PLANETARY DYNAMICS & PHYSICS
Prerequisites: one year of calculus-based Physics. The physics and astrophysics of planets, comets, asteroids, natural and artificial satellites, and pretty much anything in the Solar System - including the Sun. Detailed study of the Earths atmosphere and oceans: circulations, climate, and weather. Orbital dynamics. The emerging science of extrasolar planets. The origin, evolution, and eventual fate of planets.
- Department: Astronomy
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Instructor:
James H Applegate
CULPA: 44 Info - 3 points
ACADEMIC WRITING INTENSIVE
This course is designed for Barnard students in their second or third year who are seeking more practice with academic writing skills. In a small, supportive group, we will break down the core reading, writing, revision, and critical thinking skills that produce strong academic writing, no matter the discipline. You will get to know yourself deeply as a writer: when you get a writing assignment, what does your writing process look like -- how do you get started? When do you resist writing, and why? What do you do when you get stuck -- not only so you can get that paper done, but so you can learn from the process, too? Please note that in addition to the weekly seminar and regular one-on-one meetings with the instructor, students are also required to meet with an assigned Writing Fellow for one hour every other week (Writing Fellows will be assigned and meetings scheduled at the beginning of the semester). This course is only offered P/D/F.
Instructor permission is required; to be considered for the course,
please fill out this brief questionnaire
.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Cecelia B Lie-Spahn
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
ENERGY,MINERALS,MATERIALS SYST
ENERGY & MATERIALS SYSTEMS
Overview of energy resources, resource management from extraction and processing to recycling and final disposal of wastes. Resources availability and resource processing in the context of the global natural and anthropogenic material cycles; thermodynamic and chemical conditions including nonequilibrium effects that shape the resource base; extractive technologies and their impact on the environment and the biogeochemical cycles; chemical extraction from mineral ores, and metallurgical processes for extraction of metals. In analogy to metallurgical processing, power generation and the refining of fuels are treated as extraction and refining processes. Large scale of power generation and a discussion of its impact on the global biogeochemical cycles.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
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Instructor:
Raymond Farinato
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
THE ART OF THE ESSAY
NOTE: Students who are on the electronic waiting list or who are interested in the class but are not yet registered MUST attend the first day of class.
Fall 2022 course description: Essay writing above the first-year level. Reading and writing various types of essays to develop one's natural writing voice and craft thoughtful, sophisticated and personal essays.
Summer 2022 course description: The Art of the Essay is a writing workshop designed to help you contribute meaningfully in public discourse about the issues that matter most to you. You will write three types of essays in this class, all of which will center personal experience as valuable evidence of larger phenomena or patterns. Your essays will build in complexity, as you introduce more types of sources into conversation about your topics as the semester goes on. You will hone your skills of observing, describing, questioning, analyzing, and persuading. You will be challenged to confront complications and to craft nuanced explorations of your topics. We will also regularly read and discuss the work of contemporary published essayists, identifying key writerly moves that you may adapt as you attempt your own essays. You will have many opportunities throughout the semester to brainstorm ideas, receive feedback from me and your peers, and develop and revise your drafts. At the end of the semester, you will choose a publication to which to submit or pitch one or more of your essays.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Wendy C Schor-Haim
CULPA: 11
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Instructor:
Margaret R Ellsberg
CULPA: 54 Info -
Instructor:
Vrinda Condillac
CULPA: 28
Info
- 3 points
Language, Brain and Mind
The ability to speak distinguishes humans from all other animals, including our closest relatives, the chimpanzees. Why is this so? What makes this possible? This course seeks to answer these questions. We will look at the neurological and psychological foundations of the human faculty of language. How did our brains change to allow language to evolve? Where in our brains are the components of language found? Are our minds specialized for learning language or is it part of our general cognitive abilities to learn? How are words and sentences produced and their meanings recognized? The structure of languages around the world varies greatly; does this have psychological effects for their speakers?
- Department: Slavic Languages
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Instructor:
William Foley
h-index: 0 Info - 3 points
Women Writers of Contemporary Middle Eas
WOMEN WRITERS MIDEAST AFR
Since the last decades of the twentieth century there has been a dramatic increase in the number of women writers from the Middle East and North Africa. This advanced course, which will be taught mainly in French, provides a window into this rich and largely neglected branch of world literature. Students will encounter the breadth and creativity of contemporary Middle Eastern and North African women’s literature by reading a range of twentieth- and twenty-first-century novels, short stories, memoirs and poetry available in French or in translation, and by viewing films that are from or about Iran, Lebanon, Algeria, and Egypt. How do Middle Eastern women authors address women’s oppression – both social and physical – and enunciate issues such as the tension between tradition and modernity, sexuality, identity and class from a female perspective? What literary traditions and models do they draw on? How different are those texts written in French for a global audience, as opposed to those written in Persian or Arabic? What are the effects of reading them in translation? Authors will include Marjane Satrapi, Shahrnush Parsipur, Assia Djebar, Maïssa Bey and Nawal El Saadawi.
- Department: French @Barnard
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Instructor:
Melanie Heydari
Info - 3 points
FICTION & PERSONAL NARRATIVE
READING PRIMO LEVI
Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
. Short stories and other imaginative and personal writing.
Please note that only 30 applications will be accepted for Professor Jhumpa Lahiri's Fall 2026 section of Fiction & Personal Narrative.
Applications are accepted via this form
, starting April 13th.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Jhumpa Lahiri
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
FICTION & PERSONAL NARRATIVE
Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
. Short stories and other imaginative and personal writing.
Please note that only 30 applications will be accepted for Professor Jhumpa Lahiri's Fall 2026 section of Fiction & Personal Narrative.
Applications are accepted via this form
, starting April 13th.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Zaina F Arafat
Info - 3 points
MECHANICS
Elements of statics; dynamics of a particle and systems of particles.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
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Instructor:
Addis Kidane
Info - 4 points
SOLID STATE DEVICES-MATERIALS
Crystal structure and energy band theory of solids. Carrier concentration and transport in semiconductors. P-n junction and junction transistors. Semiconductor surface and MOS transistors. Optical effects and optoelectronic devices. Fabrication of devices and the effect of process variation and distribution statistics on device and circuit performance.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
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Instructor:
Savannah Eisner
Info - 3.5 points
STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS
Some of the main stochastic models used in engineering and operations research applications: discrete-time Markov chains, Poisson processes, birth and death processes and other continuous Markov chains, renewal reward processes. Applications: queueing, reliability, inventory, and finance. IEOR E3106 must be completed by the fifth term. Only students with special academic circumstances may be allowed to take these courses in alternative semesters with the consultation of CSA and Departmental advisers.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
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Instructor:
Kaizheng Wang
CULPA: 1 h-index: 8 Info - 3 points
APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING
Prerequisites: STAT UN2103. Students without programming experience in R might find STAT UN2102 very helpful. This course is a machine learning class from an application perspective. We will cover topics including data-based prediction, classification, specific classification methods (such as logistic regression and random forests), and basics of neural networks. Programming in homeworks will require R.
