MASTERPIECES OF WESTERN ART
Equivalent to HUMA C1121 and F1121. Not a historical survey but an analytical study of masterpieces, including originals available in the metropolitan area. The chief purpose is to acquaint students with the experience of a work of art. A series of topics in the development of Western art, selected to afford a sense of the range of expressive possibilities in painting, sculpture, and architecture, such as the Parthenon, the Gothic cathedral, and works of Michelangelo, Bruegel, Picasso, and others. Space is limited. Columbia University undergraduates who need this course for graduation are encouraged to register during early registration.
- Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
- MW 5:30 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
- TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
- TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
- TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
- MW 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
- MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
- TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
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Matthew N Peebles
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Valerie J Zinner
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Marina Correia
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Muge Arseven
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Denise M Budd
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Emily Spratt
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Caroline B Marvin
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Nicholas S Fitch
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Intensive Elem Italian:Venice
Italian In Venice, ITAL1121. Intensive Elementary Italian. 6 points
Instructor: TBD
Syllabus - Intensive Elementary
The equivalent of Italian 1101/1102 at Columbia. This intensive first year course, open to students with no previous training in Italian, prepares students to move into intermediate Italian.
The course provides students with a foundation in the four language skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. Students are encouraged to participate actively in class discussions and activities and to interact with teacher and classmates. We will learn Italian not only thanks to exercises and conversation, but also through songs, clips, pictures, food, and games. Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to:
provide basic information in Italian about themselves, their interests, their daily activities;
participate in a conversation on everyday topics using the major time frames of present and past;read short edited texts, understand the main ideas, and pick out important information from authentic texts (e.g. menus, signs, train schedules, etc.)
write short compositions on familiar topics;
identify basic cultural rituals and practices in the context of their occurrence.
Please note: If you have completed Elementary 1, you are welcome to enroll in the Intensive Elementary course. You will be expected to enroll in the full 6 point course. While there will be some overlap in the coursework that you already completed at Columbia, it will benefit you to be in Venice to reinforce and enhance your language studies before continuing on to new material. Upon successful completion of the course, you will be awarded 4 points for the Intensive course.
To enroll in this course, you must apply to the
Columbia in Venice
program through the Center for Undergraduate Global Engagement (UGE).
Global Learning Scholarships
available.
Tuition
charges apply.
- Department: Global Programs
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Instructor:
Ricardo A Belisario
Info - 6 points
INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY LATIN
Equivalent to Latin 1101 and 1102. Covers all of Latin grammar and syntax in one term to prepare the student to enter Latin 1201 or 1202. This is an intensive course with substantial preparation time outside of class.
- Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
- MTWR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kristina Milnor
CULPA: 21
Wikipedia
h-index: 10
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- 6 points
MASTERPIECES-WESTERN MUSIC
MASTER WEST MUSIC (PARIS)
HUMA1123OC. Masterpieces of Western Music. 3 points. You are required to take HUMA1121OC, Masterpieces of Western Art for 3 points with this course.
The focus of Music Humanities is the masterpieces of Western art music in their historical and cultural contexts. The specific goals of the course are to awaken and encourage an appreciation of Western music, to help the student learn to respond intelligently to a variety of musical idioms, and to engage the student in the issues of various debates about the character and purposes of music that have occupied composers and musical thinkers since ancient times. Students become actively involved in the process of critical listening both in the classroom and in the live performances that are as central to the course in Berlin and in Paris as in New York. Using a “great works” approach, the course will look at the changing genres and styles of music, examining composers’ choices and assumptions, as well as those of their patrons and audiences, as it moves chronologically from the Middle Ages to the present.
Please note that attendance at all class meetings, concerts, and excursions, unless otherwise indicated, is mandatory.
To enroll in this course in Paris
, you must apply to the
Columbia Summer Core In Paris: Art Humanities and Music Humanities
program through the Center for Undergraduate Global Engagement (UGE).
Global Learning Scholarships
available.
Tuition
charges apply.
To enroll in this course in Berlin
, you must apply to the
Columbia Summer Core In Berlin: Art Humanities and Music Humanities
program through the Center for Undergraduate Global Engagement (UGE).
Global Learning Scholarships
available.
Tuition
charges apply.
- Department: Global Programs
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Instructor:
Magdalena Baczewska
CULPA: 4
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Instructor:
Audrey Amsellem
CULPA: 2 h-index: 0 Info - 3 points
MASTERPIECES-WESTERN MUSIC
MASTER WEST MUSIC(BERLIN)
HUMA1123OC. Masterpieces of Western Music. 3 points. You are required to take HUMA1121OC, Masterpieces of Western Art for 3 points with this course.
