MUSICS OF INDIA & WEST ASIA

A topical approach to the concepts and practices of music in relation to other arts in the development of Asian civilizations.

• Department: Music
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• 3 points

MUSICS OF INDIA & WEST ASIA

A topical approach to the concepts and practices of music in relation to other arts in the development of Asian civilizations.

• Department: Music
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• 3 points

GLOBAL URBANISM-DISCUSSION

Discussion Section for "Global Urbanism" SOCI UN3324

• Department: Sociology
• M 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• M 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• T 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• T 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• W 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• F 11:10 a.m.-noon
• R 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 0 points

EAST ASIAN CINEMA

This course introduces students to major works, genres and waves of East Asian cinema from the Silent era to the present, including films from Japan, Korea, Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. How has cinema participated in East Asian societies’ distinct and shared experiences of industrial modernity, imperialism and (post)colonialism? How has cinema engaged with questions of class, gender, ethnic and language politics? In what ways has cinema facilitated transnational circulations and mobilizations of peoples and ideas, and how has it interacted with other art forms, such as theatre, painting, photography and music? In this class, we answer these questions by studying cinemas across the region sideby- side, understanding cinema as deeply embedded in the region’s intertwining political, social and cultural histories and circulations of people and ideas. We cover a variety of genres such as melodrama, comedy, historical epic, sci-fi, martial arts and action, and prominent film auteurs such as Yasujirō Ozu, Akira Kurosawa, Yu Hyŏnmok, Chen Kaige, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Ann Hui. As cinema is, among other things, a creative practice, in this course, students will be given opportunities to respond to films analytically and creatively, through writing as well as creative visual projects. As a global core course, this class does not assume prior knowledge of East Asian culture or of film studies.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ying Qian
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

GLOBAL URBANISM

Using classical texts about cities (do they still work for us?) and on the diverse new literatures on cities and larger subjects with direct urban implications, we ill use a variety of data sets to get a detailed empirical information, and draw on two large ongoing research projects involving major and minor global cities around the world (a total of over 60 cities are covered in detail as of 2008).  Students will need to register for a discussion section as well; details to be announced.

• Department: Sociology
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Saskia J Sassen
  CULPA: 16 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

CONSUMER CULTURE IN MOD EUROP

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preregistration required.
The development of the modern culture of consumption, with particular attention to the formation of the woman consumer. Topics include commerce and the urban landscape, changing attitudes toward shopping and spending, feminine fashion and conspicuous consumption, and the birth of advertising. Examination of novels, fashion magazines, and advertising images.

• Department: History @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Tiersten
  CULPA: 45 Info
• 4 points

MODERN V

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Faculty
  h-index: 37 Info
• 0-1 points

A FIRST CRSE/FINITE ELEMENTS

Prerequisites: Senior standing or by instructor permission,\n(Students taking ENME E3332 cannot take ENME E4332)
Corequisites: (Recommended): differential equations
Focus on formulation and application of the finite element method to engineering problems such as stress analysis, heat transfer, fluid flow and electromagnetics. Topics include: finite element formulation for one-dimensional problems, such as trusses, electrical and hydraulic systems, scalar field problems in two dimensions, such as heat transfer, and vector field problems such as elasticity and finally usage of the commercial finite element program. 
Detailed course description:
Focus on formulation and application of the finite element method to engineering problems such as stress analysis, heat transfer, fluid flow and electromagnetics. The course material is organized in three chronological units one month each:  (1) the finite element formulation for one-dimensional problems, such as trusses, electrical and hydraulic systems, (2) the finite element formulation for scalar field problems in two dimensions, such as heat transfer and (3) the finite element formulation for vector field problems such as elasticity, and (4) finite element programming and usage of commercial finite element program.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Jacob Fish
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 54 Info
• 3 points

MODERN TECH-ORGANIC CHEM LAB

Prerequisites: (CHEM BC3328) or (CHEM BC3230) CHEM BC3328 with a grade of C- or better and CHEM BC3230.
Corequisites: CHEM BC3231,CHEM BC3334
Advanced experimental organic techniques and introduction to qualitative and quantitative organic analysis. Emphasis on instrumental and chromatographic methods. Selected reactions. Students enrolling in this course must register for CHEM BC3334x.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• M 1:10 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• W 1:10 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• 3 points

INTRO TO LITERARY STUDIES I

MAJOR LITERARY WORKS TO 1800

Prerequisites:
FREN UN3405
Advanced Grammar and Composition or an AP score of 5 or the instructor's permission.
Reading and discussion of major works from the Middle Ages to 1750.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Benjamin M Olivennes
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO GERMAN LIT (GERMAN)

Prerequisites: GERM UN2102 or the equivalent.
Examines short literary texts and various methodological approaches to interpreting such texts in order to establish a basic familiarity with the study of German literature and culture.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Stefan Andriopoulos
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED COURSE I

• Department: Italian
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Carol H Rounds
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO ITALIAN LITERATURE I

Prerequisites: Intermediate Italian II
ITAL UN2102
or the equivalent.

