INTERNATIONAL POLITICS-DISC

This is the required discussion section for POLS UN1601.

• Department: Political Science
• W 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• W 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Dahsol Jun
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• 0 points

STATISTCS-BEHAV SCIENTISTS-LAB

Corequisites: PSYC UN1610 Required lab section for PSYC UN1610.

• Department: Psychology
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• R 2:35 p.m.-4:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher Baldassano
  h-index: 13 Info
• 0 points

URDU FOR HERITAGE SPEAKERS II

Prerequisite
: one semester of prior coursework in Urdu for Heritage Speakers I (UN1615) in the Fall semester, or the instructor’s permission. This is an accelerated
 
course for students of South Asian origin who already possess a knowledge of basic vocabulary and limited speaking, listening, reading and writing skills in Urdu. For instance, they should be able to converse, comprehend, read and write on familiar topics in Urdu such as: self, family, likes, dislikes and immediate surroundings. This course will focus on developing knowledge of the basic grammar of Urdu and vocabulary enrichment by exposing students to a variety of cultural and social topics related to aspects of daily life; and formal and informal registers. Students will be able to read and discuss simple Urdu texts and write about a variety of everyday topics by the end of the semester. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MTWR 2:40 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Aftab Ahmad
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 5 points

TAI CHI

This series of classes will provice the practice of Tai Chi Chuan as a moving meditation and health maintenance exercise. This process involves both physical and nonphysical work and introduces Tai Chi as an exercise of consciousness. There will also be recommended reading selections in the history and philosophical underpinnings of Tai Chi. No pre-requisite for this course. Each class will consist of physical practice of the Tai Chi sequence of movements/postures, also discussion including history of and principles of Tai Chi.

• Department: Physical Education @Barnard
• TR 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Stephen Shulman
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• 1 points

BEGINNING YOGA

An introduction to Hatha Yoga focusing on the development of the physical body to increase flexibility and strength. Breathing practices and meditation techniques that relax and revitalize the mind and body are included.

• Department: Physical Education @Barnard
• MW 9 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
• TR 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Cynthia Lanzas
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• 1 points

YOGA SCULPT

Yoga Sculpt combines yoga postures with strength training exercises to create flexible and strong muscle groups.  Yoga postures are taught in a traditional manner, including breath work and relaxation techniques to revitalize the body.  Core specific exercises and overall muscle toning techniques with the use of weights and resistance are incorporated into each yoga class.

• Department: Physical Education @Barnard
• TR noon-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Melanie Rodriguez
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• 1 points

YOGA/MEDITATION

This course includes an introduction to Hatha Yoga, which focuses on the development of the physical body through asanas, or poses, and classic meditation and relaxation techniques.  Regular meditation practice at home is required.

• Department: Physical Education @Barnard
• MW 11 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• MW noon-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa K Northrop
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 1 points

PHOTOGRAPHY: PHOTO I

(Formerly R3701) An introductory course in the technical, aesthetic, and conceptual foundations of photography. With an emphasis on the student’s own creative practice, this course will explore the basics of photography and its history through regular shooting assignments, demonstrations, critique, lectures, and readings. No prior photography experience is required.

• Department: Visual Arts
• MW 9:30 a.m.-noon
• TR 9:30 a.m.-noon
• MW 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Delphine A Fawundu
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• Instructor: Noga Cohen
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• Instructor: Kevin II Claiborne
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• 3 points

ELEMENTARY PERSIAN II

An introduction to the spoken and written language of contemporary Iran. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MTWR 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Saeed Honarmand
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• 4 points

ARTS OF ADAPTATION

Can a ballet tell the same story as a Shakespeare tragedy? Do the violent fantasies of a fairytale shape romantic comedy? What does Bollywood have to do with Victorian England? Can ancient mythology animate slave narrative? Using as textual anchors Grimms’ Snow White, Ovid’s Medea, Shakespeare’s
Romeo and Juliet
, and Austen’s
Pride and Prejudice
, this course will explore poems, paintings, films, musicals, dance, illustration, advertisement and song to consider the accretion of meaning that results when stories cross, historical, cultural, and generic borders.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Monica F Cohen
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

Women & Comedy

WOMEN & COMEDY

“What a language it is, the laughter of women,
high-flying and subversive. Long before law and scripture
we heard the laughter, we understood freedom.”
-Lisel Mueller
“I’m not funny, what I am is brave.” - Lucille Ball This course focuses on the intersection between comedy and gender, race, class and sexuality. We will explore laughter as a subversive act and how the identity of a “funny woman” can be both dangerous and liberating. As Margo Jefferson writes, “Given the history of social restriction and sexual regulation, how many women have been in a position to – or been willing to – take these risks?” We will explore how the tools of comedy can be used to make mischief, to transgress the bounds of genre and form and to contest popular ideas about difference and power. How can humor be illuminating? How can humor be feminist? How can humor be intersectional? How can humor help us tell the hard truths? Can we laugh at oppression without laughing it off? At every step, we will put our inquiry into action – trying our hand at satire, sketch and storytelling to explore our own intersections. Readings may include Audre Lorde’s
Sister Outsider
, Samantha Chanse’s
Lydia’s Funeral Video
and Patricia Lockwood’s
Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals
.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Nina Sharma
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

