LABORATORY IN HUMAN ANATOMY

A hands-on introduction to the human musculoskeletal system including the observation of movement in oneself and others, as well as the collection and analysis of anatomical data.  The lecture course, Applied Anatomy of Human Movement is a co-requisite.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• M 12:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Chisa Hidaka
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

JAZZ IMPROVISTN:THRY,HIST,PRAC

This course offers an introduction to jazz improvisation for instrumentalists.  Through recordings, transcriptions, daily performance and selected readings, students will actively engage the history of jazz through their instruments and intellect.  The idea of improvisation will be explored in an historical context, both as a musical phenomenon with its attendant theory and mechanics, and as a trope of American history and aesthetics. This class is for instrumentalists who wish to deepen their understanding of the theory, history and practice of jazz improvisation. The history of jazz will be used as a prism through which to view approaches to improvisation, from the cadences of the early Blues through the abstractions of Free Jazz and beyond.  The student will be exposed to the theory and vocabularies of various jazz idioms, which they will also learn to place in their social and historical contexts.

• Department: Music
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Ole Mathisen
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

INTERMEDIATE HINDI-URDU II

Prerequisites:
MDES W1610-W1611
or the instructor's permission.
Continuing practice in listening, speaking, and grammatical understanding. Along with the Hindi (Devanagari) script, the Urdu (Perso-Arabic) script is taught in the class; both scripts are used for reading and writing. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MTWR 4:10 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Aftab Ahmad
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 5 points

ARTS OF CHINA, JAPAN AND KOREA

ART IN CHINA, JAPAN, AND KOREA

Introduces distinctive aesthetic traditions of China, Japan, and Korea--their similarities and differences--through an examination of the visual significance of selected works of painting, sculpture, architecture, and other arts in relation to the history, culture, and religions of East Asia.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Dawn H Delbanco
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 3 points

ARTS OF CHINA, JAPAN AND KOREA

ART IN CHINA, JAPAN AND KOREA

Introduces distinctive aesthetic traditions of China, Japan, and Korea--their similarities and differences--through an examination of the visual significance of selected works of painting, sculpture, architecture, and other arts in relation to the history, culture, and religions of East Asia.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Miriam S Chusid
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Talia J Andrei
  Info
• 3 points

SECOND YEAR MODERN TIBETAN II

For those whose knowledge is equivalent to a student who’s completed the First Year course. The course focuses on the further development of their skills in using the language to engage with practical topics and situations, such as seeing a doctor, reading news, writing letters, and listening to music.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Sonam Tsering
  Info
• 4 points

INTRO TO SOCIAL COGNITION

INTRO TO SOC COGNITION

Prerequisites: an introductory course in psychology or the instructor's permission.
An introduction to basic concepts in social cognition. Topics include attribution theory (how we explain our own and other's behavior), social categories and schema (social perception and stereotyping), the social self (the development and maintenance of a self-concept), attention and consciousness, person memory, affect and cognition, and social inference, among others.

• Department: Psychology
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Larisa A Heiphetz
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

LATIN AMERICN CIVILIZATION II

Explores major themes in Latin American history from the independence period to the present. It will trace economic, political, intellectual, and cultural trends. Particular attention will be given to the enduring issue of social and racial inequality and the ways that the interactions of dominant and subordinate groups have helped shape the course of Latin American history.General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS).

• Department: History @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jose Moya
  CULPA: 19 h-index: 18 Info
• 4 points

MEXICO FROM REVOL TO DEMOCRACY

Twentieth-Century Mexican History from the revolution to transition  to democracy. The Course review politics, society, culture, foreign relations, and urbanization. 
Group(s): D

Field(s): LA

• Department: History
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Pablo Piccato
  CULPA: 22 h-index: 20 Info
• 4 points

MEXICO FROM REVOL TO DEM-DISC

• Department: History
• T 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• W 9 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Pablo Piccato
  CULPA: 22 h-index: 20 Info
• 0 points

LATIN AMER CIV II - DISC

• Department: History @Barnard
• M 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• M 11:10 a.m.-noon
• R 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• R 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• T 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• T 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Jose Moya
  CULPA: 19 h-index: 18 Info
• 0 points

SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Prerequisites:
PSYC W1001
or
PSYC W1010
, or the equivalent.
This lecture course introduces students to the study of typical human social development with a particular focus on genetic, familial and peer influences on the development of social behaviors during early childhood.

