BERL/ISTANBUL:MIGRATN,CLTR,VAL

An intensive seminar analyzing questions of migration, identity, (self-) representation, and values with regard to the Turkish minority living in Germany today. Starting with a historical description of the „guest worker“ program that brought hundreds of thousands of Turkish nationals to Germany in the 1960s and 1970s, the course will focus on the experiences and cultural production of the second and third generations of Turkish Germans, whose presence has profoundly transformed German society and culture. Primary materials include diaries, autobiographies, legal and historical documents, but the course will also analyze poetry, novels, theater plays and films. In German.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Claudia Breger
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

Studies in Drama

This course will explore plays from classical times to the present in which women are at the center of the cultural narratives the theater creates. Sometimes women defy kings or rulers; sometimes they commit crimes; sometimes they figure primarily as heroic or punishing mothers, abused wives, or comic protagonists. One purpose of the course is to explore what roles the theater has created for women at particular moments in history and also to explore the contradictions and complexities that emerge within those roles. At the same time, the course will investigate the changing nature of the theater itself and how the representation of gender changes from, for example the Greek ritual, theater to the all-male stages of Shakespeare's time to the experimental theater of today. Every class will include some onyour-feet script work with Catherine Suffern, our creative artist co-instructor.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• 4 points

AMERICAN NATURE WRITING TO 1900

The course is a survey of canonical texts from the American Literary Canon, with emphasis on how these writers experienced the natural world. Some of them had to deal with extreme cold, others with tropical heat. Some of them encountered abundance, others sparsity and famine. They all encountered new life forms – from marine life to birds, reptiles and animals. They had to cope with frequent earthquakes and hurricanes, and classify newly discovered species of vegetal life. What they saw, however, was read not only through the lenses of natural history, but also theologically and politically. For some, the natural world was rich with signs sent by God for them to interpret, for others it was a political space that they organized according to the a theocratic or plantation logic. The class will therefore also pay special attention to politics, and investigate how the ecological spaces that the colonists encountered shaped their politics and ethics.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Branka Arsic
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF CANCER

Prerequisites: three terms of biology (genetics and cell biology recommended). Cancer is one of the most dreaded common diseases. Yet it is also one of the great intellectual challenges in biology today. How does a cell become cancerous? What are the agents that cause this to occur? How do current findings about genes, cells, and organisms ranging from yeast cells to humans inform us about cancer? How do findings about cancer teach us new biological concepts? Over the past few years there have been great inroads into answering these questions which have led to new ways to diagnose and treat cancer. This course will discuss cancer from the point of view of basic biological research. We will cover topics in genetics, molecular and cell biology that are relevant to understanding the differences between normal and cancer cells. These will include tumor viruses, oncogenes, tumor suppressor genes, cell cycle regulation, programmed cell death and cell senescence. We will also study some current physiological concepts related to cancer including angiogenesis, tumor immunology, cancer stem cells, metastasis and new approaches to treatment that are built on recent discoveries in cancer biology. The text book for this course is The Biology of Cancer Second Edition by Robert A Weinberg (Garland Science). Additional and complementary readings will be assigned. SCE and TC students may register for this course, but they must first obtain the written permission of the instructor, by filling out a paper Registration Adjustment Form (Add/Drop form). The form can be downloaded at the URL below, but must be signed by the instructor and returned to the office of the registrar. http://registrar.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/reg-adjustment.pdf

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Carol L Prives
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

• Department: Education @Barnard
• M 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• R 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• W 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Erika Kitzmiller
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 3 Info
• 3-4 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Students who wish to do an independent study project (I.S.P.), should speak with a Political Science faculty member willing to serve as sponsor, then fill out a Request for Approval of Credit for Independent Study (see Registrars link below) and obtain signatures from the sponsor and from our Department Chair. File this form with the Committee on Programs and Academic Standing, which must approve all requests. (It must be filed with the C.P.A.S. well before the Registrars program-filing deadline for the semester of the I.S.P.) Note that no credit is given for an internship or job experience in or by itself, but credit is given for an academic research paper written in conjunction with an internship, subject to the procedures outlined above. The internship and the I.S.P. can be in the same semester, or you may do the I.S.P. in the semester following the internship. A project approved for three or four points counts as an elective course for the purpose of the ten-course major or five-course minor requirement. No more than two such three- or four-point projects may be used for the major, and no more than one for the minor. An independent study project may not be used to satisfy either the colloquium or senior seminar requirement. Each instructor is limited to sponsoring one independent study project per semester. The Registrar will assign a POLS BC 3799 section and call number unique to the faculty sponsor. The Registrars ISP form: http://www.barnard.edu/sites/default/files/inline/indstudy.pdf. The Political Science faculty: http://polisci.barnard.edu/faculty-directory.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• Instructor: Sarah J Lockwood
  h-index: 1 Info
• 2-4 points

