FRIEND/FOE?WRLD LIT&JUSTICE;

With an emphasis on equality and social justice, this course examines and compares significant 19th c./20th c. literary approaches to friendship as intermediary between individualism and communal life. Discussion of culturally formed concepts and attitudes in modern or postcolonial settings. Reading of Dickens, Hesse, Woolf, Ocampo, Puig, Fugard, Emerson, Derrida, Rawls.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Erk Grimm
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

RHETORICAL CHOICES:PBLC SPKNG

Prerequisites: Application process and permission of instructor. Enrollment restricted to Barnard students.
Speaking involves a series of rhetorical choices regarding vocal presentation, argument construction, and physical affect that, whether made consciously or by default, project information about the identity of the speaker. In this course students will relate theory to practice: to learn principles of public speaking and speech criticism for the purpose of applying these principles as peer tutors in the Speaking Fellow Program.
Note: This course now counts as an elective for the English major.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• 3 points

STRUCTURAL DESIGN PROJECTS

Prerequisites: (CIEN E3125) and (CIEN E3126) or CIEN E3125 and E3126 or instructor's permission
Design projects with various structural systems and materials.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Tom T Panayotidi
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

PROJECT MGMT FOR CONSTRUCTION

Prerequisites: Senior standing in Civil Engineering or instructor's permission.
Introduction to Project Management for design and construction processes. Elements of planning, estimating, scheduling, bidding, and contractual relationships. Computer scheduling and cost control. Critical path method. Design and construction activities. Field supervision.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Julius Chang
  Info
• 3 points

EXPLORATNS BLACK LITERATURE

EXPLORATION BLACK LIT

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 18 students.
Poetry, prose, fiction, and nonfiction, with special attention to the slave narrative. Includes Wheatley, Douglass, and Jacobs, but emphasis will be on less familiar writers such as Brown, Harper, Walker, Wilson, and Forten. Works by some 18th-century precursors will also be considered.

• Department: English @Barnard
• Instructor: Quandra Prettyman
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

THIRD-YEAR CONVERSATION FR I

Prerequisites: completion of the language requirement in French or the equivalent.
Conversation on contemporary French subjects based on readings in current popular French periodicals.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Sophie Queuniet
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 2 points

CLASSICAL MYTH

CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY

Survey of major myths from the ancient Near East to the advent of Christianity, with emphasis upon the content and treatment of myths in classical authors (Homer, Hesiod, Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles, Vergil, Livy, Ovid).

• Department: Classics @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Helene P Foley
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

INTERMEDIATE MACRO-DIS

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• Instructor: Faculty
  h-index: 37 Info
• 0 points

INTERMEDIATE MACRO-DIS

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• Instructor: Faculty
  h-index: 37 Info
• 0 points

DATA STRUCTURES IN JAVA

Prerequisites: (COMS W1004) or knowledge of Java.
Data types and structures: arrays, stacks, singly and doubly linked lists, queues, trees, sets, and graphs. Programming techniques for processing such structures: sorting and searching, hashing, garbage collection. Storage management. Rudiments of the analysis of algorithms. Taught in Java. Note: Due to significant overlap, students may receive credit for only one of the following three courses:
COMS W3134
,
COMS W3136
,
COMS W3137
.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Bauer
  CULPA: 17 h-index: 13 Info
• 3 points

CREATIVE NON-FICTION

Prerequisites: Writing sample required to apply. Instructions and the application form can be found here: https://english.barnard.edu/departmental-forms#creativewriting.
Explores how to write essays based on life, with some comics and cartooning thrown in.

• Department: English @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Faculty
  h-index: 37 Info
• 3 points

ESSENTIAL DATA STRUCTURES

Prerequisites: (COMS W1004) or (COMS W1005) or (COMS W1007) or (ENGI E1006)
A second programming course intended for nonmajors with at least one semester of introductory programming experience. Basic elements of programming in C and C++, arraybased data structures, heaps, linked lists, C programming in UNIX environment, object-oriented programming in C++, trees, graphs, generic programming, hash tables. Due to significant overlap, students may only receive credit for either COMS W3134, W3136, or W3137.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Timothy K Paine
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

SHAKESPEARE IN PERFORMANCE

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

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Patricia D Denison
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

BALLET V

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Brian Reeder
  Info
• Instructor: Antonio Carmena
  Info
• 0-1 points

BALLET VI

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Cynthia Anderson
  Info
• 0-1 points

MAJOR ENGLISH TEXTS I

Prerequisites: Application required: https://goo.gl/forms/ooLPXWnAYb7xetL72. Enrollment limited to 25 students.

Application required:
https://goo.gl/forms/ooLPXWnAYb7xetL72
.
A chronological view of the variety of English literature through study of selected writers and their works. Autumn: Beowulf through Johnson.