• Department: Psychology
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: James P Curley
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

EXP'TS IN CLASSICL/MOD PHYSICS

Prerequisites:
PHYS W1601
(or
W1401
),
W1602
(or
W1402
), and
W2601
.
Laboratory work associated with the three prerequisite lecture courses. Experiments in mechanics, thermodynamics, electricity, magnetism, optics, wave motion, atomic physics, and nuclear physics.

• Department: Physics
• T 4:10 p.m.-7:10 p.m.
• T 7:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m.
• W 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-7:10 p.m.
• W 7:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m.
• R 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• R 4:10 p.m.-7:10 p.m.
• F 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

INTERMEDIATE PERSIAN II

Prerequisites: MDES W1701-MDES W1702 or the equivalent.
A general review of the essentials of grammar; practice in spoken and written Persian; Arabic elements in Persian; selected readings emphasizing Iranian life and culture; materials from Tajikistan and Afghanistan, Indari. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Saeed Honarmand
  Info
• 4 points

AFRICAN HISTORY SINCE 1800

This class examines the history of the African continent from the Atlantic Slave trade (c. 1800) to the present, focusing in particular on the social, political, and religious changes and continuities that have shaped the continent over the course of the past three centuries.....

• Department: History
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: John F III Straussberger
  Info
• 4 points

AFRICAN HIST SINCE 1800-DISC

AFRCAN HIST SINC 1800-DIS

• Department: History
• M 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: John F III Straussberger
  Info
• 0 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Enrollment in a college level course of instruction not offered by the Barnard or Columbia Physical Education Departments. 
Department approval required prior to the first day of the Physical Education registration period.

• Department: Physical Education @Barnard
• Instructor: George Padilla
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 0-1 points

ARTS-ISLAM:REALIGNMENTS OF EMPIRE

This introductory survey course, open to both undergraduates and graduates, examines a broad spectrum of artistic and architectural developments across the Islamic World (Spain, North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia) encompassing crucial political and territorial shifts that occurred in the late medieval period. Looking inward and outward, these shifts not only created new realities of empire and state, but also realigned engagements between a variety of Muslim societies with both European and Asian steppe cultures, leading to new forms that articulate shifts in religious, political, intellectual and social practices. Through examining a series of test cases in within a mainly chronological narrative, the course will cultivate clear visual analysis within particular cultural and material contexts. It will also develop experience with reading a variety of secondary and primary source materials in translation.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Heather Ecker
  Info
• 3-4 points

ACCELERATED PHYSICS II

Prerequisites:
PHYS W2801
.
This accelerated two-semester sequence covers the subject matter of 
PHYS W1601
,
W1602
 and
W2601
, and is intended for those students who have an exceptionally strong background in both physics and mathematics. The course is preparatory for advanced work in physics and related fields. There is no accompanying laboratory; however, students are encouraged to take the intermediate laboratory, 
PHYS W3081
, in the following year.

• Department: Physics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Robert D Mawhinney
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 49 Info
• 4.5 points

GENDER AND EMPIRE

• Department: History @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Anupama Rao
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 3 points

HISTORY OF SOUTH ASIA II

S ASIA II:EMPIRE/ITS AFTRMATH

Prerequisites: None.
(No prerequisite.) We begin with the rise and fall of the Mughal Empire, and examine why and how the East India Company came to rule India in the eighteenth century. As the term progresses, we will investigate the objectives of British colonial rule in India and we will explore the nature of colonial modernity. The course then turns to a discussion of anti-colonial sentiment, both in the form of outright revolt, and critiques by early nationalists. This is followed by a discussion of Gandhi, his thought and his leadership of the nationalist movement. Finally, the course explores the partition of British India in 1947, examining the long-term consequences of the process of partition for the states of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. We will focus in particular on the flowing themes: non-Western state formation; debates about whether British rule impoverished India; the structure and ideology of anti-colonial thought; identity formation and its connection to political, economic and cultural structures. The class relies extensively on primary texts, and aims to expose students to multiple historiographical perspectives for understanding South Asia's past.

