DANCE CRITICISM
Intensive practice in writing about dance. Readings drawn from 19th- and 20th-century criticism. Observation includes weekly performances and classroom videotape sessions.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Siobhan F Burke
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
CULTR/POL: PROG ERA 1890-1945
This class begins during the fabled "Gilded Age," when the nation's capitalist expansion created the world's largest economy but splintered Americans' ideals. From the fin-de-si├Ęcle through the cataclysms of World War II, we will explore how Americans defined, contested, and performed different meanings of American civilization through social reform movements, artistic expressions, and the everyday habits and customs of individuals and groups. The class will pay particular attention to how gender, race, and location--regional, international, and along the class ladder--shaped perspectives about what constituted American civilization and the national discourse about what it should become.
Field(s): US
- Department: History
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Hilary-Anne Hallett
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
SR SEM IN BIOLOGY
SENIOR SEMINAR IN BIOLOGY
Prerequisites: BIOL BC1500, BIOL BC1501, BIOL BC1502, BIOL BC1503, and BIOL BC2100.
Required of all majors who do not select Senior Thesis (BIOL BC3593x / BC3594y) to fulfill the senior requirement, these seminars allow students to explore the primary literature in the Biological Sciences in greater depth than can be achieved in a lecture course. Attention will be focused on both theoretical and empirical work. Seminar periods are devoted to oral reports and discussion of assigned readings and student reports. Students will write one extensive literature review of a topic related to the central theme of the seminar section.
Topics vary per semester and include:
1. Plant Development
2. Animal Development and Evolution
3
. Molecular Evolution 4. Microbiology and Global Change 5. Genomics 6. Comparative and Reproductive Endocrinology.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
- M 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jennifer H Mansfield
CULPA: 2 h-index: 15 Info - 4 points
GUIDED RESEARCH & SEMINAR
An independent research project in Biology under the guidance of a faculty member and suiting the needs of the individual student. Projects conducted outside of the Barnard Biology Department must have a member of the Department acting as a sponsor. Attendance at a weekly seminar is required. By the end of the year, students write a scientific paper and orally present their results to the Barnard Biology Department. Completion of both BIOL BC3591 and BIOL BC3592 fulfills two upper-level laboratory requirements in the major. Must be taken in sequence, beginning in the fall.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
- M 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jessica Goldstein
CULPA: 14 Info - 4 points
GUIDED RESEARCH & SEMINAR
An independent research project in Biology under the guidance of a faculty member and suiting the needs of the individual student. Projects conducted outside of the Barnard Biology Department must have a member of the Department acting as a sponsor. Attendance at a weekly seminar is required. By the end of the year, students write a scientific paper and orally present their results to the Barnard Biology Department. Completion of both BIOL BC3591 and BIOL BC3592 fulfills two upper-level laboratory requirements in the major. Must be taken in sequence, beginning in the fall.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
- M 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jessica Goldstein
CULPA: 14 Info - 4 points
SENIOR SEMINAR
Research and scholarly writing in chosen topics relating to dance. Methods of investigation are drawn from prominent archival collections and personal interviews, as well as other resources. Papers are formally presented to the Dance Department upon completion.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Seth S Williams
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
SENIOR THESIS RESEARCH
SENIOR THESIS SEMINAR
Prerequisites: Permission of a faculty sponsor and the department. Cannot be taken concurrently with BIOL BC3591 or BIOL BC3592.
Same as BIOL BC3591x-BC3592y, including the weekly seminar. Completion of both BIOL BC3593x and BC3594y fulfills the senior requirement in the major. Must be taken in sequence, beginning in the fall.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
- M 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jessica Goldstein
CULPA: 14 Info - 4 points
SENIOR THESIS RESEARCH
SENIOR THESIS SEMINAR
Prerequisites: Permission of a faculty sponsor and the department. Cannot be taken concurrently with BIOL BC3591 or BIOL BC3592.
