FREEDOM DREAMS: US & BEYOND

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preregistration required.
This course will interrogate freedom as a conceptual categroy and explore how the meaning and practice of freedom has been deployed in different historical moments. We will consider how gender, race, sexuality, slavery, colonization, work and religion influenced thinking about individual and collective notions of freedom.

• Department: History @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Premilla Nadasen
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

COLL: GENDER & PUBLIC POLICY

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Katherine L Krimmel
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

TAP III

ADVANCED TAP

Prerequisites: DNCE BC2447, BC2448, or permission of instructor.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Margaret J Morrison
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 0-1 points

POLIT SLAVERY & ANTISLAVERY-US

This course examines how Americans definied and redefined the boundaries of freedom from the American Revolution to Reconstruction. In particular, it focuses on how the relationship between slavery and politics shaped the meaning(s) of freedom in this time period and how various political actors defined and manipulated this relationship to advocate for themselves. This course takes a broad definition of politics that includes not just the electoral realm but also the actions of disenfranchised political actors including slaves, women, and freedpeople.

• Department: History
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Mary T Freeman
  Info
• 4 points

FLD WRK&RSRCH; SEM:TODDLR CENTR

The Barnard Toddler Center provides the focus for field work and research in applied developmental psychology, an amalgam of developmental, educational, and clinical psychology. Students assist one morning a week at the Center, make individual class presentations, carry out team research projects, and participate in a two-hour weekly seminar which integrates theory, research, and practice.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• T 12:50 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Tovah Klein
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

ROCK MUSIC &LIT; SOUTHERN CONE

Prerequisites: Third-year bridge course (W3300), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350).
In this course we will explore different social and cultural aspects of the shifting and complex interrelations between rock and literature in the Southern Cone.  We will examine some representative novels, short stories, documentaries, secondary bibliography, and songs in the field.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Orlando Bentancor
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

LITERATURE-SOUTHERN CONE

Prerequisites: Third-year bridge course (W3300), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350.
Examination of the literature of the Southern Cone: Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Chile; the tension between fantastic literature and literary realism. Readings include Borges, Casares, Ocampo, Onetti, Donoso, and Roa Bastos.

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

FRENCH CULTURAL WORKSHOP

Prerequisites: completion of
FREN W2202
.
Designed (though not exclusively) for students contemplating a stay at Reid Hall, this course will foster a comparison of the French and American cultures with readings from sociological sources and emphasis on in-class discussion in an attempt to comprehend and avoid common causes of cross-cultural communication.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Vincent Aurora
  CULPA: 55 Info
• 3 points

INDEP BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Prerequisites: Concurrent with registering for this course, a student must register with the department and provide a written invitation from a mentor; details of this procedure are available at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/w3500/index.htm.
Corequisites: There will not be a recitation section this semester.
The course involves independent study, faculty-supervised laboratory projects in contemporary biology. Concurrent with registering for this course, a student must register with the department, provide a written invitation from a mentor and submit a research proposal; details of this procedure are available at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/w3500/index.htm. A paper summarizing results of the work is required by the last day of finals for a letter grade; no late papers will be accepted. See the course web site (above) for more details.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• Instructor: Ron M Prywes
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 2-4 points

COLL:POLIT ECON:CORRPTN/CONTRL

Prerequisites: POLS V1501 or the
equivalent
.
Admission by application
through the Barnard department only. Enrollment limited to 16 students.
Barnard syllabus
.
Comparative political economy course which addresses some important questions concerning corruption and its control: the concept, causes, patterns, consequences, and control of corruption. Introduces students to and engages them in several key social science debates on the causes and effects of political corruption.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Xiaobo Lu
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

BEGINNING VIDEO

Beginning Video is an introductory class on the production and editing of digital video. Designed as an intensive hands-on production/post-production workshop, the apprehension of technical and aesthetic skills in shooting, sound and editing will be emphasized. Assignments are developed to allow students to deepen their familiarity with the language of the moving image medium. Over the course of the term, the class will explore the language and syntax of the moving image, including fiction, documentary and experimental approaches. Importance will be placed on the decision making behind the production of a work; why it was conceived of, shot, and edited in a certain way. Class time will be divided between technical workshops, viewing and discussing films and videos by independent producers/artists and discussing and critiquing students projects. Readings will be assigned on technical, aesthetic and theoretical issues. Only one section offered per semester. If the class is full, please visit
http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program
.

