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
• W 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Thomas White
  Info
• 3 points

SENIOR 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.
Seniors who are majors in creative writing are given priority for this course.  Enrollment is limited, and is by permission of the professor.  The senior workshop offers students the opportunity to work exclusively with classmates who are at the same high level of accomplishment in the major.  Students in the senior workshops will produce and revise a new and substantial body of work.  In-class critiques and conferences with the professor will be tailored to needs of each student.

• Department: Writing
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Mitchell Jackson
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED YORUBA I

• Department: Language Resource Center
• 3 points

ADVANCED ZULU I

Prerequisites:
ZULU W1201-W1202
or the instructor's permission.
This course allows students to practice adanced structures of the Zulu language. Please note this course is offered by videoconference from Yale through the Shared Course Initiative.

• Department: Language Resource Center
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• 3 points

DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGY

DEV TECH (STRATEGIC DESIGN)

Prerequisites: Fluency in at least one programming language.
Introduction to software development tools and environments. Each section devoted to a specific tool or environment. One-point sections meet for two hours each week for half a semester, and two point sections include an additional two-hour lab.

• Department: Computer Science
• F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Gary Zamchick
  Info
• 1 points

DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGY

DEV TECH (USING LINUX)

Prerequisites: Fluency in at least one programming language.
Introduction to software development tools and environments. Each section devoted to a specific tool or environment. One-point sections meet for two hours each week for half a semester, and two point sections include an additional two-hour lab.

• Department: Computer Science
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul S Blaer
  CULPA: 46 h-index: 8 Info
• 1 points

ACADEMIC WRITING INTENSIVE

Academic Writing Intensive is an intensive writing course for Barnard students in their second or third year. Students attend a weekly seminar, work closely with the instructor on each writing assignment, and meet with an attached Writing Fellow every other week. Readings and assignments focus on transferable writing and revision skills that students can apply to any discipline.

• Department: English @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Cecelia B Lie
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

COLL:RACE& MDRN POLIT THOUGHT

Prerequisites: POLS 1013 or the equivalent.
Race and Modern Political Thought is a Political Theory colloquium that explores how the concept of race became available to modern thought as a legitimate conceptualization of human being and difference and to political thought as an idea useful to structuring political communities.  Is race best understood in ideological terms, i.e., as a viewpoint shared by philosophers and lay-persons alike about difference that usefully reflected the needs and aspirations of slaveholders and colonialists?  Or is race instead an artifact of modern forms of reasoning?  Or should we ignore questions of origin and simply take seriously the notion that the only practical—ethically correct or politically progressive—approach to theorizing race is to attend critically to the organization of racial power?   What kind of idea is race?

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Michelle R Smith
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

PAINTING III

Prerequisites:
VIAR R1000
and
VIAR R2100

Painting III: Seminar. This course will be an advanced exploration of the practice of painting and will consist of individual visits, group discussions of assigned reading, and presentations and critiques of your studio work. Students will be given a series of guidelines for projects in which they will set their own parameters. Students will be encouraged to work serially, with the intention of creating a coherent body of work. We will focus on speaking and writing about our work as essential aspects of our practice. Through in-class presentations and museum visits we will discuss historical and contemporary painting. Active participation in group critiques and discussions will be required.

• Department: Visual Arts
• R 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizaveta Meksin
  Info
• 3 points

ARCH REPRESENTATION:PERCEPTION

ARCH.REPRESENTATION:PERCEPTION

Prerequisites: Students work in a studio environment. Recommended for the sophomore year. Enrollment limited to 16 students per section.
Introduction to design through studies in the perception of architectural space and form. Emphasis on exploratory, inventive processes for the generation, development, and representation of ideas in a variety of media. Attendance is mandatory at the first class meeting in order to form class registration lists.

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• TR 9 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Hua F Tang
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

ENERGY,MINERALS,MATERIALS SYST

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Ah-Hyung Alissa Park
  Info
• 3 points

THE ART OF THE ESSAY

Prerequisites: Students who are on the electronic waiting list or who are interested in the class but are not yet registered MUST attend the first day of class.
(Formerly called Essay Writing.) Essay writing above the first-year level. Reading and writing various types of essays to develop one's natural writing voice and craft thoughtful, sophisticated and personal essays.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Aaron C Schneider
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Wendy C Schor-Haim
  CULPA: 11 Info
• Instructor: Margaret R Ellsberg
  CULPA: 54 Info
• 3 points

GRT POL THINKERS/BLACK TRADN

GRT POL THNKERS BLACK TRADN

Prerequisites: None.
In this course, we examine how the black intellectual tradition's best political thinkers grappled with a concrete and particular instance of a universal problematic of domination and submission, inclusion and exclusion, power and powerlessness, and the question of how subaltern groups can find liberation from their subalternity. Though many of the thinkers under consideration are significant as political actors, we understand their writings to provide a complex and contested theoretical backdrop for political action. We explore how black thinkers 1) criticize and American democracy corrupted by slavery 2) articulate the ideological functions of 'race,' 3) redefine race consciousness in terms of linked fate.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Michelle R Smith
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

