ENERGY LAW

This course concerns the regulation of energy, energy resources, and energy facilities. Among the topics will be the regulation of rates and services; the roles of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the state public utility commissions; and the interaction with environmental law. Attention will be devoted to energy resources (such as oil, natural gas and coal) and to generating, transmission and distribution facilities. The current and future roles of renewable energy, energy efficiency, and nuclear energy will receive special attention, as will the regulation and deregulation of electricity.

• Department: Earth Institute
• W 3:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Gerrard
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

THE SPANISH INQUISITION

Prerequisites: Knowledge of written and spoken Spanish.
Founded to combat Christian heresy in the late fifteenth century but based on previous medieval models, the Spanish Inquisition is notorious as an institution of religious persecution. Converts from Judaism and Islam to Christianity, not to mention a host of other minority Christian communities, often fell under inquisitorial suspicion. The interrogation and censorship tactics employed by inquisitors and their agents to police these communities sometimes but not always entailed violence. Punishments for those convicted of infractions similarly ranged widely, from the notorious
auto-de-fé
to more minor acts of contrition. In this course, we will study these inquisitorial procedures and their underlying theological presuppositions. We also will examine how the “Holy Office,” as it the inquisition was likewise known, fit into the broader religious and political cultures of the Iberian world during the sixteenth century. That is, both Catholic and Protestant reformers of the period often emphasized inquisitorial violence in order to smear their adversaries or make Spain seem backward, while some apologists for Spanish empire and orthodoxy insisted upon the noble intentions driving inquisition These early modern tensions have shaped our late modern understanding of inquisition history. Over the course of the semester we will aim to test these “black” and “white” legends of Spanish inquisitorial and imperial violence not only against a range of primary sources and archival documents from the sixteenth century, but also against our own presuppositions about tolerance and intolerance, religious freedom, and the relationship between religion and secularism in the present. Readings include inquisitorial case archives, polemical and pedagogical works by Nicolas Eimeric, Hernando de Talavera, Tomás de Torquemada, and other early inquisitors and their critics, and articles and book chapters by modern scholars such as Christine Caldwell Ames, Wendy Brown, Michel Foucault, Carlo Ginzburg, Henry Kamen, Doris Moreno, and others.

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Seth R Kimmel
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

INFANT DEVELOPMENT

Prerequisites: BC1001 and BC1128/1129 Developmental (lab and lecture taken together) or BC1129 (only lecture). Or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15 students.
Analysis of human development during the fetal period and early infancy. Review of effects of environmental factors on perinatal perceptual, cognitive, sensory-motor, and neurobehavioral capacities, with emphasis on critical conditions involved in both normal and abnormal brain development. Other topics include acute and long term effects of toxic exposures (stress, smoking, and alcohol) during pregnancy, and interaction of genes and the environment in shaping the developing brain of "high-risk" infants, including premature infants and those at risk for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: William P Fifer
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 40 Info
• 4 points

RETHINKING SPANISH TRANSLATION

RETHINKING SPANISH TRANSLATN

Through special attention to translation method and practice, this course aims to develop a solid foundation on which to build the full set of competences required to become thoughtful, alert, self-critical translator while extending and improving the students' competence of Spanish through complex translation tasks of a wide range of texts presented with a progressive overall structure and thematic organization. With a professional approach, it focuses on translation as a cross-cultural and crosslinguistic communicative activity that integrates areas such as interlanguage pragmatics, discourse analysis and transfer.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Javier Perez Zapatero
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

ADOLESCENT NEUROBEHAVIOR DEVELOPMENT

ADOLESCENT NEUROBEHAV DEV

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Russell D Romeo
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 4 points

PSYCH OF STEREOTYPING/PREJUDIC

PSYCH OF STEREOTYPING AND PREJ

Prerequisites: (PSYC BC1001) Permission of the instructor.
Review of current literature from experimental social psychology pertaining to stereotyping and prejudice. Topics include: functions and costs of stereotyping, the formation and maintenance of stereotypes, and stereotype change. Recent research concerning the role of cognitive processes in intergroup perception will be emphasized.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Steven Stroessner
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 4 points

NEUROPHARMACOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Prerequisites: BC1001 and one of the following: BC1115, BC1119, or BIOL BC3280. Permission of the instructor is required. Enrollment limited to 20 students.
Basic principles of the study of drugs that influence the neural systems and induce changes in behavior. Molecular, biochemical and behavioral characterization of psychotropic drugs: stimulants, sedative-hypnotics, anxiolytics, alcohol, hallucinogens, and opiates. Etiology and treatment of psychological and neurological disorders.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: E'Mett McCaskill
  CULPA: 38 Info
• 4 points

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY

DIFFERENTAL GEOMETRY

Prerequisites: MATH UN1202 or the equivalent.
Local and global differential geometry of submanifolds of Euclidiean 3-space. Frenet formulas for curves. Various types of curvatures for curves and surfaces and their relations. The Gauss-Bonnet theorem.

