DYNAMICS AND VIBRATIONS
Prerequisites: (MATH UN1201) MATH V1201. Corequisites: ENME E3105. Kinematics of rigid bodies; momentum and energy methods; vibrations of discrete and continuous systems; eigen-value problems, natural frequencies and modes. Basics of computer simulation of dynamics problems using MATLAB or Mathematica.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Andrew W Smyth
CULPA: 3 Info - 3 points
APPLIED DATA MINING
Prerequisites: STAT UN2103. Students without programming experience in R might find STAT UN2102 very helpful. This course will be taught as a machine learning class. We will cover topics including data-based prediction, classification, specific classification methods (such as logistic regression and random forests), and basics of neural networks. Programming in homeworks will require R; students without programming experience in R might find STAT UN2102 helpful.
Undergraduate Mentored Research
Prerequisites: the project mentors permission. This course provides a mechanism for students who undertake research with a faculty member from the Department of Statistics to receive academic credit. Students seeking research opportunities should be proactive and entrepreneurial: identify congenial faculty whose research is appealing, let them know of your interest and your background and skills.
- Department: Statistics
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Instructor:
John P Cunningham
CULPA: 7
Info
- 3 points
Undergraduate Mentored Research
Prerequisites: the project mentors permission. This course provides a mechanism for students who undertake research with a faculty member from the Department of Statistics to receive academic credit. Students seeking research opportunities should be proactive and entrepreneurial: identify congenial faculty whose research is appealing, let them know of your interest and your background and skills.
- Department: Statistics
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Instructor:
Gabriel Young
CULPA: 7 Info -
Instructor:
Sumit Mukherjee
CULPA: 4 h-index: 13 Info -
Instructor:
Cynthia Rush
CULPA: 1 h-index: 12 Info - 3 points
INTRODUCTION TO FICTION WRITING
INTRO TO FICTION WRITING
Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
. In this course, we will learn and practice essential concepts and techniques of writing fiction. We’ll break down the elements of the craft—everything from character, setting, and pacing to point of view, syntax, and imagery––and we’ll build an understanding of how stories work. Class time will include exercises and prompts; close reading of a wide range of published stories; discussions of process; and workshops of student stories. Come prepared to work hard, be open, and take risks.
- Department: English @Barnard
- TR 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Nellie G Hermann
Info - 3 points
THE AFRICANA COLLOQUIUM
COLL: CARIBBEAN WOMEN
In this colloquium we will examine the complexities of race, gender, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and nationality within Caribbean contexts. Some of the themes we will analyze include conceptions of home and nation; the use, creation, and politics of language; intergenerational relationships between women; the rites and rights of girlhood and womanhood; and intersecting identities. We will specifically address how Caribbean women scholars/activists/artists critique racism, sexism, classism, heterosexism, colonialism, neocolonialism, and tourism within Caribbean sociocultural landscapes. In addition, we will analyze how Caribbean women/womyn frame and interrogate the politics of slavery, emancipation, freedom, resistance, rebellion, and independence during different historical eras. The required readings for this course reflect a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary methodologies, as well as a range of genres.
- Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Celia E Naylor
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
THE OTTOMAN PAST IN THE GREEK PRESENT
Almost a century after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, the Ottoman past lives on in contemporary Greece, often in unexpected sites. In the built environment it appears as mosques, baths, covered markets, and fountains adorned with Arabic inscriptions. It also manifests itself in music, food, and language. Yet Ottoman legacies also shape the European present in less obvious ways and generate vehement debates about identity, nation-building, human rights, and interstate relations. In this course, we will be drawing on history, politics, anthropology, and comparative literature as well as a broad range of primary materials to view the Ottoman past through the lens of the Greek present. What understandings of nation-building emerge as more Ottoman archives became accessible to scholars? How does Islamic Family Law—still in effect in Greece—confront the European legal system? How are Ottoman administrative structures re-assessed in the context of acute socio-economic crisis and migration?
- Department: Classics
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dimitris Antoniou
h-index: 5 Info - 3 points
FRENCH NEW WAVE CINEMA
This course traces the emergence and development of “New Wave” cinema in France in the 60s. Through a detailed analysis of some of its most iconic films: 400 Blows, Breathless, Hiroshima mon amour… the course will examine the radical artistic and social innovations of its major “auteurs”; Truffaut, Godard, Resnais et al. FREN BC1204: French Intermediate II or the equivalent level is required.
- Department: French @Barnard
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Anne Boyman
CULPA: 16
Info
- 3 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
GANDHI, KING & POLS OF NONVIOLENCE
Since Gandhi’s experiments in mass
satyagraha
over a century ago, nonviolence has become a staple of protest politics across the globe. From the Occupy movements to the Arab Spring to Movement for Black Lives, it might even be entering a new phase of revitalization. At the same time, what exactly nonviolence is and what it can accomplish in politics is very much under debate. This course aims to understand the politics of nonviolence by examining the political ideas and political careers of its most well-known twentieth-century advocates, M.K. Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. Though still venerated as founding figures of nonviolent protest, Gandhi and King have come to be remembered in ways that can misconstrue how they understood and practiced nonviolent politics. To many, Gandhi is a saintly idealist, who wanted to imbue politics with the spirit of
ahimsa
, truth, and conscience. Likewise, King is taken to be a spokesman for interracial brotherhood and Christian love. While partly true, these images also downplay the political side of their nonviolence – the techniques of organizing and strategies of protest that made their movements successful. We will examine the evolution of Gandhi’s and King’s political thinking in relation to the movements they led – the Indian independence movement and the civil rights movement in the US. We will consider how the theory and practice of nonviolence evolved and changed as it moved from one context to another. We will be especially focused on understanding the dynamics of nonviolent protest.