• Department: Visual Arts
• T 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Shelly Silver
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

BIOCHEM I-STRUCTURE/METABOLISM

Prerequisites: one year of
BIOL C2005
and
BIOL C2006
and one year of organic chemistry.
Lecture and recitation. Students wishing to cover the full range of modern biochemistry should take both BIOC C3501 and C3512. C3501 covers subject matters in modern biochemistry, including chemical biology and structural biology, discussing the structure and function of both proteins and small molecules in biological systems. Proteins are the primary class of biological macromolecules and serve to carry out most cellular functions. Small organic molecules function in energy production and creating building blocks for the components of cells and can also be used to perturb the functions of proteins directly. The first half of the course covers protein structure, enzyme kinetics and enzyme mechanism. The second half of the course explores how small molecules are used endogenously by living systems in metabolic and catabolic pathways; this part of the course focuses on mechanistic organic chemistry involved in metabolic pathways.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Brent R Stockwell
  CULPA: 14 Wikipedia h-index: 79 Info
• 4 points

COLL: URBAN VIOLENCE

Prerequisites: V 1501 or equivalent
One of the key contemporary challenges for democracy and development across both the developing and developed worlds is urban violence. From urban gangs to paramilitaries to vigilantes to citizen defense committees, the city is increasing a key setting for a range of armed actors that engage in equally diverse forms of criminality and the exercise of coercive force. Major cities throughout the world thus lead two lives: as control and command centers in a globalized (and urbanized) economy, and as the stages where the monopoly over the legitimate use of violence that Max Weber identified as a defining attribute of the state is contested on a daily basis. This course has two overarching objectives. The first objective is to examine and critically assess existing theories of the drivers, functions, and consequences of urban crime and violence.  The second objective is to situate existing research within a broader range of classic and emerging political science research on state building, institutions, democracy,  development, and conflict. The methodological emphasis of the course is comparative analysis, and therefore empirical material will largely draw on analyses of crime and violence in Latin America and Africa, and the United States. This course will introduce students to the key theories, debates, and empirical studies of urban crime and violence. Students who successfully complete the class will: 1.      Acquire a broad knowledge of the theories and concepts used to analyze urban crime and violence. 2.      Develop a theoretically informed and empirically grounded understanding of both historical and contemporary trends in crime and violence in major cities across Latin America, Africa, and the United States. 3.      Draw linkages between news coverage of urban crime and violence and political science theories on a range of broader issues regarding state building, institutions, democracy, and development. 4.      Use existing theories to analyze, assess, and present empirical data, both written and verbal.   5.      Produce a major, original research paper that advances existing knowledge of the origins, dynamics, and/or consequences of urban crime and violence.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Eduardo Moncada
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 12 Info
• 4 points

INDEP BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH - REC

INDEP BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH-REC

• Department: Biological Sciences
• W 5:40 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• R 5:40 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Ron M Prywes
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 0 points

HIST APPROACHES TO FEM QUESTNS

This class is an introduction to the debates on women that played a dominant role in both the philosophical and literary traditions of the European/Atlantic world from the classical period through the seventeenth-century. Beginning with the works of ancient political theory that actively debated women’s political, social, and ethical position in society (chiefly Aristotle, Plato, and Plutarch), the course will address the pan-European books of “Good Women” that served as exemplary case studies, the
querelle des femmes
(or debate on women) that dominated political and humanist discourse of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the crucial importance of the political analogies between the household and the state and the marital and social contracts in the premodern world (and, indeed, in our own).  We will study works from ancient Greece and Rome and medieval and early modern Italy, Spain, France, England, Ethiopia and Mexico, and topics ranging from domestic violence and political resistance theory to transvestitism and lesbianism.