Same as BIOL BC3591x-BC3592y, including the weekly seminar. Completion of both BIOL BC3593x and BC3594y fulfills the senior requirement in the major. Must be taken in sequence, beginning in the fall.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
- M 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jessica Goldstein
CULPA: 14 Info - 4 points
RSRCH/SEM-NEUROSCNCE&BEHAVIOR;
Prerequisites: Open to senior Neuroscience and Behavior majors. Permission of the instructor. This is a year-long course. By the end of the spring semester program planning period during junior year, majors should identify the lab they will be working in during their senior year.
Discussion and conferences on a research project culminate in a written and oral senior thesis. Each project must be supervised by a scientist working at Barnard or at another local institution. Successful completion of the seminar substitutes for the major examination.
- Department: Psychology @Barnard
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Peter D Balsam
CULPA: 25 Info -
Instructor:
Rae Silver
Wikipedia h-index: 69 Info -
Instructor:
Elizabeth P Bauer
CULPA: 3 h-index: 21 Info - 4 points
SOC PROTECTN AROUND THE WORLD
This course employs the tools of comparative politics to account the development of social policies in both developed and developing countries. The policies and institutions by which governments provide social protection to their citizens vary significantly across countries. Some governments provide only meager benefits to a narrow group of citizens, while others cover the entire population. In some countries, these benefits are provided directly by the state, while in others, many responsibilities are delegated to societal organizations, such as labor unions, religious organizations and so on. In this course, we seek to establish the relative importance of institutional variables, social cleavages and partisanship in accounting for the variation in policy design. Secondly, we will explore the impact of existing social policies on a range of labor market outcomes, including inequality, unemployment and labor force participation rates. In exploring the recent politics of social policy adjustment, we will examine the extent to which strong existing differences among welfare states can endure in the face of unfavorable economic and demographic developments and common political pressures towards welfare state retrenchment.
- Department: Political Science
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Isabela Mares
Info - 3 points
SENIOR SEMINAR
A research and writing workshop designed to help students plan and execute a major research project, and communicate their ideas in a common scholarly language that crosses disciplinary boundaries. Content is determined by students' thesis topics, and includes general sessions on how to formulate a proposal and how to generate a bibliography. Students present the fruits of their research in class discussions, culminating in a full-length seminar presentation and the submission of the written thesis.
- Department: Slavic Languages
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Bradley Gorski
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
GUIDED RESEARCH
Prerequisites: Permission of a faculty sponsor.
Similar to BIOL BC3591x/ BC3592y but a variable point course without seminar or an oral presentation. Does not fulfill Biology major requirements.
- Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
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Instructor:
Elizabeth P Bauer
CULPA: 3 h-index: 21 Info -
Instructor:
Hilary Callahan
CULPA: 4 h-index: 17 Info -
Instructor:
John Glendinning
CULPA: 23 h-index: 39 Info -
Instructor:
Paul E Hertz
CULPA: 22
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Instructor:
Jennifer H Mansfield
CULPA: 2 h-index: 15 Info -
Instructor:
Krista McGuire
CULPA: 1 Info -
Instructor:
Brian Morton
CULPA: 21 Info -
Instructor:
Jonathan Snow
CULPA: 7 h-index: 18 Info - 1-4 points
PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY
Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. 4 hours of laboratory work by arrangement.
Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
- 2 points
PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY
Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. 4 hours of laboratory work by arrangement.
Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
- 2 points
PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY
Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. 4 hours of laboratory work by arrangement.
Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
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Instructor:
Dina C Merrer
CULPA: 24
Info
- 2 points
PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY
Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. 4 hours of laboratory work by arrangement.
Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
- 2 points
PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY
Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. 4 hours of laboratory work by arrangement.
Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
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Instructor:
Michael Campbell
Info - 2 points
PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY
Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. 4 hours of laboratory work by arrangement.
Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
- 2 points
PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY
Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. 4 hours of laboratory work by arrangement.
Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
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Instructor:
Rachel Austin
CULPA: 18
Wikipedia
h-index: 28
Info
- 2 points
PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY
Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. 4 hours of laboratory work by arrangement.
Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
- 2 points
PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY
Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. 4 hours of laboratory work by arrangement.
Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
- 2 points
PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY
Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. 8 hours of laboratory work by arrangement.
Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
- 4 points
PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY
Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. 8 hours of laboratory work by arrangement.
Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
- 4 points
PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY
Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. 8 hours of laboratory work by arrangement.
Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
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Instructor:
Dina C Merrer
CULPA: 24
Info
- 4 points
PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY
Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. 8 hours of laboratory work by arrangement.
Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
- 4 points
PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY
Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. 8 hours of laboratory work by arrangement.
Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
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Instructor:
Michael Campbell
Info - 4 points
PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY
Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. 8 hours of laboratory work by arrangement.
Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
- 4 points
PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY
Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. 8 hours of laboratory work by arrangement.
Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
- 4 points
PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY
Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. 8 hours of laboratory work by arrangement.
Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
- 4 points
PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY
Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. 8 hours of laboratory work by arrangement.
Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.
- Department: Chemistry @Barnard
- 4 points
RELATVITY,BLACK HOLES,COSMOLGY
RELATVITY,BLACK HOLES,COSMLGY
Prerequisites: one year of calculus-based general physics.
Einstein's General Theory of Relativity replaced Newtonian gravity with an elegant theory of curved spacetime. Einstein's theory led to unforseen and unnerving predictions of singularities and cosmological instabilities. Nearly a century later, these mathematical oddities have been confirmed astrophysically in the existence of black holes, an expanding universe, and a big bang. The course will cover Einstein's General Theory, beginning with special relativity, with an emphasis on black holes and the big bang.
- Department: Astronomy
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Zoltan Haiman
CULPA: 1 h-index: 83 Info - 3 points
CLASSICAL CONTROL SYSTEMS
Prerequisites: (MATH UN2030) MATH V2030.
Analysis and design of feedback control systems. Transfer functions; block diagrams; proportional, rate, and integral controllers; hardware, implementation. Routh stability criterion, root locus, Bode and Nyquist plots, compensation techniques.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Richard W Longman
CULPA: 6 h-index: 45 Info - 3 points
METAPHYSICS
Corequisites:
PHIL V3611
Required Discussion Section (0 points).
Systematic treatment of some major topics in metaphysics (e.g. modality, causation, identity through time, particulars and universals). Readings from contemporary authors.
- Department: Philosophy
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Achille Varzi
CULPA: 30
Wikipedia
h-index: 40
Info
- 4 points
DEATH-AFTERLIFE-EAST ASIAN BUDDHIST ART
Death is an encounter with the immaterial, yet its material forms are critical to understanding how people asked, and answered, questions about the unknowable. What will we experience during, and after, we die? How can we as the living maintain connections with the deceased? Is death an inevitable reality, or can it be transcended? This seminar is intended to both facilitate discussion of visual representations of death and salvation in East Asian Buddhist art, and to improve close looking of the visual materials. We will examine how and why representations of dying, death, and salvation were given concrete reality in art and architecture throughout East Asia, using Buddhism as a common lens through which to examine artistic practice. Proceeding in a largely chronological and thematic fashion, we will look at the changing conceptions of death and the afterlife in India, China, and Japan. Each week, we will read excerpts from a primary text in translation and study related images, considering their composition, context of use or display, and the ways in which artists pictorially resolved or translated text into visual form. These discussions, in turn, will serve as our point of entry into a much larger picture in thinking about the following issues with respect to Buddhist art: 1) visual narratives; 2) art and sacred biography or myth; 3) art and doctrine; 4) tensions between permanence and impermanence.