EARTH & ENVIR ENGIN LAB I

Prerequisites: (CHEE E3010) CHEE E3010. Corequisites: EAEE E3255 Experiments on fundamental aspects of Earth and environmental engineering with emphasis on the applications of chemistry, biology and thermodynamics to environmental processes: energy generation, analysis and purification of water, environmental biology, and biochemical treatment of wastes. Students will learn the laboratory procedures and use analytical equipment firsthand, hence demonstrating experimentally the theoretical concepts learned in class.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• TR 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Athanasios Bourtsalas
  Info
• 2 points

SEM IN CONTEMP ART PRACTICE

SEM IN CONETMP ART PRCATICE

(Formerly R4601) New York City is the most abundant visual arts resource in the world. Visits to museums, galleries, and studios on a weekly basis. Students encounter a broad cross-section of art and are encouraged to develop ideas about what is seen. The seminar is led by a practicing artist and utilizes this perspective. Columbia College and General Studies Visual Arts Majors must take this class during their junior year. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• F 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Yasaman Alipour Fetrati
  Info
• 3 points

ENVIR SCIENCE SENIOR SEM II

Guided, independent, in-depth research culminating in the senior thesis in the spring. Includes discussion about scientific presentations and posters, data analysis, library research methods and scientific writing. Students review work in progress and share results through oral reports. Weekly seminar to review work in progress and share results through oral and written reports. Prerequisite to EESC W3901.

• Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 3 points

COLL:POLITICS OF DEVELOPMENT

Prerequisites: V 1501 or equivalent Description: The semester-long course aims to study political and social factors behind economic development and exam empirical cases of the success and failure in economic growth in order to understand the key features of the development processes. In the last two centuries, some countries successfully achieved economic growth and development, while other failed to do so. Even in the post-WWII period, the world has witnessed the rise and decline of economies around the world. Why do nations succeed or fail in economic development? How do political institutions affect economic outcomes? What are the ways in which state and market interact and influence each other? Can democracy be considered a cause of development, an outgrowth of development, or neither and to which extent? How do external factors such as foreign aid encourage or discourage development? We will try to examine these questions by taking a historical-institutional and comparative approach and take a critical look at the role of political and other institutions by applying theoretical guidelines and empirical cases. We will explore competing explanations for the successes and failures of economic development in the world. Objective:1. Understand some important concepts and theories within the fields of comparative politics and political economy. To explore the interconnections between politics, economy, and society in the context of development policy and practice.2. Develop basic analytic skills to explore various factors that shape political, economic, and social development and underdevelopment in the world;3. Understand some country specific political economy processes and how these processes prove or disprove certain theories and policies.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Xiaobo Lu
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

CHEM ENG & APPLIED CHEM LAB

Prerequisites: (CHEN E3110) and (CHEN E3120) and (CHEN E4230) and (CHEN E2100) and (CHEE E3010) and (CHEN E3210) and (CHEN E4140) and (CHEN E4500) or Completion of core chemical engineering curricula through the fall semester of senior year (includes: CHEN E3110, E3120, E4230, E3100, E3010, E3210, E4140, E4500), OR instructors permission. The course emphasizes active, experiment-based resolution of open-ended problems involving use, design, and optimization of equipment, products, or materials. Under faculty guidance students formulate, carry out, validate, and refine experimental procedures, and present results in oral and written form. The course develops analytical, communications, and cooperative problem-solving skills in the context of problems that span from traditional, large scale separations and processing operations to molecular level design of materials or products. Sample projects include: scale up of apparatus, process control, chemical separations, microfluidics, surface engineering, molecular sensing, and alternative energy sources. Safety awareness is integrated throughout the course.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 3 points

LITERARY APPROACHES TO BIBLE

Interpretive strategies for reading the Bible as a work with literary dimensions. Considerations of poetic and rhetorical structures, narrative techniques, and feminist exegesis will be included. Topics for investigation include the influence of the Bible on literature.

