CREATIVE NON-FICTION

Writing sample and application required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found
under Applying to Creative Writing Courses on the English Department website.

In this course we will explore various genres of creative non-fiction and practice a range of craft techniques, paying special attention to the construction of the writing self and the ethics of writing about real people and events. For a more detailed, instructor-specific description,
please see our Course Offerings packet.
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• Department: English @Barnard
• Instructor: Liana Finck
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

SHAKESPEARE IN PERFORMANCE

Shakespeare's plays as theatrical events. Differing performance spaces, acting traditions, directorial frames, theatre practices, performance theories, critical studies, cultural codes, and historical conventions promote differing modes of engagement with drama in performance. We will explore Shakespeare's plays in the context of actual and possible performance from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century.

• Department: English @Barnard
• Instructor: Patricia D Denison
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

AFFECT AND ACTIVISM

From love to anger to disappointment to hope, political activism mobilizes emotions towards certain ends but also generates new affective states and feelings along the way. This advanced seminar will familiarize students with feminist, anti-racist and queer scholarship on affect, feelings and emotion as intrinsic to politics and as crucial for understanding how political thought and action unfold in contingent and often unexpected ways. Mixing theoretical and cultural texts with case studies, we will look at how affect permeates structures of power and domination, embodiment and identity, and collective activist projects concerned with gender and sexual liberation. Students will have an opportunity to read theories of affect as well as to “read” activist movements
for
affect by working with archival documents (such as zines, manifestos, and movement ephemera) and other primary sources (such as memoir, photography and documentary film).

• Department: Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies @Barnard
• Instructor: Manijeh Moradian
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• 4 points

BALLET V

This course is for the intermediate advanced dancer. Material presented will focus on healthy anatomical alignment in barre work, extended combinations in the center, fostering personal artistic expression, and integrating improvisation in combinations with the ballet vocabulary. Clarification, analysis and repetition are fundamental elements for a sound technique of any dancer and are the foundation of this course. Center work will include attention to shaping adagio work, multiple turns in the large poses, batterie, and extended grand allegro.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Unity Phelan
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• Instructor: Cynthia Anderson
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• Instructor: Marjorie Folkman
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 2 points

MODERN AMERICAN DRAMA & PERFORMANCE

MOD AMERCN DRAMA & PERFOR

Modern American Drama and Performance in an era of cultural contestation.  What is united about the United States? How are the important claims of cultural difference related to the intercultural claims of shared community?  Is there a place for historical continuity in the modernist pursuit of change?  How have these issues been addressed in the emergence and development of modern drama and performance in America?  Questions such as these will be addressed in the context of theatrical exploration, performance history, and social change.  Canonical and experimental playwrights include Rachel Crothers, Susan Glaspell, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Eugene O’Neill, Clifford Odets, Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Lorraine Hansberry, Edward Albee, Suzan-Lori Parks, Sarah Ruhl, and Dominique Morisseau.

• Department: English @Barnard
• Instructor: Patricia D Denison
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

INTRODUCTION VOCAL REPERTOIRE

This course is designed for developing singers. Group vocalizing, learning of songs and individual workshop performances are aimed at improving the students technical skill and the elements necessary to create a meaningful musical and dramatic experience. Attention to text, subtext, emotional and psychological aspects of a piece and the performers relationship to the audience are included in the work. Repertoire is predominantly in English and comes from both classical and popular traditions Individual coaching sessions are available with the class accompanist and help strengthen the students confidence and skill. The class culminates with an in-class performance.

• Department: Music @Barnard
• F 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Coralie Gallet
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• 3 points

VOCAL REPERTOIRE, TECHNIQUE

VOCAL REPERTOIRE TECHNIQUE

Vocal exercises and exploration of wide-ranging repertoires, styles, and languages of the Western European song tradition. The rich variety of English, French, Italian and German poetry and music from the Baroque period through the Twentieth Century allows the student to experience both the music and the cultural environment of each of these styles. Attention is given both to meaning oftext and musical interpretation. Individual coaching sessions are available with the class accompanist and help strengthen the students confidence and skill. The class culminates with an in-class performance.

• Department: Music @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jean-Paul Bjorlin
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• 3 points

Advanced R in Biology

This course serves as a continuation of BIOL2500 R for Scientists. The course will meet weekly. Students will explore a range of methods and resources used by contemporary computational biologists. These include advanced statistical modeling approaches, manipulating genomic and spatial data, and working in R outside of the RStudio environment (including git, bash, Shiny and high-performance computing). Students will have opportunities to explore diverse biological and statistical R packages in the context of homework assignments, and will analyze a dataset of their own choosing for a semester project.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• Instructor: Vincent D Fitzpatrick
  Info
• 3 points

BALLET VI

This course is for the advanced dancer. Material presented will focus on healthy anatomical alignment in barre work, extended combinations in the center, fostering personal artistic expression, and integrating improvisation in combinations with the ballet vocabulary. Clarification, analysis and repetition are fundamental elements for a sound technique of any dancer and are the foundation of this course. Center work will include attention to shaping adagio work, multiple turns in the large poses, batterie, and extended grand allegro.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• F 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Antonio Carmena
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• Instructor: Ashley Tuttle
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 2 points

Tragedy, Theory, Theatre

TRAGEDY, THEORY, THEATRE

This course will overview the dramatic, theatrical, and theoretical work of tragedy, the genre that, according to Northrop Frye, guarantees a realistic perspective on the world we live in. We will read many of the classic critical encounters with tragedy (Aristotle, Nietzsche, Hegel, Frye) alongside more recent theorists of literary and cultural representation. But rather than taking a chronological approach, this course understands “tragedy” as a fluid notion, one used to shape a variety of historical experiences through a range of dramatic, theatrical, and critical encounters. Throughout the semester, we will frequently pair earlier with more recent plays, under the aegis of a network of questions posed by critical or theoretical reading.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: William B Worthen
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

TOPICS COMPARATIVE LIT

LITERATURE AND WAR

The objective of this class is to examine a given topic and relate it to a number of literary texts. Students will examine a variety of literary genres and to an equally wide variety of cultural, linguistic, and historical contexts.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
• Instructor: Daniella Gitlin
  Info
• 3 points

CLASSIC VARIATIONS

Variations
 class is a course for the intermediate to advanced dancer.  As in all other ballet classes, there will be a focus on correct physical alignment, proper technique and musicality.  The added challenges in this course will be the pointe shoe technique, creative choreographic choices, and musical phrasing. The class will include variations based on works ranging from Petipa to Balanchine to today’s choreographers.  Dancers will explore personalizing already known works, pushing the boundaries of the pointe shoe, examining how choreography has evolved and developing the stamina required to execute a full variation. Learning material rapidly while paying attention to the stylistic demands of each choreographer’s works and being able to shift from one stylistic choice to another is simply expected.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ashley Tuttle
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 2 points

