CONTMP ISLAMIC CIVILIZATN-DISC

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• W 11:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Navid Zarrinnal
  Info
• 0 points

COMPREHENSIVE INTERMED PORT

Prerequisites:
PORT W1102
or
PORT W1320
.
Prerequisites: this course is an intensive and fast-paced coverage of both PORT UN2101 and PORT UN2102. Students MUST demonstrate a strong foundation in Portuguese and meet the following REQUIREMENT: A- or higher in PORT UN1102 or PORT UN1320. If you fulfill the above requirement, you do not need the instructor's permission to register. HOWEVER the instructor will additionally assess student proficiency during the Change of Program Period. Students who do not have the necessary proficiency level may not remain in this course. This course replaces the sequence PORT UN2101-PORT UN2102.

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• TRF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Joao Nemi Neto
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

COMPREHENSIVE INTER SPANISH

Prerequisites: Please see course description for detailed prerequisite requirements.
Prerequisites: This course is an intensive and fast-paced coverage of both SPAN UN2101 and SPAN UN2102. Students MUST demonstrate a strong foundation in Spanish and meet the following REQUIREMENTS: a score ABOVE 480 on the Department's Placement Examination; or A- or higher in SPAN UN1120. If you fulfill the above requirements, you do not need the instructor's permission to register. HOWEVER, the instructor will additionally assess student proficiency during the Change of Program Period. Students who do not have the necessary proficiency level may not remain in this course. Replaces the sequence SPAN UN2101-SPAN UN2102. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• TRF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• TRF 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Perla Rozencvaig
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 4 points

INTERMED CONVERSATN FRENCH I

We will be working on pronunciation, vocabulary acquisition, listening comprehension, and oral expression. Activities will include listening comprehension exercises, skits, debates, and oral presentations, as well as discussions of films, songs, short films, plays, news, articles, short stories or other short written documents. Although 
grammar
 will not be the focus of the course, some exercises will occasionally aim at 
reviewing
 particular points. 
The themes and topics covered will be chosen according to students’ interests.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicolae A Virastau
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 1 Info
• Instructor: Eric T Matheis
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 2 points

INTENSIVE INTERMEDIATE ITALIAN

Prerequisites:
ITAL V1102
or the equivalent, with a grade of B+ or higher.
An intensive course that covers two semesters of intermediate Italian in one, and prepares students for advanced language and literature study. Grammar, reading, writing, and conversation. Exploration of literary and cultural materials. This course may be used to fulfill the language requirement if preceded by both V1101 and V1102. Students who wish to use this course for the language requirement, and previously took Intensive Elementary, are also required to take at least one of the following: ITAL V3333, V3334, V3335, or V3336, for a total of three (3) semesters of Italian Language.

• Department: Italian
• TRF 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Maria Luisa Gozzi
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 6 points

INTERMED CONVERSATN FRENCH II

We will be working on pronunciation, vocabulary, listening comprehension, and oral expression. Activities will include listening comprehension exercises, skits, debates, and oral presentations, as well as discussions of films, songs, short films, news, articles, short stories or other short written documents. Although grammar will not be the focus of the course, some exercises will occasionally aim at reviewing particular points.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Sophie Queuniet
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Aurelie Chatton
  Info
• 2 points

ACCELERATED INTER GERMAN I-II

Prerequisites: GERM UN1102 Elementary II
Accelerated language study as preparation for Study Abroad in Berlin.

• Department: German @Barnard
• MTWR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Irene Motyl
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 8 points

BALLET III

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Kathryn Sullivan
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 0-1 points

BALLET IV

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• F 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Marjorie Folkman
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Kate A Glasner
  CULPA: 31 Info
• 0-1 points

CRITICAL APPROACHES

Introduction to key concepts from social theory as they are appropriated in critical studies of gender, race, sexuality, class and nation. We will explore how these concepts are taken up from different perspectives to address particular social problems, and the effects of these appropriations in the world.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexander Pittman
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY

Prerequisites: BC1001. Enrollment limited to 70 students. Final enrollment determined on the first day of class.
An introduction to the study of abnormal behavior and various psychological disorders such as depression, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, and personality disorders. The course broadly reviews scientific and cultural perspectives on abnormal behavior with an emphasis on clinical descriptions and diagnosis, etiology, treatment, and research methods.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Sumati Gupta
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

POINTE: INTERMED TO ADVANCED

Prerequisites: DNCE BC2137 or permission of department.
Focuses on developing strength and refinement that is specific to pointe work for the intermediate and advanced ballet dancer.  Permission of the instructor required.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Cynthia Anderson
  Info
• 0-1 points

ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

Prerequisites: BC1001 or permission of the instructor. Enrollment strictly limited to 45 students; decided upon and finalized first week of classes.
Introduction to behavior of individuals and small groups in work organizations. Recent theory and research emphasizing both content and research methodology. Motivation and performance, attitudes and job satisfaction, power, influence, authority, leadership, cooperation and conflict, decision making, and communications.
Enrollment limited to 45; and only seniors.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ariel F Bernstein
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 3 points

HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Prerequisites: BC1001 or BIOL BC1101, BC1102, or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 45 students.
This class explores the complex interactions among genetics, hormones, environment, experience, and behavior. Topics covered include the endocrine system, sexual development, reproductive behavior, and social interactions such as affiliation, aggression, parenting, as well as homeostasis, biological rhythms, stress, memory, and mood.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Kara Pham
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 3 points

CHILD PSYCHOPATHOLOGY

Prerequisites: PSYC BC1001, BC1129, BC2141, and permission of the instructor.
 This course is designed to give students an introduction to abnormal child psychology. We will study a variety of disorders typically diagnosed in childhood, including intellectual disabilities, developmental disabilities, emotional and behavioral disorders, and anxiety disorders. Students will explore the DSM 5 diagnostic criteria, current research on the etiology of disorders, and empirically-derived methods of assessment and treatment. Current views of clinical issues in childhood will be examined with an emphasis on the complex interaction between social, cognitive, behavioral and societal factors involved in the   development of these disorders.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Hannah E Hoch
  CULPA: 27 Info
• 3 points

PSYCHOLOGY OF DRUG USE & ABUSE

PSYCHOLOGY OF DRUG USE &ABUSE;

Prerequisites: BC1001 or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 75 students.
Examines the biological, psychological, and social factors that lead to drug use and abuse. A biopsychosocial model will be used to examine the behavioral effects of prescription, over the counter, and street drugs. Treatments, therapies, and theories of addictive behaviors will be explored.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: E'Mett McCaskill
  CULPA: 38 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN CINEMA

TPCS IN AMER CINEMA: COMEDY

FILM W2191

• Department: Film
• M 10 a.m.-1:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert King
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN AMERICAN CINEMA DISC

TOPICS IN AMERICAN FILM

• Department: Film
• T 9 a.m.-10 a.m.
• M 5 p.m.-6 p.m.
• T 9 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Carly A Ivrey
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• Instructor: Zachary A Morrison
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• Instructor: Jason T Potel
  Info
• 0 points

EARTH'S ENV SYSTEM:SOLID EARTH

Prerequisites: high school algebra and chemistry. Recommended preparation: high school physics.
Exploration of how the solid Earth works, today and in the past, focusing on Earth in the Solar system, continents and oceans, the Earth's history, mountain systems on land and sea, minerals and rocks, weathering and erosion, hydrological cycle and rivers, geochronology, plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes, fossil fuels. Laboratory exploration of topics through examination of rock samples, experimentation, computer data analysis, field exercises, and modeling. Columbia and Barnard majors should plan to take
W2200
before their senior year to avoid conflicts with the Senior Seminar.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• T 4:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• 4.5 points

INTRODUCTION TO GIS METHODS

Prerequisites: Must attend first class for instructor permission. This course does not fulfill the C requirement for Urban Studies majors.
Due to the high demand for our limited-enrollment spatial analysis course (URBS V3200) the Urban Studies program is offering an introductory course to the fundamentals of GIS (Geographic Informational Systems), specifically for non-majors.Students create maps using ArcGIS software, analyze the physical and social processes presented in the digital model, and use the data to solve specific spatial analysis problems. Note: this course does not fulfill the C requirement in Urban Studies.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• R 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Kazuki Sakamoto
  Info
• 3 points