UN3334x-UN3333y
is the basic course in Italian literature. ,
UN3333
: This course, entirely taught in Italian, introduces you to Medieval and early modern Italian literature. It will give you the opportunity to test your ability as a close-reader and discover unusual and fascinating texts that tell us about the polycentric richness of the Italian peninsula. We will read poems, tales, letters, fiction and non-fiction, travel writings and political pamphlets. The great “Three Crowns” - Dante, Petrarca and Boccaccio -  as well as renowned Renaissance authors such as Ludovico Ariosto and Niccolò Machiavelli, will show us the main path to discover Italian masterpieces and understand the European Renaissance. But we will also explore China with Marco Polo and the secrets of the Medieval soul diving into the mystical poems by Jacopone da Todi. We will study parody and laughter through the “poesia giocosa” (parodic poetry) by Cecco Angiolieri and the legacy of Humanism through the letters of Poggio Bracciolini. This first overview will allow you to explore Italian literature from its complex and multicultural beginnings to its diffusion across Europe during the Renaissance.

• Department: Italian
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Steven J Baker
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

VVEDENIE V RUSSKUIU LITERATURU

POOR LIZA POOR ME

Prerequisites: two years of college Russian or the instructor's permission.
The course is devoted to the reading, analysis, and discussion of a number of Russian prose fiction works from the eighteenth to twentieth century. Its purpose is to give students an opportunity to apply their language skills to literature. It will teach students to read Russian literary texts as well as to talk and write about them. Its goal is, thus, twofold: to improve the students’ linguistic skills and to introduce them to Russian literature and literary history. In 2007-2008: A close study in the original of the “fallen woman” plot in Russian literature from the late eighteenth century. Conducted in Russian.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Irina Reyfman
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO LITERARY STUDIES II

MAJOR LITERARY WORKS SINC 1800

Prerequisites:
FREN UN3405
Advanced Grammar and Composition or an AP score of 5 or the instructor's permission.
Reading and discussion of major works from 1750 to the present.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: David Haziza
  Info
• 3 points

MODERN VI

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Colleen Thomas
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 0-1 points

SHAKESPEARE I

(Lecture). This course will cover the histories, comedies, tragedies, and poetry of Shakespeare’s early career. We will examine the cultural and historical conditions that informed Shakespeare’s drama and poetry; in the case of drama, we will also consider the formal constraints and opportunities of the early modern English commercial theater. We will attend to Shakespeare’s biography while considering his work in relation to that of his contemporaries. Ultimately, we will aim to situate the production of Shakespeare’s early career within the highly collaborative, competitive, and experimental theatrical and literary cultures of late sixteenth-century England.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Lauren E Robertson
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

20TH CENT NEW YORK CITY HIST

This course explores critical areas of New York's economic development in the 20th century, with a view to understanding the rise, fall and resurgence of this world capital. Discussions also focus on the social and political significance of these shifts. Assignments include primary sources, secondary readings, film viewings, trips, and archival research. Students use original sources as part of their investigation of New York City industries for a 20-page research paper. An annotated bibliography is also required. Students are asked to give a weekly update on research progress, and share information regarding useful archives and websites.

• Department: History
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Kenneth T Jackson
  CULPA: 46 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

20TH CENT NEW YORK CITY HIST

This course explores critical areas of New York's economic development in the 20th century, with a view to understanding the rise, fall and resurgence of this world capital. Discussions also focus on the social and political significance of these shifts. Assignments include primary sources, secondary readings, film viewings, trips, and archival research. Students use original sources as part of their investigation of New York City industries for a 20-page research paper. An annotated bibliography is also required. Students are asked to give a weekly update on research progress, and share information regarding useful archives and websites.

• Department: History
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Kenneth T Jackson
  CULPA: 46 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED ITALIAN I

Prerequisites:
ITALUN2102 or the equivalent. If you did not take Intermediate Italian at Columbia in the semester preceding the current one, you must take the placement test, offered by the Italian Department at the beginning of each semester.
Written and oral self-expression in compositions and oral reports on a variety of topics; grammar review.  Required for majors and concentrators.

• Department: Italian
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Federica Franze
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

ITALIAN THROUGH CINEMA

Prerequisites: ITAL UN3335
Students will develop advanced language competence while analyzing and discussing Italian film comedies and their reflection of changing Italian culture and society. Films by Monicelli, Germi, Moretti, Wertmuller, Soldini and others.

• Department: Italian
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Patrizia Palumbo
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

CONTACT IMPROVISATION

Prerequisites: Limited to twenty people.
Examination of the gender-neutral partnering technique that is now common in contemporary dance. Focus is placed on recent improvisatory forms, sensation building, center connection and risk. Emphasis is placed on listening and sensing rather than controlling or leading.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Colleen Thomas
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 0-1 points

CULTRL HIST-JAPANESE MONSTERS

From Godzilla to Pokemon (literally, "pocket monster") toys, Japanese monsters have become a staple commodity of late-capitalist global pop culture. This course seeks to place this phenomenon within a longer historical, as well as a broader cross-cultural, context. Through an examination of texts and images spanning over thirteen centuries of Japanese history, along with comparable productions from other cultures, students will gain an understanding not only of different conceptions and representations of monsters, ghosts, and other supernatural creatures in Japan, but also of the role of the "monstrous" in the cultural imagination more generally. The course draws on various media and genres of representation, ranging from written works, both literary and scholarly, to the visual arts, material culture, drama, and cinema. Readings average 100-150 pages per week. Several film and video screenings are scheduled in addition to the regular class meetings. Seating is limited, with final admission based on a written essay and other information to be submitted to the instructor before the beginning of the semester.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Gregory Pflugfelder
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 3 points

Shakespeare I: Creating Shakespeare

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• Instructor: James Shapiro
  CULPA: 25 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Environmental Crisis on the Shakespearea

