DIGITAL SYSTEMS LABORATORY
Companion lab course for CSEE W3827. Experiments cover such topics as logic gates; flip-flops; shift registers; counters; combinational logic circuits; sequential logic circuits; programmable logic devices. The lab generally meets on alternate weeks.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
- F 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kenneth Shepard
CULPA: 2 Wikipedia h-index: 64 Info - 1 points
ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS LABORATORY
Companion lab course for ELEN E3331. Experiments cover such topics as macromodeling of nonidealities of opamps using SPICE; Schmitt triggers and astable multivibrations using op-amps and diodes; logic inverters and amplifiers using bipolar junction transistors; logic inverters and ring oscillators using MOSFETs; filter design using opamps. The lab generally meets on alternate weeks.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
- T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
- F 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
David G Vallancourt
CULPA: 28
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ELECTRONICS LABORATORY
Prerequisites: PHYS UN3003 or PHYS UN3007 May be taken before or concurrently with this course. A sequence of experiments in solid-state electronics, with introductory lectures.
- Department: Physics
- MW 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
John Parsons
CULPA: 31
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Quantum Simulation and Computing Lab
Quantum Simul. & Computin
The “Quantum Simulation and Computing Lab” will give students hands-on experience in quantum optics, quantum simulation and quantum computing. The course combines lectures, tutorials, and two lab sections. In one lab section, students will do experiments with entangled photons. In the second lab section, students will program quantum computers and run algorithms on them using the IBM Qiskit platform.
The course starts with a recap of linear algebra and quantum mechanics, followed by an introduction to quantum optics and quantum information. Two-level systems, Bloch sphere, quantum gates, and elementary quantum algorithms will be discussed. Quantum teleportation and quantum key distribution will be introduced as applications of entanglement. The lecture content will be directly applied in experiments with entangled photons. In the following, state-of-the-art quantum algorithms will be discussed, related to cutting-edge research results in quantum computing. This includes quantum Fourier transform, quantum simulation of the Schroedinger equation, and the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) algorithm. During the course students will do one experimental project with entangled photons and one quantum programming project. Students will be guided to implement a quantum algorithm of their choice and run it on a quantum computer (IBM, IonQ, QuEra).
- Department: Physics
- WF 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sebastian Will
h-index: 18 Info - 3 points
PHYSICL-ANALYTCL LABORATORY II
Prerequisites: CHEM UN3085 , CHEM UN3080 is acceptable corequisite for CHEM UN3086. A student-centered experimental course intended for students who are co-registered or have complete CHEM UN3079 and CHEM UN3080. The course emphasizes techniques of experimental physical chemistry and instrumental analysis, including vibrational, electronic, and laser spectroscopy; electroanalytical methods; calorimetry; reaction kinetics; hydrodynamic methods; scanning probe microscopy; applications of computers to reduce experimental data; and computational chemistry. Students must also attend the compulsory Mentoring Session. Please check the Directory of Classes for details.
- Department: Chemistry
- T noon-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Luis A Avila
CULPA: 22
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- 4 points
QUANTUM PHYSICS LABORATORY
Experiments illustrating phenomenological aspects of the early quantum theory: (i) Hydrogenic Spectra: Balmer Series - Bohr-Sommerfeld Model; (ii) Photoelectric Effect: Millikans Determination of h/e; (iii) Franck-Hertz Experiment; and (iv) Electron Diffraction Phenomena. Substantial preparation required, including written and oral presentations, as well as an interest in developing the knack and intuition of an experimental physicist. This course is best taken concurrently with PHYS BC3006 Quantum Physics.
- Department: Physics and Astronomy @Barnard
- W 4 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Reshmi Mukherjee
CULPA: 7
Wikipedia
h-index: 63
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CONSERVATION BIOLOGY
Prerequisites: Science majors should have completed one introductory course that covers biology, ecology, evolution or conservation priort to taking this course. Non-science majors should have some exposure to these same topics but are not required to have taken courses in advance of this class.
- Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dustin Partridge
Info - 3 points
ADV ELECTROMAGNETISM LAB
Classical electromagnetic wave phenomena via Maxwells equations, including: (i) Michaelson and Fabry-Perot Interferometry, as well as a thin-film interference and elementary dispersion theory; (ii) Fraunhofer Diffraction (and a bit of Fresnel); (iii) Wireless Telegraphy I: AM Radio Receivers; and (iv) Wireless Telegraphy II: AM Transmitters. Last two labs pay homage to relevant scientific developments in the period 1875-1925, from the discovery of Hertzian waves to the Golden Age of Radio. Complements PHYS W3008 Electromagnetic Waves and Optics.