- Department: Political Science
- R 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Karuna Mantena
CULPA: 3
Info
- 4 points
GANDHI, KING&NONVIOLENCE-DISC
This is the required discussion section for
POLS UN3112.
- Department: Political Science
- T 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
- T 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- W 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
- W 11:10 a.m.-noon
- R 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
- R 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
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Instructor:
Ki Young Kim
CULPA: 5
Info
- 0 points
PLAYWRITING II
Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
. What makes a play alive? Often a playwright is surprised into their strongest work. The practices of experimentation and analysis, curiosity and audacity lead to new possibilities. Students will read and respond to plays, identifying elements and strategies, and each week bring in fragments and scenes written in response to weekly prompts. By the middle of the semester, students will choose the piece that feels the most viable and develop it into what in most cases will be a thirty page play. NOTE: Playwriting I (ENGL BC3113) is NOT a prerequisite, and students need not have written a play before.
- Department: English @Barnard
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kathleen Tolan
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
EXPERIMENTAL MECH OF MATERIALS
Prerequisites: (ENME E3113) ENME E3113. Material behavior and constitutive relations. Mechanical properties of metals and cement composites. Structural materials. Modern construction materials. Experimental investigation of material properties and behavior of structural elements including fracture, fatigue, bending, torsion, buckling.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
- R 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
- F 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Adrian Brugger
h-index: 4 Info - 4 points
WHY DO BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE?
WHY BAD THINGS GOOD PEOPL
This course is an introduction to the field of inquiry called The Problem of Evil, or Theodicy – that is, the investigation of God in the face of evil and suffering in the world. How do we justify God? How do we reconcile disaster, pain, and suffering with an all-good, all-knowing, all-compassionate God? This question arises in all religious traditions, but here we will study only four: the Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Hindu traditions, each of which proposes its own array of answers. Our emphasis will be on primary texts from each tradition, with introductory and interpretive secondary sources brought in as supplementary. These primary sources will be discussed in class, but especially in required section meetings. A sub-theme of the course is the “pastoral” dimension of answers to the Problem of Evil: to what extent are the answers we study comforting? This course has been created with the many crises presently afflicting our world – COVID-19, climate change, and the injustice of racism, to name a few – in mind.
- Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Rachel McDermott
CULPA: 37
Info
- 4 points
STORY WRITING II
Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
. Advanced workshop in writing, with emphasis on the short story. Some experience in the writing of fiction required. Conference hours to be arranged.
- Department: English @Barnard
- M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mary E Keane
Info - 3 points
MOD ARCHITECTURE IN THE WORLD
Prerequisites: Designed for but not limited to sophomores; enrollment beyond 60 at the discretion of the instructor. How has architecture been “modern”? This course will introduce students to things, practices, figures, and ideas behind this contentious and contradictory concept, emerging in multiple locations around the world. Students in this course will learn about architecture as it was practiced, taught, thought, and experienced across landscapes of social and cultural difference during the past two centuries. Learning about the past through historical consciousness around architecture and investigating the history of architecture as a discursive field are fundamental to liberal arts thinking generally, and important for students in architecture, the history and theory of architecture, art history, and urban studies. Students in this course will be introduced to:Architecture as enmeshed with other forms of cultural productionCulturally-specific intellectual and public debates around the architectural and urbanMakers, thinkers, and organizers of the designed or built environmentGeographies, territories, and mobilities associated with architecture as an end or means for material extraction, refinement, trade, labor, and constructionSites, institutions, media, events, and practices which have come to hold meaning Modernity, modernism, and modernization in relation to each other, as social, cultural, and technological drivers holding stakes for past events as well their histories. In this course, we will ask questions about ideas and practices within disparate socially-and culturally-constructed worlds, and across other asymmetries. For example, can we draw a coherent historical thread through Lisbon in 1755, Bombay in 1854, Moscow in 1917, the moon in 1969, and al-Za’atari refugee camp in 2016? Are such narratives of coherence themselves the trace of the modernist impulse in architectural history? In this course, we will study modern architecture’s references to an art of building as well the metaphors it gives rise to. Embedded in this examination are social and cultural questions of who made and thought modern architecture, and aesthetic and historical questions around the figure of the architect.
- Department: Architecture @Barnard
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Anooradha I Siddiqi
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
FICTION WRITING
Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
. Assignments designed to examine form and structure in fiction.
- Department: English @Barnard
- TR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jennifer F Boylan
Info - 3 points
Singing Against Slavery: Five Centuries
From the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, African and African-descended people were systematically forced into a cruel system of slavery. Under such extreme circumstances, how did people use music to resist their enslavement? How did their allies, both black and white, use music to mobilize the antislavery movement? And how have musicians used the rhetoric of antislavery to resist slavery’s legacies from 1865 to today? This course takes a chronological approach to these questions, tracing shifting strategies of musical resistance to slavery before, during, and after the Anglo-American antislavery movements of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. We will cover a wide range of musical genres, including street ballads, spirituals, operas, and protest songs, as well as written sources such as travel accounts, runaway slave advertisements, and slave narratives. The course takes an inclusive approach to the antislavery movement, paying special attention to the voices of free and enslaved black people as well as women, white and black, who worked to fight slavery. Completion of Masterpieces of Western Music is preferred, though not required.
