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 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Cecelia B Lie-Spahn
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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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Elsa Ubeda
CULPA: 10
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- 4 points
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
- MWF 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Diana Romero
CULPA: 27 Info - 4 points
LIVES IN TRANSLATION
This class focuses on the theme of translation and what happens when texts and people cross national, cultural, linguistic, racial or gendered borders. Through our classroom discussions and essays, we will explore the following questions: Why or how do texts lend themselves to or resist translation? How do encounters with dominant discourses necessitate acts of self-translation or resistance to translation, especially for people of color, immigrants or queer communities? How do narratives (both fictional and personal) change when translated across cultures and time to fit with local discourses? What is the role of the translator in these acts of remaking? Drawing on postcolonial and translation theory, we will consider how writers have pushed back against dominant narratives through texts that cross and complicate linguistic, cultural and national borders. Readings are subject to change but will likely include a selection from following: literary texts by James Baldwin, Sappho, Marjane Satrapi, Ocean Vuong, Fatimah Asghar, Irena Klepfisz, as well as various English translations of the
1001 Night
s; and scholarly texts by Gloria Anzaldúa, Edward Said, bell hooks, Friedrich Schleiermacher and Jorge Luis Borges. Course costs will not exceed $20; access to books can also be made available to students who need them.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Duygu Ula
CULPA: 6
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INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY GREEK
Covers all of Greek grammar and syntax in one term. Prepares the student to enter second-year Greek (GREK UN2101 or GREK UN2102).
INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY GREEK
Covers all of Greek grammar and syntax in one term. Prepares the student to enter second-year Greek (GREK UN2101 or GREK UN2102).
MASTERPIECES OF WESTERN ART
Discussion and analysis of the artistic qualities and significance of selected works of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Parthenon in Athens to works of the 20th century.
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Nina L Rosenblatt
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INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY ITALIAN
An intensive course that covers two semesters of elementary Italian in one, and prepares students to move into Intermediate Italian. Students will develop their Italian communicative competence through listening, (interactive) speaking, reading and (interactive) writing. The Italian language will be used for real-world purposes and in meaningful contexts to promote intercultural understanding. This course is especially recommended for students who already know another Romance language. May be used toward fulfillment of the language requirement.
- Department: Italian
- TRF 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Barbara Spinelli
CULPA: 9
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- 6 points
INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY COURSE
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- Department: Auditing
- TR 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Marissa K Hicks
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INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY LATIN
Equivalent to Latin 1101 and 1102. Covers all of Latin grammar and syntax in one term to prepare the student to enter Latin 1201 or 1202. This is an intensive course with substantial preparation time outside of class.
- Department: Classics
- TR 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Marissa K Hicks
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MASTERPIECES OF WESTERN MUSIC
Analysis and discussion of representative works from the Middle Ages to the present.
- Department: Core (A&S)
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Calder M Hannan
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Joshua Navon
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Hannah S Kendall
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Giuseppe Gerbino
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Ashkan Behzadi
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Ashkan Behzadi
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Bradford G Garton
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Julia M Hamilton
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Alexander K Rothe
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HAUNTED AMERICAS
In this course, we will encounter ghosts and hauntings in literature from the Americas, primarily from Latin American and Caribbean writers. These ghosts expose something hidden in the past and pull dark secrets into the light. We will think about haunting not just as a supernatural experience, but as a mechanism that reveals layers of history and unearths long buried injustices. A few of the characters we will meet are: A Cuban exile living in Miami who is haunted by the life he left behind; a teenager in Argentina who explores her queer identity and confronts the ghosts of the state violence; a General accused of genocide who defends his innocence, though the ghosts in his home say otherwise. The ghosts in these stories force the characters to reckon with, or fall prey to, legacies of colonialism, war, and migration. Readings include literary works by Mariana Enriquez, Edwidge Danticat, Carlos Fuentes, Jean Rhys, Ana Menéndez, and others.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Francesca E Austin Ochoa
Info - 3 points
UNRULY BODIES
In this class, we will explore—to quote Roxane Gay—"what it means to live in an unruly body in a world that is always trying to control, discipline, and punish women’s bodies." Thinking and theorizing the ways in which the body figures as a site of power, we will discuss the rules that are imposed upon women’s bodies and the ways in which women’s bodies, in turn, defy those rules. Turning our attention to bodies that are deemed too fat, too sick, too dark, too loose, too queer, and more, we will read and think about bodies that resist: bodies that resist binaries, bodies that resist understanding, and bodies that resist and rebel against the rules imposed upon them. Readings will include literary texts by Ovid, Jhumpa Lahiri, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Carmen Maria Machado, and Akwaeke Emezi. All required texts will be distributed by the instructor. Note: readings for this class include references to and representations of identity-based violence. We'll talk as a class about how to work through these challenging texts and topics in thoughtful and generative ways.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Penelope Usher