- Department: Statistics
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Instructor:
Kenta Takatsu
Info - 3 points
Clean Object-Oriented Design
A course in designing, documenting, coding, and testing robust computer software, according to object-oriented design patterns and clean coding practices. Taught in Java.Object-oriented design principles include: use cases; CRC; UML; javadoc; patterns (adapter, builder, command, composite, decorator, facade, factory, iterator, lazy evaluation, observer, singleton, strategy, template, visitor); design by contract; loop invariants; interfaces and inheritance hierarchies; anonymous classes and null objects; graphical widgets; events and listeners; Java's Object class; generic types; reflection; timers, threads, and locks.
- Department: Computer Science
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Instructor:
Chris Murphy
Info - 3 points
INTRODUCTION TO FICTION WRITING
INTRO TO FICTION WRITING
Writing sample and application required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found
here
.
Practice in writing short stories and other forms of fiction with discussion and close analysis in a workshop setting. For a more detailed, instructor-specific description, please see our
Course Offerings packet
. If you are a Columbia student, please note that you will need to submit an access request to view the document containing instructor-specific course descriptions. All requests will be approved within 24 business hours.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Kate Zambreno
Info - 3 points
APPLIED DEEP LEARNING AND AI
This course provides a non-mathematical introduction to the principles and architectures of deep learning and generative AI models. Designed for undergraduates in the Applied Data Science minor, the curriculum covers the mathematical foundations of neural networks and their application to spatial, temporal, and multimodal data. Students will examine the mechanics of convolutional and recurrent architectures, the self-attention mechanism in Transformers, and the training objectives of Large Language Models (LLMs). The course also addresses optimization strategies, reinforcement learning for model alignment, and generative paradigms, including diffusion and autoregressive models. Emphasis is placed on understanding model internal representations, architectural tradeoffs, and the evaluation of complex AI systems.
- Department: Statistics
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Instructor:
Parijat Dube
Info - 3 points
THE AFRICANA COLLOQUIUM
CARIBBEAN WOMEN HERSTORIES
The Africana Studies Department offers special topics courses every year as colloquia. These colloquia provide opportunities for students to explore areas of particular interest within African Diasporic Studies in a seminar environment. Students earn 4 credits for these courses. There are multiple colloquia offered by the department every year. Some of the topics for these colloquia have included Critical Race Theory, Indian Ocean Diaspora, The New Black, Caribbean Women, and Black Shakespeare. As the topics change, students should check with the Chair of the Africana Studies Department if they have any questions about the topics for a particular academic year.
- Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
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Instructor:
Celia E Naylor
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
PRINCIPLES OF TRANSPORT PHENOMENA
PRINC TRANSPORT PHENOMENA
A mechanistic and mathematical description of the engineering fundamentals of heat and mass transport and fluid mechanics based on mass, momentum and energy balances from the molecular to the continuum to the industrial device scale. Problems and applications will focus on energy, biological and chemical systems and processes.
- Department: Chemical Engineering
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Instructor:
Christopher M Boyce
h-index: 17 Info - 3 points
INTRODUCTION TO POETRY WRITING
Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here: https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
Varied assignments in poetry designed to explore the resources of language through imitation, allusion, free association, revision, and other techniques. For a more detailed, instructor-specific description, please go to https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A4_gMLVP0EtEv5bUdqaLgJ8aJrW4sN4UC51-dIs5HoM/edit?usp=sharing
If you are a Columbia student, please note that you will need to submit an access request to view the document containing instructor-specific course descriptions. All requests will be approved within 24 business hours.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Brionne Janae
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Instructor:
Farnoosh Fathi
Info - 3 points
UNCERTAIN/RISK-CIVIL INF SYST
Introduction to basic probability; hazard function; reliability function; stochastic models of natural and technological hazards; extreme value distributions; Monte Carlo simulation techniques; fundamentals of integrated risk assessment and risk management; topics in risk-based insurance; case studies involving civil infrastructure systems, environmental systems, mechanical and aerospace systems, construction management. Not open to undergraduate students.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
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Instructor:
Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou
h-index: 26 Info - 3 points
Language and Pop Culture in Contemporary
Language & Pop Culture: F
What are French people
actually
saying to each other? You’ve taken French for 3+ years, have been reading literature, watching films and writing about them in sophisticated analyses. Yet, conversations among native speakers may still elude you. This course is designed to help you bridge that gap, and gain a better understanding of the slang (
argot
) and the pop culture references that contribute to French’s vibrancy. Together we will review a variety of contemporary French popular art forms, from music, film and graphic novels to street art, film, and food culture. We will explore the history of these genres, and the ways in which French identity is continuously (re)-established in its popular culture with and against the influences of decolonization, Americanization and globalization. The course is conducted in French.
- Department: French @Barnard
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Instructor:
Karen Santos da Silva
CULPA: 4
Info
- 3 points
THERMO/KINETIC THRY/STAT MECH
An introduction to the basic thermodynamics of systems, including concepts of equilibrium, entropy, thermodynamic functions, and phase changes. Basic kinetic theory and statistical mechanics, including diffusion processes, concept of phase space, classical and quantum statistics, and applications thereof.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
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Instructor:
Michele Simoncelli
Info - 3 points
PLAYWRITING I
Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here: https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
The class will explore a broad range of approaches to playwriting in a workshop setting. Classes will largely be spent reading and discussing students’ work. Students will also be choosing from a wide selection of plays to read each week.
For a more detailed, instructor-specific description, please go to https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A4_gMLVP0EtEv5bUdqaLgJ8aJrW4sN4UC51-dIs5HoM/edit?usp=sharing
If you are a Columbia student, please note that you will need to submit an access request to view the document containing instructor-specific course descriptions. All requests will be approved within 24 business hours.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Ellen McLaughlin
CULPA: 4
Info
- 3 points
MECHANICS OF SOLIDS
Stress and strain. Mechanical properties of materials. Axial load, bending, shear, and torsion. Stress transformation. Deflection of beams. Buckling of columns. Combined loadings. Thermal stresses.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
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Instructor:
Raimondo Betti
CULPA: 4
h-index: 31
Info
- 3 points
STORY WRITING
Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here: https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
An advanced workshop in prose writing, with emphasis on the short story. Some experience in the writing of fiction is required. Students will share at least two pieces of their own work with the class over the course of the semester. In addition, each week we will read and analyze a variety of published short stories.
