IND STUDIES-CIVIL ENGIN-SENIOR

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
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• Instructor: Adrian Brugger
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• Instructor: Gautam Dasgupta
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 19 Info
• Instructor: George Deodatis
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• Instructor: Xuan Di
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• Instructor: Maria Q Feng
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 46 Info
• Instructor: Jacob Fish
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• Instructor: Marco Giometto
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• Instructor: Shiho Kawashima
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• Instructor: Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou
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• Instructor: Hoe I Ling
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• Instructor: Andrew W Smyth
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• Instructor: Waiching Sun
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• Instructor: Haim Waisman
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• Instructor: Huiming Yin
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 25 Info
• 1-3 points

Race and Aesthetics in Cinema

Race & Aesthetics in Cine

This course examines the intersection of race and aesthetics in cinema. Race, here, is used
intersectionally to include not only race and ethnicity, but also all of the affiliated lines of
contact, including national identity, gender, and sexuality. While the study of race is typically
associated with political questions and concerns, and aesthetics are frequently linked with artistic
form, this course seeks to locate the intersection of those categories in cinema and to complicate
the ways in which the terms operate in relation to one another. Films and readings are drawn
from a diverse set of global cultures, artists, and authors, and span a broad historical horizon. Our
discussions will include questions including (but not limited to): do certain forms of racial
representation generate unique aesthetic form? For instance, can we trace a specific kind of
aesthetics in the works produced by the L.A. Rebellion filmmakers? How do certain film
movements align with and inspire one another, such as those between Black and Asian/Asian
American filmmakers? How does analyzing a film’s formal elements further our understandings
of the thematic, political, cultural, and social forces that underpin the film? Together, we will
think through these issues, informed by a range of theoretical frameworks including critical race
theory, postcolonial theory, feminist theory, and queer theory.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Viola Lasmana
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• 4 points

Sculpture III: Props, propositions, and

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

Imbibing the Wisdom of the Ancients: Egy

IMBIBING WISDOM OF ANCIEN

The literature produced in ancient Egypt varies widely. From the sacred funerary texts to raunchy love poems, these texts span the pharaonic period in Egypt that began with the earliest texts written during the Old Kingdom (2600-2100 BCE) down to the Demotic prophecies and literary tales that were originally orally transmitted and finally written down during the Roman period in Egypt (30 BCE – 395 CE). We will also consider a Coptic Christian text from the seventh or eighth century CE that speaks to Christian interpretation of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing. In this six-week immersive seminar, we will survey translations of ancient Egyptian literature from a corpus that is attested over 3000 years and written in four different scripts that emerged over the duration of this literary tradition. For each chronological period, we will read a selection of funerary and religious literature, didactic texts, as well as stories that will convey events in Egyptian history, reveal long held religious beliefs, and provide information about the daily life of the ancient Egyptians. Whenever possible we will read texts that highlight the presence of Nubians throughout all periods of Egyptian history. To get closer to the source material, we will use a simple, introductory book to learn how to read formulaic Egyptian hieroglyphic texts from each of the periods of history covered in this course: Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, New Kingdom and the Late Period. Studying simple texts in the original hieroglyphic script will offer a glimpse into comprehending the scribal schools and priesthoods that produced the literature of ancient Egypt.

• Department: Classics @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Solange Ashby
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• 4 points

Provincializing Prohibition: The War

Despite being driven by an overarching rationale of zero tolerance, the War on Drugs across the Western Hemisphere encompasses a wide array of policies and interventions that have very different effects on manifold peoples and places. This course closely examines these interventions – as well as their alternatives and various forms of resistance – in places as diverse as Philadelphia and San Francisco, the “Tierra Caliente” of Michoacán and Guerrero (Mexico), the Afro-indigenous Moskitia region of Central America, and the Colombian and Peruvian Amazon and Andes regions. The course will put to the test the thesis that the War on Drugs is reproducing the conditions driving drug commerce, in large part by allowing for the emergence of interests which have the aim of extracting, producing, and subsidizing capital at various points of the punitive regime. Through detailed ethnographic and historical analyses of drug-related governmental intervention, the course probes the multifarious entanglement between drug control regimes and the social formations from which they emerge and upon which they act. We will engage scholarship on crop substitution and crop eradication programs in South America, regimes of coca regulation in the Andes, militarization and drug rehabilitation programs in Central America, and territorial reconfigurations in Tohono Indigenous land along the US-Mexico border, among others.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Fernando Montero Castrillo
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• 4 points

PROJECT LAB MOLECULAR GENETCS

Laboratory course in which students conduct original research projects in molecular genetics. Students will participate in experimental design, conduct data analysis, and work with key techniques for studying gene structure, expression, and function including nucleic acid extraction and synthesis, cloning, bioinformatics analysis, PCR, and qPCR. Students will present their results orally and in writing. Enrollment in both semesters (BIOL BC3305 and BIOL BC3306) of this full-year course is required, and fulfills two upper-level lab courses for the Barnard Biology major. Must be taken in sequence, beginning in the fall.

