FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING

Enables students to become informed users of financial information by understanding the language of accounting and financial reporting. Focuses on the three major financial statements that companies prepare for use of management and external parties—the balance sheet, the income statement, and the statement of cash flows. Examines the underlying concepts that go into the preparation of these financial statements as well as specific accounting rules that apply when preparing financial statements. Also looks at approaches to analyze the financial strength and operations of an entity. Uses actual financial statements to understand how financial information is presented and to apply analysis techniques.

• Department: Columbia College
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Julian Yeo
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

FIELD METHODS IN ENVIR SCIENCE

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited. Five required field trips that take a substantial portion of the day.
Problem-oriented, hands-on approach emphasizing the tools, techniques, and observational skills necessary for the understanding of forest ecology and deer management. Field and laboratory work as well as data analysis and interpretation. Field Methods utilizes the outdoor resources of the Hudson River Valley, especially the forest environment at Black Rock Forest, a 4,000-acre preserve near Cornwall, N.Y.

• Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
• F 8:40 a.m.-11:40 a.m.
• Instructor: Peter M Bower
  CULPA: 56 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED TRANSLATION

Prerequisites: Satisfaction of the language requirement or the equivalent.
Translation of various styles of prose and poetry from French to English.

• Department: French @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Laurie Postlewate
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 3 points

STRUCTURE AND STYLE

STRUCTURE & STYLE

• Department: Writing
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Elianna Kan
  Info
• 3 points

INTRO-STAT-ECOLGY/EVOL BIO-LAB

INTRO-STAT-ECOLGY/EVOL BI0-LAB

Using evolutionary principles as the unifying theme, we will survey the study of animal behavior, including the history, basic principles and research methods.   Fieldwork is a significant component of this course and through observations at the World Wildlife Conservation Park (Bronx Zoo) and in the urban environment of New York, students will gain familiarity with the scientific method, behavioral observation and research design. Although this is listed as a 3000-level course, no prior biology experience is required. Fulfills the science requirement for most Columbia and GS undergraduates. Field trip: TBD, most probably trip to zoo—during class time; students pay for public transportation

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• M 7:40 p.m.-8:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Indrani Pal
  Info
• 0 points

INTRO-STAT-ECOLGY/EVOL BIO-LAB

INTRO-STAT-ECOLGY/EVOL BIO LAB

Using evolutionary principles as the unifying theme, we will survey the study of animal behavior, including the history, basic principles and research methods.   Fieldwork is a significant component of this course and through observations at the World Wildlife Conservation Park (Bronx Zoo) and in the urban environment of New York, students will gain familiarity with the scientific method, behavioral observation and research design. Although this is listed as a 3000-level course, no prior biology experience is required. Fulfills the science requirement for most Columbia and GS undergraduates. Field trip: TBD, most probably trip to zoo—during class time; students pay for public transportation

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• W 7:10 p.m.-8:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Indrani Pal
  Info
• 0 points

THE EARTH'S CARBON CYCLE

Prerequisites: introductory chemistry and environmental science or their equivalents, or the instructor's permission.
Three problems are considered: the identity of the missing sink for fossil fuel CO2, the cause of the low atmospheric CO2 content during glacial time, and the possibility of a tie between tectonics and atmospheric CO2 content.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Wallace S Broecker
  Wikipedia h-index: 142 Info
• 3 points

ENVIRONMENTAL MEASURMENTS

ENVIRONMENTAL MEASUREMENTS

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited. Required field trip on first Friday of the semester.
Hands-on approach to learning environmental methods. Students take a one-day cruise on the Hudson River to collect environmental samples. These samples are then analyzed throughout the semester to characterize the Hudson River estuary. Standard and advanced techniques to analyze water and sediment samples for nutrients and contaminants are taught.

• Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
• MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Brian Mailloux
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 36 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED ORAL FRENCH

Prerequisites: At least one French course after completion of the language requirement and permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 12 students.
Oral presentations and discussions of French films aimed at increasing fluency, acquiring vocabulary, and perfecting pronunciation skills.

• Department: French @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Anne Boyman
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 3 points

WALKING

Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT required.
As Walter Benjamin notes in
The Arcades Project
: "Basic to flanerie, among other things, is the idea that the fruits of idleness are more precious than the fruits of labor.  The flaneur, as is well known, makes 'studies'."  This course will encourage you to make "studies" -- poems, essays, stories, or multimedia pieces -- based on your walks.  We will read depictions of walking from multiple disciplines, including philosophy, poetry, history, religion, visual art, and urban planning.  Occasionally we will walk together.  An important point of the course is to develop mobile forms of writing.  How can writing emerge from, and document, a walk's encounters, observations, and reflections?  What advantages does mobility bring to our work?  Each week you will write a short piece (1-3 pages) that engages your walks while responding to close readings of the assigned material.

