INTERMEDIATE FRENCH II

Prerequisites: three terms of college French or three years of secondary school French.
$15.00= Language Resource Fee, $15.00 = Materials Fee
Equivalent to
FREN C1202
and
F1202
. Continues to prepare students for advanced French language and culture with an emphasis on developing highly accurate speaking, reading, and writing skills. Students examine complex topics, using the French language in diverse contexts, and read and actively discuss a wide variety of texts from France and the French speaking world. Daily assignments, quizzes, and screening of video materials.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• MTWR 10 a.m.-12:05 p.m.
• Instructor: Gabriela Badea
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 1 Info
• 4 points

INTERMEDIATE SPANISH II

Prerequisites:
SPAN S1201
, or the equivalent.
Equivalent to
SPAN C1202
or
F1202
. Readings of contemporary authors, with emphasis on class discussion and composition.

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• MTWR 4 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
• MTWR 6:15 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Guadalupe Ruiz-Fajardo
  CULPA: 13 h-index: 5 Info
• Instructor: Juan Pablo Cominguez
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

SEE-U BRAZIL - FLD MTHDS-ECOL

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• 3 points

RAPID READING AND TRANSLATION

$15.00= Language Resource Fee, $15.00 = Materials Fee
Primarily for graduate students in other departments who have some background in French and who wish to meet the French reading requirement for the Ph.D. degree, or for scholars whose research involves references in the French language. Intensive reading and translation, both prepared and at sight, in works drawn from literature, criticism, philosophy, and history. Brief review of grammar; vocabulary exercises.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• TWR noon-2:05 p.m.
• TWR 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: William M Burton
  h-index: 2 Info
• Instructor: Christopher B Wood
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

SEE-U JORDAN-CON BIO/ENVIR

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• 3 points

SEE-U JORDAN-FLD MTHDS-ECOL

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• Instructor: Shahid Naeem
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia h-index: 70 Info
• 3 points

SEE-U AGRO/FOOD-CON BIO/ENVIR

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• 3 points

SEE-U AGRO/FOOD-FLD MTHD-ECOL

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• 3 points

HIST OF PHIL: AQUINAS TO KANT

A broad historical survey of major thinkers in early modern philosophy, including Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant, focusing on the way each thinker deals with the challenge of skepticism in developing an account of the nature of reality and how we might come to know it.

• Department: Philosophy
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Adam M Blazej
  Info
• 3 points

INTERMEDIATE FRENCH CULTURE&CONVERSATION;

INTERMEDIATE FRENCH CULTURE&CO;

Prerequisites: One year of College French

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This 8-week summer course is designed for non-native speakers who have completed a minimum of one year (two semesters) of French at the beginner’s level. The objective of this class is to provide a pedagogical structure for students to take full advantage of their immersion experience in Paris. The course will be comprised of a mix of classroom and excursion time, with 30 hours of in-class activities especially dedicated to hone students’ aural and oral skills, and 12 hours of targeted, small-group explorations in the city. The theme of this summer’s class is “Mapping hidden Paris through urban diversity” (“Promenades secrètes à travers la diversité parisienne”).” During these eight weeks, we will focus on the hidden, quirky, unusual sides of Paris, structured around different and varied groups of people who have inhabited Paris and left their mark: artists, immigrants, workers, students, aristocrats, laborers, etc. The excursions will take the students to out of the ordinary places hidden within Paris: village streets, mansions, contemporary ephemeral street art, underground urban networks, flea markets, and so on. Students will spend time in the classroom and at home preparing for their excursions by studying documentaries, short movies, songs, poems, pamphlets, drawings, and paintings. Students will work towards a final presentation at the end of the eight weeks, “Mon Paris,” centered on the relationship between identity and Paris as an urban text.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• MWMW 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Karen Santos da Silva
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

INTRO-DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

Prerequisites:
PSYC W1001
or
PSYC W1010
, or the instructor's permission.
Introduction to the scientific study of human development, with an emphasis on psychobiological processes underlying perceptual, cognitive, and emotional development.

• Department: Psychology
• MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Nim L Tottenham
  Info
• 3 points

WORLD CINEMA: MEXICO

The global success of film directors Alejandro González Iñárritu, Alfonso Cuarón, and Guillermo del Toro has attracted much attention to the New Mexican Cinema. Yet this «Nuevo cine mexicano» cannot be understood without knowing the traditions of Mexico’s intricate film history. This course explores the numerous tendencies of Mexican cinema through the analysis of its most representative genres, features, and directors since the so called Golden Age (1938-1957). An in-depth analysis of films such as Emilio Fernández’s María Candelaria (1943), Luis Buñuel’s Los olvidados (1950), Jomi García Ascot’s On the Empty Balcony (1962), Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Mole (1970), and Arturo Ripstein's Deep Crimson (1996) will contribute to define the characteristics of the most relevant «national» genres – from 1940s melodramas to 1970s acid Westerns and 1990s crime films. The study of the New Mexican Cinema of Iñárritu (Amores perros, 2000), Cuarón (Y tu mamá también, 2001), and del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, 2006) will also comprise an examination of the complex relationship between the US and Mexican film industries, as well as a critique of the very notion of «national identity» in today’s globalized world. We will also analyze new tendencies in commercial, experimental, and documentary Mexican films – including Carlos Reygadas' Silent Light (2007) and Pedro González Rubio's Alamar (2009). CC/GS/SEAS: Partial Fulfillment of Global Core Requirement.

• Department: Film
• TR 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Breixo Viejo Vinas
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

ISLAM

Islam

This course is designed as an introduction to the Islamic religion, both in its pre-modern and modern manifestations. The semester begins with a survey of the central elements that unite a diverse community of Muslim peoples from a variety of geographical and cultural backgrounds. This includes a look at the Prophet and the Qur'an and the ways in which both were actualized in the development of ritual, jurisprudence, theology, and sufism/mysticism. The course then shifts to the modern period, examining the impact of colonization and the rise of liberal secularism on the Muslim world. The tension between traditional Sunni and Shi'i systems of authority and movements for "modernization" and/or "reform" feature prominently in these readings. Topics range from intellectual attempts at societal/religious reform (e.g., Islamic Revivalism, Modernism, Progressivism) and political re-interpretations of traditional Islamic motifs (e.g., Third-Worldism and Jihadist discourse) to efforts at accommodating scientific and technological innovations (e.g., evolution, bioethics ). The class ends by examining the efforts of American and European Muslim communities to carve out distinct spheres of identity in the larger global Muslim community ( umma) through expressions of popular culture (e.g. Hip-Hop).

• Department: Religion
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Najam I Haider
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

EAST ASIAN BUDDHISM

Lecture and discussion. An introductory survey that studies East Asian Buddhism as an integral , living religious tradition. Emphasis on the reading of original treatises and historiographies in translation, while historical events are discussed in terms of their relevance to contemporary problems confronted by Buddhism. Global Core.

