A Cultural History of the Soviet Century

Culture of the USSR

In the English-language literature, the history of the Soviet Union is often dominated by the Cold War. As a result, events central to the lives of Soviet citizens are viewed within a wider geopolitical context that often overlooks regional and ethnic specificity. Cultural products from music, film, dance, and literature provide insight into individual and collective responses to traumatic events. In this course, students study the history of the USSR through the lens of memory and trauma studies by analyzing cultural artifacts as a form of testimony and social history. This course engages with varied cultural products chronologically from the formation of the Union and Revolution through Soviet collapse and the kleptocratic rise of Putin. Materials include poetry and prose by Solzhenitsyn, Mandelstam, and Akhmatova, music by Shostakovich, Prokofiev, and Vysotski, primary sources and speeches, and historical analyses by Kotkin, Snyder, and Fitzpatrick. To present a de-Russified view of the USSR, materials also include those produced by marginalized Soviet populations like Indigenous and Eveny scholars, Holocaust and GULAG survivors, and veterans.

• Department: History
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexandra Birch
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• 4 points

Issues Facing the Water Industry

Principles and practice of water treatment and utility management will be presented.  Project-based class where students will work in teams to solve an issue for a water utility.  Variety of external experts will lecture and serve as a resource for students for the project.  Allows students to better understand the role of the water utility in providing safe drinking water in a sustainable manner. Students will become familiar with the challenges facing water utilities, gain knowledge in the design and operation of water treatment systems, and learn how to develop solutions to water supply and water quality issues which will allow them to pursue productive careers in the consulting, utility, or regulatory fields.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: William Becker
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• 3 points

CORPORATE FINANCE

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and STAT UN1201 An introduction to the economics principles underlying the financial decisions of firms. The topics covered include bond and stock valuations, capital budgeting, dividend policy, market efficiency, risk valuation, and risk management. For information regarding REGISTRATION for this course, go to: http://econ.columbia.edu/registration-information.

• Department: Economics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Haran Segram
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• Instructor: Tri Vi Dang
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 10 Info
• 3 points

CORE KNOWLEDGE

Prerequisites: For undergraduates: courses in introductory psychology, cognitive or developmental psychology, and the instructors permission. Core Knowledge explores the origins and development of knowledge in infants and children, with an additional emphasis on evolutionary cognition. In this course, we will examine evidence from cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, comparative psychology, neuroscience, and linguistics to look at the childs conception of objects, number, space, language, agency, morality and the social world. We will look at which aspects of knowledge are uniquely human, which are shared with other animals, and how this knowledge changes as children develop.

• Department: Psychology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Koleen McCrink
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 17 Info
• 4 points

The Psychology of Curiosity

PSYCH OF CURIOSITY

Prerequisites: PSYC UN1001 or equivalent introductory psychology course What is curiosity and how do we study it? How does curiosity facilitate learning? This course will explore the various conceptual and methodological approaches to studying curiosity and curiosity-driven learning, including animal and human studies of brain and behavior.

• Department: Psychology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Janet Metcalfe
  CULPA: 31 h-index: 70 Info
• 4 points

Anthropology of the Sister

Classical anthropological theory placed the muted sister at its core, in a theory of kinship originating in the traffic of women among men. Political theory placed the invisible sister at its core by coding democracy as fraternity. Psychoanalytic theory placed the forbidden sister at its core with the theory of incest taboo. Tragic theory placed the self-effacing sister at its core in the Sophoclean figures of Antigone and Ismene. Popular (Hollywood) cinematic production placed the absent sister at its core, with its relentless circulation of narratives in which a ‘band of brothers’ finds its moral purpose in the rescue of someone else’s sister. And yet, and within these traditions, the sister arose in the interstices as a phantasmatic figure of extraterritorial and insurrectionary possibility. If feminisms have, on occasion, attempted to both mobilize and contain this possibility in a discourse of sisterhood, much more remains to be thought. This course explores the figure of the sister in its muted, invisible, forbidden, self-effacing and absented forms—and moves to consider the radical possibilities that emerged therefrom in Social and Political Theory, Literary Fiction, Drama and Cinema.

• Department: Anthropology
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Rosalind Morris
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

BIOLOGICAL MICROSCOPY

Prerequisites: (biol un2005 or biol un2401) or BIOL UN2005 or BIOL UN2401 or equivalent This is an advanced microscopy course aimed at graduates and advanced undergraduate students, who are interested in learning about the foundational principles of microscopy approaches and their applications in life sciences. The course will introduce the fundamentals of optics, light-matter interaction and in-depth view of most commonly used advanced microscopy methods, explore important practical imaging parameters, and also introduce digital images and their analysis.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Raju Tomer
  h-index: 23 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED DATA ANALYSIS

Prerequisites: STAT GU4205 and at least one statistics course numbered between GU4221 and GU4261. This is a course on getting the most out of data. The emphasis will be on hands-on experience, involving case studies with real data and using common statistical packages. The course covers, at a very high level, exploratory data analysis, model formulation, goodness of fit testing, and other standard and non-standard statistical procedures, including linear regression, analysis of variance, nonlinear regression, generalized linear models, survival analysis, time series analysis, and modern regression methods. Students will be expected to propose a data set of their choice for use as case study material.

• Department: Statistics
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Gabriel Young
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

COMPUT MATH:INTRO-NUMERCL METH

Programming experience in Python extremely useful. Introduction to fundamental algorithms and analysis of numerical methods commonly used by scientists, mathematicians and engineers. Designed to give a fundamental understanding of the building blocks of scientific computing that will be used in more advanced courses in scientific computing and numerical methods for PDEs (e.g. APMA E4301, E4302). Topics include numerical solutions of algebraic systems, linear least-squares, eigenvalue problems, solution of non-linear systems, optimization, interpolation, numerical integration and differentiation, initial value problems and boundary value problems for systems of ODEs. All programming exercises will be in Python.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Kui Ren
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

The Just City: Global Debates in Urban P

THE JUST CITY

Urbanization is inherently unequal, inscribing social, economic, environmental, and political unevenness into the spatial fabric of the city. But the distribution of such inequality is not inevitable. Urbanization is a product of the collective decisions we make (or choose not to make) in response to the shared challenges we face in our cities. And, thus, the patterns of urbanization can be changed. This is the task of urban planning and the starting point for this advanced seminar, which asks how we can reshape our cities to be more just—to alleviate inequality rather than compound it. In embarking on this effort, we face numerous “wicked” problems without clear-cut solutions. The approaches one takes in addressing urban inequality are therefore fundamentally normative—they are shaped by one’s place in the world and one’s view of it. The central challenge in addressing inequality is thus establishing a basis for collective action amongst diverse actors with differing—and sometimes conflicting—values and views. In other words, planning the just city a matter of both empathy and debate. In this course, we will endeavor to develop informed positions that can help us engage with others as a basis for taking collective action.