• Department: Writing
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: John D Cotner
  Info
• 3 points

ENVIRONMENTAL DATA ANALYSIS

Prerequisites: One year of college science or EESC V2100 or permission of the instructor.
Acquisition, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of environmental data, assessment of spatial and temporal variability. Focus on water quality issues and storm surges. Uses existing and student-generated data sets. Basic principles of statistics and GIS, uses standard software packages including EXCEL and ArcGIS. Includes a half-day field trip on a Saturday or Sunday.
General Education Requirement: Quantitative and Deductive Reasoning (QUA).

• Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
• TR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Frank Nitsche
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 29 Info
• 3 points

ECONOMETRICS

Prerequisites: ECON BC3033 or ECON BC3035, and ECON BC2411 or STAT W1111 or STAT W1211, or permission of the instructor.
Specification, estimation and evaluation of economic relationships using economic theory, data, and statistical inference; testable implications of economic theories; econometric analysis of topics such as consumption, investment, wages and unemployment, and financial markets.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Anja Tolonen
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 8 Info
• 4 points

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING LAB I

Experiments in instrumentation and measurement: optical, pressure, fluid flow, temperature, stress, and electricity; viscometry, cantilever beam, digital data acquisition. Probability theory: distribution, functions of random variables, tests of significance, correlation, ANOVA, linear regression. A lab fee of $50.00 is collected.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeffrey W Kysar
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 37 Info
• 3 points

LABOR ECONOMICS

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Lalith Munasinghe
  CULPA: 33 Info
• 3 points

ANALYSIS OF CHEM ENGIN PROBLMS

Prerequisites: Vector calculus, ordinary differential equations.
Corequisites: CHEE E3010,CHEN E3110
Computational solutions of chemical engineering problems in thermodynamics, transport phenomena, and reaction design.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Alan West
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 48 Info
• 3 points

MARKETING MANAGEMENT

INTRO-MARKETING/MARKETING MGMT

Designed to provide students with an understanding of the fundamental marketing concepts and their application by business and non-business organizations. The goal is to expose students to these concepts as they are used in a wide variety of settings, including consumer goods firms, manufacturing and service industries, and small and large businesses. The course gives an overview of marketing strategy issues, elements of a market (company, customers, and competition), as well as the fundamental elements of the marketing mix (product, price, placement/distribution, and promotion).

• Department: Columbia College
• M 2:40 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Tomomichi Amano
  Info
• 3 points

MAJOR FRENCH TEXTS I

Prerequisites: Satisfaction of the language requirement or the equivalent.
Medieval, Renaissance, and Classical literature in their cultural context.

• Department: French @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Laurie Postlewate
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 3 points

DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Prerequisites:
BIOL C2005
-
C2006
or equivalent.
Come discover how the union of egg and sperm triggers the complex cellular interactions that specify the diverse variety of cells present in multicellular organisms. Cellular and molecular aspects of sex determination, gametogenesis, genomic imprinting, X-chromosome inactivation, telomerase as the biological clock, stem cells, cloning, the pill and cell interactions will be explored, with an emphasis on humans. Original research articles will be discussed to further examine current research in developmental biology. SCE and TC students may register for this course, but they must first obtain the written permission of the instructor, by filling out a paper Registration Adjustment Form (Add/Drop form). The form can be downloaded at the URL below, but must be signed by the instructor and returned to the office of the registrar. 
http://registrar.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/reg-adjustment.pdf

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Alice Heicklen
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

ECONOMIC HISTORY OF EUROPE

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Alan Dye
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 3 points

THE HUDSON RIVER ENVIRONMENT

THE HUDSON: ESTUARY,RIV,ENVIR

• Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Peter M Bower
  CULPA: 56 Info
• 3 points

MIGRATION & ECONOMIC CHANGE

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ashley Timmer
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

FINANCIAL ECONOMICS

Prerequisites:
ECON W3211, W3213
and
STAT 1201
.
Institutional nature and economic function of financial markets. Emphasis on both domestic and international markets (debt, stock, foreign exchange, eurobond, eurocurrency, futures, options, and others). Principles of security pricing and portfolio management; the Capital Asset Pricing Model and the Efficient Markets Hypothesis.

• Department: Economics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Gernot Mueller
  Info
• 3 points

THEATER OF THE CLASSICAL AGE

Prerequisites: Prerequisites: Satisfaction of French language requirement or permission of the instructor.
This course will provide a detailed introduction to the three great French dramatists of the seventeenth century, rightly known as the golden age of French theatre. Reading several canonical works by each of these three playwrights-Corneille, Racine, and Molière-students will closely examine the thematic concerns (the relationship between love and duty, the individual and the state, free will and divine providence; the problems of hypocrisy, dishonesty, sexual jealousy, and avarice; the nature of kingship and the extent or the limits of royal control; the differences between prescribed gender roles for men and for women; the recourse to and reworking of mythological and Biblical sources) the plays set forth, and the rhetorical strategies they employ (from classical, Greco-Roman devices such as metaphor, apostrophe, irony, preterition, prosopopoeia, and anagnorisis to the specifically French metrical pattern of the alexandrin).

