IND STUDIES-CIVIL ENGIN-JUNIOR

A project on civil engineering subjects approved by the chairman of the department. Lab fee: $200.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• Instructor: Upmanu Lall
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 68 Info
• Instructor: Huiming Yin
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 25 Info
• Instructor: Haim Waisman
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 29 Info
• Instructor: Jacob Fish
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 54 Info
• Instructor: Shiho Kawashima
  h-index: 24 Info
• Instructor: Waiching Sun
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 30 Info
• Instructor: Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou
  h-index: 26 Info
• Instructor: Xuan Di
  h-index: 15 Info
• Instructor: Julius Chang
  Info
• 1-3 points

IND STUDIES-CIVIL ENGIN-SENIOR

A project on civil engineering subjects approved by the chairman of the department. Lab fee: $200.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• Instructor: Raimondo Betti
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 31 Info
• Instructor: Gautam Dasgupta
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 19 Info
• Instructor: George Deodatis
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 42 Info
• Instructor: Patricia J Culligan
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Maria Q Feng
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 46 Info
• Instructor: Hoe I Ling
  h-index: 45 Info
• Instructor: Andrew W Smyth
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Upmanu Lall
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 68 Info
• Instructor: Huiming Yin
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 25 Info
• Instructor: Haim Waisman
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 29 Info
• Instructor: Jacob Fish
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 54 Info
• Instructor: Shiho Kawashima
  h-index: 24 Info
• Instructor: Waiching Sun
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 30 Info
• Instructor: Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou
  h-index: 26 Info
• Instructor: Xuan Di
  h-index: 15 Info
• Instructor: Julius Chang
  Info
• 1-3 points

HOW TO READ VIOLENCE

• Department: Slavic Languages @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Bradley Gorski
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

GENDER&SEXUALITY; IN THE IRISH NOVEL

This course will chart changing attitudes towards gender and sexuality from the nineteenth to the twentieth century in terms of the development of novelistic genres. These genres include marriage plot novels in which the 1800 Act of Union was figured as a marriage between a feminized Ireland and a masculine England, the Big House novel—an Irish variant of the country house novel—pioneered by women writers, the gothic novel by writers like Oscar Wilde, the modernist novels of James Joyce and Elizabeth Bowen, banned books that were silenced by national censorship boards, and finally the queer Irish novel of the late twentieth century.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Emily Bloom
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

VIRTUAL SPACE:RENAISSANCE PERSPECTIVE

Prerequisites: A course in art history or architectural history
Single-point perspective was an optical representational technique that fundamentally altered the early modern visual world. Bridging the domains of art and science, perspectival representation could simultaneously reveal a mathematically reasoned space and a fantastic reality. It appealed widely to visual artists, writers, scientific thinkers, politicians, and explorers. The ambiguities and broad applicability of perspective opened new possibilities for visual communication and spatial thinking. This undergraduate seminar is organized chronologically (1400-1750, roughly) and thematically to provide a broad overview on perspectival representation in this historical period. We will consider fields as diverse as painting, building, print making, theater design, cartography, urban design, natural science, and philosophy - primarily in Italy, where the discourse centered upon during the early modern period.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Yoko Hara
  Info
• 4 points

SELECTIONS FROM GREEK LIT

ARISTOPHANES

Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.

• Department: Classics @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Helene P Foley
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

LATIN LITERATURE SELECTIONS

LATIN LIT SELECTIONS:ROMAN COM

Prerequisites:
LATN V1202
or the equivalent.
Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.