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Julie Crawford
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 4 points

WRITING THE SELF WORKSHOP

Corequisites:
FREN W3333-FREN W3334
or equivalent, or the director of undergraduate studies' permission.
In this course, we will read works spanning the history of French literature from the Renaissance to the present in which the problem of writing the self is posed. We will also engage in various writing exercises (pastiche, translation, personal narrative) and discuss the works on the syllabus in conjunction with our own attempts to write the self. Authors will include Montaigne, Rousseau, Roland, Sand, Colette, Barthes, Modiano, and NDiaye. This course fulfills the pre-1800 requirement.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Nicolae A Virastau
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 1 Info
• 3 points

CIVIL RIGHTS &CIVIL; LIBERTIES

Prerequisites: POLS W1201 or the
equivalent
.
Not an introductory-level course.
Not open to students who have taken the colloquium POLS BC3326. Enrollment limited to 25 students; L-course sign-up through
eBear
.
Barnard syllabus
.
Explores seminal caselaw to inform contemporary civil rights and civil liberties jurisprudence and policy.  Specifically, the readings examine historical and contemporary first amendment values, including freedom of speech and the press, economic liberties, takings law, discrimination based on race, gender, class and sexual preference, affirmative action, the right to privacy, reproductive freedom, the right to die, criminal procedure and adjudication, the rights of the criminally accused post-9/11 and the death penalty. (Cross-listed by the American Studies and Human Rights Programs.)

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Paula A Franzese
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED STUDIO

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 15 students. Permission of the instructor.
An interpretive study of the theoretical and critical issues in visual art. Projects that are modeled after major movements in contemporary art will be executed in the studio. Each student develops an original body of artwork and participates in group discussions of the assigned readings.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Joan Snitzer
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

IDENTITY & SOCIETY ANC EGYPT

IDENTITY &SOCIETY; ANCNT EGYPT

The lives of ancient Egyptians varied greatly according to their age, gender, class, ethnicity, profession and spatial and temporal locality.  Using material and textual evidence, we examine selected individuals, communities, and specific topics.  The latter include public and private religious life, law, human lifecycles, social revolution, and the living dead.

• Department: Classics @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Ellen Morris
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

COMPARATIVE POLITICAL ECONOMY

This course aims to illuminate how political institutions and behavior shape economic outcomes, and vice versa, across the world today. Students will use economic modes of analysis to draw comparisons both within and across a diverse set of nations ranging from established democracies like the U.S. to nascent democracies like Afghanistan. The main focus will be on how the incentives facing individuals drive differences in economic development, democratic representation and voter participation in both developed and developing contexts. Starting at the level of national political systems, before analyzing the internal workings of institutions and the behavior of voters that underpin democratic systems, students will grapple with major contemporary debates including. The course will familiarize students with central political economy concepts—such as credible commitment, rent-seeking, electoral accountability and the collective action problem—as well as frontier empirical findings and methods shaping how we think about the interrelation of politics and economics. These powerful concepts and tools will empower students to think analytically, analyze macro phenomena in terms of micro-level incentives, and apply theoretical frameworks to answer specific questions in this course and beyond. Familiarity with introductory economics and statistics are encouraged.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: John Marshall
  h-index: 20 Info
• 3 points

JUNIOR COLLOQ IN URBAN STUDIES

Prerequisites: Non-majors admitted by permission of instructor. Students must attend first class. Enrollment limited to 16 students per section. General Education Requirement: Historical Studies.
Introduction to the historical process and social consequences of urban growth, from the middle of the nineteenth century to the present.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Meredith B Linn
  CULPA: 8 Info
• Instructor: Aaron Passell
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 3 Info
• Instructor: Gergely Baics
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Kimberley S Johnson
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 4 points

JUNIOR COLLOQ IN URBAN STUDIES

Prerequisites: Non-majors admitted by permission of instructor. Students must attend first class. Enrollment limited to 16 students per section.
Evaluation of current political, economic, social, cultural and physical forces that are shaping urban areas.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Kathryn B Yatrakis
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

FORCE&POWER; IN EARLY AMERICA

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preregistration required.
Coercion, war, rape, murder, and riots are common in American History from the European invasion to the Civil War. How did violent acts transform early American societies? Readings are a mix of primary sources and scholarship. First and second year students are welcome with permission.

• Department: History @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew C Lipman
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

GAY HARLEM

Prerequisites: This course is limited to 20 students and by permission only.
This course explores Harlem's role in the production of sexual modernity and in particular as a space of queer encounter. While much of our investigation will be devoted to the intersection of race and sexuality in African American life, we also consider Harlem's history as a communal space for Italian, Puerto Rican, and more recent immigrants. Students will be encouraged to distinguish and connect contemporary sites of sexual culture in Harlem to the historical articulations of race and sexuality examined in the course.

• Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Lori Brooks
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

LATIN AMERICAN FILM

This course aims to give students an introductory overview of some of the most salient issues surrounding contemporary Latin American film since the late 1960s. Starting with a selection of films from the experimental “new cinema” or “third cinema” of the 1960s, we will also study the contemporary production of international blockbuster movies in the 2000s, in Argentina, Brazil, Cuba and Mexico. Topics to be covered include the relationship between cinema and underdevelopment; cinema and revolution; cinema and emancipation; documentary film and fiction; gender and sexuality; neoliberalism and the market; spectatorship and subjectivity.

• Department: Spanish and Portuguese
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Bruno Bosteels
  Wikipedia h-index: 21 Info
• 3 points

EVOL IN THE AGE OF GENOMICS

Prerequisites: introductory genetics or the instructor's permission.
This course introduces basic concepts in evolutionary biology, from speciation to natural selection. While the lectures incorporate a historical perspective, the main goal of the class is to familiarize students with topics and tools of evolutionary genetics as practiced today, in the era of genomics. Thus, the focus will be on evidence from molecular evolution and genetics and exercises will assume a basic background in genetics. Examples will be drawn from across the tree of life, but with a primary focus on humans.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• 4 points

COMPOS: COLLAB & CREATIVE PROC

COMPOS:COLLAB & CREATIVE PROC

Prerequisites: Dance Composition: Form (DNCE BC 2563) or Dance Composition: Content (DNCE BC 2564), or permission of the instructor.
This course is a study in dance composition with a focus on collaboration.  Whether creating a solo or larger group piece, students are encouraged to collaborate with other artists. Methods employed by contemporary choreographers will be explored.  Peer feedback and creative dialogue will be a component of every class.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Colleen Thomas
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

U.S. IN THE NUCLEAR AGE

The dropping of the first atomic bomb at the end of World War II ushered in a new era in American history. From here on, warfare posed the threat of total annihilation and Americans lived with anxiety over atomic weapons. But nuclear power, with the promise of endless energy, also reflected the hopes for a prosperous future. This course explores multiple paths Americans pursued toward securing peace and prosperity in the nuclear age and the challenges they faced along the way. Topics include the Cold War, suburbanization and the new car culture, the environmental movement, the energy crisis of the 1970s, the Middle East and terrorism, nuclear power, and global warming.

• Department: History
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Meg Jacobs
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

DANCE CRITICISM

Intensive practice in writing about dance. Readings drawn from 19th- and 20th-century criticism.  Observation includes weekly performances and classroom videotape sessions.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Siobhan F Burke
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

AMERICAN CULTURAL CRITICISM

A seminar on the history of American cultural criticism since the late nineteenth century.  Themes include the search for forms of artistic expression appropriate to a democratic society; the consequences of urbanism and corporate industrialization for American culture and values; the implications of ethno-racial diversity for American culture and national identity; tensions between “popular” or “mass” culture, the avant-garde, and “high” culture; selfhood and the moral life; the shift from a modernist to a postmodernist sensibility; and the public role of the critic in the United States.  
Field(s): US

• Department: History
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Casey Blake
  CULPA: 22 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SR SEM IN BIOLOGY

SENIOR SEMINAR

Prerequisites: BIOL BC1500, BIOL BC1501, BIOL BC1502, BIOL BC1503, and BIOL BC2100.
Required of all majors who do not select Senior Thesis (BIOL BC3593x / BC3594y) to fulfill the senior requirement, these seminars allow students to explore the primary literature in the Biological Sciences in greater depth than can be achieved in a lecture course. Attention will be focused on both theoretical and empirical work. Seminar periods are devoted to oral reports and discussion of assigned readings and student reports. Students will write one extensive literature review of a topic related to the central theme of the seminar section.
Topics vary per semester and include:
1. Plant Development
 
2. Animal Development and Evolution 
3
. Molecular Evolution 4. Microbiology and Global Change 5. Genomics 6. Comparative and Reproductive Endocrinology.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• M 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew Rhodes
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

GUIDED RESEARCH & SEMINAR

Prerequisites: Permission of a faculty sponsor and the department. Cannot be taken concurrently with BIOL BC3593 or BIOL BC3594.
An independent research project in Biology under the guidance of a faculty member and suiting the needs of the individual student. Projects conducted outside of the Barnard Biology Department must have a member of the Department acting as a sponsor. Attendance at a weekly seminar is required. By the end of the year, students write a scientific paper and orally present their results to the Barnard Biology Department. Completion of both BIO BC3591x and BIOL BC3592y fulfills one upper-level laboratory requirement in the major. Must be taken in sequence, beginning in the fall.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• M 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Krista McGuire
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR SEMINAR

