SUPERVISED STUDIES IN GERMANY (BCGS)

German Pol., Soc. & Cult.

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Carmen Mueller
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• 3 points

SUPERVISED STUDIES IN GERMANY (BCGS)

Migration & Religion

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Carmen Mueller
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• 3 points

SUPERVISED STUDIES IN GERMANY (BCGS)

NationalSocialism in Film

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Carmen Mueller
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• 3 points

SUPERVISED STUDIES IN GERMANY (BCGS)

Sexual Culture in Berlin

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Carmen Mueller
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• 3 points

TOPICS IN MUSIC & SOCIETY

This course seeks to approach the study of music and society by comparatively studying repertories from different parts of the world, how the history of ideas and methods of studying such repertoires shaped them, the practices that constitute them and the ways they are understood and used by different peoples. Central to this course is the interrelationship between the constitution of a repertoire and the history of the construction of knowledge about it.

• Department: Music
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ruth Opara
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• 3 points

Data Science and Health Equity in New Yo

This course, which has no pre-requisites, teaches students about data science and public health. Students will create and answer public health research questions related to health equity in NYC. The course will use publicly available NYC health data to learn the seven steps of data science: 1) writing a research question; 2) obtaining data to address the question; 3) data cleaning; 4) data exploration; (5) analysis; 6) replication and validity evaluation; and (7) presentation and summary. The course will introduce students to 
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• Department: Columbia College
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• 3 points

HUMAN POPULATIONS & SDEV

• Department: Earth Institute
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Susana B Adamo
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• 3 points

SEMINAR IN GLOBAL THOUGHT

INQUIRIES INTO AN INTERCONNECT

This course on global thought will consider the ways in which we think about, debate, and give meaning to the interconnected world in which we live. In thematically focused collaborative teams, students will examine how the flows of people, things and ideas across national borders both connect our world and create uneven consequences within and among communities. We will locate ourselves in these processes, suggesting we need go no further than our closets, tables, and street corners to consider the meanings of globalization and our roles in the world today. This course has been approved to partially satisfy the Global Core requirement.

• Department: Committee on Global Thought
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Laura L Neitzel
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• 4 points

SOUND DESIGN

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor given at first class meeting. Studies the art and practice of designing sound and scoring music for dramatic performance. Students study the relationship between concert and incidental music, and read plays toward the production of a score for live theatre. Students also read broadly in the fields of sound, music, acoustics, and the cultural analysis of sound as a component of performance. Background in music or composition not essential. .

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• M 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Baker
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• 3 points

The Global Threat of Antimicrobial Resis

Antimicrobial Resistance

Antimicrobial resistant bacterial infections were estimated to account for 1.27 million deaths worldwide in 2019. The goal of the seminar is to provide an in-depth analysis of this ongoing threat. Discussions will include the molecular mechanisms, epidemiology of transmission and the consequences of antimicrobial resistant infections. It will also cover current efforts to reduce the spread and emergence of these difficult to treat pathogens, both in the community and the healthcare setting.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Franklin Lowy
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• 3 points

SCENE DESIGN

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 12 students. Permission of instructor given at first class meeting. Introduction to designing for the theatre. The course will focus on set design, developing skills in script analysis, sketching, model making, storyboarding and design presentation. Some investigation into theatre architecture, scenic techniques and materials, and costume and lighting design.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• F 11 a.m.-1:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Sandra Goldmark
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

STORIES WITHIN STORIES

The science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin, in her sly, radical manifesto of sorts “Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction,” proposes an idea of the “bottle as hero”: instead of conflict serving as our central organizing theory for narrative, she suggests that “the natural, proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag.” In other words: a container. These containers needn’t only apply to novels, I contend, but many types of literary narratives, whether they are classified as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or some hybrid of forms.

With this in mind, the generative cross-genre craft seminar Stories within Stories aims to uncover beautiful and practical approaches to gathering small narratives into a larger, cohesive whole. Readings will include Svetlana Alexievich’s devastating novels in voices, Percival Everett’s incendiary novel-within-a-novel
Erasure
, Ted Chiang’s mesmerizing historical fantasy, Robin Wall Kimmerer’s braided essays of restoration, Nâzım Hikmet’s epic in verse
Human Landscapes from My Country
, Renee Gladman’s cross-disciplinary approaches to writing and drawing, Yevgenia Belorusets’s dispatches from Ukraine, Edward Gauvin’s identity-memoir-in-contributors’ bios, Saidiya Hartman’s speculative histories, Gary Indiana’s gleefully acerbic roman à clef
Do Everything in the Dark
, Alejandro Zambra’s standardized test-inspired literature, W. G. Sebald’s saturnine essay-fiction, and Lisa Hsiao Chen’s meld of biography and autobiography, as well as fiction and nonfiction by Clarice Lispector, Vauhini Vara, Eileen Myles, Olga Tokarczuk, and Julie Hecht, among other texts. 

In addition, we will also read essays on craft and storytelling by Le Guin, Gladman, Zambra, Lydia Davis, Walter Benjamin, Garielle Lutz, Ben Mauk, and more. What we learn in this course we will apply to our own work, which will consist of regular creative writing responses drawn from the readings and a creative final project. Students will also learn to keep a daily journal of writing.

• Department: Writing
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: James C Yeh
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• 3 points

Read, Think, Write in French

THIRD-YEAR GRAMMAR & COMP

UN3405 enables students to hone and perfect their reading and writing skills while improving their ability to express and organize thoughts in French. In this engaging advanced language class, students are exposed to major texts in fields as diverse as journalism, sociology, anthropology, politics, literature, philosophy and history. Stimulating class discussions, targeted reviews of key grammatical points in context, and an array of diverse writing exercises all contribute to strengthen students’ mastery of the French language. This course also works as a bridge class between Intermediate French II and courses that focus on French and Francophone cultures, history and literature (such as 3409 and 3410). Students who take this class will be fully prepared to take advanced content classes or spend a semester in a Francophone country. This class is required for the French major and minor.

• Department: French
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexandra Borer
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Marie-Helene Koffi-Tessio
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED STUDIES IN GERMANY (BCGS)

German B1.2 Course 1

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Carmen Mueller
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• 0 points

SUPERVISED STUDIES IN GERMANY (BCGS)

German B1.2 Course 6

• Department: Global Programs
• 0 points

SUPERVISED STUDIES IN GERMANY (BCGS)

German B2.1 Course 3

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Carmen Mueller
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• 0 points

SUPERVISED STUDIES IN GERMANY (BCGS)

German B2.1 Course 8

• Department: Global Programs
• 0 points

SUPERVISED STUDIES IN GERMANY (BCGS)

German Discourse&Cult. II

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Carmen Mueller
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• 6 points

PROBLEMS IN DESIGN

Prerequisites: Some design experience is helpful, though not required. Enrollment limited to 12 students. Studio-based course explores the main elements of theatrical design: sets, costumes, lighting, and sound through objects, materials, theatrical and non-theatrical environments. Students examine these design elements as both individual and interrelated components within a performance. Fulfills one course in Design requirement for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors. Fulfills one of three courses in performance fields for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors: design.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• W 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Kara M Feely
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• 3 points

SEM IN CLINICAL PSYCH: PSYCHOTIC DISORDE

PSYCHOSIS & BIPOLAR DISOR

This seminar will focus on the schizophrenia-spectrum disorders and bipolar disorders.  Topics include historical perspectives, diagnoses and symptoms, neural changes associated with the disorders, and research on effective treatments.  Emphasis will be places on the impact of serious mental illness on families and communities as well as cultural differences in diagnosis, treatment and outcomes.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Kathleen M Taylor
  CULPA: 78 Info
• 4 points

DEMOCRACY'S GUARDRAILS?

