SCREENDANCE:COMPOSITION
Prerequisites: Must have taken a Dance Department Composition course, have some dance training. This experiential, hands-on course requires all students to choreograph, dance, and film. Focusing on single-shot film-making, the duet of the camera and the dance will create an understanding of the interaction between the two, enabling students to create a final short film.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- TR 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Gabri Christa
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
THESSALONIKI DOWN THE AGES
This course will explore the fascinatingly layered and multicultural history of Thessaloniki, the great city of Northern Greece and the Balkans. We will examine texts, archaeological evidence, literature, songs, and movies and in general the materialities of the city. We will examine this material from the 6th century BCE down to the the 21st cent. CE. We will notably think about the problems of history, identity, and cultural interaction in reaction to recent work such as Mark Mazower’s well know Salonica, City of Ghosts 2004.
- Department: Classics
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Paraskevi Martzavou
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
DANCES OF INDIA
A range of dance genres, from the traditional to the innovative, co-exist as representations of Indianness in India, and beyond. Identities onstage and in films, morph as colonial, national, and global contexts change. This course zooms from micro to macro views of twentieth century staged dances as culturally inflected discourse. We review how Indian classical dance aligns with the oldest of performance texts, and with lively discourses (rasa as a performance aesthetic, Orientalism, nationalism, global recirculations) through the ages, not only in India but also in Europe, Britain and America. Throughout the course, we ask:- How is culture embodied? How do historical texts configure dance today? How might they affect our thinking on mind-body, practice-theory, and traditional-contemporary divides? How does bodily patterning influence the ways that we experience our surroundings and vice versa? Can cultural imaginaries instigate action? How is gender is performed? What are dance discourses?
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Uttara Coorlawala
CULPA: 4 Info - 3 points
Left and Right in American History
Left and Right in US Hist
This course examines 20th-century American political movements of the Left and Right. We will cover Socialism and the Ku Klux Klan in the early twentieth century; the Communist Party and right-wing populists of the 1930s; the civil rights movement, black power, and white resistance, 1950s-1960s; the rise of the New Left and the New Right in the 1960s; the Women's liberation movement and the Christian right of the 1970s; and finally, free-market conservatism, neoliberalism, white nationalism and the Trump era. We will explore the organizational, ideological and social history of these political mobilizations. The class explores grass-roots social movements and their relationship to “mainstream” and electoral politics. We will pay special attention to the ways that ideas and mobilizations that are sometimes deemed extreme have in fact helped to shape the broader political spectrum. Throughout the semester, we will reflect on the present political dilemmas of our country in light of the history that we study.
- Department: History
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- W 6 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
- R 1 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kimberly K Phillips-Fein
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Instructor:
Noah S Remnick
Info - 4 points
DANCE CRITICISM
This course offers intensive practice in writing on dance and explores a range of
approaches to dance criticism from the 1940s through today. Starting from the premise
that criticism can be an art form in itself, we ask: What are the roles and responsibilities
of a critic? How do our own identities and experiences inform how we see and write?
With the proliferation of dance in digital spaces, what new possibilities arise for dance
criticism? Class meetings include discussion, writing exercises, and peer workshops.
Assignments involve viewing performances outside of class.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Siobhan F Burke
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
Anti-Apartheid Solidarity Movement
This course examines the struggle against South African apartheid with a particular focus on the global solidarity movement in the 20th century. The class will examine key turning points in the movement, its connection with broader anti-colonial and anti-racist struggles, gendered constructs of apartheid and feminist leadership in the movement, and the circulation of theories of racial capitalism. Students will understand how and why apartheid became a global concern. Students will work on a project using the primary source material available on the African Activist Archive Digital Project at Michigan State University.
- Department: History @Barnard
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Premilla Nadasen
CULPA: 10
Wikipedia
Info
- 4 points
SR SEM IN BIOLOGY
Required for all majors who do not select the year-long Senior Thesis Research & Seminar (BIOL BC3593 & BC3594) to fulfill their senior capstone requirement. These seminars allow students to explore the primary literature in the Biological Sciences in greater depth than can be achieved in a lecture course. Attention will be focused on both theoretical and empirical work. Seminar periods are devoted to oral reports and discussion of assigned readings and student reports. Students will write one extensive literature review of a topic related to the central theme of the seminar section.