The focus of Music Humanities is the masterpieces of Western art music in their historical and cultural contexts. The specific goals of the course are to awaken and encourage an appreciation of Western music, to help the student learn to respond intelligently to a variety of musical idioms, and to engage the student in the issues of various debates about the character and purposes of music that have occupied composers and musical thinkers since ancient times. Students become actively involved in the process of critical listening both in the classroom and in the live performances that are as central to the course in Berlin and in Paris as in New York. Using a “great works” approach, the course will look at the changing genres and styles of music, examining composers’ choices and assumptions, as well as those of their patrons and audiences, as it moves chronologically from the Middle Ages to the present.
Please note that attendance at all class meetings, concerts, and excursions, unless otherwise indicated, is mandatory.
To enroll in this course in Paris
, you must apply to the
Columbia Summer Core In Paris: Art Humanities and Music Humanities
program through the Center for Undergraduate Global Engagement (UGE).
Global Learning Scholarships
available.
Tuition
charges apply.
To enroll in this course in Berlin
, you must apply to the
Columbia Summer Core In Berlin: Art Humanities and Music Humanities
program through the Center for Undergraduate Global Engagement (UGE).
Global Learning Scholarships
available.
Tuition
charges apply.
- Department: Global Programs
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Instructor:
Walter M Frisch
CULPA: 17
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Instructor:
Mariusz Kozak
CULPA: 4 h-index: 5 Info - 3 points
MASTERPIECES OF WESTERN MUSIC
Equivalent to MUSI F1123 and C1123. Part of the Core Curriculum since 1947, Music Humanities aims to instill in students a basic comprehension of the many forms of the Western musical imagination. Its specific goals are to awaken and encourage in students an appreciation of music in the Western world, to help them learn to respond intelligently to a variety of musical idioms, and to engage them in the various debates about the character and purposes of music that have occupied composers and musical thinkers since ancient times. The course attempts to involve students actively in the process of critical listening, both in the classroom and in concerts that the students attend and write about. The extraordinary richness of musical life in New York is thus an integral part of the course. Although not a history of Western music, the course is taught in a chronological format and includes masterpieces by Josquin des Prez, Monteverdi, Bach, Handel, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Verdi, Wagner, Schoenberg, and Stravinsky, among others. No previous knowledge of music required. Columbia University undergraduates who need this course for graduation are encouraged to register during early registration.
- Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
- TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
- MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
- MW 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
- MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
- TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
- MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
- TR 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
- MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
- MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
- MW 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
- MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
- TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
- TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
- TR 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
- TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Peter M Susser
CULPA: 20
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Ruth Opara
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Diana M Rodriguez
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Nina Fukuoka
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Sasha S Doster
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Shirley Chikukwa
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Grant M Woods
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Gabrielle E Ferrari
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Ruth Opara
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David A Farrow
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Ashkan Behzadi
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Joshua Navon
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Knar Abrahamyan
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Ralph R Whyte
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Instructor:
Lucy Turner
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Engineered Mouse Models and Identifying
Mouse Models & Phenotypes
This undergraduate lecture course will introduce how transgenic and mutant mouse models are generated and their utility in defining the functional roles of genes in vivo. Classically, the function of a gene is tested in vivo by either overexpressing or inactivating its expression, leading to a gain-of-function or loss-of-function phenotype from which is inferred a gene’s normal role in homeostasis. Here we will explore the classic strategies for the generation of transgenic and knockout mice, comparing and contrasting their individual strengths and weaknesses, while exploring the phenotypes that have resulted from these changes in gene expression. Using a subset of primary papers, students will be introduced to research analysis to become more versed in the layers of experimental design needed to identify a gene’s function in vivo. The theoretical timing and the strategy needed to design such experiments with these transgenic and mutant mouse models, and the power of stem cell experiments will be discussed.
In addition, to develop critical and additional analytical skills, students will become versed in basic tissue histology and immunohistochemistry, using processed paraffin-embedded mouse tissues from wild-type and engineered mutant mouse lines. Students will learn how to recognize numerous, normal adult tissues with light microscopy and to identify proliferative zones vs. fully differentiated layers within each. In addition, they will analyze the development of mid-to-late gestational embryos in serial sections, to underscore the coordinated transformation of tissues required for normal embryonic development. Finally, serial sections from well-defined mutant mouse models will used to identify and characterize abnormal phenotypes resulting from the knock-out of genes encoding cell cycle regulators or tumor suppressors. Live animal handling or experimentation is not a component of this course.
- Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
- MWF 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lili Yamasaki
CULPA: 5 Info - 1.5 points
INTERMEDIATE FRENCH I
- Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
- MTWR 10 a.m.-12:05 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sophie Queuniet
CULPA: 7
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Instructor:
Eric T Matheis
CULPA: 4
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- 4 points
INTERMEDIATE ITALIAN I
Prerequisites: ITAL V1102 or W1102, or the equivalent. If you did not take Elementary Italian at Columbia in the semester preceding the current one, you must take the placement test, offered by the Italian Department at the beginning of each semester. Same course as ITAL V1201-V1202.
- Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
- MTWR 11:30 a.m.-1:35 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alessandra Saggin
CULPA: 4
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- 4 points
CALCULUS III
Prerequisites: MATH S1102, or the equivalent. Columbia College students who aim at an economics major AND have at least the grade of B in Calculus I may take Calculus III directly after Calculus I. However, all students majoring in engineering, science, or mathematics should follow Calculus I with Calculus II. Vectors in dimensions 2 and 3, complex numbers and the complex exponential function with applications to differential equations, Cramer's rule, vector-valued functions of one variable, scalar-valued functions of several variables, partial derivatives, gradients, surfaces, optimization, the method of Lagrange multipliers.
- Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
- MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
- TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
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Wenqi Li
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Instructor:
Alex M Scheffelin
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GENERAL PHYSICS I
Prerequisites: this course uses elementary concepts from calculus, and students should therefore have some basic background in differentiation and integration. Assignments to discussion sections are made after the first lecture. Basic introduction to the study of mechanics, fluids, and thermodynamics. The accompanying laboratory is PHYS S1291D. NOTE: There are two recitation sessions that meet for one hour each week. The recitation times will be selected at the first class meeting.
- Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
- MTWR 9 a.m.-10:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Eric Raymer
CULPA: 3
Info
- 3 points
INTRO TO AMERICAN POLITICS
Lecture and discussion. Dynamics of political institutions and processes, chiefly of the national government. Emphasis on the actual exercise of political power by interest groups, elites, political parties, and public opinion.
- Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
- MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Judith Russell
CULPA: 49 Info -
Instructor:
Michael Miller
CULPA: 18 h-index: 14 Info - 4 points
INTRO TO AMERICAN POLITICS
Lecture and discussion. Dynamics of political institutions and processes, chiefly of the national government. Emphasis on the actual exercise of political power by interest groups, elites, political parties, and public opinion.
- Department: BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
- MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michael Miller
CULPA: 18 h-index: 14 Info - 4 points
CALC-BASED INTRO TO STATISTICS
Prerequisites: working knowledge of calculus (differentiation and integration). Designed for students who desire a strong grounding in statistical concepts with a greater degree of mathematical rigor than in STAT W1111. Random variables, probability distributions, pdf, cdf, mean, variance, correlation, conditional distribution, conditional mean and conditional variance, law of iterated expectations, normal, chi-square, F and t distributions, law of large numbers, central limit theorem, parameter estimation, unbiasedness, consistency, efficiency, hypothesis testing, p-value,confidence intervals. maximum likelihood estimation. Satisfies the pre-requisites for ECON W3412.
- Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
- MTWR 10:45 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
- MTWR 6:15 p.m.-7:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jonas M Mikhaeil
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Instructor:
Fangyi Chen
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POETRY WRITING WORKSHOP
The Poetry Writing Workshop is designed for all students with a serious interest in poetry writing, from those who lack significant workshop experience or training in the craft of poetry to seasoned workshop participants looking for new challenges and perspectives on their work. Students will be assigned writing exercises emphasizing such aspects of verse composition as the poetic line, the image, rhyme and other sound devices, verse forms, repetition, collage, and others. Students will also read an variety of exemplary work in verse, submit brief critical analyses of poems, and critique each others original work.
- Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
- TR 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Timothy B Donnelly
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Instructor:
Dorothea S Lasky
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
INTERMEDIATE FRENCH II
- Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
- MTWR 10 a.m.-12:05 p.m.
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Instructor:
Zachary Desjardins-Mooney
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Instructor:
Hayet Sellami
CULPA: 3
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- 4 points
INTERMEDIATE ITALIAN II
Prerequisites: ITAL V1201 or W1201, or the equivalent. If you did not take Elementary Italian at Columbia in the semester preceding the current one, you must take the placement test, offered by the Italian Department at the beginning of each semester. A review of grammar, intensive reading, composition, and practice in conversation. Exploration of literary and cultural material. Lab: hours to be arranged. ITAL V1202 fulfils the basic foreign language requirement and prepares students for advanced study in Italian language and literature.
- Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
- MTWR 11:30 a.m.-1:35 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jilian A Pizzi
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
CALCULUS IV
Prerequisites: MATH S1201, or the equivalent. Double and triple integrals. Change of variables. Line and surface integrals. Grad, div, and curl. Vector integral calculus: Green's theorem, divergence theorem, Stokes' theorem
- Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
- TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Luis Fernandez
Info - 3 points
GENERAL PHYSICS II
Prerequisites: PHYS S1201 or the equivalent. This course uses elementary concepts from calculus, and students should therefore have some basic background in differentiation and integration. The same course as PHYS S1202X, but given in a six-week session. Assignments to discussion sections are made after the first lecture. Basic introduction to the study of electricity, magnetism, optics, special relativity, quantum mechanics, atomic physics, and nuclear physics. The accompanying laboratory is PHYS S1292Q. NOTE: There are two recitation sessions that meet for one hour each week. The recitation times will be selected at the first class meeting.
- Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
- MW 6 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
- MTWR 9 a.m.-10:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Nicholas M Luber
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Instructor:
Rebecca I Grossman
CULPA: 3 Info - 3 points
Intensive Inter Italian:Venice
Italian in Venice ITAL1203OC. Intensive Intermediate Italian. 6 points.
Prerequisites: One year of college-level Italian or the equivalent. Instructor: TBD
The equivalent of Italian 1201/1202. This intensive second year course allows students to develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in Italian and a better understanding of Italian culture. Students are involved in activities outside the classroom, where they gather information on Italian cultural topics through interviews and surveys that allow them to engage directly with the local community. Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
use a sufficient range of language to be able to give clear description;
express viewpoints on most general topics;
show a relatively high degree of grammatical control;
use cohesive devices to link their utterances into clear and coherent discourse;
give detailed descriptions and presentations on a wide range of subjects related to their fields of interest, expanding and supporting their ideas;
write clear and detailed text on a variety of subjects related to their field of interest, synthesizing and evaluating information and arguments;
understand straightforward factual information about common everyday life;
interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes for regular interaction;
express news and views effectively in writing, and relate to those of others;
express themselves appropriately in different cultural and communicative situations;
and be aware of the most significant differences between the customs, usages, attitudes, values, and beliefs prevalent in the Italian culture and those of their own.
Please note: If you have completed Intensive 1, you are welcome to enroll in the Intensive Intermediate course. You will be expected to enroll in the full 6-point course. While there will be some overlap in the coursework that you already completed at Columbia, it will benefit you to be in Venice to reinforce and enhance your language studies before continuing on to new material. Upon successful completion of the course, you will be awarded 4 points for the Intensive course.
To enroll in this course, you must apply to the
- Department: Global Programs
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Instructor:
Luca Abbattista
Info - 6 points
CHANGES SPACES AND MOBILITIES: WOMEN IN
The turn-of-the-century United States was a nation on the cusp of a number of momentous social, cultural, and political movements. One of the biggest changes was in the status and role of women. From the emergence of the New Woman in the last decade of the 19th century, to the suffragette in the 1910s and the flapper in the 1920s, the roles and positions of women were expanding and evolving in unprecedented ways. Coupled with the growth and expansion of cities, women’s mobility and the spaces they occupied changed dramatically during this time period. In this course, we will examine texts that depict the situation of women and their mobility in various social and cultural contexts in the shifting urban landscape of early twentieth-century New York City. What spaces were women allowed/expected to occupy? What spaces were considered taboo or off limits? What were the effects and consequences of the spaces that women occupied? How did women’s mobility differ to men’s? How do race and class impact mobility and space? What factors influenced women’s mobility and how did these factors change/develop over time? Course materials will likely include work by Nella Larsen, Djuna Barnes, Sui Sin Far, Anzia Yezierska, Edith Wharton, and Faith Baldwin, as well as the film Skyscraper Souls
- Department: Pre-College Program (Barnard)
- R 9:30 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Kristina Chesaniuk
Info - 0 points
Accel Intermed French: Paris
Accelerated Intermediate French FREN1205OC. 6 points.
Instructor:
Karen Santos Da Silva
, Senior Lecturer of French at Barnard College
On this program, students will prepare for advanced French language and culture with an emphasis on developing highly accurate speaking, reading, and writing skills. While we will read a variety of French and Francophone primary texts, the most important primary text with which students will be engaging on a daily basis is Paris and its diverse inhabitants.