The speed and smoothness of democratic backsliding and the suddenness of democratic breakdowns tend to surprise us. We expect established institutions and parties, as well as the individuals socialized in democratic norms who populate them, to remain loyal to democracy. But instead we often see both hard and soft guardrails of democracy (institutions and norms) crumble, as various combinations of judges, capitalists, party activists, bureaucrats, military officers, and law-enforcement personnel accept and even support the actions of aspiring authoritarians. In this course we will explore why and when this happens—and also look at conditions that might prevent this from happening.

 

Our focus will be specific—not on the would-be dictators or on structural forces that might shape these processes but on those institutions and actors that might be considered the bystanders or enablers of democratic reversals. Our readings will include political science literature on democratic breakdowns and fracturing of elite consensus, political norms, and strategic games of transition, but we will also read selections of relevant histories and memoirs. We will consider cases of breakdown and backsliding from 1930s Germany to 1970s Chile to twenty-first-century Hungary, Poland, and the United States—always focusing on potential guardrails.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Marjorie Castle
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• 3 points

COMPUTER GRAPHICS & DESIGN

Introduction to drafting, engineering graphics, computer graphics, solid modeling, and mechanical engineering design. Interactive computer graphics and numerical methods applied to the solution of mechanical engineering design problems.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Sinisa Vukelic
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 11 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO FRENCH & FRANCOPHONE HISTORY

INTRO FREN FRANCOPHONE HI

This class provides an introduction to the history of France and of the francophone world since the Middle Ages. It initiates students to the major events and themes that have shaped politics, society, and culture in France and its former colonies, paying special attention to questions of identity and diversity in a national and imperial context. Modules include a combination of lecture and seminar-style discussion of documents (in French).

This course is part of a two-course sequence and is a core requirement the French and Francophone Studies major.

• Department: French
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Thomas Dodman
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO FRENCH & FRANCOPHONE HISTORY

INTRO FREN FRANCOPHONE HI

This class provides an introduction to the history of France and of the francophone world since the Middle Ages. It initiates students to the major events and themes that have shaped politics, society, and culture in France and its former colonies, paying special attention to questions of identity and diversity in a national and imperial context. Modules include a combination of lecture and seminar-style discussion of documents (in French).

This course is part of a two-course sequence and is a core requirement the French and Francophone Studies major.

• Department: Auditing
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Thomas Dodman
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 0 points

MACHINE DESIGN

Computer-aided analysis of general loading states and deformation of machine components using singularity functions and energy methods. Theoretical introduction to static failure theories, fracture mechanics, and fatigue failure theories. Introduction to conceptual design and design optimization problems. Design of machine components such as springs, shafts, fasteners, lead screws, rivets, welds. Modeling, analysis, and testing of machine assemblies for prescribed design problems. Problems will be drawn from statics, kinematics, dynamics, solid modeling, stress analysis, and design optimization.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Yevgeniy Yesilevskiy
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• 3 points

COMPUTERS AND SOCIETY

Broader impact of computers. Social networks and privacy. Employment, intellectual property, and the media. Science and engineering ethics. Suitable for nonmajors.

• Department: Computer Science
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Ronald Baecker
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• 3 points

Intro French & Francophone Literature

Intro French Francophone

This class offers a survey of major works of French and francophone literature from the Middle Ages to the present. Emphasis will be placed on formal and stylistic elements of the works read and on developing the critical skills necessary for literary analysis. Works will be placed in their historical context.

• Department: French
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Anna P Langewiesche
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• 3 points

Intro French & Francophone Literature

Intro French Francophone

This class offers a survey of major works of French and francophone literature from the Middle Ages to the present. Emphasis will be placed on formal and stylistic elements of the works read and on developing the critical skills necessary for literary analysis. Works will be placed in their historical context.

• Department: Auditing
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Anna P Langewiesche
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• 0 points

SYMBOLIC LOGIC

SYMBOLIC LOGIC: FORMAL INTRO

Corequisites: PHILV3413 Required Discussion Section (0 points). Advanced introduction to classical sentential and predicate logic. No previous acquaintance with logic is required; nonetheless a willingness to master technicalities and to work at a certain level of abstraction is desirable.

• Department: Philosophy
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Tamar A Lando
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

COLL: BUILDING PEACE

How can we build peace in the aftermath of extensive violence? How can international actors help in this process? This colloquium focuses on international peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding efforts in recent conflicts. It covers general concepts, theories, and debates, as well as specific cases of peacebuilding successes and failures. Cross-listed with Human Rights.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Severine Autesserre
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia h-index: 14 Info
• 4 points

INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMETRICS

Prerequisites: (ECON UN3211 or ECON UN3213) and (MATH UN1201 or MATH UN1207) and STAT UN1201 Modern econometric methods; the general linear statistical model and its extensions; simultaneous equations and the identification problem; time series problems; forecasting methods; extensive practice with the analysis of different types of data.

• Department: Economics
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Seyhan Erden
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Jushan Bai
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia h-index: 52 Info
• Instructor: Sandra Black
  Wikipedia h-index: 43 Info
• 4 points

TECHNICAL PRODUCTION

Prerequisites: Crew assignment optional. Enrollment limited to 10 students. Introduction to the equipment, terms, and procedures employed in the creation of scenery, lighting, and sound for the stage. Classroom exercises and field visits emphasize approaches to collaborative process and production management.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Gregory Winkler
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

PRINTMAKING:DRAWING INTO PRINT

Prerequisites: VIAR UN2420 or VIAR UN2430 note that VIAR UN2430 was formerly R3420. The objective of the course is to provide students with an interdisciplinary link between drawing, photography and printmaking through an integrated studio project. Students will use drawing, printmaking and collage to create a body of work to be presented in a folio format. In the course, students develop and refine their drawing sensibility, and are encouraged to experiment with various forms of non-traditional printmaking. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• T 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Tomas Vu Daniel
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

NINETEENTH-CENTURY CRITICISM

This course examines a diverse selection of social and aesthetic responses to the impacts of modernization and industrialization in nineteenth-century Europe. Using works of art criticism, fiction, poetry, and social critique, the seminar will trace the emergence of new understandings of collective and individual experience and their relation to cultural and historical transformations. Readings are drawn from Friedrich Schiller's Letters On Aesthetic Education, Mary Shelley's The Last Man, Thomas Carlyle's "Signs of the Time," poetry and prose by Charles Baudelaire, John Ruskin's writings on art and political economy, Flora Tristan's travel journals, J.-K. Huysmans's Against Nature, essays of Walter Pater, Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy and other texts.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan K Crary
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

INTRO TO ECONOMETRICS-DIS

INTRO TO ECONOMETRICS-DISC

Required discussion section for ECON UN3412: Intro to Econometrics

• Department: Economics
• 0 points

SYMBOLIC LOGIC - REC

Required discussion section for UN3411 Symbolic Logic

• Department: Philosophy
• T 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• R 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• R 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• 0 points

Muslims in the West

Contemporary Western Muslims around the world face a number of challenges today. What are some of the major issues that some Western Muslim communities are negotiating? What can we learn from particular narratives of Muslims in the West, including during slavery in the US and at the turn of the twentieth century? How did Islam spread among African Americans in the mid-twentieth century and what does contemporary Muslim American thought look like today? How do the histories, beliefs and practices vary among contemporary diasporic Muslims especially in relationship to their circumstances and their negotiations of questions relating to race, class, and gender? What do some of the major divisions in theology and politics look like among contemporary Muslims along conservative and progressive lines? Who are some of the major voices and movements contesting for authority today and what positions do they take? This course aims to explore these questions and more through close readings and discussions of primary sources coupled with secondary academic works.