• Department: English @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Margaret R Ellsberg
  CULPA: 54 Info
• 3 points

CLASSIC VARIATIONS

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ashley Tuttle
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 0-1 points

INTRODUCTION TO NARRATIVE

An introduction to narrative through texts that themselves foreground acts of storytelling and thus teach us how to read them. Readings range across periods and cultures - from fifth-century BCE Athens to late twentieth-century Brazil - and include short stories, novellas, novels, a ballad, film and a psychoanalytic case history. Texts by Conan Doyle, Sophocles, Melville, Hitchcock, Augustine, Coleridge, Freud, McEwan, the tellers and compilers of the The Arabian Nights, Diderot, Flaubert, and Lispector. Emphasis on close reading and hands-on experience in analyzing texts.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Emily Sun
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED STUDIO

Prerequisites: Permission of Department.
May be repeated for credit up to four times.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• Instructor: Faculty
  h-index: 37 Info
• 0-1 points

ADVANCED PROGRAMMING

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134) or (COMS W3137)
C programming language and Unix systems programming.  Also covers Git, Make, TCP/IP networking basics, C++ fundamentals.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jae W Lee
  CULPA: 42 Info
• 4 points

THE ENGLISH COLLOQUIUM

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to Barnard English majors.
In the Renaissance colloquium we will examine English and European imaginative and intellectual life from the sixteenth to mid-seventeenth centuries. Defined by humanism, the Protestant Reformation, and revolution, this was a period of ideological struggle on many levels. Long-held ways of ordering the world came under increasing strain-and sometimes ruptured irreparably. Writers discussed and debated the aims of human knowledge, retooled old literary forms for new purposes, scrambled to take account of an expanded awareness of the globe, and probed the tension between belief and doubt. Throughout this process, they experimented with new literary styles to express their rapidly changing worldviews. This is an intensive course in which we will take multiple approaches to a variety of authors that may include Petrarch, Erasmus, Machiavelli, Castiglione, More, Rabelais, Luther, Calvin, Montaigne, Spenser, Bacon, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Milton, and Behn, among others.

• Department: English @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher C Baswell
  CULPA: 8 Info
• Instructor: Rachel Eisendrath
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Ross T Hamilton
  CULPA: 25 Info
• Instructor: Timea Szell
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 4 points

FLUID MECHANICS

Prerequisites: (ENME E3105) and ENME E3105 and ordinary differential equations.
Fluid statics. Fundamental principles and concepts of flow analysis. Differential and finite control volume approach to flow analysis. Dimensional analysis. Application of flow analysis: flow in pipes, external flow, flow in open channels.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Marco Giometto
  h-index: 9 Info
• 4 points

SHAKESPEARE I

A critical and historical introduction to Shakespeare's comedies, histories, tragedies, and romances. Please note that you do
not
need to take ENGL BC3163: Shakespeare I and ENGL BC3164: Shakespeare II in sequence; you may take them in any order.

• Department: English @Barnard
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Peter Platt
  CULPA: 23 Info
• 3 points

THE AGE OF JOHNSON

The works of Johnson, Boswell, and their contemporaries in historic context; rise of the novel (Richardson, Fielding, and Sterne); poets from Pope to Blake and Wordsworth; women writers from Carter to Collier to Wollstonecraft; working class writers; topics include slavery and abolition in literature, the democratization of culture, and the transition to romanticism.

• Department: English @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: James G Basker
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

VICTORIAN AGE IN LITERATURE

VICTORIAN LITERATURE: THE NOVE

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

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Rebecca J Hildebrand
  Info
• 3 points

AMERICAN LITERATURE TO 1800

This course surveys American literature written before 1800. While we will devote some attention to the literary traditions that preceded British colonization, most of our readings will be of texts written in English between 1620 and 1800. These texts--histories, autobiographies, poems, plays, and novels--illuminate the complexity of this period of American culture. They tell stories of pilgrimage, colonization, and genocide; private piety and public life; manuscript and print publication; the growth of national identity (political, cultural, and literary); Puritanism, Quakerism, and Deism; race and gender; slavery and the beginnings of a movement towards its abolition. We will consider, as we read, the ways that these stories overlap and interconnect, and the ways that they shape texts of different periods and genres.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Gordis
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

INT'L HUMAN RIGHTS LAW

This course will introduce students to the international law of human rights, and give a basic orientation to fundamental issues and controversies. The course has two principal focal points: first, the "nuts and bolts" of how international law functions in the field of human rights, and second, the value and limitations of legal approaches to a variety of human rights issues. Throughout the course, both theoretical and practical questions will be addressed, including who bears legal duties and who can assert legal claims, how these duties might be enforced, and accountability and remedy for violations. Attention will be given to how international law is made, what sorts of assumptions underlie various legal mechanisms, and how the law works in a variety of contexts.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Belinda Cooper
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