Topics vary per semester and include, but are not limited to:
Plant Development
,
Animal Development & Evolution,
Molecular Evolution, Microbiology & Global Change, Genomics, Comparative & Reproductive Endocrinology, and Data Intensive Approaches in Biology.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
- F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jordan Balaban
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Instructor:
Rishita Shah
Info - 4 points
GUIDED RESEARCH & SEMINAR
This year-long course is open to junior and senior Biology majors and minors. Students will complete an independent research project in Biology under the guidance of a faculty mentor at Barnard or another local institution. Attendance at the weekly seminar is required. By the end of the year, students will write a scientific paper about their project and give a poster presentation about their research at the Barnard Biology Research Symposium.
Completion of this year-long course fulfills two upper-level laboratory requirements for the Biology major or minor. This course must be taken in sequence, beginning with BIOL BC3591 in the Fall and continuing with BIOL BC3592 in the Spring. Acceptance into this course requires confirmation of the research project by the course instructors. A Barnard internal mentor is required if the research project is not supervised by a Barnard faculty member. This course cannot be taken at the same time as BIOL BC3593-BIOL BC3594.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
- M 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
- 4 points
GUIDED RESEARCH & SEMINAR
This year-long course is open to junior and senior Biology majors and minors. Students will complete an independent research project in Biology under the guidance of a faculty mentor at Barnard or another local institution. Attendance at the weekly seminar is required. By the end of the year, students will write a scientific paper about their project and give a poster presentation about their research at the Barnard Biology Research Symposium.
Completion of this year-long course fulfills two upper-level laboratory requirements for the Biology major or minor. This course must be taken in sequence, beginning with BIOL BC3591 in the Fall and continuing with BIOL BC3592 in the Spring. Acceptance into this course requires confirmation of the research project by the course instructors. A Barnard internal mentor is required if the research project is not supervised by a Barnard faculty member. This course cannot be taken at the same time as BIOL BC3593-BIOL BC3594.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
- M 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
- 4 points
SENIOR SEMINAR
Research and scholarly writing in chosen topics relating to dance. Methods of investigation are drawn from prominent archival collections and personal interviews, as well as other resources. Papers are formally presented to the Dance Department upon completion.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Paul A Scolieri
CULPA: 19
Info
- 4 points
NEUROSCIENCE GUIDED RESEARCH
This lab-based course introduces students to advanced methods in cognitive neuroscience, focusing on the application of electroencephalography (EEG) for real-time recording of brain activity. Unlike traditional approaches that study how the brain responds to different external stimuli or task demands, this course centers on spontaneous brain activity that occurs during rest or just before experimental events. Whether or not spontaneous brain activity is just meaningless noise remains an active area of research in cognitive neuroscience. Some researchers believe that spontaneous brain activity may be an important factor shaping our subjective experience of the world. However, the underlying mechanisms remain elusive in part due to the challenges in objectively defining and measuring subjective experience.
In this course, students will address this challenge by developing methods to study the relationship between spontaneous brain activity and subjective experience, with a particular focus on mind-wandering and the sensory phenomena elicited by Ganzflicker and Ganzfeld stimulation. The course culminates in independent research projects where students test their hypotheses by collecting and analyzing behavioral and EEG data. Key questions to address include: can spontaneous fluctuations in brain activity account for why people sometimes zone out while performing a task? Can the same fluctuations explain why people sometimes have different sensory experiences despite constant external stimuli? Do individual variations in spontaneous brain activity help explain why some people are more likely to report such experiences?
Note: The course involves weekly in person meetings as well as asynchronous work on data acquisition, analysis, and primary article readings for approximately 6 additional hours per week (on average).
SENIOR THESIS RESEARCH & SEMINAR
SR THESIS RESEARCH & SEMI
This year-long course is open to senior Biology majors. Students will complete an independent research project in Biology under the guidance of a faculty mentor at Barnard or another local institution. Attendance at the weekly seminar is required. By the end of the year, students will write a scientific paper about their project and give an oral presentation about their research at the Barnard Biology Research Symposium.
