GALAXIES

Prerequisites: one year of calculus-based general physics.
Galaxies fill the universe with structure. They are bound objects that harbor stars, gas, dust and dark matter. This course will discuss the content and structure of galaxies. It will start with the Milky Way, a rotating spiral galaxy, with a particular emphasis on the properties of the interstellar medium. Dwarf galaxies, the building blocks of larger galaxies, will subsequently be discussed, followed by spiral, elliptical and irregular galaxies. The formation and evolution of these different galaxy types will be an important focus of the course, as well as the environment in which the galaxies reside. We will intersperse reviews of current papers on galaxies throughout the semester.

• Department: Astronomy
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Mary Putman
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 54 Info
• 3 points

THE ART OF THE ESSAY

(Formerly called Essay Writing.) Essay writing above the first-year level. Reading and writing various types of essays to develop one's natural writing voice and craft thoughtful, sophisticated and personal essays.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Aaron C Schneider
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Shelly Fredman
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Wendy C Schor-Haim
  CULPA: 11 Info
• Instructor: Cecelia B Lie
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

FAMILY & SEXUALITY:PRE-MOD EUR

FAMILIES IN EUR & NORTH AMER

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. SEE UNDERGRADUATE SEMINAR SECTION OF THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT'S WEBSITE.
This course examines the meaning of marriage in European culture from the early Middle Ages until the eighteenth century, concentrating on the period from 1200 to 1800. It begins with a study of Jewish and Christian teachings about marriage – the nature of the conjugal bond, the roles of men and women within marriage, and marital sexuality. It traces changes in that narrative over the centuries, analyzes its relationship to actual practice among various social groups, and ends in the eighteenth century with an examination of the ideology of the companionate marriage of modern western culture and its relation to class formation.
Group(s): A

Field(s): EME

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

EXTRASOLAR PLANETS & ASTROBIOL

Prerequisites: One year of calculus-based physics.
The emerging field of extrasolar planets and astrobiology will be covered at a quantitative level, with a major emphasis on astrophysical phenomenae and techniques. The subject will be introduced through an investigation of current planetary formation theories and approaches to planet detection, including what we currently know about extrasolar planets and detailed reference to state-of-the-art studies. An astronomer's view of the origin of life and extreme biology will be developed and applied to questions of cosmo-chemistry, observable life-signatures, habitable zones and other astrophysical constraints on the development of organisms.

• Department: Astronomy
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: David Kipping
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 44 Info
• 3 points

MECHANICS

MECHANICS I

Elements of statics; dynamics of a particle and systems of particles.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• MWF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: James Hone
  CULPA: 11 h-index: 124 Info
• 4 points

FICTION & PERSONAL NARRATIVE

Prerequisites: Writing sample required to apply: required cover sheet and instructions are available here: http://english.barnard.edu/forms-procedures/forms. Students cannot add this course to their schedules until after they are admitted.
In this workshop we will read risky and urgent examples of life writing, from autobiographical fiction to radical and poetic memoir and essay. Some writers we could be reading include Claudia Rankine, Lydia Davis, Hervé Guibert, Chris Kraus, and others. I hope to help you push your texts to their vibrant full potential. We will also be developing an innovative vocabulary to describe the work you're reading and writing. Open to anyone willing to read, write, and rewrite adventurously.

• Department: English @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Katie M Zambreno
  Info
• 3 points

DYNAMICS AND VIBRATIONS

Corequisites: ENME E3105
Kinematics of rigid bodies; momentum and energy methods; vibrations of discrete and continuous systems; eigen-value problems, natural frequencies and modes. Basics of computer simulation of dynamics problems using MATLAB.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew W Smyth
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

APPLIED DATA MINING

Prerequisites: STAT UN2103. Students without programming experience in R might find STAT UN2102 very helpful.
Data Mining is a dynamic and fast growing field at the interface of Statistics and Computer Science. The emergence of massive datasets containing millions or even billions of observations provides the primary impetus for the field. Such datasets arise, for instance, in large-scale retailing, telecommunications, astronomy, computational and statistical challenges. This course will provide an overview of current practice in data mining. Specific topics covered with include databases and data warehousing, exploratory data analysis and visualization, descriptive modeling, predictive modeling, pattern and rule discovery, text mining, Bayesian data mining, and causal inference. The use of statistical software will be emphasized.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Gabriel Young
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

Undergraduate Mentored Research

Prerequisites: the project mentor's permission.
This course provides a mechanism for students who undertake research with a faculty member from the Department of Statistics to receive academic credit.  Students seeking research opportunities should be proactive and entrepreneurial: identify congenial faculty whose research is appealing, let them know of your interest and your background and skills.

• Department: Statistics
• Instructor: Liam M Paninski
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO FICTION WRITING

Prerequisites: Writing sample required to apply: required cover sheet and instructions are available here: http://english.barnard.edu/forms-procedures/forms. Students cannot add this course to their schedules until after they are admitted.
Practice in writing short stories with discussion and close analysis in workshop setting.

• Department: English @Barnard
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Kate Walbert
  Info
• 3 points

THE AFRICANA COLLOQUIUM

COLL: CARIBBEAN WOMEN

Prerequisites: Students must attend first day of class and admission will be decided then. Enrollment limited to 18 students. Priority will be given to Africana majors and CCIS students (Africana Studies, American Studies and Women's Studies majors; minors in Race and Ethnic Studies).

• Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Celia E Naylor
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

INTRO TO POETRY WRITING

Prerequisites: Writing sample required to apply: required cover sheet and instructions are available here: http://english.barnard.edu/forms-procedures/forms. Students cannot add this course to their schedules until after they are admitted.
Our objective in this class is to write new poems each week, and find ways to illuminate and articulate our processes as we go along.  Among the questions we’ll explore:  How do imagination, “real life,” and conscious artifice (among other things) enter into the writing of poems?  How does a poem interface with its reader/listener?  What’s the role of enigma, or even opacity, in poetry?  How much clarity or accessibility is desirable? We’ll read poets representing a range of styles and esthetics, with a slight emphasis on contemporary American work. Regular attendance, full participation in class discussions, keeping an “observations” journal (and sharing writing from it each week), and the submission of a final portfolio of poems written in response to prompts and readings are requirements for earning credit in this class.

• Department: English @Barnard
• T noon-1:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Jessica Greenbaum
  Info
• 3 points

FRENCH NEW WAVE CINEMA

Prerequisites: Satisfaction of Intermediate II level in French
This course traces the emergence and development of “New Wave” cinema in France in the 60s. Through a detailed analysis of some of its most iconic films: 400 Blows, Breathless, Hiroshima mon amour… the course will examine the radical artistic and social innovations of its major “auteurs”; Truffaut, Godard, Resnais et al.

• Department: French @Barnard
• TR 2:10 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Anne Boyman
  CULPA: 16 Info
• 3 points

BEHAVIORAL BIOL-DISC

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• W 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• F 11 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Marina Cords
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 0 points

FICTION SEMINAR

EXERCISES IN STYLE

Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT required.
Raymond Queneau, in his book Exercises in Style, demonstrated that a single story, however unassuming, could be told at least ninety-nine different ways. Even though the content never changed, the mood always did: aggressive, mild, indifferent, lyrical, sensitive, technical, indirect, deceitful. If, as fiction writers, one of our pursuits is to stylize various forms of information, and to call the result a story or novel, it is also tempting, and easy, to adopt trends of style without realizing it, and to possibly presume we operate outside of stylistic restrictions and conventions. Some styles become so commonplace that they no longer seem stylistic. V.S. Naipaul remarked in an interview that he was opposed to style, yet we can't exactly summarize his work based on its content. His manner of telling is sophisticated, subtle, shrewdly indirect, and elegant. He is, in short, a stylist. His brilliance might be to presume that this is the only way to tell a story, and to consider all other ways styles. This course for writers will look at a wide range of prose styles, from conspicuous to subtle ones. We will not only read examples of obviously stylistic prose, but consider as well how the reigning prose norms are themselves stylistic bulwarks, entrenched in the culture for various reasons that might interest us. One project we will undertake, in order to deepen our understanding and approach to style, will be to restylize certain of the passages we read. These short fiction exercises will supplement our weekly readings and will allow us to practice rhetorical tactics, to assess our own deep stylistic instincts, and to possibly dilate the range of locutions available to us as we work.

• Department: Writing
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Ann E Dewitt
  Info
• 3 points

FICTION SEMINAR

THE FIRST PERSON

Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT required.
Today, in the age of memoir, we don't need to apologize for speaking in the first person, but we still need to find a way to make a first person, fictional narrative forceful and focused.  The logic is different, the danger the same: we must find a form that will shape an "I" account and render it rhetorically compelling, giving it the substance and complexity of literary art.  In this seminar, we will begin by reading critical background about the early uses of first-person in fiction.  We will study how these functioned in the societies they commented on, and chart the changing use of first person in western literature from the eighteenth century to today.  Through reading contemporary novels, stories and novellas, we will analyze first person in its various guises: the "I" as witness (reliable or not), as elegist, outsider, interpreter, diarist, apologist, and portraitist.  Towards the end of the semester we will study more unusual forms: first-person plural, first-person omniscient, first-person rotating. We will supplement our reading with craft-oriented observations by master-writers.  Students will complete four to five fiction pieces of their own in which they will implement specific approaches to first-person.  At least two of these will be complete stories; others may be the beginning of a novel or novella or floating scenes.  Students will conference several times with the instructor to discuss their work.

• Department: Writing
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Samuel Lipsyte
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

PLAYWRITING II

Prerequisites: Writing sample required to apply: required cover sheet and instructions are available here: http://english.barnard.edu/forms-procedures/forms. Students cannot add this course to their schedules until after they are admitted.
What makes a play alive? Often a playwright is surprised into their strongest work. The practices of experimentation and analysis, curiosity and audacity lead to new possibilities. Students will read and respond to plays, identifying elements and strategies, and each week bring in fragments and scenes written in response to weekly prompts. By the middle of the semester, students will choose the piece that feels the most viable and develop it into what in most cases will be a thirty page play.  
NOTE: Playwriting I (ENGL 3113) is NOT a prerequisite, and students need not have written a play before.

