GUIDED RESEARCH

Similar to BIOL BC3591-BIOL BC3592, this is a one-semester course that provides students with degree credit for unpaid research 
without 
a seminar component. You may enroll in BIOL BC3597 for between 1-4 credits per semester. As a rule of thumb, you should be spending approximately 3 hours per week per credit on your research project. A 
Project Approval Form
 must be submitted to the department each semester that you enroll in this course. Your Barnard research mentor (if your lab is at Barnard) or internal adviser in the Biology Department (if your lab is elsewhere) must approve your planned research 
before
 you enroll in BIOL BC3597. You should sign up for your mentor's section.  This course does not fulfill any Biology major requirements.  It is open to students beginning in their first year.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• Instructor: Alison Pischedda
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 11 Info
• Instructor: Jonathan Snow
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 18 Info
• Instructor: Paul E Hertz
  CULPA: 22 Info
• 1-4 points

PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• Instructor: Christian Rojas
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Marisa C Buzzeo
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Dina C Merrer
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Andrew C Crowther
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Michael Campbell
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• Instructor: Subhasish Chatterjee
  h-index: 16 Info
• Instructor: Rachel Austin
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia h-index: 28 Info
• Instructor: Christina Vizcarra
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 2 points

PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• 2 points

PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• Instructor: Christian Rojas
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Marisa C Buzzeo
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Dina C Merrer
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Andrew C Crowther
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Michael Campbell
  Info
• Instructor: Subhasish Chatterjee
  h-index: 16 Info
• Instructor: Rachel Austin
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia h-index: 28 Info
• Instructor: Christina Vizcarra
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• 4 points

INTRO TO FRENCH CIVILIZATION

Prerequisites: FREN UN3333 or UN3334 and UN3405, or the director of undergraduate studies permission. Based on readings of short historical sources, the course will provide an overview of French political and cultural history since 1700.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Molly L Lindberg
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• 3 points

Priestess, Queen, Goddess: The Divine Fe

PRIESTESS, QUEEN, GODDESS

The prominence of powerful goddesses (Hathor, Mut, and Isis), the reverence awarded to the queen mothers of Kush, and a series of sole-ruling queens (one of whom led her army in battle against the invading Romans)
,
highlight the unusually high status of women in this ancient African society and serve as a fitting focus for the study of female power in the ancient world. This course will examine more closely the queens, priestesses, and mothers who formed an essential societal component in ancient Nubia and its complex systems of goddess worship, sacred sexualities, and family lineages, both royal and non-royal. Examining the rich funerary traditions and goods found in royal burials, and temple and tomb imagery, we will explore how ancient Africans of the Nile Valley understood female power and presence to be an essential enlivening element in maintaining Maat, the balance of male and female energies, in order to cultivate “divine right order” in the world and in the cosmos. In this six-week immersive seminar, we’ll examine the history of Kushite queens who served as powerful complements to their husband the king, as the central figure in the coronation ceremonies for their son as he assumed the kingship, and as rulers in their own right during a time when this level of power was unavailable to women anywhere else in the world. After surveying the earlier phases of the ancient African kingdom of Kush: Kerma (2600-1500 BCE) and Napata (900-300 BCE), we will focus on the last phase of the Kingdom of Kush – Meroe (300 BCE – 300 CE) where women truly came into their power.

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

INTL LAW & U.N. IN PRACTICE

Prerequisites: POLS UN1601 or HRTS UN3001 An equivalent course to POLS UN1601 or HRTS UN3001 may be used as a pre-requisite, with departmental permission. Examines the development of international law and the United Nations, their evolution in the Twentieth Century, and their role in world affairs today. Concepts and principles are illustrated through their application to contemporary human rights and humanitarian challenges, and with respect to other threats to international peace and security. The course consists primarily of presentation and discussion, drawing heavily on the practical application of theory to actual experiences and situations. For the Barnard Political Science major, this seminar counts as elective credit only. (Cross-listed by the Human Rights Program.)