• Department: History @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Anupama Rao
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 4 points

S. ASIA II - DISC

• Department: History @Barnard
• M 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• T 11:10 a.m.-noon
• T 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Anupama Rao
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 0 points

GENDER AND POWER IN CHINA

This course explores the power dynamics of gender relations in Chinese history and contemporary society. Specifically, we seek to understand how a range of women--rulers, mothers, teachers, workers, prostitutes, and activists--exercised power by utilizing available resources to overcome institutional constraints.

• Department: History @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Dorothy Ko
  CULPA: 16 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

RESEARCH METHODS SEMINAR

Prerequisites: Students must be sophomores with a strong interest in pursuing research in the biological or chemical sciences
Skills to facilitate into biology and chemistry research. Students will learn to think and work like scientists and to identify, apply for and gain entry to research lab groups. Focus on writing and oral presentation skills. Additional readings and discussions on laboratory safety, women in science, and scientific ethics.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• R 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer H Mansfield
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 15 Info
• 1 points

MASTERPIECES-INDIAN ART & ARCH

MASTERPCES-INDIAN ART & ARCH

Introduction to 2000 years of art on the Indian subcontinent. The course covers the early art of Buddhism, rock-cut architecture of the Buddhists and Hindus, the development of the Hindu temple, Mughal and Rajput painting and architecture, art of the colonial period, and the emergence of the Modern.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Siddhartha V Shah
  Info
• 3 points

DATA: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

DATA: PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE

Prerequisites: Instructor's permission.
Critical thinking and practice regarding the the past, present, and future of data. Readings covering how students, scholars, and citizens can make sense of data in science, public policy, and our personal lives. Labs covering descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive modeling of data.

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

INTERMEDIATE MODERN TURKISH II

A continuation of the study of the written and spoken language of Turkey, with readings of literary, historical, and other texts. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MTWR 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Ihsan Colak
  h-index: 3 Info
• 4 points

TRANSPORT HISTORY BY LAND AND SEA

The social, economic, and technological history of transportation by land and water from the invention of the wheel and the sail down to the invention of the hoverboard.
This course explores the ways in which surface transport systems, for both goods and people, have affected political, social, and economic organization from prehistoric times until
today.

• Department: History
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard W Bulliet
  CULPA: 27 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

INTRO LIT/METHODS OF ART HIST

Prerequisites: Not open to Barnard or Continuing Education students. Majors must receive instructor's permission. Students must sign-up online: http://goo.gl/forms/otfh8x5hqk
Introduction to different methodological approaches to the study of art and visual culture. Majors are encouraged to take the colloquium during their junior year.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Janet L Kraynak
  Info
• Instructor: Noam M Elcott
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 7 Info
• 4 points

THE ART OF STRUCTURAL DESIGN

Application of principles to analysis and design of actual large-scale structures. Experimental verification of these principles through laboratory experiments. Coverage of the history of major structural design innovations and of the engineers who introduced them. Critical examination of the unique aesthetic/artistic perspectives inherent in structural design. Consideration of management, socioeconomic, and ethical issues involved in design and construction of large-scale structures. Introduction to some recent developments in sustainable engineering, including green building design and adaptable structural systems.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: George Deodatis
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 42 Info
• 3 points

FROM PAGE TO DANCE STAGE

Study of dance works which have their origins in the written word. Topics considered include: Is choreography a complete act of creative originality? Which literary genres are most often transformed into dance pieces? Why are some texts privileged with dance interpretation(s) and others are not?

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Mindy Aloff
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

SOCIAL THEORY

Prerequisites: Sophomore standing.
Required for all sociology majors.  Prerequisite: at least one sociology course of the instructor's permission.  Theoretical accounts of the rise and transformations of modern society in the19th and 20th centuries.  Theories studied include those of Adam Smith, Tocqueville, Marx, Durkheim, Max Weber, Roberto Michels.  Selected topics:  individual, society, and polity; economy, class, and status: organization and ideology; religion and society; moral and instrumental action.

