QUANT PHYSIOLOGY II:ORGAN SYST

Students are introduced to a quantitative, engineering approach to cellular biology and mammalian physiology. Beginning with biological issues related to the cell, the course progresses to considerations of the major physiological systems of the human body (nervous, circulatory, respiratory, renal).

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Barclay Morrison
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 42 Info
• 3 points

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY RESOURCES

An engineering and economic analysis of past, present and future energy resources. Technological options and their role in the world energy markets. Understanding limits of energy and power density and its impact of resource adoption and feasibility. Comparison of  renewable and non-renewable energy resources and analysis of the consequences of various technological choices and constraints. Economic considerations, energy availability, and the environmental consequences of large-scale, widespread use of each particular technology. Critical analysis of carbon dioxide capture and carbon dioxide disposal as a means of sustaining the fossil fuel options in comparison to dramatic increase of electrified resources.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Dan Steingart
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 36 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED MECHANICS

Prerequisites: differential and integral calculus, differential equations, and PHYS UN3003 or the equivalent. Lagranges formulation of mechanics, calculus of variations and the Action Principle, Hamiltons formulation of mechanics, rigid body motion, Euler angles, continuum mechanics, introduction to chaotic dynamics.

• Department: Physics
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: James C Hill
  Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED STUDIO SEMESTER IV

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 5 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Ziad Jamaleddine
  Info
• 9 points

OPTIMIZATION MODELS AND METHODS

A graduate course only for MS&E, IE, and OR students. This is also required for students in the Undergraduate Advanced Track. For students who have not studied linear programming. Some of the main methods used in IEOR applications involving deterministic models: linear programming, the simplex method, nonlinear, integer and dynamic programming.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Donald Goldfarb
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 55 Info
• 3 points

COMPUTER GRAPHICS IN ENGIN

Prerequisites: Any programming language and linear algebra. Numerical and symbolic (algebraic) problem solving with Mathematica. Formulation for graphics application in civil, mechanical, and bioengineering. Example of two-and three-dimensional curve and surface objects in C++ and Mathematica; special projects of interest to electrical and computer science.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• F 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Gautam Dasgupta
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 19 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED STUDIO SEMESTER VI

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
• 9 points

FLD METHODS FOR ENVIRON ENGIN

Note: Not offered until further notice.
Prerequisites: (ENME E3161) or ENME E3161 or the equivalent or instructors permission Principles and methods for designing, building and testing systems to sense the environment. Monitoring the atmosphere, water bodies and boundary interfaces between the two. Sensor systems for monitoring heat and mass flows, chemicals, and biota. Measurements of velocity, temperature, flux and concentration in the field. The class will involve planning and execution of a study to sense a local environmental system.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Wade McGillis
  h-index: 44 Info
• 3 points

PROGRAMMING IN JAVA

• Department: School of Professional Studies (DVSP)
• WF 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Samuel Sultan
  Info
• 3 points

ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY

Prerequisites: MATH UN3007 A one semeser course covering the theory of modular forms, zeta functions, L -functions, and the Riemann hypothesis. Particular topics covered include the Riemann zeta function, the prime number theorem, Dirichlet characters, Dirichlet L-functions, Siegel zeros, prime number theorem for arithmetic progressions, SL (2, Z) and subgroups, quotients of the upper half-plane and cusps, modular forms, Fourier expansions of modular forms, Hecke operators, L-functions of modular forms.

• Department: Mathematics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Dorian Goldfeld
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Advanced Ukrainian Through Literature, M

ADVANCED UKRAINIAN

This course is organized around a number of thematic centers or modules. Each is focused on stylistic peculiarities typical of a given functional style of the Ukrainian language. Each is designed to assist the student in acquiring an active command of lexical, grammatical, discourse, and stylistic traits that distinguish one style from the others and actively using them in real-life communicative settings in contemporary Ukraine. The styles include literary fiction, scholarly prose, and journalism, both printed and broadcast

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Yuri Shevchuk
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

COMPUTATION DISCRETE OPT

Discrete optimization problems. Mathematical techniques and testing strengths and limits in practice on relevant applications. Transportation (travelling salesman and vehicle routing) and matching (online advertisement and school allocation) problems.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Eric Balkanski
  h-index: 13 Info
• 3 points

READINGS IN CLASSICAL JAPANESE

BUNGO II: from Heian to Meiji

Close readings of specific texts, as well as methods, skills, and tools.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Tomi Suzuki
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