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

SOCIAL PROB IN CONTEMP CHINA

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Leta Hong Fincher
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• 3 points

GREEK LITERATURE SELECTIONS II

GREEK LITERATURE: POETRY

Prerequisites: GREK UN2101 - GREK UN2102 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.

• Department: Classics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Deborah Steiner
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 3 points

GREEK LITERATURE SELECTIONS II

Prerequisites: GREK UN2101 - GREK UN2102 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.

• Department: Auditing
• Instructor: Deborah Steiner
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 0 points

LATIN LITERATURE SELECTIONS

Prerequisites: LATN UN2102 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.

• Department: Classics
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: John T Ma
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

ETHICS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVPT

Aiming to improve human conditions within many diverse environments, sustainable development seeks to create, increase and perpetuate benefit and to cease, rectify and reverse harm. Sustainable development is consequently inextricable from the fabric of ethics, woven with determinations of benefit and harm to the existence and well-being of both humans and nonhumans. Underlying such determinations are those of self- and other-regarding motivation and behavior; and underlying these are still others, of sensitivity and rationality in decision-making, whether individual, social or public. Sustainable development is interlaced with and contingent upon all these determinations, at once prescriptive and judgmental, which can be called the ethics of sustainable development. This course is divided into four main sections, of which two are intended to show the ethical fallacies of unsustainable development, and two, the ethical pathways of sustainable development. The first section focuses upon ethically problematic basic assumptions, including human (species) hegemony, happy (hedonic) materialism, and selective (data) denial. The second focuses upon ethically problematic ensuing rationalizations, including those pertaining to damages, victims, consequences and situations of climatic, chemical, biological and ecological harm. The third section responds to these rationalizations with ethically vital considerations of earth justice, environmental justice, culturally-based ethics, and sector-based ethics (water, food, place and climate ethics). Finally, the fourth section responds to the initial, longstanding problematic assumptions with a newly emergent ethical paradigm, comprising biotic wholeness, environmental integrity and the deliberative zero-goal. Tying all sections together is the central theme: to be sustainable, development must be ethical. Reflecting the collaborative quality of the field of sustainable development, the course extends to readings whose authors have all pursued their work at intersections of science and ethics, environment and ethics, policy and ethics, business and ethics, and sustainable development and ethics.

• Department: Earth Institute
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Adela J Gondek
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

SCIENCE & TECHNLGY URBAN ENVIR

RACE. SPACE, URB SCHOOLS

Many people don’t think of themselves as having attended segregated schools. And yet, most of us went to schools attended primarily by people who looked very much like us. In fact, schools have become more segregated over the past 30 years, even as the country becomes increasingly multiracial. In this class, we will use public schools as an example to examine the role race plays in shaping urban spaces and institutions. We will begin by unpacking the concept of racialization, or the process by which a person, place, phenomenon, or characteristic becomes associated with a certain race. Then, we will explore the following questions: What are the connections between city schools and their local contexts? What does it mean to be a “neighborhood school”? How do changes in neighborhoods change schools? We will use ethnographies, narrative non-fiction, and educational research to explore these questions from a variety of perspectives. You will apply what you have learned to your own experiences and to current debates over urban policies and public schools. This course will extend your understanding of key anthropological and sociological perspectives on urban inequality in the United States, as well as introduce you to critical theory.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Chandler Miranda
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 4 Info
• 3 points

HEAT TRANSFER

Steady and unsteady heat conduction. Radiative heat transfer. Internal and external forced and free convective heat transfer. Change of phase. Heat exchangers.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Michael Burke
  h-index: 22 Info
• 3 points

HEAT TRANSFER

RECITATION

Steady and unsteady heat conduction. Radiative heat transfer. Internal and external forced and free convective heat transfer. Change of phase. Heat exchangers.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• F 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Burke
  h-index: 22 Info
• 0 points

SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHITECTURE

VIRTUAL AUG & BUILT REALITIES

See the Barnard and Columbia Architecture Department for a draft of the syllabus and course description:
https://architecture.barnard.edu/academic-year-2020-2021-courses

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• WF 2:40 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jason Kim
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• 3 points

SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHITECTURE

MAPPING THE DATA-DRIVEN CITY

See the Barnard and Columbia Architecture Department for a draft of the syllabus and course description:
https://architecture.barnard.edu/academic-year-2020-2021-courses

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Diana Cristobal Olave
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