• Department: Classics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• 3 points

CELL BIOLOGY

Prerequisites: BIOL BC1500, BIOL BC1501 BIOL BC1502, BIOL BC1503, or equivalent, and BIOL BC2100.
This course explores the components, systems, and regulatory mechanisms involved in eukaryotic cellular function. Topics include: signal transduction, translational and protein quality control, organellar and cytoskeletal dynamics, and some coordinated responses such as proliferation and programmed cell death. Throughout the course we will see how general cell biology can be specialized to achieve specific cellular functions through regulation of the basic machinery. We will also explore the cellular and molecular bases for a variety of human pathologies, with an emphasis on cancer. In addition to lecture, we will spend some time discussing the material, including selected articles from the primary literature, and learning through group presentations.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Snow
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 18 Info
• 3 points

TECHNIQUES OF 20TH CENT MUSIC

Prerequisites:
MUSI V3322
or the instructor's permission.
Materials, styles, and techniques of 20th-century music. Topics include scales, chords, sets, atonality, serialism, neoclassicism, and rhythm.

• Department: Music
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Sophia C Di Castri
  Info
• 3 points

LABORATORY IN CELL BIOLOGY

Prerequisites: BIOL BC1500, BIOL BC1501, BIOL BC1502, BIOL BC1503 or the equivalent, BIOL BC2100 or permission of instructor. Enrollment limited to 16.
Introduction to cell biological techniques used to investigate structural, molecular, and physiological aspects of eukaryotic cells and their organization into tissues. Techniques include light and electron microscopy, cell culture, isolation of cellular organelles, protein electrophoresis and Western Blot analysis.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• R 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Snow
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 18 Info
• 3 points

FEMINIST THEORY

Prerequisites: LIMITED TO 20 BY INSTRUC PERM; ATTEND FIRST CLASS
An exploration of the relationship between new feminist theory and feminist practice, both within the academy and in the realm of political organizing.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Tina M Campt
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

SPECIAL TOPICS

SPECIAL TPCS: HOUSING COMPLEX

Topics vary yearly. Course may be repeated for credit.  Attendance is mandatory at the first class meeting in order to form class registration lists.

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• Instructor: Ignacio Gonzalez Galan
  Info
• 3 points

SPECIAL TOPICS

SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHITECTURE

Topics vary yearly. Course may be repeated for credit.  Attendance is mandatory at the first class meeting in order to form class registration lists.

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• 3 points

THEORIZING ACTIVISM

THEORIZING WOMEN'S ACTIVISM

Prerequisites: Critical Approaches or Feminist Theory or permission of instructor.
Helps students develop and apply useful theoretical models to feminist organizing on local and international levels.  It involves reading, presentations, and seminar reports.  Students use first-hand knowledge of the practices of specific women's activist organizations for theoretical work.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Janet Jakobsen
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

POETIC METER AND FORM

Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT required.
This course will investigate the uses of rhythmic order and disorder in English-language poetry, with a particular emphasis on 'formal' elements in 'free' verse. Through a close analysis of poems, we'll examine the possibilities of qualitative meter, and students will write original creative work within (and in response to) various formal traditions. Analytical texts and poetic manifestos will accompany our reading of exemplary poems. Each week, we'll study interesting examples of metrical writing, and I'll ask you to write in reponse to those examples. Our topics will include
stress meter, syllable-stress meter, double and triple meter, rising and falling rhythms, promotion, demotion, inversion, elision, and foot scansion.
Our study will include a greate range of pre-modern and modern writers, from Keats to W.D. Snodgrass, Shakespeare to Denise Levertov, Blake to James Dickey, Whitman to Louise Gluck etc. As writers, we'll always be thinking about how the
formal choices
of a poem are appropriate or inappropriate for the poem's
content.
We'll also read prose by poets describing their metrical craft.

• Department: Writing
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph N Fasano
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

EAR-TRAINING III

Sight-singing techniques of modulating diatonic melodies in simple, compound, or irregular meters that involve complex rhythmic patterns. Emphasis is placed on four-part harmonic dictation of modulating phrases.

• Department: Music
• MW 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• TR 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• 1 points

EAR-TRAINING IV

Techniques of musicianship at the intermediate level, stressing the importance of musical nuances in sight-singing. Emphasis is placed on chromatically inflected four-part harmonic dictation.