Science Writing

Even as students learn to be scientists, there is a need to learn how to write about science, translating the science for a general readership. In this seminar we will develop writing skills by, first, close reading and analysis of science writing (on research about humans, non-human animals, and non-animals) for the non-specialist, as well as some of the original research papers from which the pieces arose. We will simultaneously begin an iterative process of composing pieces of different lengths and different genres, based on recently published science papers. Assignments will include a short news summary, book review, an audio interview, and a final feature print or audio story; some of these assignments will involve multiple drafts or stages. Guest speakers and a recording practices intensive from IMATS will complement the readings and writing assignments. We will focus on concept translation, storytelling, and other elements of narrative craft in this writing-intensive seminar. We will also emphasize proper citation practices. Final projects will be a long-form feature or a podcast.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexandra C Horowitz
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

WORLDMUSE ENSEMBLE

Worldmuse Ensemble delves into compelling music from many genres such as world music, gospel, classical--old and new. We perform without a conductor, increasing awareness and interaction among ourselves and our audience. We collaboratively integrate music, dance, and theatre traditions (masks etc.). For experienced singers, and instrumentalists and dancers who sing.

• Department: Music @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jean-Paul Bjorlin
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• 3 points

Attention

In this seminar we will examine attention, the critical cognitive process responsible for prioritizing certain information for more efficient processing while filtering out distractions. We will review attention’s effects on early to late-stage vision, how it interacts with other sensory systems, and higher cognitive functions, all while surveying some of the most common ways it’s historically been measured using psychophysical and neuroscientific methods. We will evaluate how attention has been assessed across human development, and in clinical populations, such as individuals with Neurodevelopmental Disorders (NDD), schizophrenia and hemispatial neglect. We will end by discussing the practical implications of our increasingly limited and divided attention when navigating the modern technological landscape, as well as review the potential for improving attention through training.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Mariel Roberts
  h-index: None Info
• 4 points

CRITICAL HISTORIES OF DRAMA, THEATRE, AN

CRIT HIST DRAMA, THTR & P

This course undertakes a dialectical approach to reading and thinking about the history of dramatic theatre, interrogating the ways writing inflects, and is inflected by, the material dynamics of performance in the modern era. Course undertakes careful study of the practices of performance, and of the sociocultural, economic, political, and aesthetic conditions animating representative performances in theatres globally; course will also emphasize development of important critical concepts for the analysis of drama, theatre, and performance. Topics include the sociology of theatre, the impact of print on conceptions of performance, representing gender and race, the politics of intercultural performance, and the dynamics of emerging forms and critical practices of performance analysis. Writing: 2-3 papers; Reading: 1-2 plays, critical and historical reading per week; final examination. Fulfills one (of two) lecture requirements for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts majors.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Yizhou Huang
  Info
• 4 points

THE CANTERBURY TALES

Chaucer as inheritor of late-antique and medieval conventions and founder of early modern literature and the fiction of character.  Selections from related medieval texts.

• Department: English @Barnard
• Instructor: Eugene A Petracca
  Info
• 3 points

TRADITIONAL INDIAN PERFORMNCE

Course provides a perspective on traditional forms of Indian performance from classical theory to contemporary traditional practices. Course covers Sanskrit drama, Kathakali, Ramlila, and Chhau; extensive video of performances and guest practitioners.  Course fulfills lecture/seminar "studies" course requirement for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts major.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Shayoni Mitra
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

POSTCOLONIAL DRAMA:THE CANON & ITS OTHER

This class is a close reading of postcolonial plays, both as they form a recognizable canon, and as counters to it. Through a grounding in postcolonial theory, students will explore how the colonial encounter leaves a lasting impact on language and performance. How do these playwrights tackle questions of authenticity, influence, inspiration and agency? What stories do they adapt, translate or reimagine? Also, we read in equal measure male and female playwrights, attending to the ways in which power and authority are negotiated by them. This class looks both at plays that are seminal to postcolonial writing and also newer ones that unsettle the position of the greats. Do we then understand postcolonialism as a historically bound literary trend or an ongoing process of exploration? Fundamentally we ask, in our efforts to decolonize the theatre, how do we find new ways or reading?  Course fulfills lecture/seminar in drama studies, theatre studies, performance studies requirement for Theatre major.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Shayoni Mitra
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

ASIAN AMERICAN PERFORMANCE

This course examines Asian American experience through the lens of theatre and performance. These performances are often critical sites where members of the community preserve their cultural legacies and negotiate American racial politics. By discussing representative works by Asian American playwrights, performance artists, and filmmakers, we will cover the following topics: key events in Asian American history; immigration and citizenship; identity and community formation; intersectionality of race, gender, and sexuality; generational differences in Asian American culture; trauma and memory; U.S. imperialism and social justice. This course examines Asian American experience through the lens of theatre and performance. These performances are often critical sites where members of the community preserve their cultural legacies and negotiate American racial politics. By discussing representative works by Asian American playwrights, performance artists, and filmmakers, we will cover the following topics: key events in Asian American history; immigration and citizenship; identity and community formation; intersectionality of race, gender, and sexuality; generational differences in Asian American culture; trauma and memory; U.S. imperialism and social justice.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Yizhou Huang
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• 4 points

THE BODY AND SOCIETY

As an introduction to the field of medical anthropology, this seminar addresses themes of health, affliction, and healing across sociocultural domains.  Concerns include critiques of biomedical, epidemiological and other models of disease and suffering; the entwinement of religion and healing; technocratic interventions in healthcare; and the sociomoral underpinnings of human life, death, and survival.  A 1000 level course in Anthropology is recommended as a prerequisite, although not required.  Enrollment limited to 30. 4 units

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• Instructor: Paloma Rodrigo Gonzales
  Info
• 4 points

COMPUTER GRAPHICS

This undergraduate course introduces students to algorithms, data structures and mathematical principles used in computer graphics. Students will gain experience with OpenGL and graphics processing unit (GPU) programming and develop an understanding of the graphics pipeline. The topics covered include shading and illumination, sampling and reconstruction, ray tracing, graphics hardware, geometric and viewing transformations, rendering, modeling curves and surfaces and image-based methods. Near the end of the course, students will be introduced to topics in animation, global illumination and reflectance and modern concepts like neural rendering. Pre-Requisites: COMS W3157 Advanced Programming, Linear Algebra (COMS W3251, APMA E3101, APMA E2101, MATH UN2010, or MATH UN2015), and Calculus I or higher.