• Department: English @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Kathleen Tolan
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

EXPERIMENTAL MECH OF MATERIALS

Material behavior and constitutive relations. Mechanical properties of metals and cement composites. Structural materials. Modern construction materials. Experimental investigation of material properties and behavior of structural elements including fracture, fatigue, bending, torsion, buckling.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• R 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Shiho Kawashima
  h-index: 24 Info
• 4 points

FICTION SEMINAR

ECCENTRICS & OUTSIDERS

Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT required.
Some of the greatest works of fiction are narrated by characters who have become unhinged from the norms of society. They may stand apart from the mainstream because of willful eccentricity, madness, even social disgrace, but in each case their alienation provides them with a unique perspective, one that allows the reader to see the world they describe without the dulling lens of convention. We will explore what authors might gain by narrating their works from an "outsider" viewpoint, and we will study how the peculiar form and structure of these books reflects the modernist impulse in literature. This is a seminar designed for fiction writers, so we will spend time talking about not only the artistic merits of these books, but also about how the authors, who include Dostoevsky, Knut Hamsun, Jean Rhys, Denis Johnson, Joy Williams, Samuel Beckett and Amos Tutuola, achieve their specific effects. Over the course of the semester, we will use these texts as a springboard for writing original fiction.

• Department: Writing
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: John W McCormack
  Info
• 3 points

ADV COMPUTER MODELING/ANIMATN

ADV COMPUTER MODELING/ANIMATH

Focus on the use of 3D modeling, animation and simulation technologies for 3D design, 3D analysis, design presentations and manufacturing. Modeling, animation and simulation for mechanical models, structural models, kinematics models, design visualization, and other applications of 3D software technologies. Introduction to advanced 3D modeling and visualization tools such as SolidWorks, Maya, Revit, Photoshop, Illustrator and Final Cut Pro. Different uses and applications taught in the context of engineering design, industrial design, process visualization, assembly visualization and finite element analysis (FEA). Lab fee: $300.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Xose I Bierd
  Info
• 3 points

STORY WRITING II

Prerequisites: Some experience in writing of fiction. Conference hours to be arranged. Writing sample required to apply: required cover sheet and instructions are available here: http://english.barnard.edu/forms-procedures/forms. Students cannot add this course to their schedules until after they are admitted.
Advanced workshop in writing, with emphasis on the short story.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Mary E Keane
  Info
• 3 points

PERCEPTIONS OF ARCHITECTURE

Prerequisites: Designed for but not limited to sophomores; enrollment beyond 60 at the discretion of the instructor.
Introduction to various methods by which we look at, experience, analyze, and criticize architecture and the built environment; development of fluency with architectural concepts. Attendance is mandatory at the first class meeting in order to form class registration lists.

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• 3 points

SCREENWRITING

Prerequisites: FILM BC3201 or equivalent. Enrollment limited to 12 students. Priority is given to Film Studies majors/concentrations in order of class seniority.
Corequisites: (Since this is a Film course, it does not count as a writing course for English majors with a Writing Concentration.)
Practical workshop in dramatic writing for the screen. Through exercises and games specifically catered to the writing of scenes and concrete scene work, students explore and develop an understanding for the basic principles of screenwriting, learn how to find the right form and structure for each story, and how to achieve thematic richness, emotional depth, and narrative rhythm. By the end of the class students will have written a 10-12 page short and/or have material for the development of a feature screenplay.

• Department: Film @Barnard
• W 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Christina Kallas
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

TRANSPORT PHENOMENA II

Corequisites: CHEN E3020
Developments in Transport I are extended to handle turbulence. Topics include: Turbulent energy cascade, wall-bounded turbulent shear flow, time-averaging of the equations of change, Prandtl's mixing length hypothesis for the Reynolds stress, the Reynolds analogy, continuum modeling of turbulent flows and heat transfer processes, friction factor, and Nusselt number correlations for turbulent conditions. Then macroscopic (system-level) mass, momentum, and energy balances for one-component systems are developed and applied to complex flows and heat exchange processes. The final part focuses on mass transport in mixtures of simple fluids: Molecular-level origins of diffusion phenomena, Fick's law and its multicomponent generalizations, continuum-level framework for mixtures and its application to diffusion dominated processes, diffusion with chemical reaction, and forced/free convection mass transport.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Kyle Bishop
  h-index: 42 Info
• 3 points

FEATURE FILM SCREENWRITING

Prerequisites: FILM BC3201 or equivalent. Enrollment limited to 12 students. Priority is given to Film Studies majors/concentrations in order of class seniority.
Corequisites: (Since this is a Film course, it does not count as a writing course for English majors with a Writing Concentration.)
Workshop in feature film writing. Students will enter the course with a story idea, ready to start a feature screenplay. Through lectures and workshop discussions, the course will critique the details of character development and scene construction. Analysis of student work will prompt generalized conversations/lectures on the fundamentals of film writing. Emphasis will be placed on character as the engine of story.

• Department: Film @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Rubeintz Philippe
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

CENS/FREEDOM-EXPR-ERLY MOD EUR

In this course we will examine theoretical and historical developments that framed the notions of censorship and free expression in early modern Europe. In the last two decades, the role of censorship has become one of the significant elements in discussions of early modern culture. The history of printing and of the book, of the rise national-political cultures and their projections of control, religious wars and denominational schisms are some of the factors that intensified debate over the free circulation of ideas and speech. Indexes, Inquisition, Star Chamber, book burnings and beheadings have been the subjects of an ever growing body of scholarship.
Field(s): EME

• Department: History
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Elisheva Carlebach
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

FIGURE PAINTING

Prerequisites:
VIAR R1000
and
VIAR R2100
.
(Formerly R3210) Course provides the experience of employing a wide range of figurative applications that serve as useful tools for the contemporary artist. Non-Western applications, icon painting, and the European/American traditions are presented. Individual and group critiques.Portfolio required at end. 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: Anna C Glantz
  Info
• 3 points