Thinking Bodies: Literature, Film, Perfo

Thinking Bodies: Lit Film

This course surveys a variety of ways in which embodiment participates in containing, attaining, producing, and transmitting human knowledge. Perspectives on embodiment represented in this course are drawn from feminist scholarship, affect studies, religion, psychoanalysis, and performance studies, and include a selection of texts that address the current conversations around illness, contagion, and race. Theoretical discussions are enriched by insights from a diverse selection of genres and cultural traditions, ranging from the classics of American, German, and Russian literature, to the less well-known cinematic and performative traditions of former Yugoslavia, Poland, and Japan. Through close readings, seminar discussions, collaborative work, written assignments, and individual projects tailored to their academic strengths and interests, students analyze and synthesize different modes of thinking about, portraying, and experiencing their own body and the bodies of others. Ultimately, they are asked to reflect on the role of embodiment in their own personal, intellectual, and political identities.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Milica Ilicic
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• 3 points

THEORIZING ACTIVISM

Considering local, national, and international activist case studies through social movement theories, we work together to understand what activism looks like, the people who engage in it, how activist messages are constructed, and how visions of transformation are developed. Prerequisite:
Either
one introductory WGSS course
or
Critical Approaches to Social and Cultural Theory
or
Permission of the Instructor.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• TR 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Kimberly Springer
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 13 Info
• 4 points

INTRODUCTION TO CHINESE CINEMAS

INTRO TO CHINESE CINEMAS

What is “cinema” in the Chinese-speaking world, and how have the aesthetics, politics and practice of cinema evolved over time? In what ways has cinema interacted with its sister arts, such as painting, photography, theatre, architecture, and music? And in what capacities has cinema represented and intervened into the social and political worlds of its production and reception? This course is an introductory course on Chinese cinemas from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, featuring landmark films from the 1930s to the present, with emphasis on contemporary films produced in the past three decades. We cover major genres such as melodrama, historical epic, comedy, musical, martial arts and documentary films, and study works by film auteurs such as Hou Hsiao-hsien, Chen Kaige, Ann Hui and Jia Zhangke. Besides the questions mentioned above, topics also include cinema’s approaches to history and memory, and its engagement with questions of gender, ethnicity, class and language politics.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Ying Qian
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

POETIC METER AND FORM

Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT required. This course will investigate the uses of rhythmic order and disorder in English-language poetry, with a particular emphasis on formal elements in free verse. Through a close analysis of poems, well examine the possibilities of qualitative meter, and students will write original creative work within (and in response to) various formal traditions. Analytical texts and poetic manifestos will accompany our reading of exemplary poems. Each week, well study interesting examples of metrical writing, and Ill ask you to write in reponse to those examples. Our topics will include stress meter, syllable-stress meter, double and triple meter, rising and falling rhythms, promotion, demotion, inversion, elision, and foot scansion. Our study will include a greate range of pre-modern and modern writers, from Keats to W.D. Snodgrass, Shakespeare to Denise Levertov, Blake to James Dickey, Whitman to Louise Gluck etc. As writers, well always be thinking about how the formal choices of a poem are appropriate or inappropriate for the poems content. Well also read prose by poets describing their metrical craft.

• Department: Writing
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph N Fasano
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

Mediterranean Maps

How do maps construct, rather than represent, territories, identities, pathways, and temporalities? From esoteric personifications of the continents to portolan nautical charts, this seminar investigates maps of the Mediterranean Sea and its borderlands from 1300-1700. We will probe cartographic visualization systems to understand what kinds of perspectives and orientations specific maps presumed, invited, or denied. Topics include port city commerce, wayfinding and navigation, the rise of Mercator's projection, and mapping shifting boundaries. At the heart of this course is the Mediterranean itself, which we will trace west with colonial expeditions beyond the present-day strait of Gibraltar.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Diana Mellon
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• 4 points

EAR-TRAINING III

Sight-singing techniques of modulating diatonic melodies in simple, compound, or irregular meters that involve complex rhythmic patterns. Emphasis is placed on four-part harmonic dictation of modulating phrases.

• Department: Music
• TR 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter M Susser
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 1 points

EAR-TRAINING IV

Techniques of musicianship at the intermediate level, stressing the importance of musical nuances in sight-singing. Emphasis is placed on chromatically inflected four-part harmonic dictation.

• Department: Music
• MW 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Joviala
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• Instructor: Ramin Amir Arjomand
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 1 points

MUSIC IN EAST ASIA

A topical approach to the concepts and practices of music in relation to other arts in the development of Asian civilizations.