FICTION & PERSONAL NARRATIVE

Prerequisites: Writing sample required to apply: required cover sheet and instructions are available here: http://english.barnard.edu/forms-procedures/forms. Students cannot add this course to their schedules until after they are admitted.
This class centers on the appreciation, analysis, and practice of short literary fiction, including personal narrative. In addition to weekly writing exercises, twice a semester each student will make available to the entire class longer pieces for "workshopping." These pieces will receive written evaluations from instructor and peers both. We will also read and study narrative by published authors -- historical and contemporary. In both student-generated and published work we will consider elements of prose narrative from structure to characterization, plot to voice, etc., in the hopes that such consideration will encourage student writers to expand their writerly repertoire and improve their work in terms of both craft and literary substance.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Timea Szell
  CULPA: 14 Info
• Instructor: Mary E Keane
  Info
• 3-4 points

MECHANICS

Elements of statics; dynamics of a particle and systems of particles.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• F 11:40 a.m.-2:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou
  h-index: 26 Info
• 4 points

EXISTENTIALISM

Prerequisites: Successful completion of Intermediate II French or the equivalent.
In-depth survey of the writers who exemplified French existentialism: Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Simone de Beauvoir. The texts have been chosen for the richness with which they address fundamental philosophical questions about the meaning of life, especially questions of death and suffering, freedom and responsibility, legitimate and illegitimate violence. The first objective of this class is to show how existentialist thought combines literature and philosophy; the second objective is to gain a broad, but also deep familiarity with 20th-century French literature and thought.

• Department: French @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Brian D O'Keeffe
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 3 points

APPLIED STATISTICAL METHODS

Prerequisites: At least one, and preferably both, of STAT UN2103 and UN2104 are strongly recommended. Students without programming experience in R might find STAT UN2102 very helpful.
This course is intended to give students practical experience with statistical methods beyond linear regression and categorical data analysis.  The focus will be on understanding the uses and limitations of models, not the mathematical foundations for the methods.  Topics that may be covered include random and mixed-effects models, classical non-parametric techniques, the statistical theory causality, sample survey design, multi-level models, generalized linear regression, generalized estimating equations and over-dispersion, survival analysis including the Kaplan-Meier estimator, log-rank statistics, and the Cox proportional hazards regression model.  Power calculations and proposal and report writing will be discussed.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: David A Rios
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 3 points

THE SCIENCE OF SPACE EXPLORATION

Prerequisites: one semester course in introductory astronomy or astrophysics (e.g., ASTR UN1403, ASTR UN1404, ASTR UN1420, ASTR UN1836, ASTR UN2001, ASTR UN2002, ASTR BC1753, ASTR BC1754). Ability in mathematics up to and including calculus is strongly urged.
How and why do humans explore space? Why does it require such extraordinary effort? What have we found by exploring our Solar System? We investigate the physics and biological basis of space exploration, and the technologies and science issues that determine what we can accomplish. What has been accomplished in the past, what is being explored now, and what can we expect in the future? How do space scientists explore the Solar System and answer science questions in practice? What do we know about solar systems beyond our own?

• Department: Astronomy
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Caleb Scharf
  CULPA: 8 Wikipedia h-index: 36 Info
• 3 points

SOLID STATE DEVICES-MATERIALS

Prerequisites: (MATH UN1201) or equivalent.
Corequisites: PHYS UN1403,PHYS UN2601
Crystal structure and energy band theory of solids. Carrier concentration and transport in semiconductors. P-n junction and junction transistors. Semiconductor surface and MOS transistors. Optical effects and optoelectronic devices.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ioannis Kymissis
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 48 Info
• 3.5 points

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS

Prerequisites: Probability at the level of SIEO W3600 or SIEO W4150 or instructor permission.

For undergraduates only. This course is required for all undergraduate students majoring in IE, OR:EMS, OR:FE and OR.  This class must be taken during (or before) the fifth semester.
This course introduces students to operations research and stochastic processes. Operations research is concerned with quantitative decision problems, generally involving the allocation and control of limited resources, often in the presence of significant uncertainty. Stochastic processes are collections of random variables, usually indexed by time. In stochastic process models, time can be regarded as either discrete or continuous. For example, we might use stochastic processes to model the evolution of a stock price over time, the damage claims received by an insurance company over time, the work-in-process inventory in a factory over time or the number of calls waiting in a telephone call center over time, all of which evolve with considerable uncertainty. Among the stochastic processes to be considered are discrete-time Markov chains, random walks, continuous-time Markov chains, Poisson processes, birth-and-death processes, renewal processes, renewal-reward processes, Brownian motion and geometric Brownian motion. Among the engineering applications to be considered are queuing, inventory and finance. IEOR E3106 must be completed by the fifth term. Only students with special academic circumstances may be allowed to take these courses in alternative semesters with the consultation of CSA and Departmental advisors.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Dylan Possamai
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO FICTION WRITING

Prerequisites: Writing sample required to apply: required cover sheet and instructions are available here: http://english.barnard.edu/forms-procedures/forms. Students cannot add this course to their schedules until after they are admitted.
Practice in writing short stories and autobiographical narrative with discussion and close analysis in a workshop setting.

• Department: English @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Weike Wang
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3-4 points

UNDERGRAD MENTORED RESEARCH

Prerequisites: the project mentor's permission.
This course provides a mechanism for students who undertake research with a faculty member from the Department of Statistics to receive academic credit.  Students seeking research opportunities should be proactive and entrepreneurial: identify congenial faculty whose research is appealing, let them know of your interest and your background and skills.