- Department: Music
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Julia M Hamilton
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
SCREENWRITING FUNDAMENTALS
Prerequisites: FILM BC3201 or equivalent. Enrollment limited to 12 students. Priority is given to Film Studies majors/concentrations in order of class seniority. Corequisites: (Since this is a Film course, it does not count as a writing course for English majors with a Writing Concentration.) This course is ideal for writers of their FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD screenplays. The first several weeks will focus on STORY: What it is, what it isn’t, how to recognize the difference. How to find your own individual stories that nobody else in the universe can tell. From there we will make the transition to the highly individualized techniques, the strengths and limitations, the dynamics of telling a SCREEN STORY; what to leave in, what to leave out. As Michelangelo puts it—starting with a block of marble and chipping away everything that isn’t David. Through studies of existing screenplays and films in coordination with and hands-on writing exercises which we will share in class, we will develop our skills in all aspects of screenwriting; building fascinating characters, dialogue, story construction (The BIG PICTURE) and scene construction (The Small Picture) Perfection is not the goal; but rather it is to be able to say truly at the end of each day’s writing, “I did the best I could with what I had at the time. (Phillip Roth quoting heavyweight champion Joe Louis)
- Department: Film @Barnard
- MW 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rubeintz Philippe
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
TRANSPORT PHENOMENA II
Prerequisites: (CHEN E3110) CHEN E3110x Corequisites: CHEN E3220 Developments in Transport I are extended to handle turbulence. Topics include: Turbulent energy cascade, wall-bounded turbulent shear flow, time-averaging of the equations of change, Prandtls mixing length hypothesis for the Reynolds stress, the Reynolds analogy, continuum modeling of turbulent flows and heat transfer processes, friction factor, and Nusselt number correlations for turbulent conditions. Then macroscopic (system-level) mass, momentum, and energy balances for one-component systems are developed and applied to complex flows and heat exchange processes. The final part focuses on mass transport in mixtures of simple fluids: Molecular-level origins of diffusion phenomena, Ficks law and its multicomponent generalizations, continuum-level framework for mixtures and its application to diffusion dominated processes, diffusion with chemical reaction, and forced/free convection mass transport.
- Department: Chemical Engineering
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Kyle Bishop
h-index: 42 Info - 3 points
STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS
Methods of structural analysis. Trusses, arches, cables, frames; influence lines; deflections; force method; displacement method; computer applications.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Maria Q Feng
CULPA: 3 h-index: 46 Info - 3 points
PUBLIC SPEAKING
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 14 students. Open only to undergraduates, preference to seniors and juniors. Attend first class for instructor permission. Registering for the course only through myBarnard or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment. This course will introduce you to principles of effective public speaking and debate, and provide practical opportunities to use these principles in structured speaking situations. You will craft and deliver speeches, engage in debates and panel discussions, analyze historical and contemporary speakers, and reflect on your own speeches and those of your classmates. You will explore and practice different rhetorical strategies with an emphasis on information, persuasion and argumentation. For each speaking assignment, you will go through the speech-making process, from audience analysis, purpose and organization, to considerations of style and delivery. The key criteria in this course are content, organization, and adaptation to the audience and purpose. While this is primarily a performance course, you will be expected to participate extensively as a listener and critic, as well as a speaker.
- Department: English @Barnard
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Daniela Kempf
Info -
Instructor:
Patricia D Denison
CULPA: 10 Info - 3 points
LITERATURE&CULTURES OF STRUGGLE IN S.AFR
Generations of resistance have shaped contemporary life in South Africa -- in struggles against colonialism, segregation, the legislated racism known as apartheid, and the entrenched inequalities of the post-apartheid era. Two constants in this history of struggle have been youth as a vanguard of liberation movements and culture as a weapon of struggle. As new generation of South African youth -- the born frees -- has now taken to the streets and social media to decolonize the university and claim their education as a meaningful right, this course traces the ways that generations of writers, artists, and activists have faced censorship, exile, and repression in an ongoing struggle to dismantle apartheid and to free the mind, the most powerful weapon in the hands of the oppressor according to Black Consciousness activist Steve Biko. This course traces the profoundly important roles that literature and other cultural production (music, photography, film, comics, Twitter hashtags like #rhodesmustfall and #feesmustfall) have played in struggle against apartheid and its lingering afterlife. Although many of our texts were originally written in English, we will also discuss the historical forces, including nineteenth-century Christian missions and Bantu Education, as well as South Africas post-1994 commitment to being a multilingual democracy, that have shaped the linguistic texture of South African cultural life.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jennifer Wenzel
CULPA: 3 h-index: 15 Info - 3 points
Figure Painting: Alternative Source Mate
This class is designed to introduce you not only to the subject of painting the human figure and its expressive potential, but also to focus on the art and craft of Painting. We will be painting the figure from secondary source material that can include photos, other artworks, clay models etc. The focus will be on figurative narration. We will be learning to see color, and use paint in response to that. Painting is a way to account for, express and communicate what you have seen with your eyes, mind or in your imagination. You will be introduced to different approaches to the craft of painting, and will by the end of the semester be more free and confident in interpreting your inner and outer vision. We will also be looking at paintings made in different times and places and discuss how and why they look the way they do. You will also be designing and carrying out your own independent project to be completed by the final critique.
- Department: Visual Arts
- R 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Susanna Coffey
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
CREATIVE NONFICTION: THE GENDERED MEMOIR
CREATV NONFIC:GENDERED ME
Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
. A workshop in writing short autobiographical story with particular attention to the role gender plays in shaping experience. Focus on student writing, along with readings from the work of authors such as Augusten Buroughs; Alice Sebold; Alison Bechdel; Mary Karr, and others. PLEASE NOTE: This course has been renumbered. It was previously ENGL BC3120, section 3 and has not changed in content.