• Department: Religion
• MTWR 9 a.m.-10:35 a.m.
• Instructor: Peng Liu
  Info
• 4 points

RELI IN BLACK AMERICA:AN INTRO

Undergraduate lecture course introducing students to the study of African American religion. While there are no required prerequisites for the course, prior coursework in religious studies or African American history is helpful. This course progresses as a historical survey and is intended to introduce students to important themes in African American (thus American) religious history (i.e. migration, urbanization, nationalism) through a rich engagement with the religious practices and traditions of black communities. Primary attention is given to Afro-Protestantism in North America; however, throughout the course attention is directed to religious diversity and varying religious traditions/practices in different diasporic locales. While this is a lecture course, students are expected to arrive each week having completed assigned readings and prepared to make informed contributions to class discussions (as class size allows). By the end of the semester students will be expected to possess a working knowledge of major themes/figures/traditions in African American religious life, as well as key questions that have shaped the study thereof.

• Department: Religion
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Josef Sorett
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY I-LECTURES

Prerequisites:
CHEM S1403
General Chemistry I Lecture,
CHEM S1404
General Chemistry II Lecture and
CHEM S1500
General Chemistry Lab or their equivalents taken within the previous five years.
Principles of organic chemistry. The structure and reactivity of organic molecules from the standpoint of modern theories of chemistry. Stereochemistry, reactions of organic molecules, mechanisms of organic reactions, syntheses and degradations of organic molecules, spectroscopic techniques of structure determination. Please note that students must attend a recitation for this class. Students who wish to take the full organic chemistry lecture sequence and laboratory should also register for
CHEM S2444Q
 Organic Chemistry II Lecture and
CHEM S2543Q
 Organic Chemistry Lab (see below). This course is equivalent to
CHEM W2443
 Organic Chemistry I Lecture.

• Department: Chemistry
• MTWR 9 a.m.-10:35 a.m.
• Instructor: Danielle F Sedbrook
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY II-LECTURES

ORGANIC CHEMSTRY II-LECTURES

Prerequisites:
CHEM S2443D
Organic Chemistry I Lecture or the equivalent.
The principles of organic chemistry. The structure and reactivity of organic molecules are examined from the standpoint of modern theories of chemistry. Topics include stereochemistry, reactions of organic molecules, mechanisms of organic reactions, syntheses and degradations of organic molecules, and spectroscopic techniques of structure determination. This course is a continuation of
CHEM S2443D
 Organic Chemistry I Lecture. Please note that students must attend a recitation for this class. Students who wish to take the full organic chemistry lecture sequence and laboratory should also register for
CHEM S2443D
 Organic Chemistry I Lecture and
CHEM S2543Q
 Organic Chemistry Lab - see below. This course is equivalent to
CHEM W2444 
Organic Chemistry II Lecture.

• Department: Chemistry
• MTWR 9 a.m.-10:35 a.m.
• Instructor: Danielle F Sedbrook
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Prerequisites: Recommended preparation: a course in psychology and high school physics, chemistry, and biology.
An introduction to the analysis of psychological issues by anatomical, physiological, and pharmacological methods. Topics include neurons, neurotransmitters, neural circuits, human neuroanatomy, vision, learning, memory, emotion, and sleep and circadian rhythms.

• Department: Psychology
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Resit Canbeyli
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

ANALYSIS AND OPTIMIZATION

Prerequisites:
MATH V1102
-
MATH V1201
or the equivalent and
MATH V2010
.
Mathematical methods for economics. Quadratic forms, Hessian, implicit functions. Convex sets, convex functions. Optimization, constrained optimization, Kuhn-Tucker conditions. Elements of the calculus of variations and optimal control.

• Department: Mathematics
• MTWR 2:45 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Qixiao Ma
  Info
• 3 points

CONTEMPORARY BIOLOGY LAB

Prerequisites:
BIOL C2005
or
F2005
(Introduction to Molecular and Cellular Biology, I) or equivalent.
The lab will focus on experiments in genetics and molecular biology with emphasis on data analysis and interpretation.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• MTWR 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Claire E Hazen
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 3 points

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY LABORATORY

Prerequisites:
CHEM W1500
General Chemistry Lab,
CHEM W2443
Organic Chemistry I - Lecture.
Techniques of experimental organic chemistry, with emphasis on understanding fundamental principles underlying the experiments in methodology of solving laboratory problems involving organic molecules. Attendance at the first laboratory session is mandatory. Please note that you must complete
CHEM W2443 
Organic Chemistry I Lecture or the equivalent to register for this lab course. This course is equivalent to
CHEM W2543
 Organic Chemistry Laboratory.

• Department: Chemistry
• MW 1 p.m.-6 p.m.
• TR 1 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Anna Ghurbanyan
  CULPA: 21 Info
• 3 points

ARTS OF CHINA JAPAN KOREA

Introduces distinctive aesthetic traditions of China, Japan, and Korea--their similarities and differences--through an examination of the visual significance of selected works of painting, sculpture, architecture, and other arts in relation to the history, culture, and religions of East Asia.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Cathy M Zhu
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR

Prerequisites:
PSYC W1001
or
PSYC W1010
or the instructor's permission.
An examination of definitions, theories, and treatments of abnormal behavior.

• Department: Psychology
• MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Karen Hebert
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

Surveys important methods, findings, and theories in the study of social influences on behavior. Emphasizes different perspectives on the relation between individuals and society.

• Department: Psychology
• TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Joshua M Feinberg
  Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY

This course will provide a comprehensive introduction to general theories and methods
related to culture and diversity. In the first half of the course, we will survey a broad range of
topics in cultural psychology, emphasizing psychological research that links culture to mental
processes. In this portion of the course, we will focus on how diverse aspects of humans’ dayto-
day lives—including social relationships, cognitive processes, basic visual perception,
judgments of morality, and mental illness—both differ and are constant across cultures. Next,
we will focus on specific topics that bridge cultural psychology and identity, including group
and identity formation, stereotyping, prejudice, stigma, intergroup contact, and
multiculturalism. Special emphasis will be placed on critically examining research methods
and analyzing real-world treatments of culture based on topics covered in the course.

• Department: Psychology
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Kate M Turetsky
  Info
• 3 points

SOCIAL THEORY

This class serves as an introduction to the social theorists who laid the foundations for the modern discipline of sociology, primarily Marx, Weber and Durkheim. Each week we will read foundational texts alongside more contemporary analyses that draw on them to help us think about how we can use theory to understand social phenomena today. The 'founding fathers' of sociology were all wrong about a great many things, but their work made profound contributions to our understanding of capitalism, modernity and the relationship between individuals and society and their ideas still reverberate powerfully throughout the humanities and social sciences.