ESTRANGEMNT/EXILE GLOB NOVELS

“...but she had no worldly wisdom; her powers were unadapted to the practical business of life; she would fail to defend her most manifest rights, to consult her most legitimate advantage. An interpreter ought always to have stood between her and the world.”
,
Charlotte Brontë on her late sister the novelist Emily Brontë.
,This course examines the development of literary fiction in response to history. Through a diverse selection of books—novels, novellas, and verse—spanning nearly 2400 years, we will investigate the seemingly contradictory condition of the author as both outsider and insider.
,We will look at how writers from various backgrounds have addressed social and political alienation, national and personal crisis, through narrative. The uniqueness of the texts lies not just in how implicated they are in history, but in their resistance against generalization and intolerance.
,Two areas of critical concern govern the selection: Romanticism brings to focus responses to estrangement and injustice; and Modernism is seen as individual expression to alienation and exile. However, implicit also is the desire to complicate the distinction between those two schools. What unites these concerns, however, is how our writers’ artistic commitment, as both witnesses and participants, creates an opportunity for literature to reveal more than the author intends and, on the other hand, more than what power desires.

• Department: English @Barnard
• T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Hisham Matar
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

CRITICAL WRITING

(Formerly called Literary Criticism & Theory.) Provides experience in the reading and analysis of literary texts and some knowledge of conspicuous works of literary criticism. Frequent short papers. Required of all English majors before the end of the junior year. Sophomores are encouraged to take it in the spring semester even before officially declaring their major. Transfer students should plan to take it in the fall semester.

• Department: English @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• W 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Monica F Cohen
  CULPA: 8 Info
• Instructor: Andrew L Lynn
  CULPA: 17 Info
• Instructor: Maura L Spiegel
  CULPA: 40 Info
• Instructor: Timea Szell
  CULPA: 14 Info
• Instructor: Margaret S Vandenburg
  CULPA: 59 Info
• 4 points

MODERNISM

Psychoanalysis, world war, and shifting gender paradigms inspire fragmented narratives, stream-of-consciousness prose, and improbable blends of erudition and the avant-garde. Stylistic innovation notwithstanding, Modernism authorizes a remarkably traditional literary canon. Special attention will be devoted to how seminal manifestos, most notably "Tradition and the Individual Talent" and
A Room of One's Own,
frame the movement's embattled aesthetics. Works by Eliot, Woolf, Barnes, Faulkner, Hemingway, Joyce, Lawrence, Pound, Stein, Toomer, and Yeats.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Margaret S Vandenburg
  CULPA: 59 Info
• 3 points

MECHANICS:FUND & APPLICATIONS

Prerequisites: (PHYS UN1402) and (MATH UN2030) or or equivalent.
Basic non-Euclidean coordinate systems, Newtonian Mechanics, oscillations, Green's functions, Newtonian graviation, Lagrangian mechanics, central force motion, two-body collisions, noninertial reference frames, rigid body dynamics. Applications, including GPS and feedback control systems, are emphasized throughout.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Michael E Mauel
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 3 points

TRANSPORT/CHEM RATE PHENOMENA

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Xi Chen
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia h-index: 64 Info
• 3 points

FILM PRODUCTION

Prerequisites: FILM BC3201 or equivalent. Sophomore standing. Interested students MUST attend the first day of class for instructor permission--registering for the course only through myBarnard or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment.
This workshop introduces the student to all the cinematic tools necessary to produce their own short narrative work.  Using what the student has learned in film studies, we'll break down shot syntax, mise-en-scene and editing strategies and master them in weekly video exercises.  We'll include casting, working with actors and expressive camera work in our process as we build toward a final video project.  By the end of the course, the student will have created a DVD containing a collection of their video pieces and their final project.  Priority given to junior and senior film majors.

• Department: Film @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Sandra Luckow
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED NONFICTION 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.
Advanced Nonfiction Workshop is for students with significant narrative and/or critical experience. Students will produce original literary nonfiction for the workshop, with an added focus on developing a distinctive voice and approach.

• Department: Writing
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 3 points

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN I

Prerequisites: ARCH V3101 and ARCH V3103. Open to architecture majors or with permission of instructor.
Introduction to architectural design taught in a studio environment, through a series of design projects requiring drawings and models. Field trips, lectures, and discussions are organized in relation to studio exercises. Portfolio of design work from Architectural Representation: Abstraction and Perception will be reviewed the first week of classes.

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

CIRCUIT ANALYSIS

Prerequisites: (ELEN E1201) or (APMA E2000) or equivalent.
A course on analysis of linear and nonlinear circuits and their applications. Formulation of circuit equations. Network theorems. Transient response of first and second order circuits. Sinusoidal steady state-analysis. Frequency response of linear circuits. Poles and zeros. Bode plots. Two-port networks.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Yannis P Tsividis
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 3.5 points

INTRO FILM & MEDIA STUDIES

INTRO STUDY & THEORY OF FILM

Prerequisites: Open to first-year students.
Corequisites: Enroll in the required Discussion Section through FILM BC 3204: Discussion Section.
Introductory survey of the history, aesthetics and theories of film. Topics in American and International cinema are explored through weekly screenings, readings, discussion, and lecture. A complete introduction to cinema studies, this course is also the prerequisite for further film courses at Columbia and Barnard.