• Department: English @Barnard
• MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Margaret R Ellsberg
  CULPA: 54 Info
• 4 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Faculty supervised independent study for undergraduate Film & Media Studies majors.  Must have faculty approval prior to registration.

• Department: Film
• Instructor: Robert King
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 1-3 points

ACTIVISM & INQUIRY LAB A

This lab course is an optional addition to the WGSS junior colloquia courses “Theorizing Feminist Activisms” and  “Feminist Inquiry”; students must take one of those courses simultaneously with this lab. The lab gives students an opportunity to gain practical experience with one or more qualitative research methods that are frequently used in feminist and gender studies. It will be particularly valuable as groundwork for senior thesis research, but all students enrolled in Theorizing Activisms or Feminist Inquiry are encouraged to take the lab to deepen their understanding of practical and ethical issues in conducting research in support of social change.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• F noon-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Kimberly Springer
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 13 Info
• 1 points

COVID-19 and International Relations

INTL RELATIONS OF COVID-1

Welcome to “International Relations of COVID-19.” The onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic has sent political shockwaves around the world, affecting almost every aspect of international political life. From how countries cooperate with one another to redefining what constitutes national security, to recasting pressures for globalization and de-globalization, the world as we knew it prior to February 2020 appears to be dramatically changing. At the same time, scholars and policymakers are increasingly divided about how to understand and respond to many of these challenges.  Is the COVID era truly new or will it actually accelerate recent trends in international politics and global governance? What are the similarities between this pandemic and previous global health crises and what lessons should we draw for managing international order?  What are the implications for US leadership, and broad perceptions about the erosion of the US-led liberal world order, and how have strategic competitors like China dealt with the crisis globally? Finally, what are the tools, resources and networks available to researchers and policy makers interested in making more evidence-based assessments about international public policy? What are the challenges? The intensive nature of this colloquium is reflected in two ways- preparation and focus. First, the course carries a substantial reading load designed to inform and prepare students for each course session. These assignments will mostly be academic readings, but may also include podcasts, news articles, and digital archival materials. New materials and resources dealing with the course topic are added daily and may be added to the syllabus, so please check the Courseworks syllabus before each meeting for the current assignments. Importantly, our class lectures, group activities and individual assignments will build upon, not review, the assigned materials for the session. Second, the remote nature of the course will require active listening and focus. Each session typically will be split into 2 segments, roughly of 55-60 minutes each. Many of these segments will feature guest lecturers or experts who will give 25-30 mins presentations on their topic and then field questions. During our limited time for Q&A students should ask single, concise questions.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexander A Cooley
  CULPA: 22 h-index: 33 Info
• 4 points

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING LAB II

Biomedical experimental design and hypothesis testing. Statistical analysis of experimental measurements. Analysis of experimental measurements. Analysis of variance, post hoc testing. Fluid shear and cell adhesion, neuro-electrophysiology, soft tissue biomechanics, biomecial imaging and ultrasound, characterization of excitable tissues, microfluidics.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• 3 points

FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER SYSTS

Prerequisites: an introductory programming course. Fundamentals of computer organization and digital logic. Boolean algebra, Karnaugh maps, basic gates and components, flipflops and latches, counters and state machines, basics of combinational and sequential digital design. Assembly language, instruction sets, ALU’s, single-cycle and multi-cycle processor design, introduction to pipelined processors, caches, and virtual memory.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel S Rubenstein
  CULPA: 29 Info
• 3 points

Politics in Europe - European Politics

Politics in Europe Euro.

Migrant management, breakthrough of Eurosceptic parties, criticism on all sides of European governance: the European Union has been undergoing for some years now a deep internal crisis, at the very moment when its leaders have chosen to strengthen the political construction of the Union. The main objective of the course will be to question the current situation of the EU by cross-examining the institutional and political functioning of the Union with forms of transnationalization of the political life of European countries.   In the first part, we will discuss the historical construction of the EU, its institutional structure, and the structuring effects that the EU has on the political systems of European countries. This section will also address the central issues facing the EU today (Brexit, project of a European Constitution, distribution of political forces in the European Parliament, etc.).   The second part of the course will adopt the standpoint of European countries from which the central themes that shape political debate in Europe are being formed. This part will contain a strong focus on transnational and political issues dominating regional areas of the EU. The themes of integration, borders, political violence, the rise of extreme rights, etc., will be discussed throughout all these sessions.   The course will also benefit from outside interventions by EU specialists and scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds (history, sociology, political science). In addition, the course will take place soon after the 2019 European elections, and will focus both on the issues that dominated the campaign in the different member countries, and on how the new European Parliament will take up the stakes, which will prevail in the EU.