• Department: French @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Caroline Weber
  CULPA: 8 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

MAKING, BREAKING CODES

Prerequisites: (MATH UN1101 and MATH UN1102 and MATH UN1201 and MATH UN2010)
A concrete introduction to abstract algebra. Topics in abstract algebra used in cryptography and coding theory.

• Department: Mathematics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Dorian Goldfeld
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ORDINARY DIFFERENTL EQUATIONS

Prerequisites: MATH UN1102 and MATH UN1201 or the equivalent.
Corequisites: MATH UN2010
Equations of order one; systems of linear equations. Second-order equations. Series solutions at regular and singular points. Boundary value problems. Selected applications.

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Hector A Chang-Lara
  Info
• 3 points

EMPIRICAL APPROACHES DEVLPMNT

Prerequisites: (ECON BC3035 or ECON BC3033) and ECON UN3412 ECON BC3035 or ECON BC3033 and Econometrics, or permission of the instructor.
Examination of new challenges in the global economy from unequal income distribution and poor institutions to health epidemics and natural disasters. Accessing and analyzing real-time and historic data to understand the current global economy.  Applied econometric techniques.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Anja Tolonen
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

ECONOMICS OF LIFE

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Hamermesh
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN EDUCAT

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. Course enrollment will be determined after the first class meeting; application is available on CourseWorks.,,Open to all students; preference given to Urban Teaching, Education Studies and Urban Studies students.
Contemporary Issues in Education is an introduction to the range of intellectual dilemmas that are a part of American schooling through the illumination of the various social, philosophical, economic, and institutional forces that shape the learning environment. The topics serve to promote critical thought of educational dilemmas stemming from issues such as power and authority, the intersection of race, gender, socio-economic inequity, and challenges that confront students such as identity, marginalization and resiliency. This course is open to all students interested in investigating one’s best “fit” in the education realm, which may include classroom teaching, educational policy, reform, and NGO-based involvement.

• Department: Education @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Thea Abu El-Haj
  Info
• 4 points

AGRICULTURAL & URBAN LAND USE

• Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Cynthia E Rosenzweig
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

INTERMEDTE MACROECONOMC THEORY

Prerequisites: An introductory course in economics and a functioning knowledge of high school algebra and analytical geometry or permission of the instructor.
Systematic exposition of current macroeconomic theories of unemployment, inflation, and international financial adjustments.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Andre Burgstaller
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 4 points

WASTE MANAGEMENT

Project-oriented study of waste management issues and policy. Cradle-to-grave analysis of product and waste streams. Analysis of municipal solid waste, landfills, incineration, recycling, sewage waste and sewage treatment.

• Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Peter M Bower
  CULPA: 56 Info
• 3 points

MEDIEVAL LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

MEDIEVAL LATIN

Prerequisites: four semesters of college Latin or the instructor's permission.
This survey focuses on translation, grammatical analysis, and discussion of the literary and cultural contexts of medieval Latin prose and poetry. It includes widely read texts by major authors (e.g. Augustin, Boethius, Abelard and Heloise, Bernard of Clairvaux, Petrarch) as well as lesser-known anonymous pieces (e.g. love lyric from the
Cambridge Songs
and the
Carmina Burana
, poetic satire from a
rotulus
, and a novel, the
Historia Apollonii
).

• Department: Classics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Carmela V Franklin
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

BIOTECHNOLOGY

Prerequisites: genetics or molecular biology.
The course covers techniques currently used to explore and manipulate gene function and their applications in medicine and the environment. Part I covers key laboratory manipulations, including DNA cloning, gene characterization, association of genes with disease, and methods for studying gene regulation and activities of gene products. Part II also covers commercial applications, and includes animal cell culture, production of recombinant proteins, novel diagnostics, high throughput screening, and environmental biosensors. SCE and TC students may register for this course, but they must first obtain the written permission of the instructor, by filling out a paper Registration Adjustment Form (Add/Drop form). The form can be downloaded at the URL below, but must be signed by the instructor and returned to the office of the registrar. 
http://registrar.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/reg-adjustment.pdf

• Department: Biological Sciences
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• 3 points

INTERMEDTE MICROECONOMC THEORY

Prerequisites: An introductory course in microeconomics or a combined macro/micro principles course (ECON BC1003 or ECON W1105, or the equivalent) and one semester of calculus or ECON BC1007, or permission of the instructor.
Preferences and demand; production, cost, and supply; behavior of markets in partial equilibrium; resource allocation in general equilibrium; pricing of goods and services under alternative market structures; implications of individual decision-making for labor supply; income distribution, welfare, and public policy. Emphasis on problem solving.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Lalith Munasinghe
  CULPA: 33 Info
• 4 points

