INAF U6046x Media and Economic Development 3 pts. Media has an important role to play in the economic development of emerging countries. Much scholarly work has been done on how the media can help promote good governance, sound policy making and economic growth. However, the reality is often very different. Underpaid and poorly trained journalists struggle to write about economics and business. They often work in newsrooms that lack resources and they face tremendous political and commercial pressures. This research seminar will look first at the theory of what role the media should play and then examine how journalism actually copes with these multiple challenges. We will spend a lot of time looking at media coverage of economics and development to see how it lives up to the grand ideals. We will consider how developing country journalists engage with government, international organizations and civil society. A key question addressed by the course is explaining why the media has often failed to live up to expectations. We will consider subjects such as censorship, ownership and the effect that donor-driven training has on the media. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: IMAC.

INAF U6075y Communications, Capitalism, and the State: Economic Journalism since 1600 Not offered in 2012-2013. The rationale for this course can be summarized in a single proposition: economic journalism shapes--and is shaped by--the political economy in which it has been crafted. To make the topic manageable, this course is organized around four units: economic journalism in early modern Europe; economic journalism during the industrial revolution; economic journalism during the age of imperialism; and economic journalism in the 'American Century.' The approach is thematic. Each unit includes at least one exemplary piece of economic journalism, and at least one monograph that locates economic journalism in its historical context. Since this is a history class, we are particularly interested in the relationship between economic journalism and the world in which it was crafted, and in the evolution of economic journalism over time. SIPA: IMAC.

INAF U6120x or y Tools and Craft of Multi-Platform Storytelling 3 pts. The web opens up exciting possibilities for interaction and new ways to tell stories. We'll introduce students to the world of multimedia storytelling and how it can be applied to organizations working in International Affairs and Development. SIPA: IMAC.

INAF U6145y (Section 1) Journalism, Human Rights and Social Change This course will examine the role that different kinds of media have played in raising awareness about human rights, labor issues and political change over time and across countries. The first part of the course will look at some of the history of campaigning journalism and then move to current examples of how social media can take on a campaigning role in raising awareness about social problems and holding governments accountable. SIPA: IMAC.

INAF U6154x Humanitarian Communications This course will take a close look at the information systems that play a role in the development and understanding of humanitarian situations around the world. Students will learn how to respond to and operate within a humanitarian situation, both natural disasters (hurricane, earthquake, etc) and man-made ones (war). They will also analyze best practices for understanding and addressing humanitarian topics (safety, security, legal rights, women and children's rights, housing, water and sanitation, etc.) through international aid agencies and local information platforms. SIPA: IMAC. SIPA: Short Courses.

INAF U6206x Digital Networks, Democracy, and Dictatorship This course looks at the effect that new technology is having on governance. It will explore how new technology affects the political systems of the Middle East as well as Muslim countries such as Indonesia and Azerbaijan. Long before the Arab Spring, Prof. Howard argued that technology was promoting government accountability, civil society involvement and broadening access to information. SIPA: IMAC.

INAF U6207y International Reporting Exceptional international news coverage depends on strong reporting and writing skills, accuracy and speed. As the old foreign correspondent adage on handling a breaking news story puts it: "Get it first, get it right and get it out of town." While the ability to communicate well on deadline about global issues is critical to anyone working in the media, it is also essential for those working for international organizations, government agencies, NGOs, public relations firms and many other professions. This course will work on two tracks. The first will focus on how news is gathered internationally and the hostile environment in which reporters often work. The other will concentrate on writing, by assigning students to various internationally-oriented reporting projects. SIPA: IMAC.

INAF U6209y (Section 1) E-Government & Digital Diplomacy This course will examine changes across various computer-mediated communication platforms, including social media, web applications, and mobile devices. Students will develop a theoretical understanding of government and citizen communication dynamics with readings in political communication and public administration, as well as a basic understanding of the technical capabilities of various digital media platforms. SIPA: IMAC.

INAF U6211y ICTs and New Media for Development and Social Change 3 pts.Not offered in 2012-2013. The aim of this course is to provide a theoretical and practical framework for students to understand participatory approaches to new media and information and communication technologies to address the advancement of the Millennium Development Goals and social change, with a special focus on low and middle income countries. Each session will include an introduction to basic theories that provide a critical lens through which mobile phone and computer-based applications and tools can be designed to solve problems in health, education, agriculture, small business development, and environmental sustainability. Cross-cutting themes that will be explored include gender, public-private partnerships, and policy dimensions of information and communication for development (ICTD) as well as the newly emerging fields of mHealth, mLearning, mBanking, etc. Through the use of case studies and a term-long project, the technology project life-cycle will be explored in an applied setting. Specifically students will be guided through the process of conducting needs assessments; applying ethnographic research methods to understanding work, communication, and information flows; participatory program and application design; systems development and local adaptation; testing and usability assessments; implementation; and evaluation. Applications that will be reviewed in more detail during the course include: RapidSMS (Project Mwana and others) and ChildCount+, Mangrove, Ushahidi, EpiSurveyor, FrontlinSMS, Open Data Kit and many others. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: IMAC. SIPA: Development Practice.