• Department: Religion
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Ebad Rahman
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• 3 points

Mechanics of Solids for Mechanical Engin

Introduction to the mechanics of solids with an emphasis on mechanical engineering applications. Stress tensor, principal stresses, maximum shear stress, stress equilibrium, infinitesimal strain tensor, Hooke’s law, boundary conditions. Introduction to the finite element method for stress analysis. Static failure theories, safety factors, fatigue failure.  Assignments include finite element stress analyses using university-provided commercial software.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Kristin Myers
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 25 Info
• 3 points

DESIRE AND METAMORPHOSIS

Change is fundamental to our experience as human beings, and the experience of change lies at the heart of most great stories. Sometimes this is a transition that the heroine has desired; other times, alteration and transformation arise from sources mysterious and unknown, or as a result of the journey the story has brought them. This course examines the element of change in a wide range of literature, from Ovid to Maggie Nelson, from Shakespeare to Roxane Gay—but it also provides an opportunity for students to consider the ways in which they, too have been changed—by joy, by trauma, by time. In addition to writing critically about the works we will read together, students will also write a personal essay about their experience of metamorphosis; this essay will be examined in a modified workshop format. At semester’s end, students will re-write and change that same essay, in hopes of seeing how revision on the page might provide a model for understanding the metamorphoses we experience as human beings on this earth. Authors will likely include Ovid, Kafka, Robert Louis Stevenson, Borges, Shaun Tan, Roxane Gay, George Saunders, Arthur C. Clarke, Shakespeare, and Maggie Nelson. There will be a final exam and a critical paper, as well as the personal essay, in two drafts.

• Department: English @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer F Boylan
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• 3 points

The Carceral United States

Examination of the development of U.S. carceral systems and logics from the late 18th century through the present.  Through course readings and class discussion, students will explore the changes and continuities in technologies of punishment and captivity over time, interrogating how the purpose and political economy of captivity and policing shifted over time, and analyzing the relationship between carceral institutions and constructions of race, gender, and sexuality.

• Department: History
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Sarah Haley
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• 4 points

SOVEREIGNTY, DEMOCRACY, AND THE EUROPEAN

SOVEREIGNTY, DEMOCRACY, &

As a supranational organization—in which states transfer portions of their sovereign decision-making powers to the organization as a higher authority—the European Union is unique. The impact of this extraordinary organization on the ability of individual member-states to achieve promised goals of prosperity and peace is often the primary focus of analyses. But there is another important question: Is the European Union good or bad for democracy in individual states? This course examines the impact of the European Union on the politics of prospective, actual, and former member-states. The benefits and constraints of EU membership--indeed, even the prospect of membership--were expected to foster and shore up democracy, but the relationships here may turn out to be much more complex than imagined. In fact, since political backlash can result in states leaving the EU this is an urgent question for the future of the EU itself.

 

As a class we will explore the political impact of the EU—its accession processes, its policies, its institutional incentives, the constraints it creates--on member states. After introducing key concepts and acquiring and confirming a shared understanding of the EU itself (no previous background knowledge is required), we’ll look at how the prospect and the reality of joining the EU may affect political incentives and outcomes within individual states. We then switch gears and focus on Brexit, the departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union, considering both its causes in British politics and its consequences for British democracy. Next we examine conflicts between the EU and individual member-states, most notably Hungary and Poland, over the rule of law. Our meetings on these topics will use both lecture and discussion. In the final weeks’ simulation you will make use of all you have learned as you play the role of a political actor from a particular member state in negotiations over revisions to the Treaty of Lisbon.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Marjorie Castle
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• 3 points

PRIVACY IN A NETWORKED WORLD

The ubiquity of computers and networks in business, government, recreation, and almost all aspects of daily life has led to a proliferation of online sensitive data: data that, if used improperly, can harm the data subjects. As a result, concern about the use, ownership, control, privacy, and accuracy of these data has become a top priority. This seminar course focuses on both the technical challenges of handling sensitive data, the privacy implications of various technologies, and the policy and legal issues facing data subjects, data owners, and data users.

• Department: Computer Science @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Rebecca N Wright
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• 4 points

ENG DES-CONCPT/DESIGN GENERATN

A preliminary design for an original project is a prerequisite for the capstone design course. Will focus on the steps required for generating a preliminary design concept. Included will be a brainstorming concept generation phase, a literature search, incorporation of multiple constraints, adherence to appropriate engineering codes and standards, and the production of a layout drawing of the proposed capstone design project in a Computer Aided Design (CAD) software package. Note: MECE students only.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• MW 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Yevgeniy Yesilevskiy
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• 3 points

PRINTMAKING II: INTAGLIO

Prerequisites: VIAR UN2420 (Formerly R3402) Continues instruction and demonstration of further techniques in intaglio. Encourages students to think visually more in the character of the medium, and personal development is stressed. Individual and group critiques. Portfolio required at end. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• MW 2:30 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer Nuss
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• 3 points

COLL: COMPARATIVE DEMOCRATIZATION

COLL: COMP DEMOCRATIZATIO

This is an undergraduate colloquium that examines the important debates and research on democratization, defined as the change in a political regime within a modern state from dictatorship to democracy. Scholars have described democratization as the principal global political development of the 21st century. The emergence, endurance, and erosion of democracy are also some of the most extensively researched and debated topics in modern comparative political science.

