, and considers the emergence of a significant Muslim population in the United States through immigration and conversion. Finally, Bulliet discusses how Americans have reflected in their popular culture their fascination with the Muslim world.
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| | Richard W. Bulliet | | This e-seminar examines the history of America and its relation to the Muslim world. The series will analyze, from an American perspective, the legacy of misunderstanding between the two cultures; the forgotten wars, now over a century ago, between America and parts of the Islamic world; and the emergence of a significant Muslim population in the United States through immigration and conversion.
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| | Richard W. Bulliet | | In the second installment of this five-part series, Professor Richard W. Bulliet, a leading scholar of modern Islam, contrasts the period after World War I with the period immediately following World War II, in terms of real and imagined American engagement in the Muslim world. Although a major American role as protector of Kurds, Armenians, and Syrians was proposed after World War I, it never came to pass. Britain and France instead became the mandatory powers in the region.
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| | Richard W. Bulliet | | In the third e-seminar in this five-part series, Professor Bulliet analyzes the period when Americans began to pay attention to Islam. While American awareness of the Muslim world increased, crucial misperceptions about Islam persisted into the 1970s among American tourists, government officials, and scholars, so that all were caught off guard by the Iranian revolution in 1979.
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| | Richard W. Bulliet | | In the fourth e-seminar in this five-part series, Professor Richard W. Bulliet analyzes the period between the Iranian revolution and the Persian Gulf War. During those tumultuous 12 years, wars and political events in the Muslim world repeatedly appeared on the front pages of American newspapers, and the Black Muslim movement took root in the United States, leading to an increased awareness of Islam.
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| | Richard W. Bulliet | | In this fifth and final e-seminar in the series America and the Muslim World, Professor Bulliet examines the terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001. He considers how they have affected the large Muslim population in the United States and argues that Americans now have an opportunity to learn more about Islam and make their society more inclusive of Muslims.
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| | Mary Marshall Clark | | In this online seminar, Mary Marshall Clark, director of the Columbia University Oral History Office, the world's first official oral-history archive, offers detailed instruction on how to perform an oral-history interview and how to organize and operate a community oral-history project. The seminar includes audio and text examples from the rich archives of Columbia's Oral History Office.
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| | Peter Cookson | | This e-seminar is designed to help beginning teachers strengthen their classroom management skills from the start. You will learn to develop practical strategies, skills, and techniques that can be utilized to create a positive, cooperative classroom climate where maximum learning takes place.
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| | Dennis Dalton | | This series of three e-seminars is based on Dennis Dalton's enormously popular course, which he has taught since the late 1960s, on the nature and power of the Gandhian political philosophy and practice of nonviolence.
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| | Dennis Dalton | | Gandhi: Discovering the Power of Nonviolence is the opening e-seminar in a series of classes based on Dennis Dalton's extremely popular and chronically oversubscribed course on the nature and power of the Gandhian political philosophy and practice of nonviolence, which Dalton has taught since the late 1960s.
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| | Dennis Dalton | | In his second e-seminar, Professor Dalton examines the practice and theory of the man who has been called "an American Gandhi," Martin Luther King Jr. In this e-seminar, Professor Dalton grounds Martin Luther King Jr. in the historical backdrop of Montgomery, and discusses King's very explicit principles and tactics of nonviolence.
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| | Dennis Dalton | | Gandhi's Disciples is the third e-seminar in a series based on Dennis Dalton's extremely popular and chronically oversubscribed course on the nature and power of the Gandhian political philosophy and practice of nonviolence, which Dalton has taught since the late 1960s.
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| | Dickson Despommier | | In an age characterized by a rapidly changing environment in which emerging and reemerging diseases continue to confront us, how can we predict the next major threats to human health? In his seven-part series, Medical Ecology: Environmental Disturbance and Disease, Dickson Despommier, Professor of Public Health and Microbiology at Columbia, illuminates the connections between the disruption of ecosystems and eruptions of human disease.
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| | Dickson Despommier | | In an age characterized by a rapidly changing environment, in which emerging and re-emerging diseases continue to confront us, how can we predict the next major threats to human health? Are we, in fact, aiding the spread of disease by destroying the barriers that keep us from it? In the first of eight e-seminars on medical ecology, professor of public health and microbiology Dickson Despommier explains the interconnectedness of life on earth by exploring the evolution of life itself, and the cycles of nutrients that link us to all the other life on the planet.
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| | Dickson Despommier | | In this second e-seminar of an eight part series, The Normal Environment: The Way Things Are Now, Professor Despommier describes the producer-consumer interactions that drive ecosystems, the types and characteristics of ecoregions of the world, and the often undervalued "free" services (to which he attempts to assign a value) that ecosystems provide for us.
