Professional Development
MBTI Comm & Teamwork
Using the MBTI to Enhance Communication & Teamwork:
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a well-known personality assessment instrument widely administered worldwide in organizational and workplace settings. It does not measure skills or aptitudes but personality preferences – the qualities that combine to make us unique individuals. In this 1-session course, students will learn the benefits of using the MBTI in professional settings and developing self-awareness of preferred decision-making, problem-solving, and relating to others. Interactive exercises will also promote understanding and insight into the preferences of those who share styles dissimilar to ours. Understanding your MBTI profile will enable you to appreciate important personality differences and mesh with the complexities of diverse organizational cultures.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jodi L Caplan
Info - 0.2 points
Music, Sound and Image Theory
Some of the most exciting theoretical moving image work in recent years has centered on the problem of the acoustic sign in cinema and especially around the relation between image track and sound “track.” This course rethinks the history and theory of cinema from the point of view of sound: effects, dialogue, music. From cinematic sound recording and play-back technologies through Dolby sound enhancement and contemporary digital audio experiments. Revisiting basic theoretical concepts from the pov of sound: realism (sound perspective, dubbing), anti-realism (contrapuntal and dissonant effects), genre (the leitmotiv), perception (the synaesthetic effect). The silent to sound divide considered relative to the *19th* century Romanticism of the classical Hollywood score associated with the Viennese-trained Max Steiner to the scores of John Williams.
- Department: Film
- R 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- T 10:10 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
- 3 points
Workshop in Gender and Sexuality II
Work Gender and Sexuality
The Gender/Sexuality Workshop is a forum for Ph.D. students interested in social science topics broadly related to gender and sexuality. In particular, it will provide an opportunity for students share and refine their own works in progress by getting feedback from other students in the workshop. The workshop is geared towards students conducting empirical work, from ethnographies and interview-based projects to archival research to other kinds of critical quantitative work that attempts to theorize gender/sexuality. We will take an expansive view of gender and sexuality as a mode of classifying people and a structure that organizes social life, including work that uses gender/sexuality as a lens to interrogate other social structures such as empire, capitalism, science and knowledge, states and governance, and more. The G/S Workshop will meet biweekly (every other week) over the course of Spring 2025.
- Department: Sociology
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tara Gonsalves
Info - 2 points
ARCH ELECTIVE INTERNSHIP
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Karen Cover
Info - 1.5 points
ELECTROPHYS OF HUM MEMORY * NAVIGATION
ELECTROPHYS OF HUM MEM&NV
Human memory, including working, episodic, and procedural memory. Electrophysiology of cognition, noninvasive and invasive recordings. Neural basis of spatial navigation, with links to spatial and episodic memory. Computational models of memory, brain stimulation, lesion studies.
- Department: Biomedical Engineering
- M 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Joshua Jacobs
Wikipedia h-index: 31 Info - 3 points
Legal Chinese
Legal Chinese is designed for students who have studied at least three years of Chinese (or the equivalent) and are interested in legal studies concerning China. This course offers systematic descriptions of Chinese language used in legal discourse, its vocabulary, syntactic structures and pragmatic functions.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- MWR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tianqi Jiang
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
PROGRM & DATA SCNC SKILLS
- Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- 3 points
SENIOR SEMINAR
Intensive study of a philosophical issue or topic, or of a philosopher, group of philosophers, or philosophical school or movement. Open only to Barnard senior philosophy majors.
- Department: Philosophy @Barnard
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Christopher P Prodoehl
Info - 4 points
Introduction to Particle Physics
INTRO TO PARTICLE PHYSICS
Prerequisites: PHYS UN2601 or PHYS UN2802 or the equivalent. This course covers the Standard Model of Particle Physics, including it conception, successes, and limitations, with the goal of introducing upper-level physics majors to the foundations and current status of particle physics as a field of research. Specific topics to be covered include: historical introduction and review of the Standard Model; particle interactions and particle dynamics; relativistic kinematics; Feynman calculus, quantum electrodynamics, quantum chromodynamics, and weak interactions; electroweak unification and the Higgs mechanism; neutrino oscillations; and beyond-standard model physics and evidence. Along the way, students will research special topics and familiarize themselves with particle physics research.