- Department: Physics and Astronomy @Barnard
- F 10:30 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Stiliana Savin
CULPA: 4 Info - 3 points
INDIVIDUAL SENIOR PROJECTS
Prerequisites: Meets senior requirement. Instructor permission required. The instructor will supervise the writing of long papers involving some form of sociological research and analysis.
- Department: Sociology @Barnard
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Instructor:
Deborah Becher
CULPA: 8
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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
CULPA: 17
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Angela Simms
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Amy Zhou
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Instructor:
Randa B Serhan
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
Senior Research Seminar: Inquiry
SENIOR RESEARCH SEMINAR I
This is the second semester of a year-long senior capstone experience for Educational Studies majors. Over the course of the year, you will design and carry-out an inquiry project, and you will report on this project through an appropriate medium, for a specific purpose and audience.
- Department: Education @Barnard
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Thea R Abu El-Haj
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Instructor:
Rachel A Longa
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Isiac cults in contexts; Egyptian cults
Isiac Cults In Contexts
This course looks at the long history of the “Egyptian” cults (cults of Isis, Osiris, Anubis, Sarapis, and Harpocrates) mainly outside of Egypt and in periods much later than the Pharaonic heyday of Ancient Egypt, that is, the Hellenistic and the Roman empire. By looking at and closely reading primary documents in translation, visual evidence, and archaeological remains, we aim to explore critical issues in the study of ancient polytheism, such as sacred space, the role of priests, religious sociology problems, forms of religious, ritual dynamics, construction of emotions religious and the sense of self and community. An issue of particular interest is the relationship between religious ethos and economic life and the relationship with various forms of power. Questions of gender will be central to the
problematique
. In addition to the seminar, there will be frequent visits to the Met, individually or as a group.
- Department: Classics
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Paraskevi Martzavou
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
ARTEMIS RISING SHORT COURSE IN FILM PROD
ARTEMIS COURSE:FILM PRODU
The Artemis Rising Short Course in Film Production is a one-point credit short workshop presented by an Artemis Rising Foundation Filmmaker Fellow (ARFF). It consists of four workshops on a special aspect of film production and one final project. This series was endowed by the Artemis Rising Foundation to bring world-class filmmakers with hands-on experience and fresh perspectives to Barnard to connect with students interested in filmmaking as a vocation and media literacy.
It can only be taken for pass/fail for 1 point.
Students must attend all four class workshops and produce one final project in order to receive credit for this course.
To see the dates/times that the Artemis Rising Short Course will meet this semester, the current course description, and the biography of the visiting filmmaker, please visit the ARFF website:
https://athenacenter.barnard.edu/arff
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- Department: Film @Barnard
- M 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Ross T Hamilton
CULPA: 25
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SENIOR THESIS
French majors will write their senior thesis under the supervision of the instructor.
- Department: French @Barnard
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Brian D O'Keeffe
CULPA: 28
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- 4 points
SUPERVISED INDEPENDENT RES
Prerequisites: the instructors permission for entrance, and the departmental representatives permission for aggregate points in excess of 12 or less than 4. This course may be repeated for credit (see major and concentration requirements). Individual research under the supervision of a member of the staff. Research areas include organic, physical, inorganic, analytical, and biological chemistry. Please note that CHEM UN3098 is offered in the fall and spring semesters.
- Department: Chemistry
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Instructor:
Vesna Gasperov
CULPA: 1 h-index: 4 Info - 4 points
SUPERVISED INDEPENDENT RES
Prerequisites: the instructors permission for entrance, and the departmental representatives permission for aggregate points in excess of 12 or less than 4. This course may be repeated for credit (see major and concentration requirements). Individual research under the supervision of a member of the staff. Research areas include organic, physical, inorganic, analytical, and biological chemistry. Please note that CHEM UN3098 is offered in the fall and spring semesters.
- Department: Chemistry
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Instructor:
Vesna Gasperov
CULPA: 1 h-index: 4 Info - 3 points
GUIDED RESEARCH IN ECONOMICS
Prerequisites: Instructors permission Provides students with the experience of participating in the research process by matching them to a faculty mentor who will put them to work on one of his or her current research projects.