• Department: Human Rights (HRTB)
• MW 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Martin S Flaherty
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Race, Medicine and Literature in 19th-Ce

RACE MED & LIT 19C BRAZIL

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• MW 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ana P Lee
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 2 Info
• 3 points

REHEARSAL& PERFRMNCE IN DANCE

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
• MW 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer Archibald
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• Instructor: Rebecca Bliss
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• 1-3 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

This course can be worth 1 to 4 credits (each credit is equivalent to approximately three hours of work per week), and requires a Barnard faculty as a mentor. The course will be taken for a letter grade, regardless of whether the student chooses 1, 2, 3, or 4 credits. The expectations for each of these options are as follows: 1 credit, 3h/week commitment, 5-10 page "Research Report" at the end of the term; 2 credits, 6h/week commitment, 5-10 page "Research Report" at the end of the term; 3 credits, 9h/week commitment, 15-20 page "Research Report" at the end of the term; 4 credits, 12h/week commitment, 15-20 page "Research Report" at the end of the term. "Research Report" is a document submitted to the person grading the student, the instructor of record for the section in which the student has enrolled. If a student is working off-site, then input from the off-site research mentor will inform the grading. The "Research Report" can take a variety of forms: progress reports on data collected, training received, papers read, skills learned, etc.; or organized notes for lab notebooks, lab meetings, etc.; or manuscript-like papers with Intro, Methods, Results, Discussion; or some combination thereof, depending on the maturity of the project.  Ultimately, this will take different forms for different students/labs.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• Instructor: Peter D Balsam
  CULPA: 25 Info
• Instructor: Robert Brotherton
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Tovah Klein
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Colin Leach
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 41 Info
• Instructor: Ken Light
  CULPA: 17 h-index: 15 Info
• Instructor: Koleen McCrink
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Joshua New
  CULPA: 14 Info
• Instructor: Kara Pham
  CULPA: 9 Info
• Instructor: Robert E Remez
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia h-index: 23 Info
• Instructor: Russell D Romeo
  CULPA: 9 Info
• Instructor: Ann Senghas
  CULPA: 17 Info
• Instructor: Katherine Thorson
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 7 Info
• Instructor: Lisa K Son
  CULPA: 25 Info
• Instructor: Danielle L Sussan
  CULPA: 8 Info
• Instructor: Kathleen M Taylor
  CULPA: 78 Info
• Instructor: Tara Well
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Michael Wheaton
  h-index: 31 Info
• Instructor: E'Mett McCaskill
  CULPA: 38 Info
• 1-4 points

ADVANCED OPTIMIZATION

For undergraduates only. Required for all undergraduate students majoring in IE, OR:EMS, OR:FE, and OR. This is a follow-up to IEOR E3608 and will cover advanced topics in optimization, including integer optimization, convex optimization, and optimization under uncertainty, with a strong focus on modeling, formulations, and applications.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Shipra Agrawal
  h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

NEW CINEMAS IN LATIN AMERICA

This seminar will analyze the historical similarities and differences between the two major “New Wave” periods of Latin America cinema. The first part of this course will examine the emergence of the 1960s 
nuevos cines
 in Mexico, Brazil, Cuba, Argentina, and Chile through an in-depth analysis of landmark films such as Jomi García Ascot’s and María Luisa Elío’s "On the Empty Balcony" (1962), Glauber Rocha’s "Entranced Earth"
 
(1967), and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s "Memories of Underdevelopment" (1968). Some key concepts in Benedict Anderson’s book
 
"Imagined Communities" will help us to understand why “national identities” played such a primordial role among Latin American film intellectuals in the 1960s and 1970s. Special attention will be paid to the manifestos written by Julio García Espinosa, Fernando Solanas, and Octavio Getino, and to how they confronted Hollywood’s hegemony in order to create an auteurist film tradition in the region. In the second part of the seminar, we will study the global success of the Latin American cinemas of the 2000s from a transnational perspective: features such as Alfonso Cuarón’s "Y tu mamá también" (2001), Lucrecia Martel’s "The Swamp"
 
(2001), and Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund’s "City of God" (2002) will be examined in relation to the political and aesthetic traditions discussed in part one. We will explore how these contemporary Latin American filmmakers have shifted their interests from national identities to questions of gender, race, class, and sexuality. The critical interpretation of these films will allow us to redefine the idea of "national cinemas" and to reexamine the historical tensions between state control, commercialism, and independent cinema in Latin America.