• Department: Music
• MW 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 1 points

TRAUMA&ITS; AFTERMATH:POETRY,MEMORY,HYBRI

It is 2017. The history of literature has, in many ways, become inseparable from the history of trauma, a statement that only seems to be growing more true with the passage of time. How can the lyric turn outward to become a relevant and necessary reflection of contemporary times, especially given the current political climate and the way the internet's lightning pace has revolutionized how we receive and process (mis)information. How does William Carlos William's adage that “It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men [sic] die miserably every day for lack of what is found there” hold up in today's world? What is poetry's role and responsibility in a society where it's become difficult or impossible to even get the news from the news?

This class will study poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid texts that stem from, speak to, and call out all types of historical and personal trauma, from the beginning of the last century to current day.  What are the different ways writers have used form, or a lack of it, to convey traumatic experience? How does a writer both remember and manipulate memory in the service of recreating trauma for the reader. Why do so many hybrid texts seem to take trauma as their core subject?

• Department: Writing
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Marni D Ludwig
  Info
• 3 points

MUSICS OF INDIA & WEST ASIA

A topical approach to the concepts and practices of music in relation to other arts in the development of Asian civilizations.

• Department: Music
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Alessandra M Ciucci
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Eben Graves
  Info
• 3 points

MUSIC THEORY III

Prerequisites:
MUSI V2319
.
Corequisites: one course from Ear-training I-IV (
V2314
,
V2315
,
V3316
, or
V3317
, as determined by placement exam.)
Intermediate analysis and composition in a variety of tonal idioms. (Through Spring 2014, this course was entitled Chromatic Harmony and Counterpoint I.)

• Department: Music
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• 3 points

EAST ASIAN CINEMA

This course introduces students to major works, genres and waves of East Asian cinema from the Silent era to the present, including films from Japan, Korea, Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. How has cinema participated in East Asian societies’ distinct and shared experiences of industrial modernity, imperialism and (post)colonialism? How has cinema engaged with questions of class, gender, ethnic and language politics? In what ways has cinema facilitated transnational circulations and mobilizations of peoples and ideas, and how has it interacted with other art forms, such as theatre, painting, photography and music? In this class, we answer these questions by studying cinemas across the region sideby- side, understanding cinema as deeply embedded in the region’s intertwining political, social and cultural histories and circulations of people and ideas. We cover a variety of genres such as melodrama, comedy, historical epic, sci-fi, martial arts and action, and prominent film auteurs such as Yasujirō Ozu, Akira Kurosawa, Yu Hyŏnmok, Chen Kaige, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Ann Hui. As cinema is, among other things, a creative practice, in this course, students will be given opportunities to respond to films analytically and creatively, through writing as well as creative visual projects. As a global core course, this class does not assume prior knowledge of East Asian culture or of film studies.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ying Qian
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

MUSIC THEORY IV

Prerequisites:
MUSI V3321
.
Corequisites: one course from Ear-Training I-IV (
V2314
,
V2315
,
V3316
, or
V3317
, as determined by placement exam.)
Intermediate analysis and composition in a variety of tonal and extended tonal idioms. (Through Spring 2014, this course was entitled Chromatic Harmony and Counterpoint II.) A one-hour weekly lab is required, to be scheduled at the beginning of the term.

• Department: Music
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• 3 points

GLOBAL URBANISM

Using classical texts about cities (do they still work for us?) and on the diverse new literatures on cities and larger sujects with direct urban implications, we ill use a variety of data sets to get a detailed empirical information, and draw on two large ongoing research projects involving major and minor global cities around the world (a total of over 60 cities are covered in detail as of 2008).

• Department: Sociology
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Saskia J Sassen
  CULPA: 16 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

HISTORY OF IRELAND 1700-2000

This seminar provides an introduction to key debates and historical writing in Irish history from 1700.  Topics include:  the character of Ascendancy Ireland; the 1798 rising and the Act of Union; the causes and consequences of the famine; emigration and Fenianism; the Home Rule movement; the Gaelic revival; the Easter Rising and the civil war; politics and culture in the Free State; the Northern Ireland problem; Ireland, the European Union, and the birth of the “celtic tiger”.