• Department: Statistics
• Instructor: Liam M Paninski
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Shaw-Hwa Lo
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 3 points

THE AFRICANA COLLOQUIUM

Prerequisites: Students must attend first day of class and admission will be decided then. Enrollment limited to 18 students. Priority will be given to Africana majors and CCIS students (Africana Studies, American Studies and Women's Studies majors; minors in Race and Ethnic Studies).

• Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Yvette Christianse
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

TRANSPORT PHENOMENA I

Prerequisites: mechanics, vector calculus, ordinary differential equations.
Corequisites: CHEN E3020
Analysis of momentum and energy transport processes at molecular, continuum, and system scales for systems of simple fluids (gases and low molecular-weight liquids).  Molecular-level origins of fluid viscosity, continuum fluid mechanics analysis of laminar flows, and the resulting dimensionless correlations of kinematic and mechanical characteristics of a system needed for engineering design (e.g., friction factor vs. Reynolds number correlations).  Molecular origins of fluid conductivity, continuum heat transfer analysis, and the resulting correlations of a system's thermal characteristics useful in engineering design (e.g., Nusselt number correlations).  Examples are reviewed of analyses typical in chemical engineering technologies. Essential mathematical methods are reviewed or introduced in context.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: V. Faye McNeill
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 33 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO TRANSLATION STUDIES

Prerequisites: Completion of the Language Requirement or equivalent.
Introduction to the major theories and methods of translation in the Western tradition, along with practical work in translating.  Topics include translation in the context of postcolonialism, globalization and immigration, the role of translators in war and zones of conflict, gender and translation, the importance of translation to contemporary writers.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter T Connor
  CULPA: 13 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO POETRY WRITING

Prerequisites: Writing sample required to apply: required cover sheet and instructions are available here: http://english.barnard.edu/forms-procedures/forms. Students cannot add this course to their schedules until after they are admitted.
Our objective in this class is to write new poems each week, and find ways to illuminate and articulate our processes as we go along.  Among the questions we’ll explore:  How do imagination, “real life,” and conscious artifice (among other things) enter into the writing of poems?  How does a poem interface with its reader/listener?  What’s the role of enigma, or even opacity, in poetry?  How much clarity or accessibility is desirable? We’ll read poets representing a range of styles and esthetics, with a slight emphasis on contemporary American work. Regular attendance, full participation in class discussions, keeping an “observations” journal (and sharing writing from it each week), and the submission of a final portfolio of poems written in response to prompts and readings are requirements for earning credit in this class.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Miranda Field
  Info
• 3-4 points

UNCERTAIN/RISK-CIVIL INF SYST

Prerequisites: Working knowledge of calculus.
Introduction to basic probability; hazard function; reliability function; stochastic models of natural and technological hazards; extreme value distributions; statistical inference methods; Monte Carlo simulation techniques; fundamentals of integrated risk assessment and risk management; topics in risk-based insurance; case studies involving civil infrastructure systems, environmental systems, mechanical and aerospace systems, construction management.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: George Deodatis
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 42 Info
• 3.5 points

ENVIR HIST OF THE ANCIENT MED

The study of the ancient Mediterranean environment – the material world in which the Greeks and Romans and their neighbors lived – has been making rapid strides in recent years.  The aim of this course is to offer an overview of the impact of a flourishing pre-modern society on its natural environment, and of the ways in which people reacted to environmental challenges. We shall talk about natural resources – water, wood, land, minerals -- and about the sea and the mountains, also about diet, health and pollution, and of course about the climate. We will consider the profound problems of combining historical and scientific methods in the study of a past environment.

• Department: History
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: William V Harris
  CULPA: 27 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

THERMO/KINETIC THRY/STAT MECH

An introduction to the basic thermodynamics of systems, including concepts of equilibrium, entropy, thermodynamic functions, and phase changes. Basic kinetic theory and statistical mechanics, including diffusion processes, concept of phase space, classical and quantum statistics, and applications thereof.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Irving P Herman
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia h-index: 50 Info
• 3 points

PLAYWRITING I

Prerequisites: Writing sample required to apply: required cover sheet and instructions are available here: http://english.barnard.edu/forms-procedures/forms. Students cannot add this course to their schedules until after they are admitted.
A workshop to provoke and investigate dramatic writing.

• Department: English @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ellen McLaughlin
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3-4 points

MECHANICS OF SOLIDS

Prerequisites: OR EQUIVALENT
Corequisites: ENME E3105
Stress and strain.  Mechanical properties of materials. Axial load, bending, shear and torsion.  Stress transformation.  Deflection of beams.  Buckling of columns. Combined loadings.  Thermal stresses.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Raimondo Betti
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 31 Info
• 3 points

STORY WRITING

Prerequisites: Some experience in the writing of fiction. Conference hours to be arranged. Writing sample required to apply: required cover sheet and instructions are available here: http://english.barnard.edu/forms-procedures/forms. Students cannot add this course to their schedules until after they are admitted.
Advanced workshop in writing, with emphasis on the short story.

• Department: English @Barnard
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Mary E Keane
  Info
• 3-4 points

FICTION WRITING

Prerequisites: Previous experience or introductory class required. Writing sample required to apply: required cover sheet and instructions are available here: http://english.barnard.edu/forms-procedures/forms. Students cannot add this course to their schedules until after they are admitted.

"I had given myself up to the idleness of a haunted man who looks for nothing but words wherein to capture his visions."-Joseph Conrad.
Given that reading is the one training tool writers cannot do without, this course aims to demonstrate how one might read as a writer. What sets this course apart is its focus, allotted equally, to creative writing and creative reading. Students will produce original prose fiction-which will be discussed in workshops-and engage in close reading of a wide selection of novels and short stories.