Please note: 

Due to significant overlap in content, only one of COMS BC3160 or COMS W4160 may be taken for credit.

• Department: Computer Science @Barnard
• Instructor: Niall Williams
  Info
• 3 points

THE ENGLISH COLLOQUIUM

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to Barnard English majors. In the Enlightenment colloquium we will look at English and European imaginative and intellectual life during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. During this period, writers tried in new ways to reconcile the tensions between reason and religion. Categories of thought that underlie our world today were taking shape: secularity, progress, the public and the private, individual rights, religious tolerance. Writers articulated principles of equality in an era of slavery. Literary forms like the novel, which emerges into prominence during this period, express in irreducibly complex ways these and other changes. In this intensive course, we will study from multiple angles a variety of authors that may include Hobbes, Dryden, Locke, Spinoza, Lafayette, Defoe, Swift, Pope, Richardson, Voltaire, Fielding, Johnson, Diderot, Sterne, and Wollstonecraft, among others.

• Department: English @Barnard
• Instructor: Achsah Guibbory
  CULPA: 17 Info
• Instructor: Andrew L Lynn
  CULPA: 17 Info
• Instructor: Jayne Hildebrand
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Joseph Moshenka
  Info
• 4 points

SHAKESPEARE II

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 60 students. Critical and historical introduction to selected comedies, histories, tragedies, and romances by Shakespeare. Please note that you do not need to take ENGL BC3163: Shakespeare I and ENGL BC3164: Shakespeare II in sequence; you may take them in any order.

• Department: English @Barnard
• Instructor: Peter Platt
  CULPA: 23 Info
• 3 points

THEORIES OF PERFORMANCE STUDIES

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 16 students.

Course surveys the wide range of genres and categories addressed by the practice of modern "performance studies"; it introduces a number of performance practices, as well as relevant interdisciplinary methodologies. Students consider live performances as well as a number of mediated works, learning to think critically and creatively about the relation between text, technology, and the body. Course may fill
either
the Theory requirement,
or
one (of two) required courses in dramatic literature/theatre studies/performance studies for Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts major, but not both.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Shayoni Mitra
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

MILTON

How and why might we read Milton now? And how do his writings and thinking intersect with issues in our present moment? We will read his influential epic
Paradise Lost
after reading selections of Milton's earlier poetry and prose (attack against censorship, defenses of divorce, individual conscience, toleration, complicated issues of political and religious liberty). He wrote about these matters as he was involved in the English Civil war, an advocate of liberty (we will consider what kind, for whom?) and revolution, which Americans would embrace as inspiration and to justify the American Revolution. We will critically read Milton’s literary and political texts within the contexts of religious, political, and cultural history of early modern England and Europe but also colonial and revolutionary America—asking difficult questions, and with a sense of how Milton’s writing connects to present issues of our time.

• Department: English @Barnard
• Instructor: Achsah Guibbory
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 3 points

RENAISSANCE DRAMA:1580-1642

This class offers a general introduction to English drama at the moment when it arose as a major art form. In Renaissance London, astonishingly complex plays emerged that reflected the diverse urban life of the city, as well as the layered and often contradictory inner life of the individual. This poetically rich theater was less concerned with presenting answers, and more with staging questions—about gender, race, religion, literary tradition, love, sex, authority, and class. In this course, we will try to tap into this theater’s cosmopolitan, embodied poetics by reading not only Shakespeare, but also the various other major authors who constituted this literary world: Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, John Webster, the ever-popular Anonymous and others.

• Department: English @Barnard
• Instructor: Peter Platt
  CULPA: 23 Info
• 3 points

VICTORIAN AGE IN LITERATURE

“We have become a novel-reading people,” wrote Anthony Trollope in 1870. “Novels are in the hands of us all; from the Prime Minister down to the last-appointed scullery maid.” This course will consider why the novel was so important to Victorian culture and society. What made the Victorian novel such a fertile form for grappling with the unprecedented cultural changes of the nineteenth century? To address this question, we will explore how Victorian novels both responded to, and participated in, major social and cultural shifts of the period, including industrialism and urbanization; colonialism and empire; the changing status of women, sexuality, and marriage; the emergence of Darwinism; class conflict and social reform; and the expansion of education and literacy. This course will also consider more broadly what novels are for, and what the Victorians thought they were for. Do novels represent the world as it really is, or do they imagine it as it ought to be? What kinds of solutions to social and political problems can novels offer? Can novels ethically improve (or corrupt) their readers? We will consider these issues in the context of realism, Victorian literature’s trademark genre, but we’ll also explore an array of other genres, such as the industrial novel, the Bildungsroman, the sensation novel, detective fiction, and gothic fiction. Authors include Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Wilkie Collins, and others.

• Department: English @Barnard
• Instructor: Jayne Hildebrand
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

CEPHALOPOD COGNITION

This seminar is designed to introduce you to the methods used to discern and describe the cognitive repertoire of novel, understudied, animals.  The animals which we will specifically examine in the class are octopuses and cuttlefish.  Over the course of the semester you will learn how we define cognitive abilities in humans and examine them in various animal species for modeling and comparison purposes.  Each week you will examine one specific ability in humans, a traditional animal model, and a cephalopod.  In this manner you will come to understand the historical process of understanding animal cognition, the current state of the literature in at least one area of cephalopod cognition and be capable of proposing a novel experiment as a way to extend our knowledge of that area of cephalopod cognition.

• Department: Psychology @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ken Light
  CULPA: 17 h-index: 15 Info
• 4 points

AMERICAN LITERATURE 1800-1870

Texts from the late Republican period through the Civil War explore a range of intersecting literary, political, philosophical, and theological issues, including the literary implications of American independence, the status of Native Americans, the nature of the self, slavery and abolition, gender and woman's sphere, and the Civil War. Writers include Washington Irving, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Margaret Fuller, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Jacobs, and Emily Dickinson.

• Department: English @Barnard
• Instructor: Lisa Gordis
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

CRITICAL WRITING

Open to all students.This course teaches clear writing and provides exposure to a range of interpretative strategies.  Frequent short papers. Required of all English majors before the end of the junior year. Sophomores are encouraged to take it in the spring semester even before officially declaring their major. Transfer students should plan to take it in the fall semester.