Hegel: State, History, Freedom

This course is an advanced introduction to the reading of Hegel, via selections from his
Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, The Phenomenology of Spirit,
and
The Philosophy of Right.
The focus will be on Hegel’s philosophy of history, his understanding of modernity and its particular kind of freedom, and the way that he saw that freedom to be actualized in the modern state. Prerequisite: undergraduates ought to have finished the core curriculum and taken at least one other philosophy class; at least one of PHIL 2201, 2301, or 3251 is highly recommended.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Adam Leeds
  h-index: 2 Info
• 3 points

GIS-RES,ENVIR,INFRASTRUCTR MGT

Prerequisites: Instructors permission. Basic concepts of spatial data representation and organization, and analytical tools are introduced and applied in a form of case studies from hydrology, environmental conservation, and emergency response to natural or man-made hazards, among others. Technical content includes geographic topics (map projections, cartography, etc.), spatial statistics, database design and use, interpolation and visualization of spatial surfaces and volumes, and multi-criteria decision analysis. Students will learn the basics of ArcGIS Pro, Model Builder and Python. Elective term projects or final exams emphasize spatial information synthesis towards the solution of a specific problem.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• M 7:10 p.m.-8:25 p.m.
• MT 8:40 p.m.-9:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Yuri Gorokhovich
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

MATH METHODS IN CHEMICAL ENGIN

Prerequisites: (CHEN E3120) and (CHEN E4230) or equivalent, or instructors permission. Mathematical description of chemical engineering problems and the application of selected methods for their solution. General modeling principles, including model hierarchies. Linear and nonlinear ordinary differential equations and their systems, including those with variable coefficients. Partial differential equations in Cartesian and curvilinear coordinates for the solution of chemical engineering problems.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Venkat Venkatasubramanian
  h-index: 58 Info
• 3 points

Responsible Conduct of Research and Related Policy Issues

RESP COND OF RES/REL PLCY

This course explores a variety of ethical and policy issues that arise during the conduct of basic, translational, epidemiological, and clinical biomedical research. The course's philosophy is to facilitate and encourage students to engage with Columbia faculty members who can speak from their own experience on ethical questions that can arise during the conduct of scientific research. The goal of the course is to provide students, post-doctoral scientists and fellows, junior faculty, and other investigators with a knowledge base as well as practical advice on ethical and policy issues.

• Department: Cellular, Molecular, and Biophysical Studies
• 1 points

SELECTIONS FROM GREEK LIT

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

• Department: Classics
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Wolfgang R Mann
  CULPA: 36 Info
• 3 points

SELECTIONS FROM LATIN LITERATURE

SELECTNS FROM LATIN LIT-POETRY

Prerequisites: LATN UN3012 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.

• Department: Classics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Darcy Krasne
  h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

ORAL HISTORY WORKSHOP

This year-long course introduces students to important conversations within and about oral history through a series of curated public lectures. We will meet for six events a semester, plus one session to orient you to the class. From 5:00 – 6:00, students will meet with the speaker for an informal conversation about their career path and research process. The public portion of the event will be from 6:10 to 7:30 PM. You should plan to be in class until 8 in case an event runs slightly over, and so that you can stick around after the event to chat with the speaker or have a glass of wine.

• Department: Oral History
• R 5 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Carlin L Zia
  Info
• 1 points

PLANNING FOR URBAN ENERGY SYSTEMS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Peter J Marcotullio
  Info
• 3 points

Excel Fundamentals

This introductory course surveys fundamental Microsoft Excel concepts and functionality applicable to SIPA courses and in professional settings. Topics include understanding references and functions, writing formulas, interacting with spreadsheets, building basic models, controlling formatting and presentation and creating basic charts. The course is targeted at students with limited or no prior Excel experience. The course is open to SIPA students only. Note: A laptop is required for this course

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• US noon-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Kenyon S Saverance
  Info
• 0 points

BIG DATA IN TRANSPORTATION

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Xuan Di
  h-index: 15 Info
• 3 points

INDUS ECOLOGY OF MANUFACTURING

Prerequisites: (EAEE E4001) or instructor's permission. Application of industrial ecology to Design for Environment (DFE) of processes and products using environmental indices of resources consumption and pollution loads. Introduction of methodology for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of manufactured products. Analysis of several DFE and LCA case studies. Term project required on use of DFE/LCA on a specific product/process: (a) product design complete with materials and process selection, energy consumption, and waste loadings; (b) LCA of an existing industrial or consumer product using a commercially established method.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Athanasios Bourtsalas
  Info
• 3 points

MTHDS IN HLTH INFORMATION TECH

• Department: Biomedical Informatics
• F 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Virginia G Lorenzi
  Info
• 3 points

