Prerequisites: Czech W1102 or the equivalent.
Rapid review of grammar. Readings in contemporary fiction and nonfiction, depending upon the interests of individual students.
Prerequisites: MATH UN1102, MATH UN1201, or the equivalent.
Multiple integrals, Taylor's formula in several variables, line and surface integrals, calculus of vector fields, Fourier series. (SC)
Prerequisites: This couse will use elementary concepts from calculus. Students should therefore have had some high school calculus, or be cuncurrently enrolled in MATH V1101.
Corequisites: Taken with accompanying lab PHYS V1291-2, the sequence PHYS V1201-2 satisfies requirements for medical school.
Electricity, magnetism, optics, and modern physics.
Prerequisites: POLI W1102 or the equivalent.
Rapid review of grammar; readings in contemporary nonfiction and fiction, depending on the interests of individual students.
Prerequisites: FREN BC1001, BC1002, BC1102, C1101 and C1102, or an appropriate score on the placement test.
Further development of oral and written communication skills. Readings in French literature.
(Formerly called "First-Year English: Reinventing Literary History (Workshop).") Close examination of texts and regular writing assignments in composition, designed to help students read critically and write effectively. Sections will focus on Legacy of the Mediterranean or Women and Culture and meet three times a week. For more information on the curriculum, please visit the course website: http://firstyear.barnard.edu/rlh
Prerequisites: FREN BC1203 or an appropriate score on the placement test.
Advanced work in language skills. Readings in French literature.
Prerequisites: (see Courses for First-Year Students).
The second term of this course may not be taken without the first. Multivariable calculus and linear algebra from a rigorous point of view. Recommended for mathematics majors. Fulfills the linear algebra requirement for the major. (SC)
Literary History often portrays women as peripheral characters, confining their power to the islands of classical witches and the attics of Romantic madwomen. This course offers a revisionist response to such constraints of canonicity, especially as they pertain to the marginalization of female subjectivity in literature and culture. The curriculum challenges traditional dichotomies—culture/nature, logos/pathos, mind/body—that cast gender as an essential attribute rather than a cultural construction. Fall term readings include
Gilgamesh
;
Hymn to Demeter
; Sophocles,
Antigone
; Ovid,
Metamorphoses
; Sei Shonagon,
The Pillow Book
; Marie de France,
Lais
; Chaucer,
The Canterbury Tales
;
Kebra Negast
; Shakespeare,
As You Like It
; Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, selected poetry; Aphra Behn,
The Rover
. Spring term readings include Milton,
Paradise Lost
; Leonora Sansay,
Secret History
; Mary Wollstonecraft,
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
; Lady Hyegyong,
The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong
; Emily Brontë,
Wuthering Heights
; Emily Dickinson, selected poetry; Sigmund Freud, selected essays; Virginia Woolf,
Mrs. Dalloway
; Gertrude Stein,
Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights
; Yvette Christiansë,
Castaway.
As of academic year 2016-17, this course is now MDES 1201. An introduction to the language of classical and modern Arabic literature. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.
This course investigates key intellectual moments in the rich literary history that originated in classical Greece and Rome and continues to inspire some of the world’s greatest masterpieces. Close readings of works reveal how psychological and ideological paradigms, including the self and civilization, shift over time, while the historical trajectory of the course invites inquiry into the myth of progress at the heart of canonicity. Works studied in the fall term include Homer,
Odyssey
;
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
; Euripides,
The Bacchae
; Virgil,
Aeneid
; Dante,
Inferno
; Chaucer,
The Canterbury Tales
; Margery Kempe,
The Book of Margery Kempe
; Shakespeare [selection depends on NYC theatre offerings]; Madame de Lafayette,
The Princesse de Clèves
; Cervantes,
Don Quixote
. Works studied in the spring term include Milton,
Paradise Lost
; Voltaire,
Candide
; Puccini,
La Bohème
[excursion to the Metropolitan Opera]; William Wordsworth (selected poetry); Mary Shelley,
Frankenstein
; Darwin, Marx, and Freud (selected essays); Joseph Conrad,
Heart of Darkness
; T. S. Eliot,
The Waste Land
; Virginia Woolf,
To the Lighthouse
; J. M. Coetzee,
Waiting for the Barbarians
.
Prerequisites: MDES W1201 or instructor permission.
As of academic year 2016-17, this course is now MDES 1202. An introduction to the language of classical and modern Arabic literature. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.
