ELEMENTARY ARMENIAN I

In Elementary Armenian I, students learn the Armenian script and the basic grammar that will enable them to communicate about topics relating to themselves and their immediate surroundings: family, school, daily occupations, describing people, expressing likes and dislikes, requesting and giving information about themselves and others, proper forms of greetings, etc. They also begin to read signs, advertisements, and develop the skills to read texts like short stories and Armenian fables. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Charry Karamanoukian
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• 4 points

INTEN ARMENIAN/HERITAGE SPKRS

ARMENIAN FOR HERITAGE SPEAKERS

Intensive Armenian for Heritage Speakers is an accelerated course for students of Armenian origin who already have basic knowledge of the spoken language and are able to converse on familiar topics relating to themselves and their immediate surroundings. The course will focus on developing their skills in reading, writing, and speaking and Armenian grammar and vocabulary. By the end of the course, students will be able to read, write and discuss simple texts. Placement will be based on an interview and questionnaire about their background. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Charry Karamanoukian
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• 4 points

ADVANCED CONVERSATION I

ADV ITALIAN CONVERSATION I

Prerequisites: ITAL W1222 or sufficient fluency to satisfy the instructor. Corequisites: Recommended: ITAL V3335x-V3336y. Conversation courses may not be used to satisfy the language requirement or fulfill major or concentration requirements. Practice in the spoken language through assigned topics on contemporary Italian culture.

• Department: Italian
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Felice Beneduce
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 2 points

INTRODUCTORY EAR-TRAINING

This course is an introduction to basic skills in sight reading. Instruction includes reading rhythms in simple meter, solfege recitation, and sight-singing simple melodies.

• Department: Music
• MW 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Ramin Amir Arjomand
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 1 points

COMP ELEM PORT I/II-SPAN SPKRS

Prerequisites: knowledge of Spanish or another Romance language. An intensive beginning language course in Brazilian Portuguese with emphasis on Brazilian culture through multimedia materials related to culture and society in contemporary Brazil. Recommended for students who have studied Spanish or another Romance language. The course is the equivalent of two full semesters of elementary Portuguese with stress on reading and conversing, and may be taken in place of PORT W1101-W1102. For students unable to dedicate the time needed cover two semesters in one, the regularly paced sequence PORT W1101-W1102 is preferable.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• TR 10:10 a.m.-noon
• MW 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jose A Castellanos-Pazos
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 4 points

Losing My Religion

The R.E.M. lead singer Michael Stipe explained that the phrase “losing my religion” in the song of the same title does not refer to what we might commonly understand by “religion.” Rather it cites the expression used in the Southern U.S. for losing one’s temper, feeling frustrated, exasperated, and desperate. The loss present in John Legend and Common’s song “Glory” from the movie
Selma
are the lives lost to the unattenuated history of racist violence and in the struggle against structural white supremacy. In this context, for Blacks “freedom is like religion.”
Like
religion. Even if the song does not shy away from Christian theological tropes, “religion” here too remains elusive. Living through a major global pandemic as we are (although arguably, racism and capitalism are also ongoing—albeit mostly unacknowledged—global pandemics), we are witnessing the losses attributable to Covid-19 precipitating changing practices and rituals of marking losses, mourning, and building community in the present. Apart from impacting practices that we generally term “religious,” loss and living with losses also reveal what may have been our individual and collective “religion” lost and what may emerge as the “religions” we hew to newly or nonetheless. In this course we will explore how various meanings of “religion” might offer us conceptual tools for thinking about loss, community, and damaged life. We will examine how religious practices change in relation to losses and reflect on losses of religion both personally (e.g., because one’s hitherto familiar value system breaks down) and collectively (e.g., the forced conversions and suppression of religious traditions by colonialism). We will track how loss and rituals surrounding loss can change how history, time, space, and meaning are experienced. We will ask what if anything comes after or alongside loss, especially given the perdurance of loss that is brought about by centuries of systemic violence. Given the circumstances of our moment, we will also take time to reflect on the (hopefully only temporary) loss of face-to-face communal learning in a shared classroom and what new rituals of virtual learning mean for building communities and relating to others and the world. Rather than trying to settle on definitive answers, this course will cultivate a process of open-ended collective inquiry in which students will be encou