• Department: Film @Barnard
• T 10:10 a.m.-1:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Breixo Viejo Vinas
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

DISCRETE MATHEMATICS

Prerequisites: Any introductory course in computer programming.
Logic and formal proofs, sequences and summation, mathematical induction, binomial coefficients, elements of finite probability, recurrence relations, equivalence relations and partial orderings, and topics in graph theory (including isomorphism, traversability, planarity, and colorings).

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ansaf Salleb-Aouissi
  CULPA: 21 h-index: 16 Info
• 3 points

THE MODERN ARTS WRITER

Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT required.
We will examine the lineaments of critical writing. A critic blends the subjective and objective in complex ways. A critic must know the history of an artwork, its past, while placing it on the contemporary landscape and contemplating its future. A single essay will analyze, argue, describe, reflect, and interpret. And, since examining a work of art also means examining oneself, the task includes a willingness to probe one's own assumptions. The best critics are engaged in a conversation -- a dialogue, a debate -- with changing standards of taste, with their audience, with their own convictions and emotions. The best criticism is part of a larger cultural conversation. It spurs readers to ask questions rather than accept answers about art and society. We will read essays that consider six art forms: literature; film; music (classical, jazz and popular); theatre and performance; visual art; and dance. At the term's end, students will consider essays that examine cultural boundaries and divisions: the negotiations between popular and high art; the aesthetic of cruelty; the post-modern blurring of and between artist, critic and fan. The reading list will include such writers as Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, Elizabeth Hardwick (literature); James Agee, Manny Farber, Zadie Smith (film); G.B. Shaw, Willa Cather, Ralph Ellison, Lester Bangs, Ellen Willis (music); Eric Bentley, Mary McCarthy, C.L.R. James (theatre); Leo Steinberg, Frank O'Hara, Ada Louise Huxtable, Maggie Nelson (visual art); Edwin Denby, Arlene Croce, Elizabeth Kendall, Mindy Aloff (dance); Susan Sontag, Anthony Heilbut, John Jeremiah Sullivan (cultural criticism).

• Department: Writing
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Margo L Jefferson
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN III

Prerequisites: A design portfolio and application is required for this course. The class list will be announced before classes start.
Further exploration of the design process through studio work. Programs of considerable functional, contextual, and conceptual complexity are undertaken. Portfolio required for review first day of fall semester or earlier, as requested by the department. Class list based on portfolio review will be formed by first class meeting.

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

INTERMEDIATE MICROECONOMICS

Prerequisites: ECON UN1105 and MATH UN1101 and (MATH UN1201 or MATH UN1207)
The determination of the relative prices of goods and factors of production and the allocation of resources.

• Department: Economics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Caterina Musatti
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Wouter R Vergote
  CULPA: 15 Info
• Instructor: Susan M Elmes
  CULPA: 44 Info
• 4 points

THE LYRIC ESSAY

Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT needed.
While nonfiction is perhaps known for its allegiance to facts and logic in the stalwart essay form, the genre conducts its own experiments, often grouped under the term "lyric essays."  Lyric essays are sometimes fragmentary, suggestive, meditative, inconclusive; they may glance only sidelong at their subject, employ the compression of poetry, and perform magic tricks in which stories slip down blind alleys, discursive arguments dissolve into ellipses, and narrators disappear altogether.  Lyric essayists blend a passion for the actual with innovative forms, listening deeply to the demands of each new subject.  In this course, students will map the terrain of the lyric essay, work in which writers revise nonfiction traditions such as: coherent narrative or rhetorical arcs; an identifiable, transparent, or stable narrator; and the familiar categories of memoir, personal essay, travel writing, and argument.  Students will read work that challenges these familiar contours, including selections from Halls of Fame by John D'Agata, Don't Let Me Be Lonely by Claudia Rankine, Plainwater by Anne Carson, Letters to Wendy by Joe Wenderoth, The Body and One Love Affair by Jenny Boully, Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes, Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje, Neck Deep and Other Predicaments by Ander Monson.  They can expect to read essays selected from The Next American Essay edited by John D'Agata and In Short: A Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction edited by Judith Kitchen and Mary Paumier Jones, as well as essays by Paul Metcalf, David Foster Wallace, Sherman Alexie, Michael Martone, and Sei Shonagon.  The course will be conducted seminar style, with close reading, lecture, and classroom discussion.  The students will be expected to prepare a written study and comments for class on a particular book/author/issue.  They will also complete writing exercises and their own lyric essay(s), one of which we will discuss as a class.  Their final project will be a collection of their creative work accompanied by an essay discussing their choices.

• Department: Writing
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

INTER MICROECONOMICS-DISC

Required Discussion section for ECON UN3211 intermediate Economics.

• Department: Economics
• 0 points

INTERMEDIATE MACROECONOMICS

Prerequisites: (MATH UN1101 or MATH UN1207) and ECON UN1105 or the equivalent.
Corequisites: MATH UN1201
This course covers the determination of output, employment, inflation and interest rates. Topics include economic growth, business cycles, monetary and fiscal policy, consumption and savings and national income accounting.

