INTRO TO COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

Corequisites: IEOR E3658
A basic course in communication theory, stressing modern digital communication systems. Nyquist sampling, PAM and PCM/DPCM systems, time division multipliexing, high frequency digital (ASK, OOK, FSK, PSK) systems, and AM and FM systems. An introduction to noise processes, detecting signals in the presence of noise, Shannon's theorem on channel capacity, and elements of coding theory.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Irving Kalet
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

ETHICS

Prerequisites: one course in philosophy.
Corequisites:
PHIL V3711
Required Discussion Section (0 points).
This course is mainly an introduction to three influential approaches to normative ethics: utilitarianism, deontological views, and virtue ethics. We also consider the ethics of care, and selected topics in meta-ethics.

• Department: Philosophy
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Michele Moody-Adams
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

VENTURING TO CHANGE THE WORLD

VENTURING INTO THE WORLD

Interest in entrepreneurship has skyrocketed. Much of the growth in our modern economy is driven by scalable startups. The availability of cheaper building blocks has led to increase in startups, which have become exciting opportunities for potential founders and early employees. Beyond startups, established companies seek out new opportunities to sustain growth and competitive advantage. Social entrepreneurs are also employing entrepreneurial thinking to address major social and environmental issues. In short, entrepreneurial thinking is sought across industries and sectors. The goal of the course is to expose students to the intellectual foundations and practical aspects of entrepreneurship. We strive to sharpen students’ understanding of the entrepreneurial mindset, develop skills in generating ideas, identify and evaluate ideas, and understand the key steps and competencies required to launch a new venture. The course is appropriate for anyone with an interest in new ventures (e.g. tech ventures, social ventures). This includes not only potential entrepreneurs, but also those interested in the financing of new ventures, working in new ventures, or in broader general management of new or small organizations.

• Department: Columbia College
• F 9 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Damon Phillips
  h-index: 18 Info
• 3 points

SENIOR RESEARCH ESSAY SEMINAR

• Department: American Studies @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Lori Brooks
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

DATA ANALYSIS & STATS-POL RES

This course examines the basic methods data analysis and statistics that political scientists use in quantitative research that attempts to make causal inferences about how the political world works. The same methods apply to other kinds of problems about cause and effect relationships more generally.  The course will provide students with extensive experience in analyzing data and in writing (and thus reading) research papers about testable theories and hypotheses.  It will cover basic data analysis and statistical methods, from univariate and bivariate descriptive and inferential statistics through multivariate regression analysis. Computer applications will be emphasized.   The course will focus largely on observational data used in cross-sectional statistical analysis, but it will consider issues of research design more broadly as well.  It will assume that students have no mathematical background beyond high school algebra and no experience using computers for data analysis.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Robert Y Shapiro
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

VIENNESE MODERNISM

The two decades between 1890 and 1910 saw the rise of literary modernism in the German speaking countries, most notably in the city of Vienna. The course will examine this development at the level of particular works—including poems, novels, novellas, plays, essays, and theoretical writings— and with an eye towards broader historical contexts like scientific innovations, technological modernization, and social change. It will focus on the ways in which new forms of literary representation contributed to a specifically “modern” reconception of language, perception, subjectivity, sexuality, and gender. Readings will include works by Freud, Nietzsche, Hofmannsthal, Schnitzler, Bahr, Mach, Klimt, and others.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Tobias Wilke
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

POLITICAL SCI RESEARCH METHODS

EMPIRCL RSRCH METHODS POL SCI

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Miller
  CULPA: 18 h-index: 14 Info
• 4 points

INHERITANCE

This seminar will explore the varieties of conflict articulated in narratives of inheritance --economic, cultural, and biological -- across the long nineteenth century.  We'll begin with a brief look at the significance of inheritance in Edmund Burke's
Reflections of the Revolution in France
and Thomas Paine's response,
The Rights of Man
, which capture the fundamental tensions between tradition and modern individualism.......

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: James E Adams
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 4 points

PHOTO:DIGITAL DOCUMENTARY

(Formerly R4702) The goal of the course is for each student to create small-scale documentary projects using photography and writing with an eye towards web publishing. Taking advantage of the ease and speed of image production and distribution, students will propose and workshop projects that can be quickly completed and uploaded to a class website. Assignments, readings and discussions will focus on the role of the documentary tradition in the history of photographic art practice. Students must provide their own laptop and digital camera. If the class is full, sign up for the wait list at 
http://arts.columbia.edu/photolist
.