The course is organized into four 3-week modules, each of which addresses a dimension of the just city: equity, democracy, diversity, and sustainability. In the first week of each module, we will discuss how the issue has been understood in history and theory (with an emphasis on tradeoffs between different priorities and values); in the second week, we will apply this discussion to a global case study prepared and presented by a team of students; and in the third week, we will hold an in-class debate to determine what should be done. Specific case studies vary each year.

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Nick R Smith
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• 4 points

NUMERICAL METHODS/PDE'S

Numerical solution of differential equations, in particular partial differential equations arising in various fields of application. Presentation emphasizes finite difference approaches to present theory on stability, accuracy, and convergence with minimal coverage of alternate approaches (left for other courses). Method coverage includes explicit and implicit time-stepping methods, direct and iterative solvers for boundary-value problems.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Pierre Amenoagbadji
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• 3 points

INTRO TO CLASSICAL CHINESE II

Prerequisites: CHNS W3301: Classical Chinese I; completion of three years of modern Chinese at least, or four years of Japanese or Korean. Please see department. Prerequisites: CHNS W3301: Classical Chinese I; completion of three years of modern Chinese at least, or four years of Japanese or Korean.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MWF 11 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Lening Liu
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 3 points

CARBON CAPTURE

Major technologies to store carbon dioxide, geological, ocean, and in the carbon chemical pool. Carbon dioxide transport technologies also covered. In addition to basic science and engineering challenges of each technology, full spectrum of economic, environmental, regulatory, and political/policy aspects, and their implication for regional and global carbon management strategies of the future. Combination of lectures, class debates and breakout groups, student presentations, and independent final projects.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Xiaoyang Shi
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• 3 points

ADVANCED THERMODYNAMICS

Advanced classical thermodynamics. Availability, irreversibility, generalized behavior, equations of state for nonideal gases, mixtures and solutions, phase and chemical behavior, combustion. Thermodynamic properties of ideal gases. Applications to automotive and aircraft engines, refrigeration and air conditioning, and biological systems.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Arvind Narayanaswamy
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 26 Info
• 3 points

TURBOMACHINERY

Introduces the basics of theory, design, selection and applications of turbomachinery. Turbomachines are widely used in many engineering applications such as energy conversion, power plants, air-conditioning, pumping, refrigeration and vehicle engines, as there are pumps, blowers, compressors, gas turbines, jet engines, wind turbines, etc. Applications are drawn from energy conversion technologies, HVAC and propulsion. Provides a basic understanding of the different kinds of turbomachines.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• S noon-2:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Sean Nolan
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• 3 points

SEMINAR IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Prerequisites: BIOL W4300 or the instructors permission. A weekly seminar and discussion course focusing on the most recent development in biotechnology. Professionals of the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and related industries will be invited to present and lead discussions.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Lili Yamasaki
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

CO2 UTILIZATION AND CONVERSION

Introduction to various CO2 utilization and conversion technologies that can reduce the overall  carbon footprint of commodity chemicals and materials. Fundamentals of thermodynamics, fluid  mechanics, reaction kinetics, catalysis and reactor design will be discussed using technological  examples such as enhanced oil recovery, shale fracking, photo and electrochemical conversion of  CO2 to chemical and fuels, and formation of solid carbonates and their various uses. Life cycle  analyses of potential products and utilization schemes will also be discussed, as well as the use of  renewable energy for CO2 conversion.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Farrauto
  h-index: 52 Info
• 3 points

CO2 UTILIZATION AND CONVERSION

Introduction to various CO2 utilization and conversion technologies that can reduce the overall  carbon footprint of commodity chemicals and materials. Fundamentals of thermodynamics, fluid  mechanics, reaction kinetics, catalysis and reactor design will be discussed using technological  examples such as enhanced oil recovery, shale fracking, photo and electrochemical conversion of  CO2 to chemical and fuels, and formation of solid carbonates and their various uses. Life cycle  analyses of potential products and utilization schemes will also be discussed, as well as the use of  renewable energy for CO2 conversion.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Robert Farrauto
  h-index: 52 Info
• 3 points

Applied Stochastic Analysis

Provides elementary introduction to fundamental ideas in stochastic analysis for applied mathematics. Core material includes: (i) review of probability theory (including limit theorems), and introduction to discrete Markov chains and Monte Carlo methods; (ii) elementary theory of stochastic process, Ito's stochastic calculus and stochastic differential equations; (iii) introductions to probabilistic representation of elliptic partial differential equations (the Fokker-Planck equation theory); (iv) stochastic approximation algorithms; and (v) asymptotic analysis of SDEs.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Shanyin Tong
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• 3 points

INTRO TO AERODYNAMICS

Principles of flight, incompressible flows, compressible regimes. Inviscid compressible aerodynamics in nozzles (wind tunnels, jet engines), around wings (aircraft, space shuttle) and around blunt bodies (rockets, reentry vehicles). Physics of normal shock waves, oblique shock waves, and explosion waves.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• S 3 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter A Levoci
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• 3 points

BUDDHISM & DAOISM IN CHINA

In recent decades, the study of the so-called “Buddho-Daoism” has become a burgeoning field that breaks down the traditional boundary lines drawn between the two Chinese religious traditions. In this course we will read secondary scholarship in English that probes the complex relationships between Buddhism and Daoism in the past two millennia. Students are required not only to be aware of the tensions and complementarity between them, but to be alert to the nature of claims to either religious purity or mixing and the ways those claims were put forward under specific religio-historical circumstances. The course is organized thematically rather than chronologically. We will address topics on terminology, doctrine, cosmology, eschatology, soteriology, exorcism, scriptural productions, ritual performance, miracle tales and visual representations that arose in the interactions of the two religions, with particular attention paid to critiquing terms such as “influence,”  “encounter,” “dialogue,” “hybridity,” “syncretism,” and “repertoire.” The course is designed for both advanced undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of East Asian religion, literature, history, art history, sociology and anthropology. One course on Buddhism or Chinese religious traditions is recommended, but not required, as background.

• Department: Religion
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Zhaohua Yang
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• 4 points

DISABILITY AND ARCHITECTURE

This course explores the manifold relationships between architecture and disability. We will discuss how architecture mediates different bodily experiences and relationships and negotiates social norms and forms of assembly that intervene in shaping shifting understandings and performances of impairment, assistance, access, rehabilitation, and oppression that have historically framed disability.  We will explore disability as a culture, an episteme, and a politics, often negotiated by architecture.