• Department: History
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Susan Pedersen
  CULPA: 15 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

CONSUMER CULTURE IN MOD EUROP

• Department: History @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Tiersten
  CULPA: 45 Info
• 4 points

VISUAL CULTURES&ETHNICITIES;

VISUAL CULTURES&ETHN;:LATIN AME

This course is a comparative study of the cultures and ethnicities of Latin America, with a focus on Asian migration, settlement, and visual culture. Course readings, in-class mapping workshops, and discussions will examine Asian diasporic artistic production, performance, and visual cultures. We will pair visual and cultural analysis with studies about spatial theory and cultural geography, including the relationship between perception and space to race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender. We will question how visual culture, artistic practice, and performance have interrupted static understandings of ethnicity, race, gender, and sexuality. We will read theories about cultural hybridity, performance, affect, memory, and migration and examine artistic production from Latin America. We will also analyze the symbolic value and socio-economic positions of ethnic neighborhoods like Chinatown in Cuba or Japantown in Brazil. In addition, we will examine representations of Asian-ness in a variety of popular culture and media. Using mapping software, students will create digital media projects that highlight Asian diasporic artistic practices in Latin America.

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• T 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Ana P Lee
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 2 Info
• 3 points

INTRO ORGANIC CHEMISTRY-LAB

Prerequisites: (CHEM BC3230) General Chemistry I with lab.
Basic techniques of experimental organic chemistry. Principles and methods of separation, purification, and characterization of organic compounds. Selected organic reactions. , Friday 1:10 - 5:30PM

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• F 1:10 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Meenakshi S Rao
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 2.5 points

COLL: WOMEN IN AMER POLITICS

Prerequisites: V 1201 or equivalent
A well-functioning democracy should certainly reflect the intent of its citizens, but it is worthwhile to consider whether this goal is achievable when the legislative assembly does not take on the characteristics of the population. In Congress, membership is comprised of fewer than 20% of women. Women constitute a somewhat greater proportion of the various state assemblies, but still not at levels that approach their share of the population. In this class, we will discuss the electoral experiences of women who run for office. We will also consider whether the women who are elected to public office behave differently, and what, if any, implications such a difference might have for public policy. We will also study how gender intersects with race and socio-economics in American political life. This course will introduce students to the concepts, major themes, and debates in the study of gender in American politics. Students who complete the class will learn how to: 1. Identify the key concepts, trends, and debates in the empirical study of women in American politics. 2. Draw linkages between theoretical political science and practical politics in describing how gender affects political outcomes. 3. Critically engage media coverage of women in politics. 4. Assess the theoretical and/or empirical quality of academic arguments about women in politics. 5. Use empirical evidence to present an effective argument, both written and verbal. 6. Produce a high-quality, original research paper that contributes to our understanding of gender in American political life.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Faculty
  h-index: 37 Info
• 4 points

ECOL & SOC SYSTEMS FOR SDEV

Prerequisites:
SDEV W2300
Challenges of Sustainable Development;
EESC W2330
Science for Sustainable Development.
The course provides an overview of the complex relationships between ecological and social systems. The course focuses on basic principles in understanding these relationships. After the students are introduced to these basic concepts, the course will focus on three current topics central to Sustainable Development for in-depth study. The emphasis is on the multiple perspectives - environmental, social and economic - required to understand and develop solutions to problems in sustainable development. The three topics are: conservation of biodiversity, payments for ecosystem services, and the ecology of food production. We expect these topics to vary from year to year to keep pace with current topics. The following areas will be covered.: -What is an ecosystem? How are social and ecological systems linked through the flow of energy and materials? -What are the characteristics of coupled human-natural systems? How do these systems function? -What are the current topics in sustainable development that require understanding of social and ecological systems? -For each topic (protection of biodiversity, ecosystem services, ecology of food production), what are the environmental, economic, and social perspectives important for sustainable solutions? How can critical thinking be applied to balance these perspectives to derive sustainable solution? -Data analysis and approaches to analyze ecosystems and options for sustainable development. Offered in the Fall.