• Department: Mathematics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard Hamilton
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN NEUROETHICS

Prerequisites: BC1001 and one of the following: Neurobiology, Behavioral Neuroscience, Fundamentals of Neuropsychology, or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 20 students.
Recent advancements in neuroscience raise profound ethical questions. Neuroethics integrates neuroscience, philosophy, and ethics in an attempt to address these issues. Reviews current debated topics relevant to the brain, cognition, and behavior. Bioethical and philosophical principles will be applied allowing students to develop skill in ethical analysis.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: E'Mett McCaskill
  CULPA: 38 Info
• 4 points

GIS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMNT

This course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive overview of theoretical concepts underlying GIS systems and to give students a strong set of practical skills to use GIS for sustainable development research. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are a system of computer software, data and analysis methods used to create, store, manage, digital information that allow us to create maps and dynamic models to analyze the physical and social processes of the world. Through a mixture of lectures, readings, focused discussions, and hands-on exercises, students will acquire an understanding of the variety and structure of spatial data and databases, gain knowledge of the principles behind raster and vector based spatial analysis, and learn basic cartographic principles for producing maps that effectively communicate a message. Student will also learn to use newly emerging web based mapping tools such as Google Earth, Google Maps and similar tools to develop on-line interactive maps and graphics. The use of other geospatial technologies such as the Global Positioning System will also be explored in this class. Case studies examined in class will draw examples from a wide ranges of GIS applications developed to assist in the development, implementation and evaluation of sustainable development projects and programs. On completion of the course, students will: 1. use a variety of GIS software programs to create maps and reports; 2. develop a sound knowledge of methods to search, obtain, and evaluate a wide variety of spatial data resources; 3. develop skills needed to determine best practices for managing spatial data resources; 4. use GIS to analyze the economic, social and environmental processes underlying the concept of building a sustainable world; 5. Gain an understanding of the limits of these technologies and make assessments of uncertainty associated with spatial data and spatial analysis models. Offered in the fall and spring.

• Department: Earth Institute
• W 1:10 p.m.-3:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Kytt J Macmanus
  Info
• 3 points

RESEARCH SEMINAR IN HISTORY I

Prerequisites: Open to Barnard College History Senior Majors.
Individual guided research and writing in history and the presentation of results in seminar and in the form of the senior essay.  See Requirements for the Major for details.

• Department: History @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Tiersten
  CULPA: 45 Info
• 4 points

INTERVNTNS DEVELPMNTL DISABIL

Prerequisites: BC1001, BC1127/1129, BC2156, or permission of the instructor. Seniors are given priority.
This course provides an overview of psychological intervention processes in the field of developmental disabilities.  Course content includes discussions of clinical and ethical issues related to diagnosis and treatment, and in-depth review of procedures used to teach appropriate behavior repertoires to individuals with developmental disabilities such as Autism Spectrum Disorders.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Hannah E Hoch
  CULPA: 27 Info
• 4 points

POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION

Representation embodies the notion that language, in its broadest sense, assists in the construction of meanings in the world and influences the way we look at or interpret this world. As Stuart Hall has shown,  the reproduction of reality through language, discourse and images is never simply neutral and transparent but always ideologically informed. In postcolonial studies, for example, representations are always implicated in power inequalities and the subordination of the ‘other.’ The course develops an analytic framework for understanding how representation takes place  and has evolved over time in different media. We will focus in particular on the analysis of literary texts, films, photography, exhibitions and art but also on popular culture and entertainment in order to understand how cultural logics operate in different contexts. Drawing from literary studies, gender studies, cultural theory, postcolonial studies and media studies, the aim is to develop and practice a new, critical way of looking at contemporary cultural practices. 
Application instructions
: E-mail Aaron Robertson (ar3488@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "Representation 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
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Sandra Ponzanesi
  Info
• 4 points

LISTENING TO HIP-HOP

An interdisciplinary exploration of hip-hop music and culture from its beginnings to the present through historical, analytical, and critical perspectives. The course’s primary focus will be on critical listening.

• Department: Music
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ellie Hisama
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

MAJOR TEXTS: MIDDLE EAST/INDIA

Readings in translation and discussion of texts of Middle Eastern and Indian origin. Readings may include the Qur'an, Islamic philosophy, Sufi poetry, the Upanishads, Buddhist sutras, the
Bhagavad Gita,
Indian epics and drama, and Gandhi's
Autobiography.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Wael Hallaq
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING PRACTICE

Design project planning, written and oral technical communication, practical aspects of engineering as a profession, such as career development and societal and environmental impact.  Generally taken senior year.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• Instructor: David G Vallancourt
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 1 points

HUMAN AND MACHINES

HUMANS AND MACHINES

Prerequisites: (PSYC BC1001) and Instructor approval
This course will examine the social psychology of Human-Machine interactions, exploring the idea that well-established social psychological processes play critical roles in interactions with non-social objects. The first half of the seminar will examine the social psychology of perception across distinct sensory modalities (shape, motion, voice, touch), whereas the second half will focus on social psychological processes between humans and non-human entities (objects, computers, robots).

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Steven Stroessner
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN MUSIC & SOCIETY

This course seeks to approach the study of music and society by comparatively studying repertories from different parts of the world, how the history of ideas and methods of studying such repertoires shaped them, the practices that constitute them and the ways they are understood and used by different peoples.  Central to this course is the interrelationship between the constitution of a repertoire and the history of the construction of knowledge about it.

• Department: Music
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ana Maria Ochoa
  Info
• 3 points

CULTURAL APPRCHES-AMERCN PAST

Introduction to the theoretical approaches of American Studies, as well as the methods and materials used in the interdisciplinary study of American society. Through close reading of a variety of texts (e.g., novels, films, essays), we will analyze the creation, maintenance, and transmission of cultural meaning within American society.

• Department: American Studies @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jordan Camp
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SEMINAR IN GLOBAL THOUGHT

INQUIRIES INTO AN INTERCONNECT

This course on global thought will consider the ways in which we think about, debate, and give meaning to the interconnected world in which we live.  In thematically focused collaborative teams, students will examine how the flows of people, things and ideas across national borders both connect our world and create uneven consequences within and among communities.   We will locate ourselves in these processes, suggesting we need go no further than our closets, tables, and street corners to consider the meanings of globalization and our roles in the world today.