• Department: Film @Barnard
• TWR 2 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Breixo Viejo Vinas
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

MATERIALS/PROCESSES IN MANUFAC

Introduction to microstructures and properties of metals, polymers, ceramics and composites; typical manufacturing processes: material removal, shaping, joining, and property alteration; behavior of engineering materials in the manufacturing processes.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Y. Lawrence Yao
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 95 Info
• 3 points

THIRD YEAR MODERN TIBETAN II

For those whose knowledge is equivalent to a student whos completed the Second Year course. The course develops students reading comprehension skills through reading selected modern Tibetan literature. Tibetan is used as the medium of instruction and interaction to develop oral fluency and proficiency.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Sonam Tsering
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• 4 points

SENIOR RESEARCH THESIS

Discussions of the student's Independent Research project during the fall and spring terms that culminate in a written and oral senior thesis. Each project must be supervised by a scientist working at Barnard or at another local institution.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa K Son
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 1 points

NAT'L & CONTEMP WORLD POLITICS

The causes and consequences of nationalism. Nationalism as a cause of conflict in contemporary world politics. Strategies for mitigating nationalist and ethnic conflict.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Jack L Snyder
  CULPA: 27 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Prerequisites: (PSYC UN1001) Instructor permission required. A seminar for advanced undergraduate students exploring different areas of clinical psychology. This course will provide you with a broad overview of the endeavors of clinical psychology, as well as discussion of its current social context, goals, and limitations.

• Department: Psychology
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Irit Felsen
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• Instructor: Hannah E Hoch
  CULPA: 27 Info
• 4 points

Adolescent Mental Health: Causes, Correl

ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH

Prerequisites: PSYC UN1001 and Prior coursework in Abnormal Psychology and Research Methods strongly preferred. Adolescence is a peak period for the onset of mental disorders and suicidal behaviors. The seminar is designed to enhance understanding of topics including, prevalence, etiology, risk factors, mechanisms, prevention and treatment approaches, and ethical considerations related to clinical research.

• Department: Psychology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Randy P Auerbach
  h-index: 50 Info
• 4 points

CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY

Prerequisites: an introductory course in neuroscience, like PSYC UN1010 or PSYC UN2450, and the instructor's permission. Analysis of the assessment of physical and psychiatric diseases impacting the central nervous system, with emphasis on the relationship between neuropathology and cognitive and behavioral deficits.

• Department: Psychology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: E'Mett McCaskill
  CULPA: 38 Info
• 3 points

GREAT SHORT WORKS OF AMERICAN PROSE

The aim of this course is to read closely and slowly short prose masterworks written in the United States between the mid-19th century and the mid-20th century, and to consider them in disciplined discussion. Most of the assigned works are fiction, but some are public addresses or lyrical or polemical essays. We will read with attention to questions of audience and purpose: for whom were they written and with what aim in mind: to promote a cause, make a case for personal or political action, provoke pleasure, or some combination of all of these aims? We will consider the lives and times of the authors but will focus chiefly on the aesthetic and argumentative structure of the works themselves.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Andrew Delbanco
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

History of Italian Cinema

This course explores the evolution of Italian Cinema from the pre-Fascist era to the millenium, and examines how films construct an image of Italy and the Italians.  Special focus will be on the cinematic representations of gender.  Films by major directors (Fellini, De Sica, Visconti) as well as by leading contemporaries (Moretti, Garrone, Rohrwacher) will be discussed.

• Department: Italian
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Leake
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• 3 points

Gender and Public Health: Disparities, P

This seminar providea an intensive introduction to critical thinking about gender in relation to public health. We begin with a rapid immersion in social scientific approaches to thinking about gender in relation to health, and then examine diverse areas in which gendered relations of power – primarily between men and women, but also between cis- and queer individuals – shape health behaviors and health outcomes. We engage with multiple examples of how gendered social processes, in combination with other dimensions of social stratification, shape health at the population level. The overarching goal of this class is to provide a context for reading, discussion, and critical analysis to help students learn to think about gender – and, by extension, about any form of social stratification – as a driver of patterns in population health. We also attend consistently to how public health as a field is itself a domain in which gender is reproduced or contested.