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| | Dickson Despommier | | In this third e-seminar of the series Medical Ecology, Professor Despommier probes into one of Earth's great zones—the upper atmosphere. As he describes the basic constituents of the atmosphere and the ecosystem services it provides, Professor Despommier also explores how industry is destroying the atmospheric system, exposing humans and animals on Earth below to severe health threats.
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| | Dickson Despommier | | In Atmosphere: Problems at Ground Level, the fourth of eight e-seminars, Despommier investigates the atmosphere at Earth's surface and the consequences of polluting the air around us. From acid deposition to industrial emissions, polluted air threatens the health of humans and ecosystems alike. Despommier elucidates this concept using text, reading materials, data, and state-of-the-art animation and imagery.
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| | Dickson Despommier | | In Water: It's Not Just H2O, the fifth e-seminar in the series Medical Ecology: Environmental Disturbance and Disease, Professor Despommier delves into another of Earth's great zones—water. He examines closely the hydrological cycle and the ecosystem services it provides, the world's dwindling sources of freshwater, and the effects of water pollution.
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| | Dickson Despommier | | In Waterborne Infections, the sixth e-seminar in the series Medical Ecology: Environmental Disturbance and Disease, Professor Dickson Despommier examines both the pathogens that cause waterborne disease and the role that water plays in their transmission and proliferation.
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| | Dickson Despommier | | In Food: Land Use and Health Risks, the seventh and final seminar of the e-seminar series Medical Ecology: Environmental Disturbance and Disease, Professor Dickson Despommier touches upon the last of Earth's great zones: land. He focuses his discussion on agriculture, our primary use of land, and the large impact that agriculture has on biodiversity and climate change.
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| | Eric Foner | | In his eight-part series Slavery and Emancipation, Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, explores a subject that is essential to understanding the history of the United States and the evolution of our concept of freedom.
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| | Eric Foner | | Nearly 150 years after its abolition, slavery remains one of the central institutions defining American history and nationality. This e-seminar examines the origins and development of the transatlantic slave trade and the impact of slavery on colonial America during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. New World slavery became more oppressive than previous forms, and the underpinnings of the institutionalization of slavery in America included new racist attitudes.
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| | Eric Foner | | In this second e-seminar of his Slavery and Emancipation series, Professor Eric Foner examines slavery and the American Revolution. He examines the dramatic struggle for freedom waged concurrently by American colonists against the British Empire and by blacks against the institution of slavery. While blacks seized the revolutionary rhetoric of liberty and equality to justify their natural right to freedom, the U.S. Constitution protected the institution of slavery.
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| | Eric Foner | | In the third e-seminar in the series Slavery and Emancipation, Professor Eric Foner discusses the expansion of slavery during the first half of the nineteenth century, when it became the most powerful economic institution in the United States. He describes the arguments that proslavery Southerners used to defend their "peculiar institution" and details the system of subordination they created whereby slaves had virtually no legal rights.
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| | Eric Foner | | In Abolitionism and Antislavery, the fourth e-seminar of the series Slavery and Emancipation, Eric Foner describes how in the nineteenth century the issue of slavery came to occupy a central place in American political life and a central role in the disruption of the Union. He describes the development of a militant abolitionist movement, the expansion of slavery, secession, and other events that led inexorably to the Civil War.
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| | Eric Foner | | In The Civil War, the fifth in the series Slavery and Emancipation, Professor Eric Foner explores the combination of factors that propelled the Lincoln administration down the road to emancipation. Foner also describes how the service of black men in the Union forces contributed to the war's outcome and raised the question of black citizenship.
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| | Eric Foner | | In The Meaning of Freedom, the sixth e-seminar in the series Slavery and Emancipation, Professor Eric Foner explores the expectations and aspirations of freed blacks, the views of white Southerners, and the hopes of many Northerners in the years after the Civil War.
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| | Eric Foner | | In this e-seminar, Professor Eric Foner argues against the depiction of Reconstruction as the low point of American democracy by examining the successes and failures of the Republican coalition that briefly governed the South.
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| | Eric Foner | | In this eighth and final e-seminar of the series Slavery and Emancipation, Professor Eric Foner traces the developments that brought Reconstruction to an end and discusses what that ending meant for Southern blacks and for the nation.
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| | Milos Forman | | Developed with Columbia University Film School, this e-seminar provides lessons on filmmaking from Oscar-winning director Milos Forman. With an emphasis on scriptwriting and casting, Forman advises film students based on his thirty years of experience as a director.
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| | Oren Fuerst | | For the valuation of publicly traded companies, the market price of similar companies can provide a reference point. The valuation of private companies, and particularly early-stage technology companies or projects, is more complicated. In this e-seminar, Professor Fuerst of Columbia Business School discusses the main methods of valuation and highlights some of the adjustments that are typically necessary for technology-related companies.