Dead and Undead (Wkshop)

DEAD AND UNDEAD

What does it mean to be dead? Why the fascination—across time and culture—with conceiving of ways in which the dead can become un-dead? And how is being undead different from being alive? To investigate and trouble the boundaries between life and death (and un-death), we will analyze works across genres—among them horror, comedy, myth, folklore, and medicine—discussing near-death experiences, beating-heart cadavers, and a range of figures including zombies, ghosts, and other revenants. Readings will include texts and excerpts from Montaigne, Shakespeare, Zora Neale Hurston, Ovid, Toni Morrison, Carmen Maria Machado, Edgar Allen Poe, Nalo Hopkinson, and Mary Shelley, along with Japanese death poems and Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie. NOTE: Several of the readings for this class involve references to or representations of violence, sometimes explicit. *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 at 10:10-11:25am: 1/20, 1/27, 2/3, 2/10, 2/17, 2/24. To be considered for this course, please fill out this required (but brief) questionnaire by MONDAY, 11/7 @ 5PM:
https://forms.gle/35BpJgJwsFK6t5Tw7

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Penelope Usher
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• 4 points

Here/There: Migrant Narratives

HERE/THERE: MIGRANT NARRA

This first-year seminar brings together texts, films and contemporary art that focus on migrant, immigrant, refugee, expat and exile experiences. We will explore how migrant subjects negotiate dominant discourses of nationality and citizenship, and how their identities as migrants intersect with their other positionalities, with a particular emphasis on race, gender and queerness. Some questions we will consider: How are immigrant, migrant and refugees marginalized, racialized and queered by dominant discourses? How do immigrants, migrants and refugees negotiate belonging when they cross cultural, national, linguistic and religious borders? How do these authors, filmmakers and artists resist erasure and complicate our understanding of home, belonging and identity? Readings are subject to change but will likely include literary and nonfiction texts by writers such as James Baldwin, Fatimah Asghar, Ocean Vuong, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Jamaica Kincaid, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Kazim Ali, Edward Said and Hannah Arendt; films such as
Saving Face
and
Flee
; as well as contemporary visual art, op-eds and other media.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Duygu Ula
  CULPA: 6 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 first-year seminar, we’ll look at how speculative literature approaches 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 Seminar Program @Barnard
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Quincy Jones
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• 3 points

Psychopolitics

PSYCHOPOLITICS

What shapes our psychic lives today? How are histories of pain and possibility transmitted, ruptured, and transformed across generations? This class draws on anthropology, psychoanalysis, critical theories, literature, and poetry to explore the politics of the psyche. We will read writings by bell hooks, Frantz Fanon, Natalie Diaz, Ocean Vuong, Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault, Gananath Obeyesekere, David Eng, Shinhee Han, and others. We begin with common encounters that inform and disrupt our lives, move to concepts of self and culture, explore how these are inflected by violent histories and extractive economies, and end with questions of what lives on.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Emily Ng
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• 3 points

Literature on Trial

LITERATURE ON TRIAL

Why are novels so interested in trials? What is the relationship between literary and legal interpretation, and between the role of a reader and that of a juror? How do we interpret “facts” in a literary text versus a legal context? What does justice look like in a literary work? In this course, we will read works that feature trials in order to explore the relationship between the literary and the legal, two very different ways of making sense of the world that collide in literature about trials. We will put literary characters on trial in order to explore how guilt, judgment, and redemption operate in the works we read, and to consider our own role and responsibility as readers. Readings will include works by James Baldwin, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Vladimir Nabokov, Claudia Rankine, and Marjane Satrapi.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Erica S Drennan
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• 3 points

Dreamstories

DREAMSTORIES

The complex relationship between dreaming and narrative storytelling is as contemporary as it is ancient. In this first-year seminar, we will examine Greco-Roman, medieval, modern, and postmodern representations of dreaming in literature, philosophy and film - texts that range from classical epic (Homer, Virgil) through medieval allegory (Dante, Machaut) to psychoanalysis (Freud and his contemporaries), queer metafiction (Winterson, Sarduy, Lynch), and beyond. We will consider among other topics how dreams raise fundamental questions about being, memory, desire, interpretation, and Utopian politics. Students will practice critical writing and discussion, and also have the opportunity to engage their own dreams and fantasies both analytically and creatively.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Eugene A Petracca
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• 3 points

