IND STUDIES-CIVIL ENGIN-JUNIOR

A project on civil engineering subjects approved by the chairman of the department. Lab fee: $200.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• Instructor: Shiho Kawashima
  h-index: 24 Info
• Instructor: Waiching Sun
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 30 Info
• Instructor: Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou
  h-index: 26 Info
• Instructor: Xuan Di
  h-index: 15 Info
• Instructor: Julius Chang
  Info
• Instructor: Xose I Bierd
  Info
• 1-3 points

JUDAISM TRANSLTN MDVL & MOD MED

JUDAISM TRANSLTN MDVL MED

The course explores both the practice of translation (the rendering of texts from one language to another) and the idea of translation (as a medium of cultural transmission) in the medieval and early modern Mediterranean.

• Department: Religion
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Isabelle C Levy
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

IND STUDIES-CIVIL ENGIN-SENIOR

A project on civil engineering subjects approved by the chairman of the department. Lab fee: $200.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• Instructor: Raimondo Betti
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 31 Info
• Instructor: Gautam Dasgupta
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 19 Info
• Instructor: George Deodatis
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 42 Info
• Instructor: Patricia J Culligan
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Maria Q Feng
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 46 Info
• Instructor: Hoe I Ling
  h-index: 45 Info
• Instructor: Andrew W Smyth
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Upmanu Lall
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia h-index: 68 Info
• Instructor: Huiming Yin
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 25 Info
• Instructor: Haim Waisman
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 29 Info
• Instructor: Jacob Fish
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 54 Info
• Instructor: Shiho Kawashima
  h-index: 24 Info
• Instructor: Waiching Sun
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 30 Info
• Instructor: Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou
  h-index: 26 Info
• Instructor: Xuan Di
  h-index: 15 Info
• Instructor: Julius Chang
  Info
• Instructor: Xose I Bierd
  Info
• 1-3 points

THE EUROPEAN ENLIGHTENMENT

This course will include an in-depth examination of some major tinkers and texts of the French, Germans, and Scottish Enlightenments. By reading works of Montesquieu, Voltaire, Lessing, Mendelssohn, and Hume, we will examine their radically divergent responses to the central intellectual quandries of their day, and in many ways our own: the realtionship between rationalism, science, and faith; religion and the state; the individual and the polity; cosmopolitanism and particularism; pluralism and relativism; and the meaning of liberty.
Group(s): A, B

• Department: History
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Charly J Coleman
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

PROJECT LAB MOLECULAR GENETCS

Prerequisites: BIOL BC2100 or permission of instructor. Enrollment limited to 16.
Laboratory course in which students conduct original research projects in molecular genetics. Students will participate in experimental design, conduct and data analysis, and work with key techniques for studying gene structure, expression and function such as nucleic acid extraction and synthesis, cloning, bioinformatics analysis, PCR and qPCR. Students will present their results orally and in writing. Enrollment in both semesters (BIOL BC3305 and BIOL BC3306) of this full-year course is required, and fulfills two upper-level lab courses for the Barnard Biology major. Must be taken in sequence, beginning in the fall. -B. Morton, J. Mansfield

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• W 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer H Mansfield
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 15 Info
• 3 points

LITERARY PLAYGROUNDS

How do we represent the self? This comparative course explores different visual modes for representing the self in autobiographical writing. We will look at how authors visually represent themselves in autobiographies that include photographs, graphic memoirs, and autobiographical films to investigate questions about self-creation, referentiality, and the tension between fact and fiction inherent in any autobiographical project. Throughout the course we will focus on the relationship between word and image,the trope of the photograph album and the attempt to understand the self in relation to the family, and the use of images to imagine or invent the past. Themes of memory, imagination, fantasy, nostalgia, trauma, and loss will demand our attention, and we will chart how these concerns transform across the different media. We will explore these themes across a range of materials, including: texts by Vladimir Mayakovsky, Vladimir Nabokov, Roland Barthes, Gary Shteyngart, Alison Bechdel, Nina Bunjevac, and Art Spiegelman; films by Andrei Tarkovsky, Federico Fellini, Dominique Cabrera, and Jean-Luc Godard; and theoretical texts by Philippe Lejeune, Paul de Man,André Bazin,and Susan Sontag. No prerequisites required. All readings will be in English