• Department: English @Barnard
• Instructor: Eugene A Petracca
  Info
• 4 points

CRITICAL WRITING

Open to all students.This course teaches clear writing and provides exposure to a range of interpretative strategies.  Frequent short papers. Required of all English majors before the end of the junior year. Sophomores are encouraged to take it in the spring semester even before officially declaring their major. Transfer students should plan to take it in the fall semester.

• Department: English @Barnard
• Instructor: Eugene A Petracca
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• Instructor: Michael C Dickman
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• Instructor: Joseph Moshenka
  Info
• 4 points

MODERNISM

A deeply ambivalent, transatlantic movement, Modernism grapples with revolutionary forces that defy traditional structures: the 19th-century Darwinian inversion to the old idea of order, the advent of psychoanalysis, the crisis of world war, and the anxiety and exuberance of shifting gender paradigms. The ensuing cultural upheaval dis-orders not only the content but also the literary forms of Modernism, giving rise to abstraction, fragmented narrative structures, stream-of-consciousness prose and the extreme erudition T.S. Eliot “shored against the ruins” of so-called civilization in “The Waste Land.”  Special attention will be devoted to how seminal manifestos, most notably "Tradition and the Individual Talent" and 
A Room of One's Own,
 frame the movement's embattled aesthetics.  Works by Djuna Barnes, T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner,  Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Muriel Rukeyser, Jean Toomer, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Virginia Woolf, and W.B. Yeats.

• Department: English @Barnard
• Instructor: Victor Zarour Zarzar
  Info
• 3 points

HARLEM RENAISSANCE LITERATURE

Home to Harlem focuses on the relationship between art, activism and social justice during the Harlem/ New Negro Renaissance. Exploring the cultural contexts and aesthetic debates that animated Harlem in 1920s to 1930s, the course discusses the politics of literary and theatrical production, while exploring the fashioning and performance of New Negro identity through fiction, poetry, essays, and artwork.  Topics considered include: role of Africa/slavery/the south in New Negro expression, patronage, passing, primitivism/popular culture, black dialect as literary language, and the problematics of creating a “racial” art in/for a community comprised of differences in gender, class, sexuality, and geographical origin.

• Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Maleda Belilgne
  Info
• 4 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

• Department: Music @Barnard
• Instructor: Gail R Archer
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 1-3 points

THEORY

An exploration of alternative theoretical approaches to the study of religion as well as other areas of humanistic inquiry. The methods considered include: sociology, anthropology, philosophy, hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, structuralism, genealogy, and deconstruction. (Previous title: Juniors Colloquium)

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• Instructor: Timothy Vasko
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

THE VISUAL AND VERBAL ARTS

Analysis and discussion of the relation of literature to painting, photography, and film. Emphasis on artistic and literary concepts concerning the visual dimension of narrative and poetic texts from Homer to Burroughs. Explores the role of description, illustration, and montage in realist and modern literature.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
• Instructor: Erk Grimm
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

FILM PRODUCTION

Prerequisites: FILM BC3201 or equivalent. Sophomore standing. Priority is given to Film Studies majors/concentrations in order of class seniority. If you are accepted into this course, attending the first day of class is mandatory. If you do not show up, you may be dropped.

This workshop introduces the student to all the cinematic tools necessary to produce their own short narrative work.  Using what the student has learned in film studies, we'll break down shot syntax, mise-en-scene and editing strategies. We'll include scheduling, budgeting, casting, working with actors and expressive camera work in our process as we build toward a final video project.

• Department: Film @Barnard
• Instructor: Julia L Thompson
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• Instructor: Daniel F Pfeffer
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• 3 points

DIRECTING I

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor given at first class meeting. Exploration of the evolution of the director's role in Europe and the US, including the study of important figures. Emphasis on text analysis, and varied schools of acting in relation to directing practice. Students gain a foundation in composing stage pictures and using stage movement to tell a story. All students will direct at least one fully-realized scene.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• MW 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Tea Alagic
  Info
• 3 points

QUEER THEORY

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Instructor: Jack Halberstam
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

DIRECTING II

Prerequisites: Students required to have taken THTR UN3200 Directing I or THTR UN3203 Collaboration: Directing and Design, or equivalent. Enrollment limited to 14 students. Permission of instructor given at first class meeting. Course focuses on developing an individual directorial style, placing emphasis on visual research, and the use of different staging environments: end-stage, in the round, environmental. Class is structured around scene-work and critique, and each student will direct at least three fully-realized scenes. Material typically drawn from European avant-garde.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• TR 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Shannon M Sindelar
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• 4 points

ADVANCED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN II

ADV ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

Prerequisite: ARCH UN3201. Advanced Architectural Design II culminates the required studio sequence in the major. Students are encouraged to consider it as a synthetic studio where they advance concepts, research methodologies and representational skills learned in all previous studios towards a semester-long design project. Field trips, lectures, and discussions are organized in relation to studio exercises.

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• MW 9 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• 4.5 points

Structural Drivers of Health

STRUCTURAL DRIVERS OF HEA

The COVID-19 pandemic has made the underlying health disparities that exist in the United States more apparent. The traditional biomedical model places the responsibility of these disparities on the choices that an individual makes. The model assumes that one’s smoking, eating and exercising habits are based on personal choice. Therefore, the prevalence of morbidities such as high blood pressure, obesity and diabetes is the result of an individual’s poor decisions. This course will explore how the conditions under which individuals live, work, play and pray impact their health outcomes. Collectively these conditions are referred to as the Social Drivers of Health (SDoH) and often they reveal the systemic inequalities that disproportionately affect marginalized communities. This course will also call upon the need for a paradigm shift from the "Social" "Determinants" of Health to the “Structural” "Drivers" of Health. This shift is in recognition that it is the underlying structures (laws, material infrastructure) that impact  and drive health outcomes. The development of the SDoH has challenged health care providers to look beyond the biomedical model that stresses an individual’s behavior as the main predictor of adverse health conditions. Instead the SDoH focuses on an “upstream” approach that examines the underlying systemic and racial inequalities that impact communities of color and their health outcomes.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• Instructor: Domonique M Reed
  Info
• 3 points

RELIGION IN THE MODERN US

RELIGION IN MODERN US

This course examines the history of religion in the United States from the Civil War to the present through thematic units focused on the legal structures of religious freedom; race, religion, and nationality; healing, aesthetics, and embodiment; and, finally, religion and politics. Over the course of the semester, students will explore various religious communities as well as the ways social, political, and economic factors have shaped those traditions – and how religious communities have in turn shaped US society, politics, and culture. Students will also be introduced to key themes and debates in the field of American religious studies.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• Instructor: Gale L Kenny
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