• Department: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Laura L Neitzel
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

DOES AMER POVERTY HAVE A HISTORY

DOES AMER POVERTY HAVE A HIST?

In most societies, some are rich and many more are poor.  So it has been through most recorded history – and so it remains in the United States, where an estimated 43 million Americans are living in poverty as you read this.  The project of our seminar will be to construct a history of America’s poor as vivid and precise as the histories that have long been written of the wealthy and the powerful.  We will look at the experiences of being poor and at changes in the processes of falling into and climbing out of poverty.  We will look at changes in the population of the poor, changes in the economic organization of cities and the countryside, and changes in the general distribution of wealth.  We will look at ideas of poverty and their impact on history.  And we will look, finally, at changes in the treatment of the poor: from charity to modern welfare policies.  At semester’s end, students will be able to interrogate the enduring presence of American poverty in light of its history and transformations.

• Department: History
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher M Florio
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

DEMOCRACY & DICTATORSHIP EUR

DEMOCRACY& DICTATORSHIP EUR

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Sheri Berman
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia h-index: None Info
• 3 points

MUSLIMS IN DIASPORA-DISC

• Department: Religion
• Instructor: Hussein Rashid
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 0 points

COMP POL OF GENDER INEQUALITY

Prerequisites:
Not an introductory-level course
. Not open to students who have taken the colloquium POLS BC 3507. Enrollment limited to 20 students; L-course sign-up through
eBear
.
Barnard syllabus
.
Uses major analytical perspectives in comparative politics to understand the persistence of gender inequality in advanced industrial states. Topics include: political representation and participation; political economy and capitalism; the historical development of welfare states; electoral systems, electoral quotas; the role of supranational and international organizations; and social policy.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Claire F Ullman
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

SCENE DESIGN

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• F 11 a.m.-1:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Sandra Goldmark
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

THIRD-YEAR GRAMMAR & COMP I

Prerequisites:
FREN UN3405
must be taken before
FREN UN3333/4
unless the student has an AP score of 5 or the director of undergraduate studies' permission.
The goal of
FREN UN3405
is to help students improve their grammar and perfect their writing and reading skills, especially as a preparation for taking literature or civilization courses, or spending a semester in a francophone country. Through the study of two full-length works of literature and a number of short texts representative of different genres, periods, and styles, they will become more aware of stylistic nuances, and will be introduced to the vocabulary and methods of literary analysis. Working on the advanced grammar points covered in this course will further strengthen their mastery of French syntax. They will also be practicing writing through a variety of exercises, including pastiches and creative pieces, as well as typically French forms of academic writing such as “résumé,” “explication de texte,” and “dissertation".

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Samuel Skippon
  CULPA: 13 Info
• Instructor: Pascale Crepon
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

PROBLEMS IN DESIGN

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• TR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Kara M Feely
  Info
• 3 points

SPACE,NARRATIVE&RELIGION; IN INDIA

SPACE,NARRATIVE&RELIGION; INDIA

• Department: Religion
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jay Ramesh
  Info
• 3 points

MEDIA & PRODUCTION DESIGN

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• T 9 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Anna Kiraly
  Info
• 3 points

MUSLIMS IN DIASPORA

Consideration of controversies surrounding mosque-building, headscarves, honor killing, and other publicized issues that expose tensions surrounding citizenship and belonging for Muslims in North America and Europe. Exploration of film and other media representations of Muslims in the West. There will be additional meeting times for film screenings

• Department: Religion
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Hussein Rashid
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

COMPUTER GRAPHICS & DESIGN

Introduction to drafting, engineering graphics, computer graphics, solid modeling, and mechanical engineering design. Interactive computer graphics and numerical methods applied to the solution of mechanical engineering design problems. A laboratory fee of $175 is collected.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Sinisa Vukelic
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 11 Info
• 3 points

MACHINE DESIGN

Computer-aided analysis of general loading states and deformation of machine components using singularity functions and energy methods.Theoretical introduction to static failure theories, fractre mechanics, and fatigue failure theories.  Introduction to conceptual design and design optimization problems.  Design of machine components such as springs, shafts, fasteners, lead screws, rivets, welds.  Modeling, analysis, and testing of machine assemblies for prescribed design problems.  Problems will be drawn from statics, kinematics, dynamics, solid modeling, stress analysis, and design optimization.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Fred R Stolfi
  Info
• 3 points

FOOD &INEQUALITY; 20 C. US

This seminar examines the social, cultural, and political history of inequality in the food system of the twentieth- century United States, from field to table. We trace the rise and expansion of industrial farming and food processing, and the commercialization of food preparation, looking at the ways racism, gender, class, immigration, empire, and globalization have shaped the political economy of American food. This course also investigates the intersection of agriculture, migration, and U.S. capitalism in the food system, and asks why modern food work has been marked by precarious working and living conditions. It provides a detailed knowledge of U.S. labor, immigration, agricultural, and political history in the twentieth century, with a focus on gender and racial disparity. Upon completion of the course, students will have a complex understanding of the history of the U.S. food system, which will allow them to engage broadly with different areas of American history, including the emergent history of capitalism, labor and immigration history, and environmental history. The course will also enable critical engagement with contemporary food movement issues, food planning, farm policy, and activist initiatives against the inequalities that continue to haunt our fields, packinghouses, and kitchens. The semester will culminate in a final paper that concentrates on one of the course themes and develops historical writing skills across the course of the semester. A strong base of knowledge about the history of the U.S. in the twentieth century is useful, but not prerequisite for the course.

