SUPERVISED INDEPENDENT STUDY
Prerequisites: approval prior to registration; see the director of undergraduate studies for details. A creative/scholarly project conducted under faculty supervision.
- Department: Music
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Aaron A Fox
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Bradford G Garton
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Elaine Sisman
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Ole Mathisen
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Ruth Opara
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INDEPENDENT STUDY
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Independent Study
- Department: Physical Education
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INDEPENDENT STUDY
PHYS ED: Independent Study
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- Department: Physical Education
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SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH
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- Department: Philosophy
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Allison Aitken
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Michele Moody-Adams
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Christopher Peacocke
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Christia Mercer
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Achille Varzi
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Katja Vogt
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SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH
- Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
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Joao Nemi Neto
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
SENIOR RESEARCH SEMINAR
Working research seminar devoted to helping students produce a substantive piece of writing that will represent the culmination of their work at the College and in the major.
- Department: Religion @Barnard
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Meghan E Hartman
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SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH
Prerequisites: the department's permission. Supervised Individual Research
- Department: Slavic Languages @Barnard
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John C Wright
CULPA: 1 Info - 2-4 points
SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH
Sustainable development majors and special concentrators must register for this independent study to use internship hours for the practicum credit. Students must consult with their program adviser and department before registering. Offered fall, spring and summer.
- Department: Earth Institute
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Adela J Gondek
CULPA: 2 Info - 1-3 points
SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH
Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies' permission. Students register in this course while they pursue independent study work under the supervision of a faculty member during the spring semester.
- Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
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Bruno Bosteels
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Ronald D Briggs
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SENIOR THESIS IN RESEARCH
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to senior Theatre majors. Combined and special majors may be considered under exceptional circumstances. Permission of the instructor required. In-depth research project culminating in a substantial written thesis on any aspect of drama, performance, or theatre research.
- Department: Theatre @Barnard
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William B Worthen
CULPA: 10
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SENIOR THESIS SEM IN ANTHROPOL
Prerequisites: The instructors permission. Students must have declared a major in Anthropology prior to registration. Students must have a 3.6 GPA in the major and a preliminary project concept in order to be considered. Interested students must communicate/meet with thesis instructor in the previous spring about the possibility of taking the course during the upcoming academic year. Additionally, expect to discuss with the instructor at the end of the fall term whether your project has progressed far enough to be completed in the spring term. If it has not, you will exit the seminar after one semester, with a grade based on the work completed during the fall term. This two-term course is a combination of a seminar and a workshop that will help you conduct research, write, and present an original senior thesis in anthropology. Students who write theses are eligible to be considered for departmental honors. The first term of this course introduces a variety of approaches used to produce anthropological knowledge and writing; encourages students to think critically about the approaches they take to researching and writing by studying model texts with an eye to the ethics, constraints, and potentials of anthropological research and writing; and gives students practice in the seminar and workshop formats that are key to collegial exchange and refinement of ideas. During the first term, students complete a few short exercises that will culminate in a substantial draft of one discrete section of their senior project (18-20 pages) plus a detailed outline of the expected work that remains to be done (5 pages). The spring sequence of the anthropology thesis seminar is a writing intensive continuation of the fall semester, in which students will have designed the research questions, prepared a full thesis proposal that will serve as a guide for the completion of the thesis and written a draft of one chapter. Only those students who expect to have completed the fall semester portion of the course are allowed to register for the spring; final enrollment is contingent upon successful completion of first semester requirements. In spring semester, weekly meetings will be devoted to the collaborative refinement of drafts, as well as working through issues of writing (evidence, voice, authority etc.). All enrolled students are required to present their project at a symposium in the late spring, and the final grade is based primarily on successful completion of the thesis/ capstone project. Note: The senior thesis seminar is open t
- Department: Anthropology
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Lila Abu-Lughod
CULPA: 17 Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info - 4 points
UNDERGRADUATE FIELDWORK
May be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 total points may be used toward the 128credit degree requirement. Only for APAM undergraduate students who include relevant off-campus work experience as part of their approved program of study. Final report and letter of evaluation required. Fieldwork credits may not count toward any major core, technical, elective, and nontechnical requirements. May not be taken for pass/fail credit or audited.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
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Yuan Yang
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INDEPENDENT STUDY
Prerequisites: Open to majors who have fulfilled basic major requirements or written permission of the staff member who will supervise the project. Specialized reading and research projects planned in consultation with members of the Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures teaching staff.
- Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
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Rachel McDermott
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David L Moerman
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Nicholas A Bartlett
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Lili Xia
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Nathanael P Shelley
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UNDERGRADUATE FIELDWORK
May be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 total points may be used toward the 128-credit degree requirement. Only for BMEN undergraduate students who include relevant off-campus work experience as part of their approved program of study. Final report and letter of evaluation required. Fieldwork credits may not count toward any major core, technical, elective, and non-technical requirements. May not be taken for pass/fail credit or audited.
- Department: Biomedical Engineering
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Lauren N Heckelman
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Environmental Humanities Senior Discussi
ENVIR HUMANITIES SR DISCU
This course will help students who are pursuing the Environmental Humanities Concentration and Minor to contextualize their senior projects within the larger field of Environmental Humanities. Students will also form a cohort to offer peer review and shared knowledge production in support of their projects.
- Department: Consortium for Critical Interdisciplinary Studies @Barnard
- R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Jayne Hildebrand
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UNDERGRADUATE PROJECT II
Students must enroll for both 3998x and 3999y during their senior year. Selection of an actual problem in Earth and environmental engineering, and design of an engineering solution including technical, economic, environmental, ethical, health and safety, social issues. Use of software for design, visualization, economic analysis, and report preparation. Students may work in teams. Presentation of results in a formal report and public presentation.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
- F 5 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Robert Farrauto
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THE SENIOR ESSAY
Prerequisites: the departments permission. This course is open only to those who have applied and been accepted into the departments senior essay program. For information about the program, including deadline for application, please visit http://english.columbia.edu/undergraduate/senior-essay-program.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Jenny M Davidson
CULPA: 19
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INDEPENDENT STUDY
INDEPENDENT STUDY: ENGLISH
Application required:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/independent-studies
. Senior majors who wish to substitute Independent Study for one of the two required senior seminars should consult the chair. Permission is given rarely and only to students who present a clear and well-defined topic of study, who have a department sponsor, and who submit their proposals well in advance of the semester in which they will register. There is no independent study for screenwriting or film production.
- Department: English @Barnard
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Instructor:
Alexandra P Watson
CULPA: 16 Info - 1-4 points
INDEPENDENT STUDY
Application required:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/independent-studies
. Senior majors who wish to substitute Independent Study for one of the two required senior seminars should consult the chair. Permission is given rarely and only to students who present a clear and well-defined topic of study, who have a department sponsor, and who submit their proposals well in advance of the semester in which they will register. There is no independent study for screenwriting or film production.
HONORS SEMINAR
Prerequisites: admission to the departmental honors program. A two-term seminar for students writing the senior honors thesis.
- Department: Political Science
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Shigeo Hirano
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INDIVIDUAL STUDY II
Prerequisites: open only to qualified majors in the department; the director of undergraduate studies permission is required. An opportunity for research under the direction of an individual faculty member. Students intending to write a year-long senior thesis should plan to register for C3996 in the spring semester of their senior year and are strongly advised to consult the undergraduate studies as they plan their programs.
- Department: Sociology @Barnard
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Deborah Becher
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Elizabeth Bernstein
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Maricarmen Hernandez
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Debra Minkoff
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Mignon R Moore
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Jonathan Rieder
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Angela Simms
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Amy Zhou
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Randa B Serhan
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SPECIAL TOPICS IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Comp Neuro Dyn Cross Spec
Current topics in biomedical engineering. Subject matter will vary by year.
