FIRST YEAR KOREAN II
An introduction to written and spoken Korean. Textbook: Integrated Korean, Beginning I and II.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- MTWR 10:10 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
- MTWR 11:40 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
- MTWR 1:10 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
- MTWR 2:40 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
- MTWR 4:10 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
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Hey-Ryoun Hong
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Eunice Chung
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Ji-Young Jung
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Joowon Suh
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Gahye Song
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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
- MWF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- MW 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Emma Ianni
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Instructor:
Luke Lea
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CALCULUS II
Prerequisites: MATH UN1101 or the equivalent. Methods of integration, applications of the integral, Taylors theorem, infinite series. (SC)
- Department: Mathematics
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Maithreya A Sitaraman
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Yier Lin
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Instructor:
Evgeni Dimitrov
CULPA: 4
h-index: 6
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- 3 points
ELEMENTARY TAMIL II
Introduces students to the basic grammatical and syntactical skills required to function adequately in a Tamil-speaking environment. Of particular interest to students planning to conduct scholarly research or fieldwork in that region of the world. Introduces students to the rich culture of the Indian subcontinent where Tamil is spoken. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- MTWR 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Shiv Subramaniam
Info - 4 points
ELEMENTARY POLISH II
Essentials of the spoken and written language. Prepares students to read texts of moderate difficulty by the end of the first year.
- Department: Slavic Languages
- MWF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Claudia R Kelley
CULPA: 3
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- 4 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
- MWR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ana P Huback
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
ELEMENTARY PUNJABI II
Prerequisites: Shared course. Contact ck2831@columbia.edu for more Info. Introduction to Punjabi, a major language of northern India and Pakistan. Beginning with the study of the Gurmukhi script, the course offers an intensive study of the speaking, reading, and writing of the language.
- Department: Language Resource Center
- MW 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sandeep Singh
Info - 4 points
ELEMENTARY QUECHUA II
Quechua is the most important and most widely-distributed indigenous language in South America, with over 10 million speakers living from the high mountains to the tropical lowlands in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. Those who speak it call the language runa simi or runa shimi, human speech. It was the principal language of the Inca empire and the key language of cultural interaction during the colonial era. Quechua has remained central to indigenous peoples efforts to preserve their cultural autonomy. It has gained greater force in recent years, during which indigenous movements have swept Quechua speakers into national politics, where they have succeeded in transforming constitutions to recognize cultural diversity, making Quechua an official language of state, and successfully promoting schooling in the language. Students who satisfactorily complete Elementary Quechua I and II will be well-prepared for intensive summer study at one of many summer study abroad programs in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia that will put them in closer contact with the indigenous world.
- Department: Language Resource Center
- MTR 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
- 4 points
FIRST-YEAR RUSSIAN II
Grammar, reading, composition, and conversation.
- Department: Slavic Languages
- MTWR 8:50 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- MTWR 10:10 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
- MTWR 1:10 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
- MTWR 6:10 p.m.-7:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Yulia A Kim
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Tomi Haxhi
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Instructor:
Nataliya Kun
CULPA: 5
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Instructor:
Ararat Sekeryan
Info - 5 points
ELEMENTARY SINHALA II
This course is designed to bring students with no background to a point where they can perform most basic linguistic functions in Sinhala, including greetings, likes/dislikes, telling about yourself, describing places and situations, all in appropriate time frames. The class uses a highly interactive classroom style, supplemented by extensive use of video – both prepared and student-produced – and other computer-assisted tools. Please note this course is offered by videoconferencing from Cornell as part of the Shared Course Initiative.
- Department: Language Resource Center
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Instructor:
Stephane A Charitos
CULPA: 6
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- 4 points
ELEMENTARY SPANISH II
Prerequisites: SPAN UN1101 or a score of 280-379 in the departments Placement Examination. 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
- 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.