• Department: English @Barnard
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Hisham Matar
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 3-4 points

ADVANCED POETRY WRITING

Prerequisites: Writing sample required to apply: required cover sheet and instructions are available here: http://english.barnard.edu/forms-procedures/forms. Students cannot add this course to their schedules until after they are admitted.
Weekly workshops designed to generate and critique new poetry. Each participant works toward the development of a cohesive collection of poems. Readings in traditional and contemporary poetry will also be included.

• Department: English @Barnard
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Saskia Hamilton
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 3-4 points

COLL:PROBLMS IN INTNL SECURITY

COLL:PROBLMS IN INT'L SECURITY

Prerequisites: POLS V1501 or POLS V1601 or the
equivalent
.
Admission by application
through the Barnard department only. Enrollment limited to 16 students.
Barnard syllabus
.
Examination of causes and consequences of major current problems in international security. Topics include state power dynamics and the rise of China, nuclear deterrence and proliferation, military intervention and R2P, ethnic nationalism and sectarianism, state failure and warlordism, transnational terrorism.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Faculty
  h-index: 37 Info
• 4 points

SCREENWRITING

Prerequisites: FILM BC3201 or equivalent. Enrollment limited to 12 students. Priority is given to Film Studies majors/concentrations in order of class seniority.
Corequisites: (Since this is a Film course, it does not count as a writing course for English majors with a Writing Concentration.)
Practical workshop in dramatic writing for the screen. Through exercises and games specifically catered to the writing of scenes and concrete scene work, students explore and develop an understanding for the basic principles of screenwriting, learn how to find the right form and structure for each story, and how to achieve thematic richness, emotional depth, and narrative rhythm. By the end of the class students will have written a 10-12 page short and/or have material for the development of a feature screenplay.

• Department: Film @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Rubeintz Philippe
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

CAPITALISM AND ENLIGHTENMENT

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preregistration required.
Traces the lively debates amongst the major European Enlightenment figures about the formation of capitalism. Was the new market society ushering in an era of wealth and civilization or was it promoting corruption and exploitation? Particular emphasis on debates about commerce, luxury, greed, poverty, empire, slavery, and liberty.

• Department: History @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Carl Wennerlind
  CULPA: 30 Info
• 4 points

APPROACH TO PLOT/DRAM STRUCTRS

• Department: Writing
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Victor D Lavalle
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

CREATIVE NON-FICTION

CREATV NONFC:MAKNG FACTS SING

Prerequisites: Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here: https://english.barnard.edu/departmental-forms#creativewriting.
This course will challenge students to take on what are considered either difficult topics (e.g. in science and math) or "mundane" topics and create convincing and clear narratives therefrom. We will consider writing from John McPhee, Natalie Angier, Oliver Sacks, Nicholson Baker, and others. Through iterative writing exercises, research, and interviews, students will learn how to breathe life into complex material.

• Department: English @Barnard
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Alexandra C Horowitz
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• 3-4 points

PUBLIC SPEAKING

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 14 students. Open only to undergraduates, preference to seniors and juniors. Attend first class for instructor permission. Registering for the course only through myBarnard or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment.
This course will introduce you to principles of effective public speaking and debate, and provide practical opportunities to use these principles in structured speaking situations. You will craft and deliver speeches, engage in debates and panel discussions, analyze historical and contemporary speakers, and reflect on your own speeches and those of your classmates. You will explore and practice different rhetorical strategies with an emphasis on information, persuasion and argumentation. For each speaking assignment, you will go through the speech-making process, from audience analysis, purpose and organization, to considerations of style and delivery. The key criteria in this course are content, organization, and adaptation to the audience and purpose. While this is primarily a performance course, you will be expected to participate extensively as a listener and critic, as well as a speaker.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniela Kempf
  Info
• 3 points

CITIZENSHIP,RIGHTS & IMMIGRATN

CITIZENSHIP,RIGHTS & IMMIGRATI

Our political discourse is inundated with talk of citizenship. In this course we will examine various theories of citizenship, paying particular attention to the way the increasing complexity and multiculturalism of societies have challenged our understanding of this concept. We will also consider how different conceptions of citizenship address the challenges raised by both global and local forces. After an overview of different theories of citizenship, we explore the debates about political rights and representation for oppressed groups and minorities and consider the nationalist and cosmopolitan understandings of civic identity. What should be the criteria for citizenship? What rights should citizens have? Does citizenship require boundaries? Does democratic citizenship demand a particular kind of patriotism? What rights should illegal immigrants have? What role does the court play in defining citizenship rights? Can there be global or transnational citizenship? Though the primary focus will be to explore normative theories of citizenship, we will briefly consider how the European Union and the United States are dealing with some of the pressing issues regarding citizenship: immigration and assimilation.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria G Kowalski
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

RHETORICAL CHOICES:PBLC SPKNG

Prerequisites: Application process and permission of instructor. Does not count for major credit. Enrollment restricted to Barnard students.
Speaking involves a series of rhetorical choices regarding vocal presentation, argument construction, and physical affect that, whether made consciously or by default, project information about the identity of the speaker. In this course students will relate theory to practice: to learn principles of public speaking and speech criticism for the purpose of applying these principles as peer tutors in the Speaking Fellow Program.