- Department: Biomedical Engineering
- W 4:10 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana
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SPECIAL TOPICS IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Spec Topics: SynBio
Current topics in biomedical engineering. Subject matter will vary by year.
- Department: Biomedical Engineering
- R 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
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Tal Danino
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SPECIAL TOPICS IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Cell & Gene Therapy D3
Current topics in biomedical engineering. Subject matter will vary by year.
SPECIAL TOPICS IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Biomolecular Eng Techni
Current topics in biomedical engineering. Subject matter will vary by year.
- Department: Biomedical Engineering
- T 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
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Parisa Yousefpour
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Digital sovereignty and the European Uni
This course examines the European Union’s pursuit of digital sovereignty by linking Europe’s historical trajectories of technological development with theoretical perspectives from security studies. The first part of the course focuses on Europe’s technological and industrial transformations from the Industrial Revolution to the postwar period. Drawing on this historical contextualization, students will analyze how the EU seeks to govern and secure the digital domain through policies such as the General Data Protection Regulation, the Digital Services Act, the Digital Markets Act, the emerging AI Act, and initiatives on cloud sovereignty.
- Department: Modern European Studies
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Fabio Cristiano
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PROF DEVELOPMENT&LEADERSHIP
PDL FOR SPRING COHORT
The PDL course aims to enhance and expand Columbia Engineering graduate students' interpersonal, professional, and leadership skills, through five core sessions, covering (1) in-person communication skills; (2) resume; (3) business writing; (4) social media and the job search; and (5) academic and professional ethics and integrity. ENGI E4000 also requires 5 elective sessions to further students' development based on their personal interests. Students must select at least one life management elective and one interview elective. This course is offered at the Pass/D/Fail grading option.
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ADVANCED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS
ADV GEOGRAPHIC INFO SYSTE
Prerequisite: Successful completion of URBS UN2200 Introduction to GIS Methods, or equivalent with instructor permission.
With the veritable explosion of urban data alongside the continued proliferation of new tools for its consideration, this course allows students to develop specialized approaches to spatial analysis while introducing a series of common advanced techniques and nuanced methodological questions. Aimed at covering a variety of topics with immediate relevance to urbanism in practice and in research, the course operates with a two-fold mission: (1) to critically discuss the theories, concepts, and research methods involved in spatial analysis and (2) to learn the techniques necessary for engaging those theories and deploying those methods. The class will work to meet this mission with a dedicated focus on the urban environment and the spatial particularities and relationships that arise from the urban context.
Among others, this course takes as a foundational premise that spatial analysis within geographic information systems is an incredibly powerful and double-edged weapon: it provides both the methods for answering complex spatial questions and the means for effectively communicating the results. Like any other weapon it can serve many ends, and as such an advanced course in spatial analysis must frame its use within the developing discourse on professional practice and responsibility.
The course is designed with a combination format. Early weeks are predominantly lecture-style presentations supplemented with discussion and technical demonstration and exercises. Students are expected to complete these exercises outside of class (as homework), bringing their questions to our discussion. The latter half of the course is a project-based seminar. Seminar-style presentation and discussion will rely heavily on student participation and preparation to consider the variety of spatial methods available and their implications on urban research and intervention. Woven throughout the semester is the development of a self-driven research project, through which students will engage and compare the methodological advantages and disadvantages of several assumptions, approaches, analyses, and datasets.
- Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
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Leah M Meisterlin
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
ADVANCED GENETIC ANALYSIS
Prerequisites: for undergraduates: Introductory Genetics (W3031) and the instructors permission. This seminar course provides a detailed presentation of areas in classical and molecular genetics for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students. Topics include transmission genetics, gain and loss of function mutations, genetic redundancy, suppressors, enhancers, epistasis, expression patterns, using transposons, and genome analysis. The course is a mixture of lectures, student presentations, seminar discussions, and readings from the original literature.
