CRIT APPRO-STUDY OF ETH & RACE

This course provides an introduction to central approaches and concepts animating the investigation of race and ethnicity. We will not treat either of these categories of difference as a given, nor as separable from other axes of social difference. Rather, we will apply an interdisciplinary and intersectional framework to illuminate how these concepts have come to emerge and cohere within a number of familiar and less familiar socio-cultural and historical contexts. We will consider how racial and ethnic differentiation as fraught but powerful processes have bolstered global labor regimes and imperial expansion projects; parsed, managed, and regulated populations; governed sexed and gendered logics of subject and social formation; and finally, opened and constrained axes of self-understanding, political organization, and social belonging. Special attention will be given to broadening students understanding of racial and ethnic differentiation beyond examinations of identity. Taken together, theoretical and empirical readings, discussions, and outside film screenings will prepare students for further coursework in race and ethnic studies, as well as fields such as literary studies, women’s studies, history, sociology, and anthropology.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Shana Redmond
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• 3 points

WOMEN AND HEALTH

Combines critical feminist and anti-racist analyses of medicine with current research in epidemiology and biomedicine to understand health and health disparities as co-produced by social systems and biology.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Rebecca Jordan-Young
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• 3 points

INTRO-EARLY MID AGES: 250-1050

• Department: History
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Adam C Matthews
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• 4 points

DISC - INTRO-EARLY MID AGES: 250-1050

DISC-INTRO EARLY MID AGES

Required discussion for lecture HIST UN1061 (INTRO-EARLY MID AGES: 250-1050)

• Department: History
• Instructor: Adam C Matthews
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• 0 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 10:10 a.m.-noon
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Klejda Bega
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• Instructor: Manette Sandor
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 7 Info
• Instructor: Klejda Bega
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• Instructor: Elisaveta P Petkova
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• Instructor: Manette Sandor
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 7 Info
• Instructor: Elisaveta P Petkova
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• Instructor: Orit Karni-Schmidt
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• Instructor: Marika S Yip-Bannicq
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• Instructor: Thomas Rice
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• Instructor: Debora Monego
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 7 Info
• Instructor: Kristen Rahilly
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• Instructor: Tugce Bilgin Sonay
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• Instructor: Vincent D Fitzpatrick
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• Instructor: Statia H Luszcz-Cook
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• Instructor: Nicholas A Bock
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• Instructor: Orit Karni-Schmidt
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• Instructor: Marika S Yip-Bannicq
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• Instructor: Statia H Luszcz-Cook
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• Instructor: Thomas Rice
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• Instructor: Tugce Bilgin Sonay
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• Instructor: Nicholas A Bock
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• Instructor: Vincent D Fitzpatrick
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• Instructor: Debora Monego
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 7 Info
• Instructor: Kristen Rahilly
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• Instructor: David Timerman
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• Instructor: Caleb Scharf
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• 0 points

THE SOCIAL WORLD - DISC

• Department: Sociology
• W 11 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• R noon-12:50 p.m.
• W 11 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• R 9 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
• W 4 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
• R 9 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
• T 8 a.m.-8:50 a.m.
• T 11 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• 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
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Melanie H Broder
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• Instructor: Patrick D Ford-Matz
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• Instructor: Laura V Green
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• Instructor: Kimberly Y Liu
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• Instructor: Abhigna R Mooraka
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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
• MTWR 8:50 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• TRF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MTWR 11:40 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
• MTWR 1:10 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
• TRF 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TRF 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Bryan Pirolli
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• Instructor: Iziar de Miguel Arabaolaza
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• Instructor: Eric T Matheis
  CULPA: 4 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 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth C Auran
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• 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. Emphasis is placed on acquiring the four language skills--listening, speaking, reading and writing--within a cultural context. Daily assignments and consistent work are necessary in order to achieve basic communicative proficiency. Daily assignments and consistent work are the basis for achieving basic communicative proficiency.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• TRF 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• MTR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• TR 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Silja Weber
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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

Same course as ITAL V1101-V1102.

• Department: Italian
• MWR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• MWR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MWR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• TR 10:10 a.m.-noon
• MW 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Felice Beneduce
  CULPA: 7 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 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicholas Koudounis
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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 @Barnard
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Lindsay C Piechnik
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

POLITICAL THEORY I

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
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Luke S Macinnis
  CULPA: 7 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 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ana P Huback
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 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: STAT UN1001 Introduction to Statistical Reasoning; STAT UN1101 Introduction to Statistics; STAT UN1201 Introduction to Statistics.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Brotherton
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• 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
• TRF 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
• TRF 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• TRF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TRF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Irene Alonso-Aparicio
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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
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ha Nguyen
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: David A Rios
  CULPA: 16 Info
• Instructor: Cristian G Pasarica
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ELEMENTARY YIDDISH I

This course offers an introduction to the language that has been spoken by the Ashkenazi Jews for more than a millennium, and an opportunity to discover a fabulous world of Yiddish literature, language and culture in a fun way. Using games, new media, and music, we will learn how to speak, read, listen and write in a language that is considered one of the richest languages in the world (in some aspects of vocabulary). We will also venture outside the classroom to explore the Yiddish world today: through field trips to Yiddish theater, Yiddish-speaking neighborhoods, Yiddish organizations, such as YIVO or Yiddish farm, and so on. We will also have Yiddish-speaking guests and do a few digital projects. At the end of the two-semester course, you will be able to converse in Yiddish on a variety of everyday topics and read most Yiddish literary and non-literary texts. Welcome to Yiddishland!

• Department: Germanic Languages
• TR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Agnieszka Legutko
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 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.
• TR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Dwijen Bhattacharjya
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• 4 points

ELEMENTARY BURMESE II

This course is the second part of the Elementary Burmese level and aims to train students to achieve basic skills in Burmese. In this course student will continue to develop their competency in reading and writing the Burmese script. Students will also continue to practice basic spoken Burmese.

• Department: Language Resource Center
• MTWR 4:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• 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
• MTWR 12:30 p.m.-1:45 p.m.
• MTWR 2 p.m.-3:15 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 8:50 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Ling Yan
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 5 points