• Department: Visual Arts
• TR 1 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Kai McBride
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

ETHICS - REC

ETHICS-REC

• Department: Philosophy
• M 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• R 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Shivani V Radhakrishnan
  Info
• Instructor: Lars T Heisenberg
  Info
• 0 points

MAJOR AMERICAN AUTHORS II

Ellison, Roth, Bellow

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
(Seminar). These three major post-war American novelists are each challenging and transgressive in their own way; they comprise a natural grouping given their common preoccupations that grew out of high personal regard. Bellow and Ellison were close friends and Roth was a friend of Bellow's and a great admirer of Ellison. Indeed, Roth's The Human Stain is a sustained meditation upon and homage to Ellison's Invisible Man. These shared concerns include a resistance to the pressure to be representative of one's racial or ethnic group, skepticism of the political and ideological uses of art, and fascination with how an ethnic or racial outsider makes his way into WASP American high culture. One does so by a process of initiation that proceeds less by the sacrifice demanded by assimilation and more by playing the "game" of "appropriation" in which culture is conceived as public, open and accessible to anyone, and culture goods are available to be enjoyed and re-worked for one's own creative purposes. 
Application Instructions:
E-mail Professor Ross Posnock (rp2045@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "Bellow, Ellison, and Roth seminar." In your message, include basic information: 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.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ross Posnock
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 4 points

SCOPE AND METHODS

This class introduces students to a variety of statistical methods used to investigate political phenomena. We will address the principles behind these methods, their application, and their limitations. The course aims to provide anyone interested in political science with a proficient understanding of the intuitions behind several of the methods most commonly used to analyze political data and identify causal paths. By the end of the course, students will have acquired important analytical and practical skills and will be able to evaluate the quality and reliability of scholarly and journalistic work done using quantitative methods. Students will also learn basic statistical software skills (R).

• Department: Political Science
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Chiara Superti
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

SCOPE AND METHODS - DISC

• Department: Political Science
• M 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Yusuf Magiya
  Info
• 0 points

NEW YORK CITY'S GILDED AGES

A lecture class + digital laboratory on New York City's two Gilded Ages. Student learn basics of digital photography and web design to develop a virtual exhibit on seminar's theme of "Coming of Age." In addition to class sessions held at Barnard, students will have at least 3 class sessions at NYHS with curators; and at least 3 class sessions at ICP. Digital fellows will augment instruction in digital tools necessary to complete the project. In addition to training in digital techniques studenst will also analyze and discuss selected readings on the history, politics and economics of the NYC's two Gilded Ages; urban space, culture and consumption; the ethcs of ethnographic field research; and virtual exhibition and design.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• 4 points

NYC'S GILDED AGES - DISCUSSION

NYC'S GILDED AGES - LAB

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• T 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• 0 points

ETHNOGRAPHIES OF BLACK LIFE

This course explores themes that have shaped Anthropology’s (often fraught) engagement with Black life. We will critically examine texts that reveal the ways that the discipline and its practitioners have sought to interface with people and populations of African descent—and have sought to define the constitution of Blackness itself—in the Americas. Plumbing the dynamic relationship between historical and ethnographic inquiry, we will ask pressing questions not only about conditions of Black life (and Black death), but also about the production of knowledge about the people who live under Blackness’ sign. Finally, we will turn our collective attention to key issues in the practice, ethics, and politics of ethnography, while also immersing ourselves in the archives produced through ethnographic and auto-ethnographic practice, including those found in various NYC collections.

• Department: Anthropology
• T noon-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Vanessa L Agard-Jones
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

SEMINAR IN MODERN TEXTS

AUDEN

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
(Seminar). Selected poems, plays, and prose.
 Application Instructions: 
Leave a note (printed on paper only, absolutely not by e-mail) in Prof. Mendelson's mailbox in the English Department office, 602 Philosophy Hall. Title it "Modern Texts seminar," and provide basic information: 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. If you cannot physically deliver this to the department office, mail it (on paper) to Prof. Edward Mendelson, Mail Code 4927, Columbia University, New York NY 10027.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Edward Mendelson
  CULPA: 64 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

DYSTOPIAN POSTWAR FICTION

Prerequisites: Instructor's permission
(Seminar). In 1868, John Stuart Mill first used the word "dystopia" (in Greek, literally, "bad place") to describe society in cataclysmic moral decline. Since then, writers from H.G. Wells to Margaret Atwood have imagined a range of devastating conditions and consequences of dystopia, from the dehumanization of the individual to the rise of surveillance and state control, from widespread violence to the impact of environmental disaster. Starting with the critical moment of 1945 - after the dropping of the atomic bomb and the second "war that will end war" failed to live up to its utopian promise - and continuing forward into the 21st century, we will read a selection of significant works by George, Orwell, Anthony Burgess, Samuel Beckett, J.G. Ballard, Margaret Atwood, and more. While emphasizing the novel, we will also examine a selection of poetry, plays, film, radio music, criticism, and graphic novels. Through practices of close reading and research, we will ask what dystopian fictions can teach us about violence, technology, war, control, paranoia, and decline -- but also resilience, inventiveness, companionship, and resistance - in our contemporary world.
Application Instructions
: E-mail Instructor Cox (tac2167@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "Dystopian Fiction seminar." In your message, include basic information: 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
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Therese A Cox
  Info
• 4 points

PHILANTHROPY & SOCIAL DIFFERENCE

PHILANTHROPY & SOC DIFF

Philanthropy and Social Difference
will introduce students to the history of Anglo-American philanthropy, as described in both historical and literary texts by writers including Jane Addams, James Agee, Andrew Carnegie, and George Orwell.  Through reading these texts, students will receive an experiential perspective on the social problems that philanthropy seeks to ameliorate.  The course will also focus on best practices in contemporary philanthropy, including an introduction to social science evaluative practices that will teach students how to make informed decisions in making grants to nonprofit organizations...