- Department: Biological Sciences
- M 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Martin Chalfie
CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info - 3 points
DATA JOURNALISM
ALGORITHMS
- Department: Journalism
- TR 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dhrumil Mehta
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DATA JOURNALISM
Data, Computation, Innovation
- Department: Journalism
- M 9 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Jonathan Soma
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INTRODUCTION TO PROBABILITY AND STATISTI
INTRODUCTION TO PROB & ST
Prerequisites: Calculus through multiple integration and infinite sums. A calculus-based tour of the fundamentals of probability theory and statistical inference. Probability models, random variables, useful distributions, conditioning, expectations, law of large numbers, central limit theorem, point and confidence interval estimation, hypothesis tests, linear regression. This course replaces SIEO 4150.
- Department: Statistics
- TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Alberto Gonzalez Sanz
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Casey Bradshaw
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CORE ARCHITECTURE STUDIO II
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- MWF 2 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
David E Benjamin
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Machine Learning for Healthcare
MACHN LEARNING HEALTHCARE
Prerequisites: Medical Informatics G4001, Computer Science W3139. Survey of the methods underlying the field of medical informatics. Explores techniques in mathematics, logic, decision science, computer science, engineering, cognitive science, management science and epidemiology, and demonstrates the application to health care and biomedicine.
- Department: Biomedical Informatics
- TR 9 a.m.-10:15 a.m.
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Matthew McDermott
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QUANT PHYSIOLOGY II:ORGAN SYST
Students are introduced to a quantitative, engineering approach to cellular biology and mammalian physiology. Beginning with biological issues related to the cell, the course progresses to considerations of the major physiological systems of the human body (nervous, circulatory, respiratory, renal).
- Department: Biomedical Engineering
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Barclay Morrison
CULPA: 9 h-index: 42 Info - 3 points
ALTERNATIVE ENERGY RESOURCES
An engineering and economic analysis of past, present and future energy resources. Technological options and their role in the world energy markets. Understanding limits of energy and power density and its impact of resource adoption and feasibility. Comparison of renewable and non-renewable energy resources and analysis of the consequences of various technological choices and constraints. Economic considerations, energy availability, and the environmental consequences of large-scale, widespread use of each particular technology. Critical analysis of carbon dioxide capture and carbon dioxide disposal as a means of sustaining the fossil fuel options in comparison to dramatic increase of electrified resources.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dan Steingart
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 36 Info - 3 points
AQUATIC CHEMISTRY
INTRO TO AQUATIC CHEMISTR
Principles of physical chemistry applied to equilibria and kinetics of aqueous solutions in contact with minerals and anthropogenic residues. The scientific background for addressing problems of aqueous pollution, water treatment, and sustainable production of materials with minimum environmental impact. Hydrolysis, oxidation-reduction, complex formation, dissolution and precipitation, predominance diagrams; examples of natural water systems, processes for water treatment and for the production of inorganic materials from minerals.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
- TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Oscar Nordness
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ADVANCED MECHANICS
Prerequisites: differential and integral calculus, differential equations, and PHYS UN3003 or the equivalent. Lagranges formulation of mechanics, calculus of variations and the Action Principle, Hamiltons formulation of mechanics, rigid body motion, Euler angles, continuum mechanics, introduction to chaotic dynamics.
- Department: Physics
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alberto Nicolis
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Turn the TV Off: Black Performance Studi
Black Performance Studies
In this seminar, students will learn how to interpret Black Performance through historical, social, and political theory. In studying Black Performance, students will engage strategies of subversion and resistance to dominant ideologies throughout the African diaspora. With a focus on the blues and its other-worldly iterations, we will cover theorists and topics from the Black Radical tradition such as Zora Neale Hurston and American South gothic folklore; Amiri Baraka and the blues; Greg Tate and hip-hop; bell hooks and queering the Black gaze; Fred Moten and abstraction; Angela Davis and imagining abolition, and more. We will pair theory with praxis by engaging masterpieces by Black performing artists in music, dance, comedy, theatre, as well as film and television.