At the conclusion of this course, students will
be able to communicate with French native speakers and navigate living in Paris with ease
be able to confidently express simple concepts in written and spoken French, and begin to express abstract ideas in written and spoken French
be able to describe, narrate, and analyze their cultural experiences orally
have a better mastery of French pronunciation, and colloquial French
have a solid base of knowledge about French and Francophone culture
To enroll in this course, you must apply to the
Columbia Summer Accelerated French in Paris
program through the Center for Undergraduate Global Engagement (UGE).
Global Learning Scholarships
available.
Tuition
charges apply.
Please note the program dates are different from the Summer Sessions Terms. Visit the
UGE
website for the start and end dates for the Columbia Summer Accelerated French in Paris program.
Please email
uge@columbia.edu
with any questions you may have.
- Department: Global Programs
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Instructor:
Karen Santos da Silva
CULPA: 4
Info
- 6 points
FIRST YEAR ARABIC I
Prerequisites: Students that are not registering for MDES S1211 will be required to request professor permission (tb46@columbia.edu) to enroll.
- Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
- MTWRF 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Reem Faraj
CULPA: 4
Info
- 5 points
INTRO-AMERICAN POLITICS-DISC
Required discussion section for POLS UN1201: INTRO TO AMERICAN POLITICS
- Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
- 0 points
INTRO-AMERICAN POLITICS-DISC
INTRO TO AMERICAN POL DISC
Required discussion section for POLS UN1201: INTRO TO AMERICAN POLITICS
- Department: BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michael Miller
CULPA: 18 h-index: 14 Info - 0 points
INTRO-AMERICAN POLITICS-DISC
INTRO TO AMERICAN POL DISC
Required discussion section for POLS UN1201: INTRO TO AMERICAN POLITICS
- Department: BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michael Miller
CULPA: 18 h-index: 14 Info - 0 points
Foundations of Science
Using modern, student-centered, active and collaborative learning techniques, students will engage — through field observations, in-class experiments, computer simulations, and selected readings — with a range of ideas and techniques designed to integrate and anchor scientific habits of mind. Throughout the term, all students will satisfy a detailed set of rubrics by documenting their learning in reflection postings designed to serve as a future reference for how they, individually, went from not understanding an idea to understanding it. Topics covered will include statistics, basic probability, a variety of calculational skills, graph reading, and estimation — all aimed at elucidating such concepts as energy, matter, cells, and genes in the context of astronomy, biology, chemistry, earth science, neuroscience, and physics.
- Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
- TR 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Klejda Bega
Info - 4 points
SECOND YEAR ARABIC I
Prerequisites: MDES UN1211-UN1212, or the equivalent.
- Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
- MTWRF 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ouijdane Absi
CULPA: 6
Info
- 5 points
SECOND YEAR ARABIC II
Prerequisites: Prerequisites: MDES UN1211-UN1212 and UN1214 or the equivalent.
INTENSIVE INTERMEDIATE LATIN
- Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
- MTWR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Marissa K Swan
Info - 6 points
GENERAL PHYSICS LAB I
Prerequisites: PHYS S1201. May be taken before or concurrently with this course. Laboratory for PHYS S1201D. Assignments to laboratory sections are made after the first lecture, offered Mon/Wed or Tues/Thurs 10.30AM-1.30PM.
- Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
- MW 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
- TR 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
- 1 points
GENERAL PHYSICS LAB II
Prerequisites: PHYS S1202. May be taken before or concurrently with this course. Laboratory for PHYS 1202X. Assignments to laboratory sections are made after the first lecture. NOTE: Labs meet one day a week (Mon, Tues, Wed or Thurs) 1:00pm - 4:00pm only. There are no evening lab sections.
- Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
- M 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
- T 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
- W 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
- R 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
- MW 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
- TR 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
- 1 points
COLLOQUIUM ON MAJOR TEXTS
Readings in translation and discussion of texts of Middle Eastern and Indian origin. Readings may include the Quran, Islamic philosophy, Sufi poetry, the Upanishads, Buddhist sutras, the Bhagavad Gita, Indian epics and drama, and Gandhis Autobiography.
- Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
- MW 2 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jonathan Peterson
Info - 4 points
COLLOQUIUM ON MAJOR TEXTS: MIDDLE EAST/I
This seminar is an exploration of some "great books" from the Middle East and South Asia. We will read books, plays, stories, and poems in English translation that were originally written in Arabic, Persian, Bangla, Sanskrit. From the Thousand and One Nights to an Arabic epic about a warrior princess to the Bhagavad Gita, we will examine themes of storytelling, gender, politics, and the nature of divinity. With the exception of one Sudanese novel, we will be focusing on texts from the premodern period, and our focus will be on how to interpret texts, develop arguments about those texts, and learning about cultures of reading and writing in the past.