• Department: Earth Institute
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ruth Defries
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 114 Info
• 3 points

MOD TECH ORGANIC CHEM LAB REC

• Department: Chemistry
• M 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• 0 points

URBAN SPACE & CONFLICT IN MIDDLE EAST

URBAN SPACE&CONFLICT; MID EAST

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Khatchig Mouradian
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

MODERN V

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Molissa Fenley
  Wikipedia Info
• 0-1 points

A FIRST CRSE/FINITE ELEMENTS

Prerequisites: Senior standing or by instructor permission. Students taking ENME E3332 cannot take ENME E4332. Recommended: differential equations.
Focus on formulation and application of the finite element to engineering problems such as stress analysis, heat transfer, fluid flow and electromagnetics. Topics include: finite element formulation for one-dimensional problems, such as trusses, electrical and hydraulic systems, scalar field problems in two dimensions, such as heat transfer, and vector field problems such as elasticity and finally usage of the commercial finite element program.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Jacob Fish
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 54 Info
• 3 points

MODERN TECH-ORGANIC CHEM LAB

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 with a grade of C- or better and CHEM BC3230.
Corequisites: CHEM BC3231. CHEM BC3334 Lecture: M 1:10-2:00; Laboratory one afternoon: M 2:10-6:00; W or F 1:10-5:00.
Advanced experimental organic techniques and introduction to qualitative and quantitative organic analysis. Emphasis on instrumental and chromatographic methods. Selected reactions. Students enrolling in this course must register for CHEM BC3334x.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 3 points

INTRO TO LITERARY STUDIES I

MAJOR LITERARY WORKS TO 1800

Prerequisites:
FREN UN3405
Advanced Grammar and Composition or an AP score of 5 or the instructor's permission.
Reading and discussion of major works from the Middle Ages to 1750.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Raphaelle J Burns
  Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO GERMAN LIT (GERMAN)

Prerequisites:
GERM V1202
or the equivalent.
Examines short literary texts and various methodological approaches to interpreting such texts in order to establish a basic familiarity with the study of German literature and culture.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Stefan Andriopoulos
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO ITALIAN LITERATURE I

Prerequisites: Intermediate Italian II
ITAL UN2102
or the equivalent.

UN3334x-UN3333y
is the basic course in Italian literature. ,
UN3333
: This course, entirely taught in Italian, introduces you to Medieval and early modern Italian literature. It will give you the opportunity to test your ability as a close-reader and discover unusual and fascinating texts that tell us about the polycentric richness of the Italian peninsula. We will read poems, tales, letters, fiction and non-fiction, travel writings and political pamphlets. The great “Three Crowns” - Dante, Petrarca and Boccaccio -  as well as renowned Renaissance authors such as Ludovico Ariosto and Niccolò Machiavelli, will show us the main path to discover Italian masterpieces and understand the European Renaissance. But we will also explore China with Marco Polo and the secrets of the Medieval soul diving into the mystical poems by Jacopone da Todi. We will study parody and laughter through the “poesia giocosa” (parodic poetry) by Cecco Angiolieri and the legacy of Humanism through the letters of Poggio Bracciolini. This first overview will allow you to explore Italian literature from its complex and multicultural beginnings to its diffusion across Europe during the Renaissance.

• Department: Italian
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Pier Mattia Tommasino
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

VVEDENIE V RUSSKUIU LITERATURU

POOR LIZA, POOR ME

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Irina Reyfman
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

GENETICS,BIODIVERSITY &SOCIETY;

Prerequisites: Instructor's permission required. Students should contact B. Morton.
Module I: Development and Valuation of Plant Genetic Resources. Science and consequences of plant breeding, biotechnology, and genetic engineering; costs and benefits of maintaining biodiversity; public policy issues and options. Module II: Genetic Technology and Society. Human genome project, scientific basis and interpretation of genetic screening; individual choice, social implications, and ethical issues.