- Department: English @Barnard
- TR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jennifer F Boylan
Info - 3 points
STRUCTURAL DESIGN
Prerequisites: (ENME E3113) Design criteria for varied structural applications, including buildings and bridges; design of elements using steel, concrete, masonry, wood, and other materials.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Tom T Panayotidi
CULPA: 3 Info - 3 points
ADVANCED POETRY WRITING II
Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
. This workshop seeks to introduce emerging student poets to the forms and currents of contemporary poetic practice and also encourage you to discover your own difference. Each week explores a different conceptual theme (voice, surrealism, diction, etc.), which we will explore through creative in-class writing exercises. We will read many women of color, including potentially selections from Bhanu Kapil, M. NourbeSe Philip, Layli Long Soldier, Etel Adnan, Kim Hyesoon, and LaTasha Diggs.
- Department: English @Barnard
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Regan Good
Info - 3 points
COMPUTER-AIDED STRUCTRL DESIGN
Corequisites: CIEN E3125. Introduction to software for structural analysis and design with lab. Applications to the design of structural elements and connections.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
- F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tom T Panayotidi
CULPA: 3 Info - 1 points
Animal Tales
"We polish an animal mirror to look for ourselves." -Donna Haraway In the last several decades, Animal Studies has emerged as a robust interdisciplinary field that once again seeks to engage with “the question of the animal,” as Derrida puts it. In this course, we will look at works of cultural production that explore the myriad relationships between human and nonhuman animals. We will read stories that dissolve the barrier between the domestic and the wild. We will read stories about human-animal hybrids. We will read stories from an animal’s-eye-view, imagining the world as an animal might: as a worm digging through the dirt toward an imagined utopia, as an elephant seeking vengeance against poachers, as a cultivated monkey exhausted by the cruelty of human society. As the popular post-humanist scholar Donna Haraway puts it: We polish an animal mirror to look at ourselves. What can animals teach us about ourselves, and more importantly, what can animals teach us about how to survive our own nature? In the midst of this sixth extinction, animals are disappearing at a rapid rate due to human activity. Will it still be possible to cohabit peacefully, ecologically, with one another? By imagining the private lives of animals and writing stories from their perspective, can we still intervene and cultivate the necessary cross-species connections that will carry us into a more just and entwined future?
- Department: Writing
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Instructor:
Anelise I Chen
Info - 3 points
Time Moves Both Ways
What is time travel, really? We can use a machine or walk through a secret door. Take a pill or fall asleep and wake up in the future. But when we talk about magic machines and slipstreams and Rip Van Winkle, we are also talking about memory, chronology, and narrative. In this seminar, we will approach time travel as a way of understanding "the Fourth Dimension" in fiction. Readings will range from the speculative to the strange, to the realism of timelines, flashbacks, and shifts in perspective. Coursework will include short, bi-weekly writing assignments, a completed short story, and a timeinflected adaptation.
- Department: Writing
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Hilary J Leichter
Info - 3 points
DESIGN PROJECTS
Prerequisites: (CIEN E3125) and (CIEN E3126) CIEN E3125 and CIEN E3126. Capstone design project in civil engineering. This project integrates structural, geotechnical and environmental/water resources design problems with construction management tasks and sustainability, legal and other social issues. Project is completed in teams, and communication skills are stressed. Outside lecturers will address important current issues in engineering practice. Every student in the course will be exposed with equal emphasis to issues related to geotechnical engineering, water resources / environmental engineering, structural engineering, and construction engineering and management.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
- R 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- F 1:10 p.m.-3:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tom T Panayotidi
CULPA: 3 Info - 4 points
An Odyssey of Odysseys: Receptions of Ho
Homer’s
Odyssey
, likely composed around the 9th or 8th century BCE, has had an enduring legacy. Our journey this semester will bring us into contact with a varied selection of artistic endeavors, spanning different cultures, times, and media, that draw on the
Odyssey
for material or inspiration. A guiding set of broadly-formulated questions will steer our course: Can we find in the
Odyssey
some of the same meaning, today, that it held for its original audience and that it held, subsequently, for later Greeks? Do receptions of the
Odyssey
try to recapture it, reframe it, refashion it, or become something independent? (Are these mutually exclusive options?) How do we read these works in light of the
Odyssey
, and also how do we re-visit and re-read the
Odyssey
in light of its receptions? It is no secret that the present bears the enduring weight of the past, but is the past changed as a result?
- Department: Classics
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Darcy Krasne
h-index: 5 Info - 3 points
HIST-WEST MUS:CLASSICAL-20TH CENTURY
Topics in Western music from the Classical era to the present day, focusing on the development of musical style and thought, and on analysis of selected works.
- Department: Music
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elaine Sisman
CULPA: 13
Wikipedia
Info
- 3 points
THE AMERICAN COWBOY AND THE ICONOGRAPHY
AMER COWBOY/ICONOG OF WES
We will consider the image and role of the cowboy in fiction, social history, film, music, and art. Readings will include Cormac McCarthy's
The Border Trilogy
.
- Department: English @Barnard
- TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Margaret R Ellsberg
CULPA: 54 Info - 3 points
Crisis and War in the Horn of Africa
CRISIS AND WAR HORN OF AF
The Horn of Africa is often described as a disaster story, a land of terror, crisis and failure. But is it really a place in crisis? In what ways and for whom? For the people of the region, what constitutes meaningful social and political life? Is it possible to approach politics in the Horn of Africa through lenses other than those of violence and disaster? Are there other methods of understanding the experiences of crisis and recovery? In addition to examining emerging research trends in the region the course examines various approaches to the questions of war, humanitarian intervention, peace building, democratization, and economic reform. It considers how the study of popular culture, religious change, and social movements provide other ways to think about collective life. The seminar is intended for those interested in the study of Africa and the Middle East, and other regions that may seem bleak to outsiders but can provide new ways of understanding politics.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elleni Zeleke
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info - 3 points
THIRD-YEAR CONVERSATION FR II
Prerequisites: completion of the language requirement in French or the equivalent. Conversation on contemporary French subjects based on readings in current popular French periodicals.