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Benjamin D Lussier
  Info
• 3 points

GENOMICS AND BIOINFORMATICS

Prerequisites: BIOL BC1500, BIOL BC1501, BIOL BC1502, BIOL BC1503 and BIOL BC2100.
Advanced topics in genetics focusing on genome-level features and methods of sequence analysis. The primary emphasis of the course will be on microbial genomic and metagenomic applications but many of the techniques will be applicable to eukaryotic genomics and medical genomics as well. Through this course students will become comfortable with the command line interface, learn basic programming skills, be exposed to a variety of online tools, and become proficient in a number of genomic software packages. This course is an upper-level laboratory.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew Rhodes
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

RUSSIAN LITERATURE: A TRAVEL GUIDE

The twentieth century was a time of unprecedented mobility. Russian writers and thinkers had historically traveled and lived abroad, but the 1917 Revolution and
subsequent civil war produced a new community of Russian émigrésand exiles in Western Europe. Berlin and Paris became the new loci of their artistic production as
large numbers of writers and artists founded new Russian communities in these cities. This “7irst wave” of Russian emigration was followed by a second only twenty
years later during WWII, a third in the 1970s, and yet another in the wake of the collapse of the USSR. Since the 1990s, former Soviet and now Russian citizens have
found themselves not only in Western European cities, but increasingly in America and Israel as well. These non-Russian places have played an important role in the
texts produced by Russian authors and 7ilm-makers throughout the twentieth century.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Mie Mortensen
  Info
• 3 points

COLL: PUBLIC OPIN & REPRSNTN

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Katherine L Krimmel
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

VIROLOGY

Prerequisites: two semesters of a rigorous, molecularly-oriented introductory biology course (such as
C2005
), or the instructor's permission.
The course will emphasize the common reactions that must be completed by all viruses for successful reproduction within a host cell and survival and spread within a host population. The molecular basis of alternative reproductive cycles, the interactions of viruses with host organisms, and how these lead to disease are presented with examples drawn from a set of representative animal and human viruses, although selected bacterial viruses will be discussed.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Vincent R Racaniello
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

GREEK LITERATURE SELECTIONS II

GREEK LYRIC POETRY

Prerequisites:
GREK V1201-V1202
or the equivalent.
Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.

• Department: Classics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Deborah Steiner
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 3 points

LATIN LITERATURE SELECTIONS

ROMAN BRITAIN

Prerequisites:
LATN UN2102
or the equivalent.
Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.

• Department: Classics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Caitlin Gillespie
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

ETHICS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVPT

Aiming to improve human conditions within many diverse environments, sustainable development seeks to create, increase and perpetuate benefit and to cease, rectify and reverse harm. Sustainable development is consequently inextricable from the fabric of ethics, woven with determinations of benefit and harm to the existence and well-being of both humans and nonhumans. Underlying such determinations are those of self- and other-regarding motivation and behavior; and underlying these are still others, of sensitivity and rationality in decision-making, whether individual, social or public. Sustainable development is interlaced with and contingent upon all these determinations, at once prescriptive and judgmental, which can be called the ethics of sustainable development. This course is divided into four main sections, of which two are intended to show the ethical fallacies of unsustainable development, and two, the ethical pathways of sustainable development. The first section focuses upon ethically problematic basic assumptions, including human (species) hegemony, happy (hedonic) materialism, and selective (data) denial. The second focuses upon ethically problematic ensuing rationalizations, including those pertaining to damages, victims, consequences and situations of climatic, chemical, biological and ecological harm. The third section responds to these rationalizations with ethically vital considerations of earth justice, environmental justice, culturally-based ethics, and sector-based ethics (water, food, place and climate ethics). Finally, the fourth section responds to the initial, longstanding problematic assumptions with a newly emergent ethical paradigm, comprising biotic wholeness, environmental integrity and the deliberative zero-goal. Tying all sections together is the central theme: to be sustainable, development must be ethical. Reflecting the collaborative quality of the field of sustainable development, the course extends to readings whose authors have all pursued their work at intersections of science and ethics, environment and ethics, policy and ethics, business and ethics, and sustainable development and ethics.