• Department: History
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Lindsey E Dayton
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

PRINTMAKING I: PHOTOGRAVURE

Prerequisites:
VIAR R1400
,
VIAR R2420
, or
VIAR R1700
.
(Formerly R3417) A concise study and application of the copper plate photogravure process. Usage of current available resources substituting for materials that are no longer available for photogravure. This is a 19th century obsolete photomechanical reproduction process that is constantly challenging the ingenuity of it's practitioners to keep it alive and a viable technique in the 21st century.  The course objectives are understanding and demonstrating proficiency in the photogravure process and creation of finished printed images from the process learned. It is important for the future of this process that the students understand not only the "how", but the "why" of going through all of these procedures. If the class is full, please visit
http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program
.

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

SYMBOLIC LOGIC

Corequisites:
PHILV3413
Required Discussion Section (0 points).
Advanced introduction to classical sentential and predicate logic. No previous acquaintance with logic is required; nonetheless a willingness to master technicalities and to work at a certain level of abstraction is desirable. This course has unrestricted enrollment.

• Department: Philosophy
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Tamar A Lando
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMETRICS

Prerequisites: (ECON UN3211 or ECON UN3213) and (MATH UN1201 or MATH UN1207) and STAT UN1201
Modern econometric methods; the general linear statistical model and its extensions; simultaneous equations and the identification problem; time series problems; forecasting methods; extensive practice with the analysis of different types of data.

• Department: Economics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Gregory F Cox
  Info
• Instructor: Jushan Bai
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia h-index: 52 Info
• Instructor: Seyhan Erden
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

PRINTMAKING:DRAWING INTO PRINT

Prerequisites:
VIAR R2420
, or
VIAR R2430
.
(Formerly R3420) The objective of the course is to provide students with an interdisciplinary link between drawing, photography and printmaking through an integrated studio project. Students will use drawing, printmaking and collage to create a body of work to be presented in a folio format. In the course, students develop and refine their drawing sensibility, and are encouraged to experiment with various forms of non-traditional printmaking. If the class is full, please visit 
http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program
.

• Department: Visual Arts
• T 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Tomas Vu Daniel
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO ECONOMETRICS-DIS

INTRO TO ECONOMETRICS-DISCUSSI

• Department: Economics
• 0 points

SYMBOLIC LOGIC - REC

• Department: Philosophy
• F noon-12:50 p.m.
• M 7 p.m.-7:50 p.m.
• R 7 p.m.-7:50 p.m.
• T 9 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
• 0 points

MARX AT THE MARGINS

Peruvian social thinker José Carlos Mariátegui called for the invention of a Latin American Marxism that would serve as “neither blueprint nor copy” (
ni calco ni copia
) of its European forbearers. Rather than studying the reception of Marxist theory in Latin America, this course will examine the ways in which leftist thinkers and artists produced new theories and forms in an attempt to respond to the historic specificity of the social processes and political movements around them. Beginning with the evolution of Marx’s own thought on the potential for socialist revolution in Latin America, we will read and analyze social theory, narrative, film and ethnography in order to grasp the disjunctive and overlapping historical temporalities and social forms that characterize the articulation of capitalism in Latin America, as well as the unique political movements and theories that responded to it. In so doing, we will address questions such as the role of Spanish colonialism in the birth of the global capitalism; the co-existence and transformation of pre-capitalist and capitalist societies; the question of the nation as ideology and as political tool; the relationship between economic underdevelopment and political insurrection; and the dynamics of exploitation and political organization contemporarily. Authors to be studied include Marx, Martí, Mariátegui, Zavaleta Mercado, García Linera and Svampa, among others.

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Karen Benezra
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

COL:SOVEREIGNTY& ITS CHALLNGS

Prerequisites: POLS 1601 or equivalent Introduction to International Relations course.
Admission by application
through the Barnard department only. Enrollment limited to 16 students.
States are often assumed to maintain control over their sovereign affairs, yet in our contemporary era a variety of external actors regularly violate state sovereignty, pressure governments or challenge their domestic policy autonomy.  This course explores how the traditional political, economic and security functions of states are being undermined and reconfigured.

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

INTRO-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES I

Prerequisites:
FREN UN3405
Advanced Grammar and Composition or an AP score of 5 or the director of undergraduate studies' permission.
Examines conceptions of culture and civilization in France from the Enlightenment to the Exposition Coloniale of 1931, with an emphasis on the historical development and ideological foundations of French colonialism. Authors and texts include: the Encyclop├ędie; the D├ęclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen; the Code noir; Diderot; Chateaubriand; Tocqueville; Claire de Duras; Renan; Gobineau; Gauguin; Drumont.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Aline C Rogg
  Info
• 3 points

ENG DES-CONCPT/DESIGN GENERATN

Prerequisites: Senior standing.
Corequisites: MECE E3409
A preliminary design for an original project is a pre-requisite for the capstone design course.  This course will focus on the steps required for generating a preliminary design concept. Included will be a brainstorming concept generation phase, a literature search, and the production of a layout drawing of the proposed capstone design project in a Computer Aided Design (CAD) software package (i.e., ProEngineer)

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• TR 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Fred R Stolfi
  Info
• 1 points

PRINTMAKING II: INTAGLIO

Prerequisites:
VIAR R2420
.
(Formerly R3402) Continues instruction and demonstration of further techniques in intaglio. Encourages students to think visually more in the character of the medium, and personal development is stressed. 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
• MW 2:30 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Devra S Fox
  Info
• 3 points

RUSSIAN FOR HERITAGE SPEAKERS

Prerequisites:
RUSS V3430
or the instructor's permission.
This course is designed to help students who speak Russian at home, but have no or limited reading and writing skills to develop literary skills in Russian. THIS COURSE, TAKEN WITH RUSS V3431, MEET A TWO YEAR FOREIGN LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT. Conducted in Russian.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Alla Smyslova
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 3 points

