DIRECTING II

Prerequisites: Students required to have taken THTR UN3200 Directing I or THTR UN3203 Collaboration: Directing and Design, or equivalent. Enrollment limited to 14 students. Permission of instructor given at first class meeting. Course focuses on developing an individual directorial style, placing emphasis on visual research, and the use of different staging environments: end-stage, in the round, environmental. Class is structured around scene-work and critique, and each student will direct at least three fully-realized scenes. Material typically drawn from European avant-garde. Fulfills additional coursework in Directing required for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors concentrating in Directing.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• MW 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Alice A Reagan
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SENIOR NONFICTION WORKSHOP

Prerequisites: The department's permission required through writing sample. Please go to 609 Kent for submission schedule and registration guidelines or see http://www.arts.columbia.edu/writing/undergraduate. Senior Nonfiction Workshop

• Department: Writing
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Phillip Lopate
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN II

ADV ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

Prerequisite: ARCH UN3201. Advanced Architectural Design II culminates the required studio sequence in the major. Students are encouraged to consider it as a synthetic studio where they advance concepts, research methodologies and representational skills learned in all previous studios towards a semester-long design project. Field trips, lectures, and discussions are organized in relation to studio exercises.

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• F 9 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• 4.5 points

DISCRETE MATHEMATICS

Prerequisites: Any introductory course in computer programming. Logic and formal proofs, sequences and summation, mathematical induction, binomial coefficients, elements of finite probability, recurrence relations, equivalence relations and partial orderings, and topics in graph theory (including isomorphism, traversability, planarity, and colorings).

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Ansaf Salleb-Aouissi
  CULPA: 21 h-index: 16 Info
• 4 points

RELIGION IN AMERICA II

Survey of American religion from the Civil War to the present, with an emphasis on the ways religion has shaped American history, culture, and identity.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Gale L Kenny
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

COLLABORATION:DIRCTNG/DESIGN

Prerequisites: Permission of instructors given at first meeting; enrollment limited to 24. Course focuses on developing both technical and collaborative skills of directors and designers.  Students are assigned to different roles in creative teams working on a series of at least three fully realized and designed scenes. Introduction to various design disciplines and directing practice. May be counted as one course in
either
directing
or
a design toward the three courses in performance fields for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors; counts as second or third course in either directing or design.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:40 a.m.
• Instructor: Kara M Feely
  Info
• 3 points

WORLD LITERATURE REVISITED II

(Please note that you do
not
need to take ENGL BC3204 World Literature Revisited I and ENGL BC3205 World Literature Revisited II in sequence; you may take them in any order.) As a discipline, World Literature dates back to the early 19th century and Goethe’s concept of
weltliteratur
. Yet, despite the fact that Goethe was well-versed in the literature of the “Orient” and he emphasized their centrality in
weltliteratur
, the languages that he spoke of and underlined within the formation of this literature were mostly German and Romance languages. Institutionally speaking, not much has changed over the past couple of centuries. More often than not, studying the literature of locations such as the Middle East, Africa, or East Asia takes place in Area Studies departments, and offerings of these areas’ literatures in Comparative Literature departments are few and far in between.   
 
In World Literature Revisited I, we imagined what a survey of World Literature in a literary studies department could look like, as we dealt with ancient texts until around the 14th century, with a focus on origin stories and epic narratives, lyric poetry, historical narratives, and sacred/religious texts. In World Literature Revisited II, we will continue to investigate and challenge the categories of “Eastern” and “Western” literature and think through the categories of “world” and “literature” in the course title. In this part of the course, we will work on (classical, early modern, and modern) drama, modern poetry, and the novel, with a particular focus on reading in comparison adaptations, appropriations, and literary responses. What/where/whom constitutes the world in World Literature? How can we read and trace literary influence across these literatures without reducing them to a mere repetition of the same themes and ideas? Finally, we will think about the role that translation plays in the production and politics of World Literature, particularly when it comes to adaptations and appropriations, and how the issue of translation differentiates between the disciplines of Comparative Literature and World Literature.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Atefeh Akbari Shahmirzadi
  Info
• 3 points

THE 'GLOBAL' NOVEL

"Yes, globalization can produce homogeneity, but globalization is also a threat to homogeneity." --Kwame Anthony Appiah, "The Case for Contamination," New York Times Magazine, 2006 Thinking through the arguments both in favor of and against globalization, particularly in the realm of cultural productions, in this course we will discuss the "global" novel. To that end, we will read essays from
The Global Novel: Writing the World in the 21st Century
about works such as
Americanah, Snow,
and
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
(along with the novels themselves) to investigate what is meant by "global" and what the criteria for including novels in this categorization are. We will also consider whether there is an erasure of cultural difference and nuance in reading novels using a globalizing perspective in order to render them more approachable for a (primarily) US audience. In order to think through and challenge this category of the global, we will also read novels that can be roughly categorized as postcolonial. We will thus consider how struggles for independence and the desire to locate one’s identity either within freshly liberated nation-states or in the process of immigrating to former metropoles could give rise to cultural and psychological anxieties. We will also consider the manner in which late-stage capitalism could indeed push toward homogenized senses of self that manifest in a category such as the "global novel" and whether arguments could be made in favor of such homogenization. Ultimately, we will think about the politics of globalization and the desire to include in or exclude from the “global” certain locations, cultural products, or peoples.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Atefeh Akbari Shahmirzadi
  Info
• 3 points

