DISC - The Romans and Their World

DISC-Romans and Their Wor

DISCUSSION SECTION for HIST UN 1020 The Romans and their World.

• Department: History
• F 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• F 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Sailakshmi Ramgopal
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 0 points

THE MODERN CLARINETIST

• Department: Juilliard
• 1-5 points

Science of Psychology: Explorations and

Science of Psych: Expl &

UN1021 offers a broad introductory survey of psychological science, discussing relations between the brain, behavior, and experience, with regard to topics including: sensation and perception; learning, memory, language, and cognition; emotions and motivation; development, personality, health and well-being, and social behavior. The course emphasizes science as a process of discovering both new ideas and new empirical results -- and the ways in which psychological research can be used to address real-world challenges.

• Department: Psychology
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Caroline B Marvin
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

OBOE CLASS

• Department: Juilliard
• 1-5 points

BETTY CARTER ENSEMBLE

• Department: Juilliard
• 1-5 points

SCIENCE AND SCIENTISTS

Weekly meetings with researchers from Barnard, Columbia, and other guests to discuss the nature of scientific inquiry in psychology; and intellectual, professional, and personal issues in the work of scientists.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Koleen McCrink
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 17 Info
• 1 points

FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE-DISC

Corequisites: SCNC CC1000 Accompanying discussion section for SCNC C1000 Frontiers of Science.

• Department: Core (A&S)
• T 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• W 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Statia H Luszcz-Cook
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• 0 points

THE SOCIAL WORLD - DISC

• Department: Sociology
• T 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• W 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Dominic T Walker
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• Instructor: Eugene Grey
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• Instructor: Jordan J Brensinger
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• Instructor: Larry Au
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• Instructor: Monika Yadav
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• Instructor: Flavien Ganter
  h-index: 2 Info
• Instructor: Jiyeon Chang
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• 0 points

BEGINNING FICTION WORKSHOP

Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT required. The beginning workshop in fiction is designed for students with little or no experience writing literary texts in fiction. Students are introduced to a range of technical and imaginative concerns through exercises and discussions, and they eventually produce their own writing for the critical analysis of the class. The focus of the course is on the rudiments of voice, character, setting, point of view, plot, and lyrical use of language. Students will begin to develop the critical skills that will allow them to read like writers and understand, on a technical level, how accomplished creative writing is produced. Outside readings of a wide range of fiction supplement and inform the exercises and longer written projects.

• Department: Writing
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Victor P Allard
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• Instructor: Samantha N Barron
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• Instructor: John A Boyle
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• Instructor: Julia D Cannon
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• Instructor: Sarah Y Klena
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• Instructor: Shalvi J Shah
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• 3 points

ELEMENTARY FRENCH I

The aim of the beginning French sequence (French 1101 and French 1102) is to help you to develop an active command of the language. Emphasis is placed on acquiring the four language skills--listening, speaking, reading and writing--within a cultural context, in order to achieve basic communicative proficiency.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• TRF 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• MTWR 8:50 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• MTWR 10:10 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
• TRF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• MWR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• MWF 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeanne Devautour
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• Instructor: Samuel Skippon
  CULPA: 13 Info
• 4 points

FROM WYFMAN TO WOMXN: WHAT IS A WOMAN?

In our class conversations, we will analyze and interrogate the representation of "woman" as seen in a set of significant literary texts, beginning with a deconstruction of the often polarized, reductive ways in which she has been imagined in our literary history. Our readings of our texts will trouble and reinvent these traditional dichotomies that essentialize and marginalize women and expose how what are often affirmed as transhistorical notions are constructed and ideological. Together we will explore a more diversified range of intellectual and experiential possibilities for "womxn" with an "x," while also learning how literature and theory can help us re-constitute and complicate received notions about gender, race, femininity, masculinity, and sexuality. Topics will include reproductive power and the body, maternity, courtship, literacy and voice, consent, and bodily autonomy.

• Department: First-Year Writing @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth C Auran
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 3 points

ELEMENTARY GERMAN I

Upon completion of the course, students understand, speak, read, and write German at a level enabling them to communicate with native speakers about their background, family, daily activities, student life, work, and living quarters. Daily assignments and laboratory work.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• TRF 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• MWR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• MWR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Isabelle D Egger
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• Instructor: Jutta Schmiers-Heller
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 4 points

ELEMENTARY GREEK I

For students who have never studied Greek. An intensive study of grammar with reading and writing of simple Attic prose.