CERAMICS I

(Formerly R3130) This studio course will provide the students with a foundation in the ceramic process, its history, and its relevance to contemporary art making. The course is structured in two parts. The first centers on the fundamental and technical aspects of the material. Students will learn construction techniques, glazing and finishing methods, and particulars about firing procedures. This part of the course will move quickly in order to expose the students to a variety of ceramic processes. Weekly assignments, demonstrations, and lectures will be given. The second centers on the issue of how to integrate ceramics into the students' current practice. Asking the question of why we use ceramics as a material and, further, why we choose the materials we do to make art. Rigorous group and individual critiques focusing on the above questions will be held. The goal of this course is to supply the students with the knowledge and skill necessary to work in ceramics and enough proficiency and understanding of the material to enable them to successfully incorporate it into their practice. If the class is full, please visit 
http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program
.

• Department: Visual Arts
• R 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Leah R Wolff
  Info
• 3 points

INTERMEDIATE NONFICTION WRKSHP

Prerequisites: The department's permission required through writing sample. Please go to 609 Kent for submission schedule and registration guidelines or see http://www.arts.columbia.edu/writing/undergraduate.
The intermediate workshop in nonfiction is designed for students with some experience in writing literary nonfiction. Intermediate workshops present a higher creative standard than beginning workshops and an expectation that students will produce finished work. Outside readings supplement and inform the exercises and longer written projects. By the end of the semester, students will have produced thirty to forty pages of original work in at least two traditions of literary nonfiction.

• Department: Writing
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth L Greenwood
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY II

HIST OF PHIL:AQUINAS TO KANT

Corequisites:
PHIL V2211
Required Discussion Section (0 points).
PHIL V2101 is not a prerequisite for this course. Exposition and analysis of the metaphysics, epistemology, and natural philosophy of the major philosophers from Aquinas through Kant. Authors include Aquinas, Galileo, Gassendi, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant.  This course has unrestricted enrollment.

• Department: Philosophy @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: John Morrison
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 7 Info
• 4 points

ACTING ENSEMBLE DIRECTING II

This course will examine the original vision a director can bring to a written text. We will
explore and define different directorial styles in terms of acting, design, language, politics,
relationship to the audience, and world-of-play. We will study five dramatists; students will
make work in conversation with each figure and their particular political and artistic projects.
Students will make a total of four fully-realized scenes; the two final pieces will each be
presented twice, with time for rehearsal in between. Students will work with actors who come
from both inside and outside the class pool. Students will have the opportunity to stage work for
proscenium, in-the-round, and environmentally. There will be at least two outings to see
productions in New York City. Students will write three short papers that engage with and
analyze live performance. This course places equal weight on the dramatic language of a play
text and a theatre practice guided by images.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• TR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Alice A Reagan
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 1 points

SECOND YEAR CHINESE N II

Prerequisites:
CHNS C1101-1102
or
CHNS F1101-1102
, or the equivalent. See Admission to Language Courses.
Designed to further the student's four skills acquired in the elementary course, this program aims to develop higher level of proficiency through comprehensive oral and written exercises. Cultural aspects in everyday situations are introduced. Traditional characters. 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 11:40 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
• MTWR 2:40 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
• MTWR 6:10 p.m.-7:15 p.m.
• MTWR 10:10 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
• MTWR 4:10 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Shaoyan Qi
  CULPA: 25 Info
• Instructor: Xiaodan Wang
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Shaoyan Qi
  CULPA: 25 Info
• Instructor: Wenlian Zhang
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Jia Xu
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Yu-Shan Cheng
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 5 points