PUBLIC OPINION AND AMERICAN D

In this course, we will examine the relationship between government and the governed in the United States. To what extent and under what circumstances do elected officials consider public preferences in making policy? To what extent and under what circumstances might we want them to? What kind of power should the public have in American democracy? Thinking about the second and third, more normative questions leads us to other empirical questions. What shapes public preferences? How well can we measure them? How much do people know and care about politics? How do they evaluate their representatives? What constitutes high quality representation? We will examine these kinds of questions broadly, and also consider how they play out in particular policy areas and historical moments. We will also discuss the dynamics of public opinion across population subgroups (e.g. by race, sex, income, party, urbanity, etc.), and questions surrounding representation at the group level. In addition to engaging scholarly literature on public opinion and representation, students will also learn to access, manage, and analyze data measuring the composition of the public (e.g. the U.S. Census) as well as public views on political candidates, officeholders, institutions, and issues (e.g. survey data). These skills will help to prepare students for research projects in other courses and beyond Barnard. To balance the different aims of the course, our class time will be split between lecture, discussion, and hands-on lessons in a computer lab.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• Instructor: Katherine L Krimmel
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

THE 'GLOBAL' NOVEL

"Yes, globalization can produce homogeneity, but globalization is also a threat to homogeneity." --Kwame Anthony Appiah, "The Case for Contamination," New York Times Magazine, 2006

Thinking through the arguments both in favor of and against globalization, particularly in the realm of cultural productions, in this course we will discuss the "global" novel. To that end, we will read essays from
The Global Novel: Writing the World in the 21st Century
about works such as
Americanah, Snow,
and
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
(along with the novels themselves) to investigate what is meant by "global" and what the criteria for including novels in this categorization are. We will also consider whether there is an erasure of cultural difference and nuance in reading novels using a globalizing perspective in order to render them more approachable for a (primarily) US audience.

In order to think through and challenge this category of the global, we will also read novels that can be roughly categorized as postcolonial. We will thus consider how struggles for independence and the desire to locate one’s identity either within freshly liberated nation-states or in the process of immigrating to former metropoles could give rise to cultural and psychological anxieties. We will also consider the manner in which late-stage capitalism could indeed push toward homogenized senses of self that manifest in a category such as the "global novel" and whether arguments could be made in favor of such homogenization. Ultimately, we will think about the politics of globalization and the desire to include in or exclude from the “global” certain locations, cultural products, or peoples.

• Department: English @Barnard
• Instructor: Atefeh Akbari Shahmirzadi
  Info
• 3 points

MUSIC, RACE & IDENTITY

Analysis of the complex relationship among race, art, organizations, economics, social movements and identity. Emphasis is on shifting conceptions of identity and changing roles of race and racism in the spirituals, gospel music, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, rocknroll, soul music, Hip Hop and contemporary popular music.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• Instructor: Jonathan Rieder
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 3 points

Religious Histories of New York City

Religious Histories of NY

This class examines different religious histories of New York City from the early 1800s through the 1950s. We will explore how different religious traditions were shaped by the city and its diversity, and how those people and institutions left their imprints on the city we live in today. The first half of the semester focuses on intersecting themes of religion and capitalism, religion and gender and sexuality, and on the social dynamics of the city’s symbolic meanings as place of refuge and liberation (for domestic and foreign migrants) or as a locus of sin in need of moral reform. The second half of the semester turns to case studies of different neighborhoods including Harlem, the Lower East Side, Williamsburg, and Flushing. How did different religious communities conceptualize “the neighborhood” in relation to the larger city, and how did they grapple with diversity and change? Students will also be introduced to archival collections of the East Harlem Protestant Parish and several settlement houses located at the Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary and at Butler Library.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• Instructor: Gale L Kenny
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

Religion in Modern US- Discussion

RELI IN MOD US- DISC

This course examines the history of religion in the United States from the Civil War to the present through thematic units focused on the legal structures of religious freedom; race, religion, and nationality; healing, aesthetics, and embodiment; and, finally, religion and politics. Over the course of the semester, students will explore various religious communities as well as the ways social, political, and economic factors have shaped those traditions – and how religious communities have in turn shaped US society, politics, and culture. Students will also be introduced to key themes and debates in the field of American religious studies.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• 0 points

Religion in Modern US- Discussion

RELI IN MOD US- DISC

This course examines the history of religion in the United States from the Civil War to the present through thematic units focused on the legal structures of religious freedom; race, religion, and nationality; healing, aesthetics, and embodiment; and, finally, religion and politics. Over the course of the semester, students will explore various religious communities as well as the ways social, political, and economic factors have shaped those traditions – and how religious communities have in turn shaped US society, politics, and culture. Students will also be introduced to key themes and debates in the field of American religious studies.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• 0 points

AMERICAN LIVES, AMERICAN STORIES

AMER. LIVES, AMER. STORIE

Writing sample required to apply: https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses

In this class we will discuss the narrative of the "American" story, and how stories of immigrants and minority identities redefine and complicate it. The goal of the class is to investigate how writers frame a sense of identity in relation to the "American ideal". We will explore this theme through three creative non-fiction pieces each focusing on a different perspective of place, person, and personal experience. What are your stories, and what makes them "American"?

• Department: English @Barnard
• Instructor: Maria D Hinojosa
  Info
• 3 points

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY I-LEC

Prerequisites: CHEM BC2001 or equivalent. Credit will not be given for any course below the 3000 level after completing CHEM BC3230 or its equivalent. Corequisites: With lab, counts towards Lab Science requirement. Atomic and molecular structure; stereochemistry of organic molecules; introduction to organic reactions, reaction mechanisms, and synthesis.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• Instructor: Christian Rojas
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 3 points

Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry

DESCRIPTIVE INORG. CHEMIS

Prerequisites: CHEM BC2001.

This course explores the periodic table in ways that deepen appreciation of the chemistry of the elements. It extends tools introduced in general chemistry with a particular focus on the rich and varied chemistry of the transition metal elements. Requiring only general chemistry, this course is open to students with interests in the role that metal ions play in biology, biochemistry, neuroscience and environmental science.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• 3 points

Indigenous Place-Thought

INDIGENOUS PLACE-THOUGHT

This seminar considers what it means to be of a place and to think with and be committed to that place—environmentally, politically, and spiritually. After locating ourselves in our own particular places and place-based commitments, our attention turns to the Indigenous traditions of North America, to accounts of tribal emergence and pre-colonial being, to colonial histories of land dispossession, to ongoing struggles to protect ecological health and land-based sovereignty, to the epistemological and moral systems that have developed over the course of many millennia of living with and for the land, and to the contributions such systems might make to our collective future. The seminar’s title is borrowed from an essay on “Indigenous place-thought” by Mohawk/Anishinaabe scholar Vanessa Watts.