- Department: Physics
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Brian Cole
CULPA: 23
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- 3 points
UP ELECT INTERNSHIP
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Douglas Woodward
Info - 1.5 points
US WATER & ENERGY POLICY
Course Summary: Water, one of humankind’s first power sources, remains critically important to the task of maintaining a sustainable energy supply, in the United States and elsewhere. Conversely, the need to provide safe drinking water and keep America’s rivers clean cannot be met without access to reliable energy supplies. As the impact of climate disruption and other resource constraints begins to mount, the water/energy nexus is growing increasingly complex and conflict-prone. Essential Connections begins by examining the development of America’s water and energy policies over the past century and how such policies helped to shape present-day environmental law and regulation. Our focus then turns to the current state of US water and energy resources and policy, covering issues such as oil and gas exploration, nuclear energy, hydroelectric power and renewables. We also examine questions of inclusion and equity in connection with the ways in which communities allocate their water and energy resources and burdens along racial, ethnic and socioeconomic lines. The third and final section of the course addresses the prospects for establishing water and energy policies that can withstand climate disruption, scarcity and, perhaps most importantly, America’s seemingly endless appetite for political dysfunction. By semester’s end, students will better understand the state of America’s energy and water supply systems and current efforts to cope with depletion, climate change and related threats affecting these critical, highly-interdependent systems. As a final project, students will utilize the knowledge gained during the semester to create specific proposals for preserving and enhancing the sustainability of US water and energy resources.
- Department: Earth Institute
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Paul A Gallay
Info - 3 points
Effective Global Leadership for Economic
Effective Global Leadership II
These two-part mid-career global leadership development courses (1.5 credit course in the summer and spring) provide intensive, collaborative, and highly interactive hands-on instruction, constructive evaluation, and ample opportunities to transform theory into practice. It utilizes cutting-edge, research-based methodologies and customized case studies to build the next generation of leaders that turn differences into opportunities, ideas into solutions, and knowledge into action. Students will acquire a variety of leadership skills in global contexts, including cross-cultural negotiation strategies, consensus building, collaborative facilitation, persuasion, inclusionary leadership, design-thinking-based problem-solving techniques, and public speaking in knowledge-intensive industries. They will gain a competitive edge in their professional careers by participating in a variety of simulation games, role-playing exercises, and mock public policy panels to apply the skills they have learned and receive valuable feedback.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- F 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
- 1.5 points
DRAWING
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Danielle S Smoller
Info - 3 points
SENIOR ESSAY
A substantial paper, developing from an Autumn workshop and continuing into the Spring under the direction of an individual adviser. Open only to Barnard senior philosophy majors.
- Department: Philosophy @Barnard
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Instructor:
Taylor Carman
CULPA: 40
Wikipedia
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John Morrison
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Instructor:
Akeel Bilgrami
CULPA: 28 Wikipedia Info - 3 points
INTRO TO ALGEBRAIC TOPOLOGY
Prerequisites: MATH UN2010 and MATH GU4041 and MATH GU4051 The study of topological spaces from algebraic properties, including the essentials of homology and the fundamental group. The Brouwer fixed point theorem. The homology of surfaces. Covering spaces.
- Department: Mathematics
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Soren Galatius
Info - 3 points
ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONTEMP ITALY
This seminar examines ways in which Italy is understood and represented by Italians and non-Italians. It will analyze the formation of multiple discourses on Italy, how Italian culture and society are imagined, represented and/or distorted. Based on an anthropological perspective, this course will examine ways in which we can understand Italy through the intersections of pluralism, ethnicity, gender, and religion. The course will study how Italy strives for political and economic unity, while there is a concurrent push toward inequality, exclusion, and marginalization. Moreover, the course will analyze the revitalization of nationalism on one hand of regionalism on the other, and will focus on the concepts of territory, identity, and tradition. Short videos that can be watched on computer and alternative readings for those fluent in Italian will be assigned. There are no pre-requisites for this course.