INAF U6212x New Media in Development Communication 3 pts. New Media in Development Communication is an inter-disciplinary course that will introduce students to advanced concepts in communications skills and policy, with an emphasis on applicability in developing countries. The world is in the midst of simultaneous revolutions in communications technologies and the attitudinal changes brought about by the forces of globalization. The media plays an increasingly crucial part in international affairs, both in affecting and recording change. This course will give students hands-on experience with new technologies (such as Internet publication, video, and cell phones) combined with guidance in the principles of creating editorial products. It will address evolving policy issues and new challenges in development communications, such state censorship and communications in the context of natural disasters and humanitarian crises. Special attention will be given to the challenges and opportunities of working under technologically primitive field conditions with modest resources. The course will offer occasional guest speakers who are leading figures in the field. SIPA: IMAC. SIPA: Development Practice.

INAF U6216x and y Communique 1.5 pts.

This two-hour weekly class will produce content for the print and online editions of Communique, SIPA's online newspaper. Professor Liza Featherstone will help SIPA students conceive and report stories about international affairs and the Columbia community. Students will develop reporting, writing and editing skills. Some will also contribute to the Communique blog, and we as a class will work to better define and help execute the online presence of the publication. Those who are interested will also have the opportunity to work on humor and first-person writing. While the course will be rigorous, bringing higher standards to Communique, it will also allow students considerable freedom to pursue their particular interests, whether those be feature writing, opinion writing, profiles, investigative reporting, spot news, or line editing. Since this is a journalism class, we will naturally be reading some of the masters of the craft, including George Orwell, Joan Didion and Alice Steinbach. We will also learn how to think hard about our readers. Some of those considerations will be timeless: we'll be asking who they are, what they want to know, what we have to offer them and above all, how to get and keep their attention. But we will also be learning to work in the contemporary media environment: strategizing how to keep our print product relevant in the age of Twitter, Facebook and tumblr. All levels of journalistic experience welcome. SIPA: IMAC. SIPA: Short Courses.

INAF U6217y Social Media 3 pts.Not offered in 2012-2013. Facebook and Twitter are not just places to hang out with your friends. They are also serious tools for journalists - and for advocacy. This class will present a history of social media, from the early Internet days on The Well to the current generation of YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. We will also discuss the issues of how to verify online identity, how to use these sites for reporting, how to raise awareness of issues and even how to use them to find a job in journalism. We will also tackle privacy issues, particularly related to protecting anonymous sources. The class will aim to give students an intellectual framework for understanding social media, as well as hands-on experiece using social media tools. SIPA: IMAC.

INAF U6229y Controlling the Internet How did the Internet come to be? What is its future? To what extent does government policy affect its future? This class focuses on live-fire debates in Internet policy to engender a broader understanding of this area. SIPA: IMAC.

INAF U6394y Writing about War: Seeking Narratives in Conflict 3 pts.Not offered in 2012-2013. This course will teach students how to extract gripping and precise narratives from the fog of war, and how to cover with perspective the diffuse political decision-making that leads to war. We will learn about the mechanics of covering conflict. We will read from journalistic, literary and philosophical accounts of war. Students will produce original reported narrative journalism about conflict, which they may try to place for publication. The skill set cultivated by this class will help anyone write about violent conflict, whether they plan to do so for a reporting-driven NGO like Human Rights Watch or Freedom House, as a political analyst, or as journalist writing for print, broadcast, or new media. SIPA: IMAC.

INAF U6817y Issues in Information Policy: The Challenge of a Converged and Networked World Not offered in 2012-2013. The digital networking technologies exemplified by the internet are no longer news. They are restructuring the global political economy of communications. Domestically, the economics of news production is being disrupted. Wider swaths of the population are sharing more of their opinions with more people than ever, even as the material difference between those with and without access to information grows. Popular online intermediaries like Google and Facebook are monetizing their gatekeeping market positions, and becoming the new conglomerates of the communications industry. Copyrights (rights to media content and intellectual property generally) are flouted by young and old, if no less enforceable. Across the world, mobile phones and internet platforms are empowering a generation and have been credited with aiding revolutions. The course seeks to answer several questions in light of these changes: What are the major issues and problems preoccupying policymakers today? Are the legacy approaches to regulation useful? Which emerging forms of regulation will be most effective? What approaches to network infrastructure design are likely to be most effective? SIPA: IMAC.

INAF U6897x and y Writing on International Affairs 3 pts. Instructor Permission Required Good writing and effective skills to communicate global issues are in high demand. Whether one is working for a media outlet or publication, an international organization, an NGO, or a media strategy/relations firm, the ability to gather and process information and present it in clear, effective written format is key to landing a dream job and getting ahead. In this course, students will learn to craft clear, precise written communications using means often employed in global careers: the Op-Ed and commentary, the press release, the newspaper and magazine story, talking points, the policy or country summary/contact brief, as well as writing for the Web. Writing topics will focus on core issues in international affairs: the global economy, environment, international business, international organizations, political analysis, and human rights/law. As the class has a heavy concentration on writing, reading will be assigned to facilitate writing styles and improve technique. SIPA: IMAC.

