ELEMENTARY FRENCH II

The aim of the beginning French sequence (French 1101 and French 1102) is to help you to develop an active command of the language. Emphasis is placed on acquiring the four language skills--listening, speaking, reading and writing--within a cultural context, in order to achieve basic communicative proficiency.

• Department: French
• MTWR 8:50 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• TRF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• TRF 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TRF 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• TRF 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Pascale Crepon
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Eric T Matheis
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

REVIEW OF FRENCH FUNDAMENTALS

Prerequisites: Primarily for students who need further instruction to qualify for the intermediate course. Credit cannot be granted for both FREN BC1002 and BC1102 (or its equivalent). Enrollment limited to 20 students per section. Oral and written review of basic grammar and syntax. Readings in modern French and Francophone literature.

• Department: French @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Hadley T Suter
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

ELEMENTARY GERMAN II

Prerequisites: GERM UN1101 or the equivalent. If you have prior German outside of Columbia’s language sequence, the placement exam is required. German 1102 is the continuation of Elementary German I (1101). It is a four-skill language course taught in German, in which students continue to develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in German and an understanding of German-speaking cultures. Emphasis is placed on acquiring the four language skills--listening, speaking, reading and writing--within a cultural context. Students expand their communication skills to include travel, storytelling, personal well- being, basic economics, recent historical events, and working with movie segments. Completion of daily assignments, which align with class content, and consistent work are necessary in order to achieve basic communicative proficiency.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• MWR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• MTR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Simona C Vaidean
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Patrick Woodard
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• 4 points

ELEMENTARY ITALIAN II

Prerequisites: ITAL V1101 or the equivalent. Introduction to Italian grammar, with emphasis on reading, writing, listening and speaking skills.

• Department: Italian
• TR 10:10 a.m.-noon
• TR 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Federica Franze
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

ELEMENTARY LATIN II

Prerequisites: LATN UN1101. A continuation of LATN UN1101, including a review of grammar and syntax for students whose study of Latin has been interrupted.

• Department: Classics
• TR 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Umberto Verdura
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• 4 points

CALCULUS II

Prerequisites: MATH UN1101 or the equivalent. Methods of integration, applications of the integral, Taylors theorem, infinite series. (SC)

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Andres Ibanez Nunez
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• 3 points

PERSONAL FITNESS

This course introduces the basic components of fitness in order for the individual to design a personal exercise plan for lifetime wellness.  Short lectures and discussions will be incorporated with the exercises to teach the main components of fitness:  cardiovascular fitness, muscular strength and endurance, and flexibility. Cardiovascular and strength-training machines as well as free weights and functional fitness exercises are included.  Basic methods of stress reduction via basic mind/body practices (e.g. breathing practices and relaxation) will also be taught.

• Department: Physical Education @Barnard
• TR 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa K Northrop
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 1 points

ELEMENTARY PORTUGUESE II

Prerequisites: PORT W1101 or the equivalent. A course designed to acquaint students with the Portuguese verbal, prepositional, and pronominal systems. As a continuation of Elementary Portuguese I (PORT W1101), this course focuses on the uses of characteristic forms and expressions of the language as it is spoken and written in Brazil today.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• MW 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Ana P Huback
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

ELEMENTARY SPANISH II

Prerequisites: SPAN UN1101 or a score of 280-379 on the department’s Spanish as a Second Language Placement exam. An intensive introduction to Spanish language communicative competence, with stress on basic oral interaction, reading, writing and cultural knowledge as a continuation of SPAN UN1101. The principal objectives are to understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of immediate relevance; communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a direct exchange of information on familiar matters; describe in simple terms aspects of our background and personal history; understand the main point, the basic content, and the plot of filmic as well as short written texts. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• MWR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• MWR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• MWR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• MWF 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• MWF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MWF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jose Placido Ruiz-Campillo
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• 4 points

Intro to Statistics Recitation

This is only recitation for STAT UG1101. We are requesting 8 sections of recitation to align with the two sections of 1101 offered for Fall 2024.