- Department: Art History and Archaeology
- M 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Miriam S Chusid
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
JEWISH MIGRATION
- Department: History
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rebecca Kobrin
CULPA: 7 Info - 4 points
INDEPENDENT STUDY
- Department: Psychology @Barnard
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Instructor:
Peter D Balsam
CULPA: 25 Info -
Instructor:
Sumati Gupta
CULPA: 10
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Instructor:
Larry B Heuer
CULPA: 10
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Instructor:
Hannah E Hoch
CULPA: 27 Info -
Instructor:
Tovah Klein
CULPA: 10 Info -
Instructor:
Ken Light
CULPA: 17 h-index: 15 Info -
Instructor:
Koleen McCrink
CULPA: 6
h-index: 17
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Instructor:
Joshua New
CULPA: 14 Info -
Instructor:
Kara Pham
CULPA: 9
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Instructor:
Robert E Remez
CULPA: 26 Wikipedia h-index: 23 Info -
Instructor:
Russell D Romeo
CULPA: 9
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Instructor:
Ann Senghas
CULPA: 17
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Instructor:
Rae Silver
Wikipedia h-index: 69 Info -
Instructor:
Lisa K Son
CULPA: 25 Info -
Instructor:
Patricia D Stokes
CULPA: 48
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Instructor:
Steven Stroessner
CULPA: 18
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Instructor:
Tara Well
CULPA: 4 Info -
Instructor:
Robert Brotherton
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
INDEPENDENT STUDY
- Department: Psychology @Barnard
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Instructor:
Robert Brotherton
CULPA: 1 Info -
Instructor:
Michael Wheaton
h-index: 31 Info -
Instructor:
Yoona Lee
Info - 4 points
FOUNDATIONS OF OPTIMIZATION
Prerequisites: (MATH UN2010)
Corequisites: COMS W3134,COMS W3137
For undergraduates only. This course is required for all undergraduate students majoring in IE, OR:EMS, OR:FE and OR. This class must be taken during (or before) the fifth semester.
Introduction to mathematical programming models and computational techniques. Linear programming and the simplex method, dynamic programming, implicit enumeration for integer programs; production planning applications. IEOR E3608 must be completed by the fifth term. Only students with special academic circumstances may be allowed to take these courses in alternative semesters with the consultation of CSA and Departmental advisors. Recitation section required.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jay Sethuraman
CULPA: 10 Info - 3 points
FOUNDATIONS OF OPTIMIZATION
INTRO-MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING
Corequisites: COMS W3134,COMS W3137
For undergraduates only. This course is required for all undergraduate students majoring in IE, OR:EMS, OR:FE and OR. This class must be taken during (or before) the fifth semester.
Introduction to mathematical programming models and computational techniques. Linear programming and the simplex method, dynamic programming, implicit enumeration for integer programs; production planning applications. IEOR E3608 must be completed by the fifth term. Only students with special academic circumstances may be allowed to take these courses in alternative semesters with the consultation of CSA and Departmental advisors. Recitation section required.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- 0 points
NEW CINEMAS IN LATIN AMERICA
This seminar will analyze the historical similarities and differences between the two major “New Wave” periods of Latin America cinema. The first part of this course will examine the emergence of the 1960s nuevos cines in Mexico, Brazil, Cuba, Argentina, and Chile through an in-depth analysis of landmark films such as Jomi García Ascot’s On the Empty Balcony (1962), Glauber Rocha’s Black God, White Devil (1964) and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s Memories of the Underdevelopment (1968). Some key concepts in Benedict Anderson’s book Imagined Communities will help us to understand why “national identities” played such a primordial role among Latin American film intellectuals in the 1960s and 1970s. Special attention will be paid to the manifestos written by Julio García Espinosa, Fernando Solanas, and Octavio Getino, and to how they confronted Hollywood’s hegemony in order to create an auteurist film tradition in the region. In the second part of the seminar, we will study the global success of the Latin American cinemas of the 2000s from a transnational perspective: features such as Alejandro G. Iñárritu's Amores Perros (2000), Lucrecia Martel’s The Swamp (2001), and Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund’s City of God (2002) will be examined in relation to the political and aesthetic traditions discussed in part one. We will explore how these contemporary Latin American filmmakers reflect upon gender, race, class, and sexual orientation rather than national or religious identities. The critical interpretation of these films will allow us to redefine the idea of "national cinemas" and to reexamine the historical tensions between state control, commercialism, and independent cinema in Latin America.
- Department: Film @Barnard
- T 10:10 a.m.-1:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Breixo Viejo Vinas
CULPA: 5
Info
- 3 points
METAPHYSICS-REC
- Department: Philosophy
- T 7 p.m.-7:50 p.m.
- F 1 p.m.-1:50 p.m.