Completion of this year-long course fulfills the senior capstone requirement for the Biology major. This course must be taken in sequence, beginning with BIOL BC3593 in the Fall and continuing with BIOL BC3594 in the Spring. Acceptance into this course requires confirmation of the research project by the course instructors. A Barnard internal mentor is required if the research project is not supervised by a Barnard faculty member. This course cannot be taken at the same time as BIOL BC3591-BIOL BC3592.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
- M 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
- 4 points
RSRCH/SEM-NEUROSCNCE&BEHAVIOR
Prerequisites: Open to senior Neuroscience and Behavior majors. Permission of the instructor. This is a year-long course. By the end of the spring semester program planning period during junior year, majors should identify the lab they will be working in during their senior year. Discussion and conferences on a research project culminate in a written and oral senior thesis. Each project must be supervised by a scientist working at Barnard or at another local institution. Successful completion of the seminar substitutes for the major examination.
- Department: Neuroscience & Behavior @Barnard
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Peter D Balsam
CULPA: 25 Info -
Instructor:
Elizabeth P Bauer
CULPA: 3 h-index: 21 Info -
Instructor:
Russell D Romeo
CULPA: 9
Info
- 4 points
SENIOR SEMINAR
A research and writing workshop designed to help students plan and execute a major research project, and communicate their ideas in a common scholarly language that crosses disciplinary boundaries. Content is determined by students thesis topics, and includes general sessions on how to formulate a proposal and how to generate a bibliography. Students present the fruits of their research in class discussions, culminating in a full-length seminar presentation and the submission of the written thesis.
- Department: Slavic Languages @Barnard
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
John C Wright
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
GUIDED RESEARCH
Similar to BIOL BC3591-BIOL BC3592, this is a one-semester course that provides students with degree credit for unpaid research
without
a seminar component. You may enroll in BIOL BC3597 for between 1-4 credits per semester. As a rule of thumb, you should be spending approximately 3 hours per week per credit on your research project.
A
Project Approval Form
must be submitted to the department each semester that you enroll in this course. Your Barnard research mentor (if your lab is at Barnard) or internal adviser in the Biology Department (if your lab is elsewhere) must approve your planned research
before
you enroll in BIOL BC3597. You should sign up for your mentor's section.
This course does not fulfill any Biology major requirements. It is open to students beginning in their first year.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
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Instructor:
Elizabeth P Bauer
CULPA: 3 h-index: 21 Info -
Instructor:
Hilary Callahan
CULPA: 4 h-index: 17 Info -
Instructor:
John Glendinning
CULPA: 23 h-index: 39 Info -
Instructor:
Jordan Balaban
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Instructor:
Jj L Miranda
CULPA: 3 Info -
Instructor:
Alison Pischedda
CULPA: 3
h-index: 11
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Instructor:
Jonathan Snow
CULPA: 7 h-index: 18 Info -
Instructor:
Brian Morton
CULPA: 21 Info -
Instructor:
Jennifer H Mansfield
CULPA: 2 h-index: 15 Info -
Instructor:
Gabrielle Corradino
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Instructor:
Jessica Goldstein
CULPA: 14 Info -
Instructor:
Emlyn J Resetarits
Info - 1-4 points
PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY
Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
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Instructor:
Christian Rojas
CULPA: 24
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Instructor:
Marisa C Buzzeo
CULPA: 2 Info -
Instructor:
Dina C Merrer
CULPA: 24
Info
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Instructor:
Andrew C Crowther
CULPA: 1 Info -
Instructor:
Michael Campbell
Info -
Instructor:
Rachel Austin
CULPA: 18
Wikipedia
h-index: 28
Info
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Instructor:
Christina Vizcarra
CULPA: 1 Info -
Instructor:
Rebecca Donegan
Info - 2 points
PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY
Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
- 2 points
PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY
Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
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Instructor:
Christian Rojas
CULPA: 24
Info
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Instructor:
Marisa C Buzzeo
CULPA: 2 Info -
Instructor:
Dina C Merrer
CULPA: 24
Info
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Instructor:
Andrew C Crowther
CULPA: 1 Info -
Instructor:
Michael Campbell
Info -
Instructor:
Rachel Austin
CULPA: 18
Wikipedia
h-index: 28
Info
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Instructor:
Christina Vizcarra
CULPA: 1 Info -
Instructor:
Rebecca Donegan
Info - 4 points
PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY
Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
- 4 points
RELATVITY,BLACK HOLES,COSMOLGY
- Department: Astronomy
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Frederik Paerels
CULPA: 21
Info
- 3 points
METAPHYSICS
Corequisites: PHIL V3611 Required Discussion Section (0 points). Systematic treatment of some major topics in metaphysics (e.g. modality, causation, identity through time, particulars and universals). Readings from contemporary authors.