19TH CENTURY FRENCH POETRY

BAUDELAIRE, RIMBAUD, MALLARME

• Department: French @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Anne Boyman
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 3 points

INTERNATIONAL MONEY & FINANCE

Prerequisites: ECON BC3033.
Introduction to balance of payments and exchange rate theory; capital mobility and expectations; internal and external adjustment under fixed and flexible exchange rates; international financial markets; capital mobility and expectations; international policy coordination and optimum currency areas; history of the international monetary system.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Andre Burgstaller
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 3 points

ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY I

Prerequisites: an introductory course in anthropology.
Institutions of social life. Kinship and locality in the structuring of society. Monographs dealing with both literate and nonliterate societies will be discussed in the context of anthropological fieldwork methods.

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Lesley Sharp
  CULPA: 22 Info
• 4 points

CELL BIOLOGY

Prerequisites: one year of biology, normally
BIOL C2005-C2006
, or the equivalent.
Cell Biology 3041/4041 is an upper-division course that covers in depth all organelles of cells, how they make up tissues, secrete substances important for the organism, generate and adapt to their working environment in the body, move throughout development, and signal to each other. Because these topics were introduced in the Intro Course (taught by Mowshowitz and Chasin), this course or its equivalent is a pre-requisite for W3041/4041. Students for whom this course is useful include biology, biochem or biomedical engineering majors, those preparing to apply for medical school or graduate school, and those doing or planning to start doing research in a biology or biomedical lab. SCE and TC students may register for this course, but they must first obtain the written permission of the instructor, by filling out a paper Registration Adjustment Form (Add/Drop form). The form can be downloaded at the URL below, but must be signed by the instructor and returned to the office of the registrar. 
http://registrar.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/reg-adjustment.pdf

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeannette C Bulinski
  Info
• 3 points

THEORETICL FOUNDTNS-POLIT ECON

Prerequisites: An introductory course in economics or permission of the instructor.
Intellectual origins of the main schools of thought in political economy. Study of the founding texts in classical political economy, Marxian economics, neoclassicism, and Keynesianism.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: David Weiman
  CULPA: 40 Info
• Instructor: Belinda Archibong
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 7 Info
• 3 points

SOLID ST,MICROWAVE,OPTICS LAB

Prerequisites: (ELEN E3106) and (ELEN E3401)
Optical electronics and communications. Microwave circuits. Physical electronics.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Wen I Wang
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

FROM COLONIAL TO GLOBAL HEALTH

Two decades or so after decolonization post-World War II, a small but growing group of historians of medicine directed their attention to disease and health care in colonial settings. The undergraduate seminar examines this literature as well as readings from a range of disciplines—history, anthropology, medicine, and public health—to make sense of the ways in which indigenous populations interacted with colonial medical practices and various medical actors (hygienists, military personnel, missionaries, medical doctors, etc.) and how in turn these biocolonial and bioimperial projects were deployed, to what end, and with what consequences. The seminar explores issues related to race, religion, modernity, subjectivity, imperial ambitions, and agency (local and foreign) through the lens of public health policies, epidemics, psychiatry, medical schools, diseases, and hospitals. The seminar finally examines two emerging and intertwined literatures: (i) the colonial genealogy of the “global heath” paradigm, and (ii) the post-colonial histories of diseases, health care infrastructures, behaviors, and practices as they now play out in post-colonial settings.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Joelle Abi-Rached
  Info
• 3 points

BIG DATA WITH PYTHON

Big Data is changing how we interact with and understand the environment. Yet analyzing Big Data requires new tools and methods. Students will learn to use Python programming to analyze and visualize large environmental and earth's systems data sets in ways that Excel is not equipped to do. This will include both time series and spatial analyses with programming occurring interactively during class and assignments designed to strengthen methods and results. Students will learn to write code in Python, plot, map, sub-select, clean, organize, and perform statistical analyses on large global scale data sets, using the data in analysis, and take any data set no matter how large or complicated.

• Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
• MW 9:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
• Instructor: Brian Mailloux
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 36 Info
• 3 points

PROJECT LAB-MOLECULAR GENETICS

Prerequisites: one year of introductory biology and the instructor's permission.
Project laboratory on the manipulation of nucleic acids in prokaryotes, including DNA isolation, restriction mapping, and transformation. The first part of the laboratory involves learning of techniques to be used subsequently in independent research projects suggested by the professor.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexander A Tzagoloff
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 96 Info
• 5 points

MATH & THE CITY

MATH AND THE CITY

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
In partnership with NYC public school teachers, students will have opportunities to engage in mathematical learning, lesson study, curriculum development, and implementation, with a focus on using the City as a resource. Students will explore implications for working with diverse populations. Non-math majors, pre-service elementary students and first-year students welcome. Fieldwork and field trips required. Note: Students in the Childhood Urban Teaching Program may use this course as a pedagogical elective.