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS

Methods of structural analysis. Trusses, arches, cables, frames; influence lines; deflections; force method; displacement method; computer applications.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria Q Feng
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 46 Info
• 3 points

PUBLIC SPEAKING

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 14 students. Open only to undergraduates, preference to seniors and juniors. Attend first class for instructor permission. Registering for the course only through myBarnard or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment.
This course will introduce you to principles of effective public speaking and debate, and provide practical opportunities to use these principles in structured speaking situations. You will craft and deliver speeches, engage in debates and panel discussions, analyze historical and contemporary speakers, and reflect on your own speeches and those of your classmates. You will explore and practice different rhetorical strategies with an emphasis on information, persuasion and argumentation. For each speaking assignment, you will go through the speech-making process, from audience analysis, purpose and organization, to considerations of style and delivery. The key criteria in this course are content, organization, and adaptation to the audience and purpose. While this is primarily a performance course, you will be expected to participate extensively as a listener and critic, as well as a speaker.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Daniela Kempf
  Info
• 3 points

LITERATURE&CULTURES; OF STRUGGLE IN S.AFR

Generations of resistance have shaped contemporary life in South Africa -- in struggles against colonialism, segregation, the legislated racism known as apartheid, and the entrenched inequalities of the post-apartheid era. Two constants in this history of struggle have been youth as a vanguard of liberation movements and culture as a "weapon of struggle." As new generation of South African youth -- the "born frees" -- has now taken to the streets and social media to "decolonize" the university and claim their education as a meaningful right, this course traces the ways that generations of writers, artists, and activists have faced censorship, exile, and repression in an ongoing struggle to dismantle apartheid and to free the mind, "the most powerful weapon in the hands of the oppressor" according to Black Consciousness activist Steve Biko. This course traces the profoundly important roles that literature and other cultural production (music, photography, film, comics, Twitter hashtags like #rhodesmustfall and #feesmustfall) have played in struggle against apartheid and its lingering afterlife. Although many of our texts were originally written in English, we will also discuss the historical forces, including nineteenth-century Christian missions and Bantu Education, as well as South Africa's post-1994 commitment to being a multilingual democracy, that have shaped the linguistic texture of South African cultural life.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer Wenzel
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 15 Info
• 3 points

CREATV NONFIC:GENDERED MEMOIR

Prerequisites: Writing sample required to apply: required cover sheet and instructions are available here: http://english.barnard.edu/forms-procedures/forms. Students cannot add this course to their schedules until after they are admitted.
A workshop in writing short autobiographical story with particular attention to the role gender plays in shaping experience. Focus on student writing, along with readings from the work of authors such as Augusten Buroughs; Alice Sebold; Alison Bechdel; Mary Karr, and others.
,PLEASE NOTE: This course has been renumbered. It was previously ENGL BC3120, section 3 and has not changed in content.

• Department: English @Barnard
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer F Boylan
  Info
• 3 points

CITIZENSHIP,RIGHTS & IMMIGRATN

Our political discourse is inundated with talk of citizenship. In this course we will examine various theories of citizenship, paying particular attention to the way the increasing complexity and multiculturalism of societies have challenged our understanding of this concept. We will also consider how different conceptions of citizenship address the challenges raised by both global and local forces. After an overview of different theories of citizenship, we explore the debates about political rights and representation for oppressed groups and minorities and consider the nationalist and cosmopolitan understandings of civic identity. What should be the criteria for citizenship? What rights should citizens have? Does citizenship require boundaries? Does democratic citizenship demand a particular kind of patriotism? What rights should illegal immigrants have? What role does the court play in defining citizenship rights? Can there be global or transnational citizenship? Though the primary focus will be to explore normative theories of citizenship, we will briefly consider how the European Union and the United States are dealing with some of the pressing issues regarding citizenship: immigration and assimilation.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria G Kowalski
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

FIRST NOVELS: HOW THEY WORK

• Department: Writing
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Emily Gould
  Info
• 3 points

UTOPIAN LITERATURE

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Ronald D Briggs
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

STRUCTURAL DESIGN

Design criteria for varied structural applications, including buildings and bridges; design of elements using steel, concrete, masonry, wood, and other materials.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Tom T Panayotidi
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

BOOK HISTORY&THE; CLASSICS

Prerequisites: ,HUMA CC1001 or HUMA GS1001 or COCI CC1101
This seminar will introduce students of classical literature to the history of the Western book, and to the relationship between book history and the transmission and reception history of the literature of ancient Greece and Rome.  Students will also learn how to make use of rare books materials including manuscripts and early printed books......

• Department: Classics
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph A Howley
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED POETRY WRITING

ADVANCED POETRY WRITING II

Prerequisites: Writing sample required to apply: required cover sheet and instructions are available here: http://english.barnard.edu/forms-procedures/forms. Students cannot add this course to their schedules until after they are admitted.
A further study of poetic practice for committed student-writers with experience in writing and reading poems. In the classroom, student poems and ideas about poetics are shared, questioned, and critiqued. There will also be readings in and critical interpretation of traditional and contemporary poetry.