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| | Elsa-Grace V. Giardina, M.D. | | In this online continuing-medical-education (CME) course, Dr. Elsa-Grace V. Giardina, professor of clinical medicine and director of the Center for Women's Health at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, reviews the latest advances in cardiac care as they specifically relate to women.
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| | David Helfand | | In this e-seminar, Professor David Helfand introduces us to the fundamentals of contemporary cosmology, such as space-time and the Universe's expansion, and some of the questions that preoccupy scientists today, including the nature and behavior of dark matter, MACHOs, WIMPs, and dark energy.
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| | Horst Stormer | | In this e-seminar, Professor Horst Stormer magnifies the wondrous nano-world and reveals its enormous potential to shape our future. Stormer illuminates not only the often bizarre physics of the nanoscale but also explores cutting-edge nano-science research.
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| | Kenneth T. Jackson | | In The History of the City of New York, a series of eight e-seminars, Kenneth T. Jackson, Jacques Barzun Professor of History and the Social Sciences at Columbia, has adapted his legendary semester-length course for the Internet.
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| | Kenneth T. Jackson | | New-York Historical Society President and eminent Columbia University historian Kenneth T. Jackson has been teaching a course on the history of New York City for over thirty years. Through this series of online lectures, Jackson recreates the experience of his legendary Columbia University class with the complement of a wealth of documentary photographs, maps, and other illustrative material.
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| | Kenneth T. Jackson | | In his second e-seminar, Kenneth T. Jackson traces New York City's commercial character back to the days of Dutch New Amsterdam. He then examines New York's role in the Revolutionary War and the remarkable growth it experienced largely as a result of the Erie Canal.
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| | Kenneth T. Jackson | | Urban Crisis: Fire and Water is the third e-seminar in The History of the City of New York, a series based on Kenneth T. Jackson's legendary course, which he has taught for over three decades, on the history of New York City. In this e-seminar, Professor Jackson examines the various ways that over the years New York City has responded to fires and water supply problems, two of the serious challenges faced by urban populations.
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| | Kenneth T. Jackson | | In this fourth in a series of eight e-seminars, Professor Kenneth T. Jackson, examines public space in New York and focuses on the creation of Central Park. He also discusses the creation of the Metropolitan Board of Health, the implementation of health and sanitary regulations as a response to outbreaks of cholera, and the founding of the New York City Police Department.
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| | Kenneth T. Jackson | | In City People, the fifth e-seminar in a series on the history of New York City, Professor Kenneth T. Jackson looks at New York City in the nineteenth century, focusing on developments and innovations in the city's social life and infrastructure and discussing how they changed the everyday life of New Yorkers.
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| | Kenneth T. Jackson | | In Ethnic New York, the sixth e-seminar in an eight-part series, Kenneth T. Jackson traces the development of New York City's ethnic neighborhoods, particularly two of the most famous: Harlem and the Lower East Side.
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| | Kenneth T. Jackson | | In Bosses of all Kinds, the seventh e-seminar in a series on the history of New York City, Professor Kenneth T. Jackson looks at Tammany Hall bosses, Robert Moses, and other political figures in the history of New York who, though unelected, have wielded extraordinary power.
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| | Kenneth T. Jackson | | In The Reinvention of New York, the eighth and final e-seminar in his series on the history of New York City, Professor Kenneth T. Jackson discusses New York in light of its ability to adapt to rapidly changing social, political, and economic conditions.
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| | Michael Janeway | | The Origins of Modern Criticism is the first of two e-seminars drawn from Michael Janeway's popular course offered jointly by Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and School of the Arts. Cultural criticism—ranging from reviews of the latest film, book, or concert to the broadest kind of reporting and commentary on cultural issues—is a feature of democratic culture that we take almost for granted. For the past century and a half, in England and America, vital debates about our cultural and political health have been carried forward within this complex arena.
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| | Paul Johnson | | In his two-part e-seminar series, Poverty, Wealth, and History in the East End of London, Professor Paul Johnson explores the rich and dramatic history of the East End of London. Learn about the great surges of immigration, about the creation, destruction and re-creation of communities, about labor and toil, and consequently about the religious, political and social fault lines that have divided and defined British society in the East End community of Spitalfields.
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| | Paul Johnson | | Using Spitalfields, a historic corner of the East End, as a window onto the history of social and economic change, historian Paul Johnson explores the rich and dramatic history of the East End of London and uncovers the larger religious, political and social fault lines that have divided and defined British society.
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| | Paul Johnson | | Historian Paul Johnson examines how East Enders reacted to their poor living and working conditions, most famously in the Dock Strike of 1889, and how middle class reformers attempted to help them.