• Department: Sociology
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Gil Eyal
  CULPA: 15 h-index: 26 Info
• 3 points

LITERARY TEXTS & CRIT METHODS

Corequisites: students who register for
ENGL W3001
must also register for one of the sections of
ENGL W3011
Literary Texts, Critical Methods.
This course is intended to introduce students to the advanced study of literature. Students will read works from different genres (poetry, drama, and prose fiction), drawn from the medieval period to the present day, learning the different interpretative techniques required by each. The course also introduces students to a variety of critical schools and approaches, with the aim both of familiarizing them with these methodologies in the work of other critics and of encouraging them to make use of different methods in their own critical writing. This course (together with the companion seminar
ENGL W3011
) is a requirement for the English Major and Concentration. It should be taken as early as possible in a student's career. Fulfillment of this requirement will be a factor in admission to seminars and to some lectures.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Golston
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED MODERN GREEK I

Prerequisites:
GRKM V2101
or the equivalent.
This semester we will continue to build language skills but with particular attention to speaking and writing Greek at the university level. We will focus on such topics as diaspora, history, politics, and identity. We will use materials from literature, critical essays, historiography, film, and mass media as a way to advance knowledge in Modern Greek literature and culture. In addition we will explore the diversity of Greek language as it is spoken in different regions and gain understanding of its evolution through time. Materials include: essays (Seferis, Theotokas); newspaper articles; television interviews (Flessa and Papanikolaou); advertisement; stand-up-comedy (Lazopoulos); music (art-song,
rebetika
, hip-hop); theatre (Demetriades); literature (Roides, Papadiamantis, Kazantzakis, Lymberaki, Karapanou, Galanaki, Charalambides, Chatzopoulos, Chouliaras).

• Department: Classics
• 3 points

SENIOR THESIS

Prerequisites: the department's permission.
Required for all thesis writers.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Kellie Jones
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

HUMANITIES TEXTS, CRIT SKILLS

This course aims to equip students with critical tools for approaching, reading, and striving with literary and philosophical texts—ancient as well as modern. To this end, we will be working closely with a set of texts that range in date from the 8th/7th c. BCE to the 20th century C, including: Homer, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, Du Bois, Nabokov and Rankine. Our seminar will operate on the assumption that we cannot know “what” these texts say or “what” their authors mean unless we come to grips with how they say what they say and how they mean what they mean. In pursuit of some answers, we will master the skill of reading quickly but carefully, balancing attention to the literary craft of our texts with scrutiny of their underlying arguments and agendas.
Requires Instructor’s permission— please write to Richard Roderick rr3059@columbia.edu to set up a meeting with instructors.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 4 points

ADVANCED GERMAN II

Corequisites: Course either taken before or after GERM V3001.
Intensive practice in oral and written German. Discussions, oral reports, and weekly written assignments, based on material of topical and stylistic variety taken from German press and from literary sources.

• Department: German @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Irene Motyl
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED READINGS II

Sign up for section in the department.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• 1-6 points

SUPERVISED PROJ PHOTOGRAPHY

SUPERVISED PHOTO PROJECTS

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 15 students.
Designed for students to conduct independent projects in photography. Priority for enrollment to the class will be Barnard College students who are enrolling in classes at ICP (International Center of Photography).  The cost of ICP will be covered by Barnard College. All of the other students enrolling in the course (CC, GS SOA) will be responsible for their own ICP course expenses.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: John Miller
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

MECHANICS

Prerequisites: general physics, and differential and integral calculus.
Newtonian mechanics, oscillations and resonance, conservative forces and potential energy, central forces, non-inertial frames of reference, rigid body motion, an introduction to Lagrange's formulation of mechanics, coupled oscillators, and normal modes.

• Department: Physics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: John Parsons
  CULPA: 31 Info
• 3 points

THIRD YEAR CHINESE N II

Prerequisites:
CHNS W4003
or the equivalent. See Admission to Language Courses.
This course fulfills the language requirement for east Asian studies majors. Prepares for more advanced study of Chinese through rigorous vocabulary expansion, more sophisticated language usage patterns, and introduction to basics of formal and literary styles. Materials are designed to advance the student's fluency for everyday communicative tasks as well as reading skills. Simplified characters are introduced. CC GS EN CE

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MTWR 8:50 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• MTWR 1:10 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
• MTWR 11:40 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
• MTWR 4:10 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Zhirong Wang
  CULPA: 11 Info
• Instructor: Lingjun Hu
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Zhongqi Shi
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Wenlian Zhang
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 5 points

URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS

Introduction to: (a) the infrastructure systems that support urban socioeconomic activities, and (b) fundamental system design and analysis methods. Coverage of water resources, vertical, transportation, communications and energy infrastructure. Emphasis upon the purposes that these systems serve, the factors that influence their performance, the basic mechanisms that govern their design and operation, and the impacts that they have regionally and globally. Student teams complete a semester-long design/analysis project with equal emphasis given to water resources / environmental engineering, geotechnical engineering and construction engineering and management topics.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• 3 points

ISLAM IN SOUTH ASIA

This course explores the beginnings of Islam in South Asia, its growth over time, and the development of South Asian Muslims' cultural, social, religious and political life from the 8th century until the present.  It assumes no previous background in Islamic or South Asian studies.  Readings will include not only scholarly works, but also material in translation from chronicles, biographies, memoirs, novels, stories, and other primary sources.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Owen T Cornwall
  Info
• 3 points

NEUROBIO II: DEVPT & SYSTEMS

Prerequisites:
BIOL W3004
, one year of biology, or the instructor's permission.
This course is the "capstone" course for the Neurobiology and Behavior undergraduate major at Columbia University and will be taught by the faculty of the Kavli Institute of Brain Science: http://www.kavli.columbia.edu/ Science: http://www.kavli.columbia.edu/. It is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Knowledge of Cellular Neuroscience (how an action potential is generated and how a synapse works) will be assumed. It is strongly recommended that students take
BIOL W3004
Neurobiology I: Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, or a similar course, before enrolling in
BIOL W3005
. Students unsure about their backgrounds should check a representative syllabus of
BIOL W3004
on the
BIOL W3004
website (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/w3004/). Website for
BIOL W3005
: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/w3005/index.html

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Darcy B Kelley
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

ACTING LAB

ACTING THE SONG

The Michael Chekhov Technique is a psychophysical approach to acting, emphasizing the connection ,between the actor’s body and the imagination in creating character. Unlike some acting pedagogies which encourage the actor’s personal identification with a character through the use of emotional memory, Chekhov proposes a “transpersonal” approach through investigating qualities of movement, physical sensation, relationship to space and architecture, image, archetype, and gesture. The technique ,bridges the divide between the “inner” and “outer” aspects of an actor’s work, and can be applied ,across performance genres from naturalism to the avant-garde. That is, Chekhov training uses a range of ,movement vocabularies to develop a distinctive set of approaches to the problem of characterization.,• Unlike many courses on offer which address a particular style or genre of writing, this class undertakes the investigation of a specific acting technique, which can then be applied across a range of dramatic genres. ,• This technique bridges the gap between body and imagination, intellect and creativity, and so ,helps to develop the physical dimension of an actor's work. ,• The “transpersonal” approach of this technique does not engage the student’s personal ,psychology in creating a character.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 3 points

ACTING LAB

ACTING CHEKHOV

The Michael Chekhov Technique is a psychophysical approach to acting, emphasizing the connection ,between the actor’s body and the imagination in creating character. Unlike some acting pedagogies which encourage the actor’s personal identification with a character through the use of emotional memory, Chekhov proposes a “transpersonal” approach through investigating qualities of movement, physical sensation, relationship to space and architecture, image, archetype, and gesture. The technique ,bridges the divide between the “inner” and “outer” aspects of an actor’s work, and can be applied ,across performance genres from naturalism to the avant-garde. That is, Chekhov training uses a range of ,movement vocabularies to develop a distinctive set of approaches to the problem of characterization.,• Unlike many courses on offer which address a particular style or genre of writing, this class undertakes the investigation of a specific acting technique, which can then be applied across a range of dramatic genres. ,• This technique bridges the gap between body and imagination, intellect and creativity, and so ,helps to develop the physical dimension of an actor's work. ,• The “transpersonal” approach of this technique does not engage the student’s personal ,psychology in creating a character.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• MW 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: John G Chapman
  Info
• 3 points