 

We will assess the disabling effects of the built environment as well as architectural projects and designs defined to normalize, segregate, or eradicate disability. We will also study environments, artifacts, and infrastructures that have allowed disabled individuals and communities to thrive, often against expectations of integration in normative life frameworks. We will additionally explore how disability contributes to framing architecture differently and opens up space for new aesthetic experiences, different cultures of making, and diverse politics of the built environment. We will discuss how it challenges normalizing understandings of space and form, functionalist paradigms in architecture, and modern and contemporary interpretations of nature, the city, and society.  We will discuss the ideologies enacted by different projects shaping the life of disabled individuals, including their own designs and interventions in the built environment.

 

These explorations are organized thematically, with sessions engaging design and disability scholarship and providing students with a robust introduction to disability studies. In dialogue with this field, students will explore how design and architecture have operated in relation to medical, social, environmental, cultural, and political paradigms of disability. They will discuss the role that built environments play in the agendas of the disability rights and disability justice movements. Sessions engage both historical and theoretical questions.

 

Three assignments will allow students to explore the intersections of the built environment and disability in a diversity of formats. Advanced students will have the opportunity to write a research paper.

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Ignacio Gonzalez Galan
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• 4 points

VIROLOGY

The basic thesis of the course is that all viruses adopt a common strategy. The strategy is simple:

1. Viral genomes are contained in metastable particles.

2. Genomes encode gene products that promote an infectious cycle (mechanisms for genomes to enter cells, replicate, and exit in particles).

3. Infection patterns range from benign to lethal; infections can overcome or co-exist with host defenses.

Despite the apparent simplicity, the tactics evolved by particular virus families to survive and prosper are remarkable. This rich set of solutions to common problems in host/parasite interactions provides significant insight and powerful research tools. Virology has enabled a more detailed understanding of the structure and function of molecules, cells and organisms and has provided fundamental understanding of disease and virus evolution.

The course will emphasize the common reactions that must be completed by all viruses for successful reproduction within a host cell and survival and spread within a host population. The molecular basis of alternative reproductive cycles, the interactions of viruses with host organisms, and how these lead to disease are presented with examples drawn from a set of representative animal and human viruses, although selected bacterial viruses will be discussed.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Vincent R Racaniello
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

PRAC-INNOVATV SUSTAIN LEADRSHP

This course deals with a fundamental question of sustainability management: how to change organizations and more complex systems, such as communities, industries, and markets, by integrating sustainability concerns in the way that they operate. The course poses this question to a dozen leading sustainability practitioners, who answer it by discussing management strategies that they use in their own work. Through these guest lectures, extensive class discussion, readings, and writing assignments, students identify and simulate applying practical ways for transforming how organizations and complex systems work. The practitioners, who work in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors and in a wide variety of organizations, make presentations in the first hour of the course. Students then have time to ask questions and speak informally with the guest practitioners, and will participate in an instructor-led class discussion, geared toward identifying management strategies, better understanding their application, and considering their effectiveness. By the end of the course, the students gain an understanding of management tools and strategies that they, themselves, would use to integrate sustainability in organizations.

The course complements the M.S. in Sustainability Management program’s required course, Sustainability Management (SUMA K4100). In that course, students study management and organization theory. In the Practicum, students learn directly from leading practitioners, who confront sustainability management issues daily.

• Department: Sustainability Management
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 1-3 points

DOCUMENTARY POETICS

This seminar examines poetry’s relationship to documentation, acts of witness, and the archive. What labor and what ethical, political, and aesthetic considerations are required of poets who endeavor to witness, record, or document historical events or moments of trauma? How is this approach to poetry informed by or contributing to feminist theories, aesthetic innovation, and revisionist approaches to official histories?  Course materials include: 1) essays that explore the poetics and politics of "poetry of witness" or "documentary poetry"; 2) a range of contemporary American poetry that has been classified as or has productively challenged these categories; 3) and audio, video, and photographic projects on which poets have collaborated.  Our encounters with this work will be guided by and grounded in conversations about ideas of "truth," "text," the power relations of "documentation," and issues of language and representation in poetry.  We will also critically examine the formal (rhyme, rhythm, diction, form, genre, point of view, imagery, etc.) and philosophical components and interventions of the work we study and create.

• Department: Writing
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Deborah Paredez
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Radical Film and Media

This course examines a wide range of radical film and media practices from around the globe. Looking at fiction, nonfiction, and experimental works, we will examine key concepts used to define the political purposes of cinema from historical and theoretical perspectives. What do we mean when we talk about “guerrilla,” “militant,” or “third cinema” film and media practices? How have these concepts been mobilized at different historical periods and for which purpose? What is their relationship to the anticolonial struggles and other social movements?

• Department: Film
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Elizabeth Ramirez Soto
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• 3 points

FEMINISM & SCIENCE STUDIES

Prerequisites: Feminist Theory or permission of instructor. Investigates socially and historically informed critiques of theoretical methods and practices of the sciences. It asks if/how feminist theoretical and political concerns make a critical contribution to science studies.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Rebecca Jordan-Young
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• 4 points

STORYTELLING THROUGH DESIGN

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Hilary M Sample-Meredith
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• 3 points

Decarbonizing Buildings Studio: Energy s

Building Energy Systems S

Historical co-evolution of building energy systems and fuels. Classifying existing buildings into typologies that are a prevalent combination of building size, age, fuels, equipment, distribution, and zoning controls. Fuels, electricity, furnaces, boilers, heat pumps. Overview of common heat
and hot water distribution systems. Case-study based approach to evaluate retrofit options for each typology. Considerations of location, stagingupgrades, envelope efficiency, retrofit cost structure, paybacks with a view towards decarbonization.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Marc Zuluaga
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• 3 points

COMMUNICATION CIRCUITS

Principles of electronic circuits used in the generation, transmission, and reception of signal waveforms, as used in analog and digital communication systems. Nonlinearity and distortion; power amplifiers; tuned amplifiers; oscillators; multipliers and mixers; modulators and demodulators; phase-locked loops. An extensive design project is an integral part of the course.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Emily Naviasky
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• 3 points

REAL ESTATE FINANCE III

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 7:15 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher W Munsell
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• 3 points

UNIVERSITY + CITY: THE COLUMBIA CAMPUS A

UNI + CITY: THE COL CAMPU

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Reinhold Martin
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• 3 points

TOPOGRAPHIC MODERNISM

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Lucia Allais
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• 3 points

CLIMATE JUSTICE + DIGITAL REENACTMENTS

CLIM JUSTICE + DIG REENAC

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Catherine Griffiths
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• 3 points

MULTI GRAPHICS & REPRESENTATION

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Wael Morcos
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• 3 points

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF JAPAN

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 The growth and structural changes of the post-World War II economy; its historical roots; interactions with cultural, social, and political institutions; economic relations with the rest of the world.