• Department: English @Barnard
• R 10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• 3 points

AN EARNEST LOOK AT IRONY

Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT required.
In this seminar, we will examine works by several accomplished writers of fiction, and a few crackerjack poets, in order to determine what, precisely, we mean when we talk about irony on the page and what, precisely, we mean when we talk about earnestness. How are these very different effects (and affects) achieved? What are their benefits to the student author? What pitfalls, perceived or otherwise, attend the allure of each? What is the relationship of humor to earnestness, and of seriousness to irony? Is the absence of irony really the same thing as earnestness? Does the absence of earnestness somehow necessitate irony? With an eye toward technique, we will attempt to answer these and further questions by time spent among the words of those who fall along, though often refuse to stay put on, the earnest-ironic continuum. Students will be expected to write three stories or essays throughout the semester, exploring for themselves this treacherous but eminently skiable slope. With readings from Robert Frost, Stevie Smith, Charles Baudelaire, Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), James Joyce, Raymond Carver, James Baldwin, Vladimir Nabokov, Joan Didion, Donald Barthelme, George Saunders, Virginia Woolf, Zadie Smith, Gertrude Stein, Jamaica Kincaid, Jame Agee, Isak Dinsen, David Foster Wallace, Clarice Lispector, and Paul West.

• Department: Writing
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ben Metcalf
  Info
• 3 points

THE COMPETITIVE BODY

LIT PROTRAYALS OF SPORTS&ATLET;

Competitive sport dominates much of modern American life, yet it has been largely neglected as a subject for literature. Roland Barthes suggests that there may be a fundamental incompatibility between athletes and intellectuals, while sports journalist Robert Lipsyte has spent a career elaborating upon his popular taxonomy of “jocks” and “pukes.” Lingering notions of Cartesian dualism undoubtedly contribute to this divide, as well as increasing skepticism towards the binary win-lose logic of sport. Art’s tendency to complicate rather than simplify, to intimate rather than prescribe, seems at odds with the easy trajectory that sport provides. Mirroring the structure of competitive contests, all stories necessarily end in victory or defeat.
The radical feminist writer Kathy Acker frames the struggle to write about sport somewhat differently. In “Against Ordinary Language,” her essay on bodybuilding, Acker wonders whether the split is not between camps of people, but rather between languages. How do we articulate a language that is speechless? How do we “read” and “write” the figures that the body makes through space? How do we derive meaning from an activity that is, etymologically-speaking, useless, frivolous, and inconsequential?
This course will be preoccupied with the above questions. The literary texts we will read and discuss are essentially texts of translation that bring the language of the body onto the page. We will read works of literary fiction as well as critical essays and sports histories. Taken together, these texts will illuminate different ways to “read” sport—as portrait, as metaphor, as metonym. We will also learn how to contextualize sport within the larger political, economic, and social systems in which we are all players.

• Department: Writing
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Anelise I Chen
  Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO SEXUALITY STUDIES

This introduction to sexuality studies is an examination of the historical origins, social functions, and conceptual limitations of the notion of “sexuality” as a domain of human experience and a field of power relations. Sexuality is often taken to be a natural and unchanging element of individual life. In this course, we seek to examine the ways in which sex is both social and political. We will consider how sexuality has been socially constructed, paying careful attention to the ways these ideas relate to other social forces such as gender, race, and class.

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• 3 points

STRUCTURAL DESIGN PROJECTS

Prerequisites: instructor's permission.
Design projects with various structural systems and materials.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Tom T Panayotidi
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

HIST-WEST MUS: MID AGE-BAROQUE

Prerequisites:
MUSI V2318-V2319
. May be taken before or concurrently with this course.
Topics in Western music from Antiquity through Bach and Handel, focusing on the development of musical style and thought, and analysis of selected works.

• Department: Music
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Giuseppe Gerbino
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 3 points

PROJECT MGMT FOR CONSTRUCTION

Prerequisites: Senior standing in Civil Engineering or instructor's permission.
Introduction to Project Management for design and construction processes. Elements of planning, estimating, scheduling, bidding, and contractual relationships. Computer scheduling and cost control. Critical path method. Design and construction activities. Field supervision.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Julius Chang
  Info
• 3 points

EXPLORATNS BLACK LITERATURE

EXPLORATIONS BLACK LITERATURE

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 18 students.
Poetry, prose, fiction, and nonfiction, with special attention to the slave narrative. Includes Wheatley, Douglass, and Jacobs, but emphasis will be on less familiar writers such as Brown, Harper, Walker, Wilson, and Forten. Works by some 18th-century precursors will also be considered.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Quandra Prettyman
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

THIRD-YEAR CONVERSATION FR I

Prerequisites: completion of the language requirement in French or the equivalent.
Conversation on contemporary French subjects based on readings in current popular French periodicals.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: David Haziza
  Info
• 2 points

ARISTOTLE

• Department: Philosophy
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Dhananjay Jagannathan
  Info
• 3 points

CLASSICAL MYTH

Survey of major myths from the ancient Near East to the advent of Christianity, with emphasis upon the content and treatment of myths in classical authors (Homer, Hesiod, Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles, Vergil, Livy, Ovid).

• Department: Classics @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Helene P Foley
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

UNHEARD VOICES: AFRICAN WOMEN

How does one talk of women in Africa without thinking of Africa as a 'mythic unity'? We will consider the political, racial, social and other contexts in which African women write and are written about in the context of their located lives in Africa and in the African Diaspora.