ACTING LAB

ACTING MICHAEL CHEKHOV

The Michael Chekhov Technique is a psychophysical approach to acting, emphasizing the connection ,between the actor’s body and the imagination in creating character. Unlike some acting pedagogies which encourage the actor’s personal identification with a character through the use of emotional memory, Chekhov proposes a “transpersonal” approach through investigating qualities of movement, physical sensation, relationship to space and architecture, image, archetype, and gesture. The technique ,bridges the divide between the “inner” and “outer” aspects of an actor’s work, and can be applied ,across performance genres from naturalism to the avant-garde. That is, Chekhov training uses a range of ,movement vocabularies to develop a distinctive set of approaches to the problem of characterization.,• Unlike many courses on offer which address a particular style or genre of writing, this class undertakes the investigation of a specific acting technique, which can then be applied across a range of dramatic genres. ,• This technique bridges the gap between body and imagination, intellect and creativity, and so ,helps to develop the physical dimension of an actor's work. ,• The “transpersonal” approach of this technique does not engage the student’s personal ,psychology in creating a character.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• MW 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: John G Chapman
  Info
• 3 points

GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY

Prerequisites:
BIOL C2005
&
BIOL C2006
or
BIOL F2401
&
BIOL F2402
, or the instructor's permission.
Major physiological systems of vertebrates (circulatory, digestive, hormonal, etc.) with emphasis on cellular and molecular mechanisms and regulation. Readings include research articles from the scientific literature. SCE and TC students may register for this course, but they must first obtain the written permission of the instructor, by filling out a paper Registration Adjustment Form (Add/Drop form). The form can be downloaded at the URL below, but must be signed by the instructor and returned to the office of the registrar. 
http://registrar.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/reg-adjustment.pdf

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Mary Ann Price
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

THIRD YEAR CHINESE W II

Prerequisites:
CHNS W4005
or the equivalent.
Admission after Chinese placement exam and an oral proficiency interview with the instructor. Especially designed for students who possess good speaking ability and who wish to acquire practical writing skills as well as business-related vocabulary and speech patterns. Introduction to semiformal and formal Chinese used in everyday writing and social or business-related occasions. Simplified characters are introduced.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MWF 10:10 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
• Instructor: Hailong Wang
  CULPA: 22 Info
• 5 points

COMPOSITION AND CONVERSATION

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 12 students.
Discussions on contemporary issues and oral presentations. Creative writing assignments designed to improve writing skills and vocabulary development.

• Department: French @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Karen Santos da Silva
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

THIRD YEAR JAPANESE II

Prerequisites:
JPNS W4005
or the equivalent.
Readings in authentic/semi-authentic texts, videos, and class discussions.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MTWR 11:40 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
• MTWR 2:40 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Keiko Okamoto
  CULPA: 13 Info
• Instructor: Kyoko M Loetscher
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 5 points

THIRD YEAR KOREAN II

THIRD YEAR KOREAN N II

Prerequisites:
KORN W1202
or the equivalent and consultation with instructor. (See Entrance to Language Courses Beyond the Elementary Level in the main bulletin under Department of Instruction -- East Asian Languages and Cultures.)
Readings in modern Korean. Selections from modern Korean writings in literature, history, social sciences, culture, and videos and class discussions.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MTWR 10:10 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
• Instructor: Eunice Chung
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 5 points

THIRD YEAR KOREAN II

Prerequisites:
KORN W1202
or the equivalent and consultation with instructor. (See Entrance to Language Courses Beyond the Elementary Level in the main bulletin under Department of Instruction -- East Asian Languages and Cultures.)
Readings in modern Korean. Selections from modern Korean writings in literature, history, social sciences, culture, and videos and class discussions.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MTWR 10:10 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
• Instructor: Beom Lee
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 5 points

QUANTUM PHYSICS

Prerequisites: BC3001 or C2601 or the equivalent.
Wave-particle duality and the Uncertainty Principle. The Schrodinger equation. Basic principles of the quantum theory. Energy levels in one-dimensional potential wells. The harmonic oscillator, photons, and phonons. Reflection and transmission by one-dimensional potential barriers. Applications to atomic, molecular, and nuclear physics.

• Department: Physics and Astronomy @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Reshmi Mukherjee
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia h-index: 63 Info
• 3 points

COMMERCIAL-ECONOMIC FRENCH

Prerequisites: Fourth year French students only; Seniors have priority.
\nEnrollment limited to 12 students.
The socioeconomic language of contemporary French society. Practice of oral and written communications based on documents from the French press. Students who have completed the course may wish to take the Diplome du Francais des Affaires given by the Chambre de Commerce et d Industrie de Paris.