STATE POLITICS

This course is intended to provide students with a detailed understanding of politics in the American states. The topics covered are divided into four broad sections. The first explores the role of the states in Americas federal system of government. Attention is given to the basic features of intergovernmental relations and the historical evolution of American federalism. The second part of the course focuses on state-level political institutions. The organization and processes associated with the legislative, executive, and judicial branches are discussed in depth. The third section examines state elections, political parties, and interest groups. Finally, the course concludes by looking closely at various policy areas. Budgeting, welfare, education, and morality policy are among those considered.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Justin H Phillips
  CULPA: 23 Info
• 3 points

Aaahh Real Monsters: Critical Monster St

Critical Monster Studies

This course examines the major issues and themes of critical monster studies. It explores questions about how we conceive and understand monsters theoretically, historically, socially, and culturally. Is there a quintessential monster category? Or are monsters constructed? How do social, cultural, and religious factors affect our perception of monsters and the idea of monstrosity? What roles do monsters fill in determining how people construct and deconstruct their communities? Are monsters members of the community? What does the idea of monstrosity imply about the limits of what is possible in nature? Are monsters just supernatural or are there natural monsters? And what do modern depictions of monsters in popular media have to say about how our perception of monsters is changing? Together, we explore all of these questions and orient students into the burgeoning field of critical monster studies.

• Department: Religion
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael A Hammett
  Info
• 3 points

CHEM ENGINEERNG THERMODYNAMICS

Prerequisites: (CHEE E3010) and (CHEN E2100) CHEE E3010 and CHEN E3100. Corequisites: CHEN E3220. This course deals with fundamental and applied thermodynamic principles that form the basis of chemical engineering practice. Topics include phase equilibria, methods to treat ideal and non-ideal mixtures, and estimation of properties.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Allie Obermeyer
  h-index: 16 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH AND DESI

ADV ARCH RESEARCH & DESIG

Application required: A design portfolio and application is required for this course. The class list will be announced before classes start. Advanced Architectural Research and Design is an opportunity for students to consider international locations and address contemporary global concerns, incorporating critical questions, research methods, and design strategies that are characteristic of an architect’s operations at this scale.

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• F 9 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Karen Fairbanks
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4.5 points

INTERMEDIATE MICROECONOMICS

Prerequisites: ECON UN1105 and MATH UN1101 and (MATH UN1201 or MATH UN1207) The determination of the relative prices of goods and factors of production and the allocation of resources.

• Department: Economics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Wouter R Vergote
  CULPA: 15 Info
• Instructor: Caterina Musatti
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Ingmar O Nyman
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

INTER MICROECONOMICS-DISC

Required Discussion section for ECON UN3211 intermediate Economics.

• Department: Economics
• 0 points

INTERMEDIATE MACROECONOMICS

Prerequisites: (MATH UN1101 or MATH UN1207) and ECON UN1105 or the equivalent. Corequisites: MATH UN1201 This course covers the determination of output, employment, inflation and interest rates. Topics include economic growth, business cycles, monetary and fiscal policy, consumption and savings and national income accounting.

• Department: Economics
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Martin Uribe
  CULPA: 16 Wikipedia h-index: 52 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN URBAN POLITICS

This course examines the pattern of political development in urban America, as the countrys population has grown in urbanized locations. It explores the process by which cities and suburbs are governed, how immigrants and migrants are incorporated, and how people of different races and ethnicities interact in urbanized settings as well as the institutional relations of cities and suburbs with other jurisdictions of government. The course focuses both on the historical as well the theoretical understandings of politics in urban areas.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Carlos Vargas-Ramos
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

INTER MACROECONOMICS-DISC

Discussion section for ECON UN3213 Intermediate Macro. Student must register for a section.

• Department: Economics
• 0 points

SOC OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE

Emphasizes foundations and development of black communities post-1940, and mechanisms in society that create and maintain racial inequality. Explores notions of identity and culture through lenses of gender, class and sexual orientation, and ideologies that form the foundation of black politics. Primarily lecture with some discussion.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Mignon R Moore
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

HYBRID NONFICTION FORMS

Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT required. Creative nonfiction is a frustratingly vague term. How do we give it real literary meaning; examine its compositional aims and techniques, its achievements and especially its aspirations? This course will focus on works that we might call visionary - works that combine art forms, genres and styles in striking ways. Works in which image and text combine to create a third interactive language for the reader. Works still termed fiction history or journalism that join fact and fiction to interrogate their uses and implications. Certain memoirs that are deliberately anti-autobiographical, turning from personal narrative to the sounds, sight, impressions and ideas of the writers milieu. Certain essays that join personal reflection to arts and cultural criticism, drawing on research and imagination, the vernacular and the formal, even prose and poetry. The assemblage or collage that, created from notebook entries, lists, quotations, footnotes and indexes achieves its coherence through fragments and associations, found and original texts.