• Department: Sociology
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Tolga Kobas
  h-index: 0 Info
• 3 points

HUMANITIES TEXTS, CRIT SKILLS

This course aims to equip students with critical tools for approaching, reading, and striving with literary and philosophical texts—ancient as well as modern. To this end, we will be working closely with a set of texts that range in date from the 8th/7th c. BCE to the 20th century C, including: Homer, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, Du Bois, Nabokov and Rankine. Our seminar will operate on the assumption that we cannot know “what” these texts say or “what” their authors mean unless we come to grips with how they say what they say and how they mean what they mean. In pursuit of some answers, we will master the skill of reading quickly but carefully, balancing attention to the literary craft of our texts with scrutiny of their underlying arguments and agendas.
Requires Instructor’s permission— please write to Richard Roderick rr3059@columbia.edu to set up a meeting with instructors.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 6:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• 4 points

THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF ISLAM

What does it mean to be a pious or secular Muslim in the Middle East today? How is this complex identity inhabited, embodied, expressed, nurtured, redefined, contested and debated in the contemporary Middle East?  What kinds of ongoing debates about shari'a and authority are constitutive of Islam as a discursive tradition?  Through what forms of embodied practices and dispositions do women involved in a mosque movement in Cairo seek to become pious subjects?  What does it mean to be secular in Turkey?  Or a young person born after the revolution in Iran?  How does a Moroccan anthropologists teaching at Princeton University experience and reflect on his pilgrimage to Mecca?  We will think about these and other related questions through a series of recent anthropological texts that deal with questions of piety, secularity, modernity and subjectivity among Muslims in the contemporary Middle East.

• Department: Anthropology
• MW 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Sonia Ahsan
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

EVAL THE EVID OF AUTHENTICITY

The adjudged authenticity of a work of art is fundamental in determining its value as a commodity on the art market or, for example, in property claim disputes or in issues of cultural property restitution.  Using case studies some straightforward and others extremely vexing--this course examines the many ways in which authenticity is measured through the use of provenance and art historical research, connoisseurship, and forensic resources.  From within the broader topics, finer issues will also be explored, among them, the hierarchy of attribution, condition and conservation, copies and reproductions, the period eye and the style of the marketplace.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Lynn Catterson
  CULPA: 35 h-index: 2 Info
• 4 points

Third Yr Bus Chi Practicum

THIRD YR BUS CHI PRACTICUM

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Zhirong Wang
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 8 points

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR THRU FIELDWORK

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

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew G Fulmer
  Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO VIDEO STORYTELLING

The Introduction to Video Storytelling course teaches students the basics of conceiving, researching, and reporting a story through video. Students will learn to think critically about what makes for a good video story--what makes it newsworthy, what makes video the proper medium for conveying that story--and how to execute using the latest technology. Students will learn how to use and handle a camera, how to best record sound, how to properly frame and light a subject or scene, as well as learn how to use Adobe Premiere editing software. Students will have one complete video story at the end of the 6-week course.

• Department: Journalism
• TR 4 p.m.-7:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Rhon G Flatts
  Info
• 3 points

DECLINE/FALL OF THE ROMAN EMP

The aim of this course is to investigate the political, economic, and social developments in Rome that led to its political transformation from an oligarchy (the so-called "Republic") to a monarchy (the so-called "Empire"). The lectures largely take the form of a chronological narrative, with occasional lectures devoted to broader issues. Readings are drawn when possible from primary as well as secondary sources.

• Department: History
• TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard A Billows
  CULPA: 40 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

FINANCIAL ECONOMICS

Prerequisites:
ECON W3211
Intermediate Microeconomics and
ECON W3213
Intermediate Macroeconomics.
Equivalent to
ECON V3025
. Institutional nature and economic function of financial markets. Emphasis on both domestic and international markets (debt, stock, foreign exchange, Eurobond, Eurocurrency, futures, options, and others). Principles of security pricing and portfolio management; the capital asset pricing model and the efficient markets hypothesis.

• Department: Economics
• MTWR 12:30 p.m.-2:05 p.m.
• Instructor: A. V Ancona
  Info
• 3 points

ORDINARY DIFFERNTIAL EQUATIONS

Prerequisites:
MATH S1201
, or the equivalent.
Equations of order one, linear equations, series solutions at regular and singular points. Boundary value problems. Selected applications.

• Department: Mathematics
• MTWR 10:45 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• MTWR 4:30 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
• Instructor: Petr Pushkar
  h-index: None Info
• Instructor: Zhechi Cheng
  Info
• 3 points

TELEVISION WRITING INTENSIVE

Prerequisites: apply directly to the School of the Arts. For more information please see:
http://arts.columbia.edu/summer/film/course/television-writing-intensive
.
The TV Writing Intensive is a six-week, concentrated and encompassing introduction into the field of television writing designed to prepare students to join the professional worlds of half-hour comedies and one-hour dramas across network, cable and digital platforms. In an interconnected program consisting of two intensive writing workshops and a lecture series with guest writers and producers, students gain the knowledge and authority to explore, examine and create the kind of groundbreaking work that is taking over television here and around the world. Participants in The Television Writing Intensive learn about half-hour comedy and one-hour drama by writing and developing spec scripts and original pilots.  A spec script is a teleplay for an existing show where the writer brings original stories to existing characters.  A pilot is a script written for an original series that the writer creates. This intensive course meets 15 hours per week, on Mondays and Wednesdays for six hours during the day, and Thursdays for two hours. The times for the Thursday class are usually in the evenings but may vary based on the availability of guest speakers and other opportunities such as visits to live production sets.

• Department: Film
• R 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 6 points

PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI POLIT/SOC

PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI POLITICS&S;

This course covers the history of Zionism in the wake of the Haskala in mid nineteenth century Europe and its development at the turn of the century through the current "peace process" between the state of Israel and the Palestinian national movement.  The course examines the impact of Zionism on European Jews and on Asian and African Jews on the one hand, and on Palestinian Arabs on the other --in Israel, in the Occupied Territories, and in the Diaspora.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MTWR 2:45 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph A Massad
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Reading Dante Now... in NYC

This course will serve as an introduction to the writings of Dante Alighieri with an emphasis on the Divine Comedy. Students will gain an understanding of the poem’s relevance, both within its original cultural context as well as the continued significance of Dante as a cultural figure around the world. As we read this monumental classic of Western literature we will have the opportunity to learn from each other and explore multiple modes of reading (postcolonial, feminist, geocritical) and interrogate the conditions of our interaction with canonical texts. Course can be used towards partial fulfillment of requirements for the following majors: English, Italian.