• Department: Religion
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Yannik Thiem
  h-index: 1 Info
• 3 points

MODERN I

Open to all beginning dancers.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 9 a.m.-10 a.m.
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Caroline Fermin
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• Instructor: Caitlin Trainor
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 0-1 points

MODERN II

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Caitlin Trainor
  CULPA: 11 Info
• Instructor: Gabri Christa
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 0-1 points

INTRO TO EAST ASIAN CIV: CHINA

Prerequisites: NOTE:Students must register for a discussion section, ASCE UN1360 The evolution of Chinese civilization from ancient times to the 20th century, with emphasis on characteristic institutions and traditions.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Dongxin Zou
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• 4 points

INTRO-E ASIAN CIV:CHINA-DISC

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• T 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• R 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• T 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• R 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• T 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• R 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sally M Greenland
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• 0 points

Science and Society

This course uses a seminar discussion format to examine the relationship between science and society from numerous perspectives, with examples from many fields of science, mostly biology and medicine, including the Covid-19 pandemic. We welcome undergraduates from all classes who are concentrating in any field: the natural and social sciences, humanities, or the arts. There are no prerequisites, other than an interest in how the scientific enterprise works and interacts with other components of our society.   The course addresses a wide array of topics, such as: why do people choose a scientific career? why do governments and other funders support scientific work? how does science fail? why is there widespread skepticism about science? how is it represented in the arts? how are results disseminated, evaluated, and legally protected? Assignments-- mainly short articles (from newspapers and journals) and book chapters, but also a few films and novels --will be provided for each class, and every student will undertake a term project of their own choosing, with oral and written presentations, after consultations with the instructor.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Harold Varmus
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• 3 points

INTRO EAST ASIAN CIV: JPN

Prerequisites: NOTE: Students must register for a discussion section ASCE UN1371 A survey of important events and individuals, prominent literary and artistic works, and recurring themes in the history of Japan, from prehistory to the 20th century.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul Kreitman
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

INTRO EAST ASIAN CIV: TIBET

This course seeks to introduce the sweep of Tibetan civilization and its history from its earliest recorded origins to the present. The course examines what civilizational forces shaped Tibet, especially the contributions of Indian Buddhism, sciences and literature, but also Chinese statecraft and sciences. Alongside the chronological history of Tibet, we will explore aspects of social life and culture.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Lauran Hartley
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• 4 points

INTRO EA CIV: VIETNAM

Corequisites: ASCE UN1377 This course provides a survey of Vietnamese civilization from prehistoric origins to the French colonization in the 19th century, with special emphasis on the rise and development of independent kingship over the 2nd millennium CE. We begin by exploring ethnolinguistic diversity of the Red River plain over the first millenium BCE, culminating in the material bronze culture known as the Dong Son. We then turn towards the introduction of high sinitic culture, and the region's long membership within successive Chinese empires. We pay special attention to the rise of an independent state out of the crumbling Tang Dynasty, and the specific nation-building effects of war with the Mongols and the Ming Dynasty, in the 14th and 15th centuries respectively. Our class ends with the French colonization of the region, and the dramatic cultural and intellectual transformations that were triggered as a result. Our course will interrogate Vietnamese culture as a protean object, one that is defined and redefined at virtually every level, throughout a history marked by foreign interest, influence, and invasion.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: John D Phan
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

INTRO EAST ASIAN CIV:JAPAN-DIS

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• W 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• R 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• R 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• F 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• F 11:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Jason G Butters
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• 0 points

INTRO EAST ASIAN CIV:TIBET-DIS

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• M 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• M 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• F 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Yuyuan Liu
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INTRO EAST ASIAN CIV-VIETNAM DISC

Corequisites: ASCE UN1367 Required discussion section to be taken with ASCE W 1367 - Intro to East Asian Civilizations: Vietnam.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• F 11:10 a.m.-noon
• F 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• R 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• R 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Albert E Errickson
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• 0 points

COLLOQUIUM ON MAJOR TEXTS

Readings in translation and discussion of texts of Middle Eastern and Indian origin. Readings may include the Quran, Islamic philosophy, Sufi poetry, the Upanishads, Buddhist sutras, the Bhagavad Gita, Indian epics and drama, and Gandhis Autobiography.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Sarah Bin Tyeer
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 1 Info
• Instructor: Nathanael P Shelley
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