• Department: Writing
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Margo L Jefferson
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

WRITING AS COLLECTING

In Writing as Collecting we will examine how the concept of collecting provides a way to think through writing. We will read writing based from art, archives, and other collections, from antiquity to the contemporary, from the commonplace to the rarified. We will consider how writers have written distinctively through a collecting impulse or about specific collections. While our focus will be on works of nonfiction, we will also take forays into fiction, poetry, visual art, and the cinematic essay. Students will present on specific objects or collections, and two classes will take place in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library (located on the 6th floor of Butler Library): the first as an introduction and orientation to the collections with a discussion of how research can feed creative writing, and, the second, for an in-class exercise in writing creatively about an specific object or collection (a book, manuscript, archival box, etc.). Students will be encouraged to write about their own collections and to use the many public (or private) collections found throughout the city of New York.

• Department: Writing
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: John Vincler
  Info
• 3 points

THE EVOL OF HUM GROWTH & DEVPT

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jessica M Manser
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

TOLSTOY AND DOSTOEVSKY

Two epic novels, Tolstoys War and Peace and Dostoevskys The Brothers Karamazov, will be read along with selected shorter works. Other works by Tolstoy include his early Sebastopol Sketches, which changed the way war is represented in literature; Confession, which describes his spiritual crisis; the late stories Kreutzer Sonata and Hadji Murad; and essays on capital punishment and a visit to a slaughterhouse. Other works by Dostoevsky include his fictionalized account of life in Siberian prison camp, The House of the Dead; Notes from the Underground, his philosophical novella on free will, determinism, and love; A Gentle Creature, a short story on the same themes; and selected essays from Diary of a Writer. The focus will be on close reading of the texts. Our aim will be to develop strategies for appreciating the structure and form, the powerful ideas, the engaging storylines, and the human interest in the writings of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. No knowledge of Russian is required.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Liza Knapp
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 3 points

Gender Archaeolxgy

GENDER ARCHAEOLXGY

This seminar critically reexamines the ancient world from the perspective of gender archaeology. Though the seedlings of gender archaeology were first sown by of feminist archaeologists during the 70’s and 80’s, this approach involves far more than simply ‘womanizing’ androcentric narratives of past. Rather, gender archaeology criticizes interpretations of the past that transplant contemporary social roles onto the archaeological past, casting the divisions and inequalities of today as both timeless and natural. This class challenges the idea of a singular past, instead championing a turn towards multiple, rich, messy, intersectional pasts. The ‘x’ in ‘archaeolxgy’ is an explicit signal of our focus on this diversity of pasts and a call for a more inclusive field of practice today.

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• TR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Camilla Sturm
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

VIRGINIA WOOLF

(Lecture). Six novels and some non-fictional prose: Jacobs Room, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, The Waves, Between the Acts; A Room of Ones Own, Three Guineas.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Edward Mendelson
  CULPA: 64 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL HISTOR

This Course is intended to look at key developments of American History through the prism of Supreme Court decisions and their aftermath.  In essence, this Course will address three questions: 1. How did the Supreme Court reflect, and affect, historic patterns of U.S. development, and how did it impact the legal and economic framework of the United States? 2. How did the Supreme Court respond to, or worsen, crises in U.S. history? 3. How did the perception of individual and collective rights and liberties, and of the function and role of Governments -- both Federal and State -- evolve over time?

• Department: Political Science
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert L Tortoriello
  Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY-DISC

AMERICAN CONST'L HISTORY-

This is the required discussion section for 
POLS UN3225.

• Department: Political Science
• R 11:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Robert L Tortoriello
  Info
• 0 points

AMERICAN LIVES, AMERICAN STORIES

AMER. LIVES, AMER. STORIE

Writing sample required to apply: https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses In this class we will discuss the narrative of the "American" story, and how stories of immigrants and minority identities redefine and complicate it. The goal of the class is to investigate how writers frame a sense of identity in relation to the "American ideal". We will explore this theme through three creative non-fiction pieces each focusing on a different perspective of place, person, and personal experience. What are your stories, and what makes them "American"?

• Department: English @Barnard
• R 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Maria D Hinojosa
  Info
• 3 points

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY I-LEC

Prerequisites: CHEM BC2001 or equivalent. Credit will not be given for any course below the 3000 level after completing CHEM BC3230 or its equivalent. Corequisites: With lab, counts towards Lab Science requirement. Atomic and molecular structure; stereochemistry of organic molecules; introduction to organic reactions, reaction mechanisms, and synthesis.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• MWF 10 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Christian Rojas
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 3 points

PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION

This course in the Philosophy of Religion will consider the relationship between faith and reason, religion and morality, religion and art, and religion and technology. Attention will be devoted to an exploration of comparative interpretations of God or the divine in the western philosophical and theological traditions and Zen Buddhism as well as the interrelation of interpretations of God, self, and world. The course will conclude with a consideration of the question of life after death in philosophy, literature, and information technology.

• Department: Religion
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Mark C Taylor
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Chemistry IV

DESCRIPTIVE INORG. CHEMIS

Prerequisites: CHEM BC2001. Selected aspects of general chemistry, primary for pre-health professions and biological science students who have taken Organic Chemistry. Thermodynamics, equilibrium, kinetics, complex ions and coordination compounds, and radiochemistry, with applications to analytical chemistry and biochemistry.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Jean Vadakkan
  Info
• 3 points

COUNTERARCHIVES

While historical records have long been the source from which we draw our picture of the past, it is with literature and art that we attempt to speculatively work out that which falls between the cracks of conventional archival documentation, that which cannot be contained by historical record— emotion, gesture, the sensory, the sonic, the inner life, the afterlife, the neglected and erased. This course will examine how contemporary black writers have imagined and attempted to represent black life from the late 17th to the early 20th centuries, asking what fiction can tell us about history. Reading these works as alternative archives, or “counterarchives,” which index the excess and fugitive material of black histories in the Americas, we will probe the uses, limits, and revelations of historical fictions, from the experimental and realist novel, to works of poetry and drama. Drawing on the work of various interdisciplinary scholars, we will use these historical fictions to explore and enter into urgent and ongoing conversations around black life & death, African-American history & memory, black aesthetics, and the problem of “The Archive.”