Illusion

ILLUSION

How do you know that what you see or sense is real? What if what you thought you knew about the world, other people, and yourself, was wrong? In this course we will look at the idea of illusion through several different discourses including philosophical, religious, scientific, political, and artistic. We will consider skeptical positions on the external world, consciousness and free will; we will look at debates about self-deception and political ideology. We will discuss fantasies and dreams, and consider whether being in love or being a child have illusory dimensions. And throughout we will consider works of art (especially film and photography), and will ask whether art itself is a kind of illusion. We will also consider normative and ethical questions: is it always bad to be under some illusion? Are individuals blameworthy when they are taken in by an illusion? Can illusions ever be helpful? Historical authors include: Plato, Vasubandhu, Sextus Empiricus, Descartes, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Baldwin, Butler. Films to be screened include: Imitation of Life and The Last Unicorn.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Francey Russell
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

Border Stories (Wkshop)

BORDER STORIES (WKSHOP)

The topic of this Seminar course takes an interdisciplinary approach to thinking about, and traversing, the constructs of the border. The U.S.- Mexico border delimits more than nations; it is both a political and a social geography, marked by bodies of water, mountains, walls, ideologies, repression, and resistance. The crisis currently taking place at the border is an unfolding story with many narrators. We will study literary texts: fiction, poetry, and memoir written by those who know the border, and borderlands, intimately. We will also engage histories, social movement doctrine, and media coverage to mine the stories they tell.  *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 Friday mornings at 10:10-11:25am: 2/3, 2/17, 3/3, 3/24, 4/7, 4/21. To be considered for this course, please fill out this required (but brief) questionnaire by MONDAY, 11/7 @ 5PM:
https://forms.gle/35BpJgJwsFK6t5Tw7

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Francesca E Austin Ochoa
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• 4 points

Race, Science, & Reproductive Justice

RACE, SCIENCE, REPRO JUST

This course is about reproduction—a biological and social process that is often the target of deep-seated ideas about identity, nation, culture, and definitions of life. With an emphasis on intersectional approaches to reproductive justice, we’ll read a variety of literary works, journalism, films and television shows, public health studies, and policy/legal texts, all of which differently narrate, debate, script, and theorize about reproduction. Questions we will explore include: what stories do we tell about reproduction? What role have innovations in reproductive technologies played in this process, from contraceptive uses of medicinal plants, to in-vitro fertilization and so-called “DIY” abortions, to population and development projects all over the world? How do long histories of obstetric violence inform modern definitions of reproductive health, rights, and justice? What kind of world does an intersectional and inclusive reproductive justice movement urge us to create? Please note that some of the material for this course includes references to or descriptions of obstetric violence.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Cecelia B Lie-Spahn
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

Reading Dance

READING DANCE

Dance as action takes place in a variety of places and by organisms, and is represented in literature, film, the proscenium stage in just as many ways as there are forms of dance. Reading Dance will explore how authors employ movement to enrich narrative, reflect the human condition, view class and gender, experience how choreographers use text to support a silent form of communication and consider choreography itself text. Primary sources will include Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Ntozake Shange, T.S. Eliot, Zadie Smith, Martha Graham, Michael Jackson, and Brian Friel.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Kate A Glasner
  CULPA: 31 Info
• 3 points

Change and Climate Change

CHANGE AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Change and Climate Change explores how we spark, facilitate, and accelerate change - or block, impede, and slow it - on the individual, social, and planetary levels. In the context of the climate emergency and the vast global social and environmental changes it both brings and demands, this course asks: what is change, and how do we do it? Students will identify and characterize different change processes, and analyze strategies for adapting to, mitigating, accelerating, or shaping change. Readings and projects will explore activism, education, research, storytelling, and performances by scientists, artists, indigenous leaders, and activists including Paul Hawken, Ruth DeFries, Janine Benyus, Cynthia Li, Atul Gawande, Octavia Butler, Adrienne Maree Brown, Rosi Braidotti, Ian Hodder, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Elizabeth Kolbert, Naomi Klein, and Suzan-Lori Parks. Student projects will explore how natural and human systems shape and experience change and apply those lessons to the current climate challenge.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Sandra Goldmark
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

The Secret Life of Stuff

THE SECRET LIFE OF STUFF

“It has a mind of its own,” we shriek as the TV channels change without our input or the garage door opens when no one is home. Things can spark joy, grant authority, lead to our demise, and reveal our deepest secrets. They mediate social relationships, define political alliances, and provide economic opportunities. Sometimes it is not the presence of things but their absence – a misplaced phone, an expired passport, a childhood home – that more keenly shapes our reality. While people make objects, objects also make people. This class will investigate the secret life of stuff, from maps to cups and buildings to body parts, to explore how inanimate objects can be seen to have an agency and power of their own. Our discussions will draw on a wide array of authors from a variety of fields, including Bill Brown, Martin Heidigger, Anni Albers, Neel Ahuja, Katherine Ott, Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway, and Anna Tsing. To accompany these texts, we will also turn to other, less traditional sources of information, from podcasts to museum exhibits and our own personal histories with things.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Camilla Sturm
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