As a seminar, students should prepare to participate in in-depth discussions weekly by completing the reading and viewing assignments. Since the central subject matter is performance studies and visual culture based in African-American studies, an interdisciplinary field, the course has a strong multi-media element. Students should expect to view films regularly, both online and in class. Students are also strongly encouraged to attend outside exhibitions and performances for extra credit. Syllabus is subject to change.
This syllabus has drawn from the research of a community of social justice scholars, including the writers of the #Trans-Justice Syllabus, #Immigration Syllabus, #Black Lives Matter Syllabus, and #The Charlottesville Syllabus.
- Department: African American and African Diaspora
- R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Johanna F Almiron
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ADVANCED STUDIO SEMESTER IV
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- W 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ziad Jamaleddine
Info - 9 points
Data, Race, Power and Justice
For more than a century, scientists, policy makers, law enforcement, and government agencies
have collected, curated and analyzed data about people in order to make impactful decisions.
This practice has exploded along with the computational power available to these agents. Those
who design and deploy data collection, predictive analytics, and autonomous and intelligent
decision-making systems claim that these technologies will remove problematic biases from
consequential decisions. They aim to put a rational and objective foundation based on numbers
and observations made by non-human sensors in the management of public life and to equip
experts with insights that, they believe, will translate into better outcomes (health, economic,
educational, judicial) for all.
But these dreams and their pursuit through technology are as problematic as they are enticing.
Throughout American history, data has often been used to oppress minoritized communities,
manage populations, and institutionalize, rationalize, and naturalize systems of racial violence.
The impersonality of data, the same quality that makes it useful, can silence voices and
displace entire ways of knowing the world.
- Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
- F 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Brian Luna Lucero
Info - 4 points
Bioethics in Film
Bioethics is an amorphous field that draws on disciplines including anthropology, philosophy, political science, and law. Using readings from across these arenas, students will examine issues in health and medicine as represented in global narrative cinema. The course uses film as both a tool for and object of analysis – pairing films with scholarly writing as we examine topics surfaced the ways they are depicted. The course engages with the ethics of representing sexual and other types of violence; some material in the course may be triggering. We will examine such topics as surrogacy, euthanasia, human research, healthcare worker burnout, and the imbrication of money and medicine, with films such as
Lingui
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Sound of Metal
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Pinky
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XXY
, and
Color of Paradise
. The course will include oral exams. It is suitable for graduate students in the professional schools, social sciences, and humanities, as well as other students (advanced undergraduates, science grad students) who have completed at least three university-level courses in the social sciences.
- Department: Medical Humanities and Ethics
- T 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alexis Walker
Info - 3 points
OPTIMIZATION MODELS AND METHODS
A graduate course only for MS&E, IE, and OR students. This is also required for students in the Undergraduate Advanced Track. For students who have not studied linear programming. Some of the main methods used in IEOR applications involving deterministic models: linear programming, the simplex method, nonlinear, integer and dynamic programming.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Yaren Kaya
Info - 3 points
Frantz Fanon: Disenchantment, Existentia
Frantz Fanon: Self-Revisi
Through close reading of Frantz Fanon's early, mid-career, and late texts, the lectures of the course aim at presenting Fanon's intellectual trajectory starting with his engagement to fight for France as a tirailleur during the second World War and how his experience of racism in the French military disenchanted him about his standing within the French empire. Like most people from the French colonies, Fanon grasped from his military service that he is a second class citizen.
The lectures, then, engage Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks as both a memoir which chronicles his disenchantment with France's promise of liberté égalité, et fraternité for all its citizens and a testament of France's anti-black racist practices which is informed by his experience of anti-black racism.
The lectures then engage with Fanon's writings about how his experiences as a psychiatrist caring for the patients of colonial mental illnesses led to his existential self-revision.