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Instructor:
Juan P Jimenez-Caicedo
CULPA: 10
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- 4 points
ELEMENTARY SWEDISH II
This course is a continuation of the introductory Swedish 101 course. It will introduce you to the Swedish language as it is used in Sweden today. You will also learn about aspects of contemporary Swedish culture, main events and figures in Swedens history, and Swedish traditions. Upon the completion of the course, students who have attended class regularly, have submitted all assignments and taken all tests and quizzes should be able to: talk about themselves, families, interests, likes and dislikes, daily activities, education, professional interests and future plans in some detail; understand and participate in a simple conversation on everyday topics such as educational choices, subjects, plans for the weekend and the holidays, places to live, transportation, etc read and fully comprehend edited texts on familiar topics understand the main ideas and identify the underlying themes in original texts such as literary fiction, film, and newspaper articles write short essays on a familiar topic using the relevant vocabulary understand and utilize the information in a variety of authentic texts (e.g. menus, signs, train schedules, websites) carry out simple linguistic tasks that require speaking on the phone (e.g. setting up an appointment, asking questions about an announcement, talking to a friend) fill in forms requesting information, write letters, e-mails, notes, post cards, or messages providing simple information; provide basic information about Sweden including: Swedens geography, its political system and political parties, educational system, etc. discuss and debate familiar topics recognize significant figures from Swedens history and literary history use and understand basic vocabulary related to important aspects of contemporary Swedish culture and Swedish traditions and contemporary lifestyles in Sweden. pronounce Swedish well enough and produce Swedish with enough grammatical accuracy to be comprehensible to a Swedish speaker with experience in speaking with non-natives. Methodology The class will be taught in a communicative way. It will be conducted primarily, but not exclusively in Swedish. In-class activities and homework assignments will focus on developing speaking, reading, writing, listening skills and a basic understanding of Swedish culture through interaction. Authentic materials will be used whenever possible.
- Department: Germanic Languages
- MW 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Heli Sirvioe
Info - 4 points
ELEMENTARY SWAHILI II
Essentials of grammar, basic vocabulary, practice in speaking and reading Swahili the most widely used indigenous language of East Africa. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- TR 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
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Instructor:
Abdul Nanji
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
ELEMENTARY TWI (AKAN) II
This course is designed as the second part of an elementary language sequence. It is designed for students who will be introduced to the basic structure of Twi and the culture of the Akan-Twi-speaking people. Instruction is in the target language with an expected proficiency goal of Novice Mid at the end of the semester. Students will be introduced to basic grammar and communicative skills as well as cultural activities. This will be reinforced through role plays, conversations, dialogues and songs. At the end of the course, students are expected to acquire basic grammar competence and be able to use appropriate expressions for everyday situations with an understanding and appreciation of the culture of the Akan people in Ghana, West Africa. In addition to Asante Twi, students will be exposed to Akuapem Twi and Fante.
- Department: Language Resource Center
- MTWR 9 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
- 4 points
ELEMENTARY UKRAINIAN II
Designed for students with little or no knowledge of Ukrainian. Basic grammar structures are introduced and reinforced, with equal emphasis on developing oral and written communication skills. Specific attention to acquisition of high-frequency vocabulary and its optimal use in real-life settings.
- Department: Slavic Languages
- MWR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Yuri Shevchuk
CULPA: 4 Info - 4 points
FIRST YEAR VIETNAMESE II
Prerequisites: () VIET 1101 or equivalent This course introduces students to the linguistic and grammatical structures of Vietnamese, a major language of South East Asia. Language skills include listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Students will also be introduced to some aspects of Vietnamese life and culture.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- MTWR 10:10 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
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Instructor:
Chung Nguyen
CULPA: 1 Info - 5 points
ELEMENTARY WOLOF II
Introduction to the basic grammatical structures of Wolof, a major language of West Africa spoken in Senegal and Gambia. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- MTWR 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mariame S Sy
Info - 4 points
ELEMENTARY YIDDISH II
This course offers an introduction to the language that has been spoken by the Ashkenazi Jews for more than a millennium, and an opportunity to discover a fabulous world of Yiddish literature, language and culture in a fun way. Using games, new media, and music, we will learn how to speak, read, listen and write in a language that is considered one of the richest languages in the world (in some aspects of vocabulary). We will also venture outside the classroom to explore the Yiddish world today: through field trips to Yiddish theater, Yiddish-speaking neighborhoods, Yiddish organizations, such as YIVO or Yiddish farm, and so on. We will also have Yiddish-speaking guests and do a few digital projects. At the end of the two-semester course, you will be able to converse in Yiddish on a variety of everyday topics and read most Yiddish literary and non-literary texts. Welcome to Yiddishland!