• Department: Music
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• MW 8:10 p.m.-9:25 p.m.
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Rachel Chung
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

Provocations in Twentieth-Century Poetic

Provocations in 20th C Po

This is a class about poetry and revolt. In a century of wars, unchecked proliferation of industrial and market systems in the continued legacy of settler-colonialism and the consolidation of state powers, does language still conduct with revolutionary possibilities? In this class, we will read manifestos, philosophical treatises, political tracts, literary polemics, poems, scores, and so on, as we consider poetry’s long-standing commitment to visionary practices that seek to liberate consciousness from the many and various structures of oppression. The term “poetry” is not limited to itself but becomes, in our readings, an open invitation to all adjacent experiments with and in the language arts. As such, we will look at the emergence of the international avant-gardes as well as a few student movements that populate and complicate the explorations of radical politics in the twentieth-century. In addition to our readings, students will be asked to produce creative responses for class discussion. Final projects will be provocations of their own design. Required Texts: Friedrich Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morality Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: The Communist Manifesto Aimé Césaire: Notebook of A Return to the Native Land Hilda Hilst: The Obscene Madame D Marguerite Duras: Hiroshima Mon Amour Guy Debord: Society of the Spectacle

• Department: Writing
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Lynn Xu
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• 3 points

MUSIC THEORY III

Intermediate analysis and composition in a variety of tonal idioms.  A one-hour weekly lab is required, to be scheduled at the beginning of the term.  Course to be taken in conjunction with the Ear-Training sequence, up through Ear-Training IV.

• Department: Music
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Galen P Degraf
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

EAST ASIAN CINEMA

This course introduces students to major works, genres and waves of East Asian cinema from the Silent era to the present, including films from Japan, Korea, Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. How has cinema participated in East Asian societies’ distinct and shared experiences of industrial modernity, imperialism and (post)colonialism? How has cinema engaged with questions of class, gender, ethnic and language politics? In what ways has cinema facilitated transnational circulations and mobilizations of peoples and ideas, and how has it interacted with other art forms, such as theatre, painting, photography and music? In this class, we answer these questions by studying cinemas across the region sideby- side, understanding cinema as deeply embedded in the region’s intertwining political, social and cultural histories and circulations of people and ideas. We cover a variety of genres such as melodrama, comedy, historical epic, sci-fi, martial arts and action, and prominent film auteurs such as Yasujir? Ozu, Akira Kurosawa, Yu Hy?nmok, Chen Kaige, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Ann Hui. As cinema is, among other things, a creative practice, in this course, students will be given opportunities to respond to films analytically and creatively, through writing as well as creative visual projects. As a global core course, this class does not assume prior knowledge of East Asian culture or of film studies.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Takuya Tsunoda
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• 4 points

MUSIC THEORY IV

Intermediate analysis and composition in a variety of tonal and extended tonal idioms.  A one-hour weekly lab is required, to be scheduled at the beginning of the term.  Course to be taken in conjunction with the Ear-Training sequence, up through Ear-Training IV.

• Department: Music
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph P Dubiel
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

INTRO ORGANIC CHEMISTRY-LAB

Prerequisites: (CHEM BC2001) General Chemistry I with lab. Corequisites: CHEM BC3230 Basic techniques of experimental organic chemistry. Principles and methods of separation, purification, and characterization of organic compounds. Selected organic reactions.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• M 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• T 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• R 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• F 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• R 8 a.m.-11 a.m.
• 2.5 points

Glacial Geomorphology

This course focuses on the impact of glaciers on landscapes. We will learn about the interactions and feedbacks between landscapes and climate. We will cover what is known about glacial geomorphology, as well as the modern research methods and outstanding scientific problems.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Carly S Peltier
  Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO PORTUGUESE STUDIES

This course presents the students with the information and basic tools needed to interpret a broad range of topics and cultural production from the Portuguese-speaking world: literary, filmic, artisitic, architectural, urban, etc. We will use a continuing cross-disciplinary dialogue to study everyday acts as a location of culture. This course will center on interpretation as an activity and as the principal operation though which culturally sited meaning is created and analyzed. Among the categories and topics discussed will be history, national and popular cultures, literature (high/low), cultural institutions, migration, and globalization. Students will also acquire the fundamental vocabulary for the analysis of cultural objects. This course is required for the concentration in Portuguese Studies.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Joao Nemi Neto
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS

Prerequisites: (ELEN E3201) ELEN E3201. Operational amplifier circuits. Diodes and diode circuits. MOS and bipolar junction transistors. Biasing techniques. Small-signal models. Single-stage transistor amplifiers. Analysis and design of CMOS logic gates. A/D and D/A converters.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: David G Vallancourt
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 3 points

MODERN V

Intermediate Advanced.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Caroline Fermin
  Info
• 0-1 points

INTRO TO LITERARY STUDIES II

Prerequisites: FREN UN3405 Advanced Grammar and Composition or an AP score of 5 or the instructors permission. Reading and discussion of major works from 1750 to the present.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Andre L Pettman
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• 3 points

INTRO TO ITALIAN LITERATURE II

Prerequisites: ITAL UN2102 or the equivalent. UN3334-UN3333 is the basic course in Italian literature. UN3334: Authors and works from the Cinquecento to the present. Taught in Italian.