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• W 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer S Hirsch
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• 3 points

PROBABILITY FOR ENGINEERS

Introductory course to probability theory and does not assume any prior knowledge of subject. Teaches foundations required to use probability in applications, but course itself is theoretical in nature. Basic definitions and axioms of probability and notions of independence and conditional probability introduced. Focus on random variables, both continuous and discrete, and covers topics of expectation, variance, conditional distributions, conditional expectation and variance, and moment generating functions. Also Central Limit Theorem for sums of random variables. Consists of lectures, recitations, weekly homework, and in-class exams.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Lacker
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 13 Info
• 3 points

MAFIA MOVIES

Examines representations of the mafia in American and Italian film and literature. Special attention to questions of ethnic identity and immigration. Comparison of the different histories and myths of the mafia in the U.S. and Italy. Readings includes novels, historical studies, and film criticism. Limit 35

• Department: Italian @Barnard
• W 6:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Ariella Lang
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

The Politics of Care

THE POLITICS OF CARE

What are the consequences of entrenched inequalities in the context of care? How might we (re)imagine associated practices as political projects? Wherein lie the origins of utopic and dystopic visions of daily survival? How might we track associated promises and failures as they travel across social hierarchies, nationalities, and geographies of care? And what do we mean when we speak of “care”? These questions define the scaffolding for this course. Our primary goals throughout this semester are threefold.  First, we begin by interrogating the meaning of “care” and its potential relevance as a political project in medical and other domains. Second, we will track care’s associated meanings and consequences across a range of contents, including urban and rural America, an Amazonia borderland, South Africa, France, and Mexico. Third, we will address temporal dimensions of care, as envisioned and experienced in the here-and-now, historically, and in a futuristic world of science fiction. Finally, and most importantly, we will remain alert to the relevance of domains of difference relevant to care, most notably race, gender, class, and species.
Upper level seminar; 4 points

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• MR 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Gina A Jae
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

Against Fiction? Committed Narratives of

In the era of post-truth and fake news, has fiction become a luxury? How do cinema and literature adjust to what has been defined as the current “hunger for reality”? Can art reflect reality and promote social change? As phenomena of manipulation of information have changed the rhetorics of public discourse, narrative forms traditionally associated with fiction (novels, graphic novels or films) strive to appear objective, making use of documents, autobiographical accounts, testimonies and verifiable data, while non-fiction appropriates the techniques of storytelling. This interdisciplinary course will explore the cross contamination of fiction and non-fiction with a special focus on hybrid narratives that make their meaning at the border between the literary and the journalistic, the imaginative and the factual. Considering the intersections among fictional narratives and other forms of expression and knowledge production (i.e. journalism, oral history, anthropology or documentary), we will look at contemporary works that experiment with new communicative forms to recount real events and to address socio-political issues.
The course is suitable for students who have interests in all the humanities and social sciences. The use of narrative and storytelling in a wide array of fields, from medicine to human rights advocacy, has made it fundamental to reflect on how ‘true’ stories are created and on how they circulate.
(No previous knowledge required. Taught in English.)

• Department: Italian
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Beatrice Mazzi
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• 3 points

Making Visual: A Tale of Two Cities

MAKING VISUAL: TALE TWO C

This seminar considers recent developments necessitated by classroom restrictions during the COVID-!9 crisis. The course is designed to be flexible and some sessions may be held at NYC locations if conditions at the time permit, however, the experience of virtual communication is developing as one reads this course description. This course intends to advance visual skills that are both flexible and productive for communication in a global environment. Collaborating with creative educators from the digital and design fields living in Berlin, Germany, will enhance class participants' engagement and attention to online learning. The seminar's individual and collaborative projects and innovations can and will be useful well into the future with and without geographical and environmental restrictions.  Integrated into skills learned in a traditional studio course is a series of four workshops introducing class participants to relevant approaches for extending the reach of their artistic work through innovative technologies. The workshops' core focus is on learning essential conceptual and practical art studio skills hand-in-hand with the knowledge of technology and software platforms (Miro, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, SketchUp, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Keynote, Zoom, and Jitsi). By gaining facility both with the software platforms and collaborations without geographic restrictions, students have the opportunity to develop a broad range of communication strategies in digital and visual image production. Students will execute a series of individual and collaborative projects developed to enhance an understanding of visual subjects.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Joan Snitzer
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

SEEKING ASYLUM

Prerequisites: NA This seminar explores the roots of and responses to the contemporary refugee crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. We examine the historical factors that are propelling people, including families and unaccompanied minors, to flee the so-called Northern Triangle of Central America (El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala); the law and politics of asylum that those seeking refuge must negotiate in the U.S.; and the burgeoning system of immigration incarceration that detains ever-greater numbers of non-citizens. The course is organized around a collaboration with the Dilley Pro Bono Project, an organization that provides legal counsel to detainees at the countrys largest immigration detention prison, in Dilley, Texas.