PRINTMAKING II: RELIEF

Prerequisites:
VIAR R2430
.
(Formerly R3412) Printmaking II: Relief continues instruction and demonstration of further techniques in woodcut. Encourages students to think visually more in the character of the medium, and personal development is stressed. 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
• MW 9:30 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Nathan N Catlin
  Info
• 3 points

ENLIGHTENMENT&ARCHAEOLOGY;

In this seminar, we will study the emergence of the disciplines of Near Eastern and Classical archaeology, antiquarian interests and collecting practices in eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe. This European scientific interest was centered around the ancient past of lands under the Ottoman empire in the Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean. Students will learn about antiquarianism and the development of the scientific discipline of archaeology, how it defined itself and set itself apart from its predecessor, focusing on the earliest collecting and documentation of antiquities, the start of organised excavations, the origins of the modern museum and early archaeological photography.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Zainab Bahrani
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SURVEY OF GERMAN LIT:19C (GER)

• Department: Germanic Languages
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Tobias Wilke
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

THE BRAIN AND MEMORY

Prerequisites: (PSYC UN1010) or Equivalent introductory course in neuroscience or cognitive psychology and the instructor's permission
This seminar will give a comprehensive overview of episodic memory research: what neuroimaging studies, patient studies, and animal models have taught us about how the brain creates, stores, and retrieves memories.

• Department: Psychology
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Mariam Aly
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 15 Info
• 4 points

TAP III

ADVANCED TAP

Prerequisites: DNCE BC2447, BC2448, or permission of instructor.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Margaret J Morrison
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 0-1 points

WOMEN AND LEADERSHIP

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor. Limited to 15.
  Examination of the social conditions and linguistic practices that have shaped the historical and contemporary gendering of leadership, power, and authority in the United States and around the world. Through examples drawn from the social, political, and economic worlds, we will explore leadership in varying racial, class, and regional contexts.

• Department: Athena Center for Leadership Studies @Barnard
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Heather M Hurwitz
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Skye Cleary
  Info
• 4 points

EVOL-INTELLIGENC/CONSCIOUSNESS

Prerequisites: PSYC UN1001 or PSYC UN1010, and the instructor's permission.
A systematic review of the implications of Darwin's theory of evolution and Freud's theory of the unconscious for contemporary studies of animal and human cognition.

• Department: Psychology
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Herbert S Terrace
  CULPA: 29 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

TPCS IN SEXUALITY AND GENDER LAW

TPCS IN SEXUALITY & GENDER LAW

As society shifts in its views about sexuality and gender, so too does the law.  Indeed, legal developments in this area have been among the most dynamic of the past couple of decades.  Yet law does not map easily or perfectly onto lived experience, and legal arguments do not necessarily track the arguments made in public debate.
In this seminar, we will explore the evolving jurisprudence of sexuality and gender law in a variety of areas.  Our goal throughout the semester will be to understand and think about these issues as lawyers do - with our primary focus on understanding and evaluating the arguments that can be made on both (or all) sides of any particular case, with some attention to the factors outside of the courtroom that might shape how courts approach their work.  Related to this, we will also seek to understand how and why some of the jurisprudence has changed over time.

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Suzanne Goldberg
  Info
• 3 points

LITERATURE OF EMPIRE

IMPERIALSM & CRYPTOGRAPHC IMAG

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
(Seminar). This course focuses on plots of empire in the British novel of the 19th and early 20th centuries. It examines not only how empire was represented but also how the novel form gave visibility to the strategies of empire and also showed the tacit purposes, contradictions, and anxieties of British imperialism. The seminar is structured around the themes of: the culture of secrecy; criminality and detection; insurgency, surveillance, and colonial control; circulation and exchange of commodities; messianism and political violence. Specifically, the course will focus on how the culture of secrecy that accompanied imperial expansion defined the tools of literary imagination in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. While most studies of culture and imperialism examine the impact of colonial expansion on the geography of narrative forms, this seminar looks more closely at the language of indirection in English novels and traces metaphors and symbols to imperialism's culture of secrecy. It begins with the simple observation that both colonizers and colonized felt the need to transmit their communications without having their messages intercepted or decoded. Translated into elusive Masonic designs and prophecy (as in Kim), codes of collective action (as in Sign of Four), or extended dream references (as in The Moonstone), the English novel underscores the exchange of information as one of the key activities of British imperialism. Forcing hidden information into the open also affects the ways that colonial ‘otherness' is defined (as in The Beetle). How espionage and detection correlate with impenetrability and interpretation will be one among many themes we will examine in this course. The seminar will supplement courses in the nineteenth-century English novel, imperialism and culture, and race, gender, and empire, as well as provide a broad basis for studies of modernism and symbolism. Readings include Rudyard Kipling, Kim and "Short Stories"; Arthur Conan Doyle's Sign of Four; Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone; Richard Marsh, The Beetle; RL Stevenson, Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Rider Haggard, She; Haggard, King Solomon's Mines; Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent. Course requirements: One oral presentation; two short papers, each 4-5 pages (double-spaced); and a final paper, 7-10 pages (double-spaced).
Application instructions:
E-mail Professor Viswanathan (gv6@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "Imperialism and Cryptography seminar." In your message, in

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Gauri Viswanathan
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

STAGING THE EARLY MOD MEDITERR

BLOOD/LUST: STAGING EARLY MODE

This course examines, in sixteenth and seventeenth century Spain and England (1580-1640), how the two countries staged the conflict between them, and with the Ottoman Empire; that is, how both countries represent national and imperial clashes, and the concepts of being “Spanish,” “English,” or “Turk,” as well as the dynamic and fluid identities of North Africa, often played out on the high seas of the Mediterranean with Islam and the Ottoman Empire. We will consider how the Ottoman Empire depicted itself artistically through miniatures and court poetry. The course will include travel and captivity narratives from Spain, England, and the Ottoman Empire.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Patricia E Grieve
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