For a more detailed, instructor-specific description, please go to https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A4_gMLVP0EtEv5bUdqaLgJ8aJrW4sN4UC51-dIs5HoM/edit?usp=sharing
If you are a Columbia student, please note that you will need to submit an access request to view the document containing instructor-specific course descriptions. All requests will be approved within 24 business hours.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Nellie G Hermann
Info - 3 points
FICTION WRITING
Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here: https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
Assignments designed to examine form and structure in fiction. For a more detailed, instructor-specific description, please go to https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A4_gMLVP0EtEv5bUdqaLgJ8aJrW4sN4UC51-dIs5HoM/edit?usp=sharing
If you are a Columbia student, please note that you will need to submit an access request to view the document containing instructor-specific course descriptions. All requests will be approved within 24 business hours.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Weike Wang
CULPA: 1 Info -
Instructor:
Idra L Novey
CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info - 3 points
ADVANCED POETRY WRITING
Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here: https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
Weekly workshops designed to generate and critique new poetry. Readings in traditional and contemporary poetry will be included. For a more detailed, instructor-specific description, please go to https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A4_gMLVP0EtEv5bUdqaLgJ8aJrW4sN4UC51-dIs5HoM/edit?usp=sharing
If you are a Columbia student, please note that you will need to submit an access request to view the document containing instructor-specific course descriptions. All requests will be approved within 24 business hours.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Patricia S Jones
Info - 3 points
ADVANCED POETRY WRITING
How to Write a Sonnet
Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here: https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
Weekly workshops designed to generate and critique new poetry. Readings in traditional and contemporary poetry will be included. For a more detailed, instructor-specific description, please go to https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A4_gMLVP0EtEv5bUdqaLgJ8aJrW4sN4UC51-dIs5HoM/edit?usp=sharing
If you are a Columbia student, please note that you will need to submit an access request to view the document containing instructor-specific course descriptions. All requests will be approved within 24 business hours.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Faculty
h-index: 37 Info - 3 points
SCREENWRITING FUNDAMENTALS
SCREENWRITING FUNDMENTALS
Prerequisites: FILM BC3201 or equivalent. Enrollment limited to 12 students. Priority is given to Film Studies majors/concentrations in order of class seniority. Corequisites: (Since this is a Film course, it does not count as a writing course for English majors with a Writing Concentration.)
This course is ideal for writers of their FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD screenplays. The first several weeks will focus on STORY: What it is, what it isn’t, how to recognize the difference. How to find your own individual stories that nobody else in the universe can tell.
From there we will make the transition to the highly individualized techniques, the strengths and limitations, the dynamics of telling a SCREEN STORY; what to leave in, what to leave out. As Michelangelo puts it—starting with a block of marble and chipping away everything that isn’t David. Through studies of existing screenplays and films in coordination with and hands-on writing exercises which we will share in class, we will develop our skills in all aspects of screenwriting; building fascinating characters, dialogue, story construction (The BIG PICTURE) and scene construction (The Small Picture)
Perfection is not the goal; but rather it is to be able to say truly at the end of each day’s writing, “I did the best I could with what I had at the time. (Phillip Roth quoting heavyweight champion Joe Louis)
- Department: Film @Barnard
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Instructor:
Peter Nickowitz
Info - 3 points
CITY,LANDSCAPE, & ECOLOGY
City, Landscape, Ecology
is a thematically driven course that centers on issues and polemics related to landscape, land settlement and ecology over the past two centuries. The class looks at changing attitudes to the natural world from the eighteenth century to the present, tracing important historical shifts in the consideration of nature across the ecological sciences, conservation practices, landscape design, and environmental activism, law and policy. Lectures focus on the critical role that artists and architects have played, and are to play, in making visible the sources of environmental degradation and in developing new means of mitigating anthropogenic ecological change.
City, Landscape, Ecology
is divided into three parts. Part I explores important episodes in the history of
landscape
: picturesque garden theory, notions of “wilderness” as epitomized in national and state parks in the United States, Modern and Postmodern garden practices, and place of landscape in the work of artists from the 1960s to the present. The purpose here is to better understand the role that territorial organization plays in the construction of social practices, human subjectivities, and technologies of power. Lectures in this part are shaped around a dialectical pair of historical episodes–– for example, the picturesque garden is paired with the enclosure of the commons, and American national parks are discussed in relation to the systematic removal of native peoples.
We then turn to
ecology
and related issues of climate, urbanization and sustainability in Part II. Here we will look at the rise of ecological thinking in the 1960s; approaches to the environment that were based on the systems-thinking approach of the era. In the session “Capitalism, Race and Population Growth” we examine the history of the “crisis” of scarcity from Thomas Robert Malthus, to Paul R. Ehrlich (
The Population Bomb
, 1968) to today and look at questions of environmental racism, violence and equity.
The course concludes with Part III on
Environmental Repair
. At this important juncture in the course, we will ask what is to be done today. We’ll examine the work of contemporary theorists, architects, landscape architects, policy makers and environmentalists who have channeled some of the lessons
- Department: Architecture @Barnard
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Instructor:
Ralph Ghoche
CULPA: 1 h-index: 2 Info - 3 points
PUBLIC SPEAKING
Open only to undergraduates.
This course will introduce you to principles of effective public speaking and debate, and provide practical opportunities to use these principles in structured speaking situations. You will craft and deliver speeches, engage in debates and panel discussions, analyze historical and contemporary speakers, and reflect on your own speeches and those of your classmates. You will explore and practice different rhetorical strategies with an emphasis on information, persuasion and argumentation. For each speaking assignment, you will go through the speech-making process, from audience analysis, purpose and organization, to considerations of style and delivery. The key criteria in this course are content, organization, and adaptation to the audience and purpose. While this is primarily a performance course, you will be expected to participate extensively as a listener and critic, as well as a speaker.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Daniela Kempf
Info - 3 points
DATA VISUALIZATION
Data visualizations are a powerful tool for gaining knowledge, discovering hidden relationships and patterns, communicating messages, and influencing others’ opinions and values. Visualizations help inform our personal decisions (Where will I go to college? Can I afford this housing?), community decisions, and societal decisions (How do we respond to climate change? Pandemics?). But if we cannot communicate our message clearly, a visualization’s usefulness decreases and it can even be detrimental to our goals. In this course, students learn the fundamentals behind using graphs and charts to visually communicate ideas and gain practical experience with creating their own visualizations. We discuss the theory of visual communication, how the brain processes visual information, technical aspects of visualization implementation, ethics of data visualization, and data visualization research. Assignments consist of programming projects in Javascript with the D3 library. The class has a midterm and a final project (no final exam). Prerequisites: COMS W3134 (or equivalent). Experience with programming in Javascript is strongly recommended.