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• Instructor: Severin Fowles
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 4 points

Transnationalism, Citizenship, and Belon

TRANSNTNL, CITIZEN, BELON

Transnationalism, Citizenship, and Belonging covers the myriad ways that transnationalism is experienced in both South to North and South to South migrations. Transnationalism and its contenders, globalization and nationalism, will be placed within a broader discussion of belonging based on sociological theories of citizenship, politics of exclusion, and boundary-making.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• Instructor: Randa B Serhan
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3231, MATH UN1101, and permission of instructor.

Survey of topics appropriate for a student majoring in chemistry or biochemistry, including examinations of uncertainty analysis and data processing, use of basic laboratory equipment, complex equilibria (pH, solubility, etc.), advanced solution chemistry and chemical activity, and the theoretical foundations of modern techniques in electrochemistry, chromatography and analytical experimental techniques.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• Instructor: Angela L Paoletta
  Info
• 3 points

Sin, Disease, Subversion and the Experie

Race in Latin America

Course Description This course provides an exploration of how race and racism are produced, reproduced, and resisted from a Latin American perspective. We will examine a conception of race that is often ambiguous, hybrid, and fluid, yet coexists with deeply entrenched forms of racism. We begin by tracing the origins of racial formations to the colonial period, focusing on how race and religion became intertwined. The course then investigates Latin America's role in the medicalization of racialized bodies, particularly in the context of nation-building projects. We will analyze how racism has operated during periods of political violence, authoritarian rule, and transitions to democracy. Given the region's vast heterogeneity, we will critically examine "Latin America" as a category and use representative case studies to explore how race is mediated through signifiers such as education, gender, geography, occupation, dress, language, and religion—while ultimately being inscribed on and through the body. Students will explore Indigenous ontologies and epistemologies, and reflect on how the legacies of colonial and state violence persist but are contested. The first half of this course provides an overview of historical events and theoretical debates around the study of race in Latin America. The second half is dedicated to reading ethnographic work on questions of race. The selected books present cases in Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, Puerto Rico, and of immigrants in the United States.

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Paloma Rodrigo Gonzales
  Info
• 4 points

ABSENT MOTHERS, WICKED STEPMOTHERS

ABSENT MOTHERS:FOLK&FAIRY

Why are stepmothers and stepdaughters inevitable enemies in folk and fairy tales? Why are fathers blameless and biological mothers absent (and usually dead)? And how do these narratives, so deeply woven into our own media and language, affect our sense of our own lived reality? In this course, we’ll untangle the complicated web of relationships between mothers, daughters, and stepmothers in folk and fairy tales, from ancient Rome to current cinema. We’ll read analytic psychology, feminist literary theory, cultural history, and other critical perspectives to help us analyze the absent mother, virginal daughter, hapless father, and evil stepmother tropes across time and space, so we can defamiliarize these familiar figures and develop a deeper understanding of how and why they dominate the popular imagination. This is an upper-level course, with priority for juniors and seniors.

• Department: English @Barnard
• Instructor: Wendy C Schor-Haim
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 4 points

JAZZ DANCE III

In This JAZZ llI Level Course,
You will develop a solid understanding within your body that demonstrates advanced  fundamentals, rhythm, technique, connectivity and phrasing necessary to communicate each movement. You will  learn new phrases and dynamic material while continuously applying technical information. We will delve deeper into  technique preparing your body to perform more efficiently and effectively at a higher rate while reducing the risk of  injury.

Prerequisites: DNCE BC2248 DNCD BC 2249 or permission of instructor.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ehizoje J Azeke
  Info
• 2 points

FLAMENCO

The study of contemporary flamenco dance technique with special emphasis on improvisation and performance. Through video and reading assignments and attendance at live performances, students will also develop a context for understanding flamenco art, pedagogy, and culture.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• F 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Nelida Tirado
  Info
• 2 points

THERMODYNAMICS-KINETICS

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3231, PHYS BC2001, PHYS BC 2002, MATH UN1102 or MATH UN1201. Introduction to the laws of thermodynamics; application primarily to ideal systems. Free energy and equilibrium. Kinetics: rate laws and mechanisms, experimental techniques.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• 3 points

URBAN LATIN/X AMERICA: ETHNOGRAPHIC APPR

URBAN LATINX AMERICA: ETH

This seminar examines the social, economic, and political landscapes of Latin American cities through ethnographic literature. It explores key themes such as migration, urban poverty, marginality, violence, informality, urban segregation, grassroots movements, urban citizenship and neoliberal urban governance. Students will read both classic and contemporary ethnographies to gain an in-depth understanding of how cities are lived and experienced. The course also unsettles the category of Latin America, to introduce a discussion of the “Latinization” of U.S. cities. We will interrogate ethnographic and audiovisual materials (included to complement the readings) from a postcolonial perspective.  We will discuss the politics of knowledge production and representation in ethnographic studies and popular culture, the impact of colonialism in transnational flows of knowledge and labor, as well as the contributions to urban theory from the perspective of cities located in the Global South.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Andreina Torres Angarita
  Info
• 4 points

FIRST AMENDMENT VALUES

Prerequisites: POLS W1201 or an equivalent. Not an introductory course. Not open to students who have taken the colloquium POLS BC3302. Examines the first amendment rights of speech, press, religion and assembly. In-depth analysis of landmark Supreme Court rulings provides the basis for exploring theoretical antecedents as well as contemporary applications of such doctrines as freedom of association, libel, symbolic speech, obscenity, hate speech, political speech, commercial speech, freedom of the press and religion. (Cross-listed by the American Studies Program.)

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• Instructor: Paula A Franzese
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

WRITING FOR TELEVISION: SHORT FORM

Prerequisite: FILM BC3201 or equivalent. Please note that since this is a Film Studies course, it does not count as a creative writing course for English majors with a creative writing concentration. This course will focus on the primary pillar of television production: the teleplay. Through a number of creative exercises, students will learn the intricacies of the unique screenwriting formats that are the half-hour and hour-long teleplays. Together we will cover the differences between an episode arc and a seasonal one, the requirements of A/B/C story plotting, and how to write an effective show bible. We will survey the existing pantheon of great television writing in order to help students narrow in on their individual sensibilities. By the end of the course, students will have a written original pilot and a mini series bible.