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| | Conrad Johnson and Brian Donnelly | | This e-seminar is an exploration of the influence technology has exerted in the practice of law. The revolutionary nature of digital and communications technologies—especially regarding the practice of law—will undoubtedly change the profession.
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| | Darcy B. Kelley | | In this e-seminar, the first in a series of four, Professor Kelley gives a tour of brain anatomy and shows how nerve cells communicate with one other. She then explores how the fascinating signals of pheromones are used and sensed in the animal kingdom, and whether there is any likelihood that we, too, are lured to one another by odors we can't "smell."
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| | Darcy B. Kelley | | A typical human brain is about six and a half inches long and four inches tall. Into this organ are packed something like a hundred billion nerve cells. In this e-seminar, Professor Darcy Kelley explores human behavior through an examination of how the brain works.
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| | Tom Lansner | | In War Reporting, a series of three e-seminars, Professor Tom Lansner, a former war correspondent, covers a broad swath of battlefield journalism, from Julius Caesar to contemporary reporting of the 2003 American invasion of Iraq.
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| | Tom Lansner | | In this first e-seminar in the three-part series War Reporting, Professor Tom Lansner, a former war correspondent for the British press, covers the colorful history of battlefield journalism, from Julius Caesar to the recent conflict in Afghanistan. While outlining the evolution of war reporting, Professor Lansner discusses shifts in the profession over the last century, including the increase of women reporting from the frontlines, the increased attention to the ethics of war and war reporting, and the role of editorial "gatekeepers" who determine which wars and reports make the news.
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| | Tom Lansner | | In Media and Propaganda, the second e-seminar in the three-part series War Reporting, Professor Tom Lansner, a former foreign-war correspondent, looks at the development of propaganda and of government restrictions on journalists during U.S. wars of the past 150 years.
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| | Tom Lansner | | In Technologies and Responsibilities, the third e-seminar in the three-part series War Reporting, Professor Tom Lansner, a former war correspondent, looks at the impact of lighter, faster, and more powerful digital communication tools on reporting from the battlefield, including how the increasing volume of coverage is often provided without the context and analysis needed to understand it.
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| | Barron H. Lerner | | To understand a disease, you must first understand the culture in which that disease exists. Understanding breast cancer in the United States requires understanding the war metaphor that defines it. In this e-seminar, Barron Lerner, associate professor of medicine and public health at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, reveals how America's fight against breast cancer has shaped our treatment of the disease from the turn of the nineteenth century to today.
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| | How Predictable Are Natural Disasters?
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| | Art Lerner-Lam | | Earthquakes, volcanoes and other natural hazards have the potential to significantly affect human lives and society. In this e-seminar, Dr. Art Lerner-Lam focuses on types of natural hazards and their impact on human societies, as well as the impact of human society on the Earth.
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| | Marc Levy | | Professor Mark Levy leads an exploration of the many facets of environmental sustainability in this e-seminar, which is taught in conference-style format and features the perspectives of nine Columbia University faculty members associated with the Center International Earth Science Information Network.
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| | Benjamin Lewis | | Heart disease is America's leading killer. More women die each year from heart disease than men. Yet far too few of us really understand our heart—how it works, how to care for it when it's healthy, how to treat it when it's not. In this e-seminar, Dr. Benjamin H. Lewis teaches medical consumers about their hearts.
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| | Kristin Linklater | | This e-seminar is more than an exploration of William Shakespeare's sonnets—it is also a personal journey to awaken the dormant power of the human voice. Drawing on Professor Linklater's experience as a student, teacher, actor and director, The Shakespearean Sonnet and the Modern Voice details her innovative approach to "speaking" Shakespeare.
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| | Manning Marable | | This e-seminar is an exploration of the life and work of W.E.B. DuBois, the leading African American writer and political activist of the twentieth century and the author of The Souls of Black Folk.
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| | Manning Marable | | This e-seminar considers the image of slain civil rights leader Malcolm X after his death by focusing on the popular view of his life and his treatment by historians and scholars. A generation after his assassination, Malcolm X's image and historical reputation have been profoundly transformed.
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| | Donald J. Melnick | | In this lecture Professor Donald J. Melnick explores the genius of Gregor Mendel and Charles Darwin, from their influences and experiences to how their perspectives and methods shape modern science.
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| | Brigitte L. Nacos | | In her two-part e-seminar series, Covering Terrorism, Brigitte Nacos, associate professor of political science at Columbia University, examines the marriage of convenience that exists between terrorists and the media in the light of 9/11.
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| | Brigitte L. Nacos | | In the first e-seminar in her two-part e-seminar series, political science professor Brigitte Nacos examines the marriage of convenience that exists between terrorists and the media. In this seminar, Professor Nacos focuses specifically on how the media's coverage shaped the events of September 11 and what unfolded after the attacks occurred.