• Department: Italian
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Steven J Baker
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

SCIENCE, STATE POWER, ETHICS

A comparative study of science in the service of the State in the U.S., the former Soviet Union, Fascist Italy, and Nazi Germany during pivotal periods through the first half of the 20th century. Topics to be covered include the political and moral consequences of policies based upon advances in the natural sciences making possible the development of TNT, nerve gas, uranium fission and hydrogen fusion atomic bombs. Considers the tensions involved in balancing scientific imperatives, patriotic commitment to the nation-state, and universal moral principles and tensions faced by Robert Oppenheimer, Andrei Sakharov, Neils Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. Selected readings include: Michael Frayn's play 
Copenhagen,
 
Hitler's Uranium Club 
by Jeremy Bernstein, Brecht's 
Galileo
, John McPhee's 
The Curve of Binding Energy,
 Richard Rhodes' 
The Making of the Atomic Bomb.

• Department: Science and Public Policy @Barnard
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Timothy J Halpin-Healy
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

ADVANCD CONVERSTN & COMPOSTN I

• Department: Germanic Languages
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Amy J Leech
  Info
• 2 points

MODERN VI

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• F 12:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Jodi Melnick
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 0-1 points

SHAKESPEARE II

(Lecture). Shakespeare II examines plays from the second half of Shakespeare’s dramatic career, primarily a selection of his major tragedies and his later comedies (or “romances”).

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Jean E Howard
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED ITALIAN II

Prerequisites: ITAL V3335 Advanced reading, writing, speaking with emphasis on authentic cultural materials. Topic and semester theme varies.

• Department: Italian
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Federica Franze
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

GENETICS AND SOCIETY

An exploration of the growing knowledge and technological advances in genetics, with a focus on human genetics, using scientific, popular and artistic sources. The course will cover areas such as genetic testing, personalized medicine, ancestry analysis, genome editing with CRISPR-Cas9, stem cells and cloning. It will involve an examination of scientific sources, portrayals in popular culture and discussions of some of the ethical implications and social/political impacts.

• Department: Science and Public Policy @Barnard
• TR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Brian Morton
  CULPA: 21 Info
• 4 points

QUANTITATVE-INSTRMNTL TECH-LAB

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3231 and CHEM BC3333  Quantitative techniques in volumetric analysis, pH measurement, UV-Visible, absorption, and fluorescence spectroscopy, and chromatographic separations. Data analysis with spreadsheets.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• T 1:10 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• R 1:10 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• 3 points

CULTRL HIST-JAPANESE MONSTERS

From Godzilla to Pokemon (literally, pocket monster) toys, Japanese monsters have become a staple commodity of late-capitalist global pop culture. This course seeks to place this phenomenon within a longer historical, as well as a broader cross-cultural, context. Through an examination of texts and images spanning over thirteen centuries of Japanese history, along with comparable productions from other cultures, students will gain an understanding not only of different conceptions and representations of monsters, ghosts, and other supernatural creatures in Japan, but also of the role of the monstrous in the cultural imagination more generally. The course draws on various media and genres of representation, ranging from written works, both literary and scholarly, to the visual arts, material culture, drama, and cinema. Readings average 100-150 pages per week. Several film and video screenings are scheduled in addition to the regular class meetings. Seating is limited, with final admission based on a written essay and other information to be submitted to the instructor before the beginning of the semester.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Gregory Pflugfelder
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 3 points

DESCRIPTIVE GRAMMAR-HUNGARIAN

This course is designed for those curious about the structure of Hungarian - an unusual language with a complex grammar quite different from English, or, indeed, any Indo -European language. The study of Hungarian, a language of the Finno-Ugric family, offers the opportunity to learn about the phonology of vowel harmony, the syntax of topic-comment discourse, verb agreement with subjects and objects, highly developed case systems and possessive nominal paradigms. In addition to its inflectional profile, Hungarian derivation possibilities are vast, combinatory, and playful. During the semester we will touch upon all the important grammatical aspects of Hungarian and discuss them in relation to general linguistic principles and discourse, and finally, through some text analysis, see them in action. Although the primary discussion will center on Hungarian, we will draw on comparisons to other Finno-Ugric languages, most notably Finnish and Komi; students are encouraged to draw on comparisons with their own languages of interest. No prerequisite. Counts as Core Linguistics.