• Department: Film @Barnard
• Instructor: Faculty
  h-index: 37 Info
• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO CRYPTOGRAPHY

This course is an introduction to modern cryptography, focusing on the complexity-theoretic foundations of secure computation and communication in adversarial environments, precise definitions, and provably secure protocols. Topics include private and public key encryption schemes, digital signatures, authentication, pseudorandom generators and functions, one-way functions, trapdoor functions, number theory and computational hardness, identification and zero knowledge protocols.

• Department: Computer Science @Barnard
• Instructor: Eysa Lee
  Info
• 3 points

Sociology of Disability

SOCIOLOGY OF DISABILITY

Drawing on sociological theory and disability studies scholarship, this course explores how societies construct meanings of disability, normalcy, and difference, and how these constructions influence social institutions, policies, and everyday interactions. Through critical analysis of key institutions—e.g. education, work, and the criminal justice system—students will examine how ableism operates at structural levels while also exploring disability rights movements and forms of resistance and agency. Many of these issues will be examined through an intersectional lens, analyzing how disability intersects with race, gender, class, and other identities to create complex experiences of privilege and marginalization.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• Instructor: Nic Rios
  Info
• 3 points

INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3231 or Permission of Instructor. Structure, bonding and spectroscopy in inorganic compounds: applications of group theory to chemistry; ligand field theory; vibrational and electronic spectroscopy of transition metal complexes; selected topics from coordination chemistry, organometallics, bioinorganic chemistry, solid state and materials chemistry, mineralogy, and biogeochemistry.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• Instructor: Michael Campbell
  Info
• 3 points

Marine Ecology Lab

This laboratory-intensive course introduces students to the biological and ecological processes that shape marine ecosystems. Even in the heart of New York City, marine ecology can be discovered and studied firsthand through experiments, data analysis and field sampling in the Hudson River and coastal environments. Students will explore marine biodiversity, physiology, and ecological interactions and there is an emphasis on experimental design, microscopy, and quantitative methods. Students will prepare lab reports, engage in group projects, and develop skills in scientific communication. One field excursion outside of New York City will be available for participation, but not required.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• R 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Gabrielle Corradino
  Info
• 3 points

Nonhuman Intelligence

What does it mean to be intelligent? Recent years have seen rapid advances in artificial  intelligence technology that enables computers and machines to simulate human learning,  comprehension, problem solving, creativity and autonomy. At the same time, we have  become more aware of other forms of intelligence—some which have been with us all along.  Through a selection of fiction and nonfiction texts and films, students will deepen their  understanding of the multifaceted nature of intelligence and the fascinating, uncanny, and  multiple ways of existing on, off, and in the earth.

• Department: Film @Barnard
• Instructor: Margaret J McLagan
  Info
• 4 points

UNSEEN MASTERWORKS OF WORLD CINEMA

UNSEEN MSTERWRKS: WORLD C

This course examines the portrayal of significant themes in international cinema. Through a selection of diverse cinematic works from various countries, students will analyze different cultural, historical, and political perspectives. The course aims to enhance students' understanding of complex topics, their impact on individuals and societies, and the ethical questions they evoke. Through critical analysis and discussion, students will engage with a range of cinematic works that offer alternative narratives and perspectives.

• Department: Film @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-7:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Sam Abbas
  Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: One year of organic chemistry. Survey of topics in structural, mechanistic, and synthetic organic chemistry, including molecular orbital treatment of structure, bonding, and chemical reactivity; elucidation of organic reaction mechanisms; pericyclic reactions; stereoelectronic effects; reactive intermediates; asymmetric reactions; and natural product total synthesis.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• 3 points

BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: (CHEM BC3230) and (CHEM BC3231) BIOL BC1502. Introduction to biochemical building blocks, macromolecules, and metabolism. Structures of amino acids, lipids, carbohydrates, nucleic acids. Protein structure and folding. Enzyme mechanisms, kinetics, allostery. Membranes and biosignaling. Catabolism and anabolism with emphasis on chemical intermediates, metabolic energy, catalysis by specific enzymes, regulation.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• Instructor: Lori Cobani
  Info
• 3 points

BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY II

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3282 or equivalent. Advanced topics in the field of biochemistry, including enzyme mechanisms, pharmaceutical drug design, and disease therapies. Emphasis will be placed on discussion of current scientific literature.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• Instructor: Christina Vizcarra
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL EFFECT: EARLY MODER

American poetry after 1960 famously took on a new intimacy and freshness of tone. Often called “confessional,” this poetry often does not actually express the kind of guilty self-revelation such a term implies. As the critic David Kalstone put it, “American poetry of this period became increasingly available to autobiographical energies of all sorts, not simply to writing which was desperate and on the edge.” This course examines some of that poetry, and its non-confessional use of an autobiographical “I.” We will explore how this poetry, far from representing a rejection of tradition, drew on early modern work to imbue seemingly modern autobiographical effects with new quickness and life.

• Department: English @Barnard
• Instructor: Rachel Eisendrath
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT

Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 or AP score of 4 or 5; or SAT score. An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies. Formerly SPAN W3200 and SPAN BC3004. If you have taken either of these courses before you cannot take SPAN UN3300. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• Instructor: Javier Perez Zapatero
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Antoni Fernandez Parera
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 1 Info
• 3 points

ADV LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENT

Prerequisites: SPAN UN2102 or AP score of 4 or 5; or SAT score. An intensive exposure to advanced points of Spanish grammar and structure through written and oral practice, along with an introduction to the basic principles of academic composition in Spanish. Each section is based on the exploration of an ample theme that serves as the organizing principle for the work done in class (Please consult the Directory of Classes for the topic of each section.) This course is required for the major and the concentration in Hispanic Studies. Formerly SPAN W3200 and SPAN BC3004. If you have taken either of these courses before you cannot take SPAN UN3300. All Columbia students must take Spanish language courses (UN 1101-3300) for a letter grade.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO HEBREW BIBLE

INTRO TO HEBREW BIBLE

Introduction to the literature of ancient Israel against the background of the ancient Near East.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• Instructor: Beth A Berkowitz
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points

PLAYWRITING LAB

Students will develop original dramatic scripts. Students will also read drafts of writers currently produced on New York stages to understand why changes and rewrites were made. Recommended for students undertaking a senior thesis in playwriting.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Ro Reddick
  Info
• 3 points

GREEK LITERATURE SELECTIONS II

Prerequisites: GREK UN2101 - GREK UN2102 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.