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Enyi Koene
  Info
• 3 points

QUEER QUISQUEYA: SAME-SEX DESIRE IN DOMI

QUEER DOMINICAN LITERATUR

Prerequisites: Third-year bridge course (W3300), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350).  When LGBT literatures first became consolidated as a field of study in in Latin American literary studies in the 1990s, the Dominican Republic figured as a glaring absence. In the first two pioneering anthologies,
Hispanisms and Homosexualities
(Duke UP, 1998)

and ¿
Entiendes? Queer Readings, Hispanic Writings
(Duke UP, 1995), an impressive one-third of essays was dedicated to the insular Hispanophone Caribbean, Cuba and Puerto Rico, but none to the Dominican Republic. This course contests the presumable absence of LGBT literature in the Dominican Republic by recovering little-known 20th century representations of same-sex desire and then tracing the growing body of Dominican LGBT literature in the 21st century. We analyze through which different representational strategies Dominican writers have successfully written non-heteronormative subjects into the Dominican national family and have challenged existing gender and sexual norms across time.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• TR 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Maja Horn
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

CULTURES & ECONOMIES

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Gretchen Pfeil
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 2 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS SEMINAR

A year-long course for outstanding senior majors who want to conduct research in primary sources on a topic of their choice in any aspect of history, and to write a senior thesis possibly leading toward departmental honors.

• Department: History
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Pablo Piccato
  CULPA: 22 h-index: 20 Info
• Instructor: Samuel K Jr Roberts
  Info
• Instructor: Marc Van de Mieroop
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Jude P Webre
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

Revolution and Art

REVOLUTION AND ART

In 1789, a French revolution shook the government foundation of Europe, and with it, all the arts. The principles of monarchy were rejected, women gained unprecedented freedoms, and French slavery was abolished.  How did the arts express those upheavals?  By 1805, areaction against the Revolution. An emperor crowned himself, women’s rights were revoked slavery was reinstated.  How did the arts deal with this backlash?

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Anne Higonnet
  CULPA: 31 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Designing Design II

DESIGNING DESIGN II

The way an environment is made remains deeply embedded within it. Our environments shape us like our families, they nourish and educate us, they prejudice us. What if they were not a given? If our relationship to them was something we choose and shape, less of a blood relation, more of a lifelong friendship? A friend is an equal with their own agency and act as, a partner in play and life. Friendship is a place where we interact, welcome each-other and make the world together. The common task of this class is to devise a studio for making living environments to study how we could make, exhibit and live with art. Through a variety of individual and group readings and assignments, in-class case-studies and interviews we will test our preconceptions of space and time so that we may experience and inspire the state of being present. We will study and practice presence to form intimate bonds with interior, exterior, bodily and narrative environments already in existence and of our own making.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• MW 9:10 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Irena Haiduk
  Info
• 4 points

Human Rights & Public Health: Advanced S

ADV HUMAN RTS & PUBLIC HE

As we face the triple threats of inequalities, climate change, and a pandemic, the dignity and well-being of many people are under attack or at imminent risk.  Exploring several specific issues through the lens of human rights principles and public health standards will provide students with a strong analytic framework for understanding the challenges of and potential for systemic change to address these threats.  Specifically, we will be looking at disparate health impacts and how to understand what drives the disparities; intellectual property laws and how they apply during a global crisis; the double-edged sword of digital technology particularly as it applies to health surveillance; the strengths and weaknesses of a biomedical model dominating the public health discourse; and, the politization of health policy. Specifically, we will explore systems of oppression that drive inequalities and lead to disparate health outcomes; the lack of a transnational accountability framework to address both climate change and the rights of those most impacted by it; and how a corporate-driven intellectual property regime has put access to essential medicines, including vaccines, beyond the reach of people living in poverty.  Finally, looking at reports ripped from the headlines, we will look at how the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown open the door to widespread digital surveillance with few safeguards to protect privacy rights or to address the biases in many of the algorithms driving this technology.