• Department: Statistics
• M 10:30 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
• M 2:30 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
• T 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• T 1 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
• W 1 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
• W 4 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
• R 4:15 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• R 4 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
• 0 points

SUBVERTING THE SCRIPT

In this course we will read texts by feminist and queer authors that complicate and subvert mainstream and dominant scripts about gender, sexuality, race, nation, and class. What kinds of narratives do mainstream ideas regarding these categories leave out? How have authors resisted erasure through queering and subverting mainstream categories? How might we, as readers and critical thinkers, queer the script through our scholarly practice? Drawing on queer and feminist scholarship that calls for a radical restructuring of the ways we see and shape our worlds, we will consider how authors push back against dominant ideologies through literary, scholarly and cinematic works.

Texts are subject to change, but will likely include a selection from the following list: works by Nella Larsen, Carmen Maria Machado, Safia Elhillo, Celine Sciamma and Cheryl Dunye, and critical theory by Laura Mulvey, bell hooks, and Judith Butler. Required course texts will not exceed $10; in addition, all course texts are available as links and e-reserves through the library.

• Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Duygu Ula
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS

Corequisites: ECON UN1155 How a market economy determines the relative prices of goods, factors of production, and the allocation of resources and the circumstances under which it does it efficiently. Why such an economy has fluctuations and how they may becontrolled.

• Department: Economics
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Sunil K Gulati
  CULPA: 113 Info
• Instructor: Waseem Noor
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Isaac B Bjorke
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• 4 points

HEALTH COACHING

This course is designed to teach students the process of identifying, setting, and achieving a specific health behavior change goal within the Wheel of Health. The course will consist of short lectures, discussions, and individual health coaching sessions. Action steps towards the health goal will be expected each week outside of class meeting times.

• Department: Physical Education @Barnard
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa K Northrop
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 1 points

Seeing, Surveilling, and Performing

SEEING/SURVEILLING/PERFOR

In this course, we will study the way culture influences how we make sense of what we see. We will examine how power is exercised by making people feel as though they are always being seen, how this surveillance polices the way gender, race, class, and sexuality are expressed, and how people perform their identities to reinforce or push back against this policing. Literary texts will include
Passing
by Nella Larsen, "The Husband Stitch" by Carmen Maria Machado,
Fantomina
by Eliza Haywood, and the films
Paris is Burning
and
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
. Secondary texts will include John Berger, Talia Bettcher, Judith Butler, W.E.B Dubois, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Jack Halberstam, bell hooks, Audre Lorde, and Laura Mulvey.

• Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Vrinda Condillac
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 3 points

The Body as Border

THE BODY AS BORDER

In our course, we'll examine the legacy of the body as a boundary that defines and separates categories like self and other, sanctioned and forbidden, and male and female. How and why has the body become the site of difference and distinction? What happens when a body crosses boundaries and collapses categories -- what is threatened, what made possible? Readings will likely include John Milton's
Paradise Lost,
Mary Shelley's
Frankenstein,
Nella Larsen's
Passing,
Akwaeke Emezi's "Who is Like God?", and essays and articles by scholars including Susan Stryker, bell hooks, Judith Butler, and Jeffrey Jerome Cohen.

• Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Wendy C Schor-Haim
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 3 points

Elementary Spanish for Heritage Speakers

Elem Spanish Heritage Spe

Prerequisites: Scoring at this level on the department’s Spanish as a Heritage Language Placement test (https://columbia-barnard.vega-labs.com).

The principal aim of SPAN UN1108 is to build upon and further develop the informal knowledge of Spanish that heritage learners bring to the classroom—usually from family and neighborhood exposure to the language—and cultivate formal speaking, listening, reading, and writing abilities. Students are not expected to have any academic training in written Spanish prior to enrolling in this course.