• Department: Italian
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Carol H Rounds
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

ADV SPECTROS CHEMISTRY - LECT

Corequisites: CHEM BC3348 This course combines chemical synthesis, inorganic chemistry, physical chemistry, and nanoscience into experiments with an emphasis using spectroscopy to determine chemical structure and reactivity. you will gain experience with a range of instruments, techniques, calculations, and theories. Instrumentation will include UV-Visible, infrared, near-infrared, fluorescence, and Raman spectroscopy.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• M 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• 0 points

ADVANCED SPECTROSCOPY - LAB

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3333 and CHEM BC3253 Corequisites: CHEM BC3271 This course combines chemical synthesis, inorganic chemistry, physical chemistry, and nanoscience into experiments with an emphasis using spectroscopy to determine chemical structure and reactivity. You will gain experience with a range of instruments, techniques, calculations, and theories. Instrumentation will include UV-Visible, infrared, near-infrared, fluorescence, and Raman spectroscopy.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 3 points

HISPANIC CULTURES I (SP)

Prerequisites: L course: enrollment limited to 15 students. Completion of language requirement, third-year language sequence (W3300). Provides students with an overview of the cultural history of the Hispanic world, from eighth-century Islamic and Christian Spain and the pre-Hispanic Americas through the late Middle Ages and Early Modern period until about 1700, covering texts and cultural artifacts from both Spain and the Americas.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Daniel S Saenz
  h-index: 1 Info
• Instructor: Juan Carlos Garzon Mantilla
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• 3 points

LUSOPHONE AFR/AFRO-BRAZ CULTRS

This course focuses on Lusophone African and African Brazilian cultures and the relations, continuities, ruptures and influences between them. Brazil is the result of the miscegenation of Ameridians, African and Europeans, and this means that is also a cultural mélange of these groups. The African cultural contribution to Brazilian culture and grand-narrative is the primary focus of this course, however, to understand Brazil one needs to understand the cultural diversity found in Lusophone Africa, with which Brazil has had a long relationship. The readings for this course include texts from different disciplines and genres. We will study texts, movies and other forms of visual arts from the following authors: José Eduardo Agualusa, Pepetela, Mia Couto, Jorge Amado, Achille, Mbembe, Hilton Costa, Jocélio Teles dos Santos, Livio Sansone, José Luis Cabaço, Benedita da Silva and Solano Trindade.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Joao Nemi Neto
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

HISPANIC CULTURES II (SP)

ENLIGHTENMENT THROUGH PRESENT

This course surveys cultural production of Spain and Spanish America from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Students will acquire the knowledge needed for the study of the cultural manifestations of the Hispanic world in the context of modernity. Among the issues and events studied will be the Enlightenment as ideology and practice, the Napoleonic invasion of Spain, the wars of Spanish American independence, the fin-de-siecle and the cultural avant-gardes, the wars and revolutions of the twentieth century (Spanish Civil War, the Mexican and Cuban revolutions), neoliberalism, globalization, and the Hispanic presence in the United States. The goal of the course is to study some key moments of this trajectory through the analysis of representative texts, documents, and works of art. Class discussions will seek to situate the works studied within the political and cultural currents and debates of the time. All primary materials, class discussion, and assignments are in Spanish. This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• MTWR 1:10 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Sara Garcia Fernandez
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• Instructor: Juan D Cadena Botero
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• Instructor: Katryn Williams Evinson
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• Instructor: Gustavo Perez-Firmat
  CULPA: 8 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Elvira E Blanco
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• 3 points

HISPANIC CULTURES II (SP)

This course surveys cultural production of Spain and Spanish America from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Students will acquire the knowledge needed for the study of the cultural manifestations of the Hispanic world in the context of modernity. Among the issues and events studied will be the Enlightenment as ideology and practice, the Napoleonic invasion of Spain, the wars of Spanish American independence, the fin-de-siecle and the cultural avant-gardes, the wars and revolutions of the twentieth century (Spanish Civil War, the Mexican and Cuban revolutions), neoliberalism, globalization, and the Hispanic presence in the United States. The goal of the course is to study some key moments of this trajectory through the analysis of representative texts, documents, and works of art. Class discussions will seek to situate the works studied within the political and cultural currents and debates of the time. All primary materials, class discussion, and assignments are in Spanish. This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• MTWR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• 3 points

URBAN ELSEWHERES: EXPLORING A WORLD OF C

URB ELSWHRS: EXPL WRLD CI

We live in an increasingly urbanized world. But what does it mean to be “urban”? As urbanization reaches more corners of the globe, its forms and processes become increasingly diverse.
Urban Elsewheres
is dedicated to investigating this diversity and to exploring the implications that unfamiliar urban phenomena might have for how we understand urbanization—both elsewhere in the world and in our own backyards. Through a comparative engagement with case studies drawn from around the world, this course will challenge some of our most deeply held, common sense assumptions about urbanization. Students will be asked to stretch the conceptual limits of urbanization and explore the social and political possibilities of an expanded urbanism. In doing so, the course will engage with the many of the most heated theoretical debates about urbanization, equipping students with a set of comparative analytical tools with which to explore the wider field of urban studies.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Nick R Smith
  h-index: None Info
• 3 points