Advanced Techniques in Excel

Prerequisites: SIPA U4010 or equivalent experience This course explores skills needed for sophisticated spreadsheet development and problem solving in Microsoft Excel. Topics include implementing advanced logic using complex formulas, managing complexity with Excel's auditing features, leveraging lookup functions leveraging and calculated references, parsing and cleaning raw data, refining data structure, and constructing and leveraging PivotTables. The course does not focus on specific models or applications, but instead explores general concepts and techniques that can be flexibly applied to different solutions in Excel. The course is open to SIPA students only. Instructor approval is required: students will be waitlisted in SSOL and contacted by the instructor. Part of the Excel at SIPA course series. Deadline to drop this course is one week prior to the start date of the course. A notation of "W" will be assigned if requests to drop are not made by this deadline.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Kenyon S Saverance
  Info
• 0 points

HISTORY OF THE CITY IN LATIN AMERICA

This course covers the historical development of cities in Latin America. Readings examine the concentration of people in commercial and political centers from the beginnings of European colonization in the sixteenth century to the present day and will introduce contrasting approaches to the study of urban culture, politics, society, and the built environment. Central themes include the reciprocal relationships between growing urban areas and the countryside; cities as sites of imperial power and their post-colonial role in nation-building; changing power dynamics in modern Latin America, especially as they impacted the lives of cities’ nonelite majority populations; the legalities and politics of urban space; the complexity and historical development of urban segregation; the rise of informal economies; and the constant tension between tradition and progress through which urban societies have formed. Reading knowledge of Spanish and/or Portuguese will be helpful but is not required. Open to both undergraduate and graduate students; graduate students will be given additional reading and writing assignments.

• Department: History
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Amy E Chazkel
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

Best Practices for Financial Modeling in

Financial Modeling in Excel

This intensive one-day workshop develops financial modeling skills through the hands-on construction of an interactive financial model. Using a real company as a case study, the lectures will direct participants to blend accounting, corporate finance and Excel skills to create a dynamic, three-statement financial model. The completed product has five years of projections, three years of historical data and supporting schedules including working capital, debt, equity, depreciation and amortization. Other advanced topics include understanding and controlling circularity errors, troubleshooting, sensitivity analysis and discounted cash flow valuations.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• S 10:15 a.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Kenyon S Saverance
  Info
• 0 points

BIOLOGICAL SEQUENCE ANALYSIS

• Department: Biomedical Informatics
• W 9 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Richard A Friedman
  Info
• 3 points

BUSINESS CHINESE II

Prerequisites: two years of Chinese study at college level. This course is designed for students who have studied Chinese for two years at college level and are interested in business studies concerning China. It offers systematic descriptions of Chinese language used in business discourse. CC GS EN CE

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MTW 11:20 a.m.-12:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Zhong Qi Shi
  Info
• 4 points

FOURTH YEAR CHINESE II

This Level 4 Chinese language course emphasizes systematic development of lexical knowledge and the enhancement of reading and writing skills. Through an in-depth exploration of video clips, expository essays and short stories, students will expand their vocabulary, learn to analyze syntactically and semantically complicated texts, and develop their narrative and summary writing skills.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MTWR 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• MWR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jia Xu
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Ling Yan
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 4 points

HEALTH INFO TECHNOLOGY

SKILLS & MTHDS IN HIT

• Department: Biomedical Informatics
• F 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Virginia G Lorenzi
  Info
• 3 points

APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY

Typical experiments are in the areas of plasma physics, microwaves, laser applications, optical spectroscopy physics, and superconductivity.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Michael E Mauel
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 2 points

FOURTH YEAR CHINESE ADV II

Prerequisites: CHNS W4017 or the equivalent. This is a non-consecutive reading course designed for those whose proficiency is above 4th level. See Admission to Language Courses. Selections from contemporary Chinese authors in both traditional and simplified characters with attention to expository, journalistic, and literary styles.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MWF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Chen Wu
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 22 Info
• 4 points

FOURTH YEAR JAPANESE II

Prerequisites: JPNS W4017 or the equivalent. Sections 1 - 2: Readings of advanced modern literary, historical, political, and journalistic texts, and class discussions about current issues and videos. Exercises in scanning, comprehension, and English translation. Section 3: Designed for advanced students interested in developing skills for reading and comprehending modern Japanese scholarship.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MWF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Shigeru Eguchi
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 4 points

SOLID STATE PHYSICS

Prerequisites: PHYS GU4021 and PHYS GU4023 or the equivalent. Introduction to solid-state physics: crystal structures, properties of periodic lattices, electrons in metals, band structure, transport properties, semiconductors, magnetism, and superconductivity.