• Department: English @Barnard
• R 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Catherine Barnett
  Info
• 3 points

COMPUTER-AIDED STRUCTRL DESIGN

COMPUTER AIDED STRUCTRL DESIGN

Corequisites: CIEN E3125
Introduction to software for structural analysis and design with lab. Applications to the design of structural elements and connections. Lab required.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: George Deodatis
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 42 Info
• 1 points

ADV PROJECTS PROSE WRITING

Prerequisites: Writing sample required to apply: required cover sheet and instructions are available here: http://english.barnard.edu/forms-procedures/forms. Students cannot add this course to their schedules until after they are admitted.
Independent projects in imaginative writing in prose, including the genres of fiction, nonfiction, memoir, novellas, inter-related stories, and others. Class meetings consist of a few initial lectures on narrative followed by workshops focused on student writing in progress.

• Department: English @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer F Boylan
  Info
• 3 points

DESIGN PROJECTS

Capstone design project in civil engineering. This project integrates structural, geotechnical and environmental/water resources design problems with construction management tasks and sustainability, legal and other social issues. Project is completed in teams, and communication skills are stressed. Outside lecturers will address important current issues in engineering practice. Every student in the course will be exposed with equal emphasis to issues related to geotechnical engineering, water resources / environmental engineering, structural engineering, and construction engineering and management.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• W 10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Tom T Panayotidi
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

HIST-WEST MUS:CLASSICAL-20TH C

Prerequisites:
MUSI V2318-2319
. May be taken before or concurrently with this course.
Topics in Western music from the Classical era to the present day, focusing on the development of musical style and thought, and on analysis of selected works.

• Department: Music
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Walter M Frisch
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 3 points

AMER COWBOY/ICONOG OF WEST

THE AMERICAN COWBOY

We will consider the image and role of the cowboy in fiction, social history, film, music, and art. Readings will include Cormac McCarthy's "The Border Trilogy.

• Department: English @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Margaret R Ellsberg
  CULPA: 54 Info
• 3 points

THIRD-YEAR CONVERSATION FR II

Prerequisites: completion of the language requirement in French or the equivalent.
Conversation on contemporary French subjects based on readings in current popular French periodicals.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Joshua D Jordan
  Info
• Instructor: Alexandra Borer
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 2 points

GENDERED CONTROVERSIES

Investigates the significance of contemporary and historical issues of social, political, and cultural conflicts centered on women's bodies. How do such conflicts constitute women, and what do they tell us about societies, cultures, and politics? - D. Ko

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Janet Jakobsen
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

DATA STRUCTURES IN JAVA

Prerequisites:
COMS W1004
or knowledge of Java.
Data types and structures: arrays, stacks, singly and doubly linked lists, queues, trees, sets, and graphs. Programming techniques for processing such structures: sorting and searching, hashing, garbage collection. Storage management. Rudiments of the analysis of algorithms. Taught in Java. Note: Due to significant overlap, students may receive credit for only one of the following three courses:
COMS W3134
,
COMS W3136
,
COMS W3137
.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul S Blaer
  CULPA: 46 h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

CREATIVE NON-FICTION

Prerequisites: Prerequisites: Writing sample required to apply: required cover sheet and instructions are available here: http://english.barnard.edu/forms-procedures/forms. Students cannot add this course to their schedules until after they are admitted.
In this course, we'll learn some of the techniques involved in writing an entertaining, informative profile.  Topics we will cover in reading and writing assignments will include the question of "objectivity" in profile-writing, how to convey complex controversies in lucid, lively prose, how to structure a long form article, strategies for interviewing difficult interview subjects, and what makes an enticing lede.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Zoe K Heller
  Info
• 3 points

HONORS DATA STRUCTURES & ALGOL

DATA STRUCTURES/ALGORITHMS

Prerequisites:
COMS W1004 or W1007
.
Corequisites:
COMS W3203
.
An honors introduction to data types and structures: arrays, stacks, singly and doubly linked lists, queues, trees, sets, and graphs. Programming techniques for processing such structures: sorting and searching, hashing, garbage collection. Storage management. Design and analysis of algorithms. Taught in Java. Note: Due to significant overlap, students may receive credit for only one of the following three courses:
COMS W3134
,
W3136
, or
W3137
.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Bauer
  CULPA: 17 h-index: 13 Info
• 4 points

BALLET V

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• F 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Brian Reeder
  Info
• Instructor: Antonio Carmena
  Info
• Instructor: Allegra Kent
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 0-1 points

INTRODUCTION VOCAL REPERTOIRE

This course is designed for developing singers. Group vocalizing, learning of songs and individual workshop performances are aimed at improving the student's  technical skill and the elements necessary to create a meaningful musical and dramatic experience. Attention to text, subtext, emotional and psychological aspects of a piece and the performer's  relationship to the audience are included in the work. Repertoire is predominantly in English and comes from both classical and popular traditions Individual coaching sessions are available with the class accompanist and help strengthen the students' confidence and skill. The class culminates with an in-class performance.

• Department: Music @Barnard
• F 2 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Josephine Mongiardo
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

VOCAL REPERTOIRE, TECHNIQUE

Vocal exercises and exploration of wide-ranging repertoires, styles, and languages of the Western European song tradition. The rich variety of English, French, Italian and German poetry and music from the Baroque period through the Twentieth Century allows the student to experience both the music and the cultural environment of each of these styles. Attention is given both to meaning oftext and musical interpretation. Individual coaching sessions are available with the class accompanist and help strengthen the students' confidence and skill. The class culminates with an in-class performance.