- Department: Economics @Barnard
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Instructor:
Martina Jasova
CULPA: 7
h-index: 7
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- 1-2 points
GUIDED RESEARCH IN ECONOMICS
Prerequisites: Instructors permission Provides students with the experience of participating in the research process by matching them to a faculty mentor who will put them to work on one of his or her current research projects.
- Department: Economics @Barnard
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Instructor:
Martina Jasova
CULPA: 7
h-index: 7
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- 1-2 points
INDEPENDENT STUDY
- Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
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Instructor:
Abosede A George
CULPA: 14
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- 1-4 points
INDEPENDENT STUDY
- Department: Art History @Barnard
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Instructor:
Joan Snitzer
CULPA: 4 Info - 1-4 points
INDEPENDENT STUDY
Independent Study. Instructor permission required.
- Department: Computer Science @Barnard
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Instructor:
Brian K Plancher
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Tiffany Tseng
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Lucy Simko
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Smaranda Muresan
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Instructor:
Rebecca N Wright
Wikipedia h-index: 34 Info -
Instructor:
Lucy Simko
Info - 1-4 points
INDEPENDENT STUDY
Independent Study in Human Rights.
- Department: Human Rights (HRTB)
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Instructor:
J.C. Salyer
CULPA: 1 Info -
Instructor:
Maja Horn
CULPA: 7
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Instructor:
Widney Brown
CULPA: 4
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- 1-4 points
INDEPENDENT STUDY
This course can be worth 1 to 4 credits (each credit is equivalent to approximately three hours of work per week) and requires a Barnard faculty as a mentor who has to provide written approval. The course entails a scholarly component; for this, a research report is required by the end of the term. The research report can take the form that best suits the nature of the project. The course will be taken for a letter grade, regardless of whether the student chooses 1, 2, 3, or 4 credits.
- Department: Neuroscience & Behavior @Barnard
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Instructor:
Peter D Balsam
CULPA: 25 Info -
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Elizabeth P Bauer
CULPA: 3 h-index: 21 Info -
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Bj Casey
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Gabrielle J Gutierrez
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Russell D Romeo
CULPA: 9
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Rae Silver
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Alex White
h-index: 13 Info -
Instructor:
E'Mett McCaskill
CULPA: 38
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Kara Pham
CULPA: 9
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Instructor:
Anamaria Alexandrescu
Info - 1-4 points
INDEPENDENT PROJECTS
- Department: Sociology @Barnard
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Instructor:
Randa B Serhan
CULPA: 2 Info - 1-4 points
INDEPENDENT STUDY
Independent study.
- Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
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Instructor:
Javier Perez Zapatero
CULPA: 2 Info - 1-4 points
INTRO TO QUANTUM MECHANICS
Basic concepts and assumptions of quantum mechanics, Schrodinger's equation, solutions for one-dimensional problems including square wells, barriers and the harmonic oscillator, introduction to the hydrogen atom, atomic physics and X-rays, electron spin.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Aravind Devarakonda
Info - 3 points
JUSTICE
An inquiry into the nature and implications of justice in areas ranging from criminal justice to social justice to the circumstances of war and peace, considering issues such as abortion, the criminalization of behavior, the death penalty, climate change, global poverty, civil disobedience, and international conflict.
- Department: Political Science
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
David C Johnston
CULPA: 25 Info - 3 points
FUNDAMENTALS OF GLOBAL HEALTH
Many of the greatest challenges in public health are global. This course uses a multidisciplinary approach to discuss the major underlying determinants of poor health and the relationship between health and political, social and economic development. Drawing upon the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, students will be introduced to the evolution of modern approaches to the setting of global health priorities, the functions and roles of health systems, an overview of current global health practices, and the major institutional players in global health. The first unit of the class will focus on establishing the foundations for a public health approach to understanding the challenges of global health. This will involve exploration of the factors shaping the global distribution of disease and their connection with issues of social, economic, and political development, as reflected in the Millennium Development Goals. The second unit will explore in further detail a number of major health priorities. A significant goal of the class will be to identify common sources of vulnerability and challenge across health risks, and the consequent need for a systemic approach to their being addressed. The third and final unit builds upon this analysis to demonstrate the multi-disciplinary, multi-level approach required to effectively address global health priorities, and the political and organizational cooperation required to achieve this. The class concludes with an analysis of the major challenges and threats to global coordination regarding such threats as pandemic influenza and emerging health threats related to climate change. Offered in the spring.