Political Fare: Food & Freedom - Philoso

POLITICAL FARE: FOOD & FR

In
Wretched of the Earth
(1961), Franz Fanon famously writes that to “hunger with dignity is preferable to bread eaten in slavery.” Taking this provocation as our starting point, this course will chart the function of food and hunger in philosophical and political conceptions of freedom. From Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” (1729) to the political-promise-turned-fiction of 40 acres and a mule following the U.S. Civil War, we will also examine the legal, historical, and literary representations of food at the heart (and belly) of the human story. Core texts will include Hannah Arendt’s
On Revolution
(1963), Andrea Stuart’s
Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire
(2016), Paul Beatty’s
The Sellout
(2015), Vandana Shiva’s
Manifestoes on the Future of Food and Seed
(2007), Bong Joon-ho’s
Okja
(2017), and Andreas Johnsen’s
Bugs
(2016). Along the way, we will investigate how the shifting conception of the human as a political and ecological concept is defined in relation to hunger, farming, and animal rights.

• Department: First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Melissa Wright
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• 3 points

History of the City in Latin America

HIST CITY LATIN AMERICA

This course covers the historical development of cities in Latin America. Readings, lectures, and discussion sections will examine the concentration of people in commercial and political centers from the beginnings of European colonization in the fifteenth century to the present day and will introduce contrasting approaches to the study of urban culture, politics, society, and the built environment. Central themes include the reciprocal relationships between growing urban areas and the countryside; changing power dynamics in modern Latin America, especially as they impacted the lives of cities’ nonelite majority populations; the legalities and politics of urban space; planned versus unplanned cities and the rise of informal economies; the way changing legal and political rights regimes have affected urban life; and the constant tension between tradition and progress through which urban society was formed. There are no prerequisites for this course. Attendance at weekly Discussion Sections required.

• Department: History
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Amy E Chazkel
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

DISC - History of the City in Latin Amer

DISC-HIST CITY LAT AMERIC

REQUIRED DISCUSSION SECTION for HIST UN 1786 History of the City in Latin America. Students must first register for HIST UN 1786.

• Department: History
• Instructor: Amy E Chazkel
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 0 points

ENERGY & ENERGY CONSERVATION

Prerequisites: No prior scientific knowledge is required, but facility with high school?level algebra and comfort with quantitative computations is important. What is energy, really, and how do we conserve it? What does energy conservation have in common with Humpty Dumpty, Buddha’s Second Noble Truth, and the Arrow of Time? How is an “alternative energy” alternative? How do you know how much energy you actually use every day? This course presents the development of the concept of energy, links the development to the social and historical contexts in which it took place, and describes the contributions of the people who propelled the development. Students gain an understanding of the scientific concept of energy, and the ability to apply that understanding in quantitative analysis of contemporary issues in energy sources, utilization, efficiency, and conservation, through individual or group projects.

• Department: Chemistry
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: James J Valentini
  CULPA: 32 Info
• 3 points

STARS AND ATOMS

Prerequisites: recommended preparation: a working knowledge of high school algebra. What is the origin of the chemical elements? This course addresses this question, starting from understanding atoms, and then going on to look at how how atoms make stars and how stars make atoms. The grand finale is a history of the evolution of the chemical elements throughout time, starting from the Big Bang and ending with YOU. You cannot enroll in ASTR UN1836 in addition to ASTR BC1754 or ASTR UN1404 and receive credit for both.

• Department: Astronomy
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Marcel A Agueros
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 3 points

GEOL EXCURSION TO THE E SIERRA

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. Spring break field trip to the Eastern Sierra, CA. Excursion focuses on the geology and environment of Mono Lake and adjacent areas. Discussion sessions ahead of the trip provide the necessary background. Discussion Section Required. The instructor's permission required.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• Instructor: Guleed A Ali
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• 1 points

INTRO TO SUSTAINABLE DEVPT SEM

The course is designed to be a free flowing discussion of the principals of sustainable development and the scope of this emerging discipline. This course will also serve to introduce the students to the requirements of the undergraduate program in sustainable development and the content of the required courses in both the special concentration and the major. The focus will be on the breadth of subject matter, the multidisciplinary nature of the scholarship and familiarity with the other key courses in the program. Offered in the Fall and Spring.