INAF U6921x Magazine Writing with an International Dateline 3 pts. This is a writing workshop aimed at professional or pre-professional writers and media workers with a deep interest in international affairs. A fluid knowledge of written English is important. If the student is not yet a facile writer in the English language, he or she might get more out of the course if they took it during their second year of SIPA studies. The course is designed to give students exercises and real-world experiences in writing feature articles on international affairs topics. The aim is for each participant in the workshop to produce at least one (hopefully) professional level magazine article by the end of the semester. The objective is to help people tell true stories from this globalized world we all live in. SIPA: IMAC.

INAF U6948y (Section 1) Writing on Policy "Writing About Policy" gives you the journalistic tools to intervene in public policy debates. You will learn to translate the expertise you're gaining - as policy professionals and as SIPA students -for the rest of the public, whether in op eds, review essays or blogs. You will also report and write news and feature stories. SIPA: IMAC.

INAF U8122y Speechwriting and Political Rhetoric The power of oration and speechwriting is as old as politics itself. From the days of the ancient Greece and the Roman Empire, politicians and orators have used the power of words and rhetoric to move people toward both higher (and sometimes lower) aspirations. It is that skill that is the essence of what we will be studying in this course. SIPA: IMAC.

INAF U8180x Human Rights Skills and Advocacy 3 pts. The course seeks to provide students within the Human Rights Concentration with opportunities to learn and apply skills essential for human rights advocacy, analysis of human rights challenges and the development of appropriate responses; it also addresses the Human Rights. Through classroom trainings, completion of case studies and potentially, interaction with clients, students will gain hands-on experience of rights-based work and exposure to rights professionals. The course is designed to enhance both (1) the practical skills students will need as human rights professionals; and (2) the critical thinking skills they will need to assess both effective and ineffective campaigns, strategies or approaches to expanding rights protections and enjoyment. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: IMAC.

INAF U8183y Tools for Advocacy 3 pts."Tools for Advocacy: Understanding How the Media Works and How to Use it to Promote a Cause or Institution" provides students of international affairs and public policy with a set of practical communications skills for use in their everyday work. Students will learn how to function effectively in our fast-changing contemporary media environment. Students will learn how to craft powerful messages, create compelling material for the media and refine their presentations techniques for interviews. They learn how to use the media to deliver messages to key audiences and how to conceive and execute an advocacy campaign as part of an organizational mission. Communications professionals from a variety of fields visit the class during the course of the semester. Students produce advocacy materials including an a press release, an op-ed and some form Internet content SIPA: IMAC.

REGN U8753y International News Reporting in Russia & its Neighbors 3 pts. This course is a guide to the work of foreign correspondents. It is aimed not only at students who seek a career in journalism, but at those who seek to understand how foreign correspondents work, how to work with them and how to get the most out of their coverage. Lectures and discussions present the principles, ethics, tradecraft, technology and dangers of international news reporting, with an emphasis on past and present coverage of the area once controlled or influenced by the Soviet Union. However, lectures and guest speakers will provide current perspectives on coverage all parts of the world. SIPA: IMAC. SIPA: Russia.

SIPA U0020x and y (Section 3) International Media, Advocacy, and Communication All SIPA candidates are required to register for one of the specializations in each semester of matriculation at SIPA. The specialization registration will be for zero academic credits and will not affect or be affected by fees or financial charges SIPA: IMAC.

LAW L6160 Law in the Internet Society. 2 pts. This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search SIPA: IMAC. SIPA: Electives.

LAW L6339x International Copyright Law 2 pts. This is a Law School course.

For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search SIPA: IMAC. SIPA: Electives.

LAW L6341 Copyright Law. 4 pts. This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search SIPA: IMAC. SIPA: Electives.

LAW L6346y Electronic Commerce 3 pts. This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search SIPA: IMAC. SIPA: Electives.

LAW L6700 Telecommunications and Media Law. 2 pts. This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search SIPA: IMAC. SIPA: Electives.

LAW L8029 Comparative Constitutional Rights in the Digital Age. 2 pts. This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search SIPA: IMAC. SIPA: Electives.

LAW L8173x Law, Media and Public Policy. 2 pts. This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search SIPA: IMAC. SIPA: Electives.

LAW L8178y Law, Media & Public Policy 2 pts.Not offered in 2012-2013.

This is a Law School course.

For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search

LAW L9323x Seminar: Life, Liberty & Liability in the Digital Millenium 2 pts. This is a Law School course.

For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search SIPA: IMAC. SIPA: Electives.

LAW L9325y Computers, Privacy, and the Law 2 pts.Not offered in 2012-2013. This is a Law School course.

For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search SIPA: IMAC. SIPA: Electives.