- Department: BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
- MW 3 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Instructor:
Matthew L Keegan
CULPA: 8 Info - 4 points
COLLOQUIUM ON MAJOR TEXTS: MIDDLE EAST/I
This seminar is an exploration of some "great books" from the Middle East and South Asia. We will read books, plays, stories, and poems in English translation that were originally written in Arabic, Persian, Bangla, Sanskrit. From the Thousand and One Nights to an Arabic epic about a warrior princess to the Bhagavad Gita, we will examine themes of storytelling, gender, politics, and the nature of divinity. With the exception of one Sudanese novel, we will be focusing on texts from the premodern period, and our focus will be on how to interpret texts, develop arguments about those texts, and learning about cultures of reading and writing in the past.
- Department: BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
- MW 3 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Instructor:
Matthew L Keegan
CULPA: 8 Info - 4 points
EARTH, MOON AND PLANETS
Prerequisites: Recommended preparation: a working knowledge of high school algebra. May be counted toward the science requirement for most Columbia University undergraduate students. The overall architecture of the solar system. Motions of the celestial sphere. Time and the calendar. Major planets, the earth-moon system, minor planets, comets. Life in the solar system and beyond.
- Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
- TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
James H Applegate
CULPA: 44 Info - 3 points
GENERAL CHEMISTRY I-LECTURES
Prerequisites: high school chemistry and algebra, CHEM S0001, or the department's permission. Topics include stoichiometry, states of matter, nuclear properties, electronic structures of atoms, periodic properties, chemical bonding, molecular geometry, introduction to quantum mechanics and atomic theory, introduction to organic, biological chemistry and inorganic coordination chemistry. Topical subjects may include spectroscopy, solid state and materials science, polymer science and macromolecular structures. The order of presentation of topics may differ from the order presented here. Students are required to attend the separate daily morning recitations which accompany the lectures (total time block: MTWR 9:30-12:20). Registering for CHEM S1403D will automatically register students for the recitation section. Students who wish to take the full sequence of General Chemistry Lectures and General Chemistry Laboratory should also register for CHEM S1404Q and CHEM S1500 (see below). This course is equivalent to CHEM W1403 General Chemistry I Lecture.
- Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
- MTWR 9:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jason G Polisar
CULPA: 4 Info - 4 points
GENERAL CHEMISTRY II-LECTURES
Prerequisites: CHEM S1403 General Chemistry I Lecture or the equivalent. Topics include gases, kinetic theory of gases, states of matter: liquids and solids, chemical equilibria, acids and bases, applications of equilibria, thermochemistry and spontaneous processes (energy, enthalpy, entropy, free energy) as well as chemical kinetics and electrochemistry. The order of presentation of topics may differ from the order presented here. Students must also attend the daily morning recitations which accompany the lectures (total time block: MTWR 9:30-12:20). Registering for CHEM S1404Q will automatically register students for the recitation section. The continuation of CHEM S1403D General Chemistry I Lecture. Students who wish to take the full sequence of General Chemistry Lectures and General Chemistry Laboratory should also register for CHEM S1403D and CHEM S1500 (see below). This course is equivalent to CHEM UN1404 General Chemistry II Lecture.
- Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
- MTWR 9:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
- TR 6:10 p.m.-7:35 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jason G Polisar
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Instructor:
Ruben M Savizky
CULPA: 22
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- 4 points
GENERAL CHEMISTRY II-REC
Corequisites: CHEM S1404X. To be enrolled in CHEM S1404X, you must be enrolled in CHEM S1406X.
- Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
- T 5 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
- T 8 p.m.-8:50 p.m.
- R 5 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ruben M Savizky
CULPA: 22
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- 0 points
EXPERIMNTL PSYCH:HUMN BEHAVIOR
Introduction to the techniques of research employed in the study of human behavior. Students gain experience in the conduct of research, including design of simple experiments, observation and measurement techniques, and the analysis of behavioral data.
- Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
- MTWR 10:45 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Patricia G Lindemann
CULPA: 64 Info - 4 points
GENERAL CHEMISTRY: LABORATORY
Prerequisites: (CHEM UN1403) Introduction to basic experimental techniques in chemistry, including quantitative procedures, chemical analysis, and descriptive chemistry. To be enrolled in CHEM S1500X you must also register for CHEM S1501 Lab Lecture.
- Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
- MW 12:10 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
- T 1:10 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
- W 1:10 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
- R 1:10 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sarah J Hansen
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Instructor:
Joseph C Ulichny
CULPA: 9
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- 3 points
GENERAL CHEMISTRY LAB-LECTURE
Corequisites: CHEM S1500 Lab lecture for CHEM S1500 General Chemistry Laboratory.
- Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
- M 3 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Joseph C Ulichny
CULPA: 9
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- 0 points
INTRO TO COMPARATIVE POLITICS
This course provides a broad overview of the comparative politics subfield by focusing on important substantive questions about the world today. The course is organized around four questions. First, why can only some people depend upon the state to enforce order? Second, how can we account for the differences between autocracies and democracies? Third, what different institutional forms does democratic government take? Finally, are some institutions more likely than others to produce desirable social outcomes such as accountability, redistribution, and political stability?
- Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
- TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Beatrice Bonini
Info - 4 points
INTRO-COMPARATIVE POLITCS-DISC
This is the required discussion section for POLS UN1501.
- Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Indira Tirumala
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INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
This introductory course surveys key topics in the study of international politics, including the causes of war and peace; the efficacy of international law and human rights; the origins of international development and underdevelopment; the politics of global environmental protection; and the future of US-China relations. Throughout the course, we will focus on the
interests
of the many actors of world politics, including states, politicians, firms, bureaucracies, international organizations, and nongovernmental organizations; the
interactions
between them; and the
institutions
in which they operate. By the end of the semester, students will be better equipped to systematically study international relations and make informed contributions to critical policy debates.
- Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
- TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Urte Peteris
Info - 4 points
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS-DISC
This is the required discussion section for POLS UN1601.
- Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
- TR 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Pierre de Dreuzy
Info - 0 points
INTRO DARKROOM PHOTOGRAPHY
Introductory course to analog photographic tools, techniques, and photo criticism. This class explores black & white, analog camera photography and darkroom processing and printing. Areascovered include camera operations, black and white darkroom work, 8x10 print production, and critique. With an emphasis on the student’s own creative practice, this course will explore the basics of photography and its history through regular shooting assignments, demonstrations, critique, lectures, and readings. No prior photography experience is required.
- Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
- MW 1 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
- TR 1 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alexander T McTigue
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Instructor:
Jacqueline L Silberbush
Info - 3 points
INTRO DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Since Walter Benjamin’s concept of “work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction” (1935), photography has been continuously changed by mechanical, and then digital, means of image capture and processing. This class explores the history of the image, as a global phenomenon that accompanied industrialization, conflict, racial reckonings, and decolonization. Students will study case studies, read critical essays, and get hands-on training in capture, workflow, editing, output, and display formats using digital equipment (e.g., DSLR camera) and software (e.g., Lightroom, Photoshop, Scanning Software). Students will complete weekly assignments, a midterm project, and a final project based on research and shooting assignments. No Prerequisites and no equipment needed. All enrolled students will be able to check out Canon EOS 5D DSLR Camera; receive an Adobe Creative Cloud license; and get access to Large Format Print service.
- Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
- TR 1 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Karen Dias
Info - 3 points
Photo Exhibitions
A photography exhibition is a form of “show and tell” that combines a photographer’s creativity with the audience’s interaction (applause, excitement, boredom, learning). This course explores historic and modern photography exhibitions designed by curators, organizations, and artists. We explore the ways a photograph breathes in the “living” world as compared to the “static” world of newspapers, magazines, or photobooks. Making use of New York’s vast cultural network, we will go on field trips to public museums, commercial galleries, and independent spaces in Chelsea, Downtown, Long Island City, Bronx, etc. Students will design a mini-exhibition as their final project. Students will maintain a daily
Reflection Journal
to document their experiences at each location, capturing the ideas discussed and materials presented. The journal serves as a creative space for exploring the topics covered in the course and for developing concepts for the final project. The Final Project will be a collectively curated one-day exhibition on campus.
- Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
- MW 1 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dana N Buhl
Info - 3 points
PhotoBook History
This course explores the photobook as a central medium of lens-based contemporary art practice and bookmaking. You will be exposed to a variety of geographies (Japan, USA, Europe, Latin America, Africa), approaches (formal book, luxury volume, grassroots zine, national archive, art object), subject matters (autobiography, fiction, historical, journalism, epic events), and materials. Using Columbia’s world-famous library holdings, many photo and art books and a diverse range of viewpoints will be studied through historical lectures and New York City field trips. Students will learn hands-on processes of photobook and fanzine making.