• Department: Earth Institute
• T 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jason Smerdon
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 47 Info
• 1 points

ELEMENTARY MODERN TURKISH II

Prerequisites: MDES UN1901 An introduction to the written and spoken language of Turkey. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Zuleyha Colak
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 0 Info
• 4 points

ASTRONOMY LAB I

Laboratory for ASTR UN1403. Projects include observations with the departments telescopes, computer simulation, laboratory experiments in spectroscopy, and the analysis of astronomical data. Lab 1 ASTR UN1903 - goes with ASTR BC1753, ASTR UN1403 or ASTR UN1453.

• Department: Physics and Astronomy @Barnard
• W 7 p.m.-10 p.m.
• 1 points

ASTRONOMY LAB II

Laboratory for ASTR UN1404. Projects include use of telescopes, laboratory experiments in the nature of light, spectroscopy, and the analysis of astronomical data. Lab 2 ASTR UN1904 - goes with ASTR BC1754 or ASTR UN1404 (or ASTR UN1836 or ASTR UN1420).

• Department: Physics and Astronomy @Barnard
• M 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• T 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• 1 points

The How-Tos of Research

This course will help students acquire a toolbox of research skills, including knowledge on how to conduct a literature review; generate research questions/hypotheses; write a research proposal; conduct data cleaning, analysis, and visualization; administer surveys; create behavioral tasks; and practice reproducible science. Through scaffolded assignments and peer review, students will be led through the process of creating a research proposal to help demystify the research process.

• Department: Psychology
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Lila Davachi
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 59 Info
• 3 points

Neuroscience Methods

Understanding the significance of experimental findings requires knowledge of research designs and an appreciation of the methods used in the study. Reaching a thorough understanding of scientific methods is especially challenging in neuroscience, a field that is highly multidisciplinary and relies increasingly on specialized techniques. The course aims to review the foundations of experimental design and to present some of the primary methods used in neuroscience. In this course, students meet with neuroscientists working on different subfields who provide a firsthand perspective on a variety of methods. The course is organized in two-week modules. The invited neuroscientist participates in the first class of a module, where s/he introduces the scientific questions that s/he addresses, illustrates a few key experiments and provides 2-3 suggested readings. The second class is devoted to examining the experiments presented in the first class. In preparation for the first class, students read a scientific paper to familiarize themselves with the research topic. In preparation for the second class, students review the experiments presented in the previous class. Specifically, each student is asked to define the hypotheses, design, data, and statistics of one experiment according to guidelines provided by the instructors. Each student presents his/her review in the second class. The presentation and discussion of the experiment reviews aim to help students to understand main aspects of the experimental designs as well as the applicability of key methods used in neuroscience. The first class of the course is devoted to reviewing the different experimental designs. In the last class, each student presents one of the methods introduced in the course, highlighting its strength and weaknesses.

• Department: Psychology
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 1 points

MULTV. CALC. FOR ENGI & APP SCI

Differential and integral calculus of multiple variables. Topics include partial differentiation; optimization of functions of several variables; line, area, volume, and surface integrals; vector functions and vector calculus; theorems of Green, Gauss, and Stokes; applications to selected problems in engineering and applied science.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Drew C Youngren
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

Core as Praxis/Fieldwork

"The Core as Praxis/Fieldwork” provides students with the opportunity to explore the connections among texts from the Core Curriculum, their work in their major field of study, and their work in a professional environment outside of Columbia’s campus. Students will be guided through a process of reflection on the ideas and approaches that they develop in Core classes and in the courses in their major, to think about how they can apply theory to practice in the context of an internship or other experiential learning environment. Students will reread and revisit a text that they have studied previously in Literature Humanities or in Contemporary Civilization as the basis for their reading and writing assignments over the semester. 
To be eligible, students must (1) be engaged during the semester in an internship or other experiential learning opportunity, (2) have completed the sophomore year, and (3) have declared their major (or concentration)
. HUMAUN2000 may not be taken with the Pass/D/Fail option. All students will receive a letter grade for the course. Students can take HUMAUN2000 twice.

• Department: Core (A&S)
• 1 points

Core as Praxis/Fieldwork

"The Core as Praxis/Fieldwork” provides students with the opportunity to explore the connections among texts from the Core Curriculum, their work in their major field of study, and their work in a professional environment outside of Columbia’s campus. Students will be guided through a process of reflection on the ideas and approaches that they develop in Core classes and in the courses in their major, to think about how they can apply theory to practice in the context of an internship or other experiential learning environment. Students will reread and revisit a text that they have studied previously in Literature Humanities or in Contemporary Civilization as the basis for their reading and writing assignments over the semester. 
To be eligible, students must (1) be engaged during the semester in an internship or other experiential learning opportunity, (2) have completed the sophomore year, and (3) have declared their major (or concentration)
. HUMAUN2000 may not be taken with the Pass/D/Fail option. All students will receive a letter grade for the course. Students can take HUMAUN2000 twice.