- R 6 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
- 0 points
THIRD YEAR MOD COLLOQ TIBET I
For those whose knowledge is equivalent to a student who’s completed the Second Year course. The course develops students’ reading comprehension skills through reading selected modern Tibetan literature. Tibetan is used as the medium of instruction and interaction to develop oral fluency and proficiency.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Sonam Tsering
Info - 3 points
CHILDREN AT RISK
Prerequisites: PSYC UN1010, PSYC UN2280, PSYC UN2620, or PSYC UN2680, and the instructor's permission.
Considers contemporary risk factors in children's lives. The immediate and enduring biological and behavioral impact of risk factors.
- Department: Psychology
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Geraldine Downey
CULPA: 9
Wikipedia
Info
- 4 points
WRITING WOMEN-MEDIEVAL FRANCE & ENGLAND
MEDIEVAL WRITING WOMEN
This course is an introduction both to the works of women who either lived in France or adopted French as a literary language in the Middle Ages, as well as to works commenting on the role of women, often from an antifeminist viewpoint. Our explorations will take us across a wide range of genres, from poetry to legal documents to mystical treatises to romances.
Class discussion in English, with readings available in both modern French and English. The course can be taken for French credit if students complete the reading and all assignments in French.
- Department: French and Romance Philology
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Eliza Zingesser
CULPA: 10 h-index: 3 Info - 3 points
NAT'L & CONTEMP WORLD POLITICS
NATIONALISM
Nationalism as a cause of conflict in contemporary world politics. Strategies for mitigating nationalist and ethnic conflict.
- Department: Political Science
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Jack L Snyder
CULPA: 27 Info - 3 points
ROAD TRIPS:TRAVEL IN ITAL CIN
Explores the representation of national identity in Italian cinema from the Facist era to the present. Examines how both geography and history are used to construct an image of Italy and the Italians. Special focus on the cinematic representation of travel and journeys between North and South. Films by major neo-realist directors (Rossellini, De Sica, Visconti) as well as by leading contemporaries (Moretti, Amelio).
- Department: Italian
- W 6:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nelson Moe
CULPA: 10 h-index: 6 Info - 3 points
SPINOZA TO SABBATAI
JEWS & EARLY MODERN EUROPE
A seminar on the historical, political, and cultural developments in the Jewish communities of early-modern Western Europe (1492-1789) with particular emphasis on the transition from medieval to modern patterns. We will study the resettlement of Jews in Western Europe, Jews in the Reformation-era German lands, Italian Jews during the late Renaissance, the rise of Kabbalah, and the beginnings of the quest for civil Emancipation.
Field(s): JWS/EME
- Department: History
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Elisheva Carlebach
CULPA: 6
Wikipedia
Info
- 4 points
GRAND TOUR IN ITALY
Prerequisites: Note: Italian is the language of instruction.
Course Description
This course proposes a virtual tour of the country’s most famous sites, looking at the ways in which what is local and peculiar, diverse and marginal, contributes its distinctive style and character to the overall unity and uniqueness of Italy. Each week we consider a different aspect of Italy’s richness and variety: from the evolution of its language/s and dialects to its humor; its art and landscapes; the music from ancient times to current pop songs; its cinema and web serials, its cuisine, the contributions of migrants, and much more.
The course is highly interdisciplinary and will assist students in the development of their linguistic and cultural skills, while tracing the origins of most mainstream Italian cultural phenomena, and imparting an awareness of modern Italy's multiculturalism.
- Department: Italian
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Maria Luisa Gozzi
CULPA: 14
Info
- 3 points
GOVERNING THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
Who governs the world economy? Why do countries succeed or fail to cooperate in setting their economic policies? When and how do international institutions help countries cooperate? When and why do countries adopt good and bad economic policies? This course examines how domestic and international politics determine how the global economy is governed. We will study the politics of trade, international investment, monetary, immigration, and environmental policies to answer these questions. The course will approach each topic by examining alternative theoretical approaches and evaluate these theories using historical and contemporary evidence. There will be an emphasis on applying concepts through the analysis of policy-relevant case studies.