• Department: Human Rights (HRTB)
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Widney Brown
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

THEORIZING EMOTIONS

Emotion has, over the course of history, from Achilles menis (anger) to our current politicians’ hubris (pride), been one of the greatest x-factors in historic, political, and personal turn of events. Emotion is often one of the most unaccountable elements in an individual’s decisionmaking process, and, at the same time, is a culturally conditioned response, exploited for commercial and moral ends. This course seeks to define emotion—attempting to understand how it is understood historically, culturally, and philosophically—and to contrast it with the similar (but significantly different) notion of affect. What is at stake in these two terms? How does it relate to an embodied singularity, to political collectives, and to representation in general? We will look at how feelings like wonder, shame, fear, elation, pride, longing, or boredom (to name a few)—become a means to shape engagement with the world and mark turning points for understanding queer and other identities that often lack cultural and/or economic recognition. Central to this course is an exploration of the theoretical underpininnings of emotion and affect so as to guage how and why affect/emotion matters. We will look at philosophical, religious, anthropological, psychoanalytic (and other) ways of discerning and quantifying these terms in order to better understand what is at stake in relation to subjectivity and political agency. This is, of course, an impossible task in the course of a semster; however, we will attempt to cover different fields and historical periods to get a sense of how they contribute to diversity of the present moment. The range of student interests will play a part in shaping/altering the syllabus over the course of the semester.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Patricia Dailey
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

Language & Society

Language is our primary means for influencing each other’s thoughts and attitudes. Sometimes, we use it to convey information explicitly, and to influence others directly.  But sometimes, language is used to convey information implicitly (e.g., in hints, sarcasm and irony), or to shape the opinions of others surreptitiously (e.g., in propaganda). How do these forms of communication work? What distinguishes them? What makes for their success or failure? In this course, we will critically examine some classic theories in the philosophy of language that try to answer these questions. Then, we will turn to recent work that rejects or extends these theories in response to careful examination of the ways in which language can be exploited as a means for manipulation and control.

• Department: Philosophy
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard J Booth
  Info
• 3 points

ARABIA IMAGINED DISC.

• Department: Anthropology
• T 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• W 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Aamer N Ibraheem
  Info
• Instructor: Saphe Shamoun
  Info
• 0 points

Introduction to Fashion Studies

Intro to Fashion Studies

This seminar examines the many meanings of fashion, design, and style; how values underlying fashion are selected, preserved, denied, reinvented or rethought; how the symbolic meanings and ideological interpretations are connected to creation, production and consumption of fashion goods. Based on an anthropological perspective and framework, this interdisciplinary course will analyze ways in which we can understand fashion through the intersections of many different levels: political, economic, aesthetic, symbolic, religious, etc. The course will study how fashion can help us understand the ways in which tradition and innovation, creativity and technology, localism and globalization, identity and diversity, power and body, are elaborated and interpreted in contemporary society, and in relation to a globalized world. Short videos that can be watched on the computer will be assigned. There are no pre-requisites for this course. In English.

• Department: Italian
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Barbara Faedda
  Info
• 3 points

CHINA'S FOREIGN RELATIONS

This course will review and analyze the foreign policy of the People's Republic of China from 1949 to the present. It will examine Beijing's relations with the Soviet Union, the United States, Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Third World during the Cold War, and will discuss Chinese foreign policy in light of the end of the Cold War, changes in the Chinese economy in the reform era, the post-Tiananmen legitimacy crisis in Beijing, and the continuing rise of Chinese power and influence in Asia and beyond. This lecture course will analyze the causes and consequences of Beijing’s foreign policies from 1949 to the present. Students must register for a mandatory discussion section.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Thomas J Christensen
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS SEMINAR II

Prerequisites: Must complete ANTH BC3871x. Limited to Barnard Senior Anthropology Majors. Offered every Spring. Discussion of research methods and planning and writing of a Senior Essay in Anthropology will accompany research on problems of interest to students, culminating in the writing of individual Senior Essays. The advisory system requires periodic consultation and discussion between the student and her adviser as well as the meeting of specific deadlines set by the department each semester.