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Elleza C Kelley
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

Museums and Sacred Things

This course invites students to consider how museums create, curate, collect, and engage with sacred things, including things that are recognizably religious, things that become “sacred” through the processes of museum collection and display, visitors to museums, and even museum spaces themselves. This course focuses on the American context, and American museums. We will first consider the particular social and political contexts in which museums and museum practices developed and responded to sacred things, and the contexts in which “religion” serves as a valuable if often implicit classification structure.  We will then focus on the ways in which things deemed sacred are engaged by museums and encountered by museumgoers, with particular attention to the ways that museumgoers, museum architecture, and religious communities all interact in relation so object. In this class, students will learn to thoughtfully ask question and evaluate the role that museums as public institutions play in shaping public and private understandings and experiences of religion, the sacred, and spirituality.

• Department: Religion
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Courtney Bender
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

Museums and Sacred Things - Discussion

This course invites students to consider how museums create, curate, collect, and engage with sacred things, including things that are recognizably religious, things that become “sacred” through the processes of museum collection and display, visitors to museums, and even museum spaces themselves. This course focuses on the American context, and American museums. We will first consider the particular social and political contexts in which museums and museum practices developed and responded to sacred things, and the contexts in which “religion” serves as a valuable if often implicit classification structure.  We will then focus on the ways in which things deemed sacred are engaged by museums and encountered by museumgoers, with particular attention to the ways that museumgoers, museum architecture, and religious communities all interact in relation so object. In this class, students will learn to thoughtfully ask question and evaluate the role that museums as public institutions play in shaping public and private understandings and experiences of religion, the sacred, and spirituality.

• Department: Religion
• Instructor: Courtney Bender
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 0 points

Museums and Sacred Things - Discussion

This course invites students to consider how museums create, curate, collect, and engage with sacred things, including things that are recognizably religious, things that become “sacred” through the processes of museum collection and display, visitors to museums, and even museum spaces themselves. This course focuses on the American context, and American museums. We will first consider the particular social and political contexts in which museums and museum practices developed and responded to sacred things, and the contexts in which “religion” serves as a valuable if often implicit classification structure.  We will then focus on the ways in which things deemed sacred are engaged by museums and encountered by museumgoers, with particular attention to the ways that museumgoers, museum architecture, and religious communities all interact in relation so object. In this class, students will learn to thoughtfully ask question and evaluate the role that museums as public institutions play in shaping public and private understandings and experiences of religion, the sacred, and spirituality.

• Department: Religion
• Instructor: Courtney Bender
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 0 points

INTRODUCTION TO COMPOSITION I

Composition in shorter forms. Students will compose new works for the cello, with a focus on diverse approaches to the instrument. Student pieces will be workshopped, rehearsed, and performed (and/or recorded).

• Department: Music
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Anne Gosfield
  Info
• 3 points

FREN LANG,SOC,CULTRE THRU FILM

Prerequisites: FREN UN2102 French socio-political issues and language through the prism of film. Especially designed for non-majors wishing to further develop their French language skills and learn about French culture. Each module includes assignments targeting the four language competencies: reading, writing, speaking and oral comprehension, as well as cultural understanding.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Heidi Holst-Knudsen
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 3 points

QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3231, MATH UN1101, and permission of instructor. Survey of topics appropriate for a student majoring in chemistry or biochemistry, including examinations of uncertainty analysis and data processing, use of basic laboratory equipment, complex equilibria (pH, solubility, etc.), advanced solution chemistry and chemical activity, and the theoretical foundations of modern techniques in electrochemistry, chromatography and analytical experimental techniques.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Subhasish Chatterjee
  h-index: 16 Info
• 3 points

Lang. Culture, Society: La culture pop

French Lang. : La culture

The host of the daily radio show ​
Popopop
​ on the public radio ​
France Inter
​ routinely introduces his guests by asking them “what is pop culture?”/“qu’est ce que la culture pop?” The answers are at least as diverse as the guests’ cultural, social, and generational backgrounds. Keeping the complexity and variety of the possible answers to this question in mind, students in this class will be introduced to French pop culture or ​
La culture pop française
​ both in its specificity and in contrast to ​
American pop culture
​. In this French language class, critical thinking applied to mass media such as music, movies, ads, and newspapers, as well as literature ranging from ​
les BD
(comics and graphic novels) to ​
les polars (detective fiction),
​ ​and as well as to Social Media (blogs, podcasts, influencers, etc.)​ w​ ill enable students to better grasp some of the forces shaping culture in French society, equipping them with knowledge and concepts that are helpful to understanding dominant cultural trends and their impact on contemporary French Society. Exposing students to such a wide variety of materials will be ​intellectually compelling and will also expose them to a variety of language registers.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Alexandra Borer
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY

Examines the ways sociologists have studied the field of medicine and experiences of health and illness. We cannot understand topics of health and illness by only looking at biological phenomena; we must consider a variety of social, political, economic, and cultural forces. Uses sociological perspectives and methods to understand topics such as: unequal patterns in health and illness; how people make sense of and manage illness; the ways doctors and patients interact with each other; changes in the medical profession, health policies and institutions; social movements around health; and how some behaviors but not others become understood as medical problems. Course is geared towards pre-med students as well as those with general interests in medicine, health and society.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• MTWR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Amy Zhou
  Info
• 3 points

JAZZ DANCE III

Prerequisites: DNCE BC2248 or permission of instructor.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Katiti King
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 0-1 points

HYDROSYSTEMS ENGINEERING

Prerequisites: (CHEN E3110) or (ENME E3161) or CHEN E3110 or ENME E3161 or equiv, or instructors permission. A quantitative introduction to hydrologic and hydraulic systems, with a focus on integrated modeling and analysis of the water cycle and associated mass transport for water resources and environmental engineering. Coverage of unit hydrologic processes such as precipitation, evaporation, infiltration, runoff generation, open channel and pipe flow, subsurface flow and well hydraulics in the context of example watersheds and specific integrative problems such as risk-based design for flood control, provision of water, and assessment of environmental impact or potential for non-point source pollution. Spatial hydrologic analysis using GIS and watershed models.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Pierre Gentine
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 43 Info
• 3 points

FLAMENCO & CLASSCL SP DANCE I

Prerequisites: DNCE BC1137, BC1138, BC1332, BC1333, or Permission of instructor. Intermediate level in modern or ballet technique is required.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• F noon-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Melinda S Bronson
  Info
• 0-1 points

THEORY & METHOD IN BIOL ANTHRO

In this course, we examine the process of
doing
scientific research. Using topics selected from the three main foci of biological anthropology – paleoanthropology, primate behavioral biology, and human variation/adaptation – we will explore the process of developing research questions and the different methods used to investigate them. Through structured discussion and critical analysis of primary literature, you will move beyond learning the facts of biological anthropology to critically interpreting studies and actively developing research.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: James L Fuller
  Info
• 4 points

VOTING & POLITICAL BEHAVIOR

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• MTWR 11:25 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Miller
  CULPA: 18 h-index: 14 Info
• 3 points

COMPUTATIONAL LINEAR ALGEBRA

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Tony B Dear
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 4 points

THERMODYNAMICS-KINETICS

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3231, PHYS BC2001, PHYS BC 2002, MATH UN1102 or MATH UN1201. Introduction to the laws of thermodynamics; application primarily to ideal systems. Free energy and equilibrium. Kinetics: rate laws and mechanisms, experimental techniques.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• MW 7:40 p.m.-8:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew C Crowther
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

FIRST AMENDMENT VALUES

Prerequisites: POLS W1201 or an equivalent. Not an introductory course. Not open to students who have taken the colloquium POLS BC3302. Examines the first amendment rights of speech, press, religion and assembly. In-depth analysis of landmark Supreme Court rulings provides the basis for exploring theoretical antecedents as well as contemporary applications of such doctrines as freedom of association, libel, symbolic speech, obscenity, hate speech, political speech, commercial speech, freedom of the press and religion. (Cross-listed by the American Studies Program.)

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Paula A Franzese
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ENVIR CONTR/POLLUTN REDUCT SYS

Prerequisites: (EAEE E3200) or (ENME E3161) or (MECE E3100) EAEE E3200 or ENME E3161 or MECE E3100 Sources of solid/gaseous air pollution and the technologies used for modern methods of abatement. Air pollution and its abatement from combustion of coal, oil, and natural gas and the thermodynamics of heat engines in power generation. Catalytic emission control is contrasted to thermal processes for abating carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, oxides of nitrogen and sulfur from vehicles and stationary sources. Processing of petroleum for generating fuels. Technological challenges of controlling greenhouse gas emissions. Biomass and the hydrogen economy coupled with fuel cells as future sources of energy.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Farrauto
  h-index: 52 Info
• 3 points

ENGINEER FOR DEVP COMMUNITIES

Introduction to engineering problems faced by developing communities and exploration of design solutions in the context of real project with a community client. Emphasis is on the design of sustainable suolutions that take account of social, economical, and governance issues, and that can be implemented now or in the near futre. The course is open to all undergraduate engineering students. Multidisciplinary teamwork and approaches are stressed. Outside lecturers are used to address issues specific to developing communities and the particular project under consideration.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew Sisul
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

COMPARATIVE FEMINIST THEOLOGY

• Department: Union Theological Seminary (UTSD)
• 3 points

COMPUTER SCIENCE THEORY

Prerequisites: (COMS W3203) Corequisites: COMS W3134,COMS W3136,COMS W3137 Regular languages: deterministic and non-deterministic finite automata, regular expressions. Context-free languages: context-free grammars, push-down automata. Turing machines, the Chomsky hierarchy, and the Church-Turing thesis. Introduction to Complexity Theory and NP-Completeness.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Xi Chen
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia h-index: 64 Info
• 3 points

MONEY AND BANKING

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 or the equivalent. Introduction to the principles of money and banking. The intermediary institutions of the American economy and their historical developments, current issues in monetary and financial reform.