• Department: Italian
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Allison M Dewitt
  Info
• 3 points

Undergraduate Mentored Research

Undergraduate Mentored Rsrch

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

• Department: Statistics
• Instructor: Ronald Neath
  CULPA: 13 Info
• 3 points

DATA STRUCTURES IN JAVA

DATA STRUCTURE IN JAVA

Prerequisites:
COMS W1004
Introduction to Computer Science and Programming in Java or knowledge of JAVA.
Data types and structures: arrays, stacks, singly and doubly linked lists, queues, trees, sets, and graphs. Programming techniques for processing such structures: sorting and searching, hashing, garbage collection. Storage management. Rudiments of the analysis of algorithms. Taught in Java.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul S Blaer
  CULPA: 46 h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

COMPARATIVE JURISPRUDENCE

Jurisprudence, at its core, is the study of legal theory. Fundamentally, however, what is "law?" By studying alternative constitutional systems, what can we learn about the legal foundations of various governments and societies? What influence has legal theory had on the development of very different government structures, and how do different governments grapple with constitutional controversy? This course is designed to explore the basic foundational principles that make up the study of legal theory. It begins by studying the core schools of thought, including natural law, legal positivism, and legal realism. The course then uses these basic concepts to explore and understand the greater development of fundamental, constitutional law and theory within different legal systems in different countries. By comparing various constitution and government structures, using basic legal philosophy as a guide, students will gain a valuable base understanding of the development and execution of legal thought within different societies.

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• TR 6:15 p.m.-9:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher R Riano
  Info
• 3 points

VENICE AND ITS MUSICAL IDENTITY

Throughout its history, Venice cultivated an idealized image of its political and civic identity. Music played a central role in the construction of the myth of the “Most Serene Republic” both through the prestige of the Venetian music establishment and as a symbol of social harmony and cohesion. This course explores the history of this unique bond between Venice and its musical self-fashioning as well as the construction of a nostalgic image of Venice’s past musical splendor in nineteenth- and twentieth-century music.

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Giuseppe Gerbino
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 3 points

CONS LAW THRU LENS OF HIGHR ED

The intricacies of the most controversial aspects of the American Constitution play out daily on college campuses across the country. Who gets admitted to elite institutions, and what factors should they consider? Faculties have tenure to protect their right to challenge conventional wisdom, but what exactly does Academic Freedom protect? Students have the right to free speech, or do they? Can a college censor a student newspaper? If a student is disciplined on campus, do they have a right to an attorney? Do students have a property interest in their education that can cost over $100,000? How does the law treat private and public institutions differently? This course is designed to explore the most controversial of constitutional topics including the First Amendment right to free speech, the Fifth Amendment's takings clause, the Sixth Amendment right to counsel, and the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of equal protection, procedural due process and substantive due process in regards to life, liberty, and property.

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• TR 6:15 p.m.-9:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher R Riano
  Info
• 3 points

DISCRETE MATHEMATICS

Prerequisites: any introductory course in computer programming.
Logic and formal proofs, sequences and summation, mathematical induction, binomial coefficients, elements of finite probability, recurrence relations, equivalence relations and partial orderings, and topics in graph theory (including isomorphism, traversability, planarity, and colorings).

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert L Holliday
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

MEDIEVAL ART & THE CITY

Medieval Art and the City

This course introduces students to the splendors and rich artistic tradition of the Middle Ages from  ca. 200 CE to about  1400 CE. We will engage  with  a wide  range  of objects housed   in  some  of  the  most  iconic  museums, libraries   and  archives in  New  York, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Morgan  Library  and  Museum, the New York Public Library, and  Columbia's very own Rare Book Collection. Taking  advantage of   New   York's   impressive   resources,  we   will   gain   hands-on  experience  with monumental architecture, sculpture, panel  painting, reliquaries, and  manuscripts from different  cultures across western and  eastern Europe, the Mediterranean basin, and  the Near  East.  Apart  from  investigating the  visual  characteristics of  medieval material culture, we will seek  to set artworks into  their  broader social and  cultural contexts by discussing pertinent issues such as usage, patronage, and function (past and present).

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Georgios Makris
  Info
• 4 points

SOCIOLOGY OF RACE

Race and ethnicity are concepts frequently deployed in struggles over power and resources. This course focuses on how racial and ethnic inequality is generated and maintained. The readings cover theoretical perspectives on racial/ethnic stratification as well as a range of empirical findings. Primary focus on is contemporary issues in the United States.

• Department: Sociology
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Dialika Sall
  Info
• 3 points

PAINTING I

This is an intensive, six-week class moving from the basics of paint materials, techniques, issues of color, light, narrative and most of all representation. Students will begin working from still life set-ups in the studio and gradually move towards more ambitious approaches including figure painting from a model. Towards the end of the class students will be encouraged to work on a project or projects that more closely reflect their personal ideas.

• Department: Visual Arts
• TWR 5:30 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Lucy L Campana
  Info
• 3 points

INTERMEDIATE MACROECONOMICS

Prerequisites:
ECON W1105
Principles of Economics or the equivalent; one term of calculus.
Equivalent to
ECON W3213
. National income accounting, output and employment, Keynesian and neo-Keynesian analysis, affirmative schools, economic growth.

• Department: Economics
• TR 10:15 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Sandesh Dhungana
  Info
• 4 points

SOCIOLOGY OF IMMIGRATION

This course examines the evolution of immigration policy, the migration process, and the assimilation of immigrants and their children into American society. Key topics include theories of assimilation, second-generation social mobility, new immigrant destinations, undocumented immigrants and the changing American color line

• Department: Sociology
• MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicol M Valdez
  Info
• 3 points

RACE, CRIME & LAW

This course critically examines the interplay between crime, law, and the administration of justice in the United States and how these issues are shaped by larger societal factors. Students will receive a theoretical and empirical overview of the American legal and criminal justice system, emphasizing such issues as: the function and purpose of crime control; the roles of the actors/subjects of the criminal justice system; crime and violence as cultural and political issues in America; racial disparities in offending and criminal justice processing; and juvenile justice.