SECOND YEAR JAPANESE II

Prerequisites:
JPNS C1201
or the equivalent.
Further practice in the four language skills. Participation in a once a week conversation class is required.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MTWR 10:10 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
• MTWR 11:40 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
• MTWR 1:10 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
• MTWR 4:10 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Jisuk Park
  CULPA: 8 Info
• Instructor: Shigeru Eguchi
  CULPA: 9 Info
• Instructor: Miharu Nittono
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Naofumi Tatsumi
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 5 points

SECOND YEAR KOREAN II

SECOND YEAR KOREAN N II

Prerequisites:
KORN W1102
or the equivalent. Consultation with the instructors is required before registration for section assignment.
Further practice in reading, writing, listening comprehension, conversation, and grammar.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MTWR 1:10 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Carol H Schulz
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 5 points

SECOND YEAR KOREAN II

Prerequisites:
KORN W1102
or the equivalent. Consultation with the instructors is required before registration for section assignment.
Further practice in reading, writing, listening comprehension, conversation, and grammar.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MTWR 2:40 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Sunhee Song
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 5 points

INTRO TO DIGITAL MUSIC

Prerequisites:
HUMA W1123
or the equivalent, and the instructor's permission.
An introduction to the potential of digital synthesis by means of the MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface). Teaches proficiency in elementary and advanced MIDI techniques. Challenges some of the assumptions about music built into the MIDI specifications and fosters a creative approach to using MIDI machines.

• Department: Music
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Sky S Macklay
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

CULTURE IN AMERICA

Corequisites: General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC).
The values and meanings that form American pluralism. The three sections explore taste, consumption, and art; moral conflict, religion and secularism; identity, community and ideology. Examples range widely: Individualism, liberalism and conservatism; Obama's "transracial" endeavor; the food revolution; struggles over family and sexuality; multiculturalism; assimilation and immigration.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Rieder
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 3 points

ARABIC HERITAGE SPEAKERS II

Prerequisites: Instructor permission.
This is an intensive course that combines the curriculum of both First and Second Year Arabic in two semesters instead of four, and focuses on the productive skills (speaking and writing) in Modern Standard Arabic (Fusha). Students are exposed intensively to grammar and vocabulary of a high register. After successful completion of this course, students will be able to move on to Third Year Arabic. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MTWR 8:50 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Youssef Nouhi
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 5 points

HIST OF PHILOSOPHY II-REC

HIST OF PHILOS II - REC

• Department: Philosophy @Barnard
• M 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Adam M Blazej
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• Instructor: Jacob M McNulty
  Info
• 0 points

EARLY RUSSIAN HISTORY TO 1800

EARLY RUSS HIST TO 1800

Early Russian History is the first semester of a full-year survey of Russian history; the second semester, Modern Russian History (Since 1800), will be offered in 2017-18. (Each may also be taken independently.) During this semester, we will first look at societies in the Black Sea region and Eurasian plain – their formation, evolution, and sometimes demise – until the emergence of an early modern empire centered in Moscow. The history of the Russian Empire proper begins with the conquest of the Khanate of Kazan in 1552, and culminates in the modern European empire of Peter I and Catherine II. We will examine, in turn, the Black Sea civilizations of antiquity and the medieval age; the Mongol Empire and its westernmost projection, the Golden Horde; the city of Moscow and the Muscovite Empire (15th –17th centuries) over which it presided; and, finally, the new imperial capital of St. Petersburg and the monarchs, the empire, the foreign policy and society of the eighteenth century. We will pay special attention to religion, cultural interaction, myth, monarchy, empire – all themes essential to current historical scholarship.

• Department: History
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Catherine Evtuhov
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

EARLY RUSS HIST TO 1800-DISC

• Department: History
• M 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• M 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Catherine Evtuhov
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 0 points

SECOND YEAR CHINESE W II

Prerequisites:
CHNS C1112
or
F1112,
or the equivalent. See Admission to Language Courses.
Continuation of 
CHNS C1112,
 with a focus on reading comprehension and written Chinese. Traditional characters.  CC GS EN CE

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• R 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Yicheng Zhang
  Info
• 5 points

PROGRAMMING BEHAV SCIENCES

Students will learn how to write computer programs that can test theories and predictions that arise in the behavioral sciences. For students with little or no programming background.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 4 points

DICTATORS IN 20TH CENT EUROPE

Prerequisites: Corequisite discussion HIST UN2335
In this course we focus on the origins and causes of dictatorship, beginning with the consequences of the Great War.  How do dictatorships and authoritarian regimes compare and contrast in the East and West of Europe?  To what extent can we trace the origins of leftist, Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist dictatorship and those of the right-wing (fascist and Nazi) dictatorships back to the 19th century philosophical and ideological antecedents?