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 4 points

AMERICAN SLAVERY IN BLACK AND WHITE

AMER SLAVERY IN BLACK & WHITE

.........This seminar examines those binaristic articulations that underwrite the concept of racial difference in the nineteenth-century African American literary and political thought.  Through a survey approach that considers the ways in which antebellum and post-bellum fiction both contest and reinforce the logic of racial dualism, students will develop critical acumen for the divisive origins of our nation's literary heritage.  We will especially chart the development of African American literature by focusing on those social and aesthetic practices that are particularly relevant to our current political fascination with black lives and white privilege.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Radiclani Clytus
  Info
• 4 points

EARLY INDIGENEITIES

This seminar seeks to understand how historians and literary critics can position themselves
to better understand indigeneity in the early colonial era (ca. 1580–1790). Specifically, we
will identify a number of primary texts through which we can begin to apprehend indigenous
epistemologies and modes of signification, and build new modes of literacy in the twentyfirst
century. We will draw on a range of material—historical and contemporary, “textual”
and non—produced by European and Indigenous sources. As we read this material, we will
inquire into their formal and thematic legacies, strategies for producing and effacing
knowledge, and we will continually revisit the fundamental terms of our own analysis,
including “authorship,” “memory,” “textuality,” “writing,” “reading,” “signification,” and
“communication.” Finally, we will consider how these terms shape our understanding of
literary history, settler colonialism, and indigeneity.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Cristobal J Silva
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

OPEN FORM:POETRY,RACE,ECOLOGY

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Katherine R McIntyre
  Info
• 4 points

SUPERVISED FAC-STUDENT RSRCH

Prerequisites: None formally; instructor may recommend introductory or advanced course in their subfield
For joint Faculty-Student research on a deisgnated topic of the instructor's choice.  Students will critically engage with scholarly debates, formulate research designs, analyze or interpret data, and learn to summarize and present findings.  Apply directly to the instructor.  Can be taken once for elective credit toward the major.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• Instructor: Severine Autesserre
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia h-index: 14 Info
• 3-4 points

AFRICA AND FRANCE

This course endeavors to understand the development of the peculiar and historically conflictual relationship that exists between France, the nation-states that are its former African colonies, and other contemporary African states. It covers the period from the 19th century colonial expansion through the current ‘memory wars’ in French politics and debates over migration and colonial history in Africa. Historical episodes include French participation in and eventual withdrawal from the Atlantic Slave Trade, emancipation in the French possessions, colonial conquest, African participation in the world wars, the wars of decolonization, and French-African relations in the contexts of immigration and the construction of the European Union. Readings will be drawn extensively from primary accounts by African and French intellectuals, dissidents, and colonial administrators. However, the course offers
neither
a collective biography of the compelling intellectuals who have emerged from this relationship
nor
a survey of French-African literary or cultural production
nor
a course in international relations. Indeed, the course avoids the common emphasis in francophone studies on literary production and the experiences of elites and the common focus of international relations on states and bureaucrats. The focus throughout the course is on the historical development of fields of political possibility and the emphasis is on sub-Saharan Africa.
Group(s): B, C
 
Field(s): AFR, MEU

• Department: History
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Gregory Mann
  CULPA: 15 h-index: 13 Info
• 4 points

STUDIES IN DRAMA

CONTEMP THEATRE: WORLD DRAMA

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
(Seminar). "All the world's a stage" according to Shakespeare, but also according to twentieth century philosophers, sociologists, cultural critics, media theorists, and even corporate executives, who have frequently turned to theater and performance as resonant metaphors for modern culture. These metaphors have come to pervade the way we describe our lives: we "perform" workplace tasks and social "roles;" we describe ourselves as "drama queens", "players"," or just "acting out"; we "stage" ourselves daily on social media for intimate friends and strangers alike, who follow our doings like an audience of fans. But how useful or accurate is this language for describing the world we inhabit? And what distinguishes theater and drama as art forms if life itself has now become a performance? To answer these questions, we will consult some of the most influential theories of theatricality and performance as a condition of modern life. We will also read modern and post-modern drama on the same theme by playwrights such as Pirandello, Beckett, Brecht, Albee, and Parks.
Application Instructions:
E-mail Professor Biers (klb2134@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "Drama seminar." In your message, include basic information: 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
• F 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Robinson-Appels
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE SEMINAR