- Department: French and Romance Philology
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Laurence Marie
CULPA: 3 Info - 2 points
DATA STRUCTURES IN JAVA
Prerequisites: (COMS W1004) or knowledge of Java. Data types and structures: arrays, stacks, singly and doubly linked lists, queues, trees, sets, and graphs. Programming techniques for processing such structures: sorting and searching, hashing, garbage collection. Storage management. Rudiments of the analysis of algorithms. Taught in Java. Note: Due to significant overlap, students may receive credit for only one of the following three courses: COMS W3134, COMS W3136, COMS W3137.
- Department: Computer Science
- MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Paul S Blaer
CULPA: 46
h-index: 8
Info
- 3 points
INTERMEDIATE MICRO THEORY RECITATION
INT MICRO THEORY RECITATI
- Department: Economics @Barnard
- 0 points
SHAKESPEARE IN PERFORMANCE
Shakespeare's plays as theatrical events. Differing performance spaces, acting traditions, directorial frames, theatre practices, performance theories, critical studies, cultural codes, and historical conventions promote differing modes of engagement with drama in performance. We will explore Shakespeare's plays in the context of actual and possible performance from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century.
- Department: English @Barnard
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Patricia D Denison
CULPA: 10 Info - 4 points
HONORS DATA STRUCTURES & ALGOL
Prerequisites: (COMS W1004) or (COMS W1007) Corequisites: COMS W3203 An honors introduction to data types and structures: arrays, stacks, singly and doubly linked lists, queues, trees, sets, and graphs. Programming techniques for processing such structures: sorting and searching, hashing, garbage collection. Storage management. Design and analysis of algorithms. Taught in Java. Note: Due to significant overlap, students may receive credit for only one of the following three courses: COMS W3134, W3136, or W3137.
- Department: Computer Science
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Paul S Blaer
CULPA: 46
h-index: 8
Info
- 4 points
BALLET V
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Cynthia Anderson
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Instructor:
Antonio Carmena
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INTRODUCTION VOCAL REPERTOIRE
This course is designed for developing singers. Group vocalizing, learning of songs and individual workshop performances are aimed at improving the students technical skill and the elements necessary to create a meaningful musical and dramatic experience. Attention to text, subtext, emotional and psychological aspects of a piece and the performers relationship to the audience are included in the work. Repertoire is predominantly in English and comes from both classical and popular traditions Individual coaching sessions are available with the class accompanist and help strengthen the students confidence and skill. The class culminates with an in-class performance.
- Department: Music @Barnard
- F 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Coralie Gallet
Info - 3 points
VOCAL REPERTOIRE, TECHNIQUE
Vocal exercises and exploration of wide-ranging repertoires, styles, and languages of the Western European song tradition. The rich variety of English, French, Italian and German poetry and music from the Baroque period through the Twentieth Century allows the student to experience both the music and the cultural environment of each of these styles. Attention is given both to meaning oftext and musical interpretation. Individual coaching sessions are available with the class accompanist and help strengthen the students confidence and skill. The class culminates with an in-class performance.
- Department: Music @Barnard
- F 3:10 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jean-Paul Bjorlin
Info - 3 points
SOIL MECHANICS
Prerequisites: (ENME E3113) Index properties and classification; compaction; permeability and seepage; effective stress and stress distribution; shear strength of soil; consolidation; slope stability.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Waiching Sun
CULPA: 1 h-index: 30 Info - 4 points
BALLET VI
- Department: Dance @Barnard
- F 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ashley Tuttle
CULPA: 1 Info - 0-1 points
MAJOR ENGLISH TEXTS II
A chronological view of the variety of English literature through study of selected writers and their works. Spring: Romantic poets through the present.
- Department: English @Barnard
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Ross T Hamilton
CULPA: 25
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TOPICS COMPARATIVE LIT
GLOBAL KAFKA
- Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Erk Grimm
CULPA: 10
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- 3 points
Ecologies of Transmedia Performance
ECOL OF TRANSMEDIA PERFOR
Exploring transmedia performance as both a medial interaction in the physical space of theatre and a multiplatform environment expanding and extending beyond it,
Ecologies of Transmedia Performance
engages the NYPL for the Performing Arts archive to create an environmentally and socially self-aware, virtual transmedia performance/experience. To strengthen academic and digital competencies, the course consists of a seminar (meets on Tuesday) and a lab (meets on Wednesday), integrating several activities: experiencing and studying transmedia performances; conceptualizing transmediality; conducting archival research into transmedia theatre; and designing a transmedia performance (the digital tools we will work with include Google Sites, Google Scripts, and Google Cloud AI). Course enrollment is limited to 12; permission of instructor given after first class meeting. Fulfills one of the two required courses in dramatic literature/theatre studies/performance studies for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts major.
- Department: Theatre @Barnard
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Hana Worthen
Info - 4 points
EARLY AMERCN DRAMA & PERFRMNC
Competing constructions of American identity in the United States date back to the early republic when a newly emerging nation struggled with the questions: What makes an American American? What makes America America? From colonial times forward, the stage has served as a forum to air differing beliefs as well as medium to construct new beliefs about Nation, self and other. The texts we will read, from colonial times through WWI, explore diverse topics such as politics, Native American rights, slavery, labor unrest, gender roles, and a growing immigrant population.
- Department: English @Barnard
- TR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Pamela Cobrin
CULPA: 6
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- 4 points
WORLDMUSE ENSEMBLE
Worldmuse Ensemble delves into compelling music from many genres such as world music, gospel, classical--old and new. We perform without a conductor, increasing awareness and interaction among ourselves and our audience. We collaboratively integrate music, dance, and theatre traditions (masks etc.). For experienced singers, and instrumentalists and dancers who sing.