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• None None-None
• 4 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

If a student wishes to pursue a research project or a course of study not offered by the department, he or she may apply for an Independent Study. Application: 1. cover sheet with signatures of the professor who will serve as the project sponsor and departmental administrator or director of undergraduate studies; 2. project description in 750 words, including any preliminary work in the field, such as a lecture course(s) or seminar(s); 3. bibliography of primary and secondary works to be read or consulted. Please visit the English and Comparative Literature Department website at http://english.columbia.edu/undergraduate/forms for the cover sheet form or see the administrator in 602 Philosophy Hall for the cover sheet form and to answer any other questions you may have.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• Instructor: David M Yerkes
  CULPA: 41 Info
• Instructor: Patricia Dailey
  CULPA: 8 Info
• Instructor: Molly Murray
  CULPA: 26 Info
• Instructor: Maura L Spiegel
  CULPA: 40 Info
• Instructor: Patricia Dailey
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 1-3 points

CHINA'S FOREIGN RELATIONS-DISC

This is the required discussion section for 
POLS UN3871.

• Department: Political Science
• M 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• M 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• T 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• T 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• W 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• W 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• R 8:10 a.m.-9 a.m.
• R 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• R 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• F 11:10 a.m.-noon
• F 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Kylan J Rutherford
  Info
• 0 points

LISTENINGS: AN ETHNOG OF SOUND

LISTENING: AN ETHNOG OF S

We explore the possibilities of an ethnography of sound through a range of listening encounters: in resonant urban soundscapes of the city and in natural soundscapes of acoustic ecology; from audible pasts and echoes of the present; through repetitive listening in the age of electronic reproduction, and mindful listening that retraces an uncanniness inherent in sound. Silence, noise, voice, chambers, reverberation, sound in its myriad manifestations and transmissions.  From the captured souls of Edison’s phonography, to everyday acoustical adventures, the course turns away from the screen and dominant epistemologies of the visual for an extended moment, and does so in pursuit of sonorous objects.  How is it that sound so moves us as we move within its world, and who or what then might the listening subject be?

• Department: Anthropology
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: John Pemberton
  CULPA: 15 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

The Doctrine of Discovery: Religion, Law

THE DOCTRINE OF DISCOVERY

How did European-Christians justify the colonization of the Americas? Did these justifications vary between different European empires, and between the Protestant and Catholic faiths, and if so, how? Do these justifications remain in effect in modern jurisprudence and ministries? This class explores these questions by introducing students to the Doctrine of Discovery. The Doctrine of Discovery is the defining legal rationale for European Colonization in the Western Hemisphere. The Doctrine has its origins in a body of ecclesiastic, legal, and philosophical texts dating to the late-fifteenth century, and was summarized by Chief Justice John Marshall of the United States Supreme Court, in the final, unanimous decision the judiciary issued on the 1823 case
Johnson v. M’Intosh.
Students will be introduced to the major, primary texts that make up the Doctrine, as well as contemporary critical studies of these texts and the Doctrine in general.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Timothy Vasko
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

THE BOMB

This course investigates the social history of nuclear arms in the context of World War II and the Cold War, exploring their ramifications for subjects and societies. We consider historical, ethnographic, medical and psychiatric accounts of the bomb’s invention and fallout, including the unknowable bodily injuries caused by radiation and the ecological contamination inflicted on indigenous communities where atomic weapons were tested. Throughout the course, we investigate government propaganda designed to produce political subjects who both endorse and fear nuclear imperatives; who support expanding militarization and funding for weapons development; and who abide escalating political rhetorics of nuclear aggression.

• Department: Anthropology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Karen Seeley
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 4 points

THE MONGOLS IN HISTORY

Study of the role of the Mongols in Eurasian history, focusing on the era of the Great Mongol Empire. The roles of Chinggis and Khubilai Khan and the modern fate of the Mongols to be considered.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Morris Rossabi
  CULPA: 12 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

UNDERGRAD RES IN APPLIED MATH

This course may be repeated for credit, but no more than 6 points of this course may be counted toward the satisfaction of the B.S. degree requirements. Candidates for the B.S. degree may conduct an investigation in applied mathematics or carry out a special project under the supervision of the staff. Credit for the course is contingent upon the submission of an acceptable thesis or final report.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Kui Ren
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Adam H Sobel
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Kyle Mandli
  h-index: 14 Info
• Instructor: Marc W Spiegelman
  CULPA: 15 Info
• Instructor: Qiang Du
  Wikipedia h-index: 67 Info
• Instructor: Michael K Tippett
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 43 Info
• 0-4 points