- Department: Italian
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Barbara Faedda
Info - 3 points
MECHATRONICS & EMBEDDED MICRO
Enrollment limited to 12 students. Mechatronics is the application of electronics and microcomputers to control mechanical systems. Systems explored include on/off systems, solenoids, stepper motors, DC motors, thermal systems, magnetic levitation. Use of analog and digital electronics and various sensors for control. Programming microcomputers in Assembly and C. Lab required.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
- R 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Enrico Zordan
h-index: 5 Info - 3 points
INTRO MODERN ANALYSIS I
Prerequisites: MATH UN1202 or the equivalent, and MATH UN2010. The second term of this course may not be taken without the first. Real numbers, metric spaces, elements of general topology, sequences and series, continuity, differentiation, integration, uniform convergence, Ascoli-Arzela theorem, Stone-Weierstrass theorem.
- Department: Mathematics
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Julien Dubedat
CULPA: 4 Info - 3 points
INTRO MODERN ANALYSIS II
The second term of this course may not be taken without the first. Power series, analytic functions, Implicit function theorem, Fubini theorem, change of variables formula, Lebesgue measure and integration, function spaces.
- Department: Mathematics
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Francesco Lin
Info - 3 points
SPATIAL DATA NARRATIVES
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- W 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
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Instructor:
Josh Begley
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
Hydropolitics in Madagascar
Hydropolitics: GIS approa
GIS course with training in landscape analysis, digital mapping and web-based presentations of geospatial data. We will draw on archaeological and historical evidence, aerial photographs and satellite imagery to map and explore the history and politics of the irrigated landscape around Madagascar’s capital city. We will critically assess what different mapping techniques offer, and what kind of narratives they underpin or foreclose upon.
- Department: Anthropology
- F noon-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
Zoe Crossland
CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info - 4 points
TOPICS IN THE BLACK EXPERIENCE
Please refer to Institute for African American and African Diaspora Studies Department for section-by-section course descriptions.
- Department: African American and African Diaspora
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jafari S Allen
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Vivaldi Jean-Marie
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Anthony Johnson
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Instructor:
Nyle Fort
Info - 4 points
TOPICS IN THE BLACK EXPERIENCE
AFAM PROPHETIC TRADITION
Please refer to Institute for African American and African Diaspora Studies Department for section-by-section course descriptions.
- Department: African American and African Diaspora
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Obery Hendricks
Wikipedia Info - 4 points
TOPICS IN THE BLACK EXPERIENCE
Please refer to Institute for African American and African Diaspora Studies Department for section-by-section course descriptions.
- Department: African American and African Diaspora
- M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Veronique Charles
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Samiya Bashir
Wikipedia Info - 4 points
HP ELECT INTERNSHIP
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Sarahgrace Godwin
Info - 1.5 points
ANCIENT AND MODERN RNA WORLDS
Ancient and Modern RNA Wo
RNA has recently taken center stage with the discovery that RNA molecules sculpt the landscape and information contained within our genomes. Furthermore, some ancient RNA molecules combine the roles of both genotype and phenotype into a single molecule. These multi-tasking RNAs offering a possible solution to the paradox of which came first: DNA or proteins. This seminar explores the link between modern RNA, metabolism, and insights into a prebiotic RNA world that existed some 3.8 billion years ago. Topics include the origin of life, replication, and the origin of the genetic code; conventional, new, and bizarre forms of RNA processing; structure, function and evolution of key RNA molecules, including the ribosome, and RNA therapeutics including vaccines. The format will be weekly seminar discussions with presentations. Readings will be taken from the primary literature, emphasizing seminal and recent literature. Requirements will be student presentations, class participation, and a final paper.
- Department: Biological Sciences
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Laura Landweber
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
INTRO-DIFFERENTIABLE MANIFOLDS
Prerequisites: (MATH GU4051 or MATH GU4061) and MATH UN2010 Concept of a differentiable manifold. Tangent spaces and vector fields. The inverse function theorem. Transversality and Sards theorem. Intersection theory. Orientations. Poincare-Hopf theorem. Differential forms and Stokes theorem.