• Department: Sociology
• TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Devon T Wade
  Info
• 3 points

COMP APP TO STUDY OF MEDIEVAL ART & ARCH

COMP APP TO STUDY OF MED ART

In his Universal History of Numbers, Georges Ifrah recounted that he undertook his monumental study of numbers because a pupil once asked him “Where ‘Numbers’ Come From”. This course, 0s and 1s, considers the epilogue of the history of numbers: “Where did ‘Numbers’ bring us.” Today, the study of the art historian is flooded with an endless stream of visual, numerical, and electronic data. Computers and mobile devices offer sophisticated renderings of remote objects of art, spaces, and architecture. Digital technologies provide unprecedented means of analysis and research.  At the same time, however, new technologies bear on the overall direction art and architectural research is taking. This course investigates pros and cons of the new digital methods for art and architectural history. In this course, students will have the opportunity to learn the difference between observing art and architecture through digital media and direct contact with physical objects during museum visits at the Cloisters and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Through the analysis of new methods for studying art and architecture from Europe and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages, this course aims at introducing students to computational and digital art history.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Stefaan Van Liefferinge
  Info
• 4 points

SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION

All of us have spent many years in school and understand that schools impact our lives in important ways. But how exactly does formal schooling shape young people? And how do students make sense of their lives in the context of schools and educational systems more broadly? In this class we will examine education as a central institution in modern society, and we will grapple with an important question: What role does education play in reinforcing or challenging broader patterns of social inequality and mobility? Particular emphasis will be placed on higher education as a critical site in which these processes take shape.

• Department: Sociology
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Bailey A Brown
  Info
• 3 points

SHAKESPEARE

This course provides an introduction to Shakespeare through a combination of reading his plays and viewing them in performance.  On the one hand, we approach each play as a written, published text: our in-class conversation consist primarily in close analysis of key passages, and, in one class period, we visit Rare Books to examine the earliest printed versions of the plays in light of English Renaissance print technology.  On the other hand, we view performances of each assigned play, including the attendance as a group of at least one Shakespeare production on an NYC stage.  Our semester’s through line is to trace, from his earliest plays to
Hamlet
, Shakespeare’s remarkable development of the techniques of characterization that have made generations of both playgoers and readers feel that his dramatis personae are so modern, real, human.  We will also devote attention to exploring the value of each play in our present moment and on our local stages.  We read 8 plays in all, including
Titus Andronicus
,
Midsummer Night's Dream
,
Julius Caesar
,
Macbeth
,
Merchant of Venice
, and
Hamlet
.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Douglas S Pfeiffer
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

PHIL OF LANGUAGE & MIND

This course will explore creativity in relation to issues such as consciousness, imagination, artificial intelligence, mental illness, rule following, freedom, agency, and virtue. Though our approach will be primarily philosophical, readings will include empirical studies into the psychology of creativity.

• Department: Philosophy
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Jorge F Morales
  Info
• 3 points

COMPUTER SCIENCE THEORY

Prerequisites:
COMS W3203
Discrete Mathematics: Introduction to Combinatorics and Graph Theory.
Corequisites:
COMS W3134
Data Structures in Java,
COMS W3136
Data Structures with C/C++, or
COMS W3137
Honors Data Structures and Algorithms.
Regular languages: deterministic and non-deterministic finite automata, regular expressions. Context-free languages: context-free grammars, push-down automata. Turing machines, the Chomsky hierarchy, and the Church-Turing thesis. Introduction to Complexity Theory and NP-Completeness.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert L Holliday
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

ENGLISH LITERATURE TO 1500

CHAUCERS SONDRY FOLK:THE CANTE

Geoffrey Chaucer may be constructed as the “Father of English Poetry,” but his works imply a far more radical and unorthodox figure, grounded in a particular historical moment, than the epithet suggests. This course explores the intriguing and often open-ended social, political, and moral questions Chaucer raises in the
Canterbury Tales
. Complicating the idea of Chaucer as a traditional poet, this course will introduce you to critical trends in medieval literary scholarship, centering on issues of class, gender, sexuality, and nationalism in relation to Chaucer’s tales. We will explore the dynamic tale-telling of the Canterbury pilgrims, with special attention to how the tales they tell on the road to Canterbury Cathedral draw upon the texts Chaucer used to shape the world of his own book. You will read excerpts from source texts and analogues, such as Boethius’s
Consolation of Philosophy
and Boccaccio’s
Decameron
, to develop a sense of the rich traditions in which Chaucer was writing and innovating. These supplementary works will illuminate the conversations Chaucer was having with other poets and philosophers, and the way in which he used past writings to form his position in late fourteenth-century debates and to shape his literary legacy.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Gillian R Adler
  Info
• 3 points

AMERICAN LIT. & CUL: WALT WHITMAN & NY

WHITMAN AND NEW YORK CITY

Walt Whitman was not the first to write about New York.  But he was the first of many to let New York write him.  By age 43, Whitman had composed most of his best poetry, published three editions of 
Leaves of Grass
, and left New York only twice. How did the second son of an unsuccessful farmer, a grammar school dropout and hack writer become America’s greatest poet?  This course offers a response to this perennial mystery of literary scholarship by proposing that “Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son” was indeed a product of his environment.  Coming of age as a writer at the same time the city was emerging as a great metropolis, he received his education and inspiration from New York itself.  Course time is equally divided between discussions of Whitman’s antebellum poetry, journalism, and prose (including the newly recovered
Life and Adventures of Jack Engle
) in their cultural and geographical contexts, and on-site explorations that retread Whitman’s footsteps through Brooklyn and his beloved Mannahatta.  Experiential learning is further encouraged through assignments based in archives, museums, and at historic sites throughout the city.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Karen Karbiener
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

SEMINAR IN INFANT DEVELOPMENT

Prerequisites: Students should have taken a course in developmental psychology.
Analysis of human development during the first year of life, with an emphasis on infant perceptual and cognitive development.

• Department: Psychology
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria A Crisafi
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 3 points

VOTING AND AMERICAN POLITICS

Elections and public opinion; history of U.S. electoral politics; the problem of voter participation; partisanship and voting; accounting for voting decisions; explaining and forecasting election outcomes; elections and divided government; money and elections; electoral politics and representative democracy.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Miller
  CULPA: 18 h-index: 14 Info
• 3 points

REFORMING AMERICAN ELECTIONS

REFOMRING AMERICAN ELECTIONS

Nothing is more important to the legitimacy of a representative government than the integrity of elections. Throughout the history of the American republic, various actors have sought to shape electoral outcomes. Some have even done so legally! While contemporary citizens of the United States have tended to think of their elections as paragons of reliability, events in the last fifteen years or so have increasingly led to questions on this front. This course will examine issues of fairness, integrity, and security currently facing the American electoral system. In identifying ailments in American democracy, we will discuss both their causes and effects. Finally, we will examine potential reforms in an effort to determine to what extent American elections can be “fixed” (see what I did there?). This course will be particularly useful for students considering professional legal education as a next step.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Miller
  CULPA: 18 h-index: 14 Info
• 3 points

TYRANNY & AUTOCRACY-RUSS/SOV UNION

This course, specifically created for and geared to Columbia Summer School students, will examine the complex history of absolutism, autocracy, and tyranny in Russia and the Soviet Union from the time of Ivan the Terrible (1533 to 1584) to the present. We will discuss the image of these leaders in historiography, popular culture, and "collective memory" as well as the resistance to these phenomena in the realms both of "high politics" and mass action.