FILM AND LAW

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
From its beginnings, film has been preoccupied with law: in cops and robbers silent films, courtroom drama, police procedural, judge reality show, or all the scenes that fill our media-saturated world. What do films and other audio-visual media tell us about what it’s like to come before the law, or about such substantive issues as what counts as murder, war crimes, torture, sexual abuse? How do films model the techniques that lawyers use to sway the passions of their audiences? How do they model the symbolism of their gestures, icons, images? If films and other audio-visual media rewrite legal events, what is their effect: on law? on legal audiences? How is the experience of being a film spectator both like and unlike the experience of being a legal subject? This course investigates such questions by looking at representations of law in film and other audio-visual media. We will seek to understand, first, how film represents law, and, second,how film attempts to shape law (influencing legal norms, intervening in legal regimes). The seminar’s principal texts will be the films themselves, but we will also read relevant legal cases and film theory in order to deepen our understanding of both legal and film regimes.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Julie S Peters
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF CANCER

Prerequisites: three terms of biology (genetics and cell biology recommended).
Cancer is one of the most dreaded common diseases. Yet it is also one of the great intellectual challenges in biology today. How does a cell become cancerous? What are the agents that cause this to occur? How do current findings about genes, cells, and organisms ranging from yeast cells to humans inform us about cancer? How do findings about cancer teach us new biological concepts? Over the past few years there have been great inroads into answering these questions which have led to new ways to diagnose and treat cancer. This course will discuss cancer from the point of view of basic biological research. We will cover topics in genetics, molecular and cell biology that are relevant to understanding the differences between normal and cancer cells. These will include tumor viruses, oncogenes, tumor suppressor genes, cell cycle regulation, programmed cell death and cell senescence. We will also study some current physiological concepts related to cancer including angiogenesis, tumor immunology, cancer stem cells, metastasis and new approaches to treatment that are built on recent discoveries in cancer biology. The text book for this course is "The Biology of Cancer Second Edition by Robert A Weinberg (Garland Science). Additional and complementary readings will be assigned. SCE and TC students may register for this course, but they must first obtain the written permission of the instructor, by filling out a paper Registration Adjustment Form (Add/Drop form). The form can be downloaded at the URL below, but must be signed by the instructor and returned to the office of the registrar. 
http://registrar.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/reg-adjustment.pdf

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Carol L Prives
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

EARTH & ENVIR ENGIN LAB I

Corequisites: CIEE E3255
Experiments on fundamental aspects of Earth and environmental engineering with emphasis on the applications of chemistry, biology and thermodynamics to environmental processes: energy generation, analysis and purification of water, environmental biology, and biochemical treatment of wastes. Students will learn the laboratory procedures and use analytical equipment firsthand, hence demonstrating experimentally the theoretical concepts learned in class.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• Instructor: Robert Farrauto
  h-index: 52 Info
• 2 points

PHILOSOPHY, JUSTICE AND SOCIAL ACTIVISM

PHILOSOPHY,JUSTICE,SOC ACTIVIS

This course will do three things: (1) critically examine the works of philosophers who have argued for justice reform and social change, (2) set this philosophical work next to writings by prominent activists, especially those interested in criminal justice reform, and
(3) work with students to do semester-long activist work. Local activists will visit class and discuss their work.
Students must petition to take the course. The petition must include a 2-3 sentence statement about the student's training in or commitment to activist work.

• Department: Philosophy
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Christia Mercer
  CULPA: 56 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SEM IN CONTEMP ART PRACTICE

SEM IN CONETMP ART PRCATICE

(Formerly R4601)
Offered Spring 2017, Not Fall 2016
. New York City is the most abundant visual arts resource in the world. Visits to museums, galleries, and studios on a weekly basis. Students encounter a broad cross-section of art and are encouraged to develop ideas about what is seen. The seminar is led by a practicing artist and utilizes this perspective. Columbia College and General Studies Visual Arts Majors must take this class during their junior year. If the class is full, please visit
http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program
.

• Department: Visual Arts
• R 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizaveta Meksin
  Info
• 3 points

FEMINIST LISTENING

Feminist Listening: Critical and Intersectional Approaches to Popular Music develops modes of feminist listening to a variety of examples in popular music including hip-hop, pop, rock, R&B, country music, and crossover/experimental music. By examining the sonic, texted, and visual components of popular music in relation to gender, sexuality, the body, race, ethnicity, economics, and nation, students will develop a critical vocabulary for discussing and analyzing the effects and meanings of popular music as filtered by twenty-first century listeners. Through close listening, discussion of assigned readings and pieces, and analytical writing on recorded and live performances, the course will encourage students to examine a wide repertory of popular music by using a variety of intersectional analytical “sieves,” refining and enriching their experience of popular music as critically astute listeners and writers. This course is designed for students who are interested in sharpening their listening practices but does not assume previous formal study of music. The course 1) introduces the fundamental of music through exercises in listening and writing, 2) focuses on a selection of current literature on listening, theoretical approaches to music analysis, and feminist/queer criticism; 3) attunes students to the various indices of musical structure (melody, form, harmony, rhythm & meter, words, flow & groove, performance); 4) brings together these parts of music into feminist/queer, alternative hearings of specific works. COURSE

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Ellie Hisama
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ENVIR SCIENCE SENIOR SEM II

Guided, independent, in-depth research culminating in the senior thesis in the spring. Includes discussion about scientific presentations and posters, data analysis, library research methods and scientific writing. Students review work in progress and share results through oral reports. Weekly seminar to review work in progress and share results through oral and written reports. Prerequisite to
EESC W3901
.

• Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Stephanie Pfirman
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 28 Info
• 3 points

COLL:POLITICS OF DEVELOPMENT

COLL:POLITCS OF DEVELOPMENT

Prerequisites: V 1501 or equivalent
Description: The semester-long course aims to study political and social factors behind economic development and exam empirical cases of the success and failure in economic growth in order to understand the key features of the development processes. In the last two centuries, some countries successfully achieved economic growth and development, while other failed to do so. Even in the post-WWII period, the world has witnessed the rise and decline of economies around the world. Why do nations succeed or fail in economic development? How do political institutions affect economic outcomes? What are the ways in which state and market interact and influence each other? Can democracy be considered a cause of development, an outgrowth of development, or neither and to which extent? How do external factors such as foreign aid encourage or discourage development? We will try to examine these questions by taking a historical-institutional and comparative approach and take a critical look at the role of political and other institutions by applying theoretical guidelines and empirical cases. We will explore competing explanations for the successes and failures of economic development in the world. Objective:1. Understand some important concepts and theories within the fields of comparative politics and political economy. To explore the interconnections between politics, economy, and society in the context of development policy and practice.2. Develop basic analytic skills to explore various factors that shape political, economic, and social development and underdevelopment in the world;3. Understand some country specific political economy processes and how these processes prove or disprove certain theories and policies.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Xiaobo Lu
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

CHEM ENG & APPLIED CHEM LAB

Prerequisites: Completion of core chemical engineering curricula through the fall semester of senior year; or instructor's permission.
The course emphasizes active, experiment-based resolution of open-ended problems involving use, design, and optimization of equipment, products, or materials. Under faculty guidance students formulate, carry out, validate, and refine experimental procedures, and present results in oral and written form. The course develops analytical, communications, and cooperative problem-solving skills in the context of problems that span from traditional, large scale separations and processing operations to molecular level design of materials or products. Sample projects include: scale up of apparatus, process control, chemical separations, microfluidics, surface engineering, molecular sensing, and alternative energy sources. Safety awareness is integrated throughout the course.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Jingyue Ju
  h-index: 77 Info
• 3 points

LITERARY APPROACHES TO BIBLE

Interpretive strategies for reading the Bible as a work with literary dimensions. Considerations of poetic and rhetorical structures, narrative techniques, and feminist exegesis will be included. Topics for investigation include the influence of the Bible on literature.

• Department: English @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Margaret R Ellsberg
  CULPA: 54 Info
• 4 points

COL:STATE FAIL,WARLRD PIRATES

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Kimberly Marten
  CULPA: 71 Wikipedia h-index: 19 Info
• 4 points

BLACK PARIS

This undergraduate course aims to unveil a lesser known face of Paris linked to its colonial past in order to reread the present social, political and cultural landscape of France's capital city.  By visiting hotspots of a forgotten Parisian black history, students will learn about the legacy of a colonial past often unknown and neglected.  Sites will include the Latin Quarter which saw the birth of Negritude movement in the 1930s with the encounter of African and Caribbean intellectuals (Cesaire, Senghor, Damas) and the foundation of the editions Presence Africaine with Alioune Diop; Saint Germain des Pres and Pigalle which celebrated jazz music in cabarets; the Museum of the history of immigration in Porte Doree and the Musee des Arts Premiers at the Quai Branly.  This itinerant historical approach of Paris will be complemented by an exploration of the contemporary cultural and artistic politics of the Black stage.  by Attending theater plays, dance shows, and concerts, and meeting African and Caribbean artists living in Paris (playwrights, directors, actors, choreographers, dancers, musicians), students will enjoy the opportunity to explore Black Parisian culture from an insider's point of view and find out what it means to be a Black artist today in France.

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Laurence Gallu
  Info
• 3 points

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING LAB II

Biomedical experimental design and hypothesis testing. Statistical analysis of experimental measurements. Analysis of experimental measurements. Analysis of variance, post hoc testing. Fluid shear and cell adhesion, neuro-electrophysiology, soft tissue biomechanics, biomedical imaging and ultrasound, characterization of excitable tissues, microfluidics.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• W 1:10 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Aaron M Kyle
  Info
• 3 points

FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER SYSTS

Prerequisites: an introductory programming course.
Fundamentals of computer organization and digital logic. Boolean algebra, Karnaugh maps, basic gates and components, flipflops and latches, counters and state machines, basics of combinational and sequential digital design. Assembly language, instruction sets, ALU’s, single-cycle and multi-cycle processor design, introduction to pipelined processors, caches, and virtual memory.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Daniel S Rubenstein
  CULPA: 29 Info
• 3 points

ECONOMIC IMAGINARIES OF THE LAT AMER LEF

ECON IMAGINARIES OF LAT AMERI

Spanish American republics were born in the context of Atlantic Revolutions. Jacobin ideas with regard to popular rule and popular emancipation have been on the horizon since independence. This undergraduate seminar explores the economic imagination of the Spanish American left since times of independence. Has there been innovation in economic ideas and ideals in the left? What different sorts of economic agendas have developed in the continent over two centuries since independence? Has failure been recognized? Has success been acknowledged? The course is at once an intellectual history of Latin American economic thought, and a political history of revolutionary aspirations. It can serve as an introduction to modern Spanish American history, and does not presuppose prior courses on the subject. Having taken the university core courses in Lit-Hum and Contemporary Civilization is a prerequisite for any undergraduate enrolling in this seminar.