UNDERGRAD RESRCH-APPLD PHYSICS

This course may be repeated for credit, but no more than 6 points of this course may be counted toward the satisfaction of the B.S. degree requirements. Candidates for the B.S. degree may conduct an investigation in applied physics or carry out a special project under the supervision of the staff. Credit for the course is contingent upon the submission of an acceptable thesis or final report.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Irving P Herman
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia h-index: 50 Info
• Instructor: Michael E Mauel
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 0-4 points

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROJECT

Candidates for the B.S. degree may conduct an investigation of some problem in chemical engineering or applied chemistry or carry out a special project under the supervision of the staff. Credit for the course is contingent upon the submission of an acceptable thesis or final report. No more than 6 points in this course may be counted toward the satisfaction of the B.S. degree requirements.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• Instructor: Scott Banta
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 36 Info
• Instructor: Kyle Bishop
  h-index: 42 Info
• Instructor: Christopher M Boyce
  h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Jingguang Chen
  Wikipedia h-index: 89 Info
• Instructor: Christopher J Durning
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Daniel Esposito
  h-index: 22 Info
• Instructor: Oleg Gang
  h-index: 45 Info
• Instructor: Jingyue Ju
  h-index: 77 Info
• Instructor: Sanat Kumar
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 79 Info
• Instructor: Lauren E Marbella
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• Instructor: Vivian F McNeill
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• Instructor: Allie Obermeyer
  h-index: 16 Info
• Instructor: Ben O'Shaughnessy
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Ah-Hyung Alissa Park
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• Instructor: Mijo Simunovic
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Dan Steingart
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 36 Info
• Instructor: Alexander Urban
  h-index: 24 Info
• Instructor: Venkat Venkatasubramanian
  h-index: 58 Info
• Instructor: Alan West
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 48 Info
• 0-6 points

INDENPDENT RSCH NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION

Prerequisites: The written permission of the faculty member is required. Points: 1-4 The opportunity to conduct an independent research project in nuclear nonproliferation studies is open to all majors. A product and detailed report is presented by the student when the project is completed. Section 1: Emlyn Hughes Section 2: Ivana N. Hughes Section 3: Monica Rouco-Molina

• Department: Columbia College
• 1-4 points

INDENPDENT RSCH NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION

Prerequisites: The written permission of the faculty member is required. Points: 1-4 The opportunity to conduct an independent research project in nuclear nonproliferation studies is open to all majors. A product and detailed report is presented by the student when the project is completed. Section 1: Emlyn Hughes Section 2: Ivana N. Hughes Section 3: Monica Rouco-Molina

• Department: Columbia College
• Instructor: Ivana N Hughes
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 1-4 points

INTRO TO ICLS

Introduction to concepts and methods of comparative literature in cross-disciplinary and global context. Topics may include: oral, print, and visual culture; epic, novel, and nation; literature of travel, exile, and diaspora; sex and gender transformation; the human/inhuman; writing trauma; urban imaginaries; world literature; medical humanities. Open only to students who have applied for and declared a major in Comparative Literature and Society or Medical Humanities.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: David B Lurie
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 3 points

UNDERGRAD RES-ENVIRONMTL ENGIN

This course may be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 points of this course may be counted towards the satisfaction of the B. S. degree requirements. Candidates for the B.S. degree may conduct an investigation in Earth and Environmental Engineering, or carry out a special project under the supervision of EAEE faculty. Credit for the course is contingent on the submission of an acceptable thesis or final report. This course cannot substitute for the Undergraduate design project (EAEE E3999x or EAEE E3999y)

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• Instructor: Athanasios Bourtsalas
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• Instructor: Kartik Chandran
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 51 Info
• Instructor: Xi Chen
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia h-index: 64 Info
• Instructor: Robert Farrauto
  h-index: 52 Info
• Instructor: Raymond Farinato
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Vasilis Fthenakis
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 55 Info
• Instructor: Pierre Gentine
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 43 Info
• Instructor: Upmanu Lall
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 68 Info
• 0-3 points

UNDERGRAD RES-ENVIRONMTL ENGIN

This course may be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 points of this course may be counted towards the satisfaction of the B. S. degree requirements. Candidates for the B.S. degree may conduct an investigation in Earth and Environmental Engineering, or carry out a special project under the supervision of EAEE faculty. Credit for the course is contingent on the submission of an acceptable thesis or final report. This course cannot substitute for the Undergraduate design project (EAEE E3999x or EAEE E3999y)

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• Instructor: Wade McGillis
  h-index: 44 Info
• 0-3 points