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| | Brigitte L. Nacos | | In this second e-seminar in her two-part series, political science professor Brigitte Nacos examines how the tangled relationship between terrorists and the media has helped to create today's more lethal form of terrorism. Using recent examples of terrorism such as the Oklahoma City bombing, Professor Nacos raises questions about defining terrorists and terrorism, the influence of the end of the Cold War on international terrorism, media responsibility for terrorist acts, and other related topics.
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| | Andrew Nathan | | In this three-part e-seminar series,Tiananmen: June 1989 and Its Significance, Andrew J. Nathan, one of the leading scholars of modern Chinese politics and human rights, examines the most important event in the movement toward democracy in China—this time, explaining it from the point of view of the government itself. Professor Nathan's interpretation is based on a new understanding of the events of the Tiananmen uprising and its suppression, offered by the publication of hundreds of previously secret memos, minutes of meetings, and other internal government documents.
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| | Andrew Nathan | | From one of the leading scholars of modern Chinese politics and human rights, this seminar is a look at the most important event in the movement toward democracy in China—this time, explained from the point of view of the government itself. This examination, based in part on a new understanding offered by the publication of hundreds of previously secret memos, minutes of meetings, and other internal documents, sheds light on the perspective rarely considered when discussing the events of June 1989 in China.
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| | Andrew Nathan | | Professor Nathan, one of the leading scholars of modern Chinese politics and human rights, traces the history of democracy in China in Chinese Democracy and Its Future, the second e-seminar of Tiananmen: June 1989 and Its Significance. Professor Nathan analyzes the differences between Western and Chinese conceptions of democracy. He also investigates the history of constitutions in China, and the role that constitutions play in Chinese politics.
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| | Andrew Nathan | | This third and final seminar in the series examines what the Tiananmen Papers reveal about the workings of the Chinese political system. Professor Andrew J. Nathan discusses the process of internal documentation in the Chinese government and details its attempt to control any damage that might be caused by the publication of these highly classified documents. In the process, he looks at the question of political succession in China and considers the future of political reform and what form democracy in China might take if it is achieved there.
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| | Robert O'Meally | | In this e-seminar, Robert O'Meally leads a journey through the life of Pops. Along the way, you will discover the connections between his life experiences and his artistic sensibilities and the sound and feel of his music. You will also learn about his role and status in the history of jazz and gain a greater understanding of jazz and its relationship to the sociopolitical environment of twentieth century America.
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| | Philip Oldenburg | | Professor Oldenburg, a leading scholar of South Asian culture and history, unravels the story of Pakistan, delving into the tumultuous past of this Muslim nation. Carefully examining its struggle to establish a national identity throughout the half-century of its existence, he narrates Pakistan's history from the viewpoint of its Muslim majority population while also explaining the perspectives of those nations with whom Pakistan has been at war.
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| | Paul E. Olsen | | In this first e-seminar in a series of nine, professor of geological sciences Paul Olsen takes us back to the time before the dinosaurs, 4.5 billion to 245 million years ago, when our planet formed and became habitable, the first complex organisms arose, and the direct predecessors of the dinosaurs—and ourselves—came to dominate Earth.
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| | Paul E. Olsen | | In this second e-seminar in a series of nine, professor of geological sciences Paul Olsen explores the beginning of the age of the dinosaurs, the Triassic Period. Discover the kinds of animals that eventually gave rise to the dinosaurs, the earliest dinosaurs, and the organisms that shared the Earth with them—including fierce rivals that dominated the land until a mass extinction cleared the way for dinosaur domination.
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| | Joe Ortiz | | What forces drive climate change? The objective of this e-seminar is to provide an introduction to some of the factors (both natural and human-induced) that drive climate change on a variety of time scales.
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| | John Pavlik | | This e-seminar by John Pavlik leads you through the myriad ways in which digital technologies have had a impact on the practice of journalism, from the way reporters gather information and present news stories to how news organizations structure themselves and do business. Discussing technologies now in use and on the horizon, Professor Pavlik provides an overview of the changes and challenges the digital age has brought to the purveyors and the consumers of the news.
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| | John Pavlik and Melvin Mencher | | A five-alarm fire rages late at night in a high-rise apartment in Freeport, a medium-sized city in the Midwest. On the police beat, you hear the report on the police scanner. Your assignment in this online learning experience is to cover the fire for The Freeport News within a two-hour deadline.
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| | Eric A. Rose, M.D., and leading Columbia surgeons | | Far too often, patients blindly accept a recommendation to have surgery. Whether overwhelmed by an abundance of confusing medical information, unwilling to question their physician's advice, or simply too afraid to consider the implications of surgery, many patients never truly evaluate their surgical options. In this e-seminar, Eric A. Rose, Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, empowers patients with the necessary set of tools to make informed decisions about surgery.