DEVELOPMENT

Introduction to animal developmental biology and its applications. This course will examine the basic mechanisms through which animal bodies organize themselves, from an integrative perspective at the levels of genes and gene networks, cell properties and behaviors, coordinated interactions of cells in developing tissues, organs and organ systems, and the role of developmental processes in morphological evolution. Topics include: fertilization, cleavage and gastrulation, establishment of body axes, neural development, organ formation, tissue and organ regeneration, stem cells and medical applications, evolution of developmental programs, and teratogenesis.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• MTWR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer H Mansfield
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 15 Info
• 3 points

URBAN ELSEWHERES - DISCUSSION

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• MF 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• MF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MF 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ayan H Meer
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• Instructor: Nick R Smith
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• Instructor: Anan Maalouf
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• 0 points

BIOCHEMISTRY LAB TECHNIQUES

BIOCHEMISTRY LAB TECHNIQUES -

Prerequisites: Organic II lab (CHEM BC3333, BC3335, or equivalent); Quantitative analysis lab (BC3338, BC3340, or equivalent); Biochemistry (CHEM BC3282y, CHEM C3501, or equivalent). Lecture: T 1:10-12:50; Laboratory two afternoons: T 2:10-6:00 / TH 1:10-5:00. Theory and application of fundamental techniques for the isolation, synthesis and characterization of biological macromolecules including proteins, lipids, nucleotides and carbohydrates. Techniques include spectroscopic analysis, gel electrophoresis, chromatography, enzyme kinetics, immunoblotting, PCR, molecular cloning and cell culture, as well as modern laboratory instrumentation, such as UV-Vis, GC-MS and HPLC.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• TR noon-5 p.m.
• 5 points

CLIMATE CHANGE AND LAW

The purpose of this course is to provide students with a broad introduction to the field of climate law in the United States and at the international level. The course begins with an overview of the causes and effects of global climate change and the methods available to control and adapt to it. We then examine the negotiation, implementation and current status of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Kyoto Protocol, and the Copenhagen Accord. The focus then turns to the past and proposed actions of the U.S. Congress, the executive branch and the courts, as well as regional, state and municipal efforts. The Clean Air Act, the National Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act will receive special attention. We evaluate the various legal tools that are available to address climate change, including cap-and-trade schemes; carbon taxation; command-and-control regulation; litigation; securities disclosures; and voluntary action. The roles of energy efficiency, renewable energy sources, carbon capture and sequestration, and forestry and agriculture each receive close attention. Implications for international human rights, international trade, environmental justice, and international and intergenerational equity are discussed. The course concludes with examination of the special challenges posed by China; proposals for adaptation and geoengineering; and business opportunities and the role of lawyers. Offered in the Spring.

• Department: Earth Institute
• W 7:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• R noon-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Gerrard
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

LAB IN MOLEC & CELL NEUROSCI

Prerequisites: BIOL BC3362 (or corequisite). Enrollment limited to 16. Introduction to techniques commonly used in current neurobiological research, including intracellular and extracellular recording of action potentials, neuroanatomical methods, and computer simulation of the action potential.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• F noon-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth P Bauer
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 21 Info
• 3 points

PSYCHOLOGY OF LEADERSHIP

Prerequisites: Students must have one of the following pre-requisites for this course: PSYC BC1125 Personality Psychology, PSYC BC1138 Social Psychology, or PSYC BC2151 Organizational Psychology, and permission by the instructor. An in-depth examination of the concept of leadership in psychology with an emphasis on womens leadership. Topics include the role of gender, culture, and emotional intelligence as well as an examination of transactional and transformational models. Topics will be discussed with an equal emphasis on theory, research, and application. Students must have prerequisites and permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• TR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Tara Well
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

PSYCHOLOGY OF CREATIVITY

Prerequisites: BC1001 and permission of the instructor. Consideration of classic Psychodynamic (the unconscious/incubation), Psychometric (testing/training), and Personaility (train/motivation) models of creativity. Application of contemporary Process (cognitive/problem-solving) models to art, literature, and independently selected areas of expertise. Process models are involving constraint selection within well-established domains are emphasized.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• W 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Patricia D Stokes
  CULPA: 48 Info
• 4 points

APPLIED ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Hilary Callahan
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

Visual Neuroscience: From the Eyeball to

VISUAL NEUROSCIENCE

By absorbing electromagnetic radiation through their eyes, people are able to catch frisbees, recognize faces, and judge the beauty of art. For most of us, seeing feels effortless. That feeling is misleading. Seeing requires not only precise optics to focus images on the retina, but also the concerted action of millions of nerve cells in the brain. This intricate circuitry infers the likely causes of incoming patterns of light and transforms that information into feelings, thoughts, and actions. In this course we will study how light evokes electrical activity in a hierarchy of specialized neural networks that accomplish many unique aspects of seeing. Students will have the opportunity to focus their study on particular aspects, such as color, motion, object recognition, learning, attention, awareness, and how sight can be lost and recovered.  Throughout the course we will discuss principles of neural information coding (e.g., receptive field tuning, adaptation, normalization, etc.) that are relevant to other areas of neuroscience, as well as medicine, engineering, art and design.