• Department: Earth Institute
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Adela J Gondek
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

HEAT TRANSFER

Steady and unsteady heat conduction. Radiative heat transfer. Internal and external forced and free convective heat transfer. Change of phase. Heat exchangers.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• F 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• F 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Arvind Narayanaswamy
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 26 Info
• 3 points

ISLAM IN POST-COLONIAL WORLD

This course focuses on the multiple manifestations of the Islamic vision in the modern world. It begins with a survey of core Muslim beliefs before shifting to an examination of the impact of colonization and secular modernity on contemporary formulations of Islam.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Hussein Rashid
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

FEMINIST THEORY

Prerequisites: LIMITED TO 20 BY INSTRUC PERM; ATTEND FIRST CLASS
An exploration of the relationship between new feminist theory and feminist practice, both within the academy and in the realm of political organizing.

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Tina M Campt
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

SPECIAL TOPICS

SPEC TPCS: VIDEO MAKING LAB

Topics vary yearly. Course may be repeated for credit.  Attendance is mandatory at the first class meeting in order to form class registration lists.

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• TR 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Madeline K Schwartzman
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 3 points

SPECIAL TOPICS

SP TPCS: ALTERNATV PRACTICES

Topics vary yearly. Course may be repeated for credit.  Attendance is mandatory at the first class meeting in order to form class registration lists.

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• TR 11:10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Marcelo F Lopez Dinardi
  Info
• 3 points

EAR-TRAINING III

Sight-singing techniques of modulating diatonic melodies in simple, compound, or irregular meters that involve complex rhythmic patterns. Emphasis is placed on four-part harmonic dictation of modulating phrases.

• Department: Music
• MW 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• TR 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter M Susser
  CULPA: 20 Info
• Instructor: Richard Miller
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 1 points

WEST TO EAST

This course examines two central movements in post World War II American poetry, The San Francisco Renaissance and The New York School, and uncovers their aesthetic impacts on language and cultural production, as well as the relationship to "the city" as a defining agent in the poetic imagination.......

• Department: Writing
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexander Dimitrov
  Info
• 3 points

EAR-TRAINING IV

Techniques of musicianship at the intermediate level, stressing the importance of musical nuances in sight-singing. Emphasis is placed on chromatically inflected four-part harmonic dictation.

• Department: Music
• MW 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter M Susser
  CULPA: 20 Info
• Instructor: Ramin Amir Arjomand
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 1 points

MUSIC-EAST ASIA-SOUTHEAST ASIA

A topical approach to the concepts and practices of music in relation to other arts in the development of Asian civilizations.

• Department: Music
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Kevin Fellezs
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Emily H Clark
  Info
• 3 points

MUSIC THEORY III

Prerequisites:
MUSI V2319
.
Corequisites: one course from Ear-training I-IV (
V2314
,
V2315
,
V3316
, or
V3317
, as determined by placement exam.)
Intermediate analysis and composition in a variety of tonal idioms. (Through Spring 2014, this course was entitled Chromatic Harmony and Counterpoint I.)

• Department: Music
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth C Adams
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

EAST ASIAN CINEMA

This course introduces students to major works, genres and waves of East Asian cinema from the Silent era to the present, including films from Japan, Korea, Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. How has cinema participated in East Asian societies’ distinct and shared experiences of industrial modernity, imperialism and (post)colonialism? How has cinema engaged with questions of class, gender, ethnic and language politics? In what ways has cinema facilitated transnational circulations and mobilizations of peoples and ideas, and how has it interacted with other art forms, such as theatre, painting, photography and music? In this class, we answer these questions by studying cinemas across the region sideby- side, understanding cinema as deeply embedded in the region’s intertwining political, social and cultural histories and circulations of people and ideas. We cover a variety of genres such as melodrama, comedy, historical epic, sci-fi, martial arts and action, and prominent film auteurs such as Yasujirō Ozu, Akira Kurosawa, Yu Hyŏnmok, Chen Kaige, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Ann Hui. As cinema is, among other things, a creative practice, in this course, students will be given opportunities to respond to films analytically and creatively, through writing as well as creative visual projects. As a global core course, this class does not assume prior knowledge of East Asian culture or of film studies.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ying Qian
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