- Department: Music @Barnard
- F 1:10 p.m.-2:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jean-Paul Bjorlin
Info - 3 points
WALK THIS WAY
Whats in a walk? This course undertakes an interdisciplinary study of a fundamental human activity, focusing on philosophical and aesthetic treatments of human locomotion. After first examining the history of walking as a social, economic, religious, and political activity, the course will concentrate on urban walking and how it has been represented in text and image from ancient times to the present. Topics will include walking as introspection, escape, recreation, and discovery; walking and gender; the psychogeography of walking, walking in the city, etc. Readings from Austen, Wordsworth, Dickens, Thoreau, Whitman, Joyce, Woolf, OHara, De Certeau, and many others. Images from film, painting, and photography to be provided by student research. Ditto for musical strolls.
- Department: English @Barnard
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
William C Sharpe
CULPA: 12
h-index: 11
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- 3 points
PERFORMANCE IN/OF SOUTH & SOUTHEAST ASIA
PERF IN/OF SOUTH & SE ASI
This course actively interrogates the region of Southeast Asia as it is mobilized in performance. It will investigate performance as a theoretical lens, artistic medium, and everyday practice across Southeast Asia. Research and writing will draw upon theatre, dance, performance art, and ritual, focusing on the construction of national and personal identity through performance. The course examines themes of gender, sexuality, imperialism, and globalization. Through discussion, viewing, and weekly writing assignments, students hone their critical thinking skills and learn to formulate research questions and arguments that will culminate in one critical essay and two in-class exams. Course may fill
either
the Global Theatre requirement,
or
one (of two) required courses in dramatic literature/theatre studies/performance studies for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts major, but not both.
- Department: Theatre @Barnard
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Paige M Johnson
Info - 3 points
WESTRN THTR TRAD: MODERN
Dialectical approach to reading and thinking about the history of dramatic theatre in the west, interrogating the ways poetry inflects, and is inflected by, the material dynamics of performance. Course undertakes careful study of the practices of performance, and of the sociocultural, economic, political, and aesthetic conditions animating representative plays of the Western tradition from the late eighteenth century to today; course will also emphasize development of important critical concepts for the analysis of drama, theatre, and performance. Specific attention will be given to the ideology of realism and naturalism, the development of epic theatre, the theatre of cruelty, postcolonial performance, and the continuing invention of dramatic forms (theatre of the absurd, speechplays, postdramatic theatre), as well as to the political and theoretical impact of race, gender, sexuality in modern performance culture. Writing: 2-3 papers; Reading: 1-2 plays, critical and historical reading per week; final examination. Fulfills one (of two) Theatre History requirements for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors.
- Department: Theatre @Barnard
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Paige M Johnson
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NAZISM IN PERFORMANCE
Prerequisites: Course enrollment limited to 16; permission of instructor given at first class meeting. Explores the cultivation of national and transnational performances as a significant force of National Socialism, at the same time as challenging the notion of “Nazi Theatre” as monolithic formation. The core of the course inquires into the dialectical analysis of artistic creations in diverse art genres, while working towards an understanding of the social dramaturgy of such events as staging the Führer and the racialized body of the privileged people. Nazism did not harbor ideologies without benefits for the allied nations. Thus, the dynamic performance of transnationalism among the “brothers in arms” will be included as well, in order to elucidate how works of art crossing into the Third Reich were reimagined, sometimes in ways challenging to the presumed values of the state stage. Fulfills one (of two) required courses in dramatic literature/theatre studies/performance studies for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts major.
- Department: Theatre @Barnard
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Hana Worthen
Info - 4 points
TRADITIONAL INDIAN PERFORMNCE
Course provides a perspective on traditional forms of Indian performance from classical theory to contemporary traditional practices. Course covers Sanskrit drama, Kathakali, Ramlila, and Chhau; extensive video of performances and guest practitioners.Course may fulfill
either
the Global Theatre requirement,
or
one (of two) required courses in dramatic literature/theatre studies/performance studies for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts major, but not both.
- Department: Theatre @Barnard
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Shayoni Mitra
CULPA: 5
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POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY
Prerequisites: PSYC BC1001 BC1001, at least one psychology lab, and permission of the instructor. This seminar will explore what psychology can tell us about politics. The focus will be on citizens as active consumers of political information. Topics include ideology and partisanship, attitude formation and change, motivated reasoning, metacognition, persuasion, rationality, intergroup processes, conflict, distrust and conspiracism.
- Department: Psychology @Barnard
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Robert Brotherton
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
ADVANCED PROGRAMMING
Prerequisites: (COMS W3134) or (COMS W3137) C programming language and Unix systems programming. Also covers Git, Make, TCP/IP networking basics, C++ fundamentals.
- Department: Computer Science
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
- F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jae W Lee
CULPA: 42
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- 4 points
DESIGN PROJECT
E3156: a design problem in materials science or metallurgical engineering selected jointly by the student and a professor in the department. The project requires research by the student, directed reading, and regular conferences with the professor in charge. E3157: completion of the research, directed reading, and conferences, culminating in a written report and an oral presentation to the department.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
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Instructor:
Simon Billinge
CULPA: 3 h-index: 75 Info - 3 points
POSTCOLONIAL DRAMA:THE CANON & ITS OTHER
This class is a close reading of postcolonial plays, both as they form a recognizable canon, and as counters to it. Through a grounding in postcolonial theory, students will explore how the colonial encounter leaves a lasting impact on language and performance. How do these playwrights tackle questions of authenticity, influence, inspiration and agency? What stories do they adapt, translate or reimagine? Also, we read in equal measure male and female playwrights, attending to the ways in which power and authority are negotiated by them. This class looks both at plays that are seminal to postcolonial writing and also newer ones that unsettle the position of the greats. Do we then understand postcolonialism as a historically bound literary trend or an ongoing process of exploration? Fundamentally we ask, in our efforts to decolonize the theatre, how do we find new ways or reading?