• Department: French @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Isabelle Jouanneau-Fertig
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 3 points

COMPLEX VARIABLES

Prerequisites: <i>MATH UN1202</i>. An elementary course in functions of a complex variable. Fundamental properties of the complex numbers, differentiability, Cauchy-Riemann equations. Cauchy integral theorem. Taylor and Laurent series, poles, and essential singularities. Residue theorem and conformal mapping.(SC)

• Department: Mathematics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Patrick X Gallagher
  CULPA: 46 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SCENE LAB

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-noon
• MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Crystal Finn
  Info
• Instructor: Danaya E Almenares-Mesa
  Info
• 3 points

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES & OPTICS

Prerequisites:
PHYS W3007
.
Maxwell's equations and electromagnetic potentials, the wave equation, propagation of plane waves, reflection and refraction, geometrical optics, transmission lines, wave guides, resonant cavities, radiation, interference of waves, and diffraction.

• Department: Physics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Bradley R Johnson
  Info
• 3 points

FIELD GEOLOGY

This course may be repeated for up to 9 points of credit if taken in different areas. Field study in various geologic settings. Plans for the courses are announced at the beginning of each term. Class size will depend on available space. Priority is given to majors in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia College and School of General Studies. Barnard Environmental Science majors may enroll with the permission of the Barnard Environmental Science department chair. All others require the instructor's permission.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• T 7:30 p.m.-9 p.m.
• 2 points

METHODS FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH

Prerequisites: SOCI W1000 The Social World or Instructor Permission
Required for all Sociology majors.  Introductory course in social scientific research methods. Provides a general overview of the ways sociologists collect information about social phenomena, focusing on how to collect data that are reliable and applicable to our research questions.

• Department: Sociology
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jacob Boersema
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

SHORT PROSE FORMS

Prerequisites: No Prerequisites. Department approval NOT required.
"Flash fiction," "micro-naratives" and the "short-short" have become exciting areas of exploration for contemporary writers.  This course will examine how these literary fragments have captured the imagination of writers internationally and at home.  The larger question the class seeks to answer, both on a collective and individual level, is: How can we craft a working definition of those elements endemic to "short prose" as a genre?  Does the form exceed classification?  What aspects of both crafts -- prose and poetry -- does this genre inhabit, expand upon, reinvent, reject, subvert? Short Prose Forms incorporates aspects of both literary seminar and the creative workshop.  Class-time will be devoted alternatingly to examinations of published pieces and modified discussions of student work.  Our reading chart the course from the genre's emergence, examining the prose poem in 19th-century France through the works of Mallarme, Baudelaire, Max Jacob and Rimbaud.  We'll examine aspects of poetry -- the attention to the lyrical, the use of compression, musicality, sonic resonances and wit -- and attempt to understand how these writers took, as Russell Edson describes, "experience [and] made it into an artifact with the logic of a dream."  The class will conclude with a portfolio at the end of the term, in which students will submit a compendium of final drafts of three of four short prose pieces, samples of several exercises, selescted responses to readings, and a short personal manifesto on the "short prose form.

• Department: Writing
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Alan Ziegler
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

BEHAVIOR BIOL-LIVING PRIMATES

Prerequisites: introductory biology course in organismal biology and the instructor's permission.
Corequisites:
EEEB W3111
.
Survey of non-human primate behavior from the perspective of phylogeny, adaptation, physiology and anatomy, and life history. Focus on the four main problems primates face: finding appropriate food, avoid being eaten themselves, reproducing in the face of competition, and dealing with social partners.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Marina Cords
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 3 points

LITERARY TEXTS&CRIT; MTHDS(SEM)

Corequisites: students who register for
ENGL W3011
must also register for
ENGL W3001
Literary Texts, Critical Methods lecture.
This seminar, led by an advanced graduate student in the English doctoral program, accompanies the faculty lecture
ENGL W3001
. The seminar both elaborates upon the topics taken up in the lecture and introduces other theories and methodologies. It also focuses on training students to integrate the terms, techniques, and critical approaches covered in both parts of the course into their own critical writing, building up from brief close readings to longer research papers.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Taarini Mookherjee
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Rebecca C Pawel
  Info
• Instructor: Gianmarco E Saretto
  Info
• Instructor: Seth S Williams
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 0 points