- Department: Philosophy
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Achille Varzi
CULPA: 30
Wikipedia
h-index: 40
Info
- 4 points
REHEARSAL& PERFRMNCE IN DANCE
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- MW 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lisa Fagan Fagan
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Instructor:
Nini Dongnier
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Instructor:
Allison Easter
Info - 1-3 points
REHEARSAL& PERFRMNCE IN DANCE
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- TR 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lisa Boudreau
Wikipedia Info - 1-3 points
Writing the Expatriation: American Write
This seminar offers a dive into the richness of the Parisian cultural landscape in the 1920s, particularly through the lens of the American expatriate writers who lived there and produced some of their most important works at that time.
In this seminar, we will ask: What made Paris such a fertile ground for literary production at the time? Why is it that American literature took such a decisive turn abroad and not at home? Did French artists and writers have an influence—both in terms of contents and style—on American writers of the Lost Generation, for instance? To what extent did the exile of American expatriates help them find their own voices and outline the literature of their own country more accurately? What gender-centered questions do these works raise—if one thinks, for instance, of the famous
flapper
popularized by Fitzgerald and embodied by characters such Lady Brett Ashley in Hemingway’s first novel? Finally, what role did publishing houses, editors, and meeting places like G. Stein’s apartment play then?
- Department: French
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Antoine Guibal
Info - 3 points
Writing the Expatriation: American Write
This seminar offers a dive into the richness of the Parisian cultural landscape in the 1920s, particularly through the lens of the American expatriate writers who lived there and produced some of their most important works at that time.
In this seminar, we will ask: What made Paris such a fertile ground for literary production at the time? Why is it that American literature took such a decisive turn abroad and not at home? Did French artists and writers have an influence—both in terms of contents and style—on American writers of the Lost Generation, for instance? To what extent did the exile of American expatriates help them find their own voices and outline the literature of their own country more accurately? What gender-centered questions do these works raise—if one thinks, for instance, of the famous
flapper
popularized by Fitzgerald and embodied by characters such Lady Brett Ashley in Hemingway’s first novel? Finally, what role did publishing houses, editors, and meeting places like G. Stein’s apartment play then?
- Department: Auditing
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Antoine Guibal
Info - 0 points
The Global Politics of Climate Change
GLOBAL PLTCS OF CLIMATE C
Climate change mitigation is the greatest global political challenge of our times. This course uses concepts drawn from the broader political science literature to analyze the recent history and possible future trajectories of interactions between international politics and climate change, including the international political economy of various relevant commercial sectors. It has no prerequisites, and no background knowledge is required.
- Department: Political Science @Barnard
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kimberly Marten
CULPA: 71
Wikipedia
h-index: 19
Info
- 4 points
INDEPENDENT STUDY
Independent Study
This course can be worth 1 to 4 credits (each credit is equivalent to approximately three hours of work per week), and requires a Barnard faculty as a mentor. The course will be taken for a letter grade, regardless of whether the student chooses 1, 2, 3, or 4 credits. The expectations for each of these options are as follows: 1 credit, 3h/week commitment, 5-10 page "Research Report" at the end of the term; 2 credits, 6h/week commitment, 5-10 page "Research Report" at the end of the term; 3 credits, 9h/week commitment, 15-20 page "Research Report" at the end of the term; 4 credits, 12h/week commitment, 15-20 page "Research Report" at the end of the term. "Research Report" is a document submitted to the person grading the student, the instructor of record for the section in which the student has enrolled. If a student is working off-site, then input from the off-site research mentor will inform the grading. The "Research Report" can take a variety of forms: progress reports on data collected, training received, papers read, skills learned, etc.; or organized notes for lab notebooks, lab meetings, etc.; or manuscript-like papers with Intro, Methods, Results, Discussion; or some combination thereof, depending on the maturity of the project. Ultimately, this will take different forms for different students/labs.