• Department: Economics
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Xavier Sala-I-Martin
  CULPA: 82 Wikipedia h-index: 80 Info
• Instructor: Ronald Miller
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

INTER MACROECONOMICS-DISC

Discussion section for ECON UN3213 Intermediate Macro.  Student must register for a section.

• Department: Economics
• 0 points

TRUTH & FACTS

Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT required.
As writers of literary nonfiction, we seek to articulate the truth about people, personal experiences, and events.  But how do those pesky facts figure in?  Demarcating the boundaries of reasonable artistic license is an ongoing debate among writers, editors, fact-checkers, and audiences.  Can changing chronologies and identifying details help the writer arrive at a deeper truth about her subject?  Or are the facts intractable?  Where do we draw the line between fabrication and artistry?  Is there any merit to what Werner Herzog deems "the ecstatic truth?"  Do different rules apply for writing memoir versus writing reported essays and articles?  How can we work responsibly with quotes while making dialogue readable?  Just how experimental can we be while earning the mantle of nonfiction?  In this class we will read works that take different approaches at mining toward the truth and unpack various distinct points of view on the debate.  Our classes will consist mainly of discussion, with occasional in-class writing exercises and presentations.  Students will write reflection papers on the asigned texts throughout the course and compose their own code of nonfiction ethics by the term's end, and examine their own work under this rubric.

• Department: Writing
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Elianna Kan
  Info
• 3 points

NATIVE FOOD SOVEREIGNTY

What is food sovereignty? How do you decolonize your diet? This course takes a comparative approach to understanding how and why food is a central component of contemporary sovereignty discourse. More than just a question of eating, Indigenous foodways offer important critiques of, and interventions to, the settler state: food connects environment, community, public health, colonial histories, and economics. Students will theorize these connections by reading key works from across the fields of Critical Indigenous Studies, Food Studies, Philosophy, History, and Anthropology. In doing so, we will question the potentials, and the limits, of enacting, food sovereignty within the settler state, whether dietary decolonization is possible in the so-called age of the Anthropocene, and the limits of working within and against today’s legacies of the colonial food system.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Hiilei J Hobart
  Info
• 4 points

RACE, ETHNICITY & SOCIETY

RACE ETHNICITY & SOCIETY

This course examines the social construction of "race" and ethnicity and how their effects have aligned with intersecting social logics to produce injustice. Emphasis is on understanding U.S. logics of race and ethnicity in comparative perspective and in placing contemporary racial and ethnic politics in historical perspective.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Faculty
  h-index: 37 Info
• 3 points

LITERATURE & EMPIRE (19C LIT)

Explores the aesthetic and formal developments in Russian prose, especially the rise of the monumental 19th-century novel, as one manifestation of a complex array of national and cultural aspirations, humanistic and imperialist ones alike. Works by Pushkin, Lermonotov, Gogol, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov. Knowledge of Russian not required.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Cathy Popkin
  CULPA: 21 Info
• 3 points

NEW YORK IN TEN OBJECTS

"New York in Ten Objects" introduces students to the creative possibilities of the podcast. Drawing on the possibilities of interdisciplinary analysis and creative non-fiction, this course will equip students with a new storytelling medium that critically engages the city in which they live. The goal is to render ordinary topics extraordinary.
The starting points for our investigation are ten objects -- some iconic, some ironic, but all characteristic of New York City. Beginning with these quotidian objects, students will develop projects, in small groups and individually, that connect these objects with a broader societal movement, cultural idea, political cause, or scientific development significant to past or present New York City life. 
To prepare students to develop their projects in an audio medium, we will first become familiar with a broad range of current podcasts, and will begin to break down the elements of podcast-storytelling as practiced today. Through workshops with IMATS in a weekly lab session, staged writing assignments and hands-on experience, students will learn how to collect audio interviews and ambient sound, to record voice-over narration, and to select and use musical and other sound snippets available on sound banks. Every student will storyboard their ideas, develop scripts, and produce a podcast by layering and editing their audio files. 
In the end, this course will investigate how the popular medium of the podcast can serve as a locus of local conversation and public intellectual activity.   Students will discover the community in which they live in profound and intellectually rigorous new ways by learning how ordinary objects can breathe life into a story, and how audio stories can advance critical analysis.
Applications are due by 1 May: 
https://goo.gl/forms/7HU2jZNfpxP0zV1k2
. Please note that this seminar is limited to 14 students. After receiving admittance into the course, you MUST come to the first class to secure your seat. You should hear about your admission in time to add the course to your program during the summer.

• Department: English @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• 4 points

INDEPENDENT CINEMA

Prerequisites: FILM BC 3201 or equivalent.
In 1989, the Hollywood studio system was languishing in a creative drought, until Steven Soderbergh's sex, lies, and videotape blew up the dam. Suddenly, audiences were eager for new, exciting visions free from establishment oversight. The next ten years saw the emergence of directors like Quentin Tarantino, Spike Lee, Kevin Smith, Richard Linklater, Jim Jarmusch, Lisa Cholodenko and many others. This course, arranged chronologically, will look at different filmmakers each week, while exploring the circumstances that allowed this movement to exist; what caused it to thrive, and what lingering effects did it have on today's cinema.