- Department: Political Science
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nikhar Gaikwad
h-index: 7 Info - 4 points
GOVERNING GLOBAL ECONOMY-DISC
GOVERNING GLOBAL ECON-DISC
- Department: Political Science
- M 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
- M 11:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Richard T Clark
Info - 0 points
FIELD EXPERIMENTATION METHODS FOR SOCIAL
- Department: Psychology
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mark A Conley
Info - 3 points
PROBABILITY FOR ENGINEERS
Prerequisites: Solid knowledge of calculus, including multiple variable integration.
For undergraduates only. This course is required for the OR:FE concentration.
This course is a follow-up to IEOR E3608 and will cover advanced topics in optimization including integer optimization, convex optimization, and optimization under uncertainty, with a strong focus on modeling, formulations, and applications.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Antonius B Dieker
CULPA: 10 h-index: 19 Info - 3 points
PROBABILITY FOR ENGINEERS
PROBABILITY FOR ENGINEERS REC
Prerequisites: Solid knowledge of calculus, including multiple variable integration.
For undergraduates only. This course is required for the OR:FE concentration.
This course is a follow-up to IEOR E3608 and will cover advanced topics in optimization including integer optimization, convex optimization, and optimization under uncertainty, with a strong focus on modeling, formulations, and applications.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- 0 points
AFRICAN AMER NOVELIST QUESTION OF JUSTIC
AND THE QUESTION OF JUSTICE
This course asks, “What conceptions of Justice emerge from a selection of works by canonical African American writers? Are there other moral/ethical/social values that emerge as more significant than Justice ?” We open with an exploration of Justice in the works of the Greek dramatist, Aeschylus, the Hebrew Bible and recent scholarship on Pre-Colonial West Africa in order to consider what concepts of Justice African-American writers have inherited or that have informed them in less formal ways. We then turn to texts by Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Ernest Gaines, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison, to examine the way these writers engage, negotiate and critique the relationship between Justice and Race in the United States.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Farah Griffin
CULPA: 10
Wikipedia
Info
- 4 points
GERMAN LIT-WORLD CONTEXT (ENG)
GERMAN LIT IN A WORLD CONTEXT
- Department: Germanic Languages
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tobias Wilke
CULPA: 3
Info
- 3 points
THE LOGIC OF SECULAR CONFESSION
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Valerio Amoretti
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
INDEPENDENT CLINICAL RESEARCH
Prerequisites: 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.
BIOL 3700
will provide an opportunity for students interested in independent research work in a hospital or hospice setting. In these settings, where patients and their needs are paramount, and where IRB rules and basic medical ethics make “wet-lab biology research” inappropriate, undergraduates may well find a way nevertheless, to assist and participate in ongoing clinical research. Such students, once they have identified a mentor willing to provide support, participation, and advising, may apply to the faculty member in charge of the course for 2-4 points/semester in
BIOL W3700
. This course will closely follow procedures already in place for
BIOL 3500
, but will ask potential mentors to provide evidence that students will gain hands-on experience in a clinical setting, while participating in a hospital- or hospice-based research agenda. 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.
- Department: Biological Sciences
- 2-4 points
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
In its everyday use, the term “trial” denotes a formal examination of evidence by a judicial tribunal in order to determine the guilt or innocence of the persons accused of a certain act. Yet trials can also stage confrontations of much wider breadth and higher stakes. Ruling powers of various shapes and sizes tend to prosecute those people whom they fear because of their identity, class, craft, or convictions. In such cases, what is often “on trial” is not just one (or more) individual persons, but a set of relationship that these ruling powers see as anathema to the social order they seek to establish or maintain, and on which their power depends. Witches, officers of toppled political orders, those accused of conspiracy (rebels, traitors, terrorists, and dissidents), gangsters and mafiosi, or corrupt officers and magnates – all share that role in social dramas that cast them as enemies of The State, The Church, The People, or Humanity.
We will examine how such trials give us unique opportunities to examine what conceptions of society, of relationships good and evil, and of justice underlie political orders, how they codify and pursue them, and what historical processes these enactments trigger or shape. After an introductory session, we will dedicate two to three weeks on each of these categories. Our goal will be to develop tools for understanding the relationship between the micro-dynamics of trials and the changes that unfold before these events, through them, and in their aftermath.