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| | David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz | | In their two-part series The Politics of Pollution, Professors David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz examine the impact of industrial production on the well-being of workers and consumers alike. They explain how corporations have sought to avoid regulation and scandal by concealing negative health effects associated with their product, and they discuss the public outrage and activism that results when such hazards are revealed.
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| | David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz | | In Lead Poisoning in the Industrial Age, the first e-seminar in a two-part series, Professors Rosner and Markowitz focus on the lead industry as emblematic of industrial pollution and industrial disease in the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries.
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| | David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz | | In The Modern Threat of Plastics, the second e-seminar in the series The Politics of Pollution, Professors Rosner and Markowitz focus on plastics—in particular, polyvinyl chloride (PVC)—as the paradigmatic substance of industrial disease of the second half of the twentieth century.
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| | Bernd H. Schmitt | | In the Brand Leadership series, Professor Bernd Schmitt explains the five key steps that companies must take to successfully manage their brands, argues that managers need to provide customers with five types of desirable "experiences," and discusses how to build a creative organization that will both foster and reinforce compelling branding campaigns.
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| | Bernd H. Schmitt | | In this e-seminar, Professor Bernd Schmitt of Columbia Business School explains the five key steps that companies must take to successfully manage their brands: brandCORE, brandID, brandEXECUTION, brandLEVERAGE, and brandSCORE. Using examples from Godiva, Cathay Pacific, and W Hotels, he emphasizes the importance of visual aesthetics and meaningful "themes" in creating a strong identity.
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| | Bernd H. Schmitt | | In this e-seminar, Professor Bernd Schmitt of Columbia Business School argues that it's not enough for marketers to promote the "features and benefits" of their brands. With so many products of similar purpose and quality on the market, managers need to provide customers with desirable "experiences."
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| | Bernd H. Schmitt | | In this e-seminar, Professor Bernd Schmitt of Columbia Business School discusses how to build a creative organization that will both foster and reinforce compelling branding campaigns. He introduces the concept of The Garage—a type of organization where work is fun. Using examples of cutting-edge advertising, he illustrates his perspective that in the new century, "there's no business that's not show business."
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| | Freya Schnabel and leading breast specialists at Columbia | | Taught by 19 Columbia breast-care specialists, The Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Guide to Breast Care provides a clear, comprehensive, and multidisciplinary look at the latest developments in breast-cancer detection, treatment, and prevention.
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| | Science Museum, London | | Developed with the Science Museum (United Kingdom), How We Got Here: Turning Points in Sustainability looks at the historical development of the modern industrial economy, focusing on the issue of sustainability.
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| | Michael Seidel | | Professor Michael Seidel, an expert on the work of James Joyce, examines the narrative modes of Joyce's Ulysses. Recognizing and identifying the function of each mode is crucial to understanding this classic novel.
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| | Jean-Francois Seznec | | In his e-seminar Oil in the Arab-Persian Gulf, Jean-Francois Seznec, Professor at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs, examines the intricacies of the oil trade in the Arab-Persian Gulf and its global impact. In the course of looking at the interplay of oil and politics in the Gulf region as well as in Europe, Professor Seznec discusses new technologies being used to find and harvest oil, and goes on to consider the political fallout from the use of some of those technologies.
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| | Gary Sick | | In his three-part series on Iran, Professor Gary Sick introduces us to a nation that is still actively struggling to find its balance between the competing influences of Islam and nationalism, economics and independence, and populism and autocratism. In the first e-seminar in the series, Professor Sick explores Iran's unique form of Islam; in the second he focuses on the tumultuous relationship between the United States and Iran; and in the third, he offers a firsthand account of how America's leadership reacted to the Iranian revolution.
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| | Gary Sick | | The first in a three-part series on Iran, this e-seminar explores the fundamental question of how Iran can create a new form of Islam that will respond to the realities of the modern world. Gary Sick, adjunct professor of international affairs and acting director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University, introduces us to the modern Iranian state.
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| | Gary Sick | | In the second e-seminar of his three-part series on Iran, Gary Sick, adjunct professor of international affairs and acting director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University, traces the path of revolution, wars, political crises, and missed opportunities in the Persian Gulf that has led the United States from twin pillars to dual containment and beyond. By exploring the evolution of U.S. security policy in the Gulf, Professor Sick sheds light on America's policies in the region today and offers insights into possible future directions.
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| | Gary Sick | | In the final e-seminar of his three-part series on Iran, Gary Sick, adjunct professor of international affairs and acting director of the Middle East Institute of Columbia University, focuses on the Iranian revolution of 1979. A member of the U.S. National Security Council during the Carter administration, Professor Sick offers a firsthand account of how U.S. political leaders perceived and reacted to the events leading up to the revolution.