- Department: Mathematics
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Sven Hirsch
Info - 3 points
Rebel Literature: Politics and the Novel
“Quand on refuse, on dit non”, said Ivorian novelist Ahmadou Kourouma towards the end of his life. Taking this stance as a starting point, this seminar will explore, through the lens of the novel, major political upheavals in the Francophone world during the 1950s, 60s and 70s. We will shed light on the history of decolonization, May 68, the feminist movement, and struggles against racism and injustice by delving into the imaginary worlds of six leading francophone novelists: Marguerite Duras, Ahmadou Kourouma, Assia Djebar, Hélène Cixous, George Perec and Édouard Glissant.
- Department: French
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Emmanuel Kattan
Info - 3 points
Medieval Religion: definitions and conce
MEDIEVAL RELIGION: DEF &
In this course, the concept of religion stands at the heart of our exploration, as it shaped and was shaped by the medieval world. We will critically engage with definitions and interpretations of religion, both as a subject of scholarly debate in the study of religions and as a pivotal force in medieval history. The course will examine how Christianity, Judaism, and Islam were not only systems of belief but also comprehensive frameworks that structured medieval society, politics, and intellectual life. Through an analysis of religious texts, practices, and institutions, we will explore how religion was lived and understood in the Middle Ages, while also addressing broader theoretical debates in the history of religion. This approach invites us to reflect on the historical construction of "religion" as a category and its relevance in shaping our understanding of the medieval world.
- Department: History
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Benedicte Sere
Info - 4 points
Medieval Religion: definitions and conce
MEDIEVAL RELIGION: DEF &
In this course, the concept of religion stands at the heart of our exploration, as it shaped and was shaped by the medieval world. We will critically engage with definitions and interpretations of religion, both as a subject of scholarly debate in the study of religions and as a pivotal force in medieval history. The course will examine how Christianity, Judaism, and Islam were not only systems of belief but also comprehensive frameworks that structured medieval society, politics, and intellectual life. Through an analysis of religious texts, practices, and institutions, we will explore how religion was lived and understood in the Middle Ages, while also addressing broader theoretical debates in the history of religion. This approach invites us to reflect on the historical construction of "religion" as a category and its relevance in shaping our understanding of the medieval world.
- Department: Auditing
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Benedicte Sere
Info - 0 points
GEODYNAMICS
An introduction to how the Earth and planets work. The focus is on physical processes that control plate tectonics and the evolution of planetary interiors and surfaces; analytical descriptions of these processes; weekly physical model demonstrations.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
W R Buck
CULPA: 1 h-index: 43 Info - 3 points
ETHNOBOTANY:STUDY-PEOPLE/PLANT
- Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
- 3 points
NATIVE AMERICAN ART
This course looks closely at objects and images produced by Native North Americans across history. Grounding our study in essays and guest lectures from Native scholars, we will investigate the significance of the works and how and to whom meaning is communicated. Beginning with an introduction that links aesthetics and worldview using the conventional organizing principle of the culture area, we quickly move on to case studies that take up key issues that persist for Native people living under settler colonialism today, including questions of sovereignty, self-expression, transformation and representation. Along the way, we will also tackle historiographic questions about how knowledge about Native art has been produced in universities and museums and how Indigenous people have worked to counter those discourses.
- Department: Art History @Barnard
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth Hutchinson
CULPA: 9 Info - 3 points
NANOTECHNOLOGY
The science and engineering of creating materials, functional structures and devices on the nanometer scale. Carbon nanotubes, nanocrystals, quantum dots, size dependent properties, self-assembly, nanostructured materials. Devices and applications, nanofabrication. Molecular engineering, bionanotechnology. Imaging and manipulating at the atomic scale. Nanotechnology in society and industry. Offered in alternate years.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
- None None-None
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Instructor:
Yuan Yang
h-index: 49 Info - 3 points
Early Greek Philosophy
The course offers an advanced introduction to key thinkers in Early Greek Philosophy, including Thales, Xenophanes, Parmenides, Melissus, Heraclitus, Anaxagoras, the atomists Leucippus and Democritus, and Protagoras. Early Greek philosophers asked questions about appearances and reality, nature, the human capacity to gain knowledge, perception, disagreement, and the different ways of life that people consider “natural.” They formulate arguments of perennial interest on what should be considered fundamental, whether motion can only be explained if there is void, the nature of knowledge, and whether relativism is compelling. The class is inspired by recent research that addresses this period and novel questions that have emerged.