• Department: Economics
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: David Weinstein
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 42 Info
• 3 points

Plants, Animals and Personhood

PLANTS, ANIMALS & PERSONH

This course is intended to be an opportunity to review the relation between the word “person” and plants and animals, with whom humans abide in a biosphere with no natural boundaries or territories.  While personhood is a recognition of human capability and agency, we have not taken many steps in the direction of recognizing the capability and agency of plants and animals.  Moreover, it is clear that we have diminished many of their functions and even annihilated many of their entire populations.  Nonetheless, there is movement to change this. In our course, three major features of personhood are explored: standing, rights and identity.  Each of these three features are divided into two types:  legal and spiritual standing, juridical and birth rights, and empirical and narrative identities.  Animals and plants are discussed in the context of each of the six types; and are discussed in that order (animals first and plants second) because the movement to change the existing conditions has been more active in relation to animals than to plants.  The growing tendency to blend both plant personhood and animal personhood into environmental or Nature personhood will also be explored.  The overall aim is to help reverse the deleterious conditions generated by the Anthropocene, in which we, and the plants and animals, struggle to live.

• Department: Earth Institute
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Adela J Gondek
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

EMBODIMENT AND BODILY DIFFERENCE

EMBODIMENT & BODILY DIFFE

At once material and symbolic, our bodies exist at the intersection of multiple competing discourses, including the juridical, the techno-scientific, and the biopolitical. In this course, we will draw upon a variety of critical interdisciplinary literatures—including feminist and queer studies, science and technology studies, and disability studies—to consider some of the ways in which the body is constituted by such discourses, and itself serves as the substratum for social relations. Among the key questions we will consider are the following: What is natural about the body? How are distinctions made between presumptively normal and pathological bodies, and between psychic and somatic experiences?  How do historical and political-economic forces shape the perception and meaning of bodily difference? And most crucially: how do bodies that are multiply constituted by competing logics of gender, race, nation, and ability offer up resistance to these and other categorizations?

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• F 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Margot L Kotler
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• 4 points

WASTE/WORKS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Amelyn Ng
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• 3 points

Texts, Paintings, and Images of Korean R

Texts & Images Korean Rel

The course explores the doctrines, practices, and rituals of Korean religions through iconic texts, paintings, and images. The texts, paintings, and images that the course covers include ghost stories, doctrinal exegeses and charts, missionary letters, polemical and apologetic writings, catechism, folklores, and ritual paintings.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Seong-Uk Kim
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• 3 points

REAL ESTATE FINANCE III TUTORIAL

RE FINANCE III TUTORIAL

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 7 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Mary E Finley
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• 0 points

ADVANCED CHEMICAL KINETICS

Complex reactive systems. Catalysis. Heterogeneous systems, with an emphasis on coupled chemical kinetics and transport phenomena. Reactions at interfaces (surfaces, aerosols, bubbles). Reactions in solution.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Juliana Silva Alves Carneiro
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• 3 points

SWANA Diasporas: Culture, Politics and I

In this class we will study South-West Asian and North African (SWANA) diasporic populations, social movements and cultural production that have responded to the multi-faceted ramifications of the 21st century war on terror. We will focus on diverse Arab, Iranian, and Afghan diasporas in the United States, where 19th and 20th century legacies of racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia and Orientalism combined in new ways to target these groups after the September 11th, 2001 attacks. Drawing on an interdisciplinary array of texts, including ethnography, fiction, feminist and queer theory, social movement theory, and visual and performance art, we will look at how the “war on terror” has shaped the subjectivities and self-representation of SWANA communities. Crucially, we will examine the gender and sexual politics of Islamophobia and racism and study how scholars, activists and artists have sought to intervene in dominant narratives of deviance, threat, and backwardness attributed to Muslim and other SWANA populations. This course takes up the politics of naming, situating the formation of “SWANA” as part of an anti-colonial genealogy that rejects imperial geographies such as “Middle East.” We will ask how new geographies and affiliations come into being in the context of open-ended war, and what new political identities and forms of cultural production then become possible.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Manijeh Moradian
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• 4 points

ADV BOSNIAN/CROATIAN/SERBIAN

Prerequisites: BCRS UN2102 Further develops skills in speaking, reading, and writing, using essays, short stories, films, and fragments of larger works. Reinforces basic grammar and introduces more complete structures.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Aleksandar Boskovic
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

MODERN AM ARCHITECTURE

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Jonah Rowen
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• 3 points

READINGS IN CZECH LITERATURE II

Prerequisites: two years of college Czech or the equivalent. A close study in the original of representative works of Czech literature. Discussion and writing assignments in Czech aimed at developing advanced language proficiency.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Christopher W Harwood
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

CHTENIIA PO RUSSKOI LITERATURE

CHTENIIA PO RUSS:Voina i mir

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Irina Reyfman
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

Visionary Medicine: Racial Justice, Heal

VSNRY MED:RCL,JSTC,HLTH&S

In Fall 2014, medical students across the U.S. staged die-ins as part of the nationwide #blacklivesmatter protests. The intention was to create a shocking visual spectacle, laying on the line “white coats for black lives.” The images were all over social media: students of all colors, dressed in lab coats, lying prone against eerily clean tile floors, stethoscopes in pockets, hands and around necks. One prone student held a sign reading, “Racism is Real.” These medical students’ collective protests not only created visual spectacle, but produced a dynamic speculative fiction. What would it mean if instead of Michael Brown or Eric Garner or Freddie Gray, these other, more seemingly elite bodies were subjected to police violence? In another viral image, a group of African American male medical students from Harvard posed wearing hoodies beneath their white coats, making clear that the bodies of some future doctors could perhaps be more easily targeted for state-sanctioned brutality. “They tried to bury us,” read a sign held by one of the students, “they didn’t realize we were seeds.” Both medicine and racial justice are acts of speculation; their practices are inextricable from the practice of imagining. By imagining new cures, new discoveries and new futures for human beings in the face of illness, medicine is necessarily always committing acts of speculation. By imagining ourselves into a more racially just future, by simply imagining ourselves any sort of future in the face of racist erasure, social justice activists are similarly involved in creating speculative fictions. This course begins with the premise that racial justice is the bioethical imperative of our time. It will explore the space of science fiction as a methodology of imagining such just futures, embracing the work of Asian- and Afroturism, Cosmos Latinos and Indigenous Imaginaries. We will explore issues including Biocolonialism, Alien/nation, Transnational Labor and Reproduction, the Borderlands and Other Diasporic Spaces. This course will be seminar-style and will make central learner participation and presentation. The seminar will be inter-disciplinary, drawing from science and speculative fictions, cultural studies, gender studies, narrative medicine, disability studies, and bioethics. Ultimately, the course aims to connect the work of science and speculative fiction with on the ground action and organizing.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Sayantani T Dasgupta
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