• Department: History
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael F Stanislawski
  CULPA: 66 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

DANCE & THE EARLY MOD ARTIST

From an interdisciplinary point of view, this course investigates the representation of dance in Early Modern art.  Using case studies of canonical works by artists such as Donatello, Botticelli, Raphael, Bruegel, Poussin, and Degas, we will examine images that exhibit both explicit 
and
 implicit depictions of dance.  From this point of departure, we will ask why the performing arts exert such a force upon how we experience and interpret a wide range of figures and figural compositions.  More specific questions will arise in relationship to the following themes: the impact of Antiquity, the simultaneous rise of art and dance theory, the representation of music and time, parallels between composition and choreography, the concept of grace, dance and religion, the depiction of violence, and the modern viewers informative eye.  Ultimately, the class aims to nurture a productive exchange between students from different departments, as well as foster the potential for pushing interdisciplinary study to its limits.  Lectures, discussions, and readings will be complemented by trips to museums, libraries, and performances.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• TR 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Olivia S Powell
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

PORTAITTURE IN RENAISSANCE VENICE

PORTRAITURE RENAISSANCE VENICE

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• F 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Diane Bodart
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY

Introduction to and analysis of major myths in classical literature. Topics include the changing attitudes and applications of myth from Greek epic to tragedy, as well as modern approaches to myth. Readings include Homer, Hesiod, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. All readings in English.

• Department: Classics
• TR 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Ashley A Simone
  Info
• 3 points

EXISTENTIALISM

A survey of major themes of Existentialist philosophy in Europe from the mid 19th century to the mid 20th century, this class will focus on Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Sartre and their influences on philosophical conceptions of the human being and the form of its freedom, and the consequences of anxiety, nihilism, and despair in the face of death.

• Department: Philosophy
• MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Laura A Martin
  Info
• 3 points

3rd Yr Grammar & Comp: Paris

3RD YR GRAMMAR & COMP: PARIS

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: Global Programs
• Instructor: Sarah J Lazur
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

ARCH OF NYC LEISURE INDUSTRY

A city that never sleeps is one in which people play as hard as they work. This course will focus on the buildings, parks, and other venues in New York constructed specifically for play and relaxation. Organized typologically, it will cover everything from parks, playgrounds, and Broadway theaters, to World's Fairs, hotels, and museums-- places in which the city's residents seek escape from the stress of their daily lives. In the classroom, in the archival collections of Avery Library and in numerous field trips around the city and the phot, we will analyze these structures and milieux from the perspective of architectural history and urban design, trace their origins and development from the founding of the city to the present and look at how they have helped cut across but also harden class lines. We will examine the formal differences between high-brow and popular venues, discuss the problems of private and public patronage, as well as the financial and social impact of the entertainment industry on the wellbeing of the city as a whole. Above all, we will explore the ways in which places of play, recreation and escape have shaped the identity of and created a distinct look for New York, which, despite the enormous revenue that the culture and entertainment industry generates, are often at odds with the city's reality.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Irina T Oryshkevich
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 4 points

INTRO TO SYMBOLIC LOGIC

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.

• Department: Philosophy
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Ignacio M Ojea Quintana
  Info
• 3 points

PRINTMAKING I

Introduction to the fundamentals of silkscreen techniques. Students gain familiarity with the technical processes of silkscreen and are encouraged to use the processes to develop their visual language. Students are involved in a great deal of drawing for assigned projects. Portfolio required at end.

• Department: Visual Arts
• TR 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Bryan C Jabs
  Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO ECONOMETRICS

Prerequisites:
STAT W1211
Intro to Stats w/Calculus,
MATH V1201
Calculus III, and either intermediate micro or macro (
W3211
or
W3213
).
Equivalent to
ECON W3412
.
 
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 4:15 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Seyhan Erden
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

JACKSON POLLOCK & THE NY SCHOOL

JACKSON POLLOCK & NY SCH

Coming on the heels of the MoMA's blockbuster exhibit, this seminar will trace the rise and fall of Abstract Expressionism, from its pre-World War II precipitates in Europe (Surrealism) and in America (Regionalism), to the crucial moment when, as scholar Serge Guilbaut has argued, New York "stole" the idea of modern art, and finally, through the decade when Pop Art rendered Abstract Expressionism obsolete. Although special emphasis will be given to Jackson Pollock, whose persona and work reside at the literal and figurative center of the movement, we will also look closely at works by Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Willem DeKooning, Lee Krasner, Louise Bourgeois, Helen Frankenthaler, Eva Hesse, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Cy Twombly.  Class lectures and presentations will be supplemented with trips to New York's world-renowned museums.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Kent M Minturn
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

John Singleton Copley to Kehin

Through an examination of painting, sculpture, photography and the visual culture of the United States fiĀ·om the colonial era to present day, this course will explore the role that American artists played in creating a national identity through the genre of portraiture. The class will consider how portraits speak to the political, economic and cultural moments of their production and what they reveal about their sitters' positions in American society. Examining a range of imagery from depictions of colonial merchants by John Singleton Copley, the faces of George Washington, George Catlin's Indian Gallery, and the scions of John Singer Sargent's Gilded Age, to the mixed-media portraits of the Stieglitz Circle, the photographs of Diane Arbus, and Kehinde Wiley's "street castings," the class investigates the role of art in attempting to capture American character. Discussing an array of self portraits from James McNeil Whistler and Andy Warhol to Lily Martin Spencer and Cindy Sherman, the class also considers the unique qualities and challenges faced by the American artist. Particularly relevant after therecent election, the course questions the possibility of depicting American identity, given the changing circumstances under which that identity has been defined since the origins of the nation.
In addition to lectures/discussions in the classroom, field trips to the Metropolitan Museum (the American Wing, Galleries of Modern and Contemporary Art, and the Photography Study Collection), the Museum of Modem Art and the Whitney Museum of Art represent a vital aspect of the course.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Page S Knox
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 4 points

CONTEMPORARY ART AT THE VENICE BIENNALE

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• R 8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Alexander Alberro
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

MEDIA PRACTIVES IN INDIA AND CHINA

MEDIA STUDIES IN CHINA INDIA

• Department: Global Programs
• 5 points

GLOBAL HIST OF THE US MILITARY

America's wars in context, from King Philip's War in 1675 to present conflicts in Afghanistan and the Middle East. This course charts the expansion of U.S. military power from a band of colonists to a globe-girdling colossus with over two million personnel, some 800 bases around the world, and an annual budget of approximately $598 billion - 54 percent of federal discretionary spending, and more than the next nine nations combined. It introduces students to the history of American military power; the economic, political, and technological rise of the military-industrial complex and national security state; the role of the armed services in international humanitarian work; and the changing role of the military in domestic and international politics. A three-point semester-long course compressed into six weeks. Syllabus is located here: http://www.bobneer.com/empireofliberty/.