• Department: Education @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Edstrom
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

SCIENCE IN THE CITY II

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. Open to Non-science majors, pre-service elementary students, and first-year students.
Students investigate the science of learning, the Next Generation Science Standards, scientific inquiry and engineering design practices, and strategies to include families in fostering student achievement and persistence in science. Fieldwork required. Note: Students in the Childhood Urban Teaching Program may use this course as a pedagogical elective.

• Department: Education @Barnard
• W 4:30 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria S Rivera Maulucci
  h-index: 10 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS I

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and completion of all courses (except for the senior requirement) required for the economics track, political economy track, or economics and mathematics majors. Exceptions to these prerequisites may be granted by the chair of the department only.
Tutorials and conferences on the research for and writing of the senior thesis.  This is the 1st semester of a two-semester course sequence.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Sonia Pereira
  CULPA: 19 Info
• Instructor: Randall Reback
  CULPA: 17 h-index: 14 Info
• Instructor: David Weiman
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 4 points

ASSESSMENT OF TEACHING

• Department: Education @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria S Rivera Maulucci
  h-index: 10 Info
• 3 points

ISLAM&EUROPE; IN THE MIDDLE AGES

This course explores the encounter between Europe, broadly conceived, and the Islamic world in the period from the seventh to the thirteenth centuries.  While the Latin Christian military expeditions that began in the late eleventh century known as the Crusades are part of this story, they are not the focus.  The course stresses instead the range of diplomatic, commercial, intellectual, artistic, religious, and military interactions established well before the Crusades across a wide geographical expanse, with focal points in Iberia and Southern Italy.  Substantial readings in primary sources in translation are supplemented with recent scholarship.  [Students will be assigned on average 150-200 pages of reading per week, depending on the difficulty of the primary sources; we will read primary sources every week.]

• Department: History
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Adam Kosto
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

SR SEM:STEREOTYPES,CRIME,JSTC

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and the completion of all courses (except for the senior requirement) required for the economics track, political economy track, or economics and mathematics majors. Exceptions to these prerequisites may be granted by the chair of the department only. Seminar sections are limited to 15 students.
A topic in economic theory or policy of the instructor’s choice. See department for current topics and for senior requirement preference forms.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Rajiv Sethi
  CULPA: 24 h-index: 33 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

SR SEM:LOGIC LIMITS ECON JSTC

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and the completion of all courses (except for the senior requirement) required for the economics track, political economy track, or economics and mathematics majors. Exceptions to these prerequisites may be granted by the chair of the department only. Seminar sections are limited to 15 students.
A topic in economic theory or policy of the instructor’s choice. See department for current topics and for senior requirement preference forms.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Belinda Archibong
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 7 Info
• 4 points

STUDENT TEACHING/URBAN SCHOOLS

STUDENT TEACHNG/URBAN SCHOOLS

Prerequisites: completion of
EDUC BC2052
or
EDUC BC2062
and
EDUC BC2055
, with grades of B or better. NYCDOE Fingerprinting.
Corequisites: EDUC BC3064. Enrollment limited.
Supervised student teaching in elementary schools includes creating lesson plans, involving students in active learning, using cooperative methods, developmentally appropriate assessment, and meeting the needs of diverse learners in urban schools. Teaching skills developed through weekly individual and/or group supervision meetings (to be scheduled at the beginning of the semester), conferences, and portfolio design. Requires 100 hours of teaching at two different grade levels,
full-time for one semester
. Note: Students are only permitted to leave their student teaching placements early twice a week, once for EDUC BC3064 and one other day for one additional course having a start time of 2 pm or later. Students are only permitted to take one additional course while enrolled in
EDUC BC3063
and
EDUC BC3064
.

• Department: Education @Barnard
• M 5:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Thea Abu El-Haj
  Info
• Instructor: Laurie M Rabinowitz
  Info
• 6 points

SEM: ISSUES URBAN TEACHING

CRITICAL INQUIRY URBAN TCHNG

Corequisites:
EDUC BC3063
or
EDUC BC3065
. Enrollment limited to student teachers enrolled in the Education Program.
Designed to help student teachers develop as reflective practictioners who can think critically about issues facing urban schools, particularly how race, class and gender influence schooling; and to examine the challenges and possibilities for providing intellectually engaging, meaningful curriculum to all students in urban classrooms.