COLLOQUIUM ON MAJOR TEXTS

This course explores the core classical literature in Chinese, Japanese and Korean Humanities. The main objective of the course is to discover the meanings that these literature offer, not just for the original audience or for the respective cultures, but for us. As such, it is not a survey or a lecture-based course. Rather than being taught what meanings are to be derived from the texts, we explore meanings together, informed by in-depth reading and thorough ongoing discussion.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: John D Phan
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Ye Yuan
  h-index: 13 Info
• Instructor: Allison E Bernard
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Chung-Wei Yang
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• 4 points

DINOSAUR & HISTORY OF LIFE-LEC

Prerequisites: Recommended preparation: basic high school science and math. Dinosaurs: a spectacular example of a common, highly successful form of life, dominant for 135 million years. Where did they come from? Why were they so successful? Why did they die out? … or did they? A basic introduction to the historical sciences and the  interface between geology and biology.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul E Olsen
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia h-index: 71 Info
• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN HISTORY TO 1865

INTRO AM HIST TO 1865

Themes include Native and colonial cultures and politics, the evolution of American political and economic institutions, relationships between religious and social movements, and connecting ideologies of race and gender with larger processes such as enslavement, dispossession, and industrialization.

• Department: History @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew C Lipman
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

ELEMENTARY SANSKRIT I

This course constitutes the first half of a year-long introduction to Classical Sanskrit, the translocal language of religious, intellectual, and literary life in South Asia for nearly two millennia. Assuming no prior experience with the language, this introductory sequence provides students with the grammar, reading strategies, and cultural context necessary to begin accessing the language’s many rich textual traditions, including scripture (sruti), epic (itihasa), poetry (kavya), drama (na?aka), systematic thought (sastra), and more.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MTWR 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Jay Ramesh
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• 4 points

BASSOON INSTRUCTION

Prerequisites: Audition Required: Sign up for an audition time on MPP website: mpp.music.columbia.edu Prerequisites: Accepting NEW STUDENTS in FALL semester ONLY. $300 MUSIC LESSON FEE FOR ALL STUDENTS. All accepted MPP students must register for lessons and ensembles by the change-of-program deadline in order to be allowed to attend lessons that semester. Petitioning students must notify MPP staff prior to this deadline. Contact Music Performance Program at mpp@columbia.edu Please sign up for an audition time on MPP website in August: mpp.music.columbia.edu

• Department: Music
• Instructor: Mark Timmerman
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• 1 points

INTRO TO MECHANICS & THERMO

Corequisites: MATH UN1101 Fundamental laws of mechanics, kinematics and dynamics, work and energy, rotational dynamics, oscillations, gravitation, fluids, temperature and heat, gas laws, the first and second laws of thermodynamics. Corequisite: MATH UN1101 or the equivalent.

• Department: Physics
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Jeremy R Dodd
  CULPA: 25 Info
• Instructor: Tanya Zelevinsky
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

EARTH, MOON, AND PLANETS

Prerequisites: recommended preparation: a working knowledge of high school algebra. The overall architecture of the solar system. Motions of the celestial sphere. Time and the calendar. Major planets, the earth-moon system, minor planets, comets. Life in the solar system and beyond. This course is similar to ASTR BC 1753. You cannot enroll in both courses and receive credit for both.

• Department: Astronomy
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: James H Applegate
  CULPA: 44 Info
• 3 points

GENERAL CHEMISTRY I-LECTU

Corequisites: MATH UN1101 Preparation equivalent to one year of high school chemistry is assumed. Students lacking such preparation should plan independent study of chemistry over the summer or take CHEM UN0001 before taking CHEM UN1403. Topics include stoichiometry, states of matter, nuclear properties, electronic structures of atoms, periodic properties, chemical bonding, molecular geometry, introduction to quantum mechanics and atomic theory, introduction to organic and biological chemistry, solid state and materials science, polymer science and macromolecular structures and coordination chemistry. Although CHEM UN1403 and CHEM UN1404 are separate courses, students are expected to take both terms sequentially. The order of presentation of topics may differ from the order presented here, and from year to year. Students must ensure they register for the recitation that corresponds to the lecture section. When registering, please add your name to the wait list for the recitation corresponding to the lecture section (1405 for lecture sec 001; 1407 for lecture sec 002; 1409 for lecture sec 003; 1411 for lecture sec 004).  Information about recitation registration will be sent out before classes begin.  DO NOT EMAIL THE INSTRUCTOR. Please check the Directory of Classes for details.