- Department: Philosophy
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Katja Vogt
CULPA: 36
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- 3 points
DANTE'S DIVINA COMMEDIA 2
- Department: Italian
- TR 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Teodolinda Barolini
CULPA: 7
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- 4 points
DANTE'S DIVINA COMMEDIA 2
DANTE'S DIVINA COMMEDIA 2-ENG
- Department: Italian
- TR 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Teodolinda Barolini
CULPA: 7
Wikipedia
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- 4 points
RES SEM IN BIOMED INFORMATICS
Prerequisite: open to public. Presentations by medical informatics faculty and invited international speakers in medical informatics, computer science, nursing informatics, library science, and related fields.
- Department: Biomedical Informatics
- M 1 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sarah A Rossetti
Info - 1 points
Independent Study in Nursing
INDEPENDENT STUDY IN NURS
Provides an opportunity for students to engage in independent study in an area of interest. A mentor is assigned.
- Department: Nursing
- 0-8 points
Slavery and Freedom in Latin America
Slavery & Freedom in Lat.
This course focuses on the long history of slavery and the many meanings of freedom in Latin America. We will trace the institution’s origins in the sixteenth century through its eventual abolition in the 19th, from Spanish Florida to South America and numerous places in between. In the process, we will compare how enslaved people across the region understood, challenged, and survived their condition, in rural agricultural settings, urban centers, and private households. We will also examine the role of gender, sexuality, religious practice, and legal systems in shaping the lived experiences of enslaved people as well as the kinds of opportunities they were able to carve out for themselves and their loved ones.
Course readings will draw from primary sources and historical scholarship related to a range of relevant topics, as well as a vast visual and artistic corpus including watercolors, portraits, films, television programs, and modern advertising campaigns.
This course is intended for both advanced undergraduates and graduate students. Graduate students will occasionally consult additional readings or materials each week and submit an 18- to 20-page paper at the end of the term.
- Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tamara Walker
Info - 4 points
Partitions, Borders, Camps
This seminar turns a lens on partitions, borders, and camps. Whereas these iconic forms have been studied most often through legal, policy, or social science lenses, we will consider them conceptually, aesthetically, and historically as complex practices of architectural formmaking in the long twentieth century. The partition, the border, and the camp can each be understood as a legal and territorial concept, a symbolic and aesthetic marker of violent land demarcation, a material environment, and an intersection of spatial practices. Through careful readings and discussion, we will look closely at each as an illumination of irreducible entanglements between politics and aesthetics, and sensible expressions of colonial practices that persist in the built environment.
In this course, students examine histories of partitions from Ireland to Somalia to Pakistan, and their reification as borders. Understanding partition as a
concept
and a
process
rather than a determinate end, the course examines histories of built environments that create the illusion of determinacy by reinforcing territorial markers: whether through large intentional projects, for example, the construction of a new state capital at Chandigarh in India, or unstated means, for example, the responsive humanitarian or detention architectures of camps at borders in Palestine and East Africa. The course will examine the robust discourse on the materialities of borders, thinking beyond the construction of walls to sometimes obscured forms of spatial anchoring across divides, for example, mediatic traversals, animal crossings, or the work of crowds. The course examines histories of camps, from the concentration technologies used during the Spanish American War in Cuba and the Boer War in South Africa in the nineteenth century to twenty-first century ephemeral environments enabling people to crystallize forms of dissidence, whether at Wall street in New York or Shaheen Bagh in Delhi. We analyze processes by which the refugee camp enclosure racializes, genders, sexualizes, and controls bodies, precipitating a self-partitioning by asylum seekers in the performance of vulnerability. Although the constructed environments of camps serve as repositories of power, regardless of their purpose (and regardless of their orientation toward control or care—for example, whether made to confine migrants or to shelter refugees), they are iconic for their impermanence, and it is precisely their partial persistence that establishes them as ep
- Department: Architecture @Barnard
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Anooradha I Siddiqi
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
EARTHQUAKE & WIND ENGINEERING
Basic concepts of seismology. Earthquake characteristics, magnitude, response spectrum, dynamic response of structures to ground motion. Base isolation and earthquake-resistant design. Wind loads and aeroelastic instabilities. Extreme winds. Wind effects on structures and gust factors.