Environmental Crisis & Sh

Our current environmental crisis has fractured familiar narratives about the relationship between humanity and the natural world. To begin reimagining this relationship, this seminar will turn back the clock to the Renaissance and the birth of the English theater industry, where Shakespeare and his contemporaries were still attempting to understand what counts as “nature” within the confines of the playhouse. We will explore the forest of Arden with its “tongues in trees” and “books in the running brooks” from 
As You Like It
, the stormy heath beset by “cataracts and hurricanos” in 
King Lear
, and the “wild waters” of the Mediterranean agitated by Prospero in 
The Tempest 
alongside environments that might not seem immediately “natural” to us today, including the ruins of Catholic cloisters, bloody battlefields, polluted fountains, smoke-spewing hell mouths, and the empty streets of a city wracked by plague. By considering these diverse environments together, this seminar will not only complicate our modern distinction between nature and culture, but it will also trace the many ways that environmental crisis materialized both on and off stage in the early modern period.
To deepen our conversation about premodern environments, this seminar will also engage with current scholarship in ecocriticism – a growing critical field that investigates the representational problems posed by our current environmental crisis. Our course will consider what the settings, conventions and resource management strategies of the early modern stage might have to teachus about the ways we think of, interact with, or use “nature” today. As we make our way through some of the period’s most experimental plays, we will also consider how the theater, due to its generic variety, its embodied form, and its material dependencies, might be uniquely positioned to model living within and reckoning with environmental crisis or change.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Bernadette A Myers
  Info
• 4 points

Art Itineraries: Italian through Art

ITALIAN THROUGH ART

Prerequisites: (ITAL UN2102) or (ITAL UN2121) Students must have completed Intermediate level Italian language proficiency.
The course, designed for students who have mastered the grammatical structure of the language, will give the students the opportunity to improve their language skills and discover Italian art from Middle Ages to the second half of twentieth century. The works of the artists will be studied and discussed with the intent of developing knowledge of the main features of artistic and cultural movements and of the appropriate vocabulary and terminology to describe and talk about them. A particular emphasis will be put to oral and written productions: various kinds of texts and genres will be practiced (description, narration, critical analysis). Students will learn how to describe and interpret a work of art, examine the main characteristics and the techniques used by the artists and will be able to look for themes recurring in the artistic productions. The artists covered during the course will be introduced along the lines of their unique artistic, historical and socio-cultural relevance through different sources: images, scholarly essays, literature, video and music.  Two visits to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and to CIMA (Center for Modern Italian Art) will be organized. 
In Italian.

• Department: Italian
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Alessandra Saggin
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

JAPANESE CONTEMP CINEMA & MEDIA CULTURE

In this course, we will look at the contemporary history and theory of cinema and media culture in Japan.  To be more specific, the course will closely examine 1) the various traits of postmodern Japanese cinemas in the 1980s and the 1990s after the phase of global cinematic modernism, 2) contemporary media phenomena such as media convergence and the media ecologies of anime, 3) media activism after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, and beyond.  We will proceed through careful analysis of films, anime, and digital media, while also addressing larger questions of historiography in general.  In other words, this course asks, what is it to study Japanese cinema and media (outside Japan)?  What would be a heuristic narrative mode to examine the (trans-)national history of Japanese cinema and media?  Such inquiries will be integrated into the ways we analyze and discuss the films and media works selected for our weekly screenings.
The readings will extend the realm of the course topics to include broader cultural criticism in an attempt to surface the interrelation of (audio-)visual media and culture in Japan.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Takuya Tsunoda
  Info
• 4 points

DEVELOPMENT

Prerequisites: BIOL BC1500, BIOL BC1501, BIOL BC1502, BIOL BC1503, and BIOL BC2100 or the equivalent.
Introduction to animal developmental biology and its applications. This course will examine the basic mechanisms through which animal bodies organize themselves, from an integrative perspective at the levels of genes and gene networks, cell properties and behaviors, coordinated interactions of cells in developing tissues, organs and organ systems, and the role of developmental processes in morphological evolution. Topics include: fertilization, cleavage and gastrulation, establishment of body axes, neural development, organ formation, tissue and organ regeneration, stem cells and medical applications, evolution of developmental programs, and teratogenesis.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer H Mansfield
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 15 Info
• 3 points

EUROPEAN SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY

Prerequisites: one philosophy course.
A survey of Eurpoean social philosophy from the 18th to the 20th century, with special attention to theories of capitalism and the normative concepts (freedom, alienation, human flourishing) that inform them.  Also: the relationship between civil society and the state.

• Department: Philosophy
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Axel Honneth
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ADV CHEM SYNTHESIS LAB

Prerequisites: CHEM BC3333, CHEM BC3271, and CHEM BC3338
Corequisites: CHEM BC3253
Multistep and multi-day experiments in organic and inorganic synthesis via advanced synthetic methods. Experiments include solution phase, solid state, and photochemical syntheses. Products will be analyzed and characterized by a variety of methods, including: IR, NMR, and UV-Vis spectroscopy, and also by polarimetry, chiral GC, and GC/MS.

• Department: Chemistry @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Jean Vadakkan
  Info
• 5 points

LONDON:'GREAT WEN'TO WRLD CIT

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preregistration required.
Social and cultural history of London from the Great Fire of 1666 to the 1960s. An examination of the changing experience of urban identity through the commercial life, public spaces, and diverse inhabitants of London. Topics include 17th-century rebuilding, immigrants and emigrants, suburbs, literary culture, war, and redevelopment.