We will start with defining the concept of democracy and discuss different measures of democracy. We then explore the different explanations of why countries become democratic: which include economic, cultural, political, and international factors. We also examine the challenges new democracies face, including the management of ethnic diversity, and institutional design (constitutions, electoral systems, civilian control). Finally, we assess the causes and implications of the global “democratic recession” in the early 21st century.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Aqil Shah
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• 4 points

POLITICS OF SOUTH ASIA

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the politics of modern South Asia, a large and diverse region that is home to roughly 25 percent (1.9 billion) of the world’s population. The region comprises India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, and Maldives. Some regional definitions include Afghanistan in South Asia, as will this course. The course will cover issues and topics that are important to individual countries and the region as a whole.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Aqil Shah
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• 3 points

The Making of Global Contemporary Art:

This lecture class introduces the notion of global contemporary art through the history of exhibitions, chiefly biennials and other large-scale endeavors, and principal agents behind them. On the one hand, the course considers exhibitions as a crucial tool of cultural diplomacy, which seek to position and/or reposition cities, regions, and even entire nations or “peoples” on the international scene. Thus, we will explore how the artistic interests vested in exhibition-making intersect with other—political, economic, ideological, and cultural—interests. We will consider those intersections paying special attention to the shifts in political relations and tensions during and after the Cold War, including the moment of decolonization in Africa; the moment commonly understood as “globalization” and associated with the expansion of the neoliberal capitalism after 1989; and, finally, the current moment of the planetary crisis. This expansive view of the “global contemporary art” will allow us to distinguish different impetuses behind internationalism and globalism that not only seek to establish hegemony, artistic or otherwise, but also look for the means to forge transnational dialogues and solidarities. On the other hand, this class seeks to illuminate how certain artistic idioms and approaches developed after World War II achieved primacy that influences artistic production to this day. To this end, we will examine the rise of a “visionary curator” as a theorist and tastemaker. We will also explore how more recent exhibitions have sought to expand the geography of the “canonized” post-WWII art movements and valorize artistic production conceived outside of the so-called “West.”

In addition to weekly brief writing assignments (150–300 words each), both in and outside of class, the students in the course will reconceive the installation of one of MoMA’s permanent collection galleries (1940s-70s or 1970s-present) and produce a podcast that provides the rationale for the reinstallation in form of dialogue.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Dorota Biczel
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• 4 points

US PRESIDENCY WASHINGTON TO TRUMP

This lecture examines how the American presidency evolved into the most important job on earth. It examines how major events in US and world history shaped the presidency. How changes in technology and media augmented the power of the president and how the individuals who served in the office left their marks on the presidency. Each class will make connections between past presidents and the current events involving today's Commander-in-Chief. Some topics to be discussed: Presidency in the Age of Jackson; Teddy Roosevelt and Presidential Image Making; Presidency in the Roaring ‘20s; FDR and the New Deal; Kennedy and the Television Age; The Great Society and the Rise of the New Right; 1968: Apocalyptic Election; The Strange Career of Richard Nixon; Reagan's Post Modern Presidency; From Monica to The War on Terror.

• Department: School of Professional Studies (DVSP)
• W 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• Instructor: David Eisenbach
  CULPA: 24 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

RUSSIAN FOR HERITAGE SPEAKERS

Prerequisites: RUSS V3430 or the instructor's permission. This course is designed to help students who speak Russian at home, but have no or limited reading and writing skills to develop literary skills in Russian. THIS COURSE, TAKEN WITH RUSS V3431, MEET A TWO YEAR FOREIGN LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT. Conducted in Russian.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Alla Smyslova
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 3 points

PRINTMAKING II: RELIEF

Prerequisites: VIAR UN2430 (Formerly R3412) Printmaking II: Relief continues instruction and demonstration of further techniques in woodcut. Encourages students to think visually more in the character of the medium, and personal development is stressed. Individual and group critiques. Portfolio required at end. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• MW 9:30 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Nathan N Catlin
  Info
• 3 points

COLL: THEORIES OF LAW AND AMERICAN CONST

COLL: THEORIES LAW AMER C

This class will take up a range of debates within philosophy of law, with emphasis on the relationship between law, morality and various types of polities. We will explore a variety of approaches to the philosophy of law, including natural law theory and legal positivism, as well as rights-based, interpretive, and ideal legal theories. In addition to a survey of major theories in the philosophy of law, we will explore the principles that shape the United States Constitution – both in historical perspective, and with regard to theories of constitutional interpretation deployed by the current US Supreme Court. We explore these themes with in depth analysis of seminal cases, such as
Dred Scott v. Sandford, Dobbs v. Jackson, and Trump v. United States.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Jonathan J Keller
  Info
• 4 points

PRINTMAKING II:SILKSCREEN

Prerequisites: VIAR R2440. (Formerly R3414) Printmaking II: Silkscreen continues instruction and demonstration of further techniques in silkscreen. Encourages students to think visually more in the character of the medium, and personal development is stressed. Individual and group critiques. Portfolio required at end. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• R 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Aurelien T Couput
  Info
• 3 points

Literature in the 18th and 19th Centurie

Lit in the 18th & 19th Ce

Prerequisite OR Corequisite: GERMUN3333

This class will provide an introduction to the rich and varied forms of literary production between 1750 and 1900 by focusing on the culture of Sensibility, the Enlightenment, Storm and Stress, Romanticism, the “Vormärz” and Realism. We will situate major literary innovations of the 18th century in the context of changing reading and theater cultures and focus primarily on Lessing’s innovative domestic tragedy, and on poems and an epistolary novel by Goethe. Then we will discuss the literary production of the 19th century by analyzing changing concepts of art, music and literature during those times of great social and political change. We will study (and translate) poems, and read pamphlets and novellas by Tieck, Kleist, Hölderlin, Novalis, Brentano, Eichendorff, Günderrode, Droste-Hülshoff, Heine, Büchner, Mörike, Keller and Fontane.

**This course is taught entirely in German.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Dorothea von Muecke
  Info
• 3 points

TAP III

Prerequisites: DNCE BC2447, BC2448, or permission of instructor.

Tap III is an advanced level tap class for students who have 5 or more years of tap dance training. We will cover tap technique, proper use of the body to enhance sound quality and style, a variety of musical genres and structures, and improvisation.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Dormeshia Sunbry-Edwards
  Info
• 2 points

Evolution of Intelligence, Animal Commun

Prerequisites: PSYC UN1001, and the instructors permission.

A systematic review of the evolution language covering the theory of evolution, conditioning theory, animal communication, ape language experiments, infant cognition, preverbal antecedents of language and contemporary theories of language.

• Department: Psychology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Herbert S Terrace
  CULPA: 29 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

NEIGHBORHOOD & COMMUNITY DVLP

New York City is made up of more than 400 neighborhoods. The concept of neighborhoods in cities has had many meanings and understandings over time. Equally complex is the concept of community used to describe the people attached to or defined by neighborhood. While neighborhood can be interpreted as a spatial, social, political, racial, ethnic, or even, economic unit; community often refers to the group of stakeholders (i.e. residents, workers, investors) whose interests directly align with the conditions of their environment. Community development is “a process where these community members come together to take collective action and generate solutions to common problems” that result from the changing contexts in their neighborhoods. Using a variety of theories and approaches, residents organize themselves or work with community development practitioners on the ground to obtain safe, affordable housing, improve the public realm, build wealth, get heard politically, develop human capital, and connect to metropolitan labor and housing markets. To address the ever-changing contexts of neighborhoods, community development organizations are taking on new roles and adapting (in various cases) to larger forces within the city, region and nation such as disinvestment, reinvestment, increased cultural diversity, an uncertain macroeconomic environment, and changes in federal policy. For more than a century, city-dwellers—and especially New Yorkers—have been tackling these challenges. This course will examine both historic and contemporary community building and development efforts, paying special attention to approaches which were shaped by New York City. This urban center, often described as a “city of neighborhoods,” has long been a seedbed for community-based problem-solving inventions. The course will focus on the theories (why?), tools (how?), and actors (who?) within the field of community development practice and is organized around important sectors (housing, econom

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Noah Allison
  Info
• 3 points

Neurobiology of Working Memory

Working memory is our ability to retain information in mind in the absence of sensory stimuli. In this course we will gain a more thorough understanding of what working memory is and how the brain supports it.