• Department: Physics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Aron Pinczuk
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

HISTORY OF CHINESE LANGUAGE

The evolution of the Chinese language. Topics include historical phonology, the Chinese script, the classical and literary languages, the standard language and major dialects, language and society, etc.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Zhirong Wang
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 4 points

BIOLOGICAL SEQUENCE ANALYSIS

• Department: Cellular, Molecular, and Biophysical Studies
• Instructor: Richard A Friedman
  Info
• 3 points

GRADUATE IMMUNOLOGY

Survey of the major topics in basic immunology with an emphasis on the molecular basis for immune recognition and regulation.

• Department: Microbiology
• TR 1:30 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Christian W Schindler
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

MOLECULR/CELL BIO OF NUTRIENTS

Second Term. Explores molecular and cellular mechanisms of nutrient action. Six major foci of modern nutritional science. These include the actions of nutrients in transcriptional regulation, in signaling pathways, on intra- and extracellular trafficking, in assuring normal development, in the maintance of antioxidant defences and nutrient/gene interations.

• Department: Human Nutrition, Institute of
• T 9 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Lori M Zeltser
  Info
• 3 points

MA THESIS: REG STUDIES

• Department: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
• F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Elise Giuliano
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 0-3 points

JAPANESE BUDDHIST VISUAL CULTR

This course explors the principal modes, media, and contexts of visual culture in Japanese Buddhist history. Through the analysis of selected case studies, the course examines of the modalities of perception, materiality, and reception that distinguish the form and function of visual media in Japanese Buddhist contexts. Students are expected to have completed preliminary coursework in relevant areas of East Asian history, religion, or art history.

• Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
• T noon-2 p.m.
• Instructor: David L Moerman
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 3 points

THE QUR'AN IN EUROPE

• Department: Italian
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Pier Mattia Tommasino
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

QUANTUM MECHANICS II

Prerequisites: PHYS GU4021. Formulation of quantum mechanics in terms of state vectors and linear operators, three-dimensional spherically symmetric potentials, the theory of angular momentum and spin, time-independent and time-dependent perturbation theory, scattering theory, and identical particles. Selected phenomena from atomic physics, nuclear physics, and elementary particle physics are described and then interpreted using quantum mechanical models.

• Department: Physics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: William A Zajc
  CULPA: 16 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ARCHITECTURAL DRWG & REP II

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Taeyoung Lee
  Info
• 3 points

Nationalism in Theory and History

Nationalism in Theory & H

Were nations always there? Are they real or imagined? Do they come before or after nationalism and the state? How did we pass from a world of empires, duchies, and city-states to a world of nation-states? Where does legitimacy reside if not in God and his endowed kings? Is the modern world really ‘disenchanted’? How did we come to understand time, space, language, religion, gender, race, and even our very selves in the era of nations? Are we done with this era, living already in postnational times?
This course will combine older theories of nationalism (Gellner, Anderson, Hobsbawm, Smith) with recent approaches of the phenomenon after the ‘Imperial/Global/Transnational Turn’ (Bayly, Conrad, Innes, Isabella, Reill, Stein etc.) and late studies in Gender, Race, Culture and Nationalism, in order to offer new answers to old questions. We will talk about many places around the world, but the main stage where we will try out our questions is Italy and the Mediterranean.

• Department: Italian
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Konstantia Zanou
  Info
• 3 points

PRINCIPLES OF DEVELOPMNTL BIOL

Required for first-year Genetics and Development students. Open to students from all departments, but students from outside the Genetics Department should consult the instructor before registering. The course emphasizes the molecular control of vertebrate embryogenesis. Divided into three main areas: early embryogenesis, developmental neurobiology, and the development and differentiation of specialized organs or lineages. A combination of faculty lectures and presentations by participating students.

• Department: Genetics and Development
• R 3 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

EUROPE'S COMMERICAL REVOLUTION

This course examines the profound changes wrought by the explosive growth of the European market economy during the late medieval and early modern centuries. Readings will be drawn both from theoretical literature examining the market and from studies documenting the practices of commercial people, the institutions that organized trade (guilds, merchant associations, law, and the nascent states of the period), and the cultural responses to commercial wealth.

• Department: History
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Martha C Howell
  CULPA: 8 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

CCCP ARCH COLLOQUIUM II

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Wasiuta
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

NEURAL NETWRKS & DEEP LEARNING

Prerequisites: (BMEB W4020) or (BMEE E4030) or (ECBM E4090) or (EECS E4750) or (COMS W4771) or equivalent. Developing features - internal representations of the world, artificial neural networks, classifying handwritten digits with logistics regression, feedforward deep networks, back propagation in multilayer perceptrons, regularization of deep or distributed models, optimization for training deep models, convolutional neural networks, recurrent and recursive neural networks, deep learning in speech and object recognition.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Zoran Kostic
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