• Department: Core (A&S)
• 1 points

INTRO TO HIGHER MATHEMATICS

Introduction to understanding and writing mathematical proofs. Emphasis on precise thinking and the presentation of mathematical results, both in oral and in written form. Intended for students who are considering majoring in mathematics but wish additional training. CC/GS: Partial Fulfillment of Science Requirement. BC: Fulfillment of General Education Requirement: Quantitative and Deductive Reasoning (QUA).

• Department: Mathematics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Giulia Sacca
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• 3 points

ETHNICITY, RACE, IDENTITY IN THE PRE-MOD

This seminar investigates the concepts of ethnicity, race, and identity, in both theory and practice,
through a comparative survey of several case studies from the Pre-Modern history of the Middle East.
The course focuses on symbols of identity and difference, interpreting them through a variety of
analytical tools, and evaluating the utility of each as part of an ongoing exploration of the subject. The
survey considers theories of ethnicity and race, as well as their critics, and includes cases from the
Ancient World (c. 1000 BCE) through the Old Regime (c. 1800 CE).
Students in this course will gain a familiarity with major theories of social difference and alterity, and
utilize them to interpret and analyze controversial debates about social politics and identity from the
history of the Middle East, including ancient ethnicity, historical racism, Arab identity, pluralism in the
Islamic Empire, and slavery, among others. In addition, students will spend much of the semester
developing a specialized case study of their own on a historical community of interest. All of the case
studies will be presented in a showcase at the end of the semester.
All assigned readings for the course will be in English. Primary sources will be provided in translation.
The course meets once a week and sessions are two hours long.

• Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Nathanael P Shelley
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• 4 points

INTRO TO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

The course provides an overview of environmental law for students without a legal background. It examines U.S. statutes and regulations regarding air, water, hazardous and toxic materials, land use, climate change, endangered species, and the like, as well as international environmental issues. After completing the course students should be equipped to understand how the environmental laws operate, the role of the courts, international treaties and government agencies in implementing environmental protection, and techniques used in addressing these issues.

• Department: Earth Institute
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Philip Weinberg
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• 3 points

DRAWING STUDIO

This course will explore drawing as an open-ended way of working and thinking that serves as a foundation for all other forms of visual art. The class is primarily a workshop, augmented by slides lectures and videos, homework assignments and field trips. Throughout the semester, students will discuss their work individually with the instructor and as a group. Starting with figure drawing and moving on to process work and mapping and diagrams, we will investigate drawing as a practice involving diverse forms of visual culture.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Irena Haiduk
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• 3 points

MULTV. CALC. FOR ENGI & APP SCI

Required recitation session for students enrolled in APMA E2000.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• F 2:40 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• R 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• F 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• R 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• R 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 11:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Chanyang Ryoo
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• Instructor: Philip C Dinenis
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• Instructor: Chanyang Ryoo
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• Instructor: Yan Cheng
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• 0 points

LABORATORY IN NEUROSCIENCE

NEUROSCIENCE LAB

This course provides a hands-on introduction to techniques commonly used in current neurobiological research. Topics covered will include neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and invertebrate animal behavioral genetics. Participation in this course involves dissection of sheep brains and experimentation with invertebrate animals.

• Department: Neuroscience & Behavior @Barnard
• W 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• T 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 3 points

DRAWING II

Prerequisites: (VIAR UN1000) Examines the potential of drawing as an expressive tool elaborating on the concepts and techniques presented in VIAR UN1001. Studio practice emphasizes individual attitudes toward drawing while acquiring knowledge and skills from historical and cultural precedents. Portfolio required at the end.

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

INTRO TO ASTROPHYSICS II

Prerequisites: a working knowledge of calculus. Corequisites: the second term of a course in calculus-based general physics. Continuation of ASTR UN2001; these two courses constitute a full year of calculus-based introduction to astrophysics. Topics include the structure of our galaxy, the interstellar medium, star clusters, properties of external galaxies, clusters of galaxies, active galactic nuclei, and cosmology.

• Department: Astronomy
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Mary Putman
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 54 Info
• 3 points

ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY II

Prerequisites: EEEB UN2001 Second semester of introductory biology sequence for majors in enviromnental biology and environmental science, emphasizing the ecological and evolutionary aspects of biology. Also intended for those interested in an introduction to the principles of ecology and evolutionary biology.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• 4 points

STATISTICS AND EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN

STATISTICS & EXPERIMTL DE

This course is for students interested in learning how to conduct scientific research. They will learn how to (i) design well-controlled experiments and identify “quack” science; (ii) organize, summarize and illustrate data, (iii) analyze different types of data; and (iv) interpret the results of statistical tests.

• Department: Neuroscience & Behavior @Barnard
• M 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: John Glendinning
  CULPA: 23 h-index: 39 Info
• 4 points

ELECTRICITY&MAGNETISM-LEC+LAB

Corequisites: Calculus II. Charge, electric field, and potential. Gausss law. Circuits: capacitors and resistors. Magnetism and electromagnetism. Induction and inductance. Alternating currents. Maxwells equations.  PLEASE NOTE:  Students who take PHYS BC2002 may not get credit for PHYS BC2019 or PHYS BC2020.