LITERARY TEXTS&CRIT; MTHDS(SEM)

LITERARY TEXT&CRIT; MTHDS (SEM)

Corequisites: students who register for
ENGL W3011
must also register for
ENGL W3001
Literary Texts, Critical Methods lecture.
This seminar, led by an advanced graduate student in the English doctoral program, accompanies the faculty lecture
ENGL W3001
. The seminar both elaborates upon the topics taken up in the lecture and introduces other theories and methodologies. It also focuses on training students to integrate the terms, techniques, and critical approaches covered in both parts of the course into their own critical writing, building up from brief close readings to longer research papers.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexis M Fabrizio
  Info
• 0 points

INTRO TO MATERIALS SCIENCE II

Introduction to polycrystals and disordered materials; noncrystalline and amorphous structures; grain boundary structures, diffusion; phase transformations; phase diagrams, time-temperature- transformation diagrams; properties of polycrystalline and amorphous materials: mechanical properties and failure, the Drude model of electrical properties, thermal properties; corrosion; materials selection for engineering design.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Ismail C Noyan
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

PROBLEMS IN DRAWING

Prerequisites:
VIAR R1000
.
(Formerly R4005) Students will connect with the very heart of the Western Art tradition, engaging in this critical activity that was the pillar of draftsmanship training from the Renaissance on through the early Modern Era. This pursuit is the common thread that links artists from Michelangelo and Rubens to Van Gogh and Picasso. Rigorous studies will be executed from plaster casts of antique sculptures, and pedagogical engravings. Students will confront foundational issues of academic training; assessing proportion and tonal value, structure and form. Hours will be spent on a single drawing pushing to the highest degree of accuracy in order develop a means for looking at nature. There is a focus on precision and gaining a thorough understanding of the interaction between light and a surface. This approach emphasizes drawing by understanding the subject and the physical world that defines it. While this training has allowed great representational artists of the past to unlock the poetry from the world around them and continues to inspire a surging new realist movement, it can also serve as a new way of seeing and a launching point for achieving creative goals. If the class is full, please visit
http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program
.

• Department: Visual Arts
• T 5 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Edward Minoff
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

TRANSLATION SEMINAR

Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Students do not need to demonstrate bilingual ability to take this course. Department approval NOT needed.
Corequisites: This course is open to undergraduate & graduate students.
This course will explore broad-ranging questions pertaining to the historical, cultural, and political significance of translation while analyzing the various challenges confronted by the art's foremost practitioners.  We will read and discuss texts by writers and theorists such as Benjamin, Derrida, Borges, Steiner, Dryden, Nabokov, Schleiermacher, Goethe, Spivak, Jakobson, and Venuti.  As readers and practitioners of translation, we will train our ears to detect the visibility of invisibility of the translator's craft; through short writing experiments, we will discover how to identify and capture the nuances that traverse literary styles, historical periods and cultures.  The course will culminate in a final project that may either be a critical analysis or an original translation accompanied by a translator's note of introduction.

• Department: Writing
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Elianna Kan
  Info
• 3 points

ADV COMP & GRAMMAR REVIEW

Systematic study of morphology, syntax, and idiomatic expressions. Weekly writing assignments.

• Department: French @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Isabelle Jouanneau-Fertig
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 3 points

FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING

Enables students to become informed users of financial information by understanding the language of accounting and financial reporting. Focuses on the three major financial statements that companies prepare for use of management and external parties—the balance sheet, the income statement, and the statement of cash flows. Examines the underlying concepts that go into the preparation of these financial statements as well as specific accounting rules that apply when preparing financial statements. Also looks at approaches to analyze the financial strength and operations of an entity. Uses actual financial statements to understand how financial information is presented and to apply analysis techniques.

• Department: Columbia College
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Julian Yeo
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

BUSINESS CHINESE II

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MTWR 10 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Zhongqi Shi
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

ECONOMIC HISTORY-UNITED STATES

Prerequisites: ECON BC3035 or ECON BC3033, or permission of the instructor.
Economic transformation of the United States from a small, open agrarian society in the late colonial era to the leading industrial economy of the 20th century. Emphasis is given to the quantitative, institutional, and spatial dimensions of economic growth, and the relationship between the changing structures of the economy and state.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: David Weiman
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 3 points