• Department: History @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Deborah Valenze
  CULPA: 16 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

MOLECULAR&CELLULAR; NEUROSCI

Prerequisites: (BIOL BC1500)(BIOL BC1501)(BIOL BC1502)(BIOL BC1503) and CHEM BC3230 or the equivalent.
Structure and function of neural membranes; ionic basis of membrane potential and action potential; synaptic transmission and neurochemistry; sensory transduction and processing; reflexes and spinal cord physiology; muscle structure and function; neuronal circuitry; and nervous system development.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth P Bauer
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 21 Info
• 3 points

WHAT IS IDEOLOGY

The populism that arguably defined twentieth century politics in Argentina challenged liberal and left wing thinkers to reconsider the cultural imaginaries, habits, and organizational structures moving the masses. Irreducible to either doctrine or illusion, ideology would become the center of politics. The issue of what it is and how it works would likewise assume a pivotal place in both literature and social thought. This course will examine Argentinean narrative, film, political rhetoric, and social theory from the 1930s through the 1970s in order to explore the tension and intersection between two different approaches to the question of ideology. The first, which derives from moral and political philosophy, presumes that individuals are inherently free and asks why, given this condition, we would submit to the unjust authority of others. The second, which derives from the Marxist tradition, argues that ideas emerge from an exploitative social division of labor and yet blind the exploited (and exploiters) to these same material conditions. Combining these two approaches, the texts surveyed ponder the fact that while the genesis of our ideas and customs may be social and objective, they are only actualized and made relevant in the highly subjective realm of politics. We will study notions such as class and class-consciousness, the revolutionary party, the leader, populism, and madness in the work of Antonio Gramsci, Roberto Arlt, Jorge Luis Borges, Juan Domingo PerĂ³n, Ernesto Laclau, and Rodolfo Walsh, among others. Readings and discussions will be in Spanish. Hispanic Culturess II or special permission from the profesor required.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Karen Benezra
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

LAB IN MOLEC & CELL NEUROSCI

Prerequisites: BIOL BC3362 (which can be taken as a pre- or co-requisite). Enrollment is limited to 16; must attend first lab to hold place.
Introduction to techniques commonly used in current neurobiological research, including intracellular and extracellular recording of action potentials, neuroanatomical methods, and computer simulation of the action potential.

• Department: Biological Sciences @Barnard
• W 1:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth P Bauer
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 21 Info
• 3 points

RESEARCH SEMINAR IN HISTORY I

Prerequisites: Open to Barnard College History Senior Majors.
Individual guided research and writing in history and the presentation of results in seminar and in the form of the senior essay.  See Requirements for the Major for details.

• Department: History @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert A McCaughey
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 4 points

Odd Women in Victorian England

How do people find freedom within restrictive norms and laws? Victorian England, known for its rigid definitions of femininity, nonetheless produced a remarkable number of female outlaws, eccentrics, and activists: spinsters, feminists, working women, cross-dressers, women in “female marriages.”
“Odd Women in Victorian England,” an undergraduate seminar, will explore the pains and pleasures of gender non-conformity through the lens of nineteenth-century literary works, historical documents, and foundational texts in gender and sexuality studies. Readings will include the diaries of Anne Lister, a lesbian libertine; a slander case involving accusations of lesbianism at an all-girls school; the diaries of Hannah Munby, a servant whose upper-class lover fetishized her physical strength; the autobiographies of Annie Besant, socialist and birth-control activist, and Mary Seacole, a nurse who traveled the world; and three major works of Victorian fiction:
Aurora Leigh,
a narrative poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning;
Villette,
a novel by Charlotte Bronte; and
Little Dorrit,
a novel by Charles Dickens. The course will end with a late 20
th
-century historical novel that draws on several of the works we will read in the course:
Affinity
by Sarah Waters.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Sharon Marcus
  CULPA: 8 Wikipedia h-index: 19 Info
• 4 points

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING PRACTICE

Design project planning, written and oral technical communication, the origin and role of standards, engineering ethics, and practical aspects of engineering as a profession, such as career development and societal and environmental impact. Generally taken fall of senior year just before ELEN E3390.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• M 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: David G Vallancourt
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 1 points

COMPUTATIONAL EARTH SCIENCE

Prerequisites: Required: at least a semester of calculus and physics; any 1000-level or 2000-level EESC,course. Recommended: EESC3201 (Solid Earth Dynamics).
Computer models are essential for understanding the behavior of complex natural systems in geosciences. This course is an introduction to writing computer models to simulate Earth processes. Students will learn methods for numerical modeling of a variety of geoscience topics, such as seismic waves, groundwater flow, glacier growth, ocean currents and more. Simulations will be created by learning to program with a user-friendly language (Python). Student learning will be facilitated through a combination of lectures, in-class exercises,homework assignments and a final project on a student-selected modeling topic.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Kerry Key
  h-index: 33 Info
• 3 points

JUNIOR COLLOQUIUM IN AMERICAN STUDIES

JR COLL IN AMERICAN STUD

Introduction to the theoretical approaches of American Studies, as well as the methods and materials used in the interdisciplinary study of American society. Through close reading of a variety of texts (e.g., novels, films, essays), we will analyze the creation, maintenance, and transmission of cultural meaning within American society.