Research and scholarly writing in chosen topics relating to dance. Methods of investigation are drawn from prominent archival collections and personal interviews, as well as other resources. Papers are formally presented to the Dance Department upon completion.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Lynn Garafola
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS RESEARCH

Prerequisites: Permission of a faculty sponsor and the department. Cannot be taken concurrently with BIOL BC3591 or BIOL BC3592.
Same as BIOL BC3591x-BC3592y, including the weekly seminar. Completion of both BIOL BC3593x and BC3594y fulfills the senior requirement in the major. Must be taken in sequence, beginning in the fall.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• M 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Krista McGuire
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

RSRCH/SEM-NEUROSCNCE&BEHAVIOR;

Discussion and conferences on a research project culminate in a written and oral senior thesis. Each project must be supervised by a scientist working at Barnard or at another local institution. Successful completion of the seminar substitutes for the major examination.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter D Balsam
  CULPA: 25 Info
• Instructor: Rae Silver
  Wikipedia h-index: 69 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth P Bauer
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 21 Info
• 4 points

GUIDED RESEARCH

Prerequisites: Permission of a faculty sponsor.
Similar to BIOL BC3591x/ BC3592y but a variable point course without seminar or an oral presentation. Does not fulfill Biology major requirements.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• Instructor: Elizabeth P Bauer
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 21 Info
• Instructor: Hilary Callahan
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: John Glendinning
  CULPA: 23 h-index: 39 Info
• Instructor: Paul E Hertz
  CULPA: 22 Info
• Instructor: Jennifer H Mansfield
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 15 Info
• Instructor: Krista McGuire
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Brian Morton
  CULPA: 21 Info
• Instructor: Jonathan Snow
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 18 Info
• 1-4 points

PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. 4 hours of laboratory work by arrangement.
Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• Instructor: Christian Rojas
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Marisa C Buzzeo
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Dina C Merrer
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Andrew C Crowther
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Michael Campbell
  Info
• Instructor: Mary Sever
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Rachel Austin
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia h-index: 28 Info
• Instructor: Christina Vizcarra
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Benjamin Bostick
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 44 Info
• 2 points

PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. 4 hours of laboratory work by arrangement.
Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• 2 points

PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. 8 hours of laboratory work by arrangement.
Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• Instructor: Christian Rojas
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Marisa C Buzzeo
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Dina C Merrer
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Andrew C Crowther
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Michael Campbell
  Info
• Instructor: Mary Sever
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Rachel Austin
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia h-index: 28 Info
• Instructor: Christina Vizcarra
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Benjamin Bostick
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 44 Info
• 4 points

PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3328 and permission of instructor. 8 hours of laboratory work by arrangement.
Individual research projects at Barnard or Columbia, culminating in a comprehensive written report.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• 4 points

CLASSICAL CONTROL SYSTEMS

Prerequisites: MATH V2030.
Analysis and design of feedback control systems. Transfer functions; block diagrams; proportional, rate, and integral controllers; hardware, implementation. Routh stability criterion, root locus, Bode and Nyquist plots, compensation techniques.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard W Longman
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 45 Info
• 3 points

METAPHYSICS

Corequisites:
PHIL V3611
Required Discussion Section (0 points).
Systematic treatment of some major topics in metaphysics (e.g. modality, causation, identity through time, particulars and universals). Readings from contemporary authors.

• Department: Philosophy
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Achille Varzi
  CULPA: 30 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info
• 4 points

REHEARSAL& PERFRMNCE IN DANCE

Prerequisites: Audition. Do not register for this course until you have been selected at the audition. Subject to cap on studio credit. Can be taken more than once for credit up to a maximum of 3 credits a semester.
Students are graded and take part in the full production of a dance as performers, choreographers, designers, or stage technicians.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• 1-3 points

REHEARSAL& PERFRMNCE IN DANCE

Prerequisites: Audition. Do not register for this course until you have been selected at the audition. Subject to cap on studio credit. Can be taken more than once for credit up to a maximum of 3 credits a semester.
Students are graded and take part in the full production of a dance as performers, choreographers, designers, or stage technicians.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• TR 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer Archibald
  Info
• 1-3 points