• Department: Music @Barnard
• F 12:15 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Jean-Paul Bjorlin
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• 3 points

SOIL MECHANICS

Index properties and classification; compaction; permeability and seepage; effective stress and stress distribution; shear strength of soil; consolidation; slope stability.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Waiching Sun
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 30 Info
• 4 points

BALLET VI

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Cynthia Anderson
  Info
• Instructor: Ashley Tuttle
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 0-1 points

MAJOR ENGLISH TEXTS II

A chronological view of the variety of English literature through study of selected writers and their works. Spring: Romantic poets through the present.

• Department: English @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Margaret R Ellsberg
  CULPA: 54 Info
• 3 points

LITERATURE & VIOLENCE

This course examines the ways in which literary works engage with the matter of violence. The texts have been chosen for the intensity with which they confront the ethical and political dilemmas relation the act of violence, and indeed, the justification of violence. Topics to be considered include terrorism and revolutionary militancy, arguments for and against the death penalty, acts of vengeance, cruelty, and torture. Texts are drawn from a wide variety of cultural, linguistic, and historical contexts - classical Greek tragedy, European literature of the 19
th
century, works set in Franco-phone Algeria, and in early 20
th
century China, among others. The course also addresses different genres, including theater, narrative prose, and poetry, as well as photography. Further aspects of the topic will be developed in connection with recent philosophical writing on violence.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Brian D O'Keeffe
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 3 points

CLASSIC VARIATIONS

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ashley Tuttle
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 0-1 points

BLACK THEATRE

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 16 students.
Exploration of Black Theater, specifically African-American performance traditions, as an intervening agent in racial, cultural, and national identity. African-American theatre artists to be examined include Amiri Baraka, Kia Corthron, W.E.B. Du Bois, Angelina Grimke, Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Adrienne Kennedy, Suzan-Lori Parks, Adrian Piper, and August Wilson. Fulfills one (of two) required courses in dramatic literature for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts major.

• Department: English @Barnard
• R 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Pamela Cobrin
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

WORLDMUSE ENSEMBLE

Worldmuse Ensemble delves into compelling music from many genres such as world music, gospel, classical--old and new. We perform without a conductor, increasing awareness and interaction among ourselves and our audience. We collaboratively integrate music, dance, and theatre traditions (masks etc.). For experienced singers, and instrumentalists and dancers who sing.

• Department: Music @Barnard
• F 2:15 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jean-Paul Bjorlin
  Info
• 3 points

WALK THIS WAY

What's in a walk?  This course undertakes an interdisciplinary study of a fundamental human activity, focusing on philosophical and aesthetic treatments of human locomotion.  After first examining the history of walking as a social, economic, religious, and political activity, the course will concentrate on urban walking and how it has been represented in text and image from ancient times to the present.  Topics will include walking as introspection, escape, recreation, and discovery; walking and gender; the psychogeography of walking, walking in the city, etc.  Readings from Austen, Wordsworth, Dickens, Thoreau, Whitman, Joyce, Woolf, O'Hara, De Certeau, and many others.  Images from film, painting, and photography to be provided by student research.  Ditto for musical strolls.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: William C Sharpe
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 11 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO NARRATIVE MEDICINE

Prerequisites: Post-bacc students require instructor permission.
Narrative Medicine was designed to give doctors and healthcare professionals a more profound understanding of, and empathy for, the experience of illness. It teaches how to listen and what to listen for. While the skills developed are directly applicable to the practice of medicine, they are also important in any field in which human relationships are central: business, law, architecture, social work, and the creative arts. The multidisciplinary course entails a rigorous integration of didactic and experiential methodology to develop a heightened awareness of self and others and build a practical set of narrative competencies.

• Department: English @Barnard
• T noon-1:50 p.m.
• 4 points

ADVANCED STUDIO

Prerequisites: Permission of Department.
May be repeated for credit up to four times.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• Instructor: Kate A Glasner
  CULPA: 31 Info
• 0-1 points

WESTERN THEATRE TRADITIONS

WESTRN THEATRE TRAD: MODERN

Dialectical approach to reading and thinking about the history of dramatic theatre in the west, interrogating the ways poetry inflects, and is inflected by, the material dynamics of performance. We will undertake careful study of the practices of performance, and of the sociocultural, economic, political, and aesthetic conditions animating representative plays of the Western tradition from the late eighteenth century to today; course will also emphasize development of important critical concepts for the analysis of drama, theatre, and performance. Specific attention will be given to the ideology of realism and naturalism, the development of epic theatre, the theatre of cruelty, postcolonial performance, and the continuing invention of dramatic forms (theatre of the absurd, speechplays, postdramatic theatre), as well as to the political and theoretical impact of race, gender, sexuality in modern performance culture. Writing: 2-3 papers; Reading: 1-2 plays, critical and historical reading per week; final examination. Fulfills one (of two) Theatre History requirements for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Hana Worthen
  Info
• 3 points

BYZANTINE ENCOUNTERS

This seminar examines Middle Eastern and Latin Western encounters with Byzantine society and culture, focusing on the 6th-15th centuries. When merchants, pilgrims, scholars, diplomats, and soldiers visited the lands of the Greek-Christian-Roman empire of the Eastern Mediterranean (today called Byzantium), what did they see? And what did the rest of the world look like to the Byzantines? We will study primary sources left by medieval Greeks, Arabs, Latins, and others, critically examining the hermeneutical acts involved in each cultural encounter, in order to probe the meaning and significance of these encounters in western Eurasian society and culture. Interested students can apply to take the seminar here:  
https://goo.gl/forms/ECk3ISsoghel2Enf2