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
- T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
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- 3 points
Survey of Greek Literature
This course provides a survey of Greek literature. It aims to improve students’ reading skills, familiarize them with some of the most canonical works of Greek literature, afford them a sense of Greek literary history, and introduce them to modern methodological approaches. Readings are drawn from the Classics Ph.D. reading list.
- Department: Classics
- MW 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
CULPA: 20
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Survey of Latin Literature
This course provides a survey of Latin literature. It aims to improve students’ reading skills, familiarize them with some of the most canonical works of Latin literature, afford them a sense of Latin literary history, and introduce them to modern methodological approaches. Readings are drawn from the Classics Ph.D. reading list.
- Department: Classics
- MW 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Katharina Volk
CULPA: 7
Info
- 4 points
BIOL-NEUROL & PSYCH DISORDERS
- Department: Neurobiology and Behavior
- T 4 p.m.-6 p.m.
- 3 points
(Y)OUR LONGER LIFE
People are living 30 years longer than we did 100 years ago. We have created a whole new stage of life. How do we prepare to benefit from our longer lives? What can you do in your own life? This course explores the personal, population, community, and societal dimensions of our now-longer lives, of aging itself, and the role of health and societal design in the experience of aging. The course examines the meaning of aging and the attendant expectations, myths, fears, and realities. The course examines an aging society as a public health success, the potential for building health futures, the health plan you want to be healthy in old age, and the potential for longer lives and how we unlock it. It addresses the roles public health currently plays and can play in shaping a society for an aging population. The course explores how a public health system—indeed, a society—optimized for an aging population stands to benefit all. The course also examines the physical, cognitive, and psychological aspects of aging, the exposures across our lives that affect these, the attributes and challenges of aging, keys to successful aging, and aging around the globe. The culminating project will design elements of our society that are needed to support the opportunity of having longer lives. This course comprises lectures, class discussions, individual assignments, in-class case activities, and a group project in which students shall take an active role. You will be responsible for regular preparatory assignments, writing assignments, one group project, and attending course sessions. Please note: GSAS students must receive permission from their department before registering for this course.
- Department: Columbia College
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dana March
CULPA: 8
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- 3 points
SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT
This course will begin by clearly defining what sustainability management is and determining if a sustainable economy is actually feasible. Students will learn to connect environmental protection to organizational management by exploring the technical, financial, managerial, and political challenges of effectively managing a sustainable environment and economy. This course is taught in a case-based format and will seek to help students learn the basics of management, environmental policy and sustainability economics. Sustainability management matters because we only have one planet, and we must learn how to manage our organizations in a way that ensures that the health of our planet can be maintained and bettered. This course is designed to introduce students to the field of sustainability management. It is not an academic course that reviews the literature of the field and discusses how scholars thing about the management of organizations that are environmentally sound. It is a practical course organized around the core concepts of sustainability.