• Department: Classics
• MWF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Giovanni Lovisetto
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• 4 points

ELEMENTARY IRISH I

This course introduces students to the rudiments of the Irish language, including phonemes and pronunciation, syntactical structure, and verbal conjugations. In addition, a history of the language is provided, as well as a general introduction to Irish culture, including discussions of family and place names. Students are encouraged to begin speaking with basic sentence structures, eventually expanding into more complex verbal conjugations while concentrating on idiomatic expressions. The accumulation of vocabulary is stressed and students are introduced to basic literature in Irish while developing beginning conversational fluency.

• Department: Language Resource Center
• TR 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• 4 points

ELEMENTARY ITALIAN I

Elementary level of Italian.

• Department: Italian
• TRF 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• TR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Angelica Modabber
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• Instructor: Federica Franze
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

ELEMENTARY HAITIAN KREYOL I

This course introduces students to the language of Haitian Kreyòl, also called Creole, and is intended for students with little or no prior knowledge of the language. Haitian Kreyòl is spoken by Haiti’s population of nine million and by about one million Haitians in the U.S. Including over 190,000 in the New York City area. In fact, New York City has the second largest population of Kreyòl Speakers after Port--au--Prince, Haiti’s capital. Through this course, you will develop introductory speaking, reading, and writing skills. We use a communicative approach, balanced with grammatical and phonetic techniques. Classroom and textbook materials are complemented by work with film, radio, and especially music (konpa, rasin, twoubadou, rap, raga, levanjil, vodou tradisyonèl, etc.), as well as with visits to city museums and institutions related to Haiti. Note: This course is part of the language exchange program with New York University (NYU). Classes will be held at NYU.

• Department: Language Resource Center
• MWF 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• 4 points

ELEMENTARY LATIN I

For students who have never studied Latin. An intensive study of grammar with reading of simple prose and poetry.

• Department: Classics
• TR 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Caitlin S Morgan
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• 4 points

CALCULUS I

Prerequisites: (see Courses for First-Year Students). Functions, limits, derivatives, introduction to integrals, or an understanding of pre-calculus will be assumed. (SC)

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Sayan Das
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• Instructor: Kevin J Smith
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• Instructor: Panagiota Daskalopoulos
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: George Dragomir
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Tobias Schaefer
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• Instructor: Sayan Das
  h-index: 2 Info
• 3 points

POLITICAL THEORY

This course considers key questions at the foundation of political thought.  What is justice?  How do we justify the coercive power of states? Do we have an obligation to obey the government? Who should make and enforce the law?  What basic rights and liberties should governments protect? How should our economic system produce and divide wealth and material resources?  What are the claims of excluded or marginalized groups and how can these claims be addressed?   We explore these questions through the works of several classical and contemporary political thinkers.  A major goal of the course is to practice the skills needed to understand a political thinker’s arguments and to construct one’s own.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Ayten Gundogdu
  CULPA: 20 h-index: 8 Info
• 4 points

ELEMENTARY PORTUGUESE I

A beginning course designed for students who wish to start their study of Portuguese and have no proficiency in another Romance language. The four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing are developed at the basic level.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• MWR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Tulio H Bucchioni
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• 4 points

STATISTICS LECTURE AND RECITATION

STATISTICS LECTURE&RECITATION

Prerequisite (or co-requisite): PSYC BC1001. Lecture course and associated recitation section introducing students to statistics and its applications to psychological research. The course covers basic theory, conceptual underpinnings, and common statistics. The following Columbia University courses are considered overlapping and a student cannot receive credit for both the BC course and the equivalent CU course: PSYC UN1001 Introduction to Statistical Reasoning; PSYC UN1101 Introduction to Statistics; PSYC UN1201 Introduction to Statistics.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Doris C Zahner
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 4 points

ELEMENTARY QUECHUA I

Quechua is the most important and most widely-distributed indigenous language in South America, with over 10 million speakers living from the high mountains to the tropical lowlands in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. Those who speak it call the language runa simi or runa shimi, human speech. It was the principal language of the Inca empire and the key language of cultural interaction during the colonial era. Quechua has remained central to indigenous peoples efforts to preserve their cultural autonomy. It has gained greater force in recent years, during which indigenous movements have swept Quechua speakers into national politics, where they have succeeded in transforming constitutions to recognize cultural diversity, making Quechua an official language of state, and successfully promoting schooling in the language. Students who satisfactorily complete Elementary Quechua I and II will be well-prepared for intensive summer study at one of many summer study abroad programs in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia that will put them in closer contact with the indigenous world.