- Department: Columbia College
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
- 3 points
ARCHIVE PHOTOGRAPHY
Archive Photography
When millions of images are made every day, how can a photographer create an original body of work? This class proposes that parsing humanity’s existing shared archive of images is more relevant than generating new images. Following models such as Nepal Picture Library, Magnum Foundation, Drik/Majority World, and Arab Image Foundation, contemporary photography has remapped its practice around the reimagining and explanation, of the archival object. This class explores many archives–family albums, historical photographs, government records, fragile maps, musical albums, and flea market collectibles. We will use a series of lens-based technologies, starting from the flatbed scanner and Photoshop retouching and radiating outward. We will explore archive concerns, including consent, ownership, privacy, circulation, respect, and political impact. Students will explore display forms, including slide shows, zines, books, and exhibitions. There will be a strong complement of reading and writing in this class around the theory and practice of archives from the Western North and Global South.
- Department: Visual Arts
- MW 1 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Naeem Mohaiemen
Wikipedia h-index: 8 Info - 3 points
ADVANCED FICTION WORKSHOP
Building on the work of the Intermediate Workshop, Advanced Workshops are reserved for the most accomplished creative writing students. A significant body of writing must be produced and revised. Particular attention will be paid to the components of fiction: voice, perspective, characterization, and form. Students will be expected to finish several short stories, executing a total artistic vision on a piece of writing. The critical focus of the class will include an examination of endings and formal wholeness, sustaining narrative arcs, compelling a reader's interest for the duration of the text, and generating a sense of urgency and drama in the work. Please visit
https://arts.columbia.edu/writing/undergraduate
for information about registration procedures.
- Department: Writing
- M 10:10 a.m.-noon
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Marie G Lee
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Instructor:
Sophie F Kemp
Info - 3 points
INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS
An introduction to the study of language from a scientific perspective. The course is divided into three units: language as a system (sounds, morphology, syntax, and semantics), language in context (in space, time, and community), and language of the individual (psycholinguistics, errors, aphasia, neurology of language, and acquisition). Workload: lecture, weekly homework, and final examination.
- Department: Cognitive Science @Barnard
- TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Maya Barzilai
Info - 3 points
WOMEN WRITERS OF E EUR: BELARUS,UKR,&RUS
WOMEN WRITERS OF EASTRN E
The course addresses the works of women writers of Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia from the 19th century to the present. All assigned readings will be in English. The purpose of the course is to become familiar with the struggles and concerns of these authors, as well as the general features of their lives and cultural contexts. Most readings assigned are primary texts. These will be supplemented during course meetings: the instructor will bring in various materials that would be obscure if assigned to students outside of class, but with live explanations in-class, will enrich their understanding of the primary readings.
- Department: Slavic Languages @Barnard
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
John C Wright
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
SENIOR FICTION WORKSHOP
Prerequisites: The department's permission required through writing sample. Please go to 609 Kent for submission schedule and registration guidelines or see http://www.arts.columbia.edu/writing/undergraduate. Seniors who are majors in creative writing are given priority for this course. Enrollment is limited, and is by permission of the professor. The senior workshop offers students the opportunity to work exclusively with classmates who are at the same high level of accomplishment in the major. Students in the senior workshops will produce and revise a new and substantial body of work. In-class critiques and conferences with the professor will be tailored to needs of each student.
- Department: Writing
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Samuel Lipsyte
CULPA: 5
Info
- 4 points
APPLIED MATHEMATICS II: PDE'S
Introduction to partial differential equations; integral theorems of vector calculus. Partial differential equations of engineering in rectangular, cylindrical, and spherical coordinates. Separation of the variables. Characteristic-value problems. Bessel functions, Legendre polynomials, other orthogonal functions; their use in boundary value problems. Illustrative examples from the fields of electromagnetic theory, vibrations, heat flow, and fluid mechanics.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michael K Tippett
CULPA: 8 h-index: 43 Info - 3 points
ADVANCED DUTCH II
see department for details
- Department: Germanic Languages
- TR 1:15 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Wijnie de Groot
CULPA: 11
Info
- 3 points
ADVANCED INDONESIAN II
This course offers students the opportunity to practice advanced structures of Bahasa Indonesia, a major language of Indonesia and South East Asia. This course is offered by videoconferencing from Cornell as part of the Shared Course Initiative.