FOURTH-YEAR RUSSIAN II

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MWF 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Tatiana Mikhailova
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• 4 points

NEANDERTHAL ALTERITIES

Using The Neanderthals partly as a metaphorical device, this course considers the anthropological, philosophical and ethical implications of sharing the world with another human species. Beginning from a solid grounding in the archaeological, biological and genetic evidence, we will reflect critically on why Neanderthals are rarely afforded the same reflexive capacities, qualities and attributes - agency- as anatomically modern humans, and why they are often regarded as lesser or nonhuman animals despite clear evidence for both sophisticated material and social engagement with the world and its resources. Readings/materials are drawn from anthropology, philosophy, ethics, gender studies, race and genetics studies, literature and film.

• Department: Anthropology
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Brian Boyd
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

Border Thinking in Modern China

Border Thinking Modern Ch

Border Thinking in Modern China examines how the ethnocultural frontiers of contemporary China were formed over the long transition from multi-ethic empire to modern nation state. Drawing on Gloria Anzaldúa notion of ‘border thinking’ or 'pensamiento fronterizo', this seminar examines how the discursive and material violence of the modern border developed out of centuries imperial conquest, colonial expansion, and mutli-ethnic alliance building along China’s northwestern and southwestern borders. Over the semester students are encouraged to foster their own understanding of ‘border thinking’ as the pursue research essays that take a borderlands approach to the study of Late Imperial to Modern Chinese history.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Riga T Shakya
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• 4 points

QUES IN ARCH HISTORY II

Developments in architectural history during the modern period. Emphasis on moments of significant change in architecture (theoretical, economic, technological, and institutional). Themes include positive versus arbitrary beauty, enlightenment urban planning, historicism, structural rationalism, the housing reform movement, iron and glass technology, changes generated by developments external or internal to architecture itself and transformations in Western architecture.

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Reinhold Martin
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• Instructor: Nader Vossoughian
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• Instructor: Sonali Dhanpal
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• 3 points

Biomechanics of Developmental Biology

BIOMECHANICS DEVELOPMENTA

Biophysical mechanisms of tissue organization

during embryonic development: conservation laws, reaction-diffusion, finite elasticity, and fluid mechanics are reviewed and applied to a broad range of topics in developmental biology, from early development to later organogenesis of the central nervous, cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, respiratory, and gastrointestinal systems. Subdivided into modules on patterning (conversion of diffusible cues into cell fates) and morphogenesis (shaping of tissues), the course will include lectures, problem sets, reading of primary literature, and a final project.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Nandan L Nerurkar
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• 3 points

CINEMA OF SUBVERSION

Russian filmmaker Andre Tarkovsky said that “the artist has no right to an idea in which he is not socially committed.” Argentine filmmaker Fernando Solanas and Spanish-born Octavio Getino postulated an alternative cinema that would spur spectators to political action. In this course we will ask the question: How do authoritarian governments influence the arts, and how do artists respond? We will study how socially committed filmmakers have subverted and redefined cinema aesthetics to challenge authoritarianism and repression. In addition, we will look at how some filmmakers respond to institutional oppression, such as poverty and corruption, even within so-called “free” societies. The focus is on contemporary filmmakers but will also include earlier classics of world cinema to provide historical perspective. The course will discuss these topics, among others: What is authoritarianism, what is totalitarianism, and what are the tools of repression within authoritarian/totalitarian societies? What is Third Cinema, and how does it represent and challenge authoritarianism? How does film navigate the opposition of censorship, propaganda and truth? How do filmmakers respond to repressive laws concerning gender and sexual orientation? How do they deal with violence and trauma? How are memories of repressive regimes reflected in the psyche of modern cinema? And finally, what do we learn about authority, artistic vision, and about ourselves when we watch these films?

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Eric Gamalinda
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Women's Documentary Across the Globe

Women's Docum Across the

Documentary cinema has been traditionally more welcoming to women directors than more commercialized, and thus more heavily policed, fiction film. Women, in turn, were able to create more freely within this cinematic mode, bringing underrepresented perspectives to the fore and advocating for those even more disempowered than themselves. This course focuses on the contributions directors self-identifying as women were able to make to the domain of documentary around the world. It is divided into two modules and follows a loosely chronological structure. Module I, which begins with the birth of documentary cinema in the mid-1920s, reconceptualizes the history of this mode by demonstrating how women directors have been key to its development. In this module, we examine the work of directors such as Esfir Shub, Ruby Grierson, Leni Riefenstahl, Sara Gomèz, Joyce Chopra, Agnès Varda, and Margot Benacerraf. Module II then takes us into the contemporary moment — the first decades of the 2000s, when digital technology prompted a previously unseen expansion of the documentary film mode. We will explore lesser known, yet no less remarkable, works by women documentarians from Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. During both modules, we will actively engage with the rhetorical and aesthetic strategies these filmmakers used to engage with topics of gender, sexuality, family, childbirth, and the objectification of the female body. A framing question for our discussions will be: How were women documentary filmmakers able to either work with, or push back against, gender ideologies to assert their own creativity and unique visions?

• Department: Film
• M 9:10 a.m.-11:40 a.m.
• Instructor: Anastasia Kostina
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• 3 points

RACIAL HISTORIES OF EUROPE (15th- 21st C

After being somewhat eclipsed after World War II, race has reemerged as a central preoccupation in Western European politics, making it more important than ever to understand how the concept and practices have developed and how they have shaped the history of Europe.

In this class, we will focus on historiographical debates about race, including how and when it emerged as an ideology and how it has permeated the history of modern Europe.  We will emphasize the histories of Spain, France, Britain and Germany. We will focus on a set of connected debates, starting with the relationship between race and modernity. Was race a product of internal European dynamics in the late middle-ages related to the status of Christians of Jewish and Muslim origin or of social relations in the Americas following the conquest and the Atlantic slave trade? How much does the history of race share with the history of capitalism and imperialism? What was the role of scientific and artistic representations in the production of race? How was race connected to class, gender and sex? How and when did it become a central dimension of historical narratives and especially of how Europeans told their history? How shall we understand the relationship between antisemitism and other forms of racism in the
longue durée
history of Europe? How have historians analyzed the role of racism in the final solution and, conversely, how has race been transformed after the holocaust and into the present?