- Department: Computer Science @Barnard
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Instructor:
Faculty
h-index: 37 Info - 3 points
RHETORICAL CHOICES: PUBLIC SPEAKING
RHETORICAL CHOICES:PBLC S
Enrollment restricted to Barnard students. Application process and instructor permission required:
https://speaking.barnard.edu/become-speaking-fellow
. Speaking involves a series of rhetorical choices regarding vocal presentation, argument construction, and physical affect that, whether made consciously or by default, project information about the identity of the speaker. In this course students will relate theory to practice: to learn principles of public speaking and speech criticism for the purpose of applying these principles as peer tutors in the Speaking Fellow Program.
Note: This course now counts as an elective for the English major.
- Department: English @Barnard
- 4 points
STRUCTURAL DESIGN PROJECTS
Design of steel members in accordance with AISC 360: moment redistribution in beams; plastic analysis; bearing plates; beam-columns: exact and approximate second-order analysis; design by the Effective Length method and the Direct Analysis method. Design of concrete members in accordance with ACI 318: bar anchorage and development length, bar splices, design for shear, short columns, slender columns. AISC/ASCE NSSBC design project: design of a steel bridge in accordance with National Student Steel Bridge Competition rules; computer simulation and design by using SAP2000.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
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Instructor:
Tom T Panayotidi
CULPA: 3 Info - 3 points
History of Western Music: Middle Ages to
Hist of West Mus: Mid Age
Topics in western music from Antiquity through Bach and Handel, focusing on the development of musical style and thought, and analysis of selected works. Pre-req: Music Theory II or permission of instructor.
- Department: Music
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Instructor:
Susan Boynton
CULPA: 18 Info - 3 points
Weimar: Theory of a Crisis
What is sovereignty? What role do basic rights play in modern democracy? Should democracy be based in commonly shared values? Is there an essential difference between liberalism and democratic politics? And if so, how can modern liberal democracies function?
The Weimar period gave rise to some of the most important and consequential debates in political theory and constitutional thought since the eighteenth century. Lawyers and political theorists such as Carl Schmitt, Hans Kelsen, Hermann Heller, Franz Neumann and Otto Kirchheimer tackled in particular the challenges that democracies face in an age of mass society, of unbounded capitalist dynamics, and of rising anti-democratic forces.
This lecture course introduces students to key debates in political and constitutional theory of the Weimar period. It contextualises them in the social and political world of Germany’s first, failed, democratic state by looking at cultural and economic theory as well as political thought. Many of the texts discussed in this class have only recently become available in the English language. As such, they offer fresh perspectives on concrete political theoretical problems such as the function and legitimation of modern constitutional courts, of basic rights and the role of the party. At the same time this course offers a deep insight into the vagaries and complexities of European constitutionalism in the first half of the twentieth century, and the consequences of its failure for the political world which came after it.
- Department: Political Science
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Instructor:
Clara Maier
Info - 3 points
PROJECT MGMT FOR CONSTRUCTION
Introduction to Project Management for design and construction processes. Elements of planning, estimating, scheduling, bidding, and contractual relationships. Computer scheduling and cost control. Critical path method. Design and construction activities. Field supervision.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
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Instructor:
Julius Chang
Info - 3 points
THE AMERICAN COWBOY AND THE ICONOGRAPHY
AMER COWBOY/ICONOG OF WES
This entertaining and edifying lecture-not-unmixed-with conversation course will
consider the icon of the American cowboy, with its signature embrace of
masculinity, stoicism, elegiac music, and identification with nature. We will read
Cormac McCarthy’s dazzling Border Trilogy and other works that emerge from
this icon, watch a curated series of cowboy movies, and write critical essays.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Margaret R Ellsberg
CULPA: 54 Info - 3 points
THIRD-YEAR CONVERSATION FR I
Prerequisites: completion of the language requirement in French or the equivalent. Conversation on contemporary French subjects based on readings in current popular French periodicals.
- Department: French
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Instructor:
Laurence Marie
CULPA: 3 Info - 2 points
THIRD-YEAR CONVERSATION FR I
Prerequisites: completion of the language requirement in French or the equivalent. Conversation on contemporary French subjects based on readings in current popular French periodicals.
- Department: French
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Instructor:
Laurence Marie
CULPA: 3 Info - 2 points
NEW WORLDS IN WRIT & VR
FIC SEM - WRIT & VR
Creating New Worlds in Writing and in VR is a generative, exploratory fiction seminar where we will read, analyze, and experiment with the process of building new worlds. We will ask, What are the narrative possibilities that unfold within these environments? What are the conventions of sci-fi and fantasy and how can they be used to critique and scrutinize our lives on earth, particularly, experiences of violence, environmental degradation, and racial, sexual, and gender-based oppression? We will use VR technology to help us model our own invented spaces. We will examine how to incorporate traditional literary elements, such as character and dialogue, into these dynamic environments.
THE ECSTASY OF INFLUENCE
Ecstasy of Influence
What does it mean to be original? How do we differentiate plagiarism from pastiche, appropriation from homage? And how do we build on pre-existing traditions while simultaneously creating work that reflects our own unique experiences of the world?
In a 2007 essay for
Harper
’
s
magazine, Jonathan Lethem countered critic Harold Bloom’s theory of “the anxiety of influence” by proposing, instead, an “ecstasy of influence”; Lethem suggested that writers embrace rather than reject the unavoidable imprints of their literary forbearers. Beginning with Lethem’s essay—which, itself, is composed entirely of borrowed (or “sampled”) text—this class will consider the nature of literary influence, and its role in the development of voice.
Each week, students will read from pairings of older stories and novel excerpts with contemporary work that falls within the same artistic lineage. In doing so, we’ll track the movement of stylistic, structural, and thematic approaches to fiction across time, and think about the different ways that stories and novels can converse with one another. We will also consider the influence of other artistic mediums—music, visual art, film and television—on various texts. Students will then write their own original short pieces modeled after the readings. Just as musicians cover songs, we will “cover” texts, adding our own interpretive imprints.