- Department: Language Resource Center
- 3 points
THIRD YEAR JAPANESE II
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- MTWR 10:10 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
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Instructor:
Fumiko Nazikian
CULPA: 6
Info
- 5 points
THIRD-YEAR RUSSIAN II
Prerequisites: RUSS UN2102 or the equivalent and the instructors permission. Enrollment limited. Recommended for students who wish to improve their active command of Russian. Emphasis on conversation and composition. Reading and discussion of selected texts and videotapes. Lectures. Papers and oral reports required. Conducted entirely in Russian.
- Department: Slavic Languages
- MWF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Tatiana Mikhailova
Info - 4 points
Literary Sinhala II
This one-semester course further develops students' comprehension of written Literary Sinhala, using sample materials from a variety of genres prepared by the instructor, as well as excerpts from texts relevant to graduate student research (when appropriate).
- Department: Language Resource Center
- T 4:30 p.m.-6 p.m.
- 3 points
PAINTING III: Advanced Painting
PAINTING III: Adv Paintin
Prerequisites: (VIAR UN1000) and (VIAR UN2100) Painting III: Advanced study in painting will be a material inquiry into the consequential concepts, histories, and critical language embedded in making painting’s historical past and its’ present. Is painting now a singular “medium”? How do facture, scale, form and a multitude of image-making options, regardless of “style”, accrue as to create meaning? Participants are expected to present work weekly, as Individual studio or group critiques. These will be augmented by readings of selected historical essays and contemporaneous writings, as well as visual presentations on a rotating basis.
THIRD YEAR VIETNAMESE II
The course is aimed at enhancing students' competence in reading and listening comprehension as well as the ability to present or show their knowledge of the language and various aspects of Vietnamese with the use of more advanced Vietnamese.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Chung Nguyen
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
ADVANCED ZULU II
Prerequisites: ZULU W1201-W1202 or the instructors permission. This course allows students to practice adanced structures of the Zulu language. Please note this course is offered by videoconference from Yale through the Shared Course Initiative.
- Department: Language Resource Center
- MW 1 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
- 3 points
GALAXIES
Prerequisites: one year of calculus-based general physics. Galaxies fill the universe with structure. They are bound objects that harbor stars, gas, dust and dark matter. This course will discuss the content and structure of galaxies. It will start with the Milky Way, a rotating spiral galaxy, with a particular emphasis on the properties of the interstellar medium. Dwarf galaxies, the building blocks of larger galaxies, will subsequently be discussed, followed by spiral, elliptical and irregular galaxies. The formation and evolution of these different galaxy types will be an important focus of the course, as well as the environment in which the galaxies reside. We will intersperse reviews of current papers on galaxies throughout the semester.
- Department: Astronomy
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Mary Putman
CULPA: 3
h-index: 54
Info
- 3 points
GALAXIES
Prerequisites: one year of calculus-based general physics. Galaxies fill the universe with structure. They are bound objects that harbor stars, gas, dust and dark matter. This course will discuss the content and structure of galaxies. It will start with the Milky Way, a rotating spiral galaxy, with a particular emphasis on the properties of the interstellar medium. Dwarf galaxies, the building blocks of larger galaxies, will subsequently be discussed, followed by spiral, elliptical and irregular galaxies. The formation and evolution of these different galaxy types will be an important focus of the course, as well as the environment in which the galaxies reside. We will intersperse reviews of current papers on galaxies throughout the semester.
- Department: Auditing
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Mary Putman
CULPA: 3
h-index: 54
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- 0 points
THE ART OF THE ESSAY
Essay writing above the first-year level. Reading and writing various types of essays to develop one's natural writing voice and craft thoughtful, sophisticated and personal essays.
- Department: English @Barnard
- W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
- M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Vrinda Condillac
CULPA: 28
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Margaret R Ellsberg
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Shelly Fredman
CULPA: 3
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Ross T Hamilton
CULPA: 25
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- 3 points
Sacred Spaces & Divine Images Transforme
This seminar will explore the profound transformation of art and architecture connected to the religious practices of both polytheists and monotheists that occurred across the Middle East when much of the region was under Roman rule. Sacred spaces we will focus on include the Temples of Bel and Baalshamin at Palmyra (destroyed in 2015) and Jupiter Heliopolitanus at Baalbek, the recently discovered synagogues at Migdal (Magdala), and the temples, housechurch, and synagogue at Dura-Europos. We will delve into topics such as possible cult continuity between the Iron Age and the Hellenistic and Roman periods, the creation of new deities, the roles of priests, aniconism and figural sculpture, and the construction and adornment of buildings to meet the specific needs of the cults of various deities, Judaism, and Christianity. We will explore and challenge traditional categories such as “Roman” and “provincial” art/architecture. Key questions to consider include the following: how were individuals/communities’ personal, civic, and religious identities expressed in art/architecture that was influenced by interaction with Roman culture broadly, but also highly localized?