• Department: American Studies @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennie Kassanoff
  CULPA: 20 Info
• Instructor: Timothy Vasko
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 4 points

SEMINAR IN GLOBAL THOUGHT

INQUIRIES INTO AN INTERCONNECT

This course on global thought will consider the ways in which we think about, debate, and give meaning to the interconnected world in which we live.  In thematically focused collaborative teams, students will examine how the flows of people, things and ideas across national borders both connect our world and create uneven consequences within and among communities.   We will locate ourselves in these processes, suggesting we need go no further than our closets, tables, and street corners to consider the meanings of globalization and our roles in the world today. This course has been approved to partially satisfy the Global Core requirement.

• Department: Committee on Global Thought
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Laura L Neitzel
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

DEMOCRACY & DICTATORSHIP EUR

DEMOCRACY& DICTATORSHIP EUR

This course will examine the development of democracies and dictatorships in Europe from the French Revolution to the present day. It will analyze the nature and dynamics of European political history and use the European experience as a foundation upon which to build a broader understanding of how different types of political regimes emerge, function and are sustained over time. Prior knowledge of European history and comparative politics is welcome, but not presumed.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Sheri Berman
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia h-index: None Info
• 3 points

ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE

Prerequisites: (biol un2005 and biol un2006) or (biol un2401 and biol un2402)
The goal of this seminar is to provide an in-depth analysis of the ongoing threat of antimicrobial resistance. Discussions will include the molecular mechanisms, diverse epidemiology of transmission, the consequences of antimicrobial resistance and efforts to reduce the further emergence and spread of these pathogens both in the community and in healthcare settings. In the process, you learn a fair amount of medical microbiology.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Franklin Lowy
  Info
• 3 points

THIRD-YEAR GRAMMAR & COMP

Prerequisites:
FREN UN3405
must be taken before
FREN UN3333/4
unless the student has an AP score of 5 or the director of undergraduate studies' permission.
The goal of
FREN UN3405
is to help students improve their grammar and perfect their writing and reading skills, especially as a preparation for taking literature or civilization courses, or spending a semester in a francophone country. Through the study of two full-length works of literature and a number of short texts representative of different genres, periods, and styles, they will become more aware of stylistic nuances, and will be introduced to the vocabulary and methods of literary analysis. Working on the advanced grammar points covered in this course will further strengthen their mastery of French syntax. They will also be practicing writing through a variety of exercises, including pastiches and creative pieces, as well as typically French forms of academic writing such as “résumé,” “explication de texte,” and “dissertation".

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Samuel Skippon
  CULPA: 13 Info
• Instructor: Pascale Crepon
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Laurence Marie
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

COMPUTER GRAPHICS & DESIGN

Introduction to drafting, engineering graphics, computer graphics, solid modeling, and mechanical engineering design. Interactive computer graphics and numerical methods applied to the solution of mechanical engineering design problems. A laboratory fee of $175 is collected.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Sinisa Vukelic
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 11 Info
• 3 points

MACHINE DESIGN

Prerequisites: (MECE E3408) MECE E3408
Computer-aided analysis of general loading states and deformation of machine components using singularity functions and energy methods.Theoretical introduction to static failure theories, fractre mechanics, and fatigue failure theories.  Introduction to conceptual design and design optimization problems.  Design of machine components such as springs, shafts, fasteners, lead screws, rivets, welds.  Modeling, analysis, and testing of machine assemblies for prescribed design problems.  Problems will be drawn from statics, kinematics, dynamics, solid modeling, stress analysis, and design optimization.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Sinisa Vukelic
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 11 Info
• 3 points

COMPUTERS AND SOCIETY

Broader impact of computers. Social networks and privacy. Employment, intellectual property, and the media. Science and engineering ethics. Suitable for nonmajors.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ronald Baecker
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMETRICS

Prerequisites: (ECON UN3211 or ECON UN3213) and (MATH UN1201 or MATH UN1207) and STAT UN1201
Modern econometric methods; the general linear statistical model and its extensions; simultaneous equations and the identification problem; time series problems; forecasting methods; extensive practice with the analysis of different types of data.

• Department: Economics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Seyhan Erden
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Jushan Bai
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia h-index: 52 Info
• Instructor: Tamrat Gashaw
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

INTRO TO ECONOMETRICS-DIS

Required discussion section for ECON UN3412: Intro to Econometrics

• Department: Economics
• 0 points

PRIVACY IN A NETWORKED WORLD

The ubiquity of computers and networks in business, government, recreation, and almost all aspects of daily life has led to a proliferation of online sensitive data: data that, if used improperly, can harm the data subjects. As a result, concern about the use, ownership, control, privacy, and accuracy of these data has become a top priority. This seminar course focuses on both the technical challenges of handling sensitive data, the privacy implications of various technologies, and the policy and legal issues facing data subjects, data owners, and data users.

• Department: Computer Science @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Rebecca N Wright
  Wikipedia h-index: 34 Info
• 4 points

INTRO-FRANCOPHONE STUDIES I

Prerequisites:
FREN UN3405
Advanced Grammar and Composition or an AP score of 5 or the director of undergraduate studies' permission.
Examines conceptions of culture and civilization in France from the Enlightenment to the Exposition Coloniale of 1931, with an emphasis on the historical development and ideological foundations of French colonialism. Authors and texts include: the Encyclop├ędie; the D├ęclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen; the Code noir; Diderot; Chateaubriand; Tocqueville; Claire de Duras; Renan; Gobineau; Gauguin; Drumont.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Sophia Mo
  Info
• 3 points