- Department: Writing
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Instructor:
Adam Z Wilson
Info - 3 points
UNHEARD VOICES: AFRICAN WOMEN
How does one talk of women in Africa without thinking of Africa as a mythic unity? We will consider the political, racial, social and other contexts in which African women write and are written about in the context of their located lives in Africa and in the African Diaspora.
- Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
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Instructor:
Yvette Christianse
Wikipedia Info - 4 points
DATA STRUCTURES IN JAVA
Data types and structures: arrays, stacks, singly and doubly linked lists, queues, trees, sets, and graphs. Programming techniques for processing such structures: sorting and searching, hashing, garbage collection. Storage management. Rudiments of the analysis of algorithms. Taught in Java. Note: Due to significant overlap, students may receive credit for only one of the following three courses: COMS W3134, COMS W3136, COMS W3137.
- Department: Computer Science
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Instructor:
Brian Borowski
Info - 3 points
DATA STRUCTURES IN JAVA
Data types and structures: arrays, stacks, singly and doubly linked lists, queues, trees, sets, and graphs. Programming techniques for processing such structures: sorting and searching, hashing, garbage collection. Storage management. Rudiments of the analysis of algorithms. Taught in Java. Note: Due to significant overlap, students may receive credit for only one of the following three courses: COMS W3134, COMS W3136, COMS W3137.
- Department: Computer Science
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Instructor:
Brian Borowski
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CREATIVE NON-FICTION
Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here: https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
In this course we will explore various genres of creative non-fiction and practice a range of craft techniques, paying special attention to the construction of the writing self and the ethics of writing about real people and events. For a more detailed, instructor-specific description, please go to https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A4_gMLVP0EtEv5bUdqaLgJ8aJrW4sN4UC51-dIs5HoM/edit?usp=sharing
If you are a Columbia student, please note that you will need to submit an access request to view the document containing instructor-specific course descriptions. All requests will be approved within 24 business hours.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Nina Sharma
CULPA: 5
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Medieval to Contemporary Painting Techni
Medieval to Contemporary Painting Techniques explores the fundamental properties of paint materials by studying the paint-making techniques used by old masters of the late Medieval and Renaissance periods up through the contemporary era. Through hands-on work and experimentation, including preparing paint materials themselves, students will gain experience making and working with egg tempera, oil paint, and synthetic materials such as acrylics. They will develop a stronger understanding of how these materials function and how their uses fit into historical traditions and cultural contexts.
Students will participate in weekly material and technique-building workshops. They will be given select open-ended assignments for which they can choose a particular approach to explore. Students will learn how to handle traditional and contemporary materials in compliance with high material safety standards.
- Department: Visual Arts
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Instructor:
Naomi Safran-Hon
Info - 3 points
PLANT PEOPLE
Plant people are in our midst: they covet plants, grow them, and obsess over them. We call plant people green thumbs. They tend gardens; sniff herbs; make poultices; take cuttings. Plant people risk life and limb in pursuit of plants or become plant-like themselves. They tire of human ways and root in place, preferring the company of trees. As people can become plant-like, plants can also appear people-like, as sentient, sovereign beings who should be addressed with the proper pronouns. These plants have the power to act upon the world of people, and not always benignly. Finally, plant people can be everyday people like you and me, who consume and incorporate plants into our bodies, often without thought or awareness.
In this fiction seminar, we will read all about plant people: stories about plant obsessives, plant witnesses, plant actors, and plant consumers. How do we write stories about plant people? We will discuss craft techniques that relate to writing about plants, from voice to perspective to plot. How do we pull off the disorienting perspectival shift when writing from the vantage of an oak tree? How do we render plants precisely, botanically; what new vocabulary do we need to know? What are some of existing tropes about plants? Most importantly, how do we overcome plant blindness? In addition to short stories and novels, we will also read some nonfiction that will inform our fiction writing. Authors on the syllabus include Ursula Le Guin, Elif Shafak, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Richard Powers, Han Kang, David Diop, Andrea Barrett, and Christina Garza Rivera.
- Department: Writing
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Instructor:
Anelise I Chen
Info - 3 points
BALLET V
Ballet V, a technique course for the high-intermediate, advanced-level dancer, continues to refine and strengthen advanced-level technical skills, with a particular focus on alignment, musical phrasing, and the dancer's artistic voice in both practice and performance. Movement exercises at the barre, connecting to center work, will continue to build the dancer’s progression toward fluency in their craft. Ballet V will also explore longer movement phrases in the center, which may be practiced in solo or group form. Taking barre or center en pointe may be an option for those with advanced or professional experience in pointework, with the instructor's permission.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
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Instructor:
Cynthia Anderson
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Unity Phelan
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Instructor:
Marjorie Folkman
CULPA: 2 Info - 2 points
AGAINST EXCESS
This class will look at formally and intellectually ambitious short books from the last century. The bulk of the coursework will consist of close reading and craft-oriented discussions examining how writers achieve narrative complexity, authority, and emotional impact within severe spatial limits. We will also consider the evolving role of the novel as a technology for capturing the tedium and transcendence of daily life, and ask how books might compete for attention in an increasingly distracted media environment. Are compact literary forms the answer to our ongoing literacy crisis? In an era where dopamine tolerance is at an all-time high and attention spans are at an all-time low, what strategies might a novel use to court the general reader? In other words, can a book be “scroll-stopping”? Should it even try to be?
Each unit will focus on a distinct aspect of craft. Students will produce short pieces of fiction or criticism throughout the semester, experimenting with narrative strategies drawn from the readings. The final project will be either a sustained piece of literary criticism or an excerpt from an original short novel accompanied by a critical introduction.
The four major craft components of the course are:
● Compression: How does a writer distill a work of literature to its most essential elements? What gives a text narrative economy?
● Form & Constraint: This unit looks at experimental works that use formal constraints in place of traditional approaches, sometimes challenging or expanding the established conventions of the novel.
● Lifewriting: We will look at a number of first person books whose narrator superficially resembles the author, considering how autobiographical experience is transformed into literary material.
● Voice: This unit will explore how voice and style can court and conscript the interest, sympathy, or even disdain of the reader. We will also discuss the relationship between literary voice and contemporary attention economies.
- Department: Writing
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Instructor:
Anika J Levy
Info - 3 points
INTRODUCTION VOCAL REPERTOIRE
This course is designed for developing singers. Group vocalizing, learning of songs and individual workshop performances are aimed at improving the students technical skill and the elements necessary to create a meaningful musical and dramatic experience. Attention to text, subtext, emotional and psychological aspects of a piece and the performers relationship to the audience are included in the work. Repertoire is predominantly in English and comes from both classical and popular traditions Individual coaching sessions are available with the class accompanist and help strengthen the students confidence and skill. The class culminates with an in-class performance.