- Department: Germanic Languages
- MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Noa Tsaushu
Info - 4 points
ELEMENTARY YORUBA II
This course is designed to bring students with no background to a point where they can perform most basic linguistic functions in Yoruba, including greetings, likes/dislikes, telling about yourself, describing places and situations, all in appropriate time frames. The class uses a highly interactive classroom style, supplemented by extensive use of video – both prepared and student-produced – and other computer-assisted tools. Please note this course is offered by videoconferencing from Cornell as part of the Shared Course Initiative.
- Department: Language Resource Center
- MTWR 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
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Instructor:
Stephane A Charitos
CULPA: 6
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ELEMENTARY ZULU II
Prerequisites: ZULU W1201-W1202 or the instructors permission. Introduces students to the basic structures of Zulu, a Bantu language spoken in South Africa, especially in the Zululand area of KwaZulu/Natal province.
- Department: Language Resource Center
- MTWR 11:35 a.m.-12:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Stephane A Charitos
CULPA: 6
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- 4 points
Subverting the Script
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, class and migration. 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, nonfiction, scholarly, artistic and cinematic works. Texts are subject to change, but will likely include a selection from the following list: works by Virginia Woolf, Carmen Maria Machado, Maggie Nelson, Audre Lorde, Jeanette Winterson, N.K. Jemisin, Celine Sciamma and Cheryl Dunye, and critical theory by Laura Mulvey, Cherrie Moraga, bell hooks, and Judith Butler. Course costs will not exceed $30; access to books/texts can also be made available to students who need them free of charge
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Duygu Ula
CULPA: 6
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- 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 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sunil K Gulati
CULPA: 113
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Instructor:
Brendan O'Flaherty
CULPA: 64 Info - 4 points
RESISTING THE SINGLE STORY
In this First-Year Writing course, we will read and write about texts that use unreliable narrators, dramatic irony, and flawed protagonists to engage complex issues of identity, voice and perspective. Our literary and critical texts demand attention to the ways in which power shapes narrative, and narrative shapes power. We will think especially about how Eurocentric, colonial, and white supremacist texts have rendered Black and indigenous perspectives silent or unintelligible, and how Black and indigenous writers speak to, through, and against such erasure. The readings include literary works by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Herman Melville, Nella Larsen, Jamaica Kincaid, Toni Morrison, and Layli Long Soldier; and critical works by Frantz Fanon, Judith Butler, bell hooks, and others. The only book length work you will need is Toni Morrison’s
Jazz
(around $15 new).
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alexandra P Watson
CULPA: 16 Info - 3 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
- MW 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
- TR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
- MW 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
- TR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lisa K Northrop
CULPA: 8
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Seeing, Surveilling, and Performing
SEEING/SURVEILLING/PERFOR
In this course, we will read texts that raise questions about how gender, race, class, and sexuality are performed under the surveillance of culture. We will discuss not only how performance helps to create and stabilize categories that include and exclude, but also how performance can disrupt and destabilize these categories. Literary texts will include
Passing
by Nella Larsen,
Fantomina
by Eliza Haywood, poems by Ovid, and the film
Paris is Burning.
Secondary texts will include Sara Ahmed, Talia Bettcher, Judith Butler, Mary Ann Doane, W.E.B Dubois, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Jack Halberstam, bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Laura Mulvey, and James C. Scott.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Vrinda Condillac
CULPA: 28
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- 3 points
Race, Science, & Reproductive Justice (W
RACE, SCIENCE, REPRO (WKS
This course is about reproduction—a biological and social process that is often the target of deep-seated ideas about nation, culture, conflict, and definitions of life. With an emphasis on the reproductive justice movement in the United States, which centers the experiences and leadership of BIPOC women and LGBTQ people, we will explore a variety of literary works, films, journalism, public health studies, and policy/legal texts, all of which differently narrate, debate, script, and theorize about reproduction. Questions we will explore include: what is reproduction—scientifically, culturally, politically, and rhetorically? What is reproductive justice, and how is it distinct from reproductive rights and health? How have recent innovations in medicine and reproductive technologies both empowered and harmed reproductive experiences? And what kind of world does the reproductive justice movement urge us to imagine and create? Please note that the material for this class discusses obstetric violence; this material is important for understanding the relationships between race, science, and reproductive justice. Throughout the semester, we will discuss as a class how to work through this difficult material in respectful and inclusive ways. NOTE: This 4-credit version of First-Year Seminar (FYS)—FYS “Workshop”—is specially designed for students who believe they would benefit from extra support with their critical reading and academic writing skills. In addition to regular seminar meetings twice per week, students are also required to participate in six Friday “writing labs” over the course of the semester. The writing labs for this section will take place on the following Fridays, 11:40am-12:55pm: 1/15, 1/22, 1/29, 2/5, 2/12, and 3/26. These dates are for the Spring 2021 semester only.
- Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Cecelia B Lie-Spahn
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
REAL TALK / REAL TIME
This course takes as its foundation the words of bell hooks: “When our lived experience of theorizing is fundamentally linked to processes of self-recovery, of collective liberation, no gap exists between theory and practice.” Over the course of this term, students will learn to embrace their responsibility as intellectuals in the largest sense. By recognizing current issues as sites of intersectional analysis, they will learn to merge their scholarly activities with public discussion and organizational activism. Working collaboratively, they will research topics of current import and, on that basis, organize two speaker events, thereby learning how public intellectual organizing engages both theory and practice.
- Department: Consortium for Critical Interdisciplinary Studies @Barnard
- F noon-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Yvette Christianse
Wikipedia Info - 1 points
BEHAVIORAL BIOL-DISC
- Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
- W 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
- F 11:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Marina Cords
CULPA: 19 Info - 0 points
Imagining Social Justice
IMAGINING SOCIAL JUSTICE
While George Orwell may have been right when he remarked that "history is written by the winners," imaginative literature is almost always preoccupied with the losers. This course investigates how representational writing wrests its central themes and rhetorical strategies from imagining the voices of the disenfranchised. We begin from the premise that such acts of representation substitute as forms of redress, whether a justice of retribution and restoration or simply a caring gesture of bearing witness. Units will feature "fallen women" plots, plots of economic injustice, plots of racial injustice, and vigilantism. Texts may include the "Hymn to Demeter," Sophocles’s
Antigone
, Eliza Haywood’s
Fantomina
, Christina Rossetti’s
Goblin Market
, Elizabeth Gaskell’s
Mary Barton
, Toni Morrison’s
The Bluest Eye
, Emerald Fennell’s
Promising Young Woman
, examples of the American Western, the limited TV series
Watchmen
, and theoretical work by Ahmed, Fricker, Hartman, Ortner, Solnit, Spillers.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Monica F Cohen
CULPA: 8
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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.
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Instructor:
Monica L Miller
CULPA: 10
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- 1.5 points
POLITICAL THEORY - DISC
- Department: Political Science @Barnard
- T 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
- T 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- W 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
- W 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
- R 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
- R 11:10 a.m.-noon
- F 8:10 a.m.-9 a.m.
- F 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
- F 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- W 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sinead J Carolan
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SODB:FIRST AND SECOND YR SEM
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
FIRST YEAR CHINESE W II
The course is specially designed for students of Chinese heritage and advanced beginners with good speaking skills. It aims to develop the students 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
- MWF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- MTR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Cheng Ji
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Instructor:
Hailong Wang
CULPA: 22 Info - 5 points
Identity on the Move
IDENTITY ON THE MOVE
In this course we encounter characters who undergo a profound change of identity. For some, this change is punishing; for others, their new identity sets them free. Our task will be to analyze the ways in which identity is constructed; gain a deeper understanding of the role of race, class, and gender in its construction; and investigate the boundaries of community. We will accomplish this through close reading of the texts and critical conversation. Readings may include literary works by Franz Kafka
,
Mariana Enriquez, Edwidge Danticat, Virginia Woolf
,
and Danzy Senna
.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Francesca E Austin Ochoa
Info - 3 points
Feminist Futures
FEMINIST FUTURES
This course uses feminist and queer anti-racist engagements with science fiction as a starting point for considering speculation as a mode of inquiry and practice more generally. How and why do feminist authors, artists, activists, and theorists invoke the future in order to analyze and contest gendered inequalities and dominations that are experienced in the present? What are the consequences of speculation in the context of platform design and reproductive technologies? What is the role of imagination in dealing with archival documents? By posing these and other questions throughout the semester, we will explore numerous issues about the role of speculation, imagination, and forecasting in the everyday practice of feminist critique. The seminar meetings, readings, and assignments in this class all serve the larger goal of helping students cultivate intersectional approaches to the study of power.
- Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alexander Pittman
CULPA: 10
Info
- 3 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 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Meredith A Benjamin
CULPA: 5 Info - 3 points
RAPID READING AND TRANSLATION
This course, conducted in English, is designed to help graduate students from other departments gain proficiency in reading and translating Spanish texts for scholarly research. The course prepares students to take the Reading Proficiency Exam that most graduate departments demand to fulfill the foreign-language proficiency requirement in that language. Graduate students with any degree of knowledge of Spanish are welcome. A grade of A- or higher in this class will satisfy the GSAS foreign language proficiency requirement in Spanish.
- Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Omar Duran-Garcia
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 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Quincy Jones
Info - 3 points
ELEMENTARY GERMAN READING II
Prerequisites: GERM V1113 or the equivalent. This course does not fulfill any part of the language requirement for the bachelors degree. Intensive readings of graded expository texts, with review of the essentials of German grammar.
- Department: Germanic Languages
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Silja Weber
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MODERNITY
"All that is solid melts into air." So wrote Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848, registering the astonishing pace with which daily life was being transformed around them. For them, and for many of their contemporaries, the central feature of the modern world was its ceaseless change. Under the pressure of political, scientific, and economic revolutions, traditional ways of living and thinking might disappear almost overnight, to be replaced not by a new order but instead with an unending experience of instability and dislocation. This course reads a set of writers who both respond to and participate in that process of constant transformation – in what we have learned to call modernity. Should culture try to protect timeless values from the shock effects of modernization? Or should it find, in change, an opportunity for new forms of life and new styles of expression? If – as Marx and Engels did – we imagine modernity as a distinctively European event, how might writers outside of Europe make use of and respond to a modernity that excludes them? Is modernity something that happened, and is over – or are we today still swept up in it? Readings may include: literature from Milton, Wordsworth, Shelley, Douglass, Woolf, Kincaid; philosophy and criticism from Montaigne, Kant, Marx, Weber, Du Bois, Kracauer, Chakrabarty.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Andrew L Lynn
CULPA: 17
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METAMORPHOSIS
Our focus in this course will be metamorphosis—bodies and their transformations. In the process, we will think through a number of questions, among them: How is the body connected to the self? (Indeed, is there such a thing as a "self" distinct from one’s body?) If one's outer form changes, what remains? How is the body shaped (and reshaped) by external perceptions, by power structures, by history, by violence, by words? Over the course of the semester we will explore these questions as we discuss bodily ambiguities; analyze bodies as they change in form and nature; examine the dissolving boundaries between humans and other creatures; and think critically about issues of race, gender, class, and power in relation to the body. Readings are subject to change but will likely include short literary texts by Ovid, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Alice Fulton, Nalo Hopkinson, Carmen Maria Machado, Sofia Samatar, Roxane Gay, Keah Brown, Jennine Capó Crucet, and Gabrielle Bellot. Alongside these readings, we will engage with film, visual art, and theoretical frameworks for thinking about bodies in flux. All required texts will be distributed by the instructor. Note: A number of the readings for this class discuss different forms of sexual and identity-based violence. I believe these texts are important for understanding the relationships between power, self/identity, and the body—all key to thinking about the concept of metamorphosis. We'll talk as a class about how to work through these challenging texts in thoughtful and generative ways.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Penelope Usher
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READING THE BODY
In this course, we’ll think of the body as a text we can read—one that both represents and creates intersections between the body, science, and identity formation. We’ll read literary texts that reveal how scientific authority gets mapped onto the body and embedded in ideas of race, gender, class, sexuality, family, and nation; we’ll also analyze how writers in turn investigate and play with these scientific scripts. How do literary depictions of the body both represent and resist scientific authority? What do they teach us about the "factness" and fluidity of identity and belonging? Readings are subject to change, but will likely include literature by Ovid, Octavia Butler, Amy Bonnaffons, Isabel Allende, and Nella Larsen, as well as select texts from feminist science studies, critical race studies, and queer theory.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Cecelia B Lie-Spahn
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
TOPICS OF CONVERSATION