• Department: Chemistry
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Gerard F Parkin
  CULPA: 30 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Xavier Roy
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 31 Info
• Instructor: Ruben M Savizky
  CULPA: 22 Info
• Instructor: Robert Beer
  CULPA: 22 Info
• 4 points

CELLO INSTRUCTION

Prerequisites: Audition Required: Sign up for an audition time on MPP website: mpp.music.columbia.edu Prerequisites: Accepting NEW STUDENTS in FALL semester ONLY. $300 MUSIC LESSON FEE FOR ALL STUDENTS. All accepted MPP students must register for lessons and ensembles by the change-of-program deadline in order to be allowed to attend lessons that semester. Petitioning students must notify MPP staff prior to this deadline. Contact Music Performance Program at mpp@columbia.edu Please sign up for an audition time on MPP website: mpp.music.columbia.edu

• Department: Music
• Instructor: Eliot Bailen
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• Instructor: James H Wilson
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• Instructor: Wendy Sutter
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• 1 points

INTRO-CLASSCL & QUANTUM WAVES

Prerequisites: PHYS UN1402 PHYS W1402. Corequisites: MATH V1201 or the equivalent. Classical waves and the wave equation, Fourier series and integrals, normal modes, wave-particle duality, the uncertainty principle, basic principles of quantum mechanics, energy levels, reflection and transmission coefficients, applications to atomic physics.

• Department: Physics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Charles J Hailey
  CULPA: 42 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

EMERGING SCHOLARS PROG SEMINAR

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Corequisites: COMS W1002 or COMS W1004 or COMS W1007 Corequisites: COMS W1004,COMS W1007,COMS W1002 Peer-led weekly seminar intended for first and second year undergraduates considering a major in Computer Science. Pass/fail only. May not be used towards satisfying the major or SEAS credit requirements.

• Department: Computer Science
• F 8:30 a.m.-9:45 a.m.
• F 10 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
• F 11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
• F 1 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
• F 2:30 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
• F 4 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
• F 9:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
• F 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• F 12:30 p.m.-1:45 p.m.
• F 2 p.m.-3:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Adam H Cannon
  CULPA: 81 Info
• 1 points

INTERMEDIATE SANSKRIT I

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Jay Ramesh
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• 4 points

INTRO TO MECH & THERMO - REC

• Department: Physics
• M 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• M 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• T 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• T 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• W 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• T 7:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• T 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• T 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• T 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• W 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• W 7:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeremy R Dodd
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 0 points

GENERAL CHEMISTRY I - REC

Corequisites: CHEM UN1403 Recitation section for Chemistry UN1403GENERAL CHEMISTRY I-LECTURESTO BE ENROLLED IN 1403, YOU MUST REGISTER. FOR 1405

• Department: Chemistry
• M 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• M 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• M 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• M 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• M 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• T 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• W 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• W 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• W 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• R 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• F 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Gerard F Parkin
  CULPA: 30 Wikipedia Info
• 0 points

CLARINET INSTRUCTION

Prerequisites: Audition Required: Sign up for an audition time on MPP website: mpp.music.columbia.edu Prerequisites: Audition Required: Sign up for an audition time on MPP website: mpp.music.columbia.edu Accepting NEW STUDENTS in FALL semester ONLY. $300 MUSIC LESSON FEE FOR ALL STUDENTS. All accepted MPP students must register for lessons and ensembles by the change-of-program deadline in order to be allowed to attend lessons that semester. Petitioning students must notify MPP staff prior to this deadline. Contact Music Performance Program at mpp@columbia.edu

• Department: Music
• Instructor: Allen M Blustine
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• 1 points

GENERAL CHEMISTRY I - REC

• Department: Chemistry
• T 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• T 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• T 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• T 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• T 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• R 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Xavier Roy
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 31 Info
• 0 points