• Department: Language Resource Center
• MTR 9:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
• Instructor: Stephane A Charitos
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

ELEMENTARY SPANISH I

Prerequisites: a score of 0-279 in the departments Placement Examination. An introduction to Spanish communicative competence, with stress on basic oral interaction, reading, witting, and cultural knowledge. Principal objectives are to understand and produce commonly used sentences to satisfy immediate needs; ask and answer questions about personal details such as where we live, people we know and things we have; interact in a simple manner with people who speak clearly, slowly and are ready to cooperate; and understand simple and short written and audiovisual texts in Spanish. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• MWF 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• MWF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MWF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• TRF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TRF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• TRF 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• TRF 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• TRF 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• MWR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• MWR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Irene Alonso-Aparicio
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• 4 points

INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS

Prerequisites: intermediate high school algebra. Designed for students in fields that emphasize quantitative methods. Graphical and numerical summaries, probability, theory of sampling distributions, linear regression, analysis of variance, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing. Quantitative reasoning and data analysis. Practical experience with statistical software. Illustrations are taken from a variety of fields. Data-collection/analysis project with emphasis on study designs is part of the coursework requirement.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Banu Baydil
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

ELEMENTARY AKKADIAN II

Introduction to cuneiform script and to the Akkadian language, with emphasis on grammatical structure.

• Department: Language Resource Center
• M 11 a.m.-1:45 p.m.
• 4 points

ELEMENTARY ARAMAIC II

• Department: Language Resource Center
• T 5 p.m.-7:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Stephane A Charitos
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

ELEM BOSNIAN/CROATIAN/SERBIAN

Essentials of the spoken and written language. Prepares students to read texts of moderate difficulty by the end of the first year.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MWF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Aleksandar Boskovic
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

ELEMENTARY BENGALI II

Introductory courses to Bengali, a major language of northeast India and Bangladesh.

• Department: Language Resource Center
• TR 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Dwijen Bhattacharjya
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

ELEMENTARY CANTONESE II

This course introduces students to both the spoken and written Cantonese language, with achieving conversational proficiency being a primary goal. The course emphasizes oral expressions, listening comprehension, and grammar. It is designed to give beginning students a practical command of the language. Upon completion of the course, students can expect to converse in simple sentences, and recognize and write about 350 Chinese characters. Students with passable conversation ability or native speakers from Cantonese-speaking communities should not enroll in this course. Note: This course is part of the language exchange program with New York University (NYU). Classes will be held at NYU.

• Department: Language Resource Center
• MW 9:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• 4 points

FIRST YEAR CHINESE II

The course is designed to develop basic skills in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing modern colloquial Chinese. Standard Chinese pronunciation, traditional characters. Students who can already speak Mandarin will not be accepted into this course. Section subject to cancellation if under-enrolled. CC GS EN CE

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MTWR 1:10 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
• MTWR 10:10 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
• MTWR 11:40 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
• MTWR 2:40 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
• MTWR 4:10 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Chen Wu
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 22 Info
• Instructor: Liping Liu
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Lingjun Hu
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Yike Li
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• Instructor: Ling Yan
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 5 points

CONTEMP WESTRN CIVILIZATION II

Taught by members of the Departments of Anthropology, Classics, English and Comparative Literature, French, German, History, Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Philosophy, Political Science, Religion, Slavic Languages, and Sociology; and members of the Society of Fellows. A study in their historical context of major contributions to the intellectual traditions that underpin contemporary civilization. Emphasis is on the history of political, social, and philosophical thought. Students are expected to write at least three papers to complete two examinations, and to participate actively in class discussions.

• Department: Core (A&S)
• MW 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Ibrahim K El Houdaiby
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• Instructor: Aaron Plasek
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• 4 points