• Department: Neuroscience & Behavior @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Alex White
  h-index: 13 Info
• 4 points

Neuroscience Frontiers

NEUROSCIENCE FRONTIERS

This course exposes students interested in neuroscience to some of the topics of the field, through talks illustrating the state of the art of neuroscience hosted by various institutes and departments at Barnard College and Columbia University. Each week students will virtually attend a talk and later participate in a guided discussion on the research presented in the talk. Students are expected to contribute actively to the discussion.

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

ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY

Prerequisites: BC1001 and BC1129 Developmental Psychology or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 20 senior majors. Barnard students receive priority. Examines adolescent development in theory and reality. Focuses on individual physiological, sexual, cognitive, and affective development and adolescent experiences in their social context of family, peers, school, and community. Critical perspectives of gender, race and ethnicity, sexuality, and teen culture explored.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Susan R Sacks
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

SOCIOLING ASPECTS U.S.SPANISH

Prerequisites: Third-year bridge course (W3300), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350). Sociolinguistics studies the connections between language and social categories such as class, gender, and ethnicity. This course will address how social, geographic, cultural, and economic factors affect the different usages of Spanish among its millions of speakers. Through theory and practice of various research tools including Ethnography of Communication and Discourse Analysis, students with explore topics such as English-Spanish contact in the US, code-switching, and Spanglish, as well as issues of identity, bilingualism, and endangered languages.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria E Lozano
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

Brazilian Slavery in its Global Context

BRA Slavery in its GL Con

What does Brazilian slavery have to teach the world? This course examines the history of slavery, as well as resistance to it, its abolition, the way it has been remembered and forgotten, in Latin America’s largest country in its hemispheric, Atlantic, and global context. In Brazil, the practice of enslaving Africans and their descendants lasted longer and involved more people than in any other place in the world. Our readings and in-class discussions broadly survey the entire sweep of Brazilian history from the sixteenth century to the present, demonstrating how the enslavement of people originally brought from Africa and their descendants is an inextricable part of the country’s history, and to the history of the African Diaspora, and is fundamental to understanding Brazil’s relationship to the rest of the world. No prior knowledge of Latin American or Brazilian history is required, and all required readings will be in English.

• Department: History
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Amy E Chazkel
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

EE SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT

Prerequisites: (ELEN E3399) and completion of most other required EE courses. Students work in teams to specify, design, implement and test an engineering prototype. Involves technical as well as non-technical considerations, such as manufacturability, impact on the environment, economics, adherence to engineering standards, and other real-world constraints. Projects are presented publicly by each design team in a school-wide Expo.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• F 6 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: David G Vallancourt
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 3 points

CANINE COGNITION

Prerequisites: BC1001 and one other Psychology course. Enrollment limited to 15 students. Permission of the instructor is required. An examination of the scientific study of the domestic dog. Emphasis will be on the evolutionary history of the species; the dogs social cognitive skills; canid perceptual and sensory capacities; dog-primate comparative studies; and dog-human interaction.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Alexandra C Horowitz
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

GIS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMNT

This course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive overview of theoretical concepts underlying GIS systems and to give students a strong set of practical skills to use GIS for sustainable development research. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are a system of computer software, data and analysis methods used to create, store, manage, digital information that allow us to create maps and dynamic models to analyze the physical and social processes of the world. Through a mixture of lectures, readings, focused discussions, and hands-on exercises, students will acquire an understanding of the variety and structure of spatial data and databases, gain knowledge of the principles behind raster and vector based spatial analysis, and learn basic cartographic principles for producing maps that effectively communicate a message. Student will also learn to use newly emerging web based mapping tools such as Google Earth, Google Maps and similar tools to develop on-line interactive maps and graphics. The use of other geospatial technologies such as the Global Positioning System will also be explored in this class. Case studies examined in class will draw examples from a wide ranges of GIS applications developed to assist in the development, implementation and evaluation of sustainable development projects and programs. On completion of the course, students will: 1. use a variety of GIS software programs to create maps and reports; 2. develop a sound knowledge of methods to search, obtain, and evaluate a wide variety of spatial data resources; 3. develop skills needed to determine best practices for managing spatial data resources; 4. use GIS to analyze the economic, social and environmental processes underlying the concept of building a sustainable world; 5. Gain an understanding of the limits of these technologies and make assessments of uncertainty associated with spatial data and spatial analysis models. Offered in the fall and spring.

• Department: Earth Institute
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Linda I Pistolesi
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• 3 points