- Department: Theatre @Barnard
- R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Shayoni Mitra
CULPA: 5
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- 4 points
THE ENGLISH COLLOQUIUM
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to Barnard English majors. In the Enlightenment colloquium we will look at English and European imaginative and intellectual life during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. During this period, writers tried in new ways to reconcile the tensions between reason and religion. Categories of thought that underlie our world today were taking shape: secularity, progress, the public and the private, individual rights, religious tolerance. Writers articulated principles of equality in an era of slavery. Literary forms like the novel, which emerges into prominence during this period, express in irreducibly complex ways these and other changes. In this intensive course, we will study from multiple angles a variety of authors that may include Hobbes, Dryden, Locke, Spinoza, Lafayette, Defoe, Swift, Pope, Richardson, Voltaire, Fielding, Johnson, Diderot, Sterne, and Wollstonecraft, among others.
- Department: English @Barnard
- R 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Achsah Guibbory
CULPA: 17
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Instructor:
Jayne Hildebrand
CULPA: 3
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Instructor:
Andrew L Lynn
CULPA: 17
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Instructor:
Eugene A Petracca
Info - 4 points
DEVELOPING ACCESSIBLE USER INTERFACES
DEVELOP ACCESSIBLE INTERF
Course Number 3223 – Introduction to Developing Accessible User Interfaces– Points: 3 Introduction to access technology and the development of accessible systems. In this course, students build and evaluate various access technologies. Topics include: text-to-speech, speech recognition, screen readers, screen magnification, alternative input, tactile displays, and web transformation. This course teaches students the deep inner workings of today’s user interface technology and serve as a guide for building the user interfaces of the future.
- Department: Computer Science @Barnard
- TR 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Sarah Morrison-Smith
h-index: 6 Info - 3 points
SHAKESPEARE II
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 60 students. Critical and historical introduction to selected comedies, histories, tragedies, and romances by Shakespeare. Please note that you do not need to take ENGL BC3163: Shakespeare I and ENGL BC3164: Shakespeare II in sequence; you may take them in any order.
- Department: English @Barnard
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rachel Eisendrath
CULPA: 6
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- 3 points
PERCEPTION AND LANGUAGE
- Department: Psychology @Barnard
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Robert E Remez
CULPA: 26 Wikipedia h-index: 23 Info - 4 points
THEORIES OF PERFORMANCE STUDIES
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 16 students. Course surveys the wide range of genres and categories addressed by the practice of modern "performance studies"; it introduces a number of performance practices, as well as relevant interdisciplinary methodologies. Students consider live performances as well as a number of mediated works, learning to think critically and creatively about the relation between text, technology, and the body. Course may fill
either
the Theory requirement,
or
one (of two) required courses in dramatic literature/theatre studies/performance studies for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts major, but not both.
- Department: Theatre @Barnard
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Shayoni Mitra
CULPA: 5
Info
- 4 points
LITERATURE & SCIENCE 1600-1800
The "Scientific Revolution" began in England in the early seventeenth century, with the experiments of John Dee and the reforming projects of Francis Bacon, to culminate in Isaac Newton’s discovery of the natural laws of motion. This was also a period of great literary innovation, from Shakespeare’s plays and the metaphysical poetry of Marvell and Donne, to the new genre of the novel. This course will explore both the scientific and literary "revolutions" – indeed we will attempt to put them in a kind of conversation with one another, as poets and scientists puzzled over the nature of spirit, body, and the world.
- Department: English @Barnard
- MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ross T Hamilton
CULPA: 25
Info
- 3 points
THE ROMANTIC ERA
Romantic writers in their intellectual, historical, and political context, with reference to contemporary movements in philosophy, music, and the plastic arts. Authors include Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, P.B. Shelley, and Keats. An emphasis on close reading of the poetry.
- Department: English @Barnard
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ross T Hamilton
CULPA: 25
Info
- 3 points
VICTORIAN AGE IN LITERATURE
“We have become a novel-reading people,” wrote Anthony Trollope in 1870. “Novels are in the hands of us all; from the Prime Minister down to the last-appointed scullery maid.” This course will consider why the novel was so important to Victorian culture and society. What made the Victorian novel such a fertile form for grappling with the unprecedented cultural changes of the nineteenth century? To address this question, we will explore how Victorian novels both responded to, and participated in, major social and cultural shifts of the period, including industrialism and urbanization; colonialism and empire; the changing status of women, sexuality, and marriage; the emergence of Darwinism; class conflict and social reform; and the expansion of education and literacy. This course will also consider more broadly what novels are for, and what the Victorians thought they were for. Do novels represent the world as it really is, or do they imagine it as it ought to be? What kinds of solutions to social and political problems can novels offer? Can novels ethically improve (or corrupt) their readers? We will consider these issues in the context of realism, Victorian literature’s trademark genre, but we’ll also explore an array of other genres, such as the industrial novel, the Bildungsroman, the sensation novel, detective fiction, and gothic fiction. Authors include Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Wilkie Collins, and others.