- Department: Psychology @Barnard
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Instructor:
Peter D Balsam
CULPA: 25 Info - 1-4 points
INDEPENDENT STUDY
This course can be worth 1 to 4 credits (each credit is equivalent to approximately three hours of work per week), and requires a Barnard faculty as a mentor. The course will be taken for a letter grade, regardless of whether the student chooses 1, 2, 3, or 4 credits. The expectations for each of these options are as follows: 1 credit, 3h/week commitment, 5-10 page "Research Report" at the end of the term; 2 credits, 6h/week commitment, 5-10 page "Research Report" at the end of the term; 3 credits, 9h/week commitment, 15-20 page "Research Report" at the end of the term; 4 credits, 12h/week commitment, 15-20 page "Research Report" at the end of the term. "Research Report" is a document submitted to the person grading the student, the instructor of record for the section in which the student has enrolled. If a student is working off-site, then input from the off-site research mentor will inform the grading. The "Research Report" can take a variety of forms: progress reports on data collected, training received, papers read, skills learned, etc.; or organized notes for lab notebooks, lab meetings, etc.; or manuscript-like papers with Intro, Methods, Results, Discussion; or some combination thereof, depending on the maturity of the project. Ultimately, this will take different forms for different students/labs.
- Department: Psychology @Barnard
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Instructor:
Robert Brotherton
CULPA: 1 Info -
Instructor:
Colin Leach
CULPA: 4 h-index: 41 Info -
Instructor:
Ken Light
CULPA: 17 h-index: 15 Info -
Instructor:
Koleen McCrink
CULPA: 6
h-index: 17
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Instructor:
Michelle Greene
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Instructor:
Robert E Remez
CULPA: 26 Wikipedia h-index: 23 Info -
Instructor:
Mariel Roberts
h-index: None Info -
Instructor:
Ann Senghas
CULPA: 17
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Instructor:
Katherine Thorson
CULPA: 4
h-index: 7
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Instructor:
Lisa K Son
CULPA: 25 Info -
Instructor:
Susan R Sacks
CULPA: 10 Info -
Instructor:
Kathleen M Taylor
CULPA: 78 Info -
Instructor:
Tara Well
CULPA: 4 Info -
Instructor:
Michael Wheaton
h-index: 31 Info -
Instructor:
E'Mett McCaskill
CULPA: 38
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Instructor:
Alexandra C Horowitz
CULPA: 23
Wikipedia
Info
- 1-4 points
FOUNDATIONS OF OPTIMIZATION
This first course in optimization focuses on theory and applications of linear optimization, network optimization, and dynamic programming.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Eric Balkanski
h-index: 13 Info - 3 points
METAPHYSICS-REC
- Department: Philosophy
- M 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
- T 11:10 a.m.-noon
- M 8:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
- 0 points
THIRD YEAR MOD COLLOQ TIBET I
For those whose knowledge is equivalent to a student who’s completed the Second Year course. The course develops students’ reading comprehension skills through reading selected modern Tibetan literature. Tibetan is used as the medium of instruction and interaction to develop oral fluency and proficiency.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Sonam Tsering
Info - 4 points
CHILDREN AT RISK
Prerequisites: PSYC UN1010, PSYC UN2280, PSYC UN2620, or PSYC UN2680, and the instructors permission. Considers contemporary risk factors in childrens lives. The immediate and enduring biological and behavioral impact of risk factors.
- Department: Psychology
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- R 6 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
- 4 points
SENIOR RESEARCH THESIS
Discussions of the student's Independent Research project during the fall and spring terms that culminate in a written and oral senior thesis. Each project must be supervised by a scientist working at Barnard or at another local institution.
- Department: Psychology @Barnard
- M 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Lisa K Son
CULPA: 25 Info - 1 points
SEM-DEVELOPMNTL PSYCHOPATHOLGY
Prerequisites: at least two of the following courses: (UN1001, UN1010, UN2280, UN2620, UN2680, UN3280) and the instructor's permission. Developmental psychopathology posits that it is development itself that has gone awry when there is psychopathology. As such, it seeks to understand the early and multiple factors contributing to psychopathology emerging in childhood and later in life. We will use several models (e.g. ones dominated by biological, genetic, and psychological foci) to understand the roots of mental illness.
- Department: Psychology
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Hannah E Hoch
CULPA: 27 Info - 4 points
TOPICS IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
Prerequisites: (PSYC UN1001) Instructor permission required. A seminar for advanced undergraduate students exploring different areas of clinical psychology. This course will provide you with a broad overview of the endeavors of clinical psychology, as well as discussion of its current social context, goals, and limitations.