ENG DES-CONCPT/DESIGN GENERATN

Prerequisites: Senior standing.
Corequisites: MECE E3409
A preliminary design for an original project is a pre-requisite for the Capstone Design course. This course will focus on the steps required for generating a preliminary design concept. Included will be a brainstorming concept generation phase, a literature search, incorporation of multiple constraints, adherence to appropriate engineering codes and standards, and the production of a layout drawing of the proposed capstone design project in a Computer Aided Design (CAD) software package.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• TR 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Joshua B Browne
  Info
• 1 points

RUSSIAN FOR HERITAGE SPEAKERS

Prerequisites:
RUSS V3430
or the instructor's permission.
This course is designed to help students who speak Russian at home, but have no or limited reading and writing skills to develop literary skills in Russian. THIS COURSE, TAKEN WITH RUSS V3431, MEET A TWO YEAR FOREIGN LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT. Conducted in Russian.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Alla Smyslova
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 3 points

SURVEY OF GERMAN LIT:19C (GER)

LIT-ROMANTICSM-REVOLUTN REALSM

Prerequisites: GERM UN3333 or the director of undergraduate studies' or the instructor's permission.
This class will focus on 19
th
-century German literature (especially writers counted among the Romantics, the “Vormärz” and Realists) by analyzing changing concepts of art, music and literature during those times of great social and political change. We will closely read poems, pamphlets and short stories by Wackenroder, Tieck, Kleist, Hölderlin, Novalis, Brentano, Eichendorff, Heine, Büchner, Möricke, Keller, Marx, Nietzsche and Fontane.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Dorothea von Muecke
  Info
• 3 points

SOCIETIES/CULTRS: INDIAN OCEAN

The course is designed to introduce the Indian Ocean as a region linking the Middle East, East Africa, South and Southeast Asia. With a focus on both continuities and rupture from the medieval to the modern period, we study select cultures and societies brought into contact through interregional migration and travel from the 10th to 20th centuries. Different types of people - nobles, merchants, soldiers, statesmen, sailors, scholars, slaves - experienced mobility in different ways. How did different groups of people represent such mobilities? What kinds of cooperation, accommodation or conflict did different Indian Ocean encounters engender? Using an array of different primary sources, we look at particular case studies and their broader social and cultural contexts.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Mana Kia
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 11 Info
• 3 points

TAP III

ADVANCED TAP

Prerequisites: DNCE BC2447, BC2448, or permission of instructor.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Margaret J Morrison
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 0-1 points

WOMEN AND LEADERSHIP

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor. Limited to 15.
  Examination of the social conditions and linguistic practices that have shaped the historical and contemporary gendering of leadership, power, and authority in the United States and around the world. Through examples drawn from the social, political, and economic worlds, we will explore leadership in varying racial, class, and regional contexts.

• Department: Athena Center for Leadership Studies @Barnard
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• 4 points

Art and Empire

ART AND EMPIRE

This course explores the images and objects produced, collected, and displayed in the context of the British and French empires of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Drawing on a range of perspectives—including those drawn from postcolonial studies, critical race studies, and indigenous studies—we will develop a critical vocabulary for addressing the history of colonialism and the ongoing process of decolonization, asking what particular problems and opportunities art history presents for the study of empire. In what ways were aesthetics entangled with imperial ideology? How did works of art support or challenge dominant political, social, and cultural narratives? And what does a study of historic empires have to offer to our understanding of globalization today? We will also engage with the ways in which the legacy of empire is treated in contemporary museology, and will visit a number of New York City museums and collections throughout the semester. Regions covered include India, the Caribbean, the Pacific, and North Africa; topics include cartographic practices, the recording of history, the visual culture of slavery, artifacts of exploration, photography and “truth,” and the materiality of color.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• 4 points

LITERATURE OF EMPIRE

CRYPTOGRAPHIC IMAGINATION

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
(Seminar). This course focuses on plots of empire in the British novel of the 19th and early 20th centuries. It examines not only how empire was represented but also how the novel form gave visibility to the strategies of empire and also showed the tacit purposes, contradictions, and anxieties of British imperialism. The seminar is structured around the themes of: the culture of secrecy; criminality and detection; insurgency, surveillance, and colonial control; circulation and exchange of commodities; messianism and political violence. Specifically, the course will focus on how the culture of secrecy that accompanied imperial expansion defined the tools of literary imagination in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. While most studies of culture and imperialism examine the impact of colonial expansion on the geography of narrative forms, this seminar looks more closely at the language of indirection in English novels and traces metaphors and symbols to imperialism's culture of secrecy. It begins with the simple observation that both colonizers and colonized felt the need to transmit their communications without having their messages intercepted or decoded. Translated into elusive Masonic designs and prophecy (as in Kim), codes of collective action (as in Sign of Four), or extended dream references (as in The Moonstone), the English novel underscores the exchange of information as one of the key activities of British imperialism. Forcing hidden information into the open also affects the ways that colonial ‘otherness' is defined (as in The Beetle). How espionage and detection correlate with impenetrability and interpretation will be one among many themes we will examine in this course. The seminar will supplement courses in the nineteenth-century English novel, imperialism and culture, and race, gender, and empire, as well as provide a broad basis for studies of modernism and symbolism. Readings include Rudyard Kipling, Kim and "Short Stories"; Arthur Conan Doyle's Sign of Four; Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone; Richard Marsh, The Beetle; RL Stevenson, Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Rider Haggard, She; Haggard, King Solomon's Mines; Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent. Course requirements: One oral presentation; two short papers, each 4-5 pages (double-spaced); and a final paper, 7-10 pages (double-spaced).
Application instructions:
E-mail Professor Viswanathan (gv6@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "Imperialism and Cryptography seminar." In your message, in