• Department: Anthropology
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Claudio Lomnitz
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

NYC: POLITICS & GOVERNING

NYC POLITICS/GOVERNING

This course will examine through readings, class discussions, and in class debate, the complex politics and governing of New York City- the key political institutions, and who holds urban political power, voting and elections, and the changing roles of the electorate will be covered.  We will examine the structure or New York City government and how the New York City Budget is developed and adopted; the interplay between Mayoral and City council powers, the city charter, the process of governing and the role of political parties, special interest groups, lobbyists and labor unions. We will look back in the City’s political history and consider that time in the mid 1970’s when New York City suffered a major fiscal crisis and was close to financial bankruptcy.  In this context, New York City’s relationships with the state and federal governments will also be covered.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Liz Abzug
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS SEMINAR

A year-long course for outstanding senior majors who want to conduct research in primary sources on a topic of their choice in any aspect of history, and to write a senior thesis possibly leading toward departmental honors. 
Field(s): ALL

• Department: History
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Elisheva Carlebach
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Adam Kosto
  CULPA: 20 Info
• Instructor: Natasha J Lightfoot
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

CULTRE OF FOOD/HEALTH IN JAPAN

This course will introduce students to core themes, concepts, and events in the history of early modern and modern Japan, through the lens of food and health - the dietary trends, choices, and notions of proper eating that informed the relationship between people's inner bodies and the world around them. We will inquire into how these concepts came into being, how they helped shape conceptions of the body, the self, and the everyday in historical context, and what other ways of making sense of health and diet may have been subsumed in the process. Along the way, we will discuss how and why 'eating right' became such a central topic of debate in Japan from the seventeenth century to the present, how that debate has changed over time, and what it can tell us about the broader trends that shape our understanding of Japanese and East Asian historical trajectory.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Joshua E Schlachet
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• 4 points

HEALTH & SOC CONTEMP E ASIA

Why do certain mental illnesses only appear in specific regions of the world? What processes of translation, adaption, and “indigenization” take place when Western psychiatric diagnostic categories, pharmaceutical regimens, and psychodynamic treatments travel to China, South Korea and Japan? How do East Asian therapeutic modalities such as Traditional Chinese Medicine and the practice of qigong destabilize biomedical assumptions about the etiology and treatment of mental illness? This course engages these and other questions through anthropological analysis of the experiences of people struggling with mental illness, the mental health practitioners who treat them, and the broader economic, social and political contexts that shape these interactions.

• Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Nicholas A Bartlett
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

HUMAN RIGHTS & PUBLIC HEALTH

Prerequisites: Enrollment in the course is open to 18 undergraduates who have completed at least one core course in human rights and /or international law.
This seminar introduces students to the field of health and human rights.  It examines how to advocate for and implement public health strategies using a human rights framework. It takes note of current international and domestic debates about the utility of a “human rights-based approach” to health, discusses methods and ethics of health-related human rights research, and examines case studies of human rights investigations to explore the role of human rights analysis in promoting public health.

• Department: Human Rights (HRTB)
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Alice W Brown
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• 4 points

AMERICAN LITERATURE & THEORY

INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
(Seminar). As the great imperial powers of Britain, France, and Belgium, among others, ceded self-rule to the colonies they once controlled, formerly colonized subjects engaged in passionate discussion about the shape of their new nations not only in essays and pamphlets but also in fiction, poetry, and theatre. Despite the common goal of independence, the heated debates showed that the postcolonial future was still up for grabs, as the boundary lines between and within nations were once again redrawn. Even such cherished notions as nationalism were disputed, and thinkers like the Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore sounded the alarm about the pitfalls of narrow ethnocentric thinking. Their call for a philosophy of internationalism went against the grain of ethnic and racial particularism, which had begun to take on the character of national myth. The conflict of perspectives showed how deep were the divisions among the various groups vying to define the goals of the postcolonial nation, even as they all sought common cause in liberation from colonial rule. , Nowhere was this truer than in India. The land that the British rulers viewed as a test case for the implementation of new social philosophies took it upon itself to probe their implications for the future citizenry of a free, democratic republic. We will read works by Indian writers responding to decolonization and, later, globalization as an invitation to rethink the shape of their societies. Beginning as a movement against imperial control, anti-colonialism also generated new discussions about gender relations, secularism and religious difference, the place of minorities in the nation, the effects of partition on national identity, among other issues. With the help of literary works and historical accounts, this course will explore the challenges of imagining a post-imperial society in a globalized era without reproducing the structures and subjectivities of the colonial state. Writers on the syllabus include Rabindranath Tagore, M.K. Gandhi, B.R. Ambedkar, Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao, Mahasweta Devi, Bapsi Sidwa, Rohinton Mistry, Amitav Ghosh, and Arundhati Roy. ,
Application Instructions:
E-mail Professor Viswanathan (gv6@columbia.edu ) with the subject heading "Indian Writing in English seminar." In your message, include basic information: 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.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Gauri Viswanathan
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