MUSIC THEORY IV

Prerequisites:
MUSI V3321
.
Corequisites: one course from Ear-Training I-IV (
V2314
,
V2315
,
V3316
, or
V3317
, as determined by placement exam.)
Intermediate analysis and composition in a variety of tonal and extended tonal idioms. (Through Spring 2014, this course was entitled Chromatic Harmony and Counterpoint II.) A one-hour weekly lab is required, to be scheduled at the beginning of the term.

• Department: Music
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ellie Hisama
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Joseph P Dubiel
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

COLL:PLTCS OF BAD BEHAVIOR

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Miller
  CULPA: 18 h-index: 14 Info
• 4 points

COLL: HARLEM IN THEORY

Prerequisites:
Admission by application
through the Barnard department only. Enrollment limited to 16 students.
Harlem in Theory is an advanced political theory colloquium.  Its focus is both thematic and methodological.  Joining a two-thousand year tradition of doing philosophy in and for the city, we theorize Harlem as urbs and civitas (place and socio-political association) and bring Harlem to bear on philosophy.  We explore the political theorist's craft by engaging different theoretical approaches and methodologies used by political, social and critical theorists.  Our readings include political philosophy, critical frameworks for interpretation and historical, social scientific and literary works about Harlem - supplemented by film, music and of course periodic trips to various Harlem venues. General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC).

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Michelle R Smith
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

INTRO TO PORTUGUESE STUDIES

This course presents the students with the information and basic tools needed to interpret a broad range of topics and cultural production from the Portuguese-speaking world: literary, filmic, artisitic, architectural, urban, etc. We will use a continuing cross-disciplinary dialogue to study everyday acts as a location of culture. This course will center on interpretation as an activity and as the principal operation though which culturally sited meaning is created and analyzed. Among the categories and topics discussed will be history, national and popular cultures, literature (high/low), cultural institutions, migration, and globalization. Students will also acquire the fundamental vocabulary for the analysis of cultural objects. This course is required for the concentration in Portuguese Studies.

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Deneb Kozikoski Valereto
  Info
• 3 points

ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS

Operational amplifier circuits. Diodes and diode circuits. MOS and bipolar junction transistors. Biasing techniques. Small-signal models. Single-stage transistor amplifiers. Analysis and design of CMOS logic gates. A/D and D/A converters.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Zoran Kostic
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

MODERN V

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

INTRO TO LITERARY STUDIES I

Prerequisites:
FREN UN3405
Advanced Grammar and Composition or an AP score of 5 or the instructor's permission.
Reading and discussion of major works from the Middle Ages to 1750.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: William M Burton
  h-index: 2 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO LITERARY STUDIES II

Prerequisites:
FREN UN3405
Advanced Grammar and Composition or an AP score of 5 or the instructor's permission.
Reading and discussion of major works from 1750 to the present.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Celia L Abele
  Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO ITALIAN LITERATURE II

Prerequisites:
ITAL V1202
or
W1202
or the equivalent.

V3334x-V3333y
is the basic course in Italian literature.
V3334
: Authors and works from the Cinquecento to the present. Taught in Italian.

• Department: Italian
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Lynn E Mackenzie
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

QUANT INSTRMNTL TECH-LAB LECT

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• T 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Jacob S Alexander
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 0 points

MODERN VI

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Colleen Thomas
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 0-1 points

SHAKESPEARE II

(Lecture). Shakespeare II examines plays from the second half of Shakespeare’s dramatic career, primarily a selection of his major tragedies and his later comedies (or “romances”).

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Natasha Korda
  Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED ITALIAN II

Advanced reading, writing, speaking with emphasis on authentic cultural materials. Topic and semester theme varies.