• Department: English @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Yvette Christianse
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

DATA STRUCTURES IN JAVA

Prerequisites: (COMS W1004) or
COMS W1004
or knowledge of Java.
Data types and structures: arrays, stacks, singly and doubly linked lists, queues, trees, sets, and graphs. Programming techniques for processing such structures: sorting and searching, hashing, garbage collection. Storage management. Rudiments of the analysis of algorithms. Taught in Java. Note: Due to significant overlap, students may receive credit for only one of the following three courses:
COMS W3134
,
COMS W3136
,
COMS W3137
.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul S Blaer
  CULPA: 46 h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

ESSENTIAL DATA STRUCTURES

Prerequisites: (COMS W1004) and (COMS W1005) and (COMS W1007) or (ENGI E1006)
COMS W1004
,
W1005
,
W1007
, or
ENGI E1006
.
A second programming course intended for nonmajors with at least one semester of introductory programming experience. Basic elements of programming in C and C++, arraybased data structures, heaps, linked lists, C programming in UNIX environment, object-oriented programming in C++, trees, graphs, generic programming, hash tables. Due to significant overlap, students may only receive credit for either COMS W3134, W3136, or W3137.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Timothy K Paine
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

BALLET V

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• F 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Brian Reeder
  Info
• Instructor: Antonio Carmena
  Info
• Instructor: Allegra Kent
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 0-1 points

INTRODUCTION VOCAL REPERTOIRE

This course is designed for developing singers. Group vocalizing, learning of songs and individual workshop performances are aimed at improving the student's  technical skill and the elements necessary to create a meaningful musical and dramatic experience. Attention to text, subtext, emotional and psychological aspects of a piece and the performer's  relationship to the audience are included in the work. Repertoire is predominantly in English and comes from both classical and popular traditions Individual coaching sessions are available with the class accompanist and help strengthen the students' confidence and skill. The class culminates with an in-class performance.

• Department: Music @Barnard
• F noon-1:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Jean-Paul Bjorlin
  Info
• 3 points

BALLET VI

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Cynthia Anderson
  Info
• Instructor: Ashley Tuttle
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 0-1 points

VOCAL REPERTOIRE, TECHNIQUE

Vocal exercises and exploration of wide-ranging repertoires, styles, and languages of the Western European song tradition. The rich variety of English, French, Italian and German poetry and music from the Baroque period through the Twentieth Century allows the student to experience both the music and the cultural environment of each of these styles. Attention is given both to meaning oftext and musical interpretation. Individual coaching sessions are available with the class accompanist and help strengthen the students' confidence and skill. The class culminates with an in-class performance.

• Department: Music @Barnard
• F 2 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Josephine Mongiardo
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

PERFORMING WOMEN

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 16 students.
This course examines the category of "woman" as it is mobilized in performance, considering both a variety of contemporary performances chosen from a wide range of genres and a diversity of critical/theoretical perspectives.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Shayoni Mitra
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

MAJOR ENGLISH TEXTS I

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 25 students.
A chronological view of the variety of English literature through study of selected writers and their works. Autumn: Beowulf through Johnson.

• Department: English @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Margaret R Ellsberg
  CULPA: 54 Info
• 3 points

CLASSIC VARIATIONS

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ashley Tuttle
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 0-1 points

INTRODUCTION TO NARRATIVE

An introduction to narrative through texts that themselves foreground acts of storytelling and thus teach us how to read them. Readings range across periods and cultures - from fifth-century BCE Athens to late twentieth-century Brazil - and include short stories, novellas, novels, a ballad, film and a psychoanalytic case history. Texts by Conan Doyle, Sophocles, Melville, Hitchcock, Augustine, Coleridge, Freud, McEwan, the tellers and compilers of the The Arabian Nights, Diderot, Flaubert, and Lispector. Emphasis on close reading and hands-on experience in analyzing texts.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Emily Sun
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED STUDIO

Prerequisites: Permission of Department.
May be repeated for credit up to four times.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• Instructor: Kate A Glasner
  CULPA: 31 Info
• 0-1 points

WESTERN THEATRE TRADITIONS

WESTRN THEATRE CLASS-ROMNTC

Dialectical approach to reading and thinking about the history of dramatic theatre in the west, interrogating the ways poetry inflects, and is inflected by, the material dynamics of performance. We will undertake careful study of the practices of performance, and of the sociocultural, economic, political, and aesthetic conditions animating representative plays of the Western tradition from the classical theatre through the early modern period to early romanticism; course will also emphasize development of important critical concepts for the analysis of drama, theatre, and performance. Specific attention will be given to classical Athens, medieval cycle drama, the professional theatre of early modern England, the rival theatres of seventeenth century France and Spain, and eighteenth-century theatre in England and Germany; topics include the sociology of theatre, the impact of print on conceptions of performance, representing gender and race, and the dynamics of court performance. Writing: 2-3 papers; Reading: 1-2 plays, critical and historical reading per week; final examination. Fulfills one (of two) Theatre History requirements for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: William B Worthen
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

LIVING/THINKING/DOING WITH ANIMALS:HUMAN

This course examines how humans and animals shape each other’s lives. We’ll explore the astounding diversity of human-animal relationships in time and space, tracing the ways animals have made their impact on human societies (and vice-versa). Using contemporary ethnographic, historical, and archaeological examples from a variety of geographical regions and chronological periods, this class will consider how humans and animals live and make things, and the ways in which humans have found animals “good to think with”.  In this course, we will also discuss how knowledge about human-animal relationships in the past might change contemporary and future approaches to living with animals.