- Department: Music @Barnard
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Instructor:
Jean-Paul Bjorlin
Info - 3 points
NIGHTTIME LOGIC
A stranger appears at your door and knows everything about you. A figure looms in the dark by your bed every night without explanation. You receive a photo of yourself from an anonymous phone number. You find yourself in a series of connected rooms, a liminal space where there can be any one or anything behind the corner. All of these scenarios elicit the icky, unsettling feeling of the uncanny valley. While we’ve all experienced feeling “a little weird,” to truly understand uncanny horror is to also understand, as Kelly Link says, when describing Nighttime Logic, the way “moments of trauma rearrange, disrupt, and reverse how we make sense of the world.” In other words, as writers, understanding the uneasy nature of horror can help us face the true monsters of reality. In this class, we will examine the feeling of terror before the horror is defined. We will see the ways in which playing with time and withholding information create a sense of dread; how the uneasiness of strangers in fiction is influenced by ancient folklore and the way industrialization and modern anxieties influence “creepypastas” and “the Backrooms.” How do the bureaucracy and constraints of the modern world create a specter of its own? What happens when our illusions of safety break down and what gets let inside? Coursework will include weekly, in-class writing assignments, a reading journal and one completed short story.
- Department: Writing
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Instructor:
Melissa Oliva-Lozada
Info - 3 points
BALLET VI
This course is for the intermediate advanced dancer. Material presented will focus on healthy anatomical alignment in barre work, extended combinations in the center, fostering personal artistic expression, and integrating improvisation in combinations with the ballet vocabulary. Clarification, analysis and repetition are fundamental elements for a sound technique of any dancer and are the foundation of this course. Center work will include attention to shaping adagio work, multiple turns in the large poses, batterie, and extended grand allegro. You may be assigned the construction and presentation of exercises, which will be explained in detail further into the semester. You will be assigned a grading exercise at the end of the shopping period and will get written observations from me
- Department: Dance @Barnard
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Instructor:
Antonio Carmena
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Instructor:
Ashley Tuttle
CULPA: 1 Info - 2 points
VOCAL REPERTOIRE, TECHNIQUE
VOCAL REPERTOIRE TECHNIQUE
Vocal exercises and exploration of wide-ranging repertoires, styles, and languages of the Western European song tradition. The rich variety of English, French, Italian and German poetry and music from the Baroque period through the Twentieth Century allows the student to experience both the music and the cultural environment of each of these styles. Attention is given both to meaning oftext and musical interpretation. Individual coaching sessions are available with the class accompanist and help strengthen the students confidence and skill. The class culminates with an in-class performance.
- Department: Music @Barnard
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Instructor:
Coralie Gallet
Info - 3 points
PERFORMING WOMEN
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 16 students. This course examines the category of "woman" as it is mobilized in performance, considering both a variety of contemporary performances chosen from a wide range of genres and a diversity of critical/theoretical perspectives. Course fulfills lecture/seminar "studies" requirement for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts major.
- Department: Theatre @Barnard
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Instructor:
Shayoni Mitra
CULPA: 5
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Advanced R in Biology
This course serves as a continuation of BIOL2500 R for Scientists. The course will meet weekly. Students will explore a range of methods and resources used by contemporary computational biologists. These include advanced statistical modeling approaches, manipulating genomic and spatial data, and working in R outside of the RStudio environment (including git, bash, Shiny and high-performance computing). Students will have opportunities to explore diverse biological and statistical R packages in the context of homework assignments, and will analyze a dataset of their own choosing for a semester project.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
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Instructor:
Vincent D Fitzpatrick
Info - 3 points
SOIL MECHANICS
Index properties and classification; compaction; permeability and seepage; effective stress and stress distribution; shear strength of soil; consolidation; slope stability.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
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Instructor:
Hoe I Ling
h-index: 45 Info - 4 points
CLASSIC VARIATIONS
Variations
class is a course for the intermediate to advanced dancer. As in all other ballet classes, there will be a focus on correct physical alignment, proper technique and musicality. The added challenges in this course will be the pointe shoe technique, creative choreographic choices, and musical phrasing. The class will include variations based on works ranging from Petipa to Balanchine to today’s choreographers. Dancers will explore personalizing already known works, pushing the boundaries of the pointe shoe, examining how choreography has evolved and developing the stamina required to execute a full variation. Learning material rapidly while paying attention to the stylistic demands of each choreographer’s works and being able to shift from one stylistic choice to another is simply expected.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
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Instructor:
Ashley Tuttle
CULPA: 1 Info - 2 points
Black Women s Histories in the United
Black Women's Histories
In this course you will be examining paper tracings and other sources related to the lived experiences of Black women. You will be required to review and interrogate materials on triggering subjects; some of these items include violent descriptions, images, and acts. In order to join in our collective engagement with the history of Black women, within the context of the U.S., you will critically analyze items that have not been sanitized for popular consumption. Thus, we will not be “erasing history” in this course by avoiding the deployment of white supremacy and its vast, related violence(s) against Black women’s bodies and lives, as well as the various manifestations of resistance of Black women throughout the history of the United States.
- Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
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Instructor:
Celia E Naylor
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
Jews in the Christian Imagination
Jews in Christian Imagina
Since the beginning of the movement that would become Christianity, Jews have occupied a unique – and uniquely fraught – position in the Christian imagination. Why did so few of the very Jews to whom Jesus preached accept him as their messiah? Why, as the Church grew in wealth and influence, did Jews continue to live in Christian communities, and what was their proper place in Christian society? In our course, we will read early and medieval Christian narratives about Jews that are, in many ways, an attempt to answer these questions – dark imaginative visions of Jews as child-killers, cannibals, and devil worshippers. We will use narrative, psychological, and literary theory as tools to analyze these tales and to make sense of their complicated and continuing legacy.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Wendy C Schor-Haim
CULPA: 11
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INTRODUCTION TO NARRATIVE MEDICINE
INTRO TO NARRATIVE MEDICI
Narrative competence is a crucial dimension of health-care delivery; this includes the capacity to attend and respond to stories of illness and the narrative skills to
reflect critically on the scene of care and its contexts.
Narrative Medicine explores and builds the clinical applications of literary knowledge. The objectives of this foundations course include furthering close reading skills and exploring theories of self-telling and relationality. At the center of this project is the medical encounter. To help clinicians fulfill their "receiving" duties more effectively, we will turn to narrative theory, autobiography theory, psychoanalytic theory, trauma scholarship and witnessing literature. Classwork integrates didactic and experiential methodologies to develop a heightenedawareness of self and others, and to build a practical set of narrative competencies.