REHEARSAL& PERFRMNCE IN DANCE

Prerequisites: Audition. Do not register for this course until you have been selected at the audition. Subject to cap on studio credit. Can be taken more than once for credit up to a maximum of 3 credits a semester.
Students are graded and take part in the full production of a dance as performers, choreographers, designers, or stage technicians.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
• 1-3 points

INTRO-MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING

Prerequisites: MATH V2010: Linear Algebra.
Corequisites: COMS W3134 (or COMS W3137): Data Structures.
For undergraduates only. This course is required for all undergraduate students majoring in IE, OR:EMS, OR:FE and OR. This class must be taken during (or before) the fifth semester. Mathematical programming is one of the most important techniques used by an operations research specialist. Solid understanding of its basics is necessary in almost all branches of our discipline. This course is an introduction to mathematical programming models and computational techniques. It covers the following areas: linear programming and the simplex method, dynamic programming, network flow models and algorithms, implicit enumeration for integer programs. A wide range of applications is also discussed. This course is a foundation and a prerequisite for a large number of more advanced courses in the department. IEOR E3608 must be completed by the fifth term. Only students with special academic circumstances may be allowed to take these courses in alternative semesters with the consultation of CSA and Departmental advisors.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Jay Sethuraman
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

METAPHYSICS-REC

• Department: Philosophy
• R 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• T 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• None None-None
• 0 points

THIRD YEAR MOD COLLOQ TIBET I

For those whose knowledge is equivalent to a student who’s completed the Second Year course. The course develops students’ reading comprehension skills through reading selected modern Tibetan literature. Tibetan is used as the medium of instruction and interaction to develop oral fluency and proficiency.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Sonam Tsering
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• 3 points

POLITCS OF INTL ECON RELATIONS

This upper-level undergraduate course examines the intersection of politics and economics at primarily the international level. The course involves the careful reading and evaluation of the dominant theoretical and methodological approaches as currently used in the IPE field, as well as examination of prominent debates within the major IPE subject areas of trade, finance, development and globalization.  This class does not have an economics or a specific political science prerequisite, but assumes a general understanding of historical and contemporary political and economic events. As a 3000-level course, this class would not be an appropriate choice for students who have not already taken introductory courses in political science, including international relations and comparative politics.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer H Dwyer
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

PLTCS-INTL ECON RELATIONS-DISC

• Department: Political Science
• M 11:40 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• F 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• 0 points

MODERN JEWISH INTELLECTUAL HIST

Modern Jewish Intellectual His

This course analyzes Jewish intellectual history from Spinoza to 1939. It tracks the radical transformation that modernity yielded in Jewish life, both in the development of new, self-consciously modern, iterations of Judaism and Jewishness and in the more elusive but equally foundational changes in "traditional" Judaisms. Questions to be addressed include: the development of the modern concept of "religion" and its effect on the Jews; the origin of the notion of "Judaism" parallel to Christianity, Islam, etc.; the rise of Jewish secularism and of secular Jewish ideologies, especially the Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah), modern Jewish nationalism, Zionism, Jewish socialism, and Autonomism; the rise of Reform, Modern Orthodox, and Conservative Judaisms; Jewish neo-Romanticism and neo-Kantianism, and Ultra-Orthodoxy.

• Department: History
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael F Stanislawski
  CULPA: 66 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

ADV IN INT'L POLITICAL ECON

ADV IN INT'L POLITICAL ECONOMY

This course examines the relationship between domestic and international politics and economic relations between countries. It addresses questions such as: Why do some countries promote globalization while others resist it? Why do some countries adopt inefficient economic policies? We will explore these questions and others by focusing on topics such as international trade, foreign aid, investment, and the
environment. For each topic, we will explore a variety of theoretical lenses and then examine the evidence in favor of each. More generally, the course will consider the challenges of drawing causal inferences in the field of international political economy. There are no prerequisites for this course but an introductory economics course would be helpful. Students will write a short reading response each week and produce a research proposal for studying a topic related to political economy, though they do not need to actually conduct this research.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Allison J Carnegie
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• 3 points