This course transcends traditional and arbitrary distinctions separating Caribbean, North, South, and Central American literatures. The Americas emerge not as colonial subjects but as active historical and aesthetic agents. Emanating from what might be called the geographical site of modernity, American literature is characterized by unprecedented diversity and innovation. In addition to classic novels, short stories, and poetry, this multicultural curriculum features works ranging in scope from creation accounts to autobiographies, as well as indigenous genres including captivity and slave narratives that belie New World declarations of independence. Works studied in the fall term include the
Popul Vuh
; William Shakespeare,
The Tempest
; Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, selected poetry; Phillis Wheatley, selected poetry; William Apess,
A Son of the Forest
; Esteban Echeverria, "El Matadero"; Catharine Maria Sedgwick,
Hope Leslie
; Olaudah Equiano,
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself
; Herman Melville,
Benito Cereno
. Spring term readings include Mark Twain,
Pudd’nhead Wilson
; Frederick Douglass,
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
; José Marti, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, selected poetry; T. S. Eliot,
The Waste Land
; Pablo Neruda,
The Heights of Macchu Picchu
; Machado de Assis,
Dom Casmurro
; William Faulkner, "The Bear"; Gabriel García Márquez,
One Hundred Years of Solitude
.
Prerequisites:
MDES W1210-W1211
or the equivalent.
As of academic year 2016-17, this course is now MDES 2201. A continuation of the study of the language of contemporary writing. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.
Prerequisites:
MDES W1210-W1211
or the equivalent.
As of academic year 2016-17, this course is now MDES 2202. A continuation of the study of the language of contemporary writing. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.
Close reading of revolutionary and counterrevolutionary texts from the 18th through the 20th century. Examination of revolutions as debates among competing points of views, with emphasis on the ways in which the language of revolution is challenged and transformed in the course of these debates. Readings include: selections from Thucydides,
The Peloponnesian War;
selections from, Paine,
Common Sense
and
Rights of Man
; Burke,
Reflections on the Revolution in France
; Wollstonecraft,
Vindication of the Rights of Women
; Conrad,
The Secret
Agent
, Lenin,
What Is to Be Done?
; Luxemburg, "Leninism or Marxism?"; Kollontai, "Women and the Revolution." Films include "Battleship Potemkin" (S. Eisenstein) and "Rosa Luxemburg" (M. von Trotta).
How did the novel come to be seen as the dominant form of Arabic literary modernity in the twentieth century? And what other forms of literary expression and imagination might be obscured by the conflation of the novel and the modern? To explore these intertwined questions, we will study a set of Arabic texts composed before and during the so-called rise of the novel from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. These texts draw from a variety of literary traditions, techniques, and forms, giving us a sense of the heterogeneous literary imaginary that was subsequently subsumed by the modular form of the novel. Reading these texts alongside (and sometimes against) the scholarship that purports to explain them, we will discuss the major historiographical, aesthetic, and theoretical debates in the study of modern Arabic literature.
Prerequisites:
ITAL W1221
or sufficient fluency to satisfy the instructor.
Corequisites: Recommended:
ITAL V1201-V/W1202
or
ITAL W1201-W1202
.
Conversation courses may not be used to satisfy the language requirement or fulfill major or concentration requirements. Intensive practice in the spoken language, assigned topics for class discussions, and oral reports.
This course transcends traditional distinctions separating Caribbean, North, South, and Central American literatures. Emanating from what might be called the geographical site of modernity, the Americas generate literary works of unprecedented innovation and diversity, including: José Martí, “Our America”; Machado de Assis, Dom Casmurro; Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, selected poetry; William Faulkner, "The Bear"; T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land; Pablo Neruda, The Heights of Macchu Picchu; Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude; Don DeLillo, White Noise; Jhumpa Lahiri, selected stories.
What if humans were only capable of caring for their own interests? What kind of economic world could we expect to find? One in which the common good would be attained by market forces, or one in which many would be left behind? This course uses a diversity of sources to examine the interplay of culture, ethics and economics. The starting point is Adam Smith's work. Economists and policy makers have focused on one side of Adam Smith's work represented by self-regarding behavior and the supremacy of the invisible hand in market functioning. However, Adam Smith also pointed out that one of humans' central emotions is "sympathy", a natural tendency to care about the well-being of others. In light of the recent events as well as research this other side of Adam Smith's work appears now more relevant. We analyze evidence of cooperative versus self-regarding behaviors and its relationship with the economy, human evolution and cultural values in a variety of settings. Readings include works from Adam Smith, Milton Freedman, Charles Dickens, David Rockefeller and Chris Gardner.