Readings will include works by Toni Morrison, W.G. Sebald, Lucy Grealy, Kazuo Ishiguro, Alison Bechdel, Maggie Nelson, Judith Butler, Arthur Frank, Paul Ricoeur, Jonathan Shay and Jens Brockmeier.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Maura L Spiegel
CULPA: 40 Info - 3 points
CHOREOGRAPHING THE AMERICAN MUSICAL
CHOREOG THE AMERICAN MUSI
This course examines the history and development of American musical theater dance beginning in 1866 with The Black Crook and traces the genre’s evolution through a variety of theatrical venues including: spectacle, vaudeville, and revues. A primary focus of the course is the period known as “The Golden Age” of the American musical (1943-1964). During this period a talented group of American choreographers, emerged from newly formed ballet and modern dance companies. They brought their talents to the commercial theater and discovered a new venue for dance expression. How they reconstructed the use of dance in musicals and exposed commercial audiences to cultural trends and social commentary through the language of dance is a focus of the course. In addition, the craft and methodology of musical theater dance creation will be analyzed. Late twentieth century into the new millennium is considered in relation to shifting choreographic trends and the ongoing evolution of the genre.
- Department: Theatre @Barnard
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SCIENCE IN THE CITY FIELDWORK LAB
SCIENCE IN CITY FIELDWORK
- Department: Education @Barnard
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Instructor:
Althea B Hoard
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SCIENCE IN THE CITY FIELDWORK LAB
SCIENCE IN CITY FIELDWORK
- Department: Education @Barnard
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Instructor:
Althea B Hoard
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SCIENCE IN THE CITY FIELDWORK LAB
SCIENCE IN CITY FIELDWORK
- Department: Education @Barnard
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Instructor:
Althea B Hoard
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CRITICAL HISTORIES OF DRAMA, THEATRE, AN
CRIT HIST DRAMA, THTR & P
This course undertakes a
dialectical approach to reading and thinking about the history of dramatic theatre, interrogating the ways writing inflects, and is inflected by, the material dynamics of performance. Course undertakes careful study of the practices of performance, and of the sociocultural, economic, political, and aesthetic conditions animating representative performance in “classical” theatres globally; course will also emphasize development of important critical concepts for the analysis of drama, theatre, and performance. Topics include the sociology of theatre, the impact of print on conceptions of performance, representing gender and race, the politics of intercultural performance, and the dynamics of court performance. Writing: 2-3 papers; Reading: 1-2 plays, critical and historical reading per week; final examination. Fulfills one (of two) lecture requirements for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors.
- Department: Theatre @Barnard
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Instructor:
William B Worthen
CULPA: 10
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LIVING WITH ANIMALS: ANTHROPOLOGICAL PER
This course examines how humans and animals shape each other’s lives, using the tools and perspectives of anthropology. We’ll explore the astounding diversity of human-animal relationships in time and space, tracing the ways animals have made their impact on human societies (and vice-versa). Using contemporary ethnographic, historical, and archaeological examples from a variety of geographical regions and chronological periods, this class will consider how humans and animals live and work together, and the ways in which humans have found animals “good to think with”. In this course, we will also discuss how knowledge about human-animal relationships in the past might change contemporary and future approaches to living with animals. Through the reading and thinking that this course requires, you will explore what an anthropological perspective on living with animals looks like and how thinking about animals might change anthropology.
- Department: Anthropology
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Instructor:
Hannah Chazin
Info - 4 points
SHAKESPEARE S SONNETS: AN EXPERIMENT I
SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS
This class is:
An introduction to Shakespeare’s Sonnets, and a chance to read through them all, slowly and carefully
An introduction to the way that Shakespeare’s mind worked, and to what he did with words
An introduction to the sonnet as a form, up to the present moment
A chance to explore how and why we read, and the difference that the pace of our reading makes
An opportunity to practice paying a particular kind of extended attention, and to explore what it does to our minds and our memories when we spend time with a body of poems over a series of weeks
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Faculty
h-index: 37 Info - 3 points
THEATRE TRAD GLOBAL CONTEXT
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 50 students.
Provides a broad introduction to several traditions of nonwestern drama and theatrical practice, often placing recent and contemporary writing in relation to established conventions. Taking up plays and performance traditions from Asia, South Asia, and various African traditions, it may also consider the relation between elite and popular culture (adaptations of Shakespeare, for example), and between drama, theatre, and film. Course fulfills lecture/seminar "studies" requirement for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts major.
- Department: Theatre @Barnard
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Instructor:
Shayoni Mitra
CULPA: 5
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ARTS&HUMANITIES IN CITY FIELDWORK LAB
ARTS&HUMANITIES IN CITY L
- Department: Education @Barnard
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ARTS&HUMANITIES IN CITY FIELDWORK LAB
ARTS&HUMANITIES IN CITY L
- Department: Education @Barnard
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DESIGN PROJECT
E3156: a design problem in materials science or metallurgical engineering selected jointly by the student and a professor in the department. The project requires research by the student, directed reading, and regular conferences with the professor in charge. E3157: completion of the research, directed reading, and conferences, culminating in a written report and an oral presentation to the department.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
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Instructor:
Yuan Yang
h-index: 49 Info - 3 points
MODERN ASIAN PERFORMANCE
This course studies contemporary Asian performance with a focus on modernity, covering most nations on the Asian continent. We will examine a variety of performance, ranging from dance to revolutionary theatre, from postdramatic staging to translated as well as made-in-Asia musicals. Theoretical questions under discussion include modernity, national/ethnic/gender identity, art and ideology, the Sinophone, global Asias, among others. Fulfills lecture/seminar requirement in Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts major and minor programs.
- Department: Theatre @Barnard
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Instructor:
Yizhou Huang
Info - 4 points
ADVANCED PROGRAMMING
C programming language and Unix systems programming. Also covers Git, Make, TCP/IP networking basics, C++ fundamentals.
ADVANCED PROGRAMMING
C programming language and Unix systems programming. Also covers Git, Make, TCP/IP networking basics, C++ fundamentals.