• Department: History
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Emmanuelle Saada
  CULPA: 13 Info
• 4 points

Critical Cartographies

“Los cuatro puntos cardinales son tres: el norte y el sur,” the Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro
wrote with sharp humor in Altazor o el viaje en paracaídas (Altazor or the Voyage in a
Parachute): “The four cardinal points are three: North and South.” The North/South division is
not the only marker of spatial, geopolitical, economic, or ideological inequalities; several other
divides compete with it as the axis around which our global order is structured: West/the rest,
center/periphery, urban/rural, public/private, land/sea, common/enclosed, developed/developing,
colonial/postcolonial, without forgetting the old ideological divisions of First, Second, Third, and
Fourth Worlds. In response to such spatial divides, this course will explore a range of critical
attempts in art, literature, the social sciences and the theoretical humanities to map out the
unequal organization of the current world order. Studying concepts of so-called “primitive” or
“originary” accumulation, land appropriation, dispossession, uneven development, real
abstraction, and neo-extractivism with a particular focus on Latin America, we will circle back to
the question of how to imagine a cartography that might be critical of the current hegemonies
without increasing the worldwide zones of invisibility and inequality that sustain them.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• T 4:30 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Bruno Bosteels
  Wikipedia h-index: 21 Info
• 3 points

Mathematical Tools for Theoretical Neuro

Math Tools for Theoretica

An introduction to mathematical concepts used in theoretical neuroscience aimed to give a minimal requisite background for NBHV G4360, Introduction to Theoretical Neuroscience. The target audience is students with minimal mathematical background who are interested in rapidly acquiring the vocabulary and basic mathematical skills for studying theoretical neuroscience, or who wish to gain a deeper exposure to mathematical concepts than offered by NBHV G4360. Topics include single- and multivariable calculus, linear algebra, differential equations, dynamical systems, and probability. Examples and applications are drawn primarily from theoretical and computational neuroscience.

• Department: Neurobiology and Behavior
• TR 12:10 p.m.-1:25 p.m.
• 3 points

POWER ELECTRONICS

Introduction to power electronics; power semiconductor devices: power diodes, thyristors, commutation techniques, power transistors, power MOSFETs, Triac, IGBTs, etc. and switch selection; non-sinusoidal power definitions and computations, modeling, and simulation; half-wave rectifiers; single-phase, full-wave rectifiers; three-phase rectifiers; AC voltage controllers; DC/DC buck, boost, and buck-boost converters; discontinuous conduction mode of operation; DC power supplies: Flyback, Forward converter; DC/AC inverters, PWM techniques; three-phase inverters.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• M 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthias Preindl
  h-index: 26 Info
• 3 points

Parenting Like A Primate: The Evolution

Humans, like other animals, have evolved strategies of parental care, which include traits and trade-offs that enhance development and survival of offspring at the expense of parents. This course addresses questions such as: Why do we care for offspring? What physiological and genetic mechanisms underlie parental behavior? What drives variation in parental care strategies? We will analyze the diverse array of social and  mating systems along with parental care strategies, focusing on primates including humans.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Alba Lucia Morales Jimenez
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• 3 points

The Poetics of Social Forms: The Legacy

Fredric Jameson was the foremost Marxist thinker of the United States in the post-War period. His dialectical presentation of European thought set the terms of reception and debate of many of the European figures, ideas, and approaches that instigated a tumultuous rethinking of the humanities in U.S. academia from the 70s to the 90s. Amid that reception, he developed his own enormously influential approach to criticize the modern and postmodern cultural logics of capitalism and late capitalism. Although his oeuvre sprawls, it spirals through a series of themes: ideology and mass culture, narrative and History, the triad of realism, modernism, and postmodernism, periodization and cultural revolution, temporality and Utopia. This seminar charts one path through his prodigious theorizing.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Adam Leeds
  h-index: 2 Info
• 3 points

Ever Closer Union?: Histories of Europea

European Integration from

This class offers an introduction to the history and the practice of European integration since 1945. In 1945, western Europe lay in ruins after one of the largest and most destructive wars in world history. By 1957, however, six European governments decided to come together in a European Economic Community and, some sixty years later, they had built a European Union that included twenty-seven countries and, by combined size, constituted the second largest economy in the world. Why would six states just ravaged by occupation and war so quickly volunteer to share sovereignty with one another and why did so many other governments decide to join up later? What kinds of European unification did they envisage, how did these visions of European integration change, and what kind of united Europe did they build?

To answer these questions, this class explores the evolution of European integration from the end of the Second World War and the collapse of European empires to the end of the Cold War and the creation of the European Union. We will reconstruct various and evolving visions for the integration of Europe, studying the place of Europe in a world of empires to the place of Europe in a globalizing economy. We will examine the rise of the major policies and institutions of the European Community: from agricultural policy to environmental law, from demands for democratic representation to the regulation of international migration. All the while, we will assess how the European Community responded to the major events of the late twentieth century – including decolonization, the oil crisis, neoliberalism, the end of the Cold War, the migrant crisis, and the rise of right-wing populism – and interrogate the impact of European institutions upon those events. To do so, we will read widely across history and political science and we will make extensive use of new primary source collections, especially those newly digitized by the Historical Archives of the European Union. This course thus doubles as a history of European integration and an examination of Europe’s changing place in the world.

• Department: History
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Roslyn E Dubler
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• 4 points

Advocacy for Socio-Economic RIghts

Advocacy Socio-Economic R

This course will examine practical issues, opportunities, tactics and strategies to advocate for economic and social rights. The course will incorporate central debates about economic and social rights, such as how to identify violators and define state responsibility, whether these rights can be litigated, and how to make implementable recommendations for change, measure implementation and measure impact. The course will also look more in depth at the standards and fulfillment challenges on several of the key rights including health, housing, education, and labor.  

Throughout the course, you will focus on one economic and social rights topic of your choice. Through the lens of your chosen topic, you will review how organizations and social movements have engaged to affect change on similar issues, and use that research to explore many of the practical skills of advocacy and campaigning: framing recommendations and calls to action; drafting policy briefs; crafting media pitches and social media content; and designing and evaluating an overall advocacy strategy.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Mila H Rosenthal
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• 3 points

ARAB MODERNISM(S)

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Yasser Elsheshtawy
  h-index: 18 Info
• 3 points

Rousseau and the Modern Self

This seminar is the third in a series on the history of modern conceptions of the self.  Other figures in the series include Montaigne, Pascal, and Tocqueville.