• Department: History @Barnard
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Nara Milanich
  CULPA: 15 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Religion and Human Rights

What is the relationship between religion and human rights? How have different religious traditions conceived of “the human” as a being worthy of inherent dignity and respect, particularly in moments of political, military, economic, and ecological crisis? How and why have modern regimes of human rights privileged some of these ideas and marginalized others? What can these complicated relationships between religion and human rights explain some of the key crises in human rights law and politics today, and what avenues can be charted for moving forward? In this class, we will attempt to answer these questions by first developing a theoretical understanding of some of the key debates about the origins, trajectories, and legacies of modern human rights’ religious entanglements. We will then move on to examine various examples of ideas about and institutions for protecting “humanity” from different regions and histories. Specifically, we will examine how different societies, organizations, and religious traditions have addressed questions of war and violence; freedom of belief and expression; gender and sexual orientation; economic inequality; ecology; and the appropriate ways to punish and remember wrongdoing. In doing so, we will develop a repertoire of theoretical and empirical tools that can help us address both specific crises of human rights in various contexts, as well as the general crisis of faith and and observance of human rights as a universal norm and aspiration for peoples everywhere.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Timothy Vasko
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

DESIRE AND DISGUST IN THE EIGHTEENTH CEN

The literature of the eighteenth century is often imagined as a corpus of excessively long novels about excessively polite people writing love letters and fainting. But as often as you encounter refined sensibility, you are almost as likely to encounter nasty practical jokes, bodily fluids, pornography and streets flowing with sewage, sometimes all in the same text. This course aims to use two opposite emotions, desire and disgust, to unsettle popular understandings of eighteenth-century literature, and to try and understand what drew readers in, and what repelled them. What happens when the Age of Reason, or the Age of Politeness is not so reasonable or polite? In what ways did eighteenth-century authors understand attraction and aversion, and how did they narrate it? How were desire and disgust gendered, and how did these ideas inscribe themselves onto bodies? By asking these questions, we can start to understand not only what eighteenth-century readers found desirable or disgusting, but also what they found disgusting about sexuality, and what delighted them about disgust.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: David M Jamieson
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• 4 points

Genres of Academic Writing

Accruing knowledge is not enough to succeed in college. When rhetorical theorist Kenneth Burke tells us that “belonging is...rhetorical,” he means that we must not only learn about ideas, we must learn how ideas are shared in distinct contexts. In other words, in order to write a strong lab report for one class or a literary analysis for another, you need to discover what readers of each genre value and the purposes they believe a lab report or literary analysis should serve. Learning to read and write your way into different academic genres—those types of writing defined by specific textual characteristics—will help you succeed in college and beyond. Deborah McCutchen and other educational psychologists demonstrate that when any writer is encountering a new genre, those unfamiliar genre features become a barrier to reading texts critically. In other words, readers’ comprehension drops. This course is designed to make genres something we can all read and write our way into. By learning transferrable methods to read for genre, audience, and rhetorical situations, we will learn methods to approach all kind of writing tasks in different settings, both within academia and beyond. Over the course of three modules—genre analysis, research proposal, and public speech—we will emphasize the connection between reading, writing, speech and critical thinking. By way of metacognitive practices (thinking about thinking, and writing about writing), we will demystify the notion that writing and public speaking are inborn talents and, instead, see them as learned skills. We will read model texts for core characteristics that distinguish one genre from another, and we will learn to write in each. Together, we will undertake writing as a process of continual refinement of ideas that requires collaboration and revision. By the end of this course, you will be able to use rhetorical terminology to describe writing, interpret texts written for academic audiences, use academic writing conventions in your own writing, and peer workshop etiquette for collaborative writing. The course includes weekly “lab sessions” in which we will spend half of a class period per week working on your assignments in the classroom with the additional support of a writing consultant from the Writing Center in 310 Philosophy. We will treat this time as our chance to experiment and test out strategies that prepare you to write and speak in differe

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Alessia Palanti
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

ANARCHISM: A GLOBAL HISTORY

Explores the historical development of anarchism as a working-class, youth, and artistic movement in Europe, North and Latin America, the Middle East, India, Japan, and China from the 1850s to the present. Examines anarchism both as an ideology and as a set of cultural and political practices.