• Department: Film @Barnard
• W 10:10 a.m.-1:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Breixo Viejo Vinas
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION

All of us have spent many years in school and understand that schools impact our lives in important ways. But how exactly does formal schooling shape young people? And how do students make sense of their lives in the context of schools and educational systems more broadly? In this class we will examine education as a central institution in modern society, and we will grapple with an important question: What role does education play in reinforcing or challenging broader patterns of social inequality and mobility?   Particular emphasis will be placed on higher education as a critical site in which these processes take shape.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Amy Stuart
  Info
• 3 points

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY II-LEC

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3230. Lecture: MWF 10:00-10:50.
Extension of concepts from Organic Chemistry I to conjugated systems; chemistry of the carbonyl group; NMR and IR spectroscopy; bioorganic chemistry.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• MWF 10 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Dina C Merrer
  CULPA: 24 Info
• 3 points

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Prerequisites: One introductory course in Sociology suggested.
Social movements and the theories social scientists use to explain them, with emphasis on the American civil rights and women's movements.  Topics include theories of participation, the personal and social consequences of social movements, the rationality of protest, the influence of ideology, organization, and the state on movement success, social movements, and the mass media.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Debra Minkoff
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

CHALL/STRAT IN PRIMATE CONSERV

Prerequisites: EEEB UN1010 or EEEB UN1011 or the instructor's permission.
Throughout their range, numerous primate species are on the brink of extinction. This course examines the central issues relating to conservation of wild primates and explores strategies and solutions for preserving these endangered populations. Through the analysis of the ecological and social traits linked to vulnerability and the direct and indirect threats from human activities, students will gain a practical understanding of how to develop successful, sustainable, and practical conservation strategies.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Alba Lucia Morales Jimenez
  Info
• 3 points

FREN LANG,SOC,CULTRE THRU FILM

Prerequisites: FREN UN2102
French socio-political issues and language through the prism of film. Especially designed for non-majors wishing to further develop their French language skills and learn about French culture. Each module includes assignments targeting the four language competencies: reading, writing, speaking and oral comprehension, as well as cultural understanding.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Heidi Holst-Knudsen
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 3 points

FREN LANG,SOC,CULTRE THRU PARIS

Prerequisites: 2 years of college French
Paris may be referred to as the capital of modernity, as
the
city of romance and pleasure, as the center of social and political powers, or as a privileged stage for crises and revolutions. Analyzing and researching the meanings of these diverse representations would expose students to key aspects of French and Francophone political, social, and cultural history.
This is a proposal for a course intended for students who, having completed their language requirement in French, would like to better their knowledge of French language and society.
It would offer students the opportunity to study representations of Paris over the centuries as a way to practice writing, reading, and conversation in French and as a way to deepen their understanding of French and Francophone cultures.
Materials for the course would include major literary texts as well as paintings, movies and popular songs, but also museum websites, local newspapers and local ads, brochures from retail and food malls, restaurant menus, postcards... such variety can be utilitarian and intellectually compelling at the same time. It would allow students not only to study language registers and vocabulary contextualization but also work on finding patterns and making connections.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• Instructor: Alexandra Borer
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY

Medical Sociology

Examines the ways sociologists have studied the field of medicine and experiences of health and illness. We cannot understand topics of health and illness by only looking at biological phenomena; we must consider a variety of social, political, economic, and cultural forces. Uses sociological perspectives and methods to understand topics such as: unequal patterns in health and illness; how people make sense of and manage illness; the ways doctors and patients interact with each other; changes in the medical profession, health policies and institutions; social movements around health; and how some behaviors but not others become understood as medical problems. Course is geared towards pre-med students as well as those with general interests in medicine, health and society.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Faculty
  h-index: 37 Info
• 3 points

JAZZ DANCE III

ADVANCED JAZZ DANCE

Prerequisites: DNCE BC2248 or permission of instructor.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Katiti King
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 0-1 points

FLAMENCO & CLASSCL SP DANCE I

FLAMENCO:TRAD TECH/CONTEMP AP

Prerequisites: DNCE BC1137, BC1138, BC1332, BC1333, or Permission of instructor. Intermediate level in modern or ballet technique is required.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• F noon-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Melinda S Bronson
  Info
• 0-1 points

CONTEMPORARY MEDIA THEORY

Prerequisites: Sophomore standing. Enrollment limited to 18 students. Attend first class for instructor permission. Registering for the course only through myBarnard or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment.
Explores the transformation of sociality, consciousness and geo-politics by and as media technologies during the long 20th century. Students will read influential works of media analysis written during the past century, analyze audio-visual analog and digital media, and explore political theory and media theory written since the rise of the internet. Final projects on contemporary media forms.