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Gauri Viswanathan
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

LITERATURE-SOUTHERN CONE

Prerequisites: Third-year bridge course (W3300), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350.
Examination of the literature of the Southern Cone: Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Chile; the tension between fantastic literature and literary realism. Readings include Borges, Casares, Ocampo, Onetti, Donoso, and Roa Bastos.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Alfred Mac Adam
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 3 points

POST 9/11 IMMIGRATION POLICIES

Since September 11, 2001, there has been an avalanche of immigration enforcement policies and initiatives proposed or implemented under the guise of national security. This course will analyze the domino effect of the Patriot Act, the Absconder Initiative, Special Registration, the Real I.D. Act, border security including the building of the 700-mile fence along the U.S./Mexico border, Secured Communities Act-that requires the cooperation of state and local authorities in immigration enforcement, the challenge to birthright citizenship, and now the congressional hearings on Islamic radicalization. Have these policies been effective in combating the war on terrorism and promoting national security? Who stands to benefit from these enforcement strategies? Do immigrant communities feel safer in the U.S.? How have states joined the federal bandwagon of immigration enforcement or created solutions to an inflexible, broken immigration system?

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Elizabeth Ouyang
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

FRENCH CULTURAL WORKSHOP

Prerequisites: completion of
FREN W2202
.
Designed (though not exclusively) for students contemplating a stay at Reid Hall, this course will foster a comparison of the French and American cultures with readings from sociological sources and emphasis on in-class discussion in an attempt to comprehend and avoid common causes of cross-cultural communication.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Vincent Aurora
  CULPA: 55 Info
• 3 points

INDEP BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Prerequisites: Concurrent with registering for this course, a student must register with the department and provide a written invitation from a mentor; details of this procedure are available at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/w3500/index.htm.,Students must register for recitations UN3510 or consult the instructor.
Corequisites: BIOL UN3510
The course involves independent study, faculty-supervised laboratory projects in contemporary biology. Concurrent with registering for this course, a student must register with the department, provide a written invitation from a mentor and submit a research proposal; details of this procedure are available at
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/w3500/index.htm
. A paper summarizing results of the work is required by the last day of finals for a letter grade; no late papers will be accepted. See the course web site (above) for more details.  Students can take anywhere from 2-4 points for this course.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• Instructor: Ron M Prywes
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 2-4 points

SUPERVISED READINGS IN PHYSICS

Prerequisites: the written permission of the faculty member who agrees to act as supervisor, and the director of undergraduate studies' permission.
Readings in a selected field of physics under the supervision of a faculty member. Written reports and periodic conferences with the instructor.

• Department: Physics
• Instructor: Jeremy R Dodd
  CULPA: 25 Info
• 3 points

MODERN ARCHITECTURE OF SOUTH ASIA

MODERN ARCH OF SOUTH ASIA

Through a history of institutional and informal practices in the 19th and 20th centuries, this course interrogates modern architecture of the South Asian subcontinent and its diasporas. The course considers building, landscape, material culture, territorial construction, design, art, photography, writing, pedagogy, and related cultural activity. We study celebrated as well as understudied figures and institutions: Begum SamrÅ«, Sris Chandra Chatterjee, Otto Koenigsberger, Minnette de Silva, and Habib Rehman; the Archaeological Survey of India, the Dhaka Urban Study Group, the Asia Art Archive. We explore writings by James Fergusson, Ananada Coomaraswamy, and Sir Banister Fletcher, which founded a discipline, and journals such as 
MARG
, 
Mimar
, and 
Design
, which represented its discourse. We review educational curricula in engineering, arts, applied arts and architecture, which upheld colonial practice or challenged it. We investigate the relationship between architecture and the fine arts. In the planning and growth of urban sites from Kathmandu to Lahore to Dharavi to Jaffna, and in contested territories from the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh to the Ganga basin to the Kashmiri line of control to the rocket launch district in Thumba, we debate the architectural history of war, scarcity, and borders, for which South Asia has been emblematic.

• Department: Architecture @Barnard
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Anooradha I Siddiqi
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

BIOCHEM I-STRUCTURE/METABOLISM

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Brent R Stockwell
  CULPA: 14 Wikipedia h-index: 79 Info
• 4 points

INDEP BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH - REC

INDEP BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH-REC

• Department: Biological Sciences
• W 5:40 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• R 5:40 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Ron M Prywes
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 0 points

BIOCHEM I-STRUCT/METABOLSM-REC

• Department: Biological Sciences
• 0 points

BIOCHEM I-STRUCT/METABOLSM-REC

• Department: Biological Sciences
• 0 points

BIOCHEM I-STRUCT/METABOLSM-REC

• Department: Biological Sciences
• 0 points

BIOCHEM I-STRUCT/METABOLSM-REC

• Department: Biological Sciences
• 0 points

BIOCHEM I-STRUCT/METABOLSM-REC

• Department: Biological Sciences
• 0 points

INTRO TO ASIAN AMERICAN LIT & CULTURE

INTRO TO ASN-AMER LIT

This course is a survey of Asian North American literature and its contexts.  To focus our discussion, the course centers on examining recurring cycles of love and fear in Asian North American relations from the late nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. We will first turn to what became known as “yellow peril,” one effect of exclusion laws that monitored the entrance of Asians into the United States and Canada during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the corresponding phenomenon of Orientalism, the fascination with a binary of Asia and the West. The second section of the course will focus on how Asian North American authors respond to later cycles of love and fear, ranging from the forgetting of Japanese internment in North America and the occupation of the Philippines; to the development of the model minority mythology during the Cold War. The final section will examine intimacies and exclusions in contemporary forms of migration, diaspora, and community communities.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Denise Cruz
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED SENIOR STUDIO

ADVANCED STUDIO

Prerequisites: Limited to Senior Visual Arts Concentrators. Permission of the instructor.