THE POTNTL & ACTUAL INFINITE

This course examines the concept of infinity throughout the history of western philosophy, looking at how the puzzles that surround the concept led to the construction and defense of many different philosophical positions on the infinite. In particular, we will examine how many different historical figures have attempted (in many different ways) to draw a distinction between what is potentially infinite and what is actually infinite, and further, how this distinction is used in attempts to solve puzzles of the infinite. We move chronologically, starting with Zeno and Aristotle, through the invention of calculi of infinitesimals, to the development of set theory, model theory, and modern mathematical logic. We will also use the tools we develop in our historical investigation to address modern discussions in philosophy about the infinite, such as the debates about supertasks and the limitations of computation. This course has no prerequisites (although having taken Symbolic Logic may be useful), and it serves well as an introduction to philosophy of mathematics because of its chronological presentation. It also intersects with a wide range of topics in other fields, such as mathematics, logic, physics, computer science, religion, and artificial intelligence, which should make it of interest even to those who may not have a strong formal background.

• Department: Philosophy
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: James R Finley
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• 3 points

FIELD RESEARCH IN NYC

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Lesley Sharp
  CULPA: 22 Info
• 4 points

MODERN JAPAN: IMAGES & WORDS

MODERN JAPAN: IMAGES AND WORDS

This course relies primarily on visual materials to familiarize students with the history of Japan from the beginning of the nineteenth century through the present. It follows a chronological order, introducing students to various realms of Japanese visual culture—from woodblock prints to film, anime, and manga—along with the historical contexts that they were shaped by, and in turn helped shape. Special attention will paid to the visual technologies of nation-building, war, and empire; to historical interactions between Japanese and Euro-American visual culture; to the operations of still versus moving images; and to the mass production of visual commodities for the global marketplace. Students who take the course will emerge not only with a better understanding of Japan’s modern historical experience, but also with a more discerning eye for the ways that images convey meaning and offer access to the past.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Gregory Pflugfelder
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 3 points

SENIOR THESIS SEMINAR II

Prerequisites: Must complete ANTH BC3871x. Limited to Barnard Senior Anthropology Majors.
Offered every Spring. Discussion of research methods and planning and writing of a Senior Essay in Anthropology will accompany research on problems of interest to students, culminating in the writing of individual Senior Essays. The advisory system requires periodic consultation and discussion between the student and her adviser as well as the meeting of specific deadlines set by the department each semester.

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 4 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

If a student wishes to pursue a research project or a course of study not offered by the department, he or she may apply for an Independent Study. 
Application:
 1. cover sheet with signatures of the professor who will serve as the project sponsor and departmental administrator or director of undergraduate studies; 2. project description in 750 words, including any preliminary work in the field, such as a lecture course(s) or seminar(s); 3. bibliography of primary and secondary works to be read or consulted. Please visit the English and Comparative Literature Department website at http://english.columbia.edu/undergraduate/forms for the cover sheet form or see the administrator in 602 Philosophy Hall for the cover sheet form and to answer any other questions you may have.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• Instructor: Branka Arsic
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 1-4 points

NEOLIBERAL URBAN-POL OF EXCLUS

This seminar examines the impact of neo-liberal strategies and practices of urban development and governance on contemporary American cities with special emphasis on the dividing practices that have led to the segregation, stigmatization and exclusion of urbanites on the basis of class, race, sex/gender and other power-laden ascriptions of difference and pathology. We will situate the formative period of neoliberal urbanism in the urban renewal or "slum clearance" programs of the 1950s and 1960s-initiatives that registered post-war anxieties concerning civil defense, urban disinvestment and growing populations of racial-cum-ethnic "minorities." Through a reading of key anthropological ethnographies and other literature across disciplines, we will examine topics including: deindustrialization and the construction of the inner city and "ghetto underclass," the cultural politics of neo-liberal governance, the privatization and policing of public space, gated communities, gentrification and socioeconomic polarization, and homelessness

• Department: Anthropology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Steven Gregory
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

LISTENING: AN ETHNOG OF SOUND

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
This course explores the possibilities of an ethnography of sound by attending to a range of listening encounters: in urban soundscapes of the city and in natural soundscapes of acoustic ecology; from histories of audible pasts and resonances of auditory cultural spaces; through repeated listenings in the age of electronic reproduction and at the limits of listening with experimental music. Sound, noise, voice, reverberation, and silence, from von Helmholtz to John Cage and beyond: the course turns away from the screen and dominant epistemologies of the visual, for an extended moment, in pursuit of sonorous objects and cultural sonorities.

