CROSSING BORDERS: THE AMERICAS
This course cuts across borders between North, South and Central America and the Caribbean, in a search for the ways in which literature illuminates different aspects of American identity--especially gender, class, ecological, racial and ethnic identities. Since modernity, in the sense of freedom from tradition, first developed in the Americas, the literatures of the Americas involve diversity and innovation from their beginning. After examining the roots of Modernism in North and South America at the end of the 19th century, we will look at the development of modernism, post-modernism and post-colonialism in the 20th and early 21st centuries through the study of key novels, short stories, and poetry from North and South America and the Caribbean, including works by Martí, Lorde, Anzaldúa, DuBois, Hurston, Hughes, Eliot, Neruda, Césaire, García Márquez, Borges, Cortázar, Valenzuela, Kincaid, Danticat, Lahiri and Valeria Luiselli. Considering these works in their historical, political and aesthetic contexts helps us to grapple with the multiple formations of American identities.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Linn C Mehta
CULPA: 18
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- 3 points
COMPREHENSIVE BEG CATALAN
An extensive introduction to the Catalan language with an emphasis on oral communication as well as the reading and writing practice that will allow the student to function comfortably in a Catalan environment.
- Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
- TR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Elsa Ubeda
CULPA: 10
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- 4 points
INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY GREEK
Covers all of Greek grammar and syntax in one term. Prepares the student to enter second-year Greek (GREK UN2101 or GREK UN2102).
- Department: Classics
- MWF 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Hanna Golab
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MASTERPIECES OF WESTERN ART
Discussion and analysis of the artistic qualities and significance of selected works of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Parthenon in Athens to works of the 20th century.
- Department: Core (A&S)
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Kutay Sen
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Laura Tibi
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Kent M Minturn
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Valerie J Zinner
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INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY ITALIAN
An intensive course that covers two semesters of elementary Italian in one, and prepares students to move into Intermediate Italian. Students will develop their Italian communicative competence through listening, (interactive) speaking, reading and (interactive) writing. The Italian language will be used for real-world purposes and in meaningful contexts to promote intercultural understanding. This course is especially recommended for students who already know another Romance language. May be used toward fulfillment of the language requirement.
- Department: Italian
- TRF 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Barbara Spinelli
CULPA: 9
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- 6 points
INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY LATIN
Equivalent to Latin 1101 and 1102. Covers all of Latin grammar and syntax in one term to prepare the student to enter Latin 1201 or 1202. This is an intensive course with substantial preparation time outside of class.
- Department: Classics
- TR 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nicholas Koudounis
Info - 4 points
Music Humanities
Analysis and discussion of representative works from the Middle Ages to the present.
- Department: Core (A&S)
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Amanda L Morrill
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Velia Ivanova
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Nandini R Banerjee-Datta
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Walter M Frisch
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Nandini R Banerjee-Datta
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Knar Abrahamyan
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Christopher J Washburne
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Joshua Navon
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Hannah S Kendall
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Marilyn McCoy
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David A Farrow
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Diana M Rodriguez
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HAUNTED AMERICAS
In this course, we will encounter ghosts and hauntings in literature from the Americas, primarily from Latin American and Caribbean writers. These ghosts expose something hidden in the past and pull dark secrets into the light. We will think about haunting not just as a supernatural experience, but as a mechanism that reveals layers of history and unearths long buried injustices. A few of the characters we will meet are: A Cuban exile living in Miami who is haunted by the life he left behind; a teenager in Argentina who explores her queer identity and confronts the ghosts of the state violence; a General accused of genocide who defends his innocence, though the ghosts in his home say otherwise. The ghosts in these stories force the characters to reckon with, or fall prey to, legacies of colonialism, war, and migration. Readings include literary works by Mariana Enriquez, Edwidge Danticat, Carlos Fuentes, Jean Rhys, Ana Menéndez, and others.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Francesca E Austin Ochoa
Info - 3 points
READING THE FUTURE
How do we think about the future? Why do we develop the hopes and fears that we do? How do present conditions and discourses inform, influence, or limit our senses of personal and political possibility? In this section of First-Year Writing, we will explore conceptions of the future in 19th through 21st-century literary fiction. We will begin by close reading 20th-century short stories that evoke hopes and fears for the future on individual, social, and global scales. We will then turn to H.G. Wells’ classic novella
The Time Machine
and place its portrayal of the future in the context of late Victorian science and socioeconomics. Finally, we will consider how contemporary literature reflects and responds to the accelerating climate crisis, and explore fiction’s role in helping us apprehend the potential for radical environmental disruption.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michael Shelichach
Info - 3 points
MUSIC IN NARRATIVE
Clothing is a part of everyone’s daily life, and what one wears is often considered to be an expression of individuality. Yet, while a wardrobe may involve deeply personal choices, the textiles available to us and the styles we gravitate toward can also reflect our historical moment. Like other art forms, fashion is political, and its materials—textiles—have historically been at the heart of global trade. In this course, we will ask: what can literature show us about cultural and political histories of fashion trends and the textile industry? Just as importantly, how can understanding historical context for the textiles, needlecrafts, and garments that appear in the pages of a story offer insights into character, setting, and theme? As a class, we will consider some of the ways fashion and the global circulation of textile goods have been bound up in relationships between nations and empires as well as relationships between individuals, society, and the environment. Readings are subject to change but may include fiction by Virginia Woolf, Ntozake Shange, Elizabeth Gaskell, Oscar Wilde, Jane Austen, and Elizabeth Inchbald. Other readings will draw upon fashion theory and scholarship on textile history by scholars such as Lisa Lowe, Hilary Davidson, Monica Miller, Suchitra Choudhury, Amber Butchart, and others. We will also consider costuming as a part of worldbuilding and character development in film and television examples such as