The approach is interdisciplinary: we will study architecture, sculpture, mosaics, wall paintings, votive dedications, and inscriptions, and read Jane Lightfoot’s 2003 translation of Lucian’s De Dea Syria (On the Syrian Goddess). Discussion of current and future responses to the destruction of archaeological sites and monuments and looting, as well as the intertwining of cultural and humanitarian crises, will also form an important part of the course and prepare students to engage in contemporary debates. Our visit to the Yale University Art Gallery will provide students with the outstanding opportunity to examine sculptures and wall paintings from Dura-Europos first-hand and give presentations in the gallery.
- Department: Art History and Archaeology
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Blair Fowlkes Childs
Info - 4 points
EXOPLANETS AND ASTROBIOLOGY
- Department: Astronomy
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jane Huang
Info - 3 points
MECHANICS
MECHANICS I
Elements of statics; dynamics of a particle and systems of particles.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
- F 9:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
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Instructor:
Karen Kasza
h-index: 17 Info - 4 points
FICTION & PERSONAL NARRATIVE
In this workshop, we will practice taking creative risks, writing fiction and nonfiction. We will examine four key craft areas: voice, characterization, imagery, and arrangement, both in contemporary published writing and in the writing of the people in this class. In small and large group workshops, we will consider each writer’s work with care and attention to the writer’s vision. By discussing each work-in-progress on its own terms, we will help our fellow writers deepen the meaning and impact of their work. Through risk-taking, and building a creative community, we will also grow and deepen our personal relationships to craft.
Writing sample required to apply. Short stories and other imaginative and personal writing. Interested students should send a prose writing sample to
awatson@barnard.edu
by April 1st, 2025.
· Writing samples should be creative and appropriate to the courses requested: 4-6 pages of fiction or personal narrative
· They should be neat, typed, and double-spaced.
· They should not be expository or primarily analytical (like a literature paper).
- Department: English @Barnard
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alexandra P Watson
CULPA: 16 Info - 3 points
DYNAMICS AND VIBRATIONS
Kinematics of rigid bodies; momentum and energy methods; vibrations of discrete and continuous systems; eigen-value problems, natural frequencies and modes. Basics of computer simulation of dynamics problems using MATLAB or Mathematica.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Addis Kidane
Info - 3 points
Transatlantic Translation
TRANSATLANTIC TRANSLATION
A workshop in which students from the BC/CU community collaborate with a team of students from the École Normale Supérieure-Lyon on two translation projects. In addition to video-conferenced group sessions, students will work virtually with their translation partner in France, and consult in-person with their Barnard instructor. Prerequisite: completion of at least Intermediate II level of French.
- Department: French @Barnard
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Laurie Postlewate
CULPA: 17
Info
- 3 points
APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING
Prerequisites: STAT UN2103. Students without programming experience in R might find STAT UN2102 very helpful. This course is a machine learning class from an application perspective. We will cover topics including data-based prediction, classification, specific classification methods (such as logistic regression and random forests), and basics of neural networks. Programming in homeworks will require R.
Translating the Animal
TRANSLATING THE ANIMAL
Through readings in language philosophy, translation studies, and critical animal studies,
Translating the Animal
explores how translation, language, and reason have historically worked together to maintain speciesism, preventing human animals from perceiving their commonalities with, and attunement to, sentient nonhuman beings.
- Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
- W 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Hana Worthen
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Psychoanalysis and the Eew Factor
Psychoanalysis & 'Eew' Fa
Curious about ambivalences and how we might attend to what we would rather not know, the late psychoanalyst Muriel Dimen took an interest in what she called the “eew! factor,” the visceral reaction of disgust and revulsion that is usually far more ambivalent than we like to think. Laced with attraction and excitement, relegated often to the unconscious, the “eew! factor” will provide us a lens for thinking with psychoanalysis about desires, bodies, social and moral boundaries, power, violence, ethics, and their ambivalences. Conceptions of purity and pollution, taboo and transgression work to establish norms and boundaries, while also rendering the forbidden exceptional, threatening, alluring, and powerful. We will attend to the dynamics of transference and countertransference to think through the ambivalences of attraction, pleasure, embarrassment, revulsion, and shame that surround investments in and rejections of queerness, racialization, religion, and institutions. We will examine how value and power do and don’t accrue around taboos and transgressions and to secrecy and revelations. In light of the affective intensities of the “eew! factor” that seems never far in our everyday negotiations of social, moral, and bodily boundaries, we will also ask what ordinariness and a lack of exceptionality in relation to the “eew!” might look like, if it is even possible.