• Department: Science and Public Policy @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 4 points

MODERN TECH-ORGANIC CHEM REC

Corequisites: CHEM BC3333
Theoretical aspects of the reactions and experiments done in BC3333, with an emphasis on spectral analysis, including IR and  NMR spectroscopy, and mass spectrometry. Students must enroll in one of the 3333 lab sections to be in this class.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• M 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• 0 points

INTRO TO LITERARY STUDIES II

MAJOR LITERARY WORKS SINC 1800

Prerequisites:
FREN UN3405
Advanced Grammar and Composition or an AP score of 5 or the instructor's permission.
Reading and discussion of major works from 1750 to the present.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Caio M Ferreira
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

COLL: AMERICAN ELECTIONS

Prerequisites: POLS V 1201 or equivalent American Politics course. POLS V 3222 or equivalent Research Methods course is recommended.
Admission by application
through the Barnard department only. Enrollment limited to 16 students.
The purpose of this course is to examine how political science can inform the real-world campaign environment, improving our understanding of strategy and outcomes in American elections.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Faculty
  h-index: 37 Info
• 4 points

SCIENCE, STATE POWER, ETHICS

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 10 students.
A comparative study of science in the service of the State in the U.S., the former Soviet Union, Fascist Italy, and Nazi Germany during pivotal periods through the first half of the 20th century. Topics to be covered include the political and moral consequences of policies based upon advances in the natural sciences making possible the development of TNT, nerve gas, uranium fission and hydrogen fusion atomic bombs. Considers the tensions involved in balancing scientific imperatives, patriotic commitment to the nation-state, and universal moral principles and tensions faced by Robert Oppenheimer, Andrei Sakharov, Neils Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. Selected readings include: Michael Frayn's play
Copenhagen,

Hitler's Uranium Club
by Jeremy Bernstein, Brecht's
Galileo
, John McPhee's
The Curve of Binding Energy,
Richard Rhodes'
The Making of the Atomic Bomb.

• Department: Science and Public Policy @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 4 points

MODERN VI

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

SHAKESPEARE I

(Lecture). This course will cover the histories, comedies, tragedies, and poetry of Shakespeare’s early career. We will examine the cultural and historical conditions that informed Shakespeare’s drama and poetry; in the case of drama, we will also consider the formal constraints and opportunities of the early modern English commercial theater. We will attend to Shakespeare’s biography while considering his work in relation to that of his contemporaries. Ultimately, we will aim to situate the production of Shakespeare’s early career within the highly collaborative, competitive, and experimental theatrical and literary cultures of late sixteenth-century England.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Lauren E Robertson
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

20TH CENT NEW YORK CITY HIST

This course explores critical areas of New York's economic development in the 20th century, with a view to understanding the rise, fall and resurgence of this world capital. Discussions also focus on the social and political significance of these shifts. Assignments include primary sources, secondary readings, film viewings, trips, and archival research. Students use original sources as part of their investigation of New York City industries for a 20-page research paper. An annotated bibliography is also required. Students are asked to give a weekly update on research progress, and share information regarding useful archives and websites.

• Department: History
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Kenneth T Jackson
  CULPA: 46 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED ITALIAN I

Prerequisites:
ITAL V1202 or W1202
or the equivalent. If you did not take Intermediate Italian at Columbia in the semester preceding the current one, you must take the placement test, offered by the Italian Department at the beginning of each semester.
Written and oral self-expression in compositions and oral reports on a variety of topics; grammar review.  Required for majors and concentrators.

• Department: Italian
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Felice Beneduce
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

ITALIAN THROUGH CINEMA

ADVANCED ITALIAN THROUGH CINEM

Prerequisites:
ITAL V3335
.
Students will develop advanced language competence while analyzing and discussing Italian film comedies and their reflection of changing Italian culture and society. Films by Monicelli, Germi, Moretti, Wertmuller, Soldini and others.