• Department: History @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jose Moya
  CULPA: 19 h-index: 18 Info
• 4 points

STRATEGY FORMULATION

This class is an introduction to strategic management and the decisions that firms make in their historical context. We look at the growth of the large multi-product firm in almost all countries in the world and the the process by which they internationalized their activities and, very often, were also forced to retreat from their international positions.  We treat strategies as relation to two broad goals of the class: to understand why some companies are financially much more successful than others; and to analyze how managers can devise a set of actions (the strategy) and design processes and structures that allow their company to obtain a competitive advantage. You will learn the analytical tools developed in universities, in consulting and industrial firms, and even in the military.   These tools include what companies do to outperform their rivals; to analyze the competitive moves of rival firms by game-theoretic concepts; and when it makes sense for companies to diversify and globalize their business. Applications will be to Walmart and Apple, European firms and to Asian firms, and developing country firms.

• Department: Columbia College
• W 8:40 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Bruce Kogut
  Wikipedia h-index: 65 Info
• 3 points

LATINX RACIAL IDENTITY & CULTURAL PRODUC

US-LATINO CULTURAL PRODUC

The course will investigate the impact of racial identity among Latinx in the U.S. on cultural production of Latinos in literature, media, politics and film. The seminar will consider the impact of bilingualism, shifting racial identification, and the viability of monolithic terms like Latinx. We will see how the construction of Latinx racial identity affects acculturation in the U.S., with particular attention to hybrid identities and the centering of black and indigenous cultures. Examples will be drawn from different Latinx ethnicities from the Caribbean, Mexico and the rest of Latin America.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Edward Morales
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• 4 points

INTRO TO COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

Prerequisites: (ELEN E3801) ELEN E3801. Corequisites: IEOR E3658. A basic course in communication theory, stressing modern digital communication systems. Nyquist sampling, PAM and PCM/DPCM systems, time division multipliexing, high frequency digital (ASK, OOK, FSK, PSK) systems, and AM and FM systems. An introduction to noise processes, detecting signals in the presence of noise, Shannons theorem on channel capacity, and elements of coding theory.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Irving Kalet
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

ETHICS

Prerequisites: one course in philosophy. Corequisites: PHIL V3711 Required Discussion Section (0 points). This course is mainly an introduction to three influential approaches to normative ethics: utilitarianism, deontological views, and virtue ethics. We also consider the ethics of care, and selected topics in meta-ethics.

• Department: Philosophy
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Michele Moody-Adams
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

MAJOR WOMEN FILMMAKERS

Traditional film history has consigned a multitude of cinema practices to an inferior position. By accepting Hollywood’s narrative model as central, film scholars have often relegated non-male, non-white, non-Western films to a secondary role. Often described as “marginal” or “peripheral” cinemas, the outcomes of these film practices have been systematically excluded from the canon. Yet… are these motion pictures really “secondary”? In relation to what? And according to whom? This course looks at major films by women filmmakers of the 20th Century within a tradition of political cinema that 1) directly confronts the hegemonic masculinity of the Hollywood film industry, and 2) relocates the so-called “alternative women’s cinema” at the core of film history. Unlike conventional feminist film courses, which tend to be contemporary and anglocentric, this class adopts a historical and worldwide perspective; rather than focusing on female directors working in America today, we trace the origins of women’s cinema in different cities of the world (Berlin, Paris, New York) during the silent period, and, from there, we move forward to study major works by international radical directors such as Lorenza Mazzetti, Agnès Varda, Forough Farrokhzad, Věra Chytilová, Chantal Akerman, Liliana Cavani, Barbara Kopple, Larisa Shepitko, and Mira Nair. We analyse how these filmmakers have explored womanhood not only as a source of oppresion (critique of patriarchal phallocentrism, challenge to heteronormativity, etc) but, most importantly, as a source of empowerment (defense of matriarchy, equal rights, lesbian love, inter- and transexuality...). Required readings include seminal texts of feminist film theory by Claire Johnston, Laura Mulvey, Ann Kaplan, bell hooks, and Judith Butler. Among the films screened in the classroom are: silent movies –"Suspense" (Lois Weber, 1913), "The Smiling Madame Beudet" (Germaine Dulac, 1922)—, early independent and experimental cinema –"Girls in Uniform" (Leontine Sagan, 1931), "Ritual in Transfigured Time" (Maya Deren, 1946)—, “new wave” films of the 1950s and 1960s –"Together" (Mazzetti, 1956), "Cléo from 5 to 7" (Varda, 1962), "Daisies" (Chytilová, 1966)–, auteur cinema of the 1970s – "Jeanne Dielman" (Akerman, 1975), "The Ascent" (Shepitko, 1977)–, and documentary films –"Harlan County, USA" (Kopple, 1976), "Paris Is Burning" (J