• Department: Italian
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Patrizia Palumbo
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

EARLY MODERN SEMINAR

SHAKESPEARE'S POETRY

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
(Seminar). In this seminar we will examine Shakespeare's plays alongside those written by his fellow playwrights Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Thomas Kyd, and John Lyly. Shakespeare is in some ways sui generis, yet he was very much a part of the London theatre scene. He both inspired and was shaped by these writers -- he saw their performances, acted in their plays, and co-wrote dramas with them. To understand better Shakespeare's idiosyncratic craft we will read his plays grouped with those of other writers. For explorations of revenge tragedy, for instance, we will read 
Hamlet
 after Kyd's 
The Spanish Tragedy
; for portrayals of Jews, 
The Merchant of Venice
 with Marlowe's 
The Jew of Malta
; the hazards of kingship, 
Richard II
 and Marlowe's 
Edward II
; the perils of ambition, 
Macbeth
 and 
Dr. Faustus
. Reading Shakespeare in context will also enable us to see how different Renaissance dramatists contributed to an evolving stagecraft of ghosts, disguises, war, the supernatural, the exotic- and to the maturity of blank verse itself. The course will be limited to fifteen students and will require regular participation, response postings each class, a review of a play, a presentation, and a fifteen-page seminar paper. 
Application instructions:
 E-mail Prof. Shapiro (
js73@columbia.edu
) with your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course. Admitted students should register for the course; they will automatically be placed on a wait list from which the instructor will in due course admit them as spaces become available.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: James Shapiro
  CULPA: 25 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

QUANTITATVE-INSTRMNTL TECH-LAB

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3231, CHEM BC3333
Corequisites: For students not majoring in chemistry or biochemistry: CHEM BC3232 For students majoring in chemistry biochemistry, CHEM BC3242. Lab Lecture: Tu 1:10-2:00; Laboratory one afternoon: Tu, W, or Th.
Quantitative techniques in volumetric analysis, radiochemistry, spectrophotometry, and pH measurement. Data analysis with spreadsheets.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• R 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Jacob S Alexander
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 3 points

MUSIC & TECH CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE

MUSIC & TECH CRIT PERSPECTIVE

Consider a song on the radio. The musicians are performing on instruments, which are recorded with microphones, into computer software that converts sound into data, at which point the data is processed according to the tastes of the artist and producer—tastes shaped, no doubt, by the array of processing software available to them in the first place. After that, the finished product is printed to tape or disc, circulated at various compression rates online, further processed by the radio station, and consumed on everything from car speakers to $1,000 headphones to iPod earbuds. To an extent perhaps only marginally impacted by the content of the song, by the time this song on the radio gets to our ears technology has exerted a huge influence on the sonic character, and thus our experience, of the music. Further, all of these technologies and techniques have complex histories and social contexts that have guided their development and uses, from early experiments to their present-day incarnations. This course explores what technology has done to, for, and with music from prehistory to the present day, focusing on Western musical practice. Rather than adopt a technologically deterministic view of music history, this class considers how technology and music have been intertwined through the years. As a subset of human behavior, music might present us with an especially fertile environment for exploring our creative relationship with our tools, the way that humans and technology are co-constitutive, and the permeable boundary between humans and technology. Some questions this course will ask include: How has technology impacted our perception of music? In what ways does technology variously enable and constrain musical activity? Is music itself a kind of technology? What have humans done with technology in a musical context in various historical periods, and in what way does this reflect on the period in which the music was created? Does technology exert an a priori influence on musical thought? To what extent is our aesthetic evaluation of music imbricated with technology? Though our subject is music, our intellectual sources will be drawn not only from music scholarship but also from anthropology, philosophy, science and technology studies, media theory, and psychology. This is not a class about creating music, though we will work directly with various technologies when appropriate. We will also benefit from several guest lecture-demonstrations from musicians and composers of electronic music, and we will visit the

• Department: Music
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: William L Mason
  Info
• 3 points