• Department: Education @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Rachel Throop
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

SECONDARY STU TCHNG URB SCHLS

Prerequisites: Completion of
EDUC BC2052
or
EDUC BC2062
and
EDUC BC2055
, with grades of B or better. NYCDOE Fingerprinting required.
Corequisites:
EDUC BC3064
. Enrollment limited.
Supervised student teaching in secondary schools includes creating lesson plans, involving students in active learning, using cooperative methods, developmentally appropriate assessment, and meeting the needs of diverse learners in urban schools. Teaching skills developed through weekly individual and/or group supervision meetings (to be scheduled at the beginning of the semester), conferences, and portfolio design. Requires 100 hours of teaching at two different grade levels, 
full-time for one semester
. Note: Students are only permitted to leave their student teaching placements early twice a week, once for EDUC BC3064 and one other day for one additional course having a start time of 2 pm or later. Students are only permitted to take one additional course while enrolled in EDUC BC3064 and EDUC BC3065.

• Department: Education @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Rivera
  h-index: 0 Info
• 6 points

RESEARCH SEM ECONOMIC HISTRY I

Must be supervised by a faculty member approved by the program adviser.  This is the 1st semester of a two-semester course sequence.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• W 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Alan Dye
  CULPA: 19 Info
• Instructor: David Weiman
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 4 points

CELLULAR/MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY

Prerequisites: two semesters of a rigorous, molecularly-oriented introductory biology course (such as
UN2005
and
UN2006
), or the instructor's permission.
This course will cover the basic concepts underlying the mechanisms of innate and adaptive immunity, as well as key experimental methods currently used in the field. To keep it real, the course will include clinical correlates in such areas as infectious diseases, autoimmune diseases, cancer immunotherapy and transplantation. Taking this course won't turn you into an immunologist, but it may make you want to become one, as was the case for several students last year. After taking the course, you should be able to read the literature intelligently in this rapidly advancing field. SCE and TC students may register for this course, but they must first obtain the written permission of the instructor, by filling out a paper Registration Adjustment Form (Add/Drop form). The form can be downloaded at the URL below, but must be signed by the instructor and returned to the office of the registrar. 
http://registrar.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/reg-adjustment.pdf

• Department: Biological Sciences
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Solomon Mowshowitz
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 3 points

PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY I-LECTURES

Prerequisites: PHYS UN1201-UN1202 is acceptable; PHYS UN1401-UN1402 or the equivalent is HIGHLY recommended.
Corequisites: CHEM UN3085
Elementary, but comprehensive, treatment of the fundamental laws governing the behavior of individual atoms and molecules and collections of them. 
CHEM 
UN3079
covers the thermodynamics of chemical systems at equilibrium and the chemical kinetics of nonequilibrium systems. Although 
CHEM 
UN3079
 and 
CHEM 
UN3080
 are separate courses, students are expected to take both terms sequentially. A recitation section is required.  Please check the Directory of Classes for details and also speak with the TA for the course.

• Department: Chemistry
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Laura J Kaufman
  CULPA: 15 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

CIRCUIT ANALYSIS LABORATORY

Prerequisites: (ELEN E1201) or equivalent.
Corequisites: ELEN E3201
Companion lab course for ELEN E3201. Experiments cover such topics as: use of measurement instruments; HSPICE simulation; basic network theorems; linearization of nonlinear circuits using negative feedback; op-amp circuits; integrators; second order RLC circuits. The lab generally meets on alternate weeks.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• M 2:40 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
• R 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Charles A Zukowski
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• 1 points

INTERMEDIATE LABORATORY WORK

Prerequisites:
PHYS W2601
or
PHYS W2802
. Primarily for junior and senior physics majors; other majors must obtain the instructor's permission.
Each experiment is chosen by the student in consultation with the instructor. Each section meets one afternoon per week, with registration in each section limited by the laboratory capacity. Experiments (classical and modern) cover topics in electricity, magnetism, optics, atomic physics, and nuclear physics.

• Department: Physics
• M 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• F 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Elena Aprile
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Morgan May
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 2 points

SIGNALS & SYSTEMS LABORATORY

Corequisites: ELEN E3801
Companion lab course for ELEN E3801. Experiments cover topics such as: introduction and use of MATLAB for numerical and symbolic calculations; linearity and time invariance; continuous-time convolution; Fourier-series expansion and signal reconstruction; impulse response and transfer function; forced response. The lab generally meets on alternate weeks.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• M 6:10 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• F 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Xiaodong Wang
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 1 points

PHYSICL-ANALYTICL LABORATORY I

Corequisites: CHEM UN3079
A student-centered experimental course intended for students who are co-registered or have completed 
CHEM
UN3079
and 
CHEM 
UN3080
. The course emphasizes techniques of experimental physical chemistry and instrumental analysis, including vibrational, electronic, and laser spectroscopy; electroanalytical methods; calorimetry; reaction kinetics; hydrodynamic methods; scanning probe microscopy; applications of computers to reduce experimental data; and computational chemistry. Students must also attend the compulsory Mentoring Session. Please check the Directory of Classes for details.