Spanish heritage language courses at Columbia/Barnard focus on the development of communicative abilities and literacy from sociolinguistic and sociocultural approaches. Throughout the semester, students will be reviewing spelling patterns, building vocabulary, acquiring and effectively using learning strategies, and strengthening composition skills in Spanish. Cultural projects and readings reinforce learners’ understanding of the multiple issues related to Hispanic cultures in the United States and in other Spanish-speaking societies.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• TRF 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• TRF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TRF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Diana Romero
  CULPA: 27 Info
• 4 points

HUMAN ORIGINS & EVOLUTION-DISC

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• R 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• F 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Jill S Shapiro
  CULPA: 46 Info
• 0 points

FIRST YEAR CHINESE W

The course is specially designed for students of Chinese heritage and advanced beginners with good speaking skills. It aims to develop the student's basic skills to read and write modern colloquial Chinese. Pinyin system is introduced; standard Chinese pronunciation, and traditional characters. Classes will be conducted mostly in Chinese. Open to students with Mandarin speaking ability in Chinese only. CC GS EN CE

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MWR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MWR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• MTR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Tianqi Jiang
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Hailong Wang
  CULPA: 22 Info
• Instructor: Tao Peng
  Info
• 5 points

A BARNARD EDUCATION AT WORK

Per its mission statement, “Barnard College aims to provide the highest-quality liberal arts
education to promising and high-achieving young women… They graduate prepared to lead
lives that are professionally satisfying and successful, personally fulfilling, and enriched by a love
of learning.” This course finds its roots in the connection posited here, between undergraduate
study and professional life. Students will be asked to revisit a foundational text they have
encountered in their major, and use it as a mode of exploration and reflection on an internship.
They will consider how the text’s themes and ideas can be reinterpreted and recontextualized in
the working world, and think about what practical, moral, political, aesthetic and personal
insights it affords. More broadly, students will be prompted to consider the relationship of the
liberal arts degree (which purports to prepare students for no particular career) to their chosen
career path. This course will further hone the critical thinking and writing skills that are
translatable to any profession, and enables a Barnard student to put into practice the
complexities they have learned in the classroom, by encouraging them to analyze the
professional world from different perspectives, and in the context of other ideas and traditions.
The text will be selected from a list provided by the student’s major department, and will be
subject to approval from the course instructor.
On a weekly basis, in this discussion-based class, the student shares their ideas about their text
and how it relates to their internship. They respond to and engage with their classmates. They
are required to spend about two hours with their text per week. They are also required to
create a three to five minute presentation, to be shared with the full group. The group is also
responsible for providing feedback on the presentation. The presentation ultimately evolves
into a final paper of 8-10 pages that explores the line of inquiry from their text as it is
instantiated in their work experience. Students are graded on their discussion (40%),
presentation (25%), and final paper (35%).

• Department: Barnard College
• R 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Erica A Siegel
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• Instructor: Mulu Gebreyohannes
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• Instructor: Laurie Postlewate
  CULPA: 17 Info
• Instructor: Rajiv Sethi
  CULPA: 24 h-index: 33 Info
• 1 points

MELLON MAYS UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP JUN

MMUF JUNIOR YEAR COLLOQUI

This is a course designed for the students enrolled in the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program.  It should be taken fall and spring semesters of a student's third and fourth years at the college (for a total of 6 course credits total over the two years). The goal of this course is to become familiar with academic research and writing, as well as the  culture of colleges/ universities in order to prepare students to apply to graduate school and earn the PhD.. The program hones academic writing skills (research papers, project and grant proposals, academic reflections designed to facilitate intentional goal setting and planning), teaches skills related to scholarly presentations (oral and written), as well as familiarizes students with academic culture in particular diversity, equity and inclusion issues and concerns in the academy. Students are expected to attend all the events and meetings associated with the program.