- Department: Anthropology
- M 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Naor H Ben-Yehoyada
CULPA: 5 Info - 4 points
DRAMA, THEATRE AND THEORY
Prerequisites: Instructor's permission.
(Seminar). Theatre typically exceeds the claims of theory. What does this tell us about both theatre and theory? We will consider why theatre practitioners often provide the most influential theoretical perspectives, how the drama inquires into (among other things) the possibilities of theatre, and the various ways in which the social, spiritual, performative, political, and aesthetic elements of drama and theatre interact. Two papers, weekly responses, and a class presentation are required. Readings include Aristotle, Artaud, Bharata, Boal, Brecht, Brook, Castelvetro, Craig, Genet, Grotowski, Ibsen, Littlewood, Marlowe, Parks, Schechner, Shakespeare, Sowerby, Weiss, and Zeami.
Application Instructions:
E-mail Professor Austin Quigley (aeq1@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "Drama, Theatre, Theory 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
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Austin E Quigley
Info - 4 points
SENIOR FIELD ESSAY SEMINAR
- Department: American Studies @Barnard
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jordan Camp
CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info - 4 points
LEADERSHIP IN ORGANIZATION
LEADERSHIIP IN ORGANIZATION
Initially, the emphasis is on understanding the challenges confronting leaders and developing skills to effectively deal with these obstacles. Beyond intelligence and technical know-how, what separates effective leaders from other team members is a set of social skills (e.g. impression management, self-awareness). This course identifies these critical leadership skills and provides ideas and tools for improving them. Then, the course considers how social intelligence skills fit the needs of managers at different stages of their careers. In early stages, managers need to achieve a good person-job fit, find mentors, and build an effective social network. At the mid-career stage, managers need to lead an effective unit with increasing complexity and responsibilities. Finally, the course examines challenges managers face at later career stages as they become partners, CFOs, CEOs, etc.
- Department: Columbia College
- W 2:40 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rachel I McDonald
h-index: 12 Info - 3 points
FRANCOPHONE ROMANCE,LOVE,SEX,
FRANCOPHONE ROMANCE,LOVE,SEX,I
- Department: French and Romance Philology
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Madeleine Dobie
CULPA: 14
Info
- 3 points
SEM-AMERICN LITERARY TRADITION
AMERICAN HUMOR
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
(Seminar). In this course we encounter a variety of nineteenth and twentieth century American literary works that have a strong comic edge. We also read a few critical works, both by writers and by scholars, which explore the forms and functions of American humor. Henry James has called humor “our native gift,” a stance toward life that compensates for what he detected to be the nation’s drastic lack of cultural traditions. Can one still speak of an “American character?” If so, what makes this character (or this cast of American characters) —as presented by Mark Twain, Ralph Ellison, and Mary Gordon—so distinctive and so laughable? What makes him and her so very ready to “crack corn,” to break into the comic mode? What is the relation of American humor to the tragic sense of life that also seems to define the national type? These questions define this course as an exploration of American
identity,
which, as many observers have noted, stands at the center of American intellectual and aesthetic life.
Application Instructions:
E-mail Professor O'Meally (rgo1@columbia.edu) with the subject heading, "American Humor 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.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Robert G O'Meally
CULPA: 18
Info
- 4 points
SCOPE AND METHODS
This class introduces students to a variety of statistical methods used to investigate political phenomena. We will address the principles behind these methods, their application, and their limitations. The course aims to provide anyone interested in political science with a proficient understanding of the intuitions behind several of the methods most commonly used to analyze political data and identify causal paths. By the end of the course, students will have acquired important analytical and practical skills and will be able to evaluate the quality and reliability of scholarly and journalistic work done using quantitative methods. Students will also learn basic statistical software skills (R).
- Department: Political Science
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Chiara Superti
CULPA: 3
Info
- 3 points
SCOPE AND METHODS - DISC
- Department: Political Science
- T 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
- M 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
- R 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
- W 8:10 a.m.-9 a.m.
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Instructor:
Yusuf Magiya
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Instructor:
Jaclyn K Davis
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Instructor:
Yusuf Magiya
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Instructor:
Jaclyn K Davis
Info - 0 points