- Department: Sustainability Management
- R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Howard N Apsan
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
APPL MATH III:DYNAMICAL SYSTMS
An introduction to the analytic and geometric theory of dynamical systems; basic existence, uniqueness and parameter dependence of solutions to ordinary differential equations; constant coefficient and parametrically forced systems; Fundamental solutions; resonance; limit points, limit cycles and classification of flows in the plane (Poincare-Bendixson Therem); conservative and dissipative systems; linear and nonlinear stability analysis of equilibria and periodic solutions; stable and unstable manifolds; bifurcations, e.g. Andronov-Hopf; sensitive dependence and chaotic dynamics; selected applications.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Xuenan Li
Info - 3 points
APPL MATH III:DYNAMICAL SYSTMS
APPL MATH III;DYNAMICAL SYSTMS
An introduction to the analytic and geometric theory of dynamical systems; basic existence, uniqueness and parameter dependence of solutions to ordinary differential equations; constant coefficient and parametrically forced systems; Fundamental solutions; resonance; limit points, limit cycles and classification of flows in the plane (Poincare-Bendixson Therem); conservative and dissipative systems; linear and nonlinear stability analysis of equilibria and periodic solutions; stable and unstable manifolds; bifurcations, e.g. Andronov-Hopf; sensitive dependence and chaotic dynamics; selected applications.
CORE STUDIO II - TUTORIAL
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Maria A Linares Trelles
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Marc Tsurumaki
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Christoph Kumpusch
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Christopher Gardner
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Regina Teng
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Maria Rius Ruiz
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Abraham S Murrell
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Emily G Ruopp
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CHEMISTRY FOR THE BRAIN
Prerequisites: Organic chemistry and biology courses, neuroscience or neurobiology recommended, but not required. The study of the brain is one of the most exciting frontiers in science and medicine today. Although neuroscience is by nature a multi-disciplinary effort, chemistry has played many critical roles in the development of modern neuroscience, neuropharmacology, and brain imaging. Chemistry, and the chemical probes it generates, such as molecular modulators, therapeutics, imaging agents, sensors, or actuators, will continue to impact neuroscience on both preclinical and clinical levels. In this course, two major themes will be discussed. In the first one, titled Imaging brain function with chemical tools, we will discuss molecular designs and functional parameters of widely used fluorescent sensors in neuroscience (calcium, voltage, and neurotransmitter sensors), their impact on neuroscience, pros and cons of genetically encoded sensors versus chemical probes, and translatability of these approaches to the human brain. In the second major theme, titled Perturbation of the brain function with chemical tools, we will examine psychoactive substances, the basics of medicinal chemistry, brain receptor activation mechanisms and coupled signaling pathways, and their effects on circuit and brain function. We will also discuss recent approaches, failures and successes in the treatment of neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders. Recent advances in precise brain function perturbation by light (optogenetics and photopharmacology) will also be introduced. In the context of both themes we will discuss the current and future possibilities for the design of novel materials, drawing on the wide molecular structural space (small molecules, proteins, polymers, nanomaterials), aimed at monitoring, modulating, and repairing human brain function. This course is intended for students (undergraduate and graduate) from the science, engineering and medical departments.
- Department: Chemistry
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Dalibor Sames
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STOCHASTIC MODELING FOR MSE
Introduction to stochastic processes and models, with emphasis on applications to engineering and management; random walks, gambler’s ruin problem, Markov chains in both discrete and continuous time, Poisson processes, renewal processes, stopping times, Wald’s equation, binomial lattice model for pricing risky assets, simple option pricing; simulation of simple stochastic processes, Brownian motion, and geometric Brownian motion. A specialized version of IEOR E4106 for MSE students.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Antonius B Dieker
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SYNTHESIS & PROCESSING OF MATERIALS
A course on synthesis and processing of engineering materials. Established and novel methods to produce all types of materials (including metals, semiconductors, ceramics, polymers, and composites). Fundamental and applied topics relevant to optimizing the microstructure of the materials with desired properties. Synthesis and processing of bulk, thin-film, and nano materials for various mechanical and electronic applications.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
- T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
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James Im
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SYNTHESIS & PROCESSING OF MATERIALS
A course on synthesis and processing of engineering materials. Established and novel methods to produce all types of materials (including metals, semiconductors, ceramics, polymers, and composites). Fundamental and applied topics relevant to optimizing the microstructure of the materials with desired properties. Synthesis and processing of bulk, thin-film, and nano materials for various mechanical and electronic applications.