• Department: Physics and Astronomy @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• 4.5 points

THE ETHNOGRAPHIC IMAGINATION

Introduction to the theory and practice of “ethnography”—the intensive study of peoples’ lives as shaped by social relations, cultural images, and historical forces. Considers through critical reading of various kinds of texts (classic ethnographies, histories, journalism, novels, films) the ways in which understanding, interpreting, and representing the lived words of people—at home or abroad, in one place or transnationally, in the past or the present—can be accomplished. Discussion section required.

• Department: Anthropology
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Omer Shah
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• 3 points

INTRODUCTION AFRICAN DIASPORA

Interdisciplinary and thematic approach to the African diaspora in the Americas: its motivations, dimensions, consequences, and the importance and stakes of its study. Beginning with the contacts between Africans and the Portuguese in the 15th century, this class will open up diverse paths of inquiry as students attempt to answer questions, clear up misconceptions, and challenge assumptions about the presence of Africans in the New World.

• Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Celia E Naylor
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• 3 points

INTRO BIO II:CELL BIO,DEV/PHYS

Prerequisites: EEEB UN2001 or BIOL UN2005, or the instructors permission. Lecture and recitation. Recommended second term of biology for majors in biology and related majors, and for premedical students. Cellular biology and development; physiology of cells and organisms. Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/c2006/ SPS, Barnard, 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 Students must register for a recitation section BIOL UN2016.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• 4 points

COMBINATORICS

• Department: Mathematics @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: David A Bayer
  CULPA: 43 Info
• 3 points

What is Islam?

One in four people in the world is a Muslim. Yet, here in the Western hemisphere, we mostly know next to nothing about Islam and its followers.
Whatever is spread around as knowledge of this culture and religion is the work of a media that is highly politicized and biased, often perpetuating negative and even racist images of Muslims and their ways of life. This picture becomes even more complicated and complex in academia, in the West in particular but in Islamic countries as well. The story of “What is Islam?” begins in the 19th century, when the bulk of the Muslim world fell under European control, be it direct colonialism or (remote-control) coloniality. Almost everywhere, so-called reform was undertaken, with the view of modernizing institutions and subjectivities along Western lines. With secularization and unprecedented forms of politics and political organization, Islamic cultures all over the world began to undergo epistemic transformations, leading to a wholesale revaluation of the Islamic traditions themselves, and their meaning in late modernity. Various groups would attempt to redefine Islam in fundamentalist terms – in unconscious emulation of American Fundamentalist movements – while others took it in different directions, not excluding Marxism, socialism, and nationalism. But the hegemonic and almost “natural” force driving the Islamic world over the last half century has been liberalism, a powerful way of seeing and evaluating the world that deeply affected even the Islamist movements. Islam for modern Muslims has become many disparate things, often if not always incompatible with each other.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Wael Hallaq
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

What is Islam? Discussion Section

What is Islam? Disc Secti

Discussion section to accompany the course, MDES UN2006 What is Islam?.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• M 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• M 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• M 10 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• M 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• F 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• 0 points

CONTEMP ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION

Lecture and recitation. No previous study of Islam is required. The early modern, colonial, and post-colonial Islamic world studied through historical case studies, translated texts, and recent anthropological research. Topics include Sufism and society, political ideologies, colonialism, religious transformations, poetry, literature, gender, and sexuality.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew L Keegan
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

CINEMA HIST I: BEGIN-1930

This course rethinks the ;birth of cinema; from the vantage of ;when old media was new.; Following standard approaches, it moves from actualities to fiction, from the ;cinema of attractions; to narrative, from the cinematographe to cinema, from cottage industry to studio system. Units in silent film music, early genres, film piracy and copyright, word and moving image, and restoration--the film archivists dilemma in the digital era. FILM W2011

• Department: Film
• F 10 a.m.-1:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Vito Adriaensens
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

LINEAR ALGEBRA

Matrices, vector spaces, linear transformations, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, canonical forms, applications. (SC)

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Amadou Bah
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• 3 points

CINEMA HIST I:BEGIN-1930-DISC

• Department: Film
• M 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• M 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• M 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Zuko M Garagic
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• Instructor: Alexandra J Bateman
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• Instructor: Molly K Follette
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• 0 points