• Department: History
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert M Jr Neer
  Info
• 3 points

RELATIONALITY IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN P

RELATIONALITY IN CONTEMP AMERI

Much of American culture and literature emerges from a tradition that celebrates individualism and self-determination. Yet identity is a complex product of conscious and unconscious interconnections within the social and biological environment, increasingly dependent on global influences that supplant individual and national autonomy. These forces, especially when intensified by personal loss and tragedy, unsettle ideals of personal independence and generate desire for relation and connection. In this course, we will examine contemporary American fictional and nonfictional texts that embrace vulnerability, dependency, attachment, and solidarity and foster a reorientation towards relational concepts of identity. Siri Hustvedt’s novel
What I Loved
deconstructs boundaries between self and other on multiple discursive levels, drawing on philosophy, psychoanalysis, neuroscience, art, and medicine. Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir
Are You My Mother?
and Maggie Nelson’s memoir
The Argonauts
both return to Donald Winnicott’s relational psychoanalysis in their explorations of queer desire and family bonds. Audre Lorde’s foundational
The Cancer Journals
and Eve Ensler’s
In the Body of the World
illustrate how the broken and abject body can become a medium of self-actualization and connection. Richard Powers’
Galatea 2.2
takes relationality into the transhuman sphere as it delves into human/non-human relations and questions the boundary between human and artificial intelligence and emotions.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Christine Marks
  Info
• 3 points

LATIN AMERICAN CITIES

RIO,S PAOLO,MNTVDEO,BA,HAVANA

• Department: Latin-American & Carib RS
• Instructor: Jose Moya
  CULPA: 19 h-index: 18 Info
• 5 points

HIST OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK

The social, cultural, economic, political, and demographic development of America's metropolis from colonial days to present. Slides and walking tours supplement the readings.

• Department: History
• TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Stephen J Sullivan
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

CONTEMPORARY TEXTS

THE CONTEMPORARY SHORT STORY

We will be reading from the best available anthology of international short fiction, The Art of the Story (ed. Daniel Halpern). We will discuss tales by such extraordinary authors as Martin Amis, Margaret Atwood, Peter Carey, Vikram Chandra, Eduardo Galeano, James Kelman, Ian McEwan, Mohammed Mrabet, Haruki Murakami, Jeanette Winterson, and Can Xue (besides leading writers of the U.S.) These stories cover the gamut of modern experience in diverse cultures and represent an equally broad range in terms of narrative style and tone. We will zero in on a number of fundamental questions: How do these stories illuminate different dimensions of social life in our complex, globalized world? How do the readings vary depending on the author's home culture or exposure to various cultures? Do certain themes or forms of storytelling emerge as "universal"? How do these tales explore ethical values, and what lessons might we learn from them with respect to our challenging contemporary modes of living? Each student will make a presentation on a work of her/his choosing, and students will also be required to write a substantial research paper on a favorite author.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Eric L Haralson
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

SEX TRADE ECONOMY

Based on an interdisciplinary, intersectional, subalternist and post-colonial approach, this course is a general introduction to the history, sociology and anthropology of the economy of the sex-trade in Africa, America, Asia and Europe from the early nineteenth century to today. It aims to clarify: 1) the historiographical situation by questioning and analyzing the French regulatory system and its many avatars in Europe, the United States and in the colonial world, but also questioning the backlash to this system that consisted firstly of the abolitionist (born in England in the second half of the nineteenth century) and then the prohibitionist movements; 2) The relationship between class, “race” and gender in the sex market via issues of human trafficking and sex tourism in Europe, America, Africa and Asia; 3) The socio-economic issue - and its political connections – in the economy of sex with particular attention to individuals (prostitutes versus sex workers), their voices, their legal status, and even their mobilization (rallies and demonstrations, community collectives and trade unions, political and / or literary publications), but also the many heated debates that these demands for recognition and these mobilizations have provoked in places as diverse as France, the Netherlands and India to take only three specific examples in the world covered in the course.

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Caitlin D Deighan
  Info
• 3 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: space, time, and motion; causes and forces; scientific explanation; theory, law, and hypothesis; induction; verification and falsification; models and analogies; scientific realism; scientific revolutions.

• Department: Philosophy
• TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Sebastien T Rivat
  Info
• 3 points

Outliers: How the Frontier

This seminar investigates how the frontier  influenced Chinese art, daily life, and beliefs from the Han (206 BCE-220 cE) to the early Ming (1368-1644) dynasties. Imperial China often used defensive walls and pointed rhetoric  to draw distinctions  between itself and neighboring powers, but material evidence shows that cross-cultural exchange along the frontiers  was vibrant and mutual. Geography played a dynamic role in these interactions. The Tibet-Qinghai plateau to the southwest, Gobi Desert to the north, and Pacific Ocean to the east buffered China, but also facilitated interactions  that penetrated  deep into its territory and society. Architecture, paintings, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, and metal works from a range of historical junctures demonstrate how people along the border regions adopted new technologies and materials as well as novel concepts and forms of expression. These underscore the complex and persistent role of the frontiers  in shaping Chinese art and culture.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• MW 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Heather D Clydesdale
  Info
• 4 points

PSYCH OF STEROTYPING/PREJUDICE

Prerequisites: two psychology courses and the instructor's permission.
A review of current research on intergroup perceptions, attitudes, and behavior. Emphasis on cognitive processes underlying stereotyping and prejudice.

• Department: Psychology
• MW 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Nadav Antebi-Gruszka
  h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

RISING GREAT POWERS

The rise of new great powers and hegemonic states has been a major engine of change in international relations, both historically and today. Predominant theories of war, trade, and empire take as their starting point the uneven growth in the power and wealth of major states and empires. Rapid economic growth and associated domestic institutional changes in rising great powers often unleash a volatile domestic politics that affects the ideologies and social interests that play a role in formulating foreign policy. In turn, the rising power’s international environment shapes the unfolding of these internal processes. This course will study these dynamics, tracing patterns in historical cases and applying the insights gained to contemporary issues.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael C Beckley
  Info
• 3 points

CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY SEM

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission required; contact
emccaski@barnard.edu
. An introductory course in neuroscience like
PSYC 1001
or
PSYC 2450
.
Analysis of the assessment of physical and psychiatric diseases impacting the central nervous system, with emphasis on the relationship between neuropathology and cognitive and behavioral deficits.