• Department: History
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Laszlo Karsai
  Info
• 4 points

THINKING AND DECISION MAKING

Prerequisites: an introductory course in psychology.
Models of judgment and decision making in both certain and uncertain or risky situations, illustrating the interplay of top-down (theory-driven) and bottom-up (data-driven) processes in creating knowledge. Focuses on how individuals do and should make decisions, with some extensions to group decision making and social dilemmas.

• Department: Psychology
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Katherine T Fox-Glassman
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 4 Info
• 3 points

EVERYDAY COMMUNISM - DISC

• Department: History
• W 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Malgorzata Mazurek
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 0 points

ECONOMY & SOCIETY

An introduction to economic sociology.  Economic sociology is built around the claim that something fundamental is lost when markets are analyzed separately from other social processes.  We will look especially at how an analysis of the interplay of economy and society can help us to understand questions of efficiency, questions of fairness, and questions of democracy.

• Department: Sociology
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Joshua Whitford
  h-index: 14 Info
• 3 points

HIP HOP DANCE & CULTURE

HIP HOP DANCE & CULTURE II

Prerequisites: Intermediate level of dance or permission of the instructor.
This Course introduces intermediate level students to urban dance styles, focusing on foundations and origins of hip-hop dance, street dance culture, and the physical vocabularies of hip-hop and freestyle dance. Classes are geared to condition the body for the rigors of hip-hop technique by developing strength, coordination, flexibility, stamina, and rhythmic awareness, while developing an appreciation of choreographic movement and structures. Compositional elements of hip-hop will be introduced and students may compose brief movement sequences.  The course meets twice weekly and is held in the dance studio. Prerequisite: Intermediate level of a dance form or permission of the instructor.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer Archibald
  Info
• 0-1 points

EVOLUTION OF COGNITION

Prerequisites:
PSYC W1001
or
PSYC W1010
, or the instructor's permission.
A systematic review of different forms of cognition as viewed in the context of the theory of evolution. Specific topics include the application of the theory of evolution to behavior, associative learning, biological constraints on learning, methods for studying the cognitive abilities of animals, levels of representation, ecological influences on cognition, and evidence of consciousness in animals.

• Department: Psychology
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Herbert S Terrace
  CULPA: 29 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

AFRICAN DANCE I

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
Concentrates on the dances of West Africa, including Senegal, Mali, and Guinea, and a variety of dances performed at various functions and ceremonies. Explanation of the origin and meaning of each dance will be an integral part of the material presented.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Maguette Camara
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 0-1 points

AFRICAN DANCE II

Prerequisites: DNCE BC2252 or permission of instructor.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 10:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Maguette Camara
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 0-1 points

AFRO-CUBAN DANCE

Prerequisites: Permission of Instructor.
This class will introduce students to the African-based folkloric and popular dances of Cuba, including Orisha, Rumba, and Salsa. In addition to learning rhythms and dances, these forms will be contextualized within the historical and contemporary significance of Afro-Cuban dance performance.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• F 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Rebecca Bliss
  Info
• 0-1 points

THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

Prerequisites:
ECON W1105
.
Covers five areas within the general field of international economics: (i) microeconomic issues of why countries trade, how the gains from trade are distributed, and protectionism; (ii) macroeconomic issues such as exchange rates, balance of payments and open economy macroeconomic adjustment, (iii) the role of international institutions (World Bank, IMF, etc); (iv) economic development and (v) economies in transition.