• Department: English @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan L Beller
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

BEFORE 'BLACK LIVES MATTER':READING INSU

Black Lives Matter is an American phenomenon. This course situates BLM in relation to other and earlier movements in the Global South and elsewhere. Through textual analysis and critical reading, we take up the discursive, rhetorical, and poetical strategies of opposition to marginalization, criminalization, and racial othering.

• Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Yvette Christianse
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

QUANTUM CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: Physics and Calculus II or III or permission of instructor. Lecture: MWF 11:00-11:50.
Exact and approximate solutions to the Schrodinger equation. The structure of atoms and molecules. Chemical bonding and spectroscopy. Computer-based molecular modeling.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• MWF 11 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Andrew C Crowther
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

ENVIR CONTR/POLLUTN REDUCT SYS

Prerequisites: (EAEE E3200) or (ENME E3161) or (MECE E3100) EAEE E3200 or ENME E3161 or MECE E3100
Sources of solid/gaseous air pollution and the technologies used for modern methods of abatement. Air pollution and its abatement from combustion of coal, oil, and natural gas and the thermodynamics of heat engines in power generation. Catalytic emission control is contrasted to thermal processes for abating carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, oxides of nitrogen and sulfur from vehicles and stationary sources. Processing of petroleum for generating fuels. Technological challenges of controlling greenhouse gas emissions. Biomass and the hydrogen economy coupled with fuel cells as future sources of energy.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Kartik Chandran
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 51 Info
• 3 points

WRITING FOR TELEVISION

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

• Department: Film @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Rubeintz Philippe
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION

Prerequisites: prior coursework in religion or sociology is highly encouraged.
This course introduces classical and contemporary theoretical and empirical approaches to the sociological study of religion, including secularization and secularity, religious identity formation, and sociological approaches to religious practice and meaning. Special focus will be on contemporary American topics, including religion and transnationalism, the role of religious actors and discourses in American politics, law and economics, and everyday religious practice.

• Department: Religion
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Courtney Bender
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

COMPUTER SCIENCE THEORY

Prerequisites: (COMS W3203)
Corequisites: COMS W3134,COMS W3136,COMS W3137
Regular languages: deterministic and non-deterministic finite automata, regular expressions. Context-free languages: context-free grammars, push-down automata. Turing machines, the Chomsky hierarchy, and the Church-Turing thesis. Introduction to Complexity Theory and NP-Completeness.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Omri Weinstein
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 19 Info
• 3 points

Cannabis & Culture: Hashish,Law,Social H

CANNABIS AND CULTURE

The course examines the shifting popular and legal attitudes towards cannabis from Mamluk to contemporary Egypt. How were cannabis conceptualized and treated in pre-prohibition (and precolonial) Egypt? What were the dominant legal views on the consumption and trade of cannabis? What were the concerns of sharia jurists, and how are they different from legislators in contemporary Egypt? Why is the Egyptian regime insistent on criminalizing cannabis, despite the failure to curb the growth in consumption? Is the decriminalization movement simply restoring a pre-prohibition order? And why and in what contexts is the consumption of cannabis tolerated today despite being criminalized?

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Ibrahim K El Houdaiby
  Info
• 3 points

MONEY AND BANKING

ECONOMICS OF MONEY AND BANKING

Prerequisites: ECON BC3033 and ECON BC3035 or the equivalent.
Introduction to the principles of money and banking. The intermediary institutions of the American economy and their historical developments, current issues in monetary and financial reform.

• Department: Economics @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Faculty
  h-index: 37 Info
• 3 points

BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Prerequisites: (CHEM BC3230) and (CHEM BC3231) BIOL BC1502. Lecture: MWF 9:00-9:50.
Introduction to biochemical building blocks, macromolecules, and metabolism. Structures of amino acids, lipids, carbohydrates, nucleic acids. Protein structure and folding. Enzyme mechanisms, kinetics, allostery. Membranes and biosignaling. Catabolism and anabolism with emphasis on chemical intermediates, metabolic energy, catalysis by specific enzymes, regulation.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• MWF 9 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Faculty
  h-index: 37 Info
• 3 points

BIOCHEMISTRY

• Department: Biological Sciences
• T 7:10 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Danny N Ho
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

LANG/IDENT IN CONTMP CATALAN

ADVANCED CATALAN THROUGH CONTE

An examination of the political, cultural, and artistic history in Modern and Contemporary Catalonia and its role in the building of its sociolinguistic identity.  Material includes literary, academic, and media readings and audiovisual and online resources.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• TR 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Elsa Ubeda
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

WORKSHOP SUSTAINABLE DEVEL

Students address real-world issues in sustainable development by working in groups for an external client agency.  Instruction in communication, collaboration, and management; meetings with and presentations to clients and academic community.  Projects vary from year to year.  Readings in the course are project-specific and are identified by the student research teams.