This seminar focuses on Rousseau, and in particular
Emile
, his treatise on education and psychology.  We will pay particular attention to how he draws from both Montaigne and Pascal to develop a third conception of the self and its development.  We also examine
Reveries of a Solitary Walker
to see how Rousseau’s general theory of the self relates to his understanding of himself at the end of his life.

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

Rousseau and the Modern Self

This seminar is the third in a series on the history of modern conceptions of the self.  Other figures in the series include Montaigne, Pascal, and Tocqueville.

This seminar focuses on Rousseau, and in particular
Emile
, his treatise on education and psychology.  We will pay particular attention to how he draws from both Montaigne and Pascal to develop a third conception of the self and its development.  We also examine
Reveries of a Solitary Walker
to see how Rousseau’s general theory of the self relates to his understanding of himself at the end of his life.

• Department: Auditing
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Lilla
  CULPA: 57 Wikipedia Info
• 0 points

(UN)MODERN: EX-CENTRIC LATINX SPATIAL PR

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Luis Carranza
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• 3 points

LABOR ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213. This course examines labor markets through the lens of economics. In broad terms, labor economics is the study of the exchange of labor services for wages—a category that takes in a wide range of topics. Our objective in this course is to lay the foundations for explaining labor market phenomena within an economic framework and subsequently apply this knowledge-structure to a select set of questions. Throughout this process we will discuss empirical research, which will highlight the power (as well as the limitations) of employing economic models to real-world problems. By the end of this course we will have the tools/intuition to adequately formulate and critically contest arguments concerning labor markets.

• Department: Economics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Tatiana Mocanu
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• 3 points

Sustainable Development in Rwanda

SDEV IN RWANDA

This travel course will give students the opportunity to explore what sustainable development means in the context of Sub-Saharan Africa. Satisfying the workshop requirement for SDEV majors, the course is organized around two projects that students will tackle in teams. Ahead of traveling to Rwanda, three main activities will structure the course. First, students will learn about colonial history and current sustainable development efforts in Sub-Saharan Africa. Second, they will be organized into teams to pursue preliminary research on one of two projects. Third, they will be paired with an undergraduate student at the University of Rwanda and begin regular correspondence using WhatsApp. The travel week will be held over spring break. We will be based in the capitol city Kigali, with some in-country travel to explore beyond the urban core. Students will work in teams alongside their University of Rwanda peers to advance the goals of their project. When we return to the U.S., the final weeks of the class will be devoted to focused team work, as students complete their projects.

• Department: Earth Institute
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Dale
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED PRINTMAKING

Prerequisites: VIAR R2420, or VIAR R2430. (Formerly R3415) Designed for students who have already taken one semester of a printmaking course and are interested in continuing on an upper level. Students are encouraged to work in all areas, separate or combined, using their own vocabulary and imagery to create a body of work by the end of the semester. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• F 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

Introduction to Kinematics of Machines a

Kinematics of Machines Ro

Introduction to kinematic analysis and design of machines and robots.  Analytical and graphical synthesis of four-bar linkages. Planar displacements of rigid bodies. Spherical displacements of rigid bodies. Spatial displacements of rigid bodies. Rigid body velocities and wrenches. Concepts of kinematics of open-chain linkages.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Qiao Lin
  h-index: 41 Info
• 3 points

Corporate Finance, Accounting & Investme

CorpFin, Account & Invest

Interpret financial statements, build cash flow models, value projects, value companies, and make Corporate Finance decisions. Additional topics include: cost of capital, dividend policy, debt policy, impact of taxes, Shareholder/Debtholder agency costs, dual-class shares, using option pricing theory to analyze management behavior, investment banking activities, including equity underwriting, syndicated lending, venture capital, private equity investing and private equity secondaries. Application of theory in real-world situations: analyzing financial activities of companies such as General Electric, Google, Snapchat, Spotify, and Tesla.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• W 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Rodney Sunada-Wong
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• 3 points

SIMULATION

Generation of random numbers from given distributions; variance reduction; statistical output analysis; introduction to simulation languages; application to financial, telecommunications, computer, and production systems. Graduate students must register for 3 points. Undergraduate students must register for 4 points. Note: Students who have taken IEOR E4703 Monte Carlo simulation may not register for this course for credit. Recitation section required.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Henry Lam
  h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

The Bible in Early America

Anglo-American colonists enjoyed a relatively high degree of literacy, and what they mostly did with that literacy was read the Bible. This course shows how early American culture and the course of American history were shaped by extraordinarily widespread reading and oral transmission of the Bible. Each week will focus on the biblical texts, dilemmas, and crises of a different period in early American history. Topics include Puritan colonization, Native American conversion, Black Bible culture, American nationalism, religious mysticism, and the slavery debate.

This course will have an immersive element: in order to better understand the intellectual and psychological effect of constant contemplation of the Bible, students will experiment with text exegesis, memorization, dream analysis, and the interpretation of contemporary events in the style of early Anglo-American Bible readers.

• Department: History
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Hannah Farber
  h-index: 1 Info
• 4 points

PRODUCTION SCHEDULING

Required for undergraduate students majoring in IE and OR. Job shop scheduling: parallel machines, machines in series; arbitrary job shops. Algorithms, complexity, and worst-case analysis. Effects of randomness: machine breakdowns, random processing time. Term project.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Clifford Stein
  CULPA: 31 Wikipedia h-index: 53 Info
• 3 points

METHODS IN SPATIAL RESEARCH

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Adam K Vosburgh
  Info
• 1.5 points

Political, Social & Economic Development

Pol, Soc, & Econ Devp-Brazil

This course is set-up in a form of a practicum where major activists concerned with Brazilian political, social and economic development will be asked to address a policy problem and discuss their proposals for effective changes. Other speakers will analyze the government's policies but will also discuss major new reports or studies, and bring to our attention key issues that are not yet on the policy agenda.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Sidney N Nakahodo
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 1.5 points

ECONOMETRICS OF TIME SERIES

This course focuses on the application of econometric methods to time series data; such data is common in the testing of macro and financial economics models. It will focus on the application of these methods to data problems in macro and finance.

• Department: Economics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Seyhan Erden
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

GAME THEORY

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 Introduction to the systematic treatment of game theory and its applications in economic analysis.