• Department: Economics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ronald Miller
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE

INTRO TO ACCOUNTING & FINANCE

For undergraduates only. This course is required for all undergraduate students majoring in IE, OR:EMS, OR:FE and OR.
This course examines the fundamental concepts of financial accounting and finance, from the perspective of both managers and investors. Key topics covered in this course include principles of accrual accounting; recognizing and recording accounting transactions; preparation and analysis of financial statements, including balance sheets, income statements, cash flow statements, and statements of owners' equity; ratio analysis; pro-forma projections; time value of money (present values, future values and interest/discount rates); inflation; discounted-cash-flow (DCF) project evaluation methods; deterministic and probabilistic measures of risk; capital budgeting.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Anthony C Webster
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 3 points

VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY

Prerequisites: BIOL BC1500, BIOL BC1501, BIOL BC1502, BIOL BC1503 or equivalent.
Systematic survey of the Phylum Chordata: fossil history, biogeography, systematics, natural history, body architecture, energetics, locomotion, feeding, and behavior.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Paul E Hertz
  CULPA: 22 Info
• 3 points

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR

Prerequisites: BIOL BC1500, BIOL BC1501, BIOL BC1502, BIOL BC1503 or equivalent.
Introduction to animal behavior; physiological bases of behavior (sensory systems, neurophysiology of behavior, appetitive and reproductive behavior), ethological approaches to behavior (communication, territoriality, dominance, and aggression) and evolution of behavior (behavior genetics, behavioral ecology, sociobiology).

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Lisa O'Bryan
  Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN WORLD CINEMA

TPCS WORLD CINEMA:ARAB&AFRICAN;

FILM W2291

• Department: Film
• W 10 a.m.-1:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard A Pena
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN WORLD CINEMA

TPCS-WORLD CINEMA-DISC

• Department: Film
• R 1 p.m.-2 p.m.
• R 9 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Leonardo Campaner
  Info
• Instructor: Cristian Donoso
  Info
• 0 points

EARTH'S ENVIRO SYST: LIFE SYST

Prerequisites: high school algebra. Recommended preparation: high school chemistry and physics.
Role of life in biogeochemical cycles, relationship of biodiversity and evolution to the physical Earth, vulnerability of ecosystems to environmental change; causes and effects of extinctions through geologic time (dinosaurs and mammoths) and today. Exploration of topics through laboratories, demonstrations, computer data analysis and modeling. REQUIRED LAB:
EESC W2310
. Students should see the Directory of Classes for lab sessions being offered and select one.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• 4.5 points

CHALLENGES 0F SUSTAINABLE DEV

CHALLENGES OF SUSTAINABLE DEV

This course provides an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of sustainable development, drawing on the most recent developments in social and physical sciences. The course describes the interactions between physical ecology and economic development, and it stresses the ways in which they impact each other. Ecological constraints (climate, disease ecology, physical resources such as soils and energy sources, topography and transport conditions) significantly shape the patterns of economic development, demography, and wealth and poverty. At the same time, anthropogenic activities (farming, resource depletion, demographic stresses, and energy use) change the physical environment. The course offers a rigorous treatment of the field and aims to provide students with an understanding of economic development and its relation to nature's processes. Offered in the Spring.

• Department: Earth Institute
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• 3 points

SCULPTURE I

(Formerly R3330) The fundamentals of sculpture are investigated through a series of conceptual and technical projects. Three material processes are introduced, including wood, metal, and paster casting. Issues pertinent to contemporary sculpture are introduced through lectures, group critiques, discussions, and field trips that accompany class assignments. If the class is full, please visit 
http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program
.

• Department: Visual Arts
• F 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• M 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jon Kessler
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Pooneh Maghazehe
  Info
• 3 points

INTERMEDIATE POETRY WORKSHOP

Prerequisites: The department's permission required through writing sample. Please go to 609 Kent for submission schedule and registration guidelines or see http://www.arts.columbia.edu/writing/undergraduate.
Intermediate poetry workshops are for students with some prior instruction in the rudiments of poetry writing and prior poetry workshop experience. Intermediate poetry workshops pose greater challenges to students and maintain higher critical standards than beginning workshops. Students will be instructed in more complex aspects of the craft, including the poetic persona, the prose poem, the collage, open-field composition, and others. They will also be assigned more challenging verse forms such as the villanelle and also non-European verse forms such as the pantoum. They will read extensively, submit brief critical analyses, and put their instruction into regular practice by composing original work that will be critiqued by their peers. By the end of the semester each student will have assembled a substantial portfolio of finished work.