FLD WRK&RSRCH; SEM:TODDLR CENTR

Prerequisites: (PSYC BC1128 and PSYC BC1129) or PSYC BC1129 BC1128/BC1129 or just BC1129 lecture (without lab) and permission of the instructor. Permission should be requested in the Spring of the year preceding registration. This is a two-semester course only.
The Barnard Toddler Center provides the focus for field work and research in applied developmental psychology, an amalgam of developmental, educational, and clinical psychology. Students assist one morning a week at the Center, make individual class presentations, carry out team research projects, and participate in a two-hour weekly seminar which integrates theory, research, and practice.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• T 12:50 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Tovah Klein
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

CONTEMP LATIN AMER SHORT FICT

Prerequisites: Third-year bridge course (W3300), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350).
Readings of short stories and novellas by established and emerging writers from Spanish America and Brazil. Defines the parameters of Latin American short fiction by exploring its various manifestations, fantastic literature, protest writing, satire, and realism. Among the authors to be studied will be: Machado de Assis, Borges, Garcia Marquez, Ana Lydia Vega, Clarice Lispector, Silvina Ocampo, and Jose Donoso.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Alfred Mac Adam
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 3 points

POST 9/11 IMMIGRATION POLICIES

Since September 11, 2001, there has been an avalanche of immigration enforcement policies and initiatives proposed or implemented under the guise of national security. This course will analyze the domino effect of the Patriot Act, the Absconder Initiative, Special Registration, the Real I.D. Act, border security including the building of the 700-mile fence along the U.S./Mexico border, Secured Communities Act-that requires the cooperation of state and local authorities in immigration enforcement, the challenge to birthright citizenship, and now the congressional hearings on Islamic radicalization. Have these policies been effective in combating the war on terrorism and promoting national security? Who stands to benefit from these enforcement strategies? Do immigrant communities feel safer in the U.S.? How have states joined the federal bandwagon of immigration enforcement or created solutions to an inflexible, broken immigration system?

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Elizabeth Ouyang
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

THE GLOBAL COLD WAR

The superpower competition between the US and the USSR dominated international affairs during the second half of the twentieth century. Though this Cold War was born from ideological differences and initially focused on Europe, it soon became entangled with the concurrent global process of decolonization. In this way, the US-Soviet rivalry shaped events on every continent. This course will examine the intersection of the superpower competition and the emergence of the postcolonial world. Through course readings and class discussion, students will examine the global dimensions of the Cold war. Each student will prepare a research paper on a topic to be chosen in consultation with the instructor.

• Department: History
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Paul T Chamberlin
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

BRAZILIAN SOCIETY & CIV (ENG)

Each week, a historical period is studied in connection to a particular theme of ongoing cultural expression. While diverse elements of popular culture are included, fiction is privileged as a source of cultural commentary. Students are expected to assimilate the background information but are also encouraged to develop their own perspective and interest, whether in the social sciences, the humanities (including the fine arts), or other areas.

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Joao Nemi Neto
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

FRENCH CULTURAL WORKSHOP

Prerequisites: completion of
FREN W2202
.
Designed (though not exclusively) for students contemplating a stay at Reid Hall, this course will foster a comparison of the French and American cultures with readings from sociological sources and emphasis on in-class discussion in an attempt to comprehend and avoid common causes of cross-cultural communication.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Vincent Aurora
  CULPA: 55 Info
• 3 points

INDEP BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Prerequisites: Concurrent with registering for this course, a student must register with the department and provide a written invitation from a mentor; details of this procedure are available at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/w3500/index.htm.
Corequisites: There will not be a recitation section this semester.
The course involves independent study, faculty-supervised laboratory projects in contemporary biology. Concurrent with registering for this course, a student must register with the department, provide a written invitation from a mentor and submit a research proposal; details of this procedure are available at
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/w3500/index.htm
. A paper summarizing results of the work is required by the last day of finals for a letter grade; no late papers will be accepted. See the course web site (above) for more details.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• Instructor: Ron M Prywes
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 2-4 points

JOHN JAY&THE; AMERICAN REVOLUTION

This seminar explores themes from the American Revolution that pertain to the career of John Jay (King’s College class of 1764 and first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court). Themes will include: law and diplomacy, the American Enlightenment, slavery and abolition, women in the Revolution, Spain and the American West, the Constitution and the Supreme Court, early-national politics, and the “Jay Treaty” of 1795. Each student will write a research paper on a related topic over the course of the semester.

• Department: History
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Benjamin C Lyons
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

SUPERVISED READINGS IN PHYSICS

Prerequisites: the written permission of the faculty member who agrees to act as supervisor, and the director of undergraduate studies' permission.
Readings in a selected field of physics under the supervision of a faculty member. Written reports and periodic conferences with the instructor.

• Department: Physics
• Instructor: Jeremy R Dodd
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 3 points

COLL:POLIT ECON:CORRPTN/CONTRL

Prerequisites: POLS V1501 or the
equivalent
.
Admission by application
through the Barnard department only. Enrollment limited to 16 students.
Barnard syllabus
.
Comparative political economy course which addresses some important questions concerning corruption and its control: the concept, causes, patterns, consequences, and control of corruption. Introduces students to and engages them in several key social science debates on the causes and effects of political corruption.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Xiaobo Lu
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

BEGINNING VIDEO

Beginning Video is an introductory class on the production and editing of digital video. Designed as an intensive hands-on production/post-production workshop, the apprehension of technical and aesthetic skills in shooting, sound and editing will be emphasized. Assignments are developed to allow students to deepen their familiarity with the language of the moving image medium. Over the course of the term, the class will explore the language and syntax of the moving image, including fiction, documentary and experimental approaches. Importance will be placed on the decision making behind the production of a work; why it was conceived of, shot, and edited in a certain way. Class time will be divided between technical workshops, viewing and discussing films and videos by independent producers/artists and discussing and critiquing students projects. Readings will be assigned on technical, aesthetic and theoretical issues. Only one section offered per semester. If the class is full, please visit
http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program
.