• Department: History
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexandre Roberts
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

PSYCH ASPECTS HUMAN SEXUALITY

Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing, BC1001 and two other psychology courses and permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 20 students.
This seminar is a critical examination of research and theory in human sexuality.  The first part of the course is an overview of influential social science research on sexuality during the 20th century.  The second part is a detailed investigation of contemporary research and writing on selected issues in human sexual behavior, including sexual socialization, gender and sexuality, and contemporary approaches to understanding psychosexual disorders.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Wendy McKenna
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 4 points

NAZISM IN PERFORMANCE

Prerequisites: Course enrollment limited to 16; permission of instructor given at first class meeting.
Explores the cultivation of national and transnational performances as a significant force of National Socialism, at the same time as challenging the notion of “Nazi Theatre” as monolithic formation. The core of the course inquires into the dialectical analysis of artistic creations in diverse art genres, while working towards an understanding of the social dramaturgy of such events as staging the Führer and the racialized body of the privileged people. Nazism did not harbor ideologies without benefits for the allied nations. Thus, the dynamic performance of transnationalism among the “brothers in arms” will be included as well, in order to elucidate how works of art crossing into the Third Reich were reimagined, sometimes in ways challenging to the presumed values of the state stage. Fulfills one (of two) required courses in dramatic literature for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts major.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Hana Worthen
  Info
• 4 points

TRADITIONAL INDIAN PERFORMNCE

Course provides a perspective on traditional forms of Indian performance from classical theory to contemporary traditional practices. Course covers Sanskrit drama, Kathakali, Ramlila, and Chhau; extensive video of performances and guest practitioners. Fulfills one course in World Theatre requirement for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Shayoni Mitra
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED PROGRAMMING

Prerequisites: two semesters of programming experience (COMS W3134/W3137 Data Structures strongly recommended). C programming language and Unix systems programming.  Also covers Git, Make, TCP/IP networking basics, C++ fundamentals.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jae W Lee
  CULPA: 42 Info
• 4 points

DESIGN PROJECT

Prerequisites: Senior standing. Written permission from instructor and approval from adviser.
E3156: a design problem in materials science or metallurgical engineering selected jointly by the student and a professor in the department. The project requires research by the student, directed reading, and regular conferences with the professor in charge. E3157: completion of the research, directed reading, and conferences, culminating in a written report and an oral presentation to the department.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: James Im
  Info
• 3 points

LANGUAGES OF LOSS

Prerequisites: Sophomore standing
A study of the genre of elegy across time and cultures. Emphasis on how poets express grief and relate to literary traditions. Comparisons of European, Chinese, and American elegies (by Theocritus, Milton, Qu Yuan, Holderlin, Wordsworth, Whitman, Bishop, and others) and discussions of the relationship between singular and collective life.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Emily Sun
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

THE ENGLISH COLLOQUIUM

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to Barnard English majors.
In the Enlightenment colloquium we will look at English and European imaginative and intellectual life during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. During this period, writers tried in new ways to reconcile the tensions between reason and religion. Categories of thought that underlie our world today were taking shape: secularity, progress, the public and the private, individual rights, religious tolerance. Writers articulated principles of equality in an era of slavery. Literary forms like the novel, which emerges into prominence during this period, express in irreducibly complex ways these and other changes. In this intensive course, we will study from multiple angles a variety of authors that may include Hobbes, Dryden, Locke, Spinoza, Lafayette, Defoe, Swift, Pope, Richardson, Voltaire, Fielding, Johnson, Diderot, Sterne, and Wollstonecraft, among others.

• Department: English @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• W noon-1:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Aaron C Schneider
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Maire Jaanus
  CULPA: 15 Info
• Instructor: James G Basker
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Achsah Guibbory
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 4 points

SHAKESPEARE I

A critical and historical introduction to Shakespeare's comedies, histories, tragedies, and romances.
,Please note that you do
not
need to take ENGL BC3163: Shakespeare I and ENGL BC3164: Shakespeare II in sequence; you may take them in any order.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Rachel Eisendrath
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

THEORIES OF PERFORMANCE STUDIES

THEORIES PERFORMNC STUDIES

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 16 students.
Course surveys the wide range of genres and categories addressed by the practice of modern "performance studies"; it introduces a number of performance practices, as well as relevant interdisciplinary methodologies. Students consider live performances as well as a number of mediated works, learning to think critically and creatively about the relation between text, technology, and the body. Course fulfills the Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts major requirement in Drama, Theatre, Theory.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Shayoni Mitra
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

NATLSM,REPUBLCNSM&COSMOPOLTNSM;

NATLSM,REPBLCNSM,COSMOPOLTNSM

Do we have obligations to our co-nationals that we do not owe to others? Might our loyalties or obligations to our fellow citizens be based on a commitment to shared political principles and common public life rather than national identity? Do we have basic duties that are owed equally to human beings everywhere, regardless of national or political affiliation? Do our commitments to co-nationals or compatriots conflict with those duties we might owe to others, and if so, to what extent? Is cosmopolitanism based on rationality and patriotism based on passion? This course will explore these questions from the perspectives of nationalism, republicanism and cosmopolitanism. We will consider historical works from Herder, Rousseau, Kant, Fichte, Mill, Mazzini and Renan; and more contemporary contributions from Berlin, Miller, Canovan, MacIntyre, Viroli, Sandel, Pettit, Habermas, Nussbaum, Appiah, and Pogge, among others.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Jessica L Kimpell
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