Corequisites:
PHYS W1201y
.
This course is the laboratory for the corequisite lecture course and can be taken only during the same term as the corresponding lecture.
Corequisites:
PHYS W1201x-W1202y
.
This course is the laboratory for the corequisite lecture course (
PHYS W
1201x-W1202y
) and can be taken only during the same term as the corresponding lecture.
Corequisites:
PHYS W1201x-W1202y
.
This course is the laboratory for the corequisite lecture course (
PHYS W
1201x-W1202y
) and can be taken only during the same term as the corresponding lecture.
Corequisites:
PHYS W1201x-W1202y
.
This course is the laboratory for the corequisite lecture course (
PHYS W
1201x-W1202y
) and can be taken only during the same term as the corresponding lecture.
Corequisites:
PHYS W1201x-W1202y
.
This course is the laboratory for the corequisite lecture course (
PHYS W
1201x-W1202y
) and can be taken only during the same term as the corresponding lecture.
Corequisites:
PHYS W1201x-W1202y
.
This course is the laboratory for the corequisite lecture course (
PHYS W
1201x-W1202y
) and can be taken only during the same term as the corresponding lecture.
Corequisites:
PHYS W1201x-W1202y
.
This course is the laboratory for the corequisite lecture course (
PHYS W
1201x-W1202y
) and can be taken only during the same term as the corresponding lecture.
Corequisites:
PHYS W1201x-W1202y
.
This course is the laboratory for the corequisite lecture course (
PHYS W
1201x-W1202y
) and can be taken only during the same term as the corresponding lecture.
Corequisites:
PHYS W1201x-W1202y
.
This course is the laboratory for the corequisite lecture course (
PHYS W
1201x-W1202y
) and can be taken only during the same term as the corresponding lecture.
Corequisites:
PHYS W1201x-W1202y
.
This course is the laboratory for the corequisite lecture course (
PHYS W
1201x-W1202y
) and can be taken only during the same term as the corresponding lecture.
Sex is the ultimate forbidden public topic and yet from the New England Puritans' sermons to Bill Clinton's (in)famous affair, sex has often been publicly staged in dramatic, literary, religious, political, legal and social forums. In this seminar, we will explore how issues of sex and sexuality have insinuated themselves into the formation of American identity. We will examine texts from the seventeenth century to the present with a particular emphasis on the arts, politics and sex. Texts include Puritan sermons, Nathaniel Hawthorne's
The Scarlet Letter
, Tennessee Williams's
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
, Suzan-Lori Parks's Venus, photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe, literature from Margaret Sanger's birth control movement, and theoretical works by Michel Foucault, Laura Mulvey and Judith Butler.
What constitutes equality between the sexes? By studying visions of equality between the sexes offered in law, politics, international development, religion, literature, psychology, anthropology, and the writings of activists, we will explore what such equality must or might look like. Focusing on western authors, we will consider issues such as rights, equality and difference, reproductive roles, violence, and language. Texts will include Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
A Woman’s Bible
; the U.N.’s “Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women”; Marge Piercy,
Woman on the Edge of Time
; Catherine MacKinnon,
Only Words
; and Rebecca Walker, “Becoming the Third Wave.”
Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT required.
The beginning poetry workshop is designed for students who have a serious interest in poetry writing but who lack a significant background in the rudiments of the craft and/or have had little or no previous poetry workshop experience. Students will be assigned weekly writing exercises emphasizing such aspects of verse composition as the poetic line, the image, rhyme and other sound devices, verse forms, repetition, tone, irony, and others. Students will also read an extensive variety of exemplary work in verse, submit brief critical analyses of poems, and critique each other's original work.
Emergence of revolutionary and counter-revolutionary mass political movements; European industrialization, nationalism, and imperialism; 20th-century world wars, the Great Depression, and Fascism.
As of academic year 2016-17, this course is now MDES 1302. In Elementary Armenian II, students learn the Armenian script and the basic grammar that will enable them to communicate about topics relating to themselves and their immediate surroundings: family, school, daily occupations, describing people, expressing likes and dislikes, requesting and giving information about themselves and others, proper forms of greetings, etc. They also begin to read signs, advertisements, and develop the skills to read texts like short stories and Armenian fables. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.