The Fall Advanced Senior Studio serves as a forum for senior Visual Arts majors to develop their studio theses. The priorities are producing a coherent body of studio work and understanding this work in terms of critical discourse. The class is comprised of group critiques and small group meetings with the instructor. Visiting lecturers and professional workshops will also be scheduled and required. Each student will develop an independent body of visual work that is both personal, original and also speaks to the social conditions of our time. Each student will be able to articulate, verbally and in writing, their creative process. Each student will acquire professional skill that will support their artistic practice in the future. Each student will learn how to present and speak about their work publicly.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Irena Haiduk
  Info
• 4 points

ARABIAN NIGHTS INFLUENCES

Prerequisites: Completion of one college-level literature course. Permission of instructor.
This course examines the enduring power of The Arabian Nights and some of the wide range of literary authors, genres and variations that it has influenced. The focus is, therefore, on this marvelous work—one of the earliest examples of the short story and the novel—but also on a selection of classical and contemporary works of fiction from around the world that have been informed by it. In this regard, this is a class interested in literary influence, reciprocity and exchange across time and languages.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Hisham Matar
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Seventeenth Century Poetry (Donne, Herbe

Donne, Herbert, Marvell

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Molly Murray
  CULPA: 26 Info
• 4 points

EVOL IN THE AGE OF GENOMICS

EVOL BIOL IN AGE OF GENOMICS

Prerequisites: introductory genetics or the instructor's permission.
This course introduces basic concepts in evolutionary biology, from speciation to natural selection. While the lectures incorporate a historical perspective, the main goal of the class is to familiarize students with topics and tools of evolutionary genetics as practiced today, in the era of genomics. Thus, the focus will be on evidence from molecular evolution and genetics and exercises will assume a basic background in genetics. Examples will be drawn from across the tree of life, but with a primary focus on humans.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• 4 points

SCREENDANCE:COMPOSITION

SCREENDANCE: COMPOSITION

Prerequisites: Must have taken a Dance Department Composition course, have some dance training.
This experiential, hands-on course requires all students to choreograph, dance, and film. Focusing on single-shot film-making, the duet of the camera and the dance will create an understanding of the interaction between the two, enabling students to create a final short film.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Gabri Christa
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

The Seven Years War (1754-1763), Glob

THE SEVEN YEARS WAR

Prerequisites: History Majors Preferred
This research seminar explores the causes, course, and consequences of the Seven Years’ War, arguably the first world war in modern history.  Topics include the origins of the conflict in North America and in Europe, the relationship between imperial rivalry in the American colonies and the contest for supremacy in central Europe, the impact of the war on trade and settlement in South Asia, the West Indies, the Philippines, and West Africa, and the legacies of the conflict for British imperial expansion in India, North America, Senegal, and the southern Caribbean.  During the second half of the semester, members of the seminar will devote the majority of their time to the research and writing of a substantial paper.

• Department: History
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher L Brown
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

CITIES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

CITIES IN DEVELOPNG COUNTRIES

Prerequisites: Must attend first class for instructor permission. Preference to Urban Studies majors.
This lecture course examines different facets of urban development and planning in cities of the developing countries. We will begin by studying common problems in developing urban regions, gaining an understanding of common settlement patterns and urban systems in changing metropolitan areas. The class aims to formulate a repository of concepts, urban trends, and terms around the ever-growing cities of the globe. We will also focus on specific issues in representative cities of the regions studied. These particular cases, which will be selected from cities in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, will present discussions of planning and policy development regarding water and sanitation,  transportation and infrastructure, historic preservation, disaster risk reduction and housing. Students will also work in teams to analyze a particular urban problem in a developing city, and present team findings to the class via Canvas.

• Department: Urban Studies @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• 3 points

"BLACKNESS" IN FRENCH

Blackness in French

• Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
• W 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Kaiama L Glover
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 4 points

DANCES OF INDIA

A range of dance genres, from the traditional to the innovative, co-exist as  representations of  "Indianness" in India,  and beyond. Identities onstage and in films, morph as colonial, national, and global contexts change.  This course zooms from micro to macro views of twentieth century staged dances as culturally inflected discourse. We review how Indian classical dance aligns with the oldest of performance texts, and with lively discourses (rasa as a performance aesthetic, Orientalism, nationalism,  global recirculations) through the ages, not only in India but also in Europe, Britain and America. Throughout the course, we ask:-  How is culture embodied? How do historical texts configure dance today? How might they affect our thinking on mind-body, practice-theory, and traditional-contemporary divides?  How does bodily patterning influence the ways that we experience our surroundings and vice versa?  Can cultural imaginaries  instigate action? How is gender is performed?  What are dance discourses?

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Uttara Coorlawala
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

DANCE CRITICISM

Intensive practice in writing about dance. Readings drawn from 19th- and 20th-century criticism.  Observation includes weekly performances and classroom videotape sessions.

• Department: Dance @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Siobhan F Burke
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points