• Department: Film @Barnard
• TR 10 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Breixo Viejo Vinas
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

Russia s Silver Age, 1890-1920

The end of a century and the beginning of a new one can be a moment of self-consciousness, when people pause in their usual activities to reflect on the direction of their civilization and to wonder what the future might hold. Usually, the 1917 Revolution dominates our consciousness of the first decades of the 20th century in Russia. This course offers a chance to take an in-depth look at a different aspect of Russian life: the turbulent world of ideas and culture, in many ways shared with other European capitals, that we have come to know as the Silver Age. One of the great novels of the age, Andrei Bely’s
Petersburg
(1913), will be our window into the artistic currents, philosophical discussions, apocalyptic moods and revolutionary stirrings of turn-of-the-century Russia. Since the creators of the Silver Age thought of themselves as drawing on the whole of Russian and world culture for inspiration, I also hope that our focus on these 30 years will propel us both backwards and forwards in time so we can discuss broad themes of Russian history and culture.

• Department: History
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Catherine Evtuhov
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR FIELD ESSAY SEMINAR

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to senior majors. Individual research on topic related to major thematic concentration and preparation of senior thesis.

• Department: American Studies @Barnard
• MF 10:10 a.m.-noon
• TF 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Severin Fowles
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Christina Heatherton
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• 4 points

SENIOR RESEARCH ESSAY SEMINAR

• Department: American Studies @Barnard
• MF 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Severin Fowles
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth Hutchinson
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 4 points

FICTION, FILM, AND MODERN VIETNAM

This course examines film, tv, and a variety of short fiction as vehicles for the production of Vietnamese cultural identities in the modern era.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: John D Phan
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

ETHICS - REC

Required discussion section for PHIL UN3701 Ethics

• Department: Philosophy
• R 7:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• F 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• R 9 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Amogha B Sahu
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• Instructor: Saikeerthi Rachavelpula
  Info
• Instructor: Molly Cressida B Gurdon
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• 0 points

RESEARCH DESIGN: SCOPE AND METHODS

RESEARCH DESIGN: SCOPE&ME

This class aims to introduce students to the logic of social scientific inquiry and research design. Although it is a course in political science, our emphasis will be on the science part rather than the political part — we’ll be reading about interesting substantive topics, but only insofar as they can teach us something about ways we can do systematic research. This class will introduce students to a medley of different methods to conduct social scientific research.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Daniel M Corstange
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

SCOPE AND METHODS - DISC

This is the required discussion section for
POLS UN3720.

• Department: Political Science
• W 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• W 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• F 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• F 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• T 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• T 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• R 8:10 a.m.-9 a.m.
• R 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• F 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• F 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Bardia R Rahmani
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• 0 points

HOW RACE GETS UNDER OUR SKIN: THE SOCIOL

RACE, HEALTH, AND BIOMEDI

One of the glaring forms of inequalities that persists today is the race-based gap in access to health care, quality of care, and health outcomes. This course examines how institutionalized racism and the structure of health care contributes to the neglect and sometimes abuse of racial and ethnic minorities. Quite literally, how does race affect one’s life chances? This course covers a wide range of topics related to race and health, including: racial inequalities in health outcomes, biases in medical institutions, immigration status and health, racial profiling in medicine, and race in the genomic era.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Amy Zhou
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• 4 points

POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

Six major concepts of political philosophy including authority, rights, equality, justice, liberty and democracy are examined in three different ways. First the conceptual issues are analyzed through contemporary essays on these topics by authors like Peters, Hart, Williams, Berlin, Rawls and Schumpeter. Second the classical sources on these topics are discussed through readings from Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Marx, Plato, Mill and Rousseau. Third some attention is paid to relevant contexts of application of these concepts in political society, including such political movements as anarchism, international human rights, conservative, liberal, and Marxist economic policies as well as competing models of democracy.