• Department: Anthropology
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Hannah Chazin
  Info
• 4 points

PSYCHOLOGY AND WOMEN

Prerequisites: Junior or Senior standing and at least two psychology courses. Permission of the instructor required for majors other than Psychology or Women's Studies. Enrollment limited to 20 students.
Examines how female experience is and has been understood by psychologists. Through an understanding of gender as a social construction and issues raised by the intersections of gender, sexuality, class, and race, the course will analyze assumptions about what causes us to be gendered and about how being gendered affects behavior.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Wendy McKenna
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 4 points

THEATRE TRAD GLOBAL CONTEXT

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 50 students.
Provides a broad introduction to several traditions of nonwestern drama and theatrical practice, often placing recent and contemporary writing in relation to established conventions.  Taking up plays and performance traditions from Asia, South Asia, and various African traditions, it may also consider the relation between elite and popular culture (adaptations of Shakespeare, for example), and between drama, theatre, and film. Fulfills one course in World Theatre for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• TR 12:10 p.m.-1:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Shayoni Mitra
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

DESIGN PROJECT

Prerequisites: Senior standing. Written permission from instructor and approval from adviser.
E3156: a design problem in materials science or metallurgical engineering selected jointly by the student and a professor in the department. The project requires research by the student, directed reading, and regular conferences with the professor in charge. E3157: completion of the research, directed reading, and conferences, culminating in a written report and an oral presentation to the department.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: James Im
  Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED PROGRAMMING

Prerequisites: COMS W3134 or equivalent.
C programming language and Unix systems programming.  Also covers Git, Make, TCP/IP networking basics, C++ fundamentals.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jae W Lee
  CULPA: 42 Info
• 4 points

THE ENGLISH COLLOQUIUM

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to Barnard English majors.
In the Renaissance colloquium we will examine English and European imaginative and intellectual life from the sixteenth to mid-seventeenth centuries. Defined by humanism, the Protestant Reformation, and revolution, this was a period of ideological struggle on many levels. Long-held ways of ordering the world came under increasing strain-and sometimes ruptured irreparably. Writers discussed and debated the aims of human knowledge, retooled old literary forms for new purposes, scrambled to take account of an expanded awareness of the globe, and probed the tension between belief and doubt. Throughout this process, they experimented with new literary styles to express their rapidly changing worldviews. This is an intensive course in which we will take multiple approaches to a variety of authors that may include Petrarch, Erasmus, Machiavelli, Castiglione, More, Rabelais, Luther, Calvin, Montaigne, Spenser, Bacon, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Milton, and Behn, among others.

• Department: English @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Rachel Eisendrath
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Maire Jaanus
  CULPA: 15 Info
• Instructor: Caryn O'Connell
  Info
• Instructor: Achsah Guibbory
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 4 points

MYTHS OF OEDIPUS

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Caroline Weber
  CULPA: 8 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY

Prerequisites: BC1001 and either BC1124/1125, BC1125, BC2141, or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 20 students; and senior psychology majors.
Critically investigates the universalizing perspectives of psychology. Drawing on recent theory and research in cultural psychology, examines cultural approaches to psychological topics such as the self, human development, mental health, and racial identity. Also explores potential interdisciplinary collaborations.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Karen Seeley
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 4 points

SHAKESPEARE II

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 60 students.
Critical and historical introduction to selected comedies, histories, tragedies, and romances by Shakespeare. Please note that you do
not
need to take ENGL BC3163: Shakespeare I and ENGL BC3164: Shakespeare II in sequence; you may take them in any order.

• Department: English @Barnard
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Peter Platt
  CULPA: 23 Info
• 3 points

MILTON

Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes and selections of Milton's earlier poetry and prose (defenses of free press, divorce, individual conscience, political and religious liberty) read within the context of religious, political, and cultural history, but with a sense of connection to present issues.

• Department: English @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Achsah Guibbory
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 3 points

DRAMATURGY

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor, given at first class meeting; enrollment limited to 12.
This course teaches the research skills and practices a production dramaturg develops as part of the conceptual work of theatrical production. Course is focused on a series of activities: analyzing dramatic text, comparing different versions of script, conducting archival and cultural research, and presenting it to the production team.  Fulfills one (of two) required courses in dramatic literature for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors. Required for students undertaking a senior thesis in dramaturgy. Required for students undertaking a senior thesis in directing prior to the thesis year.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Linda Bartholomai
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

THE NOVEL & PSYCHOANALYSIS

The novel in its cultural context, with an accent on psychoanalysis (but no required reading).  Austen, Emily Bronte, Dickens, Hardy, D.H. Lawrence, Didion, Duras, and W.G. Sebald.