• Department: Barnard College
• F noon-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Tamara Walker
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• 1.5 points

ORIGINS AND MEANING

This course is a one-semester journey across cosmological history, from the beginning of time to something akin to its end. We will explore the origin of inanimate physical structures (the cosmos as a whole, as well as that of galaxies, stars, planets, particles, atoms and complex molecules), the origin of life (replicating molecules, the first cells, as well as more complex life forms), the origin of mind (self-reflective conscious awareness) and the origin of culture (language, myth, religion, art, and science). We will then consider what science in particular tells us about the very far future, where we will encounter the likely demise of all complex matter, all life and all consciousness. In the face of such disintegration we will examine the nature of value and purpose. We will recognize that the deepest understanding of reality emerges from blending all of the accounts we discuss—from the reductionist to the humanist to the cosmological—and only through such amalgamation can we fully grasp the long-standing human search for meaning.

• Department: Physics
• F 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Brian Greene
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

POLITICAL THEORY I-DISC

Required discussion section for POLS UN1101: Political Theory I

• Department: Political Science
• M 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• T 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• T 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• T 11:10 a.m.-noon
• F 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• M 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Praboda M Perikala
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• 0 points

SODB:FIRST AND SECOND YR SEM

This is a course designed for the students enrolled in the Barbara Silver Horowitz ’55 Scholars of Distinction program. It should be taken fall and spring semesters of a students first and second years at the college (for a total of 4 course credits total over the two years). Each month is organized around an outing (or several outings) with readings and guest speakers to complement the outing. Students are expected to attend all the events and meetings. Each student will also produce a blog post connected to or inspired by each event. These posts will appear on the Barnard College website dedicated to the program. Blog posts do not have to cover the event per se, they might, for example, attend to ancillary issues raised by the event or topics raised by the accompanying readings.

• Department: Scholars of Distinction @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 1 points

EUR HIST 1500-1789 DISC

• Department: History @Barnard
• W 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• W 7:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• R 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• R 9 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
• 0 points

BODIES AND DESIRES

In this First-Year Writing course, we’ll examine a series of questions centered on bodies and desires. How is the body both constructed and policed through narratives of gender, race, class, and sexuality? How are bodies and desire mediated through and represented in language? We’ll consider how bodies become not just sites of objectification or of power but also of pleasure. We’ll think about the politics of respectability, in questioning who can be a subject, rather than object, of desire. In our analyses, we’ll work to challenge fixed or binary understandings of gender and power. Readings are subject to change but may include: Nella Larsen's
Passing
, Eliza Haywood's
Fantomina
, short stories by Luisa Valenzuela, Carmen Maria Machado and/or ir'ene lara Silva, poems by Sally Wen Mao and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and conversation texts by Audre Lorde, Patricia Hill Collins, bell hooks, Sara Ahmed, John Berger, and/or Judith Butler.

• Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Meredith A Benjamin
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

WOMEN OF COLOR IN SPECULATIVE LITERATURE

WOMEN OF COLOR&SCIENCE FI

"The Future is Female" except in science fiction, where it still looks pretty white and male.  What happens when women of color take on such tropes as space exploration, cybernetics, superpowers, and the end of the world?  How can women of color change the way we not only think of the future, but think of the present as well?  In this class we’ll look at how speculative literature looks at the intersections of race, gender, class, sexuality, technology, and environmental concerns.  Readings will include work from such authors as Octavia Butler, Franny Choi, Sam Chanse, G Willow Wilson, and Tananarive Due with potential critical readings from Lisa Yaszek, Charlotte E Howell, and bell hooks.

• Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Quincy Jones
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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.
• Instructor: Elsa Ubeda
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 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.
• Instructor: John T Ma
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

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.
• Instructor: Marina Correia
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• Instructor: Aaron Slodounik
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• Instructor: Kutay Sen
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• Instructor: Martina Mims
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Xiaohan Du
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• Instructor: Ioannis Mylonopoulos
  CULPA: 13 Info
• Instructor: Zeynep Celik Alexander
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• Instructor: Francesco Cassini
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• Instructor: Brandon Agosto
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• Instructor: Irina T Oryshkevich
  CULPA: 11 Info
• Instructor: Tara Kuruvilla
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Emily Spratt
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• Instructor: Xiaohan Du
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• Instructor: Susannah E Blair
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• Instructor: Tara Kuruvilla
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Francesco Cassini
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• 3 points