DANCE/MUSIC IMPROVISATION

Although improvisation has always been central to music and dance, it is increasingly engaged by other disciplines as a vital means of critical inquiry, experiment, and risk-taking invention. This course, blending studio practice and theoretical investigation, introduces students to the discourse and practice of improvisation with a global, multidisciplinary context.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• R 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Colleen Thomas
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

DESCRIPTIVE GRAMMAR-HUNGARIAN

This course is designed for those curious about the structure of Hungarian - an unusual language with a complex grammar quite different from English, or, indeed, any Indo -European language. The study of Hungarian, a language of the Finno-Ugric family, offers the opportunity to learn about the phonology of vowel harmony, the syntax of topic-comment discourse, verb agreement with subjects and objects, highly developed case systems and possessive nominal paradigms. In addition to its inflectional profile, Hungarian derivation possibilities are vast, combinatory, and playful. During the semester we will touch upon all the important grammatical aspects of Hungarian and discuss them in relation to general linguistic principles and discourse, and finally, through some text analysis, see them in action. Although the primary discussion will center on Hungarian, we will draw on comparisons to other Finno-Ugric languages, most notably Finnish and Komi; students are encouraged to draw on comparisons with their own languages of interest. No prerequisite. Counts as Core Linguistics.

• Department: Italian
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Carol H Rounds
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

CIRCULATION OF OBJECTS: MAT CULT-LAT AM

The course focuses on material culture in contemporary Latin America through literature, essays, visual text, films, and new cultural experiences.  Materiality is the media but also is part of the symbolic choice of artists and cultural agents......
The course will be conducted in Spanish and all written assignments will also be in that language.

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Graciela Montaldo
  Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED SPECTROSCOPY - LAB

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3333 and CHEM BC3253
Corequisites: CHEM BC3271
This course combines chemical synthesis, inorganic chemistry, physical chemistry, and nanoscience into experiments with an emphasis using spectroscopy to determine chemical structure and reactivity. You will gain experience with a range of instruments, techniques, calculations, and theories. Instrumentation will include UV-Visible, infrared, near-infrared, fluorescence, and Raman spectroscopy.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• W 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew C Crowther
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

HISPANIC CULTURES I (SP)

Prerequisites: L" course: enrollment limited to 15 students. Completion of language requirement, third-year language sequence (W3300).
Provides students with an overview of the cultural history of the Hispanic world, from eighth-century Islamic and Christian Spain and the pre-Hispanic Americas through the late Middle Ages and Early Modern period until about 1700, covering texts and cultural artifacts from both Spain and the Americas.

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Miguel Ibanez Aristondo
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: David H Colmenares
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Roberto Valdovinos
  Info
• Instructor: Orlando Bentancor
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Noel Blanco Mourelle
  Info
• 3 points

LUSOPHONE AFR/AFRO-BRAZ CULTRS

This course focuses on Lusophone African and African Brazilian cultures and the relations, continuities, ruptures and influences between them. Brazil is the result of the miscegenation of Ameridians, African and Europeans, and this means that is also a cultural mélange of these groups. The African cultural contribution to Brazilian culture and grand-narrative is the primary focus of this course, however, to understand Brazil one needs to understand the cultural diversity found in Lusophone Africa, with which Brazil has had a long relationship. The readings for this course include texts from different disciplines and genres. We will study texts, movies and other forms of visual arts from the following authors: José Eduardo Agualusa, Pepetela, Mia Couto, Jorge Amado, Achille, Mbembe, Hilton Costa, Jocélio Teles dos Santos, Livio Sansone, José Luis Cabaço, Benedita da Silva and Solano Trindade.

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Joao Nemi Neto
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

HISPANIC CULTURES II (SP)

This course surveys cultural production of Spain and Spanish America from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Students will acquire the knowledge needed for the study of the cultural manifestations of the Hispanic world in the context of modernity. Among the issues and events studied will be the Enlightenment as ideology and practice, the Napoleonic invasion of Spain, the wars of Spanish American independence, the fin-de-siècle and the cultural avant-gardes, the wars and revolutions of the twentieth century (Spanish Civil War, the Mexican and Cuban revolutions), neoliberalism, globalization, and the Hispanic presence in the United States. The goal of the course is to study some key moments of this trajectory through the analysis of representative texts, documents, and works of art. Class discussions will seek to situate the works studied within the political and cultural currents and debates of the time. All primary materials, class discussion, and assignments are in Spanish.
This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies.