- Department: Religion
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Yannik Thiem
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Russian Through Theater
Russian Through Theater is a content-based language course designed for students who already have the equivalent of two semesters of college-level Russian and want to continue exploring their path as Russian language learners. This course is experimental in that it combines elements of traditional language learning with theatricality and creativity. A stress-free learning environment will stimulate language skills and fluency. Staging skits, theatrical pieces, short at first and longer by the end of the semester, will encourage students to focus on phonetics, intonation contour, and idiomatic expressions. In addition to performing skits and short plays, the course includes various forms of improvisation. Reading, listening and speaking - these three essential skills of language learning are constantly practiced. Incorporating theater into language learning not only makes the process enjoyable but also creates a rich, immersive environment that supports language development holistically. Various performative and ludic models, offered by the theater productions -- rehearsed and improvised alike – will help students with shaping a language persona, a skill that students may use in life situations. This skill adds confidence to their conduct of language and allows to communicate effectively with limited linguistic knowledge.
Classes will be conducted primarily in Russian, with sporadic instruction in English when necessary for clarification of assignments or for better understanding of terminology used during mini-lectures.
- Department: Slavic Languages
- W 5:10 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tatiana Mikhailova
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Undergraduate Mentored Research
Prerequisites: the project mentors permission. This course provides a mechanism for students who undertake research with a faculty member from the Department of Statistics to receive academic credit. Students seeking research opportunities should be proactive and entrepreneurial: identify congenial faculty whose research is appealing, let them know of your interest and your background and skills.
- Department: Statistics
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Instructor:
Anne Van Delft
CULPA: 2 h-index: 5 Info - 3 points
Undergraduate Mentored Research
Prerequisites: the project mentors permission. This course provides a mechanism for students who undertake research with a faculty member from the Department of Statistics to receive academic credit. Students seeking research opportunities should be proactive and entrepreneurial: identify congenial faculty whose research is appealing, let them know of your interest and your background and skills.
- Department: Statistics
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Instructor:
Joyce T Robbins
CULPA: 5
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Instructor:
Tian Zheng
CULPA: 13
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Instructor:
Philip Protter
h-index: 50 Info - 1 points
Nazism in Performance
NAZISM IN PERFORMANCE
Explores the cultivation of national and transnational performances as a significant force of National Socialism, at the same time as challenging the notion of "Nazi Theatre" as monolithic formation. The core of the course inquires into the dialectical analysis of artistic creations in diverse art genres, while working towards an understanding of the social dramaturgy of such events as staging the Führer and the racialized body of the priveleged people. Nazism did not harbor ideologies without benefits for the allied nations. Thus, the dynamic performance of transnationalism among the "brothers in arms" will be included as well, in order to elucidate how works of art crossing into the Third Reich were reimagined, sometimes in ways challenging to the presumed values of the state stage. Permission of instructor given at first class meeting.
- Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Hana Worthen
Info - 4 points
INTRODUCTION TO FICTION WRITING
INTRO TO FICTION WRITING
Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
. In this course, we will learn and practice essential concepts and techniques of writing fiction. We’ll break down the elements of the craft—everything from character, setting, and pacing to point of view, syntax, and imagery––and we’ll build an understanding of how stories work. Class time will include exercises and prompts; close reading of a wide range of published stories; discussions of process; and workshops of student stories. Come prepared to work hard, be open, and take risks.
- Department: English @Barnard
- F 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Cleyvis Natera
Info - 3 points
CLIMATE PHYSICS
Climate Physics
This is a calculus-based treatment of climate system physics and the mechanisms of anthropogenic climate change. By the end of this course, students will understand: how solar radiation and rotating fluid dynamics determine the basic climate state, mechanisms of natural variability and change in climate, why anthropogenic climate change is occurring, and which scientific uncertainties are most important to estimates of 21st century change.