• Department: Psychology
• TR 6:15 p.m.-9:25 p.m.
• Instructor: E'Mett McCaskill
  CULPA: 38 Info
• 3 points

PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTION

Prerequisites: Instructor permission required, contact js3526@columbia.edu
This course will provide an overview of theoretical perspectives and research on what emotions are, what functions they serve, and what roles emotions and emotion regulation play in many parts of our lives such asmental health, social relationships, and decision making. The readings will incorporate a wide array of tools that scientists have adopted to understand emotions at different levels of analysis, such as the use of physiological measures (including brain activity), behavioral measures, self-reports of experience, and data acquired through social media.To present different perspectives on the study of emotions, the course will cover research drawn from such fields as social psychology, clinical psychology and developmental psychology, as well as social and affective neuroscience. Concurrently, we will hone a scientific mindset by approaching readings, presentations,and writing assignments with a structured approach to scientific inquiry that helps us identify the major components of the research process when reading and thinking about scientific research.

• Department: Psychology
• TR 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Jocelyn Shu
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

TOPICS IN INT. SECURITY

This course explores how and why states and non-state actors use violent and non-violent strategies in international politics. While not all topics in international security can be covered thoroughly in one semester, this course will give a sampling of many of the topics, including military doctrines and strategies, diplomatic policies, social forces, civil wars, and roles of individuals. Though historical and current events will be used as examples to illustrate how various theories work, students should keep in mind that this is not a course on current events.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael C Beckley
  Info
• 3 points

SELF-REGULATION

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission required; contact
ek2526@columbia.edu
. Science of Psychology (
PSYC 1001
) or Mind, Brain, & Behavior (
PSYC 1010
), or the equivalent introductory psychology course. Students with little or no psychology coursework but a background in philosophy, health sciences, or other related field are also very welcome; however, you will need to contact the instructor as early as possible to request permission and discuss preparatory reading.
Self-Regulation is the process by which we regulate our thoughts, emotions and behavior in the service of our goals. In this seminar we will engage with insights that have emerged mainly from research in the field of psychology, but also from related disciplines such as philosophy, economics, and health sciences. The application of theory on daily life will be a major focus of this seminar.

• Department: Psychology
• TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Eleni Kanellopoulou
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• 3 points

CRIME:PRACTICES AND REPRESENTATION

CRIME: PRACTICES AND REPRESENT

This seminar is intended to introduce students to the study of crime from two perspectives: historical and cultural. On the one hand, the seminar will read introductory and representative texts on the history of crime, particularly in Europe and the Americas. Among the themes to be discussed are: the impact of urbanization and cultural change on historical patterns of crime; the role of transgression and punishment in the construction of collective identities; the everyday relationship of urban populations with the law, the police, and the judiciary, and the gendered meanings of violence. On the other hand, the seminar will work with cultural representations of crime. Movies and literature will be used to understand the themes, genres and explanations that characterize popular understandings of crime.

• Department: History
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Pablo Piccato
  CULPA: 22 h-index: 20 Info
• 4 points

CASTLES&GARDENS;

CASTLES AND GARDENS

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Caitlin D Deighan
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• 3 points

ETHICS

Prerequisites: One philosophy course
This course is mainly an introduction to three influential approaches to normative ethics: utilitarianism, deontological views, and virtue ethics. We also consider the ethics of care, and selected topics in meta-ethics.

• Department: Philosophy
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Lars T Heisenberg
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• 3 points

PHOTOGRAPHY: PHOTO I

An introductory course in black-and-white photography, Photography I is required for admission to all other photo classes. Students are initially instructed in proper camera use and basic film exposure and development. Then the twice weekly meetings are divided into lab days where students learn and master the fundamental tools and techniques of traditional darkroom work used in 8x10 print production and classroom days where students present their work and through the language of photo criticism gain an understanding of photography as a medium of expression. Admitted students must obtain a manually focusing 35mm camera with adjustable f/stops and shutter speeds. No prior photography experience is required.

• Department: Visual Arts
• TR 6:15 p.m.-9:25 p.m.
• MW 6:15 p.m.-9:25 p.m.
• TR 6:15 p.m.-9:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Patrice A Helmar
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• Instructor: Jesse Wakeman
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• Instructor: Dana N Buhl
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• 3 points

MAJOR AMERICAN AUTHORS

HAWTHORNE, JAMES, CATHER

“What is he?” murmurs one gray shadow of my forefathers to the other. “A writer of story-books! What kind of a business in life,—what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his day and generation,—may that be? Why, the degenerate fellow might as well have been a fiddler! - Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Custom House” (1850) , Fiction is one of the fine arts, deserving in its turn of all the honors and emoluments that have hitherto been reserved for the successful profession of music, poetry, painting, architecture. It is impossible to insist too much on so important a truth. - Henry James, “The Art of Fiction” (1884) , In any discussion of the novel, one must make it clear whether one is talking about the novel as a form of amusement, or as a form of art. […] Amusement is one thing; enjoyment of art is another. - Willa Cather, “The Novel Démeublé” (1922) , Can fiction be an art? While we may be inclined to say “yes” today, in the nineteenth century the reputation of fiction writing – novels, tales, short stories, and sketches – was by no means so secure. Novelists were more likely to be considered entertainers or “story- tellers” than serious artists, and novels were usually thought of as frivolous at best and immoral at worst, and certainly not worthy of serious scrutiny or consideration. How did the reputation of fiction writing in America develop such that novels could be considered certifiably “artistic?”This course examines the novels, short fiction, and critical writings of three important American writers: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, and Willa Cather. While very different in very many ways, these three authors shared a belief that fiction was a serious business, and every bit as much an art as painting, poetry, sculpture, music, or other “fine” arts. They also all shared an interest in representing these various fine arts and the artists that make them in their novels and stories, often using the figure of the painter, the sculptor, the actor, or the singer in order to explore, develop, and justify their own fictional practice. In other words, this class will examine “the art of fiction” in at least two ways: both by looking at the representation of art and artists in the fiction of these three writers, and also by examining how such representations help these writers to make fiction an art in its own right. This course asks: This course asks: What ideas about the “fine arts” led to the exclusion of novels? Are there reliable criter

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Zachary J Roberts
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 3 points

THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF VIOLENCE

This course will explore contemporary anthropological approaches to the issue of violence with an exploration of three particular themes. Our main focus will be on the idea of representation, ethnographically and theoretically, of the concept of violence. First, we will look at how violence has been situated as an object of study within anthropology, as a theoretical concept as well as in practice. We will then look at the issue of terrorism and how anthropology as a discipline contributes to understanding this particular form of violence. Finally, we will consider gender-based violence with close attention to the colonial/post-colonial settings where Islam is a salient factor. Gender based violence is one of the main forces producing and reproducing gender inequality. We will pay particular attention to the concept of the "Muslim woman" in both the colonial and colonized imagination.

• Department: Anthropology
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Ellen Marakowitz
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points