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Santiago Acosta
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• Instructor: Almudena Marin-Cobos
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• Instructor: Alejandro Quintero
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• Instructor: Marta Ferrer
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Ronald D Briggs
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Agnese Codebo
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 2 Info
• 3 points

20TH CENT EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY

20TH CEN EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY

Prerequisites: one prior philosophy course.
Reading and discussion of selected texts by central figures in phenomenology, existentialism, hermeneutics, critical theory, and recent Continental philosophy. Authors may include Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer, Horkheimer, Adorno, Foucault, Bourdieu.

• Department: Philosophy @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Taylor Carman
  CULPA: 40 Wikipedia h-index: 19 Info
• 3 points

CARTOGRAPHIC FICTIONS

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Center for
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Bruno Bosteels
  Wikipedia h-index: 21 Info
• 3 points

BIOCHEMISTRY LAB TECHNIQUES

Prerequisites: Organic II lab (CHEM BC3333, BC3335, or equivalent); Quantitative analysis lab (BC3338, BC3340, or equivalent); Biochemistry (CHEM BC3282y, CHEM C3501, or equivalent). Lecture: M 1:10-12:50; Laboratory two afternoons: M 2:10-6:00 / W 1:10-5:00.
Theory and application of fundamental techniques for the isolation, synthesis and characterization of biological macromolecules including proteins, lipids, nucleotides and carbohydrates.  Techniques include spectroscopic analysis, gel electrophoresis, chromatography, enzyme kinetics, immunoblotting, PCR, molecular cloning and cell culture, as well as modern laboratory instrumentation, such as UV-Vis, GC-MS and HPLC.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• R 1:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Mary Sever
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 5 points

CLIMATE CHANGE AND LAW

The purpose of this course is to provide students with a broad introduction to the field of climate law in the United States and at the international level. The course begins with an overview of the causes and effects of global climate change and the methods available to control and adapt to it. We then examine the negotiation, implementation and current status of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Kyoto Protocol, and the Copenhagen Accord. The focus then turns to the past and proposed actions of the U.S. Congress, the executive branch and the courts, as well as regional, state and municipal efforts. The Clean Air Act, the National Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act will receive special attention. We evaluate the various legal tools that are available to address climate change, including cap-and-trade schemes; carbon taxation; command-and-control regulation; litigation; securities disclosures; and voluntary action. The roles of energy efficiency, renewable energy sources, carbon capture and sequestration, and forestry and agriculture each receive close attention. Implications for international human rights, international trade, environmental justice, and international and intergenerational equity are discussed. The course concludes with examination of the special challenges posed by China; proposals for adaptation and geoengineering; and business opportunities and the role of lawyers. Offered in the Spring.

• Department: Earth Institute
• TR 9:10 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• Instructor: Michael Gerrard
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

CUBA&THE; USA

For nearly two centuries, Cuba and the United States have been linked by what William McKinley in 1899 termed “ties of singular intimacy,” a long-lived but contentious relationship that has produced misunderstandings, disappointments, embargos, embarques and, every once in a while, a military invasion. Through the analysis of representative texts of various kinds—verbal (journalism, literature), visual (movies, TV programs), musical (popular songs)—we will study the imprint of Cuba on American culture, as well that of America on Cuban culture, in order to the determine the modes of intimacy that bind (and separate) the two countries and cultures. Conducted in Spanish.

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Gustavo Perez-Firmat
  CULPA: 8 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

LATIN AMERICAN RADICAL THOUGHT

LATIN AMER RADICAL THOUGHT

Prerequisites: Fluent Spanish
From Simón Bolívar to Emiliano Zapata, from Sor Juana to Flora Tristán, Latin America certainly has seen its share of radicals. Worshipped by some and reviled by others, these figures individually or collectively revamped what politics, art, or literature could be about. Their work, however, has also led to innovative theoretical and philosophical reflections, from dependency theory to liberation theology, and from socialist and anarchist utopianism to Marxist and post-Marxist thought. We will study essays, letters, diaries, chronicles, manifestos, poems, short stories and novellas written by or about some of these Latin American radicals as well as collective actors such as the neo-Zapatistas in Mexico or the Mothers and Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina.