- Department: English @Barnard
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Jayne Hildebrand
CULPA: 3
Info
- 3 points
AMERICAN LITERATURE 1800-1870
Texts from the late Republican period through the Civil War explore a range of intersecting literary, political, philosophical, and theological issues, including the literary implications of American independence, the status of Native Americans, the nature of the self, slavery and abolition, gender and woman's sphere, and the Civil War. Writers include Washington Irving, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Margaret Fuller, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Jacobs, and Emily Dickinson.
- Department: English @Barnard
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lisa Gordis
CULPA: 15 Info - 3 points
Between Science Fiction and Climate Fict
LATN-AME SCI & CLIMATE FI
This course explores the entanglement between traditional science fiction and the emerging genre of climate change fiction (popularly known as “cli-fi”) in Latin American literature. Traditionally, while science fiction imagines future scientific or technological advances and significant social or environmental changes, climate fiction deals more specifically with climate change and global warming. By focusing on the ideological and aesthetic implications of the human/non-human binary, this course will explore how the history of colonialism makes Latin America a unique laboratory of experimentation that combines these two genres. We will ask questions such as: How are phenomena such as climate change, post-humanism, animal, machine, artificial intelligence regionalized in Latin American fiction? How is the relationship between colonization and the extraction of natural resources fictionalized in twentieth-century literature? What are the different ways in which Latin American authors negotiate issues such as “development,” “progress,” and technological and capitalist expansion in their fiction? How do they imagine a future after climate change? How do climate change and technological development affect gender, racial, and class relations in Latin America? We will examine how specific literary fiction varies in response to the long-term history of capitalism, patriarchal domination, and the technological domination of nature in Latin America.
- Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
- MTWR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Orlando Bentancor
CULPA: 10
Info
- 3 points
AMERICAN LITERATURE 1871-1945
This interdisciplinary course situates late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature within the context of historical and cultural change. Students read works by Whitman, Twain, James, Griggs, Wharton, Faulkner, and Hurston alongside political and cultural materials including Supreme Court decisions, geometric treatises, composite photography and taxidermy.
- Department: English @Barnard
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kristin Carter
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
MODRN BRITISH & AMERCAN POETRY
Poetry written in English during the past century, discussed in the context of modernism, postmodernism, literary theory, and changing social and technological developments. Students will participate in shaping the syllabus and leading class discussion. Authors may include Yeats, Williams, Eliot, Moore, Bishop, Rich, Ginsberg, Stevens, O Hara, Plath, Brooks, Jordan, Walcott, Alexie, and many others.
- Department: English @Barnard
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
William C Sharpe
CULPA: 12
h-index: 11
Info
- 3 points
POSTMODERNISM
This course considers how Postmodernisms profound distrust of language and narrative transforms the form and function of literature. Writers include Stoppard, Pynchon, Didion, Morrison, Robinson, Coetzee, Ishiguro, Wallace, Ashbery, and Hejinian.
- Department: English @Barnard
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Margaret S Vandenburg
CULPA: 59
Info
- 3 points
INT'L HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
This course will introduce students to the international law of human rights, and give a basic orientation to fundamental issues and controversies. The course has two principal focal points: first, the nuts and bolts of how international law functions in the field of human rights, and second, the value and limitations of legal approaches to a variety of human rights issues. Throughout the course, both theoretical and practical questions will be addressed, including who bears legal duties and who can assert legal claims, how these duties might be enforced, and accountability and remedy for violations. Attention will be given to how international law is made, what sorts of assumptions underlie various legal mechanisms, and how the law works in a variety of contexts.
- Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dinah R Po Kempner
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
STEM CELL BIOL & APPLICATIONS
Prerequisites: three semesters of Biology or the instructors permission. The course examines current knowledge and potential medical applications of pluripotent stem cells (embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells), direct conversions between cell types and adult, tissue-specific stem cells (concentrating mainly on hematopoietic and gut stem cells as leading paradigms). A basic lecture format will be supplemented by presentations and discussions of research papers. Recent reviews and research papers, together with extensive instructor notes, will be used in place of a textbook. 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 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Daniel D Kalderon
CULPA: 3 Info - 3 points
CRITICAL WRITING
(Formerly called Literary Criticism - Theory.) Provides experience in the reading and analysis of literary texts and some knowledge of conspicuous works of literary criticism. Frequent short papers. Required of all English majors before the end of the junior year. Sophomores are encouraged to take it in the spring semester even before officially declaring their major. Transfer students should plan to take it in the fall semester.
- Department: English @Barnard
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
- M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Atefeh Akbari Shahmirzadi
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Mary E Cregan
CULPA: 12
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Lisa Gordis
CULPA: 15 Info -
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John J Pagano
CULPA: 27
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- 4 points
THEORY
An exploration of alternative theoretical approaches to the study of religion as well as other areas of humanistic inquiry. The methods considered include: sociology, anthropology, philosophy, hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, structuralism, genealogy, and deconstruction. (Previous title: Juniors Colloquium)
- Department: Religion @Barnard
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Beth A Berkowitz
CULPA: 2 h-index: 6 Info - 4 points
QUEER THEORY
- Department: Women's and Gender Studies
- M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tey Meadow
h-index: 8 Info - 4 points
SOLID EARTH DYNAMICS
Prerequisites: any 1000-level or 2000-level EESC course; MATH UN1101 Calculus I and PHYS UN1201 General Physics I or their equivalents. Concurrent enrollment in PHYS UN1201 is acceptable with the instructors permission. Properties and processes affecting the evolution and behavior of the solid Earth. This course will focus on the geophysical processes that build mountains and ocean basins, drive plate tectonics, and otherwise lead to a dynamic planet. Topics include heat flow and mantle circulation, earthquakes and seismic waves, gravity, Earths magnetic field, and flow of glaciers and ice sheets.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Meredith Nettles
CULPA: 3 h-index: 31 Info - 3 points