- Department: Psychology
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jeffrey M Cohen
h-index: 5 Info -
Instructor:
Irit Felsen
Info - 4 points
Adolescent Mental Health: Causes, Correl
ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH
Prerequisites: PSYC UN1001 and Prior coursework in Abnormal Psychology and Research Methods strongly preferred. Adolescence is a peak period for the onset of mental disorders and suicidal behaviors. The seminar is designed to enhance understanding of topics including, prevalence, etiology, risk factors, mechanisms, prevention and treatment approaches, and ethical considerations related to clinical research.
- Department: Psychology
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Randy P Auerbach
h-index: 50 Info - 4 points
FAULKNER
In this course, we’ll be studying novels, stories, and screenplays from the major phase of William Faulkner’s career, from 1929 to 1946. Our primary topic will be Faulkner’s vision of American history, and especially of American racial history: we’ll be asking what his fictions have to say about the antebellum/“New” South; the Civil War and Reconstruction; the issues of slavery, emancipation, and civil rights; and the many ways in which the conflicts and traumas of the American past continue to shape and burden the American present. But we’ll consider other aspects of Faulkner’s work, too: his contributions to modernist aesthetics, his investigations of psychology and subjectivity, his exploration of class and gender dynamics, his depiction of the natural world, and his understanding of the relationship between literature and the popular arts.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- M 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Austin Graham
CULPA: 10
Info
- 4 points
THEATRE AND DEMOCRACY
What links concepts of theatre and concepts of democracy? How does theatre promote democracy, spectators’ civic participation, and vice versa, how do concepts and modes of theatre prevent the spectators from assuming civic positions both within and outside a theatrical performance? Arranged in three sections—“Tragedies and Democracies,” “Theatrical Propriety and Liberal Democracy,” and “Rhapsody for Theatre”—this class explores both the promotion and the denial of democratic discourse in the practices of dramatic writing and theatrical performance.
- Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
- T 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
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Instructor:
Hana Worthen
Info - 4 points
POLITCS OF INTL ECON RELATIONS
This upper-level undergraduate course examines the intersection of international politics and international economics. It covers an analysis of the historical background to and contemporary reality of the political economy of international trade, finance, and investment; problems of economic development; and globalization. This class does not have a specific economics or political science prerequisite, but it does assume a general understanding of historical and contemporary political and economic events. As a 3000-level course, this class would not be an appropriate choice for students who have not already taken introductory courses in political science, such as in international relations or comparative politics. This course would be appropriate for economics-political science joint majors
- Department: Political Science
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Jeffry A Frieden
Info - 4 points
AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY
This course is concerned with what policy the American government should adopt toward several foreign policy issues in the next decade or so, using materials from contradictory viewpoints. Students will be required to state fairly alternative positions and to use policy analysis (goals, alternatives, consequences, and choice) to reach conclusions.
- Department: Political Science
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth N Saunders
Wikipedia Info - 4 points
AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY-DISC
Corequisites: POLS UN3631 This is the required discussion section for POLS UN3631.
- Department: Political Science
- T 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
- T 11:10 a.m.-noon
- T 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- T 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
- R 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- R 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Aleksandra Gracheva
Info - 0 points
Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Global History
Curb Your Enthusiasm: Lau
Writers have long considered laughter subversive, shocking, undermining, disturbing, agitating, and even demonic. While Henri Bergson considered laughter to emanate from the sight of a falling man, Baudelaire regarded laughter as a sign of the perpetually fallen state of humankind. Laughter’s medium of expression navigates the verbal, visual, literary, performative, and theatrical. Humans have invoked it for the purposes of entertainment, critique, social bonding, therapy, protest, and navigating repressive regimes. Laughter, therefore, assumes a communal quality whereby it connects an individual to a group, an audience, and a crowd. Bergson famously declared: “Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.” In this course, we will take an interdisciplinary approach to the phenomenon and affect of laughter. We will examine laughter’s history and historicity and the genres it has produced through its incorporation into the public sphere, thus shaping the history of the modern world. The course covers the ribaldry of the Fool’s Literature during the Protestant Reformation, the zaniness of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Gaganendranath Tagore’s political cartoons, the films of Charlie Chaplin and Marx Brothers, writings of Sigmund Freud, Henri Bergson, Mikhail Bakhtin, and John Morreall, Larry David’s television sitcom, Curb Your Enthusiasm leading up to contemporary internet memes. Course assignments will focus on developing writing skills through weekly blog posts on the class Instagram page, two short close-reading assignments, a midterm essay, and a final paper.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sourav Chatterjee
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