• Department: Chemistry
• T noon-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Luis A Avila
  CULPA: 22 Info
• 4 points

INDIVIDUAL SENIOR PROJECTS

Prerequisites: Meets senior requirement. Instructor permission required.
The instructor will supervise the writing of long papers involving some form of sociological research and analysis.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• Instructor: Deborah Becher
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 4 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth Bernstein
  CULPA: 27 Info
• Instructor: Debra Minkoff
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Mignon R Moore
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Jonathan Rieder
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 4 points

ADV ELECTROMAGNETISM LAB

Classical electromagnetic wave phenomena via Maxwell's equations, including: (i) Michaelson and Fabry-Perot Interferometry, as well as a thin-film interference and elementary dispersion theory; (ii) Fraunhofer Diffraction (and a bit of Fresnel); (iii) Wireless Telegraphy I: AM Radio Receivers; and (iv) Wireless Telegraphy II: AM Transmitters. Last two labs pay homage to relevant scientific developments in the period 1875-1925, from the discovery of Hertzian waves to the Golden Age of Radio. Complements PHYS W3008
Electromagnetic Waves and Optics
.

• Department: Physics and Astronomy @Barnard
• F 10:30 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Stiliana Savin
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

THE ENGLISH CONFERENCE

Prerequisites: To be taken only for P/F. Students must attend all classes to receive credit for this course. Enrollment limited to 60 students.
Please note:  The four course sessions for The English Conference in fall 2017 are October 16, 23, 30, and November 13.  Consult the English Department's

website for a course description.

• Department: English @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Gordis
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 1 points

SUPERVISED INDEPENDENT RES

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission for entrance, and the departmental representative's permission for aggregate points in excess of 12 or less than 4.
This course may be repeated for credit (see major and concentration requirements). Individual research under the supervision of a member of the staff. Research areas include organic, physical, inorganic, analytical, and biological chemistry. Please note that
CHEM UN3098
is offered in the fall and spring semesters.

• Department: Chemistry
• Instructor: Vesna Gasperov
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 4 Info
• 4 points

INTRO TO MECHANCIS OF FLUIDS

INTRO TO MECHANICS OF FLUIDS

Basic continuum concepts. Liquids and gases in static equilibrium. Continuity equation. Two-dimensional kinematics. Equation of motion. Bernoulli's equation and applications. Equations of energy and angular momentum. Dimensional analysis. Two-dimensional laminar flow. Pipe flow, laminar,and turbulent. Elements of compressible flow.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• 3 points

INTRO TO MECHANCIS OF FLUIDS

FLUIDS RECITATION

Basic continuum concepts. Liquids and gases in static equilibrium. Continuity equation. Two-dimensional kinematics. Equation of motion. Bernoulli's equation and applications. Equations of energy and angular momentum. Dimensional analysis. Two-dimensional laminar flow. Pipe flow, laminar,and turbulent. Elements of compressible flow.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• 0 points

ADVANCED FICTION WORKSHOP

Prerequisites: The department's permission required through writing sample. Please go to 609 Kent for submission schedule and registration guidelines or see http://www.arts.columbia.edu/writing/undergraduate.
Building on the work of the Intermediate Workshop, Advanced Workshops are reserved for the most accomplished creative writing students. A significant body of writing must be produced and revised.  Particular attention will be paid to the components of fiction: voice, perspective, characterization, and form.  Students will be expected to finish several short stories, executing a total artistic vision on a piece of writing. The critical focus of the class will include an examination of endings and formal wholeness, sustaining narrative arcs, compelling a reader's interest for the duration of the text, and generating a sense of urgency and drama in the work.

• Department: Writing
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

APPLIED MATH I: LINEAR ALGEBRA

Matrix algebra, elementary matrices, inverses, rank, determinants. Computational aspects of solving systems of linear equations: existence-uniqueness of solutions, Gaussian elimination, scaling, ill-conditioned systems, iterative techniques. Vector spaces, bases, dimension. Eigenvalue problems, diagonalization, inner products, unitary matrices.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael K Tippett
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 43 Info
• 3 points

ARCH REPRSENTATION:ABSTRACTION

ARCH.REPRSENTATION:ABSTRACTION

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 16 students per section. Recommended for the sophomore year. Students work in a studio environment.
Introduction to design through analysis of abstract architectural space and form. Emphasis on the design process and principles of representations through architectural drawing and model making. Attendance is mandatory at the first class meeting in order to form class registration lists.