This course is designed for undergraduate students seeking a quantitative introduction to climate and climate change science. EESC V2100 (Climate Systems) is not a prerequisite, but can also be taken for credit if it is taken before this course.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Adam H Sobel
CULPA: 6
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THE OTTOMAN PAST IN THE GREEK PRESENT
Almost a century after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, the Ottoman past lives on in contemporary Greece, often in unexpected sites. In the built environment it appears as mosques, baths, covered markets, and fountains adorned with Arabic inscriptions. It also manifests itself in music, food, and language. Yet Ottoman legacies also shape the European present in less obvious ways and generate vehement debates about identity, nation-building, human rights, and interstate relations. In this course, we will be drawing on history, politics, anthropology, and comparative literature as well as a broad range of primary materials to view the Ottoman past through the lens of the Greek present. What understandings of nation-building emerge as more Ottoman archives became accessible to scholars? How does Islamic Family Law—still in effect in Greece—confront the European legal system? How are Ottoman administrative structures re-assessed in the context of acute socio-economic crisis and migration?
- Department: Classics
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dimitris Antoniou
h-index: 5 Info - 3 points
INTRODUCTION TO POETRY WRITING
Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
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Section 1 (taught by Brionne Janae):
Updated course description forthcoming
Section 2 (taught by Farnoosh Fathi):
“In the beginner’s mind, possibilities are many, in the expert’s mind, there are few.” — Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
In this introductory poetry writing workshop, we will cultivate an ardently playful approach to writing, one committed to honoring “beginner’s mind.” Embarrassment, error and amateurism will be embraced as values and fertile grounds (rather than obstructions) for writing.
Together we will explore poetry writing as the pursuit and expression of a liberatory language–the language of our highest attention and freedom– shared between reader and writer.
In addition to workshops, we will alternate between classes centered on formal and thematic studies with others focussed on contemplative practices and the writing process. Formal and revisionary explorations will be guided by the experiments of Bernadette Mayer, Inger Christensen, Dadaists and the Oulipo; by generative varieties of translation as practiced by Mónica de la Torre and Sawako Nagasaku–homophonic and self-translation; the role of inside jokes and an innocent attention to our environment, inspired by Gertrude Stein and Wadih Saadeh.
Drawing on teachings by Corita Kent, art exercises by Kim Beom and Zen Buddhist rituals we will learn contemplative practices that help us create, combine and consider our attention in order to see how receptive, open, beginner’s mind effort, rather than forced determination toward a particular outcome, underpins our deepest work in writing.
- Department: English @Barnard
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Angel Nafis
Info - 3 points
FRENCH NEW WAVE CINEMA
This course traces the emergence and development of “New Wave” cinema in France in the 60s. Through a detailed analysis of some of its most iconic films: 400 Blows, Breathless, Hiroshima mon amour… the course will examine the radical artistic and social innovations of its major “auteurs”; Truffaut, Godard, Resnais et al. FREN BC1204: French Intermediate II or the equivalent level is required.
- Department: French @Barnard
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Anne Boyman
CULPA: 16
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WRITING THE REGIME: LITERATURE AND POLIT
LITERATURE AND POLITICS
What can literature teach us about politics? How can fiction inform our understanding of real life and lived experience? Can literature have an impact on political thought or play a role in shaping the formation of a state? This course will consider such questions through close readings of political theory together with literary texts from around the globe to explore how artists reflect—or reject—ideology and its implementation. Students will learn how to assess artistic responses to political imperatives and, in turn, discuss the implications and influences that art and politics have upon one another. From Plato to Putin, the course will examine concepts such as the nation state, violence, authority, religion, race, gender, and environmental concerns. Students will engage with classic texts as well as lesser-known works to trace the recurrence of political ideas—and anxieties surrounding them—across time, culture, and genre. By the end of the course, students should be able to identify and define specific lines of political thought, as well as the mechanisms of their expression in literary texts.
- Department: Political Science @Barnard
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elaine V Wilson
Info - 3 points
PLAYWRITING II
Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here:
https://english.barnard.edu/english/creative-writing-courses
. What makes a play alive? Often a playwright is surprised into their strongest work. The practices of experimentation and analysis, curiosity and audacity lead to new possibilities. Students will read and respond to plays, identifying elements and strategies, and each week bring in fragments and scenes written in response to weekly prompts. By the middle of the semester, students will choose the piece that feels the most viable and develop it into what in most cases will be a thirty page play. NOTE: Playwriting I (ENGL BC3113) is NOT a prerequisite, and students need not have written a play before.
- Department: English @Barnard
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kathleen Tolan
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points