LAB METHODS ARCHAEOLOGY

Only the most recent chapters of the past are able to be studied using traditional historiographical methods focused on archives of textual documents. How, then, are we to analyze the deep history of human experiences prior to the written word? And even when textual archives do survive from a given historical period, these archives are typically biased toward the perspectives of those in power. How, then, are we to undertake analyses of the past that take into account the lives and experiences of all of society’s members, including the poor, the working class, the colonized, and others whose voices appear far less frequently in historical documents? From its disciplinary origins in nineteenth century antiquarianism, archaeology has grown to become a rigorous science of the past, dedicated to the exploration of long-term and inclusive social histories. “Laboratory Methods in Archaeology” is an intensive introduction to the analysis of archaeological artifacts and samples in which we explore how the organic and inorganic remains from archaeological sites can be used to build rigorous claims about the human past. The 2022 iteration of the course centers on assemblages from two sites, both excavated by Barnard’s archaeological field program in the Taos region of northern New Mexico: (1) the Spanish colonial site of San Antonio del Embudo founded in 1725 and (2) the hippie commune known as New Buffalo, founded in 1967. Participants in ANTH BC2012 will be introduced to the history, geology, and ecology of the Taos region, as well as to the excavation histories of the two sites. Specialized laboratory modules focus on the analysis of chipped stone artifacts ceramics, animal bone, glass, and industrial artifacts. The course only demands participation in the seminars and laboratory modules and successful completion of the written assignments, but all students are encouraged to develop specialized research projects to be subsequently expanded into either (1) a senior thesis project or (2) a conference presentation at the Society for American Archaeology, Society for Historical Archaeology, or Theoretical Archaeology Group meeting.

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• F 9 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Severin Fowles
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• 4 points

INTRO BIO II:CELL BIO,DEV/PHYS

Prerequisites: Prerequisites: Course does not fulfill Biology major requirements or premedical requirements. Enrollment in laboratory limited to 16 students per section. Corequisites: BIOL UN2006 Prerequisites: Course does not fulfill Biology major requirements or premedical requirements. Enrollment in laboratory limited to 16 students per section. Exploration of the major discoveries and ideas that have revolutionized the way we view organisms and understand life. The basic concepts of cell biology, anatomy and physiology, genetics, evolution, and ecology will be traced from seminal discoveries to the modern era. The laboratory will develop these concepts and analyze biological diversity through a combined experimental and observational approach.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 0 points

INTRO BIO II:CELL BIO,DEV/PHYS

Prerequisites: Prerequisites: Course does not fulfill Biology major requirements or premedical requirements. Enrollment in laboratory limited to 16 students per section. Corequisites: BIOL UN2006 Prerequisites: Course does not fulfill Biology major requirements or premedical requirements. Enrollment in laboratory limited to 16 students per section. Exploration of the major discoveries and ideas that have revolutionized the way we view organisms and understand life. The basic concepts of cell biology, anatomy and physiology, genetics, evolution, and ecology will be traced from seminal discoveries to the modern era. The laboratory will develop these concepts and analyze biological diversity through a combined experimental and observational approach.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• T 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• 0 points

INTRO BIO II:CELL BIO,DEV/PHYS

Prerequisites: Prerequisites: Course does not fulfill Biology major requirements or premedical requirements. Enrollment in laboratory limited to 16 students per section. Corequisites: BIOL UN2006 Prerequisites: Course does not fulfill Biology major requirements or premedical requirements. Enrollment in laboratory limited to 16 students per section. Exploration of the major discoveries and ideas that have revolutionized the way we view organisms and understand life. The basic concepts of cell biology, anatomy and physiology, genetics, evolution, and ecology will be traced from seminal discoveries to the modern era. The laboratory will develop these concepts and analyze biological diversity through a combined experimental and observational approach.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• 0 points

INTRO BIO II:CELL BIO,DEV/PHYS

Prerequisites: Prerequisites: Course does not fulfill Biology major requirements or premedical requirements. Enrollment in laboratory limited to 16 students per section. Corequisites: BIOL UN2006 Prerequisites: Course does not fulfill Biology major requirements or premedical requirements. Enrollment in laboratory limited to 16 students per section. Exploration of the major discoveries and ideas that have revolutionized the way we view organisms and understand life. The basic concepts of cell biology, anatomy and physiology, genetics, evolution, and ecology will be traced from seminal discoveries to the modern era. The laboratory will develop these concepts and analyze biological diversity through a combined experimental and observational approach.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 0 points

INTRO BIO II:CELL BIO,DEV/PHYS

Prerequisites: Prerequisites: Course does not fulfill Biology major requirements or premedical requirements. Enrollment in laboratory limited to 16 students per section. Corequisites: BIOL UN2006 Prerequisites: Course does not fulfill Biology major requirements or premedical requirements. Enrollment in laboratory limited to 16 students per section. Exploration of the major discoveries and ideas that have revolutionized the way we view organisms and understand life. The basic concepts of cell biology, anatomy and physiology, genetics, evolution, and ecology will be traced from seminal discoveries to the modern era. The laboratory will develop these concepts and analyze biological diversity through a combined experimental and observational approach.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 0 points