• Department: Psychology
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Sarah Demoya
  Info
• 4 points

PUERTO RICO: COLONIAL EXPRNCE

Prerequisites: Third-year bridge course (W3300), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350). This course analyzes how political conflicts and cultural attitudes emerged in Puerto Rico throughout colonial Spanish rule (1492-1898) reappear or influence developing thought after the transfer of sovereignty to the United States and through the 1952 creation of the Commonwealth, as manifested in legal, journalistic, literary, and other cultural works.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Wadda Rios-Font
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

Netflix Culture

Netflix Culture

“Whether you are in Sydney or St. Petersburg, Singapore or Seoul, Santiago or Saskatoon, you now can be part of the internet TV revolution. No more waiting. No more watching on a
schedule that’s not your own. No more frustration. Just Netflix.” (Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, 2016)

The word “Netflix” refers not simply to the American online video store that became a streaming service in the twenty-first century's first decade and an international production company in the
second. It is a synecdoche for the widespread popularization of Internet TV seen in the success of SVODs (subscription video-on-demand services) like Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, and Apple TV+. The course will focus on the pioneering role of the Netflix streaming service and its dominant role in the creation and distribution of popular film and television content. In recent years, the success of internationally acclaimed productions has signaled a renewed interest in global histories and cultures, many of which were produced by Netflix and made available worldwide through its streaming service. The course discusses how processes of distribution and redistribution set in motion by the streaming service call for us to reconsider and reapproach ideas advanced by cultural studies that now seem unsuitable for delineating the full scope of Internet TV’s proliferation. We analyze Netflix series in the global scene and examine how global contents are tied to the emergence of unique genres. How do recent Netflix productions change, modify, or reimagine the narratives of national histories and cultures globally? Has the international online platform and film market more generally changed national images and stereotypes? More specifically, which genre conventions emerge from global politics and these new modes of streaming services? How have the series assimilated to international market conditions and audiences? Has the serial dispositive of television (as opposed to film), as well as the different viewing venues (private space of one’s home) and mode of consumption (binging), changed how global contents are presented?

Each week will focus on a different genre and analyze central episodes from two different series.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• 3 points

Music and Cognitive Neuroscience

Music & Cognitive Neurosc

This seminar will provide a broad survey of how principles of cognition are represented
in music and the ways music has been used to study those principles in the psychology
and neuroscience literature.

• Department: Psychology
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: John N Thorp
  Info
• 3 points

Field Work & Research Seminar: Toddler C

FLDWRK-RSRCH SEM-BAR TOD CNTR

PSYC BC1129/2129 (with or without lab) as well as permission of the instructor.

The Barnard Toddler Center provides the focus for this seminar and research in applied developmental psychology, an amalgam of developmental, educational, and clinical psychology. The seminar integrates theory and research and for AY 20-21 will use daily recordings of the toddler sessions as the centerpiece for understanding early development. The unique context of Covid19 will be used to understand risks in development, especially for vulnerable children and families. Second term students will also conduct research on parenting during the pandemic.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrea F Fields
  Info
• 4 points

AIDS Is Contemporary

This seminar examines two intertwined propositions. One is the undisputable fact that the global HIV/AIDS pandemic is ongoing and that the disease continues to shape the way artists and activists grapple with public health, national policy, and medical injustice.  The other is my own polemic-in-formation, which is that the eruption of AIDS in the 1980s was
the
threshold event that inaugurated what is now understood to be “the contemporary” within the art world.  Rather than periodize the start of “the contemporary” with the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall, as has become conventional, we will investigate how the AIDS crisis precipitated a sudden urgency that more decisively marks this transition, in particular around the promiscuous inclusion of non-fine art forms such as demonstration posters, zines, and handmade quilts.  We will read foundational texts on HIV/AIDS organizing and look at interventions with graphic design, wheat-pasting, ashes action protests, body maps, embroidery, performance-based die-ins, voguing, film/video, and photography.

We will consider: the inextricability of queer grief, anger, love, and loss; lesbian care; the trap of visibility; spirituality and death; activist exhaustion; the role played by artists of color within ACT-UP; and dis/affinities across the US, Latin America, and South Africa. Our investigations will be bookended by two critical exhibitions,
Witness: Against Our Vanishing
(Artists Space, 1989) and
Exposé-es
(Palais de Tokyo, 2023). Authors and artists/collectives include: Aziz + Cuchar, Bambanani Women’s Group, Felicano Centurion, Douglas Crimp, Ben Cuevas, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Darrel Ellis, fierce pussy, Elisabeth Lebovici, José Leonilson, Nicolas Moufarrege, Marlon Riggs, Matthew Wong, and the Visual AIDS archive. We will conclude with feminist, queer, and collaborative artistic work made during the (also ongoing) Covid-19 pandemic.  In small groups, students will lead discussions of our texts and the final project will be a collectively curated virtual exhibition.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Julia Bryan-Wilson
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• 4 points

ROCK MUSIC &LIT SOUTHERN CONE

Prerequisites: Third-year bridge course (W3300), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350). In this course we will explore different social and cultural aspects of the shifting and complex interrelations between rock and literature in the Southern Cone. We will examine some representative novels, short stories, documentaries, secondary bibliography, and songs in the field.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Orlando Bentancor
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

The Harlem Renaissance & Black Modernism

The Harlem Renaissance marks a pivotal era in art history, where Black artists, writers, and intellectuals redefined cultural and artistic expression. This course, "The Harlem Renaissance & Black Modernism," explores the dynamic factors that fueled this vibrant period, including the aftermath of the Reconstruction era, the Great Migration, and the influential contributions of key artists and thinkers. Throughout the course, we will examine the diverse artistic practices that emerged not only in Harlem but across broader networks in both the US and abroad, underscoring the movement's widespread impact. By situating the Harlem Renaissance within its broader contexts – such as histories of Black queer and feminist thought and transatlantic modernism — we will gain a deeper understanding of its lasting significance. Through weekly readings, discussions, and site visits, students will engage with the multifaceted legacy of the Harlem Renaissance and of Black modernist art more generally, analyzing their influence on contemporary discussions of art and culture. By the end of the course, students will have a comprehensive grasp of how this cultural renaissance shaped and continues to influence artistic production in ongoing ways.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: David Sledge
  Info
• 4 points

Melville s Fiction

Deep reading by way of the deep sea: a semester of full immersion in
Moby-Dick
.  We will also read three of Melville’s short fictions, some literary responses to Melville and various pieces of criticism and contexts, but we’ll approach Melville’s fiction less as scholars than as passionate novel-readers and literary interpreters. We will actually read
Moby-Dick
twice together, once at the beginning and once at the end of the class.  By focusing on the work of a single author, you’ll have the chance to develop serious familiarity with Melville’s style and fictional worlds as well as to consider what it means to prioritize depth over breadth in literary encounters.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jenny M Davidson
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 4 points