• Department: Environmental Sciences @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Martin Stute
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 52 Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED POETRY 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.
This poetry workshop is reserved for accomplished poetry writers and maintains the highest level of creative and critical expectations. Students will be encouraged to develop their strengths and to cultivate a distinctive poetic vision and voice but must also demonstrate a willingness to broaden their range and experiment with new forms and notions of the poem. A portfolio of poetry will be written and revised with the critical input of the instructor and the workshop.

• Department: Writing
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Shane McCrae
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

THERMODYNAMICS

Classical thermodynamics. Basic properties and concepts, thermodynamic properties of pure substances, equation of state, work, heat, the first and second laws for flow and nonflow processes, energy equations, entropy, and irreversibility. Introduction to power and refrigeration cycles.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Sinisa Vukelic
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 11 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED SWAHILI I

Prerequisites:
SWHL W1201-W1202
or the instructor's permission.
An introduction to the advanced syntactical, morphological, and grammatical structures of Swahili grammar; detailed analysis of Swahili texts; practice in conversation. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Abdul Nanji
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

SELECTIONS FROM GREEK LIT

SELECTIONS FR GREEK LIT: PROSE

Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit. The topic that will be taught in Fall 2018 is "Plato."

• Department: Classics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth K Irwin
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

LATIN LITERATURE SELECTIONS

LATIN LITERATURE SELECTIONS I

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

• Department: Classics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Marcus Folch
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

CELL BIOLOGY

Prerequisites: (BIOL BC1500)(BIOL BC1501)(BIOL BC1502)(BIOL BC1503) and BIOL BC2100 or equivalent.
This course explores the components, systems, and regulatory mechanisms involved in eukaryotic cellular function. Topics include: signal transduction, translational and protein quality control, organellar and cytoskeletal dynamics, and some coordinated responses such as proliferation and programmed cell death. Throughout the course we will see how general cell biology can be specialized to achieve specific cellular functions through regulation of the basic machinery. We will also explore the cellular and molecular bases for a variety of human pathologies, with an emphasis on cancer. In addition to lecture, we will spend some time discussing the material, including selected articles from the primary literature, and learning through group presentations.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Snow
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 18 Info
• 3 points

LABORATORY IN CELL BIOLOGY

Prerequisites: BIOL BC3310 (which can be taken as a pre- or co-requisite). Enrollment is limited to 16; must attend first lab to hold place.
Introduction to cell biological techniques used to investigate structural, molecular, and physiological aspects of eukaryotic cells and their organization into tissues. Techniques include light and electron microscopy, cell culture, isolation of cellular organelles, protein electrophoresis, and Western Blot analysis.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• R 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Snow
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 18 Info
• 3 points

SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHITECTURE

CURATING ARCH AND ENV

Prerequisites: Prerequisite is the completion of one architecture studio or similar. Must apply for placement in course.
Topics vary yearly. Course may be repeated for credit.

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• MW 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Irina C Verona
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHITECTURE

Prerequisites: Prerequisite is the completion of one architecture studio or similar. Must apply for placement in course.
Topics vary yearly. Course may be repeated for credit.

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• Instructor: Alicia Tam Wei
  Info
• 3 points

Inganno and Enga o: Art and the Rhetori

INGANNO AND ENGA O

This seminar examines ideas of deception - inganno in Italy, engaƱo in Spain - as a fundamental trait of the visual arts and as a growing preoccupation in literature, politics, science, and religion in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. We will attend to the rich cross-cultural exchange, divergence, and overlap in the way deceit was thought about between the Italian and Iberian peninsulas in this period. Case studies and assignments will include key works of art from New York City museums & collections, with mandatory field trips.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Hannah Friedman
  Info
• 4 points

POETIC METER AND FORM

Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT required.
This course will investigate the uses of rhythmic order and disorder in English-language poetry, with a particular emphasis on 'formal' elements in 'free' verse. Through a close analysis of poems, we'll examine the possibilities of qualitative meter, and students will write original creative work within (and in response to) various formal traditions. Analytical texts and poetic manifestos will accompany our reading of exemplary poems. Each week, we'll study interesting examples of metrical writing, and I'll ask you to write in reponse to those examples. Our topics will include
stress meter, syllable-stress meter, double and triple meter, rising and falling rhythms, promotion, demotion, inversion, elision, and foot scansion.
Our study will include a greate range of pre-modern and modern writers, from Keats to W.D. Snodgrass, Shakespeare to Denise Levertov, Blake to James Dickey, Whitman to Louise Gluck etc. As writers, we'll always be thinking about how the
formal choices
of a poem are appropriate or inappropriate for the poem's
content.
We'll also read prose by poets describing their metrical craft.

• Department: Writing
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph N Fasano
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

MICROBIOLOGY

Prerequisites: BIOL BC1500, BIOL BC1501, BIOL BC1502, BIOL BC1503, and BIOL BC2100 or the equivalent. This course is a pre-requisite for BIOL BC3321 Laboratory in Microbiology.
Survey of the diversity, cellular organization, physiology, and genetics of the major microbial groups. Also includes aspects of applied microbiology and biotechnology, the function of microorganisms in the environment, and the role of microbes in human diseases.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Jj L Miranda
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points