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| | Mikhail Smirnov | | This e-seminar is based on two sections of coursework offered in Columbia University's masters program in mathematics of finance. In these two sections, you will learn basic theories of probability and finance. These include explorations of derivatives, futures, contracts, and options, and the notions of volatility, arbitrage, and hedging.
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| | Michael S. Sparer | | In The Politics of Health Care, a series of six e-seminars, Michael S. Sparer, associate professor of public health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, discusses the evolution of the health-care system in the United States, its existing framework, and current policy proposals.
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| | Michael S. Sparer | | Prior to the 1940s, American federal and state governments played a minor role in the nation's health-care system. But gradually, with the rise of the hospital and the increasing sophistication of the medical profession in the late-nineteenth century, governments began to regulate health care, especially as the system of health insurance evolved, first sponsored by the hospitals themselves, later by nonprofits and, starting in the 1970s, by commercial providers.
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| | Michael S. Sparer | | Most Americans get their health-care insurance through their employers. But what happens to those Americans who fall outside this system? What happens to the unemployed, the elderly, and the disabled, and to employees who do not receive health insurance from their employers? Who pays for their health care?
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| | Michael S. Sparer | | Today, over 40 million Americans lack health insurance—increasing their risk of receiving poor-quality health care and of becoming ill. The uninsured in America are less likely to receive necessary diagnostic tests and more likely to forego recommended therapies. For example, uninsured children are less likely to be treated for ear infections than children who have health insurance. Similarly, uninsured women are less likely to undergo regular mammograms to screen for breast cancer, while uninsured men are more likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer at a later stage of the disease.
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| | Michael S. Sparer | | In the fourth e-seminar in his series The Politics of Health Care, Michael S. Sparer, associate professor of public health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, discusses the rise of health-maintenance organizations (HMOs) and other forms of managed care.
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| | Michael S. Sparer | | In the fifth e-seminar in his six-part series The Politics of Health Care, Michael S. Sparer, associate professor of public health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, explores the divergent paths of managed care in the public sector, comparing its respective impact on Medicaid and Medicare to date and discussing its future.
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| | Michael S. Sparer | | In the final e-seminar in his six-part series, The Politics of Health Care, Michael S. Sparer, associate professor of public health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, investigates the crisis in long-term care in America.
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| | Naomi Weinberger | | In this e-seminar series, Professor Naomi Weinberger examines conflicts that have arisen in the Middle East and assesses the sources of conflict—nationalist, ideological, ethnic, sectarian, economic, territorial—on the interstate level and as precipitants of intervention in civil strife. The emphasis is on the attitudes of regional actors, but the role of outsiders, either in exacerbating regional hostilities or in serving as peacemakers or peacekeepers, is also considered.
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| | Naomi Weinberger | | This e-seminar series looks at the history of Israeli and Palestinian nationalism and the resulting conflicts that have arisen in the region. In this first e-seminar of the series, Professor Weinberger discusses the legacy of the Palestinian mandate, the evolution of Zionist ideology and Palestinian nationalism, and contemporary debates among Palestinian factions and Israeli political parties. She examines the major interstate wars (1948, 1956, 1967, and 1973) and peacemaking efforts.
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| | Naomi Weinberger | | In the second e-seminar of this series, Professor Weinberger examines Palestinian nationalism and the history of early Zionist thinking, outlining the debate over whether Palestinian nationalism developed as an independent philosophy or merely a reaction to Zionism. Professor Weinberger highlights critical differences as well as striking parallels between the two national movements.
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| | Naomi Weinberger | | In this e-seminar, the third in a series of eight, Professor Naomi Weinberger looks at the Arab-Israeli interstate wars of 1967, 1969-70, and 1973. After examining why 1967 in particular was a watershed in the relationship between Israel and the Palestinians as well as a major turning point for Israel's national image, Professor Weinberger looks at the forgotten war, the War of Attrition of 1969-70, and shows how it helped Egypt prepare for the 1973 war.
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| | Naomi Weinberger | | In this e-seminar, the fourth in the series Israeli and Palestinian Nationalism, Professor Naomi Weinberger examines the evolution of the complex Israeli system of political parties and elections, and the creation of new voter constituencies from Israel's more recent immigrants.
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These learning experiences were developed by Columbia University in collaboration with an affiliate. Three to five hours in length, these in-depth multimedia e-seminars are free to Columbia students, faculty, and staff.
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| | David Crystal | | In The Future of English, leading language expert David Crystal explores the global proliferation of the English language and the key issues affecting its future. After linking the global dominance of English to the expansion of British and American economic and political power, Professor Crystal explores five topics, including the threat of globalized English and the recent emergence of "new Englishes."