• Department: Visual Arts
• R 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Kambui Olujimi
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

COLL: URBAN VIOLENCE

Prerequisites: V 1501 or equivalent
One of the key contemporary challenges for democracy and development across both the developing and developed worlds is urban violence. From urban gangs to paramilitaries to vigilantes to citizen defense committees, the city is increasing a key setting for a range of armed actors that engage in equally diverse forms of criminality and the exercise of coercive force. Major cities throughout the world thus lead two lives: as control and command centers in a globalized (and urbanized) economy, and as the stages where the monopoly over the legitimate use of violence that Max Weber identified as a defining attribute of the state is contested on a daily basis. This course has two overarching objectives. The first objective is to examine and critically assess existing theories of the drivers, functions, and consequences of urban crime and violence.  The second objective is to situate existing research within a broader range of classic and emerging political science research on state building, institutions, democracy,  development, and conflict. The methodological emphasis of the course is comparative analysis, and therefore empirical material will largely draw on analyses of crime and violence in Latin America and Africa, and the United States. This course will introduce students to the key theories, debates, and empirical studies of urban crime and violence. Students who successfully complete the class will: 1.      Acquire a broad knowledge of the theories and concepts used to analyze urban crime and violence. 2.      Develop a theoretically informed and empirically grounded understanding of both historical and contemporary trends in crime and violence in major cities across Latin America, Africa, and the United States. 3.      Draw linkages between news coverage of urban crime and violence and political science theories on a range of broader issues regarding state building, institutions, democracy, and development. 4.      Use existing theories to analyze, assess, and present empirical data, both written and verbal.   5.      Produce a major, original research paper that advances existing knowledge of the origins, dynamics, and/or consequences of urban crime and violence.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Eduardo Moncada
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 12 Info
• 4 points

COLUMBIA 1968

• Department: History
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Frank Guridy
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SEXUALITY IN AMERICA:POETIC ENCOUNTERS

This course views American poetry through the lenses of formal questions and issues of identity politics.  It also combines a number of theoretical approach from New Criticism to Deconstruction to a more socially informed political formalism.  Focus on issues of sexual identities, adding to Adrienne Rich’s famous formulation--in Of a Woman Born--about gender and race this complex question of why sexuality matters in American poetry. We will proceed in terms of what I’m calling “poetic encounters’--moments of intertextuality and influence from Whitman to Audre Lorde.  Along the way we as readers we ourselves will encounter Whitman (again and again as a site of “adhesive” relations.   Poets include Hart Crane, Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, Mae Cowdery, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, T. S. Eliot, Gwendolyn Brooks, Adrienne Rich, Marilyn Hacker, Cheryl Clarke, Melvin Dixon, Essex Hemphill, Paul Monette, John Ashbery,  Elizabeth Alexander, and Audre Lorde. Application instructions: E-mail Professor Blount (mb33@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "Poetic Encounters seminar." In your message, include basic information: your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course. Admitted students should register for the course; they will automatically be placed on a wait list, from which the instructor will in due course admit them as spaces become available.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Marcellus Blount
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 4 points

INDEP BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH - REC

INDEP BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH-REC

• Department: Biological Sciences
• W 5:40 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• R 5:40 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Ron M Prywes
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 0 points

GENDER/SEXUALITY,LAT AM CLTRS

Prerequisites: Third-year bridge course (W3300), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350).
Examines constructions of gender and sexuality in Latin American cultures. Through a close analysis of critical, literary, and visual texts, we explore contemporary notions of gender and sexuality, the socio-cultural processes that have historically shaped these, and some theoretical frameworks through which they have been understood.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Maja Horn
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

HIST APPROACHES FEMINIST QUES

This course will provide students with a comparative perspective on gender, race, and sexuality by illuminating historically specific and culturally distinct conditions in which these systems of power have operated across time and space. In particular, the course seeks to show how gender has not always been a binary or primary category system.  Such approach is also useful in understanding the workings of race and sexuality as mechanisms of differentiation.  In making these inquiries, the course will pay attention to the intersectional nature of race, gender, and sexuality and to strategic performances of identity by marginalized groups.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexander Pittman
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

US LABOR HISTORY

This course examines American labor and working-class history from the early Republic to the 1990s, with a particular focus on how worker responses to economic change have shaped American social, political, and cultural history more broadly. Our discussions will cover a range of topics, including a comparison of free and unfree labor in the antebellum period, the rise of factory work and wage labor, the emergence of labor unions and radical political parties, the relationship between organized labor and the state, the impact of globalization, the disruptive role of technology, and the persistence of working-class conservatism. Throughout we will pay close attention to how differences of gender, race, and region have shaped the ideas and actions of American workers, both in cooperation and competition with one another, as those workers influenced the history of the United States.