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READING THE FUTURE
How do we think about the future? Why do we develop the hopes and predictions that we do? How do present conditions and discourses inform, influence, or limit our sense of personal and political possibility? In this First-Year Writing course, we will explore conceptions of the future in 19th through 21st-century literary fiction. We will begin by close reading 20th-century short stories that evoke fears of the future on individual, social, and global scales. We will then turn to H.G. Wells’ classic novella
The Time Machine
and attempt to place its portrayal of the future in the context of late Victorian science and socioeconomics. Finally, we will consider how Jeff VanderMeer’s recent novel
Annihilation
reflects and responds to the accelerating climate crisis, and explore fiction’s role in helping us apprehend the potential for radical environmental disruption.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michael Shelichach
Info - 3 points
WRITING ACTS: LITERACIES AND STORYTELLIN
In this course we will explore how writers across cultures and histories use storytelling to theorize and describe the place of literacy in our lives. Literacy refers to so much more than just the skills of reading and writing; literacy, as noted by scholar Gabriel Rios, is rather an embodied form of knowledge and action that signifies "acts of communication and interpretation." Rethinking the "literacy myth," or the common belief that literacy functions to promote individual social and economic mobility, we will pay attention to writers who activate storytelling--particularly in the genres of life writing and memoir--in order to reinterpret how literacy entangles us in ongoing histories, embodied knowledges, communities, and places. Readings will likely include works by Maxine Hong Kingston, Gloria Anzaldua, Mike Rose, Leslie Marmon Silko, Audre Lorde, June Jordan, and others. Theoretical texts might include works by Gabriel Rios, Harvey Graff, Shereen Inayatulla, Kate Vieira, Jo Hsu, Barbara Christian, Aja Martinez, Eric Darnell Pritchard, and others.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Maxine J Krenzel
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MUSIC IN NARRATIVE
How and to what ends does literature represent musical form or the feeling of musical encounter? In this course, we will discuss narratives in which music plays a significant role, whether through musical allusion or its sustained thematic presence, or through principles of musical composition and gesture that play in the background, informing a text’s structural flow. We will consider complex resonances between literary narratives and histories of music culture and aesthetics, asking how writers use music to world-build, to characterize, and to situate a text culturally and politically. Throughout the semester, we will pay particular attention to narratives that showcase the musical lives of characters belonging to historically marginalized groups. In doing so, we will question how race, gender, and sexuality intersect with musical histories of aesthetic power. Literary readings may include works by Jane Austen, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and James Joyce. Secondary readings in performance studies and musical aesthetics may include selections by Jennifer Lynn Stoever, Judith Butler, Immanuel Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer, Maria Edgeworth, and others.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth Weybright
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SPECULATING THE PAST
Recent works as diverse as The New York Times’s
Overlooked Project
and Netflix’s
Bridgerton
raise questions about what records we keep, how we narrate history, and the ways in which the previous two determine what stories we can tell. In this class, we will probe the question of the official record by reading literary works that turn to a speculative mode to make sense of history, past and present. As we enter the critical conversation about the historical record, we will explore how authority and value are assigned to different texts and accounts. In so doing, we will also develop our ability to read texts' and documents' own theorizations of truth and fact. Readings may include work by Virginia Woolf, Marlene NourbeSe Philip, Carmen Maria Machado, Adrienne Rich, and N.K. Jemisin alongside critical texts by Saidiya Hartman, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, and others. Course costs will not exceed $15.
- Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sarah Schwartz
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GENES AND DEVELOPMENT
Prerequisites: one year of high school or college biology. This course covers selected topics in genetics and developmental biology, with special emphasis on issues that are relevant to contemporary society. Lectures and readings will cover the basic principles of genetics, how genes are expressed and regulated, the role of genes in normal development, and how alterations in genes lead to abnormal development and disease. We will also examine how genes can be manipulated in the laboratory, and look at the contributions of these manipulations to basic science and medicine, as well as some practical applications of these technologies. Interspersed student-run workshops will allow students to research and discuss the ethical and societal impacts of specific topics (e.g. in vitro fertilization, uses and misuses of genetic information, genetically modified organisms, steroid use, and cloning). SCE and TC students may register for this course, but they must first obtain the written permission of the instructor, by filling out a paper Registration Adjustment Form (Add/Drop form). The form can be downloaded at the URL below, but must be signed by the instructor and returned to the office of the registrar. http://registrar.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/reg-adjustment.pdf
- Department: Biological Sciences
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tulle Hazelrigg
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info - 3 points
BALLET I
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- TR 9 a.m.-10 a.m.
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- F 1 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Vincent McCloskey
CULPA: 2 Info - 0-1 points
BALLET II
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kate A Glasner
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Marjorie Folkman
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PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS-DISC
Required Discussion section for ECON UN1105 Principles of Economics
- Department: Economics
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