PROBABILITY FOR ENGINEERS

Prerequisites: Solid knowledge of calculus, including multiple variable integration.
For undergraduates only. This course is required for the OR:FE concentration. This class must be taken during (or before) the third semester. Students who take IEOR E3658 may not take SIEO W3600 or W4150 due to significant overlap. This is an introductory course to probability theory, and does not assume any prior knowledge of the subject. The course aims to teach students the foundations required to use probability in applications, but the course itself is theoretical in nature. The content and pace of the course is best suited for students (undergraduates) with strong mathematical skills. The course begins with the basic definitions and axioms of probability and then introduces the notions of independence and conditional probability. The majority of the course focuses on random variables, both continuous and discrete, and covers the topics of expectation, variance, conditional distributions, conditional expectation and variance, and moment generating functions. The course ends with the Central Limit Theorem for sums of random variables. The method of instruction consists of lectures, recitations, weekly homework, and in-class exams.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Antonius B Dieker
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 19 Info
• 3 points

PROBABILITY FOR ENGINEERS

PROBABILITY FOR ENGINEERS REC

Prerequisites: Solid knowledge of calculus, including multiple variable integration.
For undergraduates only. This course is required for the OR:FE concentration. This class must be taken during (or before) the third semester. Students who take IEOR E3658 may not take SIEO W3600 or W4150 due to significant overlap. This is an introductory course to probability theory, and does not assume any prior knowledge of the subject. The course aims to teach students the foundations required to use probability in applications, but the course itself is theoretical in nature. The content and pace of the course is best suited for students (undergraduates) with strong mathematical skills. The course begins with the basic definitions and axioms of probability and then introduces the notions of independence and conditional probability. The majority of the course focuses on random variables, both continuous and discrete, and covers the topics of expectation, variance, conditional distributions, conditional expectation and variance, and moment generating functions. The course ends with the Central Limit Theorem for sums of random variables. The method of instruction consists of lectures, recitations, weekly homework, and in-class exams.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• 0 points

INTRO HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY

This course will survey selected social, cultural and aesthetic or technical developments in the history of photography, from the emergence of the medium in the 1820s and 30s through to the present day. Rather than attempt comprehensively to review every aspect of photography and its legacies in the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the course will instead trace significant developments through a series of case studies. Some of the latter will focus on individuals, genres or movements, and others on various discourses of the photographic image.  Particular attention will be placed on methodological and theoretical concerns pertaining to the medium.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexander Alberro
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

TPCS IN INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

This course explores how and why states and non-state actors use violent and non-violent strategies in international politics. While not all topics in international security can be covered thoroughly in one semester, this course will give a sampling of many of the topics, including military doctrines and strategies, diplomatic policies, social forces, civil wars, and roles of individuals. Though historical and current events will be used as examples to illustrate how various theories work, students should keep in mind that this is not a course on current events.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Zachary C Shirkey
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

VIOLENCE & HISTORY LATIN AMER

This course will build the conceptual tools to understand Latin American violence in a historical perspective. We will look at violence as a component of oppressive power, class and gender relations. We will also consider the productive effects of violence, as violent practices constitute politics, nationalism, masculinity and revolutionary thought. We will also look at the way in which violence, particularly state but also revolutionary violence, generated enduring social efforts to seek justice and preserve the memory of victims. The course will combine readings on theory, history and the social sciences intended to build a historical perspective. In the second half of the semester, the focus will turn to the research and writing of a paper that will be based on primary sources but will also engage the readings from the first part of the semester.

• Department: History
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Pablo Piccato
  CULPA: 22 h-index: 20 Info
• 4 points

INDEPENDENT CLINICAL RESEARCH

Prerequisites: concurrent with registering for this course, a student must register with the department, provide a written invitation from a mentor, and submit a research proposal.
BIOL 3700 will provide an opportunity for students interested in independent research work in a hospital or hospice setting. In these settings, where patients and their needs are paramount, and where IRB rules and basic medical ethics make “wet-lab biology research” inappropriate, undergraduates may well find a way nevertheless, to assist and participate in ongoing clinical research. Such students, once they have identified a mentor willing to provide support, participation, and advising, may apply to the faculty member in charge of the course for 2-4 points/semester in BIOL W3700. This course will closely follow procedures already in place for BIOL 3500, but will ask potential mentors to provide evidence that students will gain hands-on experience in a clinical setting, while participating in a hospital- or hospice-based research agenda. A paper summarizing results of the work is required by the last day of finals for a letter grade; no late papers will be accepted.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• Instructor: Robert E Pollack
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia Info
• 2-4 points