Bridgerton
, and we will put our discussions of historical text(ile)s into conversation with recent work in fashion activism.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth Weybright
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SPECULATING THE PAST
Recent works as diverse as The New York Times’s
Overlooked Project
and Netflix’s
Bridgerton
raise questions about what records we keep, how we narrate history, and the factors that determine what stories we can tell. In this class, we will probe these questions by reading literary works that turn to a speculative mode to make sense of history, past and present. As we enter the critical conversation about the historical record, we will explore how authority and value are assigned to different texts and accounts. In so doing, we will also develop our ability to read texts' and documents' own theorizations of truth and fact. Readings may include work by Virginia Woolf, Marlene NourbeSe Philip, Carmen Maria Machado, Adrienne Rich, and N.K. Jemisin alongside critical texts by Saidiya Hartman, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, and others. Course costs will not exceed $15.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sarah Schwartz
Info - 3 points
CONTESTED TRUTHS: MEMORY, AUTHORITY AND
This class examines the ways that a historical event can be remembered and described differently by direct participants, and how personal biases, such as race, gender and class, affect the process of recollection and narration. Some of the texts that will be read and discussed include Sara Collins’
The Confessions of Frannie Langton
, Ian McEwan’s
Atonement
, and Alison Bechdel's
Fun Home
, among others. Our analysis of these texts will be augmented by theoretical works drawn from sociology and literary studies.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Benjamin M Breyer
CULPA: 13
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BALLET I
This course is designed for the absolute beginner or the student returning to ballet class after a lengthy hiatus and is intended to familiarize the student with the classical ballet terminology, to foster independence in this particular vocabulary, to introduce the historical context of the Western art form and conventions of a ballet class. Learning the physical practice of this centuries-old craft will give the student basic classical ballet terminology as well as gaining an anatomical understanding of the body.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- TR 9 a.m.-10 a.m.
- F 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
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Vincent McCloskey
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Marjorie Folkman
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Vincent McCloskey
CULPA: 2 Info - 2 points
TO UPEND A WORLD: ABOLITIONIST POETICS
In our class we will discuss abolition as a name for a set of imaginings that call for complete and total eradication of systems ("Worlds") that perpetuate collective harms. We will think about how capitalism, colonialism, and white supremacy limit our imaginations, and how we can think in ways that remake our world. Students will read essays by Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Pheng Cheah, Denise F. DaSilva, Edouard Glissant, and Christina Sharpe, and will trouble received readings of significant literary texts through abolitionist lenses to discern a range of liberatory strategies in the poetry, literary nonfiction, and fiction of writers including Audre Lorde, W.E.B. DuBois, James Baldwin, Lucille Clifton, M Nourbese Philip, Robin Coste Lewis, Etheridge Knight, Randall Horton, dg nanouk okpik, and Jackie Wang. As a class, students will discuss and consider these writers’, as well as their own, interventions in the context of literature's world-making power. (*Readings subject to change).
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Joey de Jesus
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THE TEENAGE STRANGE
Teenagers inhabit a strange land: in exile from childhood, still immigrating to adulthood. How have different writers mapped the liminal territory of the teenage experience? In this class, we will step away from the rich tradition of realistic Coming-of-Age narratives and explore how genre frameworks—including speculative, horror, fairy tale, gothic, and quest traditions—have been used to illuminate the Teenage Strange. How have writers used the strangeness of genre to render this slice of time? How does genre capture the teenage intersection between public and private inquiry—between larger questions about the world, and more private questions about the self? How does genre construct questions about fear, desire, rage, shame, power, culture, and love? How does it deconstruct reality so it can be seen, investigated, and felt? Readings may include work by Octavia Butler, A.S. King, Angela Carter, Carmen Maria Machado, Shirley Jackson, Joan He, Francesca Lia Block, Kelly Link, Viktor Shklovsky, Ursula K. LeGuin, Akwaeke Emezi, and others.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Emily K Austin
Info - 3 points
BALLET II
This course is designed for the student with prior beginning ballet study, knowledge of the basic ballet vocabulary and the ability to process a combination with relative proficiency. During this semester you will be introduced to an expanded vocabulary, with focused attention will increase your technical ability, work with dynamics and speed, may work with a partner to analyze a movement combination or may be asked to produce and present a combination in class.
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- F 1 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
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Kate A Glasner
CULPA: 31
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Juan Rodriguez
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LETTERS
Dear student: I write to you, who now read these words. Or, perhaps, I don’t: perhaps I never had you in mind at all; perhaps you are just someone passing by, who has taken these words as though meant for yourself. This course examines how writers have made use of the privacy of letters in their public writing. What happens when we address our written words to a particular other? How, on the other hand, do we read words meant for someone else? What intimacies does the letter form make possible, or violate? And what might the special case of the letter have to tell us about writing in general? Objects in the course may include: fiction by Goethe, DeWitt, Diderot, Poe, West; epistolary poems by Ovid, Dickinson, Rankine, Shockley; paintings of letter-reading by Vermeer and Greuze; letter-memoirs by Baldwin and Vuong; criticism and theory by Althusser, Barthes, Benveniste, Fried, Howe, Jackson, Reed.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Andrew L Lynn
CULPA: 17
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- 3 points