• Department: Economics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Babak Somekh
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• 3 points

TRANSPORTATION ANALYTICS & LOGISTICS

Transportation, primarily focused on the movement of people, and logistics, primarily focused on the movement of goods, are two of the most fundamental challenges to modern society. To address many problems in these areas, a wide array of mathematical models and analytics tools have been developed. This class will introduce many of the foundational tools used in transportation and logistics problems, relying on ideas from linear optimization, integer optimization, stochastic processes, statistics, and simulation. We will address problems such as optimizing the routes of cars and delivery trucks, positioning emergency vehicles, and controlling traffic behavior. Moreover, we will discuss modern issues such as bicycle sharing, on-demand car and delivery services, humanitarian logistics, and autonomous vehicles. Concepts will be reinforced with technical content as well as real-world data and examples.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Adam N Elmachtoub
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 13 Info
• 3 points

TRANSPORTATION ANALYTICS & LOGISTICS

Transportation, primarily focused on the movement of people, and logistics, primarily focused on the movement of goods, are two of the most fundamental challenges to modern society. To address many problems in these areas, a wide array of mathematical models and analytics tools have been developed. This class will introduce many of the foundational tools used in transportation and logistics problems, relying on ideas from linear optimization, integer optimization, stochastic processes, statistics, and simulation. We will address problems such as optimizing the routes of cars and delivery trucks, positioning emergency vehicles, and controlling traffic behavior. Moreover, we will discuss modern issues such as bicycle sharing, on-demand car and delivery services, humanitarian logistics, and autonomous vehicles. Concepts will be reinforced with technical content as well as real-world data and examples.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Adam N Elmachtoub
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 13 Info
• 3 points

INTERNET TECHNOLOGY,ECONOMICS,AND POLICY

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Henning G Schulzrinne
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 3 points

SIGNAL MODELING

Fundamental concepts of signal processing in linear systems and stochastic processes. Estimation, detection and filtering methods applied to biomedical signals. Harmonic analysis, auto-regressive model, Wiener and Matched filters, linear discriminants, and independent components. Methods are developed to answer concrete questions on specific data sets in modalities such as ECG, EEG, MEG, Ultrasound. Lectures accompanied by data analysis assignments using MATLAB.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul Sajda
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 47 Info
• 3 points

WALTER BENJAMIN (ENG)

In 1936, the exiled German-Jewish thinker Walter Benjamin wrote, “A generation that had gone to school on a horse-drawn streetcar now stood under the open sky in a countryside in which nothing remained unchanged but the clouds, and beneath these clouds, in a field of force of destructive torrents and explosions, was the tiny, fragile human body.”

Few thinkers or writers have as poignantly articulated how human experience is formed by crisis. Early in his career, he conceptualized a sudden departure from 19th-century modes of experience—a departure brought on by World War I and other developments in early 20th century European history. Between philosophy and history, Benjamin charted a course toward a new mode of experience in the midst of a growing social and political crisis.

Benjamin’s methodology was critique, a specifically historical way of analyzing transformative events and experiences. We will read the texts in which Benjamin tests out formative, critical experiences such as a child’s perception of color, fate and character, the violence of the law, mourning, memory, new media such as film and radio, and his writings on authors such as Baudelaire, Proust, Brecht, and Kafka.

Our reading will proceed roughly chronologically, as Benjamin’s attention shifted from theorizing experience to reflecting on Marxism, Nazism, and other political and social trends. Given Benjamin’s important contributions to a vast number of fields, we will be reading texts in political theory, literary theory, art history, film, and media studies.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Annie Pfeifer
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

The Creative Self: Autofiction, Psychoan

Creative Self: Autofict P

Fictional autobiography, or autofiction, forces us to question our assumptions about the links
between creativity, truth, and authenticity. Can one invent, or create, one’s own story? It is possible
to write the truth of our selves, by creating it? Intriguingly, a process much like autofictional writing
is at the heart of modern psychoanalytic technique — and research in neuroscience increasingly
suggests that the human brain’s potential to morph and adapt might be instrumental to human
mentation as we know it. Might it be possible, then, to invent our way to a healthier narrative, to a
different life of the mind, or even, perhaps, to a different neural life?
This course explores creativity and self-alteration broadly in three parallel but distinct domains:
autofiction, object-relations psychoanalysis and neuroscience. At one level, this is a course about the
theories of creativity revealed and implied by the peculiar art-form of autofictional writing, by
contemporary psychotherapeutic techniques, and by discoveries pertaining to neural plasticity. At
another level, this is a course about interdisciplinary itself. We will seek to understand when and how
these three disciplines can be used together to create a rich and multilayered understanding of the
problem of human creativity, without resorting to simplistic mergers and crude forms of
reductionism. Literary readings to include Wilfred Bion, Christine Brooke-Rose, Marguerite Duras,
Chris Kraus, Maggie Nelson, Luisa Passerini and others.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Valerio Amoretti
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

POLITICAL ECONOMY ANALYSIS OF ELITES & I

ELITES & INSTITUTIONS

This course examines political institutions and elite behavior from a political economy perspective. This course has three core goals. First, the substantive goal is to familiarize students with foundational theoretical arguments and frontier empirical evidence pertaining to central questions in political economy relating to political elite and institutions. Second, the methodological goal is to empower students to implement research designs that can effectively address the substantive questions driving their research. Third, the professionalization goal is to expose students to the academic processes of writing reviews, replicating and extending others’ studies, presenting research projects, and writing original research designs or academic papers.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: John Marshall
  h-index: 20 Info
• 4 points

ARCH APROPOS ART

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• 3 points

PRIN OF MAG RESONANCE IMAGING

Fundamental principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), including the underlying spin physics and mathematics of image formation with an emphasis on the application of MRI to neuroimaging, both anatomical and functional. The examines both theory and experimental design techniques.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: John T Vaughan
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• 3 points

AUTOMOTIVE DYNAMICS

Recommended: ENME E3100 or E3106. Reviews fundamentals of vehicle dynamics. A systems-based engineering approach to explore areas of: tire characteristics, aerodynamics, stability and control, wheel loads, ride and roll rates, suspension geometry, and dampers. A high-performance vehicle (racecar) platform used as an example to review topics.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• R 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Joshua B Browne
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• 3 points

NERVOUS SYSTEMS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Lindy Roy
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• 3 points

PRACTICAL STYLISTICS-RUSS LANG

Prerequisites: RUSS W4334 or the equivalent or the instructor's permission. Prerequisite: four years of college Russian or instructor's permission. The course will focus on theoretical matters of language and style and on the practical aspect of improving students' writing skills. Theoretical aspects of Russian style and specific Russian stylistic conventions will be combined with the analysis of student papers and translation assignments, as well as exercises focusing on reviewing certain specific difficulties in mastering written Russian.

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