• Department: Economics
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Miles Leahey
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• 3 points

SOCIOLOGY OF WORK & GENDER

This course examines gender as a flexible but persistent boundary that continues to organize our work lives and our home lives, as well as the relationship between the two spheres. We will explore the ways in which gender affects how work is structured; the relationship between work and home; the household as a place of paid (and unpaid) labor; and how changes in the global economy affect gender and work identities.

• Department: Sociology
• MTWR 11:40 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Teresa Sharpe
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 3 points

LATIN AMER LIT (IN TRANSLATN)

Study of contemporary Latin American narrative; its origins and apotheosis. Readings include Machado de Assis, Borges, Garcia Marquez, Puig, and others.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Alfred Mac Adam
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 3 points

From Oracles to Mathematics

Risk before 1660

This class looks at how European society tried to tame chance and comprehend its whims before and after the arrival of the mathematics of probability around 1650. How did people move from consulting oracles to developing the insurance business? One simple answer is the discovery of the mathematical calculation of risk. But insurance contracts appear well before the availability of that tool, and insurers continued to do their business without it after it became widely known. This class explores why chance did not become “more” accurate – an object of science and knowledge – with the arrival of the probability calculus. It examines risk as a historically shaped experience in various areas of its manifestations including oracles, gambling, insurance, philosophy, and theology. The semester groups the history of risk into four thematically and chronologically organized units of focus: (1) We will begin with a survey of how we can study risk as historical construct asking what components shape a society’s understanding and handling of risk. In order to gain insight into what risk meant before ca. 1350, we will analyze oracles and curses people used to cope with future events in antiquity. (2) We will then explore the world of gambling to understand how closely related its risks were to those found in business practices. (3) Turning to late medieval and early modern insurance, we will analyze contracts, laws and theories of insurance. Why was it that risk became a commodity – a thing separable from the merchandise it concerned – only by 1350? (4) The next and last unit takes us to theories of risk before and after
the development of the mathematical theory of probability to challenge and refine the notion that mathematics “counted away” divine providence. (Note: You do not need any prior mathematical skills for the class.)

• Department: History
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Sarina Kuersteiner
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• 4 points

COMPUT APPROACHES-HUMAN VISION

Prerequisites: some background in psychology and/or neurophysiology (e.g. PSYC UN1001, PSYC UN1010, PSYC UN2230, PSYC UN2450; BIOL UN3004 or BIOL UN3005) is desirable. See instructor if you have questions about your background. Some background in mathematics and computer science (e.g. calculus or linear algebra, a programming language) is highly recommended. Study of human vision--both behavioral and physiological data--within a framework of computational and mathematical descriptions. Please contact Prof. Graham by e-mail (nvg1@columbia.edu) if you are interested in this course.

• Department: Psychology
• Instructor: Norma V Graham
  CULPA: 29 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3231 or Permission of Instructor. Structure, bonding and spectroscopy in inorganic compounds: applications of group theory to chemistry; ligand field theory; vibrational and electronic spectroscopy of transition metal complexes; selected topics from coordination chemistry, organometallics, bioinorganic chemistry, solid state and materials chemistry, mineralogy, and biogeochemistry.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Campbell
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• 3 points

NONFIC DIGTL VIDEO PRODCTN

Nonfiction Digital Video Production: Enrollment limited to 12 students. Registering for the course only through myBarnard or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment. Attend first class for instructor permission. Lab section required. This workshop course is designed to familiarize students with digital video technologies while they investigate various aesthetic and theoretical concepts related to nonfiction cinema and its engagement with the real. Through weekly readings, discussions, screenings, critiques, and practical exercises, students will develop a solid understanding of how to use digital video as an expressive tool. The course will culminate in the completion of a short video work by each student. Students should be both self-directed and interested in developing a support system for each others work.

• Department: Film @Barnard
• F 3 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Margaret J McLagan
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• 3 points

ADVANCED ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: One year of organic chemistry. Survey of topics in structural, mechanistic, and synthetic organic chemistry, including molecular orbital treatment of structure, bonding, and chemical reactivity; elucidation of organic reaction mechanisms; pericyclic reactions; stereoelectronic effects; reactive intermediates; asymmetric reactions; and natural product total synthesis.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Dina C Merrer
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 3 points

Truffaut and Rohmer: From Page to Screen

TRUFFAUT & ROHMER

A comparative analysis between a literary source and its film adaptation can be a useful tool to understand how both cinema and literature work. In this course, we focus on five outstanding adaptations written and directed by French auteurs François Truffaut and Éric Rohmer during the 1970s:
The Wild Child
(1970),
Two English Girls
(1971),
The Story of Adèle H.
(1975),
The Marquise of O...
(1976), and
Perceval
(1978). By carefully examining the literary texts and their transpositions to the screen, we study the specific qualities of film adaptations and discuss seminal ideas on originality, authorship, and hybridization in the arts.   We start by reading three “classical” essays on film and literature –Sergei Eisenstein’s “Dickens, Griffith, and the Film Today” (1944), André Bazin’s “For an Impure Cinema: In Defense of Adaptation” (1952), and George Bluestone’s “The Limits of the Novel and the Limits of the Film” (1957)– in order to recognize the affinities and differences between “the concept of the mental image” in literature and “the percept of the visual image” in cinema. We then pay attention to the different methods used by Truffaut and Rohmer to translate the original texts to the screen. For that purpose, before watching each film, we closely read its “source”: a medieval romance (Chrétien de Troyes’
Perceval, the Story of the Grail
, 1191), a medical report