ADVANCED POLISH II
Prerequisites: two years of college Polish or the instructors permission. Extensive readings from 19th- and 20th-century texts in the original. Both fiction and nonfiction, with emphasis depending on the interests and needs of individual students.
- Department: Slavic Languages
- TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Christopher Caes
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MIXED ADVANCED VIETNAMESE II
This course is designed for students who have completed seven semesters of Vietnamese class or have equivalent background of advance Vietnamese. It is aimed at developing more advance interpersonal communication skills in interpretive reading and listening as well as presentational speaking and writing at a superior level. Students are also prepared for academic, professional and literary proficiency suitable for post-secondary studies in the humanities and social sciences.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Chung Nguyen
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY
- Department: Chemistry
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Jack R Norton
CULPA: 6
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Environmental Soil Chemistry
Introduction to principles of chemical reactions in soils, soil chemical properties and processes, and the chemical nature of soil solids. The scientific background for characterizing soil health, addressing soil pollution, performing soil remediation, and sustainable use of soil/subsurface resources. Properties of elements and molecules in soil, soil water chemistry, redox reactions in natural systems, mineralogy and weathering processes in soils, soil carbon cycling, climate change impact on soil, soil organic matter formation and structure, and legacy and emerging contaminants.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Adeyemi Adeleye
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Korean Language in Contemporary Pop Cult
Korean Lang/Contemp Pop C
This course aims to provide a deeper understanding of the Korean language, culture, society, and history through critical analysis of Korean contemporary popular culture (e.g., music, drama, films, TV shows, advertisements, comic books, and other digital discourses). More specifically, the purposes of the course are twofold: (1) to analyze various sociolinguistic issues represented in contemporary Korean pop culture (e.g., honorifics, dialects, language changes, language variations across gender and generations, language contacts, neologism, slangs) and (2) to develop cultural awareness, critical thinking, digital and media literacy, and multimodal competence in Korean media and popular culture.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Joowon Suh
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ADV STUDIO IV - TUTORIAL
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Ziad Jamaleddine
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STRUCTURAL METHODS IN INORGANIC CHEMISTR
- Department: Chemistry
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Gerard F Parkin
CULPA: 30
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Introduction to Human Nutrition
INTRO HUMAN NUTRITION
This undergraduate-level introductory course provides an overview of the science of nutrition and nutrition's relationship to health promotion and disease prevention. The primary focus is on the essential macronutrients and micronutrients, including their chemical structures, food sources, digestion and absorption, metabolism, storage, and excretion. Students develop the skills to evaluate dietary patterns and to estimate caloric requirements and nutrient needs using tools such as Dietary Guidelines for Americans, My Plate, Nutrition Facts Labels, and Dietary Reference Intakes.
- Department: Nursing
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Lora Sporny
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Intermediate Statistics for Ecology and
Intermed Stats-Ecology &
This course builds on an introductory course in statistics and dives deeper into linear regression models, including generalized linear models, mixed/hierarchical models, model diagnostics, and model selection. It focuses on the practical applications of these methods rather than the mathematical complexities. A prior course or equivalent knowledge of fundamental concepts in statistics as well as familiarity with R programming are required pre-requisites for this course.
- Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
- T 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Steffen Foerster
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Human Anatomy & Physiology I with Lab
HUMAN ANAT & PHYS I W/LAB
This undergraduate-level introductory course is the first of a two-course-series on human anatomy and physiology. Using a body systems approach, we will study the anatomical structure and physiological function of the human body. Foundational concepts from chemistry, cell biology, and histology are reviewed and built upon through the progression of topics. Each of the body systems will be studied for their structure, function, and mechanisms of regulation. The core concepts of levels of organization, interdependence of systems, and homeostasis will be emphasized throughout the course. This beginner level course will lay the foundation for further advanced study of physiology and pathophysiology within a nursing curriculum.
- Department: Nursing
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Sally W Aboelela
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ADV STUDIO VI - TUTORIAL
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Mario A Gooden
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Michael Bell
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