• Department: Writing
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Carey T McHugh
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• 3 points

ROME, MICHELANGELO TO BERNINI

This course will look at highlights of Roman art and architecture from the late fifteenth to the late seventeenth centuries, considering the works in relation to the conditions in which they were originally produced and viewed......

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Cole
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

CHRISTIANITY

Survey of Christianity from its beginnings through the Reformation. Based on lectures and discussions of readings in primary source translations, this course will cover prominent developments in the history of Christianity. The structure will allow students to rethink commonly held notions about the evolution of modern Christianity with the texture of historical influence.

• Department: Religion
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert E Somerville
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 3 points

EARLY MODERN ARCH 1400-1750

EARLY MOD ARCH 1400-1750

This course examines the history of early modern architecture, roughly between 1400 and 1750, from a European perspective outward.  It begins by addressing a number of transhistorical principle issues and analytic approaches and then moves on to a series of roughly chronological thematic studies, which build on this conceptual framework.......

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• 3 points

CHINESE RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS

Historical survey highlighting major developments in Chinese religion: includes selections from the "Warring States" classics, developments in popular Daoism, and an overview of the golden age of Chinese Buddhism. Touches on "Neo-Confucianism," popular literature of the late imperial period, and the impact of Western ideas.

• Department: Religion
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Robban A Toleno
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

EARTH ENVIR SYST-LIFE SYST-LAB

This three hour lab is required of all students who enroll in
EESC W2300
. There are currently five lab sections.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• W 4:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• 0 points

EARTH ENVIR SYST-LIFE SYST-LAB

This three hour lab is required of all students who enroll in
EESC W2300
. There are currently five lab sections.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• W 4:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• 0 points

EARTH ENVIR SYST-LIFE SYST-LAB

This three hour lab is required of all students who enroll in
EESC W2300
. There are currently five lab sections.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• W 4:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• R 4:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• 0 points

THE DOCUMENTARY TRADITION

Documentary film from the late 1890s to the mid-1980s. Attention focuses on the documentary as a means of either supporting or attacking the status quo, on the relationship between the creators and consumers, on claims to truth and objectivity, and on how new technology influences the oldest form of filmmaking. FILM W2311

• Department: Film
• M 2 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Nico Baumbach
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• 3 points

THE DOCUMENTARY TRADITION-DISC

• Department: Film
• T 5 p.m.-6 p.m.
• T 9 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Elie Aufseesser
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• Instructor: Manuel A Salas
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• 0 points

POETRY SEMINAR

TRADITIONS IN POETRY

Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT required.
Lyric poetry in contemporary practice continues to draw upon and modify its ancient sources, as well as Renaissance, Romantic and Modernist traditions.  In this seminar, we will explore the creation of the voice of the poem, the wild lyrical I, through closely reading female poets from antiquity to present day, beginning with Anne Carson's translations of Sappho,
If Not Winter
, all the way up to present avatars and noted sylists such as Mary Jo Bang (
Elegy
), Traci K. Smith (
Life on Mars
), Bernadette Mayer (New Directions
Reader
), Eileen Myles (
Not Me
), Maggie Nelson (
Bluets
) and others.  The identity of the poetic speaker remains with inescapable ties to memory and experience as one mode of the lyric, and with the dramatic topes of mask and persona as another.  Students will be asked to hear a range of current and classic women poets deploying, constructing and annihilating the self: the sonnets of Queen Elizabeth and the American beginnings of Anne Bradstreet; the emergence in the 19th century of iconic and radicalizing female presences: Emily Bronte, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning; and the predominance of 20th century masters who re-invented the English-language lyric as much as they inherited: Louise Bogan, Gwendolyn Brooks, H.D., Marianne Moore, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Laura Riding, and Gertrude Stein.  As background, students will read prose works (epistolary, writing, journals and diaries, classic essays as well as prose poetry), which may contextualize women's desire and its reception in public and private space: the religious mysticism of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Dorothy Wordsworth's journals, Emily Dickinson's letters, and Virginia Woolf's criticism and novels.  Students will be expected to keep their own reading diary or write letters in response to class readings, as well as select a classic and contemporary female poet for semester-long research.  Additional course handouts will be organized by particular groupings of interest to our study of desire & identity, voice & witness:  Confessional poetry (Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton), Cave Canem poets (Harryette Mullen and Natasha Trethway), New York School (Alice Notley and Hannah Weiner), as well as additional contemporary poets (Lyn Melnick and Matthea Harvey).