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| | Michael Rubin | | Filmmaker and author Michael Rubin teaches students to complete personal video projects. Beginning with his philosophy of "holistic video" (in which one person performs all the production tasks), Rubin offers how-to guidance in using digital video cameras and equipment, organizing material, and adding professional touches like music and titles. This e-seminar also covers the principles of shooting and editing.
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| | Simon Schama | | This e-seminar from Simon Schama voyages from America to the Caribbean and Africa in its exploration of the human struggles with liberty and slavery. Illuminating the triumphs and crises of the British Empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this e-seminar complements Schama's acclaimed BBC documentary.
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Columbia University, and are hosted by Fathom. They are typically one hour
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| | Cambridge University Press, Columbia University and University of Chicago | | In this seminar, presented in the form of a lively debate, four leading experts discuss reasons why the U.S. still retains the death penalty at a time when many other countries in the world have abandoned capital punishment. This forum introduces many of the socio-economic, racial, and legal issues surrounding the use of capital punishment, and questions whether the death penalty actually protects the interests of American society at large or is biased against the poor and against minorities
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| | Columbia International Affairs Online | | Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network has employed a variety of methods to disseminate its ideology. This seminar examines one of its recruitment tapes in depth and evaluates its significance as a propaganda tool.
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| | David Stark | | In this seminar, Columbia University professor of sociology David Stark examines Hungary's political and economic structures before and after the fall of Communism. He provides a case study of communist-sanctioned entrepreneurial factory practices that helped smooth the eventual transition to a market economy, and looks at the use of media and metaphor in the new publicly held elections in Hungary in 1989-90.
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| | Dorothy Twohig, Peter Henriques, and Don Higginbotham | | While George Washington's legacy influences the American public to this day, most of us know little about his character. What foundation does Washington's modern reputation have in his actual eighteenth-century behavior? This seminar attempts to reveal the man behind the legend, delving into the record of the public and private life of America's first president.
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| | Go Ask Alice! with Jordan Friedman and Judith Steinhart | | Learn how to take the pain out of public speaking in these clear and entertaining short video sessions by public-speaking coaches Jordan Friedman and Judith Steinhart of Alice!, Columbia University's Health Education Program. This free seminar provides public-speaking pointers on everything from calming yourself before you speak, to making eye contact, to how to work with your audience.
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| | Joan Franklin | | The "Popular Arts" and "Hollywood Film Industry" oral-history projects housed at Columbia University's Oral History Research Office consist of interviews with producers, directors, writers, actors and cinematographers. These interviews provide first-hand accounts and insights on the coming of sound, and other developments of the motion picture industry throughout the twentieth century.
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| | Kenneth Prager, Stephan Mayer, Julia Quinlan, Tikva Frymer-Kensky, and Brian Lehrer | | In this seminar, based on a four-part forum held at Columbia University, experts on end-of-life issues discuss the ethics of deciding when to prolong the lives of patients. They debate the relative merits of living wills and whether a person can ever predict the scenario of death in sufficient detail to provide doctors with helpful guidelines.
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| | Marianne J. Legato, M.D. | | Until recently, medical understanding of women's health stemmed largely from research on men their anatomy, disease progressions and drug interactions. But women are not "little men." Differences between men and women extend to every system in the body. This seminar describes how gender-specific medicine can improve medical care for both men and women.
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| | Oral History Research Office | | Actor and filmmaker Buster Keaton was one of the greatest comic figures of the silent film era. In 1958, Columbia University's Oral History Research Office conducted several lengthy interviews with Keaton about his life and career. These interviews provide a rare glimpse of a vanished era from one of the masters of slapstick.
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| | Randy Johnson | | In this seminar, aviation expert Randy Johnson, explains why navigational instruments were necessary for the advancement of commercial aviation and describes the first successful blind flight, made by famed aviator James H. Doolittle. Selected excerpts from interviews housed in the Aviation Project collection at Columbia University's Oral History Research Office offer first-hand accounts of this formative period for the aviation industry
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| | Susanne Dunlap | | In this e-seminar, Susanne Dunlap, visiting assistant professor of music at Columbia University, provides a lively and thoughtful overview of some of the major themes, composers and works that characterized the shift from Renaissance music to that of the early Baroque.
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| | Tom Lewis, Lawrence Lessing, and Dana Raymond | | This e-seminar chronicles the life of Edwin Howard Armstrong, the little-known but extraordinary inventor, and the struggles he faced patenting FM broadcasting technology.
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| | Zoltan Takacs | | Animals have evolved numerous ways to cope with feeding and defense, and one of these ways is using poisons and venoms. But how do poisons and venoms work on the chemical level, and why don't venomous or poisonous creatures poison themselves? These questions are answered by Zoltan Takacs, a postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia University, who gives a general introduction about venomous and poisonous animals in this seminar. He explains what groups of animals are venomous, why they are venomous and how that venom works.
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