• Department: Philosophy
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Axel Honneth
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Sex, Drugs, and Marxism: France in the 1

For many Americans, May ’68 is remembered as the French analog to Woodstock: the apogee of social and cultural effervescence brought on by youth rebellion. Idealistic slogans like “
sous les pavés la plage
” (“under the cobblestones the beach”) and “
il est interdit d’interdire
” (“it is forbidden to forbid”) are foregrounded in our own nostalgic memories of the Summer of Love or British counter-cultural movements (imported in France Johnny Hallyday) often overshadow the political foundations of the events. May ’68 can refer not only to the events of May proper, but to the preceding and following months, during which squabbles between students and administrators over pool and dormitory usage expanded to include the largest student-worker strike in French history. By May 20th, 1968, wildcat strikes in factories across France temporarily shut down the country, resulting in the dissolution of the French National Assembly and the flight of French President Charles de Gaulle. In this course, we will use literature and film, alongside primary historical sources and theoretical documents to explore May ’68 from multiple angles— as a social, cultural, and political moment that fundamentally marked French history. Beginning with 
génération de Marxisme et Coca-cola
, we’ll consider how a thirty-year period of relative financial stability, called 
les Trente Glorieuses 
(1945-1975), fostered a youth culture marked by sexual liberation, anti-consumerism, and anti-Americanism. Fundamental shifts in the postwar French political landscape, such as French Communist Party’s slow demise and several wars of decolonization, paved the way for diverse political movements. Just as France of the 1960s turned inward, coming to terms with its own collaboration in World War II, it nevertheless continued to repress nationalist movements in Algeria and elsewhere. French thinkers turned their gaze to workers’ rights both home and abroad, turning East to Vietnam and China for inspiration. Feminist and gay rights theorists at home also began to organize. Finally, looking at contemporary France and mass movements in France today, such as the 2005 “riots” on the outskirts of Paris, the anti-gay marriage movement “
la Manif pour tous
,” or the 
Gilets Jaunes
, we’ll consider the “aftermath” of May ’68. Was May a “faile

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Aubrey A Gabel
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED FAC-STUDENT RSRCH

Prerequisites: None formally; instructor may recommend introductory or advanced course in their subfield For joint Faculty-Student research on a deisgnated topic of the instructor's choice. Students will critically engage with scholarly debates, formulate research designs, analyze or interpret data, and learn to summarize and present findings. Apply directly to the instructor. Can be taken once for elective credit toward the major.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• Instructor: Severine Autesserre
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia h-index: 14 Info
• 3-4 points

African Communities in New York, 1900 to

AFRICAN COMMUNITIES IN NY

This class explores the history of voluntary migrations from Africa to the United States over the course of the 20th century. This course is designed as a historical research seminar that is open to students with prior coursework in African Studies, Africana Studies, Race and Ethnic Studies, or History. Thematically the course dwells at a point of intersection between African history, Black History, and Immigration History.  As part of the Barnard Engages curriculum, this class is collaboratively designed with the Harlem-based non-profit organization, African Communities Together.  The aim of this course is to support the mission of ACT by producing a historically grounded digital advocacy project. The mission of ACT is to empower immigrants from Africa and their families to integrate socially, advance economically, and engage civically.  To advance this mission, ACT must confront the reality that in the current political moment new legal, political, and social barriers are being erected to the integration, advancement, and engagement of African immigrants on a daily basis. As immigrants, as Black people, as Africans, and often as women, low-income people, LGBT+ people, and Muslims, African immigrants experience multiple intersecting forms of marginalization. Now more than ever, it is critical that African immigrants be empowered to tell their own stories—not just of persecution and suffering, but of resilience and resistance.

• Department: History @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Abosede A George
  CULPA: 14 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points