New Suns: Worlding in Black Speculative

New Suns: Worlding Blk Sc

This course takes Octavia E. Butler’s enigmatic expression, “There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns” as a guide for exploring the politics of Black speculative fiction, science fiction, and fantasy. With literary, sonic, visual, and cinematic examples, including works from Pauline Hopkins, W.E.B. DuBois, Samuel Delany, Wangechi Mutu, Janelle Monae, Sun Ra, Saul Williams, and others, this class considers the contexts of possibility for re/imagining Black pasts, presents and futures. Paying particular attention to how Black speculative fiction creates new worlds, social orders, and entanglements, students will develop readings informed by ecocriticism, science and technology studies, feminist, and queer studies. We will consider the multiple meanings and various uses of speculation and worlding as we encounter and interpret forms of utopian, dystopian, and (post)apocalyptic thinking and practice. No prerequisites.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: C. Riley Snorton
  Info
• 4 points

CONTEMP LATIN AMER SHORT FICT

Prerequisites: Third-year bridge course (W3300), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350). Readings of short stories and novellas by established and emerging writers from Spanish America and Brazil. Defines the parameters of Latin American short fiction by exploring its various manifestations, fantastic literature, protest writing, satire, and realism. Among the authors to be studied will be: Machado de Assis, Borges, Garcia Marquez, Ana Lydia Vega, Clarice Lispector, Silvina Ocampo, and Jose Donoso.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Alfred Mac Adam
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 3 points

Black Women Writing the City

During the twentieth century in the U.S., millions of Black Americans migrated from the rural South to the urban North, ushering in new forms of sensory and social experience. This course focuses on Black women’s relationship to the modern city, from the
fin de siècle,
through the Civil Rights Era, to the present-day. Across a variety of genres and contexts—including novels, poetry, plays, memoir, journalism, diaries, manifestos, spoken word and travelogues—Black writers have imagined and theorized femininity through the ever-shifting contours of the metropolis. While traditional accounts of urban modernity tend to take a masculine frame, our course will remain grounded in contemporary queer and feminist critique, asking: how do the physical, material, and architectural dimensions of the city impact
women’s
conceptions of selfhood? How do semi-public, semi-private spaces, such as cafes, offices, nightclubs, and cabarets, enable (or fail to enable) community and group belonging? How might such spaces nurture queer of color communities specifically? What forms of economic racism and segregation did women of color encounter, and what strategies did they deploy to counteract them? Is it possible for a Black woman to remain “private in public”? What kinds of industrial and technological developments enhanced women’s independence and financial freedoms, and which, like state surveillance, ultimately impeded—and continue to impede—their ability to survive and flourish? 

Primary authors will include Jessie Redmon Fauset, Dorothy West, Marita Bonner, Ann Petry, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lorraine Hansberry, Ntozake Shange, Toni Morrison, Shay Youngblood, Sarah Broom and Raven Leilani, supplemented by short critical readings by such writers as Audre Lorde and Saidiya Hartman. Combining theoretical and literary analysis with regular fieldwork in New York City—including visits to the Schomburg Center and the Studio Museum in Harlem—the seminar ultimately encourages students to think creatively and rigorously about their own relationship to race, gender, and urban experience.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Zoe L Henry
  Info
• 4 points

POST 9/11 IMMIGRATION POLICIES

Since September 11, 2001, there has been an avalanche of immigration enforcement policies and initiatives proposed or implemented under the guise of national security. This course will analyze the domino effect of the Patriot Act, the Absconder Initiative, Special Registration, the Real I.D. Act, border security including the building of the 700-mile fence along the U.S./Mexico border, Secured Communities Act-that requires the cooperation of state and local authorities in immigration enforcement, the challenge to birthright citizenship, and now the congressional hearings on Islamic radicalization. Have these policies been effective in combating the war on terrorism and promoting national security? Who stands to benefit from these enforcement strategies? Do immigrant communities feel safer in the U.S.? How have states joined the federal bandwagon of immigration enforcement or created solutions to an inflexible, broken immigration system?

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Elizabeth Ouyang
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

BRAZILIAN SOCIETY & CIV (ENG)

Each week, a historical period is studied in connection to a particular theme of ongoing cultural expression. While diverse elements of popular culture are included, fiction is privileged as a source of cultural commentary. Students are expected to assimilate the background information but are also encouraged to develop their own perspective and interest, whether in the social sciences, the humanities (including the fine arts), or other areas.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Joao Nemi Neto
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

Gene-Environment Interactions & Epigenet

Gene-Env Interaction & Ep

The aim of this course is to examine the biological bases of individual differences in behavior. We will start by examining how individual differences in behavior and health are shaped by gene-environment interactions. We will complement these studies with the endophenotype approach and discuss its role in our contemporary views of complex disorders. We will then introduce behavioral epigenetics studies that are suggested to mediate the effects of gene-environment interactions at different levels of analysis. We will continue by discussing how these topics shape and are shaped by developmental programming. We will end the semester by discussing the major debates around these topics as well as their implications in real life and public policies. By covering these topics, students are expected to gain a better understanding of how our behavior is i) formed and shaped by gene-environment interactions over time, ii) influenced by the underlying physiological and epigenetic mechanisms, and iii) changed by developmental processes. With this information, the students are expected to view individual differences in behavior in a perspective that is highly interdisciplinary and dynamic.

• Department: Psychology
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Elif A Duman
  Info
• 4 points

Applied Computing - Research and Industr

This course is designed as a companion to mentored research and industry projects in computer science that enable students to apply their learning in real-world contexts. While the course staff can provide general support for projects, they may not have the technical expertise to support all projects in depth. Therefore, students are expected to have arranged for a mentored project during the course registration period and will need to present their project topic in the second class. For example, a student could be working on a research project mentored by a professor or helping a local company develop a web interface to their product mentored by a company software engineer. Mentors must commit to meeting with students at least every other week. The course will be run through a mix of lecture and group work led by the course instructor as well as guest instructors from both industry and academia. Lectures cover a variety of applied computing topics designed to complement student projects and engage students with often underexplored considerations for effective and sustainable real-world projects. Students are evaluated both by their mentor on their project progress as well as by the course staff and peers on written deliverables and presentations.  Prerequisites: COMS W3134 Data Structures (or equivalent).

• Department: Computer Science @Barnard
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Brian K Plancher
  Info
• 4 points

INDEP BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Prerequisites: Concurrent with registering for this course, a student must register with the department and provide a written invitation from a mentor; details of this procedure are available at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/w3500/index.htm. Students must register for recitations UN3510 or consult the instructor. Corequisites: BIOL UN3510 The course involves independent study, faculty-supervised laboratory projects in contemporary biology. Concurrent with registering for this course, a student must register with the department, provide a written invitation from a mentor and submit a research proposal; details of this procedure are available at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/w3500/index.htm. A paper summarizing results of the work is required by the last day of finals for a letter grade; no late papers will be accepted. See the course web site (above) for more details. Students can take anywhere from 2-4 points for this course.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• Instructor: Ron M Prywes
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 2-4 points

SUPERVISED READINGS IN PHYSICS

Prerequisites: the written permission of the faculty member who agrees to act as supervisor, and the director of undergraduate studies permission. Readings in a selected field of physics under the supervision of a faculty member. Written reports and periodic conferences with the instructor.