• Department: Classics @Barnard
• Instructor: Rosa M Andujar
  Info
• 3 points

LATIN LITERATURE SELECTIONS

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

• Department: Classics @Barnard
• Instructor: Darcy Krasne
  h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHITECTURE

See the Barnard and Columbia Architecture Department website for the course description: 
https://architecture.barnard.edu/architecture-department-course-descriptions

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• Instructor: Leah M Meisterlin
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Marlon Davis
  Info
• 3 points

QURAN

This course conceives of the Qur’ān as a living text in constant flux through interactions with other religious traditions.  It focuses on developing an understanding of the Qur’ān’s form, style, and content through a  close reading of comparable religious texts.  Major topics covered include the Qur’ānic theory of prophecy, its treatment of the Biblical tradition (both that of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament), and its perspective on pre-Islamic pagan religion.  The central goals of the course include the ability to (a) analyze primary religious sources in a critical and objective manner and (b) construct coherent arguments based on concrete evidence.   In a class of this nature, class members will naturally hold or develop a wide variety of opinions about the topics covered.  The goal is not to adopt a single opinion concerning the interpretation of a particular text, but rather to support personal conclusions in a clear logical manner.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• Instructor: Najam I Haider
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

METROPOLITICS OF RACE & PLACE

This class explores how racism and racialized capitalism and politics shape the distribution of material resources among cities and suburbs in metropolitan areas and the racial and ethnic groups residing in them. Readings and discussion focus on the history of metropolitan area expansion and economic development, as well as contemporary social processes shaping racial and ethnic groups’ access to high-quality public goods and private amenities. We address racial and ethnic groups’ evolving political agendas in today’s increasingly market-driven socio-political context, noting the roles of residents; federal, state, and local governments; market institutions and actors; urban planners, activist organizations, foundations, and social scientists, among others. Here is a sample of specific topics: race/ethnicity and who “belongs” in what “place;” inequitable government and market investment across racial and ethnic communities over time and “sedimentation effects” (for example, the “redlining” of Black communities leading to their inability to access loan and credit markets and the resulting wealth gap between Blacks and Whites); gentrification processes; creating sufficient, sustainable tax bases; and suburban sprawl. Assignments will include two short response papers, mid-term and final exams, and another project to be determined.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Angela Simms
  Info
• 3 points

MICROBIOLOGY

Prerequisites: BIOL BC1500, BIOL BC1501, BIOL BC1502, BIOL BC1503 or the equivalent, and BIOL BC2100. Survey of the diversity, cellular organization, physiology, and genetics of the major microbial groups. Also includes aspects of applied microbiology and biotechnology, the function of microorganisms in the environment, and the role of microbes in human diseases.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• Instructor: Stephen L Sturley
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

Changing Climate, Changing World

Changing Climate and Worl

An interdisciplinary course focused on environmental humanities and based in the English department, “Changing Climate, Changing World” will examine the representation of nature across time and its implications for global warming and biodiversity from multiple perspectives, emphasizing issues of climate change and environmental justice. The course will provide a conceptual framework for reading and critiquing the representation of nature in the context of historical, economic, social, cultural, scientific and political change.

The course design asks students to address climate change in the context of the industrial revolution before discussing environmental issues in a pre-industrial and finally a post-industrial context. We will begin in media res by addressing issues of industrialization and colonialism in the mid-18th and 19th century before considering indigenous, medieval, and renaissance representations of nature. In the second half of the course, we return to examine contemporary issues from the early 20th century to the present.

The course will meet twice weekly in Spring 2025. One of these meetings will include a lecture with a guest faculty member from Barnard and Columbia, or occasionally with other experts, artists, and activists from New York and beyond, followed by questions from the audience on the lecture. The second meeting will emphasize student discussion of the lecture and associated readings, with the purpose of integrating each lecture into the total course framework. Since all the participating faculty are teaching full time, we will aim to schedule lectures in the late afternoon or evening to minimize conflicts. We would also like to open some of the lectures to the public, either virtually or in person, so that their impact could be felt beyond the class itself.

• Department: English @Barnard
• Instructor: Linn C Mehta
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 4 points

Seminar in Public Health Virology

Public Health Virology Se

This is an advanced seminar course focusing on primary literature studying viruses and their impact on public health. Selected topics will emphasize evolution, transmission, surveillance, and treatment. The intellectual framework will progress from the cellular and molecular levels to the organismal and ecological. Host-pathogen interactions between viruses and humans will be a particular focus. The course is organized around presentation and critique of both current research as well as landmark discoveries in the field. Discussions will also integrate the interplay of laboratory science with ethics and policy.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• M 9:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Jj L Miranda
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

Religion and Medicine in South Asia: Psy

RELI & MED IN SOUTH ASIA

In this course, students will come to see the imbrication of religion, power, and mental illness across South Asia by examining experiences of suffering and its management; the history of psychiatry in the British colonial era and its afterlives; and the relationship of religion to concepts of mental and emotional disorder. Students will identify models for medical structures of care, healing, and treatments in the context of religion, ritual, and quotidian life. Topics include diagnostic processes and the creation of categories, stigma and models of clinical care, hysteria, spirit possession, pharmaceuticals, and the relationship of trauma to political structures. This course has three sections: 1) the first portion undertakes a brief historical survey of medical disciplines and institutions in South Asia (such as the development of Ayurveda, Yunānī Ṭibb, and the rise of the bīmāristān); 2) the second portion of the course focuses on the rise of the asylum (sometimes called the pāgal khāna) in tandem with psychiatry and its twinned consequence: the pathologization of asceticism by British colonial technologies of discipline; 3) the final portion examines the relationship between British colonialism and psychoanalysis with the introduction of this western discipline to the subcontinent. 

This course will take
critical
stock of historical structures throughout South Asia
claiming
to provide care (such as family, caste, healthcare, mental asylums, colonialism, educational systems, pensions, and much more). As a result, students come to consider concepts of social suffering, biopolitics, biosociality, political subjectivity, and postcolonial disorder. 

Primary source material will include the following: śāstra, ethnography, clinical studies, poetry, scripture, ritual texts across Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• Instructor: Meghan E Hartman
  Info
• 4 points

INTRO ORGANIC CHEMISTRY-LAB

Prerequisites: (CHEM BC2001) General Chemistry I with lab. Corequisites: CHEM BC3230 Basic techniques of experimental organic chemistry. Principles and methods of separation, purification, and characterization of organic compounds. Selected organic reactions.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• Instructor: Meenakshi S Rao
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 2.5 points

INTRO ORGANIC CHEMISTRY-LAB

Prerequisites: (CHEM BC2001) General Chemistry I with lab. Corequisites: CHEM BC3230 Basic techniques of experimental organic chemistry. Principles and methods of separation, purification, and characterization of organic compounds. Selected organic reactions.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• Instructor: Meenakshi S Rao
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 2.5 points