• Department: Anthropology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: John Pemberton
  CULPA: 15 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

ECOCRITICISM FOR THE END TIMES

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
This seminar aims to show what an anthropologically informed, ecocritical cultural studies can offer in this moment of intensifying ecological calamity.  The course will not only engage significant works in anthropology, ecocriticism, philosophy, literature, politics, and aesthetics to think about the environment, it will also bring these works into engaged reflection on "living in the end times" (borrowing cultural critic Slavoj Zizek's phrase).  The seminar will thus locate critical perspectives on the environment within the contemporary worldwide ecological crisis, emphasizing the ethnographic realities of global warming, debates on nuclear power and energy, and the place of nature.  Drawing on the professor's long experience in Japan and current research on the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster,  the seminar will also take care to unpack the notion of "end times," with its apocalyptic implications, through close considerations of works that take on the question of ecocatastrophe in our times.  North American and European perspectives, as well as international ones  (particularly ones drawn from East Asia), will give the course a global reach.

• Department: Anthropology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Marilyn Ivy
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

THE MONGOLS IN HISTORY

HISTORY OF THE MONGOLS

Study of the role of the Mongols in Eurasian history, focusing on the era of the Great Mongol Empire. The roles of Chinggis and Khubilai Khan and the modern fate of the Mongols to be considered.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Morris Rossabi
  CULPA: 12 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY-NON AFAM

• Department: African-American Studies, Institute for Research in
• Instructor: Kevin Fellezs
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 1-4 points

UNDERGRAD RES IN APPLIED MATH

Prerequisites: Written permission from instructor and approval from adviser.
This course may be repeated for credit, but no more than 6 points of this course may be counted toward the satisfaction of the B.S. degree requirements. Candidates for the B.S. degree may conduct an investigation in applied mathematics or carry out a special project under the supervision of the staff. Credit for the course is contingent upon the submission of an acceptable thesis or final report.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Guillaume Bal
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Daniel Bienstock
  h-index: 38 Info
• Instructor: Mark A Cane
  Wikipedia h-index: 99 Info
• Instructor: Qiang Du
  Wikipedia h-index: 67 Info
• Instructor: Eitan Grinspun
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Kyle Mandli
  h-index: 14 Info
• Instructor: Lorenzo M Polvani
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 69 Info
• Instructor: Adam H Sobel
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Marc W Spiegelman
  CULPA: 15 Info
• Instructor: Michael K Tippett
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 43 Info
• Instructor: Michael I Weinstein
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 47 Info
• Instructor: chris wiggins
  CULPA: 12 Wikipedia h-index: 34 Info
• 0-4 points

UNDERGRAD RESRCH-APPLD PHYSICS

Prerequisites: Written permission from instructor and approval from adviser.
This course may be repeated for credit, but no more than 6 points of this course may be counted toward the satisfaction of the B.S. degree requirements. Candidates for the B.S. degree may conduct an investigation in applied physics or carry out a special project under the supervision of the staff. Credit for the course is contingent upon the submission of an acceptable thesis or final report.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Allen H Boozer
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Andrew Cole
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Alexander Gaeta
  Wikipedia h-index: 89 Info
• Instructor: Oleg Gang
  h-index: 45 Info
• Instructor: Irving P Herman
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia h-index: 50 Info
• Instructor: Michael E Mauel
  CULPA: 9 Info
• Instructor: Gerald A Navratil
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 46 Info
• Instructor: Richard M Jr. Osgood
  Wikipedia h-index: 85 Info
• Instructor: Aron Pinczuk
  Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Amiya K Sen
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Latha Venkataraman
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 55 Info
• Instructor: Francesco Volpe
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• Instructor: Yuan Yang
  h-index: 49 Info
• Instructor: Nanfang Yu
  h-index: 48 Info
• 0-4 points

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROJECT

Candidates for the B.S. degree may conduct an investigation of some problem in chemical engineering or applied chemistry or carry out a special project under the supervision of the staff.  Credit for the course is contingent upon the submission of an acceptable thesis or final report.  No more than 6 points in this course may be counted toward the satisfaction of the B.S. degree requirements.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• Instructor: Scott Banta
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 36 Info
• Instructor: Kyle Bishop
  h-index: 42 Info
• Instructor: Jingguang Chen
  Wikipedia h-index: 89 Info
• Instructor: Christopher J Durning
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Daniel Esposito
  h-index: 22 Info
• Instructor: Oleg Gang
  h-index: 45 Info
• Instructor: Jingyue Ju
  h-index: 77 Info
• Instructor: Jeffrey T Koberstein
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Sanat Kumar
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 79 Info
• Instructor: Edward F Leonard
  CULPA: 9 Info
• Instructor: V. Faye McNeill
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 33 Info
• Instructor: Allie Obermeyer
  h-index: 16 Info
• Instructor: Ben O'Shaughnessy
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 0-6 points