• Department: Physics
• Instructor: Jeremy R Dodd
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 3 points

COLL:POLIT ECON:CORRPTN/CONTRL

Prerequisites: POLS V1501 or the equivalent. Admission by application through the Barnard department only. Enrollment limited to 16 students. Barnard syllabus. Comparative political economy course which addresses some important questions concerning corruption and its control: the concept, causes, patterns, consequences, and control of corruption. Introduces students to and engages them in several key social science debates on the causes and effects of political corruption.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Xiaobo Lu
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

Intro to Moving Image: Video, Film & Art

Intro Moving Image:Video,

Intro to Moving Image: Video, Film & Art is an introductory class on the production and editing of digital video. Designed as an intensive hands-on production/post-production workshop, the apprehension of technical and aesthetic skills in shooting, sound and editing will be emphasized. Assignments are developed to allow students to deepen their familiarity with the language of the moving image medium. Over the course of the term, the class will explore the language and syntax of the moving image, including fiction, documentary and experimental approaches. Importance will be placed on the decision making behind the production of a work; why it was conceived of, shot, and edited in a certain way. Class time will be divided between technical workshops, viewing and discussing films and videos by independent producers/artists and discussing and critiquing students projects. Readings will be assigned on technical, aesthetic and theoretical issues. Only one section offered per semester. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• M 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Tal Keren
  Info
• 3 points

URBANIZING CHINA

This course investigates the dramatic urban transformation that has taken place in mainland China over the last four decades. The speed and scale of this transformation have produced emergent new lifeways, settlement patterns, and land uses that increasingly blur the distinction between urban and rural areas. At the same time, Chinese society is still characterized by rigid, administrative divisions between the nation’s urban and rural sectors, with profound consequences for people’s lives and livelihoods. The course therefore examines the intersection between the rapid transformation of China’s built environment and the glacial transformation of its administrative categories. We will take an interdisciplinary approach to this investigation, using perspectives from architecture, history, geography, political science, anthropology, urban planning, and cultural studies, among other disciplines.

The course is divided into two parts: Over the first five weeks, we will consider the historical context of China’s urbanization and its urban-rural relations, including the imperial, colonial, and socialist periods, as well as the current period of reform. In the remainder of the semester, we will turn our focus to contemporary processes of urbanization, with a particular emphasis on the complex interrelationship between urban and rural China. This portion of the semester is organized into three two-week units on land and planning, housing and demolition, and citizenship and personhood.

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Nick R Smith
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• 4 points

GENDERED CONTROVERSIES

Love and sex have long been studied as historical constructs influenced by social, political, and economic dimensions. This course aims to expand this discourse by incorporating the often-overlooked lens of technological mediation. Beginning with the premise that romantic love is deeply shaped by the affordances of the technology of the time, a critical awareness of technological mediation in romance –especially of digital technologies, i.e. online dating, social media, or cybersex— allows for a deeper understanding of how social categories such as gender, race, class, ability, or sexuality are technologically-mediated, thereby informing our societal and cultural perceptions of love, dating, and sex. 

 

Sandra Moyano-Ariza is Term Assistant Professor of WGSS and Research Director at BCRW. Her research works at the intersection of pop culture, philosophy, and digital technologies, with interests in the fields of media studies and digital scholarship, contemporary feminist theory, critical race theory, posthumanism, and affect theory.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Sandra Moyano-Ariza
  Info
• 4 points

A Trans History of the United States

A Trans History of the US

This course explores the diversity of gendered experiences across the history of the United States with an emphasis on the individuals, communities, and movements that have been interpreted as trans. The course has three goals: 1) to offer an in-depth survey of the history of trans and gender nonconforming experiences across the history of the United States; 2) to critically explore the emergence of “transgender” as a social, medical, and historical category, with attention to its assumptions and exclusions; 3) to provide experience with critical interpretation of primary sources documenting gendered lives in the past. Key historical themes include experiences of trans/gender in relation to race and colonialism, labor, migration, medicine, kinship and sexuality, legal and carceral systems, activism, performance, media, and technology. Key historiographical themes include: changing interpretations of gender/sexuality by successive generations of historians, identities such as “trans” as both categories of analysis and objects of historical inquiry themselves, the challenges presented by sources that overlook, misrepresent, or obscure gendered subjectivity, and the political stakes of trans history during times of backlash and hostility towards trans communities. Course meetings include discussion of secondary readings and analysis of primary sources, and in-class activities and assignments emphasize developing skills to identify, analyze, and use a wide range of sources to understand shifting frameworks of gender throughout US history. No prerequisites necessary.

• Department: History
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Nikita Shepard
  Info
• 4 points

INDEP BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH - REC

• Department: Biological Sciences
• T 5:40 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• W 5:40 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Ron M Prywes
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 0 points

ADVANCED WORKSHOP TRANSLA

Maurice Blanchot once described translators as the “hidden masters of culture.” Indeed, though our labor and craft often go unrecognized in the age of Google Translate, translators play an essential role as tastemakers, bridge-builders, advocates, and diplomats, not to mention the most intimate readers and re-writers of literature. In this workshop, we will explore translation as a praxis of writing, reading, and revision. Together, we will also interrogate translation's complex and often fraught role in cultural production. What ethical questions does translation raise? Who gets to translate, and what gets translated? What is the place of the translator in the text? What can translation teach us about language, literature, and ourselves? Readings will include selections from translation theory, method texts, and literary translations across genres, from poetry and prose to essay and memoir. Students will workshop original translations into English and complete brief writing and translation exercises throughout.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Jhumpa Lahiri
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• 4 points

Environmental Humanities in the Global S

ENVIRO HUMANITIES GLOBAL

"This interdisciplinary course studies how individuals and communities in the Global South attempt to make sense of the ‘sense of an ending’ that underlines all warnings about environmental crisis and climate change. Our interdisciplinary course has a doubled foundation out of which our readings and discussions will grow: communal understanding and knowledge about local environments, on one hand, and the relation between such knowledge and the data and information gathered by scientists."

"We therefore begin with a simple question: what is the relation between the Humanities and the work of scientists? Scientists undertake painstaking, necessary research to provide communities and their governments with vital, necessary information. Individuals and communities interpret and translate this information, often affectively. An organization of scientists studying carbon levels across Africa can list the progressive increase in temperatures across Africa over a period of years and calculate anticipated increases. An image based on this data may visualize the projected rise:"

"A glance reveals something dire based on the way we associate red with danger. Our course is oriented towards who lives beneath the surfaces of data and images that ‘draw a picture’ for us. We read for how communities and individuals explain and communicate their relation to the historical and changing environments. In other words, we attend to narration, in different forms—fiction, poetry, song, travelogue—to grasp how experiences are rendered comprehensible. There is a broad ‘where’ as well, and a fluid ‘when.’ ‘Where’ takes us into the portmanteau category of ‘The Global South.’ We bracket the scope of this category to focus upon specific places in the Indian Ocean, sub-Saharan Africa and diasporic African communities. ‘When’ permits us to think of time, the time of the world, the times of change and the times of aftermaths. Go into an archive, open a history book, a sacred text and you will encounter ‘endings.’ We enter British colonial archives to see how signs of  ‘When’ also allows us to face an underlying dread that might be called a ‘sense of an ending’ and to see just how many such ‘endings’ have come to pass. This is how we enter the diasporic histories of environmental change related to colonialism and the enslavement and transportation of whose descendants live in the

• Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Yvette Christianse
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• 4 points

Queer Theory, Religion, and Their Discon

QUEER THEORY AND RELIGION

For the most part queer studies and religious studies have met each other with great suspicion and little interest in the conceptual resources of the respectively other field. Our guiding questions will be: What does religion have to do with queerness? What does queerness have to do with religion?