What and how do we learn from talking to other people? In this seminar we will explore the role of conversation in primarily Western philosophy and culture. How has the idea of dialogue shaped understandings of aesthetics and ethics, metaphysics and psychology, race and cosmopolitanism, and gender and sexuality from classical times to the present? More specifically: How does the art of conversation arrive at metaphysical truths? What do we bring to our encounters with people of different backgrounds, and what can we take away from conversations with those of disparate political views? How does talking to another person help us to uncover psychic meaning, and why do we need another person to understand our psyches? What do the dialogues in our selected works tell us about the interpersonal construction of meaning and the nature of friendship and erotic experience? Our primary texts will take conversation—as well as the silences and tacit subtexts, ambiguities and ironies embedded within—as one of their structuring principles and predominant subjects of concern. These may include Plato’s dialogue on love, metaphysics, and rhetoric in
Phaedrus
; Teju Cole’s
Open City
, a documentary-like novel about, among other things, talking to strangers and meeting people in the haunted cities of Brussels, Lagos, and New York; and Sally Rooney’s exploration of friendship, sex and sexuality, and the role of ideas in our lives in
Conversations with Friends
. Other theoretical and primary texts may include excerpts from Bakhtin’s
The Dialogic Imagination
; Freud’s writings on psychoanalytic technique, including "Remembering, repeating, working through"; Montaigne and contemporary philosophers on friendship. We will also spend time with a number of the dialogue-centered films, including the seminal
My Dinner with Andre
by Louis Malle,
Before Sunrise
by Richard Linklater, and
Ten
by Abbas Kiarostami.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Maureen Chun
CULPA: 4 Info - 3 points
CROSSING BORDERS: THE AMERICAS
This course cuts across the borders between North, South and Central America and the Caribbean, in a search for the ways in which literature illuminates different aspects of American identity. We step outside of a North American perspective to see the Americas as active historical and aesthetic agents, acting and interacting with each other. We emphasize the minority voices--immigrant, African, indigenous, Latinx, working class, gender non-conforming--that are essential to the evolution of literature in the Americas, which is characterized from the beginning by its freedom from tradition. We look at the development of Modernism, Post-modernism and Post-colonialism in the 20th and early 21st centuries through the study of key novels, short stories, essays and poetry from North and South America and the Caribbean, including works by Martí, DuBois, Hughes, Hurston, Eliot, Neruda, Césaire, Borges, García Márquez, Junot Diaz, Audre Lorde, Joy Harjo, Jamaica Kincaid, Edwidge Danticat, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Valeria Luiselli. By looking at these works in their historical, political and aesthetic contexts, we can grapple with the multiple formations of American identities.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- W 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Linn C Mehta
CULPA: 18
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COMPREHENSIVE BEG CATALAN
An extensive introduction to the Catalan language with an emphasis on oral communication as well as the reading and writing practice that will allow the student to function comfortably in a Catalan environment.
- Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
- TR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elsa Ubeda
CULPA: 10
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COMPREHENSIVE BEGINNING SPAN
Intensive, fast-paced elementary Spanish course for
multilingual learners who have had little to no formal education in Spanish
. Replaces the sequence SPAN UN1101-SPAN UN1102.
Prerequisites
: Take the Department's
Language Placement Examination
. (It is only for diagnostic purposes, to assess your language learning skills, not your knowledge of Spanish). If you score approximately 330 OR MORE, you may qualify for this course if: -
you have had little to no formal education in Spanish
, AND - you identify with ONE of the following language learner profiles:
Learners of Spanish as a 3rd language
: fluent in a language other than English
Informal learners of Spanish
: English speakers who have “picked up” Spanish by interacting with Spanish speakers in informal settings
“Receptive” Spanish heritage learners
: English dominant, but you understand Spanish spoken by family and community members
(The exam is only an initial assessment for diagnostic purposes. Your score might be high, even if you have never studied Spanish in a formal setting). You do not need my permission to register*. I will further assess your level during the Change of Program period. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or if you are unsure about your placement in this course. *Students who do not have the necessary proficiency level may not remain in this course. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.
- Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
- TRF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Diana Romero
CULPA: 27 Info - 4 points
MASTERPIECES OF WESTERN ART
Equivalent to HUMA C1121 and F1121. Not a historical survey but an analytical study of masterpieces, including originals available in the metropolitan area. The chief purpose is to acquaint students with the experience of a work of art. A series of topics in the development of Western art, selected to afford a sense of the range of expressive possibilities in painting, sculpture, and architecture, such as the Parthenon, the Gothic cathedral, and works of Michelangelo, Bruegel, Picasso, and others. Space is limited. Columbia University undergraduates who need this course for graduation are encouraged to register during early registration.
- Department: Core (A&S)
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Claire P Dillon
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Catherine J Damman
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Molly E Allen
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Dawn H Delbanco
CULPA: 12
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- 3 points