Finally, the lectures focus on Fanon's magnum opus, The Wretched of the Earth (Les damnés de la terre) to draw out that it was the culmination of Fanon's disenchantment and existential self-revision as the mature expression of his philosophy that violence is a series of practices that French colonizers instilled in the colonies to engage with colonized people and that the logic of revolution requires that colonized people engage in these practices with the colonial establishment.
- Department: African American and African Diaspora
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Vivaldi Jean-Marie
Info - 4 points
COMPUTER GRAPHICS IN ENGIN
Numerical and symbolic (algebraic) problem solving with Mathematica. Formulation for graphics application in civil, mechanical, and bioengineering. Example of two-and three-dimensional curve and surface objects in C++ and Mathematica; special projects of interest to electrical and computer science.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
- F 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gautam Dasgupta
CULPA: 3 h-index: 19 Info - 3 points
RAPID READ&TRANSLATION IN ITAL
For graduate students and others who need to develop their reading knowledge of Italian. Open to undergraduate students as well, who want a compact survey/review of Italian structures and an approach to translation. Grammar, syntax, and vocabulary review; practice in reading and translating Italian texts of increasing complexity from a variety of fields, depending on the needs of the students. No previous knowledge of Italian is required. Note: this course may not be used to satisfy the language requirement or to fulfill major or concentration requirements.
- Department: Italian
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Maria Luisa Gozzi
CULPA: 14
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- 3 points
The African American Prophetic Political
AFAM Prophetic Political
The classical prophetic political tradition derives from biblical prophets like Amos, Isaiah and Jeremiah who, with strong words, courageous deeds and abiding faith in the righteousness of their causes, struggled to transform oppressive, exploitive regimes of power into just and equitable political institutions that would “let justice roll down as water and righteousness like a mighty stream.” For millennia this tradition has been a touchstone for peoples throughout the world in their struggles for freedom.
This course will seek to understand the role of the biblical prophetic political tradition in the ongoing struggle of African Americans for political equity and justice in America. Our exploration will range from David Walker’s revolutionary early nineteenth century
Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World
to the racial claims and counter claims in our contemporary moment.
- Department: African American and African Diaspora
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Obery Hendricks
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ADVANCED STUDIO SEMESTER VI
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- MR 1:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
- 9 points
Writing in the Subjunctive Mood: Poetry
Poetry in the Black Archi
Poetry and Writing in the Black Archive is a practicum in poetics, and a reading and writing workshop inviting us to turn our attention to the construction of memory into literary art that speaks to contemporary Black life. Despite myriad and ongoing attempts of erasure, Black life and creativity can be discerned through the archival record, physical artefacts and images, and even our bodies’ gestures and sustenance.
We will consider poetic methods for reconstituting the paths that led us to our current situations, predicaments and imaginaries. In the practicum, we will read diverse archival material—scrutinizing, sifting and transforming the worlds we recognize, the worlds we believe are silenced, and evidence of worlds that need our words to begin to take shape.
We will write work that considers a new poetics of the “archive,” studying methods for making literary texts pay productive attention to the partially recorded incident, emotion, image and music.
Our reading and writing will focus discussion on using literary and aesthetic techniques as a means to listen or “interview” the gaps in the archival record and to write against the aporia and expand the footnote and passing reference. One of the several consequences of our writing experiments, based on “what if” and “as if,” is to teach us to re-see, and look critically at received knowledge.
- Department: African American and African Diaspora
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Erica Hunt
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ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY
Prerequisites: MATH UN3007 A one semeser course covering the theory of modular forms, zeta functions, L -functions, and the Riemann hypothesis. Particular topics covered include the Riemann zeta function, the prime number theorem, Dirichlet characters, Dirichlet L-functions, Siegel zeros, prime number theorem for arithmetic progressions, SL (2, Z) and subgroups, quotients of the upper half-plane and cusps, modular forms, Fourier expansions of modular forms, Hecke operators, L-functions of modular forms.
- Department: Mathematics
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dorian Goldfeld
CULPA: 23
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