NEURAL NETWRKS & DEEP LEARNING

Prerequisites: (BMEB W4020) or (BMEE E4030) or (ECBM E4090) or (EECS E4750) or (COMS W4771) or equivalent. Developing features - internal representations of the world, artificial neural networks, classifying handwritten digits with logistics regression, feedforward deep networks, back propagation in multilayer perceptrons, regularization of deep or distributed models, optimization for training deep models, convolutional neural networks, recurrent and recursive neural networks, deep learning in speech and object recognition.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Zoran Kostic
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

CLIM THERMODYN/ENERGY TRANSFER

Thermodynamics of atmospheric and oceanic processes fundamental to the climate system. Physical mechanisms of vertical energy transfer: surface fluxes, boundary layers and convection.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Adam H Sobel
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Professional Development

Building Professional Profile

Whether you’re in the early stages of your career or an experienced professional navigating a career change, pursuing your next position requires a compelling, marketable professional profile. This course will cover the essential strategies and tools you will need to present yourself effectively to prospective employers. Topics include career assessment and its value to your self-marketing tools; your “pitch” and why it’s critical to your candidacy; constructing a resume that’s right for your industry and experience; and the value of LinkedIn as a professional network. Like all Professional Development courses in 2020-2021, Building Your Professional Profile is a single-class course. Students may attend only the section for which they are registered. This course is a required component of the two-course (0.5 point, total) SIPA Professional Development requirement; the other component may be chosen from among a menu of four electives (see SIPA U4041 through SIPA U4044). Students should complete both components of the PD sequence in their first semester.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• F 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 0.2 points

CCCP THESIS II

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexandra L Quantrill
  Info
• 9 points

INTRO MODERN ALGEBRA I

Prerequisites: MATH UN1102 and MATH UN1202 and MATH UN2010 or the equivalent. The second term of this course may not be taken without the first. Groups, homomorphisms, normal subgroups, the isomorphism theorems, symmetric groups, group actions, the Sylow theorems, finitely generated abelian groups.

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Daniele Alessandrini
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 10 Info
• 3 points

INTRO MODERN ALGEBRA I

INTRO TO MODERN ALGEBRA I

Prerequisites: MATH UN1102 and MATH UN1202 and MATH UN2010 or the equivalent. The second term of this course may not be taken without the first. Groups, homomorphisms, normal subgroups, the isomorphism theorems, symmetric groups, group actions, the Sylow theorems, finitely generated abelian groups.

• Department: Auditing
• Instructor: Daniele Alessandrini
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 10 Info
• 0 points

Professional Development

Managing Intercultural Dynamic

In the contemporary workplace, teams are comprised of leaders and contributors from myriad cultural backgrounds. Each person’s way of viewing and being in the world shapes their approach to teamwork, leadership and interpersonal relations in general. This course examines the ways in which diverse experiences and perspectives are critical to the growth and productivity of teams and organizations. Participants will gain insight into unconscious biases and other impediments to teamwork in the workplace and learn interpersonal skills that foster effective collaboration, conflict management and productive team outcomes.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• 0.2 points

INTRO MODERN ALGEBRA II

Prerequisites: MATH UN1102 and MATH UN1202 and MATH UN2010 or the equivalent. The second term of this course may not be taken without the first. Rings, homomorphisms, ideals, integral and Euclidean domains, the division algorithm, principal ideal and unique factorization domains, fields, algebraic and transcendental extensions, splitting fields, finite fields, Galois theory.

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Inbar Klang
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 3 points

INTRO MODERN ALGEBRA II

INTRO TO MOD ALGEBRA II

Prerequisites: MATH UN1102 and MATH UN1202 and MATH UN2010 or the equivalent. The second term of this course may not be taken without the first. Rings, homomorphisms, ideals, integral and Euclidean domains, the division algorithm, principal ideal and unique factorization domains, fields, algebraic and transcendental extensions, splitting fields, finite fields, Galois theory.

• Department: Auditing
• Instructor: Inbar Klang
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 0 points

Professional Development

Effective Public Speaking

Common workplace interactions such as leading or contributing to meetings and delivering presentations are a critical component of professional life. Yet for many professionals, public speaking is highly stressful. This course will introduce you to public speaking skills that produce effective results, including how to structure, frame and organize a presentation and deliver it with impact. You will learn the key elements of an effective presentation, and how to communicate your message convincingly by analyzing your audience and determining its needs. Participants will have an opportunity to practice important verbal and non-verbal delivery techniques – and begin to overcome the fears of speaking up and speaking out.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• R 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• 0.2 points