Queer theory and activists, unless they already identify as religious, often have little or little good to say about religion. Conversely, many religious traditions intensively regulate gender, sex, sexuality, and especially queerness. this course will explore how religious studies can enrich queer theory and how queer theory can reshape our thinking about religious studies. But beyond the mutual disinterest, anxieties, and animosities, queer studies and religious studies share actually a whole range of core interests and questions, such as embodiment, sexuality, gender-variability, coloniality, race appearing as religious identity and religious identity as gendered, as well as the role of catastrophe, utopia, and redemption in our experience of the world.

We will examine questions about religion come to the fore when we paying especially attention to queerness, gender, sexuality, pleasure, pain, and desire. Equally, we will examine how queer discourses mobilize religious and theological images and ideas, especially where these images and ideas are no longer clearly recognizable as having religious origins.

Rather than trying to settle on definitive answers, this course will cultivate a process of open-ended collective inquiry in which students will be encouraged to think autonomously and challenge facile solutions. Students should come away from the course with an expanded sense of how we grapple with issues related to gender, sexuality, desire, and embodiment in our everyday lives and how religion and religious formations are entangled with these issues well beyond religious communities. Ideally, students should experience this course as enlarging the set of critical tools at their hands for creative and rigorous thinking.

• Department: Religion
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Yannik Thiem
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• 3 points

CIVIL RIGHTS &CIVIL LIBERTIES

Prerequisites: POLS W1201 or the equivalent. Not an introductory-level course. Not open to students who have taken the colloquium POLS BC3326. Enrollment limited to 25 students; L-course sign-up through eBear. Barnard syllabus. Explores seminal caselaw to inform contemporary civil rights and civil liberties jurisprudence and policy. Specifically, the readings examine historical and contemporary first amendment values, including freedom of speech and the press, economic liberties, takings law, discrimination based on race, gender, class and sexual preference, affirmative action, the right to privacy, reproductive freedom, the right to die, criminal procedure and adjudication, the rights of the criminally accused post-9/11 and the death penalty. (Cross-listed by the American Studies and Human Rights Programs.)

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Paula A Franzese
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• 3 points

SENIOR SEMINAR I

The Senior Seminar in Women's Studies offers you the opportunity to develop a capstone research paper by the end of the first semester of your senior year. Senior seminar essays take the form of a 25-page paper based on original research and characterized by an interdisciplinary approach to the study of women, sexuality, and/or gender. You must work with an individual advisor who has expertise in the area of your thesis and who can advise you on the specifics of method and content. Your grade for the semester will be determined by the instructor and the advisor. Students receiving a grade of B+ or higher in Senior Seminar I will be invited to register for Senior Seminar II by the Instructor and the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Senior Seminar II students will complete a senior thesis of 40-60 pages. Please note, the seminar is restricted to Columbia College and GS senior majors.

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Jack Halberstam
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• 4 points

INTRODUCTION TO LATINX STUDIES

In the US, Latinxs are often treated in quantitative terms—as checkmarks on census forms, or as
data points in demographic surveys. However, Latinxs have always been more than mere numbers:
while some have stayed rooted in traditional homelands, and while others have migrated through
far-flung diasporas, all have drawn on and developed distinctive ways of imagining and inhabiting
the Americas. In this course, we will explore a wide range of these Latinx lifeways. Through readings
in the humanities and social sciences, we will learn how Latinxs have survived amidst and against
settler colonialism and racial capitalism. Meanwhile, through the study of literature and art, we will
see how Latinxs have resisted and/or reinforced these social systems. With our interdisciplinary and
intersectional approach, we will determine why Latinidad has manifested differently in colonial
territories (especially Puerto Rico), regional communities (especially the US–Mexico borderlands),
and transnational diasporas (of Cubans, of Dominicans, and of a variety of Central Americans). At
the same time, we will understand how Latinxs have struggled with shared issues, such as (anti-)
Blackness and (anti-)Indigeneity, gender and sexuality, citizenship and (il)legality, and economic and
environmental (in)justice. During the semester, we will practice Latinx studies both collectively and

individually: to enrich our in-class discussions, each student will complete a reading journal, a five-
page paper, a creative project, and a digital timeline.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Carlos Nugent
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• 4 points

Senior Seminar I (Barnard)

SENIOR SEMINAR I

Student-designed capstone research projects offer practical lessons about how knowledge is produced, the relationship between knowledge and power, and the application of interdisciplinary feminist methodologies.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Manijeh Moradian
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• Instructor: Jacqueline Orr
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• 4 points

ADVANCED SENIOR STUDIO I

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 15 students. Permission of the instructor. An interpretive study of the theoretical and critical issues in visual art. Projects that are modeled after major movements in contemporary art will be executed in the studio. Each student develops an original body of artwork and participates in group discussions of the assigned readings. For further info visit: 
https://arthistory.barnard.edu/senior-thesis-project-art-history-and-visual-arts-majors

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Joan Snitzer
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• 4 points

IDENTITY & SOCIETY ANC EGYPT

This class investigates the ways in which the lives of ancient Egyptians differed based on their gender, ethnicity, class, age, and profession, as well as the time and locale in which they lived. It looks also at law, religion, wisdom literature, and at the communities of two well-documented towns: Middle Kingdom Kahun and New Kingdom Deir el-Bahari. By investigating specific communities—as well as Egyptian social life more generally—students will gain a nuanced appreciation for the ways in which a variety of ancient Egyptians lived their lives, viewed their world, acted to better their personal circumstances, asserted their own identities, and even interpreted their dreams.

• Department: Classics @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ellen Morris
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• 4 points

JUNIOR SEMINAR IN URBAN STUDIES

JUNIOR SEMINAR URBAN STUD

Prerequisites: Non-majors admitted by permission of instructor. Students must attend first class. Enrollment limited to 16 students per section. Introduction to the historical process and social consequences of urban growth, from the middle of the nineteenth century to the present.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Nick R Smith
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• Instructor: Angela Simms
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• 4 points

QUEER HARLEM

This course explores representations of queer Harlem in African American literature, sonic culture, and performance. We will consider the history and making of Harlem, key figures of the Harlem Renaissance, and the aesthetic innovations of writers and artists who defied the racial, sexual, and gendered conventions of their time. We will be guided by an intersectional approach to the study of race, gender, and sexuality and the methods of Black queer studies, African American and African diaspora literary studies, as well as sound and performance scholarship. We will ask when, where, and what was/is gay Harlem; how we might excavate its histories; map its borders; and speculate on its material and imagined futures.

• Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Maleda Belilgne
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• 4 points