• Department: Italian
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Federica Franze
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

CONTACT IMPROVISATION

Prerequisites: Limited to twenty people.
Examination of the gender-neutral partnering technique that is now common in contemporary dance. Focus is placed on recent improvisatory forms, sensation building, center connection and risk. Emphasis is placed on listening and sensing rather than controlling or leading.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Colleen Thomas
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 0-1 points

SHAKESPEARE SEMINAR II

SHAKESPEARE AND FILM

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
(Seminar). Hamlet as a video student whose uncle has become CEO of “Denmark Corporation.” 
As You Like It
in nineteenth-century Japan after the Meiji Restoration.  A voodoo
Macbeth
in Haiti during the reign of the slave-turned-emperor Henri Christophe. 
Antony and Cleopatra
in a village in Karala, where antagonists stage a cock fight to win a local beauty with magical powers.  In this course, we will examine a wide array of film versions of Shakespeare’s plays, looking at them in relationship to Shakespeare’s texts and traditional interpretations of the plays.  We will investigate the ways in which large-scale transformations (for instance, location, historical period, or narrative order) alter the meaning of the plays.  At the same time, the course will help students develop tools for the close reading of performance (gesture, expression, movement) and of the particular language of film (image, scenography, camera work, sound, and more).  Discussion will be supplemented by creative exercises (dramatic readings, brainstorming directorial ideas, the creation of short films, etc).  Previous familiarity with the plays we’ll be examining is helpful but not required.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Julie S Peters
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

LAW AND DISORDER IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND

LAW&DISORDER; IN EARLY MON ENGL

This seminar course examines representations of early modern Engish law, primarily on the English Renaissance stage.  We will explore the investigation, prosecution and punishment of crimes including treason, petty treason, adultery, witchcraft, sodomy, rape, and usury in their early modern contexts, and pay attention to the debates surrounding marriage and sumptuary legislation.   Dramatic texts will include works by William Shakespeare, Thomas Heywood, Thomas Dekker, William Rowley, and John Webster; we will also be reading broadsheets, legal documents, statutes, ballads, and real court cases, alongside wide-ranging critical literature.
Application instructions
: E-mail Professor Stewart (ags2105@COLUMBIA.EDU) with the subject heading "Law and Disorder seminar." In your message, include your name, school, major, year of study, relevant courses taken, and a brief statement about why you are interested in taking t

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Alan Stewart
  CULPA: 14 h-index: 13 Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED READINGS IN HUNGARIAN

Prerequisites:
HNGR W1201-W1202
and
HNGR W3340
, or the equivalent.

W3341y
 has an emphasis on rapid and comprehensive reading of academic materials. In addition to weekly readings, oral presentations and written essays serve to improve fluency in all aspects of Hungarian.

• Department: Italian
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Carol H Rounds
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

HISPANIC CULTURES I (SP)

Prerequisites: L" course: enrollment limited to 15 students. Completion of language requirement, third-year language sequence (W3300).
Provides students with an overview of the cultural history of the Hispanic world, from eighth-century Islamic and Christian Spain and the pre-Hispanic Americas through the late Middle Ages and Early Modern period until about 1700, covering texts and cultural artifacts from both Spain and the Americas.

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniella Wurst
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• Instructor: Mariana-Cecil Velazquez Perez
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• Instructor: Alexandra V Mendez
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• Instructor: Ana L Mendez-Oliver
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

MEDIEVAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph S Ackley
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

ENVR POLICY & GOVERNANCE-SUSTAINABILITY

ENVR POLICY & GOV FOR SUSTAIN

Sustainability is a powerful framework for thinking about business, economics, politics and environmental impacts. An overview course, Environmental Policy & Governance will focus specifically on the policy elements of sustainability. With an emphasis on the American political system, the course will begin by exploring the way the American bureaucracy addresses environmental challenges. We will then use the foundations established through our understanding of the US system to study sustainable governance at the international level. With both US and international perspectives in place, we will then address a range of specific sustainability issues including land use, climate change, food and agriculture, air quality, water quality, and energy. Over the course of the semester, we will study current events through the lens of sustainability policy to help illustrate course concepts and theories.