(Jean Itard’s
The Education of a Savage Man
, 1798), a Romantic novella (Heinrich von Kleist’s
The Marquise of O...
, 1808), a secret diary (Adèle Hugo’s
Journal of Exile
, 1866), and a semi-autobiographical novel (Henri-Pierre Roché’s
Two English Girls and the Continent
, 1952). Each reading is followed by an in-depth analysis of Truffaut’s and Rohmer’s films, with emphasis on the significant changes in narrative structure, point of view, and characterization – which, in turn, allow for audio-visual patterning appropriate to film. The study of the directors’ styles (camera movement, lighting techniques, use of sound and music, montage, etc) will enable us to verify to what extent the serious film adaptor becomes a creator in his own right.

• Department: Film @Barnard
• TR 2 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Breixo Viejo Vinas
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

WORKSHOP IN SUSTAINABLE DEVPT

The upper level undergraduate Sustainable Development Workshop will be modeled on client based graduate-level workshops, but with more time devoted to methods of applied policy analysis and issues in Sustainable Development. The heart of the course is the group project on an issue of sustainable development with a faculty advisor providing guidance and ultimately grading student performance. Students would receive instruction on methodology, group work, communication and the context of policy analysis. Much of the reading in the course would be project-specific and identified by the student research teams. Offered in Fall and Spring. For registration issues contact Cari Shimkus (cshimkus@ei.columbia.edu).

• Department: Earth Institute
• TR 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• TR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Joyce Klein Rosenthal
  h-index: 16 Info
• Instructor: Radley M Horton
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• 4 points

ILLEGAL IS NOT A NOUN: DISRUPTING NARRAT

This course engages with narratives about detention and deportation in the modern United States, with special attention to the stories of Latinx people. We will analyze how journalistic writing, documentaries, and personal narratives shape public policy and American attitudes about the "the immigrant experience." What are these narratives, how are they told, and what are their implications? How do writers disrupt these narratives? We will develop four scholarly essays over the course of the semester to investigate these questions.

• Department: English @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria D Hinojosa
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• 4 points

BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: (CHEM BC3230) and (CHEM BC3231) BIOL BC1502. Introduction to biochemical building blocks, macromolecules, and metabolism. Structures of amino acids, lipids, carbohydrates, nucleic acids. Protein structure and folding. Enzyme mechanisms, kinetics, allostery. Membranes and biosignaling. Catabolism and anabolism with emphasis on chemical intermediates, metabolic energy, catalysis by specific enzymes, regulation.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonelle White
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• 3 points

BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY II

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3282 or equivalent. Advanced topics in the field of biochemistry, including enzyme mechanisms, pharmaceutical drug design, and disease therapies. Emphasis will be placed on discussion of current scientific literature.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• WF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Christina Vizcarra
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

QNYC

The cultural history of New York City is inextricable from the history of LGBTQI+ life. American poetry, theatre, ballet, opera, and visual art would be unrecognizable if New York had not been a hub for LGBTQI+ people. In this sprawling city, life could be characterized equally by its anonymity as by the sometimes exacting bonds of its many tight-knit sub-communities. This course will provide a survey of LGBTQI+ literature and some related arts based in the city, starting in the colonial era and extending to the present day.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• 3 points

APPLIED ELECTROMAGNETISM

Vector analysis, electrostatic fields, Laplaces equation, multipole expansions, electric fields in matter: dielectrics, magnetostatic fields, magnetic materials, and superconductors. Applications of electromagnetism to devices and research areas in applied physics.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Gerald A Navratil
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 46 Info
• 3 points

BIOCHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: one year each of Introductory Biology and General Chemistry. Corequisites: Organic Chemistry. Primarily aimed at nontraditional students and undergraduates who have course conflicts with BIOC UN3501. Biochemistry is the study of the chemical processes within organisms that give rise to the immense complexity of life. This complexity emerges from a highly regulated and coordinated flow of chemical energy from one biomolecule to another. This course serves to familiarize students with the spectrum of biomolecules (carbohydrates, lipids, amino acids, nucleic acids, etc.) as well as the fundamental chemical processes (glycolysis, citric acid cycle, fatty acid metabolism, etc.) that allow life to happen. In particular, this course will employ active learning techniques and critical thinking problem-solving to engage students in answering the question: how is the complexity of life possible? NOTE: While Organic Chemistry is listed as a corequisite, it is highly recommended that you take Organic Chemistry beforehand.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Danny N Ho
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT

Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 or AP score of 4 or 5; or SAT score. An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies. Formerly SPAN W3200 and SPAN BC3004. If you have taken either of these courses before you cannot take SPAN UN3300. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ramon Flores Pinedo
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• Instructor: Javiera V Irribarren Ortiz
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• Instructor: Eduardo Andres Vergara Torres
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• Instructor: Manuela M Luengas Solano
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• Instructor: Tamara A Hache
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• 3 points

ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT

SPORTS,POLITICS,&IDENTITY

Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 or AP score of 4 or 5; or SAT score. An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies. Formerly SPAN W3200 and SPAN BC3004. If you have taken either of these courses before you cannot take SPAN UN3300. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Antoni Fernandez Parera
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 1 Info
• 3 points

ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT

LGBT IDENTITIES IN SPAIN

Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 or AP score of 4 or 5; or SAT score. An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies. Formerly SPAN W3200 and SPAN BC3004. If you have taken either of these courses before you cannot take SPAN UN3300. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Javier Perez Zapatero
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED POETRY WORKSHOP

Prerequisites: The departments permission required through writing sample. Please go to 609 Kent for submission schedule and registration guidelines or see http://www.arts.columbia.edu/writing/undergraduate. This poetry workshop is reserved for accomplished poetry writers and maintains the highest level of creative and critical expectations. Students will be encouraged to develop their strengths and to cultivate a distinctive poetic vision and voice but must also demonstrate a willingness to broaden their range and experiment with new forms and notions of the poem. A portfolio of poetry will be written and revised with the critical input of the instructor and the workshop.

• Department: Writing
• Instructor: Dorothea S Lasky
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• 3 points

SENIOR POETRY WORKSHOP

Prerequisites: The departments permission required through writing sample. Please go to 609 Kent for submission schedule and registration guidelines or see http://www.arts.columbia.edu/writing/undergraduate. Seniors who are majors in creative writing are given priority for this course. Enrollment is limited, and is by permission of the professor. The senior workshop offers students the opportunity to work exclusively with classmates who are at the same high level of accomplishment in the major. Students in the senior workshops will produce and revise a new and substantial body of work. In-class critiques and conferences with the professor will be tailored to needs of each student.

• Department: Writing
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Asiya Wadud
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• 4 points

ADVANCED SWAHILI II

Prerequisites: Advanced Swahili I or the instructor's permission. An introduction to the advanced syntactical, morphological, and grammatical structures of Swahili grammar; detailed analysis of Swahili texts; practice in conversation. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Abdul Nanji
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED WOLOF II

Prerequisites: Advanced Wolof I or instructor permission. This course will further your awareness and understanding of the Wolof language and culture, as well as improve your mastery of grammar, writing skills, and oral expression. Course materials will incorporate various types of text including tales, poetry, literature as well as multimedia such as films, and videos, television and radio programs.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Mariame S Sy
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• 4 points

LAB IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Introduction to the use of molecular techniques to answer questions about subcellular biological phenomena. Techniques include isolation of genomic and plasmid DNAs, restriction enzyme analysis, DNA and protein electrophoresis, bacterial transformation, and plasmid subcloning.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• W 1 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Rishita Shah
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• 3 points

IND STUDIES-CIVIL ENGIN-JUNIOR

A project on civil engineering subjects approved by the chairman of the department. Lab fee: $200.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• Instructor: Raimondo Betti
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 31 Info
• Instructor: Adrian Brugger
  h-index: 4 Info
• Instructor: Gautam Dasgupta
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 19 Info
• Instructor: George Deodatis
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 42 Info
• Instructor: Xuan Di
  h-index: 15 Info
• Instructor: Maria Q Feng
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 46 Info
• Instructor: Jacob Fish
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 54 Info
• Instructor: Marco Giometto
  h-index: 9 Info
• Instructor: Shiho Kawashima
  h-index: 24 Info
• Instructor: Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou
  h-index: 26 Info
• Instructor: Hoe I Ling
  h-index: 45 Info
• Instructor: Andrew W Smyth
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Waiching Sun
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 30 Info
• Instructor: Haim Waisman
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 29 Info
• Instructor: Huiming Yin
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 25 Info
• 1-3 points

JEWISH CULTURE IN TRANSL IN MED IBERIA

The course explores both the practice of translation (the rendering of texts from one language into another) and the idea of translation (as a medium of cultural transmission) in medieval Iberia. Jews were not only the paradigmatic translators of texts from Arabic to Latin and Castilian but were also translators of literary phenomena into the Jewish literary cultures of Iberia. Further, Hebrew texts made their way into Romance languages, rendered by both Jewish and non-Jewish writers. Theoretical materials on translation and historical background on translation practices of the period will accompany readings. All readings are in English, but all texts will be made available in the original language, and students are encouraged to read in the original whenever possible. Sources in bold are primary sources. Students are expected to spend three hours preparing for each class session.

• Department: Institute for Israel & Jewish Studies
• MW 8:45 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Isabelle C Levy
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

Sculpture II: Props, propositions, and p

Working with limited tools in this course, students will explore sculptural objects that can be “activated” in some way -for example, props for performance and video, sets, public interventions; etc. We will look beyond simple understandings of what sculptures are to ask questions about what sculptures can do and what sculpture's relationship is to extended media and new art-making genres. A strong emphasis will be placed on interdisciplinary practices.   Students will be asked to push their foundational ideas about sculpture further while gaining new vocabularies through an introduction to performance art and ephemerality. We will take a problem-based, concept-driven approach to sculptural production, grappling with some of the most pressing theoretical concerns surrounding art today. Artists are always working under some form of constraint; students in this course will use common materials without the use of a shop. Across three projects and several shorter assignments and exercises, we will be focusing on notions of participation, site-specificity, and mode of address, in relation to wider material conditions. Students will be tasked with formulating social, theoretical, and material propositions, and identifying their best possible mode of articulation. In this way students will be supported in pursuing hybrid sculptural practices that point beyond traditional art techniques.

• Department: Visual Arts
• T 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sable Smith
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• 3 points