Professional Development

Negotiation Skills in Workplac

Effective negotiation is a key skill for leaders and contributors at all professional levels, in organizations and workplaces around the world. This course is designed to promote understanding and build problem-solving skills that can lead to strength and competency in this vital activity of everyday work life. Participants will be able to define negotiation and articulate the key tension that exists in all negotiations; prepare for negotiations using a research-based framework; and articulate their strengths and weaknesses as negotiators, as well as ways they can improve negotiation outcomes.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 0.2 points

Professional Development

Networking for Career Advance

Workplace environments have always been bastions of operative professional relationships, explicit and tacit. Over the last 40 years research has demonstrated the value and benefits of networking, both in finding jobs and in career advancement within an organization. In this course, you will learn what networking is and isn’t; how to network effectively and respectfully; balancing the “getting” and “giving” aspects of networking; and an actionable framework for conducting effective networking meetings. Participants will have an opportunity to practice a mock networking meeting to build and refine relationship-building skill, and to increase confidence, comfort, and motivation.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• W 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• 0.2 points

The Trickster in the Modern Russian Lit

“Trickster” does not simply mean “deceiver” or “rogue” (the definition of trickster according to the Oxford Encyclopedic English Dictionary), but rather “creative idiot”, to use Lewis Hyde’s expression. This hero unites the qualities of characters who at first sight have little in common — the “selfish buffoon” and the “culture hero”; someone whose subversions and transgressions paradoxically amplify the culture-constructing effects of his (and most often it is a “he”) tricks. The trickster is a typical comic protagonist – it is enough to recollect Renard the Fox from the medieval Roman de Renard, Panurge from François Rabelais’ The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel, Cervantes’ Sanchо Panza, Beaumarchais’s Figaro, Gogol’s Khlestakov, Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, Yaroslav Hašek’s Švejk, Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp, Max Bialystock in Mel Brooks’ Producers, Bart Simpson and Borat (Sacha Baron Cohen), as well as Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert along with many other comical characters of the same genre – to confirm this self-evident thesis

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Leiderman
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• 3 points

Climate and Empire

Climate change destabilizes the ontic certainty of this world, time, and history. This course in MESAAS will introduce students to the literature on climate change and its relationship to ontology, religion, violence, politics, and gender. We will explore the resilience and limitations of various theoretical approaches as they relate to empirical cases. Students will become familiarized with important arguments that have been advanced to explain climate change in its more recent incarnations in the Middle East and Asia. How have different trajectories of understanding climate change led to different kinds of political cultures and governing institutions? Have some qualities of the “environment” or “climate” remained the same throughout history and across the globe? What is the role of colonialism in modern understandings of climate change?  The core of this course will seek to develop a mode of conceptualizing the present by rendering relevant geological time in addition to historical time, earth’s history in addition to world’s history. The course begins with the question of how the “climate” has been historically and ethnographically conceptualized in various intellectual trajectories of human sciences. We consider how religion is connected to environmental change, how the “human” and “non human” are conceptualized in various ontologies, and how religious norms and ethics enact environmental practices. We interrogate the everyday sociality of climate adaption and how climate conflict informs social, political, and environmental citizenship. The course concludes by contemplating the creative ways of being in this new world. We study the innovative forms of cosmopolitan neo-humanism (post- humanism) that emerge from the specter of environmental change.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Sonia Ahsan
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

ARCH ELECTIVE INTERNSHIP

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Leslie Kuo
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• 1.5 points

ELECTROPHYS OF HUM MEMORY * NAVIGATION

Human memory, including working, episodic, and procedural memory. Electrophysiology of cognition, noninvasive and invasive recordings. Neural basis of spatial navigation, with links to spatial and episodic memory. Computational models of memory, brain stimulation, lesion studies.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• M 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Joshua Jacobs
  Wikipedia h-index: 31 Info
• 3 points

PROGRM & DATA SCNC SKILLS

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Deren Eaton
  h-index: 15 Info
• 3 points

UP ELECT INTERNSHIP

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Emily L Junker
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• 1.5 points

US WATER & ENERGY POLICY

Course Summary: Water, one of humankind’s first power sources, remains critically important to the task of maintaining a sustainable energy supply, in the United States and elsewhere. Conversely, the need to provide safe drinking water and keep America’s rivers clean cannot be met without access to reliable energy supplies. As the impact of climate disruption and other resource constraints begins to mount, the water/energy nexus is growing increasingly complex and conflict-prone. Essential Connections begins by examining the development of America’s water and energy policies over the past century and how such policies helped to shape present-day environmental law and regulation. Our focus then turns to the current state of US water and energy resources and policy, covering issues such as oil and gas exploration, nuclear energy, hydroelectric power and renewables. We also examine questions of inclusion and equity in connection with the ways in which communities allocate their water and energy resources and burdens along racial, ethnic and socioeconomic lines. The third and final section of the course addresses the prospects for establishing water and energy policies that can withstand climate disruption, scarcity and, perhaps most importantly, America’s seemingly endless appetite for political dysfunction. By semester’s end, students will better understand the state of America’s energy and water supply systems and current efforts to cope with depletion, climate change and related threats affecting these critical, highly-interdependent systems. As a final project, students will utilize the knowledge gained during the semester to create specific proposals for preserving and enhancing the sustainability of US water and energy resources.