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• MW 9 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• MW 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Severino Alfonso
  Info
• Instructor: Madeline K Schwartzman
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 4 points

ARCHAEOL OF ANC EGYPT & NUBIA

ARCHAEOLOGY OF EGYPT & NUBIA

Thanks to the pyramids of Giza, the treasure of Tutankhamun, and other remains of royal activity, pharaonic Egypt is justly famous for its monuments and material culture. Equally fascinating, if less well known, however, are the towns, fortresses, cultic centers, domestic spaces, and non-elite cemeteries that have been excavated over the past 200 years or so. The archaeology of Nubia is also little known but fascinating on many levels. This course will focus on what archaeology can reveal about life as it was experienced by individuals of all social classes. Through a combination of broad surveys and case studies of some of Egypt and Nubia’s most culturally indicative and intriguing sites, we will explore issues such as the origins of inequality, state formation and its effects, the uneasy mix of state-planned settlements and village life, urbanism, domestic and community worship, gendered spaces, ethnicity and colonialism, religious revolution and evolution, bureaucracy, private enterprise, and the effects of governmental collapse on life and death in ancient Egypt and Nubia.

• Department: Classics @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ellen Morris
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

PROGRAMMING LANG (JAVASCRIPT)

Prerequisites: Fluency in at least one programming language.
Introduction to a programming language. Each section is devoted to a specific language. Intended only for those who are already fluent in at least one programming language. Sections may meet for one hour per week for the whole term, for three hours per week for the first third of the term, or for two hours per week for the first six weeks. May be repeated for credit if different languages are involved.

• Department: Computer Science
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Ramana Isukapalli
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 1 points

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

PROGRAMMING LANG (LISP)

Prerequisites: Fluency in at least one programming language.
Introduction to a programming language. Each section is devoted to a specific language. Intended only for those who are already fluent in at least one programming language. Sections may meet for one hour per week for the whole term, for three hours per week for the first third of the term, or for two hours per week for the first six weeks. May be repeated for credit if different languages are involved.

• Department: Computer Science
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert E Coyne
  Info
• 1 points

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

PROGRAMMING LANG (PYTHON)

Prerequisites: Fluency in at least one programming language.
Introduction to a programming language. Each section is devoted to a specific language. Intended only for those who are already fluent in at least one programming language. Sections may meet for one hour per week for the whole term, for three hours per week for the first third of the term, or for two hours per week for the first six weeks. May be repeated for credit if different languages are involved.

• Department: Computer Science
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Lawrence Stead
  Info
• 1 points

ADVANCED DUTCH I

• Department: Germanic Languages
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Wijnie de Groot
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 3 points

GEOCHEM FOR A HABITABLE PLANET

Prerequisites: Any 1000-level or 2000-level EESC course; MATH UN1101 Calculus I and CHEM UN1403 General Chemistry I or their equivalents.
The origin, evolution, and future of our planet, based on the book
How to Build a Habitable Planet
by Wallace S. Broecker. This course will focus on the geochemical processes that built Earth from solar material, led to its differentiation into continents and ocean, and have maintained its surface at a comfortable temperature. Students will participate in a hands-on geochemistry project at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Terry A Plank
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

THE WRITER'S PROCESS

Prerequisites: Application process and permission of instructor. Does not count for major credit.
Exploration of theory and practice in the teaching of writing, designed for students who plan to become Writing Fellows at Barnard. Students will read current theory and consider current research in the writing process and engage in practical applications in the classroom or in tutoring.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Pamela Cobrin
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED INDONESIAN I

This course offers students the opportunity to practice advanced structures of Bahasa Indonesia, a major language of Indonesia and South East Asia. This course is offered by videoconferencing from Cornell as part of the Shared Course Initiative.

• Department: Language Resource Center
• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS

An introduction to the study of language from a scientific perspective. The course is divided into three units: language as a system (sounds, morphology, syntax, and semantics), language in context (in space, time, and community), and language of the individual (psycholinguistics, errors, aphasia, neurology of language, and acquisition). Workload: lecture, weekly homework, and final examination.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Alan Timberlake
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

CONVERS ABOUT LUSOPHONE WORLD

Prerequisites:
PORT W1220
.
This conversation class will help students develop their oral proficiency in Portuguese. We will discuss current events, participate in challenging pronunciation exercises, improve understanding of Portuguese idioms, develop conversation strengths, confront weaknesses, and increase fluency in spoken Portuguese.

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jose A Castellanos-Pazos
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 3 points

THIRD-YEAR RUSSIAN I

Prerequisites:
RUSS 2102
or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission.
Recommended for students who wish to improve their active command of Russian. Emphasis on conversation and composition. Reading and discussion of selected texts and videotapes. Lectures. Papers and oral reports required. Conducted entirely in Russian.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MWF 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• MWF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Nataliya Kun
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Alla Smyslova
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 4 points

PAINTING II

Prerequisites:
VIAR R1000
, and
VIAR R2100
.
(Formerly R3202) Painting II: Extension of
VIAR R2100
with greater emphasis on notions of meaning and context in work, as well as more speculative aspects of image-making and structure (again using historical precedents as examples) and an increased range of personal choice and expression in the execution of classroom assignments. Individual and group critiques. Portfolio required at end. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• F 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Gregory Amenoff
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points