THE ENGLISH COLLOQUIUM
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to Barnard English majors. In the Renaissance colloquium we will examine English and European imaginative and intellectual life from the sixteenth to mid-seventeenth centuries. Defined by humanism, the Protestant Reformation, and revolution, this was a period of ideological struggle on many levels. Long-held ways of ordering the world came under increasing strain-and sometimes ruptured irreparably. Writers discussed and debated the aims of human knowledge, retooled old literary forms for new purposes, scrambled to take account of an expanded awareness of the globe, and probed the tension between belief and doubt. Throughout this process, they experimented with new literary styles to express their rapidly changing worldviews. This is an intensive course in which we will take multiple approaches to a variety of authors that may include Petrarch, Erasmus, Machiavelli, Castiglione, More, Rabelais, Luther, Calvin, Montaigne, Spenser, Bacon, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Milton, and Behn, among others.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Atefeh Akbari Shahmirzadi
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Eugene A Petracca
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Instructor:
Rachel Eisendrath
CULPA: 6
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Faculty
h-index: 37 Info - 4 points
FLUID MECHANICS
Fluid statics. Fundamental principles and concepts of flow analysis. Differential and finite control volume approach to flow analysis. Dimensional analysis. Application of flow analysis: flow in pipes, external flow, flow in open channels.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
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Instructor:
Marco Giometto
h-index: 9 Info - 4 points
INTRO TO CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY
Prerequisites: BC1001; and either BC1124/1125, BC1125, BC2141, or permission of the instructor. Prioority given to senior psychology majors. Critically investigates the universalizing perspectives of psychology. Drawing on recent theory and research in cultural psychology, examines cultural approaches to psychological topics such as the self, human development, mental health, and racial identity. Also explores potential interdisciplinary collaborations. The following Columbia University course is considered overlapping and a student cannot receive credit for both the BC course and the equivalent CU course: PSYC UN2650 Intro to Cultural Psychology.
- Department: Psychology @Barnard
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Instructor:
Isabelle Portelinha
Info - 4 points
SHAKESPEARE I
A critical and historical introduction to Shakespeares comedies, histories, tragedies, and romances. Please note that you do not need to take ENGL BC3163: Shakespeare I and ENGL BC3164: Shakespeare II in sequence; you may take them in any order.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Peter Platt
CULPA: 23
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Moral Psychology: Ancient Wisdom and Mod
This seminar is designed to introduce you to the psychological foundations of morality, examining how moral judgment and behavior develop across cultures and throughout human history. Drawing from ancient wisdom traditions, contemporary psychology, philosophy, and emerging fields like AI ethics, you will gain a nuanced understanding of moral psychology and its applications.
- Department: Psychology @Barnard
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Instructor:
Angelika Seidel
Info - 4 points
AMERICAN LITERATURE TO 1800
This course surveys American literature written before 1800. While we will devote some attention to the literary traditions that preceded British colonization, most of our readings will be of texts written in English between 1620 and 1800. These texts--histories, autobiographies, poems, plays, and novels--illuminate the complexity of this period of American culture. They tell stories of pilgrimage, colonization, and genocide; private piety and public life; manuscript and print publication; the growth of national identity (political, cultural, and literary); Puritanism, Quakerism, and Deism; race and gender; slavery and the beginnings of a movement towards its abolition. We will consider, as we read, the ways that these stories overlap and interconnect, and the ways that they shape texts of different periods and genres.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Lisa Gordis
CULPA: 15 Info - 3 points
AMERICAN LITERATURE 1871-1945
This interdisciplinary course situates late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature within the context of historical and cultural change. Students read works by Whitman, Twain, James, Griggs, Wharton, Faulkner, and Hurston alongside political and cultural materials including Supreme Court decisions, geometric treatises, composite photography and taxidermy.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Jennie Kassanoff
CULPA: 20
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AMERICAN LITERATURE SINCE 1945
In the wake of World War II, the so-called American Century rises out of the ashes of fascism, haunted by the specter of bombs blurring the boundary between victory and defeat. An ideological civil war ensues, punctuated by literary resistance to grand narratives and their discontents. Authors include Ellison, O’Connor, Ginsberg, Bishop, Pynchon, Robinson, Merrill, Morrison, Didion, and Wallace.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Victor Zarour Zarzar
Info - 3 points
MODRN BRITISH & AMERCAN POETRY
Poetry written in English during the past century, discussed in the context of modernism, postmodernism, literary theory, and changing social and technological developments. Students will participate in shaping the syllabus and leading class discussion. Authors may include Yeats, Williams, Eliot, Moore, Bishop, Rich, Ginsberg, Stevens, O Hara, Plath, Brooks, Jordan, Walcott, Alexie, and many others.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Michael C Dickman
Info - 3 points
INT'L HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
This course will introduce students to the international law of human rights, and give a basic orientation to fundamental issues and controversies. The course has two principal focal points: first, the nuts and bolts of how international law functions in the field of human rights, and second, the value and limitations of legal approaches to a variety of human rights issues. Throughout the course, both theoretical and practical questions will be addressed, including who bears legal duties and who can assert legal claims, how these duties might be enforced, and accountability and remedy for violations. Attention will be given to how international law is made, what sorts of assumptions underlie various legal mechanisms, and how the law works in a variety of contexts.
- Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
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Instructor:
Belinda Cooper
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
CRITICAL WRITING
Open to all students.This course teaches clear writing and provides exposure to a range of interpretative strategies. Frequent short papers. Required of all English majors before the end of the junior year. Sophomores are encouraged to take it in the spring semester even before officially declaring their major. Transfer students should plan to take it in the fall semester.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Eugene A Petracca
Info - 4 points
CRITICAL WRITING
Open to all students.This course teaches clear writing and provides exposure to a range of interpretative strategies. Frequent short papers. Required of all English majors before the end of the junior year. Sophomores are encouraged to take it in the spring semester even before officially declaring their major. Transfer students should plan to take it in the fall semester.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Eugene A Petracca
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Jayne Hildebrand
CULPA: 3
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Instructor:
Andrew L Lynn
CULPA: 17
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SCIENCE, MEDICINE AND THE BODY
This seminar course explores the relationship between science, medicine, and the body in a historical context. We will look at this relationship from a global perspective, with particular attention to understandings of gender, sexuality, race, and embodiment. To ground ourselves in the historiography, we will begin by studying various methodologies and approaches to histories of science, medicine, and the body. In doing so, we will consider the following questions: What does it mean to do a history of the body? Is there a universal concept of “the body” to study? What gets included in the history of science? What constitutes medicine? And who gets to determine these definitions? We will then move to specific themes and topics, including the categorization of bodies, dissection, public health, the impacts of colonialism, the medical marketplace, patients and practitioners, healing spaces, and disability studies. The course closes be critically examining global health initiatives and the politics and intimacies of healthcare on a global scale.
- Department: History @Barnard
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Instructor:
Dale Booth
Info - 4 points