• Department: Earth Institute
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul A Gallay
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• 3 points

MOVEMENTS IN POLI CINEMA

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher Caes
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• 3 points

Post/Socialist Bodies

This upper-level online seminar examines the cultures and politics of the body in socialist and postsocialist countries. As we will engage with embodied aspects of living under post/socialism, we will treat bodies as sites of political contestation, as well as makers and breakers of cultural worlds. Drawing on anthropological and historical scholarship, we will explore several thematic clusters: corporeal anchors of post/socialist political regimes and ideological formations, variability and commonality of bodily regimes across different post/socialist contexts, and the effects of the creation and dissolution of the Soviet Union on the viability, mortality, and vibrancy of life. We will develop an understanding of post/socialism as a political reality populated by a wide diversity of bodies: laboring and idle, cared and uncared for, gendered and racialized, craving and satiated, disabled and enhanced, among others. This course offers an account on post/socialist idiosyncrasies of the medicalization, politicization, economization, and moralization of the body.

• Department: Anthropology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Svetlana Borodina
  h-index: 1 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR ESSAY

A substantial paper, developing from an Autumn workshop and continuing into the Spring under the direction of an individual adviser. Open only to Barnard senior philosophy majors.

• Department: Philosophy @Barnard
• Instructor: John Morrison
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 7 Info
• 3 points

INTRO MODERN ANALYSIS I

Prerequisites: MATH UN1202 or the equivalent, and MATH UN2010. The second term of this course may not be taken without the first. Real numbers, metric spaces, elements of general topology, sequences and series, continuity, differentiation, integration, uniform convergence, Ascoli-Arzela theorem, Stone-Weierstrass theorem.

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Hui Yu
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

INTRO MODERN ANALYSIS II

Prerequisites: MATH UN1202 or the equivalent, and MATH UN2010. The second term of this course may not be taken without the first. Power series, analytic functions, Implicit function theorem, Fubini theorem, change of variables formula, Lebesgue measure and integration, function spaces.

• Department: Mathematics
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Henri P Roesch
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

POINTS UNKNOWN

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• 3 points

THE UNIVERSITY IN AMER LIFE

• Department: Sociology
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Jonathan Cole
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 34 Info
• 3 points

Computing with Brain Circuits of Model O

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• M 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Aurel A Lazar
  h-index: 53 Info
• 3 points

INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: (CHEM UN1403 and CHEM UN1404) or (CHEM UN1604) or (CHEM UN2045 and CHEM UN2046) , or the equivalent. Principles governing the structure and reactivity of inorganic compounds surveyed from experimental and theoretical viewpoints. Topics include inorganic solids, aqueous and nonaqueous solutions, the chemistry of selected main group elements, transition metal chemistry, metal clusters, metal carbonyls, and organometallic chemistry, bonding and resonance, symmetry and molecular orbitals, and spectroscopy.

• Department: Chemistry
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan S Owen
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 40 Info
• 4.5 points

ORAL HISTORY INTERNSHIP

• Department: Oral History
• R 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Amy A Starecheski
  h-index: 5 Info
• 2-4 points

TOPICS IN THE BLACK EXPERIENCE

Critical Race Theory

Please refer to Institute for African American and African Diaspora Studies Department for section-by-section course descriptions.

• Department: African American and African Diaspora
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Vivaldi Jean-Marie
  Info
• 4 points

HP ELECT INTERNSHIP

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Meredith A Brull
  Info
• 1.5 points

ANCIENT AND MODERN RNA WORLDS

THE ANCIENT AND MODERN RN

RNA has recently taken center stage with the discovery that RNA molecules sculpt the landscape and information contained within our genomes. Furthermore, some ancient RNA molecules combine the roles of both genotype and phenotype into a single molecule. These multi-tasking RNAs offering a possible solution to the paradox of which came first: DNA or proteins. This seminar explores the link between modern RNA, metabolism, and insights into a prebiotic RNA world that existed some 3.8 billion years ago. Topics include the origin of life, replication, and the origin of the genetic code; conventional, new, and bizarre forms of RNA processing; structure, function and evolution of key RNA molecules, including the ribosome, and RNA therapeutics including vaccines. The format will be weekly seminar discussions with presentations. Readings will be taken from the primary literature, emphasizing seminal and recent literature. Requirements will be student presentations, class participation, and a final paper.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Laura Landweber
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