DRAMA, THEATRE AND THEORY

Prerequisites: Instructor's permission.
(Seminar). Theatre typically exceeds the claims of theory. What does this tell us about both theatre and theory? We will consider why theatre practitioners often provide the most influential theoretical perspectives, how the drama inquires into (among other things) the possibilities of theatre, and the various ways in which the social, spiritual, performative, political, and aesthetic elements of drama and theatre interact. Two papers, weekly responses, and a class presentation are required. Readings include Aristotle, Artaud, Bharata, Boal, Brecht, Brook, Castelvetro, Craig, Genet, Grotowski, Ibsen, Littlewood, Marlowe, Parks, Schechner, Shakespeare, Sowerby, Weiss, and Zeami. Application Instructions: E-mail Professor Austin Quigley (aeq1@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "Drama, Theatre, Theory 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
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Austin E Quigley
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• 4 points

SENIOR FIELD ESSAY SEMINAR

• Department: American Studies @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Manu M Vimalassery
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 4 points

LEADERSHIP IN ORGANIZATION

LEADERSHIIP IN ORGANIZATION

Initially, the emphasis is on understanding the challenges confronting leaders and developing skills to effectively deal with these obstacles. Beyond intelligence and technical know-how, what separates effective leaders from other team members is a set of social skills (e.g. impression management, self-awareness). This course identifies these critical leadership skills and provides ideas and tools for improving them. Then, the course considers how social intelligence skills fit the needs of managers at different stages of their careers. In early stages, managers need to achieve a good person-job fit, find mentors, and build an effective social network. At the mid-career stage, managers need to lead an effective unit with increasing complexity and responsibilities. Finally, the course examines challenges managers face at later career stages as they become partners, CFOs, CEOs, etc.

• Department: Columbia College
• R 2:40 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Rachel I McDonald
  h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

LITERARY CRITICISM (SEMINAR)

PLATO THE RHETORICIAN

Prerequisites: Instructor's permission
(Seminar). Although Socrates takes a notoriously dim view of persuasion and the art that produces it, the Platonic dialogues featuring him both theorize and practice a range of rhetorical strategies that become the nuts and bolts of persuasive argumentation. This seminar will read a number of these dialogues, including
Apology
,
Protagoras
,
Ion
,
Gorgias
,
Phaedrus
,
Menexenus
and
Republic
, followed by Aristole's
Rhetoric
, the rhetorical manual of Plato's student that provides our earliest full treatment of the art. Application instructions: E-mail Prof. Eden (khe1@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
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Kathy H Eden
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

COMPARATIVE MODERN TEXTS

THE THIRTIES

Prerequisites: Instructor's permission.
(Seminar). This course focuses on the tumultuous 1930s, which witnessed the growth of anticolonial movements, the coming to power of totalitarian and fascist regimes, and calls for internationalism and a new world vision, among other developments. Even as fascism laid down its roots in parts of Europe, the struggle for independence from European colonial rule accelerated in Asia and Africa, and former subjects engaged with ideas and images about the shape of their new nations, in essays, fiction, poetry, and theater. Supporters and critics of nationalism existed on both sides of the metropole-colony divide, as calls for internationalism sought to stem the rising tide of ethnocentric thinking and racial particularism in parts of Europe as well as the colonies. We'll read works from the metropole and the colonies to track the crisscrossing of ideas, beginning with writers who anticipated the convulsive events of the 1930s and beyond (E.M. Forster, H.G. Wells, Gandhi), then moving on to writers who published some of their greatest work in the 1930s (Huxley, Woolf, C.L.R. James, Mulk Raj Anand), and finally concluding with authors who reassessed the 1930s from a later perspective (George Lamming).
Application Instructions:
E-mail Professor Viswanathan (gv6@columbia.edu) by noon on Wednesday, April 13th, with the subject heading, "The Thirties seminar." In your message, include basic information: 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

ENVIR SCIENCE SENIOR SEMINAR

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

READINGS IN YIDDISH LIT (ENG)

YIDDISH LIT: THE FAMILY SINGER

This course examines a topic in Yiddish literature.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Jeremy Dauber
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

EARTH & ENVIR ENGIN LAB II

Prerequisites: EAEE E3800
Corequisites: EAEE E4003
A continuation of EAEE E3800, with emphasis on the principles underlying water analysis for inorganic, organic, and bacterial contaminants.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• 2 points