THE GREAT KEYBOARD TRADITION

Prerequisites: one year music theory or equivalent 3000 level course
This 3000 level course is open to undergraduate students who have completed one year of Music Theory or equivalent. The class is a chronological survey of music for the piano and its predecessors, from the Renaissance to the present. It consists of lectures, discussion, reading and listening, analysis and performance projects, exploration of period instruments, musical styles, and repertoire. Comparative listening of great performers and their legendary interpretations will aid the discussion of the piano idiom and performance practice. Attention will be given to elements of style and form, historical background, and issues of performance. There will be a class outing to the Metropolitan Museum’s instrument collection. Please prepare for each session by completing the listening and reading assignments, in order to be able to participate in class discussion. All required readings are available in the Gabe M. Wiener Music Arts Library (call numbers provided in the bibliography section).

• Department: Music
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Magdalena Baczewska
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

VICTORIAN AGE IN LITERATURE

THE VICTORIAN NOVEL

This course explores important works from one of the most vibrant periods in the history of the novel. Beginning with Jane Austen, the most significant transitional figure from the preceding period, other authors may include Gaskell, Dickens, C. Brontë, Eliot, Hardy, and James. While attending to form and style, we will focus on the relation of these fictional worlds to the social realities of the time, and on how the novels reflect and challenge Victorian ideas about self and society, education, ambition and social class, femininity and desire, labor and domesticity.

• Department: English @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Mary E Cregan
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 3 points

AMERICAN LITERATURE 1800-1870

Beginning with literature from the late Republican period, this course considers how nascent efforts to forge a national identity culminate in Civil War.  Writers include Brown, Irving, Emerson, Poe, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Douglass, Melville, Jacobs, Whitman, and Dickinson.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Margaret S Vandenburg
  CULPA: 59 Info
• 3 points

US & INTL LEGAL SYSTEM

• Department: Columbia College
• MW 1:20 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew Waxman
  Wikipedia h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

MODRN BRITISH & AMERCAN POETRY

Poetry written in English during the past century, discussed in the context of modernism, postmodernism, literary theory, and changing social and technological developments.  Students will participate in shaping the syllabus and leading class discussion.  Authors may include Yeats, Williams, Eliot, Moore, Bishop, Rich, Ginsberg, Stevens, O' Hara, Plath, Brooks, Jordan, Walcott, Alexie, and many others.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: William C Sharpe
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 11 Info
• 3 points

CONSERVATION BIOLOGY-DISC

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• W 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• R 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Sacha Spector
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 0 points

THE MODERN NOVEL

Examines formal changes in the novel from nineteenth-century realism to stream of consciousness, montage, and other modernist innovations. Social and historical contexts include World War I, urbanization, sexuality and the family, empire and colonialism. Works of Henry James, E. M. Forster, Ford Madox Ford, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce.

• Department: English @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Mary Gordon
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

POSTMODERNISM

This course considers how Postmodernism's profound distrust of language and narrative transforms the form and function of literature. Writers include Barthelme, Pynchon, Didion, Morrison, Robinson, Banville, Coetzee, Ishiguro, Hass, and Hejinian.
,

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Margaret S Vandenburg
  CULPA: 59 Info
• 3 points

COMPOSNG THE SELF-ERLY MOD EUR

This course explores manners of conceiving and being a self in early modern Europe (ca. 1400-1800). Through the analysis of a range of sources, from autobiographical writings to a selection of theological, philosophical, artistic, and literary works, we will address the concept of personhood as a lens through which to analyze topics such as the valorization of interiority, the formation of mechanist and sensationalist philosophies of selfhood, and, more generally, the human person's relationship with material and existential goods. This approach is intended to deepen and complicate our understanding of the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, and other movements around which histories of the early modern period have typically been narrated.

• Department: History
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Charly J Coleman
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

INT'L HUMAN RIGHTS LAW

This course will introduce students to the international law of human rights, and give a basic orientation to fundamental issues and controversies. The course has two principal focal points: first, the "nuts and bolts" of how international law functions in the field of human rights, and second, the value and limitations of legal approaches to a variety of human rights issues. Throughout the course, both theoretical and practical questions will be addressed, including who bears legal duties and who can assert legal claims, how these duties might be enforced, and accountability and remedy for violations. Attention will be given to how international law is made, what sorts of assumptions underlie various legal mechanisms, and how the law works in a variety of contexts.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Dinah R Po Kempner
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

CRITICAL WRITING

(Formerly called Literary Criticism & Theory.) Provides experience in the reading and analysis of literary texts and some knowledge of conspicuous works of literary criticism. Frequent short papers. Required of all English majors before the end of the junior year. Sophomores are encouraged to take it in the spring semester even before officially declaring their major. Transfer students should plan to take it in the fall semester.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• M noon-1:50 p.m.
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Rachel Eisendrath
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Andrew L Lynn
  CULPA: 17 Info
• Instructor: Stefan Pedatella
  CULPA: 36 Info
• Instructor: John J Pagano
  CULPA: 27 Info
• 4 points