• Department: English @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Maire Jaanus
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

18TH CENTURY LITERATURE

The development of the novel form in Great Britain.  Topics will include: epistolary fiction, the novel of sentiment, Gothicism; the novel's roots in romance, satire, and the picaresque; modern theories of the origins and development of the novel. Works by: Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, Austen, and others.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ross T Hamilton
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 3 points

THE ROMANTIC ERA

Romantic writers in their intellectual, historical, and political context, with reference to contemporary movements in philosophy, music, and the plastic arts. Authors include Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, P.B. Shelley, and Keats. An emphasis on close reading of the poetry.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ross T Hamilton
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 3 points

VICTORIAN POETRY & CRITICISM

Poetry, art, and aesthetics in an industrial society, with emphasis on the role of women as artists and objects. Poems by Tennyson, Arnold, Christina and D.G. Rossetti, Swinburne, and Elizabeth and Robert Browning; criticism by Ruskin, Arnold, and Wilde; paintings by the Pre-Raphaelites and Whistler; photographs by J.M. Cameron.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: William C Sharpe
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 11 Info
• 3 points

AMERICAN LITERATURE TO 1800

Early American histories, autobiographies, poems, plays, and novels tell stories of pilgrimage and colonization; private piety and public life; the growth of national identity; Puritanism, Quakerism, and Deism; courtship and marriage; slavery and abolition. Writers include Bradford, Shepard, Bradstreet, Taylor, Rowlandson, Edwards, Wheatley, Franklin, Woolman, and Brown.

• Department: English @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Gordis
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

WOMEN IN MUSIC VIDEO

Prerequisites: UN1123 or Instructor's Approval.

The stark black  and  white of Madonna’s “Vogue” and  the  pinks and  sparkles of “Material Girl.”  The lavish cinematic spectacle of Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” and  the blatant product placement and  in-your-face sexuality of Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda.” The explosive surprise launches of Beyoncé's
BEYONCÉ
and  
Lemonade
visual albums. Since MTV’s advent in 1981, hit music  videos have made a number of pop songs inextricable from the  iconic imagery of their videos; ubiquitous digital devices and  the rise of YouTube have only increased the audiovisuality of pop music.
What  happens when we look at, as well as listen to, female pop icons?  Taking  pop music video seriously means getting entangled in fraught questions of agency, representation, race, sexuality/sexualization, bodies, commodification, and  capital. In this course, students will gain  a vocabulary for talking  about both the audio and  visual parameters of music video, and  they will put  this vocabulary to use, engaging with critical frameworks for examining meaning, circulation, and  reception in contemporary music  videos.

• Department: Music
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Paula C Harper
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

AMERICAN LITERATURE SINCE 1945

In the wake of World War II, the so-called American Century rises out of the ashes of fascism, haunted by the specter of bombs blurring the boundary between victory and defeat.  An ideological civil war ensues, punctuated by literary resistance to grand narratives and their discontents.  Authors include Ellison, O’Connor, Ginsberg, Bishop, Pynchon, Robinson, Merrill, Morrison, Didion, and Wallace.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Margaret S Vandenburg
  CULPA: 59 Info
• 3 points

INT'L HUMAN RIGHTS LAW

This course will introduce students to the international law of human rights, and give a basic orientation to fundamental issues and controversies. The course has two principal focal points: first, the "nuts and bolts" of how international law functions in the field of human rights, and second, the value and limitations of legal approaches to a variety of human rights issues. Throughout the course, both theoretical and practical questions will be addressed, including who bears legal duties and who can assert legal claims, how these duties might be enforced, and accountability and remedy for violations. Attention will be given to how international law is made, what sorts of assumptions underlie various legal mechanisms, and how the law works in a variety of contexts.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Belinda Cooper
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

REPUBLICANISM: PLATO TO PETTIT

The course is divided into two main parts. The first half examines features of classical republicanism and its developments from Greece and Rome up to the late eighteenth century. We will analyze the relationship between ethics and politics, the significance of the mixed constitution, the problem of political instability, the role of character in political action, and the relationship between virtuous citizens, good arms and good laws. The second half will be more issue-based, as we will examine the resurgence of republicanism in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, in part as a critique of liberal democracy. We will explore the efforts to define "republican" freedom, the relationship between equality and freedom (and the challenges posed by the market and inequality in resources), the relationship between republicanism and democracy, and the role and nature of civic virtue. The class will end with consideration of recent efforts on the part of some political theorists to redefine patriotism or loyalty to one's particular state in the modern world and to think about what republicanism might require on a global scale.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jessica L Kimpell
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

ESTRANGEMNT/EXILE GLOB NOVELS

"I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I knew it, and all my life would be the same, trying to belong, and failing. Always something would go wrong. I am a stranger and I always will be, and after all I didn't really care."-Jean Rhys.
This course examines the experiential life of the novelist as both artist and citizen. Through the study of the work of two towering figures in 20th century literature, we will look at the seemingly contradictory condition of the novelist as both outsider and integral to society, as both observer and expresser of time's yearnings and passions. In different ways and with different repercussions, Jean Rhys and Albert Camus were born into realities shaped by colonialism. They lived across borders, identities and allegiances. Rhys was neither black-Caribbean nor white-English. Albert Camus could be said to have been both French and Algerian, both the occupier and the occupied, and, perhaps, neither. We will look at how their work reflects the contradictions into which they were born. We will trace, through close reading and open discussion, the ways in which their art continues to have lasting power and remain, in light of the complexities of our own time, vivid, true and alive. The objective is to pinpoint connections between novelistic form and historical time. The uniqueness of the texts we will read lies not just in their use of narrative, ideas and myths, but also in their resistance to generalization. We will examine how our novelists' existential position, as both witnesses and participants, creates an opportunity for fiction to reveal more than the author intends and, on the other hand, more than power desires.

• Department: English @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Hisham Matar
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points