PLATO

The course offers an advanced introduction to key themes in Plato’s philosophy. It is open to undergraduate and graduate students and does not presuppose prior study of Plato. At the end of the semester, students will have the tools and preparation to think independently and critically about Plato’s philosophy.   Beyond the study of Plato, the course teaches students crucial skills in the history of philosophy, such as the careful reconstruction of arguments, attention to concepts that may not be familiar today, critical discussion of philosophical proposals that were formulated in a foreign language and conceptual scheme, and an awareness of the range of different modes of inquiry and philosophical writing.   The class covers three texts that, according to standard relative chronology of Plato’s dialogues, are considered “early”—the
Protagoras
—“middle”—the
Phaedo
—and “late”—the
Sophist
. We focus on themes where Plato’s arguments and proposals have lasting influence: virtue, the soul, perception, pleasure and pain, the Forms, being and becoming, and truth and falsity.   The
Protagoras
introduces themes that we pursue throughout the semester. What is the soul? How does one become a good person? What is the role of pleasure and pain in a well-lived human life? In the
Protagoras
, Socrates advances a famous proposal, the so-called unity of the virtues: for someone to have one virtue such as justice or courage, she needs to have all the virtues. The question of how one becomes a good person involves a key distinction in Plato’s metaphysics between being and becoming. Presumably, we can only
become
good, but we can never
be
good.   The
Phaedo
examines four arguments for the soul’s immortality. None of these arguments is presented as conclusive. And yet, Socrates trusts that the soul is immortal and this commitment informs his stance toward his own death. This theme is personal for Socrates, who is awaiting his death penalty. But it involves perennial questions in metaphysics and the philosophy of mind. What is the relation between body and soul? Are perception, pleasure, and pain bodily? Is our own mind the cause of our actions? What, if anything, is the role of mind—
nous
—in the cosmos? And what is the role of the famous “Forms”?   Plato’s
Sophist
belongs to a group o

• Department: Philosophy
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Katja Vogt
  CULPA: 36 Info
• 3 points

INTRO-DIFFERENTIABLE MANIFOLDS

Prerequisites: (MATH GU4051 or MATH GU4061) and MATH UN2010 Concept of a differentiable manifold. Tangent spaces and vector fields. The inverse function theorem. Transversality and Sards theorem. Intersection theory. Orientations. Poincare-Hopf theorem. Differential forms and Stokes theorem.

• Department: Mathematics @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Dusa McDuff
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

GEODYNAMICS

An introduction to how the Earth and planets work. The focus is on physical processes that control plate tectonics and the evolution of planetary interiors and surfaces; analytical descriptions of these processes; weekly physical model demonstrations.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: W R Buck
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 43 Info
• 3 points

ETHNOBOTANY

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

Accountability in Humanitarian Assistanc

Account-Humanitarian Assistnce

Prerequisites: Undergraduate students are not permitted to register this course This short course will explore the concept of accountability within humanitarian intervention. In particular it will look at the contemporary significance of accountability for humanitarian response – when and why it has become an important concept for humanitarian intervention, and specific events that have led to a shift from donors to recipients of aid as the agents of accountability and how it is being implemented in the field. Key questions that will be explored include: To whom are humanitarian agencies accountable? What are the competing accountabilities and how do these influence program decisions and agency performance? Why is accountability to affected people important during a humanitarian response? Aside from ideological views, why should the humanitarian sector be concerned with accountability to affected people? What are its end goals? What does an effective accountability mechanism look like? How do agencies implement it? Do these work? In what contexts? How is their effectiveness being measured? By whom? Through an exploration of case studies from the field (including 2005 South East Asian tsunami, Pakistan earthquake and flood response, Haiti earthquake, European Migration of 2015/2016), a mix of lecture, group exercise, video presentation, the course will address the above questions. Guest speakers will be brought in to discuss the issues with those who are grappling with the accountability debates in the field.

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• F 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Jessica B Alexander
  Info
• 1 points

INTRODUCTION TO OLD ENGLISH & LITERATURE

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: David M Yerkes
  CULPA: 41 Info
• 4 points

DANTE'S DIVINA COMMEDIA 2

• Department: Italian
• TR 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Teodolinda Barolini
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

DANTE'S DIVINA COMMEDIA 2

• Department: Italian
• TR 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Teodolinda Barolini
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

ITALIAN REN ROMANCE EPIC II

• Department: Italian
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Jo Ann Cavallo
  CULPA: 13 Info
• 3 points