• Department: Earth Institute
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Dale
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

HISPANIC CULTURES II (SP)

This course surveys cultural production of Spain and Spanish America from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Students will acquire the knowledge needed for the study of the cultural manifestations of the Hispanic world in the context of modernity. Among the issues and events studied will be the Enlightenment as ideology and practice, the Napoleonic invasion of Spain, the wars of Spanish American independence, the fin-de-siècle and the cultural avant-gardes, the wars and revolutions of the twentieth century (Spanish Civil War, the Mexican and Cuban revolutions), neoliberalism, globalization, and the Hispanic presence in the United States. The goal of the course is to study some key moments of this trajectory through the analysis of representative texts, documents, and works of art. Class discussions will seek to situate the works studied within the political and cultural currents and debates of the time. All primary materials, class discussion, and assignments are in Spanish.
This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies.

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Anayvelyse Allen-Mossman
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• Instructor: Omar Duran-Garcia
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• Instructor: David Mejia
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Gustavo Perez-Firmat
  CULPA: 8 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Analia Lavin
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• 3 points

EUROPEAN SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY

Prerequisites: one philosophy course.
A survey of Eurpoean social philosophy from the 18th to the 20th century, with special attention to theories of capitalism and the normative concepts (freedom, alienation, human flourishing) that inform them.  Also: the relationship between civil society and the state.

• Department: Philosophy @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Frederick Neuhouser
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia h-index: 16 Info
• 3 points

HISTORY OF THE SELF

HISTORY OF SELF: TOCQUEVILLE

This course is one of a series on the history of the modern self. The works of Montaigne, Pascal, Rousseau, Tocqueville, or another Enlightenment thinker are critically examined in a seminar setting.
Fall 2017 the topic is Tocqueville.

• Department: History
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Lilla
  CULPA: 57 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

ADV CHEM SYNTHESIS LAB

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3333, CHEM BC3271, and CHEM BC3338
Corequisites: CHEM BC3253
Multistep and multi-day experiments in organic and inorganic synthesis via advanced synthetic methods. Experiments include solution phase, solid state, and photochemical syntheses. Products will be analyzed and characterized by a variety of methods, including: IR, NMR, and UV-Vis spectroscopy, and also by polarimetry, chiral GC, and GC/MS.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• R 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 5 points

LONDON:'GREAT WEN'TO WRLD CIT

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preregistration required.
Social and cultural history of London from the Great Fire of 1666 to the 1960s. An examination of the changing experience of urban identity through the commercial life, public spaces, and diverse inhabitants of London. Topics include 17th-century rebuilding, immigrants and emigrants, suburbs, literary culture, war, and redevelopment.

• Department: History @Barnard
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Deborah Valenze
  CULPA: 16 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

MOLECULAR&CELLULAR; NEUROSCI

Prerequisites: BIOL BC1500, BIOL BC1501, BIOL BC1502, BIOL BC1503 or the equivalent, and one term of organic chemistry.
Structure and function of neural membranes; ionic basis of membrane potential and action potential; synaptic transmission and neurochemistry; sensory transduction and processing; reflexes and spinal cord physiology; muscle structure and function; neuronal circuitry; nervous system development.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth P Bauer
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 21 Info
• 3 points

WHAT IS IDEOLOGY

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Karen Benezra
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

PEDAGOGY HIGHER EDUC:PSYCH

PEDAGOGY HIGHER EDUC: PSYCH

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Susan R Sacks
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

EATING DISORDERS

Prerequisites: PSYC BC1001, PSYC BC2141
This course presents an in depth investigation of eating disorders including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating from a primarily psychological perspective. The course will present both the current understandings of causes, correlates, and outcomes of eating pathology as well as the complexity and controversy surrounding these conceptualizations. 
Enrollment limited to 20 students.
Senior psych majors will get first preference.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Sumati Gupta
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points