• Department: Writing
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Camille A Rankine
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• 3 points

MODERN FRANCE & ITS EMPIRE

This lecture course surveys the main currents of French history from the Revolution to the present, with particular attention to the interaction between continental France and the rest of the empire. Throughout this course, the main questions will be: to what extent has the French Revolution served as point of political and cultural reference throughout the 19th and 20th centuries? Who is a citizen? And how has the response to this question been impacted by imperial developments? What is French Republicanism? And how to understand it in the imperial context? What have been the relations between political, social, economic and cultural developments? How have continental conflicts and World Wars impacted French history? How have the post WWII interrelated processes of decolonization, immigration and building of Europe deeply impacted contemporary France? We will tackle these questions by reading primary sources: works of political philosophy; literature; film; legal documents; and memoirs from the time, and by watching films.

• Department: History
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Emmanuelle Saada
  CULPA: 13 Info
• 4 points

EAR-TRAINING I

Designed to improve the student's basic skills in sight-singing, and rhythmic and melodic dictation with an introduction to four-part harmonic dictation.

• Department: Music
• MW 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• TR 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Joviala
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• Instructor: Ramin Amir Arjomand
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 1 points

EAR-TRAINING II

Techniques of sight-singing and dictation of diatonic melodies in simple and compound meter with strong emphasis on harmonic dictation.

• Department: Music
• MW 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• TR 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Joviala
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• Instructor: Barami Waspe
  Info
• 1 points

MOD FRANCE & ITS EMPIRE-DISC

• Department: History
• R 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Emmanuelle Saada
  CULPA: 13 Info
• 0 points

MUSIC THEORY I

Prerequisites:
MUSI V1002
or the equivalent, as well as placement exam administered in the first class meeting every semester the course is offered. (Through Spring 2014, this course was entitled Diatonic Harmony and Counterpoint I.)
Corequisites: one course from Ear-Training I-IV (
V2314
,
V2315
,
V3316
, or
V3317
, as determined by placement exam.)
Elementary analysis and composition in a variety of modal and tonal idioms. A one-hour weekly lab is required, to be scheduled at the beginning of the term.

• Department: Music
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Benjamin A Steege
  Info
• 3 points

MUSIC THEORY II

Prerequisites:
MUSI V2318
.
Corequisites: one course from Ear-Training I-IV (
V2314
,
V2315
,
V3316
, or
V3317
, as determined by placement exam.)
Elementary analysis and composition in a variety of tonal idioms. (Through Spring 2014, this course was entitled Diatonic Harmony and Counterpoint II.)

• Department: Music
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Carl C Bettendorf
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Peter M Susser
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 3 points

MODERN III

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Caitlin Trainor
  CULPA: 11 Info
• Instructor: Gabri Christa
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 0-1 points

MODERN IV

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• F 12:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Caroline Fermin
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• Instructor: Jodi Melnick
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 0-1 points

EVERYDAY COMMUNISM

Prerequisites: Coreq discussion section HIST UN2237
This course surveys communism as an idea, political regime, and everyday experience in territories of today's Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, east Germany, Rumania and Balkan countries.  The stress is on social, gender, and economic politics that shaped lived experiences of central and eastern Europeans since the Eurasian revolution of 1905 until the waning of the socialist project in the 1970s and 1980s........

• Department: History
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Malgorzata Mazurek
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points