DEAD MOTHERS AND WICKED STEPMOTHERS: THE
DEAD MOTHER-WICKED STEPMO
You know them well: on one side, the scheming, jealous stepmother, obsessed with her fading youth. On the other, her husband’s virginal, naive, and beautiful daughter – whose own mother is usually dead. The conflict between them is so familiar that it feels inevitable. Where, though, did these nearly universal figures come from? Why are they so ingrained in the imaginations of people around the world and across the millennia? In this course, we’ll explore the roots of the maternal in folk and fairy tales. We’ll analyze a variety of stories and films to investigate the “absent mother,” “virginal daughter,” and “wicked stepmother” from different critical perspectives, paying special attention to analytical psychology and feminist psychoanalytic theories, to try to figure out why these figures are so compelling, so ubiquitous, and so hard to shake.
- Department: BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
- TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Wendy C Schor-Haim
CULPA: 11
Info
- 3 points
DEAD MOTHERS AND WICKED STEPMOTHERS: THE
DEAD MOTHER-WICKED STEPMO
You know them well: on one side, the scheming, jealous stepmother, obsessed with her fading youth. On the other, her husband’s virginal, naive, and beautiful daughter – whose own mother is usually dead. The conflict between them is so familiar that it feels inevitable. Where, though, did these nearly universal figures come from? Why are they so ingrained in the imaginations of people around the world and across the millennia? In this course, we’ll explore the roots of the maternal in folk and fairy tales. We’ll analyze a variety of stories and films to investigate the “absent mother,” “virginal daughter,” and “wicked stepmother” from different critical perspectives, paying special attention to analytical psychology and feminist psychoanalytic theories, to try to figure out why these figures are so compelling, so ubiquitous, and so hard to shake.
- Department: BARNARD SUMMER PROGRAMS
- TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Wendy C Schor-Haim
CULPA: 11
Info
- 3 points
GLOBAL BEHAVORIAL SCIENCE
Global Behavioral Science
PSYC1991OC, Global Behavioral Science, 4 credits.
Instructor: Dr. Sarah Ashcroft-Jones .Eligibility
:
This course is open to undergraduates, graduate students, and visiting students.
Students will participate in a practicum hosted at the University of Cambridge (UCAM). They will work with 20 to 30 psychology students on the
Junior Research Programme
from multiple universities and countries who will join the practicum, along with over 100 other research collaborators. The objective is for students to get hands-on experience in carrying out behavioral science research, from study development to dissemination, while participating in a large, international collaboration. Specific skills to be acquired include multicultural teamwork, research design, data collection (internationally), data analysis, scientific writing, and academic presentation. Students are encouraged to engage in the publication and revision process, subject to feasibility. All contributors will receive authorship credit.
Examples of previous publications:
Summer 2022 Cohort
Summer 2023 Cohort
(Pre-print)
Academic Schedule:
Students will be expected to complete some assignments prior to the program start. This pre-work will take a maximum of 3 total working days, and will need to be completed by July 10th. Students will occasionally be expected to be available outside of the regularly schedule course times in to support collaborators who are in different time zones. Outside of course meetings, students will be expected to complete independent task, training, group work, and maintain some flexibility in their schedulesas needed.
To enroll in this course, you must apply to the
Columbia Summer Research Practice in Global Behavioral Science Program
through the Center for Undergraduate Global Engagement (UGE). ).
Global Learning Scholarships
Vergil
- Department: Global Programs
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Instructor:
Sarah Ashcroft-Jones
Info - 4 points
Core as Praxis/Fieldwork
"The Core as Praxis/Fieldwork” provides students with the opportunity to explore the connections among texts from the Core Curriculum, their work in their major field of study, and their work in a professional environment outside of Columbia’s campus. Students will be guided through a process of reflection on the ideas and approaches that they develop in Core classes and in the courses in their major, to think about how they can apply theory to practice in the context of an internship or other experiential learning environment. Students will reread and revisit a text that they have studied previously in Literature Humanities or in Contemporary Civilization as the basis for their reading and writing assignments over the semester.
To be eligible, students must (1) be engaged during the semester in an internship or other experiential learning opportunity, (2) have completed the sophomore year, and (3) have declared their major (or concentration)
. HUMAUN2000 may not be taken with the Pass/D/Fail option. All students will receive a letter grade for the course. Students can take HUMAUN2000 twice.
- Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
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Instructor:
Jenny Rhodes
Info - 1 points