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Bruno Bosteels
  Wikipedia h-index: 21 Info
• 3 points

PHYSIOLOGY

Prerequisites: BIOL BC1500, BIOL BC1501, BIOL BC1502, BIOL BC1503 or the equivalent.
Physiology of major organ systems; function and control of circulatory, respiratory, digestive, excretory, endocrine, nervous, and immune systems in animals; emphasis on vertebrates.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: John Glendinning
  CULPA: 23 h-index: 39 Info
• 3 points

LABORATORY IN PHYSIOLOGY

Prerequisites: Pre- (or co-) requisite is a physiology lecture class (e.g., BIOL BC3360). Enrollment limited to 16.
Provides a hands-on introduction to the different physiological systems in vertebrates and invertebrates. Emphasizes the operation of a variety of physiological monitoring devices and the collection and analysis of physiological data.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• R 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: John Glendinning
  CULPA: 23 h-index: 39 Info
• 3 points

ARTISTIC HUMANITY

Prerequisites: Language requirement, SPAN3300 and either SPAN3349 or 3350
This course locates the life and writing of the seminal Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges in national and international historical and literary contexts.

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Alessandra Russo
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

BORGES IN CONTEXT

Prerequisites: Language requirement, SPAN3300 and either SPAN3349 or 3350
This course locates the life and writing of the seminal Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges in national and international historical and literary contexts.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Alfred Mac Adam
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 3 points

LAB IN MOLEC & CELL NEUROSCI

Prerequisites: BIOL BC3362 (or corequisite). Enrollment limited to 16.
Introduction to techniques commonly used in current neurobiological research, including intracellular and extracellular recording of action potentials, neuroanatomical methods, and computer simulation of the action potential.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• W 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth P Bauer
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 21 Info
• 3 points

PSYCHOLOGY OF LEADERSHIP

Prerequisites: Students must have one of the following pre-requisites for this course: PSYC BC1125 Personality Psychology, PSYC BC1138 Social Psychology, or PSYC BC2151 Organizational Psychology, and permission by the instructor.
An in-depth examination of the concept of leadership in psychology with an emphasis on women’s leadership. Topics include the role of gender, culture, and emotional intelligence as well as an examination of transactional and transformational models. Topics will be discussed with an equal emphasis on theory, research, and application.  Students must have prerequisites and permission of the instructor.
Enrollment limited to 15.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Tara Well
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

EATING DISORDERS

Prerequisites: PSYC BC1001, PSYC BC2141
This course presents an in depth investigation of eating disorders including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating from a primarily psychological perspective. The course will present both the current understandings of causes, correlates, and outcomes of eating pathology as well as the complexity and controversy surrounding these conceptualizations. 
Enrollment limited to 20 students.
Senior psych majors will get first preference.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Sumati Gupta
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

HIST OF SENSES ENG & FRANCE

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preregistration required.
Examination of European understandings of human senses through the production and reception of art, literature, music, food, and sensual enjoyments in Britain and France. Readings include changing theories concerning the five senses; efforts to master the passions; the rise of sensibility and feeling for others; concerts and the patronage of art; the professionalization of the senses.

• Department: History @Barnard
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Deborah Valenze
  CULPA: 16 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

PSYCHOLOGY OF CREATIVITY

Prerequisites: BC1001 and permission of the instructor.
Consideration of classic Psychodynamic (the unconscious/incubation), Psychometric (testing/training), and Personaility (train/motivation) models of creativity. Application of contemporary Process (cognitive/problem-solving) models to art, literature, and independently selected areas of expertise. Process models are involving constraint selection within well-established domains are emphasized.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Patricia D Stokes
  CULPA: 48 Info
• 4 points