• Department: History
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jarod Roll
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

SEX WORK AND SEX TRAFFICKING

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• W 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Sine G Plambech
  Info
• 4 points

CIVIL RIGHTS &CIVIL; LIBERTIES

Prerequisites: POLS W1201 or the
equivalent
.
Not an introductory-level course.
Not open to students who have taken the colloquium POLS BC3326. Enrollment limited to 25 students; L-course sign-up through
eBear
.
Barnard syllabus
.
Explores seminal caselaw to inform contemporary civil rights and civil liberties jurisprudence and policy.  Specifically, the readings examine historical and contemporary first amendment values, including freedom of speech and the press, economic liberties, takings law, discrimination based on race, gender, class and sexual preference, affirmative action, the right to privacy, reproductive freedom, the right to die, criminal procedure and adjudication, the rights of the criminally accused post-9/11 and the death penalty. (Cross-listed by the American Studies and Human Rights Programs.)

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Paula A Franzese
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SENIOR SEMINAR I

The Senior Seminar in Women's Studies offers you the opportunity to develop a capstone research paper by the end of the first semester of your senior year. Senior seminar essays take the form of a 25-page paper based on original research and characterized by an interdisciplinary approach to the study of women, sexuality, and/or gender. You must work with an individual advisor who has expertise in the area of your thesis and who can advise you on the specifics of method and content. Your grade for the semester with be determined by IRWGS's Director of Undergraduate Studies in consultation with your advisor. Students receiving a grade of "B+" of higher in Senior Seminar I will be invited to complete Senior Seminar II. Senior Seminar II students will complete a senior thesis of 40-60 pages in a course facilitated by the IRWGS Director.

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Christia Mercer
  CULPA: 56 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SEN SEM:KNWLDG PRCTCE POWER

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor. Enrollment limited to senior majors.
The Senior Seminar in WGSS offers you the opportunity to develop a capstone research project during the first semester of your senior year. The capstone project may be freestanding, or, with permission of the instructor, may be continued during the spring semester as a Senior Thesis.  The capstone project must be based on original research and involve an interdisciplinary approach to the study of women, sexuality, and/or gender. You must work with an individual advisor who has expertise in the area of your project and who can advise you on the specifics of method and content. Your grade for the semester with be determined by the Senior Seminar instructor in consultation with your advisor.

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

ADVANCED STUDIO

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 15 students. Permission of the instructor.
An interpretive study of the theoretical and critical issues in visual art. Projects that are modeled after major movements in contemporary art will be executed in the studio. Each student develops an original body of artwork and participates in group discussions of the assigned readings.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Joan Snitzer
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

COLL:CONSTRUCTNG STATES NATIONS

COLL:CONSTRUCTNG STATES NATNS

Prerequisites: POLS V1501 or the equivalent.
Admission by application
through the Barnard department only. Enrollment limited to 16 students.
The course will examine the development of, and relationship among, the three constituent features of the modern political world: states, nations and democracy. The course will analyze both historical and contemporary cases, tracing how causal processes unfold over time and space and what past conditions and experiences lie behind today's political dynamics and problems.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sheri Berman
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia h-index: None Info
• 4 points

JUNIOR COLLOQ IN URBAN STUDIES

Prerequisites: Non-majors admitted by permission of instructor. Students must attend first class. Enrollment limited to 16 students per section. General Education Requirement: Historical Studies.
Introduction to the historical process and social consequences of urban growth, from the middle of the nineteenth century to the present.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Deborah Becher
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 4 Info
• Instructor: Mary Rocco
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Gergely Baics
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

JUNIOR COLLOQ IN URBAN STUDIES

Prerequisites: Non-majors admitted by permission of instructor. Students must attend first class. Enrollment limited to 16 students per section.
Evaluation of current political, economic, social, cultural and physical forces that are shaping urban areas.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Kathryn B Yatrakis
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

GAY HARLEM

Prerequisites: This course is limited to 20 students and by permission only.
This course explores Harlem's role in the production of sexual modernity and in particular as a space of queer encounter. While much of our investigation will be devoted to the intersection of race and sexuality in African American life, we also consider Harlem's history as a communal space for Italian, Puerto Rican, and more recent immigrants. Students will be encouraged to distinguish and connect contemporary sites of sexual culture in Harlem to the historical articulations of race and sexuality examined in the course.

• Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard A Blint
  Info
• 4 points

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Prerequisites: one philosophy course or the instructor's permission.
Philosophical problems within science and about the nature of scientific knowledge in the 17th-20th centuries. Sample problems: causation and scientific explanation; induction and real kinds; verification and falsification; models, analogies and simulations; the historical origins of the modern sciences; scientific revolutions; reductionism and supervenience; differences between physics, biology and the social sciences; the nature of life; cultural evolution; human nature; philosophical issues in cosmology.

• Department: Philosophy
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: David Albert
  CULPA: 32 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info
• 3 points

BLACKNESS & COMEDY IN US

• Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Lori Brooks
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

SCREENDANCE:COMPOSITION

SCREENDANCE: COMPOSITION

Prerequisites: Must have taken a Dance Department Composition course, have some dance training.
This experiential, hands-on course requires all students to choreograph, dance, and film. Focusing on single-shot film-making, the duet of the camera and the dance will create an understanding of the interaction between the two, enabling students to create a final short film.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Gabri Christa
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

PLCS URBAN DEV LATIN AMERICA

PLTCS URBAN DEV LATIN AMERICA

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Eduardo Moncada
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

CITIES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

CITIES IN DEVELOPNG COUNTRIES

Prerequisites: Must attend first class for instructor permission. Preference to Urban Studies majors.
Examination of cities in developing countries, with a focus on environment, employment, and housing. Four cases will be studied: Sao Paulo, Brazil; Johannesburg, South Africa; Bombay, India; and Shanghai, China. We will consider urbanization patterns and the attendant